In the afternoon, at the end of Shen and the beginning of the month, the cool breeze on the seaside is gusting, which is quite the taste of late autumn inside. Although there are only three or four winds, the wind and waves on the sea are very strong. As far as the eye can see, bursts of autumn wind, bursts of waves, with white waves, keep rushing towards the coast, hitting the beach, reefs, but also surging to Beacon Hill, slapping the shore of Beacon Hill, splashing dazzling silver flowers. At this time, most of the grain carriers and fishing boats were leaning against the bay on the side of Beacon Hill to avoid the wind and waves, but there were also some large boats, full of grain, unloading grain. Beacon Mountain is surrounded by earthen villages, arrow towers, and pillboxes, and there are many Ming troops stationed there, and the flags flutter in the wind.

Zhang Ruoqi, the chief of the army and the Ministry of War, watched the people and soldiers unload the food from the ship, and said with emotion: "There have been famines in various parts of the Ming Dynasty for many years, and it is not easy for the country to raise military rations, and it is not easy to transport them by sea. Now the wind is quite normal, and the sea is already rough. It is not surprising that grain ships are often sunken in the Bohai Sea. Ma Shaoyuye, the staff of the Ministry of War on the side, said: "It is precisely because the military rations are not easy to come by, so the emperor is in a hurry to relieve the siege of Jinzhou, so as not to pay the laborers." Inspector Hong is also an old minister, why don't you understand this truth? ”

In fact, after Zhang Ruoqi came to the beach before, he did not immediately ask about the protection of grain transportation. The first thing he did was to find a large fishing boat with Ma Shaoyu, give the fishermen some food and silver, and send a few cronies and slaves to garrison the boat in case of emergency. As early as when he had arrogantly urged Hong Chengchou to attack, he had secretly agreed with Ma Shaoyu to find a way to retreat from the sea. Therefore, when Shen Shi Sanji Jiannu attacked the Triangle Mountain north of Bijia Mountain, he did not send troops to resist, but quickly boarded the ship with Ma Shaoyu and some cronies and retinue and waited for the anchor to be lifted.

Soon, the bridgehead of Beacon Hill, Triangle Mountain, was breached by Jiannu, and the troops who had fled to the sea and the troops who had been protecting grain transportation on the coast were defeated on the beach under the onslaught of Jiannu. The 200 guards sent by Hong Chengchou to Zhang Ruoqi also stood on the beach more than ten zhang away from the fishing boat, guarding the fishing boat. When Jiannu made the final assault, the Ming army continued to retreat towards the water's edge. But the more they retreated, the water became bigger, the sand became softer, and the more difficult it became.

Jiannu rode on a horse and shot arrows straight at the retreating Ming army. The Ming army also fired back with arrows. In the second half of the night, the tide rose, and it rose very quickly, and with the strength of the wind, it gradually spread to the thighs of the people, and then quickly to the waist, and continued to rise, and the wind and waves rose. Jiannu took advantage of this time to shoot arrows violently. At first, the Ming army still fired back, but then the people were unstable, the bow was soaked with water, the bowstring was soft and loose, and the arrows could not be shot, and even if they were shot, they could not shoot far. Jiannu's arrows came like flying locusts, and many people had already been hit by the arrows and floated on the surface of the sea, some drowned, some crying for help. Some of the generals were still supervising the formation, preparing to rush to the shore, but it was no longer possible. Although in peacetime, there were many discordant things between these generals and soldiers, especially some generals embezzled the soldiers' salaries, but at this time, all this was forgotten, and everyone was thinking about how to escape together and how not to be killed by Jiannu. There were also some generals who usually had some affection for the soldiers, and the soldiers stood in front of them in rows, trying to use their bodies to block the arrows fired by the woods and protect their commanders. Many soldiers fell in front of the generals, one by one, and were swept away by the water, and finally the generals were killed by arrows and floated to the surface of the sea.

Originally, the officer of the Ming army guarding Beacon Mountain was not a coward, he deliberately let Jiannu enter the slender and narrow Tianqiao area, and then condescendingly killed and injured Jiannu in large numbers with firearms and bows and crossbows. The raving that Azig had taken Beacon Hill within an hour was broken.

However, he underestimated Jiannu's determination to capture Beacon Hill. As the minutes ticked by, the eastern sky still lit up, and the sea water gradually swallowed up the flyover at Beacon Hill. Azig couldn't hold back any longer, he pulled out his waist knife and shouted: "Baturu of the Qing Dynasty, follow what my saber points to~~ kill!" ”

"Roar~~" Countless Jiannu rushed desperately towards the overpass that was about to be engulfed in the earth-shaking sound of "hurry that ~ wow".

Zhang Ruoqi was already frightened when he saw Jiannu so desperate, and hurriedly ordered several cloth sails on the ship to be fully propped up, and sailed away with the wind. Some soldiers and generals knew a little about water, and when they saw Zhang Ruoqi's fishing boat passing by, they called for help and swam over, but Zhang Ruoqi ignored it completely. Some people were pushed to the side of the boat by the waves, and they quickly climbed the side of the boat with their hands, calling for help while climbing up. The relatives on the ship all looked at Zhang Ruoqi. Zhang Ruoqi ordered the heads and hands of those people to be cut off with a sword. Suddenly, many fingers fell on the ship, and some hands fell. The ship made a way through the wandering corpses and the living, and headed straight southeast.

"The prison army ran away~~" I don't know who shouted

Suddenly, this shout was like the last straw that bent the camel's back, completely disintegrating the last fighting spirit of the Ming army, and Azig rode his war horse through the sea water that was about to reach the saddle and rushed to Beacon Mountain

Zhang Ruoqi sat in the cabin, thinking that since the military rations in Beacon Mountain had been taken away, there was likely to be a ship of Jiannu there, and it was better to go around. Sure enough, at dawn, he saw the flag of Jiannu planted on Beacon Hill in the distance, and there were also ships parked there. So he ordered the fishing boats to continue eastward, deep into the sea, far around Bijia Mountain, and then turn to the direction of Ningyuan. He was also prepared that if Ningyuan and Juehua Island were also occupied by Jiannu, he would drift across the Bohai Sea and go ashore in Dengzhou, Shandong. On the one hand, he looked at the vast sea, and on the other hand, he had already prepared a draft, and as soon as he arrived on the shore, whether it was in Ningyuan or Dengzhou, he immediately sent a recital to the emperor, and completely put the responsibility for this failure on Hong Chengchou, and bitterly blamed Hong Chengchou for not listening to his advice, failing to attack Jiannu with all his strength before the arrival of Huang Taiji, and losing the opportunity to have this defeat.

At this time, the tide continued to rise on the seashore where the battle had taken place at night, and some dead bodies had begun to rush to the shore due to the wind. Later, when the tide receded again, there were dead bodies almost everywhere on the beach and on the beach. In addition, there were many dead bodies that receded with the tide, and from a distance, they looked like some wild ducks floating on the water, one here, one there, floating with the tide in the sun.

Jiannu had already retreated from the seashore, and there was silence on the beach, except for the occasional white crane and seagull flying, circling for a while, unable to bear to fall, let out a desolate cry, and flew away into the distance.

The wheel of history stubbornly continued to move along the original trajectory, while Song Youliang was still waiting for Huang Taiji's pursuit in the temporary camp of Maohelmet Mountain. As a result, it backfired, and the scouts sent out only found a few scattered Jiannu groups of dozens of people, and there was no sign of a large army of Jiannu coming to pursue them. On the contrary, one of the scouts stepped on the Ming army's own mines, and another scout was dragged deep into the jungle by the black blind when he was freeing his hands in the forest.

These two unlucky soldiers were compensated according to the example of the death in battle, Song Youliang was very strange, why did he work so hard to "clean up" Shengjing, and Huang Taiji would be indifferent? Could it be that Huang Taiji has really achieved the realm of immobility like a mountain, and it is difficult to know the realm of yin and yang.

Song Youliang had to continue to withdraw to North Korea as planned. It wasn't until four days later, on August 29, that Song Youliang received news from North Korea that the Jiannu army had conquered the granary of the Ming army in Bijia Mountain, and the Ming army was trapped in Songsongshan Fort.

"This bastard Hong Chengchou~" Song Youliang crumpled the paper ball, and wanted to throw it into the brazier, no matter how much he thought about it, this can't be all blamed on Hong Chengchou, if it weren't for Emperor Chongzhen's repeated urging of the war, there would not have been such a big defeat. Song Youliang immediately convened his soldiers to discuss the matter

Gu Junen looked at the note and said worriedly: "The original intention of the military gate is to sneak attack Shenyang and force Emperor Jiannu Taiji to return to the division, which will not only relieve the siege of Jinzhou, but also enable Hong Jingluo's army to advance along the northwest of Liaoning, and maybe even attack Jiannu in front and back." Looking at it now, Huang Taiji has seen through the mind of the military gate, abandoning Shenyang, and doing his best to annihilate Hong Jinglu. ”

"That's~" Li Xin said: "Shenyang has been slaughtered and burned by us, since the military gate can sneak attack Shenyang, it is natural to think of a way out, and even set up an ambush halfway, so Huang Taiji would rather wipe out the 130,000 army under the command of Hong Jingluo." ”

"Anyway, we have to find a way to rescue Hong Jingluo." Song Youliang said

"I'm strange, we made such a big move in Shenyang, didn't the Jiannu in Jinzhou hear any rumors?" Li Xin's younger brother Li Mu was surprised

"It seems that Huang Taiji blocked the news, but with such a big movement, can it be blocked?" Gu Junen smiled: "Since Huang Taiji is unwilling to say it, then let's talk about it." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Li Xin asked

In Song Youliang's plan, some traitors and Jiannu nobles were deliberately left behind and not killed, including Zu Dashou's son Zu Zehong, his nephew Zu Zerun, and his adopted son Zu Kefa. and Liu Liangzuo's younger brother Liu Liangchen. The rest are the few imperial concubines who have not been OOXX by the Ming army, including the original Nurhachi and Huang Taiji's sworn enemy Lin Dan Khan's wife Borzigit Namu Zhong (Empress Dowager Nan)

This part of the captives was to be escorted back to Beijing and presented to Emperor Chongzhen, so they were strictly guarded on weekdays, not only to prevent them from committing suicide, but also to give them a good diet, so that they would not die of illness and starvation halfway. But on this day, the old man who was in charge of delivering food to Namu Zhong only brought a bowl of wheat porridge and a piece of wheat cake to Namu Zhong's mother and son

The old man looked at Bogol, who was gobbling up, then at Namu Zhong, and said, "If my grandson doesn't die, he will be as old as you." ”

Namu Zhong ate a small piece of wheat cake, surprised for a moment, but did not dare to ask

"It was killed by your Jiannu~" The old man suddenly stiffened his face

"We are Mongols, not Jurchens." Namu Zhong said in Chinese

"I think it's all about the same!" The old man said, "But you can't eat the food I cooked for a few days~"

"What?" Namu Zhong trembled, and the wheat cake in his hand was thrown in the prisoner car, "Do you want to kill our mother and son?" ”

"No~~ Because we don't have enough military food to eat, the military gate plans to throw you women and children in the field and leave you to fend for yourself." The old man suddenly reached out and wiped Namu Zhong's chest, which startled Namu Zhong again, and the old man suddenly smiled lewdly: "If you are an understanding person, I will give you a few more wheat cakes~~"

On that night, the Ming army released more than 30 women and children.