Volume 8 Chapter 70 Behind the Sorrow of Sarhu

The scourge of Jiannu, especially how Jiannu rose, was a taboo topic in the Ming Dynasty for a long time, because it contained too much dirt and filth, and the people who did these acts repeatedly controlled the court in the next twenty years, and they naturally didn't want others to know how ugly their faces were.

Time has passed, it has been more than 20 years since the defeat of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the soldiers and officials who participated in the war have grown old or even died, and many people want to cover up that period of history, so as to cover up the tragedies they have caused in order to compete for power and profit, and even, most of the honest officials are reluctant to mention that period of the past, because it is too embarrassing.

It is a shame to say this kind of thing, with a population of hundreds of millions, to be defeated again and again by a tribe with a population of only a million!

However, Zhang Bin thinks that these things have great educational significance, and the gains and losses are very vivid teaching materials, which are enough to baptize the soul of the crown prince Zhu Cihong, let him understand the heavy responsibility of being an emperor, and let him know how to know and use people as an emperor.

Therefore, taking advantage of this rare opportunity, he uncovered that dusty history, and in a heavy tone, told the rise of Jiannu and the successes and failures in detail.

The rise of Jiannu originated from the Battle of Sarhu in the 47th year of Wanli, but Zhang Bin did not start from the Battle of Sarhu, he first mentioned the Wanli Korean War, or a battle in the Wanli Korean War, the Battle of Ulsan.

In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Mingshenzong promoted the deputy envoy of the Liaodong sub-patrol and participated in politics Yang Hao as the right of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, responsible for the military affairs of Liaodong, and commanded the Liaodong army to support Korea.

He originally thought that this was a bitter battle, because the Dongying army as the defender had nearly 30,000 troops, which was not much worse than his men, and the combat strength of the Dongying army was not much worse than that of the Ming army, and the Ming army had muskets and artillery, and they also had it.

According to the military book, it is very difficult to win this kind of battle.

Unexpectedly, the guerrilla general Chen Yin under the command of Governor Xing Yu was brave and incomparable, and he actually led a partial division to connect the two defense lines of the defenders, and seeing that the last line of defense was about to be taken by him, the two armies were about to drive straight into the Ulsan defense line, but Yang Ho suddenly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops!

The reason is very simple, because Chen Yin is not his cronies, and his cronies Li Rumei have not yet arrived, he doesn't want Chen Yin to get this credit!

As a result, the Dongying army took the opportunity to strengthen the defense line, and quenched all the musket bullets and arrows with poison, and the soldiers of the Ming army died when they were touched, and the weather was getting colder, and the frozen hands and feet of the soldiers of the Ming army were numb, and this last line of defense could not be taken down!

The Ming army soldiers fought hard for more than ten days to no avail, and the morale was extremely low, and at this time, the general of Dongying, the head of the Konishi army, suddenly led the 50,000 troops to support, Yang Ho heard the news and took the lead in fleeing with the guards, the 40,000 Ming army was suddenly in chaos, and began to flee before the battle, the head of the Konishi army led the army to chase and kill all the way, I don't know how many Ming soldiers were killed, if it were not for the deputy general Wu Weizhong led the Qi family army to fight to the death, the head of Konishi was repulsed, and the 40,000 Ming army was probably wiped out after this battle!

The first battle of Ulsan, because the commander Yang Ho fled without a fight, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, there were nearly 20,000 soldiers killed in the battle, and the rest were all wounded, this battle was also the only defeat of the Ming army in the Wanli Korean War.

Later, the head of the military department who accompanied the army couldn't help but accuse him, and he even took out a handwritten letter from Shen Zhengyi, the head of the cabinet, and bragged that he was Shen's consistent cronies, and that everyone was helpless against him.

At that time, it was the Zhejiang Party that controlled the power of the court, Yang Hao caused such a fiasco and it was really nothing, although the Wanli Emperor deposed Yang Hao and let the governor Wan Shide go to replace him, but Yang Hao was not punished from beginning to end under the protection of the Zhejiang Party, and after the end of the Korean War, the Zhejiang Party made a contribution to him, and he was reinstated and re-appointed!

Zhu Cihong still didn't understand why Zhang Bin told him about the Battle of Ulsan, which had nothing to do with Jiannu, and also emphasized the person of Yang Hao, the commander of the Ming army.

As a result, Zhang Bin's next introduction simply stunned him, because in the Battle of Salhu, it was Yang Hao who commanded more than 100,000 Ming troops to attack Hera Atu, the old nest of Jiannu!

In the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty gathered more than 100,000 troops, united more than 10,000 horses from the vassal state of Korea and more than 10,000 horses from the Jurchen Yehe Department in Haixi to form a coalition army, known as 470,000, to attack the Jurchen Nurhachi tribe with a total population of less than 470,000.

It stands to reason that there is no suspense in such a big battle, because the total strength of Houjin at that time was less than 50,000, and even if all the young and strong were recruited, they would not be able to gather 100,000 troops.

On the side of the Ming army, almost all of the leading generals were veterans who participated in the war to aid Korea, experienced in a hundred battles, and the troops drawn were almost all copies of the war to aid Korea.

Nurhachi's total of less than 50,000 horses can beat the veterans who have experienced the baptism of the war to aid Korea and the more than 100,000 elite divisions drawn from all over the Ming Dynasty?

It's a pity that before the battle began, the Ming Dynasty coalition army was doomed to failure, because the commander of the Ming army was Yang Hao, the general of the defeated army!

Yang Ho is a person who is purely a dou supported by the Zhejiang Party, an expert in internal fighting, an outsider in fighting, and it is not good to command a war at all, and the defeat in the Battle of Ulsan proves that he is a piece of shit.

However, with the support of the Zhejiang Party, such a defeated general once again became the commander of the three armed forces, and moreover, he did not remember the lesson, and played the trick of cronyism and no distinction between public and private.

If Yang Hao can reuse Liu Ling, let Liu Wei lead the main force of the Ming army to fight with Nurhachi hard steel, Nurhachi will definitely lie down, but he does not plan to reuse Liu Wei, because he has an enmity with Liu Wei, and Liu Wei formed a bond with him in the war to aid Korea, so he wants to take this opportunity to play Liu Wei to death!

He played a trick and divided the troops into four ways, and he ordered Liu Wei to lead 10,000 horses and a lone army to go deep and go straight to Hera Atu, the nest of Jiannu.

This is clearly to let Liu Wei go to death!

Liu Wei is a rare fierce general, in the Korean War, Yang Hao was a teacher and humiliated the country, but Liu Wei was an outstanding meritorious general, but unfortunately, the creation of people, a meritorious general has to listen to the command of a defeated general, and this defeated general still has a grudge against him!

Liu Wei is also a general who understands righteousness and is not afraid of death, he knows that Yang Hao is asking him to die, he still goes, because Yang Hao said that let him be used as a bait to entangle the main force of Jiannu, and then the other three armies will take the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the main force of Jiannu!

This plan to march on the four roads is actually a big lie, a big lie that Yang Hao announced his personal vendetta and intended to kill his enemy Liu Wei!

He deceived Liu Wei and let him lead 10,000 horses and horses to go deep to make bait, and then deliberately let the other three-way army stay away from Liu Ling's army, and he couldn't save Liu Wei if he wanted to!

He thought that this battle would be won no matter how it was fought, even if the 10,000 people under Liu Wei were annihilated by Jiannu, it would not have much impact on the battle situation.

He thought that Jiannu was a soft persimmon, and he pinched it as much as he wanted, and once the other three armies gathered in Hera Atu, Jiannu would definitely be beaten to death.

It's a pity that he miscalculated, how could Nurhachi defend Hera Atu and sit still!

After Nurhachi detected the situation of the Ming army, his teeth were almost laughing, the Ming army was so scattered, and he was not his opponent all the way, this was simply to deliver food, as long as one move was broken, the Ming army could not eat and walk.

He first sent 500 men and horses to set up obstacles in the mountains to slow down the speed of Liu Ling's army on the north road; Then he concentrated all his forces to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Ming army, the East Road Juniper, and the 30,000 troops on the East Road were soon annihilated by it; Later, he led the army to defeat Ma Lin on the North Road, and the 15,000 Ming troops on the North Road were almost completely annihilated by him, and only the main general Ma Lin escaped with a few men and horses; Then he led the army to besiege Liu Wei on the East Road, and the 10,000 Ming troops on the North Road were completely annihilated by him!

In the end, there were 25,000 men and horses left in Li Rubai on the South Road, and when he heard that the other three roads were all wiped out, he was panicked like a bird with a frightened bow, and he was frightened and fled in horror by the noise of the Houjin Sentinel, and the men and horses were squeezed and trampled, and thousands of people were killed and injured!

The battle of the huge conquest of Jiannu ended in a fiasco, the commander Yang Hao disregarded the lives of more than 100,000 Ming soldiers for personal revenge, and designed to frame his generals, resulting in the death of more than 50,000 Ming troops, Jiannu took advantage of the situation to capture Kaiyuan, Tieling, and conquered the Haixi Jurchen Yehe Department, and the six general soldiers who gathered in Liaodong also died as a result, the general soldiers Liu Wei, Jun Song, Wang Xuan, and Zhao Menglin died in the battle of Salhu, the general soldier Ma Lin died in the battle of Kaiyuan, and the general soldier Li Rubai committed suicide in shame after the war!

This is the truth behind the sarhu fiasco!