The sun is hanging high, noon is coming, and the decisive battle between Daming and Houjin is hastily ended before half a day.

Huang Taiji dispatched troops, nearly 90,000 foot soldiers, 120,000 cavalry, a total of about 210,000 troops to besiege the 100,000 army led by Zhang Bin, in a vain attempt to annihilate the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop, but was beaten by Zhang Bin with muskets, artillery, thunder and other hot weapons.

This war has invested more than 300,000 troops on both sides, and it stands to reason that it should not have ended so quickly, so why did it end in less than half a day?

If you want to talk about the reason, it may be that Huang Taiji's art of war is too good, and he likes to play what "quiet virgin moves like a rabbit", or he doesn't do it, or he pounces on it if he wants to do it, and as a result, his rabbit just hit Zhang Bin, who was waiting for the rabbit, and it is not strange that he hit his head full of bags.

In this decisive battle, Zhang Bin was victorious, but his contest with Huang Taiji was far from over, because Huang Taiji had not been killed by him, and after the war, the heaviest losses in this battle were actually the Mongolian Eight Banner Cavalry and the Han Eight Banner Foot Soldiers, the Eight Banner Infantry and the Cavalry were all thieves and thieves, and their ability to save their lives was simply more powerful than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, so their casualties were not very large.

For example, when the Eight Banner Foot Soldiers were full, Azig didn't lead the white flag foot soldiers to rush into the car formation, but just pretended to be outside, and lost less than 2,000 people in total, and Ao Bai was even more thief, when he ran away with the Zheng Huang Qi Foot Soldiers, he also forced the 30,000 Han Eight Banner Foot Soldiers to break in the back, so the Zheng Huang Qi Foot Soldiers had almost no loss, but the 30,000 Han Eight Banner Foot Soldiers were almost wiped out by Lu Xiangsheng and You Shilu!

Another example is the cavalry of the Eight Banners, except for the more than 2,000 people who were killed by the tiger squat cannon at the beginning and more than 10,000 people led by Li Dingguo, Ma Xianglin and Qi Yuangong after rushing into the car formation, the others who were injured by the thunder and the flintlock pistol did not rush into the car formation at all, they all lay outside and pretended to be dead.

In the final statistics, in this battle, 60,000 Han Eight Banner Infantry and 60,000 Mongolian Eight Banner Cavalry were killed, and 30,000 Eight Banner Infantry and 60,000 Eight Banner Cavalry lost less than 20,000 in total!

In other words, Huang Taiji's own losses were not large, and the war with Jiannu had just begun.

At about midnight that night, in the study of the Yamen under the command of Haizhou Wei, Zhang Bin was frowning and pondering at the map of Liaodong, and the guards outside the door suddenly preached: "My lord, Lord Sun asks to see me." ”

What is Sun Chuanting doing here now?

Zhang Bin raised his head, rubbed his temples on both sides, and then said loudly: "Please let him in." ”

After a while, Sun Chuanting strode in, with a smile on his face, and bowed his hand and said, "Shuangquan, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to disturb you so late." ”

Do you mean to be a little sorry, Zhang Bin rolled his eyes and said, "What's the matter, look at you." ”

Sun Chuanting looked at the map of Liaodong on the desk, and then smiled mysteriously: "I know what you have a headache, so I thought of a way for you, do you want to hear it?" ”

Zhang Bin immediately became interested when he heard this, he was having a headache about how to clean up Jiannu next, Huang Taiji lost today's battle, but this guy still has 120,000 foot soldiers of the Eight Banners, 40,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, 60,000 foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of Meng, plus the infantry of the Han Eight Banners and the cavalry of the Eight Banners of the Meng, there are still more than 200,000 troops, and it is not easy to completely overthrow him.

Sun Chuanting is a well-known Confucian handsome, and the method he came up with must not be bad.

Zhang Bin stood up excitedly, pointed to the map and beckoned: "Come on, Boya, if there is any good way, tell me quickly." ”

Sun Chuanting didn't look at the map, but raised his head and said proudly: "Didn't you ask me to lead the army to clean up the battlefield in the afternoon, I caught a few big fish on the battlefield." ”

It seems that Sun Chuanting's method must be related to these big fish, Zhang Bin asked with interest: "Oh, what big fish?" ”

Sun Chuanting lowered his head and pointed to the Monan grassland and said: "The leaders of Mengyuan Chahar Dotro, Sunit, Uzhumuqin, Ao Han, Naiman and other departments, however, at this time, they have been incorporated into the Eight Banners of Mengyuan, and they are under the control of Jiannu Zhubeile and Beizi. ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his eyes lit up, and he boldly guessed: "What do you mean, to plot against them?" ”

Sun Chuanting nodded respectfully and said, "Shuangquan, you are so powerful, you can see through a little, what do you think of this plan?" ”

Zhang Bin nodded heavily and said: "This plan is very second, I am having a headache how to clean up Jiannu, although they are defeated today, they still have more than 200,000 troops, and there are also strong cities in Liaoyang and Shenyang, it is too difficult to defeat them in one fell swoop, if they can rebel against the Mengyuan tribe, then they will have more than 100,000 troops left, and it is not impossible to defeat them in one fell swoop." ”

Sun Chuanting nodded and agreed: "Yes, I knew that you had a headache, so as soon as my subordinates found out the tribal leader in Meng Yuan's wounded soldiers, I thought of this divisive plan, we don't." ”

Immediately afterward, the two gathered together and discussed in a low voice.

At midnight the next morning, the Ming army camp in the south of the city, in the prisoner gathering area separated by the simple Yan Shan, there were still snoring and moaning, outside the Yan Shan, rows of Fuguang army soldiers stood there like stumps, staring closely at the prisoners in the middle, with a majestic face and cold eyes, if anyone dared to move, they would definitely rush up and execute them without hesitation!

This prisoner gathering area is two or three miles away, and all the prisoners are prisoners of the Mengyuan tribes, and the number is not more than thirty or forty thousand, but most of them are wounded soldiers.

The Ming army is not very bad for them, the injuries on their bodies have been treated simply, and they have been bandaged with medicine, but they did not use any anesthetic when they were treated, and they were directly cut with knives and sewn with needles and threads, so many people are still moaning in pain.

The sky was just clear, and before the sun came out, a group of fierce Ming soldiers suddenly rushed in from the entrance of the prisoner area, strode towards the middle, and their neat steps almost woke up all the captives, and the eyes of the awakened captives looked at them with horror, for fear that they would rush over and drag themselves out and cut them down.

These soldiers of the Ming army are all full of anger, and they do have the potential to be executioners, and it is normal for the captives of the Mengyuan tribes to think of the fact of beheading.

However, they didn't bother with those ordinary Mengyuan soldiers, but went straight to the place where the leaders of the Mengyuan tribes gathered in the middle, brushed it, and surrounded several leaders of the Mengyuan tribes.

As soon as the Ming soldiers surrounded him, the leading Ming army general shouted loudly: "Get up, hurry up." ”

Several leaders of the Mengyuan tribe were so frightened that they trembled, this wouldn't be to drag them out and cut them down, this guy is really too much like an executioner!

Although they were terrified in their hearts, they had to get up from the ground, because they were captives, and if they dared not listen to others, they would directly press the ground and beat them violently, which was also a white beating, so why bother to suffer from it, even if they went to cut off their heads, there was no need to be beaten by this beating, it was not good to go bare-faced, and it was only comfortable to be beaten with a blue nose and swollen face.

These leaders were taken away like this, and none of the tens of thousands of soldiers around Meng Yuan dared to move, because they had no weapons at this time, in front of the well-equipped Ming soldiers, they were like lambs, even if they had weapons, it is estimated that few people would dare to resist, because the Ming army was too strong, they couldn't do it at all!