Seeing the Houjin army in front of him collapse like an avalanche, Wu Sangui, who was holding a bow and shooting at these Mongols, was also very surprised. In his opinion, although the Mongols in front of him did not have a high fighting spirit, they did not have the reason to collapse so quickly.

However, he soon had no time to think about why the Houjin army in front of him collapsed so quickly, it didn't look like the Houjin army in his memory at all. Because he soon realized that the collapse of the Jin army in front of him did not seem to have much to do with their right-wing troops.

It was the left flank led by Zhang Xianzhong that first shook the Houjin defensive line, and it was the two shells fired by the Chinese army that finally destroyed the army's will to resist, and they only fired a few rounds of arrows at the Mongols on the opposite side. No matter how you look at it, the credit for defeating the Houjin army seems to have little to do with them.

When Wu Sangui was still thinking about it, his cronies Jia Ding couldn't help but urge him: "Major General, the Houjin army has been completely defeated, this is a rare victory, let's catch up quickly, we can't let others take all the credit." ”

Wu Sangui, who was awakened by the family around him, looked at the situation on the left and right, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Send 100 people to pursue them, the others will follow me, and we will go down to block those true female and real Tartars who cross the river." Catching 100 Mongols is not as good as catching a real female and real Tartar..."

The rupture of the ice upstream caused nearly a hundred Houjin cavalry to fall into the river, and many of the cavalry quickly lost their struggle, and then were washed under the ice and floated downstream. At this time, the Jurchens and Mongols who were crowded on the ice downstream, looking at the corpses floating under the ice, finally woke up from the previous panic.

They finally found that because of the swarm of swarms on the ice passage, their situation was also precarious, the cracks in the ice on both sides of the passage had become bigger and bigger, and it seemed that the ice beneath their feet was about to break in the next moment.

Aware of their situation, the Houjin soldiers who were crowded on the ice passage finally regained some order and began to slow down, widening the distance between them. But even so, the closer you get to the ice in the river, the sound of cracking is always heard.

The soldiers who stood on the ice passage kept throwing away the weight that could be removed from their bodies, whether it was leather armor, chain mail vests, or weapons in their hands. It is hoped that the cracking of the ice will be delayed and they will be able to cross the Luan River safely.

However, when a group of Ming cavalry on the west bank rushed down from the river embankment and blocked the place where the west side came ashore, hundreds of Houjin soldiers who stayed on the river found that they seemed to have become fish in the fisherman's net.

The west bank was blocked by the Ming army, and the Mongolian soldiers abandoned by them on the east bank also surrendered to the pursuing Ming army, so the landing point on the east bank was also blocked by the Ming army. The Houjin army, with two white flags and two Niulu as the core, is now just blocked by the Ming army on both sides of the Luan River, and the ice of the Luan River is still cracking at this time.

Under the persuasion of the Ming army, these desperate Houjin people and horses quickly dropped their weapons and surrendered. However, the soldiers of the two white flags considered the casualties they had caused to the Ming army on the east bank, so they all chose to cross the river and surrender to the Ming army on the west bank.

Although the Ming army on the east coast did not capture these Jurchen captives, Wu Huai had infinite relations with these, he only cared about whether the Mongolian right camp Gushan Ezhen Wunag, who was surrounded by him, could be captured by him. This is also the first time that the Ming and Houjin have the opportunity to capture or kill the Jurchen Yiqi Gushan Ezhen alive.

Compared to killing Wunag, it naturally makes more sense to capture him alive. And for these Ulut Mongol cavalry, who were surrounded by hundreds of Ming troops, their performance was much better than that of their Mongol companions who fled in all directions.

Although the Ming army found the leader of the 36th Guanmen Division, the Naiman Division, and the Uluts who surrendered to the Ming army to persuade these Mongols who were still resisting to surrender, these dozens of Mongolian cavalry still closely guarded the Wunag in the middle, completely ignoring the persuasion of the Ming army to surrender.

Wu Nag, who had been silent about the persuasion of the Ming army to surrender, did not make a sound to interfere with the persuasion of the Ming army to the subordinates around him, until he saw the Ming army push the tiger squat cannon out and tried to use firearms to blast through the defensive formation formed by his subordinates, then he sighed and said to the subordinates around him: "That's it, everyone throw away their weapons and tell those Ming troops outside that we have surrendered." ”

Several generals who followed him looked at Wunag a little bewildered, and a Mongolian general who had fought a real fire said indignantly: "Lord Gushan, we still have to fight with them to the end." These Ming people will only calculate us behind our backs, fighting head-on, how they are the opponents of our Houjin army.

Neither the 36th Department nor the Korqin Department can be trusted, if they hadn't betrayed us behind our backs, why would we have lost such a battle. Lao Tzu is just not convinced, and he wants to see how they can eat our army without conspiracy and trickery. ”

"Yes, yes. Fight with these barbarians, we must not let them be so proud. Even if I die, I will drag a Ming army on my back..."Some soldiers echoed and said.

Wu Nag glanced at the soldiers scattered around before he sternly reprimanded: "I said enough, didn't you hear it?" As long as I am not dead now, I will be the Gushan Ezhen of the Mongolian Right Battalion, and what I say is an order.

If you are all buried here, won't my right camp cease to exist? In that case, even if I die, I won't have the face to see the Great Khan, to see the fathers and villagers of the right camp? I now order you to drop your weapons and surrender to the Ming army. As long as you live, you still have a chance... Homecoming. ”

The Mongol soldiers around Wunag were silent for a long time, and soon the sound of "clang" rang out one after another as someone in the team dropped their weapons in their hands.

A Mongolian general who had followed Wunag for more than ten years, looked at the Yanling knife in his hand for a long time before slowly letting go of the hilt, letting the saber that had followed him for many years fall into the dust, and he whispered silently: "Do we still have a chance to go home?" ”

Wunag seemed to hear him talking to himself, turned his head to him and said seriously: "I will definitely take you home, and I, Wunag, will not end my life in this way..."

No matter how unwilling Wunag was, with his surrender, there would be no more formed resistance on the battlefield. When Chongzhen arrived at the battlefield with the main force of infantry, even the battlefield had been almost cleaned by the Ming army.

Wu Huai and He Kegang ran over together and made a report to Chongzhen, who was standing on the west side of the stone bridge and watching the battlefield. The battle ended in a great victory for the Ming army, which annihilated the 1,300 or 400 Houjin troops and captured nearly 3,000 people, including about 14 or 50 Jurchens alone. In addition, the Ming army captured almost 5,000 horses.

Among the captured Mongols, there were about 1,000 people in the Ulut Banner, about 900 people in the Mongol vassal tribes, and even about 8 or 900 people in the Horqin Tribe.

As for the casualties of the Ming army, the sum of several places is almost 1500 or 600. Hurting 1,000 people and injuring 800 yourself, this is indeed the theorem when fighting with cold weapons.

All Chongzhen could do was to arrange for the wounded Ming troops to withdraw to the rear and receive simple treatment. However, even with such heavy casualties, the morale of the Ming army was still high. This is the first time in many years that they have beaten the Houjin army, which is full of cavalry troops, so badly.

After Wu Huai and He Kegang reported on the battle, Zhu Youzhen thought about it and said to the two: "Since the left wing of Houjin has been crippled by us, then they should not be able to defend Santun Camp City.

Wu Huai returned with some of the captives, and asked them to persuade the guards of Santun Camp to surrender, telling them that if the defenders did not surrender the city before sunrise tomorrow, after our army broke through the city, all the defenders would be executed..."

After meeting with Wu Huai and He Kegang, Chongzhen immediately met with the leaders of the Naiman tribe who voluntarily surrendered and several captured Mongolian leaders. After reprimanding these Mongol leaders, he told them that as long as they stayed honest, he would let them go back when the Houjin army had withdrawn from the pass.

When Chongzhen warned them, he ignored their captured people, and these leaders did not hear the abnormality, so they hurriedly complimented Chongzhen's benevolent and broad mind.

Zhuo Erbi and other 36 people, who were originally in a hurry to leave, were not in a hurry to leave after seeing the Ming army's complete victory. Zhuo Erbi personally came to see Chongzhen, and boasted in front of the emperor that the 36 men and horses had made contributions to the Ming army.

Zhu Youzhen said to Zhuo Erbi with a smile: "I already know that for the 36 departments, it is indeed worthy of praise to be able to distinguish between right and wrong, to be able to see the situation clearly at critical moments, and to stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty." I will double the reward that Guan Shanhe promised you.

In addition, all the 36 soldiers who have fought bloodied for my Ming Dynasty will belong to their tribes under my protection in the future, and of course they will first settle down and graze in the location designated by me. Moreover, I will also give them the right to trade freely with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and not to be deceived by the merchants. ”

Zhuo Erbi and the others frowned a little when they heard about settled grazing, but when they heard about the free trade that followed, they endured it again.

After staying at Shiqiao for an hour, Zhu Youzhen set off again with the Chinese army and went straight to Santun Camp City. At dusk, the main force of the Ming army arrived at Santun Camp City, and set up large camps on the east, north, and northwest sides, making a posture of attacking Santun Camp City in a big way.

That night, Chongzhen summoned all the generals to congratulate the ambush on Shiqiao, and Wu Huai, Zhang Xianzhong, He Kegang, Wu Sangui and other generals were praised by Chongzhen in public, and each rewarded him with a golden cup of drinking.

The Ming army was noisy in the camp east of Santun Camp that night, and it was not until late at night that it gradually subsided. The Houjin defenders in the city of Santun camp were very nervous this night, and when the sky was overcast, the defenders in the city quietly opened the south gate, and then led the horses with horses' hooves out of the city.

After the sky was bright, the Ming army scouts found the south gate of the city gate, but the city was silent, so far the Santun camp city returned to the hands of the Ming army again.