Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 1 Liaodong Shock

Chapter 5 Collecting Troops and Asking for the Future

Section 2 Jiangmen Li Rubai

At the beginning of March of the forty-seventh year of Wanli (the fourth year of the Later Jin Heavenly Mandate).

Li Rubai is also behind the gate, since he was a child, he followed his father Li Chengliang, brother Li Rusong and others to fight in all directions, and he was used to seeing bloody battlefields and traveled all over the mountains and rivers of Liaodong. It stands to reason that Li Rubai should be a veteran general who can fight well, and this is indeed the case: Li Rubai participated in the Korean War against the Japanese, participated in many battles against the Mongolian tribes, and indeed made a lot of military exploits, but they were all established under the leadership of Li Chengliang and Li Rusong, and Li Rubai's opportunity to lead an army to conquer one side can be said to be a handful.

Moreover, Li Rubai was born in a family of generals in Liaodong, and most of the people in the army are children of the clan and cronies, so the concept of conservative strength and grabbing merit is very strong.

It is precisely for this reason that since the departure from Shenyang, the Southern Route Army led by Li Rubai has been moving slowly, ignoring Yang Hao's general orders to meet Hetuala. In the early days of the army, Li Rubai would also send the army to the night to probe the progress of the rest of the Ming army from time to time. Later, he simply didn't collect it overnight, and slowly marched towards Hetuara on his own. Anyway, there are the rest of the three-way army in front to attract Jiannu's attention, so why should he run so fast?

Therefore, when the remaining three Ming armies were attacked by Jiannu one after another, and they were defeated and scattered, the South Route Army led by Li Rubai had just marched to Hubagang (east of Qinghe Fort).

When he arrived at the Tiger Barrage Gang, it was already dark, and when Li Rubai saw this, he ordered the army to stop advancing and set up camp on the spot.

With the shouts of generals at all levels in the army, the 25,000 people of the South Road Army stopped on the spot and began to build a large camp around Li Rubai's Chinese army. In the evening, a huge barracks was erected. Li Rubai took dozens of families to stand on the hill, as if admiring a painting and calligraphy, and looked at the camp under the hill with self-absorption.

"Well, the soldiers are still well-trained, you see, in such a short period of time, how many other armies in Liaodong can do it?" Li Rubai said proudly.

The cronies beside Li Rubai said flatteringly: "Of course, no one in Liaodong doesn't know the prestige of the Li family!" Back then, the old man (Li Chengliang) was the Optimus Prime of the imperial court, and when the old man stomped his feet, who dared to squeak at the foreigners and Tartars in all directions. To this day, the head town has taken over the mantle of the old general, and he is also the first-class general! ”

"Haha!" Li Rubai waved his hand after hearing this, and laughed: "You can't talk nonsense, this town is just doing some modest help for the country." ”

"The head town is too modest."

"The head town is really a sage."

Li Rubai was full of praise and praise from the family, and after watching it for a while, he returned to the camp on horseback. At this time it was nightfall, and the huge camp was lit with many torches and fires, and the camp was illuminated as if it were day.

Back in the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Rubai took off his armor with the help of his family, rested for a while and was about to have dinner, when he suddenly heard an urgent report outside the tent: "Qiqi General Town, Shenyang Yang Jing is slightly urgent!" ”

Li Rubai still leaned on the couch in the tent, waved his hand, and the family next to him walked to the door and brought the letter in.

Li Rubai took the letter and did not open it immediately, but said to himself: "Hey, Yang Jingluo is good at everything, but he is too dependent on the town, and it has not been a few days since he set out on the expedition, so he sent another urgent order." ”

The family next to him heard Li Rubai's voiceover, and hurriedly complimented: "That's it, the main town is the dry city of the country, so Yang Jingluo came to Liaodong for the first time, how can you do it if you don't rely on it!" ”

"What is this called, this town is also under a lot of pressure."

The family Ding said: "The head town can work more and bother more, who let Liaodong still point to the head town." ”

"Haha." Li Rubai opened the letter with a smile and looked at it carefully. Looking at it, Li Rubai's face was cloudy, from red to black, and then from black to white, and in the end, his face was almost bloodless.

Li Rubai jumped up from the couch suddenly, and almost climbed to the ground due to too much force.

"Quick! The whole army assembled, immediately retreated, and returned to Shenyang! Li Rubai shouted hoarsely.

The housekeeper next to him looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, and he didn't know what shocking news was written in the letter, which made the lord of the town so panicked.

Seeing that the family was still stunned and did not go out to give the order, Li Rubai was furious, kicked him to the ground, and shouted: "Didn't you hear the order of this town!" Go to herald! ”

The family fell to the ground on all fours, and hurriedly got up and said: "But the main town, it's already night, and the night march is still such an urgent retreat, what if there is an accident?" ”

"Bastard!" Li Rubai scolded: "If I ask you to give the order, hurry up, do you need to teach me how to lead the troops?" Nonsense, Lao Tzu cut you! ”

The family didn't dare to say anything more, and hurriedly ran out to give the order. After a while, the camp of the Ming army was lively, and the army of more than 20,000 people boiled in an instant, the sound of cursing, the sound of whining, and the neighing of war horses were mixed together and resounded in the night sky, and the birds in the woods in the distance were awakened and flew to the sky, setting off the scene in front of them extremely weird.

Li Rubai put on his armor, rode on a war horse and kept reprimanding loudly in the camp, ordering his generals to hurry up and retreat. Seeing that the main general was so panicked and didn't know what was going on, some guerrilla generals and Qian generals gathered around to inquire one after another.

Li Rubai smiled bitterly and said: "Yang Jingluo sent an urgent letter, the North Route Army and the West Route Army have been wiped out, and the East Route Army is also dead and wounded. Now, the four-way army that went out on the expedition is left with us, and it is estimated that the Jiannu army is on the way to come. ”

The generals were all shocked when they heard this, and more than 100,000 troops went out to fight, and they were defeated by Jiannu in just a few days!

So, all the generals didn't say anything more, and went back to urge their subordinates to pack up quickly, and the speed of the Ming army's camp suddenly became much faster. However, the news of the defeat of the army also spread. At this time, the word Jiannu was like a ghost-like terrifying existence, lingering in the hearts of the soldiers of the South Road for a long time.

Under the constant urging of Li Rubai and generals at all levels, and under the pressure of the fear of death, the soldiers of the Ming army set out as quickly as possible, and 25,000 people marched along the original road in the direction of Shenyang.

The Ming army on the South Road walked from the evening to the afternoon of the next day, and after a night and more than half a day's rapid march, not only the soldiers were already sleepy and tired, but even Li Rubai and other generals were exhausted. As a last resort, Li Rubai ordered the whole army to rest on the spot.

A swan whistle sounded, and the soldiers of the Ming army immediately stopped their heavy footsteps, and fell to the ground one after another to recover their strength, and even many soldiers threw their armor and weapons aside and lay directly on the ground.

Li Rubai saw that he shouted loudly, and ordered his family members to patrol the team, and anyone who took off his armor and discarded his weapons would be given twenty rods on the ground.

The family members went extremely reluctantly, but who was not tired at this time? After walking around the line, the family members also found a place to sit down, and did their work perfunctorily.

At this moment, several cavalry suddenly appeared in front of the army, and everyone looked at it at the Jiannu Sentinel!

The Ming army suddenly panicked and retreated back, and the Ming soldiers were about to be confused. Li Rubai was taken aback and scolded: "Bastard! A bunch of waste, just a few scouts of Jiannu, I'm afraid of what he will do! You! Led the troops up and cut down those Jiannu for me. ”

Li Rubai pointed to a thousand generals beside him who gave an order, and before the thousand generals could lead the troops to attack, he heard an exclamation: "There are also Jiannu over there!" ”

"There are also in the back, there are a lot of slaves!"

Li Rubai hurriedly looked around, it was good not to look at it, but he almost fell off his horse in shock. I saw that there were Jiannu cavalry around the Ming army, at the beginning there were only a few, a dozen, and now countless Jiannu cavalry have poured out from all directions. Seeing that the Jiannu army surrounded him, the Ming army was suddenly in chaos.

Li Rubai panicked and tried his best to restrain his troops and horses to line up to meet him, but no one listened to him. The soldiers of the Ming army were already exhausted, and they were suddenly surrounded by the Jiannu iron cavalry, and at this time the army's heart had been lost, how could it be possible for them to meet the Tartars!

The soldiers of the Ming army crowded each other, everyone wanted to stand in the middle, everyone wanted to push others to the front to resist Jiannu, and the scene was very chaotic.

I only heard a horn sound, and then the Jiannu iron horsemen around them galloped wildly around the Ming army in a circle, and at the same time kept shouting and shouting loudly. The soldiers of the Ming army were already extremely frightened at this time, thinking that Jiannu had launched a charge and suddenly blew up the nest, and they scattered and fled and trampled on each other.

Li Rubai also thought that Jiannu had attacked, and he shouted and led his family to escape, and all the soldiers who stood in the way were hit by the ferocious family and hacked to death with a knife. The surrounding Ming troops saw that the family members of the horse were mistakenly thinking that Jiannu had been killed, and they fled in horror. The entire Ming army brigade was almost crowded, horse to horse, squeezed into a pot of porridge, that is, no one launched a counterattack against Jiannu.

In the distance, Huang Taiji sat leisurely on his horse, looked at the panicked Ming army, laughed, and said: "Haha, how can this Li Rubai say that he is also behind the gate, how can the soldiers and horses he bring are so unbearable!" Ben Baylor just harassed and blew up the battalion? Thanks to Khan Amma, he also left 5,000 elite soldiers in Xingjing (Hetuala) to guard against Li Rubai, and it seems that Khan Ama is also worried. ”

At this time, a Jia Lae Zhen said: "Master, you see that the Great Khan just sent us to reconnoiter and probe us, and this place is relatively close to Shenyang, should we be cautious?" ”

Huang Taiji looked disdainful and said, "There's no need! The Ming Kingdom's capable army in Liaodong has all been wiped out, and Benbeile's three thousand iron cavalry can run rampant in Liaodong! ”

Immediately, Huang Taiji ordered the three thousand white flag iron cavalry to attack the Ming army.

Three thousand iron horsemen roared out and struck diagonally from the right rear of the Ming army, and the Ming army collapsed suddenly. The 25,000 Ming troops trampled on each other under the drive of 3,000 white flag iron horsemen and fled for their lives towards Shenyang.

Huang Taiji led the army to pursue for thirty miles before stopping, and at this time it was not far from Shenyang City. Seeing that Li Rubai's army had collapsed, Huang Taiji had no interest in pursuing, this kind of army that had lost its courage was the meat that would be delivered to his mouth even if he came another 100,000.

As a result, Huang Taiji scattered his 3,000 iron cavalry and plundered around Shenyang to defeat the morale of the Ming army.

Under the escort of Jiading, Li Rubai collected the defeated troops along the way, and when he arrived in Shenyang, there were less than 20,000 people left in the 25,000-strong army.

Since then, the Battle of Salhu has ended, and the Ming army's four-way army to defeat Jiannu has all been defeated, except for Liu Yunwei's Hanwei battalion and Li Rubai's army, the rest of the soldiers and horses have been wiped out.