Chapter 284: The Cause of Defeat in the Battle of Salhu
The word "old" expresses the bitterness and suffering of Dongge, and it also seems to tell the injustice of the world.
Compared with Chen Yuanyuan, who "weeps for the six armies, and is angry for the crown", and "Dongfeng is not with Zhou Lang, Tongque Chun is deeply locked with Erqiao" Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, Dong Ge seems so obscure.
But the emotional entanglement with Nurhachi has made her still the woman with the greatest influence on the founding emperor in the world, which is incomparable to Chen Yuanyuan and Da Qiao Xiaoqiao.
"Lord Governor, thank you for finding a way out for us Yehebu, I will do this glass of wine first as a respect." After everyone sat down, Brother Dong raised his glass and saluted Li Hongyu, and then drank it all.
Li Hongyu smiled when he saw this, and also drank the wine in his hand in one go, he guessed correctly, Brother Dong came this time for the safety of Ye Hebu.
It turned out that after Dong Ge married in Mongolia, he devoted himself to practicing Buddhism, so he broke off contact with the Jurchen side on the grounds of "illness and death", and she didn't want to be burdened by the previous things anymore.
However, the defeat of the Ming army in Sarhu stimulated Dongge, who was also the princess of Yehebu no matter how he said it, so he naturally cared about Yehebu's situation, so he took his daughter to Yehebu Province to settle his grievances with Yehebu.
When she arrived at Yehebu, she learned that Jin Taishi and Buyangu had moved west in order to avoid Houjin, but it was okay to do so, after escaping from Houjin's sphere of influence, Yehebu would be safe.
Since Ye Hebu is fine, Dong Ge is ready to return to Mongolia, but before leaving, she wants to thank Li Hongyu who helped Ye Hebu a lot, so she asked Buyangu to set up a wine to meet Li Hongyu, and there are many places where Ye Hebu needs Li Hongyu's care in the future.
After the banquet, Dong Ge went back to his room to rest, and Li Hongyu and Buyanggu chatted in the living room about Nurhachi leading the army back to Hetuala, which undoubtedly gave them a chance to repair Daishan and Huang Taiji.
In Buyangu's opinion, 10,000 Yehe soldiers and 20,000 Nekhalkha soldiers were enough to deal with the 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers of Daishan and Huang Taiji.
I'm afraid that Nurhachi would never have thought that the real governor of Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty was in the castle of the Yehe Ministry, and the troops at hand were not the Ming army, but the combined forces of the Yehe and Nekhalkha Ministries, and then Li Hongyu used a trick to transfer back to Hetuala, putting Daishan and Huang Taiji in danger.
"Buyangubele, where are the Eight Banners of Jianzhou?" During the discussion with Buyangu, Li Hongyu suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, he wanted to see how Buyangu viewed the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Sarhu.
"Lord Governor, do you want to hear the truth or lie?" Buyanggu groaned for a moment when he heard this, and then looked at Li Hongyu quietly and asked.
"Of course it's true!" Li Hongyu nodded and replied solemnly.
"Your Excellency, since you want to hear the truth, then I will tell you what I know." Buyangu hesitated for a moment and looked a little worried, then looked at Li Hongyu and said in a deep voice, "In the humble opinion, in terms of combat alone, the bow of our Jurchens is better than the bow of your Ming army!"
"Bow?" Li Hongyu's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, he really didn't expect this, but thought that the quality of the Daming archers was not as good as the Jurchen archers, so he was suppressed by the Jurchen archers.
"We Jurchens make a living from fishing and herding, so we can make a good bow." Buyangu smiled slightly when he heard this, and then said seriously, "Compared to the bow of your Ming army, our Jurchen bows shoot farther!" ”
"In addition to the bow, your Ming army relies too much on firearms, the power of firearms is indeed great, but it takes a long time to launch a second time after firing once, taking advantage of this opportunity, our cavalry has already rushed to your front, and those firearms of yours have become burning sticks."
Because Li Hongyu treats people gently, Buyangu knows everything, and he looks at Li Hongyu in a deep voice and says, "Therefore, the more firearms you use, the greater the possibility of failure, and General Ma will lose a lot in this." ”
During the Battle of Salhu, the Marin army on the north road marched quickly to follow the Juniper army on the west road, but received the news that the entire Juniper army was wiped out in one day, which shocked the whole Marin army.
Because the second target of the Houjin soldiers was Ma Lin's Northern Route Army, so in the panic, the Ma Lin Army set up three military camps in Shangjian Cliff northwest of Salhu, and the Ming army formed a phalanx, each battalion dug three trenches, and three layers of guns were arranged outside the trenches, which were guarded by Ma Lin, Pan Zongyan and Li Ximi, and the whole army turned to defense.
It is worth mentioning that Ma Lin's Northern Route Army and the Fourth Route Ming Army had the highest proportion of firearms, and its tactics were typical trench warfare and array warfare of firearms armies.
Seeing the formation of the Northern Route Army, Jin Taishi and Buyanggu knew that the Northern Route Army would be defeated, they had seen the firearms of the Ming Army, although the lethality was not small, but the slow rate of fire was an unsolvable problem, so they quietly retreated their troops and avoided the sight of the Later Jin Army.
Soon, the Houjin army of the Later Jin arrived on the battlefield, first concentrated the main force to attack Gong Niansui's Ming army, and the Houjin army dismounted and launched a charge, while the Ming army did not fight, but only intensively used guns.
Later, the Jin army used bows and arrows to fight back, and easily pushed down the chariot covering the Ming army to open the breakthrough, rushed into the battle array, and then shot freely to kill the Ming army who had no time to reload ammunition, and Gong Nian's battalion of more than 5,000 people was wiped out in this way.
In the final analysis, the power of the Ming army's firearms was limited, and the Jin army wore leather armor made of raw cowhide and other animal skins, while Nurhachi was very familiar with the performance of the Ming army's firearms after many years of fighting, and knew that the effective range of the Ming army's firearms was between 30 meters and 50 meters.
Therefore, Nurhachi commanded the army to run to the edge of the range of firearms, and immediately rushed in after luring the Ming army to release their guns, while the Ming army's firearms could not effectively penetrate the leather armor of the Houjin army.
After destroying Gong Niansui's camp, the Houjin army rushed to Marin's camp, and the Ming army in the front fought to resist, while the Ming army in the rear fired shotguns intensively and set off artillery to cover.
The Houjin army on horseback shot back and forth, galloping like a beast, ignoring the guns and cannons of the Ming army, and continued to attack with bows and arrows, making the panicked Ming army a live target.
Finally, a Houjin army broke through the front of the Ming army, and another Houjin army broke through the rear of the Ming army's shotgun artillery from behind.
This made the lineup of the Ming army begin to collapse, Ma Lin had to break through first, and the troops fell into a large swamp in a hurry, so the Houjin army surrounded the Ming army like a hunt, followed and pursued, shot wantonly, and almost shot all the retreating Ming troops in the field.
Including Ma Lin's two sons, Ma Ran and Ma Yi, the generals of the Northern Route Army were killed one after another, and it is said that "the dead are in the valley, the blood is still flowing under the cliff, and the water is red." It can be seen that the battle situation was tragic, and Marin escaped from the encirclement with only a hundred personal soldiers.
It is worth mentioning that the strength of the Eight Banners Strong Bow is calculated in terms of "force", and one force is about six hundred grams, which makes the bow divided into three classes, namely the first class twelve forces, the second class ten forces, and the third class eight forces.
Most of the ordinary Eight Banner soldiers use ten-force strong bows in battle, and they can shoot through armored soldiers within 100 meters, which is related to the fact that they are hunters who grow between the white mountains and black waters, and they have trained very good arm strength since childhood.
However, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Eight Banners soldiers were not as powerful as their ancestors, and their combat effectiveness declined rapidly, which was related to the fact that they had left the living environment of Baishan and Heishui, and without that harsh survival training environment, the children of the Eight Banners could not have the arm strength and archery skills of their ancestors anyway.
In fact, the Juniper of the Western Route Army also made an unforgivable mistake on the battlefield, and even let the Ming army light torches to launch an attack at night, and then the Jin army occupied the mountains and forests and launched an arrow array to shoot, and the strong bow was fired, shooting the Ming army that rushed over like a night hunt.
It was during this period that Juniper was shot and killed by the strong bow of the Houjin army, and his subordinate generals Chai Guodong, guerrilla Wang Hao, Wang Hailong and others were all killed in battle, while the prison army Zhang Quan was captured, swore not to surrender, and was executed.
It should be noted that, unlike the scattering tactics of the Mongol cavalry, the Eight Banners Archers adopted tactics similar to those of the British longbowmen, that is, shooting a parabola at 30 to 45 degrees into the sky.
This way, the soldiers don't need to aim at all, and they can deliver the maximum lethality by firing a volley at the same angle. Then the salvo was fired in a different position, and its effective output per unit time greatly exceeded the scattering tactics of the Mongol cavalry.
In terms of range, the compound bow of the Eight Banners was also stronger than the Mongolian short bow, which made the Mongols defeat the Jurchens on the battlefield, and the Eight Banners Bow Cavalry gradually replaced the Mongolian iron cavalry and became the strongest long-range troops in the Cold Weapon Era, so that the Later Jin could unify the Monan and Mobei Mongol tribes.
Although Marin ran away, the 5,000 men of Pan Zongyan's division, as the rear army, still insisted on resisting, they were not firearms troops, but cold weapons troops based on shield and short knife fighting.
The Later Jin army attacked with heavy armor soldiers with broadswords and light armor with bows and arrows, while the Ming army fought desperately with "shouting and attacking, and being bold".
In the end, the heavy armor and bows and arrows of the Houjin army played a role, breaking through the defense line of the Ming army and rushing into the camp of the Ming army.
However, the Houjin army did not engage in battle, but only kept a distance and used a strong bow to release arrows, constantly consuming the strength of the Pan army, which made Pan Zongyan's whole body shot by countless strong bows and hard arrows to the point of "rotten bones", arrows all over his body, bones were shot to pieces, and all his subordinates also died in the arrow array of the Houjin army.
At this point, the Houjin army completely wiped out Marin's Northern Route Army, and Yehebu had no choice but to flee back.
It can be said that before Yang Hao's four-way attack, the reality of the Houjin army was not clarified at all, resulting in a massacre of the Northern Route Army, the Western Route Army and the Southern Route Army.
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