Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 5 Lying on the Salary and Tasting the Courage

Chapter 5 The Heroic Tragedy of the Battle of Liao Shen

Section 3: The Bloody Battle of the Hunhe River (1)

Nurhachi took Huang Taiji, Daishan and other Eight Banner Banners to ride their horses slowly in Shenyang City, watching the Jiannu soldiers of each banner wantonly slaughter and plunder the people in the city, only to see people fleeing in panic, women crying miserably, and men scolding angrily; However, more than not, it was the unbridled laughter of the Jiannu soldiers and the desperate screams of the people in the city before they died.

"Haha, I really can't imagine that my Dajin Iron Cavalry can have today, and I can also attack Shenyang City in the Ming Kingdom!" Nurhachi looked at the surrounding scene and said proudly.

Dai Shan hurriedly complimented him and said, "Khan Ama is wise and martial, and Ming Guo is naturally not an opponent. According to Erchen, the opportunity for my big golden iron cavalry to sweep Liaodong is today! ”

Nurhachi smiled and nodded, but did not speak.

At this time, Huang Taiji asked: "Khan Ama, there are more than 40,000 Ming troops captured by my Dajin warriors in this battle, and all of them have been concentrated on the side of the school field in the city. Khan Ama is asked to show you what to do with these captives. ”

Nurhachi thought for a moment, and then said coldly: "Now that Liaoyang has not yet been captured, and the reinforcements of the Ming Kingdom are about to arrive, I don't have time to pay attention to these prisoners!" ”

Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then his eyes showed a fierce light, and he bowed down and responded: "The son of the minister has the order!" After speaking, he gave a few orders to his subordinates on the side.

After a while, there was a terrible scream like hell in the school field in Shenyang City, and more than 40,000 unarmed Ming army prisoners were slaughtered by the inhumane Jiannu in the trench in less than two hours, and the endless blood merged into countless rivers, dyeing the school field into a dazzling blood red.

Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Dai Shan walked around the city for a while, and then wanted to go back to the general military palace in the city to rest. At this moment, Nurhachi and the others suddenly saw a group of scouts riding horses from the direction of the east gate, and their expressions were very panicked. Nurhachi's heart suddenly swelled up with a very bad premonition.

Huang Taiji's heart was also pounding, and when the scouts came closer, he asked loudly, "What's wrong?" ”

A vest hurriedly rolled off his horse, knelt on the ground and said: "Your Majesty, Qiqi Banner Lords, the white pole soldiers and Qi family troops sent by the Ming Kingdom to support Shenyang have arrived on the south bank of the Hunhe River south of Shenyang, and are now resting, and it won't be long before they cross the river to the north!" ”

Hearing this, not to mention the horror on the faces of Huang Taiji and Dai Shan, even Nurhachi was also pale and a little flustered. Originally, I thought that this Ming reinforcement would rush from Liaoyang to Shenyang, and it would not arrive until tomorrow at the earliest, and that was already the most terrifying judgment made by Nurhachi when he overestimated the elite of these two Ming forces; Who would have thought that it was less than a day now, and this Ming reinforcement army, which was completely composed of infantry, had completed the journey of nearly two days! What does this mean? It shows that this Sichuan and Zhejiang alliance army of the Ming Kingdom is an extremely elite tiger and wolf division, and it is even much stronger than the Hanwei battalion that once inflicted heavy losses on the Dajin warriors!

Is this battle still going to be fought? How to fight? After this battle, how much will Daikin's warriors lose? Do you still have the strength to attack Liaoyang and resist the Hanwei army that is coming?

Nurhachi's heart was calculating at great speed, and his face was cloudy.

Huang Taiji next to him thought for a moment and asked the vest, "How many people are there in this Ming reinforcement army?" Who is the leader? ”

"Qiyu Sibeile, the Ming reinforcements are about 7,000 people, the leading general of the Sichuan army is surnamed Qin, and the main general of the Zhejiang army is surnamed Qi. At the same time, there is also a banner of the general army surnamed Chen, and a banner of the general soldier surnamed Tong. ”

Huang Taiji thought for a while, and then said to Nurhachi: "Khan Ama, Erchen had investigated the situation of these two Ming armies in detail before the war, if Erchen did not guess wrong, these two generals of the Ming army should be Qin Bangping, the brother of Qin Liangyu, the chief soldier of Shizhu Mansion, and Qi Jin, the nephew of Qi Jiguang. It seems that Ming Guo has made a bloody capital this time, this battle is not easy to fight, this is a bloody battle. ”

Nurha thought hard, his face was almost hideous, and after a while, he said fiercely: "My Dajin warrior has more than 100,000 armor, don't you dare to face the thousands of elite Ming army?" Spread my will! Zhenghuang Banner stayed in Shenyang City, and the rest of the Seven Banners army immediately went out of the south gate to assemble, and an hour later went to the north bank of the Hunhe River to meet the Ming reinforcements! ”

Huang Taiji and Dai Shan bowed down together to receive the order, but their faces were very unsightly.

At the same time, on the south bank of the Hunhe River.

On the bank of the Hunhe River, a reinforcement army composed of 3,000 Zhongzhou Shizhufu white pole soldiers and 4,000 Zhejiang Qijia troops was doing a short rest, and the high-intensity march for several days added a lot of fatigue to the soldiers, but on the faces of the soldiers, there was no look of complaint or timidity; On the contrary, the faces of the soldiers were full of excitement about to face a strong enemy and the glory of being about to fight on the battlefield, and the 7,000 soldiers were all eager to try and their morale was high in the face of the upcoming battle.

The Tusi soldiers of Qin Liangyu's department of Shizhu Mansion have been on the battlefield for a long time and are invincible, because the main weapons of the soldiers of the department are a spear made of ash wood, so the department is known as the white pole soldiers, and it is known as the toast of all ethnic groups in the southwest. This time to send troops to Liao, Qin Liangyu sent his brother Qin Bang Pingtong to lead this strong brigade to the battle, this white pole soldiers are strong and capable of fighting, equipped with many swords, broadswords and sharp long-handled javelins unique to the ethnic minorities in eastern Sichuan, the soldiers in addition to wearing iron armor and a layer of thick cotton armor, knives, arrows are invulnerable, the army is strong and neat, and the spirit is high.

Not to mention the Qi family army that traveled with it, since Qi Jiguang established the Qi family army, starting from the southeast provinces to fight against the Japanese invaders, to guarding Jizhen to conquer the Mongolian tribes, and then to the Korean war for 3,000 miles, the Qi family army has experienced a total of hundreds of battles of all sizes, and has never been defeated! After more than ten years of campaigning, the Qi family army has won a total of more than 300,000 enemy troops (not including the number of enemy troops who have not grabbed the first rank), and their own losses are only less than 2,000 people, which can be called terrifying!

Under the leadership of the chief soldier Tong Zhonghua and the chief soldier Chen Ce, the army of Liao, which was composed of the white pole soldiers and the Qi army, advanced all the way to the south bank of the Hunhe River, and was preparing to flank the Jiannu with the Ming army in Shenyang City.

Seeing that the soldiers had almost rested, the chief soldier Tong Zhonghua and the chief soldier Chen Ce convened the whole army to discuss the front of the battle. After a while, the guerrilla general Zhou Dunji, the deputy commander-in-chief of Sichuan Shizhu Prefecture, Qin Bangping, the deputy general, Qi Jin, and the staff general Zhang Mingshi came to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce looked at the generals with a full tent, and their hearts were full of pride, after all, they held the two most elite armies of the Ming Dynasty in their hands, and it was just an idle matter to make military achievements.

The two first gave in to each other, and then Chen Ce arched his hand, took the lead in saying a few words to boost morale, and then continued: "Ladies and gentlemen, since the defeat of the Battle of Salhu three years ago, the national dynasty has been losing its city and land, the morale of the soldiers is low, and the national prestige has been lost! Today, 7,000 soldiers of the Sichuan and Zhejiang coalition armies were ordered by the emperor to go to Liaodong and rush to Shenyang. ”

As soon as the words fell, the deputy commander-in-chief Qin Bangping, the deputy general Qi Jin, the staff general Zhang Mingshi, and the guerrilla general Zhou Dunji got up together and responded: "The last general is willing to live and die together with the two general towns and raise the prestige of our country!" ”

Seeing the high morale of the crowd, Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce were both very happy, Tong Zhonghua was about to arrange the next step of military affairs, and suddenly a person who did not collect at night broke into the account and reported: "Qi Yu Tong Zongzhen and Chen Zongzhen have just received an urgent report that they will not receive at night, and Shenyang has been broken by the Jiannu army!" Now the slave chief Nurhachi has led an army of 100,000 troops from the Seven Banners out of the city to the south, and it is less than five miles away from the Hunhe River! ”

Everyone in the tent had an incredible expression on their faces when they heard this! It is said that the marching speed of the white pole soldiers and the Qi family army is not fast, and the soldiers have already run out of the marching speed of the iron cavalry with their own two legs, which can be described as the speed of the soldiers! Moreover, all the generals thought that the defenders of Shenyang could hold out for three or five days at the worst, and then they would be able to defeat Jiannu from inside and outside. However, no one thought that Shenyang City, known as the fortified city of Liaodong and the garrison of 70,000, did not hold out for even a day!

Qi Jin, the commander of the Qi family's army, asked angrily: "How did Jiannu capture Shenyang?" Are the 70,000 defenders in Shenyang City all waste! ”

The Ye Bushu said with a sad and indignant face: "General Qiyu, the general soldier He Shixian, and the deputy general You Shigong were lured out of the city by Jiannu one after another, and they were defeated and killed one after another; Then, when Jiannu attacked the city, the Mongolian victims and soldiers in Shenyang took the opportunity to open the city gate, and Jiannu only took less than half a day to attack Shenyang! ”

The generals were all indignant when they heard this, and the chief soldier Tong Zhonghua even scolded Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong Economic Strategy, for being stupid and incompetent, and said angrily: "When Yuan Yingtai was ready to surrender those Mongolian Tatars, I wrote to persuade them not to, if it is not my race, their hearts will be different!" Yuan Yingtai's move is simply a disaster for the country and the people! ”

Up to now, the situation faced by the Sichuan and Zhejiang coalition forces is very dangerous, Shenyang has fallen, the 100,000 army of Jiannu is coming, and the 7,000 soldiers are already unable to advance.

Therefore, Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce discussed urgently, and decided to lead the army to retreat and return to Liaoyang, and wait until the Han Wei army arrived before marching.

As soon as Chen Ce was about to give the order to the division, the guerrilla general Zhou Dunji and others tried their best to dissuade and repeatedly ask for battle, and the generals said excitedly: "My generation can't rescue Shenyang, what is there here!" Besides, Shenyang has been lost, and in the face of the Jiannu army in its prime, Liaoyang is the fat on the knife case, how to hold on to it? Why don't we wait for another decisive battle against Jiannu and inflict heavy damage on it in order to stabilize the situation! "

In the face of the current situation, Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce were also full of unwillingness, seeing that all the generals were angrily asking for battle, the two only felt that their blood was boiling and they couldn't help themselves. Chen Ce even shouted: "Our Sichuan and Zhejiang armies have never been defeated in the world, how can they retreat without a fight today!" The whole army immediately assembles to meet Jiannu! ”

As a result, the Sichuan and Zhejiang armies were immediately divided into two battalions, the guerrilla general Zhou Dunji and the deputy commander-in-chief of Sichuan Shizhu Du Si Shu Qin Bangping first led 3,000 white pole soldiers to cross the Hunhe River and set up camp in the north of the bridge, preparing to block the Jiannu army; The chief soldier Tong Zhonghua, the chief soldier Chen Ce, the deputy general Qi Jin, and the staff general Zhang Mingshi led 4,000 Qi troops to set up camp in the south of the bridge. The two armies face each other across the river, and they are horns against each other.

Just after the 7,000 Ming soldiers had just finished arranging and camping, dust covering the sky was raised from the north side of the Hunhe River, and the earth shook slightly, and the army of 100,000 Jiannu arrived.