On December 27, the 25th year of Wanli, Shiling Pass was lost, the Ming army lost more than 10,000 soldiers, suffered heavy losses, and was forced to retreat, Wang Shiyang, the governor of Ming Xuan, decided to move the whole army back, set Taiyuan as the main battlefield, and gathered 130,000 soldiers and horses in Shanxi and Yulin towns to encircle and annihilate 10,000 northern captives and iron cavalry that attacked south.

There are 40,000 cavalry and 90,000 foot soldiers in the 130,000 Ming army, all of which are arranged in the open land north of Taiyuan.

Moreover, Taiyuan can be called one of the hardest cities in China, with a very good defensive tradition, everyone thinks that even if the Ming army is abolished this time, it will not let 10,000 people destroy the large array of 130,000 people, right? The combat effectiveness of the border army of the Ming army is still there, unlike those inland guards, thousands of people are chased and beaten by dozens of Japanese robbers.

Their ideas seem to have come true.

On the third day of the first month of the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, news came from Yangqu, the last Ming army stronghold north of Taiyuan.

The Northern Captives have been defeated!

On the second day of the first month, the Beilu gathered 8,000 men and horses to dismount and attack Yangqu, and Wei Zhen, the guard general of Yangqu, resolutely counterattacked and actively defended in accordance with Wang Shiyang's instructions, and fought to the death for a large amount of consumption of the living forces of the Beilu.

That night, after Wei Zhen arranged the retreat route, he decided to carry out a night attack, the last active attack, and then retreat, and Yangqu was no longer defended, because the people here had already migrated, and the strong wall Qingye was successful.

I thought that if I wanted to attack, I would immediately retreat, and I would accept it when I saw it, but who would have thought that this attack would be terrible, and the Beiyu was defeated and retreated, and even a decent counterattack was not organized, and the fight was weak and weak, as if I hadn't eaten, and it didn't take much time to lose hundreds of corpses, and then the whole line retreated.

Wei Zhen originally just wanted to fight one last time, but in the end, he won the first battle since the northern captives went south, at dawn, the northern captives all collapsed and withdrew from Yangqu, Wei Zhen calculated, at least killed more than 800 northern captives, and beheaded more than 200 capitals, which was a rare victory.

So he continued to lead his troops in pursuit, chasing and killing the Beilu all the way, until he arrived at the Shiling Pass, and fought a bloody battle with the Beilu under the Shiling Pass, and there was no difference between victory and defeat.

If it weren't for the fact that Shiling Pass was controlled by them, and Wei Zhen had few troops, it was estimated that Shiling Pass could be recovered in one fell swoop.

Wei Zhen was overjoyed and immediately reported the news to Wang Shiyang, Wang Shiyang was shocked, and after repeated confirmation, it was confirmed that Beiyu had really withdrawn from Yangqu, and the whole line retreated to Shiling Pass, and the battle situation was reversed!

Could it be that the veterans of the division are tired under the repeated attacks of the northern captives, and they no longer have the strength to continue the attack? Has the strategic goal of blocking layer by layer of defense line been achieved? And doubled?

Wang Shiyang was a little puzzled, worried that this was a deliberate ploy to show weakness by the Beiyu, so he only sent his subordinate generals to bring 10,000 foot soldiers to support Shiling Pass, and as a result, on the fifth day of the first month, Shiling Pass was recovered by the Ming army, and the Ming army beheaded one hundred and eighty Bei captives, annihilated nearly 1,000 Bei captives, and more Bei captives fled to the north on the whole line.

According to Wei Zhen's report, he found a lot of empty grain bags, and some grain bags had a little grain in them, but the amount was very small, as if it had been eaten and leaked, so he judged that the northern captives had taken some grain from Datong and then went south to try to get more grain.

But before they could get more food, they were starved of food by the tactics of the fortified wall and clear the field, and they had no food, and they had no intention of fighting, so they had to retreat. Also because there is not enough food to eat, the combat effectiveness has been sharply reduced.

The Ming army already had the upper hand.

Such a report still made Wang Shiyang puzzled, he always felt that the Beiyu would not suddenly decline, there must be some conspiracy in it, he sent 10,000 cavalry to the north to help the battle, he still led the main force to garrison Taiyuan and waited, and released sentry horses everywhere, he suspected that the Beiyu had hidden a part of the troops and planned to attack Taiyuan.

A few more days passed, and the lack of victory of the sentinel cavalry and the successive victories of the 30,000 troops attacking north made Wang Shiyang more and more shaken, he couldn't imagine that the northern captives, who were still as strong as a tiger before, had fallen like this in this way, was it really because he had to retreat because he ran out of food?

unimaginable.

But at the same time, the Ming army regained Xinzhou, and then fought a big battle with the Beilu in Xinkou, beheaded more than 150 people, recovered Xinkou, and the Beilu continued to rout, Wei Zhen asked for more reinforcements to go north to counterattack, in order to recover more lost territory, and go north to recapture Pingxing Pass, gallop to the aid of Yanmen Pass, so that the strategic attempt of the Beiyu completely failed.

The successive defeats of the Beiyu did not shake Wang Shiyang much, Wang Shiyang firmly believed that there was a problem with the Beiyu, but he couldn't find where the problem was, Wang Shiyang could bear it, but the generals of the army couldn't help it.

The front-line army won one battle after another, beheaded every day, and captured every day, but they have been staying in Taiyuan, without any record, you say that you want the Beiyu to continue to be strong, but the Beiyu has been defeated again and again, of course they are willing to carry forward the traditional virtue of the wall falling down and everyone pushing it.

The local army in Taiyuan is okay, they just want to defend the land, but the reinforcement army from Yulin Town is different, they rushed all the way to make sauce...... No, for military merit!

If it wasn't for military merit, why did they come here? Now Beiyu is so easy to bully...... It's so rampant, it's just when the boys of my generation need to go up and give them a head-on blow!

Wang Shiyang looked at those Yulin generals speechlessly.

I really don't know what these people were doing when they discussed the candidates for the town Shouyangqu a few days ago, and now they see that the persimmons are soft and easy to pinch, and they are more brave than anyone else!

Although Wang Shiyang despised the virtues of these people in his heart, he couldn't find a suitable reason to stop them from asking for war, although he could suppress it for a while as a governor, but he couldn't suppress it for a lifetime, after all, the anger of the people was difficult, and they would say - you only let your descendants fight for military merits, and treat us harshly?

Damn factional strife in the military! Not only the general, but even him, the civilian governor, was involved! He was regarded by the people of Yulin Town as the general leader of the Shanxi faction, and he specifically did not deal with them, and shouted from afar, but he was not allowed to fight, what does it mean?

After suppressing it for a few days, it was really unbearable, Wang Shiyang had no choice but to allow 10,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 cavalry to go north to help the battle, and then allowed 10,000 cavalry to gallop to help Yanmen Pass.

The people of Yulin Town are a little more stable.

And at this moment, the news that Dingxiang was recovered came from the front line again, and now it was not only the soldiers and horses of Yulin Town, but even the soldiers and horses of Taiyuan Town began to ask to go north to help in the war, and now is the time when the momentum is like a rainbow, how can they watch others take credit and they get nothing?

It's impossible!