At noon the next day, 10,000 cavalry sent by Lin Dan Khan rushed to Shimen Mountain, and Lin Dan Khan could not reach until the next day.

When the Mongolian generals were shocked after witnessing the scene of corpses all over the field and rivers of blood flowing on Shimen Mountain, no one thought that Da Ming and Hou Jin would break out such an extremely vicious battle on this small stone gate, and if they were replaced by Mongolian soldiers, they would definitely not be able to survive.

The casualties in the battle of Shimen Mountain were not counted until Li Hongyu and Lin Dan Khan led the Mongol army, including the wounded, more than 10,000 Ming troops were left with only more than 2,000 people, and then Jin left more than 12,000 corpses and more than 700 wounded and captured.

A total of more than 20,000 people were killed on both sides, which was the heaviest loss for Hou Jin after the Battle of Tieling, and Amin and Mang Gurtai were greatly injured by this.

It is worth mentioning that Nurhachi did not punish Amin and Mang Gurtai who failed to capture Shimen Mountain, he knew that the two had done their best, so the top priority was to appease the people, replenish the banner soldiers under the jurisdiction of Amin and Mang Gurtai, and maintain the balance of the power of the Eight Banners.

Although he won the battle of Shimen Mountain, Li Hongyu was not happy at all, among the surviving more than 2,000 Ming troops, there were only more than 1,500 people left in the forbidden army and the water division, and the rest were the Ming army of Liaoxi who followed Li Hongyu to fight the Battle of Jinzhou.

Lin Dan Khan arrived at Shimen Mountain and specially inspected the battlefield, although the bodies of the dead of the Ming and Houjin wars had been carried away and buried, but the blood stains on the ground that were still not dried showed the tragedy of the battle at that time.

This made Lin Dan Khan change his view of the Ming army, because the Ming army was defeated in Liaodong and Liaoxi one after another, Lin Dan Khan had great contempt for the fighting power of the Ming army.

But now it seems that he was wrong, the reason why the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is low is related to the characters who unified the army, Li Hongyu was reborn as soon as the Ming army came, and it seems that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is not as unbearable as he imagined.

The day after Lin Dan Khan's arrival, Li Hongyu set out with Lin Dan Khan to go to the city of Quang Ninh, which was now under the control of the Mongol army because Nurhachi had voluntarily abandoned Quang Ninh.

Li Hongyu once went to Guangning, because it was a border city with Mongolia, so it was also a prosperous and rich city in Liaodi, now the city is empty, there is no one else on the street except the Ming army and Mongolian soldiers, and the people of Guangning City were moved to Liaodong by the Later Jin.

After entering the city of Guangning, Li Hongyu ordered the Ming army to recover the cities west of the Liao River, saying that it was to recover was actually entering the city, and those cities had long been left without people, so that the Ming army and the Houjin army confronted each other across the Liao River, and the battle lines of the two sides returned to the situation before the battle of Guangning.

Although the territory of the Ming army was not lost, the local scene was already different from before the battle of Quang Ninh, villages and towns became empty cities, and the people either died or were moved to Liaodong by the Later Jin, or went south to take refuge in Shanhaiguan.

Especially in the northern part of the Liaoning West Corridor, it is difficult to see a single figure in ten miles and eight townships, and the depressed and dead deserted scene makes Li Hongyu sigh secretly, so that the northern part of Liaoning West will be abandoned.

Without the people, the Ming army stationed in Quang Ninh would have become an out-and-out lone army, which could be attacked by the Houjin at any time and become a piece of chicken ribs that were tasteless and a pity to abandon.

As for letting the people of Liaoxi who fled into Shanhaiguan return to their homes again, it is even more inappropriate, what Houjin is robbing now is the population, and once those people return home, they will either be killed or taken away by Houjin.

But then again, who came, although Guangning City now has no military significance, but its political significance is significant, Li Hongyu immediately wrote a good news to the Emperor of the Apocalypse after entering the city, the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the officials of the capital must have been eagerly looking forward to the battle report of Liaoxi.

In addition, Quang Ninh City is the location of the exchange market between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, which has important economic value for the Mongols, and once the city of Guangning is abandoned, a new market location must be chosen.

Li Hongyu is not worried about the affairs of Guangning now, this kind of major strategic choice needs to be decided by the Emperor of the Apocalypse after convening the civil and military ministers to discuss, he is not willing to ask too much about this matter, after all, his focus is on the Customs Department in the south, so the affairs of Liaodi should be decided by the officials of the court.

Lin Dan Khan now never imagined that the Ming would give up Guangning, in his opinion, the Ming Dynasty had millions of people in armor, so it was not a problem to garrison Guangning City, so the two sides could continue to carry out border trade.

Under the order of Lin Dan Khan, the Mongol army was not allowed to cross the Liao River without receiving the order, otherwise he would be executed, so that he would not cross the Liao River to fight the Hou Jin, so wouldn't it help the Ming Dynasty, and the Hou Jin needed to contain the Ming in the Liao region, only in this way could he get the greatest benefit from it.

Li Hongyu naturally knew Lin Dan Khan's thoughts, so he did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but ordered the whole army to enter the city to rest, because the main force in his hand has suffered heavy losses in Shimen Mountain, so even if he wants to fight, there is no way, after all, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, which makes the situation in Liaodi gradually become relaxed.

A few days later, Sun Chengzong, Wang Zaijin, and Wang Xiangqian, all the high-ranking officials of the Ming army who were waiting at Shanhaiguan arrived in Guangning City.

When Sun Chengzong and others received the report of Li Hongyu's victory in Shimenshan, they were taken aback, and they never imagined that the Ming army would be able to defeat Houjin in Shimenshan, and also annihilated more than 10,000 enemies.

After Li Hongyu came to recover Guangning City, Sun Chengzong and others believed that Li Hongyu had indeed achieved a great victory in Shimen Mountain, which forced the Houjin army to flee in embarrassment.

On the way to Guangning, Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin and others went to Shimen Mountain to check, and saw dense tombs at the foot of the mountain.

After Sun Chengzong and the others went up the mountain and saw the dried blood stains on the ground, they could imagine the tragedy and cruelty of the battle of Shimen Mountain, which made the air even waft with a faint smell of blood.

It wasn't until they met Li Hongyu that Sun Chengzong and others learned that Li Hongyu was actually on the mountain during the battle of Shimen Mountain, which made everyone gasp and feel inexplicable palpitations.

But then again, if it weren't for Li Hongyu sitting in Shimen Mountain, I'm afraid that the Ming army in Shimen Mountain would not be able to hold out until the Ming army in Jinzhou came to support, Li Hongyu was obviously the backbone of the Ming army in Shimen Mountain, and he strategized and controlled the overall situation in the battle of Shimen Mountain.

Lin Danhan did not have a good impression of Sun Chengzong and others, nor did he have any friendship, so he left the day after Sun Chengzong and others came.

However, he left 10,000 Mongol cavalry and 20,000 Mongol infantry to help Li Hongyu defend Liaoxi, lest Later Jin retaliate when he learned that the soldiers brought by Yuan Chonghuan from Ningyuan to reinforce Jinzhou were the Ming army of Liaoxi and not the soldiers of the Navy.

After the First Battle of Shimen Mountain, the brave and good soldiers who lost the forbidden army and the naval division, the Ming army in western Liaoxi was not the opponent of the Houjin army at all, so Li Hongyu needed the Mongols to help defend it, at least for now, to stabilize the battle line at the Liao River.

Li Hongyu has written a letter to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, using the surviving soldiers of the first battle of Shimen Mountain and the Jinzhou soldiers who came to the aid to reorganize the forbidden army, and these soldiers who have been on the battlefield will bring a qualitative change to the forbidden army.

At the same time, Li Hongyu also had to transfer manpower from it to replenish the sailor, and only about 200 of the 2,000 sailors came this time, so he naturally had to replenish the sailor's soldiers.

As for the army in western Liaoning, Li Hongyu believed that the Houjin army would not invade the Ming Dynasty within two years, so it was completely possible to organize and train a new army to deal with the Houjin in two years.

In fact, Li Hongyu did this with selfish motives, he did not want to see those soldiers who had experienced the Battle of Shimen Mountain die on the battlefield in western Liaoning a few years later, so he found a way out for them, and these people were valuable treasures to him.

Li Hongyu was not worried about the Emperor of the Apocalypse refusing, not to mention that this was his request, the duty of the forbidden army alone was to protect the emperor, which was enough for the Emperor of the Apocalypse to approve Li Hongyu's request, after all, Li Hongyu was forming a guard for the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Under Li Hongyu's arrangement, seventy percent of the soldiers who survived the First Battle of Shimenshan were incorporated into the forbidden army and became the skeleton of the forbidden army, and the other thirty percent entered the water division, and then broke away from the battlefield outside the gate and avoided being consumed on the battlefield outside the gate.

In fact, the forbidden army became the trump card in the hands of the Emperor of the Apocalypse and later Emperor Chongzhen to protect the capital, and it was easy not to transfer out of Gyeonggi.

After the Battle of Jinzhou and the Battle of Shimen Mountain, the forbidden army became famous in one fell swoop, became an elite division in the Ming army, and made great achievements for the defense of Gyeonggi in the future.

At the beginning of July, Li Hongyu and Sun Chengzong embarked on the journey back to Beijing in the south, and the two were just messengers sent by the Emperor of the Apocalypse to supervise the war in Liaoxi, so now that the war situation in Western Liaoning is stable, it is natural to return to Beijing to return to the Emperor of the Apocalypse.

Wang Xiangqian was the governor of Jiliao, and his affairs were as long as they were in the Guannei, so he followed the two to the south, and Wang Zaijin led the soldiers of Guangning City out of the city to see him off.

Wang Zaijin felt extremely nervous about Li Hongyu and Sun Chengzong's return to Beijing, and after the two returned to Beijing, they would decide the direction of the Ming Dynasty's policy towards western Liaoning, and he did not want to be trapped in Guangning.

Considering that there are few people in the northwest of Liaoning, Wang Zaijin agreed with Sun Chengzong's idea and felt that it was better to operate the Liaoxi Corridor, so that he could attack Liaoshen and retreat to Shanhaiguan.

Li Hongyu did not express his opinion on the war situation in western Liaoning, if according to his character, he would definitely defend Guangning and join Mongolia to resist Houjin, but this is just his idea, and how to do it depends on the meaning of the imperial court.

When passing through Shimen Mountain, Li Hongyu and Sun Chengzong deliberately went to the cemetery built under Shimen Mountain, although the cemetery looks relatively simple, it is also composed of graves, and the stonemasons have carved the monument and erected it in the cemetery, recording the battle of Shimen Mountain, which was inscribed by Li Hongyu himself.

Li Hongyu stopped in front of the monument for a long time, and then got up and left with a gloomy expression, no one knew what he was thinking, only he knew that he was saying goodbye to those soldiers who died in battle.

Considering the strong rise of Houjin, I don't know when I will be able to come to Shimen Mountain again to visit these brave soldiers who died in battle.

(End of chapter)

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