Chapter 56: Victory and Defeat Weigh Everything
The victory or defeat of a war is never just the word "victory or defeat" on the surface, and the weight of it is not clear to you.
The war continues, and the war is not decided.
Yanmen Pass was completely reduced to a ruin, thousands of years of Yanmen Pass, the Han Yanmen Pass, after a long time, finally destroyed again in the war.
The Great Wall will never fall, and the Han people will inherit it through the ages.
A man like Tang Sanxian is not the first heroic martyr in Yanmen Pass, and the dead new army is not the first army to be wiped out by the enemy.
Yanmen Pass has never been a simple border pass, it is a witness of the blood of the Han family, it is in, the heroes are here!
Rushing day and night, in order to reach Yanmen Pass as soon as possible, the 100,000-strong army was divided into two teams.
Only 50,000 troops have arrived.
Zhang Xiahai was the commander, and Tang Xidong only arrived with the army first, but Yanmen Pass was guarded, but it also turned into a ruin.
The new army rushed to Yanmen Pass.
After the explosion at the training ground once again wiped out thousands of Jurchen soldiers, an open space was also demarcated.
20,000 new troops guarded Yanmen Pass for five days, and the whole army was annihilated, but Houjin also paid an unprecedented price, and the Ming Dynasty had never suffered any damage.
The war between the Ming Dynasty and the Houjin Dynasty has lasted for so many years, and the casualties on both sides have always been five or six to one, and in individual wars, it has reached ten to one.
But at this time, the battle of Yanmen Pass.
The Jurchens lost 20,000 Han Eight Banners, 15,000 Mongol soldiers, and 18,000 Jurchen soldiers.
Unprecedented casualty comparison,
Throwing away the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the 80,000 Jurchen Mongol army under Huang Taiji has suffered less than 500 casualties since entering Datong Town.
However, under the Yanmen Pass, more than 30,000 people were lost, and the Han Eight Banners were killed and wounded.
Huang Taiji's heart hurt, and the pain made him begin to fear and wonder if his decision to enter the customs this time was a mistake from the beginning.
Eighteen thousand Jurchen soldiers died in battle, and Huang Taiji could think of the stormy reproaches and doubts he would face after returning to Liaodong.
In a small country, the Jurchen tribe was already resentful, and now with this dead warrior, you can imagine how difficult it is for you?
This moment.
When Huang Taiji looked at the endless stream of enemy reinforcements in the distance, it was undeniable that he flinched and feared.
Since the age of twenty, he began to fight with his father Nurhachi, Huang Taiji has never felt fear on the battlefield, and the pride in his heart has made him have five strokes of confidence in the invincibility of the Jurchen.
But at this moment, he was really afraid.
The 20,000 new army, the fierceness of the battle and the tenacity of the battle made him see the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Shanxi New Army, and now it is the arrival of boundless reinforcements.
The more Huang Taiji thought about it, the more frightened he became, and the thought that he was going to die here today suddenly came to his mind.
A person who has never been afraid, when the fear in his heart is stimulated, he will fall straight down like a nine-day waterfall, and that strength and weight are not something that Huang Taiji can resist.
So, Huang Taiji Mingjin prepared to withdraw his troops.
"Erlang is tired from fighting for a long time, so he will temporarily retreat, and then break through the enemy soldiers after resting." Huang Taiji opened his mouth and said to Dolgon, Zilharang and the others beside him.
He didn't realize that what he had said about this would instantly turn into an explanation and self-comfort, revealing his timidity.
He is the king of the Khan, and when a thousand battles come, he has explained on the battlefield.
Attacking or retreating is a matter of command.
But at the moment he was retreating, and he had to explain.
Dolgon frowned directly, but he didn't say much, Derge's eyes flickered, and Zilharang, as a diehard of Huang Taiji, would naturally carry it out unconditionally.
Houjin began to retreat, but after having broken through the Yanmen Pass, he began to retreat.
But just when Huang Taiji turned the horse's head.
In the distance, the enemy suddenly shouted in unison: "Huang Taiji, Dolgon, leave the dog's head!" ”
"Huang Taiji, Dolgon left the dog's head!"
Huang Taiji's face was full of blood, but he still turned his horse's head and continued to retreat, as if he didn't hear it.
But the next moment, he was cornered.
"Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Tang Xidong is here, have you forgotten Azig's dog head?"
"Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Tang Xidong is here, have you forgotten Azig's dog head?"
……
Before Huang Taiji could react, Dolgon beside him had already pulled his horse to stop, and then turned around, his eyes full of hatred.
Huang Taiji looked at it and chuckled in his heart.
A lightning thought flashed.
I can't do it today.
Azig was Belle and was divided by Tang Xidong, this is not Dolgon's hatred, this is the national hatred of the entire country of Houjin.
Huang Taiji was forced to the edge of the cliff, and he could only turn around.
With anger in his eyes, Huang Taiji turned the horse's head.
After gritting his teeth, he waved his hand and ordered: "Break through the enemy army, take the head of the dog in Tangxi East, give the mountain Ezhen, reward 100 households, and 100 gold." ”
Huang Taiji is indeed a hero, and today's battle is inevitable, so he was ruthless, but in one sentence, he mobilized the morale of the entire Houjin army.
So Houjin turned around again and headed in the direction of the new army.
The closer you get to Yanmen Pass, the clearer you can see.
Tang Xidong has already seen that Houjin has begun to withdraw his troops, will he let Houjin leave easily?
Never, what did he go north for? Resist Jin, kill the enemy, what's more, at this moment, 20,000 new troops died together with Yanmen Pass.
The anger and resentment in Tang Xidong's heart did not allow him to let Houjin withdraw his troops easily.
So he ordered the whole army to shout.
Azig is the hatred that cannot be bypassed by both sides,
Huang Taiji can't go.
Later, the Jin counterattacked, and the new army began to gather its formation.
Now Yanmen Pass has become a ruin, a wilderness, the new army infantry camp against the Houjin cavalry.
When Houjin frantically rushed in, the new army began to stop and adjust its formation.
The drums were beating, the queue was moving, the infantry battalion in front began to retreat, and the 20,000 cavalry divided into troops and wandered on both sides.
Suddenly, the new army was divided, and the baggage team, which had always pressed behind the formation, pushed the chariots in front of the formation, and surrounded the entire infantry camp in a semicircular line.
See the car array again.
After the Qi family army went north to fight against the Jin Dynasty, it was improved again by Tang Xidong.
In the rear, the artillery battalion was in place, and hundreds of artillery pieces were lined up from far and near, and the artillery was nervously prepared.
The cavalry showed their swords, and the Mongol cavalry mixed with the Han cavalry, with short knives and different guns, galloped along both sides of the large array.
Later, the golden cavalry galloped in.
The distance between the two sides was shortened by one mile.
The new army of 50,000 men waited silently.
Houjin entered again, and 5,000 people entered within one mile, and the former was nearly 200 steps.
The drums stopped, and then struck four times in a row.
"Boom!"
Fifty guns were fired up in an instant.
The shells lined up in several lanes near and far towards the Houjin cavalry.
The first round of artillery, dominated by flowering shells, covered thousands of Houjin cavalry, which exploded overhead.
In an instant, smoke rose in the air, obscuring the sky, and in the blink of an eye, it could be seen everywhere, the war horses were frightened, and the cavalry fell from their horses.
The Houjin formation was suddenly in chaos.
Although the thousands of cavalry lost nearly 1,000 in one round of artillery, after a short period of confusion, they continued to fight and charge.