Chapter 673: The Slave Chief Retreats
This great battle in Juyong Pass was an unprecedented victory for the civil and military officials who were in Juyong Pass at this time, and for Emperor Chongzhen himself, it was also a great victory that quickly raised his authority and prestige again after the eradication of the eunuch party.
However, for Huang Taiji, it was the most painful defeat in many years.
On the night of the same day, Huang Taiji, the lord of Jianyu, under the entourage of Bai Yintu, Tuobuqi, He Luohui and Fan Wencheng, led more than 4,000 cavalry cavalry with the Yellow Banner cavalry that had been hastily evacuated from the capital of Juyong Pass, and rushed back to Huailai City in a panic.
Although the artillery fire on the Great Wall at Badaling and Shixialing caused certain losses to the retreating Huangtaiji army, this loss was almost negligible compared with the heavy losses under Juyong Pass.
Huang Taiji himself had no other trauma except for the fact that he broke his left arm when he fell from his horse.
However, the minister of the Zhenghuang Banner Darhan, one of the Gushan of the Zhenghuang Banner, Balai Mountain, and the confidant war general Ahsan, who he admired and relied on, died under the Juyong Pass, just like Yanguli, Dardai and Tulai, who were previously respected by Huangtaiji.
The newly established Wuzhen Chao Hahan Army Artillery Battalion was wiped out all of a sudden, before it could be of great use.
Even Sun Degong and Alancha, who were ordered to command the artillery battalion of the Wuzhenchao Hahan Army, disappeared in the chaos.
This made Huang Taiji, who had fled back to Huailai City, very sad, and even more painful than breaking one of his left arms.
Of course, the news that made him even more painful soon came one after another.
That night, Belle Yuetuo, the owner of the Red Banner Banner, also fled back to Huailai City with less than a thousand cavalry.
And they fled back until the next morning, and did not wait for more people to return.
Among those who did not return, including Yue Tuo's younger brother Ma Zhan, and the heroes who conquered the Victory Fort, the leader of the Red Banner Protector Army, Lausa, and other cadres such as Laezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen.
The death of these battle-hardened Eight Banner generals was especially deplorable to flag owners like Yue Tuo compared to the casualties of ordinary bannermen.
Like these people, those who waited all night and did not return were Jinong, Taiji, Zhaisang, Nayan, Celing and other leaders of the Mongol tribes in southern Mongolia.
Huang Taiji, Yue Tuo and others all know that these people are afraid that they will be more than lucky.
They also knew that the loss of these leaders and tribal cavalry of the Mongol tribes in Monan also meant that Huang Taiji had lost half of the results obtained in his trip to conquer Monan.
However, the blow to Huang Taiji and others is not over.
In the early morning of the next day, Huang Taiji had not recovered from yesterday's heavy losses, and the three beylers of the Dajin Kingdom and the Zhenglan Banner Banner Master Mang Gurtai finally led the defeated Zhenglan Banner and Naowen Horqin team under the Bauhinia Ridge all the way to Huailai City.
Knowing that the main forces of Zhenglanqi and Brain Wen Horqin were also defeated under the Bauhinia Pass, and that Oba Khan of the Brain Wen Horqin died under the Bauhinia Pass, Huang Taiji was suddenly dizzy and almost fainted again, and scolded Mang Gurtai with a big face.
However, halfway through the scolding, he remembered what happened to him under Juyong Pass again, Huang Taiji's heart was annoyed and remorseful, and he sighed, but in the end he didn't know what to say.
The originally good situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse, and seeing that there were signs of a complete collapse, Huang Taiji couldn't help but be terrified in his heart.
On the morning of the same day, Huang Taiji locked himself alone in the place where he was staying in Huailai City, and after thinking seriously for a long time from beginning to end, he finally decided to withdraw from the gate immediately.
At noon on the same day, Huang Taiji, accompanied by Bai Yintu, Tobuqi, He Luohui, Fan Wencheng and others, personally led more than 4,000 cavalry cavalry with the Yellow Banner who had fled back to Huailai, as well as the five Zhenghuang Banner Niulu, totaling about 5,500 people, who had stayed in Huailai, to retreat to the victory pass first.
At the same time, Huang Taiji sent people to quickly send a horse to order the Jianlu army and the Mongol servant army stationed in Shuozhou and outside Datong City, with looted gold, silver, property, people, livestock and other materials, to the north of Saibei from the nearest Hukou and Deshengkou respectively.
In addition, he asked Yue Tuo to lead the remaining men and horses of his subordinates to escort the gold, silver, cloth, grain, livestock and other materials looted by the previous armies in Datong Xuanfu and other places as soon as possible, and then retreated to the victory pass.
What made Mang Gurtai extremely angry was that Huang Taiji ordered him to lead the remaining men and horses of Zhenglan Qi and Naowen Korqin, and stay in Huailai City to transport the property for Yue Tuo's department.
After a battle under the Bauhinia Pass, the forty Zhenglan flags that were brought into the hinterland of Datong from the mouth of the killing were compiling the cattle record, and now they have been reduced by more than half.
At first, he attacked the right guard of Datong, and lost several Niu Lu with dead and wounded, and later attacked Datong Town by the order of Huang Taiji, and under a number of dead and wounded, thirty-one Niu Lu remained in forty Niu Lu.
After the battle of Bauhinia Pass was over, the Zhenglan Banner Niulu, who followed him all the way to Huailai City, was full of sixteen left.
That is to say, the 12,000 people of the Zhenglan Banner army who followed him into the pass and looted at the beginning were only more than 4,800 people left at this time.
Among the ministers who followed the entry into the customs and the important ministers and generals who relied on Mang Gurtai as their right-hand men, only a few people such as Leng Seng Ji remained.
Among them, one of the Gushan Ezhen, Tunbulu, Melle Ezhen Aibali, Meler Ezhen Weng Adai, and many Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen died on the Bauhinia Ridge.
You must know that at the beginning of Nuer Hachi's army, a captive Niu Lu was really a great position.
Because at that time, under the hereditary commander of the Jianzhou Left Guard of the old slave, there were not many Ding Zhuang people in Niulu.
A Niu Lu 300 Ding Zhuang is already a force that should not be underestimated in the Jianzhou Jurchen territory where there are small tribes or small cities everywhere.
Later, with the rise of the left guard of Nuer Hachi Jianzhou, the strength of its department continued to grow, and the young and strong population was more and more, so it imitated the establishment of the Ming military guard and the Mongolian army, and set up a Jiala on the top of the Niu Lu, and the five Niu Lu were compiled into a Jiala, and then a solid mountain was set up on the Jiala, and the five Jiala were arranged into a solid mountain.
Then under a solid mountain, set up two Meler Ezhen as Gushan Ezhen's deputies.
Gushan means ten thousand households in Mongolian, which is equivalent to the commander of ten thousand men under the system of integrating all soldiers and civilians.
Although on the Jurchen side, there are only 7,500 people in a solid mountain, less than 10,000 people, but for the Jianzhou Jurchens with a small population, this is already a very powerful force.
Therefore, the first four solid mountains of the Jianzhou Jurchens, that is, the four sons of the old slave, became the four major Baylors of the Houjin State after the establishment of the old slave.
Later, with the continuous expansion of the territory of the Houjin Kingdom, the population of the tribe increased day by day, and the number of captives of the tribe was also increased, so the four solid mountains changed into eight solid mountains.
This is the origin of the Jianzhou Jurchen Eight Banners.
Now that the Jianzhou Jurchens have unified the Jurchen tribes, and have captured a large number of people from the savage Jurchens and the more remote Beishan Jurchen tribes, coupled with the Mongol tribes who surrendered to the Jurchens earlier, the power of the Jurchen Eight Banners has been further strengthened.
Almost every subordinate has set up two or even more Gushan Ezhen, and above Gushan Ezhen, Huang Taiji is the first to take the position of Flag Minister and Assistant Minister.
But despite this, the positions of Gushan Ezhen and Maile Ezhen are still one of the few very honorable positions.
However, this time, one of the most trusted right-hand men in the Zhenglan Banner, after entering the customs this time, almost half of them died.
All of this made Mang Gurtai both discouraged and hateful.
And what he hated was that the character was none other than the four beylers of the Dajin Kingdom who used to live under him, and now the high-ranking Dajin Kingdom Tiancong Khan is also called Tiancong Emperor Huang Taiji.
In his opinion, if it weren't for Huang Taiji repeatedly letting his Zhenglan Banner take the lead to attack the fortifications, Zhenglanqi's entry into the customs would have been a very relaxed and pleasant burning, killing, looting and fighting grass valley, rather than a tough battle with heavy losses again and again.
Now the Zhenglan Banner army he brought into the border of the Ming Dynasty is less than 5,000 people left, and the Brain Wen Korqin people who followed to fight the Bauhinia Pass are now only about 2,000 people, led by Oba Khan's son Badalitaiji.
If it was left in the past, with such 7,000 cavalry, Mang Gurtai would have dared to stay behind and fight a big battle with the Ming army several times his own.
But now, Mang Gurtai, who was beaten a little frightening under the Bauhinia Pass, and the Zhenglan Banner army, which is now demoralized, learned that they were ordered by Huang Taiji to stay in Huailai, and everyone was dissatisfied.
Therefore, when Huang Taiji led the men and horses of the Zhenghuang Banner to retreat to the direction of Datong Desheng Fort at noon on November 18, with the continuous sentinel of the 3,000 battalions of cavalry near Huailai City, on the morning of November 19, Mang Gurtai abandoned the Yuetuo Department and led the men and horses of the Zhenglan Banner and the men and horses of Bada Litaiji, the son of Oba, to the west.
Mang Gurtai retreated first with a large amount of gold and silver looted since entering the customs with the Zhenglan Banner, not only leaving behind Yue Tuo, who is now thinner, but also leaving behind a large number of property looted by the Zhenghuang Banner and the Red Flag in Datong Xuanfu and other places.
At this time, Yue Tuo, who was leading the army in Huailai City to supervise the people who had been arrested before, nervously loaded the mountains of gold, silver, cloth, grain and other property everywhere, and when he heard that Mang Gurtai, who was responsible for intercepting the Ming army outside the city and was cut off for himself, actually retreated without even saying hello, he was so angry that he scolded at the moment.
But in a hurry, Yue Tuo could only abandon the grain and livestock that were inconvenient to transport, and only led the army to protect the gold, silver and valuables that had been loaded into the carriage overnight, and hurried all the way to the west.
That night, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Juyong Pass, received the news that the royal courtiers had sent him back from Huailai City, and Jianyu retreated westward!