Of course, in the days following the first town of the Guards to the north, in addition to the good news coming one after another, the news of the defeat came one after another.

First of all, the second town of the Guards Army went north from the Bauhinia Pass, and under the leadership of Wang Fu, the commander of the capital, they marched all the way, and successively recovered Guangchang, Lingqiu and Hunyuan Prefecture, which were almost empty.

However, on the morning of 23 November, on the way to Datong, the main force of the Second Guards Army, more than 10,000 people, on the north bank of the Sanggan River north of Hunyuan Prefecture, unexpectedly encountered the Zhenglan Banner army led by Mang Gurtai and the remnants of the Naowen Korqin cavalry led by Badalitaiji, the son of Oba.

At this moment, it really responded to the words that the enemy was very red when they met.

Ignoring the dissuasion of Leng Seng Ji and other people around him, Mang Gurtai insisted on destroying the infantry-based men and horses in the second town of the Guards from Bauhinia Pass.

A fierce battle began on the morning of the same day when the vanguard of the two armies suddenly encountered.

The cavalry team of the second town of the Guards followed Ma Dengyun, Sun Zushou and others to fight as infantry on the water gate of Bauhinia Pass, and suffered heavy casualties.

Therefore, this time when they went north to regain the lost territory, only three of the five cavalry battalions that were supposed to be the main force followed.

At this time, as the outpost of the second town, it was the first to encounter the nearly 7,000 cavalry of Zhenglan Banner and Naowen Korqin on the north bank of the Sanggan River, and soon fell into a heavy siege.

On one side are Mang Gurtai and Badali, who want to avenge the hatred of the fierce generals and the murder of their fathers on the Bauhinia Ridge, and besiege the more than 2,000 horsemen led by Ma Dengyun and Sun Zushou with all their might.

On the other side, Ma Dengyun, the deputy commander in charge of the cavalry in the second town of the Guards, was also very angry when he saw Mang Gurtai, the enemy of the exterminating clan.

At this time, Ma Dengyun already knew about the massacre of Daomang Gurtai in Shuoping City, the right guard of Datong, and already knew that his parents, brothers, wives and children, as well as hundreds of the whole family of the right guard Ma in Shuoping, had died under the sword of Zhenglan Banner and the Mongols, and of course they would not retreat.

The two sides fought fiercely from midnight to around noon, until Wang Fu commanded a battalion of cannons, three battalions of wolf pikes and three muskets, and set up a position along the Sanggan River, and then issued an order for Ma Dengyun to lead the cavalry to retreat.

After severely inflicting heavy losses on the cavalry of the second town of the Guards, he still refused to give up, and he had to completely annihilate the cavalry led by Ma Dengyun, and followed Ma Dengyun and Sun Zushou to attack Wang Fu's camp, and was forcibly blocked outside the large array by the wolf milling spearmen who were densely arrayed on the periphery of the position.

The Jianyu cavalry, who were lucky enough to follow and rush into the formation, also quickly died under the random guns of the musketeers.

Next, Mang Gurtai, who refused to give up, commanded the Blue Banner cavalry to charge the formation by cavalry twice, but each time, they were blocked by the wolf milling spearmen who were densely lined up on the outskirts of the second town of the Guards.

And every time the part of the cavalry that rushed in at the cost of death and wounding was killed by the musketeers in the large array.

At about the end of the day, Mang Gurtai abandoned the siege and retreated westward under the repeated artillery bombardment of the second town artillery battalion of the Guards.

In this encounter on the banks of the Sangan River, Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner and Badali's Naowen Korqin cavalry left more than 2,000 corpses in total.

The casualties of the second town of the Guards exceeded 3,000 people, especially the three cavalry battalions brought out by the second town of the guards this time, only more than 500 cavalry were left to break through the encirclement and withdraw into Wang Fu's large array.

However, the death sacrifice of the cavalry battalion was meaningful, and at least the three wolf milling pike battalions, three musket battalions, and one cart artillery battalion left in the second town won time to set up the formation.

Otherwise, the more than 10,000 men and horses in the second town of the Guards Army would have suffered even greater losses in the face of the 7,000 cavalry of the Mang Gurtai Division who galloped with hatred.

In this era, in the open area of the wilderness, only cavalry could fight against cavalry.

When the infantry is attacked by cavalry, there is no other way than to exchange casualties for time to form a formation to resist the enemy as soon as possible.

As for turning around and running away, that's a dead end.

When the results of the encounter on the north bank of the Sanggan River reached Juyong Pass a few days later, Emperor Chongzhen was distressed when he heard the news, but he immediately issued an order to praise the performance of the second town of the Guards.

and immediately instructed the cabinet minister Xu Guangqi to take the lead in supervising the imperial history of the Xuanfu, Datong, and the first and second towns of the Guards Army, as well as the imperial history of the Jingying Supervisory Army and the Admirals, to verify and report the number of casualties and missing generals and soldiers of each department, so as to prepare for the arrangement of bereavement after the war.

The day after receiving this news, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a hurry in Juyong Pass, received a joint report from Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, Zu Dashou, the chief military officer of Datong Town, and Wu Fu, the imperial history of Datong Town's supervisory army:

"The slave chieftain Huang Taiji's department broke through the siege, and escaped from the victory pass under the response of the Red Banner Army and the Mongolian Servant Army!"

After receiving this news, in the anxiety of the military attache of the imperial chamberlain and the personnel of the military aircraft department, Jiang Yueguang, Niu Juming, Chen Shiqi, Wu Weiye and others, Emperor Chongzhen was silent for a while, and finally sighed and said nothing.

At this time, he couldn't tell whether he was more disappointed or relieved.

did not leave Huang Taiji, the core figure of the Jin State after the founding of the captivity, without being under Juyong Pass, nor in the land of Xuanda, he was of course a little disappointed.

Because Huang Taiji went out of the Great Wall again and entered the Monan grassland, for this Jianyu army, which was almost all cavalry or cavalry infantry, it was really a sea wide and a fish leaping, and the sky was high and the birds could fly.

But for the current situation, he had no other way than to send someone to contact Sun Chengzong again to coordinate the Ming army to pay attention to prevention and interception.

Moreover, he was quite satisfied with the successive victories under the Bauhinia Pass and Juyong Pass, as well as some of the results that Datong Town had just learned in the Datong Defense Battle and the Victory Pass Defense Battle.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Man Gui and Yuan Chonghuan won the great victory of Ningyuan in Ningyuan City, although they injured Nuer Hachi with Hongyi cannons, but the heads of Jianyu were only hundreds after the war.

In this way, it has been claimed that it is Ning Yuan's great victory.

Compared with such a great victory in Ningyuan, the battle of Juyong Pass, the battle of Bauhinia Pass, and even the defense of Datong and Xuanfu are not all great victories among the great victories?

Emperor Chongzhen actually knew very well in his heart that in terms of individual combat ability, or field combat ability, the veterans of a hundred battles in the Jianyu army far exceeded the ordinary Ming soldiers.

If it weren't for the fact that the battlefield was placed along the Great Wall in western Beijing, if it weren't for the fact that there were dangerous passes such as Juyong Pass and Bauhinia Pass that could be defended and relied on, the consequences of this battle would be unimaginable.

Even for an army equipped with a large number of flintlock muskets, such as the First Town of the Guards and the Second Town of the Guards, it is impossible to achieve the results of the battle that they have achieved in the wilderness of Yima Pingchuan in the Datong Basin, or in the grasslands of Yima Pingchuan in southern Mongolia, facing several times their own Jianyu and Mongolian cavalry.

As soon as the Jianyu cavalry broke away from the mountainous area around the capital of the western part of the city, where ravines were crisscrossed and a large number of fortresses and fortifications were built, they immediately regained their strong mobility.

If it weren't for Huang Taiji's heavy losses under Juyong Pass this time, and his left arm was fractured and the pain was unbearable, and he was eager to withdraw to the outside of the fortress to get a chance to breathe, then with the more than 5,500 Jianyu Zheng Yellow Banner Jurchen pigtailed soldiers under his command, he could still go up and down in the Datong Basin.

It's just that he knows that the opportunity to attack the Ming Dynasty in the south this time has been lost, the strategy has failed, and the original goal is no longer possible, and it is not meaningful for him to stay any longer except for increasing the danger.

Therefore, Huang Taiji fled to Huailai City after the Battle of Juyong Pass, and after simply disposing of his broken left arm, he rested for the night.

On the morning of the next day, he left Yue Tuo to escort the seized property, and ordered Mang Gurtai to lead the rest of the army to break off, and he immediately decided to lead more than 5,500 horsemen of Zhenghuang Banner to retreat to Datong, and rushed to join the ten Niu Lu of Zhenghuang Banner under Datong City, which was not yet known.