Yuan Chonghuan used timber and reed mats to block the water of the Taizi River in the upper reaches of Liaoyang, leaving only a small gap, creating the illusion that the river water was flowing normally downstream.

When all the Jurchen cavalry entered the Taizi River and prepared to wade across the river, Yuan Chonghuan released fireworks, and the Ming soldiers who were ambushed nearby immediately removed the wood and reed mats that blocked the river.

Da Shui and the firing of flintlock pistols depleted the cavalry of the Zhengbai Banner and the Zhenglan Banner, and even Duoduo, the owner of the Zhengbai Banner, was killed by the Ming army.

Azig gathered the Jurchen soldiers who had escaped back to the north bank and set up a new tent away from the embankment.

He wanted to cry without tears, the cavalry collapsed, and Duoduo died, and he no longer knew what to do next, whether to return to Shengjing and ask Huang Taiji for his guilt, or to continue to move forward and try to join Dorgon.

If he joined Dorgon, he would have to cross the Datai River, which seemed to him to be an insurmountable hurdle; wanted to go back to Shengjing to ask Huang Taiji for guilt, but he was very unwilling. He was ordered to rule over the two banners, the white and the blue, but the two banners lost dozens of cattle in an instant, and completely lost the ability to save Dorgon, he was unforgivable, and Dordor was dead, and he had to bear all the responsibility for his crimes independently.

With Huang Taiji's current mood, Azig can save his life, that is, he has burned high incense, and he will never have the opportunity to lead troops in the future, this failure will be the swan song of his military life, and he will never have a chance to turn it over.

Luckily, there is mare's milk wine!

Azig drove all his soldiers out of his tent, and he leaned on his bed alone, and drank three large bags of mare's milk wine in succession.

Stimulated by the alcohol, Azig could no longer open his eyes, could not even lift his head, and he and his clothes shrank into the quilt and fell into a groggy sleep.

If there was no sun, if the sky was forever black, Azig hoped that he would never wake up.

However, there is no if, the outside world will not change a little because of Azig's dream, when Azig opened his eyes, the sun was shining in the sky, but still in the middle of the sky.

"Someone!" Azig's hoarse voice startled even himself.

"Lord Belle?" The soldiers had been waiting outside the tent, and as soon as Azig spoke, he came in through the curtain.

Azig felt a splitting headache, and he rubbed his temples gently, "What time is it?" ”

"Back to Lord Belle, it's just noon now," the soldier looked up at the sky, and then added: "Lord Belle, do you want to drink a bowl of mare's milk tea?" ”

"Not for now!" Azig counted with his fingers, he had been asleep for most of the day, "The Ming army on the other side, do you have any action?" ”

"Lord Belle, the Ming army didn't make any big moves, they just salvaged the corpses of our dead brothers and war horses from the river and burned them."

"Burned?" Of course, Azig didn't understand that the Ming army was worried that the corpses would rot and cause a plague, so the Ming army either buried or burned all the corpses, and never let the corpses remain on the ground.

Seeing that Azig's eyes were hollow and stunned, he didn't know what he was thinking, so he decided to divert Azig's attention: "Lord Belle, do you want to eat something now?" You didn't eat last night. ”

"Hmm!" Azig nodded, he did feel hungry, "Let's have two pieces of beef jerky!" Then cook a bowl of mare's milk tea. ”

"Yes, Lord Belle, mare's milk tea has already been cooked." The soldiers agreed and went out.

Azig lifted the quilt and got out of bed, and as he writhed, and as soon as he moved his sore muscles, his soldiers returned, holding a tray with mare's milk tea and beef jerky.

Azig took the hot mare's milk tea and took a big sip of it, then grabbed the hard beef jerky, put it in his mouth and nibbled on it.

"Lord Belle, do you need to report the situation of this battle to the Great Khan?"

"Report the Great Khan, of course!" Azig swallowed the beef jerky in his mouth, "You will prepare a piece of brown paper later, and I will write a letter to the Great Khan myself." ”

"Yes, Lord Belle," the eyes of the soldiers were a little confused, "Lord Belle, what should we do now?" ”

"What should I do?" This is Azig's most tangled problem, if he knew what to do, he wouldn't have drunk three bags of mare's milk wine last night, but after a large cup of mare's milk tea, he suddenly brightened, "We are temporarily stationed here to contain a part of the Ming army and reduce the pressure on Liaoyang City." ”

"Lord Belle, I see!" There is still something that the pro-soldiers don't understand, "Lord Belle, will the Ming army cross the river?" ”

"Crossing the river?" Azig finally showed a smile, and the gloom on his face receded a lot: "We can't get through, don't think about them coming over, pass my password, send more rangers, and strengthen the protection of the river embankment." ”

"Yes, Lord Belle." When the soldiers turned around, they were about to go out of their tents to convey Azig's orders.

"Wait." Azig called out to his soldiers again, "How many cavalry do we have left?" Is it counted? ”

"Back to Lord Belle, it has been counted in the morning, and there are two thousand eight hundred and sixty-three brothers left, which should be nine and a half cows."

"Only nine and a half?" A smile that Azig just showed disappeared in an instant, the two flags of Zhengbai and Zhenglan, there were a total of sixty Niu Lu, 18,000 cavalry, and now there are not even ten Niu Lu, six stops and five stops, even if Huang Taiji doesn't kill him, he has no face to live.

Azig froze for a long time, and only one sentence came out: "How are the supplies?" ”

"Back to Lord Belle, many war horses have returned to the north shore, and the materials carried on horseback have also been brought back, and now our grain and grass are very sufficient, I don't know how long Lord Belle intends to support it?"

Azig's gaze became even more gloomy, and he didn't know how long he would have to hold on, but he suddenly had an idea: "You go and tell the rangers to go up and down the river to find a suitable place to cross the river." ”

"Lord Belle still wants to cross the river?"

"You don't care about this, just do it, go ahead!"

"Yes, Lord Belle." The soldiers turned around and went out, leaving Azig alone chewing.

When Azig was munching beef jerky alone and chewing painful memories, the Ming army on the south bank of the Taizi River was singing and dancing, a lively scene.

The Ming army celebrates yesterday's victory.

According to the estimates of the soldiers who salvaged the corpses, they fished out more than 5,000 Jurchen corpses, plus those that sank in the water and have not yet surfaced for the time being, or those who have been directly fed fish and shrimp, should not be less than 10,000 corpses.

10,000 Jurchen cavalry were annihilated!

This is probably the only time in the history of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming army used the power of the flood.

"The Jurchens are not more than 10,000, and there is no one invincible over 10,000", this saying that the Jurchens are proud of, will become yesterday's yellow flower from now on.

Annihilated more than 10,000 nomadic cavalry at one time, Yuan Chonghuan estimated that in the history of the Han nation's foreign wars, the exploits of the First Group Army may have to catch up with Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty and Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty.

There is a person who is lonely.

He was on the banks of the Prince River, the closest to the battlefield, but he failed to take part in a battle that would go down in history.

This person is Du Wenhuan, the commander of the Second Army of the Ming Dynasty.

A whole second army, more than 30,000 soldiers, was pinned down outside Liaoyang by Dolgon's five or six oxen.

When the First Army and the Third Army were celebrating the victory of the Taizi River, Du Wenhuan left the city of Liaoyang with a few personal soldiers and came to Yuan Chonghuan's camp.

"Commander!"

"Wen Huan? What are you doing here? Sit down first! ”

"Commander Xie, congratulations to Commander Taizi River for his victory!" Du Wenhuan saluted Yuan Chonghuan with a standard military salute, but on his face, he still couldn't suppress the sense of loss.

"Wen Huan, don't say cool things, it's not the First Army or the Third Army that wiped out Jiannu, but the First Army, including your Second Army - if you hadn't taken Dolgon into Liaoyang City, they wouldn't have come so quickly to send them to death."

"Commander...... However, if you don't fight around Liaoyang, it's better to kill Jiannu with your own hands! ”

"In fact, the Second Army is the focus of this battle, and without Dolgon, who was trapped in Liaoyang, there would have been no victory in the Taizi River."

"Commander......

Yuan Chonghuan waved his hand, signaling Du Wenhuan not to say any more, "Wenhuan, these days, Dolgon is still honest, right?" ”

"Commander, I send people every day to patrol around outside the city of Liaoyang, as long as Dolgon's people appear in the city, they will be shot by flintlock pistols, Dolgon's subordinates, now I am afraid that there are not even five Niu Lu, he is as obedient as a mouse, has been shrinking in the city, and never dares to show his face in the city again."

"Haha, Wen Huan, you haven't been idle."

"Commander, this is a small fight after all!"

"A little fight? Wen Huan, don't underestimate Dolgon, underestimate Liaoyang City, once Dolgon runs away, we will have no bargaining chips - Jiannu are cavalry, moving extremely fast, if they play hide and seek with us on the prairie, we can only stare dryly! ”

"Commander, now that the white flag and the blue flag are gone, we should attack the city, right? Dolgon is in Liaoyang, I'm afraid I'm tired of staying crooked. ”

"No," Yuan Chonghuan waved his hand, "Wen Huan, the siege of Liaoyang has not been solved, and Jiannu is a lost soldier, if you are Huang Taiji, will you give up?" ”

"Yes, the old revenge has not been avenged, and a new hatred has been added, who can bear it?"

"Wen Huan, if there is no Dolgon, Jiannu will not have the burden of salvation, at that time, where will Jiannu fight with us? Whether they will fight a decisive battle with us or not, the initiative is completely in their hands. ”

"Commander is saying that Huang Taiji knows that Dolgon is a piece of bait that we designed, and he must swallow it too?"

"Yes, with the bond between Dolgon and Liaoyang City, Huang Taiji has to fight the Prince River."

"Commander, I see."

"Wen Huan, this time, the Jurchens came to sixty Niu Lu, next time, how many Niu Lu will they come?"

"The Commander's Meaning ......"

"Wen Huan, if the number of Jiannu is too large, the Second Army will also send some troops over to assist in the defense of the Taizi River, so you should try to consume Dorgon's living force now."

"Commander, if soldiers are drawn from the Second Army to besiege the defense line of Liaoyang City, there may be a loophole, in case Dolgon escapes......"

"Wen Huan, the Jurchen soldiers have a total of eight banners, and now we have almost annihilated four banners, if we can annihilate one or two more of their banners, will the Jurchens still be able to hold on? What is it to run a Dolgon, without the Jurchen Eight Banners, Dolgon is also a toothless tiger. ”

"Commander, I see." Du Wenhuan gave Yuan Chonghuan a standard military salute and hurriedly left Yuan Chonghuan's Chinese army camp.