Chapter 514: Jingguan
In the bleak autumn cold wind, Li Anliang rode a horse and strolled on the battlefield that had just ended the war, and now the battlefield is full of Ming soldiers cleaning the battlefield, whenever he sees a corpse with a rat tail braid on the back of his bald head, he immediately raises his knife and cuts off the opponent's head.
After a few days of hard fighting, the Jurchens had a rapid decline in physical strength due to insufficient supplies, coupled with a large number of casualties, which had also caused the morale of the Jurchens to drop a lot, and although Li Anliang's side also suffered heavy casualties, because there were enough supplies, there was no problem in terms of physical strength, and they still had an advantage in troops, so they slowly gained the upper hand.
This morning, the two sides continued to fight on the battlefield, but at this time Li Anliang was keenly aware that the Jurchens had reached the limit at this time, as long as he worked harder, it was easy to defeat the other party, and it was in this situation that Li Anliang finally ordered the recuperated Ming musketeers to go out of the battle, and as a result, after this new force joined, the Jurchens were as he expected, and soon collapsed, and as a result, the morale of the Jurchen servant army was greatly boosted, and the Jurchens were killed in one fell swoop and fled in all directions. But it didn't work at all, and the last three people launched a final charge with thousands of personal guards, hoping to save the tide of the battle, but unfortunately it didn't help, and they all died on the battlefield.
After Fuman and the others died in battle, the Jurchens lost their restraints, and as a result, the remaining Jurchens scattered in a hurry, and all of them desperately ran backwards, at such times, fear is contagious. Especially when most of the people are on the run. Even if it's someone who has the heart to work hard. In the end, they will give up their desperate plans and flee in all directions, which is exactly what the so-called defeat is.
The Jurchens were defeated quickly and fled faster, because most of them were cavalry, and they were familiar with the terrain here, which was exactly what the Ming army lacked, and Li Anliang lacked cavalry in his hands, so it was naturally impossible to pursue. But he wasn't worried about the Jurchens. Because according to the current weather in Liaodong, it was almost impossible for those Jurchens to survive if they fled to the mountains, so they would only flee back to the residence of Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard, which was his next target.
This small plain is already full of corpses after the hard battle between the Ming and the Jurchens, because there is no hurry to pursue the Jurchens now, so Li Anliang immediately ordered someone to clean up the battlefield, among which the corpses of the soldiers belonging to the Ming side naturally had to be retracted, and the injured soldiers had to be treated. As for the injured Jurchens, then they can only make up for it. In addition, Li Anliang also issued an additional order, that is, to cut off the heads of all the Jurchens, and he wanted to build a Jingguan here to commemorate his family who died tragically.
Xu Cheng and others were opposed to Li Anliang's idea of building a Jingguan at first, and even planned to persuade Li Anliang to change his mind, but before they could find Li Anliang, they were stopped by some of Li Anliang's guards, who were all brought out by Li Anliang from North Korea, and they all knew the tragedy in Li Anliang's family, and many of their relatives died at the hands of the savage Jurchens back then, so they also hated all the Jurchens like Li Anliang. When they saw that Xu Cheng and the others wanted to persuade Li Anliang to change their minds, they immediately stepped forward to tell Li Anliang about the affairs of Li Anliang's family, and the tragic situation when they were invaded by the savage Jurchens, and several of the guards cried bitterly on the spot.
After Xu Cheng listened to the stories of these guards, he finally understood why Li Anliang hated the Jurchens so much, it turned out that this battle was not only a national hatred, but also Li Anliang's family hatred, no wonder he would implement a slaughter policy for the Jurchens before. But it's not surprising to think about it, if their entire family is slaughtered by the Jurchens, I'm afraid they will go even further than Li Anliang.
The so-called revenge of killing his father is not the same as the hatred, not to mention the revenge of destroying the door, and Xu Cheng and they all admire Li Anliang's indomitable spirit, he can become the current general from a reckless man, and personally trained an army of tens of thousands of people, in order to avenge his family, this is not something ordinary people can do, and Li Anliang has endured for many years for this day, so they really have no reason to persuade, even if it is hard persuasion, it will not be useful, but it will cause Li Anliang's disgust, What's more, the Jurchens have nothing to do with them, so there is no need to quarrel with Li Anliang over such a trivial matter.
Understanding the reason why Li Anliang hated the Jurchens, Xu Cheng and others dispelled the idea of persuasion, and even Xu Cheng took the cadets of the military academy to help build the Jingguan.
The so-called Jingguan, in fact, is a very general name, simply put, it is a kind of ostentatious building built by the victorious side with the corpse of the defeated party, which is generally a large mound made of corpses and soil, but it also has a human head in the shape of a pyramid, Li Anliang chose the latter, it is estimated that he was very unpleasant to the bare head of the Jurchen people and the money rat braid behind it, so he decided to cut off the heads of all the corpses.
The 40,000 Jurchen Sanwei coalition army, the corpses left on the battlefield reached more than 20,000, which shows how tragic this war is, but so many Jurchen corpses also provided enough heads for Li Anliang's Jingguan, more than 20,000 human heads were placed into a huge pyramid, which looked extremely spectacular, and in order to make this Jingguan strong enough, Xu Cheng also ordered people to tie the mouse braid behind the Jurchen's head as a rope, so that even if it was a storm, rain and beasts, It will not easily destroy this Jingguan.
At the same time as building the Beijing Temple, Li Anliang ordered someone to build a two-person high stone stele, on which he personally wrote ten big characters "Li Anliang destroyed the Jurchen army here", and there are a few lines of small characters below, which wrote what happened to his family that year, and how he worked hard to avenge his family over the years, and today he finally fulfilled most of his wishes, as long as he led the army to exterminate the remaining remnants of the Jianzhou Sanwei, he would finally avenge his family.
After the stele was carved, Li Anliang personally dug a big pit in front of the Jingguan, and then erected the stele in front of the Jingguan, firstly, to pay tribute to his family members who were victimized that year, and secondly, to show his military exploits to future generations.
After cleaning the battlefield and establishing the Jingguan, Li Anliang let the tired army rest for a night, that night, whether it was the Japanese servant army or the Ming army, they all prepared a sumptuous meal to celebrate the victory, but unfortunately the army could not drink, so Li Anliang They could only replace the wine with tea, and everyone agreed that they must make up this celebration wine when they return to the capital in the future.
Don't wait until the next morning, Li Anliang ordered the four watches to cook, and after the army finished eating, he immediately began to pursue in the direction of yesterday's Jurchen defeat, this road is also the direction leading to the nest of Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard, the two tribes are not far away, and the women and children who retreated in advance of Jianzhou Left Guard must also be in these two guards.
It is already late autumn, and the weather is not very good these days, it may snow at any time, and when it really snows in Liaodong, it will really become white mountains and black water, and the heavy snow will be cut off by the road, so Li Anliang and they must also clean up the remnants of Jianzhou Sanwei before it snows, and at the same time occupy the old nest of the Jurchens, and spend the cold winter in Liaodong there.
It is precisely because of this that in the next few days, Li Anliang, Xu Cheng and others have been urging the army to chase after the fleeing Jurchens, in fact, they don't need to urge, the ordinary soldiers in the Ming army know what they are going to do next, and they have also initially learned the cold of Liaodong, especially when sleeping in a tent at night, even if they are covered with quilts, they still have to huddle together to feel warm, so they must give themselves a place to live before winter, And the nest of Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Wei is a good place to live.
After a few days of emergency marching, Li Anliang's army finally arrived at the nearest Jianzhou Right Guard's residence, which is almost the same as the Jianzhou Left Guard, all of which are a village settlement, each village is distributed on a mountain plain, the largest village in the middle is the main village of Jianzhou Right Guard, but unfortunately now the leader of the Jianzhou Right Guard has been killed, and the men in the clan are also killed nearly half, although the rest have fled back, but most of them are panicked, and several surviving leaders are also at a loss, Don't know what to do next?
It was also at this time that the army led by Li Anliang killed again, and it was divided into two ways, one way to attack each village from the front, and the other way to bypass the right guard of Jianzhou, and then blocked the retreat of the right guard of Jianzhou from the rear, and the people of the right guard of Jianzhou could not escape if they wanted to, unless they risked their lives to enter the mountains.
People are inert, even when they encounter danger, they would rather stay in their familiar place than rush out to face the unknown fate, now the Jurchens are like this, when they face the Ming army that attacked them, most of them chose to stick to their villages, and few dared to flee into the mountains at great risk.
The Jurchen army was originally disabled by Li Anliang, and now the Jurchens guarding the village have all fled back from the battlefield before, and they have finally recovered some courage under the motivation of defending their homeland, but in the face of the numerical advantage and excellent equipment of the Ming army, courage can play a very small role, so the village of Jianzhou Right Guard was broken by one, and as for the Jurchens in the village, they were all slaughtered by Li Anliang's order, and he already planned to build a Jingguan here and later in Jianzhou Wei, In order to pay tribute to his family. (To be continued......)