This battle was a crucial battle that determined the trilateral and Hetao tribes of the Ming Dynasty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As a result, the Han Department was greedy and recklessly entered, and strayed into the encirclement of the Ming army, and only less than 2,000 people were finally collected by the 5,000 iron cavalry, and the rest were either killed by the Ming army or captured by the Ming army.

This is not the most headache for Lin Danhan, the batch of burned money and grain that made him feel pain is enough to have tens of thousands of stones, which is the guarantee of the Han Department for the winter.

But fortunately, after hearing the news, the 30,000 households on the left wing of the southern front escorted more than 20,000 stone grains and 1,100 livestock with the main force of more than 10,000 iron horses, and plundered more than 7,000 local farmers of the Ming Dynasty, and began to move to the mouth of the manhole.

Although Hong Chengchou won the decisive battle, due to the desperate counterattack of the Mongol Tatars, he also lost about 400 cavalry and two or three thousand infantry troops, and the main force was already wounded, and the Mongol Tatars everywhere began to want to gather in manholes, so he did not dare to persecute too much.

To the south of the Mongol army, he personally led a cavalry of more than 1,000 men and the main elite of the 8,000 infantry army, hanging far behind, taking a marching farewell, forcing the remaining Mongol Tatars to retreat to Shajing and other places.

To the north of the Mongol army, there was the main force of 800 cavalry and 6,000 infantry troops gathered by the three guards of Ningxia Town, while monitoring the main force of another 7,000 cavalry led by Lin Dan Khan.

Lin Dan Khan understood that the Ming army was pressing up with an absolute main force, and once it was bitten by the tail, it would be difficult to break free.

Although Mongol men were born warriors on horseback, Lin Dan Khan was reluctant to fight to the death with the Han imperial army, because after his tribe moved west from Chahar, there were less than 200,000 people left, and even if the eight parts of the Hetao were annexed, there were only 450,000 people.

The main elite who can be dispatched at one time are all here, and if one dies, there will be one less, and the human resources of the Ming Dynasty are almost endless, and it is not cost-effective to fight, plus the tens of thousands of stone grain and hundreds of thousands of silver and property supplements he scraped together, this year should be able to barely support it.

Therefore, in the farewell march of the Ming army, he took the two Mongolian armies in the north and south, quickly passed through the manhole, retreated to the Guanwai, and at the same time ordered that the 100,000 Mongolian cavalry outside the hundreds of miles of the Great Wall from Ningxia in the west to Yulin in the east all retreated and returned to the Hetao.

At this point, the war between the Mongol tribes in Hetao and Shaanxi came to an end, but everyone knew that this was only a temporary truce.

Because the weather is getting colder and colder, the living environment in the north is very bad, in summer and autumn, the grassland of the Hetao is not lush, it is impossible to store the grain for the cattle and sheep for the winter, and the fat cattle and sheep are lost, so the Mongolian Tatars are bound to continue to go south to rob the grain and grass, which is a dead cycle, and it will not change by external forces.

However, history has an amazing coincidence at this moment, whether it is Lin Dan Khan on the way to retreat, or Hong Chengchou, the trilateral governor who watched the Mongol army out of the pass, they will not know that they will no longer be qualified to fight each other in the coming year.

The Jiannu in the east, after winning the Battle of the Great Ling River, initially established absolute hegemony in Liaodong, but they found that they could hardly shake the rule of the Ming Dynasty with their own strength alone, and to defeat this behemoth, they had to win over enough allies.

With less than 50,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, it was simply not enough to pacify the world, and the best allies of the Jurchens were the Mongolian cavalry, the Korean infantry army, and the Han troops who surrendered to Cheng.

So Huang Taiji, who was called Khan in Shenyang, set his sights on the Mongolian tribes, and now, his biggest competitor is the last Mongolian Han Lin Dan Khan, as long as he defeats him, he can have the allegiance of the Mongolian tribes, so as to achieve a threat to the Ming Dynasty in the northeast and northwest at the same time, and there is no need to enter the customs through the Shanhaiguan, and he can enter the customs at any time from the pass outside the Great Wall.

And Hong Chengchou didn't know at this moment that his biggest opponent, Li Jing, didn't plan to fight him on the frontal battlefield at all, but dealt with him by forcing the three princes of the Ming Dynasty to surrender, and the messenger of the beggar army had already galloped on the road from Shanxi to Beijing at this moment.

They brought the news of the death of King Qin, King Su, and His Royal Highness King Han in the Ming Dynasty, as well as the news of sending troops to Shaanxi to quell the turmoil, and believed that the mean and unkind Emperor Chongzhen would definitely make the right choice.

"All ministries must rapidly expand their strength, and the captured grain and grass, in addition to the expenses of the army this year, must do their best to relieve the local peasants, and punish the big clans who refuse to cooperate, so as to deter other villains."

Li Jing took the battle report at hand, and he was not worried at all, even if the main forces of the three sides went south, what could he do, he now has 19 regular barracks with a total strength of more than 20,000 people in the Shaanxi territory alone, and there are more than 70 new independent capitals in various places, about 20,000 people.

To put it mildly, just the silver and grain seized from the granaries of the big clans and the government are enough to recruit an army of hundreds of thousands, even if they use human lives to pile up, they can consume the main forces of the three sides to death, and the current imperial court has no spare strength to deal with itself at all.

Tian Cewei has completely penetrated into the Ming Dynasty, relying on the dark line left by Wei Xiaobao in the past, and soon passed back the movements of the imperial court.

Ask the imperial court to send troops to reinforce the generals, otherwise the chaos in Shaanxi will sweep the world.

In this way, he reported three times a day, and anyway, in the military towns next to him, there were messengers sent by him, who complained bitterly, silver, food, weapons, war horses, and everything he could ask for anyway, and if he didn't give it, he would give the war report of defeat.

If you give a point, you will send a battle report of victory, anyway, he cut off a lot of thieves' heads at the beginning, and winter is coming again, and he is not afraid of giving birth to plagues when he stores them, so he is not worried, as for Shen Yikui, these people have now become lost dogs, hiding in the deep mountains and old forests and dare not show their heads.

However, under the temptation of dividing the land in their hometown, these thieves who fled with them into the old forest of the mountain gods all had different thoughts, after all, who didn't want to continue to live.

Li Jing also treated these thieves who came out to surrender separately, and among them, those in the prime of life and the young were all registered on the spot, and then the original household registration was disrupted and distributed to various prefectures and prefectures to go to Tuntian, and under the temptation of distributing ten acres of Yongye land and ten acres of leased land in three years, these people naturally did not dare to make any mess.

As for the soldiers and horses of the old battalion of the thief army whose hands have been stained with blood, they must be treated well, and the new barracks are their best place, under the brainwashing of powerful political propaganda, they are still unruly, and those mined saltpeter mines and iron ore are their best places.

And those who want to completely integrate into the begging army, Li Jing is naturally welcome, these veterans who have been on the battlefield and seen blood, as long as they obey the military regulations, obey the orders, and cooperate with the equipment issued by the beggar army, they are elite, Li Jing accepted a full 3,000 such recruits in just one month.

I believe that it will not take long for these people to be successfully trained, and then the distribution of the establishment will be disrupted and strengthened to nineteen regular barracks, and the extra soldiers and horses can naturally form more battalion heads.

But what makes Li Jing a little sad is that the chaos in various parts of Shaanxi has caused great casualties, those old and weak women and children are basically killed and injured on the way to escape, and when the righteous army and the official army fight, they drive these people to take the lead, and they don't give much food on weekdays, so when the cold winter comes, these people starve to death in patches.

"The first task now is to train the newly trained battalion heads, Tan Wu's Fifth Brigade, the whole army under its jurisdiction, will be stationed in Fengxiang, Hanzhong, and Xi'an Mansion in the future, and the Sichuan Ming Army in the south will not go north in a short time, you have to take this opportunity to expand your Fifth Brigade to the Fifth Town, renumbered as the Ninth and Tenth Brigades, each brigade has jurisdiction over 5,000 soldiers and horses."

In Anhua City, Li Jing summoned the generals who had returned from various ministries and assigned tasks one by one.

"Guo Sheng, your first brigade has been promoted to the first town, with jurisdiction over the first and second brigades, stationed in Yanan and Qingyang Mansion,"

"Thank you, Lord." Guo Sheng has been arranging the defense of Yan'an Mansion these days, and suddenly handed over Qingyang to him again, and suddenly felt a little embarrassed, "Lord, our army is still in Hequ and other places, if the whole division enters Shaanxi, these places?" ”

"It's okay, I also ordered Zhao Mosheng and Zheng Renbao to expand their own soldiers and horses, and in the future, Qilan, Baode, and Yongning Prefecture will be under the unified command and jurisdiction of Zhao Mosheng's second town, while Daizhou and Xinzhou will be under the unified jurisdiction of Zheng Renbao's third town, and the two towns will be expanded to 20,000 elites, and it is foolproof to protect the place."

Li Jing already had a plan in his heart, and said with great certainty, "Li Mao's fourth town, which has jurisdiction over the seventh and eighth brigades, is stationed in Gongchang, Linzhao, and Gansu, and the main force of the seventh brigade must be in the north, and the main force of the three sides will be strictly guarded. ”

"My lord, what about me?" Chen Da was originally the brigade leader of the Sixth Brigade, and now this establishment belongs to the Department of Zhao Mosheng of the Third Town, so it is a difficult problem where he should be.

"You, first expand the brigade head of the department to three battalions of 5,000 people, and temporarily organize the second brigade of the Qinwei Town, which will be under the command of Zhang Erma, and then you will also serve as the deputy commander of the Qinwei Brigade." Li Jing was determined to strengthen the strength of his personal guards, so naturally he would not give up Chen Da, the brigade leader.

"That's fine, it's just that the main forces of our department are concentrated in the north of Pingliang, and its interior is guarded by the temporary independent people, and the lord needs to send someone to take over as soon as possible." Chen Da became one of the few generals in the begging army, only a few days, and he fell behind again, so he could only complain that his credit was not enough, but thinking about how many soldiers and horses there were in the north, he was on the front line, as long as he fought well, he would be able to turn positive sooner or later.

After speaking, he glanced at Zhang Erma, who was also the deputy marshal of Qinwei Town, with an inexplicable smile in his eyes. (To be continued.) )