Volume 4 Looking Back at the Township Pass 55 Three retreats
The Shangdu army that rushed to the aid of Liaoyang, the marshal of the unified army was named Lei Timur Buhua.
Just like Zhao Timur, although he gave a Mongolian name, he was actually a Han Chinese, a native of Liaodong, and his nickname was Jiusi. This person is not very old, in his early thirties, he was originally a descendant of Guan Duo, and he was the deputy of Cheng Sizhong who stayed in the capital.
After Guan Duo's death, Cheng Sizhong had an idea to emulate Wang Shicheng and continue the story of his ancestors to avenge Mao Gui and raise troops to return to Liaoyang. It was Lei Timur who persuaded him to dispel this thought.
Lei Timur did not spend time through various sources of information to know something about Dunshe. He knew deeply that the enemy was strong and I was weak, and even Guan Duo was not Deng She's opponent, even if Pan Cheng and Sha Liu Er also acquiesced to this fact? With more than 10,000 people in Shangdu, if you really want to kill back, I am afraid that it will not even be enough to fill Deng She's teeth.
Therefore, the war in Liaodong continued, and the Shangdu army had been sitting and watching.
In just half a year, on this big stage in Liaodong, how many romantic and handsome men have been defeated or defeated, and the momentum is as great as the thought of prison, sacking and gangster, and 100,000 people have been wiped out. or the battle did not retreat, and the status was prominent such as Pan Cheng and Sha Liu Er, one was in a different place, and the other turned away from Anfeng.
However, the Shangdu army was not only able to survive unscathed, but also took the opportunity to enrich itself, and the number of more than 10,000 people grew to nearly 20,000. Ray Timur did not spend a lot of money. This person is still very insightful.
With the defeat of Wei Sijian and the departure of Sha Liu Er, the chaos in Liaodong gradually calmed down. The dust has settled, and the situation is clear. Not to mention that Lei Timur does not spend, by now, even Cheng Sizhong can see that the king of Liaodong in the future will be Deng She, who covers the land of the two provinces, and he is the only one.
Shangdu is alone, Guan Duo is defeated, and there is no strong reinforcement outside. Although it is safe at the moment, it is actually dangerous. They are in great need of a strong ally. Therefore, as soon as Yao Haogu contacted them, they immediately gave up their previous suspicions, forgot about Guan Duo's hatred, and gave a positive response.
Naha sent troops to trap Liaoyang, and Yao Haogu asked them to send troops to help.
Lei Timur Buhua believes that Liaoyang's predicament is temporary, no matter how urgent Naha's attack is, no matter how dangerous the situation is, as long as there is Deng She's foundation in South Goryeo and Haidong, Liaoyang will be in danger. Even if you take a step back, assuming that Naha succeeds and Liaoyang City is lost, when the war in South Goryeo stops for a while, Deng She will make a comeback and it will not be difficult to recapture Liaoyang, at most, it will take a lot of twists and turns.
The intelligence from Hebei said that Polo Timur was about to move. Since Toyoshu's victory, he has always looked north.
Shangdu, the land of Longxing in the Yuan Dynasty and an important town in Mobei, has great political significance and has certain military significance. If the Yuan army occupies Shangdu, it can connect the south of the desert, the north of the desert, and the north of the abdomen, Hebei and other places, and enter, which can be the front station for attacking Liaodong, retreat, and can also be the gateway to cover the outside of the fortress.
With Polo Timur's strength, if he really intended to go north, the Shangdu army would never be able to resist it. Human affection, human affection, there are contacts to call human affection. Liaoyang asked for help, and Lei Timur proposed without spending money that they should go to the aid. In this way, in case something happens, it is better to ask Dun She to support.
As for whether Deng She would come to support at that time, Lei Timur only asked Cheng Sizhong a question: "Shangdu has such important political and military significance, will Deng She not see it?" Will he be ignorant? Not only will he see it, but he may also covet it. But there is one thing that he can't whip up. As long as Naha and the family treasure are there, he can't pull out his hand to meddle in the capital, he can only sigh with admiration.
"That's what we're going to take advantage of. Not only to use his covetousness to ensure the security and development of Shangdu, but to put it mildly, this is called taking advantage of the east wind, and to put it rudely, we want to pull up Haidong as a banner, and the fox is fake and mighty. At the same time, we will give full play to the advantages of our army's local snake and not give him a chance to interfere. ”
To achieve the goal of Lei Timur not spent, the most critical factor is not in Shangdu, nor in Haidong, but in Nahachu and Shijiabao.
In short, the balance of power between the parties in Liaodong needs to be maintained. On the one hand, it is necessary to ensure that Deng She has the upper hand, and on the other hand, it is necessary to ensure that Naha and Shijiabao will not be powerless to fight back. Because only in this way can Deng She have the spare strength to help Shangdu, but also make him be restrained by the Yuan army in Liaodong and have no time to meddle in Shangdu.
Proceeding from this principle, it was basically set that Lei Timur would not spend any time rushing to aid Liaoyang's combat goal: not to seek killing, not to defeat, not to annihilate, to repel Naha's exit, and to relieve the siege of Liaoyang.
There is a saying: When things are unsatisfactory in the world, nine times out of ten. When Lei Timur's army crossed the land of Liaodong, appeared outside Liaoyang, and approached Naha's right-wing camp, he suddenly found that he seemed to have guessed the beginning, but not the result. He understands his own side, but he is far from understanding the enemy.
Naha's right flank laid out the eighteen-story company camp inside and outside. It seems that the voice is loud, facing the enemy, but he did not fire a single arrow, retreated without a fight, and did not give Lei Timur a chance to deliberately release water at all, and in an instant, three camps were retreated one after another.
- You must know that at this time, the Shangdu army has just arrived outside the city, not only has the camp not been established, but it has not even been connected with the city.
The speed of the rout of the Yuan army simply made Lei Timur dumbfounded, and his surprise was beyond measure. If you have to find a word to describe it, "look at the wind and escape", it is really the best interpretation. For a moment, it almost made Lei Timur wonder whether this meeting was caused by the arrival of his Shangdu army, or because of the arrival of Deng She's Haidong reinforcements.
He brought only 5,000 men from above. There are more than 8,000 people on the right wing of Naha alone.
He drove his horse to the heights and looked around. On the entire battlefield, layers of camps were lit one after another by bonfires kicked over by the routs and thrown torches, and the flames were endless, black smoke rose and flames soared into the sky. As far as the eye could see, there were Yuan troops desperately fleeing. People everywhere were frightened and neighing, and the positions of the Yuan army were in chaos.
Looking at it here, hundreds of foot soldiers, crying dad and calling mother, threw away the weapons in their hands, and took off their armor in order to run faster. Looking over there, the cavalry was desperately beating their horses, regardless of who was in front of them, and the horses' hooves were galloping, kicking up smoke and dust. The Yuan army trampled on each other, and the casualties were not counted.
Eighteen companies and battalions on the right flank are connected and transparent.
In the end, the camp in front was not in chaos, and the camp in the back had opened the gate, and the panicked soldiers either rushed forward or ran back, some went out of the gate, and some climbed over the camp wall. They were like a torrent, rushing to the Chinese army Dazhai with an unstoppable momentum. Occasionally, an officer tries to stop it, like a wave in the sea, stirring up a little ripple and quickly disappearing without a trace.
An officer of the Shangdu Army came up immediately, gasped, and said, "The Tartar night terror has bombed the camp." He asked Lei Timur Buhua, "Marshal, what should we do?" ”
What else can I do?
Seeing that the retreating Yuan army was about to storm their Chinese army camp. In a hurry, more than 8,000 people rushed together, and ten Chinese army battalions could also be crushed by them. Chen Hu in Liaoyang City is not a fool, he will definitely take the opportunity to go out of the city to counterattack. The situation of the "great rout" of the Yuan army and even the "annihilation of the whole army" has basically been determined and cannot be reversed. Although this was not Lei Timur's original intention, he couldn't turn his gun and assist the Yuan army in attacking Haidong, right?
This victory came so fast that he couldn't figure it out. He was puzzled, smiled bitterly, and said, "Order, the three armies are advancing quickly." The right flank went around to the right and encircled the south side of the Tartars, and if the Tartars fled in this direction, they would be killed. On the left wing of the net, all the Tartars fleeing in the direction of Shenyang were allowed to open the road, and there was no need to block them, so as to prevent them from being cornered and fighting back to the death. The Chinese army broke in, not seeking to kill or injure, but only to expel them. ”
Most of the Shangdu soldiers who rushed to the aid of Liaoyang were old soldiers and well-trained. As soon as Lei Timur gave the order, all units and battalions were put into battle in an orderly manner.
In the city of Liaoyang, the drums and horns rang out in unison, three cannons rang out, Chen Hu took the lead, personally led 4,000 elites, holding torches, horizontal guns, down the mountain tigers, straight to Naha out of the Chinese army Dazhai. Nahachu woke up from his sleep, he hurriedly put on his armor, one foot was on his shoes, the other was not on his shoes, and he jumped out of the tent, angry: "What's the matter? What's going on? Why is the right wing in chaos? Who rushed the battalion? Who rushed the battalion? Goller, what about Goller? ”
Gol was the commander-in-chief of the right wing.
The guards looked at each other in the same hurry, and boldly replied, "I don't know where I am." ”
"Where's Narawu?"
Narawu is the commander of the left wing.
"Haidong's Jurchen cavalry also suddenly attacked. General Narawu is fighting it on the left flank. ”
"The Jurchen cavalry is on the left flank, who is from the right flank?"
"It seems to be a military horse in Shangdu."
Shangdu came to help Liaoyang, and Nahachu heard about it. There were scouts specially sent by him, and they had already found out that the Shangdu army had only come in the thousands. Just thousands of people, traveling long distances, when they first arrived, they could rush to move the camp of nearly 10,000 people on his right wing? Naha was incredulous, and he jumped like thunder: "Go and find Gol, how did he bring the army?" ……”
"Our army attacked Liaoyang for several days and was trapped under the city. The Jurchen cavalry in Haidong, within ten months, robbed our army four times in a row. There is a lack of food in the army, and the army is panicked. And Pan Cheng was defeated and died. The family treasure attacked Huihe for a long time, lost the army, Guan Shirong destroyed Pan Cheng, returned to Liaoxi, he became more and more not an opponent, and returned to Daning the day before yesterday. Liaodong three-way military horses, now only our army is left. Morale is even more sluggish.
"There are rumors in the army that the Haidong Red Thieves have pacified South Goryeo, and the army is about to go north in the near future. Perhaps, the soldiers on the right flank mistook the Shangdu military horses for reinforcements from Haidong. ——, Xiangye, you also know that the red thieves in Shangdu and the red thieves in Haidong are in the same vein, and the flags are not much different. ”
"Wow! Angry also. Someone is coming, and the prime minister wants to go to the right wing. ”
Naha snatched the reins of his mount from the guard's hand, turned over his horse, and was about to run out, then turned back and gave the vicious order: "Gol! He ordered two or three people, "You guys, go and find Gol, behead him on the spot, hang his head on a high pole, and spread it to the three armies to set an example." ”
He was angry, but his mind was clear. The right flank bombed the battalion, which was about to rush to the Chinese army, and it was not easy to restrain the rout, and there had to be a great deterrent. Guo Le's head is naturally the best choice to deter the right-wing battalions.
The guards did as promised. He led hundreds of guards, galloped on horseback, and didn't go far when he suddenly heard the sound of cannons in Liaoyang City. Everyone raised their eyes to watch, and saw that the gate of Liaoyang was wide open, a big flag was obliquely out of the city gate, the torches were set off, and the flag was red and black, and the word "Chen" was written on it.
Chen Hu took the bow and took the horse, led thousands of tigers, rolled and rolled, shouted to kill the heavens, and collided with the Chinese army coming out of Naha.
Naha's movement of urging the horse couldn't help but stagnate. With him in charge of the Chinese army, for the time being, the order is much better than that of the two wings. There were two generals in the front camp who beat their horses to meet them, trying to intercept Chen Hu. Chen Hu bent his bow and arrows, the bow was like a full moon, and the arrows were like meteors, and one of the two generals on the left fell in response. The man on the right turned his horse and wanted to leave. Chen Hu was not in a hurry, put the second arrow between his fingers on the bowstring, and with a light release, the man turned over and fell.
Chen Hu killed two people with two arrows, and the third arrow in his hand shot down the military flag of the front camp of the Yuan army. At this time, he was nearly a hundred steps away from the front row of the camp guards. Hundreds of steps through Yang, three shots and three hits, the wonder of archery is simply amazing.
In the previous battalion of the Yuan army, the soldiers and soldiers were all frightened. The Yuan army on the right flank broke and rushed outside the camp of the Chinese army. The Haidong Jurchen cavalry on the left flank burst out into earth-shattering cheers: "Catch Nairawu in front!" ”
Thousands of camps and thousands of villages are on fire, and Haidong's morale is soaring. The night is full of Liaoyang, and the thousands of mountains are dark, calling in unison, and the red flags are chaotic in all directions. The tens of thousands of people in the front battalion of the Yuan army, the middle army of the Yuan army, and the Yuan army no longer had the fighting spirit, so they threw away their armor one after another, turned around and ran. The right flank disrupted the center, and the left flank gave up resistance. The confluence of the three armies, like a big fish caught in a net, struggled left and right, rushed and shouted, and did not look back.
Chen Hu's army attacked sharply, and Naha's troops were defeated.
He panicked, rushed to the west, and at dawn, fled into a reed swing near Dongmu Mountain. At this time, the red sun in the east was rising, and the group of people were in a hurry, startling the wild ducks flying all over the river. He looked to the left and right, and there were no more than a few dozen followers, dotted and scattered among the reeds. The reeds were more than half a man's height, and they were all over the inlets, and they were as dense as a forest.
Naha's sorrow came from it. This battle was lost too much.
Ashamed and angry, he drew his dagger and tried to kill himself. A man on the side, quick in his eyes and hands, stretched out his hand to snatch his short sword, rolled off the horse, dragged his saddle, and shouted, "Xiangye! Where there is life, there is hope. It is common for soldiers to win or lose. A gentleman takes revenge, ten years is not too late! ”
Naha's bag was lost on the way to escape.
He was covered with blood, and on the bank of the Lema River, he looked up to the sky and sighed, saying, "But one, two, not three." In a few months, he lost to Deng Wei three times in a row. The 100,000 Mongolian men who were recruited twice were killed and wounded, and now only you are left. What is the face of a certain person, to meet Jiangdong's father? ”
"Seeing Jiangdong's fathers without shame" is what the overlord of Western Chu once said at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the early Han Dynasty when he was at the end of his rope, and he quoted it, which is really very appropriate to use at this time.
This is exactly what it is: Shenyang summoned the Mongol army twice, and Deng She defeated Naha three times.
For the first time, Naha went out of the besieged city of Liaoyang, and Deng She besieged Wei to save Zhao, defeated Gao's slaves first, and rescued Mao Jujing. Then, Mao Jujing returned to the rescue of the division, and Xu people offered advice to break Naha with tunnels and fire. The second time, when the soldiers came to attack, Naha responded by rising up. Chen Hu and Qing Qianxing commanded Ruyi, and Zhao Timur plotted against the cadres to fight against the captive army, and defeated Naha for the second time. This time, the Haidong Jurchen cavalry cut off its grain route, the Shangdu army galloped thousands of miles to help, and Haidong defeated Naha three times.
If he had known earlier that Deng She would develop so fast, the first time he ignored Liaoyang, gave up Guan Duo and made a surprise attack on Gaizhou, and joined forces with the Gao family, Deng She might have lost his life.
If the second time, he judged that Deng She's strength had the upper hand earlier, ignored the orders of Nang Jiahu and Wei Sijian, kept his troops still, preserved his strength, and stayed until today, taking advantage of the opportunity of his conquest of South Goryeo, with a division of 100,000 people, to attack Liaoyang by surprise, perhaps, it is still unknown who will kill the deer. At the very least, when the Haidong Jurchen cavalry cut off its food routes, there would not be a lack of sufficient mobility to completely expel them, which would eventually lead to unstable morale.
It's a pity, just as Lei Timur didn't spend only guessing the beginning correctly, but guessed the result wrong. Hindsight is good, but foresight is hard to come by. Naha is out of remorse.
What's even more infuriating is that he suffered three big defeats, none of which were directly against Deng She. Naha came out with all kinds of tastes lingering in his stomach, and a thousand words were gathered into one sentence, and he hated and scolded: "Deng is a thief! The sound of killing in the distance was approaching, and everyone hugged him, turned his horse away, and rushed to Shenyang City in a hurry.
Three days later, Naha gathered the remnants of his army, and only 8,000 men remained of the tens of thousands of people.
Six days later, news came from the west, and he was so angry that he almost vomited a mouthful of blood.