Chapter 1446: Follow-up
The first division of the Zhao Jiajun was temporarily organized and the Jianzhou Jurchen Amin Division, and a big battle was fought on the field between Fuzhou and Gaizhou Acropolis, and the decisive battle began, and the cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchen gathered was heavily killed and wounded under the bombardment of more than 100 artillery pieces of the Zhao Jiajun.
The firepower level of the Zhao Jiajun has exceeded the concept and understanding of the Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers and horses, and several vainly attempts to launch a counteroffensive in the artillery bombardment, but they suffered greater casualties, until they could not support the retreat.
On such a battlefield where there was no room for detours, the retreat of the cavalry brought disastrous consequences, directly crushing the tens of thousands of foot soldiers behind, and the Zhao family's army invested its own cavalry in a timely manner, which exacerbated the rout.
As the deputy general of the Jianzhou Jurchen army, Yue Tuo led his headquarters to escape, and Amin and Zilharang also began to flee for their lives under the command of the guards, and the Jianzhou Jurchen army was about to collapse.
At this time, heavy snow fell from the sky, and rain and snow were the natural enemies of the Zhao family's firearms, and this heavy snow also made the Jianzhou Jurchens feel that there was still a chance, and began to gather troops and horses on the spot to prepare for another battle.
Chen Jisheng and others, who were watching the battle, were all sighing, if there was no heavy snow, then the Zhao family army would have annihilated all the soldiers and horses led by Amin, but the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and the heavy snow stopped all this, but they were wrong.
After the heavy snow fell, Chen Sheng gave an order to the whole army, the infantry regiment pursued forward to kill the enemy, the musketeers fired freely, only to ensure that the muskets could fire, and the artillery set up a prepared snow-covering bamboo shed.
When the infantry regiment of the Zhao family army was put into the battlefield, the last trace of luck of the Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers and horses was also crushed, and the Jianzhou soldiers and horses were completely defeated.
At the end of the battle at night, only more than 3,000 cavalry Jianzhou Jurchens escaped, Zilharang was killed, Amin escaped with wounds, Zhao's army killed more than 30,000 enemies, captured thousands, and the rest scattered and fled.
After the battle, Chen Sheng only let the Zhao Jiajun rest for a night and a half, and began to launch a pursuit of the Jianzhou Jurchen in the afternoon of the next day.
The captured and captured chariots and horses were used for transportation, the materials hoarded by the Jianzhou Jurchens were used for consumption, and the materials prepared by the Zhao family army themselves for the winter were also used without reservation, and the first division, which had always been careful and calculating, began to consume huge quantities, all for one purpose, to pursue and kill the enemy.
But it was difficult for the Zhao family's army, which was dominated by foot soldiers, to catch up with the fleeing Jurchen cavalry, and the distance between them was getting bigger and bigger, and when the pursuit reached the Gaizhou Acropolis, Amin gathered the defeated soldiers and rode nearly 10,000 feet, and Nurhachi, Daishan, Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji exhausted the Jianzhou Jurchen army, and they had also arrived in Haizhouwei.
From the very beginning, the Jianzhou Jurchen Jin State planned to annihilate Chen Sheng's troops with all the strength of the country, but it would take a long time for all of them to be mobilized, and they could not sit idly by and watch Chen Sheng develop calmly in southern Liaoning, so they first sent Amin and Zilharang to lead the army to fight, preparing to add to the war in progress, and put all the follow-up soldiers and horses into it, and won a complete victory with the attitude of a lion fighting a rabbit, and then waited for the opportunity to enter the customs to do big things.
But they miscalculated the strength of the Zhao family, they didn't expect the battle to end so quickly, they have been preparing for the Ming army to deal with the Zhao family, but the standard they used was the elite Ming army, but they didn't expect that the Zhao family army had already exceeded this level.
Although the morale of the soldiers and horses led by Chen Sheng was like a rainbow, after all, the pursuit was exhausted, and the ammunition consumption in the battle was also very large, and more importantly, the sky was never clear, and the snow fell from time to time, which had a great impact on the use of firearms.
It's just that the praying mantis flutters the cicada and the yellow finch are behind, and the main force of the Jianzhou Jurchen Jin Army confronted the Chen Sheng Department of the Zhao family army for two days, and the main force of the Zhao family army led by Zhao Jin rushed to the battlefield from the Liaoxi Corridor, and they came with thousands of cavalry in Guanning.
After Zhao Jin set up a large camp in Tianjin, he did not do anything against the Beijing Division, but led the army all the way to the north, from Jizhen and Yongping Mansion through the mountain customs, into Liao Town, all the way to the west.
On the one hand, they wanted to blackmail the imperial court to ask for silver and grain, but on the other hand, they did not move, and the Jianzhou Jurchens were eye-catching.
In fact, when Zhao Jin led the main force into western Liaoning, the Liaozhen generals in western Liaoxi did not intend to surrender, but wanted to resist, but they had too little to do with the Zhao army, and they didn't know how strong the Zhao army was.
Some people also say that Zhao Jiajun is so desperate, regardless of the rear, if the Ming Dynasty wants to cut off their back road, then Zhao Jin's foundation will be overturned and gone.
In fact, after Zhao Jin led his army to leave Tianjin and continue northward, Emperor Chongzhen and a cadre of ministers wanted to do their best to cut off Zhao Jin's back road, but this move was blocked by the ministers who held military power, and even the Qingliu chieftains opposed this move.
As long as people who have a little understanding of the strength of the Zhao family's army, they will not support Emperor Chongzhen's desperate and crazy plan, even if the back road is broken, whether it is the headquarters of the Zhao family army or the second-line soldiers and horses in Xuzhou, Shandong, they can break through the blockade of the imperial court at any time, and what is even more embarrassing is that the Zhao family army will not be short of food at all in Yongping Mansion and Liao Town, Liao Town and Ji Town have been asking for too much in recent years, and have accumulated a large amount of grain and grass, they will definitely not be able to stop the Zhao family's army, and these grains and grasses will naturally become Zhao Jin's spoils
Now Zhao Jin still has a lenient arrangement for the imperial court, if it reaches that point, I am afraid there will be no emotion to talk about, and what kind of tragic situation will be there at that time, everyone can think of it, and naturally they are not willing to take risks.
When Zhao Jin led the troops and horses to appear in the area of Guangning, the overall situation had been determined, and now it was not Nurhachi waiting for the rabbit, but the Zhao family's army attacking in two directions.
The combat effectiveness of the Zhao family's army, the marching speed of the Zhao family's army, and the equipment of the Zhao family's army, all of these are beyond the understanding of the Jianzhou Jurchen Jin State.
The first battle was the contact of the cavalry, the cavalry team of the Zhao family army plus the subordinate cavalry of Liaozhen, also had a scale of nearly 10,000, and the morale of the combat force was extremely high, in the first battle defeated the Jurchen and Mongolian cavalry coalition army, by this time, anyone has realized that the overall situation collapsed, after this battle, the Yehe tribe that has not been completely digested by the Jianzhou Jurchen began to surrender to the Zhao army, and the Mongolian departments were scattered and fled.
At this time, the Jianzhou Jurchen did not have the self-confidence and resilience in the future, all this obtained by Liaozhen was just looting and occupying, and it was a blessing to take it in his hands, and it was not a pity to lose it.
After the defeat in the first battle, Nurhachi sent soldiers and horses, arranged for Amin to lead the troops with wounds, and took advantage of the opportunity for Amin to fight, the main force headquarters of the soldiers and horses were retreated and fled first, they now dare not believe the rumors related to the Zhao family's army, and the Jianzhou Jurchen is not good at defending the city, so they did not go to Liaoyang and Shenyang to defend it, but set fire to the city, looted the property and fled to the northeast.
Retreating, fleeing, and collapsing, in these processes, the Zhao army was always pursuing, and in these processes, the Han people in Liaozhen, who had already surrendered, began to resist, and those Han troops who had already served the Jianzhou Jurchens began to betray, and the power of the Jianzhou Jurchen Jin State began to collapse.
When they retreated from the Acropolis of Haizhou, Nurhachi and his sons may still be thinking about making a comeback, and when they escaped from Shenyang, all they wanted was to return to Jianzhou to enjoy the looted wealth.
When they encountered the soldiers and horses that were blocked, the Jianzhou Jurchens only thought about survival, but it was already difficult.
The Dingliao Independent Regiment led by Zhao Song passed through the mountains of southeast Liao, appeared on the plains of Liaoshen, and set up a blocking position on the road to retreat to Jianzhou after the Jianzhou soldiers and horses, Zhao Song knew that he could not stop the escape of Nurhachi and the Jurchen nobles, but he could stop the remnants of the Jurchen military strength of Jianzhou, and gather these forces to annihilate them, and there was no difference between the Jianzhou Jurchens and the fall.
Unlike the victory of the army step by step, the battle of the Dingliao Independent Regiment was very hard, and the Jianzhou Jurchen soldiers and horses also knew that if they did not open this road, they would be completely defeated, so they were desperately attacked.
Like those previous battles, the Zhao army, which had firearms in hand, was more difficult to defend than to attack, and more importantly, the Liaoshen Han people were in the scene, either fighting with the army, or sending food to help, and did everything possible to assist.
This interception was successful, and when the main force of the Zhao family army rushed over, the Jurchen soldiers and horses who escaped only had more than 2,000 cavalry, and the other soldiers and horses were either surrounded here or had been dispersed.
Amin died in battle, Daishan died in battle, Mang Gurtai died in battle, Nurhachi could only continue to flee after escaping back to Hetuara for ten days, because the pursuing Zhao family soldiers and horses did not take the border of the Ming Dynasty as the border at all, and directly hit it, and the rudimentary Hetuara city defense could not resist the artillery at all, Nurhachi was old after all, this series of defeats was a fatal blow to him, under the internal and external attacks, he fell ill on the way to escape, and there was no good care, and he died silently in the mountains, forests and snow, Huang Taiji fled further north with the remnants of the Jianzhou Jurchens who were most loyal to him.
By now, there is no need to use the main force to pursue the remnants of the Jianzhou Jurchens, there are cavalry to follow, and at the same time a high bounty has been issued, and the Jurchen and Mongolian tribes between the white mountains and black waters, including those uncivilized savage tribes, will fight bravely to hunt the heads of the remnants of the Jianzhou Jurchens.