When Sakhalian led the cavalry to attack the reinforcements of Yansui Town, which had just arrived, the main battlefield, under the command of Huang Taiji, the Jiannu Eight Banners launched a fierce attack on the Liaoxi army.

In order to quickly defeat the Ming army and end the battle, in order to rush back to the Guanwai to rescue their hometown as soon as possible, all the Eight Banners soldiers went crazy, completely ignoring their own casualties.

Under the offensive of the Eight Banners like a tide, the Liaoxi soldiers were defeated and retreated, and the right wing was soon broken through by Jiannu, and the deputy general Dai Guangen, who was in charge of commanding the right wing, was martyred in a bloody battle, and the rest fled.

The entire Ming army, only the Chinese army under the command of Sun Chuanting himself is still struggling to support, but it is also precarious, and there is a possibility of collapse at any time.

As the Great Khan, Huang Taiji did not personally fight on the front line, but sat in the rear to command. Looking at the battle in front of him, Huang Taiji knew that it would not be long before the Eight Banners Army would be able to defeat the last resistance of the Ming army and capture Sun Chuanting, the governor of the Ming State, alive!

However, at this moment, hundreds of Eight Banners cavalry in the northwest were routed back, and in the rear of the rout, there were still hundreds of Ming cavalry chasing and killing.

Sakhalian was defeated!

Looking at the defeated soldiers who fled back, Huang Taiji was very shocked! How long has it been, and nearly 2,000 cavalry have been defeated, and the defeat has been so fast!

Nearly 2,000 Eight Banner cavalry, even against tens of thousands of Ming troops, should be able to support for a period of time, is this Ming army reinforcements so strong?

At this moment, in addition to the 500 guards around Huang Taiji, the rest of the troops have been sent to the battlefield, so he has no choice but to order the last 500 guards to meet the defeated soldiers, block the pursuit of the Ming cavalry, and order someone to find Sakhalian to ask what happened?

Seeing hundreds of Jiannu cavalry coming, Zhao Shujiao decisively gave up the pursuit, returned with the cavalry, and guarded the side of Zhang Shize's Yansui army, and together with Zhang Shize's Yansui army, they quickly drove towards the main battlefield, a distance of four or five miles, and it would not take long to arrive.

At this time, Huang Taiji also figured out the actual battle situation, and learned the news of Sakhalian's death from the mouth of the defeated soldiers.

Nearly 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners have broken through the Ming army's array head-on, and it stands to reason that they have won from the moment they broke the formation, but in the end they ended up like this, which made Huang Taiji very incredible.

What does this mean? It shows that everyone in this Ming army reinforcement has a strong will to fight, and has extremely strict training, so strict that even if the cavalry breaks the formation, everyone will not panic at all.

Such an army is really terrifying!

At this moment, Huang Taiji was really a little scared, he was afraid that after this support army arrived at the battlefield, the Eight Banners would suffer great losses.

Fighting with such an army, even if it wins, the casualties will be very large, and the Eight Banners can no longer withstand large casualties!

"Pass the order, stop the attack, and prepare to withdraw the troops!" The more Huang Taiji thought about it, the more frightened he became, and hurriedly passed down the order.

Although it was close to defeating Sun Chuanting's army, Huang Taiji did not dare to delay any longer, and he had to retreat before this Ming army rushed to the battlefield.

What Huang Taiji didn't know was that he overestimated the combat strength of the Yansui army in Zhang Shize's hands, and he didn't know that the Yansui army had been specially trained to deal with cavalry, and the strength of the Yansui army was six times that of the Sakhalian cavalry, and in the end, the casualties of the Yansui army were more than the Sakhalian cavalry. The Yansui army had come here after a long journey, and after the battle with the Sakhalian cavalry, they were actually exhausted, and even if they arrived in time, they might not be able to exert much strength.

But Huang Taiji is afraid, he doesn't dare to gamble with the survival of the Dajin Kingdom, if the casualties here are too great, the Dajin Kingdom will really be finished!

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Retreated, Jiannu actually retreated, the Chinese army array, watching the attacking Jiannu retreat like a tide, the surviving Liaoxi soldiers couldn't believe it.

Half a day of fighting, they suffered too many casualties, 40,000 Liaoxi soldiers, both flanks of the left flank were defeated, only the Chinese army was left to support hard, the battle until now, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers who can still stand, and the other soldiers were either killed by Jiannu, or fled after being defeated.

The casualties are too great, too tragic!

Fortunately, Sun Chuanting's prestige is very high, and fortunately, the generals did not dare to run away with their lives, otherwise they would not be able to support it now.

Now Jiannu has taken the initiative to withdraw from the army, so that these surviving soldiers have the joy of the rest of their lives.

Looking at Jiannu, who took the initiative to retreat, and then turned his head to look at the reinforcements who were rushing towards the battlefield, Sun Chuanting naturally knew why Jiannu retreated.

Pursuit, when the two words were about to pop out of his mouth, Sun Chuanting held back, with the current situation of his subordinates, where would he still have the strength to pursue?

Now, the only thing we can count on is the new reinforcements.

As Sun Chuanting, he was naturally qualified to send an order to Zhang Shize to pursue him, but Sun Chuanting did not do that, but only sent someone Pegasus to tell Zhang Shize the current situation, as for whether to chase or not, it was up to Zhang Shize to decide.

After all, Jiannu is now taking the initiative to retreat, retreating without chaos, and if he is not sure to chase and kill in a hurry, I am afraid that he may not be able to win.

Moreover, Zhang Shize led the army all the way from Jibei, and he had just fought a battle, so it is still two to say whether he has the ability to pursue.

Sure enough, Zhang Shize did not choose to pursue Jiannu, but led his subordinates to join Sun Chuanting.

"Inspector Sun, the last general's subordinates are very tired from marching all the way, and they have just fought with the Jiannu cavalry, and the losses are very large, and they are really unable to pursue." After seeing the ceremony, Zhang Shize took the initiative to explain to Sun Chuanting.

Sun Chuanting smiled and said: "If the general hadn't arrived in time, the tens of thousands of Liao soldiers of Bendu would have been wiped out, and the general really had a life-saving grace for Bendu." ”

"The superintendent is serious, this is the duty of the last general, and he doesn't dare to take credit." Zhang Shize said humbly.

In the distance, the Jiannu army is retreating rapidly, there are many Jiannu horses, each banner has a war horse, and the horses are cavalry, and now there are more than 100,000 Ming young people who have been captured, and the speed of retreat is naturally extremely fast.

Looking at the rapidly retreating Jiannu army, Sun Chuanting and Zhang Shize looked at each other, knowing that even if they were chasing now, they would not be able to catch up at all. Although Zhang Shize has tens of thousands of war horses in his hands to walk, Yan Suijun can only ride horses, and there is too much difference between riding and Jiannu, and even if he catches up, how can he be Jiannu's opponent?

"Let's take a break." Looking at the distant army of Jiannu, Sun Chuanting sighed, very melancholy in his heart.

In Sun Chuanting's view, this battle was defeated, and it was a fiasco!

Before the war, there were nearly 70,000 troops, and now there are only more than 10,000 people standing here.

Of course, the other more than 50,000 troops were not all killed by Jiannu, among which more than 20,000 troops of Henan, Shandong, and Shanxi Qinwang did not engage with Jiannu at all, and were driven by Jiannu The 100,000 Ming people rushed to the rout, and the three armies did not die much, and the rest did not know where to flee.

As for the 40,000 Liaoxi soldiers, there were not too many who really died in battle, the left and right wings were defeated by Jiannu, naturally many soldiers were killed by Jiannu, but more soldiers also fled in rout.

However, no matter what, of the nearly 70,000 army, there are only more than 10,000 people left, which can be described as a fiasco! When the battle report reached Jingshi, it was not known how many people would be waiting to impeach him.

Impeachment is impeachment, at most dismissal and dismissal, the most painful thing for Sun Chuanting is that after this battle, most of the Liaoxi soldiers he worked hard to manage have lost most of them, which means that more than a year of hard work has been completely wasted.

In addition, in this battle, tens of thousands of innocent people died tragically, and the corpses piled up on the snowy fields, most of them were poor people. As the governor of Jiliao, he commanded all the troops in Gyeonggi, but he failed to save these people, causing so many people to be killed and injured, which is really a dereliction of duty.

After being uncomfortable for a while, Sun Chuanting quickly raised his spirit again, although Jiannu retreated, but the war was not completely over, Huang Degong was also leading people to block Jiannu's retreat to Qian'an, if Jiannu did not choose to detour to Luanzhou, he would inevitably attack Huang Degong.

Huang Degong's subordinates are less than 10,000 people, and he can't resist Jiannu for too long, so he must bring people to support!

Sun Chuanting immediately issued an order, treated the casualties, recounted and reorganized the army, and at dusk, rested in this camp for the night, and set out early tomorrow morning to go to Hazelnut Village to support Huang Degong.

After the counting, there were more than 11,000 remaining soldiers in Liaoxi who still had combat effectiveness, while Zhang Shize's Yansui army suffered heavy casualties after a big battle with the Jiannu cavalry, and only 8,000 could still hold on to the battle. In addition, there are 800 cavalry under Zhao Sect.

Less than 20,000 people, this is all the strength of the Ming army now!

After considering and discussing with Zhang Shize, Sun Chuanting decided to transfer 4,000 Liaoxi soldiers to supplement Zhang Shize's Yansui army, and the Yansui army was transferred to more than 7,000 people, plus Zhao Shujiao's cavalry, to form an army of 12,000 people, led by Zhang Shize, responsible for chasing and killing Jiannu to support Huang Degong.

The war horses owned by Zhang Shize's department, plus the war horses of Sun Chuanting's department, are enough for each of the 12,000 people. With a war horse, he should be able to reach Hazelnut Village in time.

"Jiannu is eager to return to the army, and he may not fight to the death, and most of them will choose to flee without a fight. General Zhang, if Jiannu chooses to flee without a fight, after you receive Huang Degong, don't chase Jiannu anymore, but immediately rush east to Shanhaiguan, I have already sent military orders to the prefectures and counties along the way, ordering the local government to provide supplies. Sun Chuanting commanded.

"What do you mean, Inspector?" Zhang Shize asked. did not pursue Jiannu to recover Qian'an City, but went to Shanhaiguan, which made Zhang Shize a little confused.

"Jiannu is bent on escaping, and he has too many war horses to escape quickly, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up, and the side wall from Qian'an is mostly a mountain road, and it is impossible to continue chasing after the side wall.

Jiannu was in a hurry to go back in order to rescue the lair and resist the attack of Lu Jinglue's army. In this war, although Jiannu was defeated and fled, the loss of strength was not too great, once the main force of Jiannu rushed back, Lu Jingluo and they were probably in danger.

So now the top priority is to rush to Liaodong to reinforce Lu Jinglue. Therefore, after you received Huang Degong, you immediately rushed to Shanhaiguan and prepared to reinforce Lu Xiangsheng through Liaoxi. I will stay here to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time report to the imperial court, asking for orders to send troops to Liaodong for reinforcements. Sun Chuanting explained.

"The Admiral understands!" Zhang Shize nodded heavily, indicating that he understood his task.

Early the next morning, after having dinner early, Zhang Shize set off with the army, and Zhao led the cavalry of his headquarters as the vanguard to open the way for the army.

Sun Chuanting stayed in the camp and began to gather the defeated soldiers, treat the wounded, and clean up the battlefield.

When the news of Jiannu's escape came out, the defeated Ming army returned from time to time, and Sun Chuanting also sent cavalry to gallop around to collect the fleeing soldiers, and collected at least four or five thousand people in one day.

However, to Sun Chuanting's sadness, none of the people who fled chose to come to the camp, and when they encountered the officials and soldiers who gave the order, those people either fled in terror or launched a siege against the officials. It seems that in the hearts of these people, the official army is no longer trustworthy, and has become an existence similar to that of Jiannu.

"The governor doesn't have to care about these people, when they can't bear to be hungry, they will naturally obey the government's call." Staff member Li Shen understood Sun Chuanting's thoughts and comforted.

Sun Chuanting sighed: "In this cold winter, the people have no food and clothing, and I don't know how many people are freezing to death and starving to death. The area around Gyeonggi Sooncheonfu has just been ravaged by Jiannu, and I am afraid that there will be trouble among the people again. ”

Li Shen said: "The governor is kind-hearted, but now the top priority is to first report the news of our army's victory to the imperial court, and by the way, ask the imperial court to issue an order to compensate these refugees, which is the best policy." ”

"A big win?" Sun Chuanting looked at Li Shen, what kind of victory is this horse-riding, the fiasco is almost the same.

"Of course it's a big win." Li Shen smiled and said, "In this battle, our army defeated Jiannu, beheaded tens of thousands of prisoners, recovered seven or eight cities, rescued more than 100,000 people, and recaptured countless cattle and sheep property, of course, it was a big victory, and it was an unprecedented victory!" ”

"Tens of thousands of prisoners?" Sun Chuanting was stunned for a moment, this battle killed a lot of Jiannu, but most of the corpses were taken away by Jiannu's retreat, and the actual head obtained was less than a thousand, even if you add the head won by Zhang Shize's department, it is only two or three thousand, where are there tens of thousands?

"Commander, Zhang Shize's Yansui army also went to Jibei on your orders, didn't they behead 20,000 Mongols, and these captures naturally belong to you." Li Shen explained with a smile.

"In this way, the city abandoned by Jiannu can be regarded as recovered by the Governor, and the people abandoned by the Governor on the initiative can also be said to have been rescued by the Governor!" Sun Chuanting sneered.

Li Shen nodded: "That's right." ”

"But where are the corpses of tens of thousands of people?" Sun Chuanting pointed to the corpses of the people in the snow who had not yet had time to clean up and roared, "We can say that the big defeat is a big victory, but how to face these innocent and tragic people, how to face our own conscience?" ”

In the end, he is still young and vigorous, and he has not experienced the beating of officialdom! Li Shen smiled bitterly in his heart.

"The commander is wrong," Li Shen shook his head and said, as the mastermind, he had to plan carefully for Sun Chuanting.

"Commander, isn't the purpose of our battle to defeat Jiannu and save the people, isn't Jiannu now defeated and fled, haven't the people been rescued? Regardless of the process, the result is the result. Of course, our casualties are a bit large, but we also caused a lot of casualties to Jiannu.

Inspector, at present, Gyeonggi has been ravaged by Jiannu, and a victory is needed to lift the spirits of the people in the world. Although we won a miserable victory, we also won.

Inspector, your ideal is to defeat Jiannu and recover Liaodong, only in this way will the imperial court let you continue to command the army, don't you want to personally lead the army to Liaodong and join Lu Jingluo to attack Jiannu's lair? ”