Chapter 464: Dawn

"Sure enough, he turned against him...... Li Yongfang! ”

Huang Taiji gritted his teeth, he had long guessed that Li Yongfang would "defect", because he was the most suspicious of the four.

It's just that he didn't expect that after Li Yongfang defected, he would actually let him get into a Liu Aita.

"Great Khan, Daishan Belle has gathered thousands of baggage carts and tens of thousands of people are breaking through to this side, but at the moment, it is ......"

Gu Shan was really embarrassed, and Huang Taiji also looked at the battlefield with a calm face.

The Nuergan army, the Ming army, and the Jin army crowded into the trench position, blocking the road to break through.

If they really want to break through, the Jin army can also break through, but they will definitely not be able to outrun the cavalry.

The speed of the baggage carts was too slow, and the speed of eighty miles a day broke through, and the Ming army's upright cavalry could let them run for three days first, and then easily stop them in front of them.

Of course, it was the Ming army in the south that died.

It has been 19 days since the Ming army hastily launched an offensive on the first day of March, and today is already the 20th day.

Maybe the three cities of Shangjingcheng, Huifa City, and Xingjing City can last for a long time, but the other cities of the Jin Army can't last too long.

Huang Taiji's only advantage is that he set off early, at present, in addition to the Ming army in Beishan, the nearest Ming army to him is Sun Shoufa's department in Shangjing, but even so, the distance between the two armies is also two thousand miles.

Two thousand miles is a long time, and the Ming Dynasty cannot guarantee the baggage line of more than 4,000 miles from Shenyang to Beishan for more than 100,000 people.

But the problem is that now that the rear army has collapsed, and the Ming army has captured a large number of Jin army's baggage, if the Ming army in the south learns of this news, then there is no need to prepare grain and grass at all, it is enough to travel north lightly.

For a distance of more than 2,000 miles, according to the speed of cavalry attack, it will take fifteen days at most, and the horse infantry will only take twenty days.

In this situation, Huang Taiji may not be able to run out of the Beishan range in 20 days, so in the overall situation, he is still in danger.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji only felt that time was pressing, and he had to break through successfully today.

It's just that on the current battlefield, the Jin army can only barely fight with 15,600 people and 10,000 Ming troops, and the two sides can't tell the winner for a long time.

"Bastard ......"

Looking at the current situation, Huang Taiji was resentful in his heart.

If Guo Sangdai had come an hour late, the Jin army would have already annihilated Cao Wenzhao's headquarters.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji was extremely sad and indignant in his heart, and he could only watch his soldiers and horses fight head-to-head with the Ming army, fighting this kind of stupid battle without the slightest plan.

Originally, the Ming army had artillery and rifles to crush the Jin army, but after the ammunition ran out, the tactics and equipment and personnel of both sides were similar.

Therefore, in the case of a fierce battle, there was a battalion and a battalion on both sides to fill it up, and then fill it up after the death, and it became a war of attrition.

In such a stupid battle, in the end, it is actually to see who has the most people.

There are a lot of people in the Jin army, but they can't stand such consumption.

You must know that they still have to break through, if all the soldiers are dead, then even if the breakthrough is successful, they will be eaten by Lin Dan Khan's group of hyenas when they reach the grassland.

It's just that in the face of such a situation, Huang Taiji is helpless or helpless.

"Kill!"

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The shouts of killing everywhere shrouded the battlefield, the two armies fought fiercely, the casualties became bigger and bigger, and people died every minute and every second, which made both sides of Ming and Jin red-eyed.

In the battle of extermination, the Jin army must win, even to the last man.

Similarly, the Ming army's silver reward system was also inspiring the Ming army.

Not to mention anything else, there are more than 50,000 corpses that died in front of Beishan Fort alone, these are all people who died in the battle between the two armies, and many of them are still asking for help, but no one can care about them at all.

These 40,000 corpses are a full 1.2 million taels, even if among them, Guo Sangdai's headquarters can get 400,000 taels at most, and the remaining 800,000 taels are from the Ming army.

Their numbers plummeted to less than two thousand, and if they won the battle, each of them would have returned home with four hundred taels of silver.

Of course, this is only a silver reward, and what is even more terrifying is the official position......

"Defeat the survivors! Six products in a row! Grant the Scatter Rank! ”

Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao were covered in blood, and they kept shouting some encouraging words in their mouths.

If you are promoted to six levels in a row, that is a small soldier, and you can jump from the second ninth rank to the seventh rank in one breath, not to mention some surviving small flag officers, chief flag officers and hundred household officials.

If it was to upgrade to six levels in a row that made the surviving soldiers blush, then the "Conferral Rank" would make them completely crazy.

If you take the loose rank, it is a double portion, and according to the calculation of the seven grades, the double part is four hundred taels of silver.

Four hundred taels ......

For the Shangzhi guards, who have an annual salary of fifteen taels of silver, this can only be earned by being a big soldier for twenty-six or seven years.

As long as they lived, each of them would receive four hundred taels of silver every year.

These four hundred taels of silver can buy two mansions in several fang markets in the inner city of the capital near the root of the imperial city, which is not ungenerous.

"Kill!

! ”

In the face of the rich reward, the Ming army, which was besieged by more than 6,000 Mongolian Eight Banners and Yellow Banners, burst out with amazing endurance.

Cao Wenzhao knows how to use rewards to buy people's hearts, and Guo Sangdai is not bad.

"Kill one captive and reward fifty taels of silver! Twenty acres of land! Give a cow to plough! ”

The rewards were increased layer by layer, and finally even increased to the extent that a Beishan Jurchen could live the rest of his life carefree as long as he killed a Jin Jun.

In the face of such a rich reward, as the former army of the Beishan Jurchen Sauron Division, that group of Sauron soldiers burst out with endurance that they couldn't even believe.

After forcibly marching for nearly a hundred miles, they actually fought for a whole quarter of an hour!

"Kill Menggou!"

"Cut a dozen Mengdogs! I don't have to worry about it in my life! ”

The garrisons also ran back and forth to motivate the people of the headquarters, and compared to them, the Jin army did not need to motivate them at all.

In the battle of extermination, if they are defeated, the whole clan will die!

"Killβ€”"

The two armies are fighting more and more fiercely, but they are also beginning to become "weak" with the naked eye......

Obviously, the physical strength of both sides has reached the limit, and at this time, a large group of men and horses also appeared at the end of the river valley.

"Beep-"

The sound of running horses' hooves and shrill whistles sounded, and Dai Shan rushed to the battlefield with more than 12,000 taels of red flag horse infantry and killed from the horizon.

It was six o'clock in the morning, and the sky had begun to gray, and even without torches, a large number of men and horses could be vaguely seen rushing to the battlefield.

In the face of the reinforcements of the Jin army, the Nuer Gan army in Beishan was a little flustered, and many people were killed by mistake for a while.

Guo Sandai looked at the more than 10,000 taels of red flag soldiers and horses who rushed to the battlefield, and he was sweating even more, and he kept ordering with the sweat on his forehead, asking Tang Qi to bring his words to the front line:

"Our army's 20,000 iron cavalry is less than ten miles away from here!"

"Our army ......"

Guo Sandai lied, he didn't know how many Shangzhi cavalry there were, but he was sure that Shangzhi cavalry would appear on the battlefield.

No matter how many there are, as long as the cavalry of the Ming army appears, then the big battle will be decided!

"Kill!"

Dai Shan led the horse infantry like cavalry, attacking from the flank of the Nuergan army.

Despite the precautions, a hole was cut in the flank of the Nu'er army.

The situation on the battlefield changed briefly, and the 20,000 Jin army besieged the Ming army, which was less than 9,000 men.

The flesh mill continued to spin, consuming the lives of several people every second it turned.

Gradually, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, who couldn't see the whole picture of the formation, began to see the edge of the formation.

They knew in their hearts what it meant, and that was that there were fewer and fewer people around them.

If it goes on like this, once they are all wiped out, then Guo Sangdai's slave army will be wiped out in an instant.

"What about Xiao Shen and Yang Hong?!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

Cao Wenzhao opened his mouth and scolded, and the men and horses in the army kept releasing arrows.

Time passed little by little, and when Fan Wencheng and Fan Wencheng's two troops and horses covered more than 40,000 people crossing the trench, Cao Wenzhao was a little desperate for a while.

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"Da Du Du-"

"Beep-"

Suddenly, a loud, melodious, urgent trumpet and wooden whistle sounded in the valley plain.

Immediately afterward, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves also sounded from the end of the valley.

When less than half of the Jin army's convoy crossed the trench, Cao Wenzhao's long-awaited nearly 10,000 Shangzhi cavalry rushed to the battlefield with more than 3,000 infantry of the Han Fourth Battalion wearing the armor of the Fourth Han Battalion but with white cloth tied to their arms.

"It's over......"

When he saw more than 10,000 straight iron riders rushing towards him, Huang Taiji's mind was blank, and he only thought of these two words.

Especially when he saw a group of horse infantry under the banner of Shence Guard, and the infantry of the 4th Han Battalion tied with white cloth riding horses and following the Shangzhi cavalry to rush to kill, his first reaction was to yell sideways:

"Formation!"

It is impossible for Huang Taiji to break through, unless he is willing to abandon the family scrolls of the top brass of the Jin Army and leave behind the only remaining baggage.

If he can't take these things with him, he won't be able to break through with tens of thousands of troops, so for him and the Jin army, there is only one battle!

"Beep-"

"Woo-woo-"

The sky gradually brightened, and in the fierce battle between the two armies, they successfully fought from the hour to the hour (5 o'clock).

The sky was getting brighter, and the thick dark clouds that had been in the sky for most of the year disappeared, revealing a foggy sky.

It will take a while for the sun to rise, and when it does, the sky will be blue.

It's just that for the Jin army, this kind of weather is not a good thing, because the Shangzhi cavalry is the best at face protrusion, and the Ming army is best at firearms......

"Kill Jianju!"

"Plough the court and sweep the hole! Not a single one to stay! ”

"Hiss-"

Shouts and screams appeared in an endless stream on the battlefield full of dead bodies.

Three hours and six hours of fierce fighting, but it was still a bitter battle, which made a large number of exhausted Jin Jun feel a sense of powerlessness in their hearts.

Although they used their baggage carts to protect themselves before the arrival of the Shangzhi cavalry, compared with the original team of more than 300,000 people in the north, the current team of less than 70,000 people looked extremely shabby.

Twenty-three or four thousand soldiers protected more than 40,000 roll craftsmen in the center, and the major Baylor and Beizi's family rolls also found their own backbone in embarrassment.

It's just that this kind of finding is more like a warm existence before destruction.

More than 13,000 Shangzhitie rode around the chariot array, and Liu Bian, who came with the 2,000 divine guards of Xishan Fort and Wuli Fort, also found Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.

There were only more than 600 of them left, and each of them was full of arrows, almost a humanoid hedgehog.

At the same time as being received by the Shen Cewei, generals like Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao couldn't help but kneel in the pile of corpses, and the rest of the Ming army was even more powerless to slash the arrows, and collapsed directly in the pile of corpses.

"Commander!"

Liu Bian turned over and dismounted, and while holding Cao Wenzhao, he couldn't help but scan the surroundings in "fear".

The two-mile-wide valley of the lower field is now full of corpses, which is even more terrifying than the plains to the south.

The dense corpses made it difficult for people to move forward, so that they could not succeed in breaking through.

"Whew-"

Cao Wenzhao sat on the corpse of a Jin army, took a sip of water with Liu Bian's support, and barely recovered a little strength.

He looked at the Jin Army, and also saw the Jin Army's chariot formation that was forming a formation to protect itself.

Seeing this scene, even a man like Cao Wenzhao couldn't help but have red eyes, and faintly wanted to cry.

Three Hours......

Hell knows how they managed to hold on.

He looked at his brothers, who had been seven thousand before the war, and now less than eight hundred are still alive.

Of course, there were still some people shouting for help in the pile of corpses, but Cao Wenzhao couldn't be sure whether it was Jin Jun or his brother.

He took Liu Bian's hand and barely stood up.

"Chief soldier, you go back to the stone fort to rest first, there are still gunpowder and stone bullets in the Xishan fort, and it is only a matter of time before the Jin army's car formation is breached."

Due to Huang Taiji's order to retreat, the gunpowder and stone bullets of Xishan Fort were not used much.

At present, they can completely use gunpowder and stone bullets to fill the blood-stained 400 artillery pieces of the Ming army, and use artillery to end the war between the Ming and Jin armies.

"No...... I'm going to see it with my own eyes...... See Huang Taiji's corpse with your own eyes! ”

Cao Wenzhao's eyes were bloodshot, and after cutting off the arrows inserted in the armor stomach, with the help of Liu Bian and others, his face and body were covered with blood and dirt, and he was completely enveloped.

Not only him, but Cao Bianjiao and the rest of the surviving people are like this.

Liu Bian and Guo Sangdai converged, and they cleaned up the battlefield in front of the Jin army, brought some surviving Ming troops to Xishan Fort for treatment, and also mended some Jin soldiers who were not dead.

In this process, everyone in the Jin Army looked at this scene, extremely worried and desperate.

The 13,000 iron cavalry of Shangzhi cruised a hundred paces away from the chariot formation, and as long as the Jin army made any abnormal moves, they would immediately break out.

A team of 70,000 sounds like a bluff, but the Jin army, which only has 20,000 soldiers, would not dare to engage the 10,000 Ming army in half-armored cavalry head-on under any circumstances.

This battle is only one full stop away from the end.

Inside the Jin Army's chariot array, Huang Taiji turned over and dismounted, and Dai Shan and other nobles also rode their horses and rushed up in a panic:

"It's still too late to break through!"

"Let's break through!"

"Yes! Breakthrough! How many people can live is how many people! ”

Daishan, Yuetuo, Zilharang, Azig, Mang Gurtai, Tanggu, Abai......

Looking at this group of Jin nobles who were full of arrogance in the past, but at the moment they were as flustered as lost dogs, Huang Taiji's heart calmed down.

"If I wanted to break through, I would have broken through at the moment of opening."

"I want to take you to break through, that's why I stayed, and the battle has been fierce so far."

"For now, if you want to break through alone, go ahead, I am the Great Khan of Dajin, and I will not abandon my wife and children, and leave my subordinates behind."

Huang Taiji said these words calmly, although these words were very inconsistent with what he had done during this time, but no one refuted him for a while.

Perhaps Dai Shan and they all knew that when Liu Aita was destroyed and the rear army was attacked, they were already defeated.

Huang Taiji's judgment and arrangement were not wrong, the only thing he estimated wrong was Guo Sangdai, the dark horse, and the slaves under his command to run the army.

Once a 3,000-gold army could chase tens of thousands of savage Jurchens, but today, this group of savage Jurchens can actually fight with them for half an hour......

"Heh......" Huang Taiji sneered, and by the way, he untied his iron stomach (helmet).

The money rattail was left in front of everyone's eyes, and Huang Taiji glanced at everyone:

"Zhu Youzhen's military order is to plow the court and sweep the caves, you know what kind of person he is, and he will flee to where he will flee again."

"Rather than being chased by the cavalry like a lost dog, it is better to fight the last battle here."

"If we can win, then break through ......"

"If we lose......" Huang Taiji muttered for a few seconds, then continued:

"That's not sorry Khan Amma!"

As soon as he said this, Mang Gurtai, whose psychological defense line had been defeated, only felt that his body was weak, and the whole person knelt on the ground uncontrollably, with a bit of despair on his face.

"If I had known, I should have broken through on my own at that time......"

Mang Gurtai regretted it, if he had broken through at night, maybe he would have run thirty or forty miles by now.

He was regretting it, but Huang Taiji slowly closed his eyes, and his voice was as hard as iron and stone:

"At least for now, we haven't lost yet, 20,000 against 20,000, the winner is still unknown!"

"What's more, the Ming army has been attacking, and its physical strength may have been exhausted, as long as it persists to the end, how can there be no chance of victory?"

Although Huang Taiji's words were so, the ministers present knew that these words were just appeasement.

They looked at the Ming army's banner on the periphery of the car formation, and couldn't help but sigh in unison.

If you insist on it, you have a chance to win, then you can naturally persevere......

But in the current situation, is it really useful to persevere?

The ministers didn't dare to say anything, but they all knew that the matter was irreparable, and the defeat was probably only a matter of days......

"Grandma! Rich, rich! ”

"I killed it! I killed it! ”

"Don't make any noise! After the war, the command envoy will discuss with General Cao and divide the reward equally among you! ”

Outside the car formation, while the Shangzhi cavalry was cruising, some of the Jurchens in Beishan Nu'er were weakly paralyzed in the pile of corpses, but they laughed extremely happily.

While they were happy, Liu Bian also sent someone to take out the six hundred rifles in the Beishan Fort.

They still had less than 30,000 rounds of ammunition, and in this case, as long as the stone shells and gunpowder from the artillery arrived at Beishan Fort, after that round of shelling, only the harvest remained.

Thinking of this, Liu Bian also took off his helmet and sat in the pile of corpses to rest for a while.

He hadn't slept for a day and a night, and he was very uncomfortable at the moment, and although Cao Wenzhao said that he wanted to watch Huang Taiji die in front of him, but when he sat down, the double lack of physical strength and spirit made him close his eyes between breathing, and his snoring was like muffled thunder, and he fought in the corpse pile.

"This is the ...... of war"

Two quarters of an hour passed in a flash, and when Shen Cewei and Li Yangeng led people to clean up the battlefield, rescued nearly 2,000 surviving Ming soldiers from the corpse pile back to Beishan Fort, and asked the military doctor in the fort to treat their wounds, Zhu Fuju stood in the fort full of wounded soldiers and looked around.

He watched the soldiers cry with joy because they were saved, and he also saw the soldiers who were frantically looking for their brothers and their robes among the wounded soldiers.

Knowing that their brother and Pao Ze were alive, they hugged each other excitedly and cried.

Knowing that his brothers and robes had been killed in battle, their hearts were like ashes, and they were paralyzed on the ground like mud, and they were helped away.

As if to see more clearly, Zhu Fuju walked onto the road and walked to the head of the stone castle.

In front of him were wounded soldiers lying in the open space of the stone fort, and behind him was the battlefield that was nearing its end, and the brutal image of corpses and rivers of blood.

"Are you going to finish fighting......"

Zhu Fuju looked at the cruel picture in front of him, and suddenly felt that he was so tired......

Obviously, before arriving at this battlefield, he still felt full of energy, but after arriving at this battlefield, he felt very tired.

He looked at the Jin Army's car formation, and looked at the tens of thousands of Jianzhou Jurchens hiding in the car formation.

Nurhachi's own desires eventually dragged them into the abyss.

If they don't rebel, they may be like themselves, under the innovation of His Royal Highness the King of Qi, they will get their own fields, cattle and sheep.

It's just that Nurhachi rebelled, and still pulled them to rebel together.

Originally, they should have been like themselves, immersed in farming, but because of Nurhachi's selfish desires, he should have been farming in Guanzhong and went to the battlefield and became an executioner.

They were supposed to be hunting in Jianzhou, but at this moment they went to the battlefield and lost all their relatives, and the only ones left of them would also go to Huangquan......

"Whew-"

On the plain, a bumpy carriage appeared on the horizon, and Zhu Fuju, who was standing at the head of the city, knew very well in his heart that the carriage loaded with gunpowder and stone bullets from Xishan Fort.

When they arrive on the battlefield, the battle will be over.

Zhu Fuju looked at the battlefield like this, and the surroundings gradually brightened up with the passage of time.

Zhu Fuju watched the carriage arrive at the artillery position full of corpses, watched his comrades clean up the corpses around the position, and watched them wipe the artillery, put in the propellant, and fill it with stone bullets.

In the end, all the cavalry of the Ming army scattered in all directions, and the black muzzles of the four hundred guns were aimed at the Jin army chariot formation three hundred paces away.

"Kill!

! ”

When the muzzles of the artillery and the Ming army standing behind them showed their faces, all the Jin troops knew that the car formation could not be saved.

At such a moment, there was no need to wait for military orders, and all the Jin troops were killed from the chariot array.

"Put!"

"Peng! Peng! Pengβ€”"

The command flag was waved, 400 artillery pieces roared, and the sun rose from the mountain, spreading the sun all over the battlefield.

Zhu Fuchen faced the sun, and was illuminated by the sun at the moment when the cannon sounded, feeling the discomfort in his eyes, he blocked it in front of him with his hand.

But even so, he still saw the picture of the Jin Army's chariot array being pierced by stone bullets.

"It's really going to be over......"

"We can go home......"