Chapter 197: Both Lose, Daming Gains!
"Governor, Jiannu's offensive is very strong, almost dying, I'm afraid that Malanyuguan won't last long."
Luo Qing shook his head, whether the Jurchens are riding or fighting, there is no problem, the horses are cavalry, the dismounts are infantry, and the siege ability is not weak, although there are no siege equipment, but the Jurchens do not care about casualties at all now, the defenders on the side of Malan Yuguan are already few, and it is difficult to hold on under the Jurchens' offensive that does not take into account casualties.
"Order Guo Qin, let everyone on his side hurry up, if you can reach Malanyu Pass within an hour, those who arrive will be rewarded with ten taels of silver!"
After thinking about it for a while, Yuan Chonghuan gritted his teeth and said, he can't catch up here, he is still seventy or eighty miles away from Malanyu Pass, no matter how fast he is, he will have to arrive tomorrow, and when they arrive, it will be too late.
However, now Guo Qin's side is less than thirty miles away from Malanyu Pass, if he marches desperately, he should be able to catch up, although the price of ten taels of silver per person is not small, but if all the Jurchens can be exterminated in the pass, then the price is worth it.
"Yes."
Luo Qing nodded in response.
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Malanyu is closed.
The brutal battle of the city wall was in full swing, and the corpses of countless soldiers were piled up in the narrow passages on the city wall, including those of the Ming army and those of the Houjin, but the losses of the Houjin were greater, and at least thousands of corpses were piled up under the city wall, but there was still a steady stream of Houjin soldiers climbing up along the hooks.
On the other side, Zhao Shujiao and Deng Kui and other Ming army masters are fighting with many Jurchen masters, a whole wall has been destroyed, Zhao Shujiao is against Dai Shan, although the strength is not as good as Dai Shan, but as a horizontal martial artist, Zhao Shujiao still dragged Dai Shan with a first-class realm, although the price paid is not small.
"Zhao Shujiao, Ben Baylor will give you a way to live, let go of Malanyu Pass, Ben Baylor will let you take people away!"
Looking at the sun gradually setting in the west, Dai Shan gritted his teeth and said, these Ming troops are more difficult than he imagined, they have already killed nearly thirty percent of the battle, but they still fight to the death, if it is dark, the Ming army has the advantage of the city wall, and their situation will be even worse.
"Dai Shan, since you have chosen to enter the customs, then stay here with peace of mind!"
Hearing this, Zhao Shujiao's face showed a cruel smile, and with the blood on his face, the mutilated left arm, and the scars all over his body, it looked even more hideous.
"Kill!"
Dai Shan roared again: "If you don't break the level, you can't retreat, and those who retreat will be killed!" ”
Zhao Shujiao also roared angrily: "Block these Jiannu, the reinforcements will be more than ten miles away, and as soon as the reinforcements arrive, these Jiannu will die." ”
The next moment, the two turned into two afterimages, and collided with each other again, Zhao Shujiao held a knife in one hand, although the injury was not light, Zhao Shujiao's momentum was even more fierce, and a knife forced Dai Shan back a few steps, and then the two fought again.
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On the other side, on the battlefield on the side of Man Gui and Hou Shilu, although Yu Xiao restrained the three of Dolgon, the situation on the battlefield was still tilted towards the Jurchens, and the cavalry under the command of Man Gui and Hou Shilu had already begun to flee.
"Retreat!"
Seeing this, Man Gui could only retreat with a loud roar, this level has reached the limit, if he doesn't collapse, he can still fight again, once he completely collapses, then he is really powerless.
When Man Gui and Hou Shilu led their troops to evacuate, Li Hongsheng and Yu Xiao also followed closely and evacuated the battlefield.
"Stop chasing, hurry up and go to Malanyu Pass."
Seeing that the three of Dolgon wanted to chase again, Huang Taiji hurriedly stopped: "The other Ming troops are coming." ”
It is not difficult to completely defeat the cavalry under the command of Man Gui and Hou Shilu, but it will also take a lot of time, once the other Ming troops rush to Malanyu Pass first and completely block the pass, then they can only find other passes, and the losses of the previous siege will be in vain.
Hearing Huang Taiji's voice, the three of Dolgon also dispelled the idea of pursuing and led their troops towards Malanyu Pass.
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on the city walls.
Zhao Shujiao's face was already tired, although the physical strength of a horizontal martial artist was long, but he was weaker than Dai Shan, and it was already the limit to be able to resist to this extent.
On the other side, Dai Shan's face was not good, looking at Zhao Shujiao, who was still high-spirited, Dai Shan's heart sank, the demon power in his body was not much, once the demon power was exhausted, he would have to be slaughtered by Zhao Shujiao.
Thinking of this, Dai Shan's hand holding the weapon tightened, a touch of determination flashed in his eyes, the demonic power in his body began to boil continuously, and the demonization of the whole person became more obvious, and a snake tail grew behind him.
Shaking the snake's tail, Dai Shan knew very well that he couldn't continue to drag it out, and if he couldn't take it before dark, the other Ming troops would come.
At this moment, a large area of dust appeared in the distance in the sky, and at the same time, there were bursts of horses' hooves, and the flag representing Huang Taiji in the wind was extremely conspicuous.
Seeing this banner, Dai Shan was instantly overjoyed, and the demonic power on his body was also a little slackened, but the next moment, Zhao Shujiao's long knife cracked again.
"Zhao Shujiao, are you crazy?"
Seeing that Zhao Shujiao was still pestering, Dai Shan said coldly: "The Great Khan has arrived, if you continue to entangle, there is only one way to die!" ”
"It depends on who's faster!"
Zhao led the teaching, the movements in his hands still did not stop, a knife was as fast as a knife, and Dai Shan was so suppressed that he had almost no power to fight back.
Hearing Zhao Shujiao's words, Dai Shan's face changed, and after forcing Zhao Shujiao to retreat with all his might, he turned his head to look at the other side, the Ming army was coming towards this side at a very fast speed, and it was the 20,000 soldiers and horses who were responsible for attacking Zunhua City.
With this distraction, Zhao Shujiao's long knife struck again, approaching Dai Shan's vital point, and for a while, Dai Shan could only fight to resist.
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In just a moment's effort, the thousands of cavalry led by Huang Taiji came to the pass, and on the other side, the Ming army of the brigade also slowly came towards the pass from another road.
"Great Khan, do you want to defeat these Ming troops first?"
Looking at the Ming army coming from another way, Dolgon frowned, if he didn't defeat it, when these people blocked the pass, Yue Zhen's side would not want to escape from the pass.
"Take the castle first!"
After a little muttering, Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said, although the other party is advancing, but the pass is already a mountainous area, there is no place for cavalry to deploy a formation, it is not impossible to attack, but the time it will take will definitely not be less, it is better to capture the pass first, and then see if there is no chance to defeat this Ming army.
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The other side.
On the city wall, Deng Kui glanced at the Jurchen cavalry who were coming towards this side, repelled the opponent with one move, dodged to Zhao Shujiao's side, and said in a deep voice: "General Zhao, evacuate first, you can't stop it!" ”
Now they are powerless to block Daishan's side, if Huang Taiji's side joins again, they will definitely lose, and Guancheng will also fall into the hands of the Jurchens, rather than sending them to death in vain, it is better to take a step back and cut off the way for other Jurchens to enter Malanyu Pass.
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Hearing Deng Kui's words, Zhao Shujiao glanced at the other Ming army masters on the city wall, there were more than 100 of them before, and now they are less than half.
"Withdraw!"
Zhao Shujiao gritted his teeth and said, they have done their best, and it is useless to defend it.
"Withdraw!"
Under the order of Zhao Shujiao, a large number of Ming troops on the city wall hurriedly withdrew to the Great Wall on the west side, and Zhao Shujiao took the remaining more than 100 personal soldiers to take charge of the rear.
"Stop chasing."
Seeing that there was no chance to leave Zhao Shuojiao's Ming army behind, Dai Shan said loudly: "Open the gate first, and welcome the Great Khan in!" ”
Their purpose is to take the Guancheng, if there is a chance to leave Zhao Rate to teach them, it is naturally the best, but if there is no chance, then they can only take the Malan Yuguan Pass.
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"Great Khan, do you want to send troops to save them?"
Looking at the steady stream of cavalry entering Guancheng, Dai Shan said with a tired face, fighting with Zhao Shujiao, although he was not seriously injured, but the demon power was almost exhausted, and he didn't have much strength to fight again.
"Send someone to inform Yue Zhen and ask him to bring back the troops immediately.
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Looking at the Ming army arrayed outside the pass, Huang Taiji gritted his teeth and said, nearly half of the five thousand soldiers and horses brought by Yue Yu were the elite of the Eight Banners, and if he gave up like this, he would not be reluctant, but if he went to the rescue, he was also powerless.
There are more and more Ming troops gathered here, if they leave the city, they are likely to be blocked in the pass, and even he will definitely die at that time, so he can only wait for Yue Zhen to bring his troops back, otherwise he can't do anything.
"Okay."
Hearing this, Dai Shan nodded, and selected a second-rate master from among his own soldiers to inform Yue Zhen.
Time passed little by little, Huang Taiji and Dai Shan stared closely at the pass, but Yue Zhen's figure was nowhere to be seen, but two more Ming armies came, one was the 20,000 people brought by Deng Kui from the capital, and the other was the cavalry led by Man Gui and Hou Shilu.
"Pass the order to go down and go back to the grassland!"
Looking at the more and more Ming troops gathered, Huang Taiji could only grit his teeth and say, if they waited any longer, they might have a crisis.
"Yes."
Dai Shan sighed, and then went down to give the order, the current situation simply does not allow them to continue to stay, the Ming army is gathering more and more, if they continue to stay, then they will even have to sacrifice some soldiers and horses before they can leave safely.
Soon, a group of cavalry left Malanyu Pass, and Huang Taiji personally led his own soldiers to break the rear.
After the Jurchens left, Zhao Shujiao and Deng Kui reoccupied Malanyu Pass.
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On the other side, seeing that Huang Taiji led the cavalry back to the grassland, Man Gui and Hou Shilu immediately led the cavalry under their command to rush towards the battlefield where Wang Zhichen was.
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High in the air, looking at the far Malanyu Pass, Huang Taiji's face was extremely gloomy, it was a good situation, but he didn't expect it to fall into such an embarrassing situation.
After returning to the ground, Huang Taiji said in a deep voice: "How is the loss?" ”
"Back to the Great Khan, there are only 6,435 people who have returned to the grassland."
Du Du said astringently.
Hearing this, Huang Taiji's body couldn't help but shake, for him, the servants and the Mongols were all right, no matter how much he died, he would not feel distressed, but those Eight Banners elites were the foundation of their Jurchens.
Even when facing Yang Hao's encirclement and suppression and the capture of Shenyang City, there were no such heavy casualties, this is not an ordinary Eight Banners, but an elite, and each elite has spent a lot of resources to cultivate.
There are more than 20,000 elites in the entire Eighth Banner Army, and seven or eight thousand people were lost in one entry, almost forty percent of the elites.
The main reason why he chose to enter the customs was because the Jurchen clan had been fighting for many years and the food in the clan was seriously insufficient, so in order to solve the food problem, he would take the risk and propose to enter the customs.
Before he entered the customs, he had already learned about the general deployment of the Ming army through those merchants, there were more than 200,000 Ming troops in Liaodong and Shanhaiguan, and there were not many Ming troops in other places around the capital, and there were not many who could rush to the aid of the Beijing division.
In order to contain the more than 200,000 Ming troops in Liaodong and Shanhaishan, he deliberately only brought more than 10,000 elites and more than 10,000 servants and Mongols, and the rest of the troops were still on the side of Shenyang City, and he didn't bring any of the old ministers who followed Nurhachi, just so that the more than 200,000 Ming troops did not dare to enter the king of Guanqin easily.
According to his speculation, as long as the reinforcements of Datong, Xuanfu and Liaodong were defeated, the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty would never send troops to stop him from plundering, and as long as he did not threaten the capital, Liaodong and Shanhaishan would never venture into the pass, and then he could swagger and plunder, and then leave calmly.
But he miscalculated one thing, that is, Su Hao, that madman actually let Yuan Chonghuan's 200,000 army go north, and it was a few days after he entered the customs, Su Hao let Yuan Chonghuan go north, otherwise the capital, Zunhua City, and Jizhou City would never have appeared so quickly.
And Su Hao let Yuan Chonghuan go north, that was the result of both defeats, and it was he and Su Hao who were both defeated, and Daming benefited from it.
You must know that he not only brought more than 10,000 elites of the Eight Banners, but also nearly seventy percent of the Jurchen clan masters, if they are really all wiped out in the pass, the Jurchen clan will definitely decline, not to mention continuing to harass the Ming Dynasty, it would be good to be able not to destroy the clan.
And the Mongols had already let him be abolished, so that without the trouble of the border pass, Da Ming would be able to devote all his energy to dealing with Su Hao.
So this time, Su Hao let Yuan Chonghuan go north, it can be said that he was completely targeting their Jurchen clan, and he was the kind who did not hesitate to harm himself!
"Su Hao!"
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji turned his right hand into a knife, and slashed on the palm of his left hand, and a large amount of blood gushed out: "Ben Khan swears by blood today, I don't take your head to sacrifice to the children of my clan, Ben Khan swears not to be a man!" ”
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Not to mention Huang Taiji's side, at this time, the large-scale slaughter has officially come to an end.
After Man Gui and Hou Shilu arrived with their troops, under the flanking attacks of the two sides, the five thousand cavalry under Yue Zhi's command collapsed instantly.
And after defeating Yue Xuan, Man Gui, Hou Shilu, and Wang Zhichen did not stop, but led troops to Yongping and Luanzhou, where there was Amin, the innate master of the Jurchens.
Under the siege of Li Hongsheng, Yu Xiao, and Xia Bing, the three of them beheaded Amin on the spot at the cost of one serious injury and two minor injuries.
The 2,000 elites under Amin's command with blue flags were also wiped out, and only a few lucky ones escaped from the battlefield, crossed the Great Wall, and fled back to the grassland.