Wang Hongyu told the story.

There are three steps to the plan.

The first step is to give priority to the retreat of the wounded, chariots, and baggage.

The enemy will definitely find out, and at this time they have to attack in advance, which disrupts the enemy's rhythm.

It is impossible for Wang Hongyu to know that the Kormi Mongols are on their way, but it is always beneficial to take the initiative to disrupt the enemy's rhythm and make them have to follow their own plans.

In the second step, the remaining main force meets the main force of Jiannu.

This time it was a hard-fought attack, and Jiannu would invest the most elite Bayala Protectors, and only by repelling them could the army really have a way out.

In the third step, under the cover of Quang Ninh reinforcements, the whole army retreated to the Liao River.

Of these three steps, the most important step is the second step.

The generals were not afraid, they all wanted to fight with Jiannu again, and the Ming army would win.

It's just that Yuan Yingtai doesn't send reinforcements, no matter how much he wins, he can only be defeated, and he can't destroy too many enemies if he can win.

Everyone hated Yuan Yingtai.

At this time, as long as there are 20,000 reinforcements, it will definitely let Jiannu flee back to the north bank of the Hunhe River with his tail between his legs, and then fight better enough to halve the eight banners of Jiannu.

In fact, Wang Hongyu proposed to retreat at this time, but Yuan Yingtai was really not a man, and at this time, he could never fight against Yuan Yingtai and the Donglin Imperial Court.

Yuan Yingtai didn't know how to fight at all, and he ruined Liaodong and the strong army. The result of what he is doing now is to sit back and watch the consumption of the Southern Army and Jiannu.

This battle cannot be fought.

At this time, all the generals were resentful of Yuan Yingtai, and they were all quite convinced of themselves, so they should save this field elite, and when Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian took power, they would inevitably support their rise.

At that time, with a strong army as the foundation and a place as the foundation, why worry about building slaves and not destroying them?

At this time, Wang Hongyu's prestige was unsatisfactory in the southern army.

His analysis of several generals is as follows:

To retreat to the Liao River in the direction of Quang Ninh.

The six or seven thousand Ming troops he rescued in Shenyang are being screened and repaired in the Liaohe, and most of them are You Shigong's subordinates, and You Zongbing is also recuperating in the Liaohe, which is not a small force.

There are still 20,000 Ming troops in Guangning, and there are 10,000 soldiers directly under Li Guangrong, and Zhang Shenwu and Liu Qu are all strong troops.

For decades, Nurhachi had been able to fight a war of annihilation by concentrating several times his forces, but this time he failed to take the fortress held by the Southern Army with three or four times his strength.

It is estimated that after two major battles overnight and in the morning, there will be more than 10,000 casualties among Jiannu, and there is still a certain combat strength.

The old slave has paid so many casualties, how can he give up halfway?

His greatest reliance is the Bayala Protector of each banner, which is the last hole card of each banner owner.

The crowd knew that if they could not recreate slaves, they would not be able to retreat.

Even so, he has to pay a heavy price, and it would be good if half of these 14,000 combatable soldiers could break through.

Each of Jiannu's Bayala is a strong man tempered by birth and death on the battlefield, and after the battles of Sarhu and Kaiyuan Tieling, he captured too much sophisticated equipment, so he is stronger than the Ming general's family in a single fight.

At present, there are not many generals in total, and the main combat strength is Zhou Dunji, Wang Hongyu's spear phalanx, Zhejiang's artillery army, Jiang Bi's Wujing battalion of less than 2,000, and Shizhu white pole soldiers.

After listening to his analysis, everyone felt quite convinced.

Wang Hongyu showed the appearance of the army after the previous training, defeated the blue flag twice, captured and played with spies, laid out the Hunhe River in advance, rescued the soldiers and civilians of Shenyang, shelled the Jiannu cavalry, persuaded to abandon the defense along the river, detected the enemy attack at night, rescued Jiang Bi's reinforcements, and just defeated Nurhachi in the fortress.

His prestige reached the pinnacle in the army, and no one disagreed with his ability.

The eldest brother Zhou Dunji saw the stitches and added again:

"My third brother's brother-in-law is Liu Shimin, the eunuch in the palace. The third brother had solved tricky incidents for Emperor Wanli before, and now the saint also knows his merits. ”

When the generals heard this, they knew that he had such a relationship in the palace, and they obeyed their words.

In fact, this kind of relationship is not too powerful to say it in ordinary times, like General Chen Ce and others, everyone has some connections.

But as soon as they said it at this critical moment, everyone knew that following Wang Hongyu would be very likely to withstand the punishment of Yuan Yingtai and even the Donglin Imperial Court in the end.

The retreat plan was unanimously approved.

At this time, everyone no longer expected Yuan Yingtai's reinforcements, and decided to organize the wounded soldiers to retreat to the west overnight, escorted by a thousand cavalry.

All the chariots were used, and the wounded sat in the covered chariots, making some bulging camouflage to mistake Jiannu for the Fran cannon.

Food, bedding should be taken away from daily necessities, and all that cannot be taken away will be burned together with the baggage.

The chariots were all pulled by horses, donkeys and mules, and the retreat direction was not far from the river along the way, so as to ensure that there was no shortage of water.

All the heavy weapons were left to block Jiannu, and after the war, except for the tiger squat cannon, which was light and easy to carry, the rest of the iron-core copper cannons and the Franco machine ran were all blown up.

The rest of the materials, equipment, materials, and daily necessities were all burned, leaving not a grain of grain or a single item for Jiannu.

The more than 14,000 soldiers who can fight must be prepared to die in battle, and those who can survive will be used as the fire to resist Jiannu, and take it as their responsibility to eliminate Jiannu and recover Liaodong.

That night, half of the people were on guard against the movement of Jiannu, and half of them took turns to rest and prepare for tomorrow's bloody battle.

Jiannu also detected the transfer of the wounded by the Ming army for the first time, and also detected that the chariot was equipped with a Fran cannon.

Nurhachi convened a meeting of the three major beylers, the five auxiliary ministers and their generals and above to discuss whether to divide the troops to pursue the wounded of the Ming army.

There was a dispute over the division of troops to fight, whether to ignore the wounded of the Ming army fleeing westward, or to wait until the main force of more than 10,000 Ming troops was eliminated and then pursue the wounded of the Ming army.

Some people proposed to divide troops to sneak attack wounded soldiers, and some people thought that considering the cavalry and chariots of the Ming army were quite powerful, and the Ming army's 14,000 made Jiannu very jealous, so they did not dare to divide the troops, and decided to make every effort to solve the main force of the southern army in front first.

As for whether to fight or not, no one dared to raise objections this time, and they unanimously agreed to fight, and they must fight quickly and without delay.

Jiannu needed a battle of annihilation to boost morale, and finally unanimously agreed:

Beat! Destroy the Ming army led by this southern army first!

Early the next morning, the main force of the Ming army withdrew from the ruins of the Hunhe Fort early and stood in the southwest of the Fort to wait for it.

A large fire was lit, which was mainly a wooden structure, and oil and ignition were sprinkled, and the fortress suddenly turned into a huge bonfire.

Under the northwest wind, huge smoke and dust fluttered up, which could be seen dozens of miles away.

This fire will not leave anything for Jiannu.

The remaining timber, broken weapons, a lot of food, and all the baggage that was inconvenient to take away were all burned by the fire.

Not a grain of rice will be left for the enemy!

Either don't do it, or do it to the end.

This is the awareness that must be present in order to fight a war.