The sudden ambush soldiers caught the Ming army off guard.

After the rain of arrows, the Eight Banners who were ambushed on the hillside also condescended to take advantage of the situation.

The Ming army also fought with Jianyu under the leadership of He Shixian, and for a while, the metal sound of weapons hitting and the neighing of war horses resounded throughout the valley.

Most of the 2,000 Ming troops are wearing armor, especially half of them are He Shixian's elite soldiers, and their combat power is still very strong.

Many of the Ming soldiers who were hit by the arrows were only wounded, and they still insisted on fighting with the Tartars with their wounds.

However, after all, the Ming army responded to the battle in a hurry, and the number of people was also at an absolute disadvantage, so it soon fell into disadvantage, and almost half of the casualties were lost in a short time.

The battlefield was littered with fallen horses and the corpses of soldiers on both sides.

He Shixian, who had already been hit by several arrows, was almost awake at this time.

He knew that he was now surrounded by Tartars, and this time he was afraid that it would be difficult to get out.

At this time, the adjutant general said: "General He, we have been ambushed by the Tartars, and the last general will drag the Tartars, so you quickly lead the remaining elite soldiers to break through." ”

A few months ago, He Shixian and Li Xianzhong's Liaodong Iron Cavalry cooperated with each other to annihilate thousands of red flags outside the Yahu Pass.

Since then, he has always taken the Liaodong Iron Cavalry as his goal, and constantly armed his family.

Outside Fushun Pass, his main force Ding has also fought against Yue Tuo's red flag many times, and he has not fallen behind.

thought that he could shine on the battlefield like Li Xianzhong, but now it seems that it is just a dream.

It is obvious that the previous Eight Banners soldiers were not their main force, and they fell into the trick of luring the enemy.

He said: "Vice Admiral Zhang, you want to find a way to stand out, and tell the follow-up troops to retreat to the Yahu Pass quickly, and don't rush in!" ”

Then he looked in the direction of Liaoyang and said: "I, He Shixian, have a heavy trust, what face do I have to go back to see Yuan Jingluo, today I can only repay the country with death and atone for myself!"

After saying that, He Shixian led the elite family around him to kill the Tartars.

The cavalry under He Shixian is also the elite of the Ming army, especially the combat power of his subordinates is also quite strong.

Although they were under siege, they still fought hard under the leadership of He Shixian without the slightest fear.

actually rushed back and forth in the encirclement of the Eight Banners, and also killed a lot of Tartars.

He Shixian himself continued to wield the big knife in his hand in the formation, and killed several Niu Lu Ezhen who were red flags in a row.

Even Dai Shan had to sigh: "Although this person is brave and unscrupulous, he is also a rare fierce general!" ”

He Shixian's brave performance had already attracted the attention of the Tartar archers, and more and more armor-piercing heavy arrows were inserted into his body.

Even if he was wearing iron armor, he couldn't bear it, and in the end, He Shixian died of exhaustion from more than 40 arrows.

After He Shixian's death, the morale of the Ming army also began to fall.

In the face of the Tartars' persuasion, they responded directly by killing the enemy.

Deputy General Zhang led people to rush and kill several times in an attempt to break through and report the news, but unfortunately at this time, in addition to the two red flags, the blue flag of Mang Gurtai and the white flag of Tonghuang Taiji have also joined the battle.

In the end, all the 2,000 Ming troops were killed, and none of them surrendered!

The tenacious fighting of the Ming army also caused a lot of casualties to the Tartars, plus the losses of the previous attack on Xindianbao, the Han army killed more than 1,500 people, and the Eight Banners also paid the price of 500 people.

However, after cutting off the most elite "arrows" of the Ming army, the rest of the battle was much easier.

Soon those Han soldiers conquered the new fort and lit wolf smoke on the corner tower of the new fort.

The follow-up Ming infantry also stepped up their march after seeing the wolf smoke.

Dai Shan and the others had already seen the dense Ming infantry not far away.

Huang Taiji said: "According to the intelligence, the follow-up Ming army has more than 20,000 foot soldiers. The mountain road here is not spacious, and the Ming army is seven or eight miles away from each other, so we cannot set up an ambush. ”

Dai Shan understands the meaning of Huang Taiji, and the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road!

Most of He Shixian's 2,000 people were his elite soldiers, and the armor rate was relatively high, so the battle was quite fierce.

According to intelligence, most of the infantry soldiers of the Ming army were Tusi soldiers from the southwest region, and they were equipped with very few cloth armor, and iron armor was even rarer.

The Eight Banners only need to give full play to the advantages of their cavalry!

At this time, the follow-up infantry of the Ming army was already very close to Xindianbao, but they soon stopped.

Because a group of cavalrymen wearing red, blue, and white armor were neatly appearing in front of them, they saw one person holding He Shixian's head on the tip of his spear and shouting: "He Shixian is dead, why don't you surrender quickly?" ”

Then a large number of Jianzhou cavalry galloped out, and countless horses' hooves shook and the whole earth trembled.

General He has already been decapitated?

The Ming army fell into a panic at once.

Huguang Yongshun Xuandu commanded Peng Yuanjin to quickly order his subordinate soldiers to form a formation to meet the enemy.

Most of the soldiers under the Shun Xuanwei Division are Miao soldiers, who have repeatedly responded to the call of the Ming Dynasty to participate in the counterinsurgency and have made a lot of meritorious achievements.

Peng Yuanjin understood that the road here was narrow, and there were a large number of Ming troops blocking the road behind him, if he retreated at this moment, not only would he not be able to run, but he would also be covered by the cavalry of Jianzhou all the way, which eventually led to the complete rout of the Ming army.

Soon his trumpeter blew the horn in his hand!

Hearing the horn, the Yongshun Miao soldiers hurriedly formed a formation, with the shield bearer in front and the pikemen behind.

At this time, the rain of arrows from Jianyu was shot into the Ming army's formation.

There were not many armored soldiers in the Yongshun army, so the Tartars' bows and arrows still shot over many people, causing a small chaos.

The infantry of the Ming army had not yet completed the formation, and the heavy cavalry of Jianzhou had already arrived at this time.

The loose formation of these Miao soldiers could not block the impact of the Jianzhou heavy cavalry at all.

The heavy cavalry, composed of white swing tooth lamen, easily rushed into the formation.

These Miao soldiers were also known for their ferocity, and soon their spearmen stabbed at these Eight Banners soldiers desperately.

After all, the Yongshun Army is also a battle-hardened force, and the Miao soldiers are also experienced, knowing that they can't pierce the heavy armor of the Eight Banners at all, so they directly stabbed their war horses.

For a while, the neighing of war horses resounded throughout the mountain road, and many Eight Banner cavalry even fell off their war horses.

However, the equipment gap between the two sides is too huge, and these Miao soldiers wearing cloth clothes and leather armor are not opponents of the eight banner soldiers wearing triple armor at all.

And the Miao soldiers' bows and crossbows could not shoot through the heavy armor of the Eight Banners.

Although the Yongshun Army resisted desperately, it only slightly delayed the impact of the Eight Banners.

At this time, Mang Gurtai, who was fighting in front of the battle, found Peng Yuanjin, who was commanding the Miao soldiers to fight, and he was still very conspicuous among the Miao soldiers wearing a fish scale armor.

Mang Gurtai picked up his three-stone bow, calmly chose an armor-piercing arrow, pulled the bowstring, and locked his eyes on Peng Yuanjin's body.

Then he steadied his breath and released the bowstring.

An armor-piercing arrow shot out of the bowstring, piercing the sky, and an arrow pierced Peng Yuanjin's chest, and he immediately fell from his horse.

Originally, the Miao soldiers were at a disadvantage, and the death of their main general accelerated their collapse.

The leaderless Miao soldiers began to make a mess and fight in a disorderly manner.

Finally they got timid, and some began to flee, and it turned into a complete rout.

Mang Gurtai smiled smugly at this time.

Once the infantry begins to flee in the face of cavalry, exposing their backs to their opponents, it is completely finished.

Next came the cavalrymen's favorite chase.

They can whistle, wield their weapons, and kill the enemy in their preferred way without fear of casualties.

The battle soon turned into a massacre, with the Eight Banners cavalry chasing the Ming army all the way to cover the killing, while the Han army armor searched for fish to slip through the net.

The Ming army behind was also coerced by the defeated troops, disrupting the formation, and it was almost impossible to resist effectively.

That is, the birds of the Ming army of Fushun Guan used the terrain to give the Eight Banners cavalry a certain amount of effective killing, but soon they were also killed by the cavalry who rushed up.

The Ming army can be said to be a thousand miles away, the entire mountain road is full of corpses of the Ming army, and the Eight Banners of Jianzhou directly chased them to the bottom of the Yahu Pass before giving up.

Fortunately, it was almost dusk at this time, and many Ming troops were able to escape the pursuit of the Eight Banners.

When He Shixian left the pass, the Ming army had a total of 22,000 people, but the Ming army that fled back to the Yahu Pass one after another was only more than 6,000 people.

He Shixian, the general of Fushun Pass, and Zhang Kuifa, the deputy general, were killed in battle; Huguang Yongshun Xuanfu Division commanded Peng Yuanjin, Baojing Xuanfu Division Xuanfu Peng Xiangqian, Youyang Xuanfu Division Xuanfu Ran Yuelong and other commanders were all killed in battle.

When He Shixian died in battle and the news of the death of most of the Ming army reached Liaoyang, Yuan Yingtai, the Liaodong Jingluo, was like ashes.

He was at a loss, and he was even better than Yang Hao after learning of Salhu's defeat.

Yang Hao also knew that he would block the news as soon as possible, isolate the defeated troops in the barracks, and then hurriedly notify the surviving armies of the southeast and southeast to retreat.

Today's Yuan Yingtai is doing nothing, locking himself in the house alone in a daze.

In desperation, Yan Mingtai had to give orders instead of Yuan Yingtai, who let himself have the name of "good guard".

Although the situation in Kuandian was not good before, Yan Mingtai could not have imagined that in just two or three days, the six forts of Kuandian had already been captured by Jianqing, and five of them had been captured, and 6,000 defenders had been killed.

If we add the 16,000 people killed in He Shixian's attack, the Ming army has already lost 22,000 people at this time.

This is simply a remake of Juniper and Marin's defeat at Sarhu.

Yan Mingtai, who realized the seriousness of the problem, sent the battle report back to Jingshi and privately asked Li Xianzhong for help.

Although there are still 5,000 Xuanfu border troops guarding the Yahu Pass, but now the morale of the Ming army on the southern front is low, if the Tartars take advantage of the situation to enter the Qinghe River or even approach Liaoyang, then the consequences will be unimaginable.

In Yan Mingtai's opinion, even if Li Xianzhong did not send Liaodong Iron Cavalry, he should have sent some firecrackers to help guard the Yahu Pass.

After this defeat, Yuan Yingtai's Liaodong strategy will definitely not be able to be saved, but Liaodong can't be chaotic.

If Jianyu were allowed to enter the eastern border wall of Liaodong again, even the copper transportation route they had worked so hard to build would be affected.

Moreover, the two elite troops of the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers in Kuandian Fort could not be eaten by Jianyu like this.

Li Xianzhong was also very concerned about the battle that took place in Kuandian at this time.

The agents of the Intelligence Department sent back the latest information as soon as possible.

After seeing the war report, he also had to sigh at the ability of history to repair itself, and he found that although his appearance greatly affected the course of events.

However, many events were inevitable after the change, such as Yuan Yingtai replacing Xiong Tingbi as the Liaodong Economic Strategy.

And the "Tongzhou Fire Merger" between the white pole soldiers and the Qi family army that was supposed to happen two years later, as well as He Shixian's drunken trick of luring the enemy by Jianyu, which led to his defeat and death, was actually staged in advance in Kuandian Fort in advance.

Even He Shixian's death method has not changed, he was hit by dozens of arrows in his body and died of exhaustion!

At this time, he was becoming more and more worried about Wanli's body, originally Wanli still had nearly a year to live, but now will it happen in advance like these two things?

Although the Battle of Kuandian had long been expected by himself, the course of the battle was still greatly unexpected by himself.

To be honest, he didn't expect the Ming army to be defeated so quickly and so badly.

However, at this time, he did not plan to directly send troops to Kuandian, to be honest, even if he sent all the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and assault battalions to Kuandian, he was also not sure to relieve the siege of Kuandian.

At this time, it is still necessary to put some pressure on Nurhachi.

So he chose to send these two cavalry to Fushun Pass first, on the one hand, he could contain the construction of the Nether Domain; In addition, the distance to reinforce the Raven Pass or Liaoyang will be closer.

Even if Jianyu really broke into the border wall of Liaodong, he would have enough time to reinforce Shenyang or Liaoyang.

As for when to strike, he still has to wait for the right time.

On the one hand, it is waiting for the fall of Yuan Yingtai, and on the other hand, it is also waiting for new changes in the war situation.

Nurhachi was still very happy after learning that Dai Shan and others had a big victory, although these Han troops were not good at fighting, but they were not without trouble.

This time it played a big role in the capture of the five forts of Kuandian and the luring of He Shixian.

Huang Taiji said: "This time the Han army's coats are actually arranged into the flags, which is actually Mr. Fan Wenyu's proposal, I just told the Great Khan about his suggestion!" ”

Nurhachi said: "It seems that this Fan Wenyu is indeed good at strategy, so give him a guerrilla position, let him stay in front of the tent and give advice." ”

Although the losses of the Ming army's Eight Banners that defeated He Shixian this time were not large, they only killed less than 1,000 Eight Banners soldiers and more than 2,000 Han soldiers.

However, at present, they are still unable to break through the border wall of Liaodong.

Because the more than 6,000 Ming troops in Kuandian Fort have still not been wiped out, the two yellow flags and the same ten thousand eight banners have been pinned down here.

Just as he was about to discuss how to destroy this Ming army, there was bad news, and Tong Jia Huerhan, one of the five founding ministers of Manchuria, suddenly died violently.

Huerhan was Nurhachi's adopted son, the youngest of the five ministers, and he must fight bravely in every battle.

Nurhachi asked angrily, "Huerhan's body has always been very good, how could he suddenly die violently?" ”

The flag man who reported the news said: "Hu Erhan only accidentally hit the Ming army's crossbow arrow in the arm when he killed the Ming army today, and this crossbow arrow should be poisoned, so he died of poison." ”

Most of these Ming troops were Tusi soldiers in the southwest, although their crossbow arrows were not sharp, not as sharp as the armor-piercing heavy arrows in Jianzhou, but most of them were quenched.

In fact, it was not only Hu Erhan, at this time, there were already hundreds of people in the Jianzhou camp who were injured by Miao soldiers' crossbow arrows and died of poison to the Eight Banners.

This made the morale of the Eight Banners, whose morale was still soaring just now, suddenly fall again.

However, this did not affect their determination to lure the enemy.

Soon the Ming army on the wall of Kuandian Fort was noisy, and Qi Jin stepped forward to take a look and found a large number of Ming army flags and corpses.

When the Ming army saw that He Shixian's head was wantonly teased by these Tartars at the tip of the gun, they were all very indignant, and they all said that they would go out of the city to teach these Tartars a lesson.

As a battle-hardened veteran, he knew that the Ming army must have been ambushed by Jianyu.

He Shixian is Yuan Yingtai's favorite general, and the banner displayed by the Tartars also includes the men and horses of the Southwest Xuanwei Division, and it seems that the losses of the Ming army are very large.

Ma Xianglin's white pole soldiers are also Tusi troops, and they are also extremely angry at the death of these Ming troops of the Xuanwei Division.

It is likely that the imperial court will no longer be able to send reinforcements in a short period of time, and the food in Kuandian Fort is also decreasing day by day, and there will be no food in the fort within a month.

At this time, the two had to let go of their previous suspicions, and if they didn't cooperate at this time, then I was afraid that they would really have to let the Tartars get their hands on it.

Qi Jin said: "Brother Ma, tonight I have decided to lead the Qi family army to break through the siege, and the heavy responsibility of holding Kuandian Fort will be handed over to the white pole soldiers." ”

As soon as possible, the two didn't deal with each other before, but it can be regarded as not knowing each other.

Ma Xianglin said: "General Qi can't, this is obviously the Tartars' plan to lure the enemy, wanting to lure us to break through, so as to take the opportunity to destroy us in the field." ”

Qi Jin smiled and said: "Of course I know that this is a plan of the Tartars, originally I planned to break through tomorrow night, but seeing that there is heavy rain tonight, I can only choose tonight." ”

Ma Xianglin was even more incomprehensible, and said: "I see that the Qi family army is also equipped with a lot of bird guns, and the firearms are easy to mute on heavy rainy days, and it is more difficult to move, why did General Qi choose to break through at this time?" ”

Qi Jin said: "The Mandarin Duck Formation of my Qi Family's army is the most suitable for breaking through the melee, so it is definitely more suitable for me to break through than Brother Ma." The bird gun is not suitable for use in this kind of breakthrough battle, so I will leave all the 800 well-made bird guns to Brother Ma, and I think you will be able to use them when defending the city in the future. ”

"There is really not much food in Kuandian, after we leave, this food is enough for you to eat for 2 months, enough to wait for other reinforcements from the imperial court to come to relieve the siege."

Ma Xianglin said excitedly: "To break through, it is natural that our two armies will break through together, even if they are dispersed at the same time, it is stronger than your Qi family army breaking through alone?" ”

The Ming army was stimulated during the day, and Dai Shan and others originally prevented the Ming army from breaking through at night tonight, but it suddenly rained heavily in the evening, making the vicinity of Kuandian Fort muddy.

It is impossible for the Ming army to break through this kind of ghost weather, so fortunately, they returned to the camp to rest.

Unexpectedly, just after the hour, a large number of Ming troops were found outside the south gate of Kuandian Fort, with as many as 1,000 people.

Due to the heavy rain, the remaining Han army did not have many troops, and it did not take long for them to be killed and dispersed by the Ming army.

Dai Shan thought that the main force of the Ming army had broken through, and hurriedly asked the yellow flag in charge of defense to go to support.

However, according to the soldiers' reports, the Ming troops who attacked were all armed with white-pole guns and were not Qi family soldiers, which made Dai Shan feel a lot more relieved.

The white pole gun held by the white pole soldier is made of a sturdy white ash tree as a long pole, with a bladed hook on the top and a hard iron ring on the bottom, which can be cut and pulled during battle, and the ring can be used as a hammer weapon.

Moreover, these Tusi soldiers are very good at forming formations and cooperating, and their white-pole guns are not afraid even in the face of the cavalry of Jianzhou.

The Han army guarding outside the south gate was defeated and fled by the white pole soldiers as soon as they fought, breaking through the trench.

Due to the rain, the impact of the cavalry was also affected to a certain extent.

When the cavalry with yellow flags appeared in front of the white-pole soldiers, they were not afraid, and the white-pole guns in their hands instantly turned into hook and sickle guns. They cooperated tacitly, some people specifically hooked horses' hooves, and some people specifically assassinated knights who fell to the ground.

The five oxen were inlaid with yellow flags, and it didn't take long for them to kill the enemy and flee in all directions, leaving hundreds of corpses behind.

Qi Jin in the city who saw this scene was also amazed, it seems that this white pole soldier is also a strong force, and he completely has the upper hand in foot against horse.

This stunned Dai Shan, a cavalry with a considerable number of people was killed by the infantry in the field and fled, is this shameless?

It seems that he underestimated these Ming soldiers holding white poles.

So he hurriedly dispatched his two red flags to support the yellow flag.

The elite white swing tooth horn braved the heavy rain to attack these white pole soldiers, but they still couldn't bargain.

These white pole soldiers are extremely fast and cooperate tacitly. In addition, due to the restrictions of rainy weather, the cavalry of the Eight Banners could not take advantage of either cavalry or foot combat.

This made Dai Shan stunned, there are still such strong soldiers in the Ming army?

Even the most elite Kaiyuan army under Li Xianzhong did not dare to face off with the Eight Banners so head-on when the strength in the field was equal.

In order to avoid greater casualties, Dai Shan hurriedly let the Eight Banners release arrows, and a rain of arrows fell, which still caused some casualties to the white pole soldiers.

Ma Xianglin also took advantage of the situation to retreat, after all, the purpose of this attack was to attract the attention of the Tartars and create conditions for the Qi family's army to break through.

Obviously, he did this very successfully.

Dai Shan saw that there were not many shield bearers in the White Pole Army, so he simply transferred all the Eight Banners soldiers around him to raid them with bows and arrows.

The white pole soldiers fought and retreated, and they were not far from the city gate.

Dai Shan understood that if they continued like this, they would run back to Kuandianbao.

But at this time, he hesitated to attack in an all-out way.

Just now, the yellow flag and two red flags were inscribed with six or seven hundred people, is it okay to fight like this?

So he still decided to let the Han army wrap it up, and the Eight Banners soldiers would launch arrows in the back to sneak attack.

Despite their reluctance, the two thousand Han soldiers still shouted this slogan and killed the white pole soldiers!

Just when the contemporary good was secretly complacent, the sentry suddenly came to report: "Big Belle, it's not good, the Qi family's army broke through from the West Gate, and the minions couldn't resist it, so they killed and ran out." ”

Only then did Dai Shan realize that he had been fooled, and the Ming army was attacking the west.

So he hurriedly sent troops to chase after him, but fortunately, the Qi family army was infantry, and even if they ran fast, it was impossible for them to outrun their Eight Banners strong force.

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