Chapter 171

Kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself.

This is basically the standard pattern of frontal warfare, in fact, from the beginning to the collapse, the casualties of Jiannu are not considered to be wounded, but the casualties of the Ning Navy are as high as more than 3,000 people.

The Dongjiang Army was the worst, with more than 18,000 men and horses, and now there are only 4,000 people left, with more than 14,000 casualties, and nearly half of the Guanning Army is gone, and the losses of the Ning Navy are the lightest, with nearly 4,000 casualties. More than 54,000 Ming troops participated in the battle, and now the casualties are close to 20,000.

Among them, more than 9,400 people were killed in battle, and there are still many seriously wounded who will not survive in the future, and the number of casualties will increase, and the number of wounded soldiers will exceed 10,000.

The tragedy of this battle far exceeded that of last year's Battle of the Daling River, and the scale was even more doubled.

Of course, the preliminary statistics of the beheadings of the Ming army totaled more than 7,600 levels, but there were many heads of the Mongol and Han armies mixed in it, and there were only more than 6,300 real Jiannu people.

More than 5,000 people were captured, including more than 3,300 Han troops, more than 1,200 Mongols, and the Jurchens were not many, only more than 500.

What makes Cheng Shijie feel the most pity is that in this battle, too many war horses were killed, but there were not many captured war horses, only less than 5,000, and most of them were injured horses.

Cheng Shijie instructed Song Xiance: "We must properly deal with the wounded soldiers, the principle of the commander is to treat as much as possible, don't be afraid of spending money, any wounded soldier, as long as he recovers from his injuries and returns to the team, will become a veteran, a veteran, stronger than the combat effectiveness of three recruits, such a tragic battle, there will not be much in the future!" ”

This time, there were still a lot of problems in the Ning Navy, first of all, there were too few flowering shells and insufficient preparation, and secondly, the Thunderbolt was too bulky, and it was still a little inconvenient to move, and the power and rate of fire of the individual firearms were too low, and when Jiannu was desperate, it did not form an effective firepower cover.

In the future, this situation will definitely not happen again, so there is not much chance of a white-knuckle battle in the Ning Navy again.

"Yes, my subordinates understand!"

Song Xiance hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord, what should I do with those prisoners?" ”

"This ......"

Cheng Shijie groaned, and from the bottom of his heart, he wanted to cut down all these Han soldiers and Jiannu captives, but the problem is that since then, it has been cool, but the next time they fight with Jiannu, Jiannu knows that Cheng Shijie will kill the prisoners, and they will definitely resist to the end, or run away directly.

But he was very unhappy with the release of the captives so directly.

Of course, Cheng Shijie doesn't need to consider the captives of Jiannu and the Mongols, the Ming Dynasty will not treat the captives as treasures and become prisoners of the Ming army, and the captives will be sent to the capital of the Ming Empire.

Cheng Shijie thought about it and said: "Jiannu and the Mongol captives, together with the heads we captured, will be sent to the capital and captured by the Han army...... Where there is suffering, send them there. ”

"Isn't it too cheap for them?"

"That can't be an easy kill!"

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Generally, there are three reasons for killing prisoners, either they are behind enemy lines and surrounded by enemies, so they can only be killed, followed by logistics supplies, if there is not enough supply to feed the prisoners, the prisoners can only be killed, and the last point is to deter the enemy!" ”

Ning Haijun does not belong to the three types of killing prisoners now, and there is no need to use the method of killing prisoners to deter Jiannu.

"The soldiers feel uncomfortable!"

"Doesn't the Liaodong Management Committee have a court?"

Cheng Shijie said: "Let the court try them, and sentence them to how many years of labor reform according to what they have done." ”

"Yes!"

Song Xiance then said: "Both the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army have suffered heavy losses, so how much do you pay for them? ”

"Ben Shuai promised them that according to the principle of our Ning Navy, the pension fields for the dead officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army will be placed in Haizhou, and the silver will be directly delivered to their families!"

Cheng Shijie said: "You go and talk to Zu Dabi and tell him that Ben Shuai's money must be spent in earnest, and their people, it's best not to stretch out your hand!" ”

In the camp of the Ning Navy, Sun Zhili looked at Sun Chengzong with an embarrassed expression.

At this time, Sun Chengzong's face was flushed, and he drank wine one after another.

"Grandfather, you've drunk too much!"

"The old man is not drunk!"

Sun Chengzong looked around, the Ming soldiers lit bonfires, although the weather was cold, but the cold wind did not stop their enthusiasm.

At this time, the soldiers of the Ning Navy also disdained to eat horse meat, and when it came to the taste, mutton was more delicious, and Jiannu retreated too hastily, and there were still tens of thousands of cattle and sheep left.

Sun Zhilan couldn't persuade Sun Chengzong, and he was worried that Sun Chengzong would lose his identity, after all, Sun Chengzong's age was there, and he was no longer young.

Sun Chengzong picked up the wine glass and walked over to a group of Jiannu captives.

The captives were tired and hungry, and very worried.

Sun Chengzong looked at the captives and said, "Which of you can dance?" ”

When, when were these Jiannu looking at the Ming army? Even if Sun Chengzong's status is like this, in the eyes of ordinary Jiannu, he is not just an old horseman.

"Minions!"

A slave in his twenties got up timidly.

Sun Chengzong pointed to the mutton roasted on the bonfire not far away: "Dance well, the old man will be rewarded!" ”

"The minion Acton dances for his master!"

Actun means strong, probably the name of the Han people such as Niu Strong, Liu Laoshi, etc. But Acton does know how to dance, and his limbs are very flexible.

Sun Chengzong watched Acton dancing, very satisfied, waved his hand and said, "Yongyan, reward him with a piece of meat!" ”

Sun Zhilan felt that Sun Chengzong was uncultivated, he walked to the bonfire and took down a piece of mutton, but he didn't expect the mutton to be so hot and threw it directly on the ground.

The ground was a mixture of snow and mud, and it was definitely not clean anyway.

Acton didn't dislike it, a vicious dog pounced, pounced on the mutton, grabbed the mutton, and thanked Sun Chengzong: "Slave thank the master for the reward!" ”

……

The army of Jiannu who are fleeing for their lives, they have abandoned all their pride, all their self-confidence, and only cared about fleeing in the wilderness, forgetting that they were going to break off, forgetting that the Ming army chasing behind them was only a few thousand, forgetting that they still had bows, arrows and sabers in their hands to resist, and only cared about fleeing, fleeing, fleeing, and escaping as far as possible.

Infantry catches up with not cavalry, that's for sure. In fact, there were more than 1,000 cavalry hunters, more than 4,000 cavalry of the Ning Navy, more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ning Navy, plus more than 1,000 cavalry of the Ning Navy, plus 3,000 cavalry of the Guanning Army, which was all the cavalry troops of the Ming Army, totaling more than 9,000 cavalry.

This is the most cavalry that Cheng Shijie can take.

Now the Jiannu banners, the heaviest loss is the Zhenglan Banner, almost one banner is wiped out, and the six or seven hundred people who survived can't even make up three Niu Lu. This was followed by the blue banner of Zilharang, which was lost by more than two-thirds and survived with less than 3,000 men. Then there is the inlaid red flag, the loss of more than half, twenty-six cattle records, only twelve left, the red flag and the yellow flag are almost the same, the loss of more than ten cattle records, the white flag, the inlaid white flag loss is small, a total loss of twelve cattle records.

Before the army, Huang Taiji had 311 Niu Lu, of which 71 Niu Lu did not participate in the war, and among the 240 Niu Lu who participated, 92 Niu Lu were wiped out, which means that more than 27,000 slaves died on the battlefield.

Dolgon had no choice but to send several troops to break off the rear and try to block the pursuit of the Ming army, but in an instant, these troops were crushed by the Ming cavalry, and the Ming cavalry had thousands of flesh and blood blurred heads on their necks.

Such a desperate situation made Dolgon and Duoduo also desperate, and they didn't dare to think about counterattacking anymore, so they could only repeatedly urge the troops to withdraw quickly, and retreat to Liaozhongwei to take a breath before making plans.

In Dolgon's view, although Dajin suffered heavy losses in this battle, the main force is still there, as long as they can stabilize their position and find the flaws of the Ming army, they have a chance to turn the tables.

However, Dolgon did not know that the opportunities left by heaven for them and for Dajin were running out.

The Dajin army was still fleeing in a panic in the direction of Liao Zhongwei, the banners and grain were thrown to the ground, the wounded soldiers were abandoned on the side of the road and screamed in despair, and the war horses that could not run were also abandoned, and the wounded soldiers stayed together and watched the master disappear from sight with blank eyes, and let out a mournful neigh.

This scene of defeat made everyone who survived this bloody battle suffer the shame of life worse than death for the rest of their lives, and they could not hold their heads up.

Since Nurhachi raised his army, the iron hooves of the Houjin Eight Banners have trampled all over the white mountains and black waters, annihilating the Ming army countless times at a trivial cost of thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, and a small tribe with a population of no more than one million pressed the two behemoths of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia to fight, invincible and invincible, creating the myth of "the Jurchens are not satisfied with 10,000, and they are full of 10,000 cannot fight", how have they ever tried such a fiasco!

This shock of all self-confidence being shattered at one time, this horror of the shattering of myths, is itself more serious than the loss of twenty or thirty thousand elite soldiers, leaving their minds blank and at a loss!

Every time they cut down an enemy, the Ming cavalry jumped off their horses excitedly, cut off their heads, hung them on the horse's neck, and then continued to chase and fight as if they had taken a stimulant.

This is also what Jiannu likes to do, they often cut off the heads of Ming soldiers who died in battle and hang them on the necks of horses to show off, and now it is their turn.

Duoduo looked at the Ming cavalry behind him with a gloomy face and said, "Damn, it's endless, and the ghost has always been ghostly!" ”

In fact, Dodor was frightened.

Seeing so many Jiannu's heads hanging on the necks of the enemy's horses and swaying bloodily brought the same horror and fear to Duoduo. Duoduo cursed secretly in his heart: "These Ming troops are really barbaric! ”

As Jiannu scattered and fled, the cavalry pursued by the Ming army became more and more scattered, more than 9,000 people were divided into seven or eight units, the number of cavalry in each unit was not too much, and even the least one of the pursuing cavalry was just the Ning Navy reconnaissance cavalry led by the Red Lady, and they only had more than two hundred horses.

With only two hundred horsemen, the Jiannu army could defeat them with only one Jiala, but not a single Niu Lu turned to face their enemy, only thinking about fleeing, fleeing as far as possible, and letting the cavalry of the Red Lady bite behind them like leeches, capture the abandoned wounded soldiers, and collect abandoned war horses.

The cavalry of the Ming army were shocked to see that the Jiannu army fled all the way without looking back like a group of wildebeest driven by the lions, and the resistance of the Jiannu troops who were caught up by them was also pitifully weak, as if they had lost their souls, making people unable to believe that this was the tiger and wolf army that had fought fiercely with them for two hours and almost broke the Ming army's phalanx several times!

At this time, the Ning Navy scout cavalry was also very tired, they had been fighting for the past two days, they had been tearing apart, and now they had no strength.

"Tangtou, the big man is right, Jiannu was really scared!"

The red lady smiled faintly: "Let's not chase in a hurry, camp on the spot, rest and rest, sharpen the knife and don't cut firewood!" ”

As the cavalry of the Ming army began to set up camp, rest on the spot, and recuperate, now Jiannu can finally take a breath. But this is only temporary, tomorrow morning these Ming cavalry will continue to pounce like wolves and brutally bite this rout, keep bleeding them, and make them completely collapse.

Inside the camp of the Ming army.

Sun Chengzong didn't mean to get drunk at all, he looked at Cheng Shijie who was eating hot pot and said, "Beiping, what are your plans now?" ”

"Intended?"

Cheng Shijie didn't understand what Sun Chengzong meant.

"Do you want to collect your troops and return to the capital to report your victory, or do you want to continue the pursuit?"

"Of course, it is to take advantage of the victory to pursue them, and take advantage of Jiannu's illness to kill them!"

Cheng Shijie took out the map and drew a circle around Haizhou with his fingers, and said: "Haizhou is preserved, but the five guards in Liaozhong are still in the hands of Jiannu, although for the time being I do not have the strength to recapture the five cities in Liaozhong, but it is still possible to collect some interest, along this road to the northeast, all the way are Changning, Dongsheng, Chang'an, Qinghe, Wuding, Wuyong, a total of six forts are still in their hands, I want to take advantage of this big victory to take these cities back." ”

Only by advancing the front to the territory of Anshan and Liaoyang in the future, so that Cheng Shijie can be regarded as a complete grasp of Dalian Bay, which is a treasure land, with a warm climate, a seaport that never freezes, and ships can be navigated all year round, whether it is the development of fisheries or the cultivation of fruits, there is a lot to be done here.

Sun Chengzong nodded slowly: "Not bad!" ”

Sun Zhili said: "Marshal, the soldiers are fast!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Yongyan, what are you anxious about?" ”

"I'm worried that they're riding too fast and we won't be able to catch up!"

"Haha!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Jiannu is too obsessed with their own force, once they crush the self-confidence they have accumulated with countless victories, they will collapse for thousands of miles, the army's morale will be shaken, and even if they meet an opponent in the future, there will only be one word left to escape!" ”

Only then did Sun Zhili understand the reason why Cheng Shijie didn't take any strategy and fight head-on with Jiannu's main force, he just wanted to crush Jiannu's pride and self-confidence in this anvil against hammer-style main force battle, so that Jiannu realized that they were not as strong as they imagined, they were playing with a giant, and they could be smashed into pulp by giants at any time!

Cheng Shijie said: "The next battle will be very easy, we will walk sixty or seventy miles a day, just walk slowly, and Jiannu will almost run out." ”

"Running out!? Why are they running? ”

Sun Zhili shook his head again and again: "Impossible, although Jiannu was defeated, the main force is still there, and they are far from the point where they are terrified of our army and flee in despair!" ”

Cheng Shijie sneered: "Don't run? It's okay if you don't run, just stay here and fertile! ”

Early tomorrow morning, Cheng Shijie will lead the infantry of the Ning Navy to catch up and fight fiercely, don't talk nonsense about the poor and don't chase after the master, don't stop the division, and don't tell them that they are tired, they finally fought an unprecedented victory, and they really didn't care about anything, just thinking about jumping up and gnawing Jiannu's flesh and drinking Jiannu's blood.

……

The sky was getting dark, and although the exhausted Jiannu found that there were no pursuers behind him, he did not dare to stay, gritted his teeth and continued to hurry. The exhausted soldiers of Jiannu lamented and talked endlessly, and some people even openly accused the generals of arrogance, which was unimaginable in the past, and in the eyes of these soldiers, no matter how the master squandered, it was taken for granted, because they were the slaves of the master, and the slaves were not qualified to accuse the master.

Now, it was just a fiasco, and all the problems surfaced, which was just a precursor, and the aftermath of this fiasco would continue to ferment, making Jiannu miserable.

Huang Taiji had actually woken up a long time ago, but he had been pretending to be unconscious, and Huang Taiji quietly looked around with the rest of his eyes

An army of depressed people.

In addition to being depressed, Huang Taiji was still depressed.

He sighed in his heart: "I lost too badly...... I followed my father Khan to fight in the south and the north, and I have fought a battle for half my life, and I have never tried to lose so badly! ”

Haoge's face was pale, his eyes were full of fire, he caught up with Yue Tuo, and said fiercely: "What about the Great Khan? I ask to see the Great Khan! ”

Haoge's tone was a little unkind, although the Jiannu at that time was unfavorable, but Huang Taiji's retreat was the last straw that overwhelmed the heart of the Jiannu army, so Haoge wanted to ask Huang Taiji what he thought.

Yue Tuo smiled bitterly: "King Khan is so worried, vomiting blood and coma, he hasn't woken up yet." ”

Hearing that Huang Taiji vomited blood and fell into a coma, Haoge had no choice but to say anything.

He could only sulk.

Yue Tuo said: "I heard that the fourth uncle and the tenth uncle are broken, you are in front, you can see clearly, what's going on?" ”

Hauge said indignantly: "Ming Gou has no other skills, so he will bully people with firearms!" "What kind of ability is it to fight with firearms, you have the ability to fight with me with real swords and guns, you despicable and shameless cowards!"

Yue Tuo was very speechless to Haoge, although the firearms of the Ming army were powerful, they were far from strong enough to defeat them by relying solely on firearms.

What really broke them was the bloody white-edged battle, as well as the surprise attack of the Ming army's pikemen and infantry, the Ning navy was too well-equipped, and the other Ming troops had already been killed and injured when they encountered Jiannu's cavalry attack.

But the problem is that the armor rate of the Ning Navy is too high, especially more than seventy percent of the soldiers are wearing armor made of stainless steel, unless the unlucky egg is shot in the face or throat, the Ning Navy officers can ignore the rain of arrows from Jiannu. I fought for a long time, I couldn't move the other party, but the other party counterattacked, and my side was killed and wounded, how to fight this battle?

The Ming army relied on the fight of real swords and guns to finally defeat them, that is to say, Jiannu was defeated this time and had nothing to say. Of course, these words can't be said, even if they know that this is the case, they have to rot in their stomachs, and vigorously preach that the Ming army defeated them with firearms, not by real skills......

Although it is self-deceptive, if you don't do this, the morale of the army will collapse! There is no way, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, don't say a few words of self-deception, even if he is allowed to learn to bark as a dog, as long as he can bring this army back to Liaoyang and withdraw to Shenyang safely, what can he not do.

Located at the end of the camp of Jiannu, Duoduo looked at Dolgon and kept silent, his expression was a little melancholy, and he couldn't help asking, "Brother Fourteen, what are you thinking?" ”

Dorgon smiled wryly, "I'm wondering where we go from here!" ”

Duoduo smiled disapprovingly: "Brother Fourteen, you cheer up a little, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, this time we lost, just find a way to win it back." There are not many elite soldiers like this in the Ming Kingdom, and we still have a chance! ”

"In September last year, Cheng Shijie's Ning Navy had just been established, with a total of 2,500 troops, all of whom were infantry, with only a few guns and only a few artillery!"

Dolgon smiled bitterly: "It's only been more than a year, he now has seventy or eighty thousand troops, we have a big defeat this time, let alone three or five years can not recover our strength, three or five years later, Cheng Shijie can train 200,000, 300,000, or even 400,000 such elite soldiers, do we still have a chance?" ”

Duoduo is like being in an ice cellar.

Dorgon looked at Dorgon and said, "Actually, you shouldn't hide it from me! ”

"I'm hiding it from you? What? ”

"What happened in Haizhou in February this year?"

Duoduo was slightly stunned: "At that time, I suddenly had a blizzard......"

"You're not telling the truth yet!"

Dolgon said with a serious face: "Brother Twelve has already said that he met the Ning Navy's Lianfa Gun in Jinshi Mountain last year, and the army under his command suffered heavy casualties, at that time, the Ning Navy's Lianfa Gun was only a few dozen, and now they have hundreds of ......"

"Brother Fourteen, believe me, I really didn't lie to you!"

"Forget it!"

Dolgon took a breath and said with a cold shiver, "There's no point in talking about this! ”

"Fourteenth brother, you mean that we have no chance in the Golden Kingdom?"

"There's no chance!"

Duoduo was a little frightened: "No, there will not be this day!" The Ming State is reluctant to spend this money, those pedantic civil officials of the Ming State will not tolerate the rise of such a powerful new army, threatening their interests, we still have a chance! ”

Duoduo frantically grabbed Dolgon's hand and said, "Fourteenth brother, we can buy the Guan Ning army and let them help us deal with these new troops!" We can buy those extremely sharp crossbow firearms from the Ming army through the Jin merchants, and we can ...... We can separate the relationship between the new army and the Wenchen group, and get rid of Cheng Shijie with the hands of those wastes, as long as this person is killed, the military spirit and morale of the Ming army that have been condensed with great difficulty will be completely dispersed! Brother Fourteen, we still have a chance, cheer up! ”

(End of chapter)