Chapter 182

Although the generals of the Jiannu were very unwilling, the problem was that after seeing the defeat of the remnants of their own army, and then looking at the high-spirited Ming army, they also had to admit that Dajin could no longer afford to fight a vicious battle with thousands of dead and wounded and tens of thousands of people, so they could only withdraw.

At this time, the Jiannu army changed its normal, sad and angry, but retreated in an orderly manner, they now understand that if the chaos continues, it will only give the Ming army a chance to be annihilated, if you want to survive, you can only hold together, only desperately.

As Jurchens living in Liaodong, they often encounter wolves, and when they encounter wolves, the more afraid they are of death, the faster they will die.

In the Dajin Kingdom, there are actually many people who disobey Huang Taiji, such as Mang Gurtai, Amin, and Abatai, including Dolgon, who is deferential to Huang Taiji, but secretly expects him to plant a big somersault.

However, in this battle, Abatai was captured alive, among the eight banners, the two blue flags that were most dissatisfied with Huang Taiji had almost been wiped out, although the two blue flags originally had fifty-three Niu Lu, and there were seventeen Niu Lu, but there were only six hundred men and horses, and they could not cause trouble to Huang Taiji.

Chen Dayong's department, which was in pursuit, encountered such a problem, and the Jiannu retreat was a little chaotic at first, but it slowly became orderly, and the remnants of forty or fifty thousand troops launched a counterattack against Chen Dayong's department, so that Chen Dayong's department suffered a small loss, losing two or three hundred people.

"Cheng Shuai, are you still chasing?"

Although Zu Dabi was high-spirited and triumphant, however, the war horse he stepped on spat at the foam, obviously people can grit their teeth and insist, but the war horse can't hold on.

Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "Still chasing a fart, our shells are almost done, and people are tired enough, although the number of Jiannu is small now, they are all their elites in a hundred battles, they belong to hard bones, and they are not easy to gnaw!" ”

In this battle, Cheng Shijie crippled Jiannu, and Jiannu invested more than 120,000 troops before and after, and now there are only 40,000 horses left, and the loss is more than two-thirds, that is, nearly 80,000 horses were annihilated by Cheng Shijie, of which more than 8,000 Mongolian cavalry surrendered, more than 2,000 Xibe flying cavalry surrendered, more than 3,000 Sauron hoplites surrendered, more than 20,000 Han troops surrendered, and Jiannu only surrendered more than 5,000 people.

In addition to the 20,000 prisoners, Cheng Shijie actually recreated more than 60,000 slaves, the two blue flags were disabled, the two red flags and the yellow flags were severely damaged, and even the two white flags with relatively light losses had three or four thousand casualties. Abatai was captured, two Beylers, Derge and Manggultai, were killed, fifteen of them were killed, and one hundred and four of them were killed.

It's just that Cheng Shijie only beheaded more than 16,000 ranks, and the other 40,000 or 50,000 heads were all smashed on the battlefield, don't count them, Cheng Shijie can not be counted as military merits, but Huang Taiji can't be regarded as non-existent.

Cheng Shijie not only protected Haizhou, but also recovered the lost Guangningwei, Liaozhongwei, Liaozhong Zuotunwei and the old capital of Jiannu Liaoyang, and expanded his territory to the Taizi River and the Liao River, and the front was less than 200 miles away from Shenyang.

20,000 horses surrendered to the Ming army, Dajin lost nearly 80,000 horses at the same time, but also lost the "Jurchen is less than 10,000, full of 10,000 can not fight" this precious intangible wealth, their invincible myth was completely shattered, such a serious consequence made every Jiannu soldier feel heavy, who else can laugh?

To put it bluntly, Jiannu is like a pack of wolves, if the prey is weak, they will pounce on it and tear it to pieces, and they will not die; But if the opponent is so strong that their entire population is in danger of extinction, they will immediately retreat and dare not fight again.

For more than 30 years, this is the first time that the Ming army has made Jiannu retreat in a field battle, and this "first time" is unacceptable to Jiannu.

However, no matter how unacceptable it is, it must be accepted, because this fact has already happened, and no one can change this result.

Huang Taiji turned around, and in his field of vision, the Ming army was majestic, like an unshakable mountain, watching them retreat in silence.

Cheng Shijie rode the war horse in Abatai, this is not a Liaodong horse, in all fairness, in all dynasties, the Liaodong cavalry left a deep impression, such as the Three Kingdoms period Gongsun Zhan's white horse Yicong, Yanyun eighteen horses, Youzhou iron horses, and in fact, Liaodong horses are not excellent horse breeds, endurance is far inferior to Mongolian horses, tall and powerful is not as good as Hequ horses, Tianshan horses.

Abatai's horse, is a Tianshan horse from the Tianshan Mountains, the age of the horse is six years old, is Fan Yongdou used the relationship, from the Guanxi merchants to spend two thousand taels of silver a horse, bought, after thousands of miles of transit, transported to Liaodong, sent to the hands of Huang Taiji, such a war horse, a total of sixteen, Daishan, Yue Tuo, including Mang Gurtai have, this belongs to the Huang Taiji reward to have the Tianma.

Compared with ordinary Liaodong horses, Tianshan horses are one foot taller, and Cheng Shijie, a Tianshan horse, a white horse without a single miscellaneous hair, stands proudly in front of the battle.

Huang Taiji looked at Cheng Shijie, who stood out from the crowd, and gritted his teeth: "Ben Khan will come back!" ”

This fiasco, a fiasco that has not been seen since the incident, made Daikin the whole country mourn and thousands of households cry. It is impossible for the Dajin Kingdom, which has been greatly damaged, to launch a large-scale war for at least five years.

It also made Huang Taiji realize that their sabers and bows and arrows were outdated.

The reason why Cheng Shijie did not continue to pursue Huang Taiji was not simply because he wanted to release Huang Taiji, but because Huang Taiji and Jiannu were now an injured beast, and this beast was the most dangerous time.

What's more, Cheng Shijie has time to buffer, and next time the Ning Navy can be replaced with more powerful artillery, and the breech-loading rifled gun can hit farther and be more powerful. In addition to the rear-loading rifled gun, the Gun Bureau of the Ning Navy is also working hard to develop the fire dragon, a naval combat artifact.

This is actually the original version of the rocket artillery, according to the "Wubei Zhi", the way the fire dragon out of the water is made of five feet of bamboo and bamboo, and scraped with an iron knife. A wooden dragon head and tail are installed on the front and back. The mouth of the dragon's head is upward, and the dragon's belly is equipped with several rockets, which always connect the rocket's medicine line together and lead out of a hole in the lower part of the dragon's head.

Under the dragon's body and tilted before and after each equipped with two large rocket launchers, their medicine lines are always connected together, and the dragon's belly is connected to the bottom of the two rockets in front, and the "water battle" can be three or four feet away from the water to ignite the fire, that is, fly two or three miles away from the water, like a fire dragon out of the river. The cartridge was about to run out, the rockets flew out of the abdomen, and the people and ships were burned.

Cheng Shijie liked the rocket artillery of later generations very much, especially the scene of spraying like a meteor rocket, when he learned that the Gun Bureau was improving and developing this weapon, Cheng Shijie allocated a special fund of 400,000 taels of silver to the Gun Bureau, responsible for the development of rocket artillery, which is the internal name: "Fire Dragon No. 1".

At the same time, the Gun and Artillery Bureau is also developing rifled rifles, which are also rear-loaded, once a breakthrough in technology is made, the Ning Navy's firecrackers will be able to have a range of two or three hundred meters, and at the same time, the crossbow machine in the army can also be canceled.

At that time, even if Huang Taiji had 100,000 or 200,000 horses, Cheng Shijie could easily pinch Jiannu to death.

It can be said that time occupies Cheng Shijie's side, and as time goes by, Huang Taiji will become more and more difficult, and there will be no way to live.

Cheng Shijie is not idle now, but busy cleaning the battlefield, and also began to boost morale, although the Ning Navy won the victory, but the problem is that under the counterattack of more than 20,000 Jiannu, the Ming army still paid heavy casualties, these casualties are mainly concentrated in the Dongjiang Army, the Dongjiang Army Huanglong first invested more than 18,000 soldiers, and later under the leadership of Shang Kexi and Mao Chengjun, more than 8,000 people were put into battle.

However, after these two battles, more than 26,000 Dongjiang troops were killed, more than 14,000 were killed, and more than 8,000 were killed or wounded.

The second largest casualty is the Guanning army, the Guanning army Zu Dashou put in 8,000 cavalry, nearly half of the casualties, there are more than 4,000 people left, Wu Sangui led 5,000 cavalry to join the battle, there are still 2,000 people left. In other words, the total casualties of the Guanning army in this battle exceeded 7,000.

As the main force, the Ning Navy was the army with the fewest casualties, and after the two wars, there were more than 6,000 casualties, and the total number of casualties in the whole army was nearly 30,000.

In the case of absolute superiority in artillery, there were more than 30,000 casualties, although there were a large number of Dongjiang Army and Guanning Army, it can also be seen that the real strength of Jiannu is not weak.

Liaoyang City, this is the only two cities left that have not been destroyed by Jiannu, of course, the Acropolis of Guangning is because Jiannu collapsed too quickly, too late to destroy, Liaoyang City is different from the Acropolis of Liaozhong, this is Chen Dayong's department using Jiannu to slack, the Jiannu who defended the city also thought that the Ming army did not come to Liaoyang, plus the Baiyintu Department had just left, they also thought that Jiannu had come to reinforcements again.

When they found that more than 6,000 people under Chen Dayong's command had rushed into the city, more than 800 old, weak, sick and disabled people from Jiannu barely had time to resist, and they were blocked in the barracks.

Like the Acropolis of Guangning, there are almost no civilians here, they are all armies, that is to say, the Jiannu in Liaoyang have also been transferred, and there is not much grain and grass left.

Purely from the perspective of the capture on the battlefield, this time Cheng Shijie fought this time, in fact, it was a loss, and the shells alone cost no less than 100,000 taels of silver, plus the consumption of 60,000 or 70,000 troops, tens of millions of taels of silver are needed every day, as well as the consumption on the road, and the money is spent a lot.

The most important part is the pension of the fallen soldiers, which is the big head, the Dongjiang Army and the Guanning Army have lost more than 20,657 people in the whole army according to the pension standard of the Ning Navy, which is more than 400,000 taels of silver, plus 2 million mu of land, as well as the treatment of wounded soldiers, this part of the money will also cost a lot.

Cheng Shijie looked at the corpses of soldiers, he was distressed, and his flesh hurt even more.

"You bastards, can't you take care of your own lives? Do you know that your lives are expensive!! ”

Cheng Shijie gave a pension of 20 taels to an ordinary soldier who died in battle, a captain who died in battle, a pension of 30 taels of silver, a sentry commander rank of 40 taels of silver, a total rank of 50 taels of silver, a total rank of 80 taels, and a total rank of 1,000 taels of 100 taels. The rank of commander is two hundred taels of silver.

Fortunately, the Ning Navy did not have all commander-level generals killed, but the Dongjiang Army was different, because the Dongjiang Army adopted the Ming level, their officers were of very high rank, and an officer commanding 500 soldiers could only be the general rank in the Ning Navy.

However, in the Dongjiang Army, this level is at least a guerrilla general, that is, the level of the commander of the Ning Navy, in addition to the generals, deputy commanders-in-chief, the Dongjiang Army killed one general soldier Huang Long, two deputy commander-in-chief Mao Chengjun, Tan Yinghua, as well as Zhang Dalong, Fan Sheng, Guo Kui, Fan Hualong, Zhang Guosheng and other eight generals, guerrilla generals Gao Yan, Tan Shun, Huang Sizheng and other 21 guerrilla generals.

On the side of the Guanning Army, Zu Dabi's command killed 15 guerrilla generals, including Zhang Xing, Lei Cunren, and Yang Tianci, as well as 15 guerrilla generals including Dai Ming, Cui Shiqi, and Wu Rujie, with a total of 23 generals, and 4,869 horses.

Wu Sangui killed 2,162 sergeants and wounded 745, including 1,000 and 2, 9 guerrilla casualties, and 3,086 horses.

According to Cheng Shijie's rules, cavalry and hoplites were given a pension of forty taels of silver, as well as supplementary war horses, which were needed to accompany the Guanning army alone, more than 7,900 horses.

In this battle, because the battle was too fierce, Cheng Shijie only captured more than 14,000 barely usable war horses, and he had to accompany more than half of them at once.

"It's good for you, if you start a war, you don't want to die, do you want to bankrupt Lao Tzu!!"

As the so-called butt decides the head, although Cheng Shijie lost money, the problem is that the soldiers of the Ming army are very happy, especially Shang Keyi, crying and laughing, suddenly like a madman.

Huang Long's nephew Huang Yulang was also crying: "Uncle, you can look at it now, Jiannu was beaten miserably by us!" ”

A soldier from the Dongjiang Army knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Daddy, I have avenged you, I killed three Jiannu ......"

However, at this moment, the Dongjiang Army soldier was silent, only to see that he was shot with an arrow in the abdomen, and the blood was already flowing all over his body.

Shang Kexi stared blankly at the surviving more than 4,000 Dongjiang Army soldiers.

"Dick, what are you worried about?"

"What are we going to do in the future?"

"Later!"

Shang Keyi said with a smile: "With Cheng Shuai here, we don't have to worry about it in the future, the court doesn't care about us, Cheng Shuai will definitely not care!" ”

"Big brother, don't be confused!"

"Why am I confused?"

"It's a big taboo for the general soldiers of one town to help another town!"

Shang Kexi frowned and said, "It's impossible for Cheng Shuai not to know this!" ”

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Ben Shuai knows, Ben Shuai will not care, how many people are still in the Dongjiang Army?" ”

Shang Keyi shook his head: "It should be that!" ”

Shang Kexi said: "We still have more than 16,000 people on Jeju Island!" ”

Cheng Shijie said: "On Jeju Island, the military salary will be temporarily paid according to 20,000 people, but you remember, this money is sent by me, and my money cannot be put in anyone's hands!" ”

Shang Keyi smiled: "Cheng Shuai rest assured! ”

Cheng Shijie continued: "This marshal will write to the imperial court, requesting the revocation of the number of the Dongjiang Army, if the imperial court agrees, the Dongjiang Army will be integrated into the Ning Navy, the infantry of the Ning Navy is different from the Dongjiang Army, with the capital division as the unit, under the jurisdiction of two capital divisions, namely the Jeju capital division and the Phi Island capital division, each of which has more than 9,600 people. ”

In fact, it was a great taboo for the commanders of the two towns to have personal relations in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the commanders of one town did their best to support the construction of another town.

However, Fu Zonglong, the lord of the Qincha, didn't see it, maybe in his opinion, this was a good thing, if Dongjiang Town could solve the problem of eating with the help of Cheng Shijie, the imperial court would save much trouble.

Originally, Cheng Shijie had the right to command the Dongjiang Army.

Cheng Shijie occupied Liaoyang, and he didn't think about giving up, after all, the geographical location of Liaoyang is too important, once in the spring, autumn and summer seasons, Liaoyang, which guards the Taizi River, can block Jiannu in the north of the Taizi River.

But the problem is that the territory of more than 300 kilometers has increased all of a sudden, which means that the current Cheng Shijie has almost occupied most of Liaoning.

Relying on Cheng Shijie's three divisions of the Ning Navy, the strength is somewhat insufficient. At the same time, the establishment of the division at this level has been retained.

However, Cheng Shijie is preparing for a new round of military expansion.

In fact, the source of troops and equipment are very easy to solve, and his garrison capital division was directly transferred, first of all, the fifth capital division of the Ning Navy was established, so as to upgrade the original Meituo Lake Shuangcheng Guard Military Management Committee to the Shuangcheng Metropolitan Division, and Chen Dayong served as the commander of the Shuangcheng Metropolitan Envoy.

The second is to command the former capital to command the envoys, with Liu Qingsong as the commander of the former capital to garrison Liaoyang and assist in guarding the Liaozhong guard. Set up the Left Front Command Envoy, with Shen Mingyu concurrently serving as the Commander of the Left Central Capital Command Envoy to defend Guangning Wei and wait for the opportunity to establish the Guangning Defense Line.

Guangning Wei released two capital divisions, totaling more than 19,600 soldiers and horses.

Liaoyang only put one capital division, of course, stationed in Haizhou to defend the right capital commander, with Zhang Yu concurrently serving as the right front capital division.

Since then, the Ning Navy has been under the jurisdiction of the front, left, left, right, right, guard, Jeju, Phidao, and Shuangseong, cavalry, and artillery divisions, a total of 11 divisions, and the total number of troops has officially swelled to 100,000 horses.

Of course, this is just Cheng Shijie's plan, if this plan is to be truly completed, there is still a long way to go, not only equipment, but also training, I am afraid that it will be the sixth year of Chongzhen, this is not something that can be done in one sentence or two sentences.

In addition to the addition of more than 50,000 infantry divisions in the front, left, center, and right center, as well as the five infantry divisions of Jeju Island and Phi Island, it is also necessary to increase the number of garrison divisions, and although Geju, Gaiju, Fuju, and Haeju belong to the rear, it is also necessary to set up a garrison bureau, and the purpose of the garrison bureau is to maintain local security. Quang Ninh, Liaozhong, Liaoyang, and Baliwan, which are located on the front line, should also set up garrison bureaus, and each city should have at least one or two garrison bureaus.

The eleven divisions of the Ning Navy are field troops, not passive defense.

After Cheng Shijie's army expansion plan was written, he sent this plan to the General Staff Headquarters and began to enrich and improve it.

Fu Zonglong was busy writing the recital and reporting the victory to the imperial court.

Gao Qiqian was even more a chicken thief, he didn't even enter Liaoyang City, and immediately took his henchmen with satisfaction, rode a fast horse, went to Fuzhou, boarded the ship in Fuzhou East Port, returned to Tianjin's sea ship, and went to the imperial court to show his merits.

If you want to compete for credit, Gao Qiqian will definitely not fall behind anyone.

Of course, when leaving Liaoyang, Gao Qiqian made it clear: "Cheng Shuai, our old rules, our family will copy Wu Xiang's house and harvest half of the family!" ”

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "It's just that Wu Xiang's family is estimated to be inferior to Fan Yongdou!" ”

Gao Qiqian was a little disappointed: "Then how much money does Wu Xiang have?" ”

"He has a lot of money, but the cash is estimated to be not as much as Fan Yongdou, Fan Yongdou is a businessman, and he will have a lot of silver in case of emergency, Wu Xiang is the chief soldier, and the valuable things in his house are mostly ploughing cattle, war horses, and armed equipment!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Father-in-law Gao doesn't have to be disappointed, war horse, I will exchange it for money for you, a good war horse for twenty taels of silver......"

Without waiting for Cheng Shijie to finish speaking, Gao Qiqian smiled and said: "Then even if it is ten taels of silver, the ploughing cow is counted as five taels of silver, and the other belongings are discounted by half!" ”

"Interesting!"

"Our family will not let General Cheng suffer!"

Gao Qiqian bowed to Cheng Shijie and said, "Our family is waiting for the horse master in the capital!" ”

"Well, father-in-law has a good trip!"

After Gao Qi absconded, Zu Dabi, Zu Dale and Wu Sangui found Cheng Shijie, Wu Sangui was also very depressed at this time, in this battle, the Wu family army suffered casualties of 3,000 men and horses, 5,000 men and horses, and the loss was more than half, close to two-thirds.

However, the results achieved were only less than three hundred, Zu Dabi was a little better, they had successively obtained more than 1,500 levels of beheading, which can be said to be a bumper harvest.

The worst was actually the Dongjiang Army Headquarters, which paid more than 20,000 casualties, and the beheading was less than one-third of Ning's navy, barely more than 2,000.

"Cheng Shuai!"

Zu Dabi smiled bitterly: "I don't know, what Cheng Shuai said before is not counted!" ”

The ancestral army invested more than 8,000 people, and lost more than half, which is a huge loss, if it was in the past, Zu Dabi was not worried at all, but the problem is that as Zu Dashou and the court officials tore their faces, the military salary they can get from the court is probably much less.

"Big husband smears a nail in one bite!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Ben Shuai said that if they follow the pension standards of the Ning Navy, Ben Shuai will strictly implement it, and the distance between Guangning Wei and Jin is not finished, and Ben Shuai is ready to set aside more than 900,000 mu of land in Guangning Wei to settle the fallen soldiers of the Guanning Army." The family of each fallen soldier can share 100 acres of land, and if the soldiers of the Ning army are beheaded or captured, they can be converted into fields! ”

Cheng Shijie directly drew on the map: "A total of 300,000 mu along the left bank of the Shazi River is Wujia Town, and the right bank is Zujia Town. How is it? ”

"Cheng Shuai is atmospheric!"

PS: I fell asleep yesterday while writing, and this chapter is considered to make up for yesterday, and there will be it at night!

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