Yang Qi is actually an acquaintance of Huang Taiji, and they have dealt with each other before.
At the end of the fifth year of Tianqi, Yang Qi changed his official position three times in Shanhaiguan and Liaodong areas in three months. He did almost nothing. He was fooled by Huang Taiji's fake news and was finally dismissed.
Huang Taiji no longer remembers this person. After all, Yang Qi was not the only one who was tricked at that time. From Shanhaiguan to Shenyang, famous people from Ming and Jin Dynasties had been fooled and suffered from him—— Who do you think you are, Yang Qi?
It is for this reason that when Huang Taiji learned about Yang Qi's situation from the surrendered soldiers and prisoners, he immediately decided to withdraw his troops and go out.
No one understands this decision.
Zhang Zongheng in Datong City did not expect that in his opinion, the critical point between the Ming and Jin Dynasties in this battle had been broken with the fall of the two counties. It would be difficult to maintain a stalemate in subsequent battles, and the Hou Jin Dynasty already had the advantage.
With the supply of food, grass, population and materials from the two counties, Houjin should be able to fight more vigorously, and there must be a large-scale battle next.
Don't say he doesn't understand. The later Jin army, led by the Aixinjueluo nobles Daishan, and the leaders of the Han army, led by Marshal Kong Youde, also don't understand that so many people died and so many lives were spent, with only two The gains in the county were simply not enough to make up for the losses they incurred in sending troops this time.
What's more, victory is in sight on the battlefield. As long as they fight a battle of annihilation against the Ming army's reinforcements, they can buy half a month to a month, enough for them to break through and persuade a few more counties to surrender. This surrender will not count as the first surrender, which will affect the hearts of the people. Already torn apart.
Huang Taiji thought to himself: You guys know nothing!
Liu Chengzong was a great benefactor in this war, and the Ming court was grateful to Liu Chengzong for sending troops to help.
On the other hand, although Liu Chengzong was a competitor for the throne of Monan Khan, Huang Taiji was also very excited that Liu Chengzong sent troops at this time, and the successor was here!
First, he believed that although Liu Chengzong was the leader of the Central Plains bandits with unparalleled martial arts skills, he was just a reckless Han man and could not be said to be his competitor.
This can be seen from a very simple example. He sent his son Hauge to the Marshal's Mansion, showing the greatest sincerity and respect. Their enemies were all the Ming Dynasty. They had close ties with each other. They could join forces to destroy Mongolia and attack the Ming Dynasty together. Launch an attack.
This is a natural ally determined by geography.
Any outstanding leader will definitely reach an alliance first, and to say the least, he will also properly receive and send envoys to each other - even if there is hostility, the mountains and rivers on both sides are far away, and he has no ability to fight against each other if he wants to, so why make enemies?
However, Liu Chengzong was full of Han-style blindness and reckless shortsightedness. His son was sent back without even seeing Liu Chengzong.
Just such a grassroots bandit with no political or diplomatic ability, even if Mongolia is thrown into his hands, sooner or later they will be defeated.
Second, if Liu Chengzong really didn't have any political and diplomatic talents, then his ability to kill people must be very outstanding to be able to build such a big business in the northwest.
With such a thing that can cut people, wouldn't you be a fool if you tried to cut it against him?
Huang Taiji's strategy is very simple. Although the city of Xuanda seems to be within easy reach now, it is not yet available. If he does not take advantage of this window to go out, if he underestimates the marching speed or combat effectiveness of the Ming army's reinforcements, and there is a slight deviation, Liu Chengzong's army set up one border wall, and the Hou Jin army who was trapped in the second border wall had to be kicked in circles.
After all, among the five forces of Mobei Mongolia, Monan Mongolia, Daming, Marshal's Mansion, and Houjin, the Houjin army that defeated and surrendered two cities was the richest. The other four parties were likely to share the same hatred because of their wealth.
But as long as the Hou Jin army stepped out, jumped out of this encirclement, and entered the territory of Harashen Mongolia, the situation would be completely different.
Yang Qi, who was sent to Monan by Liu Chengzong, had to fight with the Ming Dynasty. If he didn't fight with the Ming Dynasty, he would still have to fight with the Mongolian Mongolia in Monan. It didn't matter whether he wanted to or not. People had to eat. Huang Taiji didn't believe that the Marshal's Mansion had more people than Hou Jin. Strong transportation capacity.
Of course, Huang Taiji will be happier if they don't fight for food. If they don't fight, you will be hungry. You will be almost starved. The wise and powerful Tiancong Khan will come to rescue you. The elite peasant army who has moved to the northwest, Huang Taiji doesn't mind sealing off another one. A marshal whose status is comparable to that of Kong Youde.
But this is what the Jin army knew, and they were on their way to retreat.
Within the sight of the Ming army, Zhang Zongheng did not know that Huang Taiji was about to retreat, because during the time when Hou Jin entered Kou Xuanda, Huang Taiji felt like a pen pal to Zhang Zongheng.
I wrote letters to him every day, long and short, telling the truth, lying, and bragging. The contents of the letters contained everything, both false and true. Sometimes they were true and sometimes they were false. People couldn't believe anything.
Huang Taiji said the day before that he was going to negotiate for peace and that he was going to withdraw the army. However, Lingqiu City was lost the next day. No one believed him when he said that he was going to withdraw from the army after negotiating for peace.
The day before, you scolded the formation and said you didn't dare to go out to fight with only 500 troops? The next day, 600 Ming troops sent out troops, but they were buried by 20,000 Houjin troops. Besides, no one believed that there were only 400 or 500 troops.
But once you don't believe what he said or what he showed, he will be very sincere. He really sent more than 500 people to show off his power under the city, and then led his troops to sneak away in the dark of the night. When the big team reacted, The men and horses have gone far.
At the same time, on the Monan battlefield, Yang Qi's vanguard troops had arrived along the north bank of the Yellow River at Chilechuan in the west of Guihua City.
Behind them are the endless Mongolian camps on both sides of the Yellow River. The three Mongolian Khans of Mobei were instigated by Yang Qi and agreed to join the battle for the ownership of Monan.
The conditions are very simple. They are responsible for following Qututaiji to deal with the Mongols who occupied Chahar's hometown without having to fight with the Hou Jin army. That is Yang Qi's business. After that, the Monan Governor's Office in Ordos, Hohhot and Uzbekistan The land of Lanqab is grazed by herdsmen from the three tribes of Mobei.
This matter is not very tempting to the three Khans of Mobei. Although Monan has the best pastureland, the pastureland is actually not valuable to the Mongols of this era. There is no shortage of land for sheep in Mobei and Monan.
In the entire Monan, which is such a large area, there are actually only two good places. One is Fengzhou Beach, where the Mote tribe was unearthed, and the other is the former home of Chahar, which belonged to the Mongolian Khan.
One thing these two places have in common is that they can both farm.
Obviously, Liu Chengzong of the Marshal's Mansion has now established the Monan Governor's Mansion and will definitely not let them farm here.
But anything in the world can only come true if there is only one person; once there are two people, if you want to do something, you have to compromise.
What's more, now that a not particularly large area like Monan and Xuanda is crowded with people from five parties, it is obvious that the results of anything that happens here will not satisfy either party.
The three Khans of Mobei agreed to send troops, but they had no other choice. They had to pick someone to fight. However, taking into account the willingness to attack, difficulty and cost, they were ranked from largest to smallest, including Monan Mongolia, Daming, Huang Taiji, and Liu Chengzong.
Ming Dynasty is rich, but difficult to fight; Huang Taiji is similar, and if Huang Taiji is defeated this year, the Jin army will come back with revenge next year. Fortunately, Huang Taiji is in Xuanda. If you are lucky, you can kill him directly and it will be over.
Liu Chengzong is the one they are least willing to fight, because these people don't even have a fucking noble, they are poor and tyrannical, and they can retaliate against them like Huang Taiji, and Liu Chengzong is not here yet.
In fact, Monan Mongolia is not easy to fight. After all, these people have already surrendered to Hou Jin. If you attack them, you will definitely provoke Hou Jin. However, the Three Khans of Mobei really have no choice, so it is not Yang Qi who instigates them, but them. While preparing to attack Monan Mongolia, Yang Qi from the Marshal's Mansion took the initiative to join the war and generously took on the most difficult task.
Great good man!
In the ravine at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, vanguard general Bai Wenxuan and several military attachés, like juniors, stood by the ground and watched a group of veterans from the Marshal's Mansion build a complete hidden fortification. They nodded one after another and were full of praise.
The fortifications built by a team of people included two rows of burrows with three cracks in the front and two in the back. The entrance of each burrow was equipped with an earthen stove and an extended flue. The entire hidden fortification was not difficult to build, but it was. It can be used as a hidden camp during the winter.
The general who demonstrated to Bai Wenxuan was Hu Sanhuai. He was a rebel from Guyuan and a veteran of the Marshal's Office. He was also a living legend among people.
Like Zhao Changzhuan, who became famous in one night, Hu Sanhuai was just the opposite. He was worshiped as a general and was one of the few generals in the Marshal's Mansion who was able to get through pure qualifications.
Hu Sanhuai was the first border army officer to defect to Liu Chengzong. He was in the same group of Guyuan rebels as Wang Wenxiu, Yang Yao, Wu Yangchen and others. At that time, his official position in the Ming army was to manage the team.
Later, he followed Liu Chengzong to fight in various places, but he never had the opportunity to let Hu Sanhuai and Wu Yangchen lead the battle, because the one who partnered with Hu Sanhuai was Shi Chengwo, and the one with Wu Yangchen was Liu Chengyun.
Even if Liu Chengzong lets Chengyun go to the battlefield, it is impossible for him to send Shi Chengwo to the battlefield.
Hu Sanhuai always stayed in the rear with his teacher, so naturally he had no chance to perform meritorious service on the battlefield. Fortunately, Liu Chengzong always remembered him. After all, there is hard work without merit. As long as the same batch of people are promoted, let’s not talk about whether they have military power or not. Mention the treatment of Hu Sanhuai and Wu Yangchen.
So these two brothers were in the Marshal's Mansion, where they fought for many years, and they managed to survive to become generals in six years.
But in fact, the higher the rank, the more embarrassing it becomes. Neither brother has more than 500 army command experience at most. The higher the official position, the less likely they are to be sent out to fight.
Fortunately, when the Monan Governor's Mansion was to be established, Liu Chengzong sent the two of them to Yang Qi's side to work together. The former Guyuan team returned to work under the former Guyuan general military officer.
Bai Wenxuan looked at the earthen stove and the den and marveled. This thing is very insidious. The entire den is only one foot above the ground. Eleven or two people squatted in, covered with soil and turf, and walked out twenty or thirty You can't see the steps at all. There is a flue, and it can't be seen from a distance to make a fire for cooking. There is also a small two-inch high window in the front for ventilation and observing the enemy's situation. If necessary, the musket can be extended out to fire.
Don't worry about winter, even if you build a few of these outside the camp, they are useful for ambushing soldiers and sentries.
The Marshal's Mansion gave Bai Wenxuan the most amazing feeling, that although the political system was very crude, everything in the military was standardized and everything was done a step faster than others.
For example, similar forts were built in Xiying. Sometimes the sentries also need to dig a hole to hide themselves, but it ends at this step. How to dig the hole, how big it is, how many people there are, no one pays attention to these things, just with them Just like the artillery, you can use it when you pick it up. If you have iron, you can make it yourself. Just make it casually, as long as it can be fired.
On the other hand, in the Marshal's Mansion, every step was planned. It was as if Liu Chengzong had made plans to fight a national war with the Ming Dynasty from the time he raised his army. Muskets, artillery and even artillery carriages all had rules and systems.
Even when they sent out troops this time, even though Bai Wenxuan's thousand men were not considered direct troops, they did not skimp on the rations. The soldiers' rations were limited, but all soldiers were provided with three cans of oil in units of tens.
They are kerosene, meat oil and vegetarian oil.
At this time, his soldiers in the Western Camp learned to dig nests in the ravine. After repairing them, they fried locusts in meat and oil on the earthen stove. Everyone fried a big bag and prepared to eat them as snacks.
Hu Sanhuai originally wanted to dissuade him, but he stopped after saying a few words: "Then oil, forget it."
Bai Wenxuan noticed that Hu Sanhuai was hesitant and asked, "General Hu, isn't that oil for us to cook with?"
"What are you cooking?"
Hu Sanhuai couldn't help but smile, thinking that Bai Wenxuan had a misunderstanding about the treatment of the Marshal's Mansion.
But it's not to blame. After all, Liu Chengzong spared no effort to improve the treatment of soldiers in the Marshal's Mansion. He always felt that the soldiers suffered when he moved to northern Shaanxi in the past. This was a retaliatory increase in treatment that was sometimes high and sometimes low.
If the Marshal's Mansion has more food on hand, the soldiers will be treated better; if there is less food, the soldiers will be treated less well. When Bai Wen selected these Western Camp soldiers to return, it happened to be that Liu Chengzong ended his Gansu expedition and went to Lanzhou specifically to make the soldiers comfortable. time, so the treatment is better than usual.
Because of this, Bai Wenxuan mistakenly believed that the treatment of the sergeants of the Marshal's Mansion had been so outrageous, so much so that he thought they were given meat and vegetable oil for cooking when they went on an expedition.
Hu Sanhuai explained: "kerosene is used to make fire in emergencies and medicinally when there are sores on the body. Vegetable oil is used to wipe knives and wipe wounds to disinfect injuries. Meat oil is used to wait until winter and apply a little on the face to prevent frostbite and to prevent bugs from getting into the ears when sleeping outdoors. …”
He pointed to his earlobe: "You can use a little bit of meat oil to draw out the bugs. You can also use it on rotten wounds and maggots. These oils are not for us to eat."
"I……"
Bai Wenxuan stared at him. When he heard that these fats were of such great use, he immediately turned around and asked the soldiers to stop frying the locusts. These are all appetites. You can eat delicious ones, and you can eat unpalatable ones. As long as If you have something to eat, food will not be a big problem.
However, medicinal, wound healing, and antifreeze are all great uses that can ensure combat effectiveness and reduce non-combat attrition of soldiers. They are much more important than taste.
However, he was immediately stopped by Hu Sanhuai: "The war is about to begin, so it wouldn't hurt to let the sergeants fry some snacks to take with them. We are currently marching eastward to Monan, and after we capture Guihua City, there will be no shortage of meat and oil in winter."
At this moment, a horseman came running from the ravine. It was Yang Qi's guard. He stepped forward and saluted: "Two generals, the governor has given orders. The defenses of Tumut's troops in Guihua City have been confirmed, and the three troops of Mobei have been deployed." When we moved forward with our troops, the governor ordered the two generals to break camp and go to plunder the formation."
Bai Wenxuan and Hu Sanhuai looked at each other and immediately ordered the sergeants to stop what they were doing, prepare their weapons and prepare to send out troops. Half an hour later, the two of them led the neatly armored cavalry and ran out of Yinshan Pass. They saw the endless smoke in the sky. The Mongolian cavalry rushed eastward in mighty force.
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