Chapter 169 Kill Mang Gurtai with one shot
The sky is getting darker, and the ground is getting whiter and whiter.
Jian Nu retreated, but the soldiers of Ning Haijun, Guan Ning Army, Dongjiang Army, and Ning Haijun were not idle. They helped harvest the heads. The battle became a chaotic battle. It was difficult to be fair if you wanted to count who had beheaded how many heads. .
But the problem is, the head means military merit and bounty. Who doesn't know this? The fight just now was so brutal that everyone was so red-eyed that they couldn't care about anything else. Now look at it, who cares about whom?
You fight for it, and it's a mess.
"This is our military exploits!"
"You mean you, but I mean it's still ours!"
"Don't grab it!"
In the chaos ahead, Cheng Shijie had no choice but to shout: "Stop it all!"
Shen Mingyu looked at Cheng Shijie's unkind expression and hurriedly explained: "Commander, brothers... there is... no way!"
"Our defense zone is fixed!"
Cheng Shijie pointed at Zuo Dusi's corpse in front of the formation: "This area belongs to your Zuo Dusi, and this side belongs to You Dusi. They are clearly differentiated, so why are you snatching them away!"
"It's just that the battle was so fierce that I couldn't tell who was whose!"
Cheng Shijie said: "How many times have I told you that if you can't tell the difference between individuals, then let's take a collective view. There are still many slaves. Are you afraid that there will be no heads to chop off?"
"yes!"
Hearing that Cheng Shijie assigned units with merit based on collective work, the soldiers stopped trying to rob them. He began to hold the sacks, as if he were a farmer harvesting crops. In the eyes of these soldiers, the corpses of these slave soldiers were already ripe crops, and it would be unreasonable not to harvest them!
They raced against time and divided the work into pieces. Many wounded soldiers were still crying and begging, but they had their heads chopped off with a knife.
They even quarreled over the head: "Brothers, you have crossed the line. This battlefield belongs to us, and of course the head also belongs to us. You are not allowed to snatch it!"
"As rare as anyone!"
The atmosphere on the entire battlefield was very relaxed and pleasant.
Of course, Ning Haijun's discipline was better, but the atmosphere between Guan Ning's army and Dongjiang army was not so harmonious. Although they had Cheng Shijie's order, they did not fight for the head, but they still greeted each other's relatives and cursed each other. .
"Mother Thief, this is my military merit!"
"Who is my grandson scolding?"
"My grandson scolded you..."
The Guan Ning Army and the Dongjiang Army not only cut off their heads, but also stripped off the armor of the Jiannu soldiers, completely ignoring the horrific patches of blood on them, and gleefully put them on their bodies.
Although many of these armors are damaged, they can still be used by repairing them and cannot be wasted.
However, compared to cleaning the battlefield, Ning Haijun showed superb skills in collecting trophies. Not only weapons, armor, heads, flags and other good things, but also the clothes on the slave soldiers were stripped off. This gang This guy was like a hungry green-eyed locust. Wherever he went, there was no grass, leaving only large areas of bare buttocks and headless corpses.
The Dongjiang Army thought that they had done enough to collect the trophies. Who knew that after they were done with it, Ning Haijun came over excitedly and went into further processing? Then the officers and soldiers of the Guan Ning Army and the Dongjiang Army were stunned to see those who were originally empty-handed not long after. The trophies collected by Ning Navy officers were packed into large and small bags...
How ruthless are these guys collecting loot? Even the armor leaves scattered on the ground were not spared... Cheng Shijie had experienced this scene too many times.
Speaking of which, Ning Haijun is an extremely wealthy army, but the problem is that no one despises their wealth. Any spoils of war will be turned over and distributed uniformly. Even the most worthless armor pieces may become Turn them into soap or towels and give them to themselves.
Zu Dabi watched Ning Haijun clean the battlefield from behind them, and stared at the battlefield cleaned by his subordinates: "Look, look... look, Ning Haijun deserves to be rich, you... can't keep up with Rehu even if you eat shit!"
The officers and soldiers of Guan Ning Army decided to change their past mistakes and became more serious about cleaning the battlefield.
Song Xiance was very frustrated at this time. He had always regarded himself as Cheng Shijie's adviser. Even if he became the director of the Liaodong Management Committee, he had never changed this idea and concept.
In fact, he as a counselor played no role in this battle.
Not to mention that Song Xiance had no role, even Cheng Shijie's role was not great. He had almost never given any decent orders. In the face of the enemy's attack, if he had to ask for instructions for everything, how could he fight this battle?
Cheng Shijie, the head coach of the entire army, only needs to make a decision whether to fight or not.
How to fight, how to fight, these are things that the generals who lead the troops need to consider.
But Ning Haijun still won the battle.
In Ning Haijun's temporary tent, which is also Cheng Shijie's assembled carriage house, a stove has been set up. Even though the cold wind is howling outside, the inside of the house is still as warm as spring.
Because it snowed, there was no shortage of water here. Cheng Shijie came back from patrolling outside, took a bath, changed into new clothes, and then asked in confusion: "Where is the teacher?"
Mrs. Luo hurriedly reported back: "Yongyan is accompanying Mr. Sun Ge to inspect the camp!"
Song Xiance's mood was a little low: "This battle was too tragic. I'm afraid there were over 10,000 casualties on both sides, right?"
Cheng Shijie shook his head: "We don't have the Ning Navy, but together with the Guan Ning Army and the Dongjiang Army, there are more than 15,000 casualties!"
Ning Haijun's casualties were mainly concentrated in the Cavalry Division. A total of 1,052 people were killed in the entire division, and more than 1,350 people were injured. More than 90% of them were minor injuries. There were only two soldiers in the Artillery Division. Being burned, 73 people were killed in the left Dusi, 29 in the right Dusi, 55 in the Guards, the whole army was killed in 1,209 people, and the whole army was injured about 1,900 people.
However, more than a hundred people were left disabled.
The casualties of Guan Ning's army are similar to those of Ning Haijun. However, there are only more than 3,700 cavalry left that can fight, and the casualty ratio is as high as nearly half. The main reason why Guan Ning's army has been able to persist without collapse is because of Cheng Shijie's promise. Many Guan Ning Army soldiers came to Cheng Shijie's pension field. They wanted to die so that their families could live in southern Liaoning.
The Dongjiang Army suffered the heaviest casualties, with more than 6,740 killed and more than 5,000 wounded. Including the lightly wounded soldiers, the number of people who could still maintain combat effectiveness was less than 8,000, and the casualties exceeded 10,000.
"It's just a pity that there are too few beheadings!"
Song Xiance participated in the statistics of military achievements. So far, the Ning Haijun, Guan Ning Army and Dongjiang Army have beheaded only more than 3,300 people. Of course, this does not mean that Jiannu has only killed more than 3,300 people. It is just that, Ning Haijun's artillery is too sharp. The explosive shells, thunder shells, and grenades can all damage the head, making it impossible to count military merits.
If we say that in the past, Cheng Shijie would have gone bankrupt in this battle. You must know that there were more than 10,000 casualties, and the pension alone gave Cheng Shijie a headache.
Now Cheng Shijie is also very wealthy and doesn't worry about the money.
As the battlefield was cleaned up, Ning's naval officers began to camp, and the cooks began to cook. The whole camp was noisy and brightly lit.
The army has a total of six to seven thousand four-wheeled carriages, and more than a thousand two-wheeled carriages. These carriages can be used as chariots to defend the enemy, or they can be assembled into houses. Although not as luxurious as Cheng Shijie's carriage, they are still better than living in It's comfortable in an ordinary tent.
The carriage began to be assembled into a house under the operation of the soldiers. This is very simple to say. One direction of the carriage facing out is a shield. Remove the shield on the inside and add them together to form a roof. If two carriages are put together, they can form a house about eight feet long and one foot six feet wide, about twenty-five square meters.
A house of about twenty-five square meters is naturally very crowded for twenty-four soldiers. However, Ning Haijun cannot sleep all the soldiers, and some of them must be left on duty, so they can still sleep. There was a heating stove burning in the soldiers' RV, but it wasn't cold at all.
In fact, Sun Chengzong was the first person in the Ming Dynasty to propose the use of chariot formations to resist the slave army. What he did not expect was that Cheng Shijie was not only similar to him in strategic thinking, but also used chariots exactly the same as him.
After Sun Chengzong visited the outer defense line of Ning Navy soldiers, he carefully completed the inspection even though he was very tired.
This battle has attracted nationwide attention.
I don’t know how many people in the entire Ming Dynasty are paying attention to this battle. Everyone knows that the significance of the victory or defeat in this battle far exceeds the battle itself.
If they can win, the morale of the Ming army, which has been eroded to the extreme, will be greatly boosted, and Jiannu's aggressive arrogance will be slightly reduced. After a year or two, Ming can take a breath and clean up the four places in the country. A situation of smoke and fire.
If they lose, how many soldiers and horses will be lost is another matter. The key is that the best generals like Cheng Shijie may not be able to come back. How can the Ming Dynasty, which is now extremely weak, still be able to withstand such a blow?
What's more, this battle also affects the central political struggle. If Cheng Shijie wins, Xu Guangqi, the cabinet boss behind him, will definitely rise and may become the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet. If defeated, the Donglin Party is likely to make a comeback.
In the past few years, it has been difficult to eliminate the Donglin Party's influence in the court. At the critical moment of this battle, the success will fall short.
Sun Chengzong is not greedy for credit. He just wants to use his rich experience to fill in the gaps for Cheng Shijie, discover and solve problems in time, and win this battle without any loopholes being caught by Huang Taiji.
Generally speaking, Ning Haijun's morale was good, and everyone was very relaxed. Almost all the soldiers were talking about how much military merit they would get after this battle, and how much reward they would get.
Coming to all the right-wing legions of the Dongjiang Army, Zhou Ning, the Guards Commander of the Ning Navy, was already in charge here. The remnants of the Dongjiang Army and the remnants of the Guan Ning Army jointly defended.
The last commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, Huang Long, died, and the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were a little sad. Huang Long may be greedy, and he may like to drink the blood of his soldiers, but when the Dongjiang Army was overwhelmed by Hou Jin's cavalry and was about to collapse, he stepped forward without hesitation, led the Dongjiang Army to fight to the death, and blocked Hou Jin with his flesh and blood. The impact of the heavy cavalry bought Ning Haijun time. For this reason, his death would be more serious than Mount Tai.
Cheng Shijie told Sun Chengzong that he would ask the court for credit for Huang Long. No matter how many shortcomings Huang Long had, his death would be a purchase and sale.
Death is a big deal.
In the Jiannu Camp, Huang Taiji looked at the heavy snow falling outside the tent. He was very anxious, like an ant on a hot pot, walking around, completely losing interest in drinking and eating meat.
The snow is falling harder and harder, and the impact is very fatal to Jiannu. Almost all the tents were consigned by war horses. Fortunately, too many people died. Now there are enough tents, and the food shortage has been greatly alleviated.
Too many people died in this battle...
Even if we don’t count the Mongolian left and right battalions and the Han army flags, just counting the elite Eight Banners, among the Eight Banners, the Xianghong Banner suffered the heaviest losses, with nearly 3,000 casualties, followed by the Zhenghong Banner, which suffered more than 2,000 casualties, followed by the Zhenglan Banner and the Xianglan Banner. , Triangular White Flag, True White Flag, True Yellow Flag had the least losses, only more than 300 people.
The Eight Banners' elite casualties exceeded 12,000, of which more than 7,000 were killed and more than 4,000 were wounded...
Niulu Ezhen had forty-two people who died in the battle alone, and there were eleven Jia La Zhangjings. You must know that there were only forty Jia La Zhangjings in the Eight Banners. Among the Jiannu, Jia La Zhangjing commanded 1,500 men. La Zhangjing had fewer soldiers than the Ming Dynasty.
For Huang Taiji, a general died in battle, which was not something he couldn't bear. As long as he could win this battle and eliminate Ning Haijun, he would fight this battle even if he lost half of the elite.
Because Huang Taiji saw the seriousness of the problem, he knew that Sun Yuanhua had been developing firearms, and Cheng Shijie had replaced Sun Yuanhua. His firearms unit would only become more powerful as it developed, and the power of the firearms became more and more powerful.
But the problem is that there is really not much time left for the Kingdom of Jin.
After falling asleep in a daze, Huang Taiji woke up again and found that the sky had turned leaden gray and it was almost dawn.
"Somebody come!"
"The slave is here!"
"Put armor on this Khan!"
"yes!"
As the four attendants took the golden armor and put it on Huang Taiji, in the process, the banner masters, minor banner masters, and Belles of the Eight Banners all stood up one after another.
"King Khan!"
"King Khan!"
As more and more cheers rang out, the cheers of tens of thousands of people came from far away, like a surging tsunami, drowning out all sounds.
Huang Taiji left the royal tent and said to his left and right: "Tear down the royal tent. This king no longer needs this royal tent!"
Yue Tuo said: "What does King Khan mean that we will definitely win Baliwan City today?"
Huang Taiji led the Baylors on horseback to inspect the soldiers. He nodded slightly towards the Golden Warriors who cheered and saluted him, and galloped forward non-stop. He likes this kind of scene. The soldiers are majestic and murderous. With tens of thousands of tigers and wolves in hand, what can't be accomplished?
"Last year, the Ming army rebuilt Daling River City. They focused on the land on both sides of the Daling River. If they can defend Daling River City, millions of acres of land on both sides of the river will be theirs!"
Huang Taiji continued: "Did King Khan let them get their wish?"
"No!"
"No!"
Mang Gurtai shouted: "Yes, we must not let them get what they want, otherwise they will build the city all the way to Shenyang!"
Yue Tuo said: "We will destroy every city they build. It is best to destroy Haizhou and Jinzhou as well, and drive these rats back to Shandong, so that we can sit back and relax!"
It was completely bright at dawn, and in Ning Haijun's camp, Cheng Shijie's flag was flapping in the wind.
Huang Taiji looked at Cheng Shijie's general flag and said: "I have to admit that the Ming army's firearms are very strong. We only have one chance to succeed. I, the King of Khans, will lead you to charge directly at Cheng Shijie's general flag to capture the thief and the king!" "
Hauge shouted: "Father, how can I kill a chicken with an ox-knife? Come on, my son!"
With blood in his eyes, Hauge raised his spear and roared: "Are you really my Daikin's nemesis, destined to destroy my Daikin's hegemony? I don't believe in this evil!"
In fact, Hauge is not stupid. His and Huang Taiji's interests are the same. Behind closed doors, father and son can stab each other, and siblings can kill each other. But when the evil tiger is on the side, they can only give up the gap and speak to the outside world in unison. .
Hauge took the lead in charging, and then he provoked Mang Gurtai, and then the two red flags led by Daishan, Yue Tuo, Shuo Tuo and his son, only the three brothers Azige, Duo Duo, and Dorgon did not any representation.
Huang Taiji looked at the three Dorgon brothers and said: "Dorgon's fourteenth brother, Bage will go first, and the Kingdom of Jin will be handed over to you from now on!"
The Baylors looked at the three Dorgon brothers with a somewhat unkind look. Now with yellow flags, two red flags, and two blue flags, they are all trying their best. The two white flags want to preserve their strength?
Being a coward?
Dorgon said helplessly: "King Khan, this slave... is not a coward!"
The three Dorgon brothers led two white flags and headed towards Ning Haijun's camp.
Huang Taiji was very satisfied with his operation. The Jiannu army rushed towards the front of Ning Haijun's camp like a tide, basically ignoring the left and right wings.
Since then, the attack range has been reduced, and a large number of enemies have appeared in front of the relatively narrow formation. The Ning navy officer in front actually used thunder cannons and could not completely stop Jiannu's charge.
Sun Chengzong clenched his fists: "We must resist!"
At this time, Ning Haijun had adjusted his plan, placing the Dongjiang Army and Guan Ning Army, which had suffered heavy losses, at the front, and mobilized the Guards Division to defend the right wing.
However, at this moment, Cheng Shijie picked up the walkie-talkie: "Execute the "close the door and beat the dog" plan!"
"As you command!"
If you look down on the entire battlefield from space, you will definitely find that under Jiannu's crazy attack, the Ming army soldiers in front seemed to be unable to hold on and slowly retreated.
Unknowingly, Ning Haijun's originally square camp was like a balloon that was squeezed in and slowly turned into a concave shape.
As time passes, the concave shape becomes larger and larger.
Yue Tuo finally caught up with Hauge who was killed and turned into a bloody man: "Hauge, get back quickly!"
Yue Tuo clearly felt something was wrong. The Ming army was too weak and the equipment was wrong.
In fact, their opponents were not the officers of the Ning Navy, but the officers of the Dongjiang Army. Although they were officers of the Dongjiang Army, they had Officer Ning serving as fire support. Otherwise, the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army would definitely not be able to hold on.
At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were very depressed. Cheng Shijie agreed to change their defenses and let them retreat. They consciously asked to be the front defense, because this used to be an artillery position, where the Jiannu suffered the most casualties, and it became a sad place for the Jiannu. The smart Dongjiang Army officers thought that they could fool around...
I just didn't expect that Jiannu would go straight into the palace.
Facing Yue Tuo's persuasion, Hauge failed to show off. Now his horsepower was almost exhausted and he couldn't rush anymore, so he had to change people and rush again.
Yue Tuo took the remaining three or four thousand cavalry with the red flag and continued to fight. The soldiers of the Dongjiang Army continued to fight and retreat.
Now Yue Tuo's troops had suffered thousands of casualties and advanced 200 to 300 steps towards Ning Haijun's central army. Yue Tuo was unable to attack anymore and was replaced by Mang Gurtai.
At this time, Huang Taiji, who was watching the formation from behind, had already seen Cheng Shijie's true intention. He wanted to shout: "This is a trap, retreat quickly!"
It's just a pity that Mang Gurtai saw that both Yue Tuo and Hao Ge had achieved good results. If he didn't have any merit, it would look like he was too incompetent.
If viewed from the air, Ning Haijun's formation has changed from a concave shape to a half-moon shape, and Cheng Shijie's position is at the end of the month.
This is one of the ancient formations. The entire army is arranged in an arc, shaped like a crescent moon. It is an asymmetrical formation. The general's formation is usually located at the bottom of the concave crescent. When fighting, focus on attacking the flanks and resist the enemy with a thick crescent. The inner recess of the crescent may seem weak, but it contains dangers. The general's formation should have strong combat power. It is suitable for brave generals with strong soldiers, and it is also suitable for certain asymmetries. terrain.
Mang Gurtai became more serious about killing, and Cheng Shijie raised his hand: "Close the net, let's see what big fish this net catches!"
Following Cheng Shijie's order, the left and right wings of the Ning Navy began to exert force. These were the real elites of the Ning Navy. They habitually advanced with flying thunder cannons and Folan cannons.
"Boom boom boom..."
Mang Gurtai was hit in the waist by a stone-hearted Folang machine cannon and was cut in half.
As Mang Gurtai was cut in half with one shot, the tens of thousands of Jiannu's troops all went crazy, howling almost madly, and pounced towards the Ning Navy's central army, completely desperate for their lives. Especially the Zhenglan Banner soldiers looked desperate. They did not seek to kill the enemy, but only wanted to die together!
Mang Gurtai is the leader of the Zhenglan Banner and their backbone. Now that Mang Gurtai is dead, their backbone is gone! The slaves were very strict in governing the army. If Mang Gurtai died, even if they could go back alive, they would probably not get any good fruits to eat. It would be better to die here and die with the generals, at least to ensure that their families would not be implicated. , sold into slavery!
Ning Haijun also let out an almost crazy howl. The difference was that Jian Nu was in despair, while they were ecstatic. It's so pitiful that after all these years of fighting with Jiannu, have you ever killed a Baylor?
Today, this miracle actually happened under their eyes. As long as they can go back alive, this credit and this honor will be enough for them to last a lifetime, even for several generations!
Jiannu's crazy look looks scary, but that's all. Everyone is carrying a head on two shoulders, so you're scared, so just fight with them!
At this point, do they have any choice but to fight tooth and nail? If you wanted to escape, you would have escaped a long time ago, but you are escaping now...Have you seen the idiot who still seeks refuge with Wei Zhongxian after Emperor Tianqi is dead?
The soldiers of the Dongjiang Army burst out with tenacious fighting power and actually blocked the Zhenglan Banner who was charging desperately. The two sides fought bloody battles for Mang Gurtai's body.
Finally, Zhang Xiaoke, the guerrilla general of the Dongjiang Army, snatched the upper body of Mang Gurtai and presented it to Cheng Shijie: "Congratulations, Commander, I am lucky to have lived up to my command!"
(End of chapter)
