Chapter 171
Kill one thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses.
This is basically the standard mode of frontal war. In fact, from the beginning to the collapse, Jiannu's casualties were not considered injuries, but Ning Haijun's casualties were as many as more than 3,000.
The Dongjiang Army was the worst, with more than 18,000 troops. Now there are only 4,000 people left, with more than 14,000 casualties. Guan Ning Army has lost nearly half of its troops. Ning Haijun has suffered the least losses, with nearly 4,000 casualties. More than 54,000 Ming troops participated in the battle, and the casualties now approached 20,000.
Among them, more than 9,400 people were killed in action. In the future, there will be many seriously wounded people who will not survive. The number of casualties will increase, and the number of wounded soldiers will exceed 10,000.
The brutality of this battle far exceeded last year's Battle of Daling River, and its scale was twice as large.
Of course, the preliminary statistics of the beheadings of the Ming army totaled more than 7,600, but there were many heads of Mongolian and Han armies mixed in, and the actual number of slaves was only about 6,300.
More than 5,000 people were captured, including more than 3,300 Han troops, more than 1,200 Mongolians, and not many Jurchens, only more than 500.
What makes Cheng Shijie feel the most regretful is that in this battle, too many war horses were killed, and not many horses were captured, less than 5,000, and most of them were injured.
Cheng Shijie told Song Xiance: "We must properly handle the wounded soldiers. My principle is to treat as much as possible if possible. Don't be afraid of spending money. Any wounded soldier will become a veteran as long as he recovers and returns to the team. They are more powerful than three new recruits, and there won’t be many brutal battles like this in the future!”
This time, Ning Haijun still had many problems. Firstly, there were too few artillery shells and insufficient preparation. Secondly, the thunderbolts were too bulky and difficult to move. The power and rate of fire of the individual fireguns were too low. After Jiannu tried his best to At that time, there was no effective fire coverage.
In the future, this situation will definitely not happen again, so there are not many opportunities for Ning Haijun to have another hand-to-hand combat.
"Yes, I understand!"
Song Xiance hesitated and said, "Lord, what should we do with those prisoners?"
"this……"
Cheng Shijie pondered, and from the bottom of his heart he wanted to kill all these Han soldiers and Jiannu prisoners, but the problem was that it was so satisfying, but the next time he fought with Jiannu, Jiannu knew that Cheng Shijie would kill the prisoners. , they will definitely resist to the end, or run away directly.
But he was very unhappy about releasing the prisoners so directly.
Of course, Cheng Shijie does not need to consider the captives of the Jiannu and the Mongols. The Ming Dynasty will not treat the captives as treasures and keep them as prisoners of the Ming army. The captives will be sent to the capital of the Ming Empire, and those with better luck will be castrated. Then he entered the palace as a eunuch. He was so unlucky that he didn't even have the chance to be a eunuch. He was beheaded directly and then built into the Jingguan together with other people's heads.
Cheng Shijie thought about it and said: "The heads of the Jiannu and Mongolian prisoners, as well as those captured by us, will be sent to the capital. The Han prisoners... will be sent wherever they are in trouble."
"Are they too cheap?"
"Then we can't kill prisoners easily!"
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 kill them. The second is logistical supplies. If there are not enough supplies to feed the prisoners, We can only kill the prisoners, the last point is to deter the enemy!"
Ning Haijun now does not fall into the three situations of killing prisoners, and does not need to kill prisoners to deter the slaves.
"The soldiers feel uncomfortable!"
"Doesn't the Liaodong Management Committee have a court?"
Cheng Shijie said: "Let the court judge them and sentence them to a number of years of hard labor based on what they have done."
"yes!"
Song Xiance then added: "Dongjiang Army and Guan Ning Army both suffered heavy losses. How about compensation for them?"
"I promised them that according to the principles of our Ning Navy, the pension fields for the soldiers of Guan Ning Army who died in battle will be placed in Haizhou, and the money will be sent directly to their families!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Go and talk to Zu Dabi and tell him that my commander's money must be spent wisely, and their people had better not reach out!"
In Ning Haijun's camp, Sun Zhilan looked at Sun Chengzong with a troubled expression.
At this time, Sun Chengzong's face was flushed, and he was drinking one glass after another.
"Grandpa, you drank too much!"
"I'm not drunk!"
Sun Chengzong looked around, and the Ming army soldiers burned bonfires. Although the weather was cold, the cold wind did not dampen their enthusiasm.
At this time, Ning Haijun soldiers did not even bother to eat horse meat. In terms of taste, mutton was more delicious. Jiannu retreated too hastily, leaving hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep behind.
Sun Zhiman couldn't persuade Sun Chengzong, and he was worried that Sun Chengzong's identity would be ruined by drinking. After all, Sun Chengzong's age was there, he was already in his seventies, and he was no longer young.
Sun Chengzong picked up the wine glass and walked to a group of slave-building prisoners.
The captives were tired, hungry, and worried.
Sun Chengzong looked at the prisoners and said, "Which of you can dance?"
When did these Jiannu slaves look directly at the Ming army? Even with Sun Chengzong's status, in the eyes of ordinary Jiannu, he was not just an old man.
"Slaves know how!"
A Buddhist slave, about twenty years old, stood up timidly.
Sun Chengzong pointed to the mutton roasting on a bonfire not far away: "If you dance well, I will be rewarded!"
"Slave Acton performs a dance for his master!"
Akdun means strong, which is probably the Chinese name Niu Jiejiu and Liu Laoshi. But Acton can indeed dance, and his limbs are very flexible.
Sun Chengzong looked at Actun dancing and was very satisfied. He waved his hand and said: "Yongyan, reward him with a piece of meat!"
Sun Zhiwan felt that Sun Chengzong had lost his temper. He walked to the bonfire and took off a piece of mutton. However, he did not expect that the mutton would be so hot and threw it directly on the ground.
The snow and mud on the ground were mixed together, and it was definitely not clean anyway.
Acton did not dislike it. A vicious dog pounced on the mutton, grabbed the mutton, and thanked Sun Chengzong: "I thank my master for the reward!"
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The slave-building army was fleeing. They had abandoned all their pride and all their self-confidence. They were just running away, forgetting to cut off the rear. They forgot that the Ming army chasing them was only a few thousand people. They forgot that they There are still bows, arrows and sabers in hand that can be used to resist. I just want to escape, escape, escape, as far as possible.
Infantry can catch up with cavalry, that's for sure. In fact, those participating in the pursuit were more than 1,000 hunting cavalry, more than 4,000 Ning navy cavalry, more than 1,000 Ning navy reconnaissance cavalry, and 3,000 Guan Ning army cavalry. This was the entire cavalry force of the Ming army. A total of more than nine thousand riders.
This is the most cavalry Cheng Shijie can bring out.
Now among all the banners established by the slaves, Zhenglan Banner suffered the heaviest losses. Almost all the troops in one banner were wiped out. The remaining six to seven hundred people could not even make up three Niulu. Followed by Jierharang's blue banner, more than two-thirds were damaged, and less than 3,000 troops survived. Then came the Xianghongqi, which lost more than half of the twenty-six Niulu, with only twelve left. The Zhenghongqi and Xianghuangqi were about the same, with more than ten Niulu lost. The Zhengbaiqi and Xiangbaiqi had smaller losses, with a total loss of twelve. Niulu.
Before dispatching the army, Huang Taiji had 311 Niulu, of which 71 Niulu did not participate in the war. Of the 240 Niulu who participated, 92 Niulu were completely wiped out, which meant death. More than 27,000 slaves were created on the battlefield.
Dorgon had no choice but to retreat. He sent several troops to block the rear and tried to block the Ming army's pursuit. However, these troops were crushed by the Ming army's cavalry in an instant. Thousands of flesh and blood were added to the necks of the Ming army's cavalry. Fuzzy head.
Such a desperate situation made Dorgon and Duduo also despair and did not dare to think about counterattack. They could only urge the troops to withdraw quickly and retreat to Liao Zhongwei to take a breath before making plans.
In Dorgon's view, although Dajin suffered heavy losses in this battle, the main force was still there. As long as they could stabilize their position and find the flaws of the Ming army, they had every chance of making a comeback.
However, Dorgon did not know that there were not many opportunities left for them and Daikin.
The Dajin army was still fleeing in panic towards the direction of Liao Zhongwei. Flags and food were thrown all over the ground. The injured soldiers were abandoned on the roadside and screamed in despair. The horses that could no longer run were also abandoned, along with the wounded soldiers. They stayed together and watched the master disappear from sight with dull eyes, letting out sad screams one after another.
This scene of overwhelming defeat caused everyone who survived this bloody battle to suffer a shame that was worse than death for the rest of their lives, and could not hold their heads up.
Since Nurhaci 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 negligible cost of thousands, tens of thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, suppressed by a small tribe with a population of less than one million. The two behemoths, the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, fought with each other and were invincible. They created the myth that "the Jurchens are not able to fight even if they are not worth ten thousand people." How had they ever experienced such a disastrous defeat!
The shock of having all their self-confidence shattered, the fear of having their myth shattered, was in itself more serious than the loss of 20,000 to 30,000 elite soldiers, leaving their minds blank and at a loss!
Every time an enemy was cut down, the Ming cavalry jumped off their horses excitedly, cut off their heads, hung them on their horses' necks, and then continued to pursue them as if they were on stimulants.
This is also what the Jiannu likes to do. They often cut off the heads of Ming soldiers who died in battle and hang them on their horses' necks to show off. Now it's their turn.
Duduo looked at the Ming cavalry behind him with a gloomy face and said: "Damn it, it's not over, it's still lingering!"
In fact, Dodo was frightened.
Seeing the heads of so many Jiannu hanging bloody and bloody on the necks of enemy horses brought Dodo the same horror and fear. Duduo cursed secretly in his heart: "These Ming troops are so barbaric!"
As Jiannu dispersed and fled, the cavalry pursued by the Ming army became more and more dispersed. More than 9,000 people were divided into seven or eight groups. The number of cavalry in each group was not too many. Even the smallest group of chasing cavalry was only led by the Red Lady. The Ning Navy reconnaissance cavalry, they only have more than two hundred cavalry.
With just over two hundred horses, the Jiannu army could defeat them with just one Jiala, but not even a single Niulu turned around to face their enemies. They just wanted to escape, as far away as possible, no matter what The red lady's cavalry bit behind them like leeches, capturing abandoned wounded soldiers and collecting abandoned horses.
The Ming army cavalry were shocked to see the Jiannu army running away like a herd of wildebeests driven by a pride of lions without looking back. The resistance of the Jiannu troops they overtook was pitifully weak, as if they had lost their souls. People simply couldn't believe that this was the tiger and wolf division that fought fiercely with them for two days and almost overturned the Ming army's formation several times!
At this time, Ning Haijun's reconnaissance cavalry was also very tired. They had been fighting and killing for the past two days, and now they had little strength.
"Tangtou, the commander is right, Jiannu was really frightened!"
The red lady smiled faintly: "Let's not rush into pursuit yet. Let's camp on the spot, rest, and sharpen our swords to chop firewood!"
As the Ming army cavalry began to set up camp, rest on the spot and recharge their batteries, Jiannu could finally breathe a sigh of relief. But this is only temporary. Early tomorrow morning, these Ming army cavalry will continue to pounce on the defeated army like a pack of wolves, ruthlessly biting the defeated army, constantly bleeding them, and causing them to completely collapse.
Inside the Ming army camp.
Sun Chengzong didn't mean to be drunk at all. He looked at Cheng Shijie who was eating hot pot and said, "Beiping, what are your plans now?"
"Intend?"
Cheng Shijie didn't understand what Sun Chengzong meant.
"Do you want to withdraw your troops and return to the capital to report the victory, or do you want to continue the pursuit?"
"Of course we will pursue the victory and take advantage of Jian Nu's disease to kill them!"
Cheng Shijie took out the map and drew a circle around Haizhou with his finger, and said: "Haizhou has been saved, but the five Liaozhong guards are still in the hands of Jiannu. Although I don't have the strength to recapture the five Liaozhong cities for the time being, I can't stop it." The interest can still be achieved. Follow this road to the northeast. Along the way are Changning, Dongsheng, Chang'an, Qinghe, Wuding, and Wuyong. A total of six forts are still in their hands. I will take advantage of this great victory to conquer these cities. Take them all back."
Only by advancing the front line to the future territory of Anshan and Liaoyang can Cheng Shijie completely control Dalian Bay. This is a treasure land with a warm climate, a seaport that never freezes, and ships that can be navigated all year round. Whether it is the development of fishery here Or growing fruits, there is a lot of potential.
Sun Chengzong nodded slowly: "Not bad!"
Sun Zhiman said: "Commander, you have great military skills and great speed!"
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "Yongyan, what are you in a hurry for?"
"I'm worried that they are riding too fast and we won't be able to catch up!"
"Ha ha!"
Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Jiannu is too obsessed with his own force. Once the self-confidence they have built up through countless victories is defeated, they will be defeated thousands of miles away, their military morale will be shaken, and even if they encounter opponents in the future, they will only have one person left to escape." Words!"
Only then did Sun Zhiwan understand the reason why Cheng Shijie did not adopt any stratagem and went against all opinions to fight the main force of Jiannu head-on. He wanted to crush the pride and self-confidence of Jiannu in this kind of anvil-on-hammer battle with the main force. Let Jiannu realize that they are not as powerful as they thought. They are fighting with a giant and may be smashed into pulp by the giant at any time!
Cheng Shijie said: "The next battle will be easy. We can walk sixty or seventy miles a day, just walk slowly. Almost all the slaves have escaped."
"Run away!? Why did they run away?"
Sun Zhiman shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible. Although Jiannu was defeated miserably, the main force is still there. They are far from being afraid of our army and running away!"
Cheng Shijie smiled grimly: "Don't run? It's okay not to run, just stay here in the fertile land!"
Early tomorrow morning, Cheng Shijie will lead Ning Haijun's infantry to catch up and fight fiercely. Don't talk nonsense about not chasing the poor invaders and not stopping them when they return to the army. Don't talk to them about being tired. They finally won an unprecedented victory. It's true. What's more, he doesn't care about anything, he just wants to pounce on Jiannu to eat Jiannu's flesh and drink Jiannu's blood.
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The sky was getting dark, and although the exhausted Jiannu found that there were no pursuers behind him, he did not dare to stop, gritted his teeth and continued on his way. The exhausted Jiannu soldiers lamented and discussed endlessly, and some even openly accused the generals of their arrogance. This was unimaginable in the past. In the eyes of these soldiers, no matter how much their masters squandered, it was normal, because They are the slaves of their master, and slaves have no right to accuse their master.
Now, it is just a fiasco, and all the problems have surfaced. This is just a precursor. The subsequent effects of this fiasco will continue to ferment, making Jiannu miserable.
Huang Taiji had actually woken up a long time ago, but he had been pretending to be unconscious. Huang Taiji quietly looked around with the corner of his eyes.
The angry army.
In addition to being depressed, Huang Taiji was still depressed.
He secretly sighed in his heart: "It was such a miserable defeat... I have followed my father Khan in the north and south and fought in battles for half my life, but I have never lost so miserably!"
Hauge's face was livid, his eyes were spitting fire, he caught up with Yue Tuo and said fiercely: "Where is the Great Khan? I want to see the Great Khan!"
Hauge's tone was a bit unkind. Although the situation was unfavorable for Jiannu at that time, Huang Taiji's retreat was the last straw that broke the hearts of Jiannu's army, so Hauge wanted to ask Huang Taiji what he thought.
Yue Tuo smiled bitterly: "King Khan was so worried that he vomited blood and fell into a coma. He has not woken up yet."
Hearing that Huang Taiji was vomiting blood and unconscious, Hauge could not say anything else.
He could only sulk.
Yue Tuo said: "I heard that the fourth uncle and the tenth uncle both broke. You are in front and can see clearly. What happened?"
Haug said angrily: "Mingguo has no other abilities, so he will bully people with firearms!" What kind of ability does it have to rely on firearms to fight? If you have the ability to fight with me with real swords and guns, you despicable cowards! "
Yue Tuo was speechless about Hauge. Although the Ming army's firearms were powerful, they were far from powerful enough to defeat them solely by relying on firearms.
What really defeated them was the extremely bloody hand-to-hand combat and the assault of the Ming army's spear infantry. Ning Haijun's equipment was so sophisticated that other Ming troops had been killed and injured long ago when they encountered Jiannu's cavalry and shooting attacks.
But the problem is that Ning Haijun's armor wearing rate is too high, especially more than 70% of the soldiers are wearing armor made of fine steel. Unless the unlucky guy is shot in the face or throat, Ning Haijun's officers can ignore the armor. The slave's arrow rain. I fought for a long time, but couldn't bite the opponent, but the opponent counterattacked, leaving many casualties on my side. How to fight this battle?
The Ming army relied on real swords and guns to fight and finally defeated them. In other words, Jiannu was defeated this time and had nothing to say. Of course, these words cannot be said. Even if you know this is the case, you have to keep it in your stomach, and vigorously promote that the Ming army relied on firearms to defeat them, not on their true ability...
Although you are deceiving yourself, if you don't do this, your military morale will collapse! There is no way. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, let alone a few self-deceptive lies, even if he is asked to bark like a dog, as long as he can bring this army back to Liaoyang and then safely withdraw to Shenyang, there is nothing he can't do.
Located at the very back of the Jiannu camp, Duduo looked at Dorgon who had been silent and looked a little melancholy. He couldn't help but ask, "Brother Fourteen, what are you thinking about?"
Dorgon smiled bitterly and said, "I'm thinking about where we should go in the future!"
Duduo smiled disapprovingly and said: "Brother Fourteen, cheer up. Victory and defeat are common matters for military strategists. We lost this time, so we just have to find a way to win back. There are not many elite soldiers like this in the Ming Dynasty, and we still have Chance!"
"In September last year, Cheng Shijie's Ning Navy had just been established. The army had 2,500 people, all of whom were infantry. There were only a few muskets and only a few artillery pieces!"
Dorgon smiled bitterly and said: "Just over a year has passed, and he now has an army of 70,000 or 80,000 people. We were defeated this time. It will take at least three to five years to recover our strength. In three to five years, Cheng Shijie will be able to practice With two hundred thousand, three hundred thousand, or even four hundred thousand elite soldiers, do we still have a chance?"
Dodo is like being in an ice cellar.
Dorgon looked at Duduo and said, "Actually, you shouldn't hide it from me!"
"I'm hiding something from you? What?"
"What happened in Haizhou in February this year?"
Duduo was slightly startled: "At that time, there was a sudden blizzard..."
"You still haven't told the truth!"
Dorgon said with a serious face: "Brother Twelve has already said that he encountered Ning Haijun's Lianfa gun in Jinshi Mountain last year, and his army suffered heavy casualties. At that time, Ning Haijun's Lianfa gun was only a few dozen. Now they have hundreds of them..."
"Brother Fourteen, believe me, I really didn't lie to you!"
"never mind!"
Dorgon took a breath and said in a cold voice: "There is no point in saying this!"
"Brother Fourteen, are you saying that we, the Great Jin Kingdom, have no chance?"
"No chance!"
Duduo was a little frightened: "No, this day will never happen! The Ming Dynasty is reluctant to spend this money. Those pedantic civil servants in the Ming Dynasty will not tolerate the rise of such a powerful new army that threatens their interests. We still have a chance!"
Duduo grabbed Dorgon's hand crazily and said: "Brother Fourteen, we can bribe Guan Ning's army and let them help us deal with these new armies! We can buy those extremely sharp and powerful soldiers from the Ming army through Shanxi merchants. Crossbow firearms, we can... we can alienate the relationship between the New Army and the Wenchen Group, and get rid of Cheng Shijie with the hands of those useless people. As long as this person is killed, the military spirit and morale of the Ming Army that has been hard to gather will be completely dispersed. Now! Brother Fourteen, we still have a chance, cheer up!"
(End of chapter)
