Chapter 182
Although the Jiannu generals were very reluctant, the problem was that after seeing the defeated generals of their remaining armies and looking at the high-spirited Ming army, they had to admit that Dajin could no longer afford a battle with thousands of casualties. The battle involving tens of thousands of people was so fierce that we had no choice but to withdraw.
At this time, the Jiannu army changed from its normal state and retreated in an orderly manner with extreme grief and anger. They now understood that any further chaos would only give the Ming army a chance to be completely annihilated. If they wanted to survive, they could only stay together and unite. There is desperate effort.
As Jurchens living in Liaodong, they often encounter wolves. When they encounter wolves, the more they fear death, the faster they die. Only by showing determination without fear of death can they have a chance of survival.
In the Kingdom of Jin, there are actually many people who are dissatisfied with Huang Taiji, such as Mang Gurtai, Amin, and Abatai, including Dorgon who is respectful to Huang Taiji but secretly hopes that he will fall into a big somersault.
However, in this battle, Abatai was captured alive. Among the Eight Banners, the Two Blue Banners who were the most dissatisfied with Huang Taiji were almost completely destroyed. Although the Two Blue Banners originally had fifty-three Niulu, there were still ten Seven Niu Lu, but only less than 600 troops, could no longer cause trouble to Huang Taiji.
Chen Dayong's troops who were chasing encountered such a problem. The retreat of Jiannu was a bit chaotic at first, but gradually became orderly. The remaining 40,000 to 50,000 troops actually launched a counterattack against Chen Dayong's troops, causing Chen Dayong to retreat. The headquarters suffered a small loss, losing two to three hundred people.
"Cheng Shuai, are you still chasing me?"
Although Zu Dabi was high-spirited and triumphant, the war horse he got off started foaming at the mouth. Obviously, people can grit their teeth and persist, but the war horse cannot hold on anymore.
Cheng Shijie sighed and said: "You are still chasing after shit. Our artillery shells have almost hit us, and our people are very tired. Although the number of Jiannu now is small, they are all their elites who have fought in hundreds of battles. They are hard bones and are not easy to chew." Got it!"
In this battle, Cheng Shijie crippled Jiannu. More than 120,000 troops were invested before and after Jiannu. Now there are only 40,000 troops left, with losses of more than two-thirds. That is, nearly 80,000 troops were annihilated by Cheng Shijie. Among them, the Mongolian cavalry More than 8,000 people surrendered, Xibo's flying cavalry surrendered more than 2,000 people, Sauron's heavy infantry surrendered more than 3,000 people, the Han army surrendered more than 20,000 people, and Jiannu surrendered only more than 5,000 people.
In addition to 20,000 prisoners, Cheng Shijie actually re-created more than 60,000 slaves. The two blue flags were crippled, the two red flags and the bordered yellow flags were severely damaged. Even the two white flags with lighter losses suffered between three and four thousand casualties. Abatai was captured, two Beile, Degelei and Manggurtai, were killed. Fifteen Jia La'erzhen were killed, and one hundred and four Niulu'erzhen were killed.
However, Cheng Shijie only beheaded more than 16,000 people, and the heads of the other 40,000 to 50,000 people were all beaten to pieces on the battlefield, so they are not counted. Cheng Shijie may not count his military merits, but Huang Taiji cannot treat this matter as non-existent.
This was a major defeat suffered by the Jiannu since Nurhaci raised his army. Cheng Shijie not only protected Haizhou, but also casually recovered the fallen Guangning Guard, Liao Zhongwei, Liao Zhongzuo Tunwei and the old capital of the Jiannu, Liaoyang, and expanded his territory. When they arrived along the Taizi River and Liao River, the front line was less than two hundred miles away from Shenyang.
20,000 troops surrendered to the Ming army. While Daikin lost nearly 80,000 troops, it also lost the precious intangible wealth of "the Jurchens are less than 10,000, and they cannot fight if they are full of 10,000." Their myth of invincibility was completely shattered, and it was so serious. The consequences of this made every Jiannu soldier feel heavy-hearted. Who else could laugh?
To put it bluntly, Jiannu is similar to a pack of wolves. If the prey is weak, they will pounce on it ferociously and tear it into pieces until death; but if the opponent is so powerful that their entire population is facing the crisis of extinction, they will immediately They will retreat and dare not fight again.
In more than thirty years, this was the first time that the Ming army had forced Jiannu to retreat in a field battle. This "first time" was unacceptable to Jiannu.
However, no matter how unacceptable it is, you have to accept it, because this fact has already happened and no one can change this result.
Huang Taiji turned around. Within his field of vision, the Ming army's formation stood majestic, like an unshakable mountain. He watched their retreat in silence.
Cheng Shijie rode the war horse in Abatai. This was not a Liaodong horse. To be fair, the Liaodong cavalry left a deep impression on people in the past dynasties. For example, Gongsun Zan's white horse Yi Cong during the Three Kingdoms period, Yan Yun Shiba Cavalry, Youzhou Iron Cavalry, but in fact, Liaodong horses are not an outstanding horse breed. In terms of endurance, they are far inferior to Mongolian horses, and in terms of tallness and power, they are not as good as Hequ horses and Tianshan horses.
Abatai's horse is a Tianshan horse from the Tianshan Mountains. The horse is six years old. Fan Yongdou used his connections to buy it from a Guanxi businessman for two thousand taels of silver each. After thousands of miles of transportation, it arrived. Liaodong was sent to Huang Taiji. There were only sixteen such war horses in total, including Daishan, Yue Tuo, and Mang Gurtai. These horses were only owned by Huang Taiji as a reward.
Compared with ordinary Liaodong horses, Tianshan horses are one foot taller. Cheng Shijie's Tianshan horse, a white horse without a single hair on its body, stands proudly in front of the formation.
Huang Taiji looked at Cheng Shijie who stood out from the crowd and gritted his teeth: "This Khan will be back!"
This disastrous defeat, unprecedented since the uprising, made the whole country of Dajin rewarded and thousands of families cried. The greatly weakened Jin Kingdom will not be able to launch a large-scale war for at least five years.
It made Huang Taiji realize that their sabers, bows and arrows were already out of date.
The reason why Cheng Shijie did not continue to pursue Huang Taiji was not simply because he wanted to free Huang Taiji, but because Huang Taiji and Jiannu were now injured beasts, and this beast was at its most dangerous.
What's more, Cheng Shijie has time to buffer, and Ning Haijun can change to a more powerful artillery next time. The breech-mounted rifled gun can shoot farther and be more powerful. In addition to the breech-loaded rifled cannon, Ning Haijun's gunnery bureau is also working hard to develop the naval warfare artifact Fire Dragon Water.
This is actually the original version of the rocket launcher. According to the "Military Bei Zhi", the way to make the fire dragon water is to use five feet of bamboo, remove the knots, and scrape it thin with an iron knife. A wooden dragon head and tail are installed on the front and rear. The mouth of the dragon's head is upward, and several magical rockets are installed in the dragon's belly. The medicine lines of the rockets are always connected together and led out from a hole in the lower part of the dragon's head.
He also equipped two large rocket launchers under the dragon's body and tilted forward and backward, and connected their explosive lines together. He also connected the main explosive lines of the magical fire crawler inside the dragon's belly to the bottoms of the two rocket launchers in front. " "Water War" can light a fire three or four feet away from the water, that is, fly two or three miles away from the water, like a fire dragon emerging from the river. When the cartridge was almost finished, the rocket flew out of the abdomen, burning both the man and the ship.
Cheng Shijie liked the rocket launchers of later generations very much, especially the scene of shooting like a meteor rocket. When he learned that the Gun and Artillery Bureau was improving and developing this weapon, Cheng Shijie allocated a special fund of 400,000 taels of silver to the Gun and Artillery Bureau to develop the rocket launcher. , which is the internal name: "Fire Dragon One".
At the same time, the Gun and Artillery Bureau is still developing rifled rifles, which are also breech-loading. Once a breakthrough is made in technology, Ning Haijun’s muskets will be able to have a range of two to three hundred meters. At the same time, the establishment of crossbows in the army can also be eliminated. At that time, Ning Haijun's main battle weapon was the fire blunderbuss with a spear, and the team level used the thunder blunderbuss as supporting firepower. After the success of the breech-mounted rifled cannon, the Folang machine, the tiger crouching cannon, and the flying thunder cannon could all be withdrawn from active service. .
At that time, even if Huang Taiji had 100,000 or 200,000 troops, Cheng Shijie could easily crush Jiannu to death.
It can be said that time is on Cheng Shijie's side. As time goes by, Huang Taiji will become more and more difficult and have less and less hope of survival.
Cheng Shijie was not idle now, but was busy cleaning the battlefield and starting to boost morale. Although Ning Haijun won this battle, the problem was that the Ming army still paid a heavy price under the counterattack of more than 20,000 Jiannu. The casualties were mainly concentrated in the Dongjiang Army. Huanglong first invested more than 18,000 soldiers in the Dongjiang Army. Later, under the leadership of Shang Kexi and Mao Chengjun, more than 8,000 soldiers entered the battle.
However, after these two battles, more than 26,000 Dongjiang troops were killed, more than 14,000 people were killed, and more than 8,000 casualties were taken. Counting even the old, weak, sick and disabled, there were only about 4,000 people left. If Counting the lightly wounded, we could barely make up 6,000 people.
The second largest casualty was the Guan Ning army. The Guan Ning army invested 8,000 cavalry before and after Zu Dashou, and suffered nearly half of the casualties, leaving more than 4,000 people. Wu Sangui led 5,000 cavalry to join the battle, with about 2,000 people left. In other words, Guan Ning's army suffered more than 7,000 casualties in this battle.
As the main force, Ning Haijun was the army with the fewest casualties. After the two battles, there were more than 6,000 casualties. Taken together, the entire army suffered nearly 30,000 casualties.
With the absolute advantage of artillery, more than 30,000 casualties were suffered. Although there were a large number of Dongjiang Army and Guan Ning Army, it can be seen that Jiannu's true strength was not weak.
Liaoyang City is the only two remaining cities that were not destroyed by the Jiannu slaves. Of course, the Guangning Acropolis collapsed too quickly because the Jiannu slaves had no time to destroy it. Liaoyang City is different from the Liaozhong Acropolis. This city was commanded by Chen Dayong. Taking advantage of Jiannu's laziness, Jiannu who defended the city thought that the Ming army had not arrived in Liaoyang. In addition, Baiyintu's troops had just left, so they thought that Jiannu had sent reinforcements.
When they discovered that more than 6,000 people under Chen Dayong's command had rushed into the city, the more than 800 old, weak, sick and disabled people who had built slaves had little time to resist, and were blocked in the military camp.
Like Guangning Acropolis, the Jiannu here had almost no civilians, and they were all military. In other words, the Jiannu in Liaoyang had also been moved, and there was not much food and grass left.
Simply speaking from the capture on the battlefield, Cheng Shijie's battle this time was actually at a loss. The shells alone cost no less than one hundred thousand taels of silver. Plus the consumption of an army of 60,000 to 70,000 people, thousands of taels of silver were needed every day. Ten thousand taels of silver, and the expenses on the road, so much money was spent.
The most important part is the pension for fallen soldiers. This is the big one. Dongjiang Army and Guan Ning Army both followed Ning Haijun’s pension standards. The entire army lost more than 20,657 people, which is more than 400,000 people. Two taels of silver, plus two million acres of land, and the treatment of wounded soldiers, this part of the money will also cost a lot.
Cheng Shijie looked at the corpses of the soldiers one after another, and his heart ached even more.
"You bastards, can't you cherish your lives? Do you know that your lives are very valuable!!"
Cheng Shijie gives a pension of 20 taels to an ordinary soldier killed in battle. If a captain is killed in battle, the pension is 30 taels of silver. The level of a sentry commander is 40 taels of silver. The level of a hundred generals is fifty taels of silver. The total level is eighty taels. , the total level of Qian is one hundred taels. The level of the commander-in-chief is two hundred taels of silver.
Fortunately, the Ning Haijun Army did not have all command-level generals killed, but the Dongjiang Army was different. Since the Dongjiang Army adopted the Ming system, their officers were all very high-level. An officer who commanded 500 soldiers was in the Ning Haijun Army. In this case, it is only possible to put the total level.
However, in the Dongjiang Army, this level is at least a guerrilla general, which is the level of the commander-in-chief of Ning Haijun. There are also staff generals and deputy generals. The Dongjiang Army lost one general, Huang Long, and two deputy generals, Mao Chengjun, Tan Yinghua, and There are also eight participating generals such as Zhang Dalong, Fan Sheng, Guo Kui, Fan Hualong, and Zhang Guosheng, and twenty-one guerrilla generals including Gao Yan, Tan Shun, and Huang Sizheng.
As for the Guan Ning Army, Zu Dabi lost 15 guerrilla generals including Zhang Xing, Lei Cunren, and Yang Tianci, as well as 15 other guerrilla generals including Dai Ming, Cui Shiyao, and Wu Rujie. A total of 23 people were killed, and 4,000 horses were lost. Eight hundred and sixty-nine horses.
There were 2,162 soldiers killed under Wu Sangui and 745 wounded, including one Qianzong and two Generals. Nine guerrillas were killed and 3,086 horses were lost.
According to Cheng Shijie's rules, the cavalry and heavy infantry were given a pension of forty taels of silver, as well as additional war horses. Just to accompany Guan Ning's army, more than 7,900 horses were needed.
In this battle, due to the fierce fighting, Cheng Shijie only captured more than 14,000 barely usable horses, and more than half of them were lost at once.
"It's good for you guys, you don't care about your life when fighting. Are you deliberately trying to make me bankrupt!!!"
As the saying goes, the butt determines the head. Although Cheng Shijie lost money, the problem was that the Ming army soldiers were very happy, especially Shang Keyi, crying and laughing at the same time, suddenly like a madman.
Huang Long's nephew Huang Yulang was also crying: "Uncle, you can rest in peace now, Jiannu was beaten badly by us!"
A soldier from the Dongjiang Army knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Father and mother, I avenged you. I killed three Jiannu slaves..."
However, at this moment, the Dongjiang Army soldier made no sound. He was shot by an arrow in the abdomen and blood was already flowing all over his body.
Shang Kexi stared blankly at the more than 4,000 surviving Dongjiang Army soldiers.
"Second brother, what are you worried about?"
"What should we do next?"
"after!"
Shang Keyi smiled and said: "With Cheng Shuai here, we don't have to worry about whether the court will ignore us in the future, and Cheng Shuai will never ignore us!"
"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 that Cheng Shuai doesn't know this!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "I know it, and I won't ignore it. How many people are there in the Dongjiang Army now?"
Shang Keyi shook his head: "That should be it!"
Shang Ke said happily: "We still have more than 16,000 people in Jeju Island!"
Cheng Shijie said: "On Jeju Island, we will temporarily issue military pay to 20,000 people, but remember, this money is paid by me, and no one can take advantage of my money!"
Shang Keyi smiled and said: "Cheng Shuai, don't worry!"
Cheng Shijie continued: "I will write to the imperial court and request that the designation of the Dongjiang Army be revoked. If the imperial court agrees, the Dongjiang Army will be reorganized and merged into the Ninghai Navy. The infantry organization of the Ninghai Navy is different from that of the Dongjiang Army. It is based on the Dusi and has two jurisdictions. There are two divisions, including Jeju and Pido, each with more than 9,600 people under their jurisdiction."
In fact, it was a big taboo in the Ming Dynasty for the generals of two towns to have personal relationships, let alone the fact that the general of one town devoted all his efforts to support the construction of another town. In the early Ming Dynasty, it would definitely lose his head.
However, the imperial envoy Fu Zonglong didn't see it. Maybe in his opinion, this was a good thing. If Dongjiang Town could solve the food problem with the help of Cheng Shijie, the court would be much less troublesome.
Originally, Cheng Shijie had the right to command the Dongjiang Army.
Cheng Shijie occupied Liaoyang and never thought of giving up. After all, Liaoyang's geographical location was too important. In the spring, autumn and summer, Liaoyang, which guarded the Taizi River, could block Jiannu to the north of the Taizi River.
But the problem is that the territory has been increased by more than 300 kilometers at once, which means that Cheng Shijie now occupies almost half of Liaoning.
Relying on Cheng Shijie's and Ning Haijun's three capital divisions alone, the strength is somewhat insufficient. At the same time, the establishment of the Dusi level has to be retained.
However, Cheng Shijie is preparing for a new round of military expansion.
In fact, the sources of troops and equipment are easy to solve. His garrison commanders were directly transferred. First, the fifth commander of Ning Haijun was established to upgrade the original Meituo Lake Twin City Guards Management Committee to the twin city commanders. Chen Dayong served as the dual commander. The commander of the city is the commander of the capital.
Secondly, there is the Command and Envoy Division of the Central and Forward Capital, with Liu Qingsong serving as the Commander of the Division of the Former Capital and Envoy, garrisoning Liaoyang and assisting in the defense of Liao Zhongwei. The commander of the Zuo Front Capital was established, and Shen Mingyu concurrently served as the commander of the Zuo Central Capital Command to defend the Guangning Guard and wait for an opportunity to establish the Guangning defense line.
Guangning Guard released two Dusi, totaling more than 19,600 troops.
Liaoyang only placed one capital commander. Of course, the commander of the right capital was stationed in Haizhou, and Changyu also served as the right front capital commander.
Since then, Ning Haijun has been under the jurisdiction of the front, left, left center, right, right center, guards, Jeju, Pido, and Shuangcheng commanders. The cavalry commander and the artillery commander have a total of eleven commanders. The total number of troops is officially It swelled to 100,000 troops.
Of course, this is just Cheng Shijie's plan. There is still a long way to go before this plan can be truly completed. Not only equipment, but also training. I'm afraid it will be six years after Chongzhen. This is not a sentence or two. Words can do things.
In addition to the addition of five infantry divisions including the front, left center, right center, Jeju Island, and Pido, with a total of more than 50,000 troops, garrison divisions must also be added. Although Jinju, Gaiju, Fuju, and Haeju belong to the rear, A garrison bureau must also be established. The purpose of the garrison bureau is to maintain local security. Guangning, Liaozhong, Liaoyang, and Baliwan located on the front line must also set up garrison bureaus, with at least one or two garrison bureaus in each city.
Ning Haijun's eleven divisions are field troops, not passive defense.
After Cheng Shijie's army expansion plan was written, he sent the plan to the General Staff Headquarters and began to enrich and improve it.
Fu Zonglong was busy writing memorials to report his victory to the court.
Gao Qiqian was even more of a thief. He didn't even enter Liaoyang City. He immediately took his confidants and rode fast horses to Fuzhou with satisfaction. He boarded the ship at Fuzhou Donggang and returned to the sea ship in Tianjin to express his gratitude to the court. The gong is gone.
When it comes to competing for credit, Gao Qi Di will never lag behind anyone.
Of course, when leaving Liaoyang, Gao Qiqian made it clear: "Cheng Shuai, we have the same old rules. If our family raids Wu Xiang's house, we will gain half of it!"
Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "It's just that Wu Xiang's family is probably not as good as Fan Yongdou!"
Gao Qiqian was a little disappointed: "How much money does Wu Xiang have?"
"He has a lot of money, but his cash in cash is probably not as much as that of Fan Yongdou. Fan Yongdou is a businessman and will save a lot of money for emergencies. Wu Xiang is the commander-in-chief. The valuable things in his family are used for farming cattle, Most of them are war horses and armed equipment!”
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Eunuch Gao, don't be disappointed. I'll give you money for the war horse. A good war horse costs twenty taels of silver..."
Before Cheng Shijie could finish speaking, Gao Qiqian said with a smile: "That counts as ten taels of silver, and the cattle count as five taels of silver. All other property will be discounted by half!"
"terrific!"
"Our family will not let General Cheng suffer!"
Gao Qiqian bowed towards Cheng Shijie and said, "Our family is waiting for our consort in the capital!"
"It's easy to say, father-in-law, have a nice journey!"
After Gao Qi sneaked away, Zu Dabi, Zu Dale and Wu Sangui found Cheng Shijie. Wu Sangui was also very frustrated at this time. In this battle, the Wu family's army suffered casualties ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 troops, losing more than half and nearly two-thirds.
However, the results achieved were only less than 300 levels. Zu Dabi was a little better. They successively obtained more than 1,500 levels of beheading level. It can be said to be a great harvest.
The worst thing is actually that the Dongjiang Army suffered casualties of more than 20,000 horses, and the beheadings were less than one-third of Ning Haijun's, barely over 2,000.
"Cheng Shuai!"
Zu Dabi smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know if what Cheng Shuai said before is still true!"
The Zu family army invested more than 8,000 troops and lost more than half. This was a huge loss. If it were in the past, Zu Dabi would not be worried at all. But the problem is that as Zu Dashou and the court officials broke up, how could they change the situation? The military pay that the imperial court wants to receive is probably much less.
"A man paints a nail in one go!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "I have said that if they are asked to follow Ning Haijun's pension standard, I will strictly implement it. The distance between Guangning Wei and Jin is not complete. I am planning to allocate more than 900,000 acres of land in Guangning Wei." , used to house the fallen soldiers of the Guan Ning Army. Each fallen soldier’s family can be allocated one hundred acres of land. If the Ning Army soldiers beheaded, made slaves, or captured, it can be converted into farmland!”
Cheng Shijie directly drew on the map: "A total of 300,000 acres along the left bank of the Shazi River is Wujia Town, and the right bank is Zujia Town. I will be tax-free for five years and half tax for ten years. How about it?"
"Cheng Shuai is awesome!"
PS: I fell asleep while writing yesterday. This chapter is a make-up for yesterday. There will be more tonight!
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