Let's say that after the defeats of Daishan and Duoduo, Beiyan was shaken up and down, and its morale was instantly depressed, so much so that it began to avoid war.
Therefore, when Murong Yin summoned Dorgon, Mang Gurtai, Fan Wencheng and others, the soldiers at the middle level and below of the Eight Banners had already had various discussions from a military perspective.
For example, those who support the heavy troops marching south feel that they should not still hesitate. His Majesty directly marches directly and attacks Baoding Pass with hundreds of thousands of troops. Isn't it possible to defeat the pass in one fell swoop?
Not to mention breaking through, they can even take down the big city of Chang'an.
Of course, compared to the intuitive and simplicity of the former, the latter is a bit passive and cowardly.
It was impossible for Murong Yin to block the news of Meng Yuan's successive defeats, because there were many people coming and going, and someone would always leak the news quietly, not to mention that it was spread in the Di newspaper in Daqian.
In the past, he tried every means to get the Daqiandi newspaper to get first-hand information.
Now.
The idea was to prevent the Daqiandi newspaper from being introduced into Beiyan.
However, he didn't want the soldiers up and down Beiyan to know the situation on Meng Yuan's side, so Pian Pian Da Gan had plenty of ideas.
When attacking Daishan, a lot of Dibao had been shot in advance and passed into the camp where Daishan was located.
At that time, what was reported in the Di newspaper was the battle at the Anxi Protectorate. Prince Kublai Khan of Meng Yuan led the army, but was defeated and fled.
The Mongols lost tens of thousands of cavalry in the First World War.
The rumor that Meng Yuan was less than ten thousand and invincible was immediately broken.
Just like when Emperor Xiao Di of Daqian led the imperial army of Daqian to march directly outside the city of Harlem, the capital of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty.
It can only be said that as Meng Yuan was defeated one after another, and the 100,000 troops of Daishan and Duduo were also defeated and abandoned their armor, they fled to Zhuozhou. Naturally, there were people in Beiyan who were too scared to fight, and they supported continuing. Bow down and surrender, in exchange for a peaceful life.
Of course, they didn't want to fight, but they couldn't stop people like Murong Yin and Dorgon. They were unwilling to do so.
At the same time, they also understood.
This time Da Gan directly wanted to kill them.
Even if they negotiate a peace, even if they surrender, they probably won't be able to stop the Daqian Iron Cavalry from approaching the city.
If they really negotiate for peace, they will probably die in a small courtyard in Chang'an in the future, or they will die inexplicably.
They definitely want to give it a try and fight hard. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, they can still escape north and hide in the primitive forest.
This is considered the last way.
Don't expect Dorgon and other power-hungry and ambitious people to die on the battlefield for Beiyan's Guozuo.
Such people are naturally considered to be members of the northward faction, and there are two opinions. One is to suggest retreating, leaving the green hills without worrying about having no firewood. The bloodline of Beiyan must be preserved, and Daqian cannot be killed. The idea is to seize Goryeo, then build a defense line, hide there, and slowly develop. When there is civil strife in the Central Plains, Prince Xiao Yi and King Yan Xiao Zheng fight, and they are beaten to a bloody head, and then they go south.
However, everyone has their own thoughts on these plans, and they will not speak out directly at this time.
Because Murong Yin was still very young and had a very high reputation, because of his civil and martial arts, Beiyan changed from a ruined country to the current Beiyan.
In the battle that year, Beiyan suffered very heavy losses. Not only did they lose the territory around Zhending Mansion, but many soldiers were killed in the battle, so that there were only many old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the country. For a long time, they lived a A life of hunger and cold.
In one word, whether to fight or retreat, it depends on Murong Yin's words.
Obviously, Murong Yin wanted to fight.
When he still has hundreds of thousands of troops, when the Eight Banners of Beiyan are not completely exhausted, and when Dagan fights on two fronts and suffers relatively large battle losses, it is not certain who will lose and who will win.
After making up his mind, Murong Yin discussed with Dorgon, Fan Wencheng and others, and at the same time sent people to respond to the defeated troops of Daishan and Duduo, and established a defense line in Zhuozhou, which would be Beiyan's second line of defense.
Following Murong Yin's arrangements, he naturally wanted to continue fighting.
Seeing this, Dorgon and others quickly followed Murong Yin's thoughts and put forward some suggestions.
Everyone discussed together how to defeat Xiao Zheng's Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun and how to overcome the barrier.
First, Dorgon proposed opening up the military supplies inventory and giving large rewards to the lower-level soldiers.
This can calm the morale of the army. If they have more military pay, they will naturally obey orders and will not complain.
Immediately, Fan Wencheng proposed to promote some of the soldiers who had performed well in the previous battles. Although they were defeated, it was an honor to defeat them. No matter what, they were still Yanyun's sixteen cavalry who blocked Daqian. Their courage was commendable.
Not only that, but after the awards, hereditary documents should be issued directly to them, so that they know that their titles can be passed on to their descendants.
Money, title, and descendants are all overshadowed. After receiving several awards, they will definitely improve their morale and make the soldiers willing to continue fighting. They will also fight bravely on the battlefield for such awards.
Murong Yin immediately agreed to these proposals.
And if these things are to be done, it actually takes time.
The twenty-fifth year of Zhenyuan passed like this.
When Wang Jian's attack on Daishan was successful, Daishan and Duoduo fled to Zhuozhou, and the results were also achieved at Lingqiu Pass.
Aobai could not attack for a long time, so he wanted to sneak attack Datong Pass.
As a result, Meng Yuan was ambushed and ten thousand households were wiped out. He did not dare to fight and retreated.
Xiao Zheng immediately asked Zhao Tuo to lead troops, take supplies to Lingqiu Pass, and leave the pass with Meng Tian.
With night attacks, fire attacks, force attacks, including small ballistae and other siege methods, all the necessary tactics are available.
In addition, Yanyun's Sixteenth Cavalry could rely on their superior strength and take turns to fight day and night. After all, they followed the original official road all the way north and steadily opened several important passes. The two sides met outside the city.
…
"coming."
Looking southwest from the city wall of Zhuozhou City, we can see the dust and smoke rising from the sixteen cavalrymen of Daqian Yanyun.
Daishan pursed his chapped lips and began to issue orders one after another.
The plan to attack Baoding Pass fell through. Instead, the opponent's army came out of the pass and took the initiative to attack the camp and was defeated in a battle.
Nowadays, I feel a little ashamed to return to Yanjing.
Therefore, after retreating to Zhuozhou, he did not continue to retreat, but stayed here, intending to use the strength of Zhuozhou City to resist the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun.
Of course, he knew very well that Murong Yin would not ignore the news of the defeat when it reached Yanjing.
Daqian's Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun is still pursuing the pursuit. If they don't defend Zhuozhou, will they have to defend Yanjing City?
You know, there are 700,000 people in Yanjing City.
really.
"The enemy is really coming!"
Duduo was a little frightened and whispered: "Why haven't we seen more reinforcements arriving? The opponent now has almost hundreds of thousands of troops, far more than us. The city of Zhuozhou is too small and cannot accommodate more soldiers."
Daishan glanced at Duduo. The reason why he was defeated this time was mainly because he concentrated all his troops on the central army and did not deploy more troops on the left and right sides.
However, the Chinese army's tens of thousands of troops failed to stop Wang Jian's more than ten thousand cavalry. In addition to the fire in the Chinese army camp and chaos in the rear, Duduo retreated and failed to fight to the death, surrounding and killing Wang Jian.
He originally wanted to go to the central army. As long as they could repel Wang Jian, they could backhand attack the troops on the left and right sides.
Even if the camp was burned to ashes, they still won.
However, Duduo withdrew first.
In order not to let Duduo miss the opportunity again, he said directly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty must have sent reinforcements to establish a defense line."
"After Zhuozhou, there is Yanjing, where your family and hundreds of thousands of people live."
“So, this is a critical place and there is no room for error.”
Duduo nodded and said: "That's good."
After Meng Tian and Wang Jian joined forces, with Bai Qi as the commander, they first found a place to set up camp.
Then make a fire to cook, boil several large pots of hot mutton soup, and eat a piece of cooking cake, which can immediately relieve the fatigue of the march.
…
Wang Ben turned sideways to avoid the incoming arrows, kicked his horse in the belly and rushed to the formation of Beiyan's vanguard army. His long spear pierced the body of a centurion.
In this round of charge, the eight thousand Yanyun Sixteen Cavalry were waiting for work against the ten thousand rushing Beiyan Cavalry, and directly penetrated the vanguard of the Beiyan Banner Soldiers.
One by one, the soldiers of Beiyan had already turned around and ran away. Those who escaped slowly were stabbed under the horse by Yanyun Sixteenth Cavalry.
Soon there was a golden sound, and the Beiyan Pioneers immediately retreated, leaving only blood and corpses on the ground, as well as the wounded and injured horses still screaming and rolling on the ground.
This is when Dai Shan saw that the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun actually set up camp without attacking, but had no intention of retreating, so he immediately ordered his lieutenant to take 10,000 horses out of the city to harass the camp of the Sixteenth Cavalry of Yanyun. .
It's just a pity that 10,000 people left the city, but they were killed by Wang Ben's 8,000 cavalry.
Even though they came on a long march, Wang Jian kept the energy and strength of these eight thousand elites and directly asked them to follow them lightly. Arms and other equipment were all added to the militia.
After all, he knew that if he wanted to set up camp outside Zhuozhou City, he would have to guard against the other party's attacks.
Therefore, these eight thousand people are the key to their ability to set up camp.
Wang Ben and others lived up to expectations and directly stopped the Beiyan bannermen who came to harass them. Not only that, they also won a great victory.
Wang Jian took a bite of half of the cooking cake. His Highness came up with the method of baking the cooking cake.
I directly made a large round iron sheet, which is easy to carry when marching. When garrisoning, I put it directly on hot coals, horse manure, etc., then mixed the wheat bran with water, and spread it directly on it to form a Cooking cakes.
Most of the time, some mutton fat and butter are also added to make it taste more delicious.
"Not urgent."
"It's still too early to attack Zhuozhou."
"wait."
"Beiyan will definitely defend Zhuozhou. I believe that Beiyan's army will come to support Zhuozhou in the next few days."
"That's when the decisive battle begins."
"Either we don't fight, or if we want to fight, let's have a decisive battle."
"After a battle, it will be a matter of victory or defeat, as well as life and death."
