Chapter 826 0821 [The tree did not fall, the hozens dispersed]
It is said that the decisive battle will be in Liaoyang, but in fact the Jin soldiers had to withdraw north first and choose a better location to fight the decisive battle.
Because if the Jin soldiers stayed outside Liaoyang City, they would most likely be attacked from three sides - Ju Ming's main force was in the southwest, the Baozhou army was in the south, and Shenyang's partial division was in the northeast.
Moreover, there are rebels in Liaoyang City who may rush out to help at any time!
To be honest, even if the Jin soldiers could capture Liaoyang and successfully regain the food and grass in the city, they would just stay in the city and wait to die.
Because the Ming army captured Shenzhou in a surprise attack, Liaoyang had become an isolated city.
"The golden soldiers retreated!"
"The golden soldiers retreated!"
In Liaoyang City, the whole city cheered.
Less than half a day after the Jin soldiers withdrew, the leading troops of the Ming army arrived at Liaoyang City.
In the evening of that day, Ju Ming came with the main force.
The three craftsmen, together with the generals and gentry from various ethnic groups, went out of the city and knelt down to greet the Ming Emperor.
The Heavenly King Armor was transported in a truck and not worn on the body.
Zhang Xuanzang lay prone on the ground and bravely looked up. He saw a majestic and strong young man, riding a horse and walking forward slowly, wearing a gorgeous but a bit old brocade robe.
Zhu Ming asked loudly: "Who is Zhang Xunzheng?"
"The guilty minister pays homage to Your Majesty!" Zhang Xunzheng knelt forward and took a few steps.
Zhu Ming nodded and smiled: "The most prominent family in Bohai is really extraordinary. I heard that your brothers Zhang Xuansu and Zhang Hao are the first-class officials in the Jin Kingdom. Among the non-Jurchen officials, the two of them hold the highest positions. .”
Zhang Xuanzheng was frightened and uneasy: "The Zhang family was forced to pay money, and they have been looking forward to the Emperor of Han to regain Liaodong."
Ju Ming said: "Liaoyang is temporarily under your control. I have distributed food to the soldiers and civilians who surrendered to return to their hometowns. You have to live a good life and organize the people. If something goes wrong, you will be the only one to ask questions!"
"I thank your Majesty for your forgiveness. I will govern the people well for the Ming Dynasty!" Zhang Xunzheng was overjoyed.
Zhu Ming was actually fishing for law enforcement. He assigned important responsibilities to this guy first. Once Zhang Xunzheng was found to be corrupt, he would take advantage of the situation and use it to scare the monkeys.
At the same time, Liaoyang Mansion really needs local governance in order to quickly stabilize the situation from the war.
Zhang Xunzheng is just a tool man.
Ju Ming added: "Gaojingshan, where is Wang Zheng?"
"General Sin will pay homage to His Majesty!" The two men stepped forward quickly.
Ju Ming said: "You select those who can ride horses in the city and gather outside the city to listen to orders."
"yes!"
After Yang had rested for a few days, he re-established his troops. At this time, all those who could still fight came with him.
Whether it is the surrendered troops in Huosu Guancheng or the troops of various ethnic groups in Liaoyang City, as long as they can fight on horseback, they are now under the command of Yang Zaixing.
Approximately more than 5,000 cavalry were gathered, from all ethnic groups, including the Jurchen tribe. After a simple formation, Yang Zaixing led these people and chased the Jin soldiers retreating north at full speed.
It's not a head-to-head confrontation, but it's a defense all the way to prevent the Jin soldiers from evacuating calmly.
Even if the Jin soldiers can escape, they still have to leave the food and grass behind!
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The main force of the Jin soldiers moved slowly with food and grass, and they were caught up by Yang Zaixing in most of the day.
The Jurchen cavalry came back to intercept them. If there were fewer people, they would fight. If there were more people, they would flee. They were like a piece of brown candy, clinging to the rear of the Jin soldiers.
Jin Wushu's soldiers were the first to be unable to hold on. They retreated northward from the mouth of the Yalu River through mountainous roads. They didn't get much rest along the way, and continued to retreat northward from Liaoyang. Now they were extremely exhausted.
"Let's camp here. We can fight after two days of rest." Jin Wushu suggested.
They were about to withdraw to Liaozhong, but during the Liao and Jin dynasties, Liaozhong did not build a city, it was just a small town.
Wanyan Zongfu personally explored the nearby terrain, selected a suitable camping site, and then rested the entire army to wait for work.
But with the Ming Dynasty cavalry nearby, it was really hard to sleep peacefully.
We can only let Jin Wushu's tired soldiers sleep first, while Wanyan Zongfu's soldiers sleep on Ge Dadan.
After two days in a row, Ju Ming finally came with the main force.
Yang Zaixing came back and reported: "The Jin soldiers probably didn't want to escape, so they camped with their backs to the Hun River and assumed a last-ditch attitude."
Ju Ming smiled and said: "Since we have to fight a last-ditch battle, our morale must be high, and the Jurchen soldiers are all thinking of fighting for their lives. Then we are not in a hurry. We will set up camp to fight them for a while."
"Your Majesty is wise," Yang Zaixing said. "They are short of food and grass. The longer they delay, the more anxious they become. At the beginning, they will fight to the death to win, but when the food is exhausted, the army's morale will be weakened."
Ju Ming sent out all the cavalry, and the infantry relied on chariots to build a fortress.
Yes, when Ju Ming led his troops to chase others, he even went so far as to build a fortress!
When Wanyan Zongfu saw the Ming army relying on chariots to dig trenches and build barriers, his whole body became bad.
"This is too much!" Wanyan Zongfu was furious.
Jin Wushu said: "While the enemy has come from afar and is not yet stable, our army has rested for two more days and launch an attack immediately."
Wanyan Zongfu said: "The Ming army is surrounded by chariots, how can they rush in?"
Jin Wushu asked back: "The Ming army has been clinging to the chariot formation like this. Once the fortress is built, it will be even more difficult to attack. If they keep stalling for time, they can drag out all the food and grass of our army!"
Wanyan Zongfu thought for a while and said: "Let the Ming army build the fortifications. When their civilians are exhausted, we will retreat immediately after the fortifications are repaired."
"There is the Hun River behind us, and the distance between the two armies is not far. We will be attacked halfway across the river." Jin Wushu reminded.
Wanyan Zongfu said: "If we retreat along the Hun River, the Ming army will definitely chase them. When they are marching, if the chariots do not form a formation, we will make a surprise attack and kill them!"
Both sides guarded the camp and faced off for a day.
The next day, Hua Rong led the infantry who made a surprise attack on Shenyang and rode on horseback to join the main force. As for Shenzhou City, some Bohai troops were sent to take over the defense.
Seeing that the Ming army actually increased its troops, Wanyan Zongfu did not dare to wait any longer and hurriedly withdrew eastward along the Hun River.
At this moment, Zhe Yanzhi, Zhang Xian, Yelu Yujian and others were marching with 30,000 troops to join them. If the Jin soldiers did not retreat, they could directly declare their surrender.
The Jin soldiers withdrew more than ten miles to the east, and Wanyan Zongfu suddenly ordered: "The whole army wears armor and fight back!"
"Woooooooo~~~~"
The Ming cavalry scattered everywhere and struggled with the Jurchen cavalry. When the Jin soldiers returned in large numbers, they hurriedly blew their horns to warn them.
The main troops of the Ming army on their way waved flags one after another.
The Ming army followed the usual drill method, driving mules to pull chariots, and formed many small hollow formations on the spot.
The peasants took the mules to take shelter in the hollow formation, and then moved the baggage on the chariot.
The melee soldiers took the armor from the chariot and helped each other put it on. There were also dedicated soldiers to hang the chariot chains. If there was still free time, they would throw iron caltrops around the outside of the chariot.
The artillerymen laid out the artillery pieces, carried the artillery shells, and the musketeers quickly loaded the ammunition.
As for the Ming cavalry in front, they were responsible for dealing with the enemy and arranging car formations for the infantry to delay.
"Dong dong dong dong dong!"
When the war drums beat, tens of thousands of Ming troops had already set up twelve hollow chariot formations.
Each car formation is different in size.
It is not strictly arranged according to the plum blossom formation, anyway, it can be done as convenient and quickly as possible.
When the Ming Dynasty cavalry heard the sound of drums, they retreated alternately. They rushed back to the safe area along the open space in the middle of the vehicle formations and regrouped to stand by.
The Jurchen cavalry were still in a team of fifty, and there were more than a hundred teams that rushed over first. Seeing the car formation, they had no way of starting, so they could only circle around from afar, trying to find a suitable breakthrough.
"Boom boom boom!"
The heavy and huge cast-iron cannons were produced in large quantities. Since some were transported to Jinzhou and Posu Road, there were less than 200 left at this time.
At this time, there were about a hundred artillery pieces, first stuffed with many shotshells, and then with an iron bullet, and fired one after another at the Jurchen cavalry in different directions - the other artillery pieces were not moved because they might accidentally injure friendly forces.
This kind of pig iron cannon can shoot large iron bullets more than one mile, and shotgun shells can also have a range of one to two hundred meters.
Those Jurchen cavalry thought they were far away, but they were suddenly attacked after the cannons fired, and they were so frightened that they fled further away.
Jin Wushu rushed to Wanyan Zongfu: "We can't rush through like this. The Ming army's chariot formation formed too fast!"
Wanyan Zongfu didn't know what to do.
He really has no choice!
Not to mention the artillery and chariot formation, even the divine arm bow formation, as long as the Song army dared to fight tooth and nail, there was nothing the Jin soldiers could do.
Historically, Wu Jie gathered the remaining soldiers in Monk Plains and used strong bows and powerful crossbows to shoot down the Jin soldiers. At that time, the Jin soldiers organized many attacks, but they all suffered heavy losses and were defeated.
Wanyan Zongfu rushed to the doctor and said: "Send a warrior to call the formation and ask the Ming army if they dare to fight openly and openly!"
A Jurchen general rode forward on horseback, but the artillery did not fire, so he continued to move forward courageously.
After running thirty or forty steps away, the Jurchen Yong reined in his horse and stopped: "Is Emperor Zhu of the Ming Dynasty here? If you have the guts..."
"Bang bang bang bang!"
Dozens of flintlock guns opened fire one after another, and the Jurchen Yong was beaten into a sieve even before he could finish his words.
The battlefield was once again dead silent, with only the sounds of horses and mules remaining.
At this moment, a group of Jurchen cavalry suddenly followed the Hun River away from the battlefield without receiving any orders.
The cavalry escaped without warning, leaving Wanyan Zongfu stunned.
That was the Wulin tribe, one of the elites under Wanyan Zongfu!
Pusan, Heshilie, Pucha, and Wulinda were the four major Jurchen tribes in the Jin Kingdom except the Wanyan tribe.
The Wulin tribe lived on a tributary of the Mudanjiang River and were close relatives of the Huosu tribe in Liaodong. When the Wanyan tribe conquered the Wulin tribe, it also took a lot of energy. Over the years, the nobles of the two tribes have been marrying each other.
Marriage is marriage.
Husband and wife are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly separately.
Seeing that the Jin Dynasty was exhausted, the general of this army, Wu Lin Taiyu, simply led his troops to flee the battlefield and planned to return to his hometown of Mudanjiang Branch to start business again.
It's far away, remote and poor, so the Ming Emperor wouldn't send troops to kill it, right?
Even if they are killed, surrender if you can.
If the Ming Emperor did not accept surrender, it would be better to go hunting in the mountains than to be buried here with the Jin Kingdom.
Wulin Datai wanted to lead his troops to leave, but quickly reminded the generals of Pusan.
They live on the south bank of the Yalu River, in the mountainous area of Hamgyong Province in North Korea. The Ming troops in Baozhou and Pyongyang will kill their hometown sooner or later, so they might as well just surrender now.
These Bu San cavalry did not flee, but were led by their generals to circle around the side of the Ming army's formation.
They also waved their flags and dispersed, threw away their weapons and horses, and ran towards the Ming army on foot, empty-handed.
Ju Ming could see clearly with his telescope and laughed loudly: "Show the flag and don't fire cannons to welcome these surrendered troops into the battle."
After learning that the Pusan tribe had successfully surrendered, the other tribes either rushed over to surrender or imitated the Wulin tribe and fled.
Nearly half of the nearly 30,000 Jurchen soldiers under the command of Wanyan Zongfu and Jin Wushu dispersed one after another. Those who have not yet escaped are either diehard loyalists of the Jin Kingdom, or they were too far away and did not receive the news.
"All troops attack!" Zhu Ming immediately seized the opportunity.
Yang Zaixing led the cavalry of various tribes, and Hua Rong led the infantry on horseback, each fighting out of the car formation.
Except for the Pusan tribe who surrendered first, other Jurchen soldiers who tried to surrender were also attacked by the Ming army. Anyone who got in the way was killed anyway, and they went straight to Wanyan Zongfu's command flag.
The Jurchen soldiers who originally planned to surrender were frightened and fled in all directions.
"Let's go!"
Jin Wushu shouted, no longer caring about his brother, and led his troops to turn around and flee.
