Seeing the sudden retreat of the Ming army, Lao Nu reacted very quickly and immediately ordered all the flag soldiers of Zhenghuang Banner to attack.
When Li Songping saw Jiannu launching an attack, his uneasiness became more and more intense. He had no intention of continuing the fight with Lao Nu here.
He shouted in front of the military formation:
"Don't be obsessed with fighting, and don't worry about the formation. The entire army retreats quickly and returns to defend Liaoyang immediately!"
After the military order was issued, Li Songping quickly organized the mounted archers, and in just a few breaths, fired thousands of arrows at the charging Jiannu.
Although the official road is broad, it is still too narrow if a large-scale cavalry wants to fight and charge.
On both sides of the official road, there are either stinking ditches or fields full of mud. It is even more difficult for a war horse to charge in the mud. Only a few extremely good horses can do it.
The Ming army took advantage of the terrain and fired arrows repeatedly to stop Jiannu.
Both sides were cavalry, and their maneuvering and reaction were extremely fast. In terms of speed alone, the Ming army was slightly better than Jiannu.
Because most of the Jiannu were heavily armored cavalry, those above Yu Ding's level wore at least two layers of armor, and it was extremely heavy armor.
The cavalry of the Ming Army only wore two layers of armor at most, and the cavalry of the Yulin Army only had one layer of iron armor. The workmanship was also very fine, and there was no heavy feeling at all.
The Ming army easily got rid of Jiannu's entanglement, and then quickly returned to the original route. The entire official road was filled with flying dust.
Lao Nu urgently ordered the Eight Banners Army to pursue them at full speed and went to Liaoyang City to meet Daishan and Huang Taiji.
The roles of the two parties were reversed, and the dramatic pursuit of each other began again.
When Li Songping rushed back to Liaoyang, he saw a large number of slave soldiers building simple siege ladders. Taking advantage of the fact that Jian Nu was unprepared, he led his army to rush over without saying a word.
Huang Taiji and Daishan never expected that Li Songping would return to the defense so quickly. They were caught off guard by the Ming army before they even built the ladder.
When the Ming troops on the city saw Li Songping's general's flag, they cheered immediately.
The Ming cavalry and Jiannu quickly fought together, and no one had an obvious advantage, because there was no obvious gap in numbers or combat effectiveness between the two sides.
Meichun saw a melee between the two armies on the city, and felt extremely anxious. Finally, he decided to violate Li Songping's general order, open the city gate, and send the defenders out of the city for support.
The participation of the city's defenders in the battle quickly put huge pressure on Jiannu. Although Jiannu was brave, in this kind of melee, he could not withstand the Ming army's overwhelming numbers.
Daishan still wanted to fight again, but Huang Taiji, who was shrewd and calculating, knew that the defeat was irreversible and hurriedly persuaded Daishan to retreat.
Daishan was not a fool. How could he not know that Huang Taiji did not want to fight at all, and was afraid that he would suffer heavy casualties while flagging a white flag?
In the end, both of them ordered their troops to withdraw. After receiving the military order to retreat, the two bannermen of Jiannu began to fight and retreat, and slowly left the battlefield.
The Ming army did not entangle them, but deliberately kept a certain distance, which was equivalent to giving way for them to retreat.
Li Songping had no intention of annihilating all the slave soldiers of these two banners. This was simply impossible. He knew clearly that he was not so loud.
After withdrawing not far away, Daishan and Huang Taiji met Nu'er Hachi who came to rescue them. Seeing their embarrassed appearance, the old slave knew that they had been defeated.
He did not ask questions and hold people accountable on the spot, but simply said:
"Move troops to Shenyang!"
The others could not help but shudder in their hearts when they saw the old slave's unruffled look and his unguessable thoughts, especially those Hanchen generals who had participated in this plan before and after, for fear that the old slave would be angry at him. They had hair all over their bodies, and none of them dared to express their anger.
There is no way. Although the old slave mostly appointed Han ministers and surrendered generals, he still couldn't change the fact that he hated the Han people from the bottom of his heart.
After the Jiannu troops withdrew, Li Songping began to count the battle losses and results.
Since most of the corpses outside the city had been taken away by Jiannu, the number of Jiannu beheaded with armor and heads was not very high, just over 600 levels.
The beheaded heads of the Jiannu cannon fodder army were over six thousand, and the Jiannu did not bother to care about them. The Ming army was also full of disgust, and some generals did not even bother to behead them because they were too worthless.
The Mongolians were fine, and there was no problem in exchange for some wine money, but the heads of those Koreans, one hundred of them, were not worth the weight of one armored soldier, and it happened that the most numerous were Koreans.
Excluding the more than a thousand rebels sent out to die, the Ming army's own casualties were less than two thousand, and most of them were Liao soldiers. Li Songping's left guard only had less than five hundred, which was a great victory.
He was appointed by His Majesty as General and General of the Liaodong Army for so long, and he finally got a good report, which made him feel more at ease.
"Brothers, the general said that there will be a celebration drink in the city tonight, and all the soldiers in Liaoyang can go eat meat and drink wine!"
For the sergeants who have just experienced the war, there is nothing more enjoyable than drinking wine and eating meat. If there is, it will also be the day when silver military pay is awarded.
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When Lao Nu led the Four Flags army and horses across the Hun River, he did not wait for Amin to greet him solemnly. In front of Lao Nu, there was only a group of disgraced and defeated soldiers.
The old slave had lost two games in a row in Liaoyang, and he was already unhappy. Now he saw the other four banners acting like this, and he couldn't bear it anymore.
Immediately he shouted sharply at Amin who was kneeling on the ground:
"Amin, what's going on? This Khan asked you to besiege Shenyang, but not to attack the city. Why are the losses so heavy!"
"Father Khan, this slave acted according to Father Khan's plan and did not attack Shenyang. But that bear barbarian was really hateful. It was dark and windy last night, and the Ming army in Shenyang took advantage of the situation to attack our military camps from all directions at night. , and also pushed the cannon outside the city and blasted it fiercely, the slaves are incompetent and can't withstand such an offensive!"
Daishan asked with a slight trembling:
"How much is the loss?"
Amin swallowed, and the sweat on his forehead dripped to the ground. After a while, he slowly said in a weak voice:
"There are less than a hundred people left in Bagala with the blue flag. The four flags' troops and horses lost a total of more than 5,000 people. A large amount of supplies and food were burned by the Ming army, leaving less than 40%!"
After listening to what Amin said, Nuerhachi suddenly felt his eyes go dark and almost lost his breath.
This time, nearly ten thousand bannermen were lost again and again. Even the old slave could not bear such a big blow, let alone the others.
If a soldier nearby hadn't helped him quickly, I'm afraid the old slave would have fallen to the ground.
When the others saw this, they immediately knelt down and shouted in unison:
"Please Great (Father) Khan calm down!"
After smoothing out the stuffy air in his chest, Nuerhachi pointed in the direction of Shenyang and cursed:
"Xiong Manzi, I swear that I will tear out your bones and peel off your skin to comfort the spirit of my golden warrior in heaven!"