Ming Dynasty: Starting from Liaodong Jiangmen

Chapter 30 The Great Victory at Yongding Gate

The night sky was filled with gloom, the vast land was filled with rivers of blood, and corpses were strewn everywhere.

Broken spears and throwing spears complement each other, and the sword is half-hidden in the bloody soil, shining faintly in the dim wilderness.

Among the piles of rubble where the embers were still burning, tall columns of smoke rose everywhere, and billows of dust swirled up.

Tens of thousands of Liao troops formed a formation to pursue them, their horses neighing.

The Hou Jin army retreated like a tide, and the Liao army had all pursued them outside the Marco Polo Bridge. The Hou Jin army continued to abandon their helmets and armor during the retreat, causing serious losses.

However, Mangui still maintained a cautious attitude and maintained the most basic formation when pursuing, waiting for the slave knight to counterattack.

"Pass my military order, each battalion is not allowed to pursue without authorization, form a formation to pursue!"

"Anyone who cleans up the battlefield after the war to disturb the morale of the army will not be spared!"

Horses and horses rushed from Mangui's center to the battalions all night long, quickly stabilizing the overall posture of the Liao army.

In fact, the Hou Jin army did not completely lose their fighting spirit. Under the leadership of Huang Taiji, they fought and retreated, and the rear formation was fully organized. As long as there was any chaos in the Liao army, they would immediately organize and continue to attack.

The Liao army pursued and launched many attacks, and later the Jin army also launched many counterattacks. Both sides were very cautious.

The Hou Jin army did not want to give up the victory easily, so they abandoned the baggage to disrupt the Liao army, gave up the corpse flag to give the wrong message, or set up ambushes on both sides of the path. They tried all kinds of methods.

But these were resolved one by one by Mangui's caution. Even if he succeeded a little, the Liao army's formation remained unchanged, and it was difficult for the Jin army to obtain other benefits.

Outside the city, the two sides fought all over the mountains and plains from late at night to dawn, and from dawn to the afternoon of the next day. During the pursuit, there was always victory or defeat.

"Report! The Ming troops from Datong, Xuanfu, Shandong and other places are galloping day and night and are rushing to help!"

"The troops under General Wang Pu of Datong passed Juyong last night!"

"Xuanhua Vice-General Ma Ke is in my arms this morning!"

"In addition, the Shandong Ming army is the fastest. They passed Wuqing last night and are now less than forty miles away from our rear line!"

Huang Taiji was still thinking about how to fight back, but in just a moment, Tanma came to report one after another like a revolving lantern. When reinforcements from various towns in the Ming Dynasty heard that the Liao army had won, they immediately encircled them at a speed of 180 miles.

Huang Taiji's face finally turned a little ugly, because he knew that the battle was completely over.

These Ming troops are indeed coming as fast as possible. They are not here to join the battle, they are here to gain military merit.

In a few days, Ming Dynasty reinforcements from all walks of life arrived, and he could no longer stay in Beijing.

Hearing the bad news, Abatai, Yue Tuo and other ministers of Houjin Beile also became flustered.

Some suggested that we should come and go back immediately, and some said that we should withdraw from the border without stopping, but there was no main battle.

Although they are arrogant, they are not fools.

Among the people present, except for Huang Taiji, no one had the extravagant hope of entering the customs. They all came in with the idea of ​​​​getting a vote and leaving.

Before fighting this battle, this vote has already earned enough capital to return to the country to stabilize the country and completely solve this year's famine problem. If we don't leave now, how long will it take to stay and wait to be surrounded?

Hearing their words, they all wanted to run away quickly, but Huang Taiji didn't say a word.

Because he knew that he was not the only one who made the decision in the country at this time. At least the other three Beile Daishan, Amin and Mang Gurtai were on an equal footing with Huang Taiji.

Amin and Mang Gurtai were the first two to suggest that they should retreat outside the customs immediately.

Moreover, the two of them were quite dissatisfied with Huang Taiji for insisting on fighting this battle.

According to Amin, Yongdingmen had already made enough before the battle. He should take the obtained supplies and population and withdraw to enjoy the happiness, instead of fighting Yongdingmen here. Is Beijing so easy to fight?

It's better now, they didn't get anything, they were forced to give up a lot of plundered people and materials, and many warriors were killed in the battle.

Huang Taiji stared at Amin with murderous intent in his eyes, but he didn't say anything. He just turned around and gave the order to retreat.

He also knew that after all, this battle was lost under his leadership. Reinforcements from various towns had also arrived and would arrive at the gates of Beijing within a few days. It was impossible to completely annihilate the main force of the Liao army.

In the distance, the central army of the Liao army rushed back without stopping at night. "Report! The slave knights still maintain their organizational structure, but their retreat speed is several times faster!"

"Explore again!"

Mangui narrowed his eyes slightly and said to Sang'erzhai on the side: "It seems that the slave chief has really retreated this time."

San'erzhai was very happy to kill in this battle. In other words, he had never had such a hearty victory since he joined the Ming Dynasty last year. He was eager to try and said immediately:

"Jing Lue, let me lead 3000 people to continue the pursuit!"

"Instruction is given that each battalion should stop the pursuit, leaving the four battalions on the left to form a formation and pay attention to the movements of the slave cavalry. The rest will slowly retreat and try to clear the battlefield before reinforcements from other towns arrive."

Man Gui, however, gave the order decisively without even thinking, and then turned the horse's head to retreat.

The Sang'er village was surprised when they heard this, and hurriedly caught up with them: "The reason why this is happening is that the slave cavalry is defeated. Our army should pursue and expand the results! Brothers have not killed enough slaves yet!"

Mangui slowed down his horse, but still retreated.

"The strength of the slave army does not lie in this battle, not to mention that I saw that the hoof marks of the slave's horses are in order. This is not a rout, but a withdrawal. A hasty pursuit and an ambush will cost the lives of our brothers."

As he spoke, he looked at Yongding Gate with curiosity on his face.

"What's more, I really want to know who fired the artillery at Yongding Gate to help our army. There should be no such person in the Beijing army."

"Aren't you surprised?"

Sang'erzhai also understood what Mangui said just now, laughed loudly, and stopped pursuing the pursuit.

"The mark is the same as the strategy. There is such an outstanding person in the Beijing army. We should meet him!"

Dawn the next day.

A horse galloped in from the Yongding Gate of the capital, holding high the emperor's statement in his hand.

"Great victory!"

"Our Liao army won a great victory at Yongding Gate. We defeated 750 slave cavalry, captured 340 horses, and captured [-] armor!"

"Great victory! Great victory!"

The voice of this man who never stopped shouting all night had become hoarse from shouting during the war, but he still screamed heart-breakingly and with all his strength.

Since October, when slaves invaded the capital, the capital has been under martial law for days. This great victory has completely cleared away the haze in the city. They don’t even care about the rules of martial law. Many people opened their doors and windows, and some even walked out of their houses and hugged each other. Crying with joy.

But they didn't expect that it would be the [-] lone troops outside the city who would bring them such exciting results.

During the three days and two nights of the battle at Yongding Gate, Li Shunzu lived and ate in the city in order to order artillery fire at any time to support the Liao army fighting below the city, but even he did not expect that these artillery would be so powerful when used.

The night before yesterday, the servant reported that the Liao army's flanks had been attacked.

Li Shunzu immediately woke up from his sleep and immediately ordered artillery support. He clearly saw the changes caused by a round of artillery on the battlefield.

The army of slave riders in the distance seemed to be gathering in a strict order to the naked eye, but turned into chaos.

During the battle, Li Shunzu continued to order artillery fire.

After all, it was Daming's money that was spent and his own life was saved. Li Shunzu had nothing to feel bad about.

Hearing the crowds of people in the city, riding one after another into the city shouting victory, Li Shunzu's tense emotions for several days were released in an instant. He suddenly became extremely sleepy, and the wounds on his body began to hurt.

The old iron armor seemed to weigh a thousand kilograms, and Li Shunzu was a little breathless under the pressure. After a while, he couldn't even open his eyes, and he staggered to the city to find a straw mat for the garrison to sleep on. .

After a while, the snoring was like thunder.

Several servants looked at each other and stood around with their swords pressed, guarding intently.

After this period of contact, they were all glad to have followed the right person.

(End of this chapter)