The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 466 Nurhaci was scared away

Dingliao Youwei was about 800 miles away from the Haixi Jurchen tribe.

It would indeed only take two or three days for the Beijing cavalry to arrive there.

However, if one wants to travel with the chariots of the Shenshu Camp and the artillery carts of the Shenji Camp, they can only travel more than a hundred miles a day.

Wanli was not in a hurry.

Although he plays the role of a yellow bird, he does not need to fly away like a yellow bird.

The territory of the Haixi Jurchens cannot be moved or escaped. He can take it whether he goes there earlier or later. There is no need for him to rush. The most important thing is to minimize casualties.

He led hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the Beijing camp and marched north at a leisurely pace, stopping to set up camp after traveling only a hundred miles a day.

Nothing seemed to happen on the first day, but from the second day onwards, naval warships came like shuttles, continuously bringing in battle reports from the western front.

Qi Jiguang's side is full of border cavalry, and their advancement speed is extremely fast.

On the afternoon of the first day, the western army arrived at the south bank of the Lamulun River, and early the next morning they crossed the river and entered the Horqin grassland.

At this time, the Tatar tribe no longer had the powerful strength that Tumen Khan had in the past. Buyan Khan could only muster less than 100,000 troops, and he sent all the capable fighters to the Jianzhou Jurchen tribe to serve as food. The rest were young and strong herdsmen who rarely gathered for training, and their weapons and equipment were in a mess.

The Ming Dynasty border cavalry is different. They are the elite selected from the border garrisons.

Moreover, the military settlements have been separated now, so they are dedicated to fighting. They don't need to farm or raise cattle, sheep, or horses. When there is no fighting, they just train, every day.

As for their weapons and equipment, they had almost reached the pinnacle of cold weapons. Every man was equipped with a set of spears, sabers, bows and arrows. Officers at all levels, even squad leaders and sergeants, were equipped with fish-scale armor.

In addition, the martial spirit is prevalent in the Ming Dynasty, and the border cavalry are practicing martial arts and archery every day, hoping that one day they can pass the martial arts examination and stand out.

The combat power of such elite cavalry was so terrifying that the young and strong herdsmen who had hastily gathered together had no chance to get close to them and were shot to death from a distance.

The speed of advancement on the western front was also quite terrifying. They advanced more than 200 miles in half a day.

This was because they took good care of their war horses and did not let them run wildly. Otherwise, it would not be a problem for them to advance three or four hundred miles a day.

The Ming Dynasty had become truly powerful by now, and Wanli was very pleased when he saw the battle report.

On this day, as the sun was setting, hundreds of thousands of troops from the Beijing camp set up camp on the banks of the Liao River.

The western army had advanced more than two hundred miles, but now they had only arrived near Zhongwei, Shenyang, and were still five or six hundred miles away from the Haixi Jurchen tribe.

This time, Wanli did not go to any mound to look at the military farms. As soon as the camp was set up, he ordered people to bring a map, spread it out in front of the campfire, and looked at it carefully in the light of the fire and the afterglow of the setting sun.

The Tatar tribe actually doesn't have much territory left now. The depth from the Ximulun River to the Xing'an Mountains in the north is only about a thousand miles.

If the Western Army continues to advance at this speed, it will probably be defeated within four days.

He slid his finger across the map for a while, then asked, "Xu'er, do you know how to read a map?"

Zhu Changxu nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, yes."

Wanli nodded slightly, then asked, "Then take a look at where the western army is now."

Zhu Changxu slid his finger across the map for a while, then pointed to the north bank of the Ximulun River and said, "The western army is here."

This location is quite accurate.

Wanli nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, not bad, you really know how to read."

Zhu Changxu suddenly pointed southeastward toward Zhendong Fort and said worriedly, "Father, Sister Liangyu should have led her troops into the Jianzhou Jurchen territory today. Why hasn't she sent us any battle reports?"

You kid, I just praised you for being good.

It seems you still don't know how to read a map very well.

Wanli shook his head slightly, then pointed to the map and explained in detail: "The Ximulun River is a tributary of the Liao River. The western army is not far away from us, and the navy warships are still sailing downstream. They will reach us in about two hours.

Therefore, we received the battle report from the west before noon.

Liangyu and the others are not by the river, they are in the mountains now.

Even if the Sichuan Army soldiers are good at crossing mountains and ridges, they can't run hundreds of miles in the mountains in a day. Moreover, they are hundreds of miles away from us. How can the battle report be transmitted to us?
It's not just about looking at a map, but also the terrain. It's obviously unrealistic to send a message across hundreds of miles of mountains. Therefore, I haven't asked Liangyu to send me any battle reports these days. "Oh, they're in the mountains.

Zhu Changxu still felt a little worried and asked, "Father, will Sister Liangyu be alright? Didn't you say yesterday that if the Jurchens have less than 10,000 men, they'll be invincible. It seems the Jianzhou Jurchens have 40,000 to 50,000 men?"

You have such a bad memory.

Wanli shook his head and smiled bitterly, "What I said yesterday was that the Jurchens were quite powerful in cold weapon combat.

Liang Yu and his men have muskets, and 50,000 of them.

If the Jiannu army of 40,000 to 50,000 dared to gather and confront them head-on, they would be courting death. They wouldn't even need to lift a finger; a volley of gunfire would wipe them out."

Oh, and they had muskets.

Zhu Changyu nodded innocently, then asked, "Father, when can we receive Sister Liangyu's battle report?"

It's hard to say.

Wanli pointed at the map and taught carefully, "I told Liangyu to use the navy's fast ships to send battle reports.

Now our navy's express ships are inside Fushun Pass. However, in order to avoid alerting the enemy, I asked them to transport food and grass to Fushun Pass, and did not let them go out of the pass to the Jiannu territory.

In other words, there was still a distance of one or two hundred miles between them and the navy's speedboats, and there were an unknown number of Jiannu in between.

At this moment, the main force of the Jiannu is still in the Haixi Jurchen tribe. They probably won't receive the news of their lair being destroyed until tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

It will depend on the situation then.

If the Jiannu received the news and immediately returned to provide support, they would most likely encounter Liang Yu's troops in the Sarhu area.

The terrain there is very complex, and the Jiannu have built many defensive facilities there. It is unknown how many days it will take Liang Yu and his men to attack.

If the Jiannu hadn't immediately returned to support them, or if they hadn't been able to stop Liangyu and his men at Sarhu, Liangyu would have reported back within four or five days."

So, will the main force of the Jiannu army come back to support immediately?
Nurhaci never thought that his lair would be destroyed.

He was leading the main force of the Jiannu army and was fighting vigorously in the territory of the Haixi Jurchens.

At this moment, the Haixi Jurchen tribe still has 20,000 to 30,000 troops. The problem is that those 20,000 to 30,000 troops are scattered and have never gathered together.

The territory of the Haixi Jurchens spanned over a thousand miles, and it would take at least ten days to half a month to gather the scattered troops.

Nurhaci wanted to take advantage of these ten days or half a month to capture as much territory as possible, then go on the defensive, prepare for the winter, and continue next year.

His plan was good, and historically he did conquer the Haixi Jurchens in this way.

However, at this time, Wanli, the oriole, was following him.

He had only fought happily for a few days when urgent news came from his old nest that the Ming army was coming from the direction of Zhenjiang Fort in the south, and was everywhere in the mountains and plains. There were at least hundreds of thousands of them.

What’s even more terrifying is that these Ming troops were also equipped with many muskets.

The troops left behind were unable to withstand the attack at all. The musket bullets were like rain, and no city or stronghold could withstand them.

Will Nurhaci immediately return to provide assistance after receiving the news?

He didn't come back to help at all!

Obviously, they were fooled.

The main force of the Ming army was not in Japan at all!
Otherwise, it would be impossible for hundreds of thousands of Ming troops to appear in the direction of Zhenjiang Fort.

If the Ming army did not have muskets, he might have led his troops back to see if he could rescue his family.

The problem was that the Ming army's musket bullets were like rain. In this situation, if he led his troops back, he would be seeking death.

He is not the kind of person who would force his way into something even though he knows he cannot win.

After receiving the urgent news, this guy immediately gathered his troops and ran north!

(End of this chapter)