Wanli 1592

Chapter 541 The war situation was reversed
On December 25, the 27th year of Wanli, Shiling Pass fell, and the Ming army lost more than 13 soldiers. The loss was heavy and they were forced to retreat. [-] soldiers and horses from the second town of Yulin surrounded and wiped out the [-] northern cavalry who invaded south.

There are 13 cavalry and [-] infantry in the [-] Ming Army, all of which are deployed on the open ground north of Taiyuan. The camp alone can wrap the entire Taiyuan City. Such a strict defense makes the people in Taiyuan City I felt an unprecedented sense of security.

Moreover, Taiyuan is one of the toughest cities in China, with a very good defense tradition. Everyone feels that even if the Ming army is abolished this time, it will not allow 1 people to destroy a large formation of 13 people. right?The fighting strength of the Ming army's frontier troops is still there, unlike those inland guards, thousands of people are chased and beaten by dozens of Japanese pirates.

Their idea appears to have come true.

On the third day of the first lunar month in the 26th year of Wanli, news came from Yangqu, the last stronghold of the Ming army in the north of Taiyuan.

Beilu has been defeated!

On the second day of the first lunar month, Beilu gathered 8000 troops to dismount and attack Yangqu on foot. Wei Zhen, the guard of Yangqu, resolutely counterattacked and actively defended according to Wang Shiyang's instructions. The captive was hit on the head under the city of Yangqu, and his blood was broken.

That night, after Wei Zhen arranged the retreat route, he decided to carry out a night attack. He took the initiative to attack for the last time, and then withdrew. Yangqu no longer defended, because the people here had already migrated, and the strong wall cleared the field successfully.

I thought I would retreat immediately if I wanted to attack, and close when I saw it, but who would have thought that this attack would be fatal. The Beilu retreated steadily, and they didn't even organize a decent counterattack. As if they hadn't eaten, hundreds of corpses were thrown away in a short time, and then the whole line retreated.

Wei Zhen originally wanted to fight for the last time, but in the end, he won the first victory since the northern captives went south. At dawn, all the northern captives retreated from Yangqu. Wei Zhen calculated, at least killed More than 800 northern captives and more than 200 capitals were beheaded, which is a rare victory.

So he continued to lead his troops in pursuit, chasing and killing the Beilu all the way, until he reached the Shiling Pass, where he fought the Beilu repeatedly in bloody battles at the foot of Shiling Pass, but there was no winner.

This group of northern captives who had been aggressive before seemed to have suddenly weakened, and they could not stand up to the Ming army's front. If Shiling Pass had not been controlled by them, and Wei Zhen had few troops, Shiling Pass might have been defeated. Can be recovered in one fell swoop.

Wei Zhen was overjoyed and immediately reported the news to Wang Shiyang. Wang Shiyang was shocked. After repeated confirmation, he confirmed that the Beilu had really withdrawn from Yangqu, retreated to Shiling Pass, and the battle situation was reversed!

Could it be that the veterans of the division were exhausted under repeated attacks by the northern captives, and they no longer had the strength to continue attacking?Has the strategic goal of layer upon layer of defense been achieved?And doubled?

Wang Shiyang was a little puzzled, worried that this was a deliberate strategy of the northern captives to show weakness, so he only sent his subordinate generals with 180 infantry to support Shiling Pass. As a result, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Shiling Pass was recovered by the Ming army, and the Ming army beheaded [-] northern captives. , wiped out nearly a thousand northern captives, and more northern captives fled north across the board.

According to Wei Zhen's report, he found a lot of grain bags that had been emptied, and some grain bags contained a little grain, but the amount was very small, as if it had been eaten. They plundered some grain from Datong, and then went south in an attempt to get more grain.

But before they got more food, they were short of food by the tactics of fortifying the wall and clearing the field. They had no food, no desire to fight, and had to retreat.Also because there is not enough food to eat, the combat effectiveness has dropped sharply.

The Ming army has already taken advantage.

This kind of report still made Wang Shiyang suspicious. He always felt that the northern captives would not suddenly decline. There must be some conspiracy inside. After sending out sentry cavalry, he suspected that Beilu had hidden a part of his troops and planned to attack Taiyuan.

A few days later, Wang Shiyang became more and more shaken by the fact that the sentry cavalry had nothing to gain and the [-] troops who went northward attacked successively. Have to back off after eating?

Hard to imagine.

But at the same time, the Ming army regained Xinzhou, and then fought a battle with Beilu in Xinkou, beheading more than 150 people, and regained Xinkou. The Beilu continued to be defeated. Wei Zhen asked for more reinforcements to go north to counterattack, hoping to regain more lost ground. , and went north to recapture Pingxing Pass and rush to rescue Yanmen Pass, so that the strategic attempt of the northern captives completely failed.

The successive defeats of the northern captives did not shake Wang Shiyang much. Wang Shiyang firmly believed that there was something wrong with the northern captives, but he couldn't find what the problem was. Wang Shiyang could bear it, but the generals of the army couldn't help it.

The front-line army fought one victory after another, beheaded every day, and gained every day, but they stayed in Taiyuan without any record. You can say that you want the Beilu to continue to be strong, but of course they are defeated repeatedly. Willing to carry forward the traditional virtues of being overthrown by others.

The local army in Taiyuan is okay, they only want to defend the land, but the reinforcements from Yulin Town are different. They came all the way here just to fight... No, for military merit!
If it wasn't for military merit, why did they come here?Now Beilu is so easy to bully... so rampant, it's time for my generation of men to go up and give them a head-on blow!
Wang Shiyang looked at the generals in Yulin very speechless.

I really don't know what these people did when they were discussing the candidates to guard Yangqu a few days ago. Now that the persimmons are soft and easy to pinch, they are all braver than anyone else!
Although Wang Shiyang disdained the virtues of these people in his heart, he couldn't find a suitable reason to stop them from asking for a fight. Although he could suppress them for a while as a governor, he couldn't suppress them for a lifetime. Let your own direct army fight for military merits, and treat us harshly?
Damn faction wars in the military!Not only the general, but even he, the civilian governor, was involved!He is regarded by the people of Yulin Town as the general leader of the Shanxi faction, and he specifically does not deal with them. He calls from a long distance, but refuses to fight. What do you mean?
After suppressing it for a few days, he couldn't hold it anymore. Wang Shiyang had no choice but to allow [-] infantry and [-] cavalry to go north to help in the battle, and then allowed [-] cavalry to rush to the rescue of Yanmen Pass.

The people in Yulin Town are more stable.

But at this moment, the news of Dingxiang's recovery came from the front line again. Now it's not just the soldiers and horses of Yulin Town, even the soldiers and horses of Taiyuan Town have begun to ask to go north to help in the battle. How can they watch other people take credit while they get nothing?

it's out of the question!

(End of this chapter)