Lu Ming

This time, if Sun Chengzong hadn't been anxious, probably Li Jichun would have stayed in Yongping to train troops to avoid disaster.

Of course, at this point in the matter, it would be impossible for Li Jichun to go to Shanhaiguan.Fortunately, preparations were complete in advance, so on the day after receiving the transfer order, Lao Li called the senior officers and staff officers of the entire battalion and held a mobilization meeting.

Yes, it is the mobilization meeting.Regarding the military strategy after going outside the customs in the future, Li Jichun had already been "taught face-to-face" by the telegram sent by the general staff.General Li Shen even knew that in the distant, turbulent sea, there was even a fleet of reinforcements, and the target was said to be the Empress Jiannu.So for the Chunlei Battalion, the more important military meeting has already been held in the core team.

After the mobilization meeting, on the second day, the Chunlei Camp, which had already made preparations, held an oath meeting.After the meeting, General Li Jichun packed up his luggage, and on the morning of the third day, with his well-trained men, with full confidence and warmth, he went to Shanhaiguan to go to the countryside.

On October 1631, 10, 14 elite cavalry from Yongping General Li Jichun's department entered the Shanhaiguan gate.

And on the same day when Li Jichun's department entered Shanhaiguan, Zu Dashou's department was lured out of the city by fake reinforcements played by Houjin's troops, and suffered a major defeat again!This attack was Zu Dashou's last attempt to break out of the encirclement throughout the entire campaign.

In fact, as early as a few days before Zu Dashou broke through, Zhang Chun, the army supervisor, led by Zhang Chun, the number reached 5, the last and largest group of reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty, had already set off from Shanhaiguan.

Today's Shanhaiguan is actually an empty shell: whenever an army comes, it will be sent out by the big boss Sun immediately.Li Jichun's department who rushed to Shanhaiguan was no exception. After only a day's rest, he was hurriedly sent to the battlefield by the anxious university scholar Sun Chengzong.

All of Li Jichun's troops are high-speed cavalry, and one man and three horses have brought enough supplies. It stands to reason that they will be able to catch up with Zhang Chun's troops soon after leaving the customs.However, General Li Shen dawdled all the way, not to mention viewing the scenery along the way, and was still running around in the Liaoxi Corridor. It seemed that 400 people were "left behind" because of this, and the quality of the troops was worrying.

In the end, it was already October 500, 1631, when Lao Li led the remaining "10 troops" to catch up with the tail of the authentic army outside Jinzhou City.

At that time, the front line was tense.The Ming army, whose number reached 5+, had already left Jinzhou City and headed north, ready to seek an opportunity to fight Jiannu decisively.

Bringing his personal guards to drive directly to the Chinese army, Li Jichun, the general of Yongping who came in a hurry, finally met the leading brother this time in the north of Jinzhou City: Zhang Chun, the supervisor of the army.

Zhang Chun, born in Juren, is favored by Sun Chengzong.In this battle of Daling River, Sun Chengzong first recommended this man as the supervisor of the army when he was sitting in Shanhaiguan, and then strongly recommended Zhang Chun as the commander.

Yes, you read that right, the last strategic counter-offensive against Hou Jin in the history of the Ming Empire was led by a cultural person...Ju Ren.At this moment, Zhang Chun is commanding more than 3 elite Guanning Army, with more than 2 field troops from the north of Ming Dynasty.

These troops are the last organized field regiments of the Ming Dynasty, and they are the foundation of the country.

Li Jichun, the seemingly unremarkable second-tier local general, naturally couldn't arouse the interest of the commander-in-chief of the army, Zhang Chun.Hearing that the gentleman brought only 500 cavalry, Zhang Chun was even less interested in the 5 cavalry army.So when he was so busy, the leading brother arranged the most suitable job for Li Jichun who was late: guerrilla.

Next, there will be the battle of Dalinghe that determined the fate of Mingjin in history.

Two days later, on October 2, the Ming army crossed the Xiaoling River and approached Dalinghe City. Fifteen miles away from Dalinghe City, they met the Houjin army.

At that time, Zhang Chun used a large number of chariots to prevent the opponent's heavy cavalry from charging.These chariots are equipped with firearms, among which are some advanced front-loading rifles that Ming Ting bought from a certain uncle.

In this way, at the beginning of the battle between the two sides, the Eight Banners soldiers still suffered a bit.After rushing several times without success, the chariot formation slowly moved forward.

However, what the Ming army did not expect was that when the battle line advanced for a certain distance in the direction of Dalinghe Fort, the Hou Jin army stepped aside, revealing the Western-style smoothbore guns fixed on the mound.

Before and after Jin entered the customs, the artillery looted from Santunying and other places began to show their power, so the car formation was broken and the formation was in chaos.

Seeing the opponent's weakness, Huang Taiji immediately commanded the army to press forward. The Ming army was immediately lost and began to retreat steadily.

Zhang Chun saw that the situation was not good, so he used fire attack.Hou Jinbing, who was in the limelight, seemed to be forced back by the fire at this moment.However, at the next moment, another unbelievable mystical phenomenon happened: it rained suddenly in the sky, and the wind direction changed.

After the Jin army took advantage of the wind to cover up the attack, Zhang Chun's troops were suddenly defeated and defeated like a mountain. The familiar scene of the Ming army came: all broke up and fled for their lives.

At this moment, the Ming Dynasty is exhausted.

There is a regret in later generations: what will happen if this rain does not fall.

In fact, even if the rain did not fall, the Hou Jin army was only temporarily forced back by the fire, and there were still so many viable forces.It is impossible for Zhang Chun's army to wipe out Hou Jin's army through the fire, let alone break through the triple earth barrier blockade in the distance and rescue Zu Dashou's department... Even if he retreated [-] steps to rescue Zu Dashou, under the siege of tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry Zhang Chunbu couldn't run back to Jinzhou at all.

In a word: After losing the ability to face upright, no matter how the Ming army struggles, it will always be defeated by a strong enemy in the end, sooner or later.

On this day in history, Zhang Chun fled and was defeated.However, Huang Taiji had already predicted that this battle would be won, so he planted an ambush on the way of the Ming army's retreat.

When the fleeing Ming army encountered an ambush, most of them gave up resistance and surrendered naturally.In addition, more than [-] generals, including Zhang Chun, were captured alive. Only the escaped master Wu Xiang led dozens of people back by luck.

The last batch of reinforcements in the Ming Dynasty ended like this.Since then, the Ming court has completely lost its strategic initiative to Hou Jin, and has been permanently shrunk/beaten.

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The general trend of history is irreversible.In this plane, at least before the arrival of the army of traversers, with Li Jichun's mere 500 troops, it is certain that a battle of this scale cannot be reversed.

So what will General Li Shen do?

As early as the moment when Hou Jin's army charged, Li Jichun, who was wandering around the periphery of the battlefield at that time, saw the army's rout with the high-power binoculars in his hand for the first time.

The next moment, Li Canjiang's thin face covered with ravines showed a sly smile that "the telegram is really accurate".

Immediately afterwards, the fierce general, who had once slashed at him, suddenly pulled out the treasured knife from his waist...wrong, it was a small electric horn hanging on the saddle, and then raised the horn and shouted angrily: "There are all of them, according to the plan, follow the plan." I... turn in!"

"Turn on, turn on, turn on!"

After hearing the order, the 500 fine riders from the Chunlei Camp quickly reined in their horses, shouted non-stop, and walked in a neat pace, leading the defeated army all over the mountains and plains behind them, and turned towards Jinzhou.

Chapter 583 The Battle of Daling River ([-])

The ruthless land in western Liaoning, the vast mountains and fields in the northeast, the rolling cavalry troops, and the overwhelming rout of soldiers behind...all of these constituted the end of the great war that took place at the end of 1631.

Li Jichun took the lead and ran in front of the formation.

Master Li was in such a panic, not because he was afraid of death, but because he had to move in time to contact his subordinates, so as to seize the opportunity in the ensuing battle.

Thanks to the continuous telegrams before and the sand table deduction with the staff team, Li Jichun now has a very clear understanding of the situation on the battlefield.

If someone still had reservations about the homework before the war, now Li Jichun has no doubts: everything that happened today was predicted by those telegrams about the deduction of the battle situation!

So Master Li was the first to transfer in.He must follow the plan and contact the rear ambush as quickly as possible.In this way, Chunleiying may stage a trick to drag the knife in this big drama of fleeing and fleeing, and go home with a big prize.

So where is the ambush?

When reporting for duty before, Li Jichun claimed to have 500 fine riders.However, when he entered the customs, there were 900 subordinates...the remaining 400 people ran away on the road?What a joke, those people stayed behind the battlefield and went to find the preset position!

In this way, at the first moment of the great defeat, Li Jichun's troops, located at the southernmost point of the battlefield, began their escape journey with full staff and a well-organized formation.Since the entire army has one man and two horses, the 500-member army entered the army very quickly, and they ran to the foot of the West Mountain in a short while.

Xishan, located in the east of Jinzhou, is a mountainous terrain composed of mountains such as Baicao and Siding. It is located in the middle of the Xiaoling River.

That is to say, the place where the Ming and Jin battles took place was actually not far from Xishan, just between Xishan and Dalinghe Fort.When marching before, the army also passed by the west mountain.So when Li Jichun's troops were running from east to west at this moment, they soon reached the foot of the Western Mountain.

"Call...the whole army stop!"

As the thunderous shouts behind them got farther and farther away, the main force of the Chunlei Battalion passing through a field was now facing a large pine and birch forest at the foot of the West Mountain.Probably because of the hint from the four-character mantra "No entry in the forest", Li Jichun immediately reined in his horse and raised his hand to order the people to stop.

In fact, "no entry into the forest" is just one of the reasons.The real reason why Chunlei Battalion stopped was because this place was the first point of contact agreed upon by Li Jichun and the follow-up troops.

"Contact, contact quickly!"

General Li, who was out of breath, didn't wait for the horse under his crotch to stop, and shouted loudly: "It's near here, contact me with Feng Shiming!"

Feng Shiming belonged to the first group of officers of the Guards Battalion.Because of his age, he was sent to Hebei by the base camp last year and became a member of Li Jichun's staff team, serving as the adjutant of the Chunlei Camp.This time, Feng Shiming, who is good at reconnaissance and mapping, was responsible for leading the remaining 400 soldiers in the rear.

Located at the core of Li Jichun's side, the signal soldier with a military telegraph machine on his back immediately turned on the machine and tried to contact Feng Shiming's troops.

After hearing the "beep" sound from the iron box, Li Jichun, who was anxious, subconsciously swung his horsewhip and kept looking around.

It's no wonder that the general's face is full of anxiety.Although he still doesn't understand the principle of electromagnetism, he knows that walkie-talkies are prone to poor communication in mountainous conditions-this is what Li Jichun is most afraid of.

After Chunlei Battalion arrived in Jinzhou, all the staff members, including Li Jichun, finally agreed based on the pre-deduction and the topographical data of the field survey: Assuming that the Ming army was defeated and Huang Taiji set up an ambush in advance, the location of the ambush would definitely be in Xishan. .

The location of Xishan is very important.The mountain group with a radius of more than 20 kilometers happened to be together with Dalinghe Fort, sandwiching most of the Ming army in the middle.At this moment, if the defeated Ming army wanted to escape back to Jinzhou, the nearest stronghold, they must pass by Xishan.

And at that time, the defeated army, who had already rushed westward for ten or twenty miles in a panic, suddenly saw the rear golden cavalry fighting ahead... The picture was too beautiful to imagine.

Li Jichun thought to himself, if he were to throw out ambushes, he would be in Xishan.

And this inference is the source of his anxious state of mind at the moment: According to the prior plan, after Li Jichun's troops set off to join the war, Feng Shiming's troops will lurk in the Xishan area, and try their best to detect the possible ambush positions of Hou Jin.

Therefore, Li Jichun, who ran to the foot of the West Mountain, now urgently needs to contact Feng Shiming's department in order to obtain specific information on the enemy's ambush with a high probability.

This is also the reason why he can't enter the forest: who knows what's in the forest?The advantage of Chunlei Battalion is muskets, and Li Jichun would not rashly let his troops go into the woods unless his head was kicked by a donkey.

However, the sky fails to fulfill people's wishes.Although Mr. General was very anxious, after 5 minutes of turning on the machine, the messenger still failed to contact Feng Shiming's department.

Due to the long distance, the sound of killing on the battlefield that had reached Li Jichun's ears before had turned into a faint roar.But after 5 minutes passed, Li Jichun felt the roar in his ears became more and more clear.He knew that the forwards of the Ming army who had been left behind were already approaching Xishan.

This ominous judgment made Li Jichun seem to smell the smell of burnt corpses, so he immediately ordered: "Don't wait, go around the forest!"

At this moment, the hunter and the prey are changing identities at any time.The 500 people in Chunlei Camp wanted to catch millet out of the fire, and left the information advantage. Now they have become prey, and the situation is extremely dangerous.

General Li Shen knew very well that as the rear battlefield approached, it would be too late if he didn't leave.He was very worried that he had entered the attack range of the enemy's ambush, and Li Jichun would not be surprised if the enemy's cavalry rushed out from the side of the road in the next moment.

The reason why the ambush soldiers did not rush out now may be because they were indeed far away from the attack range, and more likely because most of the Ming army had not arrived, so the ambush soldiers held back and did not make a move.

The identity of the hunter and the prey was blurred, so someone had to order the troops to abandon the first contact point and continue to advance in the direction of Jinzhou.

In fact, this order is also within the plan.

Li Jichun received a strategic request from the General Staff in advance: to give priority to self-preservation, and secondly to consider ambushing the enemy to train troops.In other words, Li Jichun would rather not reap any benefits today, and Li Jichun would also bring the troops back in their entirety.So at this moment, seeing that the momentum was not right, the main force of the Chunlei Battalion immediately went to Jinzhou.

Things are unpredictable and fickle.

At the moment when the 500 cavalrymen from the Chunlei Battalion circled the pine, birch forest and even the ridge behind the forest, the messenger immediately shouted in surprise: "We have made contact!"

General Li Shen was also inexplicably surprised. After reining in the horse, he took the hand microphone and shouted in plain language, "Feng Shiming, Feng Shiming, report the location!"

Feng Shiming's voice quickly came out through the walkie-talkie.

If they can communicate by voice, it proves that the straight-line distance between the two parties is not far.The fact is also the same. After the contact was restored, Li Jichun knew that Feng Shiming's troops were on a small hill about 5 miles away behind the two ridges ahead.

As for a certain team that both sides are concerned about... Feng Shiming told Li Jichun clearly: Not only did the Houjin ambush exist, but their location was between the two ridges.

This is also the reason why Feng Shiming's department chose to stay at the current location: it can monitor Houjin's department and launch an attack at any time.

The hunter and the prey have changed their identities again, and the old driver Li is full of chicken blood at this moment... Adrenaline is boiling, and he knows that his own highlight moment is coming.

After asking again in detail about the enemy's terrain, scale and equipment, the next moment, General Li Shen ordered the whole army to advance at a uniform speed and prepare for battle!

Guarja Wotu smiled contemptuously when he heard the report that the enemy vanguard was about to pass the pass.Wotu, who was sitting on a rock, was not moved by the military situation: "Where is the Minggou brigade?"

"Hui'erzhen, it's still 10 miles away."

"What are you doing with this group of people? Let it go!"

"Whoo!"

Guarjia Wotu is from Zhenghuang Banner.As a direct member of the Guerjia clan of the Jurchen family, the 30-year-old Wotu is already one of the few Jialaerzhens under Zhenghuang's jurisdiction, and he can be said to be a high-ranking and powerful person.

But this time when he came out to fight Minggou, the Great Khan Huang Taiji, who had always been close to Wotu, assigned him an important task: ambush.

Wotu understood that this was the great Khan's grace to him.There is no danger in ambushing and fleeing the enemy, and it is easy to capture the important people and assets of the enemy. It is really the best job.

So Wotu worked very hard and decided to do well the errand assigned by Da Khan: he took the 5 Niulu under his own jurisdiction, and the 500 elite soldiers that Da Khan squeezed out for him before the war, and made a detour before the war. The big circle came in from the north of Xishan.

Today, Wotu's 2000 fine riders have been lying in ambush for a whole day and a half in this stone ditch at the foot of the West Mountain.

Now, it's harvest time.

Ever since, when Wotu received early in the morning that a cavalry was resting in the woods 5 miles away, he was unmoved at all: the news of the collapse of the Ming army had already been reported here by the wolf smoke from the battlefield.So when the lookout post at a high place came to report, Wotu knew that this cavalry of hundreds of people must be Guan Ning's bastard who ran ahead of time.

Wotu had no idea about this kind of cavalry.These bastards can't fight well, they run away, and they just slip away after a while, so it's not worth his shot.

Sure enough, not long after the group of cavalry stopped their horses, they restarted, bypassed the woods, and retreated towards Jinzhou along the foot of the mountain.

About a quarter of an hour later, this group of cavalry who fled in a panic began to pass by the valley where Wotu's troops were located, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes reached Wotu's ears.

"wrong!"

Wotu, who has experienced many battles, has his hairs standing on end at this moment: the sound of horseshoes from outside the stone valley is neat and soothing, and it is still slowly slowing down - the same is true every time the Jurchen warriors are about to be rounded up in autumn hunting Manipulating horses.

"Get on the horse, get on the horse, draw the knife!"

Just as Wotu suddenly stood up and opened his mouth to roar, a series of sharp bone whistles came from the high-level lookout post.

However, the post-golden cavalry in the valley did not need to call the police at this time, because the sudden sound of horseshoes clearly revealed the purpose of the comer - a cavalry raid!

Chapter 584 The Battle of Daling River ([-])

Hearing that there was an enemy attack, the Houjin cavalry, who were originally in a state of repair, suddenly climbed frantically on their own horses.

It has to be said that an army that has experienced countless battles and is on the rise is still very good in terms of tactical literacy.

Even in this sudden moment of racing against time, the cavalry in the valley still adjusted spontaneously: those who met the enemy in front mounted their horses urgently, and the rear team put on armor for each other, preparing for a second reloading charge.

At the moment when Houjin Qingqi was about to rush out of Shixiakou, the sound of rumbling horseshoes also came from far to near, turning around from the opposite corner.

The two sides finally met at this moment.

From the point of view of the rear golden cavalry, it seems that the enemy who suddenly killed them was just a group of common Ming officers and soldiers: wearing leather helmets and red fat jackets.

But this is just an appearance.

If you look at the details carefully, this cavalry unit from the Ming Dynasty is not so Ming.Not only the formation is neat and the horses are excellent, but the weapons and equipment are completely different from the ordinary cavalry... Most importantly, this cavalry unit is full of murderous spirits, and it does not look like a bereaved dog after a defeat.

Murderous aura is actually more of a mental outlook shown through introversion; it's not like what laymen think, it's murderous aura to shout loudly with a ferocious face.

The same is true for incoming enemies.Apart from the tense face and skilled horse control movements, no unnecessary noise was made.In the lengthy canyon, only the sound of roaring horseshoes and the blowing cold air remained.This kind of cold and monotonous scene, accompanied by the upcoming fight, is extremely suffocating.

The raiders put tremendous pressure on the rear golden cavalry who rushed out of the narrow mouth.However, when Wotu, who was rushing to the front, saw the enemy for the first time, he took a breath, ignored the charge, and suddenly reined in vigorously, so the horseman stood up and neighed loudly.

It was not the murderous intent that caused Wotu to rein in urgently, but the strange formation of the opponent.