Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

At this time, news of Hou Shilu's heavy losses had reached Chongzhen's ears.

Chongzhen immediately allocated 1 taels of silver from his internal funds to reward these three troops.

Hou Shilu and Guo Zhicong had just joined Mangui, and before they had time to set up their defense lines, they encountered the majority of the Qing army.

Another war broke out.

This is the Battle of Deshengmen.

How many Ming troops participated in the Battle of Deshengmen?

There were 5000 Mangui people from Datong, Guo Zhicong and some small soldiers who came from Juyongguan, a total of 2000 people, plus 200 Hou Shilu's personal soldiers.

This is the battle to defend the capital, and the first troops to rush to the capital to participate in the battle.

As for Mr. Yuan...

Still slowly following behind the Qing army!

Although Master Yuan's battle happened on the same day, it broke out after this battle.

The Battle of Deshengmen - Who is it against?

Huang Taiji ordered the deployment of white-armored soldiers from the four flags of Zhengyang, Zhenghong, Bianhong, and Bianlan, a total of 1500 people.

That is, the most capable of fighting - the heavy armored soldiers with swinging teeth!

Leading the elite troops of Bai Ya La was Shumulu Yanguli, the most capable founding minister in the early Qing Dynasty.

In addition, there is the right-wing Mongolian army, which is composed of the Mongolian right battalion and the foreign vassal Mongolian army affiliated with the right battalion, with a total of 2000 people.

As for the surrendered Han army...

It’s not included!

Battle time - at least five hours!

Even, most likely, a whole day!

However, in this war, strange things happened again——

Comprehensive records of first-hand historical materials such as "Manwen Old Documents", "Chongzhen Records", and "Ming History".

At that time, Mangui and the Qing army were fighting. There is no objection to this.

Restore the process according to the Qing Dynasty’s own few records in the "Tongzhi of the Eight Banners":

"Yang Guli sent his troops to attack and defeated the entire army in Guangxi in the north of the Ming capital.

…My gunner was trapped in an enemy ambush, and he led more than ten of his own troops to break through the enemy’s siege, and all of them came out…”

This Yangguli's defeat of Man Gui is just to put gold on his face, no need to look at it.

Because - the following article shows that the artillery was attacked, and Yangu Li only took a dozen people to rescue.

Therefore, the situation at that time should be like this:

——"Man Gui led the Qing army away, and another person (who did not write his name) set up an ambush in advance. Seeing the opportunity, he immediately attacked the Qing artillery unit.

Yangu Li was shocked and immediately wanted to rush to rescue.

However, there were only a dozen of his subordinates who broke through Mangui's entanglement. "

So?

Who was the one who dealt with the Qing artillery?

——This person’s name is not mentioned in any historical data.

but!

It was Hou Shilu who raided the Qing artillery position.

This is the reason why Hou Shilu avoided war as recorded in "Guo Que".

Is Hou Shilu a person who is afraid of death?

——Don’t forget, his whole family is guarding Yulin!

This is a family full of heroes who sacrificed their lives! ! !

The avoidance of war mentioned by Guoyan was exactly the strategy adopted by Hou Shilu to deal with the Qing artillery force!

——Because Mangui Camp was a new recruit and there would not be too many artillery pieces. Hou Shilu's artillery was taken away by Yuan Chonghuan again.

As for Guo Zhicong, his headquarters is just the governor's camp and there are not many artillery.

The Ming army was seriously short of artillery——

If you want to defeat the Qing army, you must first deal with the Qing army's artillery!

Therefore - avoiding battle and setting up an ambush was just Hou Shilu's strategy.

Why am I so sure it's Hou Shilu?

Couldn't it be the Qing artillery that Guo Zhicong raided?

Because the three leading generals outside Deshengmen, Guo Zhicong, were civil servants, and the only ones who could lead troops to ambush the Qing artillery were Mangui and Hou Shilu.

No matter which document it is, it records the battle between Mangui and the Yangguli tribe of the Qing army.

In other words, it couldn't be him who raided the artillery!

Therefore, according to the "Tongzhi of Eight Banners" when the artillery was ambushed, this person can only be Hou Shilu.

This is the reason why Hou Shilu avoided war recorded in Guoyan.

——To put it bluntly, the people watching the battle on the top of the city did not know the three people's strategy and mistakenly thought that Hou Shilu did not dare to fight.

And the Baiya La soldiers in this battle were not as powerful as recorded in history books.

1500 elite members of the Bai Ya La, 2000 Eight Banners headquarters, plus the number of Han military flags that I dare not record...

They were all led by Man Gui!

In fact, the loss will not be small!

——Because when Yangguli saw the artillerymen being slaughtered and got rid of Mangui's entanglement, when he went to rescue the artillerymen, there were only a dozen people left around him.

That is what is recorded in the "Tongzhi of Eight Banners": "He led more than ten of his own troops to defeat the siege and all came out."

It's a pity that because of the evil within the Ming Dynasty, Deshengmen's early victory did not translate into victory in the battle...

Restoring all the information that can be found so far, we can roughly deduce the reasons for the Deshengmen defeat——

Mangui attracted the attention of the Qing army and even separated and surrounded the Qing army.

Hou Shilu suddenly emerged from dormancy and eliminated the Qing artillery unit.

Following this trend, a big victory is definitely just around the corner!

however……

A great victory is in sight!

Right at this moment-

At this critical moment for the Qing army——

Man Gui, who cooperated with Hou Shilu, was blown up by the cannonballs flying from the city... (Any historical data records this scene in detail.)

——This is why Mangui healed his injuries in Guandi Temple.

Guo Zhicong was typing, but the person disappeared...

In the history books, I have not found the subsequent whereabouts of this person, and he may have disappeared.

——It can be seen that Guo Zhicong was also killed.

And what about Hou Shilu?

He had not eaten or drank for many days, and his body was extremely weak. He was hit by an arrow again and his injuries did not heal.

Somehow, while he was struggling to kill the Qing gunners, he was hit with a sap and fell unconscious.

Seeing that something was not going well, the servant quickly snatched Hou Shilu away and hid in Xishan Mountain to recover from his injuries.

(Hou Shilu's recovery from his injuries is something recorded in history books.

This is also the original words of Hou Shilu's self-defense. )

Good guy, seeing that victory is about to come - leading three generals, but with the help of his own people - they are dead, injured, missing...

Subsequently, the Ming army, which lost its command, was defeated by the Qing army...

This is the reason why Deshengmen Mangui was defeated.

Is this because the Ming army is not strong?

The mole is so powerful!

Is this how the Qing army is completely invincible?

If several hungry, untrained, and hastily challenged remnants of the army can be beaten to the point where a mole must be dispatched in order to turn defeat into victory...

The Qing army is so strong!

As I said, as long as no one is holding you back, just anyone can defeat the Qing army!

……

If this were the case alone, Hou Shilu would not be the most unlucky.

Why do I say Hou Shilu is more unlucky?

Because when he went straight from Huailai to Beijing, didn't he give an order to let his Xuanfu soldiers and horses go straight to the capital?

These are all Hou Shilu's soldiers.

Good guy!

When Hou Shilu regained consciousness, he hurried back to take a look. After receiving his order, King Qin's soldiers came and were divided by Yuan Chonghuan, who was responsible for commanding the battle.

Not only his own artillery and well-armed elite soldiers were divided up, but also the company and the follow-up reinforcements were eaten.