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Chapter 222 Battle of Salhu

Don’t let the world grow old: Alas, even Yuan Chonghuan is also a poor and arrogant person.

Pay attention, this woman is called Xiaomei: The main reason is that Chongzhen is suspicious! I admire his integrity to die for the world, but when it comes to being an emperor, he is really not good

Yinhe: If you go, come on! Still here, nagging

Wan Ning can’t sleep. (Guan): Stop it! It's true that Chongzhen was suspicious, and he didn't go too far.

Wuduyi: But it’s useless for anyone to come at that time!

Kick the lame man's good leg wildly: Agreed! Even when Xiu'er comes, she may say she can solve man-made disasters, but she can't solve natural disasters!
Nian Nian: Moreover, Liu Xiu’s thinking is different from that of people in the Ming Dynasty. Without a golden finger, this kind of time travel can only be said to be nonsense.

Who in the clouds sent me a brocade letter: Agree!

Su Yue looked at the comment area and said, "Okay, now let's take a look at the last battle I want to talk about!"

According to the plan, Yang Gao sent a Manchurian named 470,000 troops with 200,000 soldiers, who was a defector when he captured Fushun. He sent a letter to the army on the 24th, saying that the army would be strong.
Nurhachi ordered King Baylor and ministers to lead the soldiers in the city and set out to the west to meet the enemy.

While the army was marching, the sentinel came and reported to Nurhaci: "Another Ming army soldier is coming on the road from Qinghe City in the southeast."

Nurhaci said: "Although there are troops on this road toward Qinghe City, the terrain of this road is narrow and steep. They cannot arrive quickly. Let them do it on their own. We will go to Fushun Pass to meet the enemy in the west first."

On the first day of March in 1619 (the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Tianming in the later Jin Dynasty), Du Song's army advanced rashly and reached Sarhu (near the East Dahuofang Reservoir in Fushun, Liaoning today). The army was divided into two and the main force was stationed in Sarhu. Near Hu, he led ten thousand people to attack Jilin Cliff. Nurhachi saw that Du Song's army was advancing alone and its troops were scattered. On the one hand, he sent troops to reinforce Jilin Ya, and on the other hand, he personally led 4 Six Flags troops to attack Du Song's army in Sarhu. The next day, the two armies fought. It was just after noon, and the sky was dark and it was difficult to tell at a close distance. Juniper's army lit torches to illuminate for artillery bombardment. Later, the Jin army used the torches lit by Juniper's army to attack from the dark and concentrated their arrows, killing many people. At this time, Nurhaci took advantage of the heavy fog, crossed the trench, pulled out the fence, and captured the Du Army camp. The main force of the Du Army was defeated and suffered many casualties. With the cooperation of reinforcements, the defenders of the Later Jin Dynasty stationed at Jilinya also defeated the attacking enemy. The Ming Army's West Route Army General Du Song, the Baoding General Wang Xuan, and the former General Zhao Menglin were all killed in the battle. The Mingxi Route Army was completely wiped out. [5]
North Road rout
After the main force of the Ming army was wiped out, the Ming armies in the north and south were isolated and in a disadvantageous situation.

On the night of the first day of March in 1619 (the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Tianming in the later Jin Dynasty), the North Route Army of the Ming Dynasty, led by Ma Lin, entered Shangjian Cliff (in the northeast of Sarhu) and learned that Du Song's army was defeated. Dare to advance and station the army in three locations for on-site defense.

In order to preserve his strength, Marin dug three layers of trenches around the camp, lined up the firearms troops outside the trenches, and the cavalry followed.

He also ordered his generals Pan Zongyan and Gong Niansui to lead ten thousand men each and station them several miles away from the main camp to form a horn formation and line up their chariots in a circle to block the enemy cavalry from rushing forward.

After Nurhachi annihilated Du Song's army, he turned the main force of the Eight Banners to the north and went to Shangjianya to meet the Marin army.

In the morning of the second day of March in 1619 (the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Tianming in the Later Jin Dynasty), the Marin army was just about to move away the camping utensils and prepare to march south. When they discovered that the army led by Nurhaci had arrived, they led the army back to the camp. The camp was re-established and the battle formation was set up in a square formation. Three trenches were dug around the camp last night. Cannons were arranged outside the trenches. The soldiers who fired the cannons stood on foot behind the cannons. On the outside of the cannons, there was a dense layer of cavalry, and in front of the cavalry were arranged again. The musketeers and the rest of the soldiers dismounted and entered the camp in the three-story trench to form array.

Later, the Jin army first sent a cavalry unit to rush through the Ming general Gong Niansui's camp, and then used infantry to attack the Ming army's chariot formation and defeat Gong's army. By 12 noon, Nurhachi arrived at the place where Marin set up camp.

There is a mountain to the east of Marin Camp. Nurhachi said: "Our soldiers should first occupy the high ground on the east mountain, and attack the Marin Army's military camp at the foot of the mountain from the mountain. Then we can defeat the Marin Army."

So Nurhaci led his personal guards and all the soldiers of the two banners to leave the camp and head east to the foot of the south slope of Dongshan Mountain, preparing to climb the mountain from the south slope.

At this time, after a morning confrontation with Hou Jin's army, Ma Lin saw that Hou Jin's reinforcements had arrived. The total number of soldiers gathered under the commander's banner was only two banners plus four or five thousand people. He thought that the total number of Hou Jin's soldiers was only These, coupled with the later Jin soldiers leaving the camp and moving eastward, the team was out of line.

So Ma Lin decided to take the initiative to attack the decisive battle. He ordered the soldiers in the camp to go out and join the cavalry and musketeers outside the camp. The army took the initiative to attack the Houjin army located east of the Ming camp.

Nurhaci looked west on the mountain and saw the soldiers in the Ming camp converging with the soldiers outside the trenches outside the camp. Nurhachi said: "It seems that the Ming army is coming to attack us actively. There is no need to climb the mountain. You can dismount and fight with them on foot." ”

Daishan went down the mountain from the left side, that is, the south slope, to the foot of the mountain, and ordered his two-banner soldiers to dismount and prepare for foot combat.

Only forty or fifty people were dismounted, and the Ming army came from the west to attack.

Daishan said to Nurhachi: "I should lead the troops forward."

Then he rode his horse to meet the enemy and drove straight into the ranks of the Ming army. Later, Zhubeile and Taiji led their troops to kill the Ming soldiers respectively. The two armies fought in a melee. The Ming army was defeated and most of the attacking Ming troops were killed.

At this time, the Six Flags Soldiers who were chasing Gong Niansui's deserters ended the battle and hurried over. Seeing the two armies fighting, the Six Flags Soldiers who arrived first did not wait for the troops behind to arrive and had no time to reorganize their troops. Attack the Ming army Marin's camp.

Soldiers in the Marin barracks fired guns to engage in battle.

The Manchurian soldiers fired arrows and attacked. Under attack from the east and south, the Ming army could not withstand the offensive momentum and fled in defeat. The Manchu soldiers took advantage of the situation to pursue and defeat Pan Zongyan's tribe. Most of the Ming army in the north was wiped out. Ming army deputy general Ma Yan and others were all killed, and the commander-in-chief Ma Lin only led a few people to escape.

Defeat on the East Road
The Eastern Route Army led by Liu Wei of the Ming Dynasty failed to advance to Hetuala as scheduled due to the rugged mountain roads and difficulty in movement.

Not knowing that the west and north roads had been lost, we still headed north as planned.

After Nurhaci defeated the Marin Army, he immediately moved his troops to meet Liu Jun.

On the third day of March in 1619 (the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Tianming in the Later Jin Dynasty), in order to completely annihilate the Liu army, Nurhachi adopted a strategy of luring them to advance quickly and setting up an ambush to gather and annihilate them. Alanan) arranged an ambush, and a small number of soldiers pretended to be Ming soldiers, wearing Ming army uniforms, under the banner of the Ming army, and holding juniper arrows. They falsely claimed that the juniper army was approaching Hetuala and asked Liu Wei to advance quickly.

Liu Wei believed it to be true and immediately ordered a rapid advance with light equipment.

On the fourth day of March, when Liu Qing's army of the Ming Army on the East Road set out from Kuandian, the people in the east of Houjin hid in the mountains and old forests.

Liu Qing led his army to capture the stronghold along the way, killing lame, blind and other immobile people, and marched all the way forward.

When Liu Wei's leading troops entered Abdali Post, they were ambushed and defeated. Nurhaci took advantage of the victory and defeated his subsequent troops.

Escape on the South Road

Yang Hao was based in Shenyang, commanding a mobile force and did not provide any response to the three Ming armies.

After the defeat of Jun Song and Ma Lin, Li Rubai's army was hurriedly ordered to return to the division on the fifth day of March.

Li Rubai's army moved slowly and only reached Huban Post (east of Qinghe Fort).

When he received the order to retreat, he was discovered by Houjin Sentry, who sounded a conch on the mountain to send out an impact signal and made a loud noise.

Li Rubai's army thought it was the main force of Hou Jin who launched the attack. They fled in panic, trampled on each other, and suffered more than 1000 casualties.

Marshal Kang Hongli of the North Korean army led the remaining five thousand soldiers down the mountain to surrender. After Houjin hosted a banquet in honor of them, he released them back to the country and wrote a letter to King Gwanghae of North Korea.

war result
The Battle of Sarhu ended with the defeat of the Ming army and the victory of the Jin army.

In this battle, more than 310 civil and military generals died, more than 45870 sergeants died, and a total of more than 28600 horses, mules, and camels were lost.

After this battle, the Hou Jin army took advantage of the momentum to capture Kaiyuan and Tieling, and conquered the Yehe tribe. Chiefs Jin Taiji and Buyangu were killed, and the remaining tribes surrendered to Jianzhou.

King Gwanghae of the Joseon Dynasty sent an envoy to Hou Jin in the fifth lunar month of 1619 (the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Tianming in Hou Jin Dynasty) to thank Hou Jin. From then on, he adopted a neutral policy towards Hou Jin and the Ming Dynasty until Injo later changed his mind. .

After the defeat of the Ming army, Yang Hao immediately took the blame and resigned. He was later detained and executed in the second year of Chongzhen (1629).

Du Song and Liu Wei had died on the battlefield, and Ma Lin also died in Kaiyuan three months later. Three of the four generals of the Ming Army had lost their lives. Only Li Rubai had never encountered the enemy. However, a few days after the battle, That is the official impeachment.

A year and a half later, the Liao Dynasty became worse and the matter was mentioned again. Li Rubai committed suicide to clarify his ambition.