Dragon Sea Empire

The literati Yang Hao had already shown his ignorance in military affairs on the Korean battlefield. This time, he was still allowed to command the entire army. This was the result of civil disputes among the bureaucrats of the Ming court. After the balance of power among all parties, Yang Gao came out of semi-retirement command troops.

It was the tradition of the Ming Dynasty that military officers were in charge of the army. It was impossible for a military officer to gain real power as the commander. Generally speaking, military officers commanded an army of more than 20000 soldiers, and the maximum strength did not exceed [-]. Military officers commanding large corps to fight is never allowed by the Ming Dynasty system.

After Yin Feng and other generals of the Chinese army heard about the plot of Yang Gao’s writing to Nurhachi, most of them did not believe it was true, or thought that Yang Gao was playing tricks to confuse the enemy. He told Nurhachi, but he notified the enemy commander-in-chief of the Ming army's imminent dispatch of troops and the relevant marching arrangements. In fact, to find out whether Yang Gao was playing tricks, as long as Nurhachi sent a few spies to observe and inquire about the Ming army's dispatch of troops, even a fool could get conclusion.

The generals of the Chinese army have never had any good feelings for the official army: apart from always stabbing the Chinese army in the back, the imperial army has basically not done anything serious in the southeast coast for more than ten years. The Chinese army faced the threat of the Spanish attack At the critical moment, the imperial army was making trouble behind the scenes, or they were just tinkering with the sea ban policy, or they were thinking of colluding with the Portuguese in Macau...

For the Chinese Army, which defeated almost all the elite troops of the Ming Army around the northern and southern capitals of the Ming Dynasty the year before, there is even more reason to despise the fighting power of the Ming Army. Everyone is also very aware of the incompetence of the Ming Army's generals and leading literati. of.

But for the idiotic actions of Yang Hao, the commander-in-chief of the Saerhu Battle of the Ming Army, everyone still felt that the degree of stupidity was beyond everyone's imagination.

Next, the various armies of the Ming army could not coordinate their actions and cooperate with each other; the various troops were temporarily gathered together from scattered troops from various places, and they could not even communicate with each other in language;

The Zhejiang and Fujian soldiers of the Eastern Route Army arrived at the battlefield wearing southern autumn clothing. On the night of September in Liaodong, all these southern soldiers were half-frozen to death. After marching for only three days, a large number of troops fell sick. The Jurchen allied forces didn't want to attack Hetuala at all, so they turned around and headed northward halfway back to their home, because their home was now defenseless and faced Houjin's attack at any time.

Li Rubai, the chief general of the South Road, had long since lost the vigor of his youth. He was greedy for life and fearful of death. To provide them with food and grass, the Korean soldiers were passive and slowed down every day, and could not keep up with the marching speed of the Liaodong cavalry on the South Route. As a result, the South Route Army was actually divided into two units with no connection, and the two units were separated by a day's journey.

As the main force of the West Route Army, under the leadership of Shanhaiguan General Officer Du Song, they marched in a mighty formation. They set off from Shenyang and went to Fushun Pass to rest for a while. In one day, they rushed for more than a hundred miles in the rain, and only brought 1 cavalry soldiers of the Xuanda Frontier Army, including the Baoding soldiers and Xuanfu soldiers of the headquarters, to run at the forefront of the whole army; The cautious Juniper pressed down with military orders, and the daily marching speed was very slow. In the end, the West Route Army became two parts, the front and the rear, separated by a day's journey.

The three-way Ming army became five troops, and there was no connection with each other. The messengers sent by the commanders of the three-way army, such as Jun Song, Li Rubai, and Ma Lin, were all intercepted and killed by the Eight Banners soldiers.

Five days after leaving the customs, Wang Xuan, the chief soldier of Baoding of the West Route Army, fell into ambush after crossing the river in Sarhu, and was beaten up by the whole army of the Eight Banners Army. After that, Nurhachi led the whole army to get out of the way, withdrew from Sarhu and went straight to the Ming army on the east road.

The chief general of the Eastern Route Army, Kaiyuan Chief Soldier Marin, has been doing all the crimes and meritorious deeds due to the loss of Kaiyuan. He is positive about sending troops this time, but his Yehe tribal soldiers disappeared as soon as they left the customs. The soldiers were not used to the climate in Liaodong, and the number of sicknesses increased sharply. He desperately forced the whole army to march. Half a day after the fall of Wang Xuanbu, he arrived at Abdali Hill, 70 miles south of Hetuala. No, the firearms lacked ammunition, and they were ambushed in the Abdaligang Mountains, and Nurhaci was defeated by Nurhachi with 5 main forces of the Eight Banners.

At this time, the main force of the West Route Army, Jun Song, had been in Sarhu for two days, and there were four camps, and people were sent to the rear to urge food. In front of the West Road Ming Army, there were only a few thousand Eight Banners cavalry to restrain and harass, but the main general, Jun Song, was terrified. Before, Hetuala, who was right in front of his eyes, could only see nothing. Juniper's courage on the battlefield was lost when he fought the Chinese army last year. In fact, Hetuala was basically an empty city at this time. Even if the Ming army captured it, it would be of no use. The main force of Nurhachi's Eight Banners Army was rushing towards Sarhu.

One day later, Nurhachi's Eight Banners army returned from Abdali Hill and attacked Juniper's main force at night. The Ming army lit flaming torches to fight in the dark night, and became the target of the Eight Banners archers, with heavy casualties , The three camps of the Juniper Army were broken overnight. After dawn, 6 troops of the Eight Banners Army besieged the old camp of Juniper, and broke through the old camp of Juniper regardless of casualties.

Li Rubai, like himself in another time and space, feared the enemy like a tiger. He was blocked by more than a hundred rear golden cavalry, and after hearing that other troops had been defeated, he took the lead in fleeing with his standard battalion, and those Ming army troops left by him also followed suit. Turned around and fled, and was chased and killed by more than a hundred Eight Banners cavalry for more than a hundred miles. More than a thousand people trampled to death. However, most of the Korean soldiers were infantry, unable to flee with the Ming cavalry, they had to set up a camp in the wild of Fucha to fight against the Eight Banners of the Houjin Army. The Koreans wanted to break out of the siege, but they were defeated by the Eight Banners cavalry as soon as they left the camp. Several generals were killed in battle.

Li Rubai finally fled back to Shenyang with 8000 cavalry, while the total number of the remaining two Ming armies who were able to escape was less than 5000.

In the battle of Sarhu, the Ming army suffered a disastrous defeat, with more than 410 casualties, [-] civil and military generals died, more than [-] horses, mules, and camels were lost, and more than [-] pieces of firearms and guns were lost. The last batch of elite troops, such as the northern frontier army and the southern bird blunderbuss, were completely lost, which was even more severe than the battle of Sarhu in another time and space. This battle was a strategic decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Hou Jin in Liaodong. The Ming Dynasty will be unable to maintain the situation in Liaodong, and the Houjin Eight Banners have fully grasped the strategic initiative of Liaodong.

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After the defeat of the Ming army, the area under the jurisdiction of Liaodong Capital was in a state of panic. The people north of Shenyang and east of Kuandian, regardless of the weather getting colder, fled their homes with their families, while Nurhachi's Eight Banners soldiers won an unprecedented victory After that, they marched non-stop to the area around Kaiyuan, expelled all the Ming army defenders from various forts such as Qingyun Fort, Qingheguan, and Fanhesuo, and completely captured the surrounding areas of Kaiyuan, such as Tielingwei and Liaohaiwei to the north of Fanhe. At the same time, a part of the Eight Banners also captured Dadianbao and other places north of the Yalu River.

The Ming army in Liaodong had lost all its elite, and they could not even guarantee the strength to defend the fortresses everywhere. Food, weapons, and ammunition were even more scarce.

Fortunately, the Eight Banners soldiers of the Later Golden Banners also suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Sarhu, and the weather in the Northeast is about to enter the cold winter, making it difficult to carry out any military operations. If this is not the case, it is very likely that the Eight Banners soldiers will soon counterattack to Under the city of Shenyang.

In the end, there were more than 12000 Korean gunfire soldiers who surrendered. Jiang Hongli, the left counselor of the Marshal Yi government, often traveled to the Ming Dynasty and knew Chinese and Manchu. Therefore, he was valued by Nurhaci. Jiang Hongli wrote to King Gwanghae of North Korea, Persuade him to make a good relationship with Houjin.

Mr. Guanghai immediately sent an envoy with gifts to apologize to Nurhachi, hoping that he would release the North Korean soldiers.

At this time, Nurhachi intends to maintain friendly relations with North Korea for the time being, so he has nothing to blame for humiliating the North Korean envoy. It is not possible to support more than ten thousand North Korean soldiers in vain, but to give them some use.

Information about the situation in Liaodong came to Yin Feng's desk one after another. A regiment of the First Division had set off from Jilong Port in Taipei to go north to Jinzhouwei to strengthen its defense. The cavalry brigade had also departed from Jeju Island (now called Tamna Island) Departure, has landed in Jinzhou Zhongzuo (Lushun), stationed in Muchangyi.

Whether to participate in the Liaodong war, the members of the Chinese Army's officer corps have no objection: if the ship owner wants to fight, then fight, anyway, there are opportunities to win military exploits wherever you fight. Lots of money, lots of land, and possibly a stake in a company.

However, the board of directors of Zhonghua Company has other opinions on this. Under Yin Feng's deliberate cultivation, the discussion atmosphere in the board of directors has become more and more serious and careful, and some people dare to question Yin Feng's opinions in person. challenge.

At the board meeting after the military meeting, Han Ping, Huang Cheng and others suggested to sit back and watch the changes and not get involved in the Liaodong War so soon.

"Let the imperial court and the Jurchen barbarians fight to the death, and then we'll make a move and pick the peaches easily, that would be great, why join the chaos in Liaodong now, we want to maintain the control of Jiangnan and Fujian this year He fought wars in Nanyang and emigrated to Nanyang, and spent too much money, and it is really..." Han Ping, the director of the company and the head of the business department, was sincere in his face, and he was actually working for this year's company's profits in his heart. slumped and heartbroken,