Chapter 218 Problems exposed by the defeat of Jiannu
The preliminary results of the battle on the battlefield have been settled, with a total of more than 6,600 beheadings of Jiannu, which does not mean that Jiannu only died in battle of more than 6,600 people.
Mainly in this war, the Liu family army used more than 120 Folang machine cannons, four three-inch cannons, twenty five-inch cannons, one hundred thunder guns, and more than one hundred tiger squat cannons that fired shots, and sixteen unconscience cannons.
No matter which of these firearms hits the head, they are like a giant hammer hitting a watermelon. It is too difficult to obtain a complete head.
The prisoners were more than 53,000 people, and the captured armor, weapons, flags, and food were countless. Jiannu went through great difficulty to pull dozens of cannons from Yanhu Town. Although they were blown into a twisted shape, two-thirds of the cannons were bronze cannons, with the weight of copper alone reaching more than 50,000 kilograms, and more than 40,000 kilograms of iron cannons, all of which became the spoils of Liu Minghui.
The fleeing war horses were also collected, totaling more than 23,000. Unfortunately, most of these war horses were ruined. They could only gather seven thousand war horses. Of course, these more than 7,000 war horses could charge again. Those war horses that were too injured had long been slaughtered by soldiers who collected spoils.
It is worth mentioning that the Ming army's results are much more than that. At least 20,000 corpses were either burned into coke or bombed into parts, and the head level could not be cut, so they could not be counted. Even so, it was a very terrifying record.
The losses of the Liu family army in this battle were also quite astonishing, including nearly 2,000 casualties and more than 5,000 wounded. As for the Mongolians under Lin Danhan, Lin Danhan would not mention them, and Liu Mingyu would not mention them. Huang Taiji would not count the losses of the Mongols' servants, and Liu Mingyu would not count them either.
Of course, more than 600 soldiers from the hunting cavalry and Mongolian books of the Liu family army died and more than 1,000 injured were considered as war damage. If you become soldiers of the Liu family army, you will naturally enjoy the treatment of the Liu family army wounded.
The wounded soldiers were transferred from the temporary tent to the barracks of Yanhu Town. The barracks of the wounded soldiers were the warehouses of Yanhu Town in the past. After temporary renovation of the engineer battalion, a fire wall was installed. The fire pit was burning with coal. Under the suction force of the chimney, flames burned and roasted the entire barracks. Even though the cold wind outside was biting, the air turned into ice.
The wounded soldier was still as warm as spring. The only downside was that he would feel severe thirst when he stayed in the wounded soldier. Each wounded soldier had to drink several liters of water and saline.
Of course, no one cares about this disadvantage. In short, no matter how uncomfortable it is, it is better than putting it outside to get frozen. At this time, the people of Yanhu Town also went out and cleaned the battlefield. Of course, cleaning the battlefield is not a good job at this time. After all, the bodies and the ground are frozen together, and even a weapon is not easy to pry with a crowbar.
However, these difficulties are not a problem in front of the people of Yanhu Town. Just like the engineer company dealing with trenches, they first melt the corpses with fire, and while the blood and ice water melt, they will use the weapons, armor, clothes on the battlefield, no matter how bad these Mongolian or Jiannu are, they will still have sheepskin coats on their bodies.
Not only weapons, armor, heads, flags and other good things, but even the clothes on Jiannu or Mongolian soldiers were cleared away. These guys were like hungry locusts, and there was no grass growing everywhere, leaving only a large area of headless corpses with bare butts.
The soldiers of the Liu family army thought that they had collected spoils by themselves. Who knew that after they finished the trouble, Yanhu Town ran over excitedly and then went into the Xian-de-processing process. Then the Liu family army in Sichuan was stunned and saw that not long after, the spoils collected by the people of Yanhu Town, which were originally empty, were pretending to be large and small bags, how cruel were these guys collecting spoils?
Even the iron armor leaves scattered on the ground, and even the teeth that smashed the head should be pulled out to see if there are any gold teeth. Use boiling water to pour it on the blood-stained broken limbs and broken arms, and you can use rings, rings and even necklaces to clean out the rings.
In addition to these precious metals, clothing, leather, and even tattered cowhide shields, this is a good thing in the eyes of the people of Yanhu Town. Many migrant people do not have sheepskin coats to keep warm. These leathers can be reprocessed, processed into sheepskin boots, or processed into sheepskin coats or sheepskin pants. After processing, they will be processed in a series of processes such as nitrification and steaming, and there will be no hygiene or viruses.
As for the dead who had worn it, in the chaotic times of the Ming Dynasty, the people who had no clothes to keep warm would not care. They would only care whether they could get an extra sheepskin coat or sheepskin boots.
After reading the preliminary statistics of the battle report, Liu Ming was speechless for a long time. The Liu family army's combat effectiveness was reduced by one quarter by one. It was really shocking. The tragic battle of this battle was even better than that of the Kuanhe Battle. Jiannu won a tragic victory in the Kuanhe Battle. Everyone, Beile cried in front of Huang Taiji and said that the casualties were too heavy. Now they were defeated in disastrously. I wonder what Huang Taiji would feel?
These Jiannu army who were fleeing desperately were no longer willing to think about it. They had abandoned all their pride and confidence, and only fled in a panic, forgot to break the rear, forget that there were only a few thousand Ming troops chasing them, and forgot that they had bows, arrows and sabers in their hands to resist, and only care about escaping, escaping, and escaping, the farther they could escape, the better.
Abatai and Mangourtai sent several troops to cut off the rear and tried to block the Ming army, but in a flash these troops were shattered by the lances and hunting cavalry, and hundreds or thousands of bloody heads were added to the necks of the Ming cavalry.
Such a desperate situation made Abatai and Manguertai despair, and they did not dare to think about counterattack anymore. They could only repeatedly urge the troops to retreat quickly and retreat to Shenyang to take a breath and make plans. Perhaps in their opinion, although Jiannu suffered heavy losses in this battle, they were just a partial army, and the main force of Jiannu was still there. As long as they could stabilize their position and find the flaws of the Ming army, they would have a chance to turn the tables.
They didn't know that there were not many opportunities left by God to them and Jiannu.
Jiannu and the Mongolian coalition forces fled in panic and died in the direction of Shenyang. The flags, weapons, cattle, sheep, and food and grass were thrown all over the ground. The injured soldiers were abandoned in the snow and groaned in despair. The war horses that could not run were also abandoned. They stayed with the wounded soldiers and watched their master disappear at the end of their sight with no eyesight, making sad screams.
This defeated scene made everyone who survived this bloody battle suffer the shame of being worse than death for the rest of their lives and could not raise their heads.
Since Nurhaci started the army, the iron hooves of the Eight Banners of Jiannu have trampled all over the white mountains and black waters, and have annihilated the Ming army at a punctual cost of thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands. They have suppressed the two giants of the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia with a small tribe of only one million. They have invincible and invincible attacks, creating the myth of "The Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they cannot fight for them". Have they ever tried such a crushing defeat!
This kind of self-confidence is shocked by the shattering of one day, and this mythical terror is more serious than the loss of tens of thousands of elite soldiers, making their minds blank and they are at a loss!
The cavalry and hunting cavalry of the Liu family army had stopped pursuing. The one who did not give up the pursuit was actually their defeated generals, namely the Mongolian cavalry of Lin Dankhan's army, who were chasing them closely. The Mongolian cavalry was also exhausted and the number was not large. The Jiannu army could defeat them with just one Jiala.
However, the problem is that now, no Niu Lu turned around to face their enemies, and just wanted to escape, the farther away, the better. He let the Mongolian cavalry behind him bit behind them like lees, capturing abandoned wounded soldiers and collecting abandoned war horses.
After fighting the Ming Dynasty for so many years, the Jiannu soldiers were certainly aware of the consequences of being captured, but no one had the leisure to care about the wounded soldiers, so escaping is important!
Lin Danhan was shocked to see the Jiannu army running away without looking back, just like a wildebeest group driven by a lion group. The resistance of the Jiannu army they were chasing was pitifully weak, as if they had lost their souls. It made people unable to believe that this was the tiger and wolf army that fought fiercely with the Ming army in Erdaoliang for two days and almost destroyed the Liu family army's formation several times!
As Liu Mingyu expected, these barbarians were too obsessed with their own force. Once they defeated their confidence accumulated with countless victories, they would be defeated, their morale was shaken, and even if they met opponents in the future, they would only have the word escape!
This may be the reason why he resolutely refused to adopt the suggestions of Liu Xingzuo and others to deviate from Shenyang, and to resist the opposition and faced the head-on battle between Erdaoliang and the main force of Jiannu. He wanted to smash Jiannu's pride and confidence in this kind of main force battle with an anvil-and-hammer-like main force, so that they realized that they were not as powerful as they imagined. They were fighting with a giant and could be smashed into meat paste by the giant at any time!
Finally, the Mongolian cavalry of Lin Dankhan's tribe were also chased. They had already gone more than fifty miles away from the Liu family's camp. If they pursued them, they would be likely to be pressed to the ground and rubbed by Jiannu.
Huang Taiji finally moved to safety temporarily. At this time, he counted the troops around him. He had less than 15,000 cavalry. At the most, they had 50,000 or 60,000 Mongolian servants, but there were 70,000 or 80,000 troops. In just two days, they fell into this field, which made people sigh.
Now the Later Jin Dynasty can finally take a breath. But this is only temporary. The Mongolian cavalry under Lin Dankhan will continue to pounce on them like wolves and bite the defeated army fiercely, constantly bleeding them, causing them to completely collapse.
The most terrible thing is that tomorrow morning, the cavalry and infantry of the Liu family army will catch up and chase them hard. Don’t talk nonsense with the Ming army, don’t chase them, don’t stop them from returning to the army, and don’t tell them anything about fatigue. They have been holding back for more than 30 years and finally won an unprecedented victory. They really don’t care about anything. They just want to pounce on them and eat Jiannu’s meat and drink Jiannu’s blood!
Huang Taiji knew this well, and Mangourtai, Abatai, Haoge and others also knew this well, so they did not dare to stop and gritted their teeth and continued on their way.
The exhausted Jiannu soldiers and Mongolian servants lamented and talked endlessly. Some even openly accused the general of his arrogance and extravagance. In the past, this was unimaginable. In the eyes of these soldiers, no matter how much their masters squandered, it was natural, because they were the master's slaves, and the slaves were not qualified to accuse the masters.
Now, it is just a crushing defeat, and all the problems have surfaced. This is just a precursor. The subsequent effects of this crushing defeat will continue to ferment, making Jiannu in pain.
Abatai looked at the army that was so angry that he lamented: "I was defeated so miserably. I followed my father Khan to fight south and north. After fighting for half a lifetime, I have never tried to lose so miserably!"
Haoge's face turned pale, his eyes were blazing, and he said fiercely: "Minggou has no other skills, but he will bully people with firearms! What's the ability to fight with firearms? If you have the ability, you are really good at fighting with me. You despicable and shameless cowards!"
"Hog, shut up!"
Chapter completed!