Chapter 687 Xing'an Ridge

The flag soldiers that fell into the hands of the Ming army would be unreasonable and would die very miserably and suffer all the abuses.

The Ming army that fell into Jianlu was not much better. Most Ming army would rather commit suicide than fall into the hands of the brutal Tartars. What's worse was the Han people who were captured by Jianlu and fled north for a long journey.

Many people died of starvation in the marching. A large number of fugitive slaves appeared in the unbearable Han people, and more were chased and killed by Jianlu.

Huang Taiji treated the Han people's escaped slaves very rudely, and he would rather kill them than let them go. So in half a month, the grassland war that chased and fled was gradually out of control and developed in the direction of primitive, barbaric and cruelty.

Corpse were everywhere on the grassland, and 300,000 Jianlu were filled with corpses on the way to escape.

It was bright, the sun rose, and the frost thawed.

The Jianlu vanguard cavalry moved first, the central army and the rear team slowly set off and advanced northward.

Soon, the Ming army's light cavalry surrounded from all directions, rushed into the firearms, fired arrows, and kept biting out wounds in the long march. Huang Taiji's army was like a person who was cares about his head and his butts.

The barbarian bull, regardless of the whole sound, raised his strong horns and stubbornly rushed towards Xing'anling.

Lena River, ferry crossing, Ming army camp.

Li Zhengming had blisters on his lips, and he was so busy that he didn't touch the ground every day.

The Lena River is a very wide and turbulent river. Hundreds of thousands of people wanted to pass quickly, so they could only walk through the shallow ferry. Li Zhengming's Outer Mongolia garrison was dispatched in full swing and gathered 15,000 infantry and cavalry to defend several places.

The ferry has a heavy responsibility on its shoulders, and I have no confidence in my heart. Can 15,000 squads block the 200,000 to 300,000? It's very unrestrained.

At the ferry, Li Zhengming looked at the river flowing north and south, and couldn't help but wonder. This river looked like an inland river, flowing north and south, and the navy warships could not drive here, but this river kept flowing north and water flowing

The turbulent place is still a sea in the extreme north? This time he was right. The Lena River flows into the Arctic Ocean, flowing north and south. The powerful Ming navy could not enter the Arctic Ocean.

Moreover, Li Zhengming understood Huang Taiji's plan very well.

In early November, the temperature in Outer Mongolia dropped sharply, and thin ice had already formed on the Lena River at night. God knows whether the river will completely freeze after one night. Huang Taiji's escape was carefully planned, once the Lena River was

The 200,000 to 300,000 people who had frozen him could easily pass through. After crossing the Lena River, he could successfully enter the Xing'an Mountains. Then he would let the tiger return to the mountain, and there would be endless troubles. Li Zhengming was feeling like he was feeling pins and needles and asked Chen Yan to discuss countermeasures.

To defend the ferry to the death was originally a foolproof plan.

However, no one expected that the icy period of the Lena River would come so early. I thought that the Staff Department and the Military Research Department knew nothing about the hydrology and geography of this big river. If the Lena River really had a thick layer.

Li Zhengming touched his head, then I'm going to be a group of fools when I'm guarding the ferry

Chen Yan was also stumped and released the pigeon three days ago. Kaiyuan has not yet responded.

"Go into the mountain!"

Li Zhengming said in a muffled voice, immediately startled Chen Yan.

Chen Yan subconsciously looked at the outline of the mountains in the northeast and said cautiously: "If you enter the mountain, you will be a life of death."

Li Zhengming naturally knew that the five thousand steps he rode into the Xing'an Mountains and could not even make a wave. The winter in this far north was terrible.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Zhengming finally said resolutely: "This situation does not allow us to hesitate."

Chen Yan nodded in his heart. The current situation is snow. Overnight, the natural danger of Lena River will become a smooth road. This is a very likely thing. After discussing, the two came up with a compromise.

Half of the troops guarded the ferry, selected 5,000 elite troops to enter the mountains to ambush, and set up defenses in the undulating and long forests of Xing'an Mountains and tried their best to block the marching speed of the large number of Jianlu. This is the only way to do now.

After making a plan, Li Zhengming said without hesitation: "Don't fight with me, I can't do it if I sting my words, but you can't lead the troops to fight, I can't lead the troops into the mountains."

Chen Yan had no choice but to say: "Bring more food, ammunition, and medicine. It would be difficult to move after heavy snow to block the mountain."

Li Zhengming patted the knife on his waist and said proudly: "Save it, look good."

So the Ming army of Outer Mongolia decisively divided its troops and guarded the ferry with one of them to the death. A group of more than 5,000 elite troops entered the Xing'an Mountains with complex terrain. Later generations commented on the battle of the destruction of the Later Jin Dynasty, the Ming army of Outer Mongolia should remember its first merit.

When the thousand elite soldiers came out of the mountain, there were less than two thousand remaining soldiers left, and many of them suffered from severe frostbite. However, only these five thousand elite soldiers entangled hundreds of thousands of fleeing Jianlu in the north, like a piece of dog skin plaster, unable to get rid of them.

It's lost, it can't be torn apart.

How big is the area of ​​Xing'anling? Inside and outside, Xing'anling is a total of one million square kilometers!

Twenty or three hundred thousand people fled in, it would be like fish entering the sea and tiger entering the forest. If you want to find these hundreds of thousands of people, it would be really just looking for a needle in a haystack. Xing'anling is not an uninhabited land, it was the Jurchens, Jian

The hometown of the people of the state, there are many Jurchens living in the deep mountains and forests. This is Huang Taiji's wishful thinking. Once he enters the deep mountains and forests of Xing'an Mountains, he can withstand millions of soldiers. Huang Taiji is trying to rub his fists and must

The main force of the Ming army in Liaodong was introduced into the Xing'an Mountains and then annihilated the forest and snow fields with extremely harsh winter environments.

Therefore, the 5,000 Outer Mongolia Ming army commanded by Li Zhengming played an extremely critical role in this battle.

Huang Taiji's main army, the whereabouts of 100,000 bannermen, were always exposed to the vision of the Supreme Command of the Ming Army. He could never get rid of Li Zhengming's entanglement, and could not disappear from the vision of the Ming Army's Command and the Staff Office. Advance ahead of time

The Ming army, which was ambushing the mountains, lingering all the way, leaving a lot of marks along the way, pointing out the direction for the main force of the Ming army who entered the mountains to encircle and suppress the enemy. The final essence of the Later Jin and the bannermen was destroyed.

At noon, the east bank of the Lena River.

Five thousand Ming soldiers carried 12,000 horses, and were equipped with large amounts of supplies and ammunition.

Chen Yan moved his lips a few times, and finally said: "Take care!"

Li Zhengming laughed and gently clamped his horse's belly. Five thousand Ming troops armed to their teeth ran wildly, and they penetrated into the gloomy, terrifying, and boundless primeval forest of Xing'anling.

Two days later, a vast army of Eight Banners appeared on the horizon on the west bank of the Lena River.

At this time, snowflakes were floating in the sky. The snowflakes in the extreme north of the border were not as thick as the snow in the Central Plains. They were poetic and picturesque, but mixed with the biting cold wind. The snowflakes were not in large patches, but

A bunch of ice stubble was cut on the face and it hurts.

At the ferry, the Ming army camp suddenly became boiling.

The Ming army also made full preparations to defend the ferry. Three trenches were dug, five trenches were built on the chest wall, and nearly a hundred large and large artillery pieces were brought to guard against each other, waiting for the Jianlu army to hit the head. Chen Yan looked at it with a thousand-mile mirror.
Chapter completed!