Wang Hongyu himself couldn't see that his face was no longer as handsome as it was a few months ago, but had a mature, steady and heroic look.
Liaoyang is about 90 miles away from the Liaohe River Bridge Ferry, and only over 80 miles away from this camp.
It can be reached by marching overnight.
Although they have just rested for a short time, rescuing Liaoyang is important.
It is estimated that Yuan Yingtai will mess up the strong city defense by himself.
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As expected, Yuan Yingtai made another stupid move.
Instead of quickly stabilizing the city defenses and suppressing the rumors and traitors, they ordered the gates to be opened and water from the Taihe River put into the moat, thinking that Liaoyang would be impregnable.
He believed that there was no way for Jiannu to reach the city because of the moat blocking it. He regarded everyone's advice as unfounded worries and created a tense atmosphere. He was ignorant and short-sighted, and he personally led the main force of the Ming army out of the city.
If you do not go out of the city to take the initiative to engage in battle and stick to the city, filling the moat with water channels will be beneficial to defense.
As long as we can control the Mongolian army in the city, follow Zhang Quan's method to capture the leader of the Mongolian army, and divide the Mongolian army directly under the generals, we will prevent them from rebelling.
It is a pity that the useless scholar Yuan Yingtai not only does not understand military affairs, but also does not listen to the correct advice from civilian officials and military commanders, and does not know how to pretend to understand.
Because of his haphazard command, he had already lost many generals and more than 90,000 Ming troops. He did not accept the lessons of the internal causes of the Mongol army's rebellion in Shenyang City, but instead spent a lot of money to win over the Mongol army.
Because the 3,000 soldiers left behind by Zhao Lijiao had no commander, and Yuan Yingtai did not want to hand them over to Zhang Quan, who knew military knowledge, he instead let the Mongols command them.
At this time, Lieutenant General Liang Zhongshan had 3,000 troops, but because he was close to the Southern Army, he was the target of exclusion, so he did not give them to him.
Yuan Yingtai has 3,000 standard military battalions under his command. The equipment and equipment of these soldiers and horses are of course first-class. With a little training under a general who knows the soldiers, they can become a strong army.
But he didn't understand military matters and considered himself a military strategist, so he was reluctant to delegate power to his generals who knew military skills to lead the team.
When Zhang Quan said that his Biao Soldier Battalion had never participated in actual combat and that they should be sent to hoe traitors or defend the city, Yuan Yingtai thought that Zhang Quan was afraid that his Biao Soldier Battalion would become famous and thus prevented him from becoming famous.
He didn't listen. He directly used his official position to pressure him and led his troops out of the city to fight again.
He ordered the 3,000 Biao Battalion to be the vanguard, Zu Dashou's 2,000 Liaoxi Army to serve as the center army, and let Liang Zhongshan, who had rich combat experience, lead his 3,000 troops to the rear.
He also sent tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers and soldiers and horses led by Zhao to attack on both sides.
Yuan Yingtai's military strength is three times that of Amin Xianglan Banner's slave soldiers. Isn't this a hammer smashing a watermelon?
Especially if your own standard battalion acts as the vanguard and the Mongolian soldiers act as a flank attack, how can you be invincible?
As soon as the battle began, Xianglan Banner used a shield chariot to cover the enemy. The archers poked their heads from behind the shield chariot to shoot at the Ming army. The arrows would surely hit within 50 steps. On the contrary, the Ming army's muskets and arrows failed to hurt them.
After approaching 30 steps, Jiannu continued to use the shield chariot to cover his arrows, and a large number of savage Jurchens rushed over. Their faces were terrifying and their hoarse grins directly frightened the Ming army.
Biaoying was originally very good at fighting under Xiong Tingbi a year ago. However, Yuan Yingtai came and changed the base and neglected training. Now they were completely defeated in the first encounter.
Suddenly the friendly forces on the flank withdrew.
The Mongolian army did not want to sacrifice their lives for Yuan Yingtai, so they turned their horses and fled quickly, directly knocking down the battalion formation led by Zhao, followed closely by Xianglan Banner, and defeated the battalion in an instant.
This battle is bound to be lost. Zu Dashou, the fleeing general, naturally rubbed the soles of his feet, and his subordinates followed suit.
The suspension bridge was crowded with defeated soldiers, and a large number of soldiers and horses fell into the moat and drowned. Thousands of soldiers and horses knew that Liaoyang City could not be saved and did not want to work for Yuan Yingtai because Yuan Yingtai had labeled their general as a traitor. They did not enter the city and fled to the northwest, waiting for an opportunity to find him.
Commander.
Liang Zhongshan's 3,000 soldiers and horses at the rear did not escape, but the road was blocked. They fought to the death and were isolated and helpless. Many of them were killed by Jierhalang with a blue flag.
Even Liang Zhongshan was hacked to death by Jiannu because of the crowded formation, but was unable to use his strength to fight back.
There were more than 1,000 soldiers under his command who were separated from the general by the routed troops. Seeing that Liang Zhongshan died in battle and with no hope of entering the city, they also fled to the northwest.
The morale of the Liaoyang army and the people was completely shaken.
Yuan Yingtai did not flee back to the city that day, but camped in the west of the city, hoping to wait until the next day to counterattack and repel the Xianglan Banner.
He rushed to report the situation to the court overnight and wrote to the court asking for help. He told the court that the Xianglan Banner was very powerful and defeated Zhu Wanliang and Liang Zhongshan twice in a row. The memorial did not record the battle process, especially his own fueling tactics.
Instead, the number of people with blue flags was exaggerated to tens of thousands.
From this, he discovered that the two reports of the Sichuan Army's defeat of Xianglan Banner should have been false. They simply lied about the military situation and led to intelligence errors. The Sichuan Army Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu were too numerous to write down, and they repeatedly disobeyed orders and induced You Shilu, Zhao Shujiao, etc.
Follow orders and flee.
In this battle between Liaoyang and Shenyang, the Sichuan troops Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu suffered!
This memorial was rushed for 800 miles and sent to the court overnight.
Moreover, many secret letters and memorials were written and sent by multiple groups of people to ensure that Zhao Nanxing, Gao Panlong, Yang Lian, etc. would be the first to receive the news and be able to lead the "all the people" to respond to the call.
In fact, this is not because Yuan Yingtai is bad, but because of his stance.
The political tendency of civil servants who valued literature over military affairs and the traditional Confucian concept of respect and inferiority made him think highly of himself and regard military personnel as people who were several levels below him. His private actions challenged the most fundamental status and inferiority in officialdom at this time.
From a standpoint, it is impossible for him to think that Wang Hongyu is right and he is wrong.
Although Yuan Yingtai was very effective in controlling floods, was meticulous in managing logistics, worked diligently and loved the people, and always practiced benevolence and righteousness to the end, his military capabilities were seriously lacking, and he, a great layman, was completely superior to the expert.
The Donglin Party was in charge of the government and insisted on forcing him to take office, but the blame did not entirely fall on the Donglin Party.
Unless we solve the problem of the complete dominance of civilian officials over generals, if we do not reform the increasingly narrow ideas, and if we do not overthrow the entire officialdom system, this problem will continue to exist.
Of course Yuan Yingtai did not expect that Wang Hongyu was already planning these things, but from his position, he naturally regarded him as his opponent.
He stayed up all night and was busy working on this matter under the candlelight while wearing armor. He also sent a messenger to Liaohe and Guangning to request assistance, but neglected other key matters.
Early the next morning, Yuan Yingtai reorganized his army and planned to resist the Xilan Banner with his back to the city.
Zhang Quan, who was in the city, worked all night and finally stabilized the defense of the city gate. However, because there were too few elite soldiers left in the city, he was unable to suppress rumors and capture spies and campaigners.
Suddenly, the sound of countless horns came from the north, as if thousands of troops and horses were pressing towards Liaoyang City wrapped in endless black clouds.
Nurhachi led the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses under six banners, namely the positive yellow flag, the bordered yellow flag, the pure white flag, the bordered white flag, the true red flag and the bordered red flag, and spread out their formation to fight in a mighty manner.