Guo Junzhen personally deployed the fierce attack of the Shun army. In the dark of night, the Dashun army deployed in the west of Daning City, close to the mountains and rivers, and marched in with guns.
In the darkness, the Jun army saw an astonishing number of torches. They were frightened and thought that the main force of the Jun army had arrived in Daning, and their morale suddenly plummeted.
Li Yuanyin, the brave general of the Shun army who served as the vanguard, risked his life and fought bravely. He led the flag with his body, straightened his tail and horns, penetrated his horse, got out of his left and right, and broke through several formations of the quasi-army.
General Quan Li Weiqun, who was on the left wing, saw camels firing cannons on a hill and guessed that it was the location of Senggehun Taiji's tent, so he also divided his troops and climbed the mountains and ridges to attack the camel city position of the Junggar army.
Senggehun Taiji was not a military genius like his younger brother Galdan. He had won many victories since he went to war, mainly because the strategic situation was favorable to the Junggar people.
In terms of specific tactical command, his ability is obviously not as powerful as Galdan.
It is a pity that Galdan was fighting in the snowy area and had no elite Junggar soldiers under his command. He only had some vulnerable Tibetan troops and was unable to display his outstanding military commanding talents.
Originally, if the Shun army attacked Tuocheng, it would probably cause huge casualties.
However, at the critical moment, Senggehuntaiji could not figure out the strength of the Shun army's reinforcements. He believed that he still had 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers and horses scattered across the Monan grassland, nomadic and eating, and there was no need to fight a decisive battle with the Shun army now.
It is better to retreat for the time being and wait until we can regroup our forces before fighting against the Shun army.
Nenggehun Taiji felt timid and decided to escape. He abandoned the Khalkha friendly forces who were fighting fiercely with the Dashun army in front of the battle, and led the Oirat people to withdraw from the battlefield alone.
Originally, the Mongolian army did not have much advantage in strength. Senggehun Taiji suddenly fled with the Junggar people, leaving only the Khalkha army, which was naturally no match for Guojun Town.
The defenders in Daning City also took the opportunity to attack and defeated the Mongolian army, beheading about 4,000 people.
Guo Junzhen then commanded two groups of troops and boldly pursued the Dzungars at dawn. Due to the chaotic situation, Senggehun Taiji lost contact with his tribe during the chaos. The Dzungars who had withdrawn from the battlefield in advance suddenly lost their commander.
After losing ground, they were overtaken by the Dashun Army.
The two armies fought again on the south bank of the Lok Ma River. The Quasi Army suffered heavy losses. Countless people were trapped by the river and trampled on each other to death.
After the Battle of Daning and the Battle of Luomahe, although the Junggar people still deployed 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry troops scattered throughout Monan. However, due to the power of Guo Junzhen's victory in the two battles, it was announced that Shun Dynasty officials would directly send troops to the brigade.
Mongolian businessmen acquire all the usurious IOUs of Mongolian herdsmen.
Guo Junzhen burned all the IOUs in a fire to win back the hearts and minds of the poor herdsmen in various tribes in Eastern Mongolia.
Many Chahar princes who were originally attached to Senggehuntaiji immediately turned their backs after the Battle of Daning and the Battle of Luomahe, jumped back to the Shun army camp, and re-accepted the various titles of marquis and count of the Shun Dynasty.
, each also raised troops to intercept the Dzungars' northward retreat.
Senggehun Taiji's tactical command ability is not very good, but his strategic vision is very bright.
After escaping alone, he saw the uncontrollable situation in Monan, so he directly abandoned the entire Monan, and withdrew all the remaining Junggar and Khalkha coalition forces to Mobei, preparing to occupy Mobei for a long time and slowly work on reunifying Mongolia.
great cause.
However, at this time, Liu Fangliang's plan to expedition to the Tianshan Mountains had achieved significant results.
At that time, Senggehun Taiji had taken away most of the combatable troops of the Junggar people, leaving only less than 20,000 combatable troops in his hometown in Tianshan and the newly occupied Ili and Kashgar areas.
In order to completely pacify Shuomo and destroy the last hope of the Mongols' revival, Li Laiheng had high hopes for Liu Fangliang.
Even when his cousin Li Chunhe, King of Huining, was surrounded in Daning and was not sure whether he was alive or dead, Li Laiheng still directed all his resources to the Western Army, deploying more than 100,000 mules and horses for Liu Fangliang's 40,000-strong expeditionary force.
Liu Fangliang advanced very quickly, and Dashun's army advanced with all its might. After entering the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, they finally encountered the main force left behind by the Junggar people.
In order to buy time, Liu Fangliang directly ordered "no matter which team of elite soldiers", as long as the horses still have strength, they must rush to the Gu Luntai area to participate in the battle.
In order to strive to completely annihilate the main remaining forces of Junggar in the first battle and achieve the effect of quickly conquering the northwest, Liu Fangliang asked all ministries to abandon all current combat tasks and goals, and the only task was to converge near the Luntai battlefield.
After the order was issued, all the subordinate troops put aside their immediate combat missions and even gave up on some small oasis towns captured along the way, gathering all the forces they could and rushed to the main battlefield of the battle.
In order to seize the time, Guo Yi's general Lu Ze led only more than 200 soldiers across the Tianshan Mountains at starry night, rushed from the northern foot to the south foot, and rushed to Luntai to join the battle.
As a result, they encountered more than 3,000 enemy troops along the way and were outnumbered and died in battle.
Li Laiheng believed that this kind of loyalty and bravery, which was unwilling to retreat in the middle, but knew how to charge forward, even sacrificing his life, was deeply commendable. He named Lu Ze an earl and inherited it from his son. He did not lose the title for three generations.
General Zhang Guowu led 5,000 cavalry to the battlefield first and fought against the Junggar people. After four days of continuous fighting, although the movement of the quasi-army was contained, the horses were extremely tired from traveling long distances and could not defeat the enemy.
That night, Kang Dayan arrived with a large number of war horses, so Zhang Guowu immediately ordered the entire army to change horses and rejoin the battle.
Dashun's army divided into two wings to outflank and attack, and fought fiercely with the Junggars all night long. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, with corpses all over the valley, and more than a thousand warriors killed on each side.
After suffering this defeat, the Quasi Army discovered that the main force of Liu Fangliang and Li Maoheng's army was coming at full speed, and decided to retreat to Ili and hold on.
Liu Fangliang learned that the main force of Junggar had fled westward. He believed that pursuit was the most important thing at the moment. The Yishun Army still had more horsepower, while the Quasi Army carried a large number of women, children, old and weak people. It would definitely not be convenient to walk. There are many people and it is easy to collapse. Therefore,
Decided not to rest and continued the pursuit.
Liu Fangliang personally supervised the army and pursued it to Yili. Under the crazy pursuit of the Dashun Army regardless of day and night, diseases were rampant in the army, and there were deaths and frostbite among the army. There were as many as seven or eight thousand stragglers. Those who followed Liu Fangliang to Yili were the only ones left.
Eleven thousand soldiers and more than 8,000 mules and horses.
The Junggar Army still had more than 14,000 combatable troops in Yili and Kashgar. Therefore, Liu Fangliang decided to adopt a combination of kindness and power. He released a group of Huihui from the Junggar Army, and after they returned to Kashgar, they preached the rule of law.
The army only killed the Oirat Mongols and did not embarrass the Hui.
This approach aroused the wavering of the Kashgar defenders. Finally, swaying from left to right, the Kashgar defenders killed the Junggar garrison in the city, closed the city gates, and refused the Mongols entry.
The Dashun Army took the opportunity to launch a final fierce offensive in the Ili Valley area.
The intensity of this battle has reached an unprecedented level. The Junggar people are extremely resistant to fighting. The Shun army is exhausted from the long journey and does not carry heavy artillery. It relies entirely on the bravery of the soldiers and the firepower of the flintlock muskets.
Some of the returning troops also helped the Dashun Army fight, taking some of the pressure off Liu Fangliang.