Yuan Da decisively divided out twenty men to deal with the remaining Dole soldiers on the other side of the Shangjia River.
Although the remnant soldiers numbered two hundred, they swam across the Suzi River when escaping, and then hurried back to the division on foot. They swam up the Jiahe River just now, and were driven back halfway through the swim. At this moment, they were all lying on the other side exhausted, not wanting to
I don't want to run away when I'm fighting, I just want to have a good rest.
"Get up, get up!" Dole was also very tired, but he knew that he could not fall, so he roared and mobilized his soldiers to cross the river and fight.
Dole's brother sat by the river, panting and shaking his head: "Brother, I can't fight anymore. My legs are trembling from exhaustion. How can I still have the strength to swim to the other side of the river?"
"You have to fight even if you don't have the energy, get up quickly!" Dole shouted.
Another confidant said: "Even if I could swim across, I would still be chopped down by the officers and soldiers guarding there."
Dole pointed further upstream: "The river over there is narrower and far away from the stockade. Let's run over and cross the river. We have two hundred people here, and there are only a few hundred officers and soldiers crossing the river. We can fight with the inside and outside of the stockade.
Win the battle!"
After repeated urging and encouragement, the two hundred remaining soldiers rested for a while and finally followed Dole to the upper reaches.
Twenty people separated from Yuan Da, facing Duole across the road, also followed to the upper reaches.
The remaining 400 or so soldiers, under the leadership of Yuan Da, launched multiple feint attacks on the ancient village, constantly looking for the enemy's defensive weaknesses.
The walls of this dilapidated village are very short, less than one foot high, and are mainly made of earth, with only stones used in some places. The walls are full of old and weak women and children, and most of the weapons are farm tools, and some old people and teenagers are using bows and arrows.
A bone arrow flew out of nowhere and hit Yuan Da's cheek. However, the power was already very weak and it hit his gums but did not penetrate. Yuan Da grimaced in pain.
"boom!"
A hundred muskets fired a volley, and an old Jurchen fell from the wall, while the others were so frightened that they shrank their necks to avoid it.
Suddenly, the soldier who was responsible for observing the situation ran over: "General, the earth wall over there is shorter, but there are more Jurchens guarding the wall."
"Go over!" Yuan Da made a quick decision.
Of the 500 cavalry from the Beijing camp, eight were killed or wounded at this time, and another twenty were sent to intercept the enemy forces on the other side.
The remaining 472 people were divided into three hundred-man teams by Yuan Da, who took turns firing volleys at the enemies on the wall to suppress them. Yuan Da led 172 people, carrying the logs used when crossing the river.
Taking advantage of the gap between fire suppression, he placed it on the root of the earth wall.
The earthen wall here is about two meters high, and with more than twenty logs, you can almost rush up it.
During this period, two more cavalrymen in the Beijing camp were killed, and more than ten people suffered varying degrees of arrow injuries.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
After three consecutive rounds of volleys of hundreds of men, the defenders on the wall did not dare to raise their heads, and the gunpowder Yuan Da brought across the river was almost used up.
Just after the volley was fired, Yuan Da charged with his sword: "Kill!"
There was no need to engage in fire suppression, and Yuan Da charged forward with 160 men. The three centurions also put away their muskets and charged forward with their knives. At this time, the Jurchens on the other side of the Suzi River also began to fight among themselves.
Yuan Da stepped on the logs laid out in a ladder shape and rushed to the bottom of the wall. His shoulders were several inches higher than the top of the wall.
Hoes, poles, sticks, and spears all came over one after another. Yuan Da shrank his head, grabbed a hoe, and pulled down an old Jurchen guarding the city. Then, Yuan Da stood up and swept away a Jurchen woman.
Cut off the lower leg.
These Jurchens were still in the barbarian era. Not only did they not know how to build a city, they also didn't know how to defend the city. They didn't even prepare fire oil or gold juice... It may also be that Yuan Da sent troops too quickly, and the Jurchens had no time to collect the materials to defend the city.
However, an old Jurchen man with a noble appearance suddenly ordered: "Cast the net!"
The Jurchens are a fishing and hunting people. They are not very good at farming, but they are good at fishing. I went to see a few large nets being dropped, just like fishing in a rowing boat. At least thirty Ming troops who were attacking the city were caught in the nets.
"Damn it!"
Yuan Da was also caught in the net, and then hit by a stone again, almost fainting on the spot.
Niu Zhen, who had been promoted to a hundred households, was the one who was greeted by Wang Yangming when he was copying silver in Nanchang. He was so ashamed that he no longer listened to Xu Tai's orders. His head was covered by the edge of the fishing net, he opened it and threw it away, and then crawled away violently.
Go up the earth wall.
A spear dart hit Niu Zhen's arm, and a wrought iron knife hit Niu Zhen's shoulder. The guy was in pain and slashed with the knife, killing and injuring several Jurchens, old and weak. The soldiers behind him took the opportunity to crawl away.
Go up the wall.
Although these Beijing cavalrymen are not wearing armor at the moment, they are all strong and have fine sabers in their hands.
But the Jurchens on the wall are old, weak, women and children, and they use the most primitive weapons.
Once they are attacked on the wall, it becomes a one-sided massacre. This battle is really meaningless. It is just bullying the weak.
When Yuan Da got rid of the fishing net, his soldiers had already occupied this section of the village wall, and the internal strife on the other side of the Suzi River had already decided the winner.
Cui Xian brought Bu Ha across the river, and shouted at the audience: "I am Bu Ha, Dole is dead, quickly open the city to welcome the king!"
Yuan Da was leading his troops to chase down the old and weak defenders of the city. When they heard Buha's voice, the old and weak Jurchens knelt down and begged for mercy, and soon the south gate of Gule Village opened automatically.
Yuan Da asked his soldiers to remove the weapons of the surrendered enemy and walked out of the village gate covered in blood.
Bu Ha quickly knelt down and flattered: "Bu Ha, the sinner, pays homage to the general of the Celestial Dynasty!"
"Thanks to your mother!"
Yuan Da kicked the old man over and said angrily: "If you want to surrender, don't do it quickly, and I will lose more than thirty brothers!"
More than thirty were killed or seriously injured, and dozens more were slightly injured.
In the absence of siege equipment, the Jianzhou Youwei Jurchen's lair was captured, and at the cost of this few casualties, it can be said to be a great victory.
However, Yuan Da's soldiers are all elite cavalry. It takes several years to train them. There are only more than 3,000 such elite cavalry in the entire Ming Dynasty. In a battle with a group of old and weak women and children, they were killed and more than 30 were seriously injured.
Nearly a hundred people were slightly injured, and Yuan Da even had the urge to massacre the village.
Bu Ha was so frightened that he trembled all over. He originally thought that if he performed meritorious service at the stronghold, he would definitely get the position of leader of the Jianzhou Right Guards. But he never thought that as soon as he surrendered and crossed the river, the officers and soldiers actually captured part of the stronghold.
This contribution to the stronghold has been compromised!
Bu Ha cried and said: "The guilty minister also wants to hurry up, and blames Dole's cronies for refusing to surrender. General, the guilty minister will lead his men to kill all Dole's brothers and cronies, so that the general can escape."
Such bad breath!"
"Go!" Yuan Da said depressedly.
Bu Ha immediately led his tribe and rushed into the stronghold to carry out massacres. As long as the core members of Dole's family remained in the stronghold, Bu Ha would kill them all.
And poor Dole, with two hundred remaining soldiers, crossed the river at the upper reaches of the Shangjia River. After crossing several times, he was killed back to the other side. At this moment, there were only less than a hundred people left around him. The more than a hundred people who disappeared are not known to be dead.
, or he had a nervous breakdown and ran away.
Dole could only go back downstream, where the two rivers met, and look across the river at the Gule Village.
Soon, Dole saw the flags changing, and his stronghold had obviously been captured. With tears in his eyes, he said to the nearly a hundred soldiers around him: "Let's go, go to the old camp, and one day we will fight back!"
Jianzhou Old Camp is the birthplace of Jianzhou Jurchens. It was once destroyed in the Chenghua Dynasty. Over the past few decades, Jianzhou Old Camp has gradually recovered its population, but it is still poor and weak, and has even been destroyed by Haixi Jurchens and Savage Jurchens.
Kind of bullying.
In this way, Nurhaci's maternal great-grandfather Dole, wearing wet clothes, fled into the mountains and forests with the remaining soldiers, and ran to seek refuge with Nurhaci's great-great-grandfather.
However, Nurhachi's great-grandmother was killed by the traitor Buha in Gule Village.
Nurhachi's grandfather Wang Gao didn't even have the chance to be born in this time and space.
It was already a cold winter when Dole fled to the old camp in Jianzhou. They robbed Jurchen villages along the way and recruited young Jurchens as soldiers. They actually grew to more than 500 people. However, nearly a hundred soldiers who escaped with Dole were killed on the way.
He died in battle and nearly half of them died of illness. When they arrived at the old camp in Jianzhou, they could only stay low and do nothing.
…
Zhu Houzhao, the main force led by Wang Yuan, was only thirty miles away from Jiefan City when he received a successful report from the forward troops.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, on your victory!" Wang Yuan congratulated him along with the civilian officials and generals who accompanied him.
Zhu Houzhao's expression was very strange. He came to Liaodong to fight in excitement, but it was over halfway.
Zhu Houzhao held the victory report in his hand and hesitated to speak. He was unhappy for a long time and finally said: "This Zhao Da (Yuan Da) is worthy of being Erlang's junior brother. The war is a bit too fierce. I want him to be the pioneer, isn't it?
Let him attack the city. It’s really, really... so unreasonable!"
Wang Yuan didn't know how to answer the question, so he could only say: "Your Majesty is blessed with great blessings. This is a blessing."
Zhu Houzhao thought about it carefully and suddenly said: "We have already sent out troops, why not go and attack Jianzhou Left Guard again."
Wang Yuan quickly advised: "Your Majesty, if you go to Jianzhou Zuowei, you will have to cross mountains and ridges. It will be the cold winter season. Your Majesty, please leave as soon as possible. Even if you do not return to the capital, you should at least go back to Liaoyang to spend the winter."
Wu Jie, the imperial physician accompanying the army, also said: "Your Majesty must not be exposed to cold for his old illness. Liaodong is colder than Beijing. If the illness occurs in the mountains, it may be even more difficult to recover."
Zhu Houzhao wanted to scold his mother, so he threw the whip away in anger: "Go back to Liaoyang!"
Other emperors hoped that their generals would be invincible, but Zhu Houzhao had a headache because of this. He wanted to conquer King Ning personally, and he won as soon as he left Beijing; he wanted to personally conquer the right guards of Jianzhou, and he finished the battle in the middle of the night. Is it possible that the next time he sends troops, he has to
Let the emperor be the pioneer, so that he can fight the battle himself with real swords and guns?