When Shen Xi was in Juyong Pass to requisition ordnance and materials, the Ming officers and soldiers stationed in the western section of the Great Wall in the trilateral areas of the western section of the Great Wall were very unhappy. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

With the fall of Yansui Town, an important town on the three sides, the connection between Ningxia Wei and Ningxia Houwei and Shanxi Town and Datong Town was cut off.

The loss of the Yulin Acropolis led to the collapse of the border fortresses of Longzhou City, Qingping Fort, Weiwu Fort, Huaiyuan Fort, Xiangshui Fort, Yuhe Fort, Guide Fort, Shuangshan Fort and other border fortresses of the Great Wall in Suixi, and Liu Daxia's Chinese army was forced to withdraw across the Yellow River, garrison troops at the ferry on the east bank to defend, and prevent the Tatars from advancing eastward through the Yellow River moat.

Liu Daxia dispatched troops to garrison troops at important ferries in Hequ, Baode, and Xingxian to block the pace of the Tatars' westward advance from Yulin.

But the Tatars were very cunning, from Yulin and Mizhi to the south, north of Suide across the Wuding River, all the way to the east, crossed the Yellow River at Wubao, appeared in Yongning Prefecture half a month later, broke through the city all the way, and then went straight to Lanxian along the valley of the river, threatening the back of Xingxian.

Liu Daxia received an urgent report, on the one hand, he ordered the Fenzhou Wei to hold the Huangluling Pass, and the Taiyuan Wei to strengthen the defense of the Liangling Pass and the Tianmen Pass, and on the other hand, he continued to investigate the movements of the Tatars, and prevented the main force of the Tatars from continuing to move north, along the Fenhe River valley, taking Jingle, Ninghuasu, and Ningwusuo, breaking through the Ningwu Pass to Shanxi, and threatening Jinggi.

Liu Daxia's experience in commanding troops can only be said to be average, and his greatest achievement is to annihilate the main Tatar force on the north bank of the Yuxi River in one fell swoop in the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, which led to civil strife in Tatar, thus changing the pattern of the Ming Dynasty's border fortresses, making the Ming Dynasty turn from defense to offense, and win several years of peaceful development time.

With the eastward advance of the Tatars, Liu Daxia originally garrisoned in Baode to deal with Xingxian and Hequ on the north and south flanks, but as Xingxian suffered from the enemy, he had to abandon Xingxian and lead his troops to retreat eastward to Ningwu Pass, preparing to block the Tatar northward route.

Liu Daxia wanted to ensure the absolute security of Taiyuan Town and Datong Town, prevent the main Tatar force from ravaging the hinterland of Shanxi, and only after eliminating the Tatars who crossed the east bank of the Yellow River, could he wave his army into Shaanxi, converge the troops and horses on the three sides to recapture the fortress around Yulinwei, and annihilate the Tatars who entered the Ming Kingdom.

Of course, this is just a good wish, in fact, Liu Daxia retreated again and again, the soldiers and horses under his hands and the loss of money and food was extremely heavy, when Liu Daxia retreated to the octagonal place, he went out of the fortress to pursue the Tatars led 80,000 soldiers and horses, and now there are only more than 30,000 people left, and the rest are either killed in battle or deserters.

Now the people of the northwest are under the constant harassment of the Tatars, and they are simply unable to form a joint force.

Liu Daxia knew very little about the information of all parties at this time, because the mountains and mountains on both sides of the Yellow River were inconvenient to walk, and a small number of official roads were infested with Tatar cavalry, resulting in the area south and west of Baode, the information was basically isolated, and there were also a small number of Tatar cavalry in the direction of Datong Town, so that the intelligence of Liu Daxia's Chinese army could not be transmitted, and the news of the capital was difficult to reach the army.

Liu Daxia sent scouts several times to investigate the situation, but most of them went and never returned.

If it is Shen Xi who leads the troops, he will decisively return to Datong Town at this time, first open up the communication channel that has been interrupted from the rear, and then completely eradicate the small number of Tatar cavalry that have mixed into Datong, Xuanfu and other places, and then find a way to recover Yulinwei.

But Liu Daxia was worried that he would be punished by the imperial court for his defeat, and he thought about how to make up for his merits and concentrate on dealing with the strong enemy in front of him, and he didn't care so much about other things.

"Liu Shangshu, I have sent many groups of people to the front line of Yulinwei to spy on the frontline, but I still don't know the whereabouts of the Baoguo Mansion, I'm afraid ...... Everything points to disaster! ”

The octagonal station west of Ningwu Pass, Liu Daxia, who had withdrawn his troops here at this time, was discussing the account.

The whole Chinese army tent is lifeless, every general is discouraged, the rout of the past few days has made these conceited generals lose the scenery of the past, now it is not simply a matter of losing a few cities at the border, but the war has burned to the hinterland of Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu at the same time, a cadre of generals present, is likely to be reprimanded by the imperial court.

The root cause of all this lies in the underestimation of the enemy before the war and the rash advance during the war.

The hundred-legged insect died but did not stiffen, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty thought that the Tatars were no longer the courage of the year, since the thirteenth year of Hongzhi could win the war, and the Tatars had gone through several years of civil strife, and now they should be similar to soft persimmons, and the officers and soldiers even thought about how to prevent the Warat and Uliangha tribes from grabbing the spoils, but they did not expect the Tatars to take the initiative to attack.

This is not only the failure of the decision-making level, but also the lack of preparation of the front-line generals, and only after the defeat did people suddenly realize that the Tatars' bravery and good fighting have not changed, and the situation of the Ming border army being good at defending and not attacking has not changed, and what has changed is only their original cautious and arrogant thinking.

Liu Daxia's general, Yulin Weiwei commander Hu Ling, these days in Liu Daxia's saddle before and after the horse, many times to save Liu Daxia in danger, Liu Daxia is very appreciative of Hu Ling, he thinks that Hu Ling has the potential to cultivate more than famous generals such as Li Jing, Xu Da, etc., but unfortunately he has now lost the opportunity to promote and reuse, and when the army returns to the court, he will definitely ask people to endorse the previous fiasco, and he as the commander of the three armies can not get rid of the guilt.

When Hu Ling mentioned Zhu Hui, the Duke of Baoguo, Liu Daxia was angry, and he went out of Yulin Wei to pursue the Tatars, and as a result, he was ambushed by the Tatars north of Quye River.

It is similar to the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, this time the situation is not as critical as the last time, the Tatars are afraid of the power of the new firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and do not dare to attack, Liu Daxia fought and retreated, as a result, Liu Daxia withdrew his troops and returned to the Great Wall when he found a thing that made him cry and laugh, and the Yulin Acropolis was lost the day before he withdrew his troops back.

There are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in the city, as well as the help of the Franc machine gun, and the Yulin Guard is notoriously strong, how did Zhu Hui, the Duke of Baoguo, let such a strong city fall, Liu Daxia has not figured it out until now.

It was precisely because of the fall of Yulinwei that Liu Daxia could only turn elsewhere and retreat eastward along the inner side of the Great Wall, but was chased and beaten by the Tatars all the way, and all the key passes around Yulinwei were lost, and the Ming gate was opened.

After Liu Daxia retreated to Fugu, in order to prevent the Tatar Chinese army from advancing northward to the Yatou Pass, Liu Daxia sent 10,000 horses to the river meander, and another 10,000 to the Mengjiayu ferry in Xingxian County.

Now Liu Daxia only knew that Ningwu Pass was in danger, and Taiyuan Mansion and Fenzhou were also facing the threat of the Tatars, but the information he obtained was relatively lagging behind, and many of them received news that a certain city and pass had been lost on the same day, but a few days later he received news that these cities and passes were under siege.

Liu Daxia didn't know what information to believe, what he could do now was to see if he could find Zhu Hui's men and horses, after all, there were more than 20,000 people under the command of Governor Yansui, and it was the hope of recovering Yulinwei.

But now, Zhu Hui's life and death are uncertain, and it is not even clear whether the Yulinwei army was wiped out, after the Tatars occupied Yulinwei, the forces were concentrated to dispersed, and they launched attacks on various fortresses and key passes in the Ming frontier, and there was no news of Zhu Hui after that.

At the first time of the defeat, Liu Daxia sent an eight-hundred-mile urgency, rushed to the capital to report to the imperial court, and proposed a replacement to replace Zhu Hui to lead the army, but after more than 20 days of Yulinwei was lost, Liu Daxia still did not get feedback from the capital, and even Liu Daxia did not know that Shen Xi had now served as the governor of Yansui and led 6,000 soldiers and horses to help, but only a few days after sending troops stopped at Juyong Pass.

"Report!"

While the account promotion was still underway, the voice of the herald was heard outside.

"Enter!"

Liu Daxia rarely heard the rumors, and every time the battle reports came from everywhere, he could get some news from them, which made him feel more stable.

Now Liu Daxia is not afraid of which city fortress is lost, there is nothing more difficult for him to accept than the loss of Yulin Guard, what he is most worried about now is that there is no news everywhere, and the intelligence is blocked too badly by the Tatar rangers.

The herald entered the big tent of the Chinese army and said, "Report ...... The Ningxia defenders sent someone to report it! After six days of siege by the Tatars, the Acropolis was defeated and turned eastward! ”

"Huh?"

The generals present finally heard the "good news" for the first time after suffering consecutive heavy defeats.

The good news is that the Ningxia guard Acropolis has not fallen, but with this good news comes the current pressure may increase.

Considering all the circumstances, the Tatars who crossed the Yellow River should have been a partial division, although they successively conquered Yongning Prefecture and Lan County, but there was no news after that, which proved that the enemy did not have the strength to continue to attack the city. But if the Tatars shifted the focus of their attack from the border towns of Ningxia and Gansu on the western front to the eastern front, the pressure on the towns of Taiyuan and Datong would have multiplied.

Not to mention Datong Town, once the gate of Taiyuan Mansion is opened, the Tatar cavalry will not only ravage the prosperous hinterland of Shanxi, but also attack the Weize Pass and Guguan to the east.

"Lord Shangshu, you see...... How is this good? ”

The generals have run out of ideas, they have been defeated again and again recently, they need someone to come out to help with advice, so that someone will take the cylinder if something happens, no matter how you look at it, this person is the most suitable for Liu Daxia.

Liu Daxia groaned slightly: "According to the original plan, withdraw to Ningwu Pass." First ensure the safety of Datong Town, and then deal with Taiyuan Province and Fenzhou in the south. ”

Although the generals wanted to rest in the Octagon for a few days and did not want to continue the march, when they heard Liu Daxia's military order, they always withdrew their troops instead of marching into the army, and there was no need to take any more risks, and this military order had to be obeyed no matter what.

"Order!"

When the generals received the order, the look on their faces was somewhat wretched.

Never before had the Tatars suffered such a crushing defeat when they were strong, and now it is said that when the Tatars were at their weakest, they themselves lost a large part of their territory in the northwest.

After the generals left, Liu Daxia was still looking at the map, he thought about it, and all he thought about was how to intercept the eastward advance of the Tatar soldiers and horses, and he still did not arouse any alarm about the urgency of resuming contact with Datong Town and Xuanfu Town as soon as possible.

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PS: The second update is here!

This chapter is not so easy to write, because it is necessary to compare Google Maps and the Ming Territory Map, and you have to refer to the topography and landforms on both sides of the Yellow River to deduce the battle situation.

There should be a third chapter today, and the Son of Heaven will do what he says, and continue to draw for subscription and monthly pass support! (To be continued.) )