Engdel and Quierji had mixed feelings about Chongzhen's questioning, with the former feeling frightened and the latter looking a little ashamed.

Engdel's fear came entirely from his ignorance of the young emperor in front of him, as a Mongol, he actually knew a lot about the Ming people.

In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Ming people launched several northern expeditions, which really left a deep impression on the Mongols. And the martial arts and brutality of the two Ming emperors, Taizu and Chengzu, also made the Mongols remember it vividly.

As the head of the Bayott tribe of the Inner Khalkha tribe, Engdel felt that he was in danger of being used by the Ming Emperor as a sacrifice to the Jietai Temple.

Although Engdel has always pretended to be brave and looked down on the cowardice of the Ming people on weekdays, but after he fell into the hands of the Ming army, the bravery he showed on weekdays was completely gone, and he just racked his brains to save his life. For Chongzhen's ridicule, he didn't dare to answer out loud.

After all, he is still young, and he still has a little bit of young blood, and he still attaches great importance to the honor of being a descendant of Genghis Khan. Now after being ridiculed by the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom, he is quite speechless.

Seeing the two of them lying on the ground silent, Zhu Youzhen smiled and straightened up, and asked Wu Huai again: "I heard that the people who led the way for these Mongolian left camps were the men and horses of the 36th Department of the Ming Dynasty?" Is there such a thing? ”

Wu Huai nodded and replied: "That's true, after we separated all the captives according to the tribe, we found that there were 7 or 80 people belonging to the 36th department of Guanmen, and their nomadic station was just outside the Great Wall of Jizhou, and the leader was Taiji Burhatu.

Taiji Burhatu is leading people to serve under the tent of the Mongol right battalion Unag, and here the leader is Taiji Zhuobi, the eldest son of Burkhatu's brother Choktu. The minister suggested that the man's head be cut off and sent back to Burhatu to deter the lawbreakers who had closed the 36th Division. ”

Zhu Youzhen did not answer immediately, but looked back at the leaders of the Mongolian tribes kneeling on both sides of the road, and then said loudly: "The 36th department of Guanmen has been raised by my Ming Dynasty for many years, but now it is ungrateful, and he has taken refuge in Jiannu to kill my Ming people.

But I remember that the ancestors of the 36 departments in the past had the duty to protect the frontier of my Ming Dynasty, and I can't forget the loyalty to my Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years because of the impulse of these unscrupulous descendants.

Although he is unkind, I know that I must not be unjust, let Zhuo Erbi pick one of his subordinates and put him back, and tell Burhatu. If he comes to his senses and is willing to lead his troops to withdraw from the Great Wall immediately and present a letter of apology to my Ming Dynasty, then I can spare him once.

Otherwise, the members of the 36th Department who entered the customs this time will not receive any more leniency from our Ming Dynasty, and they should bear all the consequences after that, and it is useless for me to say anything unforeseeable..."

After Zhu Youzhen entered Shimen Village, Wu Huai and other officers were still a little resentful, and they still didn't think much about the emperor letting go of these Mongols so easily. It's just that because of the humility of the upper and lower levels, he didn't dare to question the emperor.

Walking into the original command envoy yamen of Shimen Village, looking at the courtyard of horse manure that had been ruined by those Mongols, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said, "Find some people to clean up here."

Send someone to call Zhuo Erbi for me to see, and detain the Mongol chieftains separately from the outside, so that they don't get together, and find some more people to probe them and see if anyone wants to say anything.

In addition, call Lin Shixian to me too, you stay outside for a while, and Wu Huai will come to tell me about the losses of the First Cavalry Division. ”

In the lobby of the commanding envoy's yamen, almost all the tables and chairs originally placed here were chopped into firewood by the Mongols, and the floor tiles in the hall still left traces of being blackened by the bonfire. Obviously, although this group of Mongolians lived in Shimen Village, they still regarded it as a grassland outside the fortress, and still continued their old habits.

Zhu Youzhen finished looking at the environment in the lobby, found a chair that was missed by the Mongols and sat down, and then said to Wu Huai: "Let's talk about the loss of the first division, and what is the reason for the loss?" What is the origin of those Jurchens? ”

The corners of Wu Huai's eyes twitched involuntarily, and he finally forgot his dissatisfaction with the Mongols' punishment being too light.

He lowered his head and sorted it out in his heart for a while, and then finished typing the manuscript and reported to Chongzhen 1510.

Although Wu Huai is silent on weekdays, after all, he is also from a Xiucai background, and what he told is very organized.

After listening to Wu Huai's report, Zhu Youzhen took a few minutes to sort out his thoughts and summarized what Wu Huai said, "According to you, the reason why the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Division suffered heavy losses was first because they were intercepting the fugitive men and horses of the Mongolian Left Battalion at that time, and they lost their formation and speed. Just like our previous attack on the Mongolian Left Battalion, which had lost its formation, it was in a disadvantageous state.

Second, nearly one-third of these Jurchens are at least at the level of Jurchen elite soldiers. With these veterans of a hundred battles as the vanguards, these two dissatisfied Jurchen Niulu almost exerted their full combat effectiveness.

Thirdly, the horses on which the Jurchens sat were much better than those selected by the First Cavalry Division, and it is indeed not an exaggeration to describe the cavalry units of these Jurchens as strong and strong in this era. ”

Although Wu Huai gave Chongzhen many excuses as to why the First Cavalry Division suffered heavy losses, he still had to admit that if the cavalry division did not fight in formation, it would not be the elite opponent of these hundred battles from the sea of corpses and blood.

Even if the two sides fight in formation, the exchange ratio must be greater than 1:1. At the age of 25, Nurhachi inherited the head of the first department and immersed himself in military training for ten years. From the 11th year of Wanli to the beginning of the war to unify the Jurchen tribes, to the 44th year of Wanli to roughly unify the Jurchen tribes and establish the Later Jin. Two years later, he launched the Ming War, which lasted until the second year of Chongzhen.

For more than 40 years, the Jurchen tribes of Jianzhou have fought almost every day and conquered their neighbors. The soldiers who survived such adult battles, even if they were farmers at the beginning, are now elite soldiers.

On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, although the battle to aid Korea defeated the main force of the Japanese army and kept the Korean vassal state, the elite soldiers of the Ming army in Liaodong were also four or five out of ten, and these Ming troops in Liaodong had not yet recovered their vitality, and they encountered the rebellion of the Jianzhou Jurchens.

The little elite soldier seeds left by Li Chengliang and the essence of the Ming army in Liaodong were all burned in the process of fighting with Houjin. It can be said that the current Liaoxi Town and the previous Liaodong Ming Army, in addition to the personnel still have some origins, but from the army tradition, it is already a completely different army.

Under such circumstances, the 1st and 5th Cavalry Divisions, which were formed by the cavalry of Xuanda, Liaoxi and other places and the civilians recruited from the Northern Zhili area, were not weaker than the Jurchen cavalry in terms of equipment, but they were still far inferior to the Jurchen cavalry in terms of combat skills and horse matching.

The only place where the 1st and 5th Cavalry Divisions were able to defeat the Jurchen cavalry was in strict discipline and organizational system. However, in less than 2 years, it can only make them show a new look, but it can't make them reborn, and they can directly pull out the veterans who have fought dozens of wars with the Jurchens to confront them.

The nine border towns of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Liaodong soldiers, other border towns have also not been warped for decades. After losing the town of Liaodong, which had resisted the front line for all these years, both the border town and the newly formed new army needed to explore the laws of war from scratch and let the soldiers and officers know how to fight.

In the process of reforming the military system in this large-scale purge of the army's establishment and retraining the army's combat capability, the only thing that allowed Zhu Youzhen to talk about it was because the border towns and the military headquarters had lost the ability to command the large army to fight, so he could calmly establish the General Staff, reorganize the military system of the Ming Dynasty according to his own ideas, and establish a new army.

Zhu Youzhen has never been clear about the combat effectiveness of the new army, which only took him two years of hard work and spent a lot of money and materials. But through today's battle, he finally has a little bit of a bottom.

In his opinion, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the new army was about above that of the Mongols, which was about the same as the ordinary level of the Jurchen troops in Jianzhou. It is slightly inferior to the veterans, and it is far inferior to the elite soldiers.

Zhu Youzhen looked at Wu Huai with an unwilling look, and after he understood what had happened, he comforted him a few words.

Compared with the previous Jianzhou Jurchens with more than 80 horsemen can run rampant in the field, often able to defeat hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, let more than 2,000 Ming troops escort out of the country.

The First Cavalry Division was able to cut down 66 True Jurchen heads with less than 200 casualties, which was already a rare victory in more than 10 years. Ning Yuan, who was boasted to the sky, won a great victory, claiming that the battle was so fierce that the corpses were under the city, almost to the point of trapping the city, and the real Jurchen head cut off was not as much as this time.

Therefore, for Chongzhen, this record is much better than the mythical feats of the Jurchen that were sent by Liaoxi Town. Originally, his requirement for the new army was to dare to fight in the field with the Houjin army.

With such a victory, it should be possible to restore some of the courage of the Ming army in the face of the Later Jin army.

As long as the myth of the invincibility of the Jurchens is broken, then it will not be so easy for the Houjin army to continue to run rampant in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Just as the Pingxingguan Dajie and Taierzhuang battles inspired the Chinese's confidence in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea restored the Chinese's national self-confidence, although the victory in this battle was only ordinary in tactics, it was of great political significance.

Zhu Youzhen immediately asked Wu Huai to withdraw the entire third battalion to the rear for repair, and asked the reserve non-commissioned officers who served as attendants by his side to collect the deeds of the third battalion in the process of fighting with Houjin, and prepared to create a model of resistance to Jin and publicize it to the rear.