Sun Chengzong stood on a high platform not far from the Chinese army's tent, observing the situation of the entire camp while listening to Mao Yuanyi's brief report to him about the war.

Although he had hoped that the main force of Houjin would pay attention to them, but when the main force of Houjin really went all out against the camp of the Ming army, he felt that even with such a large battalion to rely on, it was still unknown whether the new army that went to the battlefield for the first time would be able to block the attack of the main force of Houjin.

Although Sun Chengzong was listening to Mao Yuanyi's report, most of his mind was not on this report. At his age and status, no matter how much credit he has gained in this battle, it is just a few sons of Dorn Yin who have posthumously sealed the name of their ancestors. As for himself, he is already in a state of no ascending.

Sun Chengzong put most of his attention on the new army officers and soldiers in the battalion, and most of the new army soldiers who had been trained for more than a year, except for those officers, experienced a major battle of this scale and magnitude for the first time. After the Houjin army was repulsed, these soldiers cheered loudly for a while, and then under the command of the officers, they began to do the work of collecting and distinguishing the corpses, carrying the wounded, repairing the camp walls, and arranging the equipment.

Every soldier had a job to do, and no one hid and cried, no one pestered the superiors for rewards, and no one sneaked away from these heavy and trivial tasks. Over the past year or so, the strict training of the new army has been displayed in front of Sun Chengzong with this orderly obedience.

When Mao Yuanyi paused, Sun Chengzong suddenly opened his mouth and said to him: "Do you think that if it was the Liaodong Army guarding here today, would this result be any different?" ”

Mao Yuanyi paused, and then said uncertainly: "Although the student has been in the Liaodong Army for a while, the student really doesn't dare to conclude what kind of changes will be made in this result.

But students can be sure of one thing, that is, whether it is the Liaodong Army or other border armies of the Ming Dynasty. If there was no general to speak, it would have been impossible for anyone to organize reserves to recapture the lost positions, and it would have been impossible for the repulsed soldiers to be regrouped so quickly, and then follow the order to counterattack. ”

Sun Chengzong hesitated for a moment before he said, "So, in your opinion, if it is the Liaodong Army that is defending the city today, once the defense line of the outer wall of the camp is broken, they will not be able to recapture the defense line?" ”

Mao Yuanyi thought for a long time before he said thoughtfully: "What the student means is that if the Liaodong Army was guarding the camp wall from the beginning, it is estimated that Jiannu may not be able to climb the camp wall. As far as the experience of defending the city is concerned, the Liaodong army is much richer than the new army, and the cooperation between the Liaodong soldiers is also much more tacit, so I think the Jurchens may not be able to climb the camp wall. ”

Sun Chengzong was silent for a long time before he shook his head and said: "There is such a thing as combat experience, as long as you fight one or two battles without dying, you will have it." From this point of view, the new army trained according to the regulations can still be used..."

Hearing what Sun Chengzong seemed to be worried about, Mao Yuanyi couldn't help but ask curiously: "Is there anything wrong with the new army being available?" What is the teacher still worried about? ”

Sun Chengzong subconsciously replied: "Of course, it is a good thing that the new army is available, but I am just worried that after Your Majesty has this new army, how will he deal with the border army on the nine sides."

The other border towns are down, this Liaodong army has always been unruly, if you notice that the imperial court wants to replace the border troops in various places with a new army, God knows what trouble they will make. I'm just worried that if Your Majesty is in a hurry, it will arouse the dissatisfaction of those generals in the Liaodong Army, and make a farce to lure the wolf into the house, and I will be really in trouble outside the Ming Pass. ”

Mao Yuanyi thought for a while and said: "Teacher, don't worry too much, if Your Majesty is acting carefully, the reorganization of the Liaodong Army will have already been put on the agenda. Since the Liaodong Army has not been reorganized until now, it can be seen that His Majesty still knows the priorities.

As for those Liaodong generals, they will do things that incite the soldiers below to make trouble and blackmail the imperial court to reward, but they may not do such things as throwing themselves to Houjin.

Liaodong has always been not rich in products, and most of the various materials supplied to the Liaodong army were transferred from the Guannei, and the Jurchens now can't even afford to raise the Mongols who have just thrown themselves into them, let alone the tens of thousands of soldiers in Liaodong.

What's more, the ancestral brothers and Man Gui and others, who are now in charge of the Liaodong Army, have already risen to the pinnacle of military generals in our Ming Dynasty. What did Jintu do after surrendering in their capacity? Can they still figure out that Houjin will give them the title of king? ”

Sun Chengzong shook his head, and felt that he was thinking too much, so he immediately changed the topic and said, "Look at this, Jiannu shouldn't attack again today." You go and inform Hongguang Xian, and ask him to send out the night and carefully search both sides of Shimenxia and the passage to Daying, so as not to give Jiannu a chance to sneak attack us.

As for the wounded soldiers, they will first withdraw to Shimenzhai today, and then arrange to withdraw to Jizhou to heal their wounds. By the way, let the quartermaster of Shimen Village transfer a batch of meat to come up, and reward the soldiers in the camp tonight..."

While the soldiers of the Ming army in the camp were celebrating today's victory, the Houjin camp on the other side was gloomy. The Dorgon brothers were the last to know about the defeat of the two red flags, and before they could figure out how to make a statement at the next battle meeting, the ministers of the two white flags had already approached them in droves.

These generals of the two white flags spoke for a long time in front of the two brothers, but in fact, the central content was the same, that is, they hoped that the Dolgon brothers would oppose letting the two white flags take over the task of attacking the Ming army camp with the two red flags at the meeting.

There is a precedent for two red flags in front of them, and the generals of the two white flags are naturally reluctant to gnaw on this hard bone. If this is a city, the sacrifice can be paid back from the spoils. However, a large battalion built by the Ming army temporarily, even if some ordnance can be obtained, it is the end of the eight banners being evenly divided, and the lives lost by the two white flags in the attack camp will not be rewarded much at all, and these generals are naturally unwilling to accept this task.

However, at the military meeting held that night, the Dolgon brothers did not need to make excuses, but let the two white flags take over the task of attacking the Ming army camp with the two red flags, and the operation to attack the Ming army camp has been canceled, or more precisely, the battle of the Ming army has been canceled.

Because at dusk, two messengers arrived at Houjin's camp and brought two not-so-good news to Huang Taiji. A messenger from Malanyu brought a message from a Mongolian leader stationed at Malanguan, who said: The Ming army attacked Malanguan in the early hours of yesterday morning, and the defenders in the pass were less than 200 at that time, including 50 or 60 Ming troops who had surrendered, and the attacking Ming troops numbered at least several hundred, and they could not resist at all.

At the height of the battle, the Ming troops who surrendered suddenly reversed, making Malan Pass finally lost. As a last resort, he had no choice but to retreat to Ma Lanyu in the southwest with more than 50 of his troops.

According to the chief's account, the attacking Ming army came from the direction of Huangya Pass in the northwest, and was also mixed with a number of Mongols, who appeared to be Chahars.

The leader also continued, Ma Lanyu is just a small walled city, and the materials in it have long been looted by the two red flags. Moreover, he joined forces with the Mongol leaders of Ma Lanyu, and there were only less than 300 people, but there were nearly 1,000 surrendered Ming troops and households in the city, and neither he nor the Mongol leaders stationed in Ma Lanyu thought that they could block the attack of the Ming army.

Therefore, the two Mongol leaders expected Huang Taiji to send troops to support them and bring some supplies with them. If Huang Taiji could not do so, then they held on to resist for three days and had to evacuate.

The possibility that the Chahar Ministry would intervene in the war between the Later Jin and the Ming Kingdom suddenly made the generals of the Later Jin realize that they had now reached the point where they had to retreat. Otherwise, the Chahar Department sent a large army to block their retreat, and they would have to fight desperately with the Ming army in the pass.

If this worst-case scenario does take place, most of the troops may not be able to return to Shenyang, regardless of whether they survive or not. Then Jin and Ming were both defeated, and only Lin Dan Khan got cheap.

After hearing the news, Huang Taiji was relieved in his heart, and he didn't have to rack his brains to think of any reason for withdrawing from the army, the war between Jin and Ming after the Chahar Ministry intervened was the best reason.

The second messenger sent a message from Tushetu Khan Oba, who told Huang Taiji that the Ming army had launched a counterattack on the eastern road, and that Wu Nag had no way to dispatch it, so that the stone bridge over the Luan River was taken by the Ming army.

After losing the stone bridge, he launched several counterattacks to recapture the fortress at the bridgehead, but the Ebendui stationed in the Jinshan camp had no fighting spirit, and each time he attacked the bridgehead camp, he was defeated and retreated, and the Ming army cut off their connection with the Wunag army in the east. After the Ming army cut off the connection between the eastern and western parts of Houjin, they cut off the connection between him and the Jinshan camp, and then attacked him with all their might.

Because more than two-thirds of the soldiers of the Horqin Department were transferred by Huang Taiji one after another, although he struggled to kill the enemy with only more than 1,000 men left, he was finally defeated by the attack of tens of thousands of troops of the Ming army and had to retreat to the rear.

Oba also harshly sued Wu Nag and Ebendui, saying that these two men stood by while he was engaged in the battle with the main force of the Ming army, completely ignoring his life and death, so that he had to retreat from the flood land.

When Oba asked people to pass this letter, the news that Chongzhen was in the Eastern Route Army had not yet reached his ears, so his envoy did not mention Chongzhen's existence.

After getting these two pieces of news, the Jurchen relatives present began to discuss the issue of such a retreat. As for the question of whether to retreat, which was originally to be discussed at the meeting, it was obviously skipped.

Huang Taiji gave up the idea of continuing the battle, and the Jurchen generals who attended the meeting were eager to return to their hearts, so a retreat plan was quickly sorted out.

In this plan, the Horqin people and the two Yellow Banner men and horses followed Huangtai Jidong first, nominally to reinforce the Eastern Route Army.

This was followed by the retreat of two red flags and two white flags to Zunhua, and finally the withdrawal of the blue flag. When all the Jurchens were evacuated, it would be the turn of the Mongol tribes to evacuate.

In order to avoid confusion, Huang Taiji decided to keep the order of the team's withdrawal a secret. In addition, he restored the setting of the Mongolian Left Battalion, and still appointed Engdel as the Mongolian Left Battalion Gushan, and let him command the Mongol army.