After Wunag retreated to the camp to the east, Chahara and Dudu also retreated with their restrained troops. Du Du was very dissatisfied with Wu Nag's easy retreat, and it was not until he heard that the intercepted Ming army reinforcements had raised the Yellow Dragon Banner that he stopped accusing Wu Nag.

However, then Du Du complained to Wu Nag and Chahara with great complaints: "If you had listened to me before, let me attack with the troops with the Eight Banners Niulu as the core, maybe there would be no need to retreat, even if the Emperor Ming was in the reinforcements, we could fight together." ”

For Du Du's complaints, Wu Nag and Chahara were very uncomfortable, and they thought that Du Du was undoubtedly suspected of snowing the responsibility for the defeat by saying this at this time.

Although Wunag did not think of shirking the responsibility for the failure, it did not mean that he was willing to accept the criticism of a powerless Baylor.

Chahara wanted to ease the tension between the two, so he spoke: "Now we can't conclude whether the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom really appeared opposite us, the arrival of the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom is not a trivial matter, the army on the other side cannot be so quiet, maybe this is just a deception... Misunderstanding is possible. ”

Chahara originally wanted to say that this was a hoax, but considering that the Ming army on the other side should not be so bold and reckless and dare to wave the Yellow Dragon Banner without authorization, he preferred to regard it as perhaps Wu Nag and the others were mistaken, it was just a misunderstanding.

However, as soon as his words fell, there was already a shout like a landslide and a sea crack on the Ming army's position in the west, and several people listened attentively for a while, and then they heard the Ming army shouting "Long live".

The three of them looked at each other, and after a long time, Du Du became calm down, and said loudly: "It seems that the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom has indeed arrived, and now Oba has given up the mountain pass in the west, I think we should set off for Wuchong'an as soon as possible, if the Ming army is intercepted from the west before Wuzhong'an, we will become a big fish that the Ming army lives in." ”

Wu Nag was silent for a while, and knew that this was not the time to continue the confrontation with the Ming army, he nodded and said to the two of them: "Belle and Chahara will leave first with their headquarters, and after the two of you arrive at Wuchong'an, please try your best to persuade Obabel not to continue to retreat."

If he continues to retreat like this, our situation will be ruined. The two of you might as well ask Obabele, if the Ming army is allowed to drive straight into the city of Zunhua in one go, resulting in nothing to be gained from this entry, how will he explain to the Great Khan at that time? ”

When Wu Nag and others were discussing how to withdraw their troops, Zhu Youzhen was riding his mount Chifeng and personally ran to the east defense line of the Ming army and began to inspect the Ming army soldiers after the battle.

Chongzhen personally appeared at the front line of the war to inspect, which is the best reward for these Ming soldiers who have just experienced a big battle. The fluke feeling of escaping from the brink of death and the excitement of seeing the emperor with their own eyes immediately boosted the morale of these soldiers to the greatest extent, making them feel that victory was close at hand.

The cheers of the Ming army heard by Wu Nag, Du Du and other Houjin soldiers were the welcome voices of these front-line soldiers to the emperor who came to inspect.

What does it take to win the hearts and minds of an army? Is it a high-ranking official? Is it a good field? Or is it heart-to-heart? Zhu Youzhen has tried these methods one by one before, but he always feels that there is still a layer of estrangement between the army and himself.

But today, hearing the heartfelt cheers of these soldiers, he finally found a way, if you want to win the hearts of an army, it is not very difficult, as long as you can bring victory to them.

It is no wonder that later generations once said that the army is a monster that needs to be constantly fed with victory. As long as you can lead them to victory on the battlefield, they will be your most reliable supporters.

From the moment he arrived in Malanzhuang, Chongzhen continued to take various means to stimulate the morale of the Ming army on the east road, so that these Ming soldiers would be suspicious and launch a counterattack on the east bank of the Luan River.

Before this counterattack, the soldiers of the Ming army only went to the battlefield because of a natural obedience to the imperial power, but when they won the victory as expected, their belief in Chongzhen came from the heart.

The soldiers' belief in the emperor, with Chongzhen's review of the forward troops reached a new height when the war had not stopped.

After inspecting and inspecting the front-line soldiers, Zhu Youzhen was not carried away by this victory, and accepted the proposal of Zu Dashou and other generals to launch a comprehensive counterattack on the Tartar army in the east.

The biggest result of this war was the forced landing of more than 700 Houjin soldiers, and the annihilation of the enemy army was less than 1,000 people. Although the Houjin army was forced to retreat, this was just the first withdrawal of the Horqin army with the leader of Oba and shook the morale of the Houjin army, and the main force of this army was not actually devastated.

Even when the Houjin troops in the eastern battalion began to withdraw, they were in an orderly manner and did not mess up at all, and even set fire to their own battalion to prevent it from being used by the Ming army.

In this situation, both He Kegang and Li Hongyuan believed that it was not appropriate to pursue with all their might, or it would be better to send a small force to follow and prevent this army from being out of the sight of the Ming army and look for the next opportunity to attack.

Zhu Youzhen accepted the advice of the two, and dispatched Zu Dale and Jianyi Right Battalion to follow the headquarters of Wu Nag, and He Kegang led the two battalions of men and horses to set off from the west of the mouth and go to the Wuchongan area along the passage to open up a marching passage for the army.

The other battalion leaders began to clean up the battlefield, and after resting for one night, they continued north the next day to Wuchongan. Once the next march strategy has been decided, the next step is to reward the war for meritorious deeds.

Although Zhu Youzhen didn't like to see a cheap Wu Xiang, Ebendui finally chose to break through and flee, making this Wu deputy general pick up a credit for capturing the camp in vain. However, at this time, he could only pinch his nose and reward Wu Xiang's father and son.

When the discussion of meritorious deeds was over, the meeting naturally entered into a discussion on how to deal with the Tartar captives. In addition to the more than 700 people led by Ebendui who surrendered voluntarily, the Ming army also captured dozens of prisoners in the previous battle.

Wu Huai and a few other generals believed that guarding these captives not only required manpower, but also cost a lot of materials, so it was better to select those with status among them, and throw the others directly into the Luanhe River.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Li Hongyuan and others all unanimously opposed this crude approach. Zu Dashou felt that although the Ming army won a victory, it did not mean that they could continue to win.

Once the news of their massacre of prisoners spreads today, won't the Ming soldiers who fell into the hands of the Tartars be retaliated against?

And He Kegang felt that it was unacceptable to start killing prisoners just for such reasons. They were able to win this time, in addition to the great efforts of the Ming army soldiers, the low fighting spirit of ordinary Tartar soldiers was also a factor.

Once the news of their massacre of prisoners spreads, I am afraid that the next battle will not be easy. Li Hongyuan's views were similar to those of He Kegang, and he was equally opposed to the killing of prisoners.

After listening to the opinions of several generals, Zhu Youzhen said: "Killing prisoners, it is better not to do it, even if it hurts reputation, it will have no positive effect."

Although I have said before that there will be no prisoners in this battle, it is just that I want to motivate my soldiers to fight bravely and not be distracted by other things on the battlefield.

Now that this battle is over, we always have to think about the best way to deal with these captives, not simply kill them.

The opinions of a few generals just now are still good, killing these captives will make the Mongol tribes who originally wavered in their attitudes completely throw themselves into Houjin, which is not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.

However, we can't just let them go back so easily, we have to find out who we are captive.

When we lead our troops into battle, we must always distinguish between the enemy and our friends, and even if we are enemies, we must have a priority and a priority, and we can't always label everyone as an enemy and then push them to our enemy's side.

Although the Later Jin and the Mongol tribes had wars with the Ming Dynasty, in the current situation, the Later Jin Dynasty was the main enemy of the Ming Dynasty.

The population of the Later Jin includes the Jurchens, Mongolians, Han people outside the Guanwai, as well as various ethnic minorities in Liaodong, although the Later Jin is our main enemy, but not all of the above people are our enemies.

We have only one enemy, that is, the Jianzhou Jurchen clan, as long as the Jianzhou Jurchen clan is eliminated, the war in Liaodong will naturally be resolved.

And within the Jianzhou Jurchens, the Jurchen Eight Banners do not seem to be monolithic now, and they are just relying on politics and force to create a balance between the Eight Banners. Therefore, if we want to deal with Houjin, we must give priority to attacking the two yellow flags led by Huang Taiji.

No matter how talented Huang Taiji is, he has lost the deterrence of the two yellow flags against other military forces in the Later Jin, and naturally he has lost the ability to integrate the eight banners in the Later Jin country.

Therefore, if we give priority to the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, then the two yellow banners - the Jurchen Eight Banners - the Jurchenized Mongols - the Ming army that surrendered to the Later Jin - the Mongol vassal tribes that submitted to the Later Jin, and finally the Mongols who are independent of the Ming and the Later Jin..."

Although the generals present felt a little tongue-twisted about the emperor's statement, they all silently wrote down the order of Chongzhen's words, even if they couldn't understand it now, it didn't prevent these generals from understanding the emperor's thoughts through these remarks.

He Kegang waited for a while before asking the emperor: "Then Your Majesty, how should these captives be placed now?" Is it to pick out the generals and send the others to Qian'an? ”

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while before deciding: "Let the Jinyi guards accompanying me screen their identities first, and the personnel will be locked up in Malanzhuang for the time being."

I had heard that there were iron mines nearby, and I had told them to mine after the interrogation was over, except for the captives from the Mongol vassal tribes. Wait until the Tartar army is driven out of the pass, and then come to deal with them. ”

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