Ming Dynasty: Starting from Liaodong Jiangmen

Chapter 27: March into the army!Advance troops!
The sun was rising, blood mist was mixed with flying dust, and thick smoke was billowing, filling the entire front of Yongding Gate.

The flags fluttering in the wind are already in disrepair.

On top of the city tower, the Beijing army looked at this scene with horrified faces and almost collapsed.

In the wilderness behind Marco Polo Bridge, the corpses of Liao soldiers and Jurchens were strewn all over the ground. The thick smell of blood and sweat mixed with each other filled the air. It was pungent and unpleasant, but no one cared about it anymore. .

The brutal hand-to-hand combat continued, and the earth-shattering shouts never stopped for a moment.

The loud screams and screams are touching.

There were crowds of people behind the Liao army's formation. The figures of the soldiers were walking as fast as flying, undulating like waves, and shouting from their mouths that shook the world.

This kind of shouting contagious and encouraged each other, eliminating the inexplicable fear in many people's hearts.

Arrows flew wildly in the air, and the slaves galloped wildly on the fields. The long rain of arrows cut through the dawn like locusts crossing the border, and landed in the Liao army's formation.

Liao soldiers kept falling to the ground after being hit by arrows, but in the blink of an eye, more people rushed forward.

They rushed forward one after another, shouting to fight for their home and country!

A Liao army general shouted loudly for a fierce battle. Before he could say the second sentence, he was swarmed by several Jurchen infantrymen with knives. He was outnumbered and was instantly chopped into pieces mixed with flesh, blood and internal organs. of minced meat.

"Master Zhao!"

"Brothers, take revenge on Master Zhao!!"

The shrill screams resounded throughout the Liao army's formation.

The two sides completely fell into crazy killings. Every time a person fell, the soldiers of the Later Jin Army and the Liao Army became more and more angry. The war became more and more intense, and nearly 10 people were completely mixed together.

At this time, outside Beijing, it was like a Shura hell.

The two sides no longer have any rules and regulations, and all they can do is fight for their lives!

This time the Battle of Yongding Gate seems to have become the most difficult battle since the Jin army entered the pass.

The setting sun is like blood, and the afterglow of the setting sun pours on the tower.

One day passed, and the shouts of killing outside the city continued.

About three miles behind the Marco Polo Bridge, in the Liao army camp, Mangui took advantage of the short gap in the rotation of the Jin army to send an order to raise the tent to summon the generals to discuss the war situation.

The gloomy clouds in the tent were in sharp contrast to the laughter at the Houjin camp a few miles away.

The Liao generals dragged their exhausted bodies back to their tents one after another.

They all frowned, listening to the series of defeat reports outside the camp, feeling deeply how difficult their fate was.

Since Yuan Chonghuan was imprisoned on the second day of December, a series of changes have occurred in the capital, which are the introduction to the current raid.

First, Zu Dashou collapsed in the east, and then several Lu Qin and Wang Jing's troops bombed the camp, fissioned, and disintegrated.

Mangui had already approached Chongzhen several times, saying that the reinforcements were not yet available at this time, so the Liao army should be allowed to enter the city to rest and recuperate, relying on the defense of the capital to keep the slave cavalry away, and wait for the reinforcements to arrive before slowly taking action.

However, none of the civil, military, and cabinet ministers of the Manchu Dynasty supported him!
There is a lot of talk about the Liao army being too timid to fight and fearful of establishing slaves like tigers.

Almost all of the Liao army, starting from Mangui, were insulted and threatened by the Beijing camp. Even some people in Beijing who did not know the reason punched and kicked the Liao soldiers and denounced them as national traitors.

National traitor?

How ridiculous.
The national thieves they call are fighting for their lives with their slaves outside the city for their peaceful days!
A few days before the war began, rumors that Mangui intended to replace Yuan Chonghuan and control Liaodong alone somehow spread throughout the streets of the capital.

Emperor Chongzhen's last imperial edict completely chilled the hearts of the [-] Liao troops now fighting alone.

Although Emperor Chongzhen expressed condolences to the Manchu and Guangxi and Liao troops in his imperial edict, he still ordered Mangui and his [-] Liao troops to stop garrisoning at Yongding Gate.

If you can't enter the city, you can't even stay at the foot of the capital now.

Emperor Chongzhen's transfer order almost showed his distrust of the Liao army.

For a time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty verbally and literally criticized the [-] Liao troops.The [-] Liao troops that filled Gui rushed to the capital and were the first Qin Wang army in the country to arrive at the city. However, they became a bereaved dog at the feet of their own emperor and were driven out to fight the Jurchens.

Mangui had no choice but to move his camp. This led to today's war with almost no chance of winning.

Emperor Chongzhen is still angry with Yuan Chonghuan. No matter how civil servants and generals try to persuade him, it will not help. He insists on killing Yuan Chonghuan to avenge his hatred for three years of Ping Liao's deception. Chongzhen had high hopes for Yuan Chonghuan at the beginning, but now he has no hope for him. So much hatred.

"Is there no one else available in Ming Dynasty except him, Yuan Chonghuan?"

With such a roar, Emperor Chongzhen's imperial edict once again came to the Liao army camp behind Marco Polo Bridge.

The content of the imperial edict is very simple. Emperor Chongzhen decided to appoint General Man Gui of the Liao Army as the military commander to manage the military affairs of Liaodong. At the same time, during the invasion of the Jin Dynasty, he was responsible for commanding the troops of King Qin of all towns in the capital.

However, Mangui never imagined that his military strategy was completely different from Yuan Chonghuan's Ji Liao Governor.

Mangui received nothing from Chongzhen except an imperial edict and another oral instruction to urge troops to advance.

The troops of King Qin of each town were in charge of their own affairs. When Yuan Chonghuan was still there, he could still coerce them into obeying the orders. However, Yuan Chonghuan was captured. Although Mangui was a general, he did not fully take over the prestige of all the troops under his command.

Now the subordinates Man Gui can command are still the [-] Liao troops from his original headquarters.

Whether it was the Beijing troops of Zhending and Baoding's second commanders Hei Yunlong and Madeng Yun, or the Liao troops such as Zu Dashou of the Yuan clan, none of them obeyed Mangui's orders.

Mangui issued orders several times to mobilize various towns to send reinforcements, but no one responded.

It seemed that everyone was sitting in their homes or camps, watching the destruction of these [-] elite Liao troops with a sneer on their faces!

And Emperor Chongzhen, whom Mangui was loyal to and guarded, sent another oral message to urge troops to advance!

No food, no comfort, just a piece of paper and the bossy supervisors!

"I have heard that Shen Fu's troops were destroyed at Marco Polo Bridge, and that the six thousand Liao army could not stop the slaves. My heart is very cold! However, Shen Fu sacrificed his life for the country and died on the battlefield. It can be seen that the merits and demerits are equal to each other. I am magnanimous and will not blame the past."

"Order Mangui's Liao army to advance immediately and cross the Marco Polo Bridge to fight the slaves decisively. There must be no mistake!"

General Shen Fu and his troops were killed in the Marco Polo Bridge battle, but the merits and demerits were only equal to each other?
The content of this oral instruction reverberated throughout the Liao army camp.

Not long after, Man Gui, wearing iron armor and holding a sword, slowly walked into the Chinese army commander's tent.

All the generals immediately held their breath and concentrated, speaking in unison.

"Meet Wu Jinglue!"

"How about the casualties in each battalion?"

Man Gui stood on the north side, his body covered in bloodstains. His steps were steady and powerful, his eyes as sharp as an eagle, but his whole body was swaying, as if he had lost his soul, and he had no fighting spirit at all.

When Man Gui was on the battlefield, he saw the Liao army soldiers falling in a pool of blood one after another. He once raised his head to the sky and screamed, holding a sword in his hand and asked the sky, for whom are our [-] Liao army soldiers fighting in this battle?

For the Ming Dynasty?

But Ming Dynasty had already abandoned them.

Even the capital, which was sworn to defend to the death, turned them away.

The common people reviled them, the ministers wrongly accused them, and the Beijing army looked down upon them.

Man Gui felt aggrieved. Every one of the [-] Liao soldiers who were fighting bloody battles felt aggrieved. Those Liao soldiers who had just died outside the city had become lonely ghosts that no one cared about. It was difficult to defend their home and country. for what.

But they had no one to talk to, and no one in the vast world truly understood the Liao army's difficulties.

Although the remaining Liao generals in the tent were all wounded, no one was afraid of death. Their eyes were firm but their expressions were distracted. What they were afraid of was a meaningless and unknown death.

The fear is that even if he dies in battle, he will be remembered as a traitor to the country.

　One more chapter today

　　
　
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