After the collapse of Malin's Northern Route Army, Nurhaci aimed his next target at liu lingbu of the Ming army on the east road. Liu Ling, a new native of Jiangxi and the son of liu xian, a famous general who fought against the Wu Dynasty, had participated in the Wanli Korean War and the Battle of Bozhou to pacify Yang Yinglong, Liu Ling was the first brave general of the late Ming Dynasty, good at using large knives, so he was known as "Liu Dadao".
At the end of February of the forty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1619), as the commander of the Ming army on the eastern road of Salhu, he led the troops out of Liangma, and the Kuandian guerrilla dusi Zu Tianding, the Nanjing Luying dusi Yao Guofu, the Shandong Guandu si zhouwen, the former deputy general Jiang Wanhua, the Yang garrison Xu Jiusi, and the Zhejiang garrison Yu Zhou Jiming with Kang Yingqian, the deputy envoy of the Haigai army, as the supervising army, with The tongzhi Huangzong Zhou Zanli, more than 10,100 Korean troops marched in parallel, and the Guan Zhenjiang guerrilla dusi Qiao Yiqi was the supervising army.
In fact, throughout the Battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty's offensive idea was obvious that the two armies of the Western Route Army (Juniper) and the Northern Route Army (Marin) converged with the Erdao Pass, and then continued to attack Hetuala, and the two armies should add up to more than 40,000 people. Li Rubai of the South Road and Liu Ling of the East Road will also enter the Later Jin Capital City together. Even if the Houjin army took the initiative to meet the battle, gathering more than 40,000 people in the Erdaoguan area, Nurhaci wanted to easily eat this Ming army, I am afraid it would not be so easy, when Nurhaci and the two Ming armies in the northwest confronted each other, the Ming army on the east road of the south road would directly attack Hetuala.
But there was an unexpected storm in the sky, the arrogant Juniper ventured forward in order to grab the merit, just as the so-called "old man tied his hair to join the army, I don't know how much the armor weighed" the result was to Nurhaci with the first head gift package, Juniper ran too fast, Marin walked too slowly, Juniper just lost and died, Marin was sent to the door, the two Ming armies in the northwest did not even have the opportunity to join forces, so they were crushed by Nurhaci.
According to the report of the Koreans, Liu Ling's men and horses are nominally more than 30,000 people, but in fact there are only more than 10,000 people, which is exactly what is called "the army of the Central Plains East Road is extremely weak, and only the soldiers of our country are cloudy", "Diary of Guang Haijun". The Ming army was weak, and the Korean army was even more vulnerable, so it was obvious that the Ming army on this road was not the main force of the attack, and after the defeat of the North Road and the West Road Army, the fate of the Ming army on the East Road was already doomed.
After Nurhaci eliminated Marin, he successively sent 3,000 people such as Darhan's bodyguards and Amin as the vanguard troops, and then this vanguard force was confronted by the Ming army and suffered heavy losses, and the Koreans recorded that "five or six hundred thieves rode in formation, and the heavens will ascend first, and our army will follow, and the thieves will be defeated and climb the mountain." The admiral supervised the artillery shooters of our army to fight, the thieves were lying on their own risks, the arrows were like rain, and the middle and right battalions fought one after another, and there were many cuts. The middle back will wound the left hand of the middle general, and the soldiers will also be wounded. Liu Jilong, a garrison, was shot dead by an arrow. The bow is prominent, and our army is easy to break. Marshal Commander Lingjin, Beijing gunner Li Chenglong released the pill zhongzhi, Han Mingsheng beheaded it, and the thieves were defeated and collapsed. ”
Nurhaci returned to Hetuala after the sacrifice of jiefancheng, led 4,000 people to monitor the Ming army from Hulan Road, the great Belle Daishan led the army to meet Qiao Yiqi, who was exploring the way, the Jin army was ready to seize the Abdaligan Heights as soon as the Qiao army saw it, Daishan was ready to directly attack the Ming army that was climbing the mountain, the Emperor Taiji persuaded it to monitor behind the Ming army, and then he himself grabbed the mountain and launched a downward charge, he himself led 30 people beyond the Chinese army to kill into the Ming army ("Manchu Old File") The two sides were stalemate. At this time, the shan army of this era pressed against the Ming army from the west of Abu Dali Gang, and the Ming army began to waver, and soon after the defeat was completely destroyed, Qiao Yiqi broke through and fled back.
After Qiao Yiqi's defeat, the Houjin army first rested and ate fried noodles and horses and grazing, and then attacked the Ming and Xian armies in the direction of Fucha Field (the Ming army of the Supervisor Kangying Cadres, the left and right battalions of the Korean army, and Jiang Hongli led the Rear Camp of the Joseon Dynasty). Liu Ling's army was first ambushed by the Later Jin army, and then the Daishan army attacked head-on, Liu Ling's army was defeated, and Liu Ling and his subordinate officers sat on the gunpowder package and set themselves on fire and died.
The remaining Ming Dynasty and the Korean army faced the attack of the Later Jin Army, firearms were fired in unison, at this time the wind direction suddenly changed, the smoke of the old firearms was directly blown back into the coalition front, obscuring the vision of the soldiers, and soon this Ming xian army was also completely suppressed under the absolute numerical superiority of Nurhaci, but the Ming Coalition army still desperately resisted, and the North Korean firearms caused great damage to the Hou Jin army.
Soon, the Ming army and the Left and Right Battalions of the DPRK collapsed, and the Korean general Jiang Hongli was unable to support himself, and had no choice but to arrest all the remnants of the Ming army who had thrown himself into his army and surrender to the Houjin Army, Qiao Yiqi was betrayed by the Koreans and jumped off a cliff to commit suicide, and the resistance of the Ming army was actually not over when the Koreans were escorted away from the battlefield. Hu hundreds of horses rushed up, gradually collapsed, and there was no need to fight between them, and the tragedy they witnessed was incomparable. The zombies passed through were like hemp, dozens of miles, and it was also the place of battle. The captured North Korean sergeants continued to flee in the ensuing time, but the way home was difficult, and only a thousand people returned to Korea alive.
After the fall of Liu Ling, only Li Rubai of the South Road remained. Yang Hao heard about the death of the Three Roads division, so he hurriedly ordered Li Rubai to withdraw, and after encountering a small force on the road, the Jin army intercepted 40 people and killed them, and there was no other loss. The Battle of Salhu ended, the Ming army was defeated miserably, more than 80,000 people were sent out, more than 40,000 troops were lost, more than 300 officers were lost, and countless heavy losses of firearms were lost.
Then there are many theories about the losses of the Jin army, 200 people killed that is obviously nonsense, 2,000 people were killed, I did not turn to this statement anyway, according to the Ming side of the Jin lost more than 20,000 people, the North Korean side also holds this theory, according to the fierceness of these three-way battle, the loss of more than 20,000 people in the back of The Jin is not unreasonable, its total strength is far more than 100,000 people, as early as after the capture of Fushun, there are more than 60,000 troops used to escort the surrendered soldiers and civilians, This also explains why Nurhaci was able to launch the Battle of Kaiyuan Tieling quickly after the Battle of Salhu.