Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Boom..." Before he could retract, mortar shells from the Ming army flew over.

These mortars are short tubes with thick and short barrels. They have no trigger device at the bottom, and the tail is completely no different from other cannons.

When firing, first throw a medicine bag, and then throw a cast iron shell, but the shell is conical. This is the first time that the Ming army used conical projectiles in equipment.

"Boom..." The infantry of the Ming army advanced rapidly amidst the explosion of mortars.At about thirty paces, the infantry lay down, the mortars stopped, and then the infantry rose to attack again.

However, this is not very important anymore, because Jin Bing is useless at a distance of 30 meters. At this distance, a grenade can be thrown out by just running a few steps.

There is no need to wait for the charge of the golden soldiers behind to start, the mortar can continue to advance fifty to one hundred steps, and a new round of bombardment can continue. The object that was killed.

"Li Nian, how many shells did your 27 mortars use in a day?" Li Guo wondered why he had to replenish the shells for the mortars after only two days of fighting.

"Six hundred rounds a day," Li Nian said.

"What, all your mortars belong to pigs! Are they so edible?" Li Guo asked in surprise.

Chapter 475: Cutting flesh with a blunt knife hurts to death

"Mr. Fan, can you explain what kind of medicine is sold in this gourd of the army? Letters of help from all cities are sent every day, but three months have passed, and no city has been lost except Gaizhou. The Ming army neither besieged nor died. If they don’t attack by force, what are they going to do?”

Dorgon has been completely confused by the Ming army's combat intentions, and the cities have been asking for help, but they never said that the city was lost.

"The slaves also don't understand what the Ming army's purpose is. Either their general is an idiot, or it's a big conspiracy." Fan Wencheng said.

In fact, the Ming army had no conspiracy at all, it was nothing more than a new round of military training.In other words, it was just slowly cutting Hou Jin's blood, and it was still pulling the flesh with a blunt knife.

The reinforcements sent by Shengjing arrived in various places smoothly, but the attack of the Ming army remained the same.Dorgon didn't want to fight the Ming army in Liaodong, nor did he want to lose Liaodong and flee, so each of his reinforcements was not large.

This kind of appearance, no matter how you look at it, looks like Mao Wenlong's role back then, only on a slightly larger scale.

"It's been three months, how many reinforcements have we sent out?" In fact, Dorgon himself didn't remember how many reinforcements he ordered.Anyway, when the front line is in an emergency, he will reinforce thousands of people.

"The reinforcements to various cities have already exceeded 5 people." Fan Wencheng replied.

"Not good, does this mean that we don't have many main force left in Shengjing?" Dorgon panicked, his hands trembling.

"I'm afraid this is the case, but the attacking Ming army has not decreased in any way, so they have no casualties?" Fan Wencheng understood that the news from the south said that Zhu Youjian did not increase his troops in Liaodong at all.

"Pass down the king's order and let the cities report the casualties." Dorgon finally began to have a premonition.

Sun Dingliao, who received Dorgon's order, wanted to cry but had no tears, because only he knew how many Jin soldiers were killed and injured in Jinzhou.At first, Dorgon's order was to defend Jinzhou City at no cost, so every time he asked for help later, it was Sun Dingliao who asked Shengjing for help when he was sure that he could not hold on.

Although Shengjing is not generous, it is also quite interesting, always sending reinforcements.In this way, after every reinforcement, Sun Defined hopes that the Ming army can leave quickly. He no longer expects to directly defeat the Ming army. He only hopes that Shengjing's judgment is correct, and the Ming army is only harassing Jinzhou in a short period of time. .

Not losing Jinzhou has become the last belief in Sun Dingliao's heart.

As for the Ming army, after three months of actual battlefield training, the technical and tactical level of the entire army is no longer at the same level as that of the enemy army.

The war lasted for three months, and the death toll was less than a thousand, which is enough to be called a miracle in this era.

What is even more miraculous is that Li Dingguo, the supreme commander of this battle, except for the first 20 days of landing, he kept ten hours of sleep every day, and then half of the time went fishing with Zheng Chenggong on the battleship with a big fishing rod. greatly increased.

The commander-in-chief of the large corps, who was less than 30 years old, agreed with Zheng Chenggong on a baby kiss in this way, which added a good story.

"Dear family, this boat is your mount. With it, you can conquer the world. I envy you." Li Dingguo looked at Zheng Chenggong and said from the bottom of his heart.

"Are you still thinking about your cavalry?" Zheng Chenggong baited and cast a far hook, then sat down.

"The north is wider than the south, so we can't attack with two legs." Li Dingguo said.

"Dear family, the battle in Liaodong hasn't finished yet, you're already looking at the prairie?" Zheng Chenggong smiled, Li Dingguo was very clear about his worries.He was able to lead millions of soldiers before he was 30 years old. Such a general is lonely and lonely. Probably only Huo Qubing's great achievements in sealing up the wolf and living in Xuxu can attract him.

Li Dingguo seemed a little embarrassed to be seen through by Zheng Chenggong, and he probably could find a little similar feeling from Zheng Chenggong.

"The emperor said that whether it is the Mongols or the Bannermen, their army is mule-horse. But our army of Ming Dynasty can't even reach the level of mule-horse logistics." Li Dingguo said with a bit of desolation in his eyes: "But Why do we keep winning battles now?"

"I remember last year when we fought against the Dutch in Taiwan, the emperor said that Da Ming is still unable to fight real naval battles. Da Ming's navy can only attack coastal strongholds and block enemy fleets not far from the coastline. If it comes to the real thing, the Netherlands The human fleet is invincible.

The emperor said that our navy can only be called a navy, but the Dutch navy is called a navy.Since that day, I have been wondering what kind of navy can be called a navy. "

"I figured it out. During the Jianghuai battle, the Jin soldiers were attacking, and we were defending. Because we used the geographical advantage to block the Jin soldiers in the Jianghuai area, we won the battle.

Throughout the great war that took place in the Central Plains, it was all you attacking me, and there was no mobile combat in a large area between the two sides.Therefore, when our army's equipment and morale surpass that of the enemy, we will win.

But when I was in Sichuan, I heard the emperor mentioned that there is another strategy in this world, it is called deep combat, but it emphasizes assault and pursuit, while taking counter-assault into account.This requires massive cavalry. "

In Li Dingguo's current understanding, there is no mechanization. When he heard Zhu Youjian's theory, he naturally thought that this was the large-scale use of cavalry.And from this, Li Dingguo thought of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing.

"So, are you afraid that Dorgon will slip away? So your fighting method in Liaodong is to keep the golden soldiers as the first goal?" Zheng Chenggong said.

"If the golden soldiers no longer attack or defend, but get into the old forest, it will be difficult for us to wipe them out."

"You are simply cutting flesh with a blunt knife, and it hurts Dorgon to death." Zheng Chenggong said.

"This knife has been cutting for three months. I think Dorgon has woken up. I'm afraid I won't have time to go fishing in the future!" Li Dingguo took a rod, and a fish happened to come up.

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, Shengjing is here for information, the Chief of Staff please return to the headquarters as soon as possible." The two were chatting happily, and the messenger just ran over to report.

"Whatever you say, come on, it's coming." Li Dingguo patted his buttocks and stood up.

When Li Dingguo rushed to the headquarters, he got great news: Dorgon had realized the Ming army's first step in combat intentions.But Dorgon didn't guess Li Dingguo's second plan. Dorgon wanted to collect the remnants scattered around Shengjing and gather them in Shengjing for defense.

As a result, Dorgon actually sent another 2 people, and wanted to rely on these 2 people to rescue the defenders in various cities.In Dorgon's view, the Ming army is not cavalry, and it cannot stop his elite.The more than 1 remnants of Jinzhou City are the focus of Dorgon's rescue.

"Chief of Staff, send our military order: the whole army abandons siege warfare and turns to field warfare. All armies begin to divide and block the enemy along the main river. The enemy must be intercepted on the line of Liaohe River and Xiaoling River."

"Yes." Dang Shousu replied.

Chapter 476: Daling River Thorn Card Liaodong Throat

Jinzhou is the city farthest from Shengjing, and it is also the city with the largest number of defenders. Excluding casualties, Sun Dingliao still has 5000 people under his command.

Looking at Jinzhou, which is already riddled with holes, everyone understands what the Ming army is thinking, that is, neither drive nor encircle, but slowly consume.I attack slowly, you defend slowly, I dispatch one or two companies a day, and you can't eat it.

Dorgon would definitely run away if he was in a hurry, and he could only encircle one or two cities.For the Ming army, which did not have the power of Hou Jin, this was not a strategic war, but a smart war of military command.

But now, the Ming army not only caught the big fish Houjin like fishing, but also killed or killed one-third of their strength.

"Report to the commander, Sun Dingliao has escaped, and Jinzhou has become an empty city." Before dawn, Yang Zhan got bad news.

"How long have you been running?" Yang Zhan asked hurriedly, because the general command had issued an order: not afraid that the troops will not be able to attack the city, but fear that the troops will let the enemy go.

"Before a stick of incense, head east."

"This is planning to cross the Daling River. Please contact the navy quickly and ask them to block the enemy on the Daling River. In addition, order the ministries to only pursue and not actively attack."

The Battle of Dalinghe that took place in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631) was an eternal pain in the heart of the Ming Dynasty, and it was also the most important battle on the road to the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty.