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To be honest, from the commander's point of view, if possible, he hoped to dispatch a Dongjiang soldier to attack Shengjing from behind. Even if there were not many soldiers, five thousand, would make Huang Taiji very scrupulous, but Even he, the chief official who led the army outside the frontier, has heard of the filth between Dongjiang and the court, not to mention that Gao Qiqian reminded him extra today.

I can only let this huge help go without, relying on myself!

However, if he can fully implement his own strategy, Hong Chengchou is also confident that he will not lose. In the worst case, Jinzhou will be breached, and 3 people under Zu Dashou will be wiped out, but the Qing court will also be physically and mentally exhausted by himself. , his strength was greatly reduced, and he retreated to Shengjing. When the time came to clean up Jinzhou by himself, he could still continue to confront him.

I'm afraid that Emperor Chongzhen is so impatient! What a great success! He has been taught too many times!

Full of worries, Hong Chengchou left the capital city step by step with a sigh.

But at this stage, at least the emperor meant what he said. Hong Chengchou had just returned to Jizhen, and the grain, grass, salaries and silver escorted by the military department of the capital were also transported in a truckload. Part of the money and rations to support Yang Sichang's bandit suppression army was diverted, and he was also paid 80 taels of military pay, fifty pairs of ten thousand shi military rations, and an order to transfer troops to the world was also issued.

On the third day of July, Lu Xiangsheng’s last legacy, Datong General Soldier Wang Pu and Xuanfu General Soldier Yang Guozhu led 4000 remnants of Xuanda’s army to Jizhen. On the ninth day of August, two Shaanxi generals, Bai Guangen and Cao Bianjiao, also had 13 troops. Gathered together, on August 15th, after celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, Hong Chengchou immediately swore to leave the customs. At the beginning of September, in Ningyuan City, he gathered the troops under the command of the Liaozhen Army Wu Sangui, Ma Ke, and Wang Tingchen. Including the troops of Tang Tong, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen under his command, Hong Chengchou has a total of [-] elite infantry of the Eighth Commander-in-Chief. Although the [-] he expected did not reach the [-] he expected, Chongzhen already has all the mobile troops that can be deployed in the northern part of the Ming Empire. Give it to him!

This consequence is also serious. Just when Cao Bianjiao and Bai Guangen withdrew to Jizhen, Li Zicheng's strength, which had lost control, swelled again. In a few months, he defeated Yiyang and then Xin'an, and successively captured dozens of cities. , Luoyang, an important town of the imperial court, has become a pincer attack. The imperial court really has no troops to send, so Wang Shaoyu, one of the general soldiers in Henan, can only lead more than a thousand local troops to strengthen Luoyang's defense a little.

However, at this time, the military strategy of the Ming Empire changed from being safe inside to resisting outsiders again, and Hong Chengchou, who was corrupted in Henan, couldn't be more apprehensive. gun.

Deciding the battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties outside the pass, the historically famous Pine Brocade War has officially entered a fever pitch with the roar of Hong Chengchou's cannons

4Chapter 17. Second battalion commander, good fight!

Compared with the vigorous and vigorous Yuan Dynasty army fighting the world with Meng Yuan, the Ming army at the end of Ming Dynasty seems to be synonymous with uselessness. up.

However, in all fairness, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is actually higher than that of the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty. After all, for more than 200 years, technology has improved, and the Nine Sides have replaced farmers and soldiers with full-time mercenaries. The only sad thing is that this era has lost the enterprising spirit of the early Ming Dynasty. The scholar-bureaucrats were greedy and ugly, and the emperor was suspicious and incompetent. The wheel fell into the hands of alien races.

Fortunately, in the early stage of the Battle of Songjin this time, the Ming army rarely made any moths. The imperial army that gathered the soldiers and horses of the Liao Town was embracing a regiment under the command of Hong Chengchou, which prevented the division of troops in the Battle of Saerhu The possibility of being defeated by each, and Hong Chengchou is obviously much more experienced than Zhang Chun, the military supervisor who blindly commanded the Battle of Dalinghe a few years ago. Can't move a few miles away, every time they march, there is a radish and a hole. The vanguard builds the camp in advance, and the outer area is surrounded by heavy battlefields like the city wall, and then the army enters with artillery. Those with strict defense can't wait to really move the city wall. the same.

Moreover, Hong Chengchou also seems to learn financial management in later generations. He does not put eggs in one basket. He only released about 13 soldiers from Wu Sangui and Ningyuan on the frontal battlefield. After more than ten kilometers, Wang Pu, the last general of Datong, went out of Ningyuan City for less than ten kilometers. He could not get out of the army food road after guarding the back. Like Ning Yuan.

In short, Hong Chengchou showed only one word, counsel!

But Hong Chengchou's cowardice is different from Liu Yuliang and his ilk. He is aggressive in counseling, defending with seven points but also attacking with three points, just like throwing a stone up and down, aiming at the back of the Qing army at any time may come ruthless.

It doesn't matter if Hong Chengchou counsels, Huang Taiji feels uncomfortable.

Although the Ming army rescued the city like a fire, and Jinzhou had already started to run out of food, it was the Qing army themselves who were really in a hurry.

God knows when Mao Jue will come back from a trip to Japan, who knows if he will bring some souvenirs to Shengjing to see himself if he is happy, even though Huang Taiji is not fighting around Jinzhou City, his intention is to make a quick decision , Surround the point to fight for reinforcements, like the last battle of Dalinghe, quickly eat the reinforcements from Liaodong Town around Jinzhou City, and then go south to capture Ningyuan Shanhaiguan.

Even if Ningyuan and Jinzhou can't be defeated for a while, it's okay if 5000 soldiers and horses arrive at Shanhaiguan, which is enough to resist the Ming army's reinforcements in the pass. A city of [-] troops will trap these two fortified cities for a year, and the stones will have to be trapped. During this period, Huang Taiji could comfortably return to Shengjing with the main force and a huge amount of spoils.

But when Hong Chengchou put up a snail formation, all of Huang Taiji's strategic plans became empty, and he was in a dilemma. The 11 Qing army could not be withdrawn just by withdrawing. The army soaked in mushrooms, exhausted the troops, and Hong Chengchou joined forces with Zu Dashou again. Zu Dashou held back the Qing army, and Hong Chengchou surrounded him from the side.

This time Hong Chengchou is really a snail. Jinzhou began to be besieged in June. Emperor Chongzhen delayed for more than half a month to find the scapegoat. Hong Chengchou assembled his own troops, and it took another one and a half months for the farthest Shaanxi soldiers to arrive. He didn't have Mao Jue's train. When he led his army from Jizhou to Ningyuan, it was already late September and early October. From Ningyuan to Jinzhou, the Ming army walked for more than ten days on a [-]-kilometer road. Can't wait to wait, take the lead in the challenge.

The two armies faced each other at the foot of Rufeng Mountain in the south of Jinzhou City.

On October [-]th, under the boundless light snow, Hong Chengchou led several general soldiers under his command, went out of the camp in person, and started to investigate with binoculars.

It has to be said that the time and place are favorable, and the Qing army occupies a small part. At this time, the weather has already cooled down. Not to mention that the Dongcap is better than the Ming army in terms of frost resistance. It is next to Dongjiang, a large market for cheap industrial products. It was actually thicker than the border guards of the Ming Empire.

Geographically, the Qing army controlled the battlefield. The Qing army was stationed on the peak of the only way to Jinzhou from Rufeng Mountain and on the right side of the road. On the mountain in front of the left was the heavy army led by Tong Yangzheng. On the plain is Dorgon Zhengbai Banner's elite cavalry, and the two armies together should number [-], which is slightly less than Hong Chengchou's vanguard Ningyuan soldiers.

Not to mention the difference in combat power, the advantage of this location is enough to offset the difference in troop strength!

Fortunately, the two armies are similar in terms of people and strength. Needless to say, the Qing army, the morale of the Ming army that has just left the customs is also considered to be high.

Hong Chengchou really frowned watching this scene.

The attack was delayed for more than a day, and it was not until noon the next day that Yang Guozhu, who was also the commander-in-chief under Lu Xiangsheng's command, led more than [-] Shanxi soldiers to catch up, and the first round of confrontation between the two sides officially began.

This time was a bit of a cross-generational significance for the Ming army and the Qing army. The first to open their posture, both sides were cannons, except for the monster Mao Jue. This was the first large-scale artillery battle in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in this era.

The heavy car battalion blocked the outside, Hong Bing pulled eight Hongyi cannons, more than thirty generals, and two generals spewed out flames at Rufeng Mountain two miles away, seven or eight taels of lead There was an ear-piercing sharp sound rubbing in the air, and it was thrown fiercely on the mountain. The heavy thing was like a plow, digging out bloodstains in the Eight Banners Heavy Barracks.

However, the Qing army was not polite. They were inferior to Mao Jue, an upstart, and had a small advantage over Liaozhen. There were also more than 20 Hongyi cannons. They blasted the Ming army town from the mountain, and it was also lively. extraordinary.

With a bang, like Qi Jiguang's van, the heavy frontier chariot suddenly broke its axle, half of the wheels collapsed, and the bouncing wood chips blasted the Ming army everywhere on the car, and another shell followed. When it hit it, another three-eyed blunderbuss sergeant trembled suddenly, and a big hole was blown out of his body.

Standing more than 100 meters, the minced meat could still fall to Hong Chengchou, but this black-faced butcher, who sold dried beans to make a living and was admitted to the imperial examination, did not even blink his eyelids. He was still staring at the mountain with a telescope. In his sight, the Qing army on the mountain was also a bit embarrassed by the bombardment. The horse screamed and fell down, and the broken horse's leg spurted blood. The Qing army wearing heavy armor couldn't resist the blow of the lead, and also vomited blood. and died.

It's just that in this era, it's really unrealistic to rely on artillery battles to decide the outcome. The addition of one piece by both sides did not exceed a hundred cannons. There is no shrapnel like Mao Jue in the Civil War. It's just a shot ball. If you are lucky, the shot put can only hit a single shot, and one shot in four to five minutes can kill two or three people.

The artillery battle at noon lasted until the evening, rested overnight, continued the next day, and fought until noon. The casualties of the two armies were only a few dozen people, even less than a hundred. The war continued until the afternoon. In the end, the Qing army was still unable to sink. Hold on.

The ground suddenly trembled, tens of thousands of horses trampled hard and could be felt even two or three miles away, a puff of smoke and dust came out from the northeast like an old black mountain demon, white evil dragons with teeth and claws in the air Looming in the smoke and dust.

Dorgon's cavalry still attacked.

Listening to the strange whistling sound, the frontier Ming army all showed a panicked expression, but Hong Chengchou, who was watching the battle behind, finally showed a smile on the corner of his mouth at this time.

"Soldiers are on the line! Bird gunners come out to fight!"

"As ordered!"

Amidst the roars of the generals, Hong Chengchou vividly demonstrated the typical three-fold formation of the Ming army.

Similar to the time when Qi Jiguang was in charge of Jiliao, the musketeers went to battle with two people, one carrying the bird gun and shooting, and the other holding the gun. According to Qi Jiguang's rules, the sergeant who fired randomly before the enemy was within the range of the gun would be cut by the knife hand. Drop the musketeer's ears, and after returning to the barracks, the earless beheaded!

Amidst the ear-cutting screams, in the face of the overwhelming Eight Banners cavalry, some soldiers from Jizhou Town could not bear the psychological pressure and fired first. Affected by them, more than 1000 musketeers also came a few seconds earlier. Shooting, the effect of the bird's gun strike is very general. Outside the range of more than 100 meters, there are only a few Qing troops who were shot and fell down, which did not affect the momentum at all.

In the panic, the bird gun turned back and ran back to the car formation, but soon some Ming soldiers holding strange long-handled hammers came out to meet them again. An officer with a three-stroke beard and a Northeast smell was heartbreaking The lungs roared.

"Three-eyed gun!"

The crackling sound of popping beans, this time the attack effect is much stronger than the previous one. After all, the enemy cavalry has already run into a distance of more than 50 meters, and the three-eyed blunderbuss that rang three times densely fired a row of bullets. More than [-] Qing troops were swept down.

The whistling rain of arrows became dense, and the Ming army failed to please them. More than a dozen three-eyed blunderbusses who ran back in a panic were shot to death.

But when the ferocious Qing army rushed to the front of Hong Chengchou's camp, this wave of offensive came to an end!

In front of Hong Chengchou's army, there were all heavy vans, one of which was a big piece higher than the shooting wall built with thick planks. The cavalry could hardly knock over this thing, and it was full of momentum until the last ten meters. Zheng Baiqi had to slow down.

Some of the Qing soldiers stopped right there, drew their bows and arrow girls and shot at the back of the van; For the light vehicles used by the Ming army in the past, this method is really easy to open a bloody road.

At this time, the Ming army was not ambiguous. The firearms player hiding in the back of the carriage had someone blocking him, and he became more courageous. He lit the matchlock, sent a long birdgun along the shooting port, and shot at the gunner at close range. Zhengbai Qi's head was blown over, and once again, gunpowder smoke was everywhere in front of the Ming army's formation, and amidst the crackling sound, dozens of riders were dismounted again.

The spearmen who had already crouched at the back of the carriage also appeared. When some Qing soldiers smashed the carriage angrily, they stabbed out from the side of the carriage with a spear, and with a click, the unsuspecting Qingmen There was an extra transparent hole, and he was stabbed off the horse screaming.

There were still more than a dozen spears guarding the gap, and the Qing army had just pushed over, but was immediately pushed back by a dense array of spears like hedgehogs.

Stabilizing the ground, the Ming army's specialties were brought into full play, and the brave Zhengbai Qi was killed in a panic for a while.

Finally realized that something was wrong, seeing several of his subordinates angrily beating with a dozen spears stabbed out of the sidecar with sabers, Dorgon finally took out his horns and blew a horn , really well-trained, the howling white flag cavalry directly let go of their horses and fled back neatly.

But at this time, beside Hong Chengchou, a handsome and healthy young general in his twenties showed a bloodthirsty smile like a devil on his face.

Watching the back of Zhengbai Qi's protruding head, this man also pulled out his knife abruptly, and roared bravely.