Lu Ming

Passing Xifengkou is equivalent to returning home - although the Guan Ning Army stationed on the Ning Jin line of defense has a large number of cavalry, this army, which consumed the most military expenditure of the Ming court, has long lost the confidence to fight against the Hou Jin soldiers Therefore, the Guan Ning army did not dare to rush out from the string of fortresses and attack Xifengkou, which was close at hand.

According to the situation detected by the front-line special forces and historical records, Qian Tieshan believes that by the end of the month, the entire army can be considered to go through the public.

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In the historical change of Jisi, the last Houjin army to withdraw from the Ming Dynasty was the tribe of Houjin Belle Amin.

In the past few days in mid-March, Amin will be sent by Huang Taiji to guard a series of cities in the back corridor: Zunhua, Luanzhou, Qian'an, and Yongping.So Amin divided his troops to guard various places, and took Yongping City, which is closest to Xifengkou, as the base point.

In the middle of May, Amin saw that a series of cities in front of him had been captured one by one by King Qin's army led by Sun Chengzong, so he killed all the Han officials and people who surrendered in Yongping City, and left Lengkouguan with his treasures.

However, Amin's departure also planted a disaster for himself.

When Nurhachi became Khan in Hetuala, he set up four belors, the big belor Daishan, the second beile Amin, the three belor Manggurtai, and the four belor Huang Taiji.

After Nurhachi's death, Huang Taiji succeeded Khan.

However, the three Baylors at the same level as Huang Taiji had great power at the beginning, and the four presided over the government together.During this period, Amin and Mang Gurtai had deep conflicts with Huang Taiji, which caused the latter to keep trying to eradicate them and unify the imperial power.

This time he was ordered to guard the back of the army, which was actually a big hole that Huang Taiji dug for A Min.

Because when Huang Taiji issued the order, he asked Amin to guard these cities, and at the last level, he also wanted to keep Yongping City, which is the closest to Xifengkou, so that he can put a nail in the interior of the Ming Dynasty. The next time the army enters the pass, it will be much easier up.

But this is funny: since the Houjin army has all left the customs, leaving Amin's troops and some descendants with ulterior motives, how can it be possible to defend the city?

Although the Ming army said that field battles are not good, but the army besieged the city, and fighting such a slow city offensive and defensive battle, the Eight Banners soldiers definitely had no chance of winning.

So A Min, who had always been unruly and domineering, didn't care about Huang Taiji's stupid orders, and when Sun Chengzong led all the ministries to attack at the same time, he swaggered to withdraw his troops and left the Lengkou Pass.

Then Amin would be finished when he went back——Huang Taiji took the opportunity to take advantage of this matter. After the meeting of the king and ministers who discussed politics, he committed sixteen major crimes against Amin, among which were "abandoning Yongping and killing the surrendered people" world" crime.

This charge is very reasonable. The Hou Jin in 1630 was actually very similar to the British in the early days of the Crow. Although they were fighting with the Han Chinese, they were still in a cautious and tentative state of mind.

When Huang Taiji entered the customs this time, not only did he write letters to the Ming court many times, but he also hypocritically recruited many officials and people in the city, which is a bit like the behavior of the book in the early days of the invasion of China... It's a pity that the soldiers of the Eight Banners didn't have candy in their pockets .

Therefore, Tu Yongping City became a black pot on Amin's head, which eventually led to his death in confinement, exactly the same as his biological father's fate.

Chapter 439

After introducing the background of the battle, Qian Tieshan, Commander of the Marine Corps, pointed out: Although there are still two full months before Amin withdraws from Lengkou Pass in history, the best time for crossing the crowd is at the end of March and the beginning of April. Qing soldiers launched an attack.

Because from the end of March, the counterattack troops led by Sun Chengzong will gather sentries from Jizhou, then deploy troops from the east and west sides, and finally attack on a large scale in May, encircling the left and right, and will guard the Houjin cavalry in several cities in one fell swoop. drive away.

Qian Tieshan's plan was unanimously agreed by the participants: to cut off a sufficient number of Tartar heads before the Ming court's "recovery army" regained the lost ground. This is the established route, and there is nothing to hesitate.

Travelers don't want to have anything to do with those King Qin's troops.This group of people seems to be huge in number, but in fact their origins are complicated, and their ability to claim credit and pass the blame is extremely strong, and getting involved is troublesome.

So in the next ten days, the northbound troops entrenched in Tianjinwei continued a series of intense pre-war preparations.

These tasks not only included storing a large amount of supplies, but the three hundred new soldiers also seized the time to start the special riding training. The horses were chattering, and they were tied to the horses so that they threw up their intestines.

Although these 300 people are not planned to go to the battlefield, as the general reserve team of the battle, it is necessary for members to learn how to ride horses, at least to reach the level of mounted infantry.

During this process, Cao Zongbing also had a pen and ink lawsuit with a court tycoon—Shangshu of the Ministry of War, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, the governor of military affairs inside and outside the capital, and Sun Chengzong, an old man.

It is said that after a certain general soldier stayed in Tianjin under the banner of King Qin, he didn't care at first in the capital: during the Jisi Incident, there were 40 soldiers and horses of King Qin who gathered near the capital, but in fact there were 30 million. There are still some people, and there are mixed generals from various places, and no one has noticed a certain southern general with only a few hundred soldiers in name.

This situation changed after March.

Due to the retreat of the Hou Jin army, the capital began to open various gates one after another, so the information transmission density of the Ministry of War and various places returned to the previous level.

In this way, Comrade Sun Chengzong, who was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War by the front line of Chongzhen, finally noticed Cao Zongbing not long ago——Tianjin's credit report has come, with the signature of a civil official on it, which shows that the credit is real.

So Old Man Sun gave the order: Cao, the deputy commander of Zhangchao, immediately led his troops to Jingyuan to listen to them.

Then a few days later, Cao Zongbing's official document came.The official document says this: Because of the deadly battle with the Tatar soldiers before, Cao Zongbing personally went into battle, "seven wounds on his body", bleeding all over the ground, and he chopped off more than a dozen heads of the Tartars, so the Zongbing is recuperating at this moment, and the action inconvenient.

In addition, there are too many southern soldiers here, and most of them fell ill due to acclimatization, so they can't come to Beijing to participate in the battle for the time being... Cao Zongbing promised that once his health improved, he would immediately come to the adults to listen to orders.

Normally speaking, Sun Chengzong would pass after reading this official document, but this is not the case.Now that Cao Zongbing's official documents from Tianjin came, the other people's official documents can also come, and there are some personal letters in between.So the old grandson quickly figured out what Cao had done in Tianjin.

As a result, Old Suntou became very interested in this General Cao—he came from afar, but stayed in Tianjin after arriving at the station; He said he was here to fool around, but he led troops to attack the Tartars...

I really can't guess you?

Fortunately, Old Suntou has rich experience, and he thought he had seen through Cao Zongbing's heart and lungs as soon as he turned his head.

Old Suntou is indeed experienced in dealing with warlords.

Not long ago, when Yuan Chonghuan was captured by Chongzhen on the upper gate of the capital city, Yuan Chonghuan's close comrade-in-arms, core leader of Liaoxi Jiangmen Group, teammate salesman at the end of Ming Dynasty, big brother of Liaoshang Group's spoils division, and ogre standing beside him Comrade Zu Dashou is also "fighting with two legs" and "sweating profusely".

what's next?Comrade Zu Dashou came down from the city gate on his front foot, and ran away with his army on his back foot... Yes, Zu Dashou once again used the ancestral skills of the Guan Ning Army to sell his teammates and run away at a critical moment.

This time it was the emperor who sold.

At this juncture, Sun Chengzong, who had been supervising Ji Liao earlier and presided over the construction of the Guanning Jin line of defense, quickly wrote a letter to persuade Zu Dashou who had already run halfway.

However, even so, Comrade Zu Dashou stayed in Jizhou, and never set foot in the capital until the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Lao Suntou, who spent almost half his life dealing with the warlords in western Liaoning, still had a clear idea of ​​what the warlords were thinking—while dealing with the imperial court, he maintained his independence at all times, and if there was any disturbance, the master would not serve him.

So although the two sides have never met, Sun Chengzong now thinks that he still has research on the former pirate Cao Zongbing: He and Zu Dashou are all the same thing, compared to Zu Dashou, Cao is nothing more than a warlord with more attitude Just a little more explicit.

In addition, there is another thing that makes Lao Suntou particularly interested in Cao Zongbing: generosity.

In Lao Suntou's impression, except for the Guan Ning Army, who devoured a large amount of the imperial court's revenue every year, there is no warrior in the world who is not poor.

Some generals want to support their families, and some simply live extravagantly for their own promotion and wealth, so they wantonly deducted the food of ordinary soldiers, resulting in low combat effectiveness and no fighting spirit among the troops.

However, judging from the information that Lao Suntou has received recently, this general soldier from the south, wherever he goes, merchants come and go, and goods from the south pour in, just like a contemporary Tao Zhu.

So the old grandson wanted to get in touch with Cao Zongbing more: a unique military leader who can support himself, in the long run, is more worthy of exploration than Guan Ningjun.

So old man Sun took up a pen and wrote a letter to Cao Zongbing.

The content of this letter is very appetizing for warlords: Lao Suntou not only gave warm words of encouragement to Cao, who was born in a reckless background, but also solemnly expressed his appreciation for the spirit of a thousand-mile-floating sea-working king.

At the same time, the old grandson also made a promise in the letter: as long as Cao Zongbing can make new achievements in the follow-up King Qin campaign, then he will definitely ask for credit for the general in front of the emperor. This is the treatment that the imperial court deserves. .

As a result, Lao Suntou's sincere letter, in the end, was still the same as General Cao's rhetoric, but it was a little more polite: when the southern soldiers in his hands recovered, Cao Chuan would raise his troops to the north, and fight with Tatars. The prisoner will fight to the death to repay the love of the scholar.

When things got to this level, Sun Chengzong had no choice.The reason why the imperial court can mobilize the world's troops is nothing more than food, grass and money.Now that the man surnamed Cao is not short of money, it is impossible for Sun Chengzong to mobilize this army. He can stay in Tianjin for as long as he wants.

So the first contact between the two sides ended in such a hasty way-Old Suntou commanded hundreds of thousands of troops, and he had no time to spend with Cao Zongbing.And the time-traveling crowd is also making pre-war preparations, and everyone is very busy.

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In a flash, ten days passed.

On the day of March 25th, banners were unfurled on the old school field, square formations were erected, and a mixed force of [-] imperial soldiers and native cavalry participated in the swearing-in meeting with high morale.

Cao Zongbing, who was sitting on the commanding platform, and Zhang Zhongqi, the new battalion officer of the Feihu Battalion, delivered speeches respectively.

The content of the speech was very vulgar. It was nothing more than obeying orders and obeying commands. The general will definitely not treat everyone badly. The days of spending money to support everyone, taking a bath every day and eating pork heads and paying wages on time will continue.

There was cheering on the school field.

The native soldiers believed this narrative with conviction.What they encountered in the Feihu Camp during this period gave them a deep understanding of Cao Zongbing's ability to fulfill his promise.So in today's old school field, the murderous spirit is overwhelming, roaring again and again, and the soldiers are full of horses, and everyone is waiting to kill the tartars and make achievements.

The mentality change of the indigenous soldiers even felt unbelievable to them themselves.

At first, these people thought they were the kind of auxiliary soldiers who would shrink back and be able to run away at any time.As a result, after training and fighting in this completely different military camp for a period of time, their running ability has been greatly enhanced, but now everyone can't wait to fuck a few tartars to drink...

Ming people don't know what army organization ability is, but they really feel the improvement of their ability and the change of mentality. These have been transformed into the confidence that the Ming army lacks most in fighting the enemy in today's school grounds.

Ever since, after the final slogan was over, the army of thousands of people... set out.

The so-called soldiers and horses go first without using food and grass.In fact, the day before the swearing-in meeting, the supply transportation team composed of fifty carts had already set off ahead of schedule.

The distance from Tianjin to the Yanshan Mountains in the north is 150 li.According to the plan, the large convoy will shuttle between the two places without being harassed to provide supplies for the troops.

In this way, unless there are special circumstances, all the soldiers of Feihu Battalion can go into battle without having to carry food and grass back and forth.

A large group of cavalry from the school yard overtook the convoy halfway later that day and headed straight to the north.

This time Qin Wangjun, on the surface, Cao Zongbing personally went out, but in fact Zhang Dongdong went out of the city and went back.His forte is sitting in the center and dealing with various forces, marching and fighting has nothing to do with him.

It is Qian Tieshan who is really in charge of commanding the troops, and the newcomer Zhang Zhongqi will take over the Feihu Camp as the deputy of the apparent commander-in-chief.After the war, he will exchange his merits for a high-ranking military rank so that he can stay in the north in the future.

The order in which the entire team set off was set out one after another in accordance with the Special Forces - Flying Tiger Battalion - Guards Battalion.

Although the Flying Tiger Battalion was still composed of five hundred-man brigades, communication between the teams had been significantly strengthened after the departure this time, and the soldiers were told that everyone would gather as a whole regiment to fight at any time.

Then on the morning of the second day after departure, the Flying Tiger Battalion all rushed into the remaining veins of Yanshan Mountain in the north.Under the command of the radio station, the soldiers began to disperse and search the mountains wantonly without any scruples—the main force of the Eight Banners has already left the customs, so why should they be scruples at this time?

Chapter 440

On the morning of March 28, it was the third day that the Flying Tiger Camp broke into the mountains.

Xuan Chengzi straightened the Taoist crown on his head, stroked his long beard under his chin, and after silently saying "Infinite Heavenly Lord" in his heart, he stretched his legs across the high threshold and entered the main hall of Bixia Palace.

In the majestic hall, there are some "pilgrims" wearing strange green jackets.

The only person in this group of soldiers, who was dressed in the robes of a military officer of the Ming Dynasty, was turning his back on Xuan Chengzi at this moment, looking up at the righteous god enshrined in Bixia Palace: Bixia Yuanjun.

"General, have a sip of camellia tea."

Xuan Chengzi came behind the benefactor, turned sideways, and revealed Xiaodaotong holding a tea tray behind him.

"Oh, and tea, thank you, Daoist."

The general turned around, took a sip from the tea bowl, and nodded involuntarily: "The tea is good, with a unique flavor."

Taoist Xuan Chengzi explained with a smile: "This tea was passed down by the patriarch of the old Taoist. It is made in a unique way. In the past, the generals at the foot of the mountain liked to drink it. The old Taoist heard from the master when he was young that General Qi used to come here often. tea in the palace."

"Hehe, I understand. The officers and soldiers of Ji Town often come here to worship the gods. I know this."

When the general said this, he reached out and took out a few shiny silver pancakes from his pocket and handed them to the old Taoist: "At any rate, you can be regarded as half of the people of Ji Town, and our men are no exception today. Now, this is incense money."

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, thank you General."

"Hehe, old man, don't thank me in a hurry, I still have something to ask you."

"Also please show me the general."

"Well, do you know how many Tartars there are in the military city at the foot of the mountain?"

"The total number is about five or six hundred, all of whom are cavalry."

"Does that generation have any contact with the left and right neighbors?"

"In recent days, more people go east, and fewer people come west. There are always two or three riders crossing the road every day."

"Hehe, Old Daoist, I found that you have a lot of feelings, don't you?"

"To tell you the truth, General, since the foot of the mountain was occupied by the Tartars, the old Taoist has been watching day and night, praying for the return of the heavenly soldiers."

"Very well, Ben will assure you that you will be able to receive offerings from pilgrims again in a short time."

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The terrain of the entire Yanshan Corridor is as follows: from the capital to the east, after passing Ji Town, a narrow mouth between two mountains, there is the Zunhua Plain, which is 40 miles long and wide.

Continuing to the east and crossing the Zunhua Plain, the terrain will narrow sharply and become a mountainous artery 80 miles long with an average width of less than one mile.

This section of the main road leads to the Li River on the left and the Luan River to the right, and the water and land run parallel, which is extremely important.

After leaving this narrow road, there is another Luanhe Plain.This place is already close to the sea, close to Qinhuangdao, and to the north is a series of dangerous passes including Shanhaiguan and Xifengkou.

In short, the terrain of the entire Yanshan Corridor is like a dumbbell, with plains at both ends and a thin bar in the middle.

The battle plan of the crossing crowd this time will start from the midpoint of the dumbbell.

As for the left side of the dumbbell, since Zunhua, which was occupied by Tatar soldiers, is only eighty miles away from Ji Town, which is occupied by the Ming army, the two sides are currently in a tense confrontation, so the crossing people don't plan to go into the muddy water.

It is the most reasonable solution to keep Zunhua, let the two groups restrain each other, and make time for the Tartars on the right of the cross-travelers to pack the dumbbells.

In this way, Santunying, a strategically important place in the middle of the dumbbell, became the first nail to be pulled out by the traversing crowd.

The seat of Jizhen was arranged in Shiziyu in the early Ming Dynasty.During the Ming Yingzong period, due to the intensification of conflicts with the northern nomads, the pressure on the frontier troops increased, so Hu Yong, who was the seventh general of Jizhen at that time, moved the town to Santunying, which had a better location, thus creating a Santunying established a 186-year town governance foundation.

Santunying is a T-shaped intersection in the middle section of the Yanshan Corridor.

The geographical location of this place is extremely important, and it has guarded the tribute road for the northern Mongolians to pay tribute all year round: "Go to Xifeng and Ershe...Left to the mountains and seas, right to the mediocrity, and in the middle of Wanzhu, to show the importance of the tribute road."

At the intersection of Santunying, take the mountain road to the north, and it is only two houses away from Xifengkou, which is sixty miles away.

Santunying, located in the middle of the dumbbell narrow road, is about the same distance from Shanhaiguan and Juyongguan on the east and west sides. It is the best place to serve as the northern military command center of the capital. ".

For more than 100 years, as the "No. [-] town in the world", Jizhen has successively served as the chief military officer, and they all set up their governing offices in Santunying City.

From March 3th, the cavalry troops who crossed the crowd went northward across the 25-mile plain and entered the remaining veins of Yanshan Mountain.After that, the troops dispersed, and after carefully searching the mountains with a radius of more than a hundred miles, they gradually gathered at the foot of Jingzhong Mountain on March 150.

Jingzhong Mountain is 610 meters above sea level, at the foot of which is Santun Yingcheng, just overlooking it.