371 That's how cruel war is
When everyone heard the sound, they saw that outside Haizhou City, the Ming cavalry rushed to the city wall, and passed in an arc away from the place where it was a stone's throw away. In the process, the soldiers of the Ming cavalry threw things to the city wall.
The distance is a bit far, but Han Leyu has already said just now that basically every cavalry soldier has a package in his hand, and inside the package is the head of Jianyu.
At this time, the place outside the city had formed a small mountain.
Seeing this situation, among the people of the Ming Dynasty, some people couldn't help but applaud loudly: "I didn't expect that Jianyu also has today!" ”
They really couldn't imagine that such an arrogant Jianlu, who could only hide in the city of Jianju with the Ming army, burned and looted everywhere, and brought endless suffering to the people of other ethnic groups, and now, there is finally this day. This Jingguan is the retribution for doing so many evil things!
"Dad, mother, did you see your spirit in the sky?" Some people knelt down, looked up at the sky, and cried and said, "Jianyu has finally suffered a bad retribution, and they will definitely not end well." On the day when the imperial army sets foot in Liaodong, the child will definitely tell you! ”
When the other people heard this, they thought of what happened to them, and they thought of their lost relatives, and they felt that the imperial army had finally given them a sigh of relief.
Subsequently, they began to discuss, where to return to Daming is better!
At the same time, the defenders of the city were really frightened. There are so many heads outside the city, thrown out of the hands of the Ming army, and they are definitely not the Ming army's own. Looking at those one by one, they are all money rat tails, needless to say, this must be from the Jianyu army.
Combined with the origin of the Ming army, Haizhou Jianyu immediately came to the conclusion that so many heads outside the city were probably from the Qing army stationed in Tashan.
When they thought about it, they were even more frightened.
You must know that the Qing army in Tashan, which has more than 10,000 people, is led by the famous Qing general and Prince Shuorui. With such combat power, can the Ming army be defeated?
However, facts speak louder than words, and the heads outside the city are enough to prove that they are right!
All this in front of him greatly destroyed Jianyu's confidence. Almost all the prisoners were trembling, huddled behind the battlements, and looked at the Ming cavalry outside the city without saying a word, letting them roar by, letting them lose their heads, and not daring to move at all.
Once upon a time, only the Qing army was outside the city, and the Ming army hid inside the city to tremble. Now, it's completely reversed!
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After a long time, the Ming cavalry was outside the city of Haizhou, under the gaze of the city head, swaggering to eat and rest. Then, the cavalry divided into two groups, one south and one north, and roared away.
To the south of Haizhou is where Gaizhou is located; To the north of Haizhou is Anshan Post Fort, the gateway to Liaoyang. Needless to say, the Ming cavalry went to these two places.
I have been seeing the Ming army gone, and I can't see the back. The Jianyu on the head of Haizhou City still didn't dare to make any movement, let alone open the door.
Because, they have been frightened by the Jingguan outside the city!
I don't know how Tashan fell, Haizhou, that must be defended. What if the city gate is opened at this time, and the Ming army suddenly kills a horse gun? Or, the Ming army has other conspiracies and tricks, and the purpose of doing this is to deceive the gate of Haizhou City, and their purpose must be to seize Haizhou City.
However, they waited until it was almost dark and still did not see any trace of the Ming army, and finally hung some people from the city and asked them to verify the heads outside the city.
Needless to say, these heads are genuine, and Haizhou verifies them, and there will be no surprises in the results.
So, after Haizhou City cleaned up the Jingguan outside the city, the gate was immediately closed, and their plan was to hold on until the reinforcements arrived, and until that time, Haizhou would be truly safe.
Such a thing, after the Ming cavalry began to operate with Haizhou as the center, appeared in many Jianyu towns. For example, Ximu City in the east of Haizhou, Yaozhouyi, Tangchibao and Gaizhou in the south of Haizhou, and Anshan Yibao in the north of Haizhou.
Everywhere the Ming army passed, the people of the Ming Dynasty in this area were the same as the Ming people outside Haizhou City, who were guided by the Ming army and supported by the Ming army's dry food. There are no Ming people, and then they will make cattle and horses for Jianyu. Under such a good situation, of course, he chose to flee back to Daming.
And if the Ming cavalry encounters Jian's captives on the road, they will kill them mercilessly. The same was done for the crops in Liaodong. It can be said that the hussar battalion raided Liaodong this time, bringing great damage to the local area.
War is so cruel!
The reason why the hussar battalion was only sent to do this thing was because the hussar battalion was a cavalry army, and they could move quickly and could accomplish their strategic objectives before they could react.
Although Huang Taiji led the main force to fight the Korean war, it stands to reason that Liaodong was the time when the Jianyu army was empty.
However, no matter how empty the troops are, there are still defensive forces. If Emperor Chongzhen led the army to continue to attack Liaodong at this time, or even smashed Shenyang, it would be really wishful thinking.
The army did not move, and the grain and grass went first. To carry out large-scale warfare, this food preparation is a very important thing. If it was only to attack Tashan, because it was not far from Jinzhou, and Jinzhou was an important town on the front line, there was already enough food in reserve, so there was no need to prepare the grain and grass needed by the army in advance.
However, if you want to attack the hinterland of Liaodong, not to mention Shenyang, but only Haizhou, it will be different. From Jinzhou to Haizhou, the distance is not close. According to the distance of the Hereafter, it is more than 350 miles away. The infantry operation is generally only 20 to 30 miles a day, and from Jinzhou to Haizhou, the infantry army takes about 15 days.
The battle of Tower Hill was decided because Dolgon was clever and wanted to break through the siege overnight. If he didn't do this, and just defended Tashan, if Emperor Chongzhen wanted to defeat Tashan, eliminate more than 10,000 Jianjiao, and not fight for ten days and a half months, it would be impossible to complete the goal.
The Ming army attacked the hinterland of Liaodong, and this way passed, it was necessary to Kehaizhou first, otherwise the back road might be cut off, and then it was necessary to lay down the Anshan Post Fort, and then attack Liaoyang. It's not good, when they were still fighting Haizhou, the cavalry in the main force of Jianyu had already returned to help.
Dragged down by the infantry army and harassed by the Jianlu cavalry, the Ming army is likely to finally face a general battle with the main force of Jianguo. At this time, Emperor Chongzhen's side only had a total of 50,000 troops, so how could he fight a decisive battle with the main force of Jianzhen!
It was based on this idea that Emperor Chongzhen did not have a hot brain and led the army to attack the hinterland of Liaodong. It was just that the hussar battalion was sent to use the speed of the cavalry army to weaken the strength of the Jianlu, publicize the might of the Ming army, hit the morale of the Jianlu, rescue the Ming people in Liaodong, and give hope to the Ming people in other places.
In this way, the effect is not inferior to the direct dispatch of troops to the hinterland of Liaodong, and it is more reliable.
Dolgon, the commander of Tashan Jianyu, was taken by the hussar battalion to the nearest city of Semu from the Korean side, and was thrown outside the city gate and released.
The movement of the Ming army caused all the cities in Jianyu to send messengers, and 100,000 people hurriedly reported to Shengjing and to the Korean side.
On the side of Liaodong, the rumors about the Ming army became more and more outrageous, and they became more and more widespread, as if overnight, the strength of the Jianyu and the Ming army, as well as the degree of arrogance, were all reversed.
A few days before that, in Zhenjiang Fort by the Yalu River, where Huang Taiji led the army, received a message from Yue Tuo.
"Okay, then Lu Xiangsheng is just like that, he really took the bait!" Huang Taiji was overjoyed when he heard it, and couldn't help but comment with a little excitement.
When Fan Wencheng heard this, a flattering smile appeared on his face, and he responded to Huang Taiji: "This is all Your Majesty's wisdom, and with such a big game, how can Lu Xiangsheng see through it?" ”
Huang Taiji laughed again when he heard this, and then immediately began to dispatch troops, first sent cavalry, and immediately rushed to the aid of Pyongyang. Then he personally led the rest of the army and set off for North Korea as well. In this battle, not only to destroy Korea, but also to destroy the Dongjiang Army and solve the hidden dangers of the Qing Dynasty.
However, if the army wants to cross the Yalu River, it is not something that can be completed at once. The main force led by Huang Taiji was more than 40,000, and it took more than a day just to cross the river.
When Huang Taiji was standing on the east side of the Yalu River, standing on the land of Korea, and was admiring the Qing army all over the mountains, Yue Tuo's messenger arrived again.
"Your Majesty, could it be that Yue Tobel will solve the enemy of Pyongyang by himself?" Fan Wencheng watched the messenger gallop towards him, and complimented Huang Taiji.
He was involved in the decision-making of the entire combat plan, so he knew that although there were only more than 10,000 people in Yue Tuo's department, they were all elites given by Huang Taiji. There are more than 1,000 white-armored soldiers alone, which is not a low ratio.
For a long time, the white armor soldiers have been the trump card of the Qing army, as long as they are used, they are invincible, and no Ming army formation can withstand the impact of the white armor soldiers.
At this time, if nothing unexpected happened on the Pyongyang side, it would not have been possible for Yue Tuo to send another messenger after only one day. And with the strength of Yue Tuo's department, as well as the strength of the North Korean army and the Ming army he faced, there is a very high probability that Yue Tuo solved the Ming army alone.
Fan Wencheng thinks that he has considered it more comprehensively, and he has come to this conclusion with a well-founded basis. Judging from the information received so far, that Lu Xiangsheng is also a capable person, and it is estimated that it can be seen that if the war on Pyongyang's side drags on for a long time, it will be very unfavorable to the Korean war situation, so it is likely to go out of the city to fight, and this will give Yue Tuo the opportunity to defeat the Ming army.
Thinking of this, Fan Wencheng became more and more sure that he should have guessed eight or nine!
Huang Taiji actually thought about the same as Fan Wencheng, so he responded to his words with a nod. But as soon as he nodded, the messenger came closer, and they could already see the messenger's situation clearly when they stood on the top of the hill, and suddenly there was no smile on their faces.
When the messenger came to report the news, it was good or bad, and you could probably see it from their expressions.
When the messenger arrived, he made a quick stop and was checked by the yellow coat, and then led to the front of the king.
"Your Majesty, the war in Pyongyang is not good." The messenger knelt down and said, "Our army's camp was almost broken by the Ming army. ”
Hearing this, Huang Taiji, Fan Wencheng and the others were all taken aback, and they couldn't believe what they heard: The big camp of Yue Tuo's department was almost broken by the Ming army?
It's a bit more than they can imagine!
So, Huang Taiji hurriedly opened the piece sent by Yue Tuo and looked at it quickly.
In this recital, Yue Tuo recounted the course of the battle, and finally told Huang Taiji that the army had suffered extremely heavy losses, and if it held on any longer, if it was defeated by the Ming army, it would be impossible to contain the enemy in Pyongyang. Therefore, he had already led his troops back twenty miles, but only sent cavalry to monitor and harass the enemy in Pyongyang, so as to prevent the Ming army and the Koreans from escaping.
"This Yue Tuo is really a shame!" After reading it, Huang Taiji couldn't help but shout angrily, and at the same time threw the piece to the ground, looking very angry.
The Ming army was only more than 7,000 people, and Yue Tuo's department had more than 10,000 people, and in terms of numbers alone, they already had an advantage. When did the Qing Dynasty not win more with less, and the Ming army had no strength to fight back, but this time, when the Qing army was superior in numbers, if the Ming army was not dragged down by the Koreans, it would have almost been defeated by the Ming army.
Such a result, Huang Taiji is really a little difficult to accept. When was the Ming army able to fight? Yue Tuo, this straw bag, I don't know if he fought such a battle, will it affect the morale of the Qing army?
He was angry here, and Fan Wencheng had already picked up the piece on the ground and read it quickly. He didn't dare to scold Yue Tuo, and after thinking about it for a while, he said to Huang Taiji: "Your Majesty, this Lu Xiangsheng is really a capable person, he probably saw through the intentions of our army, so he wants to defeat the army outside the city in a battle and gain a strategic advantage." In this battle, Lu Xiangsheng fought a battle and pressed all the Dongjiang Army. ”
Seeing that Huang Taiji was still very angry, Fan Wencheng continued to analyze: "Your Majesty, please see, Yue Tuobeile has a message that the Ming army has spent a lot of effort for this battle. Their weapons were improved, not only were their spears longer than those used by our officers and men, but new types of firearms appeared, which were not even lit with ropes. This kind of new measures, the Yue Tuo Department was caught off guard, and it was inevitable that they would suffer losses. Moreover, under the fact that Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Baoding, personally went into battle to fight, the morale of the Ming army will inevitably rise, and it will definitely fight to the death. ”
When Fan Wencheng said this, Fan Wencheng saw Huang Taiji's thoughtful expression, which seemed to ease his anger a little, and he finally added: "And the North Korean army is not useless. At the beginning, they were on both flanks of the Ming army, and used firearms to strike at the flanks of our Qing army, which gave the Ming army great help. It was also thanks to Yuetobel's rich experience in warfare that he immediately dispatched the white-armored soldiers to attack the Korean soldiers, which turned the tide of the war in one fell swoop. ”
Hearing these words, Huang Taiji watched the army continue to cross the river, and after being silent for a while, his face showed a resolute look.