Chapter 523: The Eight Banners on the Land of the Central Plains
Kong Yanxun, as the owner of the village, did not greet Dolgon here, leaving only a close military attache here to greet him, and he didn't know where he went.
Zhuangzi is very simple, but the place is large enough that there is no problem in stationing 50,000 or 60,000 troops, after all, these saline-alkali lands that cannot grow anything are extremely cheap.
Zhuangzi had already set up all kinds of tents, cooked meals, and boiled hot water.
For the first time, the elites of the Great Qing Kingdom marched on the sea by boat, and few of them could adapt to the bumps of the sea march, and their faces turned pale one by one.
After eating the hot meals and hot dishes that had been prepared a long time ago, I soaked my feet comfortably and slept in the warm tent.
When they got up the next day, all the troops of the Great Qing Kingdom were in good spirits and had recovered their due combat strength.
Dolgon and Turgenev first led their Eight Banners and Cossack cavalry to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
The remaining 14,000 firearms battalions and infantry used to siege the city were all led by Dolgon's confidant Ao Bai, and rushed to the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
Just as Dolgon's White Banner Eight Bannermen and Turgenev's Cossack cavalry were about to rush out of the land of Changli County, they happened to bump into Zuo Liangyu's reinforcements.
Zuo Liangyu's character is very poor, but his ability to govern the army and fight is definitely in the top ten among all the generals of the Ming Dynasty.
Chongzhen's fourth year was in the battle with the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the battle of Songxing, and Zuo Liangyu's credit ranked first.
In recent years, there have been many displaced people in the Central Plains, and Zuo Liangyu has been fighting in the Central Plains for many years, and the displaced people army has fled in all directions.
Zuo Liangyu supported the army brought by Shanhaiguan, which was the elite he had tempered for many years, and in order to deal with the Manchu Eight Banners, a heavy arquebus battalion was also formed.
This Franc heavy musket weighed more than eighteen pounds, and the caliber reached an astonishing six to eight points.
The weight of the lead bullet fired by the average arquebus is about 2 cents and 8 cents, but the lead bullet fired by this heavy tractor heavy rocket gun reaches an astonishing 1 2 cents and 2 cents.
Able to kill people and horses at a distance of 500 paces, and penetrate a steel target 8 centimeters thick at a position of about 100 paces, Europa's full-body plate armor is only between 5 and 7 centimeters thick.
This Franc arquebus army was the finale he used to deal with the Manchu Eight Banners.
Zuo Liangyu's vanguard army discovered the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and did not flee like other officers and soldiers, after all, they were the elite who had fought in the Central Plains for many years.
Immediately set up a formation, preparing to block this large number of Zhengbai Banner Eight Banner soldiers, and sent Tang Cavalry to spread the news to the big tent of the middle camp behind.
Zuo Liangyu brought a total of 30,000 troops this time, and with his ability, he could command more troops, but he really didn't have that much money to feed an army of more than 30,000.
The 30,000 army can be said to be his current limit, but these 30,000 troops are all elites who have been fighting in the Central Plains for many years, and they are the soldiers who fought bloodily in the battle with the Liukou.
When Zuo Liangyu encountered this white flag and eight banner soldiers, his first reaction was that Shanhaiguan was difficult to overcome, but it was wrong to think about it.
If Shanhaiguan was really conquered, he would not have met thousands of soldiers with white flags and eight banners, or tens of thousands of soldiers with eight banners and a large number of Meng, eight banners, and eight banners.
But here only the Eight Banners of the White Flag shows a problem, this Eight Banners should be a strange soldier attacked from Lu Long Dodger.
But there is one thing that Zuo Liangyu can't figure out, Lu Longdao is obviously in the north, but this white flag and eight banner soldiers rushed over from the coast of Changli County in the east.
In this way, this white flag and eight banner soldiers should have come from the sea in a sea boat, thinking of this, Zuo Liangyu couldn't help but smile.
If it really came from the sea, it means that this Eight Banners is a lone soldier, and there are no reinforcements behind it.
Although there are quite a few of these Eight Banner soldiers, not to mention three or four thousand, Zuo Liangyu is confident that he will bite off a piece of fat from these thousands of Eight Banner soldiers of the White Banner.
The Eight Banners are indeed amazing in combat effectiveness, and the number of people exchanged between the Ming Border Army and the Eight Banners has reached an astonishing ten for one.
Zuo Liangyu is a general from Shanhaiguan, he is very aware of the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners, although he does not dare to say that he can leave all the Eight Banners of the White Banner this time, but he is confident that he will leave a thousand or even two thousand Eight Banners of the White Banner.
The reason for this was that its battalion of heavy arquebuses of the Franc machine numbered as many as 4,000 men, and after a volley, it was not possible to say that it could kill 4,000 people.
This is also impossible, often dozens or even hundreds of lead bullets can kill an enemy, especially this kind of Eight Banners soldiers, which can be called the pinnacle of the Eastern cavalry.
The first salvo of the 4,000 heavy arquebus battalion was enough to shoot two or three hundred and eight banner soldiers, as long as it could shoot the two or three hundred and eight banner soldiers at the front enough to slow down the cavalry offensive.
For the biggest advantage of the Eight Banners, it is also a big blow, and the elite holding the spear in the back can be pressed up.
None of the troops brought by Zuo Liangyu this time are old soldiers who drink and gamble all day long, all of them are fierce soldiers tempered from one big battle after another, with as many as 30,000 elites, if there are no 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers left, the Ming Army can only run away in the face of Eight Banners in the future.
Changli County was only a few dozen miles away from Shanhaiguan, and the new governor of Liaodong, Hong Chengchou, soon learned about the situation in Changli County and quickly understood the Manchu plan.
Kong Youde's three-man attack on Shanhaiguan seemed to be very powerful, but in fact it was just a feint, and the real intention was to cover the Eight Banners soldiers who were stepping on the land of the Central Plains.
Hong Chengchou immediately transferred 10,000 elites, and it was also the Hong soldiers he had trained over the years, an elite among the elites that could be compared with Sun Chuanting's Qin soldiers and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army.
No matter how prejudiced the Ming people were against the Manchus, they scolded them all day long for being barbaric and uncivilized barbarians, but the princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were indeed brave and good at fighting.
Hong Chengchou was able to achieve the position of the secretary of the military department in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and later passed through Huguang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces, and was not separated from the military affairs of most of the governors in the south of the Yangtze River, which is enough to show Hong Chengchou's ability.
Just when 10,000 Hong soldiers were about to rush to Changli County, Hong Chengchou was relieved to learn that Zuo Liangyu's 30,000 troops had blocked this Eight Banners near Changli County.
Although Zuo Liangyu's character has been criticized by the world, Hong Chengchou also has a lot of opinions about Zuo Liangyu, who can burn and loot more than a rogue.
But I have to admit that Zuo Liangyu's ability to govern the army is very brilliant in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the 30,000 army he led is the elite tempered by one war after another.
It shouldn't be much of a problem to cripple the Eight Banners soldier who was supposed to be stepping on the land of the Central Plains from the sea.