Chapter 603: The Chief Soldier of Shanhaiguan Worships
Aung Bang Zhangjing is a Manchurian dialect, which when translated into Chinese means general soldier. Therefore, the town guards the mountain customs, and Ang Bang Zhangjing translates into Chinese to be the chief soldier of the town guarding the mountain customs!
And this year's Shanhaiguan general is the first warrior of Manchuria, Guerjia. Ao Bai.
At this time, he was riding a horse, with a Hongyi cannon Niu Lu without a cannon (there are cannons handed down from the Ming Dynasty in Shanhaiguan, which can be used in history when the Eight-Nation Alliance Army was used), followed by Prince Yu of the Auxiliary Government, and Duoduo, the general of Dingguo, and walked together on the official road in Shanhaiguan.
In the distance, you can already see the tall and solid Shanhaiguan city wall, revealing a majestic atmosphere in the sun.
But a ridiculous thought welled up in Aobai's heart.
He, the first warrior of Manchuria, Ao Bai, has now become the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan...... And his main mission in Shanhaiguan is to prevent the Ming army from entering the customs!
He wouldn't have believed it if he had been killed years earlier. The Ming army fought from outside the Shanhai Pass, and the Qing Heavenly Soldiers defended the Shanhai Pass...... Got it the other way around, right?
But the problem is that now there is such a ridiculous situation between the Ming and Qing dynasties!
Just last night, when he and Duoduo and others were preparing to spend the night in Funing, a six-hundred-mile urgent Tangma sent by the Shengjing general army Kubilong sent an urgent report that the city of Jinzhou Zhongzuo and the acropolis of Jinzhou had fallen on the same day.
More than 20,000 (not that many) of Ming Kou had already crossed the sea and occupied a very important stronghold in Liaodong.
And...... The invincible Qing Heavenly Soldiers still can't do anything about them!
Now there are only 10,000 soldiers of the Old Eight Banners outside the gate, and guarding such a large piece of territory is like sprinkling pepper noodles.
And the Green Flag soldiers are a little more numerous, less than 20,000 (originally there were 20,000, but now some have been killed), and they are also very scattered.
Moreover, all the 8 Hongyi cannons of the Qing army were in the pass, and there was not a single Hongyi cannon outside the pass - Dolgon also knew that he wanted to concentrate artillery, so he put all the Hongyi cannons in the pass.
And without the Hongyi cannon, the Qing army outside the gate would not be able to fight with the invading Ming army. After the Battle of Bloody Creek, the Manchurian generals knew that the cannon was the master of the battlefield!
If the artillery is too bad, then you can't fight in a dignified formation - under the bombardment of the opponent's artillery that can move quickly and fire quickly, you can't stand up in formation, and you still have a fart!
So last night, Duoduo and Ao Bai discussed a tactical combination of sticking to the danger and disturbing the back road.
The north gate of the Jinzhou Acropolis, which happens to be plugged into and out of the main road of the Jinzhou Isthmus, and the Shanhaiguan Pass where Ao Bai serves as the guard of Angbang Zhangjing, are all dangerous points that must be guarded!
If Xiaoshan is not defended, the Ming army may sweep the entire Liaodong Peninsula and threaten Shengjing and Shenyang.
Once Shanhaiguan falls, the passage of the Qing Dynasty into the Western Liaoning Corridor will be cut off, and it will only be possible to take a long detour in the future. Moreover, it is only 700 miles from Shanhaiguan to Beijing, and there are many old Eight Banner granges along the way.
When the time comes, it will be time for the Ming army to enter the customs and rob every year......
But in Aobai's view, Xiaoshan is easy to keep, but Shanhaiguan is difficult to protect!
Xiaoshan Mountain is backed by the watershed forest mountain, and the surrounding forest is dense and high, even if the Ming army lands behind the side of Xiaoheishan, it will be blocked by the mountains and forests - those old forests are not a place to fight. The Ming army, who was not familiar with the terrain and had not lived in the mountains and forests, was easily ambushed by the Qing army.
Shanhaiguan is next to the sea, inside and outside the customs are along the sea, and there are good bays and beaches, the wind and waves on the sea are not too big, it is not difficult to land, it can be said that it is impossible to prevent.
When the Guancheng of Shanhaiguan was built, it was facing the enemy from the east, so the defense of the Guancheng to the west was very weak, and the city walls were low and thin, so it could not resist the shelling of Hongyi cannons.
Thinking that Shanhaiguan was difficult to defend, Ao Bai couldn't help but sigh. Dodor on the side seemed to hear his sigh and turned his head to look at him, "What? Are you, the No. 1 warrior of Manchuria, worried that you won't be able to hold the Shanhai Pass? ”
"Of course not, there are minions here, keep it and let the soldiers and horses of the Southern Dynasty cross the mountains and seas one step!"
That's really awkward!
Ao Bai suddenly felt as if he had become Wu Sangui......
Duoduo nodded and said with a smile: "With you guarding the Shanhaiguan, this king will be relieved...... But if you don't let the Southern Army cross the mountain customs, you can't do it in one step! They are different from us back then, not only can they kill them from the West Liaoning Corridor, but they can also take the waterway to detour to the west of Shanhaiguan. Therefore, this Shanhaiguan is extremely difficult to hold, that is, you have a way to worship. Aobai, what can you do? Tell the king about it! ”
Ao Bai smiled bitterly: "Lord Wang, you really promoted the minion, the minion is just a little brave, and the charge is still successful, you have to say a way...... Alas, it's a bit stupid. ”
"What's a stupid idea?" Duoduo asked.
"It is to build a beacon tower along the coast of Yongping Province," Ao Bai said, "The coast of Yongping Province is about 300 li, and it doesn't take much to build a beacon tower in 10 miles, which is 30 beacon towers." When the beacon tower is built and the southern army comes again, we will know immediately. ”
"What about when you get it?" Duoduo asked again.
"Of course, I immediately gathered all the men and horses and rushed over to fight with the Southern Army!" Ao Bai pondered, "It will always take some time for the southern army to abandon the ship and land on the shore, and it will have to be rectified after going ashore, if you can take advantage of their unstable foothold, you can attack them with elite soldiers, maybe you can defeat them in one fell swoop." ”
"What if it doesn't work?" Duoduo asked again.
"Then ......" Ao Bai shook his head, "Then you can only stick to the wall and clear the wilderness and defend the Shanhaiguan!" However, the city wall on the west side of Shanhaiguan is low and thin, and the ditch is narrow and shallow, so it takes a lot of effort to repair. ”
Duoduo said: "This king has already issued an order to our old Eight Banners in Yongping's Zhuangzi, let them send clothed minions and tenants to Shanhaiguan, and after you arrive, use these coated minions to strengthen the city and build a beacon tower!" ”
Ao Bai breathed a sigh of relief, and saluted on horseback, "The slave thanked the prince." ”
It turned out that almost all the land in the Yongping area was occupied by the Eight Banners and the Princes and Ministers who entered the customs - before the Eight Banners entered the customs, they were divided into households, and after entering the customs, they became enclosed by the princes and ministers, and the Eight Banners were enclosed by the Princes and Ministers. Ordinary soldiers of the Eight Banners do not distinguish between places, but they can receive Lu Mi from the Yamen of the Metropolitan Division, to which they belong. The various prefectures gave the land to the clothed servants to cultivate or leased it to tenants for cultivation.
Therefore, in the Yongping area, there are large areas of granges belonging to the princes and ministers of each banner and the commanders of each banner. In the name of the general of Dingguo, Duoduo could transfer people and grain from these granges for the defense of Shanhaiguan.
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"Shanhaiguan, do you think it's time to fight a dozen now?" Among the officials in the city of Jinzhou Zhongzuo, Wu Guoyong, who had just arrived, was presiding over the military meeting, and the people who participated included Gao Jie, Shen Tingyang, Liu Chongru (Huo Gong Liu), Liu Xinyu, Zhang Huangyan and others.
Except for Gao Jie and Liu Xinyu, everyone else crossed the sea after the recovery of the city in the left of Jinzhou.
The strategic value of the Jinzhou Zhongzuo Institute, that is, the Lushunkou territory, cannot be overestimated. Historically, Lushun can be known as the first military port in the Far East!
Of course, as far as the port itself is concerned, the Far East No. 1 is simply not in the place. But for a military group that came across the sea, the control of Lushunkou would have a base for fighting for the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Liaodong Peninsula would be a springboard to advance to the fertile and vast land in the northeast.
If you look at the geographical location alone, the consequences of the loss of Lushun in July of the sixth year of Chongzhen in history are probably more serious than the overthrow of Dongjiang Town - the Qing army also paid a lot of price in order to capture Lushun, and there are not many generals with names and surnames, including Nahai, the son of Fei Yingdong, Zhenyue Leshun, Jiala, Ede, Qianzong Cheng Guofu and others...... And Huang Long, the general soldier of Liaonan of the Ming Dynasty who guarded Lushun, and the generals Li Weiluan, Xiang Zuolin, Fan Hualong, Zhang Dalu, Shang Keyi and others also died heroically in this battle.
I think that Lushun fought so hard at the beginning, but now it is easily recaptured by the Ming army, and the transformation of the strength and weakness of the Ming and Qing dynasties can also be seen from this.
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