Chapter 154: The Battle of Shenyang 4 Second Plan
Nurhachi understood that although he did not know the specific situation ahead, there was a good chance that the fleet was finished, and seventy percent of the grain and grass and all the siege weapons were finished. He had to make a quick decision, whether to move on and keep his original plan unchanged, or to retreat and find another opportunity.
He quickly calculated in his heart, after the defeat of the Tiger Skin Station last time, he secretly investigated Sakhalian's various countermeasures, and felt that there was no problem, and the only variable was the sailor from the south. Because the river was closed at that time, no boat appeared in the Hunhe River, he did not consider this situation, this time it seems that he was still careless, there is no doubt that they drove the warship into the Hunhe River, his heart was dripping blood, this time the escort was Zhenghuang Qi, all of them were their direct soldiers. The soldiers stood unsheltered on the ship, and if he met the sailor, although he had never seen the sailor's battleship, he knew it would be a massacre.
Regret should not have taken the risk of taking advantage of the dark night to transport water for the convenience of transportation, but he quickly adjusted his mood, what has happened can no longer be changed, there is no need to regret it, and there is no need to worry about what has not happened in advance.
The sailors smashed the fleet and lost their target. The sailors will soon retreat, and as long as they stay away from the riverbank, they will not be able to do anything about themselves. The only variable is that Shenyang can't rely on hard attack, there are no siege weapons, and I don't know how many people will be filled in. The grain and grass did not last long, and the winter wilderness had nowhere to plunder. What should he do, he kept thinking in his head.
In the distance, the sound of cannon rumbled, and from time to time there were fireballs on the horizon, which he knew was that the ship loaded with gunpowder had been blown up. The firelight reflected his face in bursts.
"He Shixian, the key is He Shixian," he muttered. He has known He Shixian for a long time, known as "He Maniac", this is a master who does not want to die in a war, he is crazy, and he is a little scared.
I am familiar with the Three Kingdoms, if you compare it with the characters of the Three Kingdoms, this is a Zhang Fei-style hero. He is never afraid, whether it is officialdom or the battlefield, just like when he is constipated, he uses all his strength to pout a piece of hard. It's stinky and hard, and I don't know how to be flexible, and it's a miracle that I'm still not finished in such a dark officialdom in Daming.
I vaguely remember that he was a person from Yulinwei, Shaanxi, and I heard that when he was a teenager, he worked as a servant in a large family to eat, and later waited for the opportunity to join the army. I can't remember exactly how he came to Liaodong, in his early years in Tieling Li Chengliang's Mansion, I saw him once, and wrestled with the family of Li Mansion, and more than a dozen people were not his opponents. At that time, his presence was not strong. I have a vague memory of him.
I only remember that he accumulated merit for the guerrilla attack in Shenyang, and soon moved to Yizhou as a general. In July of the forty-sixth year of Wanli (1618), he led his troops to raid Qinghe, and the deputy general of the Ming army (deputy commander-in-chief) Zou Chuxian and his subordinates were 20 people, and more than 10,000 soldiers and civilians were killed.
He Shixian was stationed in Zhuanyang at this time, and after hearing about this, he immediately led his subordinates to rush to the rescue. Although he did not succeed, He Shixian triumphed after killing one hundred and fifty-four heads. After this battle, in terms of merit, He Shixian became the deputy commander-in-chief. It was this time that his name reached his ears clearly for the first time. I really started to pay attention to him.
In the same year, Yang Hao set out on the fourth road, and He Shixian was Li Rubai's deputy general, starting from Qinghe. Knowing that Liu Yun was in ambush, he persuaded Li Rubai to rescue him, but was refused. led to the death of Liu Dadao (Liu Ting's nickname).
After the battle of Salhu, he skipped Tieling again. When He Shixian rushed to the rescue, the city was broken, and he still fought endlessly, winning more than 100 levels. In September of the first year of Taichang (1620), he fought against Gray Mountain and Fu'an Fort, and won more than 200 first ranks. It seems that he defeated Dai Shan's two red flags in Ash Mountain, killing eighty-nine, and then defeated Mang Gurtai at Fu'an Fort, killing one hundred and sixteen.
After this battle, he was promoted to the chief soldier and transferred to Shenyang.
He even wanted to recruit him for a while, but seeing him as a general soldier, he also stopped thinking, Li Yongfang surrendered as a general, married his daughter to him, and sealed him as a forehead, what can a general soldier give him, give him a banner master, thinking of this, Nurhachi himself couldn't help laughing.
Later, Xiong Tingbi came, that bear barbarian, it was his nightmare, three times five divided by two, he cleaned up the situation anew, and the soldiers increased to 160,000, building castles everywhere, compressing himself breathlessly. On June 12 of the 48th year of Wanli, that is, in June of the fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven of Dajin, he wanted to break the cage. Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched, and "the yellow cover reflects the sun, and the flag reflects the sky" approached Shenyang.
The troops were divided into two routes, one of which was 20,000 forwards and went straight to Shenyang, and 40,000 follow-ups. On the other way, he sent another 10,000 elite soldiers from Dongzhou Fort and rushed straight to the nearby Fengji Fort.
As expected, after the loss of the Liaodong Kaitie, the enemy was afraid of the enemy and cowered like a tiger, and He Shixian, the chief soldier of the Shenyang garrison, personally commanded the Ming army to meet the attack 20 miles east of Shenyang City, and fought fiercely in the field, forcing our Eight Banners to retreat 15 miles to camp.
Fengji Fort, which was on the edge of Shenyang, also actively responded to the battle, and the general army at that time was Chai Guozhu. He led his troops to fight against my Dajin cavalry in Xiaojiashan and Yutiao Village, thirty miles east of the fort. Because after Xiong Manzi vigorously rectified, the Ming army soldiers "obey the law and are cautious, and everyone uses their lives", the Ming army from all walks of life took the initiative to attack and intercept in all directions, echoing each other in the north and south, looking at each other, greatly mobilizing and dispersing the troops of the Eight Banners, the Eight Banners attacked fruitlessly, discarded the ladder hook pole countless times, and had to retreat.
In the face of the situation that the Ming army was "full of military spirit, strong people's feelings, and gradually getting better", the Ming army was even more approaching by building cities on all sides and taking camp step by step. I felt a great sense of oppression, if Da Ming got a chance to breathe, he would gradually be driven out of Kaitie or even Fushun again. Having lost the agricultural areas of these large cities and plains, and retreating to the mountains and forests, it was simply impossible to feed the hundreds of thousands of people of the unified Jurchen tribes.
He Shixian led his troops out of the city to meet the battle, and the right wing of Huang Taiji led the army of yellow, red, white, and white on the east of the city, and the four banners of Daishan and Amin fought in the north of the city. Eight Banners were killed by 200 people and retreated.
When he failed to attack many times and was about to sit trapped, he couldn't sleep at night, and his spirit was highly nervous and anxious, no one thought that pie would fall from the sky, and the emperor and cabinet of the Ming court would destroy the Great Wall and depose Xiong Tingbi because they did not know what was going on.
Xiong Manzi got out, and the situation improved. Unexpectedly, the Ming court actually transferred a person who controlled the water, and Yuan Yingtai, who was more than loyal and had zero military experience, passed through Liaodong. After taking office, he opposed the law of "strict law and purge the army" in the Xiong Tingbi era, and the military spirit tended to be loose and discipline was lax with "leniency" to the point of "leniency". I finally turned the tables.
This person has a weakness, in fact, he is Zhang Fei's reckless man, brave and unscrupulous, and reckless. He didn't know that the series of victories he had achieved were not big in casualties, and he had achieved them under the general trend of Xiong Manzi's layout, or he had obtained them by sneak attacks from the side in the battle between the two armies, and he had never been a one-man commander. can't handle the complicated situation, that's why he has obviously done enough credit, and he has not been awarded the title of the Grand Governor of the Five Armies Governor's Office. Both the emperor and his ministers knew that he could only fight under a wise commander, and that he was not enough to command the three armies.
This man is greedy for merit and good wine, but he does not know that wine can make mistakes. I can figure out how to lure him out of Shenyang, just leave the city.