088 Hurt the roots

On the twenty-second day of the first month, Chen Qiyu led 45,000 people to occupy Nanguan in hundreds of large and small ships, Mao Wenlong's 20,000 people went out of Jinzhou to capture people, Zhao led 20,000 people to dig roads on both sides of Nanguan, and Zu Dashou's 5,000 people attacked Lushun, and everything slowly unfolded according to the new deployment.

Early in the morning of the 23rd day of the first lunar month, the 20,000 special forces led by Zhao began to work in two ways, some with shovels and some with hoes, leaving the middle hillside to attack the flat ground. Because the ground is frozen, it is very laborious to dig, but this is difficult to stop this group of experienced special forces, who take turns to work skillfully and hard, steadily and steadily move forward at the same time, step by step. When the news came half a day later that Lushun had been successfully taken, they were no longer afraid of exposing themselves, some people dug soil, some people collected firewood on the road to make fires for warmth, and by the way, the road surface was softened, and the construction speed was greatly improved.

The task of Zu Dashou's 5,000 sailors and marines is to take Lushun City from the hands of the five hundred Jurchen defenders, if it is estimated that it is easy to fight one out of ten on the plain, but the high walls of Lushun City are extremely prohibitive, and the five hundred Jurchens in the city are also very disdainful to look at the Ming army under the city to see how they can successfully take the city. The soldiers of the 5,000th Marine Division Marine Battalion have been practicing water warfare and foot combat in the past six months, and how to siege the city is still an unfamiliar territory for them.

However, they have never eaten pork, how can they have seen pigs run, they do it themselves, do not wait or rely on preparation, learn the successful tactics of the Jurchens, that is, the chariot is the head, the archers come to the city, and they have to set up a ladder and plane the foot of the wall. Just as they were preparing handy equipment everywhere, the new prison soldier Chen Qiyu stopped them.

Chen Qiyu is a literati, and the characteristic of a literati is to shake his tongue and find a way to defeat the soldiers without a fight, Chen Qiyu thinks like this, he is ready to send people to persuade him to surrender. However, when he saw the unruly appearance of the Jurchens in the city, he decided to change something else to persuade the Jurchens to surrender, and with a wave of his hand, he called a group of people to drag a small boat from the ice to the city gate, and lifted a cannon from the boat.

This cannon is not a tiger squat cannon nicknamed "Pig Cub Cannon", but a real red-coated cannon, which was unloaded from the city of Beijing with the consent of the Apocalypse. After everyone lifted the cannon down and put it on the Lushun city gate, there were four sounds, and the city gate, which originally looked solid, fell to the ground with a bang. After the city gate fell to the ground, the five hundred Jurchen soldiers were also fighting to the death without fear in the face of the swarming Ming army, but at this time, there was no suspense about the result of the fight between 5,000 people and 500 people, and the result of the fight was to fight all to the death.

As soon as Lushun captured the 5,000 Marine Division, the soldiers immediately went to the slopes between Nanguan and Jinzhou to select a site, and the purpose of their selection was not to build houses, but to find the most favorable ambush site. Mao Wenlong, who was on guard, saw that 5,000 people were coming, and immediately took 20,000 of his men to bypass Jinzhou City to invite the people to move, and invited 30,000 or 40,000 people in four days.

Many of the people near Jinzhou are Han people who Nurhachi has snatched from the mainland in recent years, but the common people just want to live in peace and stability, and if there is no need, no one wants to move and play, mainly because the Jurchens are usually too bullying, and they have to come to the people's homes to check rations at any time. As long as your family's food is too small, it means that you are either lazy or you want to leave at any time with your homeland, or you will be beaten violently or your head will fall to the ground, in this case, many people are willing to go back to the mainland with Mao Wenlong.

In order to facilitate the people who cherished their homeland to return to the mainland, and also to prevent the defenders of Jinzhou from discovering the true intentions of the Ming army, and of course, to avoid the road-digging behavior near Nanguan from being exposed, Chen Qiyu asked people to break the ice and make a temporary wharf in front of Mayang Island in the west of Jinzhou, and send people to Dengzhou one by one.

There are 30,000 or 40,000 people, men and women, young and old, and we must ensure their safety, and we must ensure that their relatives can be together, so as not to cause chaos along the way, and each family has some reluctant sundries, which were transported intermittently for a total of four days, and it was not transported until the 27th of the first month, when the reinforcements of Yizhou had arrived under the city of Jinzhou.

There are about 20 miles of road between Nanguan and Jinzhou, the road is flat on both sides, and the middle is mountainous, and in the past four days, Zhao led the 20,000 road-breaking army to show up, not only digging the two roads on both sides of the hillside at the same time, but also going up the hillside to shovel the snow on the mountain on both sides of the road, piling up two snow Great Wall, not long after the snow Great Wall was piled up, the sentinel reported that 20,000 Jurchen reinforcements had arrived in Jinzhou.

After everyone discussed it, Zu Dashou led 5,000 people to set up an ambush on the slope of the middle section of the mountain, and Mao Wenlong took 2,000 people to Jinzhou to lure the enemy to come. 20,000 Jurchen reinforcements were trying to find the Ming army for a decisive battle, and saw that the Ming army was following all the way in the plan, and after traveling about ten miles, they saw the Ming army going up the mountain and the road was dug up sparsely, and judged that the Ming army wanted to delay the speed of their own trip to Lushun. Since the Ming army wanted to prevent itself from going to Lushun, indicating that the 500 brothers defending the city in Lushun were in danger, the leading general immediately divided 5,000 troops to go up the mountain to chase the enemy, and the remaining more than 10,000 people dismounted and hurried along the road.

As soon as the 5,000 people who went up the mountain to pursue entered a valley, they were blocked by the Ming army, more than 3,000 people died in battle, and more than 1,000 originally Han people immediately surrendered and suggested outwitting Jinzhou in disguise. Chen Qiyu immediately asked Mao Wenlong to send 3,000 people disguised as Jurchen reinforcements to easily take Jinzhou and hold on, while the remaining 10,000 people surrounded and intercepted the Jurchen reinforcements at both ends of the dug road and on the hillside.

When all the more than 10,000 Jurchen reinforcements entered the effective ambush area, the 20,000 construction troops led by Zhao on the mountain began to push the snow wall on the hillside down the road. At this time, it was snowing heavily, and the road was rough and difficult to walk, with snowdrifts rolling down on the left and the sea covered with ice trenches on the right, and more than 10,000 people were buried in the snow at once. There were also some who wanted to rush up the mountain, but when they were in a hurry as soon as they got out of the predicament, they had to face a rain of arrows shot in the dark, and some people rushed up the hill after killing and wounding some people, but facing them were the blades and spears that flashed with cold light in the hands of the Ming army.

On the twenty-eighth day of the first month, Chen Qiyu, who had captured people and killed the enemy, was satisfied, and in order to smoothly evacuate more than 40,000 people and 20,000 horses safely, Chen Qiyu ordered Mao Wenlong to send 5,000 people to defend Jinzhou City, and sent people to invite the people near Jinzhou to return for the second time. Seeing that more than 20,000 invincible Jurchen soldiers had been killed, perhaps because they were afraid that the Jurchens would come to take out their anger on them, or perhaps because they were moved by the language of the Ming army, another 20,000 or 30,000 people accepted the invitation and were willing to go with the Ming army.

Seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses were transported for five days in a row, until the sentry said that the Daishan army was about to arrive.

It is worth mentioning that in the past five days, the Ming troops in Jinzhou City and Lushun City did some ridiculous things when they were bored. Some Ming soldiers in Jinzhou City were afraid of the cold and wanted to sleep in the house at night, so they wanted to move the dead people in the house out and clean them first, and the few people who were responsible for carrying the corpses were too lazy to find firewood to burn the corpses, so they stood upright on the street with the thousands of Jurchens who had been stiff, and then pulled out their swords and guns to practice kung fu. Chop the barbs and turn over and then stand up and continue to come again, which is quite a bit of fun.

Some people think that it is not good to have soldiers and no generals, so they are ready to set up the two Jurchen generals as well. There may be a lot of artistic cells on these Ming soldiers, and the two Jurchen generals are placed on the table to make different shapes, and begin to prepare to pose as if they are playing against each other, who knows that the severed head of one of them will not stand on the neck anyway, and in the end, only one is drinking and the other is sleeping.

Responsible for the defense of Lushun City is Zhao led the construction of the troops, they are cold and knock everywhere to find something by the way, who knows that in the back hall of the yamen under the cabinet of the god really knocked out two jars of silver, this time it was a sensation, for a time "ping pong" knocking sound endlessly. Later, even Chen Qiyu knew, he thought about it and ordered these idle people to demolish Lushun City, the reason was to avoid the next time they came, they had to work hard to attack the city, no one knew if he thought this way in his heart, people just found that Chen Jianjun's personal soldiers had been walking around the city for the past few days, and as soon as there was a particularly loud sound, they would arrive at the first time to inspect it, and it was not until the Jurchens came that everyone ended this treasure hunt.