Chapter 168: The Fortress of Harbin
Huang Taiji is a shell, and as soon as he smells the smell of war, he will definitely try his best to benefit from it. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info After receiving Wu Sangui's letter for help, he did not rush to Jinzhou, but asked Dolgon to lead 50,000 troops to fight with Setel of Harbin Mansion in Andong Province of Daming.
After he and his staff studied the map for a long time, it was not Houjin's soldiers and horses who died anyway, thinking that there were Wu father and son on the front line of Shanhaiguan to contain the Daning army, and Guan Shanyue couldn't draw troops to deal with Houjin for a while, which was simply a God-given opportunity for Houjin to expand its territory.
The war situation in the northern part of the Goryeo Peninsula was initially decided, and it stands to reason that Houjin should recuperate for a while. The reason why Huang Taiji is so anxious to stand with the Daning forces is really because the Daning forces are expanding too rapidly.
During the period when the Later Jin attacked Goryeo, in the ice and snow, Daning took the opportunity to capture the Laluwei that originally belonged to the Haixi Jurchens, and built a new city called Harbin on the original site.
Relying on Daning's abundant financial support, 30,000 sappers used a winter to build four fortress-type cities along the Songhua River. These four fortresses are like an iron fence, forcibly compressing the original sphere of influence belonging to the Houjin to the area north of the Songhua River.
Guan Shanyue, the initiator of the matter, jokingly called this string of cities a necklace around the neck of Huang Taiji, which was full of "blessings" and "love" from the Ming Dynasty to Houjin.
Huang Taiji, who was in urgent need of population, immediately became anxious, this move was too ruthless, cutting off the tentacles of Houjin Bei, not to mention, but also blocking their conquest of the Beishan Nuzhen.
Huang Taiji regarded these cities as thorns in his side, and there was no chance of not attacking them.
The fortress was so easy to attack, and Dolgon was brave and good at fighting, and he was helpless when he saw this strangely shaped city.
The straight up and down city wall simply can't assume a large area of cloud ladders, no matter where the city is attacked, it is always under the fire of the Ming army. The temperature was far from thawing, and the ground was frozen like an iron lump, making it impossible to dig a hole or other earthwork at all.
If you have the intention to steal the camp at night, the city wall is as smooth as an ice surface, and there is no point to borrow at all. What's even more annoying is that even the famous Hercules of Houjin came forward, and the iron anchor couldn't be thrown as high as the Harbin city wall.
It has been besieging the city for half a month, and all the methods that can be tried have been tried, but they are still stuck in the same place and stuck under the city. More than 50,000 people needed to eat, drink, and Lazar needed supplies from the rear, and more people froze to death in this ice and snow than were killed by the cold guns and cannons in the city.
After Setel also learned that the overall situation of Shanhaiguan had been decided, he simply hid in the city and played cat hunting with Dolgon. As soon as the Houjin army entered the firing range of flint muskets and red-coated cannons, he commanded the defending troops to shoot the Houjin by name, which made the Houjin army panic.
Dolgon also thought of throwing off the city of Harbin and attacking the hinterland of Andong Province, but they walked less than fifty miles inside, and that night they were met with the crazy revenge of the Taining battalion, the Shenjian battalion and 20,000 cavalry.
In the dark night, even the soldiers with torches were blind, and they couldn't even organize a decent counterattack. Especially those two devils from Goryeo who eat kimchi every day, they can't see it when the sky is dark, if he hadn't quickly lit the big tent of the Chinese army and gathered the troops to the center in time, the more than 30,000 sticks would have been reimbursed a long time ago.
After marching forward, the Ming Dynasty defenders of Harbin City raided, pursued, and harassed various sniper methods were endless. Retreating, the Ming army in the city was like kraft candy, sticking far behind them, scratching off a piece of meat at the opportunity. If the city is besieged, the Ming army in the city will release all kinds of cold guns.
After going back and forth several times like this, the Houjin army, which came to pull out the nails, was stunned and pinned down under the city of Harbin, and was in a dilemma, unable to move.
In the middle of the night, Harbin City erected dozens of water dragons composed of entire trees, and they did not aim at them, but sprayed violently at the city.
The Houjin army, which had just fallen asleep, was in a panic, and more and more bonfires were lit, illuminating the entire company camp.
The angry Dolgon rushed out of the big tent with a big hat, pointed in the direction of Harbin City, opened his throat and jumped to his feet and scolded, "Dog's Setel, labor and management must pick your skin if they catch you!" Undeclared war, a full villain. ”
Setel also hid behind the tall city walls under the cover of night, and scolded back with a megaphone: "We do not declare war? Dolgon, do you want to be ashamed, you beat my Ming vassal country Goryeo, who did you say hello to? Collusion with the Wa State and Wu Rebellion to fight one, you declared war with Goryeo? ”
Dolgon was speechless for a long time, so he had to turn around and get angry at the quartermaster behind him, "Quartermaster, what do you want you to eat, don't change the tent, you want to freeze everyone to death?" Also, your head is an ornament, retreat the distance of camping three hundred meters! ”
The quartermaster stood behind Dolgon tremblingly, and said tremblingly, "Lord Belle, all the tents are wet, and the soldiers can only ...... tonight."
Dolgon gritted his teeth when he heard this, and now the temperature at night is more than thirty degrees (Xiaoice period), if there is no tent on such a cold day, it will really be hellish if he does not freeze to death.
"Then stop the brazier, the tent can also block the wind if it is frozen, frostbite is better than frostbite. Hold on for two more days, and Manggul Taibel will come to the rescue, and then we will be able to return safely. ”
Setel, who was wearing a mink coat, also surrounded the warm brazier, and bragged to the soldiers defending the city beside him with a smug face, "Do you know? This is what Guan people often say: 'When the enemy advances, I retreat, when the enemy is stationed, I disturb, when the enemy is tired, I fight, and when the enemy retreats, I chase'. Look, he Dolgon is able to fight, no matter how resourceful he is, no matter how many soldiers he has, he is not the same as the chickens and dogs who are tossed by us. To destroy the enemy in the movement, you have to preserve your own strength, and there is a lot of knowledge here. Stinky boys, keep your eyes open and learn more, and you will be of infinite use for the rest of your life. ”
The next day, just after dawn, Dolgon, who had run out of food and grass, secretly led 30,000 Goryeo people to the west and launched a frenzied raid on the Haixi Jurchen villages west of Harbin.
It stands to reason that this is their compatriot, although the residents of these hundreds of nomadic villages have not clearly stated that they will return to Houjin, but they have not clearly stated that they will return to the Ming Dynasty.
At the sound of Dolgon's order, 30,000 Goryeo sticks turned into real sticks and looted the villages within a radius of 100 miles. When this group of Goryeo sticks faced the Houjin Army, they couldn't get up like a third grandson. But when facing the fishermen and hunters in the hand village, they all looked like a tiger descending from the mountains as if they had eaten viagra.
This group of two devils is even more ruthless than the Houjin soldiers, and they used all the tricks that Houjin used against them that day on this group of ordinary people. They are really in the same vein as the devil, not to mention burning, killing and looting, they even take pleasure in raping A** women.
Had it not been for the sight of a hunter with her breasts cut off from her thatched hut and crashing into a tree to her death, Dorgon could not have believed that the meek sheep-like Goryeo sticks before his eyes would have done such bestiality. However, he did not think there was anything wrong with this, and he felt that the victor should act recklessly, which was the source of the army's combat effectiveness.
When Guan Shanyue carried the martyr's coffin back to Duoyan City, the people of the city were full of filial piety, and the scholars in the city were also dressed in plain linen clothes on both sides of the east gate of Daning City under the leadership of Zhang Cai, the Taoist priests built the altar, and the monks closed their eyes and recited the scriptures of the excess, and the whole city was immersed in a state of grief.
The children of the welfare home looked at the martyrs who sacrificed their lives to protect the safety of the Ming Dynasty with sad expressions, and shed tears of gratitude.
Emperor Chongzhen, who was dressed in Xuanyi, looked sad, he and Guan Shanyue carried the martyr's coffin across Duoyan City with Guan Shanyue left and right, and carried it to the martyr's cemetery on Duoyan Mountain step by step, and he let go under Wang Chengen's persuasion.
This is not a show, this time Emperor Chongzhen is really sad, he read a sacrificial text that makes people cry, and sincerely appreciates these Qiu Ba who are not treated well in the four northern provinces.
The verse in the sacrificial text: "They exchanged their deaths for the lives of many more." They use their bodies to guard the peace of the Ming Dynasty. "It is deeply moving, and through the publication of "Daming Daily", it spread all over Daming in an instant.
Even the soldiers under King Fu were deeply touched when they read it, especially those veterans who burst into tears after reading it, they fought so many battles and died so many brothers, but no one ever made a sacrifice for them, and no one even remembered their merits.
Tianning City, Guanghua Palace, crying so much that his eyes were red and swollen Emperor Chongzhen wiped away his tears, endured his sadness, choked up and said to Guan Shanyue: "Aiqing, there is one thing that you must not know, King Fu is going to ascend the throne in the Forbidden City. ”
"Huh!?" Guan Shanyue's eyes were about to split, and he said angrily: "Why did King Fu ascend the throne? Just rely on the Donglin Party to support him? ”
Emperor Chongzhen let out a long sigh and said sadly: "Not only the Donglin Party, but I know from the intelligence of the Daning Staff Department that there are still Japanese bandits and foreign merchant groups involved here. ”