Entering Tashan City, everyone walked into the General's Mansion where Tashan was guarding the generals. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis general's mansion is the largest building in Tashan City, and it is now temporarily used as a headquarters by Hong Chengchou.

After entering the lobby, Hong Chengchou sat in the middle. Li Zhi sat at the top of the left, basically sitting alongside Hong Chengchou, only slightly at the bottom. Zhang Ruoqi, the overseer, sat down on his right hand. Below Zhang Ruoqi sat Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong. The other commanders sat down in turn.

Among the general soldiers, except for Li Zhi, Cao Bianjiao has the highest official position. He is the governor of Zhengyipin, the prince Shaobao. He had the heart to be close to Li Zhi, and sat next to Li Zhi in front of everyone, and sat in front of the military attachés.

After the generals took their seats, Hong Chengchou asked people to take the big map and spread it on the ground in the lobby. Looking at the generals on the left and right, Hong Chengchou asked, "Which one will tell me about the current situation?" ”

Wang Tingchen, the general soldier of Liaodong, stood up with his hand and said, "Governor, let's talk about it!" ”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "Okay! Ziguan to speak! ”

Wang Tingchen, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, pointed to the map and said: "Now our army is gathered in Tashan, and there are 110,000 people. Tashan is a hundred miles away from Xingshan City in the north, and Songshan Castle is fifty miles to the north, and Jinzhou Castle is fifty miles to the north. Tashan is 200 miles away from Geumsan Castle, which was besieged by the Tartar soldiers. ”

"Our army has 20,000 people in Xingshan and 10,000 in Songshan."

"The Qing army is currently sending 30,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Xingshan, and the attack is very urgent, and Xingshan soldiers and horses have repeatedly sent people to ask for help. However, there is grain and grass in Xingshan City to support a year, and it seems that there is no need to worry about defending the city in a short time. We don't know if the siege of Xingshan is a trick of the Qing army, and we have not divided our troops to support. ”

"The Qing soldiers dug trenches and built walls and fortifications in Dabi Mountain between Songshan and Jinzhou. Dabi Mountain is the only way for Songshan to go to Jinzhou, and if our army wants to lift the siege of Jinzhou, it must pass through Dabi Mountain. Now the mountain has been built into a large fortress by the Tartars, which is difficult to attack. ”

Hearing Wang Tingchen's words, everyone frowned. The Tartars surrounded the point to send reinforcements, and the arrangement was very orderly. Now if the Ming army wants to rescue Jinzhou, it must attack the Dabi Mountain fortifications built by the Tartars. It was originally difficult to attack the fortifications on the back, not to mention that the combat power of the Tartar soldiers and horses was stronger than that of the Ming army, and it was even more difficult for the Ming army to attack the strong with weakness.

The cunning Tartars not only let the Ming army trek thousands of miles to Liaoxi to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, but also turned against the guest and forced the Ming army to attack the fortress of the Qing army.

Wang Tingchen looked at the people with bad faces, and said slowly: "Scout report, the Tartars have been increasing their troops in Liaoxi recently, and now there are at least 100,000 Qing troops in Liaoxi. ”

Hearing Wang Tingchen's words, Hong Chengchou and the generals who came from Ningyuan changed color.

The Qing army increased its troops again.

70,000 and 100,000 are very different.

The Ming Dynasty drew reinforcements from various towns to reinforce Jinzhou, and there were only 140,000 soldiers and horses in Jinzhou, plus the local Guanning guards, only 190,000. The combat power of the Ming army was not as good as that of the Qing army, and its mobility was not as good as that of the Qing army. 190,000 troops had to divide their troops to defend the city, and they also had to attack the Qing army's fortress in Dabi Mountain, and the troops suddenly became tense.

Hong Chengchou took a breath and looked at the map and was silent.

Li Zhi was not surprised when he heard Wang Tingchen's words. Although the Qing army was short of manpower, after conquering Mongolia and Korea, it was more than enough to dispatch 100,000 soldiers. On his side, there are 130,000 regular soldiers of the eight general soldiers, plus 15,000 strong soldiers of the Tiger Division, and he should not fall behind against the 100,000 Qing army.

Qiu Mingyang, the governor of Liaodong, arched his hand and said: "Governor, no matter what, my army should move north to relieve the siege of the Qing army in Xingshan." ”

Hong Chengchou nodded and said, "On the second day of repairing in Tashan, our army will go north to Xingshan to relieve the siege of Xingshan. ”

Cao Bianjiao arched his hand and said: "Governor, this battle is not to be won overnight, it is bound to be fought for several months. The most important thing in such a war is grain and grass. Our army should guard the grain route tightly to ensure that the back road is not cut off by the Qing army. ”

Hong Chengchou was a little unhappy with Cao Bianjiao's words, and Cao Bianjiao said this, as if Hong Chengchou didn't know the importance of the grain road.

After Cao Bianjiao finished speaking, Hong Chengchou was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "This governor naturally knows the importance of the grain road. There are two sources of food and grass needed for the soldiers, land and sea. When our army attacked the Dongnu fortress in Dabi Mountain, we only needed to hold the cities of Xingshan and Tashan to ensure that the grain road was unblocked. ”

"I mobilized 50,000 local Guanning defenders, abandoned the big and small Tun forts, and settled in Ningyuan, Tashan and Xingshan for defense, so that nothing goes wrong."

The Guanning garrison that Hong Chengchou said was a battalion stationed in the Guanning defense line in the big and small tun forts. These battalions belong to the large and small generals, guerrillas, and garrisons of the Guanning Army system, and although their combat strength is not as good as that of the regular barracks of the general troops, they are numerous. Hong Chengchou was unwilling to use the 140,000 regular soldiers with outstanding combat strength to defend the city, so he naturally chose to mobilize these local defenders to defend the city.

If the Qing army really crossed the main force of the Ming army to attack the rear city, with the support of the local defenders for a few days, the front-line army could come back to help.

As for Songshan City, when attacking the fortress of the Qing army in Dabishan, Songshan City was more than ten miles away, and it was easy to rescue, and it could be defended by leaving some soldiers and horses behind.

Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, the generals thought for a while, and they all felt that such an arrangement was more appropriate.

Cao Bianjiao seemed to have something to say, but looking at Hong Chengchou's unhappy face, he didn't dare to speak in the end.

Wang Tingchen stood up and said, "Governor, now the army has arrived. The last general was willing to be the vanguard, leading 15,000 men to support Xingshan City and relieve the siege of the Qing army. ”

Hong Chengchou laughed when he heard this, and said loudly: "Ziguan has the courage to skip others, and he can be the vanguard of my army." After two days of repairing our army, Ziguan led the army to set off. ”

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On 6 February, the local defenders of Guanning recruited by Hong Chengchou settled in Tashan City, and the seven 110,000 regular soldiers marched north to attack Xingshan City.

The 15,000 men and horses of Wang Tingchen, the general army of Liaodong, walked in the forefront, traveled fifty miles a day, and spent two days to arrive at Xingshan City.

Outside Xingshan City, 30,000 Qing troops were attacking the city with Hongyi cannons. The Qing army built a lot of artillery in the past two years, and no longer used ladders and dead soldiers to attack the city during the siege, but used Hongyi cannons to bombard the city wall, and then climbed the city after breaking the city wall with the power of firearms. However, the cannons of this era will cool down for a long time, and it will take a long time to break the city wall.

After Wang Tingchen's soldiers and horses arrived at Xingshan, the Qing army withdrew from the siege of Xingshan and fled to the north.

Wang Tingchen and Bai Guangen, the chief soldier of the Jizhen Central Association who defended the city in Xingshan City, merged together and sent 35,000 people to pursue the Qing army that fled with cannons.

After chasing ten miles, Wang Tingchen caught up with the fleeing Qing army at Yihetun.

Seeing that the Ming army was chasing, the Qing army set up a position in Yihetun and confronted Wang Tingchen's soldiers and horses.