Chapter 21 The Pledge to the East Expedition Soldiers Linsong Jin

On July 1, the 22nd year of Chongzhen, the Yaogang People's Army held a grand departure ceremony in Datong. Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Ouyang He and other major leaders of the kiln gang came to Datong to participate in this expedition ceremony and see off the soldiers. Radio stations reported the facts, and newspapers reported them in large volumes. This ceremony focused the attention of all the people in the world on Datong.

Immediately after the solemn ceremony, the army of Yaogang marched out of Datong and headed north to the Mongolian steppe, and then to the east. In fact, the vanguard of the 1st Cavalry Division had already set off in advance. The Qinzhou warship had already come to Liaodong in advance and circled around the Liaodong Peninsula, sending some personnel and a large number of printed propaganda materials to Liaodong through the fishing boats that responded.

As soon as the departure ceremony of Datong was completed, many notices of kiln workers were posted in important prefectures and counties in eastern Liaodong at the same time.

There is a letter to the people of Liaodong, in which they inform the people that we have begun to march to Liaodong in order to recover the territory occupied by the Manchus, and the good days of the people are coming. At the same time, the traitors were warned not to follow the Manchus to do evil again. Tell them that we can not blame those who are forced to cooperate with the Manchus in order to make a living, but we cannot continue. For the Han officials who cooperated with the Manchus, we can also not blame the past, but you must manage all the account books and documents in the places where you participate in the management, and strive to make meritorious service and atone for your crimes. He also warned the Manchu people that in the future, we will implement the policy of equality among all nationalities in Liaodong, and from now on we will not allow the oppression of the Han people again. Those Manchus who have committed crimes are advised to take the initiative to surrender and seek leniency when our army arrives, otherwise you will be severely punished.

There is also a letter to the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing and Han armies, in which they are informed that our army treats prisoners preferentially, and as long as they surrender voluntarily, we will give them fast treatment. Especially the Han officers and soldiers who surrendered with their generals, we understand that most of you are helpless to surrender, as long as you do not commit very serious crimes, as long as you surrender, we can also be blamed in the past, and we will also reward those who have made meritorious contributions.

For a time, the entire land of Liaodong was shaken. The power of this psychological warfare is immediately apparent. Those soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Army saw hope, and their original determination to die was gone. Because there is still a way out, why do you have to lay down your life? Although the Manchu people did not believe that the Han people would spare them if they killed them, since they said it publicly, there was still a glimmer of hope. Of course, the Han people are very happy. Even those Han people who ate with the Manchu mixed rice also felt hopeful. Originally, I thought that the Ming Dynasty army would not be able to spare them when they came back, but now they are somewhat relieved, and they will not follow the Manchu Qing Dynasty to fight hard.

The departure ceremony of the Yaogang people, Dolgon, who sat in Jinzhou, was heard from the beginning to the end by radio. At this time, Dolgon was already in a very calm mood, and the Yaogang people were coming, which he had known for a long time, and he mobilized almost all the main forces to the front line of Songshan in Jinzhou. Sometimes, Dolgon even wished that the kiln man would come sooner, because it would be a torment to wait here. Dolgon led his troops to attack Beijing unsuccessfully, and on the way back to Jinzhou, he suddenly killed a horse pistol and attacked Shanhaiguan, but in a bloody battle, he lost a lot of soldiers and horses, and was defeated by Wu Sangui. Dolgon didn't expect that Wu Sangui's combat power in Shanhaiguan would suddenly increase so much. The soldiers rushed to the city and were blown down by the ** thrown from the city. Wu Sangui's soldiers' ** is like not wanting silver, yes.

There was no way, so Dolgon had to lead his troops to retreat to the front line of Songshan in Jinzhou. This is the best place to meet the kiln people. Here Dorgon commanded everyone to make full preparations for battle. In particular, it also allowed people to collect a large amount of steel smelting in the rear and began to build **. He knew it was a weapon for defending the city. If the kiln gang people come to attack, they won't be able to stop the ** explosion.

He had expected that the Kiln Gang might start attacking in March and April when the grass was green. However, they waited for a long time for the kiln gang people to arrive, and they could not relax, so Dolgon felt that the kiln gang people were really too difficult to deal with, and if they continued to rely on this, they would lose the morale of their army. In particular, the Mongols who participated in the war could not bear this kind of waiting, and Dolgon had no choice but to allow them to go to the steppe to stand by.

Dolgon didn't expect that after April, the newspapers and radio stations of the Yaogang people began to make noise and discuss how to march into Liaodong, which made Dolgon nervous again, especially when the intelligence showed that the army and materials of the Yaogang people had been massed in Datong on a large scale, and Dolgon knew that the Yaogang people should come.

After a long wait, the kiln people finally publicly reported that they were about to hold a departure ceremony in Datong, and Dolgon thought that this time it should be true!

Sure enough, today's radio station made a detailed real-time report on the departure ceremony of the kiln gang people. After the ceremony, Zhang Zhimu personally announced the march to Liaodong.

After listening to the live ceremony of the expedition, Dorgon felt that something was wrong. The kiln people will definitely know that I am listening to the live broadcast of this ceremony, is this the kiln gang people making a show for me? Yes, it is impossible to keep such a large military operation secret, but is it necessary to march in such a big battle? Could it be that they are too confident in their own power?

At this time, Hong Chengchou asked to see him. Dolgon, who was lying in his chair, motioned for him to come in, and sat up himself.

The two were polite, and Hong Chengchou said, "Regent!" You've listened to the departure ceremony of the kiln people! I always feel that something is wrong, why are the kiln gang people so fanfareful? ”

"Huh! This shows that the kiln people don't take us seriously. Dolgon smiled and said, "What is Mr. Fan's opinion?" Actually, Dolgon knew that Hong Chengchou must have a different opinion, otherwise he would not have seen him at this time.

Hong Chengchou stood up and came to the map, and Dolgon also got up and followed Hong Chengchou to the map. Hong Chengchou held an indicator pole, pointed to the Jinzhou line and said: "They attract our attention here, and then is it possible for them to bypass the north of this line and go straight to Shengjing (Shenyang) behind us?" Also, is it possible for them to send their naval army to land from behind us? ”

Dolgon admired Hong Chengchou's strategy and said, "Mr. Hong is really good! However, I thought about what you said. If they were to go from the north, the road would be very difficult, and the heavy weapons on which they relied would be difficult to carry, and if they only sent infantry from that side, they would not pose a great threat to us. It is not that we have no army behind us, so that their forces attacking the front line of Songjin are scattered a lot, and our hundreds of thousands of people are not muddy. Besides, our intelligence suggests that their brigade is indeed coming here. However, just in case, we will also send cavalry to guard this line. ”

After speaking, Dolgon took the pointing rod from Hong Chengchou's hand, pointed to the sea and said: "I have heard that the Yaogang people have a few big ships, but the big ships have no dock in Liaodong, and their small boats on the inland river cannot cross the sea, even if they use the big ships to transport some infantry to this side, the number is not large, there are no artillery and other heavy weapons, and our troops on that side can destroy them with their numerical superiority." For them, the stakes are not small. I think they will definitely take advantage of their heavy weapons and attack us from land. Defeat us in Jinzhou, and then attack forward, the grain and grass behind them can also keep up, otherwise from the other two sides you said, even if the grain and grass can't keep up, it will kill them. ”

Hong Chengchou also began to admire this savage and rude Dolgon, who was also a very smart guy, "Hmm! As soon as the regent said this, I also think that the Yaogang people have the greatest possibility of a decisive battle with us on the Songjin line! ”

"Huh!" Dolgon smiled and said, "The Yaogang people still won't forget their naval superiority," and after speaking, he pointed to Xiaolinghe and said, "They will definitely send their warships here to support them in their battle in Jinzhou with the cannons on board." ”

"Hmmm! What the regent said was that we were going to set up cannons to meet them at the mouth of the Xiaoling River. Hong Chengchou said with some flattery.

"Don't worry! We have already set it up. Just waiting for them! Ha ha! Dorgon said triumphantly, and laughed again.

Just as the two were talking, Azig barged in, holding up a few pieces of paper, and said, "Regent! You see, a lot of this stuff has been found in the army! ”

Dolgon and Hong Chengchou hurriedly took these pieces of paper and looked at them, and after reading them, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but say, "It's amazing!" This is a soft knife, don't let these things spread in the army! ”

"Yes, yes! Who preaches in the army that there is no forgiveness for these killings! "What a great man is the Kiln Man!" said Dolgon. Soft and hard are coming! Hehe! He shook his head.

Azig said: "Hurry up and send fast horses to inform all places, and if you find these things, burn them immediately!" ”

"It seems that the people of Yaogang are really prepared, and this heart-to-heart battle is very powerful!" Hong Chengchou said.

"Whether this thing is useful or not, we have to see how the outcome of our battle with the kiln gang people here is!" "Soft is useless without hard support." ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Both Hong and Azig agreed with Dolgon's words.

The people who set out from Datong had two infantry corps, two cavalry corps, two heavy artillery divisions, and Li Wei's special forces group. Li Wei followed Jiang Pai and them to march this time, but Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He gave him the order not to participate in the command of military operations. Because Li Wei is the deputy commander, if Li Wei participates in the command, Jiang Pai and they will have to obey orders, and Jiang Pai and they will lose the right to command. And Jiang Ji and they have done a lot of research on Liaodong, and the situation is more familiar than Li Wei, so Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He repeatedly emphasized that they did not want Li Wei to participate in the command. He was asked to concentrate on studying the role of new weapons in this operation, and to discover problems in a timely manner. Li Wei readily agreed, and his mind was really on these new things.

This time, Li Wei's special forces group brought 30 delta-wing aircraft, as well as a division of rocket artillery, an artillery division, and an armored division. There is also a newly formed mechanized corps. This mechanized corps consisted of fifty four-wheel-drive cars. The cars were equipped with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and a 7.92 mm air-cooled heavy machine gun. There are a total of five drivers in each car. This time, the regiment mainly wanted to test how effective Li Yunhe's newly produced four-wheel drive car would be on the battlefield.

The rocket artillery division said that it was a division, but in fact there were only twelve launchers. Each vehicle carried twelve 100-mm rocket launchers. This time, Li Wei mainly wanted to see what the power of these rocket launchers was. The launch vehicles are all ten ** cars.

In addition, that flying regiment was also on the battlefield for the first time, and it was also tested in actual combat against them.

Therefore, Li Wei didn't care about those commands at all. In Li Wei's words to Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He, "This battle of the Eastern Crusade is to kill chickens with a knife, which is not interesting!" ”

In fact, Chen Yufeng and Ouyang He also agreed with Li Wei's opinion in their hearts, the reason why they had to let Jiang Pai command the battle of the Eastern Crusade was not only because Jiang Pai had been preparing for a long time, but also because Liaodong would be handed over to him for defense in the future, and he would fight it, so he would know more about the situation.

Li Wei and the others are not many, but they are all mechanized, and the long car queue, including the transport truck, is very long.

On the way to this march, it can be seen that Jiang Jian and their organization is very good, and the first cavalry army is the first to open the way, not only to take the lead, but also to divide many pairs of cavalry to the north along the way to guard the road of the march. The military stations along the way, food and water supply are very well guaranteed.

This time, the army walked from outside the Great Wall, appearing very confident, and they did not take the threat of the Mongols outside the Great Wall seriously at all.

This time, Lin Feng followed Jiang Pai's path and kept advancing eastward by land as a striker. After the striker bypassed the Shanhai Pass, he entered from outside the Great Wall to inside the Great Wall. After clearing some of the tunbao in front of Shanhaiguan, I thought that it would take some effort to attack Ning Yuanwei (Xingcheng). However, Dolgon did not put many soldiers and horses in this Ning Yuanwei at all, the cannons bombarded the city gates, and the defenders did not put up any decent resistance, and the battle was over.

In January of the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626 AD), the Qing Emperor Nurhachi led 130,000 troops to besiege Ningyuan City, and was seriously wounded and retreated. In May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Qing Taizu army attacked Ningyuan City again and defeated the city again. Nurhachi could not attack the city, and retreated to Yangbao (forty miles from Shenyang) with his wounds, and soon died of illness.

To Huang Taiji sent heavy troops to attack Jinzhou several times, exhausted the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, won the victory of Songjin, occupied Songshan Jinzhou and other places, until they detoured to Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan did not lose, and later the Ming army was forced to give up Ningyuan (Xingcheng) City due to the situation. However, Lin Feng and Jiang Yan, who opened the road in front, did not expect that Dolgon would give up Ningyuan City so easily.

It turned out that Dolgon knew the combat capabilities of the Yaogang people, and he shrank all his troops to the Songjin line and concentrated his forces on defense.

Dolgon, who was in Jinzhou, and their Baylors knew that a great battle was about to begin, and by this time, those little tricks had no effect, and everything had to be decided on the battlefield. But they didn't expect that just when they were tense, the kiln people stopped attacking.

On the first day, they thought that the Yaogang people were waiting for the army behind them to finish the whole army before launching a large-scale attack. However, for three or four days in a row, the Yaogang people did not attack. Dolgon and the Baylors were a little strange, they had all been in a war, and they had never seen such a war. Hundreds of thousands of people come from afar, and the amount of grain and grass consumed every day is a huge number, and it is really strange that the people of Yaogang live in the wild and wait for a few days.

However, on the fifth day, some cavalry cavalry came to report that the warships of Yaogang sent troops to occupy both sides of the Liaohe estuary, and the warships of Yaogang went upstream, probably Benshengjing. The surrounding armies used to attack the kiln people, but they couldn't defeat the kiln people at all. The artillery of the kiln gang is too powerful.

The news from the cavalry was like a basin of cold water poured over their heads in winter, and Dolgon and the Beylors were suddenly cold. Everyone was stunned for a while, and some people said that they should hurry back to Shengjing (Shenyang)! Some people also say, isn't this just the time of the kiln people? If you retreat now, you will be wiped out by the kiln people on the road. Originally, our weapons were not as good as the Yaogang people, and if we left the fortified city, we would be finished before we arrived in Shengjing.

Just when everyone was talking, someone came to report again, "The Yaogang people suddenly attacked Tashan, Xingshan, and Daxingbao (Daxing Fort in Montenegro), and the cannons of the Yaogang people are bombarding the castle." The defenders are fighting bloodily and ask for reinforcements, otherwise I am afraid that they will not hold out until the night. ”

Before Dolgon could come up with any countermeasures, someone came to report, "The warship of the Yaogang people was found at the mouth of the Xiaoling River, but the warships of the Yaogang people opened fire outside the range of our cannons, and the fort we built at the mouth of the Xiaoling River has been completely destroyed, and it is estimated that the warships of the Yaogang people will enter the Xiaoling River." ”

Dorgon deserved to be the leader of the battle, and now that the matter had come to this, he was determined to fight to the death. He knew that if he withdrew now, not only would the pursuers behind him not be able to let him go, but the army that attacked Shengjing in front of the Yaogang people would also turn around and meet him, and he would die faster. It's better to decide the winner here. Therefore, they ordered the Red Banner, the White Banner, the Han Red Banner Cavalry and the Mongolian Horqin Cavalry to concentrate their forces on the Yaogang army attacking Daxingbao. The terrain was suitable for cavalry combat.

In fact, Jiang Jian and their army have been waiting on the Songjin front line for these days, and they are not easy in their hearts, in Lin Feng's words: "It's better to go to war while waiting!" ”

Li Wei had nothing to do when he went to Jiang Ting's headquarters to see the excitement, and said cool words: "Oops! With your artillery and heavy machine guns, isn't it like beating the Yellow Sheep when the infantry goes up to fight those Manchu soldiers with a single shell? ”

"Deputy Commander, don't talk about us! In that way of fighting, we can just send a regiment commander and division commander to command. Jiang Jian smiled and said, "But when we came out, Mr. Chen and Mr. Ouyang repeatedly said that we must settle political accounts and die less." Liaodong is vast and sparsely populated, and we need a lot of labor to build. If it weren't for the sake of fewer deaths, I would have told them some strategies and done it directly, I would have liked it too! ”

Hearing what people said, Li Wei hurriedly said: "Oops! Fight as you please! I'm just going to see the fun. It's just that you want to give our special forces a chance to show it, and I will definitely not participate in your affairs. ”

"Okay!" Jiang Pai said, "We welcome the deputy commander to guide the work in our headquarters, and you can speak wherever you think you can use your precious army." ”

Li Wei was waiting for this sentence, and immediately came up with an idea of his own.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.