Volume 7 Chapter 90 Huang Taiji was dumbfounded
Zhang Bin took down Hong Chengchou, and took it down directly in a very unreasonable way, without any evidence, and even the charges are vague, whether it was fornication with Jiannu or was instructed by Wen Tiren to frame Yuan Chonghuan and seek to seize military power, this is up to Hong Chengchou to choose!
If all the officials are so nonsense, without any evidence, or even if the charges are not determined, and the opponent is arrested and punished, then the world will not be in chaos.
However, no one present felt that it was inappropriate, and even Hong Chengchou, who was arrested, did not resist much.
He is a thief with a weak heart, he used unscrupulous means to assassinate Yuan Chonghuan, causing Yuan Chonghuan to lose and lose a lot, and then took the position of Jiliao Governor, this kind of thing, if no one chews the root of the tongue in front of the emperor, he is naturally fine, but once someone chews the root of the tongue in front of the emperor, he will be in trouble, because the emperor is not an idiot, as long as someone mentions this kind of thing, and then think about it a little, you will understand the cattiness.
Zhang Bin made it clear at this time that he wanted to chew his tongue in front of the emperor, and he also threatened him with Chiguoguo to slander him for fornicating with slaves in front of the emperor!
He was afraid, he was really afraid, the matter of fornicating with slaves was not clear in the first place, plus Zhang Bin deliberately framed him, the emperor may really believe it.
The crime of fornicating with slaves can not be reckoned, according to the law, Ling Chi will be executed and the nine clans will be exterminated!
Therefore, he was so scared that he didn't dare to put a fart, obediently admitted it, when he met such a shameless opponent as Zhang Bin, he really had no way, people made it clear that they wanted to distort the facts, and leaned on his assassination of Yuan Chonghuan to fornicate with Jiannu, slandering him, what could he do, did he dare to bet that the emperor didn't believe it?
He lost the bet but wanted to be executed by Ling Chi and exterminate the nine clans, and Zhang Bin, a "shameless man", even if he said that the emperor didn't believe it, it was nothing, because the imperial history was not guilty of hearing the words, but he was the right imperial envoy, and the fake No. 2 person in the Imperial Court was favored by the emperor, even if he talked nonsense, the emperor would not do anything to him!
This kind of thing that doesn't make money, it's strange that he dares to gamble.
At this moment, he just wanted to quickly put all the charges on Wen Tiren, so that he could clear his name and save his life.
As for the generals present, Sun Chuanting, Qi Yuangong and others needless to say, they are all Zhang Bin's cronies, and they also understand that Hong Chengchou is Wen Tiren's cronies, and they don't have any good feelings about these eunuch remnants, and it is also their goal to clean up these guys.
And Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other generals of the Liaodong Army have been completely brought into rhythm by Zhang Bin, they were already suspicious of Hong Chengchou's assassination of Yuan Chonghuan, and Zhang Bin played the banner of seeking justice for the fallen soldiers of the Liaodong Army aroused their indignation, and they were also bent on cleaning up Hong Chengchou at this time, and they would not feel that there was anything wrong with Zhang Bin's means.
Zhang Bin's purpose of cleaning up Hong Chengchou is naturally not just to seek justice for the fallen soldiers of the Liaodong Army, his goal is Wen Tiren, and he wants to use Hong Chengchou's incident to let Chongzhen understand the essence of Wen Tiren's alliance with the party and the people, so that Chongzhen can make up his mind to eliminate the Zhejiang party.
Of course, the main purpose of his coming to Liaodong this time was not to clean up Hong Chengchou and Wen Tiren, but to clean up Huang Taiji, even if he couldn't clean it up for a while, he had to teach him a lesson and let him obediently retreat from the west bank of the Santaizi River.
This is the essential difference between him and Wen Tiren, or the essence of the righteous minister and the eunuch party, if this matter is replaced by Wen Tiren, he will definitely leave Liaodong after cleaning up the opponent, even if Huang Taiji hits the capital, he will not care!
In the first year of the Apocalypse, they slandered Xiong Tingbi, the pro-Donglin Liaodong Jinglu, and was deposed, and then they left Liaodong alone, and indirectly helped Nurhachi fight all the way from Shenyang to Guangning, and almost lost the great rivers and mountains of Liaodong!
The essence of traitors is that they don't care about the interests of the country, they don't care about the lives of the people, they only know how to fight for power and profit, even if the whole country is destroyed, they don't care, because after the country is destroyed, they can still kneel and lick the new master and obtain their benefits!
Of course, Zhang Bin is not a traitor, he will not do this kind of lack of morality, he will start to clean up Huang Taiji after cleaning up Hong Chengchou, he wants to get rid of the traitors in the court, and he will not let go of the enemies of the Ming Dynasty.
So, how to clean up Huang Taiji?
The first step was to find out the enemy's situation, but the west of the country he investigated was not the west, the direction of the Santaizi River, but the east, the situation on the east bank of the Liao River.
Huang Taiji was actually very strict about this, and he even did not hesitate to move all the civilians on the east bank of the Liao River and give up this large piece of fertile land, in order to prevent the Ming army scouts from coming to investigate their truth.
Yuan Chonghuan had nothing to do about this, but this set had no effect on Zhang Bin, because his personal guards had all been trained in this area, especially the elite of the special combat battalion led by Zhang Cha and Zhao Ru, who were proficient in the way of exploration.
Moreover, his way of investigating was also different from Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Chonghuan directly sent people to cross the Liao River and investigate from west to east, but he ordered Wang Er, Sun Biao and others to take a group of elite special operations battalions to land on wheels from Gaizhouwei, Fuzhouwei, Jinzhouwei and other coastal areas to investigate from south to north.
At this time, all the protective measures laid by Huang Taiji will be ineffective, and they will only stare at the people who come from the west bank of the Liao River, and they will take care of the people from their own territory such as Gaizhou Wei and Fuzhou Wei.
Soon, Zhang Bin found out the situation on the east side of the Liaohe River, there were probably more than 10,000 defenders in Jinzhou City, 5,000 defenders in Fuzhou City, 5,000 defenders in Gaizhou City, 20,000 defenders in Haizhou City, and 20,000 defenders in Liaoyang City.
Among them, Haizhou City and Liaoyang City have Hongyi cannons, Haizhou City has 30 Hongyi cannons, Liaoyang City has 40 Hongyi cannons, it seems that the main defensive line of Jiannu is the north, after all, after Haizhou and Liaoyang is the current capital of Jiannu Shengjing, that is, the original Shenyang.
At this time, Mao Wenlong also led 20,000 elites of the Dongjiang Army to arrive, Zhang Bin immediately made a decision, personally led the Qijia army and the Dongjiang Army to raid Gaizhou City, and ordered Sun Chuanting to lead the Qin army to ambush between Haizhou City and Gaizhou City, preparing to ambush the reinforcements in the direction of Haizhou City, and Zu Dashou and He Kegang still led the Liaodong Army to garrison the Liaohe River line to prevent Huang Taiji from crossing the Liaohe River to support.
His raid method is a bit special, not by land, but by water, he directly led the army to land in the fishing port about thirty miles south of Gaizhou City, not north of Gaizhou City, and he also ordered the elite of the special operations battalion to go over and control the entire fishing port in advance, and did not leak any news at all.
The defender of Gaizhou City was stunned, and the direction of his main defense was also in the north, because the Liao River was in the north of Gaizhou Wei, and the Ming army on the front line of the Liao River was going to attack the city, and it was also coming from the north, who would have thought that the enemy would come from the direction of Fuzhou Wei in the south, and Fuzhou Wei was their territory!
As a result, it was not until Zhang Bin led an army of 30,000 to rush to only ten miles away from Gaizhou City that the defenders of Gaizhou City found that the Ming army was coming, and they hurriedly closed the city gate, and they didn't even have time to send people to ask for help.
More than ten miles of walking up to run for about half an hour, Zhang Bin soon led the army to Gaizhou City, he used a telescope to observe the situation of Gaizhou City, and then ordered, Mao Wenlong will divide the 20,000 Dongjiang Army into two, respectively, encircling the east and west of the city, and he led the Qi army to attack in the south of the city, as for the north of the city, it is left to the defenders to run away, even if they run out of the city, it is a death, Sun Chuanting is leading the Qin army to ambush between Haizhou and Gaizhou at this time.
Will the defenders of Gaizhou City run away?
It's really hard to say this, if it is the servant army of the Han Eight Banners, they will definitely not dare to run, if they dare to run, Huang Taiji will definitely cut down all the generals who lead the army; If it is a banner soldier with a full eight banners, it is really possible to run, because the principle of Huang Taiji has always been a desperate servant army, and the banner soldiers of the eight banners try to preserve their strength, and if they know that they are invincible, if the banner soldiers of the eight banners run away, he will not punish them much.
Like the first sneak attack on the capital of the Ming Dynasty led by Huang Taiji in history, he took Keyongping, Luanzhou, Qian'an and other cities, after the main force withdrew, he also left the big Belle Amin who did not have a good relationship with himself and led the army to defend in Yongping, Qian'an and other cities, as a result, Amin was defeated by Sun Chengzong, and ran away with all the flag soldiers, Huang Taiji later punished him, but the main crime was not to run away with the flag soldiers, but to slaughter the Han prisoners, it can be seen that the flag soldiers of the Eight Banners can not run away with a criminal record, Huang Taiji will not punish much.
At this time, Zhang Bin couldn't figure out whether the Gaizhou City was the servant army of the Han Eight Banners or the flag soldiers of the Eight Banners, the reason why he left the north side of the city was not surrounded was that he hoped that the city would be full of Eight Banners, and as soon as people ran, he would be able to use the fastest speed to take Gaizhou City with the least loss.
He not only wanted Huang Taiji to withdraw from the Santaizi River, but also one of his goals to recover the land of Liaodong as much as possible before Huang Taiji withdrew, judging from the current situation, it should not be very difficult to recover Fuzhou Wei and Jinzhou Wei south of Gaizhou Wei and Gaizhou Wei, as for other places, it depends on the reaction of Jiannu and Huang Taiji who stayed behind.
This Gaizhou City was originally a small county town, the city wall is only a few feet high, there is no need to build any siege equipment at all, directly take the Wuhan Iron and Steel car as a siege vehicle, push it to the city wall, jump up and become.
Zhang Bin just let the Qi family army rest for half an hour, and then ordered Qi Yuangong to set up a car formation and attack the city!
The Qi family's army attacked the city and called it a mighty one, all the steel chariots were pushed up, and the cannonballs and bullets were like rain, so that the defenders in the city couldn't lift their heads, and the momentum was terrifying.
As a result, strange things happened, the defenders in the city didn't wait for the Qi family army to rush up the city wall, the Wuhan Iron and Steel chariot was still dozens of steps away from the city wall, they spread their feet and ran away, and nearly 5,000 defenders all ran away from the north gate, not a single one was left, Zhang Bin was so inexplicable, and easily took Gaizhou City!
What's going on here?
It turned out that the defenders in the city were the banner soldiers newly convened by Huang Taiji, and the leader was only the commander of the Eight Banners, leading 5,000 recruits to fight the world-famous Qi family army hard steel, so he decisively led the army to run.
However, he did not lead the army all the way to Haizhou City, because it was the servant army of the Han Eight Banners who was responsible for guarding the city, and he was not under a commander, he led the army to run north for more than ten miles, and then turned around and walked the path to the south, running in the direction of Fuzhou Wei.
Zhang Bin didn't expect this, at this time, the goal he set was to recover the lost territory as quickly as possible, not to fight any war of annihilation, so he didn't send people to pursue at all, until Sun Chuanting received the news and led the army to Gaizhouwei, he didn't know that the defenders of Gaizhouwei didn't run in the direction of Haizhouwei at all.
This thing is so strange, even Zhang Bin was speechless, he didn't expect it to be such a result at all, where is this like the terrifying army of Jiannu, these people's performance is just like a rookie egg.
Aren't people just recruits, and their commander is Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge, the most promising person to inherit the mite Qing Dynasty, he is quite arrogant on weekdays, and he runs away if he can't beat it, which is normal.
This Hauge is also a tragic figure, perhaps he is too arrogant, in history Huang Taiji has not set him up as the heir, and his title has been up and down, a while of the prince and a time of the king, the same as singing, as a result, after Huang Taiji died suddenly, he not only failed to inherit the throne but was also framed by Dolgon by Dolgon, imprisoned, and died in prison inexplicably.
Zhang Bin didn't expect that his opponent at this time was such a second ancestor, but the next day he still led the Qi family army to quickly transfer to Fuzhou City through the wheel transfer to try it, as a result, the situation in Fuzhou City was the same as Gaizhou City, the Qi family army had not yet attacked the city wall, but a burst of shells and bullets smashed over, and the defenders in the city smeared oil on the soles of their feet and ran away, and he easily took Fuzhou City.
At this time, he finally understood that the defenders of the city here must be some recruit eggs, and they are also recruit eggs with quite a background, just run, there is no pressure at all.
This is a good thing, he is trying to recover the lost territory as soon as possible, let them run, the faster they run, the better, the faster they run, the more lost land he will regain, so he did not let people chase the fleeing enemy army, but ordered the wheel boat to quickly transfer the 30,000 Qin army and 10,000 Dongjiang army over, ready to attack Jinzhou City, Gaizhou City will leave 10,000 Dongjiang troops to garrison.
Fuzhou Wei is more than 400 miles away from Gaizhou Weizu, if it is a land march at least about four days, and it will be exhausted, without repairing for a few days, it will not be able to slow down at all, it is different to take a wheel and a fast boat, in three days, 40,000 troops have all been transferred, and they are full of energy, and they do not need to be repaired at all.
Zhang Bin didn't know when Huang Taiji would receive the news to withdraw the army, nor did he know when the remaining Jiannu would send reinforcements, so he could only try his best to recover as much lost territory as possible.
After the Qin army and the Dongjiang army arrived at Fuzhou Wei, he immediately led the Qi family army and the Qin army to advance by land and water, and went straight to Jinzhou City.
Zhang Bin ordered a part of the Qi family army to bring all the baggage on wheels and transfer it to a small fishing port more than 30 miles north of Jinzhou Wei, while he led the remaining more than 30,000 people to travel lightly and arrived at the fishing port in one day.
Early the next morning, he led an army of 40,000 to press Jinzhou City, at this time there were about 20,000 defenders in Jinzhou City, some fled back from Gaizhou City, and some fled back from Fuzhou City, but they were all Haoge's subordinates, and Haoge led the 20,000 troops and was responsible for the defense of Jinzhou Wei to Gaizhou Wei.
He originally thought that the enemy was very likely to be Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army, but he never thought that it was the Qi family army and tens of thousands of other Ming troops, this force, he didn't think he could contend with, or it was important to preserve his strength.
Therefore, when he heard that the army of more than 40,000 Ming troops led by the Qi family army was pressing the border, he simply led 20,000 of his men directly to the east and fled to the territory of Belle Yuetuo, where there were still 20,000 recruits led by Yue Tuo, and the fortresses over there were dense, the mountain roads were difficult to walk, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he did not believe that the Ming army dared to rush over.
Zhang Bin really didn't dare to rush over, and he also sent people to investigate the terrain over there, which was indeed not suitable for the army to advance, so he could only stop there and set his sights on Haizhou City instead.
Huang Taiji was dumbfounded when he received the news, Zhang Bin ignored him, and went directly to attack the front line of Gaizhou Wei, he was quite clear about how weak the defense there was, fifty or sixty thousand Ming troops, Haoge definitely couldn't withstand it, what to do, he was in a dilemma for a while.
withdraw, all my hard work was in vain;
If he doesn't withdraw, Zhang Bin doesn't know what his rear will look like, it's really a headache!