Volume 8 Chapter 131 Breaking the Foundation of the Slave
Zhang Bin's siege plan is really ingenious, using the mobility of Guanning Iron Cavalry to intercept Jiannu's grain convoy, so that there is no need to worry about being broken by Jiannu due to the division of troops to surround each of them, and it can cut off Jiannu's grain route, and the defenders in Liaoyang City are afraid that they will soon be in chaos due to the lack of food.
The generals present nodded and pondered, the more they thought about it, the more they felt that this strategy was clever, and if they wanted to use this strategy, it was estimated that the Jiannu in Liaoyang City would collapse without a fight in less than half a year, as for Zhang Bin's sentence, do you have any better suggestions, everyone thinks that this is Zhang Bin being humble, only one person, and he is really thinking of better tactics.
This person is Sun Chuanting, who is known for his wisdom, he thought for a while and then coughed, and arched his hand: "My lord, it is better to cut off its grain than to break its foundation, Jiannu is notoriously unproductive, all the grain is oppressed by the people of Liaodong and even the people captured near the capital to plant for them, why don't we send cavalry to attack from all sides, kill all the Jiannu around Liaoyang and Shenyang, and then move all the common people to Dongfan or Fuguang, in this way, the foundation of Jiannu will be broken, we don't even need to attack, less than a year, Jiannu will lack food and clothing, and it will be difficult to sustain. ”
When Zhang Bin heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, this trick is really poisonous!
However, he liked that the suggestion he made when he was trying to Chongzhen was actually similar to this trick, and there were many soldiers in the Fuguang army who were stolen from Liaodong to Dongfan by Mao Wenlong.
It's a pity that with the passage of time, coupled with the disturbances in the court, he slowly left this matter behind, and now Sun Chuanting mentioned it, he immediately reacted, yes, it is better to cut off its grain than to cut off its foundation, without the common people to build slaves to farm, they don't even have food, what kind of food do they transport!
The generals were still surprised by Sun Chuanting's plan to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, so Zhang Bin nodded and praised: "Boya is very right, it is better to cut off its grain than to cut off its foundation, and the best way to completely solve the problem of building slaves once and for all is to move all the people around Liaoyang and Shenyang, so that they have no food source." ”
This trick is indeed better than the siege plan, the siege plan can only make the Jiannu in Liaoyang City have no food, but this trick can make all the Jiannu have no food!
After a little thought, the generals understood the truth, this trick was really once and for all, and soon, everyone in the tent reached a consensus, and began to discuss how to break the foundation of this slave.
Early the next morning, the Ming army outside Liaoyang City began to move, 80,000 Fuguang troops pulled out the camp and marched westward, directly to the west of Liaoyang City, relying on the car array, re-encamped the camp, 50,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry also moved all the tents set up in the camp of the Chinese army to the southwest corner of Liaoyang City, and 40,000 Qin troops came to the Chinese army from the rear army, playing the role of supporting the Tianxiong army, the Qijia army and the Sichuan army to attack the city.
Although the Ming army mobilized on a large scale, the giant wooden tower that stretched for more than 40 miles from the north of Anshan City to the south of Liaoyang City was not demolished, and the watchtower every other mile was not abolished, and there were still people on duty all the time.
When Huang Taiji received the news, he only sighed, there was no way, at this time, the cavalry under his command was almost all dried up by the Ming army, and he had no power to sneak attack the Ming army's camp, let alone block the Ming army's grain route, so he could only let them do it.
Fortunately, the Ming army did not surround Liaoyang City on all sides, otherwise, he would have to lead his foot soldiers out of the city to attack the Ming army camp, because Liaoyang belongs to the war area, only near Liaoyang City and north of the Taizi River there are people to cultivate, there is not much grain in the city, most of the grain here needs to be transported from Shenyang, if the Ming army surrounds Liaoyang City, they will be equal to running out of food, at that time, even if it is dangerous, he can not nest in the city and wait for starvation, only to take the risk of attacking.
Of course, if the Ming army besieged the city on all sides, their troops in each direction would not be too much, and if there was no support from other directions, they would definitely not be able to do the Eight Banners under their own command, in that case, it would not be an opportunity to turn defeat into victory.
It's a pity, Zhang Bin is too stable, he doesn't give himself a chance to turn the tables at all, if he dares to divide his troops to besiege the city, he will dare to take a risk!
After the Ming army mobilized for a day, it began to attack the city again, this time it was flowering on both sides, the Ming army on both sides of the southwest began to bombard the city wall with Hongyi cannons, however, there were only about 20 Hongyi cannons in the south of the city, and there were less than 100 Hongyi cannons in the west of the city.
Of course, even these 100 or so Hongyi cannons were enough for him, and Huang Taiji could only watch the Ming army remove the more than 50 Hongyi cannons he had set up in the west of the city one by one, and there was no way at all.
Zhang Bin commanded the artillery of the Fuguang Army to bombard for a day, and after confirming that the Hongyi cannons on the city wall were all bombarded, he finally began to send foot soldiers to fill the trenches, and it was also carried out in the south and west of the city at the same time.
They fill the trench and Jiannu in Haizhou City is not the same, because there is no threat of artillery, as many people as they want to send on the number of people, so, the speed of filling the trench is quite amazing, one day, they will be in the south of the city and the west of the city wall a mile away all the trenches all filled, to the next day, Zhang Bin and two thousand pounds of Fran cannon evenly distributed to the south and west of the city, constantly bombardment, so that the city wall of Jiannu can not raise their heads, and then he sent a straggler, once a thousand, once a thousand, Take turns filling the ditches within a mile of the city wall.
Huang Taiji originally wanted to use the only remaining more than 400 tiger squat cannons to give the Ming army a little color, but, after thinking about it for a while, he still gave up, because the Ming army's artillery is like having eyes, if he dares to use the tiger squat cannon to fight back, he will definitely be bombarded by the Ming army's concentrated firepower, when the time comes, the artillery he has cultivated with great difficulty will definitely suffer heavy casualties, he will not do this kind of thing of killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 himself, it is better to wait for the Ming army to climb the city wall and then fight back with all his strength, at that time, the Ming army can not continue to open fire, Boom with your own people!
He was thinking nonsense in the city of Liaoyang, in the west of Liaoyang, in the yellow mud depression parallel to the Taizi River and the Hunhe River, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Liaodong Army actually built a port there!
At this time, the water volume of the Hunhe River is still relatively abundant, and the wheels can completely go upstreams from the Liaohe River, drive into the Hunhe River, reach the west of Liaoyang, and even, you can go north again, and reach the vicinity of Shenyang!
These officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army came by wheel, and they had already prepared the materials for the construction of the proposed port, so the speed of the construction of this port was quite fast, and in less than two days, a simple port with more than ten wooden wharves was almost built.
At this time, a large area of Guanning Iron Cavalry under black pressure also rushed from the direction of Liaoyang City, and the leader was Zu Dabi, the deputy general of Guanning Iron Cavalry, and the leader of the Liaodong Army happened to be Zu Dale, the deputy general of the Liaodong Army.
These two brothers are really rampant, here, it seems that it is still the area controlled by Jiannu!