Zhang Bin was shocked when he heard that it was an urgent report from Liaodong, could it be that something happened in Liaodong?

Huang Taiji has endured it for so long, there is no movement at all, once it breaks out, it is definitely quite terrifying, Yuan Chonghuan must resist it!

He hurried out of the locomotive and asked urgently, "What's the matter?" ”

The guard who summoned the interrogation held up a letter and said embarrassedly: "The villain doesn't know, this is a letter sent by Master Yuan, the Governor of Jiliao, to be sent by speedboat." ”

It turned out to be a letter, Zhang Bin jumped off the locomotive, took the envelope in the hands of the guard, tore it open and looked at it carefully.

Looking at it, his brows couldn't help frowning, and Chongzhen couldn't help but start to command blindly.

Yuan Chonghuan said very clearly in the letter, the emperor decreed, ordered him to lead the army to attack, within a year to recover at least 400 miles of lost territory, he advanced to the line of the Santaizi River, with the help of the ruins of the original fortress to repair five fortresses within a month, I don't know what the reason, Huang Taiji did not lead the army to stop.

Now, the west bank of the Santaizi River is under control, and he is leading the army to continue to advance eastward, but there is a fortress ruins on the line of the Liaohe River, and he is ready to repair Xining Fort first, and rely on Xining Fort to advance around, but he is afraid that a Xining Fort is not enough to resist the attack of Houjin, so he wants to ask Zhang Bin to support him with a batch of muskets and artillery.

Isn't this nonsense, Huang Taiji doesn't have to attack Xining Fort frantically, as long as the grain road is cut off, the 100,000 army will definitely collapse without a fight!

Zhang Bin thought for a while and asked anxiously: "What about the person who sent the letter, did you go back?" ”

The guard arched his hand and said, "No, he is waiting for the reply from the Governor's Palace." ”

didn't go back, Zhang Bin immediately summoned Wang Zheng, Sun Yuanhua and Song Yingxing to confess, and then took a group of guards to rush back to the Governor's Mansion by speedboat.

100,000 Liaodong Army, in addition to the army under his own command, Daming is the strongest in the Liaodong Army, it can be said that in the combat power of Daming, the Liaodong Army accounts for at least more than half, if the 100,000 Liaodong Army has an accident, the blow to Daming is simply immeasurable, no matter what, even if you secretly lead the army to reinforcements, you can't let the 100,000 Liaodong Army have an accident!

Zhang Bin returned to the Governor's Palace, immediately came to the study, flipped out the map of Liaodong, looked carefully, and at the same time, he also asked the officers and soldiers of the Liaodong Army who sent the letter to come over.

After a while, a young general of the Liaodong Army walked in and said, "The last general, Zu Zepu, the guerrilla general of the Liaodong Guanning Army, see the governor. ”

The Zu family didn't know what the relationship was with Zu Dashou, and Zhang Bin didn't bother to ask this, he beckoned directly: "Where is Xining Fort, show it to me." ”

When Zu Zepu heard this, he stepped forward respectfully, pointed to the junction of the Great Wall and the Liao River outside the Guan, and said, "It's here." ”

When Zhang Bin saw it, his eyes couldn't help but light up, it was next to the Liao River, maybe there was a way, he hurriedly asked: "What is the water level of the Liao River now, is it suitable for boating?" ”

Zu Zepu nodded and said: "The drought in the Liaohe River basin is not very serious, this section of the Dafu boat may run aground if it goes in, and it will definitely be no problem for the Cangshan boat to go in." ”

The tonnage of the wheel boat is about the same as that of the Cangshan ship, and if you can walk the Cangshan boat, you can walk the wheel boat, Zhang Bin sighed, nodded and said: "Well, I know, you go down first, I will raise the materials and set off tomorrow, and you will lead the way in front when the time comes." ”

When Zu Zepu heard this, he thanked him again and again, and retreated excitedly.

Zhang Bin stared at the map for a while, and then ordered someone to summon Qi Yuangong to explain it carefully, and then ordered someone to prepare supplies.

At this time, on the west bank of the Liao River, at the junction of the Great Wall and the Liao River outside the Guan, there are Ming soldiers everywhere, not only the ruins of Xining Fort are full of busy Ming soldiers, but also the periphery of Xining Fort and even the periphery of the Great Wall are full of Ming soldiers, only a small number of them are collecting wood and stone, and most of them are digging pits, or ditches!

Of course, Yuan Chonghuan knew that the lone army would collapse without a fight after being cut off from the grain route, so he chose to include the Great Wall in the north of Xining Fort and the Liao River in the east into the defensive range.

If the grain route is cut off, he can still transport grain and grass through the Great Wall connecting the Santaizi River, so that although it is a little troublesome, it will not starve people to the point of collapse.

If Huang Taiji takes great pains to cut off this section of the Great Wall more than 200 miles long, he can still transport grain and grass through the river, and the river Huang Taiji is constantly intercepted, and Mao Wenlong's sailor is already quite large-scale, and Huang Taiji has no water division strength to compete with it at all, so he asked Mao Wenlong to drive a warship to transport grain and grass to him.

In short, Huang Taiji wants to use the method of cutting off the grain road to make the 100,000 army he led collapse without a fight, if you want to conquer Xining Fort, you can only fill it with human life, he is famous for defending the city, leading less than 20,000 people to defend the city can make more than 100,000 Houjin troops desperate, this time he has 100,000 troops under his command, and Houjin wants to conquer Xining Fort, at least a million troops will come!

Does Huang Taiji have a million army under him? Apparently not, so, if you want to conquer Fort Xinin, basically, it is very difficult.

The reason why he wrote to Zhang Bin to ask for assistance with a batch of muskets and artillery was actually to prepare for the advancement of the fortress behind, after all, it is not so easy to build a new fortress, and it is difficult to find a place like Xining Fort in an excellent location on the west bank of the Liao River.

Huang Taiji heard that Yuan Chonghuan really led the army deep into the Liaohe River Valley, and was immediately overjoyed, the army of the Eight Banners of Meng and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty had already gathered in Haizhou, only more than 50 miles away from the Liao River, and he had already led 60,000 Houjin Tie Cavalry to Liaoyang, which was only more than 100 miles away from Haizhou.

After receiving the news, he immediately led the Houjin Tie cavalry to Haizhou, Yuan Chonghuan had just built a city and dug a ditch in Xining Fort, and the more than 200,000 troops he had gathered had quietly dispersed into a semicircle and slowly surrounded it.

On the third day when Yuan Chonghuan arrived at Xining Fort, the city wall on the south side of Xining Fort was only less than a zhang high, and the other three sides had not yet started, and the scouts scattered everywhere reported one after another, and there were Jiannu armies everywhere, and Xining Fort had been surrounded by Jiannu legions!

At this time, even Zu Dashou was startled, this place is more than 400 miles away from the Guanning Jin Defense Line, and it is surrounded in this kind of place, and you can't run away, so you can only fight to the death with Jiannu!

Yuan Chonghuan did not hurry to order that all the connections of the outer ravines be dug up and the water of the Liao River was introduced.

Huang Taiji led the army to surround and take a look, the wrong point of the breathless spurting blood, Yuan Chonghuan this guy actually dug the periphery of Xining Fort like a spider web, there are ravines everywhere, although it is not deep, but the row is very dense, riding over, crossing the first ditch, crossing the second ditch, crossing the second ditch, there are I don't know how many there are behind, if you are not careful, you will fall off the bones and break the warp!

This is indeed a good way to block the cavalry, however, he has not encountered it before, because the ditch can be filled, it just takes time, no one will play the trick of digging the ditch and filling the ditch with people, but this time Yuan Chonghuan just played with him, and it was very excessive, so many ditches, the 100,000 army is afraid that they have not done anything else these days, and they are specifically digging ditches!

Of course, this is not the case, Yuan Chonghuan only sent 80,000 troops to dig ditches, 10,000 people were transporting earth and stones, and all the excavated earth and stones were transferred to the ruins of Xining Fort, and the other 10,000 people were desperately building the city wall.

Huang Taiji looked at the criss-crossing ravines in front of him, and had no choice but to order: "Order, the army is stationed along the periphery of the ravine, with the Mengbaqi on the left and the Han Baqi on the right, with an interval of one mile, after camping and resting, the ditch will be filled tomorrow morning, and the Mengbaqi cavalry will go first, let them prepare well." ”

The herald ordered the guards to disperse, more than 200,000 Hou Jin army scattered in all directions, and the periphery of Xining Fort was suddenly full of large camps for about ten miles, but only on the southwest side, because the north is the Great Wall, and there are also Ming troops stationed on it, and the east is the Liao River, even if there is no Ming army stationed, no one will camp on the other side of the river, and it is not so easy to cross the Liao River, they also spent a day detouring dozens of miles, looking for a place where the sandbar is dense, and they took an unknown number of pontoon bridges to get around.

More than 200,000 troops, how spectacular it is to set up camp, whether it is the Houjin Iron Cavalry or the Mengbaqi and Han Baqi's co-attendant army, they are all full of smugness, and the 100,000 Ming troops in the middle seem to have become their bag.

And the soldiers of the Ming army in the middle did not have a frightened expression, but their faces were indifferent, because most of the Liaodong troops in this wave were veterans recruited by Sun Chengzong when he was the governor of Jiliao, and they had seen a lot of Jiannu, and the two sides had not fought once or twice, so many years, the Houjin army had not bargained much in front of them, and the annihilation of the whole army had never appeared.

Yuan Chonghuan was also indifferent, and he did not have the panic of being surrounded by more than 200,000 troops, he raised his binoculars to look at the situation of the Houjin army outside, and then said lightly: "It seems that they will not attack today, but Gang, you take your men to rest well, and act according to the plan tomorrow." ”

The deputy general He Kegang bowed his hand and obeyed the order, and Shi Shiran went to rest.

Yuan Chonghuan said to Zu Dashou on the side: "Fuyu, you work hard, take 30,000 people on guard, and arrange another 20,000 people to build the city, and then the matter of building the city will be handed over to you during this time, don't stop, strive to complete the south and east city walls as soon as possible, don't be too anxious on the northwest side, it will be almost the same if you can erect the main body of the city wall." ”

Zu Dashou was also numb at this time, anyway, he was surrounded anyway, he was afraid of a ball, it was a big deal, he just said goodbye and turned around to arrange when he heard the words, without saying a word.

Why is Yuan Chonghuan so confident, because this trench digging is not his temporary intention, and he is not nesting in the Guanning Jin defense line all day long, how to deal with the Houjin Iron Cavalry, how to break east, where to break through and what tactics to use to gain an advantage, these, he thinks about it every day, just like these trenches, they are not dug randomly, Huang Taiji will know that it is powerful if he tries it.

Early the next morning, the Mengyuan Eight Banners began to fill the trenches under the supervision of the Later Jin general Jierharang.

The method they used was very simple, that is, the foot soldiers behind were responsible for loading soil into the sack, loading half a bag, about dozens of catties or so on the earthen platform, and then the cavalry beat the horse, one person carried a bag to the front of the trench, pinched the back of the bag to sprinkle the soil into the trench, and then turned back, threw the empty sack on the ground, and then picked up the sack containing the soil and continued to fill it.

This method should be said to be very efficient, tens of thousands of Mengyuan cavalry, it doesn't take half an hour to fill in the trench one zhang wide, the problem, Yuan Chonghuan will not let them fill the trench so easily.

The first batch of Mengyuan cavalry carrying sacks just came to the trench, and before the soil was scattered, a rain of arrows suddenly rose in the trench about a hundred steps ahead, and thousands of arrows rained down like "whoosh", and hundreds of Mengyuan cavalry could not stop the momentum, and were covered with a solid knot, and everyone, including the war horses, all became hedgehogs and fell in front of the trench.

Seeing this scene, Qierharang hurriedly raised his hand to ask the Mengyuan cavalry behind to stop filling the soil, even if the Mengyuan tribes were not their own clansmen, this kind of behavior of letting people go to death could not continue, otherwise, the Mengyuan tribes would definitely be resentful.

What should I do now?

The ditch in front of it led the water of the Liao River in, and he and Huang Taiji thought that the ditch behind also led the water of the Liao River, and it took a long time to do it, but it was not like this at all, people stood in the back trench and threw it, you can't even see the shadow of the person, how is this good!

Just when he had nothing to do, a cavalryman with a yellow flag ran over and said loudly: "The Great Khan has an order, change the foot soldier and raise his shield to fill in the soil." ”

Although this method is a little slower, it can avoid casualties, Qierharang immediately ordered that the Mengyuan troops should be replaced with foot soldiers, holding wooden shields and carrying sacks.

Hundreds of foot soldiers, holding wooden shields, ran for about a cup of tea, and before they could reach the trench, there was another rain of arrows in the trench in front, but this time it was a rocket!

"Aggressive" There was a muffled sound, and at least more than ten rockets were inserted into the wooden shield of each foot soldier, and the wooden shield suddenly burst into flames, and these foot soldiers were also brave, regardless of the fire on the wooden shield, they rushed to the edge of the trench and poured the soil into the trench before quickly retreating.

Before they could run back to their main formation, the wooden shield burned through, and everyone had to throw the wooden shield to the ground, leaving the light man to run back.

This doesn't seem to have any loss, just a few hundred wooden shields, cut some trees and process them a little, but it is impossible for Mengyuan Eight Banners to bring tens of thousands of wooden shields, just like that, it took less than ten rounds of backfilling, and the first trench was not filled, and the wooden shields of Mengyuan Eight Banners were burned out.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "Meng Eight Banners, Han Eight Banners, make every effort to make wooden shields today, and continue to fill them tomorrow." ”

All they consume is a wooden shield, just cut down some trees, the Ming army consumes rockets, he doesn't believe it, the Ming army can still prepare hundreds of thousands of rockets, just let you shoot a good time, see how many rockets you have prepared!

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