Every time Huang Taiji encircled and suppressed the anti-thieves in the Ming Dynasty, was it purely to "save" the anti-thieves?

Of course not, he is actually stealing chickens, Chongzhen's sneak attack on the capital of Daming in the second year made him understand a truth, to talk about real strength, Houjin is not the opponent of Daming, Daming can gather more than 400,000 troops in a very short time, and he, even if he is exhausted, will be full of eight banners, Mongolian eight banners and Han Eight Banners of young and strong all gathered, at best can be able to make up 300,000 troops.

That is to say, if the Ming Dynasty concentrates all his strength to deal with him, he will not be able to eat and walk around, and when the Ming court goes to encircle and suppress the anti-thieves, it will definitely not be able to concentrate all its strength to deal with him, and he will be able to occupy a certain advantage at this time.

Therefore, whenever the Ming court encircled and suppressed the anti-thieves, he would send troops, first, to save the anti-thieves, but also to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's lack of time to deal with him with all his strength and make some gains.

This time, he sent more than 100,000 troops to besiege Jinzhou, in fact, the main goal was not to take Jinzhou, he still wanted to take the opportunity to rush into the Gyeonggi area to loot, the problem this time the little emperor seemed to have opened up, even when encircling and suppressing the anti-thieves, Jizhou Town, Datong Town and Xuanfu Town all left elite soldiers stationed, so that he was a little at a loss.

The Qi family army, the Tianxiong army, and the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army are not easy to mess with, and he doesn't want to touch any of them, so he ordered Yue Tuo and Hao Ge to lead 60,000 foot soldiers of the Eight Banners and 50,000 soldiers of the Han Eight Banners to besiege Jinzhou, and he himself led 60,000 elite cavalry of the Eight Banners to the Chahar grassland, and the cavalry and foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of Mengyuan also gathered in the Chahar grassland at this time.

His plan to attack the west is really good, and it can be said that stealing chickens has stolen a new height.

It's a pity that Xu Guangqi was entrusted by Zhang Bin that when he led the army to encircle and suppress the anti-thieves, he must not transfer the garrisons of Jizhou Town, Datong Town and Xuanfu Town, so as not to take advantage of the opportunity to enter the prison.

Chongzhen was frightened by Huang Taiji, and he was about to transfer the Qi family army, the Tianxiong army and the Sichuan army to Jinzhou to support, but Xu Guangqi tried his best to dissuade him, and suggested that the Fuguang army led by Zhang Bin be transferred to support.

Chongzhen weighed and repeatedly accepted Xu Guangqi's suggestion, Jinzhou could fight back if it was lost, and he couldn't recover it after Jiannu rushed into the Gyeonggi area and looted grain, grass, property and ordinary people.

However, he seemed to be a bit of a thief and was embarrassed to face Zhang Bin, so he simply asked the cabinet and the Ministry of War to jointly issue an order, ordering Zhang Bin to lead the army to support Jinzhou.

At this time, the atmosphere of Jinzhou City is a little weird, more than 100,000 Houjin army did not surround the entire Jinzhou City, they just set up a camp more than ten miles away in the east of the city, and all day and night are just attacking the east city wall, but the other three sides have never patronized.

They seemed to want to force the Ming army in the city to abandon the city and flee, rather than to encircle and annihilate the 10,000 Dongjiang troops here.

Will Mao Wenlong run?

That is naturally impossible, the Houjin coalition army seems to attack fiercely, but every day it only lets the 50,000 foot soldiers of the Han Eight Banners attack desperately, but the 60,000 foot soldiers of the Eight Banners are neatly lined up six miles away, and they can't come over, they seem to be just here to supervise the battle, not to attack the city at all.

Mao Wenlong, the 50,000 Han Eight Banner Foot Soldiers, really didn't pay much attention to it, if it weren't for the fact that he was saving ammunition, saving thunder, and guarding against the surprise attack of the Eight Banner Foot Soldiers behind, he would have disabled the 50,000 Han Eight Banner Foot Soldiers.

As the sun set, the day's assault came to an end, and the army of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty outside the city was retreating like a tide, leaving behind only corpses and countless besieged equipment that had been burned and emitted black smoke.

On the city wall, the officers and men of the Dongjiang Army are methodically cleaning up the corpses and treating the wounded, and the enemy's corpses will not hesitate to lift up and drop off the city wall, and the corpses of their comrades will be carefully lifted up, placed in the designated position, and neatly lined up together.

On the tower of the East Gate, Mao Wenlong held a telescope and stared coldly at the retreating enemy, standing there without saying a word.

Behind him, several generals of the Dongjiang Army stood in a neat row, standing there quietly, also without saying a word, these people were more or less wounded, but there was no frustration and despair on their faces, on the contrary, they were all resolute and full of fighting spirit.

Seeing the foot soldiers of the Han Eight Banners retreat into the range of the artillery, Mao Chengzuo finally couldn't help but arch his hand and said: "Father, why don't you open fire, you can kill at least hundreds of them in five rounds, right?" ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he couldn't help but put down his binoculars and pouted: "These traitors are not worth our waste of shells." “

Mao Chengzuo nodded suddenly, no longer speaking, Mao Wenlong then said to the guerrilla Liu Guangzuo: "Old Liu, what are the casualties today?" ”

Liu Guangzuo was a little worried: "There are not many brothers who have died in battle, only a few dozen, but there are thousands of wounded, they will attack like this for a few more days, we are afraid that everyone will be injured and go into battle, why doesn't the imperial court send people to support, if Jiannu is desperate to attack, we are afraid that we will not be able to carry it for a few days." ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he said solemnly: "Lao Liu, don't talk nonsense about this kind of frustration, you know, it will shake the morale of the army, forget it this time, and next time, I will engage in military law." ”

When Liu Guangzuo heard this, he couldn't help but stir up his ears, and then said with annoyance: "The general forgives the sin, my mouth is sometimes like to spray nonsense, I will definitely pay attention next time." ”

Mao Wenlong nodded, and then patiently explained: "Don't worry, Jiannu sometimes still regret their lives, unless they have to, they will not take human lives to fill, every time they fight, they drive Meng Baqi and Han Baqi to fight with us, and they rarely fight themselves." This time, if they really wanted to take Jinzhou, they should have besieged it desperately, and they always used the Han Eight Banners to consume us, which proves that they don't want to take Jinzhou, but have other purposes. The reason why the imperial court has not sent reinforcements for a long time is naturally due to the consideration of the imperial court, as long as we do our duty and guard Jinzhou. “

While they were discussing reinforcements, a herald suddenly came rushing from the southern wall, and there must have been something good about his excitement.

He ran to Mao Wenlong, knelt on one knee, and said excitedly: "General Qiyu, the reinforcements from the imperial court are here, and there are a lot of wheels from the port in the south, and they are about to get on the dock." ”

When Mao Wenlong heard this, he couldn't help but be surprised: "Oh, a lot of wheels? How many? ”

The herald estimated: "The long line of wheels can't see the head at a glance, and the small ones should have at least a few hundred." ”

Hundreds of wheels, that is at least tens of thousands of people, it must be the reinforcements sent by Zhang Bin, Mao Wenlong heard this, and couldn't help but slap his face excitedly: "It must be the reinforcements sent by Shuangquan, Lao Liu, you are watching here, Chengzuo, go, follow me to meet you." ”