Chapter 40: The Crucible
Indeed, this is not only the largest logistics base of the Qing army, but also the largest military industrial base, otherwise it would not have needed 8,000 troops to guard it.
Here the cannon was founded.
All the Hongyi cannons of the Qing army were cast in Jinzhou, the heaviness of this thing limited its movement in the water network area of the lower reaches of the Liao River, and the Qing army did not have a strong sailor to protect it from sea to its destination, so it could only be cast in Jinzhou, which was as close to the frontier as possible, and then transported south by land. Last year, Zilharang and Azig went south with the cannons cast here, and bypassed Ning Yuan, where Wu Sangui was stationed, and forcibly blasted open the remaining fortresses outside Shanhaiguan, and even stopped until they approached Shanhaiguan.
This round of their southward movement left the Ming Dynasty in the Guanwai control area only the isolated city of Ningyuan.
The artillery contributed a lot to this battle.
In fact, the Qing army is not at all they later fooled fools to fool themselves into lame cavalry shooting, siege they all rely on artillery, field they all rely on shield car heavy infantry, compared to the Ming army in addition to they are more fierce and tenacious, especially the infantry heavy arrow five steps Yan shot in this era, obviously more suitable for the battlefield than the Ming army's shoddy arquebus, there is even a certain advantage in simple heavy artillery.
The main thing is that the quality is better.
The civil officials of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty didn't care about the treatment of the low-level craftsmen who cast the cannons, as well as the same low-level military households who used these cannons, as long as they cast the cannons and threw them to the army, they would complete the task, and it was better to be shoddy, because they could be greedy for more, but in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if the cannon casting was not good, the whole family would be beheaded, and on the contrary, the cannon casting would be greatly rewarded.
After the triumph of Zilharang, Dolgon once rewarded Ding Qiming, a cannon casting craftsman, to Niu Lu Zhangjing in the name of Shunzhi.
"Destroy, destroy!"
Yang Qing said viciously.
"All the cannon casting craftsmen in the city who are willing to kill Jiannu and lose sincerity, they will not be left behind, and all those who are being cast and those that have been cast will be stuffed into gunpowder and smashed, in short, this city is not only willing to follow us to leave, kill Jiannu and sacrifice the name, whether it is Jiannu or his slaves or traitor businessmen, all the others will be killed!"
He then added.
"The little one understands!"
The slave said excitedly.
Immediately afterwards, he rushed down the drum tower and ran towards Li Laiheng, who was wantonly killing, and soon Yang Qing's order ......
Uh, no need for a summons.
Yang Qingchun did this too much, at this moment, those carnival soldiers in the city, how could he need him to teach them how to do, and then on the street in front of the bell and drum tower under his feet, several soldiers dragged some captured Qing soldiers with war horses and ran over, and the latter's miserable wail was like the musical accompaniment of the carnival.
"Alas, the world is declining, and people's hearts are not ancient!"
Yang Qing sat there and munched on a freshly roasted leg of lamb and lamented.
"Master of the family, Jiannu is almost to the Daling River!"
A house slave walked up to him and said respectfully.
"So fast?"
Yang Qing stood up unexpectedly and said.
"Summons the order, don't play, it's time to pick up guests!"
Then he said.
An hour later.
Suke Sahatie blushed, looking at Jinzhou City across the mountain, although he couldn't see the sky-high fire because of the Bauhinia Mountain, but the fiery red that reflected the sky showed him the tragedy that happened there, and at his feet was a sweaty Qing army, lying there sobbing.
"This demon!"
Sukh Saha suddenly broke his horsewhip and scolded.
He was really broken down now, he really couldn't understand what kind of opponent he was up against. He chased and killed this madman-like guy all the way, and then suddenly received news that this demon slaughtered the Niu Zhuang in the back, and even set up an ambush at the back of the entire team to kill Li Guohan, but the next moment he ran to Jinzhou, does he have a doppelganger technique? One moment at the back, the other at the front, like a ghost! If it weren't for the news that Yang Qing had just set off in Luyang Station and received the news that Yang Qing had attacked the rear team, he relaxed his pursuit and stayed at the Thirteen Mountain Station for a day to rest, at this time he had already entered Jinzhou, and this kind of thing would not have happened, and the erratic whereabouts of this demon made him completely unable to adapt.
It is clear that Sukh Saha has forgotten that the sea route is a straight line.
However, they had to make a detour that was more than twice as far as the sea route in order to avoid the floods of the lower reaches of the Liao River and the large swamps and tidal ditches that were flooded by the perennial seawater, and even if they were cavalry, they could maintain a daily journey of 100 miles at most when food and fodder were insufficient, and Yang Qing's battleships going down the river were much faster than them.
But he finally arrived.
"Kill, avenge the brothers in Jinzhou!"
He drew his knife and pointed forward, shouting.
Behind him, the three thousand cavalry that had rushed from the Thirteen Mountain Post all night rushed forward.
But at this time, countless lights lined up on the Xiaoling River in the distance slowly went down the river and went straight to the mouth of the river, it was obvious that these villains had completed the burning, killing and looting in Jinzhou and began to retreat, the Qing army who saw this scene did not have to wait for Su Ke Saha's order to take out bows and arrows on horseback, although they could not actually intercept the Ming warships on the Xiaoling River, but they must not sit back and watch these guys leave.
Soon the two sides came into each other's line of sight.
The main road from Dalinghebao to Jinzhou also enters Jinzhou from the east gate, and the mountain pass section at the foot of Bauhinia Mountain runs along the riverbank.
So the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed.
Then a scene that made the Qing soldiers look at each other, a large number of captured women in the city were pushed out by the soldiers of the Mingshun coalition army, standing on the deck one by one in disheveled clothes, and there were still pigtailed human heads around their necks. The cries of these women made the galloping Qing cavalry furious, and one by one they kept urging their horses forward, ignoring the women who shot sharp arrows at the Ming army beside them, but this was not only meaningless, but quickly attracted the return fire of the birds and bows and arrows from the boats.
"Sukh Saha, thank you for seeing you off, go back and tell Dolgon, let him wash his ass, we have a lot of brothers here!"
Then a roar sounded from a warship.
A laugh ensued.
Sukh Saha watched this scene with a blushing face.
"Dolgon, wash your ass and wait for grandpa to reward you with a big stick!"
"I want Bumu Butai, women are the right!"
"I like Fulin, I like a little tender person like Fulin!"
……
Then countless foul words rang out on the battleships that were pulled down the river by the ebbing tide water, and even quickly became more specific and detailed, and I don't know where these guys knew the inside information, even the inside story of Hauge and Dolgon's struggle for the throne, and many of them were simply made up, such as Dolgon and Da Yu'er conspiring to poison Huang Taiji and Fu Lin is Dolgon's wild seed and so on. In short, these guys humiliated the dignity of our Qing Dynasty in various ways on the warship that went down the river more than fifty zhang wide, and there were some shameless people who actually did that shameless thing on the deck, while the three thousand Manchurian elites, including Suke Saha, could only watch, and then attacked with bows and arrows in vain.
If it was winter, they would not let a single enemy leave, but alas, it was early summer, and the wide river was a trench for the cavalry.
"That's not right!"
Sukh Saha suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his head.
"Quick, don't entangle with them here, go to Jinzhou immediately, they must still have a lot of them who haven't boarded the ship, this is deliberately dragging us back."
He suddenly roared.
The generals beside him woke up in an instant.
Immediately after the order was issued, the Qing army, which was entangled with the Ming army on the boat in vain, immediately turned as fast as possible, rushed forward along the riverbank road, and went straight to the valley under the Bauhinia Mountain. However, because the shallow water of the river above the Beiling Wharf could not enter the large warships, these were only small warships without cannons, and the losses caused by the bird's guns and bows and arrows to the Qing army were not large. The Qing army, who were sure that they had made the right choice, ignored them and rushed forward under the leadership of Sukh Saha, ready to vent their anger with the blood of the Ming army who had not yet had time to board the ship, and soon they were squeezing into the river valley.
This section is two miles long, and the section of the right mountain and the left river is extremely narrow.
The galloping Qing army, with Sukh Saha as the vanguard, was gradually forced into a long dragon of two horses in parallel, ignoring the arrows and bullets fired from the river and moving forward at full speed.
"Kill, it's time for revenge!"
Sukh Saha raised his sword and roared.
Suddenly, Jinzhou City showed his vision, and then he almost subconsciously wanted to take the war horse.
This is still Jinzhou, this is completely a burning furnace, the whole city is bounded by the city wall is completely a sky-high flame, especially the four-gate tower and the bell and drum tower at the commanding height of the city, like five torches, the burning ashes of the buildings in the city rise with the billowing smoke, in the fiery red sky converges into a terrifying magic dragon straight into the night, and even across the ten miles of road, he feels the high temperature released there.
And it goes without saying what the city is like at this time.
The largest artillery base in the Qing Dynasty, the largest logistics base, and the largest fortress in the Western Liaoning Corridor, together with at least 30,000 people and more than 500,000 stone military rations, were all reduced to ashes in this furnace.
Also turned to ashes is the dream of going south.
It is impossible for them to continue southward, and they cannot go on an expedition of four hundred miles hungry.
Not to mention that there was a fortress four hundred miles away that they had feared before, and it was impossible for them to take it hungry, not to mention that there were more than 100,000 enemies around that fortress.
"Ah......h
Sukh Saha threw his back to the sky and suddenly let out a roar of grief and indignation.
"Howl, howl Nima, ahhh
There was a sudden disdainful scolding in front of him.
Suke Saha looked down in amazement, and then he realized that he didn't know when, there was suddenly an extra figure in the narrowest part of the road in front of him, this figure was carrying a huge mace, and he was not riding a horse, nor was there a soldier following, just standing alone more than a dozen feet away in front of him, standing on the background of the furnace of Jinzhou City......
(Resumption of two shifts)