Section 183 Who opened the Zuo'an Gate
Zu Dashou is worthy of being a fierce general in Liaodong, and in the face of the key attacks personally organized by the Jurchen Great Khan Emperor Taiji, he has supported for more than an hour, and is still fighting bravely with his opponent.
And it is precisely with Zu Dashou's hard support that his allies, He Kegang, Hou Shilu, You Shiwei and others, have a chance to breathe and can barely support until now.
Huang Taiji is not flustered.
He has fought with the Liaodong Iron Cavalry many times, and he couldn't be clearer about the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry - this army can gain a foothold in Liaodong, which is a life-and-death opponent in addition to tigers, leopards, jackals, and life-and-death opponents all over the mountains, and its combat effectiveness must be able to keep pace with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners.
In the face of such a team, it can only use the method of boiling frogs in warm water to slowly consume its troops, morale and fighting spirit, and if it is necessary to launch a fierce attack, it is very likely that it will burst out with all its combat effectiveness, and it is not good for the dog to jump under the wall and bite himself back.
Therefore, Huang Taiji was not in a hurry to urge the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command to launch a final surprise attack on Zu Dashou and others, but ordered that on the basis of continuing to maintain contact with the opponent and preventing him from transferring and escaping, he gave full play to the Manchurian cavalry's specialty of being good at riding and shooting, attacking the opponent from a long distance and slowly consuming its combat effectiveness.
Such a very prudent but slightly conservative strategy led to the further development of the battlefield situation.
Just when Huang Taiji was full of confidence and thought that he had done a great job, suddenly a detective came with information: the Zuo'an Gate next to the Guangqu Gate of Jingshi had been opened.
Huang Taiji was stunned when he heard such news, and the shrewd brain under his bare scalp immediately started to work quickly-
Zuo'an Gate is a city gate in the southeast direction of the outer city of Jingshi, through this city gate is like through the Guangqu Gate, it is possible to enter the outer city of Beijing, and after attacking the outer city, you can climb the city wall, and then you can attack all corners of the inner city and the outer city of Beijing very conveniently. Even if the Ming army guarded the city wall with heavy troops, it would be able to find siege equipment such as artillery in the outer city, and there would be a chance to break through the inner city wall.
Therefore, the sudden opening of Zuo'anmen is equivalent to opening a conspicuous bloody hole in the tight and complete defense system of the Beijing Division, revealing major flaws and giving the Manchurian Eight Banners a great opportunity to break through the Beijing Division.
Therefore, when Huang Taiji heard such news, he suddenly became extremely excited, but his excitement lasted for less than a second, so he immediately calmed down and began to think about the second question: Why was Zuo'anmen opened at this time?
You must know that it is not a dizzy nerd or a brutal martial artist who is now leading the defense of the Beijing Division, but the old superintendent Sun Chengzong, whose ability and ability to use soldiers are more sophisticated and advanced than Yuan Chonghuan, how could he make such a low-level mistake of letting the city gate open?
Since it's not
The order of the supreme commander of the Ming army, then it must be the city gate opened by someone else without permission?
"Could it be ......" Huang Taiji couldn't help but talk to himself under the rain of bullets and bullets fighting with the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
In any case, if the city gate is opened, it will be opened, even if the Ming army wants to capture the old and suspicious formation, Huang Taiji is confident that with the invincible combat effectiveness of the Manchurian Eight Banners, he can also kill the capital in the city.
And the only thing to worry about is whether Sun Chengzong, a scheming old superintendent, will set up any conspiracies and tricks in it......
So Huang Taiji decided to temporarily hand over the Eight Banners army to Mang Gurtai, Azig, Haoge and Li Yongfang and others for the time being, and he took a few cronies and guards, broke away from the brigade, and personally went to Zuo'anmen to reconnoiter the enemy.
The location of Huang Taiji is not far from Zuo'anmen, and the galloping horse is only a cup of tea, and he sees the city gate on the southeast corner of the outer city wall of the capital division from a distance.
However, I saw that Zuo'anmen was really as the detective said: two heavy wooden doors somehow fell on the ground, revealing a rather wide doorway in Zuo'anmen, but there were no heavy guards on both sides of the doorway; Although battle flags and artillery were also planted on the city wall, because Zuo'anmen was at the corner of the city wall, these cannons could not form crossfire on the siege troops, and it was relatively easy to attack and difficult to defend a city gate.
When he looked into the gates of the city again, he saw that there were no decent defensive forces organized within the wide gates, but he saw that a hundred or so soldiers were trying to lift up the gates that had fallen to the ground, and no matter how hard they dragged and carried them, the two heavy gates remained unmoved, as if they were firmly nailed to the ground.
"It turned out that Zuo'anmen was broken, and this door was opened! But in a critical place like Jingshi, how could the city gate be damaged at this juncture? Could it be ......"
At this moment, Huang Taiji fell into a dilemma:
Now the gate of the capital division is suddenly opened due to damage, but what happened in it, it is still obscure, and it is very likely to break into Zuo'anmen rashly under such an unclear situation, it is very likely to be tricked or ambushed.
On the other hand, once such an adventure is successful, it will be able to attack the Ming Jingshi in one fell swoop, and achieve an achievement that the Wara Taishi did not achieve after the battle of Tumubao first. And attacking the Daming Jingshi, although it will not suddenly change the dynasty, it can also bite the throat of the giant elephant of Daming, this is a golden opportunity!
Thinking of this, the innate adventurous spirit of the Aixin Jueluo family in the blood of Huang Taiji began to boil gradually, and after observing Zuo'anmen a few more times, he finally issued an order: order the three flags on the eight banners - the Zhenghuang Flag, the Yellow Flag, the Zhengbai Banner and the Zhenghong Banner to immediately leave the Tongliaodong Iron Cavalry
trembling, assemble under the Zuo'an Gate; The remaining Four Banners continued to contain He Kegang, Zu Dashou and others.
The Eight Banners of Manchuria were forbidden, coming and going like the wind, and in the blink of an eye, they were already arrayed outside Zuo'anmen.
Huang Taiji saw that the soldiers and horses had arrived, and hesitated for a while, and saw that there was indeed no sign of ambush in Zuo'anmen, so he mustered up his courage and ordered the sergeants under his command to give orders, blow horns, beat war drums, and order his four banners to rush straight to Zuo'anmen.
The Ming army defending the city on the city wall of Zuo'anmen saw the Manchurian cavalry rushing over, and hurriedly shot arrows and guns to attack the city. However, because the terrain of Zuo'anmen was conducive to attack and not conducive to defense, the long-range firepower on the city could not be fully deployed, so the Manchurian cavalry did not suffer much loss.
Huang Taiji was originally very worried that the opponent would suddenly open Zuo'anmen, but it was a trick to lure the enemy - first set up ambushes on the city walls on both sides of Zuo'anmen, and then attracted himself to attack the city gate rashly, and finally ambushed the troops and attacked him with all his might.
It can be seen that the combat intensity of the defenders around Zuo'anmen is now, even if this is an ambush set up by the Ming army in advance, then Huang Taiji can also regard it as nothing.
So Huang Taiji's confidence increased greatly, and he ordered the heralds to blow the horn louder and beat the war drums more intensively, urging the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners in front of him to fight towards the inner city of the Beijing Division.
The soldiers of the Ming army, who were still trying to repair Zuo'anmen, saw that the Manchurian cavalry was rushing towards them violently, and they didn't even have time to put out a pretentious defensive action, so they fled into the inner city like birds and beasts.
Therefore, these five or six thousand elite soldiers of the four banners effortlessly entered the Zuo'anmen and entered the long-dreamed outer city of Beijing.
However, when they were about to continue to push forward and expand the results of the battle, they found that there was a gap that they could not overcome—a gap that really existed in reality, without the slightest rhetorical exaggeration!
I saw that inside Zuo'anmen, I don't know when, a trench was dug that was one person deep and two zhang wide, and inside the trench, countless Ming troops were standing.
At this moment, the Manchurian general who led the battle was named Yue Tuo, he was the son of the Great Belle Daishan, because Daishan was injured by Ji Qingwen's musket team and could not lead the army in person, so he temporarily commanded the Red Banner soldiers and horses on behalf of his father.
Yue Tuo is over thirty years old this year, and when it comes to the ability to march and fight, even if he is not as good as his father Dai Shan and his uncle Huang Taiji, he is also an experienced general.
When he saw such a situation, his first reaction was that there must be a trick in it, so he did not dare to attack hastily, nor did he immediately push out Zuo'anmen, but made the most appropriate choice at the moment - order his soldiers to maintain their formation, do not act rashly, and then send their right-hand men to immediately report the situation to the Great Khan Emperor Taiji.
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