Chapter 34 Sneak Attack on Songshan Fort Wu Sangui came to congratulate

Songshan Fort and Jinzhou together combined with the surrounding guard castles to form a Songjin protection group. Matsuyama Fort was originally a castle.

The original city of the Ming Dynasty was the garrison city under the Acropolis, and there were 127,000 households in Liaodong Town. There were only ten acropolis with independent garrisons. According to the regulations of the defense organization facilities of Liaodong Town, the city is the fourth-level defensive garrison city. The volume of the city is smaller than the acropolis, and the architectural form is similar to the acropolis, but there are only three gates, no north gate, and the location of the north gate is built to build a temple of God, which is the custom of the city.

Songshan Fort is only 19 miles away from Jinzhou Wei, the scale is only half of Jinzhou, the city is rectangular, the north and south walls are 470 meters long, and the east and west walls are 370 meters long. In the middle of the north wall is the Temple of God. The city has three gates: east, west, and south. There is a "cross-shaped" main road with three gates as the axis in the castle.

As the other castles were breached one after another, Dolgon finally had to shrink his forces to Jinzhou and Songshan Fort. During the Ming Dynasty, there were only more than 1,000 normal defenders of Songshan Fort, but now more than 30,000 people are crowded here, and more than 10,000 people are stationed on the periphery of Songshan Fort.

Li Jing and the others followed the fleeing Qing soldiers in front, went out of the west gate to the south, crossed the Daughter River, bypassed Dabei Mountain, and saw Songshan Fort from a distance. At this time, it was already dawn, Li Jing looked at the front of nearly 2,000 people, the team was very long, the rout was rushing towards Songshan, his own more than 100 people, Li Jing did not dare to line up, deliberately ran very scattered, but the automatic rifle was hidden in the armor, and the drums and drums were very uncomfortable.

At this time, the periphery of Songshan was also surrounded by the Yaogang army, and the team that rushed out from Jinzhou was a Qing army's Jiala, who was also very experienced, and came to the east gate of Songshan Castle, he waved his hand to let the people behind him lie down, found a gap in the Yaogang camp, and took everyone to climb over quietly. How did he know that this was the kiln gang people who deliberately let them into the city.

However, they finally came to the east gate of Songshan Fort, and a fence outside blocked the way, and the Qing soldiers guarding them did not allow them to pass, fearing that they were spies disguised as Yaogang people.

Jiala, who had finally escaped, was afraid that the Yaogang army would come from behind, because they were too tired to fight again, so angry that he drew his sword and scolded the defenders. However, when the defenders just refused to let them go, and when there was a stalemate, Baylor, who was finally responsible for guarding Songshan Fort, came to the city with his two brothers, Gong Adai and Xihan, the auxiliary generals, and saw that they knew this Jiala, and it was indeed a person with a blue flag of Zierharang. They immediately let people let them in.

Baiyintu, Gong Adai, and Sihan were the sons of Nurhachi's younger brother Bayara, and they were also Dolgon's absolute cronies, which is why Dolgon had their three brothers guard this important place in Songshan Fort. They were really surprised to hear that Jinzhou was breached, and they knew that in this way, Songshan Fort would be an isolated city, and they didn't know if they could hold out until Dolgon fought back.

However, many of the more than 2,000 soldiers who fled back in front of them were wounded, and they let the Qing army among these soldiers enter the city to rest, while the Han army stayed outside the city to rest.

Li Jing was glad in her heart, thanks to the fact that they had changed into Qing soldier clothes, otherwise it would be difficult to enter the city.

But when Li Jing and the others entered the city from the east gate, something went wrong. A Niu Lu Ezhen, who was guarding the city gate, was a little worried about these retreating Qing soldiers, but Baylor let them go, and he couldn't help it. Guarding the city gate, he found that some soldiers were bulging in their armor, and he pointed to a special soldier and shouted, "Hey! Come here! There's something hidden in your body! ”

That special soldier was really close to this Niu Lu, and he had no choice but to go over, Li Jing and their accents were so special that they didn't dare to speak, but they were all ready to do it. The special soldier walked over and stretched out his hands to signal that there was nothing, but Niu Lu was really about to lift the armor of this special soldier, how could this special soldier let him do it, just when his hands touched the armor of the special forces, he suddenly reached out and pressed the head of Niu Lu Zhen, and his neck was broken with a "crunch". Li Jing saw that she had entered the doorway, and she could do it, so she escaped from the **** and shouted "do it". The special forces all took out the ****, killed the Qing soldiers around them, and then rushed into the city gate, at this time, the three brothers Bai Yintu, Gong Adai, and Xihan happened to come down from the city gate building, and wanted to learn more about the situation from the Jia Lama who fled back. But they hadn't seen this Jiala yet, and suddenly there was a great chaos in the cave of the east gate, and many Qing soldiers ran out of the hole in the city gate.

Seeing this, Bai Yintu shouted, "Bastard! Don't mess around! Stop me. ”

They didn't know that it was Li Jing who was running in front of him, and the **** "puff" in Li Jing's hand shot three shots at the three of them. Li Jing had long known that Songshan Fort was responsible for guarding the three brothers, although Li Jing couldn't be sure that these three people were the three brothers mentioned in the intelligence, but he felt that it should be about the same. The three heads of this brother were all red dots, and then he fell down very unwillingly. The Qing officers and soldiers in the city were stunned for a moment, and immediately quit, seeing that their leader was dead, one by one "wow" shouted and waved their blades and rushed over, Li Jing and their more than 100 **** fought for a while, and saw that they had attracted a lot of defenders in the city, Li Jing shouted: "Change guy!" The special forces each took out a hand ** and threw it at the densely populated place in the city, and then took out automatic rifles and began the massacre, while a part of them rushed towards the city gate building.

The kiln army outside Songshan Fort heard an explosion from inside Songshan Fort, and their large and small cannons opened fire at the same time, and then the artillery carriage took the lead, covering the infantry from the east gate into Songshan Fort City. Songshan Fort was not big in total, but it was crowded with more than 30,000 people, and the artillery trucks covered the infantry to rush into the city and kill everywhere, and the city suddenly became a meat grinder.

Outside the castle, the Manchu army and the Han army, hearing the sound of killing and gunfire in the castle, knew that it was not good, and the army's morale was even more chaotic. The defenders in the city took advantage of the fact that the south west gate was not occupied, and opened the city gate and wanted to rush out, but several heavy machine guns blocked the city gate head-on, and they were all killed by bullets as soon as they rushed to the city gate hole. The soldiers who rushed out in the back couldn't rush out even if they were blocked by piles of corpses.

The Qing soldiers in Songshan Fort have been fighting to the death, and the sense of combat is very strong, and the kiln soldiers who entered the city to slaughter are a little soft, but the veterans have repeatedly reminded everyone that they must not be soft, otherwise you will die.

When the killing is done on the street, they go door to door. Those who hide in the room and don't come out, so they have to solve it with their hands. It was not until the afternoon that the gunfire in Songshan Fort stopped. However, Li Jing found that more than a dozen Han people who were tied up in the city as hostages were still killed by Qing soldiers. It's also in no way.

When Li Jing and they were killing in Songshan Fort, Jiang Ji and they were doing the same thing in Jinzhou.

The large-scale battle in Jinzhou City ended before noon, and the artillery station of Yaogang was covered at the main street entrance, and the infantry divided up to clear it. The battle was not over until dark.

After Jiang Jian and Songshan Fort contacted by radio, they immediately reported the good news to the Yaogang command center.

Zhang Zhimu immediately let the radio broadcast this important news, and of course, he also sent the good news to Emperor Chongzhen by telegram.

It's another night of national celebration. However, soon, Emperor Chongzhen sent a telegram to Zhang Zhimu saying that he wanted to come to Yaogang as soon as possible, and now that the canal has been dredged, if the passenger ship in Yaogang is not heavy, it can enter Beijing along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and ask Zhang Zhimu to send a passenger ship to Beijing to pick it up.

Regarding the fact that Emperor Chongzhen was going to come to Yaogang, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He studied it.

Ouyang He said: "Mr. Zhang, whether the emperor comes or not, we must act according to our own plan." You can do it! ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that Ouyang He was a little dissatisfied with Zhang Zhimu's failure to pay attention to how to deal with Emperor Chongzhen's affairs. In fact, Zhang Zhimu also knew in his heart that no matter how to deal with the emperor's affairs, the military operations and economic construction of Yaogang would not be delayed, and there was no need to solve the problem of Emperor Chongzhen when the conditions were not ripe, and he had not decided how to deal with the emperor. However, the situation has developed to today's situation, and it is time for Emperor Chongzhen to think about where he is going. This time the emperor came to Yaogang, which was an opportunity to have a good talk with Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Then send a ship to Beijing to pick up the emperor." Let's ask the emperor to come up to the kiln to see how we are doing here. I think the emperor is also very concerned about coming to Yaogang, otherwise he wouldn't have known so clearly about the river. I think the canal should continue to be dredged, until our passenger ships can pass freely. In that case, we would be able to connect the country's rivers into a network of passenger ships. At that time, we could go by boat wherever we wanted. ”

"Zhimu, you can arrange these things! We must urge Jiang Tie and Wei Xiang to recover the Liaodong capital as soon as possible, and then take back all the slaves on the Gandu Division side before the freeze. A large number of our officials and policemen also went to Liaodong in two ways. Chen Yufeng's mind was still on the military, and he was unwilling to interfere in Zhang Zhimu's treatment of Emperor Chongzhen.

This time, the policy that the Yaogang people were prepared to adopt towards Nurgan Dusi was different from that of the Ming Dynasty.

Nuer Gandu commanded the envoys, and was a military institution established in the area of the Heilongjiang estuary in the northeast (in present-day Russia) during the Ming Dynasty. The administrative center is located in Telin, on the east bank of the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, with more than 400 guards and institutes, and the garrison army is a local military and political organization. The jurisdiction is bounded by the sea in the east, Sakhalin Island in the northeast, the Nan River (Onen River) in the west, the Tumen River in the south, and the Outer Khingan Mountains in the north.

The Ming Dynasty did not directly control the rule of the northeast region, but only set up military bases and developed communication routes in important places, and the various ethnic groups were still essentially ruled by the tribes themselves, and except for a few officials, most of the official and military personnel were served by the local tribal people, and the central government occasionally or sent personnel to patrol and comfort the people of various ethnic groups. After the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor, the Ming Dynasty paid less attention to the management of the Northeast, and most of the officials in the region became hereditary and not subject to central control. In the ninth year of Xuande (1434), the Nuer Gandu Division was officially abolished. With the decline of the Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens, led by Nurhachi, gradually replaced the Ming Dynasty's rule over the Heilongjiang region.

This time, the Yaogang people discussed and decided to station troops in the Nuergandu Division to implement close management. Considering the cost of the garrison, after studying with Lu Chengxiang, it was decided to fully exploit the resources of the Nurgandus. There are vast forest resources and minerals, especially rich gold resources. Zhang Zhimu hadn't told them that there was a lot of oil underground. When discussing the governance of these places, Zhang Zhimu emphasized that in order to closely manage these places, it is very important to build the Songliao Grand Canal as soon as possible. Of course, communication has to be addressed. Moreover, Zhang Zhimu told everyone that the benefits of resource output there will definitely far exceed the military expenditure there. Besides, that side is also a foothold for continued development to the north. When dealing with the Mongols in Mobei, the army can also be pressed from east to west from that side.

According to the statistics of Jinzhou and Songshanbao after the war, more than 17,000 Qing troops were captured, more than 24,000 Qing troops were killed, more than 32,000 Han troops of the Eight Banners were captured, and more than 10,000 and 8,000 Han soldiers were killed. In addition, more than 3,000 Mongol soldiers were captured and more than 4,000 were killed.

This battle report, along with the news that Yaogang was about to send a passenger ship to Beijing to pick it up, was sent to Emperor Chongzhen at the same time.

The news immediately shook the court. Many ministers advised Emperor Chongzhen not to go to the kiln, and some even knelt down with snot and tears in their eyes: "Your Majesty, you can't take risks with your ten thousand times!" If you don't get it right, those kiln gang people have bad intentions, and it will be bad for the emperor! ”

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said, "Hehe! With the ability of the Yaogang people, they are here to attack Beijing, who of us can stop it? If the people of Yaogang want to be unfavorable to me, they send their special forces to Beijing, who of you can stop it? So! Don't be a gentleman with the heart of a villain! I promise that there will be a return, I have made up my mind on this matter, everyone don't say more! ”

The scholar Wang said: "The emperor is right, if the people of Yaogang are not good for the emperor, they will do it in Kaifeng last year." The emperor didn't go happily, but came back happily. ”

The rest is for the ministers to scramble to escort them to the kiln. In fact, how can the ministers not know that there is no need for the Yaogang people to use such means to deal with Emperor Chongzhen, if they want to make Emperor Chongzhen unstable and cut off the silver given to the emperor every year, Emperor Chongzhen himself will be finished. They are simply using this opportunity to show their loyalty. How could Emperor Chongzhen, who played with them every day, not know the thoughts of these ministers. They are now vying to escort him because they all want to go to Yaogang to see the place that everyone says is like heaven, and it is not a matter of swearing to escort him at all. Emperor Chongzhen didn't decide who would follow him right away, he knew that there was still some time, but he had a good time with this card. Because, it is a great honor to let anyone follow this time, and everyone who goes to the kiln will not go in vain. After returning from the kiln, they will become the object of everyone's support.

Jiang Jiao, who was on the front line of Songjin, didn't care about the affairs of Emperor Chongzhen, and spent a day organizing people to transport the corpses in the city out of the city to burn, then clean up the bloodstains in the city, and sprinkle white ash everywhere to disinfect them, and then handed over the management of the city to the officials and police who followed. Leaving a part of the army to cooperate with the police to search for the remnants of the enemy, and also to guard against Wu Sangui and them behind him. After discussing with Li Jing and Li Wei, I decided to move towards the northeast immediately, there are still too many things to do there, especially to enter the Nuer Gandu Division as soon as possible, where the territory is vast and there are many things. But just when their brigade was about to leave the next day, someone came to report: "Commander Jiang, a team of Ming troops has rushed over, just outside the city, I have to see you!" ”

"Huh?" Jiang Ji glanced at Li Wei, Li Jing and Lin Feng, who were drinking tea together, and asked, "Who is here?" ”

"It seems to be called Wu Sangui!"

"Huh?" Jiang Jian stood up and said, "Wu Sangui is here!" I'll take a look! Then he said to the people in the room, "I will meet him, if it sounds good, or I will not be polite!" ”

"Come on! Lord Commander, he is at the same level as you, and we can't be angry with him, we have a lot of business! Li Jing joked.

Jiang Jian got on his horse and came to the outside of the city, looked at it with a telescope, and sure enough, he saw a group of Ming troops, but Jiang Jian saw that it was a group of Ming soldiers without weapons, they were carrying pigs and cattle, and they were also carrying chickens and ducks.

Jiang Jian rushed over with a few personal soldiers on horseback, and when he got close, a general of the Ming army in the middle arched his hand and said, "Lord Jiang! I really envy you! Wu Sangui came to congratulate! ”

Jiang Jian and Wu Sangui have met, and they can't say that they have any friendship, but they raised their hands and didn't hit the smiling person, so they hurriedly returned the salute and said, "Oops! It's really Lord Wu! How dare you come to congratulate! ”

"Oops! Master Jiang climbed the high branch and didn't take his brother seriously. It's really unreasonable to have such a good opportunity to come to war, and pass by my door without saying a word? Wu San Gui said sourly.

"Where, where!" Jiang Jian had no choice but to say, "Brother, I have a great responsibility this time, I really can't care about visiting Lord Wu, please forgive me!" ”

"Hey! Brother, I don't have a good life like you! Wu Sangui pointed behind him and said, "Master Jiang, you have completely solved the hidden dangers for us for many years, I am happy that I didn't sleep all night, and I brought something to visit my brothers, please smile!" ”

Wu Sangui's words were very decent, Jiang Jian felt that it was really unbearable not to let him go into the city to drink a glass of wine, and he would leave immediately, and he still had to keep people to get along with Wu Sangui, and it was good to have a good drink and see what Wu Sangui thought. He has nearly 200,000 horses in his hands, which is also the last bit of strength of the Ming Dynasty.

"Why is Lord Wu so polite," Jiang Pai waved his hand, "Let's not talk here, let's go into the city and have a drink!" ”

"Good! You're welcome! Wu Sangui was also very refreshing, "I really want to have a drink with you!" ”

The two walked side by side, and Wu Sangui said, "Lord Jiang! This man is more angry than a man. You and I are both general soldiers, and you have such a good life. Last time, you knocked Dorgon away with your soldiers. This time you brought your troops to destroy Dolgon, and you will take down both Songjin and Songjin in two days. I listened to the pain of jealousy. ”

"Hey! It's not that I have any ability, but to say that my life is good because I know Zhang Dongjia. Jiang Jian said sincerely.

"That's it!" Wu Sangui said, "Why don't I have a good life like you? ”

After listening to Wu Sangui's words, Jiang Jian didn't show his face, but his heart moved, and he said: "Lord Wu, you have nearly 200,000 male soldiers, and you are just blocking the Qing army in front of Shanhaiguan. When we studied in Yaogang several times, our Mr. Ouyang would talk about your merits, which is a great honor! ”

"What? As a general soldier, you still have to take classes in the kiln gang? Wu Sangui was surprised, "Also mentioned Shanhaiguan?" Also mentioned me? ”

"Hey! In our kiln, that general can't do it without studying. If you don't learn our weapons, you won't be able to command, and you won't understand tactical coordination. Jiang Pai said, "When it comes to the military situation, it is impossible for us not to mention Shanhaiguan, and when we mention Shanhaiguan, how can we not mention you, Lord Wu." Speaking of this, Jiang Jian deliberately lowered his voice and said, "Even your family members of Master Wu in Beijing, as well as your 'Chen Yuanyuan', we know everything clearly!" ”

After speaking, Jiang Jian looked at Wu Sangui's face, Wu Sangui is also a long-standing person, smiled and said, "Hehe! It's really enough to lift me up, and you know even this little thing about me. No wonder they all say that you have a man named Li Zhi, who is a person with great powers. There is nothing in the world that he wants to know or not. I heard that he listened to you Zhang Zhimu alone. ”

"That's fine, because of the special nature of intelligence work, it must be kept absolutely secret. There are some things that the fewer people know, the better. "But we've benefited a lot." All the places where we attacked, we had detailed maps. That's all due to Director Li. ”

"Oh!" Wu Sangui was a little surprised, "Could it be that you also have information about our Shanhaiguan?" ”

Jiang Jian deliberately stimulated Wu Sangui and said, "I'm afraid we won't know much less about Shanhaiguan than you Lord Wu!" We have detailed photos of various passes and guards in Shanhaiguan, and we will know what it is like before we come. ”

"Haha!" Wu Sangui laughed and said, "This battle is lost before it is fought." In fact, this time Dolgon's sneak attack failed, and he suddenly attacked Shanhaiguan, and we easily beat him back, relying on your muskets and hands. We've fought Dorgon many times, and we've never had it so easy to win as this one. When I heard that you had sworn to go on the march, I knew that you would win easily this time. It's just that I didn't expect that you played a two-sided attack, one bright and one dark, and suddenly stunned Dolgon. Otherwise, it wouldn't have turned out like this. Play beautifully! ”

Wu Sangui's words were full of admiration and envy. At this time, Jiang Jian already had the idea of fighting for Wu Sangui.

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New progress in "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty": the Battle of Yashan, the defeat of the Yuan army, the counterattack of the Song army, and the landing in Fuzhou.