From the moment he walked up to the Yingkou wharf, Li Yan was ready for a fierce war. As the mind of the Ming Army, the General Staff never lacked understanding of the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, nor did it use imagination and speculation to describe the enemy's resistance plan.

As a major source of revenue for the Manchus, the Manchus also spared no effort to protect Yingkou. It was only limited to the insight of a backward inland civilization, and the Manchus placed the source of possible attacks on Yingkou on land. Beizhen blockaded the Ningjin Ming army, Fuzhou and Gaizhou blocked the Jinzhou Lushun Ming army, and there was also a garrison of 1,500 men and horses three miles north of Yingkou to prevent Yingkou from being attacked on a small scale from the sea.

After all, for the Manchurians, a boat that can fit 100 people is already a giant boat. It was hard for them to believe that someone could transport tens of thousands of people from the sea to attack Yingkou at one time, and such sufficient material support was undoubtedly a myth for the Manchus. Therefore, they believed that the Ming army had sent an army of 1,000 men to attack from the sea, and the more than 1,000 horses they stationed outside the city were enough to deal with all the changes that happened in Yingkou City.

And what Li Yan had to do was to break through the resistance of the Manchurians in the city as soon as possible and seize the city wall north of Yingkou, even if it was only a low city wall, it was better than fighting against the Qing army in the field without shelter.

In addition, the General Staff was also worried that the Battle of Yingkou would turn into another Battle of Zunhua. The Zunhua Ming army, which was at a disadvantage, relied on Chengxiang Street to fight a street battle with the Houjin, thus delaying the southward pace of the Houjin army and gaining time for the Gyeonggi Ming army to gather and resist in the north.

Naturally, the General Staff Headquarters has also made great efforts to study such examples. However, the result of the study is that if the defenders of the city can have enough will to resist and a relatively complete organization, then even a group of civilians can give enough damage to the most elite Ming troops in street fighting.

Therefore, cutting off the connection between the Qing army outside the city and the Manchurians inside the city to prevent Yingkou from becoming the second Zunhua City naturally became another combat goal of Li Yan.

However, when he stepped on the dock ground in Yingkou and had not yet established himself, he realized that his script seemed to have some deviations. When the battalion commander of the major, who commanded the first batch of landing personnel to control the dock, saw him landing, he immediately ran to report to him a troublesome matter that he could not deal with.

Li Yan looked at the major in front of him, and also suspected that he had heard it wrong, so he couldn't help but ask the other party again, "You said that the Manchurian garrison in this city did not organize resistance, nor did they escape from the city, but instead came to surrender to you with the councilors of the city's Chamber of Commerce?" Are you sure they're not stalling for time? ”

This major was actually very suspicious in his heart, but in front of Li Yan, he also slightly defended those people: "I don't think so, the president of the local chamber of commerce is the chief officer of the Yingkou branch of the Sihai Trading Company, and he has vouched for the Manchurians in the city, and also asked us to send people to receive the three city gates in the north as soon as possible, so as to prevent the Qing army outside the city from entering the city."

However, according to the battle plan, my battalion should first ensure absolute control of the vicinity of the docks, and now if I pass through the whole city to the north wall, it may disrupt the whole battle plan. So I need your authorization from Staff Officer Li to take two companies to the north to see the situation. ”

Li Yan stood in place and thought for a moment, then said to the major: "No, your task remains the same, to hold the dock to meet the landing of the follow-up troops. The strength of two companies cannot control the three city gates, and if there is really any emergency, you can bring your men down to meet me, which is much better than me taking them to meet you.

I will personally take the second group of landing battalions to take over the northern gate, and after the third group of men and horses landing, they will not have to carry out the original plan to attack the garrison yamen in the city, and let them control the main road from the dock to the northern wall.

As long as we control the docks, the main road to the northern wall, and the northern wall, we can slowly plan for the rest of the place. Being able to keep the Qing army out of the city walls really reduces us a lot of trouble, and this risk is worth the risk, please take me to meet the full garrison and the president of the Chamber of Commerce..."

Li Yan had already dealt with a lot of local affairs in his hometown before entering the military academy, so his life experience was much richer than that of those officers who had been living in the army, and he was still relatively relaxed about how to deal with the city's Manchurian garrison and the local chamber of commerce representatives.

He promised these people that as long as the people of the city could obey the command of the Ming army, then the Ming army would not break into the houses, harm their lives and seize their property, and the Manchu and Han people would be treated equally. However, he also put forward three requirements to the other party, first, all the weapons in the city must be handed over and sealed, waiting for the Ming army to send someone to receive it; 2. The garrison Deshan must follow him to the north gate to receive the city defense, and hand over the list of all personnel under the name of the garrison; The Sanyingkou Chamber of Commerce had to stay at the wharf to assist the Ming army in loading and unloading supplies and vacating the vacant residences and warehouses in the city as the residence of the Ming army.

Meler Zhangjing, second only to Gushan Ezhen in the Eight Banners system, is equivalent to the deputy general of the Ming army. The commander of this man and horse stationed in the camp outside Yingkou City was the Red Banner Mel Zhangjing Hongnika. Although the Eight Banners general, who lost his troops outside Zunhua City, was not held accountable under the protection of Dai Shan, he was also marginalized by the banner owner Beile Yue.

However, after he walked a lot, he was finally assigned to the Yingkou camp by Yue Tuo, which can be regarded as guarding the money bag in Yingkou for the two red flags. It should be said that although Hongnika's military talent is not outstanding, he is still quite honest and reliable in doing things for his master, so after he was stationed here, the interests of the two red flags have never been robbed by other flags.

Hongnika is also regarded as an old man when the Later Jin Dynasty opened the country, and he suffered too much when he was young, so in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, his body finally began to fail. Just when Hongnika thought that he was going to die in the Yingkou camp, he unexpectedly the Ming army suddenly attacked. This made him suddenly frightened, endured the pain, put on his armor, and ran to the Yamen of the Chinese army to meet the messenger sent by Yingkou Garrison Deshan to ask for help.

After a few questions, Honika couldn't help but be furious at the messenger: "Is Deshan stupid to soak in the wine jar?" The Ming army attacked Yingkou Wharf from the sea, didn't he immediately send someone to deliver a message, and he still had time to ask the master to write me an official document? He's delaying the fighter..."

After all, Honika was a veteran who had killed from the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses, and his sudden anger suddenly filled the hall with an atmosphere of solemnity, making the half-kneeling messenger below tremble, burying his head tightly in front of him and not daring to squeak.

After a burst of anger, Honnika suddenly realized that no matter how angry he was, Tokugawa could not hear it now, and the matter was irreparable, so he held back his anger and asked the messenger again: "When you left the city, how many Ming troops had already gone ashore?" What is the armament and combat effectiveness of the armies they went ashore? How did Tokuyama arrange the defenses in the city..."

The messenger sent by Deshan could hardly answer a series of questions from Honika, and even if he said some, he was completely at a loss. Honika, who was already unwell, finally lost his patience, and asked someone to drag this fool down and hit him with ten military sticks, sober and sober, and called his cronies Turushh to command.

"Deshan, this bastard, Taipingzi has forgotten how to fight for too long, and he can't even pick out someone who understands when he sends a messenger. Now we don't know anything about the situation in the city, and this battle can't be fought.

You will take 300 men from your headquarters into the city first, and do two things for me. First, find Deshan and ask about the situation in the city and the reality of the invading Ming army; Second, to stabilize the people in the city, not to let them run around in the streets, and obstruct the passage of our army's attack. I've gathered troops here to support you..."

Toorush replied, and he knew it was a critical moment. Once the Ming army preemptively grasped the outer city wall of Yingkou, then the trouble caused to them was not a little bit or two.

What's more, there are still many Baylor's properties in Yingkou City, if they are looted by the Ming army, I am afraid that he and Hongnika will be difficult to explain. As a senior middle-level general of the Eight Banners, he has always trusted the discipline of the army. After capturing a city like Yingkou, if the Ming army did not plunder, it would be a real miracle.

Turushh returned to his battalion to count his troops, only to find that there were still more than 50 people in the battalion who had not returned. He didn't care about settling accounts with these bastards at this time, so he rushed directly to Yingkou City three miles away with a team of more than 200 people.

It's just that when Turushh and his subordinates rushed to the north gate of Yingkou, the moon and star flag of the Ming Dynasty had been raised on the north gate. Turushh quickly stopped, and sent people to visit the city gates on the east and west sides, but his subordinates quickly ran back to report that the Ming banner was also erected on the city gate tower there.

When his subordinates ran to the east and west gates to reconnoitre, Tuloosh listened attentively to the movements coming from the city. As long as the gunfire in the city continues, then it proves that the city is still resisting the attack of the Ming army, and they can still try to break through the city gates, and maybe they can recapture one place.

However, Turushh listened for most of the day, but could not hear any fierce resistance in the city, which was too quiet. This made him a little suspicious, and he thought in his heart that the Ming army had completely controlled the city, otherwise it would not be possible to be so quiet.

After all, if the Ming army was still attacking and slaughtering the city, not to mention the flames in the city at the moment, at least a lot of sounds could be heard.

Looking at the moon and star flag on the wall of the north gate, and the appearance of the empty dàng) dàng) above the city wall, Turushh always felt that this was a trap. He stood outside the north gate and pondered for a long time, and decided that it would be better to wait for the arrival of the large army of Honnika, so as not to rush forward and die.

Li Yan, who was standing in the city gate tower and observing the movements of this group of Qing troops, saw that the Qing army generals did not attack immediately, but chose to wait in place, and his heart was also greatly relieved.

In order to control the entire city wall and the three city gates, the troops in Li Yan's hands became a little thin. If the two hundred or so men of Turush aimed at a city gate to attack, he was really worried that he would not be able to stop it. After all, on the wall of the north gate, plus himself and the Manchurian garrison on the side, there are only 31 people.

When Turushh rushed to the city with his soldiers and horses, Li Yan and Deshan were sweating in their hands. And when the other party gave up the plan to attack the city gate immediately, the battle situation had already begun to tilt towards the Ming army. The chapter content is being restored, so please visit it later.

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