Text Volume 3 The Road to Empire_Chapter 677 Yingkou Five
Like Honika, Turushh was a loser in the Battle of Zunhua. It should be said that the war ten years ago changed the fate of many people, and Huang Taiji made a detour to the south and was finally blocked by Emperor Ming in Jizhou, so that this war did not achieve the expected gains.
Although because Huang Taiji claimed that the war had achieved the expected results, it was Shenyang who won. But in private, the Great Khan thought that if they hadn't failed to capture Zunhua as scheduled, they could have gone further, thus shattering the Gyeonggi region of the Ming Kingdom, and completely losing the will to resist the Manchu army.
Because of this obsession, when the generals who attacked Zunhua were kicked out of the front-line troops and thrown into the local garrison. Because of Dai Shan's care, he and Hongnika were not driven to the border city in the north with a worse environment, which can be regarded as a great luck in misfortune.
However, Turush, who was much younger than Honnika, did not accept his fate like this old boss, and he still thought about returning to the front-line troops of the Eight Banners. After all, Manchurian has the most important military merits, and in this kind of second-line garrison, he can only do some work of eating and waiting for death, which is obviously the treatment of the elderly.
However, when the Ming army sent him the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, Turush, who had landed in the city three times without success, realized out of breath that he was indeed old. Even when he was entangled in the alleys with those Ming troops in Zunhua, and had to flee because of the Ming people's firearms, he didn't feel as tired as he did now.
Although the Ming army in Zunhua defeated them in the street battle, Turushh never felt that it was a battle, but that the Ming people used a dangerous strategy to trap them. Tuloosh can still remember the desperation of the Zunhua Ming army in battle, as if a caged rat made a final resistance.
Now these Ming troops at the head of Yingkou City, although there are still people with a little timid look on their faces, they are always fighting with their eyes wide open, and the action of loading ammunition in their hands is rarely so nervous that they are deformed.
Turushh saw that the five or six guards with the best martial arts on his side were killed one by one by these Ming soldiers who did not look fierce before they reached the top of the wall.
One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. Since the beginning of the Autumn Warring States period, it seems that this law has never changed. When the Qing army landed in the city several times but did not resist, and the personal soldiers on the side of Turush and several famous warriors in the army also suffered heavy casualties, the sharp spirit of the Qing army that had just stormed the city was completely gone.
Just when Tuloosh noticed that his men were faltering, delaying the pace of the attack, and no longer had the momentum to climb the wall in the first place, he hesitated whether to retreat.
However, he was worried that returning empty-handed would make Honnika even angrier at him, after all, he had already made a mistake before. So he turned to hope that maybe the Ming army had also reached the end of the crossbow, and as long as there was another attack, maybe the Ming army would collapse first.
Turush's hesitation eventually led to the last chance to retreat. The new army of the Ming Dynasty has been an army for ten years, but in the impression of many Qing people, the Ming army is still an army that does not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field.
For example, when the Ming people boasted about the Battle of Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan relied on blocking the city gate with earth and stones, so as to force the Ming soldiers to stay and fight to the death. For the Manchus, it is naturally clear what the battle of Ningyuan is all about, and the Ming soldiers are so timid that they are also hyped up in the country as a joke.
Although Huang Taiji and other high-ranking people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty knew about the construction of the Ming New Army, they not only did not stop this kind of joke in the army that ridiculed the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, but also added fuel to the fire, so that the officers and men of the Qing army could gain a psychological advantage over the Ming army.
The use of lies to deceive the enemy is endlessly repeated in China's history. But while deceiving the enemy, even his allies, subordinates, and people also deceived together, and it was probably the Xinjueluo family throughout the ages.
This tradition, which has been passed down from Nurhachi, has been carried forward in the hands of Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji even wrote a Manchu file for the Manchus to see, erasing Nurhachi's own losses in each battle, leaving only a record of how many enemies were defeated, how much property was captured, and how many people were captured.
However, on the other hand, the lies of the Xinjueluo clan are still very successful, after all, in later generations, until the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and stole the world of the Han people, the myth of the Manchu people being invincible has still not been punctured.
Of course, the reason why the Xinjueluo clan was reluctant to let their army know about the changes in the Ming army was also due to political interests. After all, the Manchus are a nation that has just emerged, and this nation has neither a splendid culture nor a sufficient population.
It is a real miracle that a small ethnic group with a population of less than one million can suppress the two large ethnic groups of the Mongols and the Han Chinese. But if such a minority regime wants to survive in Liaodong for a long time, and wants to try to annex the Mongolian steppes outside the Guanxi and the territory of the Han people in the Guannei, they always need a core advantage.
The myth of military invincibility was a sharp sword used by the Manchus to suppress the Mongols, Han Chinese and other ethnic minorities. Just like when the Han officials intimidated a small number of tribes in Liaodong before, they often started with the vast territory of the Ming Dynasty, rich materials, and incalculable population.
Then today's Manchurian is to fight back with the myth that Manchu is invincible. The meaning behind this sentence is that even if the population of your Han and Mongols is multiple, tens, or even hundreds of times that of the Manchus, we only need 10,000 men to defeat all your armies.
Behind this military myth, in fact, it is not the Manchurians who show off their strength, but the desperate cry of a minority for their future. Manchu is full of invincible people, but when Manchu is full of thousands of enemies, this nation will lose the foundation of its existence.
In order for the Manchus to survive, the Manchus must maintain the unbroken military myth, so that the Han and Mongols cannot awaken and realize that the Manchus can be defeated.
That is to say, it is clear that Huang Taiji has planted a lot of details in the Ming State and sent back a lot of information about the new army of the Ming State, but Huang Taiji has never warned the generals of the Eight Banners, and still allows the Manchus to treat the Ming army as a group of cowardly weak chickens.
It was under such propaganda that even a mid-ranking officer of the Qing army, such as Turush, became somewhat delirious. In the situation that the Ming army had already sent troops to occupy Yingkou City, he was still superstitious that the Ming army would not go out of the city to attack him, but would only let him choose how to attack the city.
The main general is still like this, and his subordinates naturally don't care about the movement at the city gate. After all, in their opinion, it was impossible for the Ming army to open this city gate and let them in.
So when the city gate suddenly opened, and Li You rushed out with his subordinates with a resolute attitude, the Qing army that was attacking under the city was stunned for a moment, until more than ten Qing soldiers under a ladder against the wall were put down by the Ming army's platoon of guns, and the Qing army under the city really reacted.
When Li You rushed out of the city gate, it was not right to say that he did not have a trace of fear in his heart, after all, Houjin's record in Liaodong was too brilliant, and more than 100,000 Ming troops in Liaodong were lost in the hands of this newly rising Hulu, how could it not arouse the fear of the Ming people.
When the cause of the rebellion in Hao'an, wasn't it that the imperial court wanted to transfer the southwest Tusi north to fight against the Houjin army, which led to the resentful southwest Tusi rebellion, which caused chaos in the southwestern provinces.
However, as a guard officer, Li Youpingli's training and ideological education did not allow him to retreat from the battle. What's more, if he showed his cowardice in front of his subordinates, then he would not be able to take this unit with him in the future.
After the establishment of the new army system and the organization of the General Staff, the promotion channel for officers has been opened, and they are no longer like the Ming army in the past.
The Guards were the most important unit of the Emperor, and even a small soldier in the Guards could have the opportunity to say a few words to the Emperor. In such an army, the essence of the officers lies in their subordinates, and an officer who is not trusted by his subordinates has no future in the Guards.
Therefore, Li You resolutely rejected Li Yan's proposal, preferring to take the initiative to take the command of the attacking troops. Because only in this way can he maintain his honor and authority in front of his subordinates.
Although the Qing army's siege force was so messy, Li You was limited to his past impression of the Eight Banners army, and still did not dare to spread his forces too much to launch a fierce attack. He divided the four platoons in his hand into three parts, two platoons attacked the Qing army on the left side of the city gate, one platoon attacked the right side of the city gate, and the remaining platoon served as a reserve, ready to be used for final support.
A platoon of the Ming army was about 8 or 90 people, and when the Qing army was demoralized when the Qing army was fruitless and demoralized, hundreds of Ming soldiers with muskets equipped with bayonets appeared outside the city, which was obviously not good news for these Qing troops.
When the Ming army killed more than a dozen Qing soldiers in a daze with a platoon of guns, the remaining Qing troops nearby did not pounce on the Ming army, but turned around and fled one by one. Even Turush's incessant scolding there could not hold back his men who began to flee.
After all, the most courageous soldiers in this army had almost died on the city wall just now, and the rest of them were originally unbridled soldiers, and they did not have the courage to face such a row of Ming troops approaching with muzzles.
Soldiers with such courage were all shot dead by the platoon of the Ming army. The Ming army lined up in squads, and there were more than 10 smoothbore guns in one squad, and these dozen smoothbore guns fired together, and it was simply a dead field at a distance of 30 or 40 meters.
Even the best soldiers of the Qing army could not survive the close range of gunfire of the Ming army. When the warriors were killed, the remaining ordinary soldiers could no longer hold on. Most of the Qing soldiers dropped their weapons, shouted defeat, defeated, and fled to their own camp to seek refuge. The chapter content is being restored, so please visit it later.
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