Quang Ninh City

Although Azig belonged to two hundred cattle and sixty thousand soldiers. But what really belongs to the white flag, there are only 30,000 iron cavalry, and there are 30,000, which are the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners with weak combat power and poor equipment.

The armies of the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners had more than enough to defend the city and not enough to fight in the field.

Azig faced only two choices, one was to hold on to Quang Ninh City to wait for reinforcements from Shengjing to arrive, and then attack from inside and outside. This is the safest way to preserve the strength of the white flag to the greatest extent, and Azig himself is inclined to adopt this strategy.

The first is to lead the army out of the city to fight in the field and resist the enemy in the south of the Daling River. As in the previous battles of Sarhu, Liaoyang, Quang Ninh, and Songjin, the offensive of the Ming army was thwarted in the field battle. This is a radical method, and Nikan and other Manchu generals are inclined to this method.

Azig consulted with Nikan and other generals for a day and a night, but they were still hesitant, and during the time of delay, Fang Yuan had already marched to Ningyuan and was approaching Jinzhou.

The military situation was very urgent, and Nikan said angrily, "When my Qing warriors met the southern barbarians, they were always invincible, and the southern barbarians did not dare to fight in the field, but only dared to defend the city. Now that there are 30,000 Qing Dynasty iron horses, how can there be a reason for shrinking Guangning City, and my Qing Dynasty iron horses are afraid of the southern barbarians? ”

Azig thought about it, and Nikan's words were also reasonable. Once there was a rumor in the army that the Qing Iron Cavalry did not dare to fight in the field and only dared to defend the city, the political losses caused were far more terrible than the military losses. What's more, the 30,000 Manchu iron cavalry were all cavalry, and giving up defending the city and going out to the field was the only way to make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

Since the generals were eager to fight, Azig also made up his mind, and he himself led the soldiers of the Han and Mongolian Eight Banners to stick to Guangning City, waiting for reinforcements from Shengjing. Nikan led 30,000 Iron Cavalry of the Eight Banners to the Daling River to snipe Fang Yuan's offensive.

When the army led by Fang Yuan personally arrived at the Daling River, Nikan's 30,000 cavalry had also arrived on the other side of the Daling River, but they were not stationed by the river, but were stationed five miles away from the Daling River, and all the pontoon bridges on the Daling River were demolished.

With the cultural level of the Manchu generals, it is basically impossible to understand the esoteric Art of War, and almost all of them are armed with the easy-to-understand Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

When Fang Yuan saw the formation of Nikan a few miles away from the water source, the purpose was quite obvious, that is, he wanted to wait for Fang Yuan's army to cross the river, attack halfway, and win the battle.

Nikan's formation presented Fang Yuan with a big problem.

If you want to cross the river, you must build several temporary pontoon bridges on the surface of the Daling River, which is not difficult for the Ming army. But the biggest difficulty is that this kind of temporary pontoon bridge does not have a large load, and cavalry and infantry can pass through, but tanks with heavy weight cannot pass. In order for tanks to cross the river, it was necessary to build a formal pontoon bridge with high loads, which was not achieved overnight.

In other words, in the battle of the Daling River, tanks are useless, and they can only stay on the south bank of the Daling River to watch the battle. Only the 30,000 cavalry of Chigutai and the 50,000 elite infantry of Hao Shaoqi could participate in the battle.

In the tent of the army, Fang Yuan, Jing Jie, Chigutai, and Hao Shaoqi discussed overnight how to rush to cross the river in the battle of Daling River and how to hold the position on the river beach, otherwise if they were really attacked by Nikan's 30,000 iron cavalry, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Chigutai said loudly, "Regent, how can there be so many scruples on the battlefield, as long as you build a pontoon bridge overnight, you can cross at least 5,000 cavalry overnight." ”

Jing Jie said, "Boss, there are 30,000 cavalry in the Tartars, if our army can only cross 5,000 cavalry, and we are weak in terms of strength, I am afraid that we will be defeated in a battle." The advantage of our army is in numbers, and the advantage of the Tartar soldiers is in the Daling River. I suggest that we should divide the army into two armies and cross the river at two points, so that we can divide the strength of the Tartar soldiers and make use of their strengths and avoid their weaknesses. ”

Fang Yuan groaned, "Divide the troops into two ways? One is false and one is real, or is it both true?! If both roads are real, the Tartars can also divide their troops into two routes, and the troops still have an advantage. ”

Jing Jie asked rhetorically, "Does the boss want to be both virtual and real?!" Feint all the way, all the way to the real crossing? ”

Fang Yuan was guessed by him, and said with a smile, "It's not fun to have one virtual and one real, it's fun to have two virtual and one real." Let's play a psychological war with the Tartar soldiers, and watch the Tartar soldiers watch the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to fight, and we can see what we can do. ”

Fang Yuan got up and rushed to Chigutai and said, "Chigutai, you send two partial generals, one of whom leads a thousand cavalry to the upper and lower reaches of the Daling River. There is only one task, the bigger the dust that the horse's hooves tread, the better, how much movement can be made, and it is best if a thousand people can make 10,000 movements. ”

Jing Jie also saw Fang Yuan's plan to cross the river clearly, the advantage of the Ming army was in the main attack, and he could strike first. The Tartar soldiers, on the other hand, are the main defenders and can only defend passively. The Ming army can drop at will, and the Tartar soldiers can only see the moves.

Separate two groups of suspicious soldiers to disrupt the other side of the Daling River, and the Tartar soldiers could not understand the movements of the Ming army, so they would inevitably be led by the nose. Once there is a mistake in the response, or there is a trace of the movement of troops and horses, the Ming army can raid and cross the river. As a result, the Tartar soldiers saw through it, and the big deal was that two thousand cavalry went to move around, and there was no loss.

Chigutai gave up his hand to receive the order, and Fang Yuan explained, "Third brother, give an order to the whole army, and the military drills are conducted for two hours every day, one at night and one during the day, taking turns. We then installed loudspeakers on the banks of the river and carried the sound to the other side of the river during the exercises. We can't sleep, and neither do the Tartars. ”

Fang Yuan's plan was to give full play to the first-mover advantage of the main attack, and to attack the morale of the Tartar soldiers at any cost, so that the Tartar soldiers on the opposite bank would be in a state of panic at any time. The fat ones drag the skinny, the skinny ones drag to death! Let's see how long these Tartars can survive on the other side.

Jing Jie smiled when he heard this, "Boss, it's really a clever plan!" ”

In the early morning of the next day, Chigutai sent 2,000 cavalry to move upstream and downstream in accordance with Fang Yuan's dispatch. There were branches dragging on the horse's tail, and smoke and dust hung in the sky everywhere they passed, looking like a battle of tens of thousands of people.

Nikan saw this formation, and also doubted whether it was a suspicious plan of the Ming army. But the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, where does Nikan dare to gamble based on feelings? Once the Ming army really moved upstream and downstream to cross the river, the Daling River defense line immediately collapsed.

Since the main attacking Ming army has changed its formation, Nikan, who is defending the main defense, is forced to have no choice, so he can only follow the change and send two teams, each with 5,000 cavalry, to track and monitor the upstream and downstream.

At the same time, the loudspeakers of the Ming army camp were also erected on the shore.

Whenever the Ming army exercises, the sound can be transmitted from afar to the Tartar military camp on the other side, and the momentum is amazing. Moreover, the Ming army still came in turns day and night, day and day, where could the Tartar soldiers find out the law. At night, it is three shocks a day, and the day is also tense nerves.

The two sides were in a stalemate on the Daling River for ten days, and the Tartar soldiers in the Manchu military camp did not even sleep soundly, and their morale was already low and their morale was fluctuating. Many generals even began to shout that the whole army crossed the river and had a decisive battle with the Ming army, which was better than suffering so much every day.

Nikan is also unbearable these days, what can he do? If you want to complain, you can only complain that the tweeter of the Ming Army is too weird, and it can be heard for miles!

He could only divide the whole army into two teams, one team of 10,000 people, who took turns to be on duty and rest.

Fang Yuan did not let Nikan be entangled for too long, and on the night of the twelfth day, while the Tartar soldiers had already become numb to the loudspeakers, he repaired five pontoon bridges overnight, and the Ming army's iron cavalry began to cross the river at full speed. By the early morning of the next day, 6,000 cavalry had been crossed.

Nikan was caught off guard when he saw the Ming cavalry raiding across the river, and immediately sent 10,000 cavalry on duty to snipe the Ming cavalry who crossed the river. The remaining 10,000 cavalry had just finished their duty, and not long after they fell asleep, they were still sleepy-eyed and very slow to assemble.

The main cavalry forces of both sides started a big battle on the north bank of the Daling River!

Five thousand, eight thousand, ten thousand......

With the cavalry of the Ming army crossing the river, there were more and more sergeants of the special warfare army, and the Tartar cavalry also lost their numerical advantage, and gradually was pressed from the upper hand to the lower wind.

The battle lasted one day and one night.

The 20,000 cavalry under Nikan's department were at a disadvantage in terms of strength, and the morale of the army was even lower, and it was finally declared that it was not supported. He could only abandon the Daling River and retreat to Quang Ninh City.