Chapter 511: Capture Fumanzhai
After a night's rest, the Jurchens did not completely plug the gap, but only tried to narrow the gap a little, and at the same time put a lot of obstacles in the gap, but the Ming army had already recovered its strength, and at dawn, Li Anliang asked the army to prepare breakfast, and immediately attacked the city after eating.
The real battlefield can be used to show intrigue and tricks in the space is actually very small, most of the time is the strength and strength of the collision, such as the current Ming army, is to follow yesterday's siege tactics, first with artillery to clean up, and then let the Japanese servant army forward to charge, and wait until the gap is opened, the rear army will rush in.
In the morning, this tactic of the Ming Dynasty did not achieve too good results, the Jurchens in the city were still as heroic as yesterday, the death squad organized by Li Anliang rushed into the city several times, but in the end they were still driven out, but in the last charge, Li Anliang equipped the death squad with some grenades made of gunpowder, with the help of this gunpowder weapon, the death squad held on to the city for half an hour, and brought huge casualties to the Jurchens in the city, but then the grenade ran out, coupled with the Jurchens' crazy counterattack, In the end, he reluctantly retreated.
However, this time Li Anliang was determined to break through Fumanzhai, so the defeat in the morning did not affect him, and even continued to organize the siege of the city, and the lunch at noon was sent to the battlefield to eat after the rear was ready, he wanted to take a look, how long can the 20,000 Jurchens in the city last?
In the afternoon, the battle situation finally took a turn for the better, and as a result, the Jurchens in the city were also exhausted from the high-intensity attack of the Japanese servant army in the past two days. In particular, the ferocity of the Japanese people also brought them huge casualties. There are now quite a few corpses in the city. No one knows when they will die on the battlefield.
The morale of the army is a very wonderful thing, maybe because of the commander's words, the whole army will become high, maybe because of something, the original high morale will become very low, excellent generals mostly know how to boost the morale of their soldiers, but no matter how high the morale, it is impossible to maintain it for a long time. It's like a parabola, when morale reaches its peak, the next is a period of decline in morale, and no matter how good a general is, there is nothing he can do about it, at most it can make the decline in morale slower.
The Jurchens in Fumanzhai had just relied on a blood to defend their homeland, which made their morale reach its peak, so even when facing the Japanese servant army that was above them in number and equipment, they could be repelled several times, but this kind of bloody courage could not last, after yesterday and this morning's battle. The popularity of the Jurchens in the walled city was also declining, and the number of casualties was too large. As a result, they were no longer able to fully defend the gap.
Li Anliang is an excellent general, he is very keen to discover the changes of the Jurchens in Fumanzhai, and also feels the weakness of the Jurchens when they counterattack, which makes him refreshed, and immediately organized a 3,000 servant army death squad again, and once again braved the Jurchen bows and arrows to rush into the city from the gap, and behind this death squad, there are also Daming musketeers that Li Anliang has been reluctant to use, and three thousand people were dispatched at one time, which has exceeded half of the musketeers, so it can be seen that he is ready to take Fumanzhai in one fell swoop.
Li Anliang's premonition was very accurate, after several rounds of artillery salvos, the 3,000-strong Japanese death squad easily rushed in through the gap, and although the Jurchens in the city fought back desperately, the strength of the counterattack was much worse than before, which made it easy for the death squad to establish a temporary defense line in the city, so that the army behind could safely rush into the city.
It is also in this situation that the three thousand musketeers of the regular army of the Ming Dynasty also rushed into the city, the three thousand musketeers were in a group of three hundred, each group was divided into three teams, using the three shots invented by Mu Ying to fire in turn, under this ferocious firepower, the Jurchens in the city could not stop the attack of the Ming army at all, and finally the Jurchen army concentrated in the gap was finally defeated, and the large force of the Japanese servant army poured in, and finally completely opened the passage into Fumanzhai.
After defeating the Jurchen army at the gap, the musketeers, who had already suffered some casualties, immediately retreated to rest, because what followed was a very brutal street battle, and it was still in the enemy's lair, in this kind of environment where the other side was familiar with the terrain, the attacking side was most likely to suffer the greatest casualties, and the power of the musket could not be exerted in the street battle, so the next battle would depend on those Japanese servants, after all, they were established to deal with this situation.
There were only more than 10,000 Jurchen troops left and the surging influx of the Wa servant army in the narrow Fuman village desperately fighting, although the Jurchens occupy the geographical advantage, but the numerical disadvantage makes them not take any advantage at all, and even were killed to retreat, and by the evening, the Jurchens have been forced by the Wa servant army to the north of Fumanzhai, and the south is all occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
That night, the Jurchens organized several counterattacks, trying to take advantage of the familiar terrain at night to drive out the Ming army, but unfortunately the results were not good, and the next morning, the Japanese servant army began to clean up the remnants of the Jurchens along the streets, at this time the Jurchens who had been killed and wounded more than half had no strength to resist, and even Fuman was ready to escape, so in this case, the remaining Jianzhou Jurchens either fled or died, and the entire Fuman village finally fell into the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
However, at the same time as the fall of Fumanzhai, Fuman took thousands of henchmen out of the city and fled in the direction of the retreat of the tribesmen's women and children, Li Anliang also immediately organized a manpower pursuit, and the army also began to advance after resting in Fumanzhai, after all, they did not come here to occupy territory, but to wipe out the entire Jianzhou Jurchen, and now there is only one Jianzhou left guard, and the rest of the Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou right guard, and the women and children of the Jianzhou left guard are still there, This can't be regarded as an elimination at all, and it only takes a few years to wait for another Jianzhou Zuowei Jurchen to appear in Liaodong.
Li Anliang's army was delayed in Fumanzhai for two days, and these two days were enough for the women and children of the Jurchens to escape from a considerable distance, and Li Anliang had also learned that the reinforcements of Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard were coming at an accelerated pace, so he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to catch up with the women who escaped from Jianzhou Left Guard, but Li Anliang still chose to pursue in the end, because he wanted to make the Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard who came to help not have time to withdraw their troops, and then fight with them in the field, the army of these two guards is not as strong as the Jianzhou Left Guard, And there is no walled city to defend, if you encounter it in the field, it should not be difficult to deal with.
Facts have proved that Li Anliang's judgment is correct, just when they captured Fumanzhai, the women of the Jianzhou Left Guard had just met with the reinforcements of the Jianzhou Wei and the Jianzhou Right Guard, although there were many disputes between the three guards, but in the face of foreign enemies, they were able to maintain unity, so the reinforcements of the two guards immediately arranged for these women to leave, and at the same time stepped up the speed of the march.
It's just that what Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard didn't expect was that on the second day when they were separated from Jianzhou Left Guard, they met Fuman who only brought a few thousand remnants of soldiers, and at this time Fuman was extremely embarrassed, the armor on his body was all scars, and his hair was also scattered, and the thousands of remnants he brought were even more scarred, and even some seriously injured soldiers fell off their horses at once after seeing the reinforcements.
The leaders of Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard were all taken aback when they saw Fuman's tragic situation, you must know that among the current Jianzhou Three Guards, the strength of Jianzhou Left Guard is the strongest, and the strength is also the strongest, but now it is only a few days, Fuman has been defeated, and only brought out thousands of remnants, which shows how fierce the Ming army that attacked them is.
The three guards of Jianzhou are in the same breath, they can allow themselves to fight endlessly, but they are absolutely not allowed to be bullied outside, especially in Liaodong, which is still their lair, and now they are beaten to their homes by the army of the Ming Dynasty, which is absolutely unforgivable for the three guards of Jianzhou, even if the left guard of Jianzhou has been defeated, and the Ming army on the opposite side is also very strong, but now that the three guards of Jianzhou have joined forces, no matter how powerful the enemy is, they will not take a step back.
In fact, the reason why the three guards of Jianzhou chose this approach of facing the enemy head-on is not only because of courage, but also for several other reasons, such as Jianzhou Wei and Jianzhou Right Guard saw the tragic situation of Jianzhou Left Guard, and I heard that wherever the Ming army went, there were almost no chickens and dogs left, so they didn't want to burn the war into their own territory, especially now that it was about to enter winter, if their territory was destroyed in the war, then the clansmen would die painfully in the cold of winter. Therefore, they must block the Ming army's army in the territory of the Jianzhou Left Guard.
For the tens of thousands of troops that defeated the Ming Dynasty, Jianzhou Sanwei actually did not have any confidence, but they knew that they did not need to defeat the Ming army at all, and now there was not much time before the winter came, as long as they could delay until winter, and when the first heavy snow fell, the entire Liaodong would become a snow country that was difficult to move an inch, let alone a war, I am afraid that the Ming army could not even guarantee supplies, and then it might be trapped directly in the winter of Liaodong.
It was also the Jianzhou Sanwei who held the above ideas, so when Li Anliang led the army to chase the remnants of Fuman, he only walked for a day, and met the Jianzhou Sanwei army on the road, and the two sides set up a battle formation on a small plain, and a big war that decided the life and death of the Jurchens was about to break out. (To be continued......) u