Chapter 135: Diverting the Tiger from the Mountain
Zhang Feng had to pay attention to it, although his camp was close to the mountain, and it was very close to Jinzhou City, and he could even see his camp standing on the wall of Jinzhou City, but the safety of the camp had to be taken seriously. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Zhang Feng believed that if the Tartars attacked his camp, Gao Qiqian would definitely not be saved, and he would definitely not be saved. The reason why Lu Xiangsheng died in battle at the beginning was to a large extent because he did not rescue Lu Xiangsheng with a high diving rate, and the tens of thousands of Guan Ning troops were only less than 50 miles away from Lu Xiangsheng.
Yes, the camp is safe, the Tartars have to guard against sneak attacks, because the Tartars have strong cavalry, and the cavalry is very mobile, and if it suddenly comes, it will be very tricky.
The whole camp has a large amount of supplies, including ammunition, if these things are gone, then the musket will have no ammunition replenishment, it will be similar to a burning stick, holding a musket without ammunition, it will become fish and meat to be slaughtered by the Tartars.
"If I were Dolgon, I would definitely do it." Zhang Feng thought so in his heart, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he suddenly remembered, "Yes, if you transfer the tiger from the mountain, you must be the tiger from the mountain, and you have been tricked!" ”
Zhang Feng was right, as a Manchu general, experienced in a hundred battles, Dolgon is not an idiot, this time he used to transfer the tiger from the mountain, and used a war book to transfer Zhang Feng's main force out of the camp and go to the battlefield more than 20 miles away.
Then, Dol Roll will send cavalry to kill, capture Zhang Feng's camp, kill all the defenders in the camp, and burn Zhang Feng's supplies.
Without the loss of these materials and the supply of ammunition, Zhang Feng's thousands of people will become the food of the Tartars, and in front of the tens of thousands of Tartars, they will soon be wiped out.
Zhang Feng speculated that the Tartars might have played a trick to tune the tiger from the mountain, so Zhang Feng immediately paid attention to it and took action immediately.
First of all, all the soldiers guarding the wharf of Jinzhou Port were ordered to return to the camp, and all the tents and materials on the wharf were also transported back to the camp, which is called concentrating troops.
Then, Zhang Feng began a series of troop deployments, all the fighters were in place, and even hundreds of non-combatants participated in the battle, although they were auxiliary personnel, but everyone also had basic military training, knew how to shoot, knew how to use grenades.
Hundreds of auxiliaries were also given weapons, one musket per person and several grenades, to accompany the combatants.
After everything was deployed, Zhang Feng thought in his heart, the personnel were still too small, and all the personnel together were only 1,000 or hundreds of people, and he didn't know how many cavalry the Tartars would come.
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Dolgon's tent.
As the battle was about to begin, Dolgon moved his tent to the front line, on the top of a hill not far from the battlefield where the two sides were fighting.
"Master, everything is ready, just waiting for the Ming army to come."
After listening to the report, Dolgon nodded, this time, Dolgon's arrangement and planning were very thorough, and he was also determined to defeat Zhang Feng in one fell swoop.
After about a little effort, a spy came to report, "Master, the Ming army has already set off, and there are at least 3,000 people, and it is estimated that it will only reach here in half an hour." ”
A Manchu general next to him looked happy and said with a happy face: "Master, the Ming army has finally been fooled, more than 3,000 people came, and the Ming army left in the camp outside Jinzhou City is estimated to be only more than 1,000 people, and at least hundreds are non-combatants. ”
Seeing that everything was developing according to his plan, Dolgon nodded, and finally a happy look appeared on his face, and said slowly: "They have come all the way, and the supply line is too long, too long, which gives us a huge opportunity." ”
A Manchu general said: "Master wise, this time we have grasped their Achilles' heel, if we destroy their camp in one fell swoop, they lose supplies, haha, their muskets will become ornaments, thousands of people, then we can only let us slaughter." ”
There were also Manchu generals who were slightly worried: "Master, the camp of the Ming army is outside Jinzhou City, what if the Guanning army in Jinzhou City comes out to reinforce it?" ”
Dolgon said with great confidence: "Even if the sky is turned upside down outside, the Guan Ning army in Jinzhou City will not come out to rescue, as far as I know, Zhang Feng and Gao Qiqian are not in harmony, the two are like enemies, according to Gao Qiqian's character, they will never send a soldier out of the city to rescue, which can be assured." ”
Behind Dolgon, a number of Manchu generals glanced at each other, and they all saw the joy in each other's eyes, and one of the Manchu generals said: "Haha, this is great!" ”
"Master, look!"
Dolgon said slowly: "See, the Ming army has arrived." ”
Hearing this, many people have seen from afar, because the terrain is relatively high, condescending, and the weather is better, these Manchu generals can see more clearly, and a long team appeared on the road from afar, which is Wang Chaoyong leading the troops over.
Wang Chaoyong naturally also saw a large open area hundreds of meters ahead, and there were some small hills on both sides of the open land, the hills were not high, but there was no problem with tens of thousands of cavalry hiding behind the mountains.
In addition, Wang Chaoyong also saw that on the open ground, the Tartars were already waiting for work, and the firearms battalion of thousands of people had been placed in formation, and there were archers, heavy armor, and cavalry arrays beside them.
Wang Chaoyong led the troops into the open field and motioned for everyone to start preparing for battle, while Wang Chaoyong himself held a monocular and looked at it carefully.
The distance between the two sides was about 300 meters, and the soldiers also put on a formal posture, with three battalions in front, each battalion in a platoon, and the sabers of the battalion and company commanders were also drawn, flashing with bursts of cold light.
Zhang Feng specially explained that he must pay attention to the flanks, so Wang Chaoyong left two battalions on the left and right sides, a total of seven battalions, everyone was well-trained, and soon set up a position, one by one muskets aimed at the front, and the battle was about to break out.
Immediately behind everyone, the artillery battalion began to set up guns, a total of thirty-six seventy-millimeter guns, a total of three neat rows, twelve guns in each row, and the muzzles of the black holes began to be aimed at the front.
Wang Chaoyong has already seen that the other party also has a lot of red-clothed cannons, and the number should be twenty or thirty, and the other party's cannons have been set up, located behind the firearms battalion.
If you go further, you will enter the range of the opponent's red-clothed cannon, Lao Tzu is not so stupid, if you don't move, Lao Tzu will not move first, the chief soldier said, brake quietly. Wang Chaoyong thought so in his heart.
Therefore, Wang Chaoyong was not in a hurry, and after arranging the troops, Wang Chaoyong did not give the order to attack, but "leisurely" took the monocular and looked around.
"Huh! That should be the Tartar's commander's tent. Wang Chaoyong held a telescope and happened to see a small hill about one or two miles away, on the top of the hill, and even on the hillside, there were many camp tents, and the large camp tents on the top of the mountain were different from other camp tents, and there were many people standing in front of the camp tents, vaguely some Manchu generals, and there was a person in front of these generals, who seemed to be different from ordinary people.
With this new discovery, Wang Chaoyong adjusted the focus of his monocular, and after seeing it more clearly, Wang Chaoyong said in his heart, it should be the camp of the Tartar commander, and that person is estimated to be Dolgon.
This is indeed Dolgon.
Dolgon stood in front of his commander's tent, looked at the huge open field in front of him, and saw that thousands of people from Wang Chaoyong quickly set up a formation, and couldn't help but say: "From this point of view, this group of Ming troops is well-trained, and the order is given, wait a minute, listen to the order, as soon as the horn sounds, everyone starts to attack." ”
The Manchu generals next to him nodded, and one of the Manchu generals said: "Master, our three thousand light cavalry are ready, do you want to set off now and raid the camp of the Ming army." ”
At this time, Dolgon felt that the time was ripe, and his three thousand light horsemen should set off, raid more than twenty miles, and then fight quickly, as long as it succeeded, the overall situation was decided.
As for the more than 3,000 Ming troops in front of him, Dolgon thought that he would definitely not be able to go back for reinforcements for a while, because most of them were infantry, and the distance was more than 20 miles, and it would take a lot of time to turn back to the reinforcements.
In addition, Dolgon has already thought of countermeasures and has made arrangements, these more than 3,000 Ming troops will definitely be firmly surrounded here, and when the news from the area around Jinzhou City comes, these more than 3,000 Ming troops will definitely not be able to return.
Under the banner of Dolgon, three thousand light horsemen set off quietly and galloped in the direction of Jinzhou, of course Wang Chaoyong did not notice it at all, if Wang Chaoyong could detect it, it would not be Dolgon.
"Commander, look!"
Hearing the shout, Wang Chaoyong, who was looking ahead with a telescope, immediately turned around and looked behind him, only to see that behind him, the figure of the Manchu Tartar had begun to appear in the direction he had just come.
The distance is relatively far, Wang Chaoyong can only vaguely find when he looks at it with a monocular, those should be Tartar heavy armor soldiers, they are almost half a person tall thick shields, behind these heavy armor soldiers, there seem to be a large number of archers and cavalry.
The retreat was cut off by the Tartars.
"Divisional commander, we are surrounded by Tartars."
Wang Chaoyong said calmly: "Don't worry, everyone, we have finished the formation, it is not so simple for the Tartars to attack it, no one is allowed to fire without my order." ”
The order was given quickly, and no one opened fire, but remained on guard, while Wang Chaoyong held a telescope and carefully looked at the surrounding situation.
Obviously, it has really fallen into the encirclement of the Tartars, tens of thousands of Tartars, under the command of Dolgon, have surrounded Wang Chaoyong and others from afar, the Tartars just remain encircled, and are not in a hurry to attack, if the Tartars do not attack, Wang Chaoyong will naturally not give the order to fire.
On the hill.
A Manchu general said: "Master, the siege has been completed, and the more than 3,000 Ming troops have become turtles in the urn, should we attack now?" ”
Dolgon shook his head lightly, and said slowly: "Don't worry, wait a little longer, wait for our three thousand light horsemen to come back, we won't be too late to attack again, anyway, they have been surrounded by us, and it is impossible to escape." ”
Dolgon wanted to wait, Dolgon thought that as long as his 3,000 light cavalry could capture Zhang Feng's camp and burn all the materials stored in Zhang Feng's camp, especially those ammunition, the general situation was decided, and the more than 3,000 Ming troops who were besieged would be at his disposal.
At this time, the three thousand Tartar light horses were almost outside Zhang Feng's camp, and the distance of more than twenty miles really didn't take much time for the Tartar light horses.
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