Chapter 330: The Outpost Battle in Sanyin County
"Let's go, go back to Dai County, and order the soldiers to guard the town, set off on Keri, and the soldiers will point to Yanmen!"
After dealing with Zhao Mosheng and Gu Pu, the two generals of the military town, the generals of the third town and the Yamen of Shanxi who stayed behind, were all moved, it is said that even these two were punished by the lord, what reason do they have not to fight to the death, and with a Li Fugui, the relatives of this lord have learned from the main force and the decentralization of local garrisons, and the rest of their hearts dare not despise military affairs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
Li Jing did not stay in Chunxian County, seeing that the armies were actively moving forward, and there was no need to sit in their own towns, and it happened to be an urgent report on the front line of Yanmen, and more than 10,000 Tartar soldiers and Mongolian troops had besieged Shanyin County, and the attack was very urgent, and the rest of the four or five thousand horsemen were deployed under the Yanmen Gate, ready to attack at any time.
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Chen Mingquan (I made a mistake before, it was the fourth battalion of Wang Guzong.) He led the main force of the second battalion of more than 1,400 people, and after entering the county seat of Shanyin, he dismounted and fought on foot with the main cavalry, which was more skillful than fighting on horseback.
Arranged in the fortress more than ten miles away in the southwest corner of the city, it not only effectively prevented the possible backlash of these Mongolian cavalry, but also arranged a passage for himself to seek help from Mayi and Yanmen.
There was originally a second town stationed in this city, with a team of about 500 people, and the leader was only a school captain, and after Chen Mingquan was stationed, he naturally took over the defense of the city.
He first arranged for the armies to rush to transport fire oil and giant trees from Yanmen and other interiors, and then ordered more than 1,000 people to go out of the city in all directions, cut down all the trees that could be cut down, and arrange transportation as much as possible for those who could be transported back to the city, and even the people in the city were invited by him to send 2,000 men, women, and children at the cost of 500 taels of silver, and went into battle to arrange the city defense together.
Later, it was really the Tartar soldiers who were getting closer and closer, and he simply ordered a fire to burn the mountains and fields within ten miles, so that the Tartars could be effectively eliminated, and they tried to replenish the wood of the siege equipment nearby.
Therefore, on the one hand, he was a hundred contempts, but on the other hand, he was fully prepared for the possible attack, because San'in was just outside the Yanmen Pass, guarding the flanks of the Tartars, and he was a great threat to them.
Soon, the Tartars' vanguard two red flags and a Niu Lu arrived, but looking at the heavily guarded Shanyin County, they didn't even have the slightest method, so they could only wait for the follow-up reinforcements to advance.
"This is the rumored invincible main force of the Tartars?"
Chen Mingquan stood on top of the battlements to cooperate with the reinforced forty tiger squat cannons and four general cannons to defend the four, and then carefully observed the movements of the Tartar soldiers outside the city.
Wu Erwa was the guard general who was originally stationed in Shanyin, and at this moment he was under Chen Mingquan's tent, and when he heard this, he said, "The battalion is just rest assured, our artillery and guns are not vegetarians, and if the Tartars dare to attack the city, they will be told to hit their heads and touch the blood." ”
This is not a big word, the forward Tartar despised it in his heart, and thought that the Ming army defenders of this city were also the same as before, so every day he practiced under the city with soldiers and horses to show off his might, and beat horses in groups, Chen Mingquan began to show extreme timidity, and strictly ordered all armies not to open fire without authorization.
On the second day, seeing that the Tartars were still arrogant, they took advantage of the afternoon to send four hundred firearms and crossbowmen to quietly go up to the eastern city wall, and prepared with artillery.
This ambush dispelled the arrogance of the Tartars at once, and they left six or seven corpses in disarray, and fled in a hurry at a distance of a hundred paces from the city, and the defenders of the entire city suddenly let out an excited howl that shook the sky.
Chen Mingquan is a man who is by no means bad at managing the army, and he knows that the defense of the city is based on the military heart, so he sent sharpshooters and 20 people who are good at shooting to strictly guard this section of the city wall close to the corpse of the Tartar, and when the Tartar soldiers tried to come up and grab the corpse, they attacked violently, causing the Tartar to lose another corpse in the same place, and could not succeed.
The Niu Lu Ezhen King Gul pro Baleza hated the Ming army on the city wall, and his heart was almost on fire, the Niu Lu himself led by the real Jurchen was small in number, only more than 170 people, but each of them was a well-known strong and brave warrior with red flags.
Since the westward expedition with the army, all the charges into battle, almost like a broken bamboo, the enemy all fled in despair, and the Chahar Department was recruited, his cattle killed the enemy twenty, and the self-damage was zero, and he entered the Kou Xuanda, where the villages were broken innumerable, the looting was not counted, and there were no casualties, which came to this city, showing off his strength.
As a result, he lost nine people at one time, and his subordinates added six wounded people, how could he bear it, but this was known by the commanders and leaders above, and they couldn't help but take him to sacrifice the flag!
What made him even more unacceptable was that the place where the corpses were placed and they were ridiculed was in the middle of the two protrusions of the city wall, and arrows could be fired on the left and right.
But with the arrival of the Jurchen army, Chen Mingquan also accepted it when he saw it, and the Jurchen Tartars who were suppressed by black pressure and released arrows were not so easy to deal with, but even so, the soldiers of the cavalry town and the Shence army would not let them have a good time, and often secretly released arrows from the cold, or took advantage of the cover of the wall battlements to aim at them with firearms.
Finally let the Tartars drop two corpses, and barely snatched back all the corpses of their own soldiers and horses.
"Come on, humiliate this mourner, pull it out, cut it down!"
As the owner of the blue flag, Zilharang, seeing the defeat in the first battle and the damage to the morale of the three armies, was furious, and directly ordered the cavalry school with the army to directly push Wang Gul and Baleza directly out of the gate and behead the public.
As the commander of the army, he naturally has this authority, and even led the two red flags under the head, and Yue Tuo and Sakhalian, who followed the army, sat idly by, because Wang Guer's pro-Bal was too embarrassing for the two of them, and the elite soldiers of a dignified Niu Lu were frustrated under a small county town in Shanyin, and they lost more than ten people to barely grab the corpse, what a shameless face!
"Lord Belle, the southern barbarians are really hateful, and even small cities dare to refuse the majesty of my army, I ask Lord Belle to send the whole army to capture this city, slaughter all the soldiers and civilians in the city, and pay for the lives of my warriors!"
Yue Tuo knew that the main purpose of this southward march was twofold, one was to plunder enough grain, grass, people and livestock to supplement the fruitless losses of this expedition to Chahar, this purpose had basically been achieved, and the Ming army on the front line of Xuanda did not dare to go to war at all, so they were allowed to plunder everywhere and sit idly by.
Second, it was because those businessmen in Zhangjiakou who hated Li Jing for raiding their hometown provided news about the rise of the beggar army, and they went south this time to prepare to touch the so-called strong army of the Ming court, and it was best to completely defeat them, so as to prevent other chaos when they fought for world dominance in the future.
But after going south, they found that the beggar army was not so easy to fight, they had a huge cavalry that was almost comparable to the beauty of the real people, according to the results of several battles, their number, when around seven or eight thousand people, such a main force, for Hou Jin, it was like a fish in the throat, and it was impossible not to fight.
Because the beggar army sits in the land of Shanshan, once it grows up, it is the fierce enemy of the Houjin, and the Houjin regime struggling in the bitter cold land of Liaodong has many wise people who have a long-term vision, so they are more vigilant and panicked about the rise of the beggar army.
"Although this city is small, but looking at the battlements from afar, there are many defenses, and because there is no grass and trees around, it is difficult to raise siege equipment for a while, and we have many cavalry troops and few infantry troops, and it is not a good strategy to attack the city and capture the ground."
Zilharang is not a coward, but marching and fighting is not a trivial matter, the Ming army is good at defending, and the Jurchens are good at field warfare.
Just when it was difficult to make a decision for a while, suddenly a person outside the tent came in, only whispered a paragraph in his ear, and he immediately clapped his seat, "Really? ”
"Back to the master's words, this is a slave who received a secret report from the city, it is true!"
It was a scout Xiao cavalry school with a blue flag who came, but it was the news that there was the main cavalry of the beggar army in the city, and after Zilharang confirmed it repeatedly, he pondered for a moment, and then waved him back, before he asked Abatai, "What do you think, brother?" ”
Abatai didn't think about it, and said directly, "Since it is the main force of the southern barbarians, we have to touch it, besides, we marched along the way, lost more than a thousand horses, and we were worried that we couldn't explain to the Great Khan, and it was good to break this city to destroy its elite, and it was good to make a difference, besides, I heard that the Yanmen Xiongguan of the southern barbarians is the most difficult to fight compared to Ningyuan City, if we go up reluctantly, I don't know how many sons and daughters we will lose." ”
He also said, "Since there is the main elite of the Southern Barbarians here, then let's besiege the city and attack it well, and send another one to monitor Yanmen, if they dare to reinforce in the future, we will destroy them in the wilderness, if they dare not reinforce, then it is just the opportunity to capture the city and avenge the warriors of Erlang!" ”
Sakhalian also agreed at the same time, "Lord Belle, we are not good at attacking the city, the southern barbarian is as timid as a mouse, and he will not come out of the fortified city, why don't we directly send people to attack this city and attract them to come out to rescue, in this way, a big victory can be expected!" ”
"Okay, according to what you said, all the departments will send Niu Lu, go around to cut down trees, build more ladders, we will capture this city in one fell swoop, and raise the prestige of my great gold country!"
Zilharang said with a decisive word, and then all the departments took action, cutting down trees for more than ten miles, and building more siege equipment, not to mention, but they all knew in their hearts that it was not cost-effective to attack the city defended by the main force of the Ming army, and what they wanted was for the Ming army to come out of the city to help, and then, together they would gather and annihilate it, this is the combat method that the Jurchens are good at! (To be continued.) )