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On the beach line that stretches for miles in and around Huludao, it has become a huge army gathering ground and material dumping ground. This is not the first time that the Daming naval and land armies have organized a joint landing operation, so the landing of the 12,000-strong army was carried out in an orderly manner. The entire Fourth Division of the Army, including an artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, an engineer brigade, and a light cavalry brigade, had landed on the beaches of Liaodong for 12 consecutive hours. The first group of the 11th Regiment had already deployed around the front village of Ningyuan, guarding several farms and warehouses that had been hastily abandoned by the Qing people, and guarding a walled city in Nuoda.

The first wave of contact has already begun, and the guns on both sides are grounded. Although the artillery of the Qing soldiers was insufficient, there were a lot of guns and bird guns, and they crackled and fought vigorously, regardless of whether the Ming army was within the firing range or not. However, the firepower of the Ming army was not strong, and only three 9-pounder guns were pushed to the front line of Ningyuan Qianzhai and fought against the Qing soldiers from a distance. Their siege guns, the 32-pounder guns, weren't so easy to get off a battleship.

Ningyuan Qianzhai north of the Wuli River north is Ningyuan Prefecture City, not the famous Ningyuan City established by Yuan Chonghuan in history, but a small city built during the Kangxi period. Guanwen also placed a blue-flaged association there, and had already begun to retreat to Jinzhou City, but in the middle of the road, he encountered the two associations brought by Guanwen, and turned back, spread out north of Wulihe, and confronted a cavalry brigade of the Fourth Division of the army.

Peng Yulin and Liu Lichuan set up Liaodong Town and the Fourth Division's Central Army on Longbei Mountain, near the coast, a small hill that was the highest point in a large area nearby, looking down from the top of the mountain. The situation on the entire battlefield is unobstructed.

"I actually brought in soldiers from Ningyuan Prefecture and Jinzhou." Peng Yulin smiled. "It's fine. It's here to have a big fight with Qing Tartar. I was worried that they would abandon the city and run away with us in the old forests of Manchuria, which would be a bit troublesome. ”

Liu Lichuan looked at the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Division who were camping below, and frowned: "Mr. Peng, although we still have a division, there are only 300 cavalry, and I am afraid that it will be easy to break the enemy and destroy the enemy." The Eight Banners soldiers in that earthen enclosure couldn't escape, and it was not easy for the 6,000 people north of the Wuli River to stay. ”

Although the base of the Ming Dynasty is rich. But it's not very suitable for keeping horses. Therefore, Zhu Ming's cavalry has always been a "few but fine" way, and he can't play the big cavalry of the Northern Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Zhu Ming's current situation is similar to that of the Song Dynasty, and the enemy on horseback is "easy to defeat and difficult to destroy". If the horse team of the Northern Qing Dynasty patted their butts and left, Peng Yulin and Liu Lichuan could really only stare dryly.

"They're leaving, and I'm not interested in staying." Peng Yulin said with a smile, "The Eight Banners have a horse team, and we have a navy in the Ming Dynasty!" They can go wherever they want, and I can hit wherever I want! This Qianli coast of Liaodong is full of loopholes. ”

He pointed to the fleet at sea: "Let the fleet carry a regiment of land divisions and sailors from Dongjiang Town to attack Haicheng, Gaiping, Niuzhuang, Jinzhou and other places, destroy their cities, drive their people, and destroy their homes!" In this way, the Qing Dynasty in the north either abandoned the land and retreated north. Either gather a large army and fight me ......"

Before Peng Yulin's words were finished, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves suddenly came from in the distance. The blue-flaged horses on the battlefield began to move north along the Wuli River.

"It seems that Qing Tartar can't hold his breath, Lichuan, can you break it in one fight?" Peng Yulin asked Liu Lichuan with a smile.

Liu Lichuan smiled coldly: "As long as they dare to come, they will keep and kill a piece of armor!" ”

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Early morning June 25, 1849. On the west bank of the Wuli River in western Liaoning, until the wilderness on the edge of the hills of western Liaoning, two armies of about 6,000 people each are setting up battle formations.

In fact, the official text ordered the crossing of the Wuli River with some luck. The Ningyuan Qianzhai on the other side of the Wuli River has been surrounded by the Ming army, and then 30 miles to the southeast is the Ningyuan City that once made Yuan Chonghuan famous, which is closer to the Shanhaiguan controlled by the Taiping Army, and is the outpost of the Manchu Qing Dynasty against the Taiping Army, so there is no deployment of the convinced Manchu Eight Banners and Mengba Banners, but 5000 "Hui Eight Banners". In fact, it is not the Eight Banners military system, but it is composed of Hui people who followed King Gong out of Beijing (there are many Hui people in Beijing), and was commanded by Ma Xinyi, a Jinshi in the 27th year of Daoguang.

The reason why they were used to guard the old city of Ningyuan was because of the opposition between their Hui people and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in terms of religious beliefs. The Hui people are not like ordinary Han people, they only have land and food, worship God, worship God, religion is a very sacred thing for them. So don't worry about them not working hard when fighting the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

However, the relationship between the Hui people and the Ming Dynasty has always been good, and there is a legend in history of "Ten Times to Protect a Han", and that Han is Zhu Yuanzhang. Now that Zhu Ming has landed in Liaodong, the 5,000 "Eight Banners" in the old city of Ningyuan can hardly guarantee that he has no intention of casting Ming. Therefore, Guanwen sent Tang Ma to order Ma Xinyi to withdraw his troops to Chaoyang, but Ma Xinyi reported that he was ready to lead the team out of the old city of Ningyuan to the east, and planned to attack the Ming army that landed in the east with Guanwen.

When Guan Wen learned the news, he felt that there were some opportunities, and he did not seek to annihilate the more than 10,000 Ming troops who had landed, but he hoped to temporarily relieve the siege of Ningyuan Qianzhai and take the more than 10,000 bannermen trapped in Ningyuan Qianzhai to Jinzhou City. It was with such a mind in mind that after the formation of his subordinates was completed, Guan Wen did not order an attack, but just confronted the other party from afar, actually waiting for Ma Xinyi's troops to arrive.

"Division commander, the Tartars don't seem to be planning to attack, they are lined up five or six miles away from us, it seems that they are waiting for reinforcements to come, right?" The chief of staff of the Fourth Division stood on horseback and observed with a telescope for a long time before sitting back on his horse and said to Liu Lichuan.

Liu Lichuan snorted: "It's good to have reinforcements!" If you can attract all the soldiers and horses of the entire Liao land to Ningyuan, and all the battles are gone, won't the Liao land be restored? ”

The chief of staff nodded: "Division commander, since the Tartars don't attack, we might as well dig trenches and defend them...... Use a ditch to connect the Wuli River with Longbei Mountain, and completely surround Ningyuan Qianzhai. ”

Liu Lichuan looked at the battlefield around, the encirclement of Ningyuan Qianzhai was only the beginning, and the more than 10,000 troops that landed did not have a consolidated stronghold, and it was indeed necessary to build a position. So he ordered: "Go and take out the barbed wire fence and set it up...... This thing should still be somewhat useful against cavalry. ”

The barbed wire fence was "invented" by Zhu Jishi in his busy schedule, in fact, he said an idea and asked Lan Fangxing's foreign engineers to get it. Although this thing is famous, it is not very difficult, and it was invented by an American shepherd boy around 1867 in history, and it was originally used to raise livestock, and it is quite suitable to deal with the horse team of the Eight Banners.

"Yes!" The chief of staff saluted and retreated.

Liu Lichuan handed over the command to Li Wenmao, the deputy division commander, and took the Longbei Mountain on his own horse, and then discussed the military situation with Peng Yulin.

"Headquarters, the Qing Tartar horse team refuses to engage in battle, it seems that they are waiting for reinforcements, I have ordered to build a position, preparing to use a regiment to besiege Ningyuan Qianzhai, a regiment to block the northern line and confront the Qing Tartar horse team, and a regiment to build a defensive position under Longbei Mountain."

"Are you worried that the Qing soldiers from Ningyuan Old City are coming?" Peng Yulin took out a paper fan, opened it and shook it gently, fanned away a little bit of heat, and said: "I didn't expect to surround a Ningyuan front village, and I attracted all the tartars of Ning Jin, this is to fight the battle of Ning Jin." ”

"That's right, it's the battle of Ningjin!" Liu Lichuan raised his chin and looked solemn, "And it's also our Ming Ningjin victory!" It is ten times bigger than the Ningjin victory played by Inspector Yuan back then! ”

At the foot of Longbei Mountain, about 12,000 Ming officers and soldiers all started to move, and three defensive lines composed of barbed wire and trenches were started at the same time. Due to the successive appearance of four cross-era weapons, namely the Bese Mai rifle, the ammonium grenade, the ammonium flower bomb and the barbed wire. The combat mode of the Ming Army is also quietly changing, the way of fighting in line for shooting is gradually beginning to take a back seat, and the tactics of trenches and barbed wire have gradually become the mainstream - of course, the same changes have also appeared in the armies of Western countries, even the Tsarist Russian Army, which relied on "gray cattle to fight bayonets" Ula Assault ", had to grit its teeth and spend a lot of money to replace the three-piece set of rifles, grenades and ammonium oil flowering bombs. (To be continued......)