Chapter 440: A Crowd of Fierce Gatherings

On July 29, the 14th year of Chongzhen, the Ming army marched from Xingshan to Songshan, and Rufeng Mountain in the south of Jinzhou. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Rufeng Mountain originated from the legend of Nuwa mending the sky, and after the Qing Dynasty took power in history, Rufeng Mountain was named Hanwang Palace. It comes from the fact that Nurhachi fled to a boulder on the top of the peak and fell asleep with tiredness, and it is rumored that this boulder is a spiritual stone left by Nuwa to mend the sky.

Because of this reason, the Qing regime later named this boulder the Hanwang Palace, and Rufeng Mountain became the Hanwang Palace.

In fact, it should be King Han's Palace, the old slave set himself up and called the King of Khan, and the Ming people translated it homonymously, called King Han, and I don't know why he became King Han. Maybe it's like a red-clothed cannon, which the Ming people can call a Hongyi cannon, and killing Hukou has also become a tiger's mouth.

Rufeng Mountain is composed of countless large and small hills and mountains, facing the Jinzhou side, and most of the terrain is gentle. Facing the pine mountain side, the same mountain ridge is undulating, and the hills are continuous, but when it is almost to the main bee, the mountain is slightly steep, and there are many barren grass and rocks in front of the ridge, only the elite infantry army can be used, and the cavalry and chariot can not be used.

At this time, on the ridge of hundreds of meters on the east side of Rufeng Mountain, three steep boulders stood at the place where Nuwa mended the sky, like Optimus Prime.

Next to the boulder, a tall Yellow Dragon umbrella was held high, and under the big umbrella, there stood an extremely fat and extremely fat Qing man, who was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji. The Ming people called it Huang Taiji, or Hong Tai, Xiao Han Wang.

At this time, Huang Taiji was looking at the Songshan Fort at the bottom of the mountain, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

Next to the big umbrella, there are full of Qing princes and nobles, and the owners of various banners. Gushan is true, and the prince of Baylor is not equal. Under the scorching sun, everyone was sweating, but they didn't dare to move. With their little kings, they all looked down at the top of the mountain.

And along the ridge, it is covered with the elite Bayala battalion soldiers of the Qing State and the soldiers of Ge Bush Xian, hunting with dense banners.

After staring for a long time, Huang Taiji asked coldly: "Hong Chengchou, Wang Dou them, have they marched from Xingshan?" ”

The blue flag lord Zilharang came out in line and came to the side of Huang Taiji and knelt down. replied: "Back to the emperor, exactly." ”

He said: "The sentinel cavalry returns, the Ming soldiers are extremely powerful, and the vast number of men and horses. Foot, horse, artillery combined, the number of more than 100,000 people. ”

"They're finally here."

The Qing Emperor flickered with cold light, and turned his head to look at the boulder beside him.

Because of the old slave. The Qing Dynasty regarded Rufeng Mountain as a sacred mountain and the three stones as a sacred stone. At this time, Huang Taiji looked at the boulder and didn't know whether to pray for the protection of the "sacred mountain". Or pray for the protection of the ancestral heroic spirit, in the upcoming battle with the Ming army. Victory.

After looking at the boulder for a long time, Huang Taiji's eyes were inexplicable. He said indifferently: "Go back to the mountain city and discuss how to deal with military affairs." ”

In the sound of drums, Huang Taiji began to swing and run along the gentle ridge and ridge towards the east of Rufeng Mountain.

The mountain city he said was a former Ming army fortress a few miles away from the east side of the main peak of Rufeng Mountain.

It is a stone mountain city, the city is built according to the mountain, the inside of the city is flat, and the outside of the city is many mountain cliffs. Standing in the mountain city, Jinzhou can be seen in the north, Songshan can be seen in the south, look at it, Songxing forts, piers everywhere, take in the bottom of the eye.

Rufeng Mountain is the barrier of Jinzhou City, and the mountain city is the barrier of Rufeng Mountain, and the geographical advantage is extremely important. However, the city has a flaw, if the army attacks from the north of Rufeng Mountain, the fortress is difficult to defend, the Qing people besieged Jinzhou for a long time, the mountain city has long been occupied by the Qing army, but it is used as a key place for them.

Two days ago, when Huang Taiji led the elite army to Jinzhou in a hurry, he inspected Jinzhou and Songshan, and took the city as his camp.

Along the way, Rufeng Mountain at this time has changed greatly.

Up and down the mountain, there were originally few trees and many barren grasses, but at this time, those trees or wild grasses have all been cut down or uprooted and burned. This move is to enhance the vision of the defenders on the mountain, which is conducive to the defense of the army, and the second is also to prevent the Ming army from setting fire to the mountain. …,

The Ming army on the nine sides has the tradition of burning the wasteland every year, and vigorously sets fire to the grassland every time. If the grass on the mountain is not removed, they set fire before attacking the mountain, and the day is dry, and the Qing army on the mountain will all become roast chickens......

In addition to the bare parts of the mountains, it is facing south, such as Songshan Fort, along the mountains and hills, around the main peak, digging countless shallow ditches and deep trenches, and building countless earthen walls and stone walls.

These earthen walls and ditches are distributed in steep and gentle places at each ridge, and they are generally two ditches and three walls.

It is two trenches in front of a wall, each less than two hundred paces away, so that they can support each other. Many stone walls and earth walls are made of local materials, and various walls are built with stones and clay, and some stone walls even spread for more than ten miles.

Under the painstaking management of the Qing army, the entire Rufeng Mountain has become a war fortress. As far as the eye can see, the flags are all over the place, the fighting is passed on, and the people are called horses neighing. Dense tents, stockades, seem to cover the entire mountain range.

The Qing army occupies Rufeng Mountain, then occupies a favorable location, according to Xiongshan Mountain in the north, and overlooks the Sichuan Plains hills in the south, like an ancient giant beast looking down coldly. They entered the important land of Jinzhou, and if they did not capture Rufeng Mountain, they would not want to enter Jinzhou for half a step. According to Xiongshan, if the Ming army attacked this mountain, they were afraid that they would hit their heads and bleed, and they would suffer heavy casualties.

Huang Taiji rode his horse, his eyes were indifferent, and he didn't seem to have the slightest human emotion, and his eyes swept across the north and south of Rufeng Mountain.

To the south, it is the place of the fortress, and to the north, the hilly and gentle place under the ridge is the place where the troops are stationed. In particular, Shahegou and other places, all the way to the Daughter River, to the confluence of the Daughter River and the Xiaoling River, are the banners of the continuous military camp.

Looking over, to the northeast, there are Shimen Mountain, Shijialing and other mountains.

To the east of these mountains, the Xiaoling River meanders out, and on the north bank of the Xiaoling River, there are Bauhinia Mountain and Mopan Mountain. At this time, Qing defenders were also stationed in those places to prevent the Ming army from attacking important places such as Dalinghe Fort.

Soon, the monarchs and ministers of the Qing Kingdom came to the mountain city.

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The mountain city is not big, about 100 steps long from east to west, about 70 steps wide from north to south, the city walls are all built with stones, only the east side of the city has a gate. A dragon flag more than ten feet high is big, hunting in the wind in the city.

Because the mountain city was the camp of the Qing emperor, the city has been renovated.

In particular, the original garrison hall, as the place where the emperor stayed, the room was replaced with Huanghuali tables and chairs, the floor was covered with a thick fine wool carpet, and the four walls were also hung with colorful tapestries symbolizing the totems of the Manchurians, which looked magnificent.

After Huang Taiji entered the palace, he stood high on the wide chair of Luanza inlaid with precious stones and gold, his eyes were sharp, like a god, looking down on the Qing ministers on both sides below. In this war, except for a few Bakshi such as Sonny who stayed in Shengjing, the rest of the ministers of Manchu, Mongolia, and Han all went out with Huang Taiji, and the territory of the Qing State can be said to have come from the country.

Seeing that the emperor's expression was serious, the ministers below were also arranged according to Manchu, Meng, and Han, and their respective identities and statuses, and stood solemnly one by one.

Although the Eight Banners of Manchuria said that all flags were equal, in fact, the status of each flag was different. Yellow, yellow, white, blue, white, red, red, and blue are the order in which their identities are ranked from high to low.

As for the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, before the establishment of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, they were the subjects of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

After the separation of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han Dynasty from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the subordination of Gushan Ezhen and Melle Zhangjing to the original Eight Banners Manchurian Banner, Prince, County King, and Baylor remained intact and did not change slightly.

Their status is lower than that of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

At this time, in the house, the owners of the twenty-four flags belonging to the Eight Banners system, Gushan Ezhen all arrived. …,

The Eight Banners of Manchuria have the Yellow Banner Banner Owner, Gushan Ezhen Ashan.

Inlaid with yellow flags, the main flag of the solid mountain, the true worship of the sound map.

The main banner of the white flag, the solid mountain is really Dolgon

The owner of the blue flag, the solid mountain is really Zilharang.

Inlaid with the red flag of the owner, the solid mountain is really Dudu.

The white flag is inlaid with the main flag, and the solid mountain is really Duoduo.

The blue flag is the owner, and the solid mountain is really Haoge.

The main flag is the red flag, and the solid mountain is really good.

The Eight Banners Mongolia has the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Adai, the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen, the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Engetu, the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Buyan Dai, the White Flag Gushan Ezhen Yibai, the White Flag Gushan Ezhen Suna, the Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Wulai, and the Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Hushibu.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army have Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Geng Zhongming, Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Ma Guangyuan, Zhenghong Banner Gushan Ezhen Kong Youde, Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Shang Kexi, Zhengbai Flag Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu, Inlaid Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan, Zhenglan Flag Gushan Zhenzu Zerun, Inlaid White Flag Gushan Ezhen Wu Shoujin.

There are no exceptions, the flags of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army, only there are solid mountains and no banner owners.

Of the eight Mongolian banners, only Adai, Engtu, Buyandai, and four were Mongols, and the rest were all Manchurians.

Because of the influence of Wang Dou, the Eight Banners Han Army was established earlier than in history, so some Gushan Ezhen in history did not serve at this time. Only Liu Zhiyuan, Zu Zerun, and Wu Shoujin are the same as in history, but the colors of the flags they belong to are different.

Zu Zerun is the true blue flag of Gushan, but it is the reason why Huang Taiji considers Zu Zerun to be the eldest son of Zu Dashou. He has been summoning Zu Dashou, at this time more heavy troops besieged Jinzhou City, with his son as the Han army flag of a certain flag solid mountain Ezhen, this is a stone and a number of birds.

As for Liu Zhiyuan and Wu Shoujin, in addition to their repeated military exploits, it is also the reason why the two are quite proficient in firearms and artillery warfare. Huang Taiji is now interested in firearms, and the formation of the Eight Banners Han Army is also to fight against Wang Dou's artillery battle array.

Not only that, in addition to these Qing flag owners, Gushan Ezhen, there are also the princes of the court, Baylor, and the ministers of the court.

For example, he belonged to Rao Yu Belle Abatai, who was inlaid with the white flag, the younger brother of the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Baiyintu, the auxiliary generals Gong Adai, Xihan, etc., and the Metropolitan Procuratorate participated in the politics of Zhang Cunren, Zu Kefa, Duan Xuekong, and Sheng Zhong.

There are also foreign Mongolian tribes, such as the Tumut Right Banner Gushan Ezhen Omu Buchuhuer, the Tumut Left Banner Gushan Ezhen Shanba, the Inner and Outer Karaqin, Chahar, Horqin Left and Right Wing Central Banner, Ao Han, Alu Banner Wang Ye Beile.

There were even soldiers and horses of various banners or tribes of Waizasak Mongolia (later in Outer Mongolia) to help in the war, and the Korean State also sent 10,000 soldiers and horses to flatter the master, making the Qing State the battle of Jinzhou extremely powerful. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )