Chapter 37 Trade-offs

Dolgon's strategy is to hit whoever enters the attack range first, but he focuses more on hitting Wenlong first. The reason is that he is afraid that Wenlong will attack Liaoyang first, and looking at Xiong Tingbi's marching route, it is obvious that he will take Shengjing directly, and Shengjing's city defense is still okay, and there should be no problem in withstanding Xiong Tingbi's attack for a day.

It's a pity that he underestimated Wen Long again, although Wen Long has a good temper, but when he fights, he is more fox than a fox, and he is cunning. He began to walk sixty miles a day, but after walking for two days, he changed his strategy, and specially sent a thousand men and horses to serve as a sentry post in the north.

The most infuriating thing is that the owner of the island is on the way, but whenever he passes by the villages and towns of the Tartars, he is bound to be slaughtered, and the hinterland of the Tartars is disturbed. Three days passed, Xiong Tingbi was about to arrive in Tai'an, and Wenlong went around to a place called Nanfen in the south of Benxi, which gave Dolgon a headache. It's too much of a crime to attack Wenlong now, and if you can't make a quick decision and take Wenlong, you will be in a dilemma. Therefore, Dolgon simply gritted his teeth, ignored you, and sent two thousand men and horses to Liaoyang as soon as possible to assist in defending the city, and the army immediately dispatched to Liaozhong, and gave Xiong Tingbi a head-on attack tomorrow.

When the dragon entered Nanfen, he actually hoped to be attacked by the Tartars, so that he could share a little resistance for Xiong Dashuai, but the Tartars did not come, and he had no choice but to continue to hurry. At noon the next day, we rushed to Liaoyang. Almost at the same time, Xiong Tingbi's men and horses came to the territory of Liaozhong, and the Xiong people who came here can be described as step-by-step, cautious, and suddenly the sound of horses' hooves in front of him shook the sky, and Xiong Tingbi immediately realized that it was the Tartars who came.

Others are afraid of Tartars, but Xiong Tingbi is not afraid, because he has the Guanning Iron Cavalry that is enough to compete with the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry. He immediately ordered to send Man Gui and Zu Dashou to lead the troops and horses to block the attack, and the rest of the men and horses set up a formation and prepared to meet the enemy. The Ming army has 60,000 soldiers and horses, 15,000 cavalry, 45,000 infantry, the cavalry is in front of the posture, the infantry is divided into nine palaces, and there are nine large squares, each of which has 5,000 people, and the periphery is all shield arrays, and then spears, and the innermost is bows and arrows. When the time comes, the infantry can cooperate with the cavalry.

Soon, the Tartar soldiers took the lead, and the first to rush was the red flag of Azig, who had always been brave, so he took the lead. There were almost 7,000 people embedded with the red flag, but in the face of the Ming army, which was several times their own, they were not afraid and rushed straight over.

Man Gui and Zu Dashou were very happy to see that there were few Tartars, thinking that the Tartars did not have many men and horses on the side of Shengjing, so they launched cavalry and rushed head-on. The cavalry is not as good as the infantry, only when it is launched, it is powerful, if you rush from the opposite side, you don't charge, the formation will be scattered.

The two sides rushed directly to one place and began to slash and slash. The Jurchens used a saber, and the Ming army used a three-eyed firecracker, which was different from the ordinary firecracker, heavy and heavy, and could shoot and injure the enemy when it was far away, and could be smashed with a firearm when it was close, and the power was quite amazing.

There are few Jurchens, and when they encounter the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry whose combat effectiveness is no less than their own, of course they will suffer, and after a while, the Tartar soldiers will be a little invincible, and they will be defeated and retreated in a hurry. Originally, Xiong Tingbi planned to do this, after the cavalry fought with the Tartars, he would lead the Tartar cavalry to the side of the infantry phalanx, and use the cavalry to cooperate with the infantry to eliminate the Tartar cavalry. Unexpectedly, there were too few Tartar soldiers, and after a while, they retreated in a panic. I was originally going to move forward, since you retreat, then I will continue to move forward, Xiong Tingbi led the army, continued to move forward, and then went forward, that is, the county seat of Liaozhong, the men and horses of Azig, fled towards the city in a panic, the soldiers and horses entered the city, and the city gate was closed immediately.

According to Xiong Tingbi's plan, it was to directly attack Shengjing, a small county town on the side of the road, and there was no need to pay attention to it, but now there are thousands of Tartar soldiers hoarded in Liaozhong County, if they don't care, these enemies will completely take their own back roads. So, Xiong Tingbi gave the order and prepared to attack the city. When attacking the city, Lord Xiong was also cautious, and did not fight in all directions, in case a Tartar came to sneak attack, but only singled out Ximen.

The Ming army attacked the city, there were siege equipment, what wells and arrows, rushing cars, artillery are everything. If you want to hit a small county town, do you still need to work hard, first bombard with artillery, and the city will be on it, and then push up the arrow tower, and start to shoot arrows into the city, rush the car and then go up, and then smash the door.

After a while, the gate of the county seat was opened, and the Ming army drove in and rushed directly to the city. Azig's soldiers and horses, fighting and retreating, gradually withdrew from the east gate and fled in the direction of Shengjing. After these two battles, the time was not early, Xiong Tingbi ordered the soldiers and horses to enter the city, and slaughtered them in the city by the way.

There are many Tartar people in Liaozhong County, and there are also some Ming people who were captured by the Tartars and served as slaves there. Originally, Zu Dashou didn't want to embarrass these compatriots, but at that time, Xiong Manzi didn't care about those, he just ordered to kill people when they saw them, regardless of the Han Dynasty. If the Han people fled outside the city, they did not have to chase after them, and they were full of people at that time, and they would never be allowed to escape.

As Xiong Tingbi's soldiers and horses entered the city one after another, the city became a slaughterhouse, but Xiong Tingbi never expected that at this time, Azig went and returned again, Azig came from the east gate, and the Ming army in the city was driving the people out of the city. At this juncture, the Ming army was in the city, and they couldn't set up a formation, and they wanted to close the city gate, but it was too late, the Tartar cavalry was too fast, and there were many people gathered at the city gate.

Azig didn't come alone this time, the north gate was Hauge, the south gate was Dorgon, and the west gate was Dordor. The four Tartar soldiers rushed into the city together, and they didn't care about anything, they killed people when they saw them. The previous Ming army had already been carried away, and this time the Tartars fell from the sky, and the Ming army without a formation was vulnerable in front of the Tartars.

The place in the city affected the deployment of the Ming army, and of course there were restrictions on the cavalry, which depends on who is more brave. If it was a normal battle, the Ming army would not necessarily lose, at least the number of people was there, but suddenly, there was a fire in the city, and in several places, it was a fire. Along with the fire, the shouts and killings in the city shook the earth.

"Kill!" ……

Prepared to kill unprepared, the Tartars already took the initiative, first the Ming army. followed the fire in the city, which made the Ming army even more overwhelmed. Also, the four roads of the Tartars are all elite soldiers and strong generals, and the four gates in the city are obviously strong and weak, and the east gate is against Azig, and the Ning Tieqi can occupy a certain upper hand; On the west gate, it was the place where the Ming army entered the city, and there were more infantry gathered, and they did not suffer a loss when they got into a scuffle. At that time, the south gate and the north gate were not good, and the cavalry of Hauge and Dolgon easily entered the city, and then went straight to the east gate, and joined Azig, and the inside should be outside, and the Guanning iron cavalry was killed by throwing off his armor and turning over on his back.

The county seat of Liaozhong has now become the main battlefield, and Liaoyang on the other side is also shouting and killing. However, this shouting and killing sound, only the Ming army's, and the Tartars only left the screams.

Dolgon originally sent the white flag general Suke Saha to lead 2,000 men and horses to come to the rescue, but unfortunately, when he just crossed the Taizi River, he ran into a warship led by Shang Kexi. Wenlong's sailors can all be used as pirates, and in this small ditch, they are not allowed to be kings and hegemons. The Tartar ship's broken ship was smashed and sunk in a few cannons, so to speak, the soldiers were bloodless, and they easily solved the two thousand Tartar soldiers, and they relied on Sukh Saha's good luck to hug the plank and escape back. When he fled back to Shengjing, only the big Baylor Daishan and his little men and horses in the city were the red flag, and the rest of the four little Baylors had already led the soldiers and horses out of the city. Don't look at Hauge's usual quarrels with Dolgon, but when they fight, everyone is not ambiguous.

Dai Shan was busy discussing countermeasures with Fan Wencheng to see what to do. Fan Wencheng only had one sentence, don't go to death, wait for the fight on the side of Liubeile, and then talk about it.

Long's men and horses and Shang Kexi's soldiers and horses converged, except for leaving 2,000 men and horses to guard the ships, the rest of the soldiers and horses attacked Liaoyang with all their might. Liaoyang is not as strong as the county seat, and the city defense is quite strong, but Wenlong now, the cannon is there, and it is not enough to unload it from the ship. Wenlong took advantage of this effort to send troops to attack the city, and with the cooperation of artillery fire, he entered Liaoyang City.

There were not many defenders in Liaoyang, and most of them relied on the Tartar people to go to the city to help defend it, and now the Ming army attacked the city, and the city became a slaughterhouse. Seeing that the time was ripe, Wenlong ordered Geng Zhongming to lead the troops to carry out the second round of charge, Geng Zhongming led the men and horses, easily boarded the city, under his leadership, put down the drawbridge, opened the city gate, led the Ming army into the city, and completely recovered Liaoyang.

Liaoyang is more than fifty miles away from Liaozhong, Wenlong took a breath, personally led the troops, rushed to Liaozhong by water, and the soldiers and horses rode to Liaozhong to inquire about the situation of the battle.

When the dragon took Liaoyang, it was already dark, and the big guys even ate on the boat, and the fleet came to Xiaobeihe, and the scouts sent out were already waiting there.

"Enlightened handsome, it's not good! Xiong Shuai's soldiers and Tartar soldiers fought a bloody battle in Liaozhong County, Xiong Shuai was defeated, barely out of the city, and was defeated in the direction of Jinzhou. ”

"So fast!" Hearing this report, Wen Long was stunned, it stands to reason that Xiong Tingbi should have just arrived in Liaozhong today, with the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, he would never be defeated in a day, why was it so fast.

How did Long know that after Xiong Tingbi entered the county seat of Liaozhong, he had completely failed. Dolgon was also afraid that the Ming army would form a formation outside the city, and he couldn't defeat it for a while, so Wenlong rushed to reinforce it, and it was extraneous. Therefore, the strategy was abandoned, and the Ming army was led into Liaozhong County, and then killed from the outside and inside. With the cooperation of Dolgon and Hauge, first helped Azig eliminate the Ming army at the east gate, and then worked together to kill the west gate, inside and outside were Tartars, the Ming infantry could not resist at all, under the desperate protection of his generals, Xiong Tingbi barely escaped from Liaozhong County, and was defeated in the direction of Jinzhou.

After solving Xiong Tingbi, the Tartar soldiers and horses were also divided into two routes, Azig's red flag was withdrawn to Fengtian, and the men and horses of Dolgon, Duoduo, and Haoge went to Jinzhou along the road to kill.

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