In December of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Houjin sent troops to southern Liaoning, the news reached the Beijing Division, and once again shocked the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and then the bad news followed, the coastal fortresses were easy to fight again, the Dongjiang Shen Shikui Department of Tieshan was defeated, more than 4,000 people were lost, and they had to retreat to Phi Island, and Shen Zhixiang, the defender of Shicheng Island, also lost his troops, and there was news that the three armies of the slave chieftains came out, and the Azig Department of the middle road had approached Jinzhou......

With the increase of bad news, the impeachment of Yan Kunzhi, the governor of Dengzhou, was like snowflakes, mostly accusing Yan Kunzhi of not raising troops without authorization to provoke Tartar slaves, and the crime of Lushun guerrilla Yang Bo was not small......

These impeachment Zhang Chongzhen Emperor all stayed in China, the current battle situation is unknown, the monarchs and ministers want to know the detailed information, and soon there is news to return, saying that Lushun guerrilla Yang Bo led the guerrilla battalion and Lushun soldiers and civilians more than 7,000 people poured out of the nest to rescue Jinzhou, this news made everyone feel a little at ease, but after Azig led the main force to arrive, a large number of sentinels blocked the surrounding area of Jinzhou, and the farthest sentinels have arrived under the north city of Lushun, cutting off the connection between Lushun and Jinzhou, and there is no news from Jinzhou......

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty have a kind of ominous premonition, they all remember the feeling of panic when Chongzhen was trapped in the Daling River in the fourth year, obviously, Jinzhou will be a copy of the Battle of the Daling River, Wen Tiren Shangshu asked the Guanning army and horses to feint to contain the Tatar slaves The song was rejected, and there were many tripartite checks and balances to impeach him in the matter, saying that Mao Wenlong consumed rice and grain in vain, and ran the Dongjiang River for several years without any achievements, and the so-called containment work was impossible to talk about, and Wen Tiren was half dead. It's just that I can't get sick for the past few days.

Slightly different from the Daling River, this time the Tatar slaves invaded southern Liaoning, and Jinzhou was a long way away. The transportation of the sailors was inconvenient, and the Tatar slaves went out in three ways, the left road Fuzhou was eyeing the tiger, the middle road Azig besieged Jinzhou at any time and then went south to threaten Lushun, and the Dongjiang troops on the right road were also too busy to take care of themselves, but the military department could not transfer soldiers and horses to rescue, and the soldiers and horses in the Jinmen area did not dare to mobilize. There were not many soldiers and horses in Shandong, Zhang Fengyi was at a loss, and the court discussed several times. But nothing came of it.

The Tatar slaves are the best at besieging the city to send reinforcements, and the Tatar slaves sent troops to besiege Jinzhou is to lead the elite of the Ming army to die, which is already the consensus of the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and all the rescue soldiers and horses in the court in the battle of the Daling River are all pasted up. In the end, he also sent out the Guan Ning army of Dalinghe. In the end, it ended up with a chicken and a flying egg.

Those who can be saved don't want to be saved, they all know that with their own ability, they will be sent to death, the soldiers and horses in the Beizhili area cannot be easily mobilized, Shandong has not fought for many years, and it is even more unbearable after the Dengzhou Rebellion, except for Liu Zeqing, who is stationed in Gunzhou, there are thousands of battalions, and nothing else can be counted on. So the unlucky general soldier Liu Zeqing sent troops under the repeated urging of the Ministry of War and the cabinet. However, Liu Zeqing made up his mind, and the three thousand soldiers and horses walked for one day and rested for three days. After making a full appearance, he was fifty miles away from Gunzhou, and then he said that he had lost his footing and fallen from his horse, and then stopped.

Fortunately, Li Weiluan, the chief soldier of Denglai, has led the troops to the main barracks and the strange barracks have been stationed in Lushun, and Shang Kexi and Tan Yinghua can rescue at any time. Most people in the court, including Emperor Chongzhen, have reached a consensus that it is better to fight Jinzhou, and there is nothing to lose again, as for Yang Bo? I can only wish him a long life......

The Ming court was helpless to rescue Jinzhou, and the siege of Jinzhou Azig was also not happy, the most critical problem was the lack of troops, in order to cut off the connection between Jinzhou and Lushun Nanguan and other places, he sent three thousand cavalry, although the sentinel cavalry reported that there was no change in the Ming army in these two places, but he was still faintly worried in his heart, these three thousand cavalry had suffered defeats, morale was not high, Lushun and Nanguan were not other Ming troops, it was the place where Yang Bo made his fortune, if the two soldiers and horses were determined to rescue Jinzhou, Relying on a mere 2,000 people may not be able to stop it.

Azig was not worried that Yang Bobu would dare to go out of the city to fight, without the support of the city, none of the soldiers and horses of the Ming Kingdom would be the opponent of the Eight Banners warriors, not to mention that their troops were still at a disadvantage. But he didn't dare to attack the city, Yang Bobu was different from other Ming troops, they would wait for their warriors to go to the city and then concentrate on shooting, no matter how many soldiers they were on it, Yue Tuo and Dege suffered a big loss in this, he Azig didn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

The siege of the city for six days, there was no reaction in the city of Jinzhou, the offensive and defensive sides seemed to have a tacit understanding, you surround yours, I defend mine, there has not even been a conflict, but the more this is the case, the more uneasy Azig is in his heart, the siege of Jinzhou is just an expedient measure now, and when Dolgon, Yue Tuo and them arrive, it may become a real siege, just like Da Linghe, it is best to fight it when the time comes, it doesn't matter if it can't be defeated, at most three Baylors share the blame together. Anyway, if you want to go back and explain to the Great Khan, you still have to do enough, Azig originally planned to spend some cost to block the Ming army in the city, it was not easy to besiege the Daling River back then, Zu Dashou and Houjin clashed many times, and the city was never defended, and every day they had to go out of the city to toss, and the conspiracies and tricks were endless, and the Eight Banners were all made mentally nervous by him, if it wasn't for Huang Taiji's insistence, he might not be able to besiege it.

Now that the city of Golden State is extremely calm, it seems that the siege is not taken to heart, which makes Azig suspicious......

Just when Azig was thinking about it, the sentry suddenly flew to report, the south gate suddenly opened, an unknown number of Ming troops took advantage of the night to raid the Houjin camp tent, although the Houjin marching army has strict regulations, and is not afraid of stealing the camp, but this Ming army is fierce firearms, and everyone is not afraid of death, the sneak attack is not successful, it will be changed to a strong attack, the Gushan Ezhenbu of the outer feudal Mongolian Hachaer stationed at the south gate was caught off guard and suffered a big loss, and after three rounds of guns, he lost more than 100 people, although he quickly organized a counteroffensive, However, the Ming army advanced very quickly, and in just half an hour, Gushan Ezhen was a little unable to resist, and hurriedly sent people to ask Azig for help.

"Transfer the two Niu Lu from the East Gate to support, let them stabilize the battle situation first, and not let a single soldier escape from Jinzhou!" Azig sneered a few times, it turned out that the Ming army was fighting this idea, and let himself have a false alarm.

Before the sentry in front of him had time to get up, several horses galloped in, and one of them rushed to the big tent, knelt down and hurriedly reported: "Master." The big thing was not good, and the Ming army took advantage of the night to open the east gate and suddenly attacked our department. The warriors in my banner didn't have time to react, and were kicked by the Ming army in three battalions, and these Ming troops burned fortifications and equipment everywhere, Lord Balla couldn't resist it, and sent a slave to ask the master to rescue! ”

Azig was shocked: "How many people are there in the Ming army of the East Gate?" What does that dog eat for? Can't resist 3,000 soldiers and horses? ”

The sentry knight kowtowed again and again: "Back to the master, this Ming army is all cavalry, coming and going like the wind." Firearms ferocious......"

"What?"

Azig was shocked and said, "Ming cavalry? Did the cavalry use firearms? ”

"Yes! This cavalry is all armed with a long sword, and the warriors in the banner have just organized to intercept it, so they might as well fire together with the firearms. At that time, countless people were killed, and they turned too fast to fight, and the warriors were chased everywhere by the Ming army. Plus trampling in the panic. Several counter-offences were broken up, and when the minions came to report the time, the Ming army had burned the camp and was running towards the camp where the Han dogs were held in the east. ”

"They're going to burn the instruments?" Azig reacted, a little relieved, in addition to digging trenches, those Han people also have to rush to the camp at night to make siege equipment, and have built a few ladders and some shield carts. Presumably, the Ming army was worried that they would attack the city on a large scale, so they attacked first.

Come to think of it. Azig ordered: "Let Ahajueluo take two Niu Lu to rescue the east gate, and send someone Pegasus to report to the West Gate Uzaku Department, be careful of the Ming army's surprise attack, and let him send some people to come out to rescue the south gate......"

Several sentry riders took the order and galloped out, and at this moment, another group of sentry horses galloped in from several directions, and it was obvious that something had gone wrong.

"The master is not good, Ximen, Ximen ......" The sentry rider couldn't take his breath, Azig was anxious, kicked him over, turned his head to the other sentry and said, "You say it first." ”

"Back to the master, the Ming army opened the north gate, and countless soldiers pushed artillery out, coming towards my camp!" Seeing the lesson of the previous car, this sentry hurriedly finished speaking.

"What?" Azig was shocked: "Why is there also the North Gate, how many soldiers and horses are there in the Ming army?" ”

The sentry just now finished breathing, and hurriedly reported back: "Master, a Ming army went out of the West Gate and made a loud noise, Lord Uzaku didn't know how many Ming soldiers and horses raided in the night, and he didn't dare to attack at will, so he sent a servant to fly first to ask the master." ”

At this moment, there was a loud bang, as if the earth shook, Azig grabbed out of the tent, and saw from a distance under the city of Jinzhou, countless fires pierced the sky, and were roaring towards his side, some of the ammunition that fell on the ground ignited the fire, and the distance was only enough to hit the edge of the trench, but the soldiers of the entire camp were all alarmed, and they were in a panic under the command of the white-armored soldiers, preparing weapons and horses, and the inside and outside of the camp were in chaos.

Until the sky was dark, the Ming army who was clamoring around died down, and retreated to the city of Jinzhou, counting the soldiers and horses from all walks of life, and couldn't help but secretly complain, the east gate and the south gate suffered the heaviest losses, the east gate a team of Ming troops as if into no man's land, killing people everywhere and setting fires, dispersing the soldiers, and there were countless Ming troops holding swords high and holding spears rushed into the camp like a tide, slashing everywhere, just over half an hour Abara lost more than 200 people, and when Aha Jueluo arrived with two Niu Lu, In addition to the corpses in one place, there are countless routs like headless flies, the Ming army with the Han people has already swaggered back to the city, the most tragic is the south gate, they met all the fire soldiers, these Ming troops lined up in formation to take turns approaching and shooting, and the Mongolian led by Gushan Ezhen retreated, and even the battalion was burned more than half, the most infuriating thing is that the team did not return to the city after the cavalry rescued the Han people from the east gate, they turned their horses and galloped to the south gate, and completely broke up the defenders of the south gate after a whistle, Swaggering towards Lushun to break through, Gushan Ezhen can not be contained, can only come back angrily to report, but there is no major battle between the west gate and the north gate, the enemy in the north went out of the city and put a few rounds of artillery and went back, Azig personally led the army to the north gate, not even a fart......

Seeing the minions kneeling on the ground in the tent, Azig flew into a rage and had them dragged down and beaten thirty times, but after venting his anger, Azig calmed down, and he felt that he was in a predicament.

Obviously, the Ming cavalry broke through in order to ask for help from Lushun, and the Lushun garrison was no better than other Lu Ming troops, which was Yang Bo's birthplace, these Ming troops were not afraid of field battles with themselves, and the three thousand cavalry may not be able to firmly deter the support of Lushun and Nanguan, if you add Guanglu, the garrison of Shuangdao. Several soldiers and horses came out together, but they were afraid that they would fall into passivity, and Yue Tuo on the right side had never been on good terms with him, and he would probably not come to support him. Dolgon would have come for the sake of the white flag, but why did he open this mouth to him?

Azig stared at the gray outline of Jinzhou in the distance, and felt anxious, the most important thing is that Yang Bo's department is really a little tricky, they are good at defense, and they will lose a lot if they rashly attack the city, this Ming army can fight in the field. He is also good at night fighting, but if he is besieged, he will not have enough soldiers and horses, and the four gates will be blocked. Each gate can only send 3,000 soldiers and horses, and if he comes a few more times like last night, he will not have to fight again, although he will say that he is besieging the city. But the initiative was in the hands of the Ming army. They could choose any direction to launch a surprise attack, but they could not leave the other gates alone.

"Han dog is really cunning!" Azig scolded hatefully.

"Spare Baylor?" Engetu, who was in the red flag, asked cautiously.

Azig looked at him and knew that he had heard that the Ming army had rescued those Dongjiang people last night, and he was afraid that he would lose his trust, so he hurried to pursue it.

Thinking of this, Azig waved his hand a little annoyed and said, "Don't worry, I will make up the coat I owe you when I go back."

Ngotupi nodded with a smile: "Thank you Belle, so that the slave can go back and explain to the good master."

Azig was furious. But his face was not good, and he said to a few white-armored soldiers: "Escort the rest of the Han dogs to the north gate of the city." In front of the Ming army, he slashed them alive! ”

The white-armored soldier took the order to go, and soon, about 100 Dongjiang people who were not rescued were driven to more than 300 steps below the northern city by the armor soldier, several strong, hideous-looking executioners first dragged out an old man, this old man looked blank, knelt down without any resistance, several armor soldiers rushed up, tied him firmly to the stake, the other people guessed what the Tartar was going to do, they all cried bitterly, a soldier was furious, and dragged out a woman who grabbed the sky and shouted the earth, and ripped off her clothes in three times and two times, The woman clutched her pants tightly, and the soldier slashed through them, and the woman's arms were broken at the root, and she fainted suddenly.

When Yang Bo received the news and caught up with the city, the old man was already covered in blood, his head was soft and crooked to the side, and he had obviously lost his breath a long time ago.

"How so? Didn't you say that they were all saved? Yang Bo asked with an angry face

"The people in the camp have been rescued" Zhao Long lowered his head, a little uneasy,

"Go out of the city, right? My lord? Hu Mazi was furious when he saw the situation in the city.

"Their craftsmanship is so poor," the calf said with a smirk

Yang Bo looked at it, and suddenly waved his hand violently: "Open the north gate and go out of the city to fight to the death!" ”

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In the second half of the sixteenth century, the Spanish phalanx was all the rage, with pikemen lined up in dense formations, each with about 50 to 60 men in front and 20 columns in depth, and the four corners of the large array were dense formations of musketeers, a solid dense formation of about 150 meters wide and 100 meters deep, and a separate detachment engaged in small maneuvers.

Yang Bo had trained this formation, but soon gave up, the reason is very simple, this kind of phalanx is more than enough defense, lack of aggressiveness, and the firepower of the firecrackers at the four corners is insufficient, although the frontal defense is very strong, but if the enemy attacks from the flank, it is easy to cause the collapse of the large array, and now Yang Bo chooses the Gustav phalanx.

With the formation of brigade-level units, the increase in artillery, the ratio of pikemen and flintlock musketeers began to approach one to one, and the cavalry team was formed, it can be said that the basic conditions for selecting the Gustav phalanx have been ripe, and the advantage of the Gustav phalanx is that it has strong mobility and sharp counterattacks.

Gustav's brilliant victory in Breitenfeld not only brought the emerging power of Vasa in Sweden into the field of vision of the European aristocracy, but also due to the rout of the old Saxon system, it not only showed the tenacity of Horn's defense, but also showed the sharpness of Gustav's second-line lightning counterattack.

Gustav's phalanx embarked on the path of frontal firepower, and then, with the gradual improvement of shooting techniques and tactics, his reign began in the long era of horizontal salvos, in which the king of firearms salvo would be established inexorably.

The most elite pikemen battalion will be placed alone in front of the large array, they have the hardest task, they are like bait, like the front light punch in the boxing ring to lure the opponent to attack, when the opponent approaches, the attack can only make contact with the pikeman battalion first, and then will be followed by the arquebus battalion and the battalion artillery behind them, if the opponent does not move, it will be forced up several phalanxes together to kill intensively,

The pikemen battalion was followed by the arquebus battalion, the Liaodong battalion, the sin battalion and the artillery team, each company had fifty musketeers and pikemen or sword and shield soldiers, six rows in depth, and the cavalry armed with short guns and long knives was used as a mobile force on the left flank, and the extra units were also placed on the flanks and cavalry squadrons to be mixed with cavalry and cavalry.

Thirty battalion artillery pieces are scattered in the front, such a phalanx is more dependent on fire strikes, and when the pikemen and sword and shield men meet the enemy, they are already frightened after being hit by fire, according to Gustav's tactical thinking, a salvo of soldiers can be fully prepared for the impact of strictly trained spearmen, such a salvo can not only give the enemy greater damage, but also cause three times the fear and shock effect brought by the previous single row of shooting to the enemy, which can greatly dampen the enemy's courage.

Yang Bo began to advance the training of rotating shooting very early, covering the attack of pikemen and sword and shield soldiers, although the cavalry was still insufficient, and last night another fifty horsemen were divided to confuse the opponent, but today's purpose is to defeat the enemy, and it is not required to be able to annihilate.

"Master, master, the Ming army is out of the city!" Several white-armored soldiers ran into the big tent with rolling and crawling, and they were frightened by the Ming army that suddenly left the city

"What?"

Azig stood up from his seat suddenly, with an ecstatic look on his face, the Ming army is out of the city? Out of the city to fight to the death? Just when he couldn't bite the hedgehog and couldn't start, the Ming army actually swaggered out of the city to fight?

"Can you see clearly?" Azig was still a little unconvinced

"The minions didn't dare to talk nonsense, just when the minions were about to stand up under the city, the north gate suddenly opened, and a team of ironclad sergeants rushed out, they began to line up after occupying their positions, and there was a steady stream of Ming troops at the gate of the city, and they leaned on the city and began to form formations, and even the artillery was dragged out...... "The white-armored soldier did not hide it at all, fortunately, the master did not ask if the people had been killed."

"Sound the trumpet, order all the cattle to rush to the north gate to prepare for a decisive battle, and send a sentry to inform the cavalry, no matter how many horses they are tired of, and arrive at the battlefield in two hours,"

Azig slapped his palm heavily: "Today we will definitely slaughter this Ming army!" (To be continued......)