Chapter 284: Black Pressure Cloud Domain - Battle of the Entrance (6)
Liaodong Governor's Mansion, no, it should be renamed Zhili Governor's Mansion.
After Deng Haonan was promoted to the governor of Zhili, he supervised 132 counties in eight prefectures, including Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Tianjin Wei, Liaodong Dusi, Shuntianfu, Damingfu, and Hejian Mansion, with a Han population of more than 8.33 million people in the jurisdiction, so that Deng Haonan had enough soldiers. In this way, the functions of the Liaodong Governor's Office were replaced by the Zhili Governor's Office.
The Governor's Office of Zhili mobilized more than 500,000 troops against Huang Taiji's 200,000 Manchu and Mongolian coalition troops to resist the enemy. Among them, there are 100,000 forbidden troops of the Beijing Division in Zhili, 20,000 cavalry in the hands of Hou Shilu, the general soldier of Xuanfu Town, 50,000 fake black-armored elite cavalry in the hands of Hong Chengchou, plus 63 passes in the Great Wall of Zhili, and all the 42 pass defenders at the junction of Hebei and Shanxi were transferred, with a strength of about 130,000 people.
These were the Ming troops in the original Zhili territory, with a total strength of about 300,000, and with the main force of the 100,000 Liaodong Army starting from Tianjinwei, they formed a huge encirclement and advanced to the 130,000 Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces in the Tongzhou area.
Among them, Deng Haonan ordered Yang Sichang to lead 100,000 forbidden troops, plus 20,000 cavalry from Hou Shilu, and after waiting for the arrival of the 130,000 Ming troops who arrived from Baoding Mansion, block the line from Beiyuan to Miyunwei to prevent Huang Taiji from escaping from the west.
Jin Guan, the envoy of Liaoxi Town, led the mobilization of 70,000 Liaodong troops to defend the passes of the Great Wall from Shanhaiguan to Xiongwotou, among which the first cavalry artillery division of the Liaodong Army was ordered to assist Jin Guan in guarding the Great Wall and preventing Huang Taiji from breaking through from them.
To the east was the sea, and Deng Haonan only sent a few frigates to patrol.
The southern front is the most powerful on the surface, Deng Haonan personally commanded the 100,000 Liaodong Army, and marched to Tongzhou with Hong Chengchou's 50,000 fake black armor elite cavalry, he was not afraid of Huang Taiji, even if Huang Taiji was not scared to death by 50,000 black armor elite cavalry, the 100,000 Liaodong Army was enough to block Huang Taiji's attack. Besides, there are still warships of the Liaodong Army on the canal, which is the death hole of Huang Taiji's group of landlubbers, and they can't cross the canal at all.
The purpose was already very obvious, the Governor's Office of Zhili wanted to annihilate the 200,000 enemy troops in the Great Wall.
On the surface, there is an army of 500,000 preparing to exterminate Huang Taiji, and secretly there are 20,000 cavalry in ambush in the Nanyuan Royal Hunting Ground in the southern suburbs of Beijing. They also belong to the battle sequence of the Black Armor Elite Cavalry, but the equipment is poorer, because they are riding Mongolian war horses, and they cannot support the cavalry with heavy armor to fight, and the armor on their bodies is the kind of light armor that the Black Armor Elite Cavalry used in the first time. However, their weapons and equipment were all the same, they were all sabers cast from stainless steel, and the iron sabers used to chop and chop the Manchu cavalry with backward iron smelting skills were very advantageous.
The cavalry of 20,000 men had already received an order from Deng Haonan, asking them to launch an attack on the Huang Taiji army at an appropriate time and cooperate with the main force to encircle the enemy.
Another hidden army is naturally the 30,000 black-armored elite cavalry and 60,000 Guanning iron cavalry ambushed in the territory of the Mongolian Ha Thorn outside the Great Wall, they are Deng Haonan's real killer weapon, specially used to peel off the skin of Huang Taiji.
Of course, Deng Haonan had already given Zhan Zengyong an order to let Huang Taiji live, because Deng Haonan still had to use Huang Taiji to bargain with the Emperor of the Apocalypse!
Deng Haonan's army was dispatched, and the people along the way stopped to look at it from afar. The mighty army gave a very obvious signal to the common people, that is, Huang Taiji could not be bounced for a few days.
Of course, Deng Haonan was not idle on the march, and constantly asked the soldiers to publicize the policies of the Governor's Palace, inciting the depression in the hearts of the people.
"Welcome to the Liaodong Army!"
"No food under the rule of the Duke of Liao!"
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The words on the leaflet were simply a few words, but they touched the bottom line in the hearts of the people. We all know that Liaodong under Deng Haonan was tax-free for three years, and the tax was fifty and one, which was almost equivalent to tax exemption. In addition, the Liaodong Army's pacification of Jiangxi this time also exempted the people of Jiangxi from paying taxes for three years. When it comes to the struggle for power and profit between the courts of the DPRK and China, perhaps one or two out of ten of the common people in Gyeonggi know about it, but nine out of ten of these people know about the laws of the Liaodong Governor's Office, because this is the issue they are most concerned about.
Now that Deng Haonan has been promoted to the governor of Zhili, the common people welcome it, because they are already looking forward to letting Deng Haonan rule them, so that they can pay no or less taxes.
Deng Haonan's motorcade slowly drove through every sea of people, and the scene of welcoming people everywhere was no longer new.
Tan Wanqing and Deng Haonan are neck and neck, and there is always an inexplicable joy when they see these scenes.
Maybe she's happy for her father-in-law! However, Tan Wanqing was still jealous of Deng Haonan and teased him from time to time.
"You are now the governor of Zhili, these people are looking forward to you exempting their taxes, if you don't exempt them from taxes, I can't see that in three days, you, the governor of Zhili, will not be able to stay, you have to be drowned by the spittle stars of the people!"
Deng Haonan has a bitter self-knowledge, of course he knows why these ordinary people welcome him so much, and naturally he is looking forward to Deng Haonan giving them tax exemption.
However, this is not Jiangxi or Liaodong, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, if they are rashly tax-free, the Emperor of the Apocalypse will have to have a showdown with him.
Tan Wanqing saw Deng Haonan's embarrassment, and said with a smile as if she had won: "This Zhili was tossed by Huang Taiji like this, and millions of people are waiting to be fed, what do you do?" ”
Deng Haonan suddenly smiled: "You have received a lot of gift money in the past few months!" Why don't you take out your private money and donate it? ”
"Think beautifully!"
Tan Wanqing suddenly gave Deng Haonan a roll of the eyes, and Deng Haonan was bored.
At this time, the letter was delivered, and the armies of all walks of life had entered the realm of Shuntianfu, but Huang Taiji still did not move, but only stopped attacking Tongzhou.
Deng Haonan smiled secretly, knowing that now was the time when Huang Taiji was most entangled, that is, he didn't want to give up and get the city, and he was afraid that his army would be ruined here.
The encirclement was shrinking, and Huang Taiji was naturally anxious.
Under the city of Tongzhou, after learning that Deng Haonan's army set off from Tianjinwei, Huang Taiji ordered a strong attack on Tongzhou City. However, the defenders of Tongzhou City also learned the news of the arrival of Deng Haonan's army within a day, and the defenders suddenly boosted their morale and resisted desperately.
Although the city wall of Tongzhou has collapsed a lot, the defenders of Tongzhou still insist on using cannons and even the corpses of soldiers to fill the loopholes, so that Huang Taiji has lost thousands of men and horses and still failed to attack the city.
"Your Majesty, we must retreat!"
Fan Wencheng said: "Exploring the Malai report, Deng Haonan mobilized an army of 500,000 and surrounded us from the west and south, and the number of cavalry on the other side was huge, especially the black-armored elite cavalry increased to 50,000!" ”
Hearing that the other party's black-armored elite rider had increased to 50,000, Huang Taiji took his gaze back from Tongzhou.
"There are about three or four hundred thousand horses in the west and south, and according to the direction they are advancing, they are preparing to surround us!"
"Two directions want to surround us? You're kidding! ”
Dai Shan didn't see the danger, and Huang Taiji suddenly said: "The east is the sea, and the north is our only way to retreat." If the Liaodong Army regains control of the Great Wall, then we will be caught in an urn! ”
Fan Wencheng said: "There is news from Xifengkou that the number of Ming troops on the head of the bear den on the opposite side has increased sharply, and the Liaodong Army has mobilized a large number of artillery and musketeers, which will attack at any time. Once they retake the Xifeng Pass and the surrounding Great Wall, there will be no way for us to retreat north! ”
Huang Taiji nodded and said, "This time Deng Haonan is not hiding, his 50,000 black-armored elite cavalry has advanced from the south, so he has to have a decisive battle with us!" ”
"Then fight it out!"
Amin suddenly said: "I don't believe it, we have 200,000 cavalry, and we can't beat them?" ”
Fan Wencheng shook his head and said, "The other party has 50,000 heavy cavalry, which is enough to restrain our 100,000 elites. In addition to the other side and other cavalry 70,000 or 80,000 and infantry more than 100,000, we are definitely not their opponents! ”
Huang Taiji said suddenly: "We still have several cities in our hands now, enough to buy time for us to retreat!" Deng Haonan's main force is on the southern front, and there are only 20,000 cavalry on the western front, as long as we defeat them, we can launch a deadly attack on the hundreds of thousands of Ming infantry, just like destroying Hong Chengchou's 120,000 army, we only need to concentrate our forces to break them one by one to break the siege! ”
This is the key to the victory of the Battle of Sarhu, but in the same situation, will Deng Haonan give Huang Taiji a chance?
Fan Wencheng shook his head and said, "I think this is Deng Haonan's strategy!" If our whole military region attacks the Ming army on the Western Front, once we cannot break the enemy in a short period of time and are entangled by the enemy, Deng Haonan's main force will cover up and kill from behind, and our army will be in danger of being annihilated! ”
Although it is correct to break through, but at present, Deng Haonan's main army is less than sixty miles away, and it is too late in time.
Huang Taiji then decided to withdraw his troops.
However, at this moment, the Guanhuang Taiji army in the direction of the capital was ready to retreat, and Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town, acted according to Deng Haonan's order, and led 20,000 cavalry to kill in the direction of Tongzhou.
Huang Taiji didn't want to pay attention to this when he saw this, because Fan Wencheng told Huang Taiji that this must be Deng Haonan's trick, using 20,000 cavalry to delay the retreat of the army and give Deng Haonan's main force time to win the siege.
Huang Taiji naturally took this into account, so he ordered the whole army to immediately retreat to the north.
However, Hou Shilu led the army to chase after him, constantly attacking Huang Taiji's rear army. The rear army is commanded by Dai Shan, this generation of good temper is hot, seeing that Hou Shilu, a coward, dared to take the initiative, he was immediately furious, and led the 10,000 cavalry of the Red Banner to turn around and face the battle.
Unexpectedly, Hou Shilu saw that Dai Shan returned to the army to meet the battle, and ordered his subordinates to shoot indiscriminately with bows and arrows, and immediately turned around and fled after injuring dozens of Dai Shan.
Dai Shanwei was angry and wanted to pursue, but he was afraid of being ambushed by the enemy, so he turned around and returned with anger.
However, as soon as the Daishan army turned around and returned, and walked less than two miles, Hou Shilu's cavalry chased after him again.
Dai Shan was helpless and turned around to meet the enemy, but the other party also only released arrows to hurt people, and immediately withdrew.
After a few rounds like this, Dai Shanren became angry, and when he saw that Shi Lu had withdrawn again, he ordered a fierce chase.
Deng Haonan didn't tell Hou Shilu how many secrets, but just told him that he kept harassing the enemy. Hou Shilu didn't expect that Dai Shan would chase after him, and knew that he couldn't beat the other party, so he had to run away vigorously.
In this way, Hou Shilu's 20,000 cavalry ran desperately in front, and 10,000 Zhengzheng Red Banner cavalry chased after Daishan in the back, and 10,000 cavalry chased 20,000 cavalry all over the world, and the faces of the Ming cavalry were lost.
Hou Shilu thought while running, when he was secretly recruited by Deng Haonan, he was nervous, for fear that Deng Haonan would dismiss him as the chief military officer, and he thought that he had done everything he had done for Deng Haonan's orders, but he never expected that the consequences of provoking Dai Shan would be very strict.
According to the speed of the other party's pursuit, it will be caught up in less than half an hour, and some will cry at that time.
Hou Shilu was extremely depressed, and the good cavalry of this era had caught up. The opponent continued to shoot Hou Shilu's rear army with bows and arrows, causing more and more casualties.
Hou Shilu is not an ignorant general, he knows that there is no way to avoid it, so he has no choice but to turn around and face the battle.
Dai Shan was on fire, and when he saw that the other party turned around to meet the battle, he immediately ordered the whole army to charge, preparing for a quick battle.
However, just as Daishan's whole army was charging, there was a sudden rolling murderous aura from the side and rear, and there was a shouting of killing when a large number of cavalry charged from both sides.
Dai Shan turned around and looked at it, and was dumbfounded, only to see countless cavalry suddenly pouring out of the mounds on both sides, looking at their equipment, it was the black armor elite cavalry of the Liaodong Army.
That's right!
The sudden appearance of the Liaodong Army's black-armored elite cavalry was the 20,000 cavalry secretly hidden in the Nanyuan Royal Hunting Ground, because Dong Nan and others secretly knocked out the tunnel out of Beijing City, so that Deng Haonan's family could escape from the capital at a critical time. In this way, the 20,000 cavalry remaining in Nanyuan did not need to stay there any longer.
It happened that Deng Haonan deployed the plan to encircle and annihilate Huang Taiji, and one of the links used Hou Shilu's 20,000 cavalry. But Deng Haonan knew that Hou Shilu's constant harassment of the enemy army would provoke the enemy generals and be killed by the enemy. knew that Hou Shilu was not an opponent, so he arranged for Wang Yuanlong to lead 20,000 cavalry to secretly follow Hou Shilu's army and help him at a critical time.
Hou Shilu saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and he was overjoyed, and secretly said that Deng Haonan had exhausted all his organs, and today was his life, and he should find an opportunity to repay him in the future.
"Brothers, reinforcements have arrived, kill me!"
Hou Shilu shouted, and his cavalry also saw that the reinforcements had arrived, and their morale was immediately boosted, and they rushed to kill the enemy together.
Dai Shan's Red Banner soldiers saw that the black-armored elite cavalry was killed left and right, and they didn't know how many people the other party had, and the army was suddenly in turmoil. Due to the sudden attack of the black-armored spirit cavalry from the side rear, Dai Shan's rear army could not form a formation to resist, and was immediately rushed away by the black-armored spirit cavalry.
The swords fell, and the heads and limbs of the enemy flew and blood splattered everywhere.
For a while, there was a shout of killing on the official road for more than ten miles.
The combat effectiveness of the Ming cavalry was actually no worse than that of the Qing army, but it was only their timid heart. Now that there are 20,000 black-armored elite cavalry of the Liaodong Army to raid the enemy, Hou Shilu's 20,000 subordinates suddenly dispelled the fear in their hearts.
40,000 Ming cavalry slashed and killed 10,000 Qing cavalry who were ambushed, if you were afraid again, you can't say anything.
Hou Shilu shouted more fiercely than anyone else, screaming left and right to kill, and had been pressed and bullied by the Qing cavalry, and finally was able to take revenge today.
Dai Shanli fought the enemy, but was raided by the black armor spirit cavalry, and the opponent's strength was four times that of him, and he was powerless.
In the melee, because Dai Shan's front army was surrounded in the center, Dai Shan could not escape until he was exhausted and was killed by the Liaodong army.
10,000 Red Banner cavalry were wiped out in half an hour, and the Ming army won the first battle since the outbreak of the Battle of the Entrance.
The trapped beasts were still fighting, and in the case of four to one, the Daishan Department still caused great casualties to the Ming army. The Liaodong Army suffered more than 100 casualties among the black armor elite cavalry, and more than 2,000 casualties on the Houshilu Division.
However, for Hou Shilu, these casualties were not casualties at all, and being able to wipe out 10,000 Qing troops was the happiest thing for him and his subordinates.
Leaving the wounded soldiers, Wang Yuanlong, commander of the Third Army of the Liaodong Army's Black Armor Elite Cavalry, ordered Hou Shilu to follow him and continue to pursue the enemy. Hou Shilu is also studying the comparative relationship between the official position of the Liaodong Army and the official position of the imperial court these days, and saw that Wang Yuanlong's epaulette showed a big fish head, and the fish-like bar was very thick, knowing that this was at least a general-level official, he suddenly did not dare to slack off, and followed the fart.
At the same time, the Liaodong Army on the Xiongwotou Pass of the Great Wall of Jizhen launched a fierce attack on the front line of Xifengkou. Because the Great Wall was connected to each other, the Qing army had no combat experience in guarding the Great Wall at all, and the Liaodong Army attacked directly along the Great Wall to the Xifengkou Pass, opened the gate with artillery, and the musketeers opened the way, and immediately defeated the Qing army above, and quickly recovered the Xifengkou Pass. Soon, the Liaodong Army attacked from all sides along the Xifengkou Pass, and defeated the Qing troops on the surrounding Great Wall Passes, restored control of the Ming Great Wall, and closed the retreat route of Huang Taiji from Hongshankou City, Da'ankou, and Longjing Pass to the north.
When Huang Taiji's army retreated to Sanhe, it received the news that the Liaodong Army had reoccupied the Great Wall and blocked the pass. Huang Taiji was anxious and ordered the whole army to advance quickly towards Zunhua, preparing to recapture the exit passage before the Liaodong Army completed the rebuilding of the Great Wall.
However, the attack speed of the Liaodong army was extremely fast, with the fire support of the cavalry artillery, the Liaodong army quickly went out of the Xifeng Pass, and in less than a stick of incense, it broke through the north gate of Zunhua City from the Qing army before, and quickly defeated the Qing army defending the city. Taking Zunhua consolidated the defense of the Great Wall on the first line of Xifengkou, and Huang Taiji must recapture Zunhua in order to enter Xifengkou, otherwise he will be attacked by the Liaodong Army before and after.
Only the north gate of Zunhua City was damaged, and after the Liaodong Army entered the city, it quickly mobilized the people in the city to repair the city wall and strengthen the defense.
When the Huang Taiji army rushed to Jizhou, they encountered the defeated Qing army and learned that Zunhua had been recovered by the Liaodong army. Huang Taiji was so angry that he ordered the whole army to recapture Zunhua. Fan Wencheng hurriedly stopped it, saying that it was difficult to recapture Zunhua now, and there was no time. Because Dai Shan was killed, 10,000 elite Red Banners were annihilated. The cavalry of the Liaodong Army had already followed behind, and the attack on Zunhua was afraid of being flanked from the front and rear.
Huang Taiji beat his feet and chest, ready to turn around and fight Deng Haonan.
At this time, the hearts of the Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces had been shaken. Especially the Zhaisang of the Horqin Department, he had already received a way out provided to him by Deng Haonan to return to the Mongolian desert from Malan Yuguan.
Zhai Sang led his troops to leave Huang Taiji and take the Malan Yu Pass, and when he got there, he saw that there was no one to defend the pass, so he passed the pass. However, Zhai Sang didn't want to do it, so he sent someone to inform Huang Taiji, saying that he had conquered Ma Lanyu Pass and withdrew from the pass.
Huang Taiji was annoyed that Zhaisang left him alone, and he was overjoyed when he heard the words, so he immediately ordered the army to turn around and go to Malan Yuguan. V