Chapter 140: Speculation

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Kiba Station, which once blocked the Houjin soldiers, has now become a camp in the Houjin, and as the narrowest land passage of the Jinzhou Isthmus, it is destined to be a battleground.

Since the Houjin soldiers entered Lushun, there have been 300 armor soldiers stationed here, and more than 300 Mongols, and from the 22nd, 500 armor soldiers have been added here, and they are stationed near the ruins of the Kiba Station to ensure that the passage here is unblocked.

On the hill northwest of Kiba Station, Yueto observed the sea, where several sailboats, two of which were bird boats, and a lookout hung from a high mast, in which someone was holding a cone-shaped object to observe.

Yue Tuo knew that the thing was called a telescope, Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng had this thing in the Hongyi gunners in the original army, and they could bring things in the distance closer, and it was said that this thing was passed from the Hongyi people. This time, Yue Tuo has seen many times in Lushun, and there seem to be a lot of telescopes in Dengzhou Town, and there are often people looking at the mountainside and the top of Xiguan Mountain, which is what is used.

The military role of the telescope is obvious, but before Yue Tuo used it, it is difficult to imagine what the scene is inside the mirror, and the things in Dengzhou Town are always full of mystery.

This time, Huang Taiji transferred two armor soldiers to him, and handed him to bring the Kiba Station to ensure that the back road was safe, and when Huang Taiji announced his retirement on the evening of the same day, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and attacking such a fortified city had exceeded the national strength of Houjin. Before the first earthen wall was captured, more than 3,000 Zhenyi had been lost, more than 7,000 of the 40,000 were killed, and some of the injured were unable to return to Liaozhong. With heavy losses and nothing, this winter will be very difficult.

"Master, another boat is heading north." The voice of the red flag shell Boljin sounded, Yue Tuo glanced at the sea, three small boats were rowing north, and he nodded to Boljin. Soon a group of armoured soldiers rode north, following the three boats.

Yue Tuo now understood Dengzhou's style of play, which was to maintain contact at all times, and their contact was carried out by constant small-scale attacks, which limited Houjin's retreat from the earthen wall. If the strength is weakened to a certain extent, it is easy to be tested by the other side. Yue Tuo estimated that Huang Taiji's action of quietly breaking away from the earthen wall would not be so smooth. If the earthen wall is directly abandoned, then Dengzhou Town will immediately judge Houjin's intentions, and as soon as their cavalry is released, if they want to withdraw at that time, no banner owner is willing to break the back......

"The White Flag position has been breached?" Chen Xin raised his head in surprise. I saw Liu Pojun nodding affirmatively.

Chen Xin immediately stood up, stared at the map on the wall and asked, "Is there any follow-up troops that can be invested?" ”

"There was only one company of the second general, and the subordinates were only preparing for a small attack, and no cavalry and dragoons were mobilized. The reserves were also ill-prepared, and they never expected that the white-flaged position would be broken through lightly, which was the fault of their subordinates. The Bai Zong didn't expect that they were still very hesitant when they attacked the earthen wall. As seen by the subordinates in the castle tower, their hundred flags crossed the earthen wall passage. It was left for half an hour, and the surrounding cattle came to help before withdrawing. ”

Chen Xin waved his hand to interrupt him, "Mobilize all the First Division of the Guards, attack the defense line with white flags, let Xiguanshan pay attention to observe, if Houjin transfers reinforcements from the rear, then withdraw, if Houjin mobilizes reinforcements from other positions on the earthen wall, head into the combat engineer and the second division of the guards, and attack the position of Wuzhen Chaoha in the middle." ”

"Your Excellency means that their front-line forces are decreasing?"

"It's hard to say this, there are tunnels behind the earthen wall of Jiannu, and the various departments often change guards, coming and going, only by increasing the intensity of the attack, the feedback is accurate. The second battalion of Xiguanshan invested part of its troops on the northern slope to contain the right wing of Houjin; The water battalion built a pontoon bridge on the Lushun River, and a division was dispatched from the second battalion to assemble on the western slope of Xiguan Mountain to observe the movement of the Jiannu battalion; The eastern slope ensured that the road at the foot of Xiguanshan was clear, allowing the cavalry and dragoons to assemble on the left flank. The 3rd Battalion of Golden Mountain carried out two company-level attacks today to contain the left flank of Jiannu, and at night it was deployed to attack with half of the detachment, and it must always maintain contact. Their earthen wall defense line was several miles away from the main camp, and it was not so easy to retreat quietly. ”

"Xiaguan immediately went to make arrangements, and Xiaguan prepared to send a special service team to infiltrate Kichangyi, Nanguan and other places to investigate."

"Bite them, Huang Taiji has shown his intention to retreat, the retreating army is weak, once we start to pursue, we will chase to Jinzhou, the Jiannu army has no fighting spirit, no banner owner is willing to stay in Jinzhou, to ensure that Jinzhou is not demolished by them." ……

After noon on August 22, Dengzhou Town launched an intermittent offensive on the whole front, and built a pontoon bridge on the west side of Xiguan Mountain.

Huang Taiji's big air came to the foot of the North Mountain, his mood was very low, today's situation shows that Dengzhou Town Tongguò continuous temptation, has found that there are changes in the strength of the earthen wall, the Ming army in Xiguanshan is easy to observe the number of troops sent by the battalion, so as to judge the number of people who unearthed the wall, so he can only give up the practice of quietly evacuating, and instead use a large-scale cavalry to respond to the retreat of the earthen wall, although they are all retreating, but in this way, the earthen wall defense force will definitely suffer a lot of losses if it wants to break away from the attack of the Ming army, It can't be compared to his plan for a step-by-step stealthy evacuation.

"Great Khan, if it weren't for Dolgon's unauthorized evacuation of the white armor soldiers, how could the earthen wall be broken by Dengzhou Town, Dolgon ignored the strategy taught by the Great Khan before, and completely disregarded the safety of the whole division, and should be punished at the council."

Sony was indignant on the side, the retreat in front of the enemy was easy to be detected, and then it was pursued by the enemy, and the coats in the flags were very unstable, and every retreat required a strict guard by the armor soldiers, such a long front could not ensure safety at all, and could only be gradually reduced when changing guards. Huang Taiji asked all the flags to retreat step by step, and the white armor was placed in the last cover to ensure the safety of the earthen wall. Today, there is a group of baoyi to retreat with oxen and horse-drawn carts, these baoyi are the strong laborers of the Han people, and they are also resources that the Houjin is unwilling to give up, and Huang Taiji hopes to let these weak parts of the machine force evacuate first.

Dolgon evacuated the White Armor soldiers without permission last night. Let Dengzhou Town break the earthen wall with a weak attack, although it was later driven out, Dengzhou Town's subsequent actions have significantly strengthened the temptation, firmly containing the defense of the earthen wall.

Huang Taiji nodded slightly, Dolgon must be punished, Duoduo actually evacuated the white armor, but the number of armor soldiers left was sufficient, and Dolgon because of the loss of Yan Zòng in Fuzhou, the defense line looked very weak.

Since last year. His perception of Dorgon has dropped dramatically. The command of the Battle of Fuzhou was not very clever, and this time he shrank in the face of a strong enemy, these are not the tables of an excellent general.

In the original history, the so-called eloquent Dolgon had a mediocre record before entering the customs, and his record was acceptable when he entered Koushan Mountain. But when facing the main force led by Hong Chengchou, his original form was revealed. He was severely punished twice for his cowardice. Once the siege of Jinzhou was ineffective, and was continuously repelled by the Ming army, and the Huang Taiji repeatedly asked to withdraw the army. And the strictest zhòng is that when Chongde was besieging Jinzhou in the seventh year, when facing the attack of the Ming army, Dolgon, Duoduo, and Haoge fled in the face of the attack of the Ming army. Fleeing into the trench with the white armor soldiers, others under the leadership of Asangxi fought back bravely and repelled the Ming army. These three uncles and nephews not only protected their own protectors and took the credit for themselves, but also slandered Ah Sanxi as a retreat. Zilharang was the secretary of the Criminal Department at the time, and he also covered for the three of them, and he still arrested Asang Xi and put him in prison knowing the truth.

This matter was not discovered by Huang Taiji until a year later, and Huang Taiji was furious by this group of pig teammates. Seventy officials above the level of Jiala Ezhen were punished, and there were 15 people in Gushan Ezhen alone. The officials involved included the Three Banners Bannerman, Gushan, the Commander of the Protector Army, the Secretary of the Criminal Department, Cheng Zheng, etc., which was a major earthquake in the political arena of the Later Jin Dynasty, and even suppressed Dolgon.

Dolgon is at such a level, and Duoduo, who presided over Yangzhou for ten days, is even more lackluster, but in the future, he can be called a generation of famous generals, and the average level of ancient famous generals has been lowered a lot. These two brothers are stronger in conspiracy, and they are much worse than their elder brother Azig in the war, and they are also the last in line among the Eight Banner Owners.

Huang Taiji asked Sony, "What is the situation in places like Dongjiang Army and Fuzhou?" ”

"The day before yesterday, the Dongjiang Army attacked Huanggudao Fort again, with a total number of about 3,000 people, including Mao Chenglu of Guanglu Island, Shen Shikui of Phi Dao and other troops who crossed the Yalu River and harassed the village fort all the way. A new group of Dengzhou soldiers appeared near Fuzhou, and they attacked the grain convoy everywhere, and yesterday alone, more than 30 ox carts and donkey carts were burned, and 12 Yu Ding and more than 50 Aha were killed. ”

"Where did it come from?"

"It was supposed to have been disembarked by boat from between Jinzhou and Fuzhou, and according to those who escaped, these men used slightly shorter muskets, and each of them had a knife and a short gun, and some of them carried bows and arrows, and did not seem to be wearing armor."

Huang Taiji frowned and said: "If you don't wear armor, that's to facilitate escape, the mountains between Jin Fu are undulating, and it is not easy to catch them, don't spread this matter, and withdraw the army as much as possible." ”

At this time, a horn sounded on Xiguan Mountain, and the Dengzhou soldiers on the western slope withdrew to the top of the mountain, strengthened to the northern slope, and converged with the army that had been on the northern slope, pinning down the right flank of Houjin. The Houjin soldiers on the other side of the Lushun River can only continue to stay here, because the sailors are still building pontoon bridges, and if these Houjin soldiers want to return to the battlefield, they need to go around to the ferry in their camp, which is the advantage of the inner line of defense.

Gao Hongzhong, who was following next to him, saw it, and only felt that this Dengzhou town was well dispatched, and the Dengzhou soldiers were brave in battle, but Houjin was also brave, and the biggest difference was that kind of well-organized feeling, which made Gao Hongzhong very worried.

After thinking for a while, he said to Huang Taiji: "Great Khan, if you want to do the law of discord, then Jinzhou still needs to be defended, and you can't retreat all the way back to the state, otherwise the emperor of the Ming State has not punished Chen Xin, and he has already recovered Jinzhou, and this law will not be feasible." ”

Huang Taiji shook his head and said: "This matter is already in progress, and it is just in the sky." At that time, I said that I would do the law of discord, but now I have to evacuate, and once I encounter the unstable hearts of the pursuing armies, I will not risk the lives of my warriors. When we arrive at Golden State, we will decide according to the war situation. ”

Gao Hongzhong's plan failed, and he immediately continued: "There is still a way for the slave, then Chen Xin can be seen in Dengzhou, he has an ambitious heart, and his promotion has always relied on military merits, for the Ming court, my big gold deposit is more and more important in Dengzhou, and now that the evacuation has been discovered, the Great Khan can send a person to it, and it is okay to explain it to it, and it doesn't hurt to make some exchanges, I think Chen Xin is an understanding person, so it is worth it in exchange for the safe return of the army." ”