Chapter 763: The First Means
The bumper harvest of Liaodong, for the Haw Par Army, has become a rare grain production base invisibly.
However, for the Houjin Tartars, who are still hungry and cold outside the gates, it is a piece of fat full of temptation.
As long as you get Liaodong...... No, you only need to get fifty percent of the grain harvested in Liaodong this year, which is enough for at least one year's needs of Houjin.
Therefore, in the eyes of Wang Feng, the governor of Liaodong, Houjin Taiji, who was separated by a wall from him, would never watch so much grain fall into the hands of the Tiger and Leopard Army so easily.
Although in the past few years, the Tiger and Par Army has defeated the Houjin Tartars many times, and brought unprecedented losses to the Houjin State, making the Houjin State's national strength much worse than before.
However, with Wang Feng's understanding of the Houjin Tartars, the greedy Houjin Tartars would definitely not give up this opportunity to plunder because they were afraid of the Tiger and Leopard Army.
Because, the grain that is about to be harvested in Liaodong is too important for Houjin, whose national strength has been greatly damaged.
Therefore, before the autumn harvest began, the Liaodong Governor's Office issued an order to all the garrisons in Liaodong to be on strict guard.
As time passed, the golden waves of wheat in the fields turned into wheat grains little by little, and they were stored in the granary.
Wang Feng's heart was nervous for half a month, and he finally showed signs of relaxation.
Just when he began to wonder in his heart, whether the Houjin Tartars, who had suffered a great loss of national strength, did not plan to plunder Liaodong and let go of Liaodong, a piece of fat full of temptation, because of his lack of strength......
God directly gave Wang Feng a big joke.
Without any trace to be found, overnight, several border counties were handed over to Houjin. All of them were lit with the flames that had been attacked......
Inside the Liaodong Governor's Palace. Facing six county seats. The urgent report sent by the six musket regiments at the same time, Wang Feng was directly stunned.
After reading all the paperwork with a gloomy face, he asked with an incredulous face: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible...... According to the war report, the Houjin army that surrounded our six county towns was as many as 60,000 people...... How many cavalry did he have in total, how could he send so many troops to besiege our county......"
"He, Huang Taiji, is not unaware that among the six county towns he besieged, each county town has a field musket regiment and a garrison battalion of our Tiger and Leopard Army. Two thousand five hundred in all...... Even if he sent 10,000 musketeers, it would be impossible to take these counties in a short time, let alone 10,000 cavalry who were almost only equipped with cold weapons......"
"With such a big battle, is he Huang Taiji just to besiege us......
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, with Huang Taiji's character of not being profitable and not being able to afford to be early, it is absolutely impossible to make this kind of decision to only suffer losses and not take advantage...... There must be some conspiracy in this that we don't know about......
At this time, it was completely opposite to Wang Feng's facial expression, and he was carrying a staff officer with a hot face. Suddenly he stood up and said......
"Commander, whatever the Tartars are conspiring against...... As long as we can break through their six-way siege forces. These conspiracies will be completely crushed by us...... Therefore, I will immediately send troops to the Tartar cavalry to break through each one and destroy the six Tartar cavalry......"
For this idea and idea, Wang Feng was directly moved.
You know, except for the six musket regiments surrounded by the Houjin Iron Cavalry. In his own hands he also mastered a whole cavalry division, a guard regiment, a heavy artillery regiment......
Although the expansion of the Haw Par Army has not yet affected its own army, there are almost tens of thousands of elites in these regiments.
As long as you want, you can send the cavalry division out casually to reinforce these counties.
As the commander of the army, Wang Feng can confidently say that with the combat effectiveness of the cavalry division under his command, with the cooperation of a musket regiment...... Internal and external flanking attacks, it is absolutely easy to eat the 10,000 iron cavalry of the Houjin Army.
Just when Wang Feng was about to open his mouth to agree to this mention. Another staff officer stood up directly.
Then, he was not afraid of offending himself, and objected with a worried face: "Commander, I don't agree with ......"
"According to intelligence, in addition to the 60,000 iron cavalry surrounding us, the Houjin army also had 10,000 iron cavalry and 20,000 musketeers who did not appear...... If these 30,000 Houjin elites are lurking on the border line, I can say with certainty that as soon as the cavalry division leaves the city, it will be surrounded by the other party, and then, it will be wiped out by the Houjin elite little by little. ”
"So, my thinking is that we must not rush out until we don't have enough reinforcements...... As long as we can't hold on, the combat effectiveness and siege ability of the Golden Tartars will definitely not be able to help us in the future......"
For Wang Feng and the Tiger and Leopard Army, who are good at attacking, they can definitely be described as aggrieved.
However, in the face of the facts, he had to forcibly suppress the impulse in his heart.
After taking a deep breath, he decisively ordered: "What Staff Officer Zhang said is right...... Until we find the remaining 30,000 elites of Houjin, we must not rush to ......"
"I was still speculating just now that Huang Taiji must be hiding some conspiracy that we don't know about behind the siege of our six musket regiments with iron cavalry...... Now it seems that this conspiracy must be hidden in the remaining 30,000 elites of Houjin......"
"For the lives of thousands of soldiers of the cavalry division...... No one can attack without my orders......"
Wang Feng's idea is good. However, he overlooked a very important thing......
The elite of the 30,000-strong Jin army can do many other things besides ambushing the cavalry division he sent......
Faced with the situation that the Tiger and Leopard Army did not send reinforcements to the six county towns, Huang Taiji, who dominated the entire battlefield, did not show the slightest disappointment and dissatisfaction on his face......
Because, ambushing the cavalry division of the Tiger and Leopard Army was only his first means of Huang Taiji.
In his Huang Taiji's mind, there is still a second and even a third means hidden.
A day later, surrounded by 10,000 post-Jin Tie cavalry, there was no chance of breaking through a county town, as if by magic, a large number of musketeers suddenly appeared, as many as 10,000 people......
If it was only 10,000 musketeers, the more than 2,000 soldiers of the Tiger and Par Army defending the county town would not be too afraid...... It's a big deal......
However, these post-gold firearms units not only brought tens of thousands of musketeers, but also more than 30 red-coated cannons......
The red-coated cannons with high muzzles were all arranged two miles away from the county university, ready to fire, ready to fire at the city wall at any time......
Faced with this situation, the commander of the musket regiment who held the county knew about it. As long as those red-coated cannons are real, with the limited mortars in hand, there is no way to bombard the other side.
If there is no way to knock out the Houjin artillery at the first time, then whether the soldiers under his command can hold the county under their feet will become an unknown...... (To be continued......)