This Gao Di is not the Wenchen Gao Di who died in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, but the commander of the Liaodong Capital Division of the Ming Dynasty who was the general of the Zu Dashou Department.

Now he has become the most powerful Han army general in the Manchu Qing Dynasty outside the Guan, and the number of elite cavalry under his command has reached 3,000, and the other Han Army Eight Banner soldiers led by him are not weak soldiers, they are all brave people.

Because of this, Gao Di was very arrogant, thinking that he did not need to feign defeat in front of the Ming army according to the military order of the Manchu Shengjing governor, and he felt that his 10,000 Han army and eight banners of iron cavalry were enough to annihilate the Ming army attacking Liaodong.

But it wasn't until Gao Di arrived at Jinzhouwei and saw a large number of guards appearing near Jinzhouwei with a total of no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses, he began to feel stunned, and he was also a little worried in his heart, he had long forgotten the fantasy of wanting to annihilate the Ming army that landed with 10,000 iron cavalry, and began to guard the Jinzhou Acropolis and did not dare to go out of the city to meet the second army of the Guards.

The Second Guards Army had also arrived at Jinzhouwei at this time.

Although the logistics supply system of the Ming Dynasty has been very developed, the Second Army of the Guards Army is fighting in the hinterland of the enemy, so the logistics supply system is also somewhat inadequate, and Liaodong belongs to the Northeast, and the climate is very cold, which makes the Guards have a greater demand for heating and food, so the Second Army of the Guards had to suspend the attack on Jinzhouwei, and through the retaliation of the surrounding Hu people to meet the logistics needs.

"Smack!"

The officers and soldiers of the Guards kept dragging these Hu people out and shooting them to death, and then forcibly expropriated all the grain and coal firewood of these Hu people, which was not only a revenge for the Hu people's enslavement of the Han people, but also to make up for the logistical gap caused by the external war.

At this time, a Hu man in a village near Jinzhouwei was shot dead by the guards, his face was covered with blood, and the important materials of the Hu people's family were naturally requisitioned by the guards, and his house was directly given to the Han people who were requisitioned as serfs.

The Second Guards Army took revenge on these Hu people in the same way that the Manchurian Iron Cavalry had plundered the Han Chinese in the early days of the war a few years earlier, both to meet the army's logistical supply and because the Guards were venting their hatred for themselves.

Not only the Hu people, but also some Han landlords who were more well-established would also be retaliated against by the Second Army of the Guards.

Gao Di, the defender of Jinzhouwei, was quite annoyed by this, he was a military general in Liaodong, especially many large families in the Jinzhouwei area were his relatives, he could not bear the Second Guards Army so frantically retaliated against the Manchurian nobles and Han gentry near Jinzhouwei, and ordered his brave general Liu Wu to take his two thousand of the most elite Jiading cavalry to kill the central camp of the Second Guards Army.

"Let these hateful Ming dogs taste the power of my Great Qing Iron Ride! Brothers, kill! ”

Liu Wu took Gao Di's family to kill, although Gao Di has been cowering in Jinzhou Wei these days, but he has not done nothing, he knew that the Ming army has no less than 100,000 people, while conveying the most accurate number of Ming army landings to Ye Keshu, the governor of Shengjing, on the other hand, he sent scouts to explore the position of the Chinese army of the Guards.

Therefore, Liaodong at that time was not as good as Liaodong in later generations, many trees and plants were still very lush, there were many natural forests, and the Qing officers and soldiers of Gaodi were all locals, so they were naturally familiar with the geographical environment here than the Guards, so it was not impossible to inquire about the Second Army of the Guards, although the Guards were also very well guarded, but there were times when they were negligent.

Because of this, the location of the second army of the Guards was discovered by Gao Di, so he also sent Liu Wu to bring his most elite family to attack the Chinese camp of the second army of the Guards in order to defeat the main camp of the second army of the guards in one fell swoop, so that the 100,000 Ming troops of the second army of the guards were leaderless, and then he led 10,000 iron cavalry to appear, which was naturally enough to defeat the second army of the guards.

"As long as we defeat the camp of the Chinese army, we can defeat this Ming army once and for all", Gao Di smiled coldly, he was now eager to come over and see in person how Liu Wu got rid of the commander of the Second Army of the Guards.

Liu Wu rushed towards the camp of the Second Army of the Guards with his elite family, and when he saw the fence in front of him, he rushed directly on a prancing horse, and when he saw the thin wire hanging in the air, he smiled contemptuously: "You also want to stop me?" ”

Liu Wu directly hung upside down on the galloping ground, so he easily dodged the thin wire, and the other Qing cavalry also dodged over, they were very proud, thinking that after passing these two levels, they could directly reach the camp of the Second Army of the Guards Army in front of them.

But at this time, when Liu Wu rushed into the main camp of the Second Army of the Guards with two thousand elite soldiers, although the speed was very fast, he suddenly encountered an explosion in the forest one mile in front of the main camp of the Second Army of the Guards.

These Qing cavalry did not know that there would be mines with special signs planted near the headquarters of the Ming Guards, so they were completely unprepared, and the mines in the snow suddenly exploded in an instant, and the horses of the Qing cavalry were directly blown up, and a huge hole was smashed in the snow.

"Ahh

A terrible scream was heard.

The officers and men of the Chinese Guards battalion also took advantage of this to immediately organize a counteroffensive, and intensively bombarded the places where the Qing cavalry was bombarded by mines, and in an instant the entire place near the Chinese camp of the Guards Army was scorched earth, and the smell of gunpowder left after the explosion of nitrification explosives did not dissipate for a long time, and the remains of these Qing cavalry were buried only after the next heavy snowfall.

Liu Wu had also been blown to pieces at this time, but his wide-open eyes still expressed his consternation before he died.

"Smack! Hurry up! ”

There was another heavy snowfall, and even the official road leading to the Acropolis of Jinzhou was covered with snow, but fortunately, the Second Army of the Guards had raised enough food and grass, so on December 14, the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards began to officially attack the Acropolis of Jinzhou.

In order to make it difficult to march in the snow, especially the transportation of cannons and food and other baggage is not enough to rely on animal power, so the Second Army of the Guards Army will not execute some Hu people first, but let them serve as coolies, and the Second Army of the Ming Guards is responsible for pushing the gun wagons and grain carts.

At this time, a Guards artilleryman was also urging a Hu man, just as a few years ago, the Manchurian iron cavalry enslaved the Han people.

Not only that, but the Second Army of the Guards also took a group of Manchu banner men as hostages and made them walk in the front of the army, so as to achieve the purpose of making the defenders of Jinzhou Wei throw rats.

On the afternoon of December 15, the Second Army of the Guards had all arrived under the Acropolis of Jinzhou, and Gao Di originally wanted to organize the defenders in the city to use rolling logs, hot water and even dung to stop the Second Army of the Guards from attacking the city, but the Guards put a large number of captured Hu people in the front, and many of them were authentic banner men.

For the reason why the northern people ran after the Guards appeared in Shanxi, the people in the north ran not because they didn't know the Ming army, but because the officials and soldiers in their impression, whether it was the Ming army or the Qing army, were all soldiers and bandits who robbed the people, so they would run subconsciously. The addition is complete.

(End of chapter)