Chapter 1000: Point Tactics
To sneak attack the Tianwei Army?
Ao Bai is not so stupid! This Xu Yifan is unpredictable and changeable, even Prince Yu can't help him, and he goes to attack the Tianwei Army in the middle of the night, which is basically looking for death.
The corners of Wu Sangui's mouth twitched, and he said in a low voice: "Lord Aobai, except for attacking the camp in the middle of the night, I'm afraid we don't have any other ideas, the Tianwei Army is strong, and we are definitely not opponents of others......"
Ao Bai said in a deep voice: "I know this, but there is no way, we can only defend to the death, our task is to delay the time as much as possible in Shunde Mansion, to buy time for Prince Yu and the Mongolian cavalry, we still have nearly 20,000 troops, as long as we hold Shunde Mansion to the death, with the current situation, it is not impossible to hold on to half a month, half a month, now Sun Chuanting of Zhending Mansion is suffering from Prince Yu and Mongolian cavalry on both sides, the city wall of Zhending Mansion is dilapidated, and it is too difficult to withstand more than half a month!" As long as Prince Yu takes Zhending Mansion and takes it, then we will immediately withdraw from Shunde Mansion and go straight to Zhending Mansion and Prince Yu to wave the army. If we take the initiative to attack, once we fail, if we want to hold Shunde Mansion again, it will be too difficult, once Shunde Mansion falls, and Prince Yu does not take Zhending Mansion, we will really be dumplings by Tianwei Army and Nanjing Three Towns! ”
Aobai is fierce and not afraid of death, but it does not mean that Aobai has no brains, Aobai can become an auxiliary minister later, how can he do it without a few brushes? Now the Qing army has only one way to defend Shunde Mansion to go, and there must be no fork in the way, even if all 20,000 people are killed in the city of Shunde Mansion, they must not attack rashly, and now they are not stable!
Originally, Song Jiaxing's plan was to join Xu Yifan, and then prepare to attack Duoduo's main force, but Duoduo ran fast, retreated first, gave up the Daimyo's mansion, and went back to attack Zhending Mansion with all his might, and Xu Yifan's army went north in advance, which made Song Jiaxing's plan fall through.
Song Jiaxing had no choice but to follow Xu Yifan and Qin Mufeng to catch up with the Tianwei army.
Less than two days had passed, and Song Jiaxing had just arrived near Wei County, and Xu Yifan's order arrived.
"General Song, Inspector Xu's emergency military order!"
The scout saw Song Jiaxing and shouted in a deep voice.
Song Jiaxing shouted: "What did Brother Yifan say? ”
The scout hurriedly replied: "General Qiyu Song, now the main army of Inspector Xu is temporarily blocked in Shunde Mansion by the Manchurian elite led by Aobai, and it is impossible to continue to go north in a short time, and the Manchurian elite of Duoduo has arrived under the city of Zhendingfu, storming Zhending Mansion, preparing to break through the defense of Inspector Sun, and tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry appeared in the north of Zhending, forming a flanking posture on Zhendingfu, Inspector Xu ordered you to lead part of the forces of the second and fifth towns of the Tianwei Army and the Jingying army to go north with all their might, and break through to the Jinzhou area, Use cavalry to contain the pace of the Manchurian elite attack on Zhendingfu, and at the same time block the back road of Duoduo's escape to the northeast! ”
Song Jiaxing was shocked, Sun Chuanting was actually attacked by the Mongolian cavalry and the main force of Manchuria, this is enough for Sun Chuanting and Li Dingguo to drink a pot, the Manchurian cavalry and the Mongolian cavalry together, I am afraid that there are no less than 100,000 people, and the strength is twice that of Sun Chuanting. There's really no chance of winning.
Song Jiaxing pondered for a moment and shouted: "Okay, I know, you immediately return to Shunde Mansion and tell Inspector Xu that I will lead the army to advance in the direction of due north, and within four days, I will definitely rush to the vicinity of Zhending Mansion and rush to the aid of Inspector Sun!" ”
Song Jiaxing did not dare to slack off, and with an order, the army accelerated the speed of its march and went straight to Jinzhou and Zhending Mansion.
From Weixian County to Zhending Mansion, more than 200 miles away, if you want to rush to the vicinity of Zhending Mansion in four days, even if it is an elite infantry, it is very hard, but now in order to rush to help Sun Chuanting, Song Jiaxing can't take care of it anymore, and marches at full speed!
Song Jiaxing rushed down in the direction of Jinju and Jindingfu.
The situation in Zhili is more complicated, 30,000 Mongolian cavalry, 50,000 or 60,000 Ming troops in Zhending Mansion, 70,000 Manchurian main forces in Duoduo, 20,000 Manchurian cavalry in Shunde Mansion, 80,000 Tianwei troops outside Shunde Mansion, and now there is another Song Jiaxing, leading 50,000 troops to advance rapidly along the central part of Zhili towards Zhending Mansion.
The night passed, the sky had just brightened, and the main force of the Ming army outside the city of Shunde Mansion once again began to launch a fierce attack on Shunde Mansion, and it was still the artillery that opened the way!
However, this time the shelling was in a different way compared to yesterday.
Yesterday, the six artillery battalions of the Ming army were lined up under the city of Shunde Mansion, attacking with all their might, focusing on the morale of the Qing army in the city, today is completely different, the six artillery battalions of the Ming army in the east of the southern city of Shunde Mansion were discharged, three rows of 30 guns each, and the space of 60 zhang was discharged horizontally, and 90 artillery pieces launched an attack on the head of the city of Zhendingfu at the same time!
All the artillery was concentrated in the east of the southern city of Zhending Mansion, and a short section of the city wall of less than 100 zhang held a little and launched a fierce attack!
Ninety artillery guns fired in turns, the time interval was less than a minute, the firepower was extremely dense, the cannon sounded in the sky, a cannonball whistled through the air, smashed on the city wall of Zhending Mansion one after another, broken bricks and stones flew everywhere, the Qing army on this section of the city wall reached the blood mold, under the fierce bombardment, hundreds of Qing troops within a hundred zhang suffered heavy casualties, only less than half an hour, basically few were able to get up, dead bodies were everywhere, the seriously injured Qing army was constantly making a terrible roar, No soldier dares to run into the range of this section of the city wall, and if he comes in, it will be nine deaths and one life, and it is too dangerous to come.
Don't talk about others, even Ao Bai was frightened by the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army, is the Ming army crazy, just hold such a small section of the city wall for bombing!
Even now the Ming army does not dispatch the main infantry at all, and only relies on artillery fire to carry out onslaught.
From early morning to dusk, the artillery of the Ming army fired nearly 10,000 shells at the head of Zhendingfu in one go! Now this small section of the city wall is beyond recognition, the huge crater shows to the attacking and defensive sides how fierce the artillery of the Ming army is, a large piece of the city wall skin has fallen off, and some have even appeared huge cracks, the collapse of the city wall is inevitable!