Chapter 274: Destroying the Withering and Decaying, Soaring Forward (Part 1)
In the end, Yingordai concentrated 600 banners, and all of them rode horses, ready to go out of the city to attack. The remaining nearly 400 bannermen were led by Zuoling Yutai to defend the city.
The south gate of Zhenjiang Fort was opened, and Ying Erdai led 600 cavalry to sweep out, quickly killing towards the Ming artillery battery position.
The distance of five miles is only a moment for a war horse running at full speed, and the time is so short that the Ming army has no time to react, and there is no time to send troops out to block it.
In order to attack the city with Hongyi artillery, Liu Xingzuo actually camped only five miles away from Zhenjiang, which completely violated the principle of camping. Since ancient times, the besieging camp had to be at least twenty miles away from the city in order to prevent the defenders from attacking.
And Liu Xingzuo's second mistake was to rely too much on the Hongyi cannon, trying to use the Hongyi cannon to completely collapse the city wall and take Zhenjiang Fort, when the artillery bombardment, all the troops stayed in the camp, not even lined up outside the camp, how to resist their own attack?
Ying Erdai sneered, it seems that the battle of Donggou made Liu Xingzuo proud, and he completely forgot how powerful the Eight Banners were!
It's okay, let me teach you Liu Aita a lesson, first destroy your Hongyi cannon, and then break through your camp with cavalry, let you know how high the sky is and how thick it is, don't think that surrendering the Ming Kingdom will become the number one person!
Thinking in his heart, Ying Erdai galloped his horse and led six hundred cavalry to gallop wildly in the direction of the Ming army's fort. The roar of the Ming army's Hongyi artillery dispersed, and it seemed that they had discovered their own attack, but so what? The corners of Yingordai's mouth curled slightly, and he sneered.
A group of Ming infantry rushed out of the camp in a hurry, trying to block the onslaught of the Eight Banners cavalry in front of the fort. However, the time was too hasty, there was no time to line up the formation, Ying Ordai had already led the cavalry to kill, just a shock, and the Ming army was scattered, and by the way, this camp was killed.
Sure enough, he was always weak, and Ying Ordai sneered, and took the lead in riding his horse and rushing to the fort.
It is said to be a fort, but it is actually a high ground by the river, which is only half a zhang higher than the surrounding places.
On the high ground, there are more than ten huge artillery pieces scattered around, and there are more than 100 gunners who are busy working next to them.
"Destroy the artillery!" Ying Ordai shouted angrily and slashed at a Hongyi cannon in front of him. The saber slashed at the huge cannon body, and it snapped into two parts, but only a shallow trace was seen on the cannon body, which shocked Ying Ordai's arm numb.
The Hongyi cannon, which weighs more than 3,000 catties, can be destroyed by a mere saber?
The cavalry of the Eight Banners dismounted one after another, slashed and smashed their guns, trying to destroy the Hongyi cannon, but found that what they did was useless.
"Go find the wood and wedge the barrel of the cannon!" Inordai reacted quickly and shouted loudly.
However, the whole fort was empty, not to mention wood, not even a small tree.
Looking at the more than ten Hongyi cannons in front of him, when Yingordai was at a loss, "boom, boom", suddenly there was a continuous sound of cannons.
Ying Ordai was shocked, isn't it all the artillery of the Ming army here? Hurriedly looking in the direction of the cannon, I saw countless black dots covering my face like a swarm of bees.
Yingordai tried to block it, but when he didn't have time, he felt a sharp pain all over his body, and fell to the ground on his back with a poof, screaming miserably.
Not only Yingordai, but also the other Eight Banners soldiers also fell down one after another, some could still scream, and more died without saying a word.
Lying on the ground, Yingordai tried to look, and saw that within his line of sight, there were fire points flickering one after another, each flickering was accompanied by a roar, and then a large number of projectiles were fired into the fort.
Hit the trick! Ying Ouer Dai muttered, trying to stand up, but he didn't have any strength in his body, and more than a dozen small holes appeared in the iron armor on his chest, and red blood was flowing out of the holes.
Perhaps because he was not shot in the heart, Ingordai did not die for a while, but he preferred to die directly.
Yingordai did not want to see his subordinates killed in the fort by countless projectiles.
Ying Erdai did not want to see his subordinates who fled from the high platform in a hurry, and fell into the Ming army's encirclement, blocked by the spear array, and then were shot and killed one by one by the Ming army's firearms.
Ying Erdai did not want to see the Ming soldiers rushing to the high platform and cutting off the heads of his dead subordinates with knives.
Ying Erdai didn't want to see his former boss Liu Xingzuo condescendingly appear in front of him, looking at himself who couldn't move with pity.
"You've lost." Liu Xingzuo said calmly.
"You, you knew I was coming, and then set a trap?" Ying Erdai used all his strength and asked with difficulty.
Liu Xingzuo nodded: "The city wall of Zhenjiang Fort has been blown down, and only by destroying the Hongyi cannon can you hold the city, and with your character, you will inevitably lead the army to come in person." The Hongyi cannon weighed thousands of catties, and the whole body was cast in bronze, so it was not so easy to destroy, so I used the Hongyi cannon as a bait and set a trap. Within a hundred steps around the fort, more than 50 tiger squat cannons were deployed, and 50 tiger squat cannons fired at the same time, which could shoot thousands of projectiles at a time, and you were lucky not to be killed on the spot. ”
Ying Erdai smiled hard: "You won me, but you can't win Dajin, Aita, it's too late to turn back now......"
Liu Xingzuo smiled coldly: "Not necessarily at that moment, looking at the sake of your death, I might as well tell you that at present, Huang Taiji led the main force of the Eight Banners to fall deep into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and this time it is not only the Dongjiang Army that attacked you in Liaodong, but also the elite Praetorian Guard 30,000 and 10,000 Liaoxi Iron Cavalry, but unfortunately you will not live to see the moment when Shenyang is broken by us." ”
"I'm ......," said Ingordai, as he was about to say more, a large stream of blood kept pouring out of his mouth, but he could no longer utter a word.
Liu Xingzuo stopped talking nonsense, took out his knife, and slashed at Ying Erdai's neck.
After annihilating the 608 banners of the Yingordai cavalry, Liu Xingzuo no longer waited, and immediately waved his army to attack Zhenjiang Fort.
The total annihilation of the Yingordai Department also greatly deterred the remaining troops of Zhenjiang Fort and made morale even lower.
Liu Xingzhi, Liu Xingji and others each led the Dongjiang soldiers to attack the city through the gap in the artillery, and after a fight, the clothed soldiers could not bear it and surrendered one after another.
These soldiers were originally from the Han Dynasty in Liaodong, and they had been oppressed by the Jiannu bannermen for a long time, and they had no loyalty to Jiannu.
The remaining 400 bannermen, under the leadership of Saling Yutai, rose up to resist, but they did not resist for long. Under the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army with absolute superiority, the four hundred banners only resisted for less than an hour.
At dusk, with the last Eight Banners soldier being hacked to death, the entire Zhenjiang Fort completely fell into the hands of the Ming army.
Liu Xingzuo ordered all the bannermen, women, children, and children in Zhenjiang Fort to be arrested, and forced those clothed soldiers who surrendered to kill the families of these bannermen. Most of these soldiers were transferred from Shenyang, and most of them were slaves of the bannermen who died in battle, and they still fought back against their masters, and naturally showed no mercy to these bannermen, women and children. In an instant, nearly 1,000 Qiding's family members were cut and killed. Each of these clothed soldiers had the blood of the Qiding family on their hands, and they could never turn back from now on.
After only one day of repairs in Zhenjiang Fort, Liu Xingzuo ordered the army to march along the road to Phoenix City. Between Zhenjiang Fort and Phoenix City, there are also fortresses such as Tangzhan Fort and Dangerous Mountain Fort, Liu Xingzuo sent troops to capture them one by one, these forts have hundreds of troops, and only a few dozen people, and most of them are Han army bannermen, so they naturally cannot resist the attack of the army.
It was less than 150 miles from Zhenjiang Fort to Phoenix City, and together with the capture of castles along the way, Liu Xingzuo took five days to reach Phoenix City.
Phoenix City, the former Dingliao Right Guard Station, was originally a thousand households of the Ming Army. After Jiannu captured the entire Liaodong, part of the Ming army households of the right guard of Dingliao surrendered to Jiannu, and part of them fled to Phi Island with Mao Wenlong, but after experiencing Nurhachi's cruel slaughter policy, the surrendered military households have not survived, and in the current Phoenix City, there are only more than 500 households of the Han Army Banner, and there is a staff leader, and there is not even a real banner man in the entire city.
This counselor's name is Li Yuanwei, a member of Li Chengliang's clan, and the first Liaodong Han to surrender to Jiannu.
Looking at the Ming army gathered outside the city, Li Yuanwei's face turned pale with fright, five hundred troops, how could he be the opponent of the Ming army?
The battle situation of Zhenjiang Fort has already been reported, and even Ying Erdai was killed by the Ming army, Li Yuanwei thinks that he is far inferior to Ying Erdai, and he has no confidence that he can resist the attack of the Ming army.
After careful consideration, Li Yuanwei made a decisive decision to surrender Kaesong!
It didn't take much effort to defeat Phoenix City, which was really unexpected by Liu Xingzuo, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand it. After all, the defenders of Phoenix City were the banner of the Han Army, which was originally a military household of the Ming Army, and was not so loyal to Jiannu. For the sake of one's own life, it is normal to surrender.
After taking Phoenix City, Liu Xingzuo did not rush to march again, because the momentum was already big enough, and if he attacked again, the battle line would be too long. After all, his army is only a partial division, and the purpose is to attract Jiannu to stay behind.
In the next time, according to the plan, Liu Xingzuo took Phoenix City as the foundation, divided his troops to attack the nearby Castle Tun Village, killed the people of Jiannu as much as possible, and destroyed the hinterland of Jiannu.
And the main force of the battle, Liu Xingzuo was not ready to use his own subordinates, but drove the surrender of his Han army banner and clothed soldiers. These soldiers and their families are under their own control, and the clothed soldiers have just killed the family members of the banner, and they have no way to retreat, so they have to obey Liu Xingzuo's drive.
The Dongjiang army went out everywhere, raiding and killing everywhere, and a large number of Jiannu people were killed every day.
The news of the large-scale dispatch of the Dongjiang Army and the fall of the two important castles of Zhenjiang Fort and Phoenix City also quickly spread to Shenyang and Liaoyang, and the entire Liaoshen Plain was shaken.