Wan Qian refers to whether the peak can bear the fighting spirit of the forty-eighth section

Before this expedition to the southwest, Huang Shi, after some careful consideration, decided that he would still directly govern the firefighting battalion, and he handed over the two battalions of Panshi and Xuanfeng to He Dingyuan and Jia Minghe to command, and if there were no accidents, these two men would remain as the battalion officers of these two battalions until the end of this expedition.

With the completion of the complete reorganization of the army, the Xuanfeng Battalion has already completely lost all independence, and Jia Minghe is already a very ordinary general under the Huangshi system. However, Huang Shi did not intend to treat the old men of the Xuanfeng Battalion like Jia Minghe and Pu Guanshui badly because of this, because he felt that "crossing the river and demolishing the bridge" was really a bad reputation, and it was also beneficial to dilute the inherent power of the old subordinates by absorbing some new people for his group.

Both the armor and artillery Huangshi were ordered to be shipped to Nanchang and then sent to Guizhou via the Yangtze River shipping. But the soldiers all carried helmets and weapons with them, and Huang Shi felt that since it was an army, these basic equipment should still be inseparable from the soldiers. This month, Funing Town will be able to produce some armor, and the newly produced equipment will also be shipped to the Southwest Front with the highest priority. With this batch of supplies, Huang Shi felt that the difference in iron armor could almost make up for it.

However, the shipping capacity of the Yangtze River is limited, and the capacity that Huangshi can share from it is even more precious. According to the intelligence analysis obtained by Huangshi, in a few months, he could only get enough transportation capacity to transport about one more battalion of troops, in addition to transporting supplies. In the end, Huangshi decided to use this force to transport the auxiliary personnel of the Xuanfeng Battalion and the Military Intelligence Division and the General Staff Division.

The sea transport along the southeast coast could also share a part of the transport, transporting troops from Fujian to Guangzhou by sea. Then go north along the official road of Guangdong to Guizhou. However, the capacity of the ground transportation on this road is also limited, and recently the pirates in the Fujian Sea have become more and more active, which has limited the main attention of the Fujian Provincial Naval Division, so the transportation capacity cannot support the strength of a battalion.

However, although the activities of pirates are becoming more and more rampant, Huangshi estimates that when the pirates encountered troop carriers full of officers and soldiers, they still did not have the courage to jump up and rob the land, so they had a certain amount of transportation capacity. Yellowstone still needs to be used. He asked the Panshi Battalion to transfer most of the baggage to the Yangtze River route, and sent He Dingyuan to lead the people to Guangzhou by boat. Then take the overland route to Guizhou.

After digging up the capacity of the sea route and the Yangtze River, there was only one way for the last battalion of soldiers and horses left, that is, to take Jiangxi and Huguang to Guizhou by land. This road is undoubtedly the longest and most strenuous one, and there may be a lot of trouble on the way, so Yellowstone decided to lead the team himself.

However, the hard work can be regarded as paying off, although the fire battalion has to put in the best efforts, they heard that it was Huang Shi who personally led the team. On the contrary, the morale of the officers and men of the whole battalion was high. As a veteran unit that has followed Huangshi for six years, the soldiers in the fire battalion also have a strong sense of pride.

"At the critical moment, it still depends on our fire battalion. ”

"Our fire battalion is not only the most capable of fighting, but also the most able to endure hardships. ”

"Our fire battalion is the old camp of the old battalion. ”

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According to Zhang Zaidi's report, the officers and men of the firefighting battalion were full of confidence and did not complain, and even the newly replenished soldiers were eager to try.

The problem of military morale is solved, and all that remains is the problem of logistics and speed. In addition to the hardships of this march, there was also a heavy drag. Although Yellowstone can be without armor and cannons, food is consumed in large quantities every day.

"We might be able to get some from the local government so that the troops can carry less food. Anyway, our army marched on order and had the right to receive supplies from the localities. When calculating the consumption of grain transportation, Yang Zhiyuan gritted his teeth in distress. If the grain for these 2,500 miles had to be transported by manpower from Funing Town, it would be in order to ensure that the 5,000 people were fed. Funing Town will have to mobilize 100,000 auxiliary soldiers and hire a large number of vehicles and people along the way, and the whole town will definitely be completely dragged down and poor.

Jin Qiude objected to this at the time: "However, if you supply from the local government, the first thing is attrition, this is not a big problem, it's a big deal, it's good to give them some, but I'm afraid that the last general will have an impact on the speed of the army's march." ”

He Dingyuan has always been silent on this kind of issue, and if Huang Shi hadn't brought him here to observe, he would have been more interested in doing other work. Jia Minghe and Zhao Slowxiong also have no opinions, one is reluctant to talk more when they first arrive. The other is that we haven't weighed all the conflicts.

Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the status of military attachés has greatly declined. The civilian clique felt that it was necessary to strengthen its control over the movement of troops, and the system of guards led to the limited logistical capacity of each military general. Even the current Huangshi can hardly organize thousands of miles of grain transportation, let alone ordinary military towns. Therefore, the civilian officials believed that as long as the food supply along the route could be controlled, then the control over the military generals could be further strengthened.

Therefore, before the abolition of the Chongzhen Dynasty's discipline, the local government of the Ming Dynasty generally refused to directly hand over the food to the military generals who led the team, but they made the food, and then sent local soldiers to serve according to the population. The civilian officials claimed that by doing so, the military generals would have little chance of corruption, but Huang Shi believed that this would make it easier for the civilian officials to embezzle.

If you just do that, then you can get by. However, then the civilian officials of the Ming Dynasty took into account a new question, that is, whether it was necessary to overfeed the marching troops? The civilian clique generally believed that if the soldiers were overfed, it would easily cause inconvenience in their movements, and this would obviously not be very beneficial to the march, so the civilian clique later stipulated that only two meals a day would be provided to the guest troops crossing the border.

If it was just like this, it would still be bearable, but the civilian clique of the Ming Dynasty soon discovered a potential loophole, that is, if the army marched too fast, and could pass through two or even three counties a day, then the soldiers would be able to eat four or even six mealsThe last way.

The members of the Ming army were all people, not mules. They can't live by eating grass, and of course the soldiers also want to eat as often as possible, so even in an emergency, the Ming army will walk and stop for a day when mobilized, so as to ensure that the soldiers can eat one day every two days.

In fact, in most cases, the movement of the Ming army was slower than this, because the soldiers also knew it. Once the camp is pulled, there will be no chance to eat today, so morale will become very low when the camp is pulled. There would even be mutinies, and sometimes the generals who were in a hurry would even have to offer bounties to lure the soldiers out of camp and set off.

If the situation is not very urgent, of course, the soldiers want to stay more and walk less, and the generals also understand that hungry soldiers will not be able to walk fast even if they walk. The morale of the low-landed army was not only slow, but also prone to a large number of fleeing and stealing, so the Ming generals generally refused to ask for trouble and insisted on marching quickly, but responded to the cries of the soldiers and slowly walked along the road.

Kim Qiu-deok raised the question of the march. That's what happened. Now that it is marching in the interior, Huangshi has to abide by this set of rules of the game. If Huangshi walked for a day and stopped for a day, he would have to carry enough food for the day of the march, that is, half of it himself; If Huangshi walks for one day and rests for two days, then it seems that he can bring less food, eat more at the local government's office, and eat less on the road, and the patience will pass; If it's like the rest of the Ming army, rub slowly. It is no problem to let the soldiers save some food every day, and walk one day every three days.

If it is so dry, Huangshi will not think of Guizhou if he does not go on for a year and a half, so Huangshi chose the third way - scattering money.

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"Your Excellency plans to spend money to buy food for the army of five thousand?"

When Huang Shi said this idea, his officers were shocked: "How much does this cost?"

Huang Shi thought this method was the most convenient, because the local people always had surplus food. As long as the army can come up with silver, the people can go to other places to buy it even if they don't have enough food, which is equivalent to a large number of one-time logistics personnel, "It is cheaper than transporting it yourself, and transporting silver is much lighter than transporting grain." ”

Although everyone agreed with Huang Shi's words, Yang Zhiyuan obviously hadn't bypassed this circle yet: "But we are an official army, and we are going to help the army in the southwest, why do we need money from Funing Town?"

Huang Shi felt that there was nothing, although it was a bit strange that the border guards were ordered to quell the rebellion and the generals had to pay for it, but wasn't this in the Ming Dynasty? The feudal dynasty always had its historical limitations: "What we need most is time. Spending a little more is not a problem. ”

Jin Qiude glanced at Huang Shi strangely: "Dashuai." Are we short on time? The last general thinks that there is no need to be in a hurry, and we can save some money by playing slowly. ”

"That's going to be months longer. Or even years. What's more, the first blow in the war is the most powerful blow, and we will pull all three battalions to the Yunnan-Guizhou front line within three months, and then launch a thunderous blow to quickly quell the rebellion is the most cost-effective way. After Huang Shi finished speaking, he looked at Jin Qiude again, and then added: "It is the same for the country and for our Funing Town." ”

"Three months from Xiapu to Guiyang ......" Jin Qiude read this number softly, lowered his head and opened a document in front of him, and after a while, he looked up and said: "Dashuai, this road will take about 2,400 miles, that is, it will take 30 miles a day, and it will take 90 days in a row. ”

"Well, almost. Huang Shi nodded, he knew the number in his heart.

In the past, when we were in the hilly areas of southern Liaoning, the daily marching speed of Changsheng Island was 40 li, and if the forced march was adopted, it could reach 60 li per day, but the forced march could not last more than five days. Jin Qiude asked tentatively: "Dashuai, from Xiapu to Guizhou, the road of more than 2,000 miles is almost a mountain road, should we have more time to spare? If the marching speed is reduced to 20 miles a day, the general will think that there is no problem." ”

Li Yunrui also echoed loudly: "Commander, the last general also agrees with Jin Guerrilla's suggestion. In the past, the daily marching speed of the Ming army on this road was ten miles, although they were far from being comparable to our Funing army, but we may not be able to reach thirty miles a day. ”

Huangshi plans to enter Jiangxi from Ruijin, the capital of Ganzhou, and then pass through Hengzhou and Baoqing. Across the whole of Huguang, the nearest journey straight to Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou: "After entering Guizhou, we will reach the border area, and the shorter the time on the road, the less money we need to spend on land, so we still have to speed up as much as possible." ”

Jin Qiude and the others seemed to be hesitant, after all, the average daily speed of the Ming army was 10 miles, and the strategic movement speed of 15 miles was already high, and in the past, the long-distance strategic maneuver speed of pure cavalry troops was only 20 miles a day. The thirty miles proposed by Huangshi really have no precedent to follow. So they were still a little nervous.

Because this kind of long-distance high-speed march on foot was also the first time for the Funing army, Huangshi's subordinates did not openly refute him. But they all had their worries written on their faces. Huang Shi slowed down and asked, "Gentlemen, what is the main factor on which the speed of the march depends?"

"The first is logistics, so that the soldiers are well fed, and then there is morale, the higher the morale of the officers and soldiers, the faster the march. ”

"Well, that's good. "Huangshi is very satisfied with his understanding of the ground. He remembered what modern biology said. Humans are the most endurable mammals on Earth, and modern military theory seems to suggest that the speed of human marching is basically determined by the will to fight. Therefore, after the emergence of the nation-state, the average daily marching speed of modern armies exceeded 30 miles. Since the twentieth century, the daily march speed of human armies has increased by leaps and bounds, and no animal can keep up with the speed of armored vehicles and tanks except for the two legs of humans.

In the original time and space of Huangshi, he didn't know which army in China could be called a modern army, so Huangshi could only use the modern army as a reference. He reached out again and drew the route he had traced. In spring, summer, autumn and winter, China's first modern army advanced at a rate of 100 miles per day on this route, and maintained it for a year without rear and without supplies.

Also Chinese, Huangshi remembers the record of the forced march of the modern army: that is, in twenty-eight hours, two enemy forces were defeated in succession, the attack advanced two hundred and forty miles on the rugged mountain road, and then immediately climbed over the chain bridge to crush the last group of enemies. The most exaggerated thing is that they were able to bring a small mountain cannon and several heavy machine guns with them as they ran along the mountain road.

- The troops I have been training hard for so long have high morale and strong will to fight from top to bottom, and they will not even be inferior to thirty percent of them, right?

"Does anyone here doubt the morale of my Funing Army?"

Huang Shi strafed the people in the house, and they were all silent: "Okay, then let's settle it, our only problem is to keep the soldiers fed and drunk." ”

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On the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse,

The more than 1,000 Houjin cavalry of Mang Gurtai and Zilharang went straight south along the official road and followed their march. Houses and farmhouses on both sides of the official road began to burn. It has become a continuous ruin. Occasionally, the cavalry could catch up with a group of Liaoxi military families or merchants who had fled south, and these people turned around under the strict orders of the Later Jin army. Towards Liaoyang, towards their slave life......

When Jierharang led the reinforcements to arrive, the official road was almost blocked by the soldiers and civilians of the surrender place in the north, and tens of thousands of people silently obeyed the orders of the Houjin army, honestly burned down their houses, and walked towards Jinzhou with their belongings on their backs. According to Zilharang's description, when he traveled south along the official road, his troops were like a light boat in a torrent, as if they would be overturned by the surrendered Ming army of Liaoxi at any time.

Because of the abundant harvest, Mang Gurtai and Zilharang stopped continuing to the south for a while, but called Yuetuo and Azig to start carrying the property together.

When Houjin was busy moving to Liaoxi, Huang Taiji was still obsessed with persuading Zhao to surrender:

This emperor Taiji made a suggestion to Zhao Shujiao, the defender of Jinzhou: fight a battle outside the city to determine the outcome of the battle, Houjin out of ten people, Ming army out of 1,000 people, if Houjin wins, then the Ming army will surrender; If the Ming army wins, Houjin will break the siege.

Zhao Shujiao asked Huang Taiji rhetorically: What if you take the opportunity to grab the city gate?

Huang Taiji swore and said: I promise not to take the opportunity to seize the city gate.

Zhao Shujiao replied: I can't trust you!

Huang Taiji then scolded Zhao Shujiao: "Like a wild badger entering the cave, hiding the head and tail, sneering wildly, thinking that no one can do anything!?"

On the same day, Emperor Taiji sent a herald to rush back to Liaoyang, ordered Houjin Geniulu to mobilize urgently, and then dispatched a large number of people to move in the Liaoxi Corridor. After hearing that Huang Taiji has gained a lot. Amin and Dai Shan, who had just returned to Liaoyang, also set off in a hurry, they didn't even care about the army that was still in Korea and had not returned to Liaozhongdi, so they hurriedly collected 20,000 banners and clothes, and pushed the cart to the western Liaoxi corridor overnight.

The Houjin army surrounding Jinzhou was carried from May 16 to May 22, and then dug three ditches around Jinzhou to besiege Zhao Shujiao, leaving part of the troops to guard the city of Jinzhou, and the main force of the Houjin army immediately moved south along the official road. Began to collect the remaining grain, grass and materials near Ningyuan.

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May 24, Fujian, Tingzhou Prefecture. Tingzhou.

Huangshi said goodbye to the officials and businessmen who had gone out of the city to see him off, then jumped on his horse and waved his hand silently, the drum rumbled again, and the red flag began to move forward after Huangshi. The soldiers behind the banner clenched their weapons tightly in their hands, and with serious expressions, they marched westward.

Hong Antong approached Huang Shi's side and reported in a low voice: "Dashuai, further forward is the boundary of Jiangxi." Well, it's Ganzhou Mansion, Ruijin. ”

"Yes, I know. ”

In the 16 days since it set out from Funing Prefecture, the fire battalion has traveled 550 miles, an average of nearly 35 miles a day, which is faster than Huangshi's prediction. However, this kind of long-term march will continue for dozens of days, and how long can Huangshi hold out on to the soldiers. In fact, I am not very sure in my heart.

Along the way, more than a dozen soldiers had fallen behind due to illness, but anyway, they were marching on their own soil, and Huangshi did not have to stop for the soldiers who had fallen behind, and the surrounding government promised to send people to take care of these soldiers. If the number of soldiers left behind is not very large, the local administration can even arrange for them to have stagecoaches so that they can catch up with the group.

Wait until you get out of the city. Huang Shi jumped off his horse and walked along the official road with the soldiers. There were always incidents on the march, and Yellowstone had ordered that all horses, except for the Interior Guard and the Engineer Corps, should serve only the lightly wounded and sick, and no one else could use horsepower. When entering the city, Yellowstone didn't plan to be too conspicuous, so he would ride a horse for a while, but once he was out of the city, Yellowstone would lead by example and walk with the soldiers.

In Yellowstone's team, the horses were probably the easiest to bear, and they didn't carry anything. Even the forage was carried by the soldiers for them. But even marching at such an easy pace. The horses are still losing weight. These horses had to eat several catties of grain every day to recover their strength, and they would be fed night food by heavy soldiers at night. But if nothing else, Huangshi estimates that in another twenty days at most, the military horses coming out of Fujian will not be able to keep up with the team.

Now the horses used by the internal guards and sappers who took the lead have been changed at the nearby post station, Huangshi secretly made up his mind that when he arrived in Jiangxi, he would no longer retain horsepower, except for leaving a few horses to continue experiments, and the remaining ground horses would simply be used out and replaced when they were used up.

At every fork in the road, one or two officers and men of the firefighting battalion engineer brigade or the internal guard of Funing Town will be seen, silently directing the troops to the right fork and then saluting the huge column. In the past few days, the sappers sent out have discovered the problems of the road conditions again and again, or calculated the diversion capacity of the small roads in advance, and their work has saved the officers and men of the battalion from countless detours.

Huangshi was very creative, and asked the officers and soldiers of the internal guard to wear snow-white helmets, and almost wrote the word "gendarmerie" on them. As for the sappers, Huangshi originally wanted to give them green helmets, but this design was unanimously opposed by the officers and soldiers of the sappers, so now the helmets of the sappers are dyed yellow.

As he walked, a white-helmeted knight rode straight to Huangshi's side, leaned over and reported to him loudly: "Great commander, there is a village on the side of the road three miles ahead. ”

Huang Shi didn't stop at his feet, but responded lightly: "Got it, go ahead." ”

"Yes. The white-helmeted knight saluted solemnly, then squeezed his horse's belly with all his might, and headed out on the road ahead.

As the dense feather forest passed in front of the small village, some of the village's old people and children stood on the side of the road, quietly watching this unusual force.

As Yellowstone strode across the village, he waved his right arm and shouted loudly, "Brave, victory!"

"Brave, victorious!"

The soldiers of the fire battalion also shouted in unison, and at the same time raised the ground weapon in their right hand rhythmically to the upper right twice.

"Brave, victorious!"

With dense feather forests, it continues to pass in front of the village. Loud shouts echoed over the small village. As they passed through every village, the officers and men of the fire battalion shouted their trumpets in such a loud voice. And every now and then, their steps seem to become lighter, and even at dusk, when the sun is setting in the west, the officers and men will at the same time expel their weary and weary at the same time.

At noon, the fire battalion moved into its intended resting place. The people who had come from nearby to help had already prepared their food. According to the latest order, the soldiers of the fire battalion must give a loud thank you to the people around them when they receive their food. Then you can take their share.

"Thank you, thank you. Zhang Chengye said loudly twice in a row, and then ran to the side with his big buns and was ready to start eating, just before the hungry and hungry Zhang Chengye was about to take the first bite, a person suddenly handed a scoop of water in front of him, Zhang Chengye immediately stood up, took the water scoop and said at the same time busily: "Thank you." Thanks a lot. ”

Huang Shi mobilized all the propaganda means at his disposal to publicize the righteous deeds of these people to the officers and soldiers, and he told the soldiers that if they did not sell them food and help them cook, they would go hungry or eat cold food. Huangshi said these words every day, every day, and Zhang Chengye's ears were about to become calloused, but Zhang Chengye didn't dare to say a word of nonsense, and Wang Qinian's reference was still fresh in his memory.

Last time, Wang Qinian muttered quietly when he was speaking in Huangshi: "Didn't they also collect cash?"

Just for such a complaint, Huang Shi immediately turned his face and demoted Wang Qinian from a thousand to a thousand presidents, just let him temporarily hang the name of a thousand presidents. Just keep leading the team. Huang Shi also claimed that if he heard similar words from any of the officers, that officer would not have to stay in the fire camp, but would be immediately sent back to Funing Town to be placed in the reserve officer sequence.

These days, Yellowstone repeats this idea over and over again: whether these people receive money or not. It is a favor for them to sell things to the fire camp, and all the work done by the people to help the fire camp is a righteous act; All the people who have helped the fire camp are righteous people and righteous people; It was with the help of these righteous men that the fire battalion could march lightly, and it was possible to carry food from Funing Town without having to carry it by itself; He Huangshi couldn't repay these righteous deeds, so he could only give these righteous people twice the market price of silver, just talk about their hearts.

As the internal guards, loyalty, patriotism, Catholicism, and the officer system brainwashed over and over again, Zhang Chengye gradually felt that there was some truth in what Huang Shi said, and his soldiers became more and more grateful to the people they met along the way.

While the officers and soldiers of the fire battalion were eating, Huang Shi asked Hong Antong to hand over the silver far more than the market price to the village leader, and at the same time personally thanked the elder again and again.

Until the embarrassed elders left. Huang Shi breathed a sigh of relief and began to eat his share of food.

Hong Antong took a big bite on the bun. While exclaiming: "The handsome man is really a corporal Lixian." ”

Huang Shi smiled and said, "They helped us a lot, didn't they? ”

"Handsome and high-handsome. ”

As a senior military officer in Funing Town who participated in the decision-making of Yellowstone. Hong Antong is completely aware of what Huangshi's calculation is. Huang Shi felt that in addition to paying double the market price of the silver, he should also let the officers and soldiers sincerely thank the people. Huangshi also thinks that there are no fools in this world, and whether a person is truly grateful or not, the common people can feel it.

Hong Antong once suspected that with the speed of the fire battalion's march, no matter how many good things were done in Huangshi, the news would not spread far. But at that time, Huang Shi smiled and told him: "You underestimate the people too much, and I assure you that their news will always be ten times faster than our march." ”

The situation in the past few days has proved more and more that Huangshi was right in his prediction, and now it is easier and easier for the internal guards to buy grain and grass, and every day on the way forward, they can meet ordinary people who seem to have come to the market. Many of them set out before dawn and rushed over the mountains and mountains from more than a dozen miles away, staying early on the route of the firefighting camp, waiting to sell all kinds of agricultural products to the Funing army.

In the afternoon, before the team walked out, an internal guard rushed to report that the fire battalion's dinner and accommodation for today had been settled. A dispute even broke out between the previous villages over the opportunity to help the fire battalion build a makeshift camp and provide dinner. In the end, the responsible internal guard simply dispersed the army, so that several villages could have some business.

"Ah, I have a hunch that we'll be more and more comfortable along the way. Huangshi walked without stopping, and let out a long sigh from his mouth. The people on this road were very poor, but the fire camp ate very well, and they could eat eggs for breakfast every day. There is meat every day, and there is also boiled water for washing feet in the evening: "Never underestimate the power of the people." ”

Huang Shi suddenly spoke again after a while, "Hmm." Let's add a command. Every day before leaving, the officers and soldiers would sing military songs to these righteous people to thank them for their righteous deeds. ”

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On the evening of the 26th, Mang Gurtai and Zilharang led the Houjin vanguard troops to arrive at the city of Ningyuan.

When the Houjin army saw the city wall of Ningyuan again, the twenty nearby Guanning field battalions had all assembled in Ningyuan on the orders of the governor of Liaodong. Facing the great enemy, the city of Ningyuan was densely covered with warriors of the Guanning army. This time Ning Yuan showed more courage than a year and a half ago, and the governor of Liaodong only ordered three gates to be blocked, and the east gate facing the sea was still open. Ten battalions of 20,000 Guanning iron cavalry were neatly arranged between the sea and the city wall, ready to attack the incoming enemy at any time.

"It turns out that Ning Yuan is so small. "The first time Zilharang saw Ningyuan Castle, which was an 800-meter-wide and 850-meter-long guard fort:"I heard that there were seven battalions in this city last time, and there were tens of thousands of men, how did they stuff them?"

"I don't know, but last time in Ningyuan City, people stood in dense places anyway, you think, it's not a man without armor. There are 20,000 armored soldiers standing on the wall of less than 1,000 zhang alone, so there are 20 people standing in each zhang (an average of 6 armored soldiers per meter)!"

Zilharang laughed and said: "Sanbeile said that it is not enough for people to step on people, it is not enough to step on one floor, well, you have to step on three or four floors"

"So this time they came out. Just now, some troops said that Ning Yuan had concentrated twenty battalions this time, and there were tens of thousands of fleeing military households, and I estimated that there was really no way to stand in that small city. Looking at the Guanning Iron Cavalry that was crawling all over the city, Mang Gurtai smiled at Zilharang beside him: "It seems that we miscalculated, they don't seem to plan to surrender." ”

"Well, Sambel, let's set up camp, and then send someone to report to the Khan. ”

"Good. ”

Mang Gurtai randomly set up camp in the north of Ningyuan City, and at the same time asked Huang Taiji for reinforcements.

On the 27th day of May in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Mang Gurtai led a thousand post-gold armor and 40,000 Guanning iron cavalry to confront each other for a day. Before dark, Huang Taiji led 6,000 bannermen and more than 20,000 carts to arrive. Huang Taiji then divided the six thousand armor into nine paths. surrounded the 40,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry in Ningyuan City, and then scattered and plundered the suburbs of Ningyuan.

That night, the Emperor Taiji's army lived in the camp built by Mang Gurtai and the pioneers. The trolley began to transport the collected material resources back to Liaoyang. The next day, 6,000 Hou Jin Phi continued to surround the 40,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry and Ningyuan City like iron buckets, and at the same time organized people to burn down the forts abandoned by the Ming army between Ningyuan City and Qiantun.

On the 28th, Huang Taiji saw that there was nothing to loot, and estimated that there was no hope of taking Ningyuan Fort, so he turned around and left under the eyes of the governor of Liaodong and the 20th battalion of Guanning Iron Cavalry, and at the same time left some coats to continue to seize the military tun in western Liaoning.

"Fifth brother, we can be regarded as a bumper harvest this time, right?"

"Yes, this time is really good, we have been in Liaoxi for more than a month, and no one has come to disturb us. Mang Gurtai is also in a very good mood, which shows that the Dongjiang Army is almost crippled, otherwise Mao Wenlong would never have not moved.

Huang Taiji pointed to Ningyuan City, which was gradually moving away, and said with a smile: "This Liaodong governor of the Ming Kingdom is very interesting, I guess he must be a person who is familiar with military books." ”

"Soldier's book, who?" Mang Gurtai snorted coldly with disdain: "Yuan Chonghuan, this rat junior, I can understand how he fights, that is, he gathered all the troops around him, several times more than our entire army, and then sat down in the castle. Just waiting for us to rob all the surroundings and then retreat by ourselves, anyway, there are so many things here in Liaoxi that we can't move them, who is willing to gnaw on him if they have nothing to do. ”

"Haha, that's what I'm talking about. There is a Han Chinese art of war who wrote a book called "The Art of War", which says that you should not move like a mountain, and I guess the governor of Liaodong of the Ming Kingdom must have read this book. We attacked Korea, and he did not move like a mountain; We surrounded Jinzhou, and he was as immobile as a mountain; We took away all the Han people around Ningyuan, but he still didn't move. Haha, the governor of Liaodong of the Ming Kingdom will be called 'Yuan Chonghuan who does not move like a mountain' in the future. ”

"It's a good word, there are really a lot of rats in this Han people, and they dare to write the art of war, no wonder they fight so badly. ”

"Fifth brother, ......" Huang Taiji wanted to tell Mang Gurtai that he should read more books, but this word swirled in his mouth, and when he blurted out, it had already become: "After returning to Liaoyang, let's go hunting together." ”

"Okay!"

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In Ningyuan City,

"It's all up to Lord Yuan's might, and the Tartars have retreated. ”

"With Master Yuan here, does the Tartar eat the bear's heart and leopard's gall, and dare to come to die?"

......

In the midst of the joy of celebrating victory, a loud roar suddenly sounded: "Lord Yuan, Jinzhou is still under siege?

The generals in the hall saw the people above make a gesture, and immediately there was another cheer:

"Lord Yuan sees that this must be a trick by the Tartars to lure the enemy. ”

"Lord Yuan clearly saw that the Tartars wanted to kill us one of them. ”

......

"Lord Yuan!" The voice of the ignorant man sounded again: "My lord, the Tartars have taken away a lot of merchants and people, and they are still robbing our military tun outside, and the last general is willing to lead 300 families to fight and recapture the people and the military tun." ”

The man in the center made the same gesture.

"Lord Yuan, I am in high opinion, if the Tartars show me to be weak, there must be deception. ”

"As Master Yuan has seen, we must not lose the big because of the small. ”

"General Man Gui, let me ask you! Compared with Ningyuan City, which is more important?"

......

At the banquet where Ning Yuancheng cheered for victory, a guard suddenly rushed in and reported: "Lord Governor Qiqi, General Man Gui took three hundred family members out of the city to pursue without authorization. ”

After a long silence, a sigh sounded in the hall: "If you don't listen to me, you will suffer a fiasco!"

"Lord Yuan is high, oops, it's a pity that General Mangui is such a brave general. ”

"It's a sigh, it's a sigh, why didn't General Man Gui listen to Lord Yuan's words, it's really brave. ”

......

After three rounds of drinking, everyone in the hall was already drunk, and when they were still boasting about their merits,

"Tell the governor, General Man Gui has returned to the city, he has beheaded more than 200 ranks, and he has also captured more than 1,000 people. ”

After a long and awkward silence, there was a crisp cracking of wine glasses, and the hall fell silent for a moment

......

On the fifth day of the sixth month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Houjin army retreated to Liaodong, in addition to the three cities of Jinzhou Fort, Dafu Fort and Ningyuan Fort that refused to surrender in the western Liaoxi corridor, the Ming Dynasty lasted 18 months and exhausted millions of taels of silver to build the city, fortress, post station, military cantonment, and house were all destroyed by the Houjin army.

In addition, because the Liaodong Metropolitan Government ignored the warnings of Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, over the past month, a large number of merchants and military households who moved into the Western Liaoning Corridor in the past 18 months suffered heavy losses, and Houjin could not help but obtain huge amounts of materials, and even plundered countless slaves and livestock.

Before the Battle of Ningjin, the Later Jin regime had abandoned the ripe land along the Liao River for two years due to lack of manpower, and now this agricultural land can finally start farming again.

After learning that the Jin army had returned to Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, praised the imperial court for a great victory, and asked the Emperor of Heaven to ask Wei Zhongxian, who was born of virtue, to establish a shrine in Ningyuan.

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