Chapter 234: The Clash Between Zhang Pan and Dolgon
In fact, there is no need to remind him, Zhang Pan himself is also very wary of those two guys.
Because he was very suspicious that the siege of Nanguan in the past was due to the refusal of the two of them to send troops to rescue.
As for the speculation that was blocked by the Houjin heavy soldiers, it was a joke, on the vast sea, the Daming Naval Division was dominant, where did the Houjin heavy soldiers come from?
No matter whether the Houjin was under the command of the Nu chief or Huang Taiji, and no matter how brave the Eight Banners cavalry was on land, it was inevitable that they would have to invest great defensive energy in the southern Liaoning coast.
Instead of being like Liaoxi, even after the defeat of Ningyuan, it has always maintained a strategic offensive posture.
However, Huang Taiji's strategic vision does seem to be more than that of his father.
Kankan received the military report from Liaonan, and before the anger had time to dominate the whole body, he had already drawn his golden war knife from the sweat seat of the Dazheng Hall and quickly made a deployment.
"I hereby order the Great Belle Amin and the Little Belle Dolgon to rush to Liaonan with two white flags, expel and harass the Ming army, and deploy defenses along the coast, and wait for the battle. During this period, the Ming army and naval division, which had a single soldier, were never allowed to land on Dajin soil. ”
During which period?
Amin and Dolgon knew that although they were unwilling to participate in the upcoming war of the whole country, they had to submit to the supreme tribal khanate.
Just like the bannermen of the Eight Banners, they must unconditionally obey the orders of the banner owner, although they are expensive Baylor, but in the final analysis, in front of the Great Khan, they are nothing more than a slave.
Amin may have gotten used to being submissive.
But Dolgon buried all the humiliation in the deepest part of his heart, and every humiliation was like adding a dry wood to the blazing fire in his heart, making it burn more vigorously.
It was this fire of anger that made Dolgon's marching style more vigorous and decisive than it was before the concubine's funeral.
When Amin and his subordinates were slowly marching to southern Liaoning, Dolgon had already personally led his elite cavalry to travel day and night to the latest battle location suggested by the Houjin scout in the military newspaper - Zhenjiang Fort.
Mao Wenlong also wanted to prove his existence value again, so he divided the Phi Dao Army into five divisions, and personally led one to patrol the coast, ready to land and support at any time.
Shang Geng and the others each led a section and quickly approached Zhenjiang Fort.
There are also two divisions, both flanks and scouts, destroying along the way, collecting military reports, and reconnoitring the movements of the Houjin Banner soldiers to ensure that Shang Geng and his elite subordinates of the Phi Dao Army can retreat at any time.
After all, since Zhang Pan was rescued by Yuan Keli and put under his command, Shang Geng and the others have become the two most capable of fighting on Phi Dao, and they are also Mao Wenlong's confidants.
It's just that these two capable generals under the command of Mao Shuai can reach the boundary of Zhenjiang Fort, and there was a skirmish with the patrolling flag soldiers, and they received the news that Houjin Belle Dolgon personally led the iron cavalry to come to the aid of the starry night.
As a result, before even the official attack was launched, the queen hastily withdrew.
The Phi Dao army was dominated by infantry troops, while the Dolgon troops were mostly cavalry.
Therefore, when Shang Geng and his army boarded the ship and retreated to the sea, Dolgon's cavalry, having just traced along the way, chased them to the seashore, and bent their bows and arrows, pulling out the mountains with great force, and firing fiercely.
The rain of arrows was like locusts, most of them fell into the clear blue water, and only a few ships that could reach the sea were quickly entering the sea, and all of them were stopped relatively easily, but Shang Geng and the others still had a sense of surprise and uncertainty.
Mao Wenlong, who already showed a hint of fortune, didn't seem to care very much about this.
Zhang Pan looked extremely indignant, thinking that although Shang Geng and the others did not lose a single soldier, this move was tantamount to falling into the water and fleeing.
So he ordered the Weiyuan to be swept sideways, and all the black and faint gun muzzles on the deck on one side of the ship were aimed at Dolgon, who was invincible on the shore, and his white flag.
The rest of the ships, as long as they were equipped with tiger squat guns on the deck, also did so under the command of the standard-bearer.
"A taste of artillery, dog minions!" With Zhang Pan's roar, the raised right hand was fiercely commanded, and the tiger squat cannons, who had been well protected by hiding in the cabin before, were finally able to roar angrily.
Boom Boom Boom!
Although the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is limited, far less than that of the Red Cannon, it is still more than enough compared to the bow and crossbow.
Therefore, I saw strings of cannonballs pouring down on the shore, which directly suppressed the arrogance of the Jiannu cavalry, and smashed into the extremely dense Zhengbai Banner cavalry formation in a relatively dense manner.
Almost just covered by a round of shells, the originally invincible white-armored cavalry immediately turned into a man on his back.
No matter how hard the armor of the Eight Banners is, after all, it can't resist the blow and penetration of the iron sand bullet, let alone the bombardment of the shells?
What made Dolgon feel excessive and hated the most was that these tiger squat shells were followed by several larger iron bumps, like meteors, which were already imposing when they roared, and could cause several times more damage, and the range was also longer, which caused damage to the cavalry of the Chinese army and even the rear army.
"Could it be that the Denglai Water Master also purchased those powerful so-called Hongyi cannons from the legendary Hongyi ghosts?" Dolgon, who was being guarded by his own guards, couldn't help but think sadly.
Dolgon guessed halfway that the Liaoning ship, Weihai, and Dingyuan of the Denglai Navy Division were indeed equipped with these large-caliber cannons, but they were not purchased from Hongyi, but carefully copied by the Daming Firearms Bureau.
And in order to make it easier to distinguish, the name of the Hongyi cannon has long been renamed to the red-coated cannon because of the proposal of re-realization, and as for the lengthy prefix, it has long been deliberately forgotten.
The fleet led by Zhang Pan took the Weiyuan as the command ship, and the tiger squat guns equipped with it all came from the city heads of Dengzhou and Laizhou.
That was also because Yuan Keli finally followed Chongzhen's advice and dismantled these cannons from the top of the city made of blue bricks, and moved them to the deck of the ship.
Let it no longer become a passive defensive ornament, but a weapon for active offense.
As for the red-clothed cannonballs that always carry flames, they all come from the Breaker sent by the closest comrade-in-arms of the Denglai Naval Division, the Juehua Naval Division, to help in the battle.
After Juehua's defense battle, Yuan Chonghuan seemed to have forgotten the three cannons that followed the galloping aid, and did not ask for it, nor did he ask Jin Guan for it.
As a result, Chongzhen's treacherous plan naturally succeeded, and Jin Guan naturally took these three cannons that had made great contributions in the defense of Juehua for himself.
Yuan Chonghuan not only didn't care, but always asked for warmth on Juehua Island under reconstruction, and was very concerned about whether the food and weapons for the newly recruited soldiers and civilians on the island were enough.
As a result, the golden crown near Zhu Zhechi always mixed a large number of demand for shells with a large number of requests for food and weapons, which made this bombardment of Dolgon and psychological suppression.
"If they were on the shore, if they were on the shore...... Dorgon's heart was extremely unwilling.
Although he had seen the power of the Ming artillery, the way of war he most longed for was to lead the invincible cavalry under his command, galloping on the land, and trampling all the enemies who dared to stand in front of the cavalry torrent.
However, the Ming army's combat methods seem to be really different.
Although in many cases, this kind of combat method is like a chicken rib, it will also be constrained by many factors, such as firearms will be useless when they are damp, and artillery shells that are not up to standard will be dumb fire, or even explode.
However, the children of the Eight Banners are proud of the fact that the cavalry and archery skills that once crisscrossed Liaodong seem to be even more incapable in the face of this way of fighting.
No matter how powerful the archers are, no matter how powerful the wolf's fangs and arrows are, they will not be able to pose a threat to the gunners on the deck who are protected by iron shields.
And those gunners, it seems, only need to be on the mast of those who look far away, through the flag of the standard-bearer, to know the position and number of the enemy, and then adjust the muzzle of the gun, and bombard.
Dolgon very much hoped that the Ming army would arrange a group of surprise soldiers or ambush soldiers on the shore, and even more desperately hoped that the Ming army would have so many cannons that there would be one or two bombs.
However, after a long time, he was finally disappointed.
The quality of the firearms of the Ming army seems to be of higher quality than during the Battle of Ningyuan.
He did not know that the improvement of the quality of firearms was one aspect.
How to use it is also an extremely critical factor.
When Zhang Pan ordered all the warships equipped with tiger squat guns to press forward step by step in a roundabout way, and aimed the deep gun ports on the other side of the ship's side deck at the shore, and then there was another round of intensive artillery attack.
When the Breaker, under the escort of a group of small and medium-sized warships, broke through the sea water, and used the muzzle of the red-coated cannon on the bow deck, which was more powerful than the Tiger Squat Cannon, to find a commander among the Houjin cavalry who were holding on to the coast.
Because of extreme anger and unwillingness, the raging flames in Dorgon's chest and abdomen were about to burn themselves.
But because of this, a gap was opened in his firm psychological defense, and the sea rushed in, quelling the flames.
On the contrary, he was completely freed from the funeral of the eldest concubine Eniang and the depression that was suppressed by Huang Taiji in the past year.
Dolgon, who had calmed down, was indeed a little terrible, and resolutely ordered the whole army to retreat, like half of the sea at low tide, and it was completely receded in an instant.
Zhang Pan received a serious warning: "Among the eight kings of the Houjin, you must be careful of Dorgon." This guy seems to be young, but in fact he is determined, has a flexible head, and is cruel, and he is even more terrifying than the Great Bel Amin Manggutai and others. ”
Therefore, Zhang Pan was not arrogant enough to dock the warship and then land in pursuit.
For some reason, Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming, who were integrated into the role of cheering for Zhang Pan, wanted to save some face for the gloomy Mao Shuai, but after thinking about it, he still felt that his life was more important.