Chapter 235: Seventeen Warriors of the Cai Family's Tower
Although Dolgon temporarily withdrew his troops, he did not give up the entire southern Liaoning coast, but waited until the headquarters of the banner came and Amin finally arrived with his army.
He gave full play to his outstanding military qualities in land warfare, and relied on the two banners allocated by Huang Taiji to restrain a small number of flag soldiers stationed in many walled cities, and guarded the long and vast sea area of southern Liaoning.
Although they ran back to the ship without moving, the Ming army who retreated to the sea had no choice.
However, neither the motley army of Phi Dao, nor the Juehua Naval Division that assisted in the battle, or even the Marines of the Denglai Naval Division, which was very good at landing operations, could not penetrate deep into the land of southern Liaoning to fight with any of the banner soldiers under the commander of Baylor.
In Chongzhen's words, every soldier who survives a hundred battles is an extremely valuable asset.
Good steel should be used on the blade.
All military operations are aimed at eliminating the living forces of the Houjin Eight Banners.
Just kill silently, as for the merits and demerits, they will be handed over to the court to decide, and handed over to future generations to comment.
Mao Wenlong wanted to bring Zhang Pan, who was becoming more and more general, back under his command, but he politely declined in the name of "repaying Yuan Gong's life-saving grace".
Mao Wenlong was helpless, so he had to sigh, but he also followed Zhang Pan's suggestion, cruising the sea, waiting for an opportunity.
The war in southern Liaoning came to a stalemate.
Just like Huang Taiji didn't have the luxury, and he didn't want Dolgon to easily lock the situation in southern Liaonan.
Dolgon also did not want, let alone think, that Huang Taiji could easily open up the situation in the upcoming battle of Vami.
Thinking of this, Dorgon instantly became lighter.
is no longer depressed because of Huang Taiji's exclusion and suppression, and no longer feels unwilling because he missed this battle of Faming, but has a deeper understanding of "Saiong loses his horse, and he knows whether he is blessed" in Han culture.
ββIn the past year, he has been able to relieve his boredom by studying the broad and profound Han culture diligently.
The mentality is correct, and the style of arranging troops is even more imaginative.
Dolgon pondered the Huaxia military books that he had read hard in the past year, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed and a military trap that was even bigger than the siege of Nanguan in the past quietly unfolded towards Zhang Pan.
Huang Taiji was extremely satisfied with his deployment of putting Dolgon and Amin together, which could not only restrain each other, but also firmly clamp the Ming army in the two towns of Dongjiang and Denglai in the sea area of southern Liaoning, and not advance an inch.
Similar to Dolgon's psychology of "Saion loses his horse, he knows whether it is a blessing", Huang Taiji also thinks that he can take the opportunity of attacking Daming to polish the edges and corners of Ah Shan and Mang Gutai.
In the fifth lunar month of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the wheat in the southern part of the Liaohe Plain tends to be ripe.
Huang Taiji, who proclaimed himself the Great Khan of Later Jin Tiancong, finally used the excuse that "the Ming people built cities and tuntian in Jinzhou, Daling River, and Xiaoling River, and there was no discussion and sincerity", so Duoduo led the army to camp with Jierharang on the Liaoyang line.
It is not only for the rear to be stationed in the rear, but also for the supply of food and grass for the army, and at the same time can hinder each other.
He himself personally led 60,000 children of the Eight Banners, including Ashan, Manggutai, Azig, Yuetuo, and Haoge, as well as tens of thousands of slave troops of various ethnic groups, to pour out of the nest, once again implementing his father's military thinking of "being a soldier when he comes out".
On May 6, the Houjin army crossed the Liao River and attacked the Ming Dynasty again.
For this battle, which has been mentioned several times, Yuan Chonghuan has been preparing for a long time and has already completed the deployment.
When he learned from the reconnaissance sentry's report, Houjin finally tore up the tacit peace agreement and brazenly crossed the Liao River to start a war.
Yuan Chonghuan was extremely indignant, and worked tirelessly to mobilize the war in the major cities, and saw that the army and the people were united, hated the same enemy, and the morale was available, so he was relieved, so he returned to Ningyuan and dispatched in the center.
It was a service, and the Mangui garrison was in front of the tun, thinking that Ning Yuan was backing, and from the perspective of strategic arrangement, there was nothing wrong with it.
Zu Dashou was supplemented by Zuo Fu and Zhu Mei, deputy commanders-in-chief, and stationed in Jinzhou.
Zhao led the Tun army to Songxing two fortified cottages all the time to support Jinzhou to avoid the embarrassing situation of this fortified city falling into the siege.
This deployment is slightly different from history, but it is the same.
All in all, the Ningjin War followed the wheel of history and went to the imminent track.
And as soon as the horn sounded, it was like a train emitting black smoke, rolling forward, unstoppable.
If anyone tries in vain to stop this big war, then whether it is the Daming Guanning who is gearing up or the Houjin who is strong, he will be the first to crush it.
The battle of Ningjin has begun.
At this time, it is the season when the wheat on the banks of the Daling River is ripe, and if the young people in Guanning retreat, then after a summer rainstorm, the fruits of several months of hard work will rot in the soil and become nutrients, continuing to nourish the fertile black soil.
Perhaps, it is very simple to admit cowardice and give up half a year's harvest.
The stubborn Guanning people cannot tolerate either outcome.
Therefore, they have worked hard to stick to their posts and perform their duties.
Caijia Tower, is standing in the Liaohe Plain, a set of sentry and observation beacon and blocking the enemy's defense in one of the small piers, resident Ming army 17 people.
And because of its unique geographical location that is rare in the Liaohe Plain, among the many piers, it belongs to the one that hangs alone, like a small screw, firmly wedged in the swarthy black earth.
Huang Taiji originally thought that such a thin and tall pier platform would be vulnerable to attack at all, and as long as his great Dajin Tiancong Khan snapped his fingers, he had a stout Jurchen warrior who could raze it to the ground with a single charge.
However, the fact is that half of Niu Lu's foot soldiers have been attacking this pier for a long time, but they still have no way to break through to the bottom of the pier to climb.
Because there are many small holes in the pier wall made of yellow mud mixed with reeds, no more, no less, exactly seventeen, which are glowing with a dark light.
It was through these small holes that the Ming soldiers inside stretched out the mouth of the black and faint fire gun.
You don't have to look with your eyes, you just need to listen with your ears at will, and you can hide inside the wall and fire at the Jurchen warriors who are roaring excitedly below.
With the muffled sound of huge firebolts round after round, the brave Jurchen warriors also fell round and round.
Huang Taiji once thought that such a huge sound reverberating in such a thin and tall pier alone was enough to deafen the ears of the Ming soldiers hiding in it.
However, as wise as he was, the best way to think of a way to deal with the impact of artillery fire on the war horse was to cover the horse's ears.
So, how could those stupid soldiers of the Ming army not think of plugging their ear holes?
So the question arises again, how did the Ming army, which can be called a closed pier, distinguish the specific location of the Jurchen warriors?
After all, those simple Jurchen Baturu are very good at eating a trench and growing wise, and the Ming army in the pier platform actually has the ability to listen to the sound and distinguish the position, so they immediately gave up yelling, and also lightened their steps, only holding weapons and secretly approaching the pier.
Huang Taiji quickly found the answer - the top of the yellow mud pier platform, which was almost as high as a three-story yellow mud bungalow, was always half a head, condescendingly observing the Jurchen Baturu's every move.
Not to mention the Jurchen warriors who were attacking under the platform, it was his Tiancong Khan and the thousands of troops behind him who were all within his monitoring range.
Huang Taiji was furious, and immediately sent several white-armored marksmen, only to see them instigating war horses and rushing over.
Halfway through the charge, the white-armored cavalry had already bent their bows and arrows, and at a brilliant angle, they threw their heavy wolf-tooth arrows into the sky.
When the wolf's tooth arrow reached mid-air, it was carried down by the cluster of arrows due to the effect of gravity, and fell heavily into the top of the pier.
Such archery is really amazing.
Huang Taiji smiled proudly, and was quite calm, but the thousands of troops and horses behind him had already let out a shocking cheer of the Great Khan: "Long live the Great Khan!" β
Ah Shan even raised his arms and shouted "Great Khan mighty", as if he was sincerely building momentum for his eighth brother, which made Mang Gutai next to him nauseous, but he also had to wave his arm that was thicker than him and shouted: "Great Khan mighty!" β
Huang Taiji was quite depressed about this - at such a moment when the whole army was working hard, couldn't you wait to cooperate?
You have to be different from that group of minions to show your status second only to Lao Tzu, right?
The Great Khan is mighty? Can't you learn from the group of ministers of the Ming Kingdom and wish Lao Tzu a long life?
Soon, however, both the "mighty Great Khan" and "Long live the Great Khan" came to an abrupt end.
Ah Shan's thick arms were even more stubbornly stuck in the air, and his face was embarrassed for a while.
For some reason, the arrows were thrown out of the top of the pier like garbage.
One of his heads also poked out, glanced around obscenely, and then shrank back like a king.
Where had the arrogant white-armored cavalry suffered such humiliation, roaring and bending their bows and arrows again, but they changed their targets, and the sharp wolf's fangs and arrows slammed straight into those dark holes.
With the piercing sound of Jin Ge fighting, these wolf's tooth arrows were also blocked outside the pier platform without exception, and fell weakly under the reed poles of the Yellow Ni Bahun River.
The experienced white-armored cavalry immediately figured out the reason: it was nothing more than the so-called Guanning Iron Shield at work.
But with so many small holes, it's impossible to plug them all in.
The white-armored cavalry showed superb cavalry and archery skills, firing several arrows around the pier, and the arrows were powerful and heavy, although many were blocked outside the yellow mud pier wall, but half of them successfully penetrated into the pier.
A few extremely suppressed screams could be faintly heard, or muffled snorts, obviously hurting the Ming soldiers hiding in them, and those who were injured by the wolf's tooth arrows, even if they didn't hurt the vital point, they would be ruthlessly ripped off a piece of flesh.
Seeing that the attack worked, the white-armored cavalry acted according to the law, wanting to expand the results of the battle.
The Ming soldiers in the pier platform were naturally not reconciled, and they fought back with firearms, but because the speed of the war horse was too fast, the iron sand bullet that went straight could not catch up with the hooves of the horses circling in a circle, so it had little effect.