Chapter 238: Race against time to harvest wheat
After experiencing two defeats, Wu Nege has long lost the qualification to go directly to the heavens, and even if he once again admonishes Huang Taiji to be careful of these mysterious firearms of the Ming Dynasty, he may not be able to listen.
Thus, a tower, seventeen fearless warriors, seventeen firecrackers, and seventeen powerful crossbows successfully intercepted the Huangtaiji army for nearly a whole day.
And, in the end, with seventeen gunpowder bags, he gave Huang Taiji and Houjin Dajun a big surprise, and by the way, he took away the bones of two Niu Lu.
The lesson of the 600 Jurchen warriors who had no bones is too painful.
Huang Taiji ate a trench and grew wise, and no longer tried to attack the rest of the Chen family, Zhang family, Wang family and other buildings with the Jurchen people's proud riding and archery skills.
But every time he saw one, he sent Fan Wenchen to take the tiger squat artillery battalion over, trying to use these firearms captured from the Ming army to blast the building built by the Ming army in front to the ground.
However, the pass rate of Tiger Squat shells is already low, and Houjin does not have the ability to cast cannons and shells, even if it is imitation, there is not enough technology as support, so the shells can only be used one less than one.
Fan Wencheng roughly estimated that at this rate, when the army advanced to the front line of Jinzhou, it would be almost exhausted.
Therefore, he suggested that his supreme Jurchen master should use the most primitive siege equipment of the Han people, that is, trebuchets, as the main weapon to attack these towers.
"Perhaps, the new trebuchet will be able to play a surprise role in the subsequent siege battle."
Fan Wencheng shyly put on a disgusting minion face, and admonished his incomparable wise Tiancong Khan that there was no need to supervise the battle, just continue to move forward: "As for these buildings, give them to the minions to grind slowly." ”
Huang Taiji, who was worried that he couldn't divert the attention of his clansmen, immediately had no objection.
Fan Wencheng asked for the master's instructions, and immediately brought wood from the rear, transferred carpenters from Liaoyang, and energetically supervised the construction of trebuchets.
A night and a day soon passed.
When the remnant sun was like blood the next day, under the gaze of Huang Taiji, the Chen family tower was smashed through by overwhelming stones and sporadic cannonballs, which looked very heroic.
The power of the mysterious Great Open Fire Weapon was still very amazing, but it was not prepared, and the Jurchen Brigade who was farther away caused too much fright, and naturally it was even more unable to reap the same results as before.
Huang Taiji saw that this plan really worked, and even if he took a reassuring pill, he deduced that the so-called Ming mysterious firearm, although it was powerful, could not be pushed out like a cannonball, and could only explode on the spot.
Just remember not to get too close to you to deal damage to your clansmen who are good at mounted archery.
So, he confidently and boldly handed over the task of uprooting these buildings to Fan Wencheng, a dog minion.
Huang Taiji himself led the army and continued to advance to the front line of Jinzhou.
Although it took two days, Huang Taiji felt that there was no big problem, probably thinking that in the long flow of time, two days could not have much impact on the upcoming overall situation of Ning Jin.
In his ears, from time to time, there was a shocking explosion sound, each of which symbolized that there was a nail-like wedge on the Ming army tower on the Liaohe Plain, which was uprooted by the brave and intelligent Jurchen people.
After hearing too much, Huang Taiji's self-confidence quickly returned, and he soared, thinking that the Han people, who are known for their wisdom, are nothing more than that.
Under his wise and martial command, the Jurchen people will form a crushing situation against them in the ensuing war related to the fortunes of the country and the nation.
The so-called Ming mysterious firearms, no matter how powerful they are?
Isn't it so suppressed by the art of mounted archery that you don't even dare to stick your head out? A few white-armored wolf-toothed marksmen made Fan Wencheng, a dog minion, grateful, and the so-called integrity of the Ming scholars was probably nothing more than that, right?
The constant meditation layout and the loss of mental energy, coupled with the lack of time to exercise, have prompted Huang Taiji, who looked handsome and chic a year ago, to now gain a lot of weight.
It indicates that the Guanning soldiers died with the enemy and died heroically.
By hiberning deeply, deeply, even at the expense of treating himself as a Guanning scout hidden in the cave by Dry Se, he was sent to the hands of the young guard Huang Chongzhen with difficulty.
Looking at these battle reports, Huang Chongzhen seemed to have heard the earth-shattering explosions one after another, and witnessed the sky-high flames one after another.
Thinking of the scene at that time, and the determination of the martyrs before they bravely went to the country, but they didn't know their names, only that the reason why Cai's family was surnamed Cai was because the seventeen Guanning soldiers there were all surnamed Cai.
The eldest of these seventeen people is a lame young man known as Cai Laogou, who once fought with Jiannu in Ningyuan City, and after being sawed off by Chongzhen, he laughed at himself and stayed in Guanning just to survive.
When Yuan Chonghuan screened the brave warriors, he took the initiative to ask for help, and took the only sixteen remaining crippled people in Caijiatun who no longer existed, and brazenly volatilized the last glory of his life.
Chongzhen still remembers the very strong, but full of vicissitudes of life of the young old man, with a flutter of his broken lips, showing the two rows of gums that were knocked out by the strong bow of the Jiannu archer, and said a sentence that made many people who read poetry and books ashamed: "It is better to indulge in burning than to linger." ”
Coincidentally, the Chen family building, the Zhang family building, the Wang family building.
Chen Ergou, Zhang Daniu, Wang Laowu, it is better than that.
Thinking of the delicate voices and smiles of those rough men, and thinking of the scene of killing the enemy side by side with them and eating food side by side, Chongzhen couldn't help but have tears in his eyes, and muttered to himself: "Everyone in the country is like this, how dare Jiannu!" ”
The record of the last swan song of these rough men in this world was put away by the place of cherishing and cherishing, and then flew to report to Zu Dashou of Jinzhou, Zhao Shujiao of Songxing, Yuan Chonghuan in the center, and Man Gui behind the shield.
- Sharing military intelligence and exchanging information is what he repeatedly admonished Yuan Chonghuan to do, and even Ma Shilong of Mangui and Shanhaiguan, and even the mysterious black cloud dragon in the legend of a piece of stone, cannot be ignored.
Looking at the scout, who was as strong as a cheetah, he got on his horse and galloped away.
Chongzhen also re-stepped onto the big black horse and ordered the whole army to attack, and be sure to stop the advancing Jiannu advance on the other side of the Daling River before all the wheat that had been harvested on the bank of the Daling River was transported into the Guanning defense line.
When Zu Dashou learned that 2,000 Jiannu light horsemen were commanded by Yue Tuo, the eldest son of Houjin Dabeile Daishan, and Haoge, the eldest son of Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji, they came violently.
When he was also equipped with an experienced veteran and fierce general like Wu Nage, he did not hesitate to increase the number of Guanning Iron Cavalry under Chongzhen to 3,000.
Chongzhen really wants to know how many Guanning Iron Cavalry there are in this guy's hands, and it is good to deduce how many of this famous and controversial iron army in the late Ming Dynasty has.
However, it is a pity that the people of the ancestral family are all honest and rough on the outside, but they are as shrewd as foxes on the inside.
From the mouth of Zu Dale, an old acquaintance, Chongzhen couldn't get the slightest information about how many house slaves Zu Dashou raised, even if it was the stunned Zu Kuan's "ancestral aid suppression", he was tight-lipped about it.
Chongzhen also didn't think that the 1,600 heavily armed Guanning Iron Cavalry behind Zu Dale, the capital of Jinzhou, would be all the family of Zu Dashou, who had secretly shifted his focus to Jinzhou.
The capital division is under the control of the garrison, and throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, it is also between Taizu Chongba and Tang He, a Hongwu minister who only died well, leaving a good story through the ages.
However, Zu Dale was also very happy, and as soon as he came up, he gave Chongzhen a big hug.
Roaring nonsense such as "Brother, I miss you" like a loud voice, as if he was afraid that others would not know that he and Chongzhen were good brothers.
As for the command of the 1,600 Guanning Iron Cavalry under his command and how to fight, there is no mention of it.
Chongzhen scolded in his heart, raised his hand to give two punches fiercely, and with a smile on his face, he assigned their respective combat goals and the war zone they were responsible for.
Zu Dale deservedly placed himself in the center to block the advancing Jiannu striker, that is, Wu Nag, an inspirational and shameful pioneer officer who did not hesitate to die in battle.
Chongzhen himself and Wu Sangui continued to command their respective 800 and 600 young iron cavalry, living on the left and right sides of Zu Dale, hibernating along the river, closely monitoring Yue Tuo and Haoge, who were beginning to show their edge and entering the battlefield, waiting for an opportunity to move.
If they restrain each other, Yue Tuo and Haoge, who are not convinced by anyone, dare to wade across the river to attack, so they will attack halfway.
These two bold teenagers were even ready to lead the army to cross the river lightly, so that they could raid the two most delicate Beizi of Houjin at any time, as well as the eldest son of the Great Khan.
In the face of a large number of cavalry waiting on the opposite bank, Wuneg did not dare to cross the river after all.
Under the threat of the forest and secluded passes, even half of the pontoon bridge was actively dismantled, so as not to be continued by the dog's tail, but let the Guanning Iron Cavalry take advantage.
Zu Dale, who put on a posture of swearing to the death, was happy to see it.
Because Chongzhen's combat goal for him was to delay the time for the Jiannu advance to cross the river and attack as much as possible, not to fight with Jiannu on the bank of the Daling River, which was not in danger to defend.
In the eyes of Huang Taiji, the two days are insignificant, but for Chongzhen, every second counts.
Under the cover of three thousand young Guan Ning iron horsemen, and under cover.
The Guanning military households, men, women, and children, who had flocked from inside the Guanning defense line, had already taken advantage of the rare sunny days in the rainy season to harvest the wheat with a rich wheat fragrance.
Then in the hesitation of Vunage, in the restraint of Yuetuo Haoge.
Piles of wheat knocked down on the spot were loaded into sacks, transported by people and horses, and transported by vehicles and boats, so that all the wheat could be transported back to enrich the grain depots in Jinzhou, Songxing, Tashan, Ningyuan, Juehua, and even Qiantun.