"Attack!"

"Boom, boom—"

On the 30th day of June in the third year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi entered Liao, and on the third day of the opening of the war, the battle was contrary to the smaller rain above the heavenly dome, and gradually expanded.

Outside the town of Wujingying, Nurhachi was waving his troops to storm Wu Aheng's headquarters stationed at the south gate.

Dozens of looted Fulong machine guns were venting to their heart's content, and at the same time, the fifty five-pound Yanshan general guns at the head of the Wujing camp were also venting.

The sound of artillery on both sides continued, and the Ming army took refuge behind the improvised mound of earth, while the Jianyu was 30,000 horse infantry a mile away from the battlefield except for the gunners.

The distance between the battlefield and this mile is as far as three and a half miles, far from the distance that a five-pound cannon can reach.

Compared with the scattered gunners, Wu Aheng's troops guarding the south gate were larger and more conspicuous as targets.

Every round of shelling meant that there were several dead and wounded in the array, but Wu Aheng turned a blind eye to this.

All he knew now was that for every quarter of an hour of delay, he would be able to get an extra mile of reinforcements.

"My lord! Let's get the brothers to rush in a wave! is always bombarded by old slaves like this, and morale is going to fall! ”

In the army, Wu Aheng's deputy general anxiously asked for help, but Wu Aheng said unhurriedly:

"How can the foot soldiers catch up with the horse infantry army? Let's continue to hold on, it's already afternoon now, and I believe Xiong Jingluo's side has also launched a general attack......"

After that, Wu Aheng stretched out his hand and touched the rain outside the umbrella, although it was a drizzle, but it was still fatal to the firearms of the Ming army.

However, the brightness in the sky also indicates that the rain is about to stop.

Before the rain stopped, if Nurhachi did not retreat, he would face the end of being surrounded and suppressed by an army of 200,000.

Nurhachi wanted to retreat, and the mobility of the Ming army could not be stopped, but they could expand the casualties of Jianyu.

The pursuit battle on the plain did not have much effect on the Ming army, as long as the rain stopped, the whole Liao was about to recover.

The more than 4,000 artillery pieces prepared by the armies of all walks of life will be the final killer weapon of this battle.

"Great Khan, this stalemate is not good for my Dajin, I finally got so much gunpowder, it's not worth it to consume it all here......"

Like the Ming army, there are not a few people in the Jin army who can see the situation.

But no one could guess how long Nurhachi was still stalling here.

Isn't it time to break through?

If you continue to wait here, you will only face the result of being surrounded and suppressed.

"Wait, keep waiting!"

Nurhachi sat under the yellow tent in the rain, one hand tapping on the arm of the pear blossom chair, quietly closing his eyes, as if everything was still under control.

Seeing him like this, Yue Tuo, Hu Erhan, Yanguli and others around him couldn't say anything, so they could only obediently close their mouths and quietly watch the scene of the Jin army's gunners and the Ming army bombarding each other.

It's just that while they were waiting, Huang Taiji, more than a hundred miles to the northeast, was facing a severe test.

After a night of siege, the number of Ming troops in Chengzi Pass had reached more than 63,000, more than six times that of the Jin army.

However, in the face of such a gap, the Ming army still did not make a posture of attacking the mountain, but continued to besiege.

Such a strange performance made Huang Taiji put the reason on one thing......

"The Ming army is waiting for Shenyang to transfer artillery!"

On the flat ground at the top of Chengzi Mountain, Huang Taiji watched the Ming army at the mountain pass move without movement with his captured binoculars, and his mood became heavier and heavier.

"Why hasn't the Great Khan come yet?"

Du Du next to him was also anxious, and he didn't understand why Nurhachi didn't retreat by this road.

However, only Huang Taiji knows his own Khan Amma's character, if the other party does not come to Chengzi Pass, it must be seeking greater benefits.

Huang Taiji didn't want to think about what the other party was doing, he just wanted to know, how many days can the headquarters last?

He and Du Du were standing in the rain, so they could clearly feel that the rain was getting lighter and lighter.

If nothing else, the rain will stop in three days, and although the mud of the roads can hinder the movement of the Ming artillery, after this rain, the rainy season will pass, and all that is left is a cloudless clear sky.

Three days later, all the dirt roads will be gone, that is, after three days, the Ming army will be able to exert all their strength.

What is the current strength of the Liaodong Ming Army? No force knows better than the monarchs and ministers of the Kingdom of Jin, who are facing this force head-on.

If they can defeat the Ming army on the frontal battlefield, they will not need to enter Liao to fight a sports war.

If it was Huang Taiji himself, he would definitely raise a large army to retreat at this time, and then abandon Tieling and Kaiyuan, and take the Han people of Tieling Kaiyuan to Wuyewuwei.

At present, from the perspective of a single battlefield, the Jin army is no longer the opponent of the Ming army, so it is necessary to open up multiple battlefields to contain the Ming army.

"Daikin needs a stronger ally, and a safer place to serve as the ...... of the country"

Huang Taiji's eyes were cloudy, and he clearly knew that once Dajin was defeated now, then Hetuala's defeat would be within this year.

Hetuara was the iron-making center of Dajin, and without it, the Jin army would soon follow in the footsteps of the Yuan Dynasty.

"Hetuara must be relocated as soon as possible and find a place with iron mines, so that with the strength of the Ming court in Liaodong, it is impossible to launch a long-distance northern expedition."

Huang Taiji has already figured out what to do after the war, and perhaps in his opinion, this war should not have been fought.

The internal contradictions of the Ming court were far more serious than the external contradictions.

What Daikin should do is to add a fire and a handful of firewood when its internal contradictions are serious, instead of fighting with the Ming court when its internal stability is serious.

Such a dead knock is meaningless, since you can't get Liaodong, you have to find another way out......

Huang Taiji was still thinking about the future, but in the Ming army camp at Chengzi Pass, Xiong Tingbi was discussing the moment.

"Just now there was news from Tangqi that the old slave went to attack the Wujing camp, but fortunately, the soldiers and horses of General Wu were arranged there, so that the old slave would not cross the river."

In the big tent of the Shankou military camp, Xiong Tingbi observed the sand table, and beside him were Yang Wenyue and He Shixian, as well as more than 20 generals in the army.

"When will Shenyang's ten-pound cannon and five-pound cannon arrive?!"

Xiong Tingbi's loud voice was obviously asking, but it was the same as scolding, but fortunately, He Shixian, who was in charge of this matter, had long been accustomed to the other party's loud voice, so he said:

"The cavalry of the three battalions of Duogan under the command of General Cao of the Second Route Army, escorted by 30,000 people, has arrived thirty miles to the west, and it is estimated that it will arrive at noon tomorrow."

"Well, since the distance is so close, all the cavalry of our army has also been sent to escort the people to escort the artillery." Xiong Tingbi bowed slightly, and said:

"As long as these 1,000 artillery pieces arrive, this captivity will only be destroyed."

Xiong Tingbi was nervous excitedly, after all, after this battle, he could be regarded as having completed what the two emperors Wanli and Taichang had given him.

When the time comes, he will also return to Beijing to report on his work, and show those who impeached him in the first place!

As soon as he thought of this, Xiong Tingbi's mind came to mind with the stinky faces of those who had impeached him over the years, and he couldn't wait to beat them to the ground one by one.

Just as he was thinking this, suddenly there was the sound of horses' hooves outside the tent, and the generals also looked outside the tent.

At this time, the curtain was opened, and a muddy pond rider held a handwritten handbook, half-knelt in the rain, and said loudly:

"Pass on the order of the king of Qi, this battle, the Liaodong army, all the war dead, the bereaved family will be given a pension of ten acres by the Imperial Horse Prison in their hometown, a pension of one hundred taels of silver, and the heirs will be sent to Yanshan Academy, and they will be awarded official positions after completing their studies!"

"The First Evolution"

"In addition, behead the real captive at the first level, and reward one hundred taels of silver!"

After that, this pond rider handed over his hand and said:

"Xiong Jingluo, this is a handwritten letter brought to you by His Royal Highness."

He handed out the letter, but no one answered the letter for a while, because everyone was shocked by the rich reward given by Zhu Youzhen.

Pension fields, pension silver, reward silver, and heirs are granted official positions......

In order to win this battle, Zhu Youzhen's price was really too rich, so rich that everyone wondered if Zhu Youzhen was crazy.

The total number of high-grade officials in the Ming Dynasty is only more than 100,000, and so far in this war, thousands of people have been killed.

If each of these thousands had four or five children, tens of thousands of people would have been given official positions......

What's more, the tough battle has not yet begun, if it really starts, Zhu Youzhen will have to fulfill this promise again, then the Ming Dynasty more than 100,000 officials, won't it be produced a few years after this war?

Everyone was stunned, they naturally didn't know that Zhu Youzhen would reform the Ming official system within a few years after the war.

If they knew, they wouldn't have been so surprised.

Surprised for a moment, Xiong Tingbi still walked out of the tent and took the letter sent by Tang Qi.

The letter was only twelve words.

"Temptation of interests, scattered soldiers and horses, and break the ...... one by one"

In just twelve words, Xiong Tingbi broke out in a cold sweat, and he realized that he had been mobilized by Nurhachi unconsciously.

He hurried back to his throne, and then spoke:

"Push up the sand table of the entire Liaodong, and the soldiers and horses are arranged!"

"Yes!" Hearing this, some of the generals immediately asked people to push the sand table.

It was only when the sand table was pushed that everyone realized that they were really mobilized by Nurhachi unconsciously.

On the surface, it seems that they surrounded Nurhachi south of the Hun.

But looking at it carefully, except for their soldiers and horses, as well as the third and fourth armies that were approaching the alkali field fort, the soldiers and horses of the other departments were far less than Nurhachi's headquarters.

"I thought I was surrounding him, but I didn't want to give him a chance to break them one by one."

Xiong Tingbi frowned, and Yang Wenyue also said:

"It's not going to be broken one by one, the soldiers and horses of each department are still above 10,000 people, and it takes time to encircle and annihilate, according to the news of Tang Cai, at the moment the old slave is fighting against General Wu in the Wujing camp."

"This rain won't be long coming, and there are still fifty five-pound Yanshan General Cannons at the head of the city, and the old slave can't bargain."

After all, Yang Wenyue had experienced two years of war in the southwest, and An Bangyan in the southwest had also tried to mobilize and divide the Ming army many times to launch surprise attacks, so he, Hong Chengchou and others all knew about this road.

The minimum number of people in this way must be three times that of the opponent in order to quickly carry out encirclement and annihilation.

But that was in the southwest, and now Liaoshen is a plain, and the Ming army's artillery cannot play a powerful role in the southwest, but in the Liaoshen Plain, even if it rains, but with the protection of the canopy, the artillery can still be fired.

Therefore, as long as Wu Aheng squatted under the city, Nurhachi would inevitably not be able to annihilate him completely, but would be attacked by the artillery at the head of the Wujing camp at the same time as he launched an attack on Wu Aheng.

Therefore, as soon as Yang Wenyue spoke, many generals in the army breathed a sigh of relief, but at this moment, Xiong Tingbi suddenly frowned and wondered:

"He fought fiercely in the Wujing camp, if it wasn't for the 12,000 soldiers and horses of Wu Aheng's general army, what was it ......for?"

Xiong Tingbi was still puzzled, but someone had already discovered Nurhachi's actions earlier than him.

"He's going to hit Man Gui hard!"

In the study room of the Xiping Fort Garrison Mansion, Zhu Youzhen clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said this.

What does Nurhachi want to do, Zhu Youzhen broke it at the first time of the military information transmission!

What is the Ming army most afraid of the Jin army at the moment? Is it artillery? Is it a firearm? Neither! It is the cavalry of the Ming army that is more mobile than the Jin army at the moment!

Nurhachi wanted to move the population of Tieling and Kaiyuan to Wuyewuwei, and from Kaiyuan to Wuyewuwei, there was a road of 600 miles.

The 600-mile road, if walked on foot, would take at least fifteen days, and one soldier with eight men would be needed to ensure the food supply of the soldiers.

On the six-hundred-mile road, if there is no high-mobility soldiers and horses to escort the supply line, then the Jin army can rely on its high mobility to attack the supply line of the Ming army from all sides.

To attack Wuyewuwei, the Ming army had to mobilize at least 100,000 infantry to form an overwhelming force, and 100,000 infantry needed 800,000 people to provide logistical support for them.

No matter how you look at it, the Ming army will not be stupid enough to dispatch 100,000 foot soldiers, use all Liao men as people's husbands, and fight the Wuye guards.

So what if the Ming army did not send pure foot soldiers, but cavalry?

A large number of cavalry only needs twice the number of horse infantry as auxiliaries to transport supplies and artillery, which can maintain a combat radius of 600 li, and the daily march can reach 100 li, and it can reach Wuye Wuwei in six days.

In other words, the Ming army only needed to dispatch 30,000 cavalry, 60,000 horse infantry, plus a lot of artillery, and in fact, only needed to prepare one or two months of rations to attack Wuyewuwei.

How many cavalry are there in the Ming army at the moment? There were more than 200,000 troops in the entire Liaodong battlefield, but the number of cavalry was actually less than 70,000.

In other words, as long as the Liaodong cavalry was severely damaged once, the Ming army would not be able to launch an attack on Wuyewuwei in a short period of time.

Not only that, but in the retreat of this battle, the disabled cavalry units did not dare to rashly pursue the Jin army, and although the number of foot soldiers was large, they could not keep up with the marching speed of the Jin army.

As long as the main cavalry force of the Ming army is defeated once, the Jin army can calmly harvest grain and withdraw calmly afterwards.

But there is a problem with this plan, the power of the four cavalry guards, Nurhachi has already roughly understood, so it is impossible to sneak attack and ambush the four cavalry guards on a sunny day, so he has to wait for the rainy season.

The artillery of the Ming army was powerful, but the artillery was heavy, the speed turned slowly, and it could not catch up with the Jin army.

What really frightened the Jin army was the cavalry of the four cavalry guards and the mobility of the four cavalry guards.

This is why Nurhachi chose to move into the hinterland of Liaodong when it was raining, rushed left and right in the abdomen of Liaodong, frantically showed his athletic ability, and mobilized the Ming army.

Because only by mobilizing the Ming army and showing the mobility of the Jin army, then Zhu Youzhen and Xiong Tingbi will definitely choose to use cavalry to pursue the cavalry and drag the rear foot soldiers to outflank.

Therefore, the Ming army will send cavalry, and once the cavalry is dispatched, Nurhachi will have a chance to annihilate the cavalry troops of the Ming army!

"It turns out that I have been in ambush for a long time, and the target is here!"

Zhu Youzhen's brain power was constantly consumed, and he only felt that Nurhachi's tactical style was more antelope than himself.

He and Xiong Tingbi thought that Nurhachi would take advantage of the rainy season to attack Liaodong in order to make up enough time for the rear to harvest grain, but they didn't want Nurhachi to care about the grain in the field at all.

Finally entered the battlefield, Zhu Youzhen thought that Nurhachi wanted to mobilize the Ming army, achieve division, and finally eat a piece of soldiers and horses, and cut off an arm of the Ming army, but he didn't want Nurhachi's goal to be the four cavalry guards.

"Did he aim at the Four Cavalry Guards from the beginning, or did he change his mind halfway because of the encirclement and suppression of the Ming army?"

Zhu Youzhen thought wildly in his mind, just because this question represented how strong Nurhachi was in ambushing the four cavalry guards.

He anxiously walked a few steps back and forth in the study, but fell into self-doubt again.

"Is Nurhachi's target really the Four Horsemen? Will it still be a false shot? ”

A thought rose from Zhu Youzhen's mind again, and at this time he had to admire Nurhachi's ability to lead the troops in the late Ming Dynasty field battle.

Having such an opponent is the misfortune of Zhu Youzhen and the generals of Liaodong, but also lucky, because they can learn a lot.

However, Nurhachi also has some shortcomings, that is, political shortcomings......

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and then said to the door:

"Order someone to transfer 10,000 catties of iron and 5,000 taels of silver, escort it to the Tiger Rabbit Dun of the Tatar Department, ask the Tiger Rabbit Dun to lead the army to attack Horqin, and then tell the Tiger Rabbit Dun that Jian Yu is transferring the population and money and food from Tieling and Kaiyuan at the moment, and send it to Wuye Wuwei."

"Humble Command......" The Jinyi Wei Qianhu at the door responded, and then turned to leave.

However, Zhu Youzhen saw that the situation was not over, but said to another Qianhu:

"Send someone to ride eight hundred miles fast and inform Man Gui that the old slave may ambush the four cavalry guards and the Daning iron cavalry under his command."

"Tell Man Gui to be vigilant, but if the old slave really ambushes ......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Youzhen's face became gloomy: "Order Liao Shen soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress the old slave!" ”

"Order Xiong Tingbi again, don't let go of Huang Taiji and Du Du in Chengzi Pass."

"Those who kill Huang Taiji and the four major Baylors will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of silver, and the captain of the light car will be sealed with three products!"

"......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, the thousand households at the door kept hunched over, and they didn't mean to get up.

Such a move made Zhu Youzhen frown and said, "Go and pass it on." ”

"Uh......" Qianhu got up awkwardly, and then asked cautiously:

"Your Highness, you only said the reward for killing the four great Baylors of Jianyu, but the reward for the old slave has not been said......"

"Old slave ......" Hearing Qianhu's inquiry, Zhu Youzhen frowned.

It is true that Nurhachi's military ability is very strong, and he even played Zhu Youzhen and Xiong Tingbi all over again, but so what?

In the coming years of the Xiaoice period, courage alone will not solve the problem.

Nurhachi was a general who only knew how to use military plunder to make up for the internal contradictions of his own nation, but he was not a qualified monarch.

The Jin state under his command lacked the means to forge a well-crafted artillery, and lacked a strong foreign policy and strike policy against the Mongolian steppes.

With such a person as an opponent, the Ming army will only feel a headache, but it will not be fatal.

As long as the Ming army regains the Great Wall and maintains its combat effectiveness without declining, it will be difficult for Jianyu to pose a threat to Liaodong.

In the late Ming Dynasty, in the East Asian pattern of the Xiaoice River period about to erupt, the most noteworthy thing is not the military ability, but the governing means of the rulers, that is, the political level.

What were the methods used by the old slaves when a drought broke out in eastern Liaodong because of the Xiaoice River period, resulting in food shortages?

It was the slaughter of the Han people, the slaughter of millions of Liao people, not only did he have no logistics base for the expedition, but also left Huang Taiji with a devastated Liaodong, barren land and sparsely populated people after his death.

Such a person stands in that position, as long as he is given a few more years, and the Ming Dynasty can accumulate a few years of family funds, he can easily clean up Jianyu at one time.

What about Huang Taiji again? Before he died, he left Dolgon and Fulin a crumbling Ming Dynasty that had been bled internally and externally for many years, as well as the vast land of Monan, as well as more than 100,000 soldiers such as the Han Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Manchu Eight Banners, including the advanced artillery technology in East Asia at that time, and the annexation of Mobei Mongolia.

As far as this method is concerned, Zhu Youzhen thinks that no one in the Ming Dynasty can play Huang Taiji in terms of political means and governing level, even if it is the imperial brother he respects.

Such people do not die? How could Zhu Youzhen sleep?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen narrowed his eyes, then turned around and ordered:

"You don't need to care about the old slave, if you have the opportunity to capture it alive, you will be captured alive, and if you have the opportunity to kill it, you will kill it, but tell Xiong Tingbi that you must do your best to kill Huang Taiji!"

"Ignorance, understood!" Although Qianhu didn't understand why his highness was so persistent, there must be his own highness's opinion in it.

It was inconvenient for him to ask any more, so he turned and retreated.

It's just that not long after he left, hurried footsteps also sounded outside the courtyard, and the one who walked into the courtyard was Lu Wenzhao, who had been leading people to patrol the city.

"What's wrong? Is there an accident in the capital? ”

Lu Wenzhao's arrival made Zhu Youzhen feel a bad premonition, and Lu Wenzhao's words also confirmed everything......

"His Royal Highness and the DPRK have heard that the Yellow River has broken in the area of Suiyang, Xu, and Pi, and it has become a flat land within 150 miles up and down, and the fields in the south of the Imperial Horse Prison have also been affected, and more than 300,000 acres of fields have not been harvested."

"In addition, there are more than 100,000 displaced people in the three places, and Banzai has exempted all kinds of money and grain in the three places, but there is no food in the household department, so please Banzai intercept the 1.8 million stone grain shipped to Liaodong and transport it to the south for disaster relief in the three places......"

"Coming......" Hearing Lu Wenzhao's words, Zhu Youzhen clenched his hands.

He had to face not only Nurhachi, but also the princes of the court.

The Yellow River burst its banks again, and the people suffered heavy casualties, if Zhu Youzhen was on the importance of this money and grain to Liaodong at this time, he would inevitably be labeled as inconsiderate of the people by Wenchen.

It's just that if it's just this kind of means, then Zhu Youzhen's behavior of stockpiling grain in Liaodong in advance is enough to help Liaodong withstand this battle.

"Is there anything else...... Zhu Youzhen pretended to be calm, but Lu Wenzhao's hesitant expression made him frown.

"Say!" Zhu Youzhen drank lightly, and Lu Wenzhao also said:

"The Hetao Beiyu knocked on the border again, and the military department transferred the gunpowder and stone bullets from the Jingzhong Armor Factory and the Ordnance Institute to the northwest on the grounds that the gunpowder in the northwest was insufficient!"

The news of "......" was like a bolt from the blue, and Zhu Youzhen couldn't suppress his anger anymore when he heard it.

He wanted to draw his knife and slash something to vent his anger, but in the end he stopped this thought when he held the hilt of the knife in his hand, calmed down, and calmed the anger in his chest and said:

"How much gunpowder is there in Liaodong at the moment, and how much gunpowder is there in Yanshan Ordnance Institute......"

"All the gunpowder of the ordnance institute arrived in Liaodong before the war, and I am afraid that there can only be a few thousand catties at the moment, and the gunpowder in Liaodong should be less than 300,000 catties at the moment......" Lu Wenzhao responded with his head down.

"Got it, you can step down...... Zhu Youzhen put down the hand holding the knife like no one else, and Lu Wenzhao saw this, and he wanted to say something, and finally withdrew from the courtyard.

It was only after he left that Zhu Youzhen looked at his back, gritted his teeth and said:

"Two years, two more years, two years later, swear to kill the corrupt Confucian-"