"Drive!"

On the first day of July, in the drizzle, 30,000 iron horsemen rushed into the Great Wall, and entered the Liaodong boundary east of the Liao River by Changsheng Fort.

The iron rider ran wildly, and the splashing rain made people feel a little irritable, and the cold state after the rain made people feel hungry.

"Chief soldier, Your Highness sent someone to send a handwritten letter!"

In the gallop, a general rushed up with Tang on a horse, and handed the handwritten letter to Man Gui, and when Man Gui heard this, he immediately raised his hand and said:

"The army will stop marching, rest for a quarter of an hour, and then send someone to inform the general of Tunbao that Lord Wang will prepare 300,000 catties of beans and 30,000 catties of food for the army!"

"Order!" When the adjutant general next to him heard this, he responded, and then arranged for the army to rest.

Man Gui also took the handbook, opened it and looked at it at a glance.

When he saw Zhu Youzhen speculate that Nurhachi's target this time might be his own, Man Gui's heart sank.

As for the ambush, Zhu Youzhen's instructions were to hit the old slave hard at all costs.

In other words, Zhu Youzhen would rather be hit hard with 30,000 iron cavalry than exchange for enough heads of the Jin army.

Nurhachi thought that Zhu Youzhen would encircle and suppress Wu Yewei while the iron was hot, but he didn't know that for Zhu Youzhen, Jianyu was always only the third opponent.

His first opponent was the natural disaster, the second opponent was Wenchen, and the third was Jianyu's turn.

He didn't want to expand the results of the battle, because he didn't have time to go to Wuye Wuwei to hunt down Nurhachi after the first battle of Fuliao.

Nurhachi thought that the most important thing for Zhu Youzhen was to solve him and the Jin army, and the really important thing for Zhu Youzhen was to use the military exploits of the First Battle of Fuliao to return to Beijing with prestige and dismantle the world's guards, soldiers and horses.

This is the side of Nurhachi's political shortcomings that cannot be seen, if it is Huang Taiji, who has matured in history, he will definitely not think about hitting the Ming army hard at this moment, but will start from other aspects to interfere with the Ming army.

As for Man Gui, when he understood the meaning of the letter, he subconsciously looked at the soldiers around him, a little unbearable in his heart, and then looked up at the sky.

The sky is getting brighter, not as thick as ink during the rainstorm the previous day, which means that it is about to clear.

If the rain can stop at this time, then the Ming army's cavalry can also be used.

With the cavalry and the face assault, it is much simpler to inflict casualties on the Jin army.

"Alas......"

"General, did Your Highness say anything?"

Man Gui sighed, and the lieutenant asked curiously, but Man Gui shook his head and didn't say anything.

He rested with the army for a quarter of an hour, and then continued to lead the army towards Wang Datun.

Just as they were approaching Wang Datun, the Tang cavalry of the Jin army saw their traces, and then replied with the news.

"Great Khan, thirty miles southwest, there are a large number of iron horses, with a big word full of words, it should be the King of Qi of the Ming Court who sent Mangui to lead the iron horsemen to come, do we need to withdraw?"

Tangqi told Yanguli the news, and Yanguli told the news to Nurhachi, who was sitting in his seat.

It's just that when Nurhachi heard the news, he didn't panic as the generals imagined, but said:

"Send Xinying and Tang to ride out and tell Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai that they will attack Shenyang and Xiong Tingbi with troops, and Huang Taiji is going to make a detour to attack Man Gui from behind."

"The army pulled out the camp, bypassed the Wujing camp and crossed the Hunhe River to the north to break through."

"Yes!" Hearing Nurhachi's order to cross the river and break through, all the generals of the Jin Army were in good spirits.

When the exhausted Jin army received the order to break through, the morale immediately recovered, and then the army began to pull out the camp.

Seeing this, Wu Aheng, who was outside the south gate of Wujing Camp, immediately frowned and said:

"The old slave wants to pull out the camp and inform General Sun of the Zhangyi Station on the other side of the Hunhe River!"

"Yes!" The adjutant general next to him received the order, and at the same time, the Tang cavalry of the Wujing camp also rode his horse to a ferry port on the Hunhe River, and after taking the war horse on the boat, he arrived on the other side of the Hunhe River after a quarter of an hour, and galloped to Zhangyi Station to inform Sun Yingyuan of the news.

Sun Yingyuan, who received the order, immediately commanded the army to march north, along the north of the Hun, waiting for Nurhachi's soldiers and horses to find a place to cross the river.

Half an hour later, the Nurha Chiba camp went north, Sun Yingyuan followed closely across the Hunhe River, and Wu Aheng of the Wujing camp also sent Tang cavalry to send information to the soldiers and horses in Wicker Village, Hupiyi, Fengjibao, Wang Dadatun, Shenyang and other places.

This made Man Gui, who had just arrived in Wang Datun and had just eaten a mouthful of hot rice, not rest, and hurriedly ordered:

"Order the whole army and the soldiers who have exhausted their horsepower to leave their horses to rest, and ride horses with horsepower to pursue the old slave!"

Wang Datun has been close to the battlefield, Man Gui also led the army to attack more than 200 miles, most of the war horses in the hands of the soldiers have run out of horsepower, forced to ride down will only be exhausted, put in Wang Datun to rest and recuperate.

For the rest of the way, only one or two horses could be relied on to pursue Nurhachi.

More than 30,000 horsemen marched in armor, and there was no fear that Nurhachi would escape.

Nurhachi now has only one way to escape, and that is to sneak attack behind Xiong Tingbi, but Xiong Tingbi is not a fool, he will definitely trap the old slave!

Man Gui in the drizzle clenched the reins of the horse, and at this time, the rain above the sky was also getting smaller and smaller, and the sky was getting brighter a little bit.

"The rain is going to stop......"

Almost as soon as this scene appeared, this thought rose in the hearts of all the Mingjin generals who were observing the celestial phenomena.

What does the rain stop mean? Needless to say, if Nurhachi hadn't withdrawn before the rain stopped, what he needed to face was the indiscriminate bombardment of 3,000 artillery pieces in northern Liaobei.

"Put!"

"Boom, boom—"

With the waving of the flag, it was not Nurhachi who tasted the first artillery to meet the head-on, but Huang Taiji.

Starting from early in the morning, the artillery of the Ming army arrived, and 700 five-pound guns and 300 ten-pound guns were set up and aimed at the top of the city.

Behind the artillery position, there were mountains of stone bullets, as well as 100,000 catties of gunpowder covered by canopies and tents, and the camp of 60,000 Ming troops.

Thor is angry, God is attacking, even if the rain is pouring, it can't resist the bombardment of the Ming army.

The five-kilogram and ten-kilogram stone bullets spanned the distance of two and three miles, and they spotted the platform pouring stone bullets on the top of the hill in the city.

Every stone bullet fell was enough to smash the wooden fence prepared by the Jin army, and the Jin army suffered many casualties for a while.

"Clear, load!"

On the artillery position, Yang Wenyue gave a natural order, and more than 6,000 gunners began to clear the guns one after another, waiting for the guns to cool down, and then continuing to reload.

In this process, water can be used to cool the barrel, although this will shorten the life of the gun, but this is one of the practices that Zhu Youzhen can do.

The Yanshan Ordnance Institute has long figured out how much the life of the cannon is shortened after using water, and if the water-soaked rag is used to cool the barrel of the cannon in every battle, the life of the Yanshan General Cannon is 230 to 260 shells.

This lifespan is enough for them to participate in many major battles, and once they reach the limit of two hundred and thirty times in life, the artillery will be recast and forged iron by the Yanshan Ordnance Institute.

In the case of clay molds, the forging time is only a few days.

Therefore, under the huge production capacity, the Ming soldiers skillfully wiped the cannon body with a cloth, waited for it to cool, and then took out the gunpowder with oil-paper from the tent, and after making sure that it was cooled, the gunpowder was stuffed into the gun.

With the oil paper pierced and the fire rope stuffed in, the artillery positions were again ignited......

"Boom, boom—"

An endless stream of cannon fire and smoke appeared, and at the same time, thousands of stone bullets fell from the sky above the Jin army.

The voice of "Peng Peng Peng" continued to sound, during which the screams could be vaguely heard, and Huang Taiji saw that the fortifications he had done could not withstand the artillery of the Ming army, so he could only give an order unwillingly:

"The army is out of the platform!"

As soon as he spoke, the Jin army retreated impatiently, and the Ming army immediately stopped the shelling when they saw the Jin army retreating.

"I kind of know why His Highness cares so much about this Huang Taiji......

Putting down the binoculars, Xiong Tingbi muttered, and his right hand was still holding the eight hundred miles sent by Zhu Youzhen.

Xiong Tingbi has seen the above meaning, and his incomprehension is also clear when he sees Huang Taiji, who knows how to advance and retreat.

Huang Taiji is a person who has a little more deceit and an indescribable and inexplicable thing than Nurhachi.

"Jinglu, let me lead the army up to encircle and annihilate them!"

When Xiong Tingbi understood everything, He Shixian took the initiative to ask for his life, but in this regard, Xiong Tingbi glanced at the terrain of Chengzi Mountain, and then shook his head and said:

"This terrain is attacking from the bottom up, and it is not good for me."

"Artillery advance three hundred paces, continue the shelling!"

With a wave of his hand, he finally decided to solve the problem of this battle with artillery.

Looking at the thousand artillery pieces in front of the battle, Xiong Tingbi laughed, since he came to Liaodong, he had never fought such a rich battle.

He finally understood what Zhu Youzhen meant by telling him in the letter that he "washed the floor with stone bullets".

What can be solved with artillery, there is no need to use the lives of the Ming army.

How much money do gunpowder and stone bullets cost? A salvo of 1,000 artillery pieces will only cost more than 100 taels of silver, but once you attack from the back, the compensation for the soldiers killed in the battle will be much higher.

"Put!"

"Boom, boom—"

Thousands of artillery pieces moved forward 300 paces, then cooled down and continued to fire, beating the Jin army on the hill to the head.

Huang Taiji and Du Du also trembled with anger when they listened to the number of dead and injured reported by Gushan Ezhen around them.

However, in the three rounds of artillery bombardment, the Jin army has already killed and wounded more than 220 people, and this is still the longest-distance fight of the Ming army, if the distance is closer, the casualties of the Jin army will be even greater.

"Eshui! We can't wait any longer, and if we wait any longer, the morale of the army will fall to the bottom! ”

Du Du trembled angrily, and Huang Taiji immediately ordered:

"Mingtang rode out of the mountain on a trail to find the whereabouts of the Great Khan, and once he found the Great Khan, immediately ask the Great Khan if he could retreat!"

"Yes!" Gushan Ezhen hurriedly responded, and then sent Tang to ride out of the mountain road.

"Boom, boom—"

Here, Huang Taiji just finished sending Tang cavalry, and the artillery bombardment of the Ming army began again, and this number of troops and artillery and guns can be said to be unbeatable in today's world.

Similarly, in Europe on the other side of the ocean, in the first all-European war that is going on at this moment, the peak number of troops dispatched in Europe is only 300,000, and the total number of artillery pieces dispatched in 30 years is no more than 4,000.

Looking at Huang Taiji again, facing thousands of six-pounder guns and twelve-pounder guns, how can this firepower be resisted?

Time passed little by little, and the artillery of the Ming army continued to shell twice a quarter of an hour, and the Jin army took one step back, and they advanced two steps.

When an hour passed, 16 rounds of artillery bombardment and more than 16,000 stone shells were bombarded, and the Jin army was completely demoralized, and the morale of the entire army was weakened.

Huang Taiji saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and the number of dead and wounded in the Jin army made his heart beat even more.

More than 600 dead and wounded in one hour......

Hold on for a few more hours, once the army loses one-fifth of its soldiers and horses, it will really not even be able to break through.

"Eshui! Let's withdraw! ”

Du Du, who was embarrassed to avoid the stone bullet, had a little fear on his expression, and the expression on Huang Taiji's face was indescribable.

Why didn't he want to withdraw? But if you really want to withdraw, then ......

"The rain has stopped!"

"It's really stopped, the rain has stopped......"

Suddenly, after the shelling ended, the sound of stopping the rain sounded among the Jin army, and Huang Taiji was even more terrified when he heard this, and hurriedly walked out of the tree and stretched out his hand to feel the rain.

However, he was disappointed, the rain really stopped, and the stop of the heavy rain also meant that the Ming army could go all out......

"Master!"

Suddenly, at this time, a Jiala Ezhen came from the bottom of the mountain staggering up the mountain, he held the military order in his hand, and when he climbed in front of Huang Taiji, he immediately knelt down and said:

"Master! The Great Khan ordered our army to go around and attack Mangui! ”

"It turns out that Khan Ama is waiting for this opportunity......"

Huang Taiji took the military order, looked at it at a glance, and then gritted his teeth, he naturally knew what it meant to hit Man Gui hard, but he knew that now that the rain had stopped, it was no longer a wise move to flank Man Gui, and what should be done now was to retreat.

However, even if Huang Taiji knew, was there a way for him to refuse?

"Order, wait for the Ming army to be attacked, and then go around the mountain road to attack Mangui! The soldiers who left the banner and a bull record confused the Ming army! Huang Taiji resolutely ordered.

It's better to take a detour and attack Mangui than to be bombarded by thousands of artillery pieces here!

"Yes!" Hearing that they could finally leave this place, everyone responded excitedly, and Jin Jun, who learned the news, cheered up.

I'm afraid that most of them can't forget what happened at this hour, after that kind of roar, thousands of stone bullets flew in, breaking the big tree, and then ricocheting bullets directly stoned people to death.

They didn't even have a chance to fight with the Ming army, and they suffered the casualties of the two Niu Lu in front and back, such tragic casualties were unprecedented in the Jin army.

All the Jin troops carefully escorted the war horses down the mountain, and when they encountered uneven mountain roads, they immediately used the weapons in their hands to dig the soil, but even so, the eastern slope was still too difficult to go down, and many war horses were killed and disabled.

finally waited for them to descend the mountain, but they had been quietly waiting for reinforcements from Mang Gurtai.

Huang Taiji only left a Jiala foot soldier on the top of the mountain to attract the artillery bombardment of the Ming army.

He was not sure whether the Ming army had placed artillery and soldiers and horses on the mountain pass where they had entered the mountain, and if so, it would be a bloody battle for them to break out of the mountain pass.

"Put!"

"Boom, boom—"

Half an hour passed, the artillery broke out again, and Xiong Tingbi and many other generals held their binoculars clairvoyant to observe the situation of the Chengzishan platform.

"Something doesn't seem right, you see......"

Suddenly, Cao Wenzhao felt that something was wrong, because the number of Jin troops on the platform was too small compared to before, and there was no one to support him after the banner fell, so he explained to Xiong Tingbi.

His words were heard by Xiong Tingbi in his heart, so he raised his hand and said:

"Stop firing!"

"Stop-" The two artillery battalion officers raised their flags and ordered, and all the gunners also stopped what they were doing under the order of the herald.

After the surroundings calmed down, Xiong Tingbi spoke:

"General Cao and He, each of you led three battalions of cavalry under your command to observe."

"The last general commands!"

Cao Wenzhao and He Shixian, who were eager for a war, heard the news and immediately transferred their three battalions of Liaodong Iron Cavalry and three battalions of Duogan Iron Cavalry.

Six battalions of cavalry, more than 18,000 iron cavalry, it can be said that Nurhachi far underestimated the number of cavalry of the Ming army in Liaodong, if he knew that Xiong Tingbi still had six battalions of cavalry here, he would definitely come to attack Xiong Tingbi before the artillery arrived.

It's just that it's too late now, although these six battalions of cavalry can only do one person and one horse, but it is enough to rush into formation.

Cao Wenzhao and He Shixian led the troops forward, and such a move was naturally observed by the Jin army on the platform of Chengzi Mountain, they blew the wooden whistle, and Huang Taiji under the mountain heard it, and his heart tightened.

"Esi Hui and the Ming army have attacked!" Du Du spoke nervously, but Huang Taiji signaled him not to panic:

"It should be to test whether we have evacuated here, don't panic, listen to ......"

Huang Taiji appeased Du Du, and then the generals listened to the law of the wooden whistle, and then their faces were gloomy.

According to the news transmitted by the wooden whistle, the Ming army on this expedition was 18,000 people, and all cavalry......

"When did the Ming Court have so many cavalry? With the addition of the four cavalry guards and Daning, wouldn't there already be 60,000 iron cavalry? Du Du's palms were sweating, and the generals of the Jin Army behind him were also sweating on their foreheads.

The information given to them by the Liao merchants was not very accurate, and they completely missed Cao Wenzhao's three battalions of Duogan, and they didn't know that in addition to the three battalions of Duogan, Sun Yingyuan's three guards and horses also had two thousand iron cavalry each, totaling six thousand.

Romance

That is to say, the Ming army that Nurhachi thought was 50,000 iron cavalry, of which 20,000 were scattered around, and only 30,000 could hit the pursuit.

However, the more than 300,000 troops in Liaodong actually had more than 70,000 cavalry, and once Mangui crossed the Liao River, the Ming army was higher than the Jin army in terms of mobility.

The error of the information made Huang Taiji's hands and feet cold, and at this time he gritted his teeth and said:

"Don't wait for Manggultai, the whole army will go out of Chengzi Mountain by mountain road!"

"Yes!" None of the generals raised any objections, because they all knew that if they stayed any longer, they would be surrounded and annihilated!

For a while, Niu Lu on the mountain was also notified to go down the mountain, and Huang Taiji retreated first with the front army.

"Something is wrong......"

He Shixian was keenly aware that Jin Jun's reaction was a little slow, and Cao Wenzhao tightened his horse's reins and said:

"Speed up the whole army!"

At present, they are only two miles away from Chengzikou Mountain, and they can gallop to it in the time of a cup of tea, and it is the time of this cup of tea, when they arrived, they only saw the rear army of the Jin army that had turned over and retreated on the mountain road.

"Chase!"

When Cao Wenzhao received a letter from Zhu Youzhen from Xiong Tingbi, he also received the letter.

Zhu Youzhen's meaning is very simple, he wants Huang Taiji to die!

"Mr. Cao!" Seeing that Cao Wenzhao actually led his troops directly to pursue, He Shixian was stunned, he had never seen anyone more reckless than himself.

Anyway, they are also soldiers and horses who have been restrained by Xiong Tingbi, so you can't go back and ask Xiong Tingbi?

"Hurry up and return to the camp, tell Xiong Jingluo about the retreat of Jianyu, ask if you want to pursue, and then tell Jingluo that General Cao has led the troops to pursue!"

He Shixian hurriedly ordered the people around him, and the generals around him immediately rode their horses back to the camp.

Looking at the rushing team of soldiers and horses, Xiong Tingbi, who was in the big camp, also put down his binoculars and was uneasy.

The general led the troops to the tent, turned over and dismounted, and half-knelt and said:

"After the strategy and the retreat, General Cao has led the troops to pursue! Mr. He asked if he ......"

"Chase! told He ......, "Xiong Tingbi subconsciously thought of the content of Zhu Youzhen's letter, but at this time he heard some noise.

He turned his head to look at Yang Wenyue: "What's wrong with the rear army?" ”

"Omitted! Jianyu went out of Fushun, crossed the Hun River to the south, and led 20,000 troops, which is now less than ten miles of our army! ”

At this time, the general of the rear army rode over and spoke calmly, and Xiong Tingbi's face became ugly.

Cao Wenzhao has already led the troops to pursue, if He Shixian leads the troops to pursue again, there will be no cavalry guards for the more than 40,000 foot soldiers at the moment.

Now Nurhachi has only one way to escape, and that is to take the plain north of the Chengzi Pass, so Xiong Tingbi's soldiers and horses cannot move.

"Order He Shixian to return to the headquarters, the rear army of the army will be transferred to the front army, the front army will be transferred to the rear army, and the artillery will be ready to move to the front of the front army! Minfu was placed behind the rear army. ”

Xiong Tingbi gave up the pursuit after thinking about it, and prepared to meet the Jianyu who came from Fushun first, while He Shixian led the soldiers and horses back to the army after a cup of tea.

Xiong Tingbi ordered people to put away their tents, and soon 20,000 Jianyu also rode horses to the northeast of Chengzi Pass after the Ming army had prepared everything.

Mang Gurtai led the Zhenglan Banner, the Han Fourth Battalion, and the Mongolian Battalion to knock on the side, and when he saw that the Ming army in the distance had already placed their artillery in front of the formation, he instantly ordered:

"The army retreats a mile!"

Under his mobilization, the Jin army retreated one mile, and Xiong Tingbi looked at the appearance of the Houjin army retreating in an orderly manner in the eyes of the binoculars, and immediately said with a dark face:

"There are only soldiers and horses with a blue flag, then Tieling should be inlaid with a blue flag, since Fushun has sent troops, then Tieling should also send troops."

"Jingluo, in this way, isn't it that Nurhachi can choose a flanking attack at will?" Yang Wenyue's heart was terrified, and his brows furrowed.

The Jin armies of Tieling and Fushun should each have 20,000, and once they are dispatched, it means that Shenyang and Xiong Tingbi's headquarters each need to face 20,000 soldiers and horses.

At such times、If someone ......

"Our thousands of artillery, Huang Taiji has seen the power just now, if he sees the old slave, he will definitely tell the old slave, even if the old slave wanted to hit us before, he will definitely turn the direction after learning the news!" He Shixian's mouth was a little dry.

"If you change direction, you will inevitably pick the one with the least number of troops at the moment to fight!" Yang Wenyue thought about it and spoke, and He Shixian was also stunned and said:

"The fewest troops? That's not ......"

He Shixian wanted to say more, but Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said:

"The troops are the least, and there are no artillery yet, only Sun Yingyuan's department, but it is impossible for the old slave to fight Sun Yingyuan, all he wants to do is to cause us to panic, and then divide the troops to support Sun Yingyuan's general army, and then break through our headquarters and escape."

"Jinglu, then we can't just move?" He Shixian opened his mouth upright, but Xiong Tingbi smiled:

"What's the point of just blindly following the old slave and arranging behind the buttocks, stupidly waiting for the old slave to fall into the net?"

"If you want to do it, let the old slave go to our side."

"But if the old slave knew that our artillery was sharp, I am afraid he would not have taken this road." Yang Wenyue frowned.

"If he doesn't leave, then force him to go!" Xiong Tingbi narrowed his eyes, and then spoke:

"Bring pen and paper, I'll write to the generals!"