Chapter 474: Finale
Huang Taiji knew how difficult the situation was.
The last force he relied on was not the old soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, but the new army derived from the earliest white flags and the current two yellow flags.
His new army was trained at the expense of Richelieu, and the entire 10,000 men were trained in full accordance with the standards of the França Army.
França and the kingdom of Rumi themselves were in opposition to each other, but in order to deal with his old enemy, the Holy Roman Empire, França formed an alliance with the alien kingdom of Rumi. Together, they photographed instructors and craftsmen to support Houjin, so that their old enemies Daming, Ace Duck, and Portugal could decline.
The rifle of 10,000 soldiers and horses is the standard Lumi gun of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations.
There are also 60 heavy rhino cannons made in França, and 150 light snake cannons.
In addition, there were 1,000 heavy cavalry of the Imperial Knight-type with full plate armor, of which 300 were Franças.
In addition, there are 2,000 Lumi palace guards, in fact, the Eight Banners cavalry plus 400 Lumi guards, in terms of combat effectiveness at this time, the Lumi Guards cavalry and the Eight Banners cavalry are basically the same.
Huang Taiji knew that the Ming army was attacking, and at this time Date Masamune was seriously ill, and he was also attacked by Xiong Tingbi and Yan Siqi, if it wasn't for Haoge helping him, it was estimated that he would have been destroyed.
And Richelieu in the distance can't help, and now on the battlefield in Europe, the Shinra-Esbanduck faction has won again, and Cardinal Richelieu of França is preparing for war against Shinra, and can no longer send people.
Fan Wencheng had already been to the West many times, and his eyes rolled and he thought of a good idea: "Great Khan, now only England is strong and invincible at sea, and it has not participated in the European war for the time being, so I am willing to visit him to help."
Huang Taiji knew that England was very far away, so where could he help, but the Houjin sea force was too weak, and the contact with the Hokkaido Hauge Department was harassed by the Ming fleet, and the communication was not smooth. If England can come, maybe there will be a little more hope.
"Okay, then you can go quickly."
Fan Wencheng set off overnight, seeing that Duoduo had taken his wife away, he didn't say a word, and went directly to the east to find a boat to escape.
"Hmph~ England is the beacon of the world, and Houjin is just a sesame seed in the Far East, at most ten times stronger than the troughs and depressions of Daming and Huaxia! Look at me leaving here and running to the beacon of the world~"
Fan Wencheng slipped away directly through the channel he had already prepared.
In the face of the attack of the Ming army, Dai Shan proposed to abandon the two big cities of Shenyang and Liaoyang, and retreat directly to the Salhu Mountains to deal with the Ming army, and then the Ming army was cold and tired in winter or spring, and then ambushed and annihilated the victory in the field.
This is to give full play to the advantages of Jiannu's mountain mobility, and wait until winter and spring to reduce the advantage of the Ming army's firearms, which is the old method of their previous big victory over the Ming army.
"No."
Dolgon's back.
"Oh? What do you think?"
Dai Shancong's age qualifications are much higher than Dorgon's, but the red flag in his hand is really not as good as Dolgon's white flag. Because the two hundred flags were changed from the previous two yellow flags, in terms of strength, they were only worse than Huang Taiji's soldiers, and they were all advantages to others, so he said that if he had an opinion, he would definitely listen to it.
Dolgon said: "Grain, it's okay for our main force of the Eight Banners to withdraw to the mountains, but a large number of coats are withdrawn and there is no food, if they are allowed to move grain into the mountains, and then they will be driven out...... I can guarantee that they will call the Ming army directly to help them take the food from our hands."
Although Dolgon was young, he had always been more concerned about food and production, and he got to the point at once.
And even if the Eight Banners are only allowed to hide in the mountains with limited food, it will be equivalent to defeat without a fight, and all the food they ate before will be spit out, and the army's heart will be crossed.
"Indeed, as long as we abandon all this and go back to the past, our Eight Banners will be opposed." Azig was more straightforward, so he said it directly, causing others to glare at him, but he couldn't refute his words.
Zilharang took over: "In that case, then a decisive battle will be fought in Shenyang. It's nothing more than a direct field battle, or defend the city first to frustrate the enemy's spirit, and then go out of the city to fight."
Huang Taiji pointed at him
nodded, "That's right, let's talk about it."
Zilharang took over the blue flag after Amin, and his ability to fight is not as good as Amin's, but his ability to guess the emperor's Taiji mind is perfect, so he is doing well now.
Huang Taiji and Dolgon both thought that there was no way to hide, and they had to fight.
The others also recognized them, and in the end, they discussed that there would definitely be a decisive battle, so they chose to defend the city first and then counterattack.
Only Dai Shan sighed and said, "I'm old, and the ancient Ying Baturu of the past is old now......
Later, Jin Gu concentrated the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners, transferred the coat and grain into Shenyang City.
This is the first big city in Houjin, and it is also an important reason why they chose this as the capital.
It's just that it was taken from the reckless He Shixian back then, and now it is about to usher in the final battle here.
The Ming army quickly took Liaoyang City, many of the Han people who did not follow the Eight Banners were clothed, and they escaped from the conscription and pursuit by scattering and fleeing, and the Ming army distributed life-saving food after arriving, and soon learned the enemy's situation from their mouths.
Wang Hongyu left Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui here to prepare to attack according to the opportunity.
Send Wu Xiang to search south and annihilate the villages and towns that participated in the resistance.
Then the whole army went north from Liaoyang again and arrived at the banks of the Hunhe River.
Walk to the wreckage of the fortress, set up a front-line command post, and prepare the pontoon bridge and boats to cross the river.
Zhang Mingshi, Qin Minping, Zhao Hannian, Zhou Yijie, and the oldest group of backbones in the army all came out of the bloody battle of Hunhe back then, and now they are back on the battlefield of that year.
"We're back! Fallen brothers, we have come to take revenge!"
Wang Hongyu also left tears, the bloody battle of the year is finally going to have a positive result today.
"Tomorrow the cannons will be mounted on the banks of the river to cover the crossing of the river, and the cavalry will wade across the river from both flanks, and after securing the position, the artillery and baggage will cross the river last."
"Yes!"
......
That night, Huang Taiji temporarily summoned the generals of the Eight Banners.
His confidant Sonny told everyone: "Tanma found that the Ming army had reached the Hunhe River, which was the fortress of the king thief and others back then, and now it is chosen as the logistics camp."
When everyone heard this, their hearts sank.
The Later Jin army fought smoothly with the Ming army until the bloody defeat of the Hunhe River, and since then it has been unable to expand again.
Now it's that place again.
Huang Taiji smiled coldly: "Hehe, the thief's move is really hateful, Ben Khan plans to fight against the city tomorrow, and then Azig, Dolgon, and Duoduo, you will lead the white flag and the white flag to cross the river and raid the enemy's camp, that is, the ruins of the fortress back then."
!?
The white flag and the inlaid white flag are 20,000 very elite soldiers and horses.
Huang Taiji didn't wait for others to question it, and asked the three of them, "Maybe there is some friction within everyone, but we are not Han Chinese, and we have always been unanimous in our external affairs, and we will never fight inwardly in front of other places. The three of you must desperately launch a general attack."
"Yes! Khan rest assured!" Azig, Dorgon, and Dordo took the order.
Huang Taiji made arrangements one by one, and tomorrow's decisive battle will be a battle with all means.
......
On the morning of the next day, the various units of the Ming army successfully crossed the river in turn.
After crossing the Hunhe River, you can see the city walls of Shenyang City.
"Launch a hot air balloon and scout the enemy's arrangement."
"Yes!"
It's summer and there is a southeast wind, so the hot air balloon is just right to take off.
Soon, the enemy's formation was transferred to Wang Hongyu's hands through a carrier pigeon.
"Two red flags in the west, two blue flags in the east, two yellow flags and many cannons in the center, and finally two hundred flags in the back."
Wang Hongyu let Zhou Yijie, Sun Yuanhua, Zhang Huangyan and other members of the staff take a look, and everyone felt that the enemy's arrangement was safe and stable, that is, the way of fighting was to defend first and then counterattack, and only needed to smash one of the enemy's left and right flanks, and the battle was won.
"Smash one of the two wings, and the side of Shenyang City will be violent
Lu, the two white flags can only be protected by filling the gap immediately."
"But the two blue flags can also choose to strengthen the offensive on the side that has not been defeated, or attack our rear in a roundabout way." Zhou Yijie's staff work is already very proficient, and Huang Taiji's arrangement can't hide it from him.
"It's okay, let the two white flags raid, our 20,000 cavalry is just right to compare with them."
This was unwinnable in the past, first, the Ming army did not have so many elite cavalry, 20,000 were concentrated, and the most 5,000 were at the elite level, and the rest were not the opponents of the Jiannu cavalry at all, so they couldn't be beaten.
But now it's different, Zhao Shujiao and Man Gui's cavalry are very powerful.
"The Hunhe Army is in the east, and the old-fashioned soldiers and horses of the two blue flags are directly torn apart."
"Yes!"
"Liu Qu and Luo have always led their troops to attack from the west, and they must defeat the two red flags. The Shennong Army and the artillery directly under it are on a par with the main force of Huang Taiji!"
"Yes!"
Half an hour later, the cannon rumbled.
The two blue flags were violently beaten by the heavy artillery and small artillery of the Hunhe Army, and the flintlock infantry lined up for a hundred paces and directly raised their guns to aim at the enemy.
The two blue flags could only hide behind the shield cart that had been damaged by the cannons, and fired sparse arrows to return fire.
On the other side, the two red flags are not optimistic, Liu Qu and Luo have always fought against Jiannu for more than ten years, and their weapons have been updated from generation to generation, and now they are also fighting Dai Shan and others can only rely on shield cars to carry them.
The frontal artillery sound was the densest, and Huang Taiji's 60 Franca heavy artillery and Wang Hongyu's 200 heavy artillery bombarded each other, causing smoke to billowing on both sides.
Huang Taiji's artillery was commanded by instructors from Franca and Lumi, and he could also calculate the range and trajectory, and his accuracy was no worse than that of the Ming army.
But the shells were much worse.
"Boom! Rumble! Boom!"
The artillery positions of the two yellow flags exploded.
A lot of gunpowder was ignited and exploded by the Ming army's trigger-type fuse shells.
Houjin's shells were either solid shells, or at most flowering shells that hit infantry, with poor range and power.
The artillery shells of the Ming army exploded when they touched the ground directly.
In less than an hour, the artillery that Huang Taiji was proud of was gone, half of them were blown up, and half of them scattered and fled.
"Shennong Army, forward!"
Hou Cai and others fought against the Houjin infantry, and the flintlock pistols and trigger shells hit the enemy in a row, and the new elite that Huang Taiji painstakingly trained killed and wounded hundreds of people as soon as they fought.
Defeat!
Huang Taiji knew that he couldn't wait, so he immediately let the two hundred flags surround the rear and raid, and the two yellow flags were guarded with their backs against the city walls and ravines.
This is the last resort.
The two hundred flags moved, detoured from the west side of the formation of the two sides, and went towards the Hunhe River.
"Tell Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui to attack! Here, Zhao Shujiao, Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Bianjiao, give it to me!"
"Yes!"
The 20,000 cavalry of the Ming army also waited for a long time, and went towards the two white flags.
There were tens of thousands of cavalry on both sides, and the dust was everywhere.
Azig saw a fierce general coming towards him, and he stepped forward to meet him bravely, but it turned out to be Cao Bianjiao.
Azig and Cao Bianjiao fought to the death in the formation, and others could hardly get close.
Duoduo is good at using cannons, but Huang Taiji put all the cannons on his side, Duoduo can't get the biggest advantage, so he can only fight with Man Gui, and when he doesn't fight much, he was cut off his helmet and fled in a hurry.
Dolgon commanded the cavalry of two hundred banners, and fought round after round with Zhao Shujiao, Cao Wenzhao and others, if it weren't for the soldiers and horses were all Nurhachi's old subordinates, otherwise Zhao Shujiao and Cao Wenzhao would have been defeated.
In the direction of Liaoyang, Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui left 3,000 infantry for Wu Xiang to attack south, and they took 7,000 cavalry to Fushun Pass.
Finally, Jiannu couldn't stop it.
Zilharang, who was inlaid with blue flags, saw that the eyes of the Hunhe army were red, and they rushed over with bayonets with the heart of death, and there were grenades thrown behind them, and they were beaten with blue flags and shields
Can't hold it.
"Defeated! Defeated!"
"We have a blue flag! It's still atavistic!"
The morale of the army was the worst, and he was beaten many times to the blue flag of the atavistic and defeated.
The Hunhe Army is the strongest, the blue flag is the weakest, and it is already the limit to be able to hold out for an hour.
Zilharang also threw away the flag and ran to Fushun Pass desperately, and after Fushun Pass, he could go to the mountainous area of his hometown in Jianzhou.
Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Hannian and others raised their guns and shot at the back of the enemy's heart, Qin Minping, Qin Ling and others raised their bayonets and stabbed one after another, and then killed the blue flag after the blue flag.
On the east side of the battlefield, Ming *** arrived under the city wall of Shenyang in an instant.
"Kill!"
The frontal Shennong army also defeated the two yellow flags, and Sun Yuanhua personally manipulated the cannon to aim, and gave Ao Bai a cannonball accurately.
Relying on a double layer of armor and the fact that the Japanese army can only run rampant with more guns and fewer cannons, he used his body to carry a cannonball with a trigger fuse.
The shell fell on him, the spring inside the fuse triggered the ignition device, and the explosives were ignited.
"Boom!"
The strongest warrior of Houjin worshipped, only two legs were still in place, and his body and head were missing.
"It's over! It's over!"
Huang Taiji knew that it was over, abandoned Burbutai and the others in Shenyang City, and hurriedly fled to the north under the escort of Sony.
He guessed that Fushun Pass might not be able to be kept, so he ran north instead of east, hoping to take refuge in Siberia with him in the Kol Division.
Faced with a defeat with the coach, Houjin was quickly defeated.
Lao Daishan held out to the end, and was consistently pressed and beaten by Liu Qu and Luo, and he did not let the two red flags take a step back, and was finally surrounded alive and experienced the taste of artillery execution.
Azig and Cao Bianjiao fought to the death, and the result could only be to fight to the death.
Cao Bianjiao's martial arts are strong, and in history, he can rush into the formation of Huang Taiji under unfavorable circumstances, and he can barely stop it.
Encountering Azig, who is slightly inferior to Aobai, is of course a sure victory.
"Azig is dead!"
Cao Bianjiao poked Azig's head with a spear, Zhao Shujiao, Man Gui, Cao Wenzhao and others launched a fierce attack, Dolgon fled in embarrassment, and finally fell off his horse and was captured alive by Cao Wenzhao.
There was also Duoduo who was caught up by Man Gui, who was more skilled in horsemanship, and died after being stabbed in the heart with a single shot.
There was no suspense in the battle of Fushun Pass.
Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui do like to run away from the battlefield, but it depends on who they are up to, and when they meet the enemy defenders of Fushun Pass, they are brave and fearless, and when they get off their horses, they reach the city wall and fire arrows, and stare at the defense and climb with the ropes they carry.
Wu Sangui personally climbed up to Fushun Pass, killed dozens of enemies in a row, and captured the pass.
By the time Zilharang's blue flag escaped, the retreat route had been broken and was completely annihilated by the front and rear attacks.
The Ming army attacked Shenyang City from the east and south, and the soldiers of the Shennong Army entered the city to arrest the families of the enemy leaders.
Wang Hongyu stood on the city wall, looking at the city that he had to rescue and finally failed to enter.
"In the past, people lost land, but today finally everyone and land survive!"
The first great city taken by the enemy has finally returned.
A few hours later, the second brother Zhang Shenwu galloped over.
Holding the head of Huang Taiji in his hand.
I want to wave the four auxiliary ministers of Nurhachi back then, and now I grab the braid of Huang Taiji's head and wield it majestically.
"Huang Taiji is dead! Revenge for big brother!"
Wang Hongyu roared loudly on the city wall and replied, "Big brother! We've won the war!"
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In 1648, the sixteenth year of Xingfu.
Song Yingxing was appointed as the librarian of the mobile Beijing Normal University Hall.
Wang Hongyu stepped down from the position he particularly loved.
However, it was Song Yingxing who succeeded him, his most outstanding student, and also one of the best scientific and technological workers in the Ming Dynasty.
"Tomorrow, it's all up to you."
Zhu Cijiong, who is already seventeen years old, packed up and prepared to board the steam sail battleship - Apocalypse.
"Your Majesty......"
Zhu Cijiong helped Wang Hongyu up: "I am no longer Your Majesty, I am Zhu Cijiong, the Emperor of Oceania of the Ming Dynasty, and you are the Emperor of China and North America of the Ming Dynasty...... My teacher, my equal-ranking emperor, Wang Hongyu."
Wang Hongyu clenched Zhu Cijiong's hands, and the next goodbye to this separation is estimated to be many years later.
But more and more people have gone out from the daimyo, and now, including Zhu Cijiong, they are not afraid of sailing.
"Voyage, begin!"