stubborn thief

The war that broke out on the Xuanda defense line in the seventh year of Chongzhen exceeded everyone's expectations.

It was different from Huang Taiji's idea. The reason why it didn't bring artillery was that he had pulled over [-] Manchurian Eight Banners and the Han army since he set off from Shenyang. Such troops were obviously not enough to attack a town of the Ming army.

Artillery poses no threat to fortresses and cities with rammed earth structures. Its role in offensive and defensive warfare is to suppress. The artillery of the attacking army can suppress the artillery of the defending army, which can effectively reduce the casualties of the siege army, and even knock down the entire battlement to let the defenders He dared not go to the city, and directly pushed the battle into street fighting.

On the other hand, Huang Taiji really does not have that capacity. The war environment faced by Houjin is different from that of Liu Chengzong, and the artillery casting technology he uses is also different. The Hongyi cannons he independently cast are all authentic cannons made by the lost wax method. A thousand catties a door.

However, there is a critical point in the weight of transporting materials. If the weight exceeds one, it is necessary to invest multiple times of livestock to achieve the effect of one head. A two-ox cart can easily pull [-] catties, but if you want to pull [-] catties Things need to be invested in twenty oxen.

The two cannons he used to frighten Mongolia took forty oxen to bring them over. Just to transport fifty cannons, he had to collect a thousand oxen. A thousand catties, five months from the dispatch of troops to the present, they have to eat 370 million catties.

If he has the ability to organize such a transport capacity, he still needs to leave his hometown and go to Monan to fight?
He didn't expect the situation on the Mongolian grassland, let alone the battle situation after entering the Xuanda line of defense-the battle went smoothly and the battle was fought well, but Hou Jin couldn't afford such a battle, especially against Daming.

Small-scale encounters could not annihilate the Ming army, siege battles could not conquer the Ming city, and the battle losses were close to one for one everywhere, and the meaningless and endless field battles with the Xuanda frontier army inside the two side walls were exchanged. Huang Taiji panicked in exchange for his life.

If the Ming army's reinforcements arrived, wouldn't Jin be replaced after that?
Chongzhen thought so too, although the Ming army didn't fight very well at the beginning of this battle, and they didn't win a hearty victory from the beginning to the end. Eating any troops of the Ming army, the brave Xuanda frontier army also failed to eat any troops of the Houjin army.

This is because the Xuanda defense line has fewer troops, and when reinforcements from all walks of life arrive, it will definitely give the Houjin army a big fight.

But in fact, at this time point in this muddle-headed battle, both sides are already doing their best.

The rulers of both the Ming and Jin Dynasties were very dissatisfied with the battle going on at this time. The only difference was that Huang Taiji was anxious about the coming crisis and was doing everything he could to find opportunities for his side to retreat; while Emperor Chongzhen was full of enthusiasm for the upcoming war. expect.

And then... the reinforcements didn't come.

Fu Zonglong was in charge of organizing Jizhen, Miyun, Shanhaiguan, and Ningyuan to mobilize [-] reinforcements, but there was not enough troops.

He himself had 5000 soldiers in his hands. Shanhaiguan first sent 6000 people, led by deputy general Wang Yinghui. Xiang said he wanted to gather [-] troops to send troops, but he only had [-] in his hand. When he yelled at the official, he wanted to play his temper and leave first, but was persuaded by Fu Zonglong to come back.

The soldiers were only half assembled, and something happened.

Huang Taiji deeply felt that it was not a problem to surround Yingzhou City with soldiers and horses. After the tens of thousands of Jin troops entered the fortress, they focused on attacking the fortress but achieved nothing. Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda in Datong City, was not afraid of him. What morale is there?If it continues like this, he will be finished.

After all the calculations, it is in the interest to capture a city at any cost at this time.

First, it can replenish military supplies, second, it can boost the morale of the army, and third, it can also deter the Ming army.

More importantly, the Hou Jin army surrounded the fort and invited attacks, which played a role. The guide of the descendants reported that there was a Lingqiu County in the east. The Ling area had a great influence. He demolished the west city wall. Although Yishubai was suppressed by the army later, the imperial court had no money to allocate funds, and the west city wall has not been repaired until now.

Huang Taiji first asked people to tie scarecrows in the camp, pretending that the army was still stationed outside Yingzhou City, and then wrote a letter to Datong to mock Governor Zhang Zongheng for not daring to come out to fight with him, and finally ordered Abatai, Azige, and Yang Guli to lead the army. The two yellow flags and the two white flags, the most direct lineage and the most elite, raised their troops eastward at night and rushed to Lingqiu.

And all of this, Xuanda Governor Zhang Zongheng basically got the information.

On the one hand, there are some Han Chinese in Huang Taiji's army, who can't hold back their hearts even if they lose their wives. Will tell Zhang Zongheng this information.

On the other hand, although Zhang Zongheng did not send a large army out of the city, a small group of Tang soldiers approached the Houjin Daying Camp in Yingzhou, and they did not stop directly investigating intelligence.

But intelligence needs to be analyzed, and most importantly, it needs to be analyzed in combination with the situation between the enemy and the enemy.

Zhang Zongheng is a very talented and courageous governor. This is recognized in Ming Dynasty. He has served as the prefect twice, as the deputy envoy of the inspectorate, and as the military guard. He beat Lin Danhan violently and wiped out the peasant army in Shanxi. .

He had even personally led the army to fight Huang Taiji in Yanghe earlier.

But the army commanded by Huang Taiji surpassed the army that Zhang Zongheng could control-this was a very interesting thing in the Ming Dynasty of the Chongzhen Dynasty.

A management team with 50 soldiers, fighting with [-] men of Hou Jin, has a high probability of being able to fight one to one; a general with the same strength can fight against Hou Jin; A very good general may overturn Hou Jin's army.

However, if several generals join forces, or several general officers join forces, as long as Hou Jin's army exceeds the number of troops that the supreme commander of the Ming army can control, the battle will be lost.

In fact, Zhang Zongheng didn't have much hope for the reinforcements from the East Road. Even if the East Road could come with [-] reinforcements according to the emperor's words, he wouldn't care if Ji Liao's army listened to Fu Zonglong and You Shiwei from Shanhaiguan, let alone Ning Bing. Well, the supervisor of the Liao army is Gao Qiqian—who among them is high and who is low, they can't even tell the big and small kings who have the final say, and why are the coalition forces fighting?
Commanding a large corps requires not only the airs of command and the soldiers to be commanded, but also the authority to command.

There is a supervising army on the top of the army, and a division of power at the bottom, and they are everywhere. Whether it is You Shiwei and Wu Xiang who joined the army, Zhang Zongheng and Fu Zonglong who were in politics, or Gao Qiqian who was born as an eunuch, they are all in the army. The most official figures in their respective careers.

The fall of Xuanda was the responsibility of Zhang Zongheng, governor of Xuanda, and the defeat of the reinforcements in the field was the responsibility of the reinforcements. Then this script would be written by a fool.

He can only consider the problem from his own point of view, and from his own point of view, the end result is to be dismissed from office, imprisoned, exiled, and passed on to the Nine Sides, corresponding to Huang Taiji's retreat, field victory, city break, and Datong capture.

The answer is obvious, the most important thing is not to allow Huang Taiji to capture Datong.

First of all, the town of Datong is a huge city with 210 miles, [-], and [-] steps, and it has a layout of a phoenix spreading its wings. There are three other small cities on the north, south, east, and east sides that are connected to the Wengcheng.

For such a huge city, his Xuanda Governor's Standard Battalion and Datong's defenders are not even strong enough to defend the city. Relying on the mobilization of all the men in Datong to divide the land, it can be regarded as impenetrable.

But Min Zhuang was not strong enough to go out of the city to fight with Huang Taiji's generals. His army was divided into small groups and fought repeatedly with Hou Jin's sentinel scouts.

On this basis, Zhang Zongheng could also feel that Huang Taiji was anxious because he had achieved nothing since entering the fortress. He must be eager to break through the city before the arrival of Ming army reinforcements. With so many cities, which one would Huang Taiji want to break through?Datong.

Only when Datong is breached, for Huang Taiji, this trip will not be considered a loss.

Then the answer is already ready to come out, what Huang Taiji is doing outside Yingzhou City, such as making scarecrows, negotiating peace, and dividing troops, are all strategies to lure the enemy.

Zhang Zongheng: If you don't listen, don't listen to it, you bastard chant scriptures!
Then Lingqiu disappeared.

The west wall of that city collapsed, and the county soldiers resisted desperately, but the buildings, sculls, cannons and stones were all abandoned, and they couldn't stop the attack of the Hou Jin army. After killing the defenders, they stepped on the city wall and entered the city. The county magistrate Jiang Bingcai Yubing When he was defeated, he threw the official seal into the well in the city, and then hanged himself, and the whole family was martyred together.

The loss of Lingqiu shocked the entire Xuanda defense line. Zhang Zongheng urgently ordered Shanxi General Zhang Quanchang to cross the Great Wall and rush to Hunyuan Prefecture, trying to form an encirclement circle with the east road reinforcements and the north Xuanyun frontier army, hoping to attack the Houjin army in Lingqiu. Launch a war of annihilation.

The large-scale mobilization of troops from all walks of life could not be concealed from Houjin. Abatai and Azig had just plundered more than [-] people, hundreds of vehicles of goods, food and grass, and the soldiers and horses turned their heads to launch a feint attack on Zijing Pass and Daoma Pass.

In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is a feint attack or not, because the east of these two passes is Baoding Mansion, which is safe to defend. Fu Zonglong can only send Wang Yinghui as a reinforcement all the way to the Zijing Pass.

At the same time, Chen Bing Shuozhou's Houjin Daishan Division also dug a side wall after Zhang Quanchang led his army eastward, bypassed Ningwuguan, advanced into Daizhou, and marched forward through Nao County. Li Zhuangtu of Daizhi County Braids surrendered, and Nao County declared its fall.

The two counties fell one after another, and the East Route reinforcements also entered Xuanyun territory. Zhang Quanchang immediately sent Fu Renxi to rush to Nao County, and the East Route reinforcements stopped marching here, and Wu Xiang's soldiers mutinied.

The scale of the mutiny was very small, just a few hundred barbarians. Later, it was found that spies from the Houjin army had mixed in with the army. They spread rumors that after they entered the pass, their wives and children at home were all imprisoned by the government. Ning Jin died together with his wife and children.

As soon as the mutiny was persuaded, the Ming army's encirclement circle formed by the two white banners and the two yellow banners in Lingqiu County was useless. It's over.

Fu Renxi's one is no different from other frontier troops of the Ming army, except that the firearms veteran's shooting is very accurate.

He got it out of training, this guy is a thief, he made a fortune selling gunpowder for Liu Shizi, and later he was promoted to Pingyang Mansion as a general, and he was even close to the nitrate production area in Shanxi. Although Liu Chengzong had already gone west at that time, A box of gold has not forgotten this means of getting rich, what if Liu Shizi can't stand in the northwest and comes back?
Later, it was a failure of investment. Liu Chengzong didn’t come back, and there was no place to sell his gunpowder. After all, he didn’t have mutual trust with other leaders. Today I sell you gunpowder to Li Zicheng, and tomorrow you set up a cannon and give me two bang bang. Who should I ask for reason?
He used all the gunpowder himself, and trained Shanxi's leading firearms soldiers.

Dai Shan knew the news of his return, but he didn't take the Pingyang battalion soldiers seriously. Pingyang Mansion belongs to the mainland, except for the frontier troops who can fight back and forth with the Eight Banners. The inland soldiers can't, so they don't care at all The leader of the army went northeast to meet Fu Renxi, trying to cross Daizhou and join the two yellow and white flags in Lingqiu.

Fu Renxi gave Dai Shan a little shock.

From testing at the pond post to many small-scale encounters, Fu Renxi defeated and wiped out the four convoys of the Jin Army at the cost of 170 and seven cavalry, and recaptured 180 convoys with a population of more than [-] and full of goods. car.

When Daishan reacted and organized troops to fight with him, he couldn't even find Fu Renxi's shadow, only saw more than 100 burned and abandoned vehicles on the mountain road of Wutai Mountain.

At this time, Fu Renxi had already resettled the people into Daizhou City, and then fled with 660 heads. He walked quickly along the Wutai Mountain Road and entered Taiyuan City.

In the battle report handed over to the imperial court, Fu Renxi said that he was defeated on the Wutai Mountain Road. After a bloody battle, most of the vehicles recovered were taken back by the Houjin army. Prisoner level.

In fact, he didn't want to fight anymore. On the one hand, he tried, but he really couldn't fight.

He got a lot of heads, mainly because he relied on the advantage of troops to attack the supply team, and after a quick defeat, he could clean up the battlefield. Otherwise, the battlefield would be controlled by Hou Jin, and the corpses would all be burned.

Although there is no gunpowder trade of Liu Chengzong, but because the invisible tycoon and a box of gold have also done two votes in Shanxi, the Pingyang camp is very rich, and the three thousand soldiers are well-armed.

This was not the case with the two red flags that fought against him. In the battle of the post-Gold Army, Ba Yala was the general guard and would not appear on such a small battlefield of encounters. The main soldiers were vests or infantry, also called Wu Kesen or armored men, and cotton armored soldiers, they accounted for only one-third of the battle, at most less than half.

Most of them are Banner Slaves, also known as Yaluhai. This group of people has no armor.

As soon as the fight started, the front of the Houjin army was the banner slaves who dared to die, that is, the dead soldiers, followed by the cotton-armored archers, the generals and Ba Yala in the middle, and the armored cavalry soldiers, and then there were large areas of banners. slave.

This is actually the same as the Ming army, with front soldiers in the front, generals and battalion soldiers in the middle, and Weisuo banner troops in the back, exactly the same.

Therefore, after a few battles, there were not many Houjin armored soldiers who actually died in Fu Renxi's hands, basically one for one, but Daishan had over ten thousand soldiers and horses, and he only had three thousand battalions Well, this kind of exchange, Fu Renxi is unwilling and dare not fight.

On the other hand, it was because on the big battlefield, Fu Renxi didn't expect the Ming army's messy coalition forces to fight a large-scale annihilation battle on the Xuanda defense line.

So he decided: it's time to share the spoils!

The reinforcements also thought as he thought, they were killing lives and deaths on the front line, the reinforcements from Liaodong stopped, stationed in the area, many barbarians sneaked out of the camp, robbed horses and cattle, insulted women, and wounded people Husband also killed a group of people——Jing Ren who escaped from the Huangtai Jijun Army after overcoming difficulties and obstacles.

Those who went to Datong were properly accommodated by Zhang Zongheng, and he also reported a lot of information about Houjin.

Those who ran to the east were all killed by the east road reinforcements as east captives.

Of course, the killing was not clean enough. There was a scholar who was a master of escape. He first escaped from the Huangtai Ji army, and then escaped from Wu Xiang's soldiers. Seven people with him died, and he was the only survivor. To let the imperial court know that the reinforcements on the East Road not only did not march, but also did bad things all over the place.

This is so demoralizing.

At the same time, the morale of the Hou Jin army was not high.

Huang Taiji received information from the rear that he was leading the army to fight in the front, and the Mongolian tribes outside the mouth were already so hungry that they fought with themselves. For some reason, the three tribes of Khalkha who had been honestly raising horses in Ordos suddenly Crossed the Yellow River and launched an attack on Fengzhoutan, which was occupied by Tumed's troops.

This kind of information itself is nothing, internal strife is a normal form of Mongolia in this era, but in this information, Huang Taiji saw a Han name, which is very problematic.

"Yang Qi, who is it?"

good evening!