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Chapter 772 What is the conspiracy of the Tartars?

On the streets of the inner city of Jinzhou, Zu Dabi saw that the people around him were moved by him, he nodded in satisfaction, and shouted: "This time, although the Tartars are powerful, there are more than [-] reinforcements from Governor Hong." People and horses may not be short of Tartars.

From the looks of it right now, our Daming is still very powerful. In the first battle at the beginning of the month, we beheaded two Gu Shan foreheads from the Tartars...

In this battle, as long as we can defend Jinzhou City, the ancestral family will surely gain even more prestige. The soldiers and horses lost today, as well as the money, food and other things consumed, will surely be replenished by the imperial court afterwards.

In the west of Liaoning, we have the final say! "

Immediately afterwards, he raised the mace in his hand again, and roared: "Brothers, the Tartar soldiers are about to attack the city again. I will rush there now and kill the Tartar soldiers without leaving any behind. So that you and other thieves can take a good look at how powerful the children of our ancestors are!"

"Kill slaves...kill slaves...kill slaves!"

"Yes, I'm going to fight with the Tartars today!"

"Go, go desperately with the Tartars!"

All the generals around were inspired by Zu Dabi's bold words, and they all raised their weapons, roaring and roaring.

Of course, some people looked at Zu Dabi with a thoughtful look on their faces: I never expected that our second master was thinking so far, I didn't see it before!

In the past, everyone thought that Zu Dabi had only the courage of a man, but now, everyone's evaluation of him is higher. It seems that there is no fool who can occupy the top position.

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"The behavior of the Tartars is a bit strange. They are like this, could it be that they want to take Jinzhou City, but why is the shelling fierce, but the attack is not effective?"

To the east of Jinzhou City is Muye Mountain; to the west are Dong and West Hongluo Mountains; to the southwest is Xingshan Mountain; to the south and west is Rufeng Mountain, to the south is Shimen Mountain, and to the southeast is Huangtuling.

In addition, there are Xiaoling River and Daling River flowing in the east of Jinzhou, especially Xiaoling River flowing eastward in the south of Jinzhou City, and then turning and flowing southward until it enters the sea.

Shamao Mountain and Putuo Mountain are more than ten miles west and northwest of Jinzhou City.

At this time, in the jungle on Mount Putuo, there were several soldiers from the Huwei Battalion of the Xuanbei Army holding up binoculars and looking towards Jinzhou City at the foot of the mountain.

For two consecutive days, the Ming army set up an outpost on Rufeng Mountain and observed that the Tartars stepped up their attack on Jinzhou City.

Feeling that things in Jinzhou seemed weird everywhere, Zhang Cheng secretly mobilized a large number of fighters under his command to go out at night to conduct detailed detectives on the dynamics in the west and south of Jinzhou.

He vaguely remembered that during this battle, Huang Taiji felt that the Ming army had a large scale of reinforcements and the defense was getting stronger, making it difficult to break through head-on, so he sent a surprise army of tens of thousands of people to cut off the Ming army's retreat between the pines and apricots.

Then they attacked the military rations stored by the Ming army on Bijia Mountain, which caused the soldiers of the Ming army to panic, their morale was low, and their morale was unstable, so that most of them fled away.

But these are only his own memories after all, whether this will be the case, without enough information support, he will not tell Hong Chengchou, Zhang Ruoqi and others.

In fact, as early as when the army entered the vicinity of Songshan, there were a large number of soldiers who would not accept them at night. Under the leadership of their respective team officers, they were ordered to go out and scattered to Jinzhou to investigate the military situation in all directions.

They even crossed the Xiaoling River and Nuerhe River, and the farthest reached the Daling River. The range of activities was extensive, including Jinchang Fort, Shahe Fort, and Dalinghe Fort in the surrounding area, as well as Dading Fort and Tuanshan in the south of Uiju. Everywhere in the fort is the target of their reconnaissance.

However, compared to previous wars, hundreds of thousands of troops occupy such a narrow area in this battle, and the range of activities of sentry cavalry is inevitably smaller.

And the danger is even greater, because the Qing army captured a large number of raw troops for activities outside, and intercepted and killed the sentry cavalry of the Ming army the most. The death rate is also very high.

At this time, the Ye Bu Shou team only wore chain mail inside, not iron armor on the outside, but dressed like Mongolian soldiers turned inside out, so that they were not easy to be detected, and they were much more convenient to move about.

Moreover, each team of sentry cavalry assigned two or three Mongolian cavalry officers so that when they encountered the sentry cavalry of the Tartars, they could deal with them on the fly.

Some grasses, branches and leaves were entangled randomly on each person's body. They curled up carefully in the mountains and forests, trying their best not to let the reflection of the telescope reveal their positions.

These are all lessons learned in blood. There was once a sentry brother from the Tiger Guards Camp who held up a binoculars to look out in the sun, but was caught by the Ba Yala army of the Tartars and found out. He was outnumbered and died fighting. The corpse capital could not be snatched back.

Therefore, after summing up their experience and lessons, the officers of the Tiger Guards concluded that they should not look out in the sun, try to stay in a dark place, and avoid the sun shining through the telescope.

Mount Putuo in Jinzhou is known as the number one Buddhist mountain outside of Guanzhou. The range of mountains is vast, and there are many strange caves and strange rocks.

After all, not far from the foot of the mountain was the camp of the Tazi soldiers, surrounded by many enemies, it was like being in a tiger's den and a dragon's pool, there was no room for everyone to be careless, any negligence would be fatal.

Moreover, because the Qing troops galloped around Jinzhou frequently during the day, they were all nocturnal, and they tried to avoid appearing during the day, and only came out to act at night.

The one who spoke was Shi Meng, the left sentry officer in the middle of the Tiger Guard Camp. His original name was Shi Zhuzi, and he was originally a blacksmith in the north of the capital city.

Ever since he was rescued by Zhang Cheng from the Qing army in Mafang, he has followed Zhang Cheng's side with all his heart, swearing to join the army and kill slaves.

Everyone else went to the camp to rest, but he still practiced hard on the school field, although he didn't see any effect for a while, but as time passed, the results of such hard work were highlighted.

In the military examinations, Shi Meng repeatedly stood out. What was even more rare was his loyalty to Zhang Cheng. Apart from the fact that both father and son followed Zhang Cheng and worked hard for him, he obeyed his words and never compromised in carrying out military orders. .

Taking the requirement of literacy as an example, many soldiers in the Xuanbei Army still didn't take it seriously, but Shi Meng implemented it very thoroughly. Apart from the daily drills, he just focused on learning and memorizing.

He first started with his own name, and then his father's name. He remembered the forts, rivers, and mountains and rivers in Xuanbei one by one. In the past two years, he has learned more than 500 characters. He can read simple military orders and documents. It is not easy to write simple military newspapers independently.

It is precisely because of his loyalty and diligence that when Zhang Chenghui was promoted step by step and suppressed thieves in Henan Province, Zhang Cheng reorganized the personal guards in view of the needs of the situation at the time, and Shi Meng was also promoted to the central left sentry officer.

Although they were only sentry officers, the Tiger Guards Camp was different from the other camps, because they were all Zhang Cheng's personal guards. Not only were they very strict in selection, but besides combat on foot and horse, the most important thing was loyalty.

He also follows Zhang Cheng all the year round, and if he has the opportunity to get his personal guidance, the best among them will be promoted to the team leader and sentry officer, and once the outstanding Tiger Guard soldiers are released, they will at least be at the team leader level.

Therefore, the military ranks in the Tiger Guard Battalion are slightly higher than those of other battalions by one or two ranks, and the treatment of its soldiers is also slightly higher than that of other battalions.

At the moment beside him, there is also Yu Shanhu, the head of the third left whistle team, and more than [-] soldiers in his team.

Yu Shanhu was originally an old man in Zhang Guodong's headquarters. After the Battle of Julu, he joined Zhang Cheng with Zhang Guodong. He was also an old man.

Although Yu Shanhu was not from Liao, he stayed with the army on the land of Liaodong for two or three years. Because he was a night hunter in his early years and often went outside, he was quite familiar with the terrain of Ningjinjian.

In the past, the servant of Lu Xiangsheng's Superintendent's Biao Battalion has now become a very qualified head of the Xuanbei Army's night-time team. It is precisely because he is very familiar with this area that Shi Meng led his brothers from the three teams to investigate so well. deep.

Beside Yu Shanhu, there is Qian Haichuan, a soldier who has just joined the Huwei Battalion at night. He is also dressed as a Mongolian cavalry soldier from the outer domain, and with a full beard, he really looks like that.

Don't look at Qian Haichuan's bearded face, but he is a little thin and a silent person. He is not outstanding in the third team, nor is he inconspicuous.

He was originally from a military family in Xuanbei, but he couldn't grow crops well. He had been starving a lot in these years. Since he was not good at farming, he raised horses and grazed for the army leaders.

Because of this, he learned good riding skills. When the Xuanbei Army recruited troops, he was assigned to the cavalry battalion shortly after joining the army, and was selected into the Tiger Guard Battalion as a night guard.

At this time, he was quietly leaning against a big tree, his thin body seemed to be integrated with the shadow of the tree, obviously he had already understood the trick of going out to investigate.

Look at Yebushou next to them, everyone is dressed like this, in fact, the military uniform of the Xuanbei Army Yebushou is a short crimson armor with no arms and arms, mainly for quick and light use.

However, if you are out in the enemy area, this outfit is too eye-catching, which increases the risk of exposure, so if you don't cover the battlefield around your own position.

The Tiger Guards who go out and enter the enemy's area to check at night, all of them will disguise themselves according to the need, so as to better hide themselves and complete the task of checking.

Now, the Tartar camp is at the foot of the mountain, everyone is very careful, everyone's horse's mouth is bitten, and the four hooves are also wrapped in cloth.

The soldiers of the Huwei Battalion of the Xuanbei Army all have one man and two horses, but they can indeed lead three horses when they leave the sentry. Their maneuverability is extremely powerful. Often can also escape from birth.

In the Xuanbei Army, besides cavalry battalion iron cavalry, they have the most horses. In fact, a qualified cavalry also needs three horses.

One of them is the main horse, which is used when fighting in battle, and the other is the auxiliary horse, which is usually ridden. If the main horse is weak, it can also be ridden for battle. The last horse is basically a pack horse, used to carry cavalry armor ordnance Wait for equipment.

Zhang Cheng really wanted to equip each of his cavalry battalion with three war horses, but such a battalion of cavalry needed [-] war horses, which he could not afford at present.

Shi Meng squatted halfway beside a boulder, so that the shadow of the boulder enveloped his whole body. Holding the binoculars in his hand, he carefully looked at the clear camp below the mountain.

Looking down the mountain from a height, the Xiaoling River is like a cloth belt, meandering inlaid in the vast brown and yellow wilderness in the south.

On the south bank of the Xiaoling River is Jinchang Fort.

On the north bank of the Xiaoling River, to the northwest of Jinchang Fort, and at the foot of the south side of Putuo Mountain, there is another Shahe Fort here.

Looking to the east from Putuo Mountain, about ten miles away, the majestic Jinzhou City stands there stubbornly. Looking through the binoculars, you can almost see the situation there very clearly.

In the binoculars, there seems to be no bounds, and the tide-like Tartar soldiers of all banners of the Qing army, wearing various armors, are attacking Jinzhou City.

The roar of the artillery and the shouts of the soldiers on the attacking side and the defending side can be faintly heard even as far away as Mount Putuo.

In addition, there are densely packed Tartar Ahha followers who are coming in and out from Jinchang Fort and Shahe Fort, constantly transporting all kinds of baggage and horses.

The Xiaoling River flows into Shahebao and passes through the section to the southwest of Jinzhou City. Although it seems to be a little dry, even so, people and horses are not allowed to wade through the water.

I saw the section of Jinchang Fort spanning both sides of the Xiaoling River. Teams of coated Aha servants were nervously building the pontoon bridge. flow of people.

From Shi Meng's point of view, although the Qing soldiers' attack on Jinzhou City this time seemed massive and violent, he always felt that something was wrong?

"Shitou, it doesn't look right. The Tartars hit the cannon very hard. It seems that they didn't try their best to climb the city?"

As the saying goes, "Wake up the dreamer with one word", Qian Haichuan's unintentional words gave Shi Meng a lot of inspiration. Yes, he did not try his best to attack Jinzhou City.

Shi Meng raised his hand and patted Qian Haichuan's shoulder heavily, and said with a smile, "Okay, you kid has done a great job!"

After he finished speaking, he picked up the binoculars and looked carefully in the direction of Jinzhou, afraid of missing a small detail, he muttered in his mouth: "Damn, I was acting in a play, and I was almost fooled by your father. "

During these days, he also observed that the Qing cavalry stationed in Dasheng Fort and Dafu Fort on the west side of Mount Putuo seem to be continuously converging to Jinchang Fort, and the Qing troops in several forts around Shahe Fort are also less better.

Long before the battle at Shimen Mountain, Shi Meng led a sentry team to visit there. At that time, thousands of Qing soldiers were stationed in each fort, but now they are almost completely evacuated.

"What does this mean? Could it be that the Tartars have some conspiracy?"

Although they sent out to the Tiger Guards at night and did not accept them, they were only responsible for collecting reports, and the suspensions inside had their own specialized agencies and personnel to analyze them.

However, Shi Meng still couldn't help thinking about the deep meaning of the tartar's behavior.

And in the past two days, he also observed that the Tazi soldiers around Jinchang Fort were more and more heavily guarded, and they were in frequent contact with Baimiao Fort.

"There is a conspiracy here!"

(End of this chapter)