East Factory Governor

Chapter 586 Raid on Three Camps

After two days and two nights of rapid march, the martial arts allied forces entered Fengrun.

Qin Shuhuai's purpose is to go straight to Yongping and annihilate the slave-building troops stationed in Yongping.According to intelligence, there are currently 6 Tartar soldiers stationed in Yongping, and it should not be a problem for more than [-] martial arts coalition forces to take Yongping.

After winning Yongping, he will rush to Qian'an again.

His purpose is very clear, that is to determine that the 2 people who attacked Qian'an and Yongping by the Tartars were for food collection!Since the Tartars are short of food, he will naturally interrupt their food source!
If Huang Taiji ran out of food, he would no longer be able to encircle Zunhua City!As for Yuan Chonghuan's lack of food, Qin Shuhuai believes that Zunhua is a big city, even if there is a shortage of food, it is no problem to search for another seven or eight days!If Yuan Chonghuan didn't even have this ability, it would be a waste of his years of research on city defense tactics.

What's more, after recapturing Qian'an and Yongping, he can threaten the [-] Jiannu army stationed near Santunying, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone!
But he didn't know that at this time, Huang Taiji was gearing up for a big battle to break the deadlock under the advice of his adviser Fan Wencheng.

On the night of July 25th in the second year of Chongzhen, Hauge, the son of Huang Taiji, and General Azige led an army of [-] soldiers, and quietly rushed from Zunhua to Santunying.

At this time, the Santun Camp was jointly guarded by General Zu Dashou of the Guanning Army and Ma Shilong, the commander-in-chief of the Santun Camp.Because Yuan Chonghuan had taken over the defense of Jizhen with full authority, after Zu Dashou led [-] Guanning Army and [-] Datong Army to Santunying, he took over Santunying with Yuan Chonghuan's warrant.

Although Ma Shilong felt uncomfortable, he still put the overall situation first and handed over the command.

As an important military town, Santunying has been expanded several times since Qi Jiguang.However, in the later stage, due to the shortage of funds, many expansion plans were suspended.The current Santun camp wall is ten meters high and square in shape, but each of the four walls is only about two miles long (about 800 meters).The city is not big, but it is still strong.

After Zu Dashou took over the Santun camp, he left [-] soldiers and horses in the city, and the other [-] soldiers and horses were led by Ma Shilong and stationed on Jingzhong Mountain, which is only five miles away from the city, to facilitate internal and external operations. corresponding.

Facing the [-] Tartar army stationed near the Santun camp, Zu Dashou didn't have much worry. Now that the Santun camp has enough food and grass, and the weapons and gunpowder are full, he believes that if the mere [-] Tazi soldiers want to capture the Santun camp, Difficult to ascend to heaven!

But even so, as an experienced general, he still made sufficient preparations, not letting go of every defensive detail.Moreover, led by him, the morale of the soldiers in the city was high.

It was in this state that at dawn on the 26th, the Santun camp was violently attacked by an army of [-] slaves!
The 800 left-wing army led by Jierhalang and Dorgon launched an attack from the east, south, west, and north of Santunying at the same time!Since the city wall of Santunying is only 800 meters long, they used [-] people as a step, and ten steps as a round, and they went on and on, launching non-stop offensives endlessly!

Compared with the last time they built slaves into the wall, they were more fully prepared this time.This is reflected in the richer siege tools they made and their better understanding of the Ming army's defense methods.

They also imitated the Ming army and produced a large number of armored vehicles, archer platforms and even oil guns.On the high platform as high as [-] or [-] meters, there were not only a dozen archers, but also one or two oil gun operators.The kerosene gun they use is not a simple bamboo tube, but a tool called "water dragon". Its principle is similar to that of the water press machine used by rural villagers to get well water. It is to put water in a large bucket, and then By lifting and pressing the lever, the water is pumped out and sprayed out.However, what they put in their barrels is kerosene.

After the kerosene was sprayed onto the city wall, the archers immediately replaced their shoulders with ignited shoulders. With one arrow shot, the city head ignited immediately, and the densely packed Ming army soldiers immediately fell into the raging fire. They rolled around, Howling, and even more "burning men" jumped off the city wall one after another, but the Tartar soldiers laughed out loud.

The guard of the Ming army saw it, and immediately ordered all the archers to replace it with rockets, and shoot towards the high platform with all their strength!Immediately, the flaming arrows rained down on the Tazi archer's platform, which was originally made of wood and was flammable.However, if there is no combustion accelerant, it is not easy to ignite it with a rocket alone.However, the Tartars stored a large amount of kerosene on the high platform, and during the spraying process, a lot of kerosene would inevitably splash out and spill on the high platform.

In this way, it will soon be the turn of the Tazi soldiers to taste the bitter fruit for themselves!

After several rounds of rocket volleys, nearly half of the Tazi's high platform for archers was lost, and one after another Tazi soldiers fell from the high platform with raging fire on their bodies, like fireballs falling to the ground, which is extremely spectacular!

Now, it was the Ming soldiers' turn to laugh out loud!

However, as the Ming army's archers shifted their targets, the pressure on the ground attacking Tazi soldiers suddenly decreased, and they quickly climbed up the city wall along the ladder.

Most of the first to climb to the top of the city were the Bala soldiers of the Tartars.These soldiers are all vigorous and strong, and wearing three layers of thick armor, their combat effectiveness is extremely powerful.During this Southern Expedition, Huang Taiji brought out all the only [-] Baya soldiers in the country!

Under the fierce attack, several small areas on each city wall of the officers and soldiers fell!However, most of the city walls were occupied by the Guan Ning army. They had a lot of experience in defending the city. Although they lost several sections of the city wall, they still controlled the situation and did not allow the lost area to expand further.

The two sides fell into a stalemate.

Zu Dashou's command was determined, while continuing to add troops to the city wall, while counting the time, he patiently waited for Ma Shilong to come to help!

Ma Shilong was on Jingzhong Mountain, five miles south of the city, and he didn't need to send someone to report, he could see the Tartars attacking the city.

According to the agreement, when the Tartars attacked the city, Ma Shilong immediately led his troops to the city to attack the Tartars camp. At the same time, Zu Dashou would also send cavalry in the city to help. offensive.

On Jingzhong Mountain, Ma Shilong naturally saw the beacon fire outside the city and the tide of Tazi soldiers.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately ordered 5000 men and horses, and personally led the army to rush down the mountain.The remaining 1 horses stayed in the mountains.Jingzhong Mountain has been built into a stronghold that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is the corner of each other with the three camps. Therefore, as long as Ma Shilong disrupts the attack of the Tartars, he does not need to enter the city, but only needs to retreat to Jingzhong Mountain. people defend.

Ma Shilong divided the troops into two groups. One group was led by himself to rescue the south gate, while the other group was led by deputy general Wang Shouan to go to the east gate!
After the army went down the mountain, they immediately drove to the south and north gates according to the established route.

Before setting off, Ma Shilong had observed the attacking Tazi soldiers on the top of the mountain through the bright sky.It is estimated that all 3 people are surrounded by Santunying, so there is no need to worry about an ambush.

The distance of five miles is very short, and it is estimated that the army will arrive within a quarter of an hour.

When they moved quickly along the spacious dirt road, and the three camps in the vanguard camp were only two miles away from the south wall, suddenly there was loud shouting and killing, and countless Tartar soldiers rushed out from the grass, the foot of the mountain, and the woods!

In addition to these, there are also a large number of Tartar cavalry coming from farther away!

Ma Shilong never figured out where these Tartar soldiers came from!

The only thing he was sure of was that he was ambush!

(End of this chapter)