Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 212 The Encirclement Begins

"drive!"

On the first day of July, in the drizzle, [-] cavalry rushed into the Great Wall, entered the border of Liaodong east of the Liaohe River through Changsheng Fort.

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

"General Soldier, His Highness sent someone to send a handwritten letter!"

While galloping, a general came up with Tang Qi and rode his horse, and handed the handwriting to Man Gui, and Man Gui immediately raised his hand and said:
"The army stopped marching, rested for a quarter of an hour, and then sent someone to inform the generals in the Tunbao, Mr. Wang, to prepare [-] catties of beans for the army, and meals for [-] people!"

"Decree!" The lieutenant next to him responded immediately after hearing the words, and then arranged for the army to rest.

Man Gui also took the handwriting, opened it and read it at a glance.

When he saw Zhu Youjian's speculation that Nurhachi's target might be his side this time, Man Gui's heart sank.

Regarding the case of an ambush, Zhu Youjian's order was to hit the old slave hard at all costs.

In other words, Zhu Youjian would rather use [-] cavalry to be severely injured, but also exchange enough heads for the Jin Army.

Nurhachi thought that Zhu Youjian would attack Wuyewuwei while the iron was hot, but he didn't know that for Zhu Youjian, Jianlu had always been just the third opponent.

His first opponent is the natural disaster, his second opponent is the civil servant, and the third is Jianlu's turn.

He didn't want to expand the results of the battle, because he didn't have time to go to Wuyewuwei to hunt down Nurhachi after the first battle of Liao Dynasty.

Nurhachi thought that the most important thing for Zhu Youjian was to solve him and the Jin army, but the really important thing for Zhu Youjian was to return to Beijing with his military achievements in the first battle of the Liao Dynasty, and to abolish the guards and soldiers of the world.

This is a side of Nurhachi's political shortcomings that cannot be seen. If it is Huang Taiji, who has matured in history, he will definitely not want to severely damage the Ming army 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, feeling 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 heavy rain a few days ago, which means that it is about to clear up.

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

With the riding blunderbuss, it is much easier to cause casualties to the Jin army in a face-to-face manner.

"Ugh……"

"General, did Your Highness say anything?"

Man Gui sighed, and the lieutenant asked curiously, but Man Gui shook his head and said nothing.

He led the army to rest for a quarter of an hour, and then continued to lead the army towards Lord Wang's village.

Just when they were approaching Lord Wang's village, Tang Qi, the Jin Army's Tang Qi, saw their tracks, and then reported the news.

"Big Khan, thirty miles to the southwest, a large number of iron cavalry appeared, with big banners full of characters. It should be the Ming court's king of Qi who sent Man Gui to lead the cavalry. Do we need to withdraw?"

Tang Qi told Yang Guli the news, and Yang Guli told Nurhachi who was sitting there.

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

"Send Xinying and Tangqi on horseback and tell Daishan and Mangguertai to send troops to harass Shenyang and Xiong Tingbi. Huang Taiji is going to take a detour and attack Mangui from behind."

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

"Yes!" Hearing Nurhachi's order to cross the river to break through, all the generals of the Jin army became energetic.

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 outside the south gate of Wujing Camp immediately frowned and said:

"The old slave wants to break out of the camp, and notify Zongbing Sun at Zhangyi Station on the other side of the Hun River!"

"Yes!" The deputy general next to him received the order, and at the same time, Tang Qi from the Wujing Camp also rode his horse to a ferry of the Hun River. After taking the horse to the boat, he arrived on the other side of the Hun River after a quarter of an hour, and galloped to Zhangyi Station. Inform Sun Yingyuan of the news.

Sun Yingyuan, who got the order, immediately commanded the army to march up the Hunhe River, waiting for Nurhachi's soldiers and horses to find a place to cross the river.

Half an hour later, Nurhachi pulled out his battalion to go north, Sun Yingyuan followed closely across the Hun River, and Wu Aheng of Wujing battalion also sent Tangqi to send soldiers and horses to Liutiaozhai, Hupiyi, Fengjibao, Wang Darentun, Shenyang and other places. intelligence.

This made Man Gui, who had just arrived at Lord Wang's village and took a mouthful of hot food, not want to rest, and quickly ordered:

"Order the whole army, and the exhausted soldiers leave their horses to rest, and ride horses that still have horsepower to chase after the old slave!"

Lord Wang's village was already close to the battlefield, and Man Gui also led the army to attack for more than two hundred miles. Most of the horses in the hands of the soldiers had exhausted their horsepower, and they would die of exhaustion if they were forced to ride on them.

For the next road, Nurhachi can only be chased by one or two horses.

More than [-] horsemen marched in armor, and they didn't worry about Nurhachi's escape at all.

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

In the drizzle, Man Gui clenched the reins tightly, and at this moment, the rain above the sky was getting smaller and smaller, and the sky was also getting brighter.

"The rain is about to stop..."

Almost when this scene appeared, all the Ming Jin generals who were observing the sky had this idea in their hearts.

What does rain stop mean?Needless to say, if Nurhachi hadn't withdrawn before the rain stopped, what he would have to face would be the indiscriminate bombardment of [-] artillery pieces in northern Liaoning.

"put!"

"Boom boom-"

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

Starting from Mao in the early morning, the artillery of the Ming army arrived, and [-] five-jin cannons and [-] ten-jin cannons set up their postures and aimed at the top of Chengzi Mountain.

Behind the artillery position, there are mountains of stone bombs, [-] catties of gunpowder covered by awnings and tents, and the camp of [-] Ming troops.

The god of thunder is furious, and the sky is angry. Even if the rain pours down, it can't resist the shelling of the Ming army.

The five-pound and ten-pound stone bullets spanned a distance of two and three miles, and aimed at the platform on the top of Chengzi Mountain to pour the stone bullets.

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

"Clear and reload!"

On the artillery position, Yang Wenyue ordered calmly and naturally, and more than [-] gunners began to clear the guns, waiting for the barrel to cool down before continuing to reload.

During this process, water can be used to cool the gun bore. Although this will shorten the life of the gun, this is one of the methods that Zhu Youjian can do.

The Yanshan Ordnance Institute has already figured out how much the life of the artillery is shortened after water is used. If a rag soaked in water is used to cool the barrel of the gun every battle, the life of the Yanshan General cannon is [-] to [-] rounds .

This lifespan is enough for them to participate in many battles, and once the lifespan reaches the limit of [-] times, the artillery will be recast by the Anti-Yanshan Ordnance Institute.

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

Therefore, under the huge production capacity, soldiers of the Ming army skillfully wiped the cannon body with a cloth, and after waiting for cooling, the gunpowder packed in oiled paper was taken out of the tent, and after the cooling was confirmed, the gunpowder was stuffed into the cannon.

As the oil paper was pierced, the matchlock was stuffed in, and the artillery position ushered in the ignition again...

"Boom boom-"

There was an endless stream of gunfire and smoke, and at the same time there were thousands of stone bombs falling from the sky over the Jin army.

The sound of "bang bang bang" kept ringing, and screams could be vaguely heard during the period, but Huang Taiji saw that the fortifications he had made could not withstand the artillery of the Ming army, so he could only order unwillingly:

"The army exits the platform!"

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

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

Putting down the binoculars, Xiong Tingbi murmured, and in his right hand was still holding the [-]-mile express that Zhu Youjian had sent.

Xiong Tingbi has read all the above meanings, and his puzzlement is also understood from time to time when he sees Huang Taiji who knows how to advance and retreat.

Compared with Nurhachi, Huang Taiji has a little more deceit and something inexplicable and unclear about him.

"Jinglue, let me lead the army to encircle and wipe them out!"

When Xiong Tingbi understood everything, He Shixian took the initiative to ask for orders, but for this, Xiong Tingbi glanced at the terrain of Chengzi Mountain, then shook his head and said:
"This terrain is attacking from the bottom up, which is not good for me."

"Advance the artillery three hundred steps, continue shelling!"

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

Looking at the thousand cannons in front of the formation, Xiong Tingbi burst into laughter. Since he came to Liaodong, he has never fought such a rich battle.

He finally understood, Zhu Youjian told him the meaning of "cleaning the ground with stones" in the letter.

There is no need to use the lives of the Ming army to solve things that can be solved with artillery.

How much is gunpowder and stone bombs?A salvo of a thousand cannons is only worth more than a hundred taels of silver, but a single attack from the back will cost much more to the soldiers who died in battle.

"put!"

"Boom boom-"

Thousands of cannons moved forward three hundred steps after passing by, then cooled down, and continued to fire, beating the golden army on the hill and fleeing.

Huang Taiji and Du Du trembled with anger when they heard the number of casualties reported by Gu Shan Ezhen beside them.

However, after three rounds of bombardment, the Jin army had already killed and injured more than [-] people. This is still the Ming army who only chose the longest distance to fight. If the distance was closer, the Jin army's casualties would be even greater.

"E Sihui! We can't wait any longer. If we wait any longer, the morale of the army will drop to the bottom!"

Du Du was trembling with anger, and Huang Taiji ordered decisively:

"Ming Tang rode the path out of the mountain to look for Da Khan's whereabouts. Once he found Da Khan, he immediately asked Da Khan if he could retreat!"

"Yes!" Gu Shan Ezhen quickly responded, and then sent Tang Qi to walk out of the mountain.

"Boom boom-"

Here, Huang Taiji had just dispatched Tangqi, and the Ming army began shelling again. This amount of troops, artillery, and firecrackers can be said to be the best in today's world.

In Europe on the other side of the ocean, in the first European war that is going on at this moment, the peak number of troops dispatched in Europe is only three hundred thousand, and the total number of artillery dispatched in thirty years does not exceed four thousand.

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

Time passed by little by little, but the Ming army's artillery continued to shell twice every quarter of an hour. The Jin army took one step back, and they moved forward two steps.

When an hour passed, sixteen rounds of bombardment and more than [-] stone bombs bombarded the Jin army completely, and the morale of the entire army was demoralized.

Huang Taiji saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart, and the number of casualties of the Jin Army made him even more frightened.

An hour, more than [-] casualties...

Hold on for a few more hours, once the army loses one-fifth of its soldiers and horses, it will really be impossible to break through.

"Eshui! Let's retreat!"

Du Du, who was dodging the stone bullet in a panic, had some fear on his expression, and the expression on Huang Taiji's face was indescribable.

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

"The rain has stopped!"

"It really stopped, the rain stopped..."

Suddenly, the shelling ended, and the sound of stopping the rain rang out among the Golden Army, and Huang Taiji was even more frightened when he heard the words, and hurried out of the tree, stretching out his hand hoping to feel the rain.

However, he was disappointed, the rain really stopped, and the cessation of the heavy rain also meant that the Ming army could do its best...

"master!"

Suddenly, at this time, Jiala Ezhen came up the mountain staggeringly. He held a military order in his hand. When he climbed up to Huang Taiji, he immediately knelt down and said:

"Master! The Great Khan ordered our army to go around and attack Man Gui!"

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

Huang Taiji took over the military order, looked at the ten lines at a glance, and then gritted his teeth. He naturally knew what it meant to severely injure Mangui, but he also knew that the rain had stopped now, and it was no longer wise to attack Mangui. Now What should be done is retreat.

However, even if Huang Taiji knew about it, would he be able to refuse?
"Send the order, wait for the Ming army to be attacked, and then go around the mountain road and attack Mangui! Leave behind banners and a cow record to confuse the Ming army!" Huang Taiji resolutely ordered.

It's better to take a detour to attack Mangui than to be bombarded by thousands of artillery pieces here!
"Yes!" Hearing that he could finally leave this place, everyone responded excitedly, and Jin Jun cheered up when he heard the news.

I'm afraid that most of them will never forget what happened at this hour. After the roar, thousands of stone bullets flew in and broke the big tree in half, and the ricochets after that directly killed people.

They didn't even have a chance to fight against the Ming army, so they suffered two casualties. Such a painful casualty was never seen by the Jin army.

All the Jin troops carefully escorted the horses down the mountain. When encountering an uneven mountain road, they immediately dug the soil with their weapons, but even so, Dongpo was still too difficult to descend, and many horses fell to their deaths and disabled.

After finally waiting for them to go down the mountain, they have been quietly waiting for Mangurtai's reinforcements.

Huang Taiji only left a Jiala infantry on the top of the mountain to attract the Ming army's shelling.

He is not sure if the Ming army has deployed artillery and soldiers at the pass where they entered the mountain. If so, it will take a bloody battle for them to rush out of the mountain pass.

"put!"

"Boom boom-"

Half a quarter of an hour later, the artillery broke out again, while Xiong Tingbi and many other generals held up their binocular clairvoyance to observe the situation on the Chengzishan platform.

"Jingsue, it seems that something is not quite right, you see..."

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

Xiong Tingbi heard his words, so he raised his hand and said:

"Stop shooting!"

"Stop—" The two artillery battalion generals raised their flags to order, and all the gunners also stopped what they were doing under the order of the orderly.

When the surrounding area calmed down, Xiong Tingbi opened his mouth and said:

"Cao Zongbing, He Zongbing, each of you led three battalions of cavalry to observe."

"The last general takes orders!"

Cao Wenzhao and He Shixian, who were eager for a battle, heard the words, and immediately transferred their third battalion of Liaodong iron cavalry and three battalions of Duogan iron cavalry.

Six battalions of cavalry, more than [-] 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, he would definitely come to attack Xiong Tingbi before the artillery arrived. .

It's just that it's too late now. Although the six battalions of cavalry can only have one man and one horse, it is enough to rush to the front.

Cao Wenzhao and He Shixian led the troops forward, and such actions were naturally observed by the Jin army on the platform of Chengzi Mountain. They blew the wooden whistle, and Huang Taiji at the foot of the mountain felt tense when he heard it.

"Esihui and the Ming army launched an attack!" Du Du said nervously, but Huang Taiji signaled him not to panic:

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

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

According to the news sent by the wooden post, the Ming army who made the investigation this time was [-] people, and all of them were cavalry...

"When did the Ming court have so many cavalry? Adding the four cavalry guards and Daning, isn't there already [-] 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 inaccurate, and Cao Wenzhao's third Duogan battalion was completely missed. They didn't know that, in addition to the Duogan third battalion, Sun Yingyuan's three guards also had [-] cavalry each, totaling [-].

That is to say, Nurhachi thought that the Ming army had [-] iron cavalry, of which [-] were scattered around, and only [-] could hit and pursue.

However, the more than [-] troops in Liaodong actually have more than [-] cavalry. Once Mangui crosses the Liaohe River, in terms of mobility, the Ming army is higher than the Jin army.

The error in the information made Huang Taiji's hands and feet cold, and at this time he gritted his teeth and said:
"Don't wait for Mang Gurtai, the whole army will walk out of Chengzi Mountain!"

"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 led the former army to retreat first.

"Something's wrong..."

He Shixian keenly noticed that Jin Jun's reaction was a bit slow, and Cao Wenzhao tightened his grip on the reins and said:

"The whole army speeds up!"

Right now they are only two miles away from Chengzikou Mountain, and they can gallop there in the time of a cup of tea. When they arrived, they only saw the rear of the Jin army retreating on the mountain road on their horses.

"Chase!"

Cao Wenzhao received the letter from Zhu Youjian when Xiong Tingbi received it.

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

"General Cao!" He Shixian was stunned when he saw that Cao Wenzhao led his troops directly to pursue him. He had never seen anyone more reckless than himself.

After all, they are soldiers and horses controlled by Xiong Tingbi, why don't they go back and ask Xiong Tingbi for instructions?
"Hurry up and go back to the camp, tell Xiong Jinglue about the retreat of the Jianlu, ask if you want to pursue, and then tell Jinglue, Cao Zongbing has already led his troops to pursue!"

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

Seeing the troop of soldiers rushing towards him, Xiong Tingbi in the camp also put down his binocular clairvoyance, feeling uneasy.

The ginseng led the soldiers to the tent, got off the horse, half-kneeled and said:

"Jinglue and Jianlu are retreating, Cao Zongbing has led his troops in pursuit! Zongbing He asked Jinglue if..."

"Chasing! Tell He..." Xiong Tingbi subconsciously recalled the contents of Zhu Youjian's letter, but at this moment he heard some noise.

He turned to look at Yang Wenyue: "What happened to the rear army?"

"Jinglue! Jianlu went out of Fushun, crossed the Hunhe River and went down, and led [-] troops, which is less than ten miles away from our army!"

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

Cao Wenzhao has already led his troops in pursuit, if He Shixian leads his troops in pursuit again, the more than [-] infantry will not have cavalry guards on the left and right.

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

"Order He Shixian to return to the headquarters. The rear army of the army will be transferred to the front army, and the front army will be transferred to the rear army. The artillery will be moved to the front of the front army! The civilians will be placed behind the rear army."

After thinking about it, Xiong Tingbi gave up the pursuit and prepared to face the Jianlu from Fushun first, while He Shixian led the troops back to the army after a cup of tea.

Xiong Tingbi ordered people to put away the tent, and soon after the Ming army prepared everything, the [-] Jiankui rode their horses to the northeast of Chengzi Mountain Pass.

Mang Gurtai led the Zhenglan Banner, the Fourth Han Battalion, and the Mongolian Battalion to kowtow to the side, and when he saw that the Ming army had placed artillery in front of the formation in the distance, he immediately ordered:
"The army retreats one mile!"

Under his mobilization, the Jin army retreated for a mile, and Xiong Tingbi looked at the orderly retreat of the Hou Jin army in his binocular clairvoyance, and immediately said with a dark face:

"There are only soldiers and horses from the Zhenglan Banner, so Tieling should be the Xianglan Banner. Since Fushun sent troops, then Tieling should also send troops."

"Jing Lue, in this way, wouldn't it be possible for Nurhachi to choose a pincer at will?" Yang Wenyue was startled and frowned.

The Jin armies in Tieling and Fushun should be [-] each, and once they are dispatched, it means that Shenyang and Xiong Tingbi's headquarters will each need to face [-] troops.

At this time, if someone...

"We have thousands of cannons. 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 change direction after learning the news!" He Shixian Some dry mouth.

"If we change direction, we will definitely pick the one with the least strength to fight!" Yang Wenyue thought about it, and He Shixian was also stunned and said:
"The least number of troops? Isn't that..."

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

"Sun Yingyuan's troops are the fewest and have no artillery. But the old slave cannot attack Sun Yingyuan. What 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 to escape."

"Jing Lue, why don't we just move?" He Shixian said frankly, but Xiong Tingbi said with a smile:
"If you just blindly follow the old slave and set up behind the buttocks, foolishly waiting for the old slave to fall into the trap, what's the point?"

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

"But if this old slave knew that our artillery is sharp, I'm afraid he wouldn't go this way." Yang Wenyue frowned.

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

"Bring a pen and paper, and I will handwrite it to the generals!"

　There is another update at four o'clock, and the battle of the Liao Dynasty will be finished in three days

　　
　
(End of this chapter)