Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 454
"Fixed-shot reloading, same height, same direction, [-] pre-shots, ready... release!"

"Boom bang bang-"

In the early morning of March [-], when Huang Taiji commanded women and children to cross the Duoerbi River, it was already the ninth day since Shangjing was besieged by the Ming army.

For nine days, Shangjing was hit by hundreds of thousands of stone bullets every day, and the stone bullets of millions of catties were baptized.

Such ferocious bombardment filled the moat below the city with stone bullets.

Tens of thousands of civilians quarried nearby stones to make stone bombs, and artisans accompanying the army also began to build enough siege equipment.

However, facing the dilapidated Shangjing City, Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng never launched a general attack, but just bombarded the city wall blindly.

Such bombardment, even though Nurhachi was dull due to old age, gradually reacted.

"The Ming army is going to catch Huang Taiji and the others first, and then deal with me, Zhu Youjian...you are so ruthless!"

Nurhachi was leaning on the wheelchair, breathing heavily like a bellows with a hole in it. Just living like this already made him exhausted and sweating profusely.

It is actually very common for Liaodong cavalry to use bird guns.

The roaring artillery sounded, coming from the front and from the hills on both sides, exploding like thunder.

Hu Erhan knew him well, so he said that he would take Zhu Youjian down and accompany him on the road.

Huang Taiji was flustered when he touched a smear of blood red, and at the same time, Nikan, Hauge, Azig and others were also flustered around him.

Liu Xiaozu quickly responded to Zhu Youjian's words. Although his movements of looking through the file were a bit rusty, it was much better than at the beginning.

It's just that these words can only serve as a consolation.

In this way, if the Ming army wanted to make a surprise attack, it could only choose the two white flags with the least number of people to make a surprise attack, while the two yellow flags could support the two white flags, and the two red flags could support the two yellow flags.

The reason why Mangurtai did not choose was because the Ming army built a stone fortress that was easy to defend and difficult to attack on almost any road.

"Hehe..." Hearing Hu Erhan's words, Nurhachi had a smile on his face. Although he knew it was impossible, he was very happy that Hu Erhan had such a heart.

"The former army has entered the scope of the stone castle. After this shelling, there is half a cup of tea to pass through. Hurry up!"

After all, he rode his horse and left towards his Chinese army.

"It's too bitter and cold in the north, and the nose is too dry."

On the Ming army's position, Sun Shoufa, the vanguard officer at this moment, was straddling the cart with one foot, and in front of him were gunpowder brought in from Shenyang.

"The wages are a fixed price. The chief envoy provides rations, beans, and horses. The civilian husband runs back and forth, one tael of silver per journey. The military supplies Sima at the front issues a money ticket. The civilian husband returns to Shenyang to exchange it. The chief envoy finds the silver. "

He had known for a long time that he had epistaxis, but he did not expect that this old disease would break out today.

Huang Taiji also understood this truth, so he didn't want to consume horsepower too early, but used the baggage truck to cover the army going north.

"Cough cough!"

Since Beishan mostly walks in river valleys, Huang Taiji chose to walk in a river valley with a very gentle elevation difference and less than a hundred feet.

The more than 300-step-wide river channel allowed the Jin army to arrange a horizontal formation of 300 people walking from east to west, which stretched for a full half a mile.

It is good to have a bowstring taut, but if it is taut for too long and suddenly loosens, then it is extremely easy to be surprised.

As the commander-in-chief, Huang Taiji could feel that the surrounding generals couldn't help but quicken their pace after the gunfire stopped.

Although they knew that after this round of shelling, they would have a safe time for half a cup of tea, but that sense of unease had already been created.

Hu Erhan is different from other ministers of the Jin Army. Since he and his father led the troops to surrender to Nurhachi, he has been adopted by Nurhachi as an adopted son and has been carefully cultivated by Nurhachi.

As Huang Taiji said so, he pulled out the knife on his leg, cut off a section of his cloak, and covered his mouth and nose.

"Counting the consumption of grain, fodder, and horse feed, it is almost 50 taels spent on the folk husband." Liu Xiaozu specifically mentioned the expenditure on the rations of the folk husband and horse feed, but even so, it is very cheap.

"The news is still from five days ago. If there is any news, it should be that Lao Cao and Huang Taiji met."

"Boom bang bang!!!"

"Beep!"

He looked cheerfully at the capital, and the sound of the artillery stopped at this moment.

It's just that because the Ming army followed closely, no one dared to show this anxiety until...

"Boom bang bang-"

Huang Taiji covered his mouth and nose, and gave instructions to the generals around him calmly. Hearing his instructions, everyone couldn't help speeding up.

The front tuck of the Chinese army can clearly see the women and children a mile ahead, and the back tuck of the rear army can see the Ming army following behind.

Suppressing the uneasiness in his heart, Mang Gurtai waved his whip and ordered, and the army began to move on.

The cavalry of the Ming army heard the cannon along with them, but Cao Bianjiao only glanced at the sky in front of him, and then continued to focus on the vigilant Jin army's rear tucking soldiers.

These more than 100 grain carts alone are enough for the entire Ming army and civilian husbands to have enough food for a day. Looking into the distance, on the southern plains, the Ming army's baggage convoy is very long.

"That's more than 27 taels of silver? It's a good deal." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly when he heard this.

In this way, after half a cup of tea, the Jin army walked for a whole mile, and after they had finished walking for a mile, the Ming army's artillery began to fire again.

The low hills on both sides are very suitable for cavalry to attack. However, Cao Bianjiao just surrounded them with cavalry.

It is estimated that within a few days, the walls of the outer city will collapse, and tens of thousands of civilians of the Ming army are still preparing stone bombs.

"Hmm..." Zhu Youjian responded, and turned his head to look at Shangjingcheng: "Keep fighting."

At the same time, the two armies of Huang Taiji and Daishan on the south bank also saw cavalry pouring in from the forest, and the main force of cavalry pouring out from the low hills.

"Bang bang bang-"

On the Ming army's position, accompanied by stone bullets being shot from the muzzle of the black hole, the sound of the cannons like a storm became a symphony on the battlefield at this moment.

It can be said that he witnessed Nurhachi's high-spirited era, but with the change of the emperor of the Ming court, and the two brothers Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youjian came to power, Nurhachi no longer had the glory.

He was calm on the surface, but in his heart, after realizing that the nosebleed could not be stopped, his mood plummeted.

With a gloomy face, Huang Taiji then issued a military order to the people around him: "Use the baggage carts as a battalion, and cross the north of the river every step of the way!"

In the last years of his life, all the sons were vying for the Khan position, and only his two youngest sons, Dorgon and Duoduo, could make him feel a little affection.

Behind the [-] carts of gunpowder, there are hundreds of well-arranged grain carts.

This kind of tactics was originally developed by the Ming army to deal with the Mongolian cavalry in the north, but now it is used by Huang Taiji to defend the cavalry of the Ming army. It has to be said that in terms of tactics, the Jin army is indeed the Ming army wearing female leather. .

Some of them appear outside the forest, and some of them hide in the forest, giving people a feeling that they don't know their number.

Along with this stone castle, there are also stone castles above the hills on both sides, and the sound of the horn seems to come from the direction of those stone castles.

"Ready... let go!"

"All crossed the river successfully, now it's up to us."

It's just that Hu Erhan's vision is not as good as Nurhachi's one-tenth, he just feels that the situation in front of him is a bit ridiculous.

"From the Fourth Army to March 27th, a total of more than [-] money tickets have been issued."

"The Ming army wanted to defeat Huang Taiji and the others before attacking the city..."

"50 catties of gunpowder, divided among the heads of each prisoner, is enough to kill them ten times...haha!"

"Woooooo-"

That is to say, it is a situation of discontinuing the heavy troops, and the front is light and the rear is heavy.

What the Long Snake Array is most afraid of is being raided from the middle by cavalry.

"Continue to march!"

Mangurtai sent Mongolian rangers to find out the attack range of each stone castle yesterday. He knew that he had not yet entered the attack range of the stone castle, but he also knew that if he walked three miles forward, he would see a A stone castle standing in the middle of the hills.

The situation he was facing right now was not good. The moat was filled with stone bullets, and the original thick outer city walls were torn apart and collapsed everywhere.

Therefore, after carefully crossing the river valley, Huang Taiji immediately divided the Chinese army into front tuck, middle tuck and back tuck.

Although when they arrived at the capital, there were only twelve shimi and half a shidou left in the original cargo, but it was enough to see how far the Ming army's logistical support had reached.

"Khan, the outer city is beyond repair..."

"Then it's better to take advantage of this moment and break through quickly." Daishan took a sip of the meat porridge, looking around vigilantly, looking very disturbed.

Even the most solid outer walls could not hold the artillery of the Ming army, not to mention the inner city and Miyagi.

"Any news from the north?"

There are actually quite a few roads on both sides of the valley, even though they are in low-lying hills, they can still be walked.

In the past, civilian husbands were conscripted into corvee and had no wages, but for the current imperial court, a few 10 taels of baggage expenses is not too much.

"For Zhu Youjian's little boy, even the thousands or even tens of thousands of lives in the siege are too many for him. You and I...hehe...are already trapped animals, but they are too old to know."

If the quality of the blunderbusses passes the standard, no cavalry would be unwilling to use the blunderbusses to confront the enemy. Just like in the Korean War, the Liaodong Cavalry led by Li Rusong only carried less than a hundred three-eyed blunderbuss, while the three-pointed (three-eyed) Matchlock guns) and bird guns amounted to more than 500 pieces.

The densely packed Ming army cavalry stood behind Cao Bianjiao, spreading from the bottom of the slope to the top of the slope, giving people the illusion of not knowing how many cavalry there are behind.

"Leave two stones of rice and half a stone of beans, and send money notes to the folks, and let them go back to Shenyang to exchange money."

Huang Taiji was not a fool. After discovering that the Han people were unreliable, he had already taken into his hands the seized riding blunderbuss, rifle blunderbuss, and bird blunderbuss forged by the craftsmen of the Jin Army.

For a man with two horses pulling a carriage for a thousand miles, the round trip takes about a month, earning one tael of silver a month, which is already a high income in Liaodong.

Thinking of Nurhachi's kindness to him, and thinking that all of this was thanks to Zhu Youjian, Hu Erhan grabbed the handle of his knife, gritted his teeth and said:
"I read the history books of the Han people. Throughout the ages, as long as the outer city was destroyed, the inner city basically surrendered. Most of the emperors in the palace either surrendered or committed suicide."

Sun Shoufa talked about the system promulgated by Yuan Yingtai, which basically imitated Zhu Youjian's food stamp system.

He understands that this is not a good performance, which means that the current Jinjun is like a taut bowstring.

After listening to Jierhalang's words, he glanced at the women and children who had successfully crossed the river, and then at Cao Bianjiao, who had been silent all this time, and then frowned and said:
"This young general surnamed Cao is probably related to Cao Wenzhao. He is here, and Cao Wenzhao will lead troops to support him soon. Then we will be under great pressure."

Nurhachi said pessimistic words, but he was still able to laugh, which made Hu Erhan, who was also old, feel very embarrassed.

Arrows have to hit the face to hurt people, but as long as the bird gun is within ten steps, it can hurt people.

Coupled with the rangers on both sides, if the cavalry of the Ming army launched an attack, obviously the Jin army would suffer heavy casualties. However, Cao Bianjiao did not do this because he was waiting for his uncle to appear.

"Boom bang bang-"

A civilian husband wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket and a waist knife, two strong draft horses, fourteen stones of fragrant rice, and one stone of beans. This is the configuration of the Ming army's baggage cart.

Huang Taiji subconsciously asked Nikan beside him, and Nikan also nodded:

For the Han people who had the "Nine-nine Multiplication Table" in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, "Arithmetic" was an unavoidable subject. Although Liu Xiaozu's family background was ordinary, he had studied in a private school, so there was no problem with arithmetic.

"What's going on?! Didn't the Ming army's stone castle have only one round of artillery, only dozens of pieces?!"

Within the range visible to their naked eyes, a total of six Ming army cavalry appeared.

Their eyes were like goshawks soaring in the air, staring at Jin Jun with eyes fixed on their prey.

When he got on his horse and ran a hundred steps towards the front army, Zhu Youjian, who was in armor in the distance, came with Li Dingguo and others on horseback, watching the gunpowder truck and grain truck from a distance.

Liu Xiaozu was appointed by him as the counselor of Pinglu. To put it bluntly, he was a clerk beside Zhu Youjian.

"Six hundred cavalry musketeers, [-] foot musketeers, and [-] bird musketeers are in the army."

The sound of footsteps appeared in the crude palace, and the old Hu Erhan and Nurhachi stayed behind, serving as Nurhachi's ears and eyes, guarding the upper capital for him.

A total of [-] carts of gunpowder were placed in front of Sun Shoufa. They were all wrapped in oiled paper, some were fixed-pack propellants for artillery, and some were propellant for muskets. In short, they were well kept.

"If Huang Taiji and the others...are defeated and all the women and children are killed, then the morale of the defenders in each city will be broken, and it will be easy to capture the city walls."

This principle is also reversed, the three parts are the horns of each other and support each other.

Similarly, as time went by, when the time came to noon, 10,000+ people had gathered on the north bank of Beishan Duoerbi River.

Only Nurhachi saw through Zhu Youjian's thoughts, and he panted and said to Hu Erhan:

Even Huang Taiji couldn't help but feel flustered, he clenched the reins in his hand, and Azig, who was restless beside him, even shouted to the sentinel:

He assembled the two yellow flags with the largest number of people in Zhongye, then assembled Daishan's two red flags in the back, and arranged the two white flags led by Jierhalang and Dorgon in the front.

Huang Taiji asked Jin Jun to use bird guns, in order to be like the Ming army in the face-to-face, just blasting past without worrying about the aim.

This is also the kind of training that made Hu Erhan, in order to repay Nurhachi's kindness in nurturing, he must be a striker in every battle, follow Nurhachi to destroy Ula, the Jurchens of Haixi and Donghai, and hold the white flag as the founding minister to participate in the Saarhu War. In the battle, they defeated Ma Lin and Li Rubo, and set up an ambush to wipe out Liu Ting's three tribes.

Zhu Youjian did not respond to Liu Xiaozu, but asked Sun Shoufa, but Sun Shoufa shook his head:

The era belonging to him has passed, but the era belonging to Zhu Youjian has arrived.

Therefore, even though it was dangerous outside the pass, many people still signed up to become civilian husbands, especially after Xiong Tingbi captured Yimihe City and the road from Shenyang to Shangjing was completely safe, the people enthusiastically signed up.

"No..." Huang Taiji sighed:

Originally, after the trees were felled, the river valley became much smoother, which also reduced the risk of being attacked, but without the cover of trees, it also meant that the Jin army was exposed to the sight of the Ming army.

Only a surprise attack can cause the Ming army to suffer heavy losses and successfully break through. As long as nothing changes...

Stone forts are built on the heights of every valley and hill, and the range of artillery strikes basically reaches the level of crossing.

Although he kept trying to calm himself down, the movement of covering his mouth and nose made the generals who followed him feel uneasy.

Da Jin Da Khan, who used to be high-spirited and rode his horse and whipped his whip, is now like a candle before the wind, lingering in a wheelchair.

The two were silent for a while, but as time passed bit by bit, there were rumbling cannons outside the palace again, apparently the artillery of the Ming army broke out again.

Suddenly, the sound of intensive artillery sounded, and all the golden troops stopped in place, their pupils constricted.

This kind of double-teaming, even though no attack has been launched yet, has always allowed all the Jin troops to see the Ming army as far as they can see, which is very depressing.

[-] cavalry came to besiege nearly [-] horse infantry, which is really dangerous, because if the horse infantry really spread their feet to break through, the [-] cavalry may not be able to stop them, they can only bite the opponent tightly, waiting for the opponent's horses to be exhausted Use your iron cavalry to harvest when you have exhausted your strength.

For them now, they have to forcibly cross a stone castle anyway, so why not choose the road with the widest road?

Last night's staying up late and the coldness of camping on the river bank made Huang Taiji cough uncontrollably.

The Ming army holds the absolute initiative, but they just sit back and ignore the capital, even if they only need to pay thousands of lives to win the capital, but Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng are still stubborn to be bombarded, as if they don't want to It's the same as taking down Shangjingcheng.

"Blood……"

"If the outer city is broken, then I will bring all the soldiers and horses in the city and mobilize the elite cavalry to attack Zhu Youjian with all my strength. I must take him down and accompany Da Khan on the road!"

Then, he only felt a hot stream gushing from his nose, which made him subconsciously reach out to touch it.

This kind of baggage truck was pulled from Shenyang to Shangjing City, and the road was unimpeded for a thousand miles. There were 42 mules and horses, [-] peasants, pulling [-] shi of rice and [-] shi of beans to the north.

"The Ming army has remained silent all this time because they thought about dividing our two troops before taking action. Now their goal has been achieved..."

In the camp formed by the baggage carts, when Jierhalang came to report, Huang Taiji, Daishan and others were sitting in front of the bonfire, holding a bowl of hot meat porridge in their hands.

The reason why the Liaoxi and Guanning iron cavalry used the three-eyed blunderbuss during the Tianqi and Chongzhen years was because the quality of the bird blunderbuss was not good enough.

Sure enough, when Huang Taiji's voice fell, horns sounded from the short slope in the distance. At the same time, the sound of horns was also heard from around the camp of the Jin Army on the south bank, and from three different directions of the Mangurtai army advancing on the north bank.

Now they follow Huang Taiji to break through, although they don't know if they will succeed, but if they fail, Nurhachi will not watch them die in front of him, but take the first step by himself.

"It's a hundred steps away, so what's the danger?" Zhu Youjian looked at the carts of gunpowder and responded to Sun Shoufa with a smile. At the same time, he also looked at the group of peasants carrying gunpowder and grain, and couldn't help asking:
"How much are the wages of these peasants? How are they paid?"

This is the best river valley to walk, but at the same time, because there are only a few mountain roads in the valley, each road has been equipped with a large number of stone forts by the Ming army.

It's just that this kind of trick is too low. For Huang Taiji, he has already pinpointed that the number of cavalry in the Ming army is only [-], so no matter how much Cao Bianjiao pretends to be suspicious, he can't attract his attention.

With these things, the army can surround the old slaves to death.

Cao Bianjiao blew the wooden whistle in his mouth, and the cavalry of the Ming army behind him began to step forward, placing him in the middle of the front army.

In order to prevent the Ming army from attacking halfway through, Huang Taiji chose to use the truck to form a camp and go northward, stepping across the thick ice of the Duo'erbi River.

If the horses of the Jin Army hadn't been trained, I'm afraid the camp would have been blown up right now.

"How much money did the ministries issue?" Zhu Youjian turned his head to look at his uncle Liu Xiaozu.

"Yes!"

"There are more than [-] people in the central army and the rear army, and the cavalry of the Ming general Cao is only [-]. I want to see if they dare to charge!"

In this way, there are stone forts in front of the Jin army, iron cavalry of the Ming army behind, and rangers acting as jackals on both sides.

Huang Taiji can guarantee that as long as the Jin army relaxes for a while, as long as the young general surnamed Cao of the Ming army gives the order, this group of rangers will become iron cavalry, repeatedly confronting the Jin army formation.

The Jin army in charge of defending the city did not actually suffer too many casualties, but in the face of such "indiscriminate bombing", even though they were not physically injured, their spirits were hit by souls, and they were stunned. Lying behind the female wall, sitting in the turret, looking at the messy horse path in front of him, and the unkempt colleagues...

Sun Shoufa withdrew his legs and looked happily at the carts of grain and gunpowder arriving.

After they reached the north bank, the three to four hundred steps wide valley road was enough for them to spread out and march without crowding together.

The muffled sound of artillery was like a heavy hammer, constantly beating on the chests of the soldiers of the Golden Army.

But right now in the river valley, the head and tail are destined not to move freely.

With his order, the army began to move, but at the same time, the cavalry of the Ming army was also moving closer to them.

When Sun Shoufa saw Zhu Youjian coming, he hurriedly bowed to him, "Your Highness, this place is dangerous, you have to stay away."

If it is on the plains, the head and tail can be divided into pincers, like a pair of pliers.

Thinking of this, he involuntarily looked at the rangers of the Ming army on the hills on both sides.

However, the baggage train formation is only beneficial to their own side in the plains. Once they reach the valley mountain road on the north bank, they have to change from a turtle formation to a long snake formation.

"Both the blunderbuss team and the blunderbuss cavalry are in the central army, right?"

"How is this going?!"

No one could answer Azig's question, because everyone's minds were blank at the moment.

But compared to them, Cao Bianjiao, who heard the sound of the cannon, smiled:
"Uncle...nephew waited so hard for you..."

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