Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 439

"Yan Yingyuan? The one guarding Shanyang?"

Dorgon's face turned cold instantly.

This is the shadow of the so-called famous tree of people. The Battle of Shanyang made Yan Yingyuan famous, and even Dorgon had heard of Yan Yingyuan's name.

"It really lives up to its reputation."

"As soon as we came up, he gave us a big blow."

With a sneer, Dorgon said again: "It's just that, in the face of absolute strength, no amount of intrigue will have much effect. He shouldn't have come to Dagukou."

"Master's words are very true." Hou Fangyu complimented.

"Yan Yingyuan came to Dagukou only to seek his own death."

"Chongzhen thought he had a plan, but he was actually burying his generals."

Hou Fangyu really hated Chongzhen, and would smear him whenever he had the chance.

Dorgon snorted and said again: "Decree, camp here."

Dorgon's will was conveyed, and the accompanying Eight Banners Han Army, Green Camp, and a small number of Eight Banners soldiers began to set up camp on the south bank of the Wei River, and a total of three camps were set up.

There is one camp for the Eight Banners Han Army and one camp for the Green Camp.

Between the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Camp, two thousand white-armored soldiers stood alone in a camp.

When it was almost noon, the three camps of the Qing army were basically settled.

Because only about [-] Ming troops occupied Dagukou, Dorgon did not conscript too many troops. Except for Wu Sangui's [-] Green Battalion soldiers, there were only [-] Eighth Banner Han troops and [-] Baya La soldiers.

Of the two thousand white armors, one thousand belonged to the white flag, and the other thousand belonged to the inlaid yellow flag.

Needless to say, the thousand Ba Yala soldiers with the yellow banner came to protect Fulin.

The camp had just been set up, and Shi Tingzhu also counted the losses of the Eight Banners Han army.

Shi Tingzhu walked into the big tent of the Chinese army with an ugly face, and reported to Dorgon: "Master, the loss has been accounted for clearly. A total of 480 ice sledges fell into the water, and the materials loaded totaled 48 red cannons and more than 8000 stone wheat. Or millet, more than 1000 barrels of gunpowder and more than 2 catties of dried meat."

Dorgon's face immediately became ugly.

He asked with a dark face, "Can the red cannon and supplies still be retrieved?"

Shi Tingzhu said: "Returning to the master, it is not difficult to pick up grain and dried meat, and they can still be eaten after they are picked up, but it is very difficult to pick up the red cannon that fell into the water in a hurry, because the Wei River has not yet thawed, and the navy's If the warships can’t come here, there’s no way to salvage the red-clothed cannon that sank to the bottom of the river.”

Dorgon said: "Can't we wait until the Wei River re-freezes to dig ice and salvage it?"

There are generally only two ways to salvage shipwrecks in rivers or lakes. One is to salvage with a boat and a winch, and the other is to dig ice after the river or lake freezes, and then salvage it from the ice cave.

However, the ice-cutting salvage method can only be used in cold weather, and it cannot salvage heavy objects.

"Master, the ice layer after refreezing is too thin and too brittle." Shi Tingzhu said with a wry smile, "It can't bear the weight of the red cannon at all, so we can only wait for the navy to arrive after the Wei River thaws."

"Damn it." Dorgon said, "Then how many red cannons are left?"

Shi Tingzhu said: "This time I brought a total of 52 red cannons, and now there are [-] left, which should be enough. If the master thinks it is not enough, you can bring another [-] cannons."

Dorgon said: "Forget it, let's use it first."

It would be embarrassing to spread the news about the transfer of troops from Beijing before the first battle in Dagukou, and it would seriously damage his prestige, so it is possible to transfer or not.

After a short pause, Dorgon asked again: "How many casualties did the Green Camp and the Eight Banners Han army suffer?"

"More than 3000." Shi Tingzhu's face darkened, and he said in a low voice, "More than 500 of them were killed by the bomb, more than 100 drowned after falling into the water, and more than 800 were seriously injured. Even if they were revived, they would still be disabled."

"Then find a place where no one is around and deal with it quietly." Dorgon said coldly.

The food in the Qing Dynasty was very limited, and it was impossible to support the disabled, so it had to be disposed of.

"Hey!" Shi Tingzhu agreed, and left the big tent with a sullen face. At this moment, he was undoubtedly in a bad mood, because today he lost hundreds of elite Han troops.

As for the life and death of the green camp, he didn't care.

Dorgon's eyes fell on Ah Shan again, and he shouted: "Ah Shan, are you guilty?"

Ah Shan drooped his head and didn't say a word. There was such a big mistake this time. As Gu Shan'e of the Zhengbai Banner, he really could not escape the blame, because Ye Bushou, who stood in front of the army, was personally led by him.

Last night, he personally led more than a hundred Ba Yala to reconnaissance. The closest distance to the Ming army at Dagukou was even less than a hundred steps away. During this period, no abnormalities were found.

Dorgon went on to say: "You participated in the Shanyang War two years ago, and you also learned about Yan Yingyuan's plots and tricks. Why did you neglect the reconnaissance of Weihe this time? Oh?"

Ah Shan really wanted to say that I am not a shaman, how did I know that Yan Yingyuan would come?

Besides, the Weihe River is so wide and so long, how do I know where the Ming army buried the gunpowder?Could it be that I took an ice ball and pierced it everywhere along the Wei River?Can you tie me over?
But in the end, Ah Shan didn't even make an excuse.

In any case, it was always true that all this was due to his negligence.

Ashan's good attitude of pleading guilty made Dorgon feel better, and said with a sigh of relief: "Ashan, because your negligence caused such heavy losses to the army, I will demote your title by two ranks and fine you 100 taels of silver. You are allowed to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds, as long as you make meritorious deeds in the next battle, you can forgive your crimes."

"The servant thanked the master for not killing him." Ah Shan knelt down and beat him a thousand times before retreating.

Dorgon turned his attention to Shi Tingzhu again: "Shi Tingzhu, you have only one hour to set up the red cannons, and then destroy the two gun platforms around Dagukou first."

"Hey!" Shi Tingzhu knelt down and turned around to leave.

……

In the forward position of the Ming army.

Before Jiannu launched an attack, Sun Fanzhi led the soldiers of the new army to seize the time to strengthen the gun platform. The walls and slopes of the gun platform have been rammed tightly, and now the main thing is to deepen the trench.

Zhou Peigong was also helping, using a dustpan to lift the soil dug out of the trench to the outside of the slope protection.

These soft soil layers covering the slope protection can form a certain protection for the slope protection. In this way, Jiannu's shells will reduce the damage to the slope protection after the loose soil layer is digested.

Then the life of the outer slope protection will be greatly extended.

Zhou Peigong was very curious about the gun platform fortification in front of him.

"Grandpa, is this also a castle?" Zhou Peigong asked, "I haven't seen it in the book."

"In the book?" Sun Fanzhi asked while raising the soil, "What kind of military books have you read?"

"I haven't read a few books, but I only read a new book on performance." Zhou Peigong said with some embarrassment, "There is no such thing in the above article on the illustrations of various utensils in Putrajaya."

"Of course it's not in the new performance book."

Sun Fanzhi said with a smile: "This is called the blunderbuss platform. It was improved by the current emperor based on the Western blunderbuss platform. It can be used to defend against artillery and can achieve amazing effects. It is even stronger than a city wall several feet thick."

"That's it?" Zhou Peigong obviously didn't believe it, "Can it be stronger than a city wall several feet thick?"

"Boy, you don't understand this, don't underestimate this slope protection. The most powerful part of this slope protection is the angle between it and the ground. Because the angle is extremely small, after the shell hits the slope protection, It will form a ricochet, so that the impact on the slope protection itself will be greatly reduced." Sun Fanzhi patiently explained to Zhou Peigong.

While speaking, a scream sounded like the air was being torn apart above the trench. Upon hearing this, Sun Fanzhi knew that the Eight Banners Han army had started shelling.

"go back!"

Sun Fanzhi immediately led Zhou Peigong and other officers and men of the new army under his command to the back of the gun platform, and then entered the bunker through the entrance behind the gun platform to avoid Jiannu's shelling.

……

Dorgon has already boarded the Jinglan car that has just been built.

Standing on the Jinglan cart more than five feet high, you can clearly see the Ming army gun platform in front of you.

Through the telescope, Dorgon could clearly see that in just three days, the Ming army built a large gun platform on the west side and south side of Dagukou.

This seems to be different from the tactics of the Xuzhou Ming Army.

The Ming army in Xuzhou relied on the number of blunderbusses. The size of each blunderbuss was not large, and it was not necessarily strong, but the victory was due to the large number, which made the Qing army at a loss when they attacked.

The Ming army at Dagukou only built two large blunderbuss platforms.

The two blunderbusses and the Dagu mouth itself just form a character shape.

The two large blunderbuss platforms are almost the same in shape except that they are larger than the Xuzhou blunderbuss platform. They are both concave hexagons. No matter which direction the Qing army attacks from, it has to face the Ming army from two directions. It's just that there are only wooden fences on each edge for the time being, which is not too strong.

Judging by the thickness of the wood, the flintlock gun must not be able to penetrate it.

But the shells of the red cannon can be easily destroyed.

Dorgon originally thought that the wooden fences of the two gun platforms would be easily torn apart by the red-clothed cannons, but soon he found that something was wrong. The red-clothed cannons never stopped firing, but the wooden fences of the gun platforms Unscathed, what it was when the shelling began, and what it still is.

"Master, the problem lies in the slope protection around the gun platform."

Hou Fangyu said: "Because the surrounding slope protection is slightly higher than the wooden fence of the gun platform, the red cannons of the Eight Banners Han Army can't hit the wooden fence at all unless they are fired from top to bottom."

"That's true." Hong Chengchou said, "Unless the slope protection is penetrated first, the wooden fence cannot be broken."

"Mr. Heng Jiu, it is impossible to penetrate the slope protection." Hou Fangyu said, "Because the inclination angle of the slope protection circle is very large, it looks like flat ground, and the shells of the red cannon will immediately jump up."

"Really." Dorgon also saw it now, and shells kept jumping up.

Although there were many bomb craters on the slope protection around the front, there was no substantial damage.

(End of this chapter)