Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 621

"That's right." Ning Wan and I echoed, "Chongzhen has committed a military taboo!"

Fan Wencheng went on to say: "Our Qing soldiers only need to choose a strike on a land route thousands of miles away, and the Ming army's food road will be cut off. Once the food road is broken, the Ming army will be defeated!"

Ning Wan and I went on to say: "Heng Jiu and Hou Fangyu's strategy of attacking the Ming army's weakness is worth a try. Even if the Ming army's food supply cannot be cut off in the end, it can at least form a confrontation with the Ming army near Jinghai County."

This is also the sentence that moved Dorgon, it is better to confront each other near Jinghai than to confront Beijing.

"If it weren't for the two gentlemen's suggestions, I would almost have missed a big deal." Dorgon "suddenly woke up".

After a short pause, Dorgon said to Fan Wencheng again: "Mr. Xiandou please write an edict for me."

"I'm terrified." Fan Wencheng made a cross with one hand, and quickly sat down at the table and spread out the white linen paper.

After walking back and forth for a few words, Dorgon said: "The defeat report has been received, so you don't have to blame yourself for it."

"Yan Yingyuan's beast is extremely ferocious, rare in ancient and modern times, and I also suffered defeat in Dagukou, let alone Qing?"

"The strategy presented by Qing and Hou Fangyu to attack his weakness is very advisable, and it is advisable to follow it early to cut off his food path..."

"As for what you said about transferring Horqin, Chahar, and Tumot's foreign tribes to Mongolia, I know it, and I will soon order the Outer Kingdoms to enter the pass to help. However, the Outer Kingdoms are far away and difficult to get together. Let the Eight Banners Mongols attack the Ming army's grain roads first, and when the Ming army is exhausted, cut them off in one fell swoop! We are looking forward to it."

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That night, Dorgon's edict was sent to the Jinghai County Government in an expedited [-] miles.

After reading Dorgon's edict, Hong Chengchou couldn't help but burst into tears of gratitude, Master Shengming!
There is really nothing much to say about such an enlightened master. Two hundred red cannons, more than 6000 self-generating guns, and more than 6000 soldiers of the Eight Banners were lost in the battle the night before yesterday. He didn't hesitate to come from underworld to excuse him, as a slave, what more could he expect?

Hou Fangyu was extremely jealous, why should the surname Hong be?

This is obviously my plan, okay?This is what I came up with!

But with the enemy at hand, Hou Fangyu could only suppress his jealousy.

At that moment Hou Fangyu said: "Hongbutang, since the master agrees with our strategy, let's follow it as soon as possible. After all, every extra day we delay here, the city of Beijing will be more dangerous."

Hong Chengchou hummed lightly and asked again: "Is Bart back?"

Hong Da immediately reported: "Go back to the master, Bart has just returned."

"Okay." Hong Chengchou immediately ordered, "Immediately send an order to Bart to let the Eight Banners Mongolia form a team of one thousand people to launch a raid on the more than 500 miles of grain roads from Dagukou to Chenguantun and then to Beijing. Starting today, Do not allow the Ming army to transfer a grain of grain and a catty of gunpowder to Beijing!"

Hong Chengchou's order was quickly conveyed.

Not long after, the four city gates of Jinghai County opened quietly.

Immediately, groups of Mongolian cavalry rushed out of the city gate.

After arriving outside the city, the Mongolian cavalry quickly split into dozens of groups, about [-] cavalry, divided into forty groups, and flew away in different directions.

Hong Chengchou's primary attack target was the grain road from Dagukou to Beijing.

The next step is to wait until the Mongolian cavalry from the Outer Domain of Horqin, Chahar, and Tumed arrive, and then attack the nearly [-]-mile seaside grain road between Dengzhou and Dagukou.

All in all, just one sentence, let the Ming army's grain road never have peace.

However, while sending Eight Banners Mongolian troops to attack the Ming army's grain road, Hong Chengchou was also planning for the worst.

That is, in case the Eight Banners Mongolia has no way to cut off the Ming army's food road, even if the Horqin, Chahar, and Tumed tribes are added, it still cannot, then they can only fight the Ming army in a decisive battle.

But if you have a decisive battle with the Ming army, you must figure out how you lost the night before?
Until now, Hong Chengchou is still confused about the battle the night before yesterday.

At that moment, Hong Chengchou asked Hong Da to invite Wang Fuchen to come to his camp. There were many things that he still needed to ask the generals leading the troops on the front line, such as Wang Fuchen.

When Hong Da walked to the gate of the barracks, the doctor was treating Wang Fuchen's wound.

"Wang Zongzhen, bear with it, it may hurt more today than yesterday."

"It's okay, you can just do whatever you want. Although this town is not as good as Guan Yu's, and he doesn't have the ability to scrape bones to heal poison without changing his face, he can still endure being stabbed a few times with chopsticks."

After this pause, Wang Fuchen asked Hong Da again: "Is the housekeeper looking for something?"

"Don't worry." Hong laughed and said, "Mr. Wang will treat his injuries first."

"Please wait a moment, butler." Wang Fuchen immediately signaled the doctor to start.

The doctor picked up a chopstick and wrapped it in gauze, soaked it in salt water, and then directly took the chopstick wrapped in gauze and stabbed it into the gun hole on Wang Fuchen's right arm.

In the battle the night before, Wang Fuchen saved his life, but he was also shot in the arm.

Fortunately, no bones were injured, but an eye was pierced through the arm by lead.

As soon as the chopsticks were pierced through one end of the gun hole, blood gushed out from the other end.

The doctor glanced at the blood and said with a smile: "There is no sign of festering in the wound, which is a good thing, but Wang Zongzhen must not be careless, he still needs to pay more attention, especially avoid alcohol."

"Got it." Wang Fuchen's lips trembled.

In any case, it will not feel good to let people poke back and forth in the wound with chopsticks.

When the blood dripping from the wound turned bright red, the doctor finally pulled out his chopsticks, soaked them in salt water and washed them, then stabbed them into the hole of the gun again and counted times, and finally bandaged it up.

Only then did Hong Da cup his hands and said, "President Wang, the department has an invitation."

Wang Fuchen knew that he couldn't hide, so he could only follow Hong Dalai to meet Hong Chengchou.

"Fuchen, is the wound on your right arm better?" Hong Chengchou asked with concern.

"Master Huibutang, it's much better." Wang Fuchen raised his right arm slightly.

"Hey, don't move." Seeing this, Hong Chengchou quickly dissuaded him, "If you've been injured for a hundred days, you can't be careless."

"It's okay, it's just a small injury." Wang Fuchen looked indifferent, he really didn't care about the injury, what he cared about was how Hong Chengchou would punish him?

Anyway, punishment is sure to be punished.

After all, he suffered such a big defeat.

Even if he is not responsible, he will still be punished.

Aren't these civil servants all of this bird nature?The credit belongs to them, and the blame belongs to the generals under them. After following Jiang Guan for so many years, he has already gotten used to it.

However, Wang Fuchen miscalculated this time.

"Fuchen, the defeat of Chen Guantun is due to the failure of the headquarters."

Hong Chengchou said sincerely: "The officers and soldiers of Datong Town have performed extremely well. The headquarters has already reported the inside story to the King Regent, and the King Regent has also made a decree, ordering the headquarters to reward Datong Town. The soldiers who died in battle also need to be well compensated."

"Ah?" Wang Fuchen was stunned immediately, this matter was beyond his expectation.

"Sit down." Hong Chengchou signaled Wang Fuchen to sit down, "I have something I want to ask for advice."

"The general is terrified." Wang Fuchen was so frightened that he quickly stood up again. The civil servant is so polite, there must be nothing good, and it might be something that requires him to work hard.

But Wang Fuchen miscalculated again.

Hong Chengchou just wanted to ask a few questions.

"Fuchen, when we were chasing after the victory, why did we suddenly stop at the third stage?"

"Hong Butang, the last general doesn't want to stop, but it's impossible not to stop. The firepower of the self-generated firecrackers of the Ming army is too strong, and we can't charge up at all."

"Didn't the Ming army have fled at that time? Can they organize another round of shooting?"

"The final general is also very confused about this matter. The Ming army has clearly collapsed, but in the blink of an eye, they stand in line again, as if they didn't flee. It's unbelievable."

"Is there such a thing? Has the Ming army become so powerful?"

From the moment of rout to defensive formation, Hong Chengchou only saw one army, that is the Eight Banners Manchuria, never thought that the Ming army has reached this point now?
After a short pause, Hong Chengchou asked again: "What about the landmines?"

"Hongbutang, the last general can't say anything about this matter." Wang Fuchen could only respond with a wry smile, "Before the first explosion, the last general and the soldiers of Datong Town were waiting in the trench, and turned back when they heard the continuous explosions. Look, I saw that the entire artillery position has been completely swallowed by red light, and the eyes hurt from burning."

"And then I saw the signal lights from the front line."

"But we had just walked a few steps, and the trench exploded."

Speaking of this, Wang Fuchen's face showed fear again, and the terrifying scene at that time appeared again in front of his eyes. He saw that there were all red lights in his field of vision, which suddenly bloomed one after another, and the huge continuous explosion sound shocked people. His eardrums were shattered, and the Datong soldiers were blown away, floating around like leaves blown by a strong wind.

To make matters worse, many soldiers were shot into sieves by landmine fragments.

Wang Fuchen was able to escape the disaster by stepping on the heads of his subordinates and climbing to the ground in time.

Hong Chengchou said: "You mean to say that the landmines on the artillery positions and the mines in the trenches were detonated by the Ming army twice, right?"

"That's right." Wang Fuchen replied, "It was detonated twice."

"And the number of mines is also very large? The range is also large?"

"Yes, at least there are tens of thousands of landmines, and the area is very wide. The entire artillery position and the outer trenches of the first two gun platforms have been bombed, and no place is spared."

"Great handwriting, the Ming army is really a big handwriting."

Hong Chengchou sighed, "It turns out that mines can still be used in this way."

Wang Fuchen said: "Hong Butang, next time let's let the Ming army have a taste of minefields."

"I'm afraid it's very difficult to do." Hong Chengchou sighed, "Although the Qing army also made landmines, the number of mines cast each time was not large, and it was impossible to do such a large-scale project as the Ming army."

"If we let the military battle situation be built now, I'm afraid it will be too late in time."

Even if it is manufactured, it cannot be shipped, because Beijing has been surrounded by the Ming army.

(End of this chapter)