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Chapter 176 I can't attack the Nanmanzi water village on land, so let me, Master Qingshui, go

"Twelve Princes, I'm afraid the barbarians on the opposite side are not easy to deal with. They have already defended against danger, and there is a fleet behind them. If we use cavalry to attack the camp, it may take a lot of trouble.

Even if they were driven into the sea by a deadly battle, those southern barbarians could escape with a piece of wood, but we Baqierlang can only shoot arrows at the sea.Today came too fast, and I didn't prepare weapons to attack the camp. "

In the wilderness outside Bijia Shanshui Village, three or four thousand and eight banner cavalry were loosely lined up far away, and the banner owner, the county king Azig, was preparing for a tentative attack.

A general beside him, after observing the situation on the battlefield, persuaded him like this, hoping that he would be cautious.

The general's name was Yide, and he was sent by Jierhalang. After receiving the news of the Ming army's breakout in the early morning, he brought the two Jiala deployed by Jierhalang between Xingshan and Jinzhou to come. To reinforce Azig, they met and joined forces not far before arriving at Bijia Mountain.

Ild is the nephew of the late Jurchen warrior Janguli.And Yangguli is Nuerhachi's son-in-law, Azige's brother-in-law, and Jierhalang's brother-in-law.Therefore, in terms of seniority, Yild is a generation lower than Azig and others.

At this moment, on the front of the Bijiashan battlefield, although Azig's status is high, only one-third of the troops are his own direct descendants.The other two-thirds were brought by the guest general and sent by him temporarily.

It's not good for Azig to use too much on other people's troops. How to fight has to be discussed with Yide.

Otherwise, Jierhalang might find him to settle accounts later, misunderstood that he wanted to use a knife to kill people to preserve his strength, and let Jierhalang's banner people be cannon fodder.

So Azig listened to Yide's complaints, and had no choice but to touch his beautiful beard, pretending to ponder for a while, and still insisted: "It is necessary to fight, otherwise Cao Bianjiao will let Cao Bianjiao get away, and I will lose my Qing spirit." It’s also my fault that I came hastily and didn’t fully understand the enemy’s situation, otherwise I would have brought more troops.”

Ilde sighed, and asked puzzledly: "The general also finds it strange, since he knows that he must fight hard, why does the prince only bring a armor? Where are the other troops stationed in the horse farm town?"

Azige is also helpless: "A while ago, this king just received a secret order from His Majesty, saying that His Majesty had sent a secret agent to instigate and contact him before, and within this month, he would storm Songshan, which Hong Chengchou was defending.

It is said that the food in Songshan City has long been exhausted, the people have been eaten up, and the soldiers have begun to eat each other. Songshan Deputy General Xia Chengde has promised to surrender his family. The price is that after the city is broken, 5000 of his subordinates will not die.

Originally, it was only a few days before the date of offering the gate that was agreed with Xia Chengde, but such a sudden change occurred last night, Nan Manzi actually had the courage to rescue Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao by sea, I am afraid that if this news spreads to Songshan City, Will inspire the determination of the defenders to continue fighting to the death.

Especially if Xia Chengde knew that the barbarian court had sent them reinforcements, and he regretted that he would no longer offer his family, wouldn't there be an accident in Songshan's broken city?
So, when I got the news last night, I immediately divided my troops into two Jiala, and surrounded the south and west gates of Songshan Mountain to death.

I also asked people to go to the south gate tower where Xia Chengde was stationed again to shoot a secret agreement, and asked him to advance the date of dedication to this evening. At the same time, I also urgently sent a play to explain the situation to His Majesty in the rear, and asked the reinforcements to arrive quickly to attack Songshan.

It is better to cut off one finger than to injure the enemy's ten fingers.Even if Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming ran away, they were just small fish, but Hong Chengchou couldn't tolerate any mistakes. "

After listening to Azig explaining so much to him, Yild respected him enough and had good reasons.It is not good for him to refuse to fight tough battles just because he is Jierhalang's subordinate.

In fact, in history, Songshan City was finally betrayed by traitors because it could not bear the hunger, and it did happen around the end of February in the 15th year of Chongzhen.

But now it is only the fourth day of March, and the butterfly effect of history on this issue is not yet obvious.

It was true that the Qing army happened to be at the juncture of making a decisive attack on Hong Chengchou, which indirectly led to the relaxation of defenses in the direction of Tashan and Xingshan, making it relatively easy for Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen to succeed.

It's just that Zheng Chenggong didn't know that all this was Shen Shuren's rough design.He thought that it was only because of his ability that he could do things so beautifully.

……

After Yild was persuaded by Azig, of course he had no choice but to bite the bullet and launched a comprehensive and thorough attack on Bijia Shanshui Village.

Bijia Mountain is originally a peninsula protruding into the sea, and the water village at the wharf is at the tip of the peninsula.

Therefore, the entire land width from left to right does not exceed three or four miles, and the sea surface is on both sides.

This kind of terrain, in fact, also led to the prepared and defensive side, which was actually relatively easy-the cavalry could only attack from the front of the peninsula, and could not turn around from both sides.

Therefore, the Ming army only set up two lines of defense near the broken double-layer wall.

The first is a simple shallow trench and a temporary stack of chaotic woods to resist horses, and then the soldiers under Cao Bianjiao's command are mainly supplemented by a part of Li Fuming's troops, mainly spearmen, forming a close combat.

Some of the soldiers were equipped with shields, but not many, because carrying shields was too troublesome to march in a hurry overnight, and many of them lost their shields after running for dozens of miles.

There are also a small number of soldiers who are sword and shield soldiers, and they are also used for cavalry charges and pikemen to get into close combat and lose their impact, and block them to make up for them.The spear is not very flexible when it is close to the body, and a small amount of sword and shield hand is still necessary as a supplement.

Behind the first line of defense, there are still many piles of rammed earth and broken pickets. Although they have been repeatedly damaged, the bunker effect is already very poor, but after all, the terrain is six or seven feet higher than the front row.

Such a drop is perfect for the musketeers to output. There is no need to worry about shooting the pikemen in the front row, and they will not be quickly close to the enemy cavalry.

"Brothers! The Nanmanzi on the opposite side is just a defeated general of our army! As long as our Baqierlang rushes to the battle, Li Fuming's useless soldiers will immediately collapse and run away!

Many of you must have chased and killed the Nanmanzi who wanted to jump into the sea to escape in this Bijia Mountain last September, right?We drowned at least [-] barbarians in that battle!I will win the Qing Dynasty!kill! "

After Yide made all the arrangements and briefly boosted his morale, more than 2000 cavalry from the Jierhalang Department of the Inlaid Blue Banner howled and launched a charge.

As mentioned earlier, limited by the terrain, there was no way to turn around this time, so the cavalry did not have the weakening link of riding and shooting across the formation.

The elite of the Eight Banners is indeed the world's best cavalry and archer. Thousands of armor-piercing arrows with carved feathers and cones roared and shot away in an instant. But you can't see it when you first meet the enemy.

The pikemen under Li Fuming's command on the opposite side were immediately scattered and knocked down several times. Even if some of them were covered by messy trees and shields, there were always those who were unlucky and hit by sharp arrows with tricky angles. Slightly loosen up.

"The main attack Li Fuming is indeed the right choice! I know that this barbarian is not as good as Cao Bianjiao!" After watching the progress of the charge, Yide was slightly pleased in his heart and gained more confidence.

All of this, so far, is so similar to the battle where [-] Ming troops were drowned at Bijia Mountain at the end of September last year!

And "replaying history" has always been the best way to boost the morale of the army. If you used this trick to win one side back then, you now have a great psychological advantage.

Soon, the Ming army on the opposite side also began to fire their muskets, and rows of slugs loaded with paper shells flew out amidst the roar.Because he had to break through heavy armor, Zhang Mingzhen still didn't use shotguns this time, so the hit rate was only in the pitiful single digits.

The volley of thousands of muskets only killed and wounded dozens of cavalry.Fortunately, the Ming army fired quickly, and they used the stacking method, and the musketeers in the back row would quickly come up to fill their positions and fire.

The musketeers in the front row fixedly loaded ammunition with paper cartridge cases, and the loading speed was at least twice as fast as that of the Ming army firearms that the Qing army had seen before.

The cavalry of the Qing army didn't know all this. Even when they heard the gunshots in the next few rounds and saw more and more Pao Ze dying beside them, the psychological advantage of "reappearing history" still made them blindly believe. This is just the effect brought about by the simple stacking method, and I didn't think about "the loading speed of this batch of Ming troops is much faster than the Ming troops I have seen before."

In fact, not only the cavalry of the Qing army in Yide didn't think so, even the troops of Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao didn't expect that Zhang Mingzhen's musket fire rate would be more than doubled, even they thought that Zhang Mingzhen just divided the musketeers into several teams to fire in turn .

They hadn't cooperated with this friendly army before. They just fought in the dark and cooperated randomly, so they couldn't figure out the details of the friendly army.

But in any case, the continuous roar was also a great encouragement to the soldiers in the front row of the Ming army who were injured.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing Dynasties continued a period of high-intensity fighting and killing each other under the strange mentality that both sides had very high morale and firmly believed that the advantage was in me.

"Kill all the dog tartars! Kill one of them!"

"Two! Father, second brother, I have avenged you!"

The soldiers under Cao and Li's command frantically stabbed and fought hand-to-hand. Even if their tendons were broken by the rushing Eight Banners cavalry, they still held on to their spears and refused to let go. The weapon poked a little deeper in the direction of the Tartar.

The brutal fight lasted only for a cup of tea, and Ilde finally discovered something was wrong: the fire density of the Ming army's firearms was too high!

Although the Eight Banners' elite heavy armor and sharp blades, martial arts and physical fitness are also good, even if they are in close combat with the Southern Manzi's pikemen, they can basically ensure a one-for-one exchange ratio.

But being bombarded by the musketeers on the high wall one after another, and the back row was beaten to the point of blood flying, tendons broken, bones broken and horses dropped, morale would soon be sluggish.

On the surface of the sea, Zheng Chenggong's gunboat team also quickly rounded back to its position. He was also in order to maximize the suddenness of firepower and the lethal effect. He only approached after the Eight Banners cavalry had already launched a charge, and fought for the nearest face-to-face. Boom output position, and then fire.

It is obviously impossible for Zheng Chenggong to have studied ballistics, nor would he know the "crossfire" in modern firepower theory.But because of the terrain of the peninsula of Bijia Mountain, the land is sandwiched between the sea on both sides, so Zheng Chenggong's gunboats inadvertently realized "crossfire" naturally.

Teams of cavalry of the Qing army, which were similar to charging horizontally, were formed just on the axis of the artillery's firing trajectory. Even if they missed the soldiers who were directly aiming at them, they could easily deceive their comrades in arms.

What's even more frightening is that in the era of explosive bombs, the crossfire effect of artillery is not obvious, but the crossfire effect of machine guns is obvious.But now the Hongyi cannons of the Ming army still use solid bullets.

For solid bullets, trajectory coverage is very important. If you fire at the projection of the horizontal cavalry, if you are accurate enough, the probability of causing secondary damage after penetrating an enemy will also double.

The more terrifying multiple kills come from the ricochet - the solid bullet kills an enemy and rebounds when it hits the ground. As long as it hits the enemy with its powerful kinetic energy, it can kill several of them!

Fortunately, Yide himself did not lead the charge in person, so that he escaped the fate of being killed on the spot like Erbi and Yonggui.But the cavalry under his command, under the cross ricochets of the Hongyi cannon, became more and more bloody and bloody, causing heavy casualties.

Azig and Ilde stared blankly for a long time, so that in the first three or four rounds after the Hongyi cannon fired, they were at a loss as to whether they should give up, withdraw their troops, and let the dead Paoze die in vain.

Fortunately, the continuous and stable performance of the Ming army will eventually make them realize the reality.

Azig was the first to react. He knew that Yide's people were all Jierharang's subordinates. If he had sacrificed too much in vain here, it would be difficult for him to explain to Brother Wang when he went back.

Jierhalang is a prince, but he is just a county king.

Therefore, when Yild tried to ask him to withdraw first, Azig immediately agreed.

"The Twelve Princes, why don't you take it down first and make a long-term plan? There is something wrong with these southern barbarians! There are so many Hongyi cannons."

"You're right. We really have to retreat first. Even if we get into the water village, we won't be able to beat the gunboats at sea. We still underestimate the enemy!"

Yild was amnesty and finally withdrew his troops, but in the brief and fierce head-to-head confrontation just now, at least hundreds of elite riders of the Eight Banners and some Mongolian cavalry died in vain.

There were also many wounded, but unfortunately, because of the retreat of the Qing army, the severely wounded who remained on the battlefield and mourned could only be slowly practiced by the Ming army to make up their guns.

After retreating, the Qing army was also gloomy, and all the generals surrounded Azig to ask him for advice.

After much deliberation, Azig had to order to turn to the defense on the spot, dig trenches to block the Bijiashan peninsula, and prevent the Ming army here from going ashore to push back—he was not afraid that the Ming army would really counterattack, but that he was afraid of another attack. At night, the Ming army has not yet finished walking, so it will boost morale and send messengers to get in touch with Hong Chengchou.

Therefore, the Ming army here must be marked to death, and the nearby beaches must also be temporarily patrolled by cavalry day and night to prevent the Ming army messengers from going ashore on sampans.

Right now, it's already like this anyway, so let's ensure that Hong Chengchou is completely wiped out first, and then we can think about it in the long run.

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As Azig's tentative attack failed miserably, the morale of the Ming soldiers in the water village increased.

This is not a fluke battle in the dark, but a defensive battle with the leader of the Tartars in broad daylight!
Although the banner owner temporarily brought half of the troops due to unknown reasons.

"General Zhang, your firecrackers are so sharp! When did my Ming Dynasty have such excellent firearms! During the chaotic battle last night, I still couldn't hear clearly. Just now, the battle was going on in a dignified manner, and I just realized it later. Come, come, let me present you with a pot, today's big victory is mainly due to the contributions of you and Zheng Tiju!"

"Cao Junmen, Li Junmen, you are welcome. It is your soldiers who are fighting the Tartars on the front line. We are just hiding behind and shooting coldly. After this battle, Azig must not dare to prevent us from boarding the ship and retreating. I guess It doesn't matter if we just play an empty city plan."

Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen also held wine jugs and were polite to each other.After drinking, they repeated the old story, hoping that Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming would take the sick and wounded and the family members of Cao and Li's family first, and then return to Shanhaiguan by boat.

After several fierce battles in a row, the number of lightly and seriously wounded soldiers, sick people, and collapsed people accumulated by the Ming army is actually several thousand. In addition, the servants of the two families will definitely not follow them to the south, so there is no way to poach corners. Let these people go back to Shanhaiguan first, which is an explanation to the court.

The follow-up troops, when Cao and Li leave, let Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong make false accounts at will, and then say that they have blocked Azig here for a day or two, and then thousands of casualties, and the casualties They are both Cao and Li's troops, and Cao and Li have nowhere to check the accounts.

Cao and Li didn't feel that this attitude was inappropriate, but they just persuaded: "We are almost ready to load the ship, and more than half of the people are on board, why don't we go together?"

Zheng Chenggong had already made up his mind: "I was in a hurry to leave just now, but I thought the Tartars were scary. Now that we have beaten them, we found that Azig is no more than that. We are very confident that we can hold on for a whole day! Or even longer, since this is the case, it is better to continue Weary the enemy to consume it.

What if they can meet the troops who broke out from Governor Hong?Anyway, it is a business without capital for me, and the loss is completely controllable if I wait for a while. "

Cao and Li were right when they thought about it. Indeed, after the blocking battle, the whole army's energy and spirit returned.Everyone has also exposed the psychological shadow of drowning and killing [-] to [-] Ming soldiers on Bijia Mountain last year.

Azig underestimated the enemy this time, which was actually a failure. Instead, he helped the Ming army continue to increase the most important morale value.

Cao and Li didn't say any more, they also loaded all the wounded from the latest battle, and boarded the ship and let the helmsman of the Shen family do the work. The helmsman of the Shen family went to whichever port he said.

It is estimated that after two days, they will return to the rear of Shanhaiguan.

As for Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong, he has completely freed up his hands. He can make fake accounts to help Shen Futai earn more private troops, and he can also take the opportunity to take a small gamble and take care of more troops who have run away. In case Hong Chengchou breaks out What about the troops—although they still don't know anything about Hong Chengchou's situation.

The Qing army on the other side was actually not idle.After Azig changed to a blockade, he also began to deploy troops in the next step, trying to cause more trouble for Zhang Mingzhen and Zheng Chenggong.

Azig, the army unit, can't be adjusted now, and everything must be focused on the Songshan battlefield.But he quickly realized that he could still mobilize the power of the Qing navy—the navy couldn't play in the decisive battle of Songshan City, and they were idle, so it might as well be used to encircle the Ming army!

If the Ming general on the opposite side is really greedy and wants to save some breakout troops from Songshan, then, at that time, the troop carrier full of Nanmanzi will be sunk directly on the sea!Let them go straight into the sea to feed the sharks!It's more convenient to kill like that!

Considering that the Ming army fleet had Hongyi cannons, Azig didn't think that the Qing navy could fight head-on.

However, there are always times when it is dark, and there are always times when the big ships are not flexible enough. The Qing Dynasty is fighting on the inside, which is convenient for mobilizing small ships, and even for temporary deployment of fire ships. These are all ways!

Thinking of all this, before noon that day, not long after the Bijiashan siege battle had just been defeated, Azig sent a letter to Jierhalang in the rear, begging him to send Daling who is still stationed at the mouth of the Daling River west of Jinzhou. Qingshui division Kong Youde's department quickly and secretly transferred reinforcements.

There is no doubt that among the Qing army, the best fighters in water combat are all traitor troops.This is also deeply in line with the historical inertia of the nomadic civilization when it entered the Central Plains.

Because of the water quality and technical weapons of the Manchu Eight Banners, they are not as good as the Han people.In the past, the Mongolian navy relied on the Han people, and now the Manchus also rely on the Han people.

Among the Han Chinese naval divisions in the Qing Dynasty, the best performers were of course those generals who were born in Dongjiang Town and who would be named Sanshun Kings in the future.

In addition, Chongzhen was in Denglai, Shandong for five years, and the Han navy generals who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty because of the Wuqiao Mutiny.

Azig was the first to think of Kong Youde, who was stationed not far from here, which was the proper meaning of the question.

That afternoon, Kong Youde, who was at the mouth of the Daling River in the west of Jinzhou City and was currently in charge of cutting off the access to the Zudashou Waterway in Jinzhou City, received a transfer order from Jierhalang.

After knowing the enemy's situation, Kong Youde was also very decisive, and immediately asked the whole army to prepare as many small boats as possible, and temporarily converted them into arson boats, so as to attack the Daming Navy in the middle of the night.

(End of this chapter)