Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 440 Preparing for a General Attack
After receiving Lu Xiangsheng's order to rush back to Yaoziling, the First Army and Fourth Army of the Imperial Guard immediately gave up marching towards Hetuala, and turned around and rushed towards Guangning City.

It is not easy to go from the Jurchen Department of Jianzhou, Liaodong, north of Shenyang to Yaoziling in the northeast of Guangning City. This distance has reached more than [-] miles, but because of the consideration of passing news on the road, there will be some delays in the process. Therefore, what Lu Xiangsheng asked was that the two armies must arrive at Yaoziling within three days after receiving the news.

This rapid march may not be difficult for the cavalry, and it can even be reached in advance if the horse gallops wildly. However, the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guards are mainly infantry, so it is necessary to march quickly to reach the kite within three days. Ridge, it is necessary to march fast for more than four hours a day.

In later generations, there was a record of the Fourth Red Army marching 120 kilometers a day and night, and it was carried out under heavy rain and muddy conditions. This also shows that people have this potential, but Lu Xiangsheng did not know this example. The First Army and Fourth Army of the Guards rushed to Yaoziling within three days. It can be seen that he has relatively strong confidence in the First Army and Fourth Army of the Imperial Guard.

In fact, long-distance cross-country training has always been the most important training course in the Royal Military Academy and Imperial Guard recruit training, and fast long-distance cross-country training is performed almost every day, so this kind of rapid march of hundreds of miles is not necessary. It will pose too great a challenge to the First and Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guard.

It's just that the Imperial Guards have been expanded now. One army has 4 to 9 people. It is more difficult in terms of sex and quick reflexes, but it is also a kind of temper for the Praetorian Guards.

Even though they knew it would be difficult, Chang Yanling and Lu Xiangyu led their troops to Yaoziling at the fastest speed.

Fortunately, Liaodong at this time is dry and rainless, and it is mostly a plain area. Even if there are many jungles, it is not a problem for the Fourth Army, which is used to shuttling in the tropical rainforest.

The First Army of the Imperial Guard is the trump card with the most rigorous training in all aspects, and it did not show timidity because of this.

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Here, Huang Taiji and Dorgon, who were divided and surrounded by the Second Army and the Third Army of the Imperial Guard, were still fighting fiercely with the Imperial Guard.

Huang Taiji was very cunning, and he stopped charging. Instead, he used the firearm battalion outside and the Eight Banners cavalry inside, using horses and terrain as cover, to shoot at the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Imperial Guard who relied on chariots as cover. At the same time, he sent a part of the firearms battalion to advance rapidly to the hillsides on both sides in an attempt to cross Yaoziling and thus get rid of the current predicament of being divided and surrounded.

Here, Dorgon sent dead men to entangle the second cavalry army of the Imperial Guard, while he himself divided his main force into several routes to break through from all directions.

As a result, it became more difficult for the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guard to encircle and suppress Dorgon's tribe, and it was difficult not to escape an Eight Banners Tartar.

However, the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guard is still killing and wounding the enemy as much as possible, not only the Second Cavalry Army, but also the flying battalion and artillery. Can't break out completely successfully.

The war continued until nightfall. Except for a few groups of Eight Banners Tartars who broke out from the siege, Dorgon's troops still failed to get rid of the entanglement of the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guard.

The current Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guard is like a shepherd herding sheep. One rider is a shepherd, and the musket in his hand is a whip. The Eight Banners Tartars who go out are their flocks.

As long as these Eight Banners Tartars stay obediently in the area under their control, the herdsmen of the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guard will not do anything to them, but as long as these sheep have the idea of ​​breaking out, they will stop you immediately. And give you a head-on blow.This can not only save energy, but also block most of the main force of Dorgon's army before the arrival of the first cavalry army and the fourth army of the imperial guards.

Both sides are tired, and it is worth taking advantage of the night to temporarily truce.

However, in order to prevent Dorgon's troops from breaking out at night, the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guard did not dare to take it lightly at night, and still sent people to take turns to guard, and the flight battalion would also take turns to have a group of hot air balloons continue to fly in the night sky to observe the ground dynamics .

Dorgon had indeed thought about breaking out at night, but the flying soldiers of the Ming army who were blazing in the air and the high-frequency cavalry patrols on the ground made him understand that it was difficult to break out at night, not to mention the blurry vision at night, even if he broke out, he couldn't find it. In the direction, this is the territory of Ming Dynasty, surrounded by Zhao Liaojiao, Man Gui and other Liaodong frontier troops.

If it was daytime, it might be possible to fight with the bravery of the Eight Banners soldiers, but it was hard to say at night.

What's more, his army was also very tired at this time, and none of them were physically strong, so they simply took advantage of this time to rest and recharge their batteries.

Dorgon even guessed that these imperial guards didn't want to eat him immediately. He estimated that they were still waiting for more troops to come, so he simply ordered everyone to get off their horses and sleep, except for those who took turns on guard. Try your best to break through the next day.

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Huang Taiji was also still trapped in the long and narrow valley bottom in the middle of Yaozi Ridge. Although he had the firearm battalion in his hand, he still couldn't break through the several lines of defense formed by the chariot battalion.

He wanted to climb over the hillside to break out from both sides, but found that there were guards ambushing here on both sides. If it weren't for the low terrain of the Yaoziling valley, and Huang Taiji himself had a firearms battalion, the number of guards in ambush Not enough, the current main force of Huang Taiji may have been completely wiped out.

But Huang Taiji also knew that the longer he dragged on, the greater the danger, so he, like Dorgon, had to continue to plan to break through with all his strength.

Huang Taiji was very thirsty and tired at this time, he did not expect that he would fall into such a predicament, he thought that his chance to raid Monan would be difficult for the Ming army to see through, but he did not expect that the Ming army had already arrived at Yaoziling Yi Yi tied his pockets and trapped him here.

Although when night fell, he had to order the whole army to rest temporarily, but he still sent dark cavalry to leave here quietly in the dark to transfer some of the troops he left in Shenyang and Hetuala to support, breaking the current deadlock.For this reason, he also specially ordered the Firearms Battalion to continue to attack the front line of defense formed by the Ming Army Chariot Battalion in order to achieve the purpose of cover.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng also arrived at a small post station not far from Yaoziling. This post station was one of the first batch of post stations built by Monan after he became the Ming Dynasty's envoy. Yes, so when Lu Xiangsheng arrived here, he would have a place to stay. Moreover, the First Army and Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards had also arrived here at this time. Chang Yanling and Lu Xiangyu saw Lu Xiangsheng almost at the same time, and were ready to total attack.

(End of this chapter)