The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 718 Active Guerrilla
Jiannu, who was already extremely poor, really belonged to the poor soldiers who ransom, and even the children of the Eight Banners were embarrassed. One can imagine the days of those Goryeo and Han people.

Hong is ruthless. This time, he must win a complete victory. The strategic purpose is to capture Jinzhou and all the nearby satellite cities. The target of the siege is Hong Bing trained by Hong Chengchou.

After a two-year pause, Hong Jie crossed the chasm dug by Yuan Chonghuan to the outside of Jinzhou City, and mobilized [-] soldiers. The Mongolian tribes also responded positively, and the number of light cavalry gathered in Jinzhou reached [-].

The Mongols, who had suffered a big loss in Daming Pass last time, were willing to follow the Qing Dynasty because they had no choice but to do so. The disaster in the north was severe, and they could no longer get the grain sold from Daming Pass.

Now that the Manchu Qing squeezed Aha, he did not hesitate to starve to death the old and the weak. Under the condition that the soldiers of the Eight Banners were full, they could have a surplus of 10,000+ shi grains a year. With the food supply army, the former Tartars came to help and reduced a lot of resistance.

It's a pity that there are still a lot fewer Mongolian troops who are willing to serve. The quality and number of the 5 people who took part in the siege of Jinzhou last time are quite different.

He Kegang, the guard of Jinzhou, has long been calm, and he is always prepared to deal with the attack of the Qing army.

After several years of accumulation, Jinzhou City has enough soldiers and fine food, and the maintenance and reinforcement of the city is carried out every year.

Because the Jinzhou defenders had [-] soldiers and [-] village warriors in training, they did not have the strength to fight outside the city, so they defended the city without hesitation.

However, there is a limit to defending the city even if there are enough soldiers and food. If the morale is low to a certain extent without waiting for rescue, it will directly affect the combat effectiveness.

Fortunately, some "God of War" generals headed by Tang Daoheng are still serving in Liaodong, and there are several hundred artillery and air force personnel. Owns more than a hundred cannons.

With sixty six-pounder field guns that could move positions flexibly, the Qing army would encounter unprecedented casualties when attacking the city.

Under the condition that the detection report was confirmed, He Kegang and Ji Yong, the eunuch of the supervising army, jointly sent to the Ministry of War an expedited [-]-mile plan for the Qing army to invade Jinzhou on a large scale. Six hundred miles is urgent.

At this time, Chongzhen was in a good state of mind, because although there were many bandits in the mainland, it seemed that there was no climate. He decided to do his best to give the Qing army a fatal blow.

The emperor issued a decree to summon Ji and Hong Chengchou, the governor of Liaodong, who were in Shanhaiguan, to manage Liaodong and control all walks of life. The warriors of the Ming Dynasty who were trained in Liaodong are about to fight against the city of Jinzhou.

The lineup is quite impressive, including Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Ma Shilong, Ma Ke, Wang Tingchen, and Ma Shihu. The Ming army stationed in Ningyuan before the Daocheng event had more than 13 horses to fight.

Hong Chengchou was inspired by the Southern King's feat of guarding the land and opening up the frontier, and he also wanted to make immortal feats in Liaodong.
The imperial court's 10,000+ army has been training in western Liaoning for a year, and it has become more energetic, and its ability to coordinate operations has been greatly improved.

Hong Chengchou believed that it should not be a problem to have such strength to defend the land and inflict heavy damage on the invading enemy. The Qing army, which did not have an absolute advantage in numbers, could not eat up the good teeth of this army anyway. He happily led the army to Liaodong.

He is not a reckless person, he did not dare to venture forward, and led a large army to station in Ningyuan to spy on the situation in Jinzhou.

Hong Chengchou knew that the strength of the two sides had no advantage over his own. Although the numbers were similar, the combat effectiveness was probably too bad.

Therefore, Yang Guozhu, Wang Tingchen, Ma Shihu and other commander-in-chiefs were arranged to adopt a strategy of gradually encroaching step by step, preparing to find an opportunity to deal a decisive blow when the Qing army retreated in spite of difficulties.

Hong Xie learned from the lessons of the past storming of Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and formulated a long-term siege, forcing him to surrender, or starving to death the entire city's soldiers and civilians.

He ordered Jierhalang, Prince of Heshuo Zheng, Dorgon, who had been demoted to Dorobeile for his crimes and meritorious deeds, and Azige, king of Luowuying County, Bellemangurtai, and others to lead the army to build Yizhou City and station it in the fields. , Jinzhou has a radius of dozens of miles and cannot be cultivated and cannot be supplemented by military rations.

Hong Xie sent troops to capture the outer strongholds of Jinzhou City one by one. The steps of such encroachment were quite different from those of Hong Chengchou.

As soon as the Qing army came up, they established a foothold in Yizhou, less than a hundred miles northeast of Jinzhou. In a blink of an eye, they turned the cultivated fields cultivated by the Ming army into theirs, and put on a posture of long-term siege.

Of course, He Kegang knew that the outlying strongholds were difficult to support. In order to avoid being defeated by the enemy one by one, he took the initiative to withdraw all the soldiers and materials stationed in the surrounding fortresses before the Qing army dispatched, and still concentrated all the troops to defend Jinzhou to contain the Qing army.

After the Qing army completed the targeted clearing with almost no bloodshed, they camped on all sides outside Jinzhou City and dug trenches to cut off their foreign aid.

The garrison fields outside Jinzhou City have changed owners, and Hong is quite satisfied. This shows that Jinzhou City is bound to sit on the mountain, and the Qing army will more or less get some harvest to supplement the army rations.

One ebbs and another, and the siege continues for a long time, how many catties of nails can Jinzhou defender He Kegang even if he is covered in iron?

He Kegang took the initiative to attack the Qing army outside the city before the Qing army completed its deployment. After all, Jinzhou is a big city, and even if 10,000+ troops were besieged on all sides, it would be difficult to cover everything before the fortifications were completed.

Tang Daoheng took advantage of the telescope to observe carefully, and the hot air balloon flew into the sky to communicate with semaphores and light codes.

The Ming army attacked flexibly, they had no rules, and most of the time they chose to fight at night.

The soldiers quietly touched the Jiannu camp and threw the "Fei Zhen Tian Lei". When the enemy was in chaos, the muskets fired a three-stage volley. Run as fast as you can.

It was good if Jiannu didn't chase after them, and sending troops to chase them was exactly what they wanted, because the Ming army cavalry with superior forces on the road laid an ambush, and of course Jiannu who appeared on the Ming army's preset battlefield in the dark would not be able to get a bargain.

As soon as the Qing army came up, it encountered a tough bone. Hong Jie felt even more determined to destroy the bravery of the Ming army as soon as possible. If this continues, the Ming army will no longer be afraid of the Eight Banners warriors.

He knew that the courage of the Ming army to fight came from the power of Huang Sheng's example, and he became ruthless. This time, he must not allow Hong Chengchou to train a strong army to make the Ming army more difficult. He must annihilate Hong Chengchou and seize Jinzhou before returning to the division.

The Ming army who came to the rescue did not act as spectators. Hong Chengchou, who was in Ningyuan, sent troops to fight with the Qing army several times.

Hong Chengchou is full of confidence. He thinks that if you come and go and keep fighting like this, it won’t take long for Jiannu to take the lead. After all, the population of Manchu Qing is too small, so many young and strong come to fight, what will happen to the family’s production?
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