Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1368
After several days of fierce attack by the Jin army, the scouts of the Ming army spread the news to Huayin. The scouts of the Jin army found out that on the official road from Huayin to Lintong, the Ming army was blocked by soldiers and horses. Finally began to move westward.

Wang Yan left 2 people behind to protect the back road near Huayin County, and continued to search for the ambushes of the Jin army. Needle sticks.

The battle to destroy gold has taken more than half a year since the end of last year to the beginning of May.

The war is coming to an end soon, and the peasants can rush back to participate in the summer harvest. If the fighting continues, the two seasons of grain in the golden year may be delayed.

Especially in Guanzhong, where there are millions of people, one year's harvest will be affected. If the Ming Dynasty falls, it is estimated that there will be big troubles. After all, it is easy to destroy and difficult to build.A decisive battle is already the wish of both sides.

Outside the city of Lintong, the trenches dug by the Jin army surrounded the city into iron barrels, with the purpose of isolating the Ming army cavalry in the city so that they could not participate in the big showdown between the Jin State and the Ming army.

In the wilderness twenty miles east of Lintong, the Jin army also built a large number of trenches, low walls and earth forts here.

If the fortifications outside Lintong were to trap the Ming army in the city, the fortifications built by the Jin army east of Lintong were to prevent the main force of the Ming army from approaching Lintong and rescue the Ming army cavalry in the city.

In the view of the Jin army, as long as the Ming army cavalry in Lintong is trapped, the Jin army and the Ming army are considered evenly matched. If the Ming army breaks through the defense line, kills the Lintong city, and releases the [-] cavalry in the city, then the ten thousand horses will gallop. , Jin Jun is finished immediately.

Because of this, the Jin army placed [-] elite soldiers on the front, more than [-] garrison troops, and built a large number of fortifications.

At this time, in the wilderness, tens of thousands of Jin Army infantry stood in the waist-high dirt ditch, sweating profusely, lifting up shovels of loess.On the several-kilometer-long front, the Yellow Dragon Tunri flag of the Kingdom of Jin fluttered in the wind, and the officers kept yelling, urging the soldiers to widen and deepen the trenches to give them courage.

In addition to deep ditches and low walls, and earth forts built at intervals, the soldiers of the Golden Army also arranged a large number of obstacles in front of the front line. They inserted sharpened wooden stakes into the soil at an angle Among them, it is used to hinder the progress of the Ming army shield chariot.

The entire front is several miles long, bordering the south bank of the Wei River in the north and the foot of Lishan Mountain in the south, with ravines and fortresses everywhere.

If some barbed wire fences are arranged in front, the scene in front of you is very similar to a certain battlefield on the German Western Front during World War I.

"Your Majesty, this kind of fortification is a step further than the trenches dug by the king thief during the Great War in the Central Plains. If the king thief comes, he will be beaten to the head and bleed." Meng Qiaofang followed Hauge, seeing as if A front like a big construction site, without a word of admiration.

Meng Qiaofang participated in the Central Plains War, and was very impressed with the fortifications of the Ming army. He had some doubts about the decisive battle after the ambush plan was revealed, but the fortifications built by the Jin army at this time undoubtedly gave him a little help. confidence.

Wu Sangui followed behind, and also nodded slightly. This kind of trench digging was often seen in Liaodong, but it was the first time Wu Sangui saw such extreme.

After the ambush plan was revealed, the deployment of the Jin army needed to be re-planned, and Hauge sent a fast horse to quickly call the two back.

At this moment, Hauge led the crowd up to an earthen castle and watched the entire frontal defense line. He pointed to the busy soldiers of the Golden Army and said, "The time is a bit rushed, but the basic outline is still constructed. Let's look at the front, the trenches are divided. There are three ditches, and each ditch has wooden stakes for repelling horses and slanting thorns, and some thorns are scattered on the ground. I will use everything that the king thief used, and I want to see him make it himself. Can he break the things that came out by himself!"

Speaking of which, Hauge pointed to the low wall behind the ditch, "I plan to build three low walls. The first is to defend against the enemy in front, and build an earthen fortress every mile. Even after the wall is broken, the earthen platform The soldiers on the ground can still use this to support and continue to defend. The second earthen wall is mainly to allow soldiers to avoid shelling and be ready to support the first wall at any time. Behind the third wall is the artillery array and reserved troops. "

Hauge sneered, "With such an arrangement, to be honest, I don't know how to break it myself. I want to see how the king thief will attack."

If the fortifications were really built, after they saw it, they would indeed be in a mess, not knowing how to proceed.

Wu Sangui looked at it carefully, and said in a deep voice: "I have watched the frontal defense, and I no longer doubt whether your Majesty can defend the front." Then, he looked at Meng Qiaofang and said: "At present, our army's formation is clear, and the Chinese army's defense , The two wings punched hard. Your Majesty has no problem here. Whether you can defeat the Ming army depends on whether you and King Yongping can pinch left and right to defeat the king thief."

Haoge nodded and said: "That's true. If the ambush is not possible now, then I, Dajin, can only fight head-on with the king thief. Right now we have 19 elite soldiers, and the king thief's 20 cavalry can be ignored. The cavalry he brought from Huayin There are more than [-] troops at most, and their strength is about the same as ours. I am not afraid of him in a dignified battle."

The Ming army in Henan was nearly 30, more than 5 cavalry were trapped in Lintong, and the remaining 2 were on the front line of Wuguan and Lulingguan. Adding Sun Shoufa's 2 troops, the number of troops that can be brought over is about 22.

Of course, there are more than [-] Ming troops in northern Shaanxi and Hanzhong combined, but they can't use their strength for the time being, so the difference in strength between the two armies is not particularly large.

If it was an ambush, the Ming army might be defeated with such a small force, but now that it has turned into a head-to-head confrontation with real knives and guns, the situation is hard to say.

After the ambush plan was aborted, Hauge's arrogance is a good thing for the Jin army, and it can strengthen the confidence of the generals, but Wu Sangui still reminded: "Your Majesty, compared with the previous ambush plan, our current arrangement is much better. It hasn't changed much, but the whole strategy has changed from dark to clear. I think that since Wang Thief has an insight into the deployment of our army at this time, he will inevitably make some corresponding countermeasures and layouts, so we have to guard against it."

Meng Qiaofang nodded, agreeing with Wu Sangui's point of view, "The north and south wings used to be very sudden, and they could catch them by surprise. Now that the Ming army knows our army's layout, the suddenness is gone. They may focus on guarding against us. "

Haoge frowned, "What the two Qings said is very true, Wang Yan will definitely pay attention to the defenses on both sides, but the key to our victory is whether the two wings can defeat the Ming army, so this is a tough battle, there is no chance, Even if the Ming army is on guard, the two wings can only attack hard." Haoge was silent for a while, "Fortunately, this time the Ming army came to fight on our preset battlefield, and the thief Wang didn't have time to build fortifications, so Wu Qing, I Don't worry at all. Meng Qing's troops are on the north bank of the Weihe River, but there are some troubles. If they are blocked by the Ming army on the north bank, they will not be able to exert their advantages of two punches."

Jin Jun's posture is like that of a boxer. Now that he wears armor on his chest, he doesn't have to worry about it anymore, but if he wants to defeat his opponent, he needs to strike with two old fists.

Hauge paused, looked at Meng Qiaofang and said, "Meng Qing, after you return to Gaoling, immediately send troops to seize Lingkou Town, Xinfeng Town, and Dufugou on the south bank of the Weihe River, establish a stronghold on the south bank, and then build a pontoon bridge. To avoid being blocked by the Ming army on the north bank of the Weihe River!"

Meng Qiaofang nodded, then saluted and said, "I will return overnight today to urge the army to do it."

Hauge looked at Meng Qiaofang and Wu Sangui, "I've done everything that needs to be done now, and all that's left is to wait for the king thief to come and fight."

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On the north bank of the Weihe River, the white military tents stretched. Now that they had been exposed, Meng Qiaofang simply moved the camp from Gaoling to the side of the Weihe River.

At this time, the nearby trees were almost all felled by the Jin army, who were as dense as ants, busy building a pontoon bridge leading to the south bank.

At this time, a group of hundreds of cavalrymen suddenly appeared on the south bank. They stopped on the bank, and the leader took out a binoculars, looked at the north bank, and then waved his hand, and the cavalry turned south and rushed to the distant place. a village...

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