Chapter five hundred and eight: Crisis
"Eagles on the grassland, spread your wings and spread the reputation of Genghis Khan's descendants to further distances. Kill with me!" "Kill!"
When the Battle of Denglai was in full swing, the situation in Liaodong also changed very unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty. On August 1, Zu Dashou led his troops to open the city and surrendered to Huang Taiji, and the Battle of Daling River was declared to end. He Kegang died and Qiu Hejia was captured. The entire Daling River line was shrouded in a dark cloud. The most terrifying thing is that Huang Taiji did not intend to stop. Since the Daling River is gone, and Youtun and Xiaoling River City have not been built, it means that there is no obstacle in front of Jinzhou City. Jinzhou City is now like a woman who has been taken off her clothes, and has been completely exposed to Huang Taiji.
In front of him, Zu Dashou has joined his camp, and the leader of Jinzhou City is his second brother Zu Dacheng, so he can continue to advance to capture Jinzhou. As long as he captures Jinzhou, Ningjin's defense line will be broken. It is time to invite Tu Xietu and others to attack the city desperately. Break through the Daxing Fort line and attack Ningjin's hinterland, it is best to be able to surround Ningyuan City. If Jinzhou can successfully capture it, then it is not difficult to merge one place to capture Ningyuan and kill Sun Chengzong. Huang Taiji was so excited that he did not sleep all night and killed Sun Chengzong. What a great honor. What a huge blow to the Ming court.
Huang Taiji sent a fast horse overnight, and 800 miles rushed to inform Tu Xietu on the western front of the war, asking the Mongolian army to launch a more powerful attack, break through the defense line in the west, and turn the feint attack into a real attack.
After receiving Huang Taiji's handwritten letter, Tu Xietu did not expect that this attack would be so smooth. The incompetent Ming court had not come to support in time when Liaodong was hit so strongly, and wasted a lot of time. It can be said that the Mongolian troops have recovered their confidence. The memories of nightmare under the capital last time seemed to have been thrown behind. Tu Xietu and his men were in the same mind. The Ming Dynasty might only have one new army to fight. Leaving that new army, the remaining troops and horses of the Ming Dynasty were still the same as before.
After discussing with the leaders of various Mongolian tribes, Tu Xietu immediately decided to attack the Daxing Fort line. This is the same as attacking the Great Wall defense line back then. The troops that Sun Chengzong could use to maneuver were exhausted by Huang Taiji. Now, as long as one point is broken on this line, the entire defense line can be easily broken. On August 5, the grassland tribes launched a full-line assault. Tu Xietu led troops to attack Daxing Fort, and the Dafu Fort was handed over to the Naiman tribe and Aohan tribe. Nearly 60,000 Mongolian troops rushed to various castles.
Boom, a shell shot towards the Mongolian cavalry wandering down the city with high temperature. He swept several Mongolian cavalrymen who had no time to dodge, including men and horses. They were flying in the air. They didn't know what parts of the people and horses were. In short, after the blood mist, some returned to silence.
"General, general! Cannons, there are not many cannons, and our medicine is almost used up." A general flag of artillery was covered with black and gray. He ran to the city tower with a sad face and cried to the highest commander. The head of Daxing Fort is Huang Zhi, the guerrilla guerrilla of Guanning Army, and is also Yuan Chonghuan's old subordinate. After Yuan Chonghuan was killed, because his official position was not high, he continued to use Liaodong. After Sun Chengzong retakes Liaodong, he will naturally not do anything to Yuan Chonghuan's old subordinates, so Huang Zhi is still stationed in Daxing Fort. Sun Chengzong promised that he would take good care of Yuan Chonghuan's old subordinates during his term, but he did not expect that such a thing would happen. The Manchu-Mongolian coalition forces would launch a major move.
Attack, Ning Jin's defense line was shaking. At this moment, Huang Zhi was also anxious. He was not worried about his safety. Yuan Chonghuan's soldiers and generals fought against the Jianlu Beilu for many years and had long put life and death aside. The general died in hundreds of battles and the horses were wrapped in corpses. Huang Zhi was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of death without any value. He knew that the reinforcements from the court were not delayed, and all the forces on the hand of the old general had been sent to Daling River. However, he did not expect that Daling River was defeated, and he would probably never get the support of one soldier on his side. If the Mongolian soldiers broke through Daxing Fort, they could directly kill the city of Ningyuan.
In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Sun Chengzong did not actually capture Dalinghe City. Zu Dashou had surrendered Huang Taiji and informed the entire army that the army had been calmed down. But how could Tu Xietu give Sun Chengzong this opportunity? As soon as he received the letter from Huang Taiji, he ordered people to write hundreds of letters in the situation in Dalinghe City, and then shot arrows at the top of the city. Even if Huang Zhi ordered the confiscation of these letters, it still could not stop these things from spreading among the soldiers. Huang Zhi could only come out and lie.
The rumors say it was fake news from the enemy. But in his heart, Huang Zhi knew that most of them were true, and they were all people who led the troops. How long can Dalinghe City last? If even he, a guerrilla general, could not see it, then the Guanning Army was all useless? The same scene was staged in castles on the Western Front, which made everyone panic. But at this time, the grassland tribes launched a fierce attack. The morale of the army was already in chaos, and it was time for the defense line to shake. It seemed that the grassland people were not stupid, and they knew to use the attacking tactics.
At this moment, Huang Zhi had only more than 3,000 troops in Daxing Fort, but the several troops commanded by Tu Xietu on the opposite side had a total of 15,000 troops, five times that of Huang Zhi's troops. Sun Chengzong's soldiers were distributed on the long defense line in the west. Each castle did not have too many troops, because Sun Chengzong knew that it was useless to defend one point, and the Mongolian army would just focus on attacks, so each castle had only two or three thousand soldiers to defend. In case of something, the Guanning Iron Cavalry could attack at any time. The problem now is that the Guanning Iron Cavalry had been wiped out in Dalinghe City, and then there was only this thin line of defense left in front of Ningyuan City.
"Shoot the arrow! Suppress the city head tightly! Carry the stone cannons up and fight! Fight hard!" The weather was hot, and Tu Xietu was sweating profusely holding a scimitar behind the formation. This time, the Mongolian army came to attack the city well. They only had some small cannons and did not have heavy cannons, so they used the old methods on the grassland to make many stone cannons. The stone cannons were trenchers. Although the range and rate of fire were far inferior to that of the cannons, they were better than nothing. Moreover, the catapult could cast tinder oil. As long as the Mongolian soldiers rushed in and shot out the rocket, they could sink the city head into a sea of fire and disrupt the defenders' formation.
The sound of artillery on the top of the city gradually weakened, and the feint attacked a lot of heaven. Tu Xietu believed that the gunpowder shells in the city were almost consumed. This was a good time to seize Daxing Fort. Therefore, 15,000 soldiers from the grassland were divided into five waves, each with three thousand people, three infantry teams attacking the city, and two cavalry teams shot arrows to cover it.
"Kill!" The third infantry team was launched, and the warriors on the grassland rushed towards the city like a black wave.
"How many shells are there!" Huang Zhi asked roaring on the top of the city. "General, you can fire three rounds at most!" An officer reported. "Damn it, I won't leave it anymore, all of them are used to fire the muskets, bows, and rocks. After the battle is over, prepare for hand-to-hand combat!" Huang Zhi ordered loudly. He knew that the last moment was coming.
After fighting with the Mongolian army for so many days, more than 1,000 people were killed or injured by more than 3,000 brothers. Now Huang Zhi has no reserve team in his hands, and more than 1,000 people are all on the top of the city, almost everyone is injured. Huang Zhi can only grit his teeth and fight hard against the Mongolian army. The left and right are dead, and even if they die, Huang Zhi will break a tooth from Tu Xietu's mouth.
Boom boom boom boom, the cannons on the city began their final roar. The big and small Francos, tiger squat cannons, and the general cannon fired all the remaining shells out, and drove the Mongolian army into blood alleys. But Tu Xietu was also ruthless. The soldiers of the army knew that there would be no obstacles after breaking this city. The siege ability of the grassland army has always been criticized. In fact, they did not lack courage, but they just lost in methods and equipment. But today, facing the Ming army, which had an absolute disadvantage in number and a low morale, Tu Xietu wanted to prove that the grassland warriors were also capable of capturing the city.
Papa, with a whistling sound, the clay pot that stored the tinder oil was shot onto the top of the city by a catapult. A pungent smell spread. Huang Zhi shouted: "It's tinder oil, leave the place where the tinder oil is stained, move quickly." Many soldiers' clothes were splashed with tinder oil. Huang Zhi was anxious. He knew what Tu Xietu wanted to do. The Mongolian cavalry suddenly accelerated, rushed into the range of the bow and arrow, and suddenly shot the rocket that had already been lit in his hand towards the top of the city. Boom, the fire on the top of the city exploded, and the soldiers who had not had time to withdraw were suddenly shrouded in the flames, making a stern scream that was not as loud as a human voice.
A soldier was surrounded by a fireball soaring into the sky, and instantly lit the cotton armor on his body. He threw away the weapons in his hand and tried hard to slap the fire on his body, but to no avail. The stickiness of the tinder oil tightly sucked the flames on his clothes and skin. The comrades around him wanted to help but didn't know where to start. The soldier howled, struggled, rolled on the ground, and gradually lost his life. Such scenes continued to emerge on the top of the city.
The ladder was placed on the top of the city, and from the chassis, you could already see the grassland soldiers with ferocious expressions on their faces. They screamed and waved the weapons in their hands. Huang Zhi picked up a red tassel gun and threw them out. As soon as an enemy holding a wooden shield climbed up the city wall, he was stabbed in the chest by the red tassel gun. He screamed and fell down the city wall. The soldiers behind him were not affected at all. They jumped up and climbed up the city wall and fought fiercely with the Ming army. In the rolling black smoke, the soldiers of the two armies fought in a melee. Both sides could not see the enemies or comrades in the distance, so they stared at the people in front of them to fight. Huang Zhi pulled out his waist knife and joined the battle group with several personal soldiers.
Tu Xietu's mouth sneered...
Chapter completed!