Chapter 32: No one can grow up under the shadow

As soon as the heavy rain stopped, the Jianzhou army surrounded him again.

The wet weather is extremely unfriendly to muskets and cannons.

Hong Chengchou watched Kong Youde standing in the mud and water, commanding the army and ants to rush in from the valley entrance, and then said to Yang Guozhu: "Fire the cannon, target Kong Youde's commanding flag."

Yang Guozhu took the order to retreat, Hong Chengchou raised the telescope in his hand again, and Kong Youde's ugly face appeared in front of him again.

A few black projectiles smashed into the crowd, like stones thrown into the water, and a few ripples appeared and disappeared.

Hong Chengchou suddenly remembered a sentence Yun Zhao had said to him.

People should be born to cherish their lives.

Because everything we do in the world is for living, the reason why we work hard and make progress is entirely to live better...

Since that's the case, it's hard to understand - why do we forget the preciousness of life on the battlefield?

This is really a paradox - to work hard to live better...

So, everyone is a natural gambler!

The defense of Songshan Fort is almost without dead corners. No matter which direction Jiannu came from, there were enough people to defend. In addition, before Hong Chengchou came to Liaodong, the first thing he had to prepare was firearms.

This allowed him to maintain his strong combat power while fighting and retreating while in Liaodong, even when he was besieged by Dorgon at the city of Jinzhou, and to suffer a lot during his retreat.

In the dense artillery fire, Jiannu took advantage of the wet and muddy land and began to dig trenches. Just in front of Songshan Fort, trenches were quickly approaching Songshan Fort.

Arrows, muskets, and artillery can easily deprive others of their lives as long as they are activated. Now, these weapons are doing such things.

The attack still did not stop.

When a person dies, the body will be thrown on the trenches as fortifications. Some fortifications are still alive. They use their hands to pull off the soil buried in their bodies again and again, and eventually they are unable to save themselves and gradually become fortifications.

Hong Chengchou dug a horizontal trench under the wall of Songshan Fort early on. Therefore, when the vertical trench of these Jianzhou people arrived at the horizontal trench, the spearmen who were ambushing the horizontal trench stabbed the spears from both sides, and one came out and stabbed one to death until the body filled the vertical trench mouth.

No one backed off.

The people who died continued, and the people who assassinated were doing the same.

Such wars have no beauty at all, there is only blood and killing.

Sometimes, several armored soldiers would emerge from the longitudinal trench. Sometimes they would live longer than those wearing leather armor, and only a moment. The preparations in the horizontal trench Ming army would not give him too much room to move. They often stabbed seven or eight spears together. Even Jiannu, who had excellent martial arts skills, would die in this unfavorable space.

An hour later, a harsh whistle sounded from Jiannu, and the Jianzhou people in the longitudinal trench quickly retreated from the range with arrows, guns and bullets above their heads, holding shields.

At this time, the Ming army in the trench was no longer different from the Jianzhou people, and everyone was covered in mud.

Seeing Jiannu tangling him at all costs, Hong Chengchou suddenly laughed. It seemed that Wang Pu still had room to maneuver.

He only hopes that Xia Chengde, who rushed to Bijia Mountain in the rain, had time to stop Wang Pu's stupid behavior.

At this time, it should be the worst choice to defect to Jiannu.

Everyone can see that Jiannu’s ambition was limited at this time, and they no longer had the will to advance to the Central Plains. The only reason why they wanted to launch the Battle of Songjin at this time and were ready to win at all costs was Shanhaiguan!

The Shanhai Pass is at the throat of Yanshan, which is a majestic pass for the Ming Dynasty. On the other hand, once Shanhai Pass is obtained, for Jiannu, it is still a majestic pass against Yun Zhao.

Positioning Shanhaiguan and tying land with the Central Plains dynasty is the most direct purpose of Huang Taiji launching this war.

It was because Hong Chengchou saw this that he was determined to use this battle to show his extraordinary talent.

Wu Sangui, who returned from the battle outside the city, stood quietly behind Hong Chengchou. The two of them looked at the Songshan Fort battlefield that had just recovered from peace.

The Ming soldiers in the horizontal trench were stripping the armor from the dead bodies, packing up the armor and even clothes they could wear, and threw the naked Jiannu corpse out of the horizontal trench.

"What happened to the commander-in-chief who hurriedly sent Xia Chengde away from Songshan Fort last night?"

Wu Sangui's eyes continued to fall on the soldiers outside the city, but his words were a little aggressive.

Hong Chengchou smiled and said, "Your uncle's family is so confused. If you part with him in Jinzhou, it will probably become a lasting fate."

Wu Sangui said: "Zu Dashou is Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui is Wu Sangui."

Hong Chengchou shook his head and said, "If everything in the world can be viewed from a certain level, the possibility of making wrong decisions is very small. The problem is that when people look at problems, they always only look at the immediate interests, which will lead to deviations in the results, which is different from what they had expected before.

Your uncle is an obvious example.

He defected to Jiannu once and then rebelled again. The court understood his behavior because it was a helpless act. His Majesty even praised your uncle. Your uncle responded well, and there was no other mistake except for not accepting the edict to return to Beijing.

Wu Sangui, send someone to tell your uncle that he could rebel against Jiannu for the second time, otherwise his Zu clan would probably not have a place to bury him."

Wu Sangui continued to look at the corpses everywhere and said like sleepwalking: "For some reason, the Ming Dynasty has become increasingly dilapidated, but people seem to be more energetic.

Is it influenced by Yun Zhao's words, "The heroes of slaves in Liaodong are the guests at Lantian"?"

Hong Chengchou frowned and said, "Where did you hear this sentence?"

Wu Sangui laughed and said, "In Liaodong, the Wu family still has some purpose. Supervisor, tell me, is it for the Ming Dynasty or for Lantian Yunzhao?"

Hong Chengchou said expressionlessly: "Your order cannot be violated."

Seeing that Hong Chengchou avoided talking about Yun Zhao, Wu Sangui bowed again and said, "Wang Pu did not surrender to Jiannu, but he did not have the courage to kill Jiannu Fan Wencheng."

Hong Chengchou said: "How did you know?"

Wu Sangui said: "This matter is hidden, and the lower officials have only known it today, and the governor learned it last night. The lower officials are even more surprised how the governor knew it."

Hong Chengchou looked at Wu Sangui and said, "You mean Wang Pu is still reliable?"

Wu Sangui shook his head and said, "The officials only said that Wang Pu would not surrender to Jiannu, and the commander-in-chief did not need to rush to break through."

Hong Chengchou smiled and said to Wu Sangui: "Would you like to hang your life in the crotch of Wang Pu and others?"

Wu Sangui shook his head.

Hong Chengchou smiled and said, "The plan remains unchanged."

Wu Sangui simply left, which made Hong Chengchou feel good about this young military officer.

At least, this is a very sensible person.

Hong Chengchou sat on the top of the city and looked at Jiannu, while Huang Taiji also sat on a chair and looked at Hong Chengchou.

In the telescope, Hong Chengchou's appearance is quite clear.

Huang Taiji put away his telescope and said to Dorgon beside him: "So, we can't even shake people like Wang Pu now, right?"

Dorgon said coldly: "The existence of Lantian has given these Ming people one more choice, and we are obviously not the best choice."

"Then create a dilemma for Wang Pu, so that he will not have the possibility of surrendering to Lantian."

Dorgon bowed and said, "It's already done."

"Do you think Hong Chengchou will break through?"

"It will definitely! And it will be soon."

"Why? Wang Pu did not defect to us."

"Because Hong Chengchou will not put all his hopes on people like Wang Pu."

"Since he doesn't believe in Wang Pu, why do you still use such people?"

"Reply to your Majesty, because he has no choice."

Huang Taiji looked at Dorgon and said, "Just like I have to use you?"

Dorgon lowered his head and said, "You have deprived me of my military power."

Huang Taiji laughed and said, "It seems that I have more choices than Hong Chengchou."

Dorgon looked up at his brother, and his emperor sighed and said, "If we cannot seize more artillery and muskets, we cannot quickly train a group of troops that can operate artillery and muskets in large quantities, our choices will become less and less."

Huang Taiji smiled and said, "Yun Zhao is a powerful enemy, but he has not yet reached the point of invincibility."

Dorgon said expressionlessly: "When we fought with Yun Zhao in Shijiazhuang, we basically got a draw, but when we entered Lantian City, our war with Yun Zhao was at a disadvantage.

When Yuetuo fought against Gao Jie's army in the fishing sea, we had no advantage.

Yue Tuo's command has no loopholes, and Gao Jie's command is not as good as Yue Tuo. The soldiers still fight bravely. However, we failed in this battle, and it was a very miserable failure.

Brother, you should be very clear about what this means."

Huang Taiji pinched the armrest of the chair with one hand and said, "So, we must use the high walls of Shanhaiguan to lock Yun Zhao, the hungry wolf."

"I can't stop it, the emperor's brother, Yun Zhao's eyes are not only on the Ming Dynasty territory, but his eyes are much greater than we imagined. I heard that Yun Zhao is preparing to create a Ming Dynasty that is far beyond the Han and Tang Dynasties.

And these rumors are gradually realizing.

One of his army is now in the four counties of Hexi in Datong, aiming directly at the Western Regions. Another army is oppressing Zhang Bingzhong and opening up a direct sea route to Fujian for them.

This shows that Lantian Yunzhao's had already begun to stretch his arms, heading north and south.

He could not give us the possibility of demarcating the Qing Dynasty. Even if we give in, there is no possibility of coexistence.

Brother, we should not consume our limited power in this war with the Ming Dynasty.

Getting Shanhaiguan is meaningless to us... The only result is that Yun Zhao uses Shanhaiguan to drag us tightly outside the pass."

Huang Taiji snorted coldly, and two nosebleeds came out of his nostrils, dyeing his clothes red.
Chapter completed!