The terrain on the south bank of the Nerv River is narrow. There are many large and small mountains such as Rufeng Mountain and Shimen Mountain, so there are few plains and most of them are concentrated near the river bank, which is not conducive to the deployment of troops.
However, what is mentioned here is not conducive to the deployment of troops. It refers to the battle involving tens of thousands of troops on both sides. Due to the terrain restrictions, it is not conducive to the deployment in the narrow strip of land on the south bank of the Nuer River.
However, if it is a small-scale encounter, it will not be affected, just like the army of Dorgon, Prince Guorui of the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Sangui, who faced off here for several days.
Now, the Ming army has built many camps on the south bank as a base for the army to cross the river and attack the north. The entire southern bank of the Nuerhe River is several miles long, and even the soft soil areas are occupied by the soldiers, civilians and military leaders.
The Qing troops on the north bank were also deployed in a rigorous manner. They cut across the major roads and established camps in Miandan, layer upon layer. Most of the Han troops and Korean troops were deployed at the front to serve as cannon fodder, and then the Manchu troops were deployed.
Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers and horses.
The wilderness outside Jinzhou City was covered by a sea of their flags and armor. The Qing troops in the west and south of Jinzhou City were the most prosperous. They stood ready and waited for the Ming army to cross the river to attack.
"Waiting for work with ease, braking with tranquility!" is Dorgon's strategy for Jinzhou at this stage!
On the basis of Huang Taiji's original contracted defense, Dorgon even proposed a new concept of "defensive counterattack". He assembled heavy troops for defense on the north bank of the Erhe River, thinking of attacking the Ming army's crossing troops head-on, and then taking advantage of the Ming army's exhaustion.
, waiting for an opportunity to launch a counterattack to expand the results.
Today, on the north bank of the Nvnu River, Han army's Gushan-e True Dragon Flags with the crescent moon symbol are fluttering, and occasionally a slightly lower flag with a Tai Chi pattern appears.
It was the Han army and the Korean army stationed along the banks where it was easy to land at various places along the river. Under these flags, the Han army's flags were on Gushan Ezhen, and the Korean generals were looking in the direction of the other side of the Nvnu River.
The uniforms of the soldiers of the Four Banners of the Han Army are not much different from those of the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Mongolian armies. In addition, there are also Korean soldiers wearing red foam-studded cotton armor with a three-pronged pole on top of their helmets.
Most of the armor soldiers of the four banners of the Han Army were in charge of the Bird Tong. When Huang Taiji formed the Han Army Banner, it was to use firearms to fight the Ming Army. Therefore, the Ming Army artillery and firecrackers they had captured over the years were also delivered to the Han Army for use, and he himself
The Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners still relied mainly on swords, guns, bows and arrows.
The total number of Niulu in the Han Army of the Four Banners has reached nearly one hundred, and the number of Dingkou is more than 30,000, which is much more than the Eight Banners of Mongolia. However, excluding the old, weak, women and children in each banner, the Han Army of the Four Banners
The actual number of soldiers is only 27,000.
The rest can only be regarded as the strong men in each banner, and cannot be called soldiers. They have a common title called "the remaining men in the banner", and they are the supplement and reserve of the fighting soldiers.
These remnants also had no weapons or armor, and of course they were not qualified to participate in battles. At most, they served as military handymen during wartime, doing hard work such as transporting grain and grass, digging trenches, building equipment, and feeding horses.
Of course, if necessary during wartime, the remaining members of these banners can also fight, and if they perform well, they may be directly transferred to combat soldiers of each banner to supplement the losses and losses of each banner.
At this time, there were about 15,000 cannon soldiers under the banner of the Han army. They were distributed among the various banners of the Han army. The rest were sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and some artillerymen.
The most powerful force of firearms is the Tianyou Army under the command of King Kong Youde. You must know that the soldiers under Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are mainly from the Liao Dynasty. They were carefully trained by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and were originally the best in the Ming Dynasty.
Firearms Army.
Unfortunately, in the fourth year of Chongzhen, when Kong Youde was ordered to lead his troops to aid Liaodong, "a chicken" caused an unprecedented catastrophe. It was no less a disaster than the Ming Dynasty, but it was a big disaster for the Tatars.
gift pack.
It turned out that in August of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, the chief of the Houjin slaves, was leading an army to besiege the Dalinghe Fort in the eastern part of the Ming Dynasty. More than 30,000 soldiers and horsemen were in danger. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai in Dengzhou, was ordered by the court to
He sent his subordinate Kong Youde and other eight hundred soldiers to support the Daling River by land.
On November 28th of the same year, Kong Youde and others marched to the vicinity of Wuqiao in North Zhili. Due to heavy rain, wind and snow blocking the road, they were not allowed to continue marching. Moreover, due to insufficient supplies for the troops, the soldiers were hungry and cold, so they took the troops by force.
A chicken belonging to the servant of Wang Xiangchun, a prominent family in Shandong.
Later, it was revealed that the soldier was "thrown through the camp with arrows", which aroused the dissatisfaction of the sergeants. Moreover, because the Liao soldiers had always been at odds with the soldiers and people of Shandong, the sergeants went out of the camp to kill the servant of King Xiangchun.
However, Wang Xiangchun's son refused to give up on this matter and demanded to thoroughly find out the truth and punish the perpetrators. At this time, Li Jiucheng was ordered by Sun Yuanhua to return from the market horse. He was afraid of being criticized for squandering all the market horse money given by Sun Yuanhua.
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As a result, Li Jiucheng colluded with his son Qianzong Li Yingyuan, incited the sergeants to mutiny, burned Wang Xiangchun's manor, and kidnapped Kong Youde to launch the Wuqiao mutiny.
The rebels, led by Li Jiucheng, Kong Youde and others, sent their troops back and captured all counties in Shandong. They finally captured Dengzhou, an important town in Shandong, and once attacked and surrounded Laizhou.
This incident shocked the Ming court, who quickly mobilized reinforcements from all walks of life, and even used Liaodong Army generals such as Wu Xiang and Zu Kuan. It finally took eighteen months to defeat this group of rebels.
At that time, Li Jiucheng had died in the battle, and the rebels were led by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others. Because they could no longer hold on to Dengzhou, Shandong, they had no choice but to flee in embarrassment, and Fuhai finally surrendered to Houjin.
Although this battle ended with the final victory of the Ming army, it seemed that together with the victory of pacifying the She'an Rebellion, it saved a little bit of false face for the Ming army and boosted the morale of the army and the people.
However, the situation in Denglai was completely corrupted by the chaos. The hinterland of Shandong was also ravaged by the rebels. As a result, the Ming Dynasty lost tens of thousands of troops, more than ten good generals, battleships, cannons, and no food and money.
From then on, the Denglai area gradually became deserted, the military morale in Dongjiang Town was shaken, the power to contain Hou Jin at sea was no longer valued and mentioned by the courtiers, and no one paid attention to the strategic offensive.
This is probably a more dangerous result than when Hou Jin got the cannons brought by Kong Youde and others, as well as the cannon-casting craftsmen and technology!
At this moment, Kong Youde, who was named the King of Obedience by the Emperor Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, also had a gun and artillery force of more than 3,000 people under his command, especially the thirty newly cast red cannons.
Kong Youde was bravely wounded in the earliest battle at Shimen Mountain. Now he has recovered to the best of his ability and has basically recovered as before. It is he who personally leads the more than 3,000 soldiers stationed in Jinzhou, the most elite of the God's Blessing Army.
Outside Nanguan.
The huge artillery group of the Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion is also all arranged here, including the Tianyou Support General Cannon cast by Hou Jin in the past, some artillery brought by Kong Youde from Dengzhou, and the newly cast Shenwei General
gun.
At this time, the Wuzhenha Chao Artillery Battalion had a total of more than 150 large and small Hongyi artillery pieces, which can be said to be a huge number.
In fact, there was no shortage of large and small artillery in the Qing army. In the wars over the years, they captured a lot of various types of Folan machine guns and other artillery from the Ming army.
Just like in the fourth year of Chongzhen, when Zu Dashou ran out of food and pretended to surrender to the Tatars in the Battle of Daling River, the Qing army already had its own artillery. During the battle with the Ming army, they realized the power of artillery and the
important.
Every time they captured a city or a land, they would collect artillery and cannons from the city. Therefore, the Qing army did not lack cannons. What they lacked were sergeants who could skillfully handle cannons.
Although they had established their own artillery team in the fourth year of Chongzhen, it was not easy to train excellent artillerymen. Even if the Qing army gave preferential treatment to the captured Ming army soldiers, there were not many artillerymen in the Ming army.
Therefore, the many large and small artillery and muskets they captured were never used by anyone, and most of them were piled up in warehouses to eat dust. This situation did not change until the rebel general Kong Youde of the Ming Dynasty returned from the sea.
You must know that Kong Youde served as a guerrilla general under Sun Yuanhua. The Liao soldiers he led were the most advanced firearms troops in the Ming Dynasty.
It was built with great effort by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, who spent a lot of money to build it. For this purpose, dozens of Portuguese people were hired from Macau to participate in the production of artillery, firecrackers, and military training of firearms troops.
It was the addition of this Ming Dynasty's most elite firearms unit, which Sun Yuanhua spent a lot of money to build, that made the power of the Qing Dynasty's Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion not to be underestimated.
If it had not been for Zhang Cheng's timely appearance, with this Qing firearms battalion's familiarity with regulations, rulers, measuring instruments, and artillery operations, no one in the Ming army's artillery unit would have been their opponent.
Even an elite firearms battalion like the Shenji Battalion cannot compare with Kong Youde's Tianyou Army in terms of proficiency in gunnery and the morale of the gunners.
In fact, in the original history, when the Qing army was invited by Wu Sangui to enter the Pass, the artillery unit led by Kong Youde made great contributions to the Qing's siege of cities and territories and the determination of the Central Plains.
Every emerging power group in history has extremely terrifying learning abilities. Anything that can make them powerful will attract them, making them eager to learn and quickly put into actual combat.
Once they gain an absolute advantage and stop this kind of learning, it is also the moment when they gradually decline. Just like the Jin Kingdom in history, it was once so powerful that it drank from the Yangtze River, but failed to unify China in the end.
After losing the opponent, I stopped learning.
Today's Qing Dynasty is at the peak of learning. Under Huang Taiji's urging, the whole country is learning the classics and experiences of the Han family. From farming to artillery, everything that is useful and beneficial to them must be learned.
The reason why Kong Youde was named King of Obedience as soon as he defected to the Qing Dynasty and still taught him to command his original troops was that in addition to setting an example for other Ming army generals, another bigger factor was that he wanted to use his skills in artillery fire.
Ability in musketry.
Now, Kong Youde is located in a high-fortified earth city, with high platforms built in the city. On those high platforms, there are many heavy Shenwei General heavy artillery pieces of the Qing army.
There is the sound of hunting flags of various colors in Tucheng. Standing at the highest point in Tucheng, you can clearly see the situation on the other side of the Nuer River south of Jinzhou Nanguan.
The Ming army stationed here was Wu Sangui's troops in Ningyuan. All their movements were reported by waves of Qing army sentries back to the Chinese army where Dorgon was in the Qing army's camp.
Dorgon would also give Kong Youde a copy of the information about the movements of the Ningyuan Army and the Ming Army's attack across the Hebei, because all the heavy artillery of the Qing Army was in his army, which was the Qing Army's killer weapon.
In addition, Kong Youde was also the only person among the four banners of the Han army, the Tianyou Army, and the Tianyou Army who owned a telescope. He held the telescope with great air and held it in front of his eyes from time to time to look towards the Nuerhe River.
In the telescope, the Ming troops on the south bank of the Nerv River were densely packed with banners that blocked out the sky. Not only were their formations spread across the riverbank, but also some of the gentle mountains and hills were also filled with their troops.
Especially in some solid places on the south bank, flat earth platforms have been laid everywhere, and the heavy artillery of the Ming Army is being pushed forward by the sergeants and fixed on the earth platforms everywhere.
At this time, the Ming army had already begun to cross the river, and the Qing artillery units deployed on the river bank were also bombarding them hard. However, the Ming army's artillery fire was also very fierce, especially the small Folang machines on the boats in front of them.
Artillery and other weapons even bombarded the Qing troops on the north bank at close range.
Looking at their flags, we can know that the first Ming army to cross the river was Bai Guangen and Ma Ke's Jizhen Army and Shan Haijun.
Crossing rivers and landing on beaches are actually a series of very complex tactics that require strong organizational capabilities on both the offensive and defensive sides. It can be seen that the Ming army led by Bai Guangen and Ma Ke lacked this ability.
It made their crossing the river and grabbing the beach look chaotic, with no sense of coordination at all!
Because all the pontoons on the Nuer River had been burned down by the Qing army, almost all the ships floating on the river at this time were Ming army ships. In addition to large ships and small boats, there were also many small cannons, wooden rafts and the like.
There were only a few or a dozen Ming soldiers on board these ships. The civilian sailors braved the artillery fire and arrows of the Qing army. After rowing to the other side, they lined up in rows and were connected with iron chains and ropes.
Then lay the prepared wooden boards on top.
The ant-like accompanying soldiers and civilians and strong men either carried wooden planks back and forth, or felled trees on site and split some trees into wooden planks. The materials used to build the pontoon bridge were also various, and there were even many door panels removed from unknown places.
For a time, slogans, orders, and roars were mixed with the sound of artillery and firecrackers from both the Ming and Qing Dynasties, making the Nerv River very lively. If it weren't for the constant "rumbling" of cannons, one would have mistakenly thought that this place was a large gathering.
city.
In order to cover the strong men of the people building the bridge, those Ming troops who had already boarded the north bank of the Nerhe River in advance were forming some chaotic military formations on the river beach to defend nervously.
They even directly lifted some small boats onto the river bank to use them as fixed tanks. After all, artillery had been installed on the bows before. With a simple change of direction, wooden forts were formed, which could block the enemy and
It can bombard the enemy and also protect it.
In fact, there are only a few places on the Daughter River where landing is convenient. In some shallow water areas, even ordinary ships cannot dock. Soldiers had to jump into the cold river water and walk to the shore.
Therefore, the first batch of Ming troops who landed were all brave men who were rewarded with heavy rewards, and they also held broadswords and shields in their hands.