There were more than 4,000 people in the Huwei camp, and they only brought seven days of military rations.
In other words, if we cannot find military ration supplies within seven days, this unit will be out of food.
This was not the first time Feng Wanli had led an army, nor was it the first time he had fought against the Tatars. Even though the people in front of him were not genuine Houjin Tatars, in the first battle, he still showed morale and authority.
It also revealed the caution he had towards the Tatars before he went on the expedition.
The Tatars are just like that! They are all human beings, they will scream when they are injured, and they will die if their heads are cut off.
After resting for a day in this unknown military fort, he decisively led the front army on the journey. The pile of heads like a hill in front of the military fort was the best direction sign to instruct the troops behind to follow.
It is also a magic weapon to dispel the fear in the hearts of the Ming army who arrived in this land and boost their morale.
Go forward, go forward, wipe out all the Tatar military fortresses in this area! Go straight to Zhenjiang Fort!
As long as Zhenjiang Fort is captured, the passage between the Tatars and North Korea will be cut off, and the Tatar troops who enter North Korea will have no way out.
Feng Wanli knew that this was the first time in the past two years that the Pidao Ming army had attacked the Tatars again. Just like every time Pidao attacked in the past, the timing was the same. Their troops were destined not to encounter a large army.
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The Tatar army is currently engaged in a fierce battle with Zu Dashou's Guan Ning cavalry in the Daling River. If he can seize the opportunity, perhaps he can not only hit Zhenjiang Fort, but also hit the base of the Tatar's home base. It is not impossible.
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The soldiers were so quick that the military fortresses along the road were pulled up by the troops of the Huwei Camp as if they were pulling out nails.
Different from the first battle, these military forts no longer have hundreds of enemies. Usually there are only a dozen or more people. The soldiers and horses of the Huwei Battalion rushed to their military forts.
At that time, there was basically no need to fight, and the people in the military fort had only two choices.
Surrender or die fighting!
However, for Feng Wanli, there is actually only one choice for these scattered enemies.
No prisoners in Huwei camp!!!
Therefore, resisting is death, and surrendering is still death. The only difference is that just like the leader of the Mongolian Tatars, surrendering can live a little longer, at least until he explains what he wants to know, and then he will die like his subordinates.
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As the battle continued, the soldiers and horses that followed gradually came together. Although the horses captured along the way could not turn the foot soldiers into cavalry, they could increase the strength of the troops behind them.
By the time they arrived at the gates of Zhenjiang Fort, more than 4,800 people in the Huwei Battalion, except those who had been damaged in the battle, had all arrived.
At this time, only three days had passed since this Ming army landed from Gaizhou Guard.
Zhenjiang Fort was considered an important pass between the Hou Jin Dynasty and Korea. However, after the Ming army lost it in the encroachment of the Hou Jin Dynasty, the significance of this place to the Ming army was greatly reduced. The Ming army moved from Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, and Jinzhou.
The defense line mainly protects against enemies coming from the direction of Shengjing, so basically, there will be no large Ming troops on the Zhenjiang Fort side.
The people of the Later Jin Dynasty clearly knew that the only people interested in this place were Koreans. However, with the weak military strength of the Koreans, do the people of the Later Jin Dynasty need to care?
Therefore, after Zhenjiang Fort was captured from the Ming army, it had more than 2,000 people stationed at its peak. Now it only has less than 500 people stationed. In addition to these 500 people, there are also some Mongolians and Koreans.
Even the Ming army surrendered.
Although there are still more than 2,000 people in total, it is difficult to say how much combat power these two thousand people have.
More than 4,000 Ming troops formed a formation under the Zhenjiang Fort City, as if they were about to attack the city. The defenders in the city immediately asked for help from Shengjing, like the army that had just passed here and entered Korea not long ago.
Soldiers and horses with yellow flags asked for help, and they also took up positions at the top of the city, ready to fight to the death with the invading Ming army.
"What are they doing?"
The Ming army was gearing up under the city, deploying troops and generals, but people were killing people on top of the city. People were constantly being brought to the top of the city, and then their heads were beheaded by the soldiers on the top of the city, and their bodies were thrown down the city. This operation made people feel uncomfortable.
Feng Wanli was stunned on the spot.
Suddenly a possibility occurred to him, and he turned around and asked someone beside him: "Is there any of our fine works in the city?"
That person was Gao Sheng's subordinate, who was familiar with the situation in Liaodong and could be regarded as the current eyes and ears of the Pidao Ming Army. However, this man also shook his head in confusion: "We can't get into this kind of place even if we have careful work!"
His face was suddenly shocked, as if he had remembered something, and he suddenly showed a look of gloating: "General, I know who the Tatars killed!"
"explain!"
"They killed the Ming people in the military fortress!" He looked at the city head carefully, confirming his judgment: "The Tatars are very proud of their own fighting power, but they are afraid that there are Ming people in the city and we should cooperate with each other inside and outside.
, this move should be to kill all the Ming people in the city, so there is no need to worry about traitors!"
"These beasts!" Feng Wanli sighed and looked at him: "The Tatars are killing us Ming people, why are you so happy!"
"Because they deserve to die, or in other words, it is better to be dead than alive!" The man snorted slightly: "There are only two types of Ming people who can stay in the Tatar military fortress. One type is those who betrayed our Ming Dynasty and joined them
The other kind is the women who were kidnapped by the Tatars. Of course I am happy that these traitors deserved their death. As for those depressed women, I can only say that if they die like this, it will be a relief for them!"
Feng Wanli looked at him coldly and snorted slightly.
He turned around and gave an order to the several guerrilla generals behind him: "Let's start, follow the previous order, ditch first and then wall, remember to guard against arrows!"
Several guerrilla generals responded in unison, turned around and ran towards their subordinates.
This time when we set off from Pidao, the most important thing Huwei Camp brought was not military rations or weapons, but tools such as hoes and shovels. When they first set off, the soldiers still had many doubts and felt that it was heavy and heavy to carry these things.
If they are burdensome, it is better to bring more food. In this case, they will feel more at ease when fighting.
But now, with the orders from above, they finally know the purpose of these tools.
Dig a trench!
Everyone was frantically digging trenches under the enemy's fort. No matter how hard the land here was, it could not compare to the hard ice of Pi Island in winter. Thousands of people started working together, and almost in the blink of an eye, the top of the city was covered with water.
The enemy knows what they are going to do.
However, they could only watch. The Ming army dug trenches from a distance. Even the best archers of the city defenders could not shoot their arrows from that distance. And with the current military strength in the city, the people in the city could not reach it.
The leader of the garrison would never take the risk of opening the city gate and sending out cavalry to harass the opponent.
The Ming army was waiting for people from the city to come out, but the defenders were not that stupid!