"The sea breeze is blowing, the waves are roaring. The loyal and brave soldiers are here, setting sail on the sea?? The bright Ming Dynasty is correcting the Yanhuang. Everyone is united to protect our sea territory?? Charge! Charge! Charge! Fight to the death and go abroad for thousands of years."
At Dagu Port in Hejian Prefecture, North Zhili, there are thousands of ships, the sun and moon flags are flying, and there are faint sounds of war songs.
The 30,000-strong naval force led by Gongsun Gui of the Guangdong Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty and Lincha, the auxiliary Ming lord Hou, appeared in front of the 3,000 green battalion soldiers of the Qing Dynasty’s Dagu garrison and general Weng Qiuduo. In the battle of Malingshan, the Ming navy was attacked
After suffering heavy losses, Sun Gui and Lin Cha rested for half a year before replenishing the number of ships and soldiers damaged in the battle. However, the veterans lost were far from the recruits. They had no choice but to practice battles. After receiving military orders,
, Sun Gui and Lin Cha sailed day and night. They didn’t want to miss the last battle of the Northern Expedition.
Seeing these tall and sturdy warships, Weng Qiuduo narrowed his eyes and ordered the cannon to be fired.
Dagu is the estuary of the Haihe River. "The land is the fortress of Jiuhe and Tianjin, and the roads lead to seven provinces." It has been the gateway to Beijing and Tianjin since ancient times, and is known as the throat of the sea and land. In order to prevent Japanese pirates, the Ming Dynasty built fortresses and garrisoned troops here. This place was originally a defense
A fort was built on each side of the river. Seeing that the Ming navy was too powerful, the Qing court built six earthen forts on each side of the river, equipped with eighty general cannons weighing more than 6,000 kilograms.
"Boom~Boom~Boom~"
The giant cannon spurted out tongues of fire, causing the heaven and earth to tremble. From time to time, Ming army warships were penetrated by huge cannonballs.
"Commander, there are many forts on the north and south coast of Dagu, and they are all huge coastal defense artillery. The casualties of a force attack will be too great. The general thought that we could send two partial divisions to land at Beitang on the north bank of the Wei River and on the beach a hundred miles away on the south bank, and attack from a pincer attack
"Qing prisoners", Lin Cha saw the fierce artillery fire of the Qing army and suggested to Sun Gui.
Sun Gui nodded and ordered Zhou Hezhi, the Marquis of Pingyi, and Zhou Rui, the Marquis of Min'an, to each lead 5,000 soldiers and horses, land on the north and south banks of the Wei River, and attack Dagu in a roundabout way.
Zhou Hezhi and Zhou Rui are both famous pirates. They are from the same clan, but they turned against each other because of the competition for territory.
At this time, under Sun Gui's order, they attacked the north and south banks separately, trying to overwhelm the other side and capture the fort first.
Zhou Hezhi led his army directly into Beitang. Beitang's garrison led 300 soldiers to line up on the beach, firing cannons and artillery. Zhou Hezhi led 800 sharp soldiers to brave the rain of gunfire and landed in a small boat.
Seeing the Ming army approaching, the Beitang defenders collapsed and fled in all directions.
The Marquis Pingyi of the Ming Dynasty became so ferocious that he chased and stabbed each of them, leaving no prisoners behind.
After capturing Beitang, we quickly sneaked to the north bank. The fortresses and forts on the north bank were fighting fiercely with the Ming army fleet sailing into the Wei River. Unexpectedly, the Ming army suddenly came from behind and fell one after another. The sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty was raised. After Zhou Rui landed on the south bank, something went wrong. Because the terrain was unfamiliar, he took a sidetracked route. By the time he arrived near the beach, most of the forts on the north bank had been captured by Zhou Hezhi.
Seeing that his clan brothers were ahead of him, Zhou Rui became anxious and led his troops to rush over from behind the fortress.
On the fortress, Weng Qiuduo, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, was commanding his men to fire on the Ming army's warships. Suddenly there was a noise behind him and a group of elite Ming army soldiers climbed up the ladder.
Before Weng Qiuduo could resist, he was beheaded by the middle-aged general with a white face and a beardless face.
"Quick, put on the flag of Ming Dynasty!"
Zhou Rui held Weng Qiuduo's head in his hand and roared majestically.
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Hesheli Sony is fifty-seven years old. He has been fighting for many years and has suffered a lifetime of injuries. He should have rested, but he couldn't. Obai died in the battle, forcing this veteran to take command even though he was ill.
In the Battle of Qizhou, the Qing army was defeated so miserably that Bahana, Wohe and Suo'etu only brought back more than 10,000 defeated troops. With the addition of thousands of Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, there were only 20,000 defenders left in Beijing. p>
When Sony was in danger, he was ordered to conscript all the Eight Banners men in the city between the ages of 14 and 60 into the army; he also recruited 20,000 strong women to form the so-called "50,000 army".
Although there are few soldiers and horses, fortunately Beijing is the capital city and the city defense is strong. There are three levels of outer city, imperial city and palace city. Deep trenches are dug at each gate, archways are erected outside, and turrets are set up at the four ends of the city. Even the inside of the city wall
They are all covered with bricks.
Sony ordered Bahana and Wohe to guard Deshengmen and Andingmen in the north; Suo'etu, Huoda and Lin Junqi guarded Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen and Xuanwumen in the south; Zhekuna and Wang Jinjia guarded Chaoyang in the east.
Gate, Dongzhimen; Niyahan and Lin Guoliang guard the Fucheng Gate in the west, Xizhimen; they themselves sit at the south gate to wait for the Ming army.
Although he pretended to be calm, he knew in his heart that if he was trapped in an isolated city, he would sooner or later be unable to escape the fate of the city being destroyed and the country destroyed. But now that he had lost most of his troops and horses, he was unable to fight the Ming army in the field, so he could only be trapped in an isolated city.
At a time when he was at a loss what to do, General Dong E Eshuo of Guihua City arrived with 10,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners. After Eshuo drove away the package of the Tumote tribe, he received an order from the Qing court and knew that the capital was in danger. He stayed behind.
The governor-general Ma Mingpei was ordered to guard Yanghe and Guihua City, and he led ten thousand Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners to bypass Mongolia and rush to the aid of Beijing.
With the help of this cavalry, Sony gained a little confidence and ordered E Shuo to station outside the city to harass the Ming army.
"General Eshuo, if you are stationed outside the city, do not engage in field battles with the Ming army. Just harass their food routes. If you want to become a fish bone stuck in the throat of the Ming army, it will make you panic and unable to swallow it," Sony warned.
"E Shuo".
"Don't worry, Mr. Sony, the general will know in the end," E Shuo responded.
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Zhu Hengjia's army marched to the vicinity of Huangcun, south of Beijing.
He was in a good mood. Along the way north, Boye, Qingyuan, Ansu, Rongcheng, Xiongxian, Xincheng, Yongqing, and Gu'an counties all surrendered without a fight, and he captured the entire Baoding without any effort.
Fu and the southern part of Shuntian Fu.
In Xincheng, he got the news that Sun Gui and Yang Huai had captured Dagu and the Three Guards of Tianjin, killed Wang Xianzuo, the governor of Zhili in Qing Dynasty, and were heading towards Tongzhou along the canal.
He couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Advancing by land and water, who in the world can stop my troops?"
Although no one dared to block his attack, some people dared to tease him and harass him.
E Shuo's 10,000 cavalrymen were very annoying. They stared at the Ming army from a distance and specially picked up the Ming army's grain transport teams. They fought with small groups. Once the Ming army approached, they immediately ran away. As soon as the Ming army left, he came back.
Continue to harass.
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In the past, Zhu Hengjia really had no way to deal with the Qing cavalry, but after Wu Yingqi and more than 10,000 cavalry from Ma Ning's tribe arrived, plus Wu Keshan and the 3,000 Horqin cavalry from Manzhu Xili, the cavalry in his hands reached 10,000.
There are eight thousand people, but they are really not afraid of the enemy's cavalry.
In order to confuse the Qing army, when several previous grain transport teams were attacked, he deliberately did not send cavalry to rescue them, and watched helplessly as they were annihilated by the Qing cavalry.
According to Emperor Guangwu, this is called being reluctant to let go of your children to trap the wolf. In order to win the war, sacrificing the lives of some of your own people is really a trivial matter in the eyes of this great emperor.
Then, the emperor dug a pit for Eshuo, a very big pit.
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"Commander, a Ming army grain transport team was found on the east side of the Lugou River, with about two thousand people." E Shuo was reading in the military tent when his subordinates came to report.
E Shuo was refreshed. He had fought several Ming army grain transport teams in the past few days, but they were all small troops of two to three hundred people. This was the first time such a force of two thousand people was involved. He finally found a treasure today! "Tell the boys to get ready and set off," E Shuo issued the military order.
"Commander, is there any fraud on the part of the Ming army?" Bentar, the leader of the Garro Right Banner, asked worriedly.
"It doesn't matter, the Ming army doesn't have many cavalry and can't catch up with our army." E Shuo was full of confidence.
On the east side of the Lugou River, Ming Dynasty Boye Boye Yang Bingyin led two thousand infantrymen, pushing a cart loaded with sand and soil, waiting anxiously, "Why haven't the Tatars come yet? Your majesty's trick of luring the enemy will not work, right?"
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In the reeds by the river, Sun Guangwei led Wu Yingqi, Ma Ning, and Manzhu to practice courtesy. They were more anxious than Yang Bingyin. The cavalrymen all have impatient tempers.
"Coming!"
Following the shouts of his subordinates, Yang Bingyin saw the rolling torrent and the Qing army's cavalry approaching.
Following Eshuo's order, Bentar, Omubu, Tuba, Erban, Bakbahai, Guluge, Tobok, and Gulu generals fought hard to kill the Ming army.
"End the car formation!"
Yang Bingyin ordered the grain carts to be linked together, and a simple cart array was formed.
"Whoosh~whoosh~whoosh~"
Rockets shot at the grain carts of the Ming army. If the carts were filled with grain, they would have been ignited. However, these grain carts were filled with sand and soil and were not easy to catch fire.
"Eh? There's something weird about this grain transport team," E Shuo's expression condensed.
"Kill~kill~kill~"
Generals Sun Guangwei, Wu Yingqi, Ma Ning, and Manzhu Xili led 18,000 cavalry to fight out. Manzhu Xili led 3,000 Horqin cavalry to rush to the front. They were newly surrendered and regarded this battle as their own.
Certificate of investment.
"Cavalry! When did the Ming army have so many cavalry?"
E Shuo felt dizzy and quickly ordered a retreat.
By the Lugou River, the soil was soft and the Qing army's horses could not run fast. The Ming army was well prepared, with their horses' hooves wrapped in cloth, and quickly caught up with and surrounded the Qing army.
Ten thousand Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners resisted desperately. Except for Bentar, Omubu, and Tuba, who fled with two thousand cavalry, Eshuo, Eban, Bakbahai, Guluge, Tobok, and Gulu all died in the battle.
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"Find E Shuo's body for the orphan and cut off his head," Manzhu Xili, King of Shunyi of the Ming Dynasty, said viciously, looking at the corpses scattered all over the Lugou River.
Ma Ning was very surprised, "Your Highness has a grudge against this E Shuo?"
"Humph, this foxy son of an old man has bullied Gu's niece so much that Gu wants to cut off his head to vent his anger on her niece." Manzhu Xili was filled with indignation.
Rather than taking out Erdenibemba’s anger, it’s better to say that I want to flatter the Concubine Xian. It’s great to have the power!