Turge led 3,000 Eight Banners soldiers and 5,000 to 6,000 servant soldiers. After frightening off the deputy general of Xuanfu of the Ming Army in Miyun and the general of Miyun, Tang Tong, they drove directly to the gates of Beijing.
He was the deputy general of Rao Yubeile Abatai who entered the customs this time. After the army advanced to the Jizhou line, they originally wanted to quickly go south after passing Jizhou according to the original plan, and rob the southern part of Zhili and Shandong along the canal. But.
After passing Jizhou, we encountered trouble in the area from Tongzhou to Tianjin. The Ming army who came to Qinwang was faster than expected. Before they could go south, the road was blocked by the Ming army.
Although the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is average, it can't stand up to the large number of people. This time Turge and Abatai entered the pass to fight. Unlike the previous times, this time they entered the pass with a partial force. There was no big strategic goal. It was purely for the purpose of fighting.
They came with the mentality of grabbing a handful and leaving. Although they claim to have an army of 100,000, the real situation is that the total strength of all the troops is only 60,000 or 70,000. Among them, the real elite main force of the Eight Banners is only seven or eight Zalan (A)
There are only more than 10,000 people, and the rest are all Han military flags, Mongolian military flags and the Horqin Mongolian tribe who came to fight the autumn wind.
A premature outbreak of war is not in line with the Qing army's strategy. In this way, the Qing army was held back near Tongzhou, and the more the Ming army was delayed, the more Qinwang soldiers came in! This can't go on like this. The Northeast of the Ming Dynasty capital
The Ministry is not a wealthy area, and there is not much to rob. If the situation continues, military rations may not be available.
Abatai and Turge combined their efforts and decided to play the art of war, which states that if you attack the enemy, you must save it. Since the road south is blocked, let's just attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty. I don't believe that you, the Qinwang soldiers, can't do it.
Rush over there.
This method worked as expected. In less than three days, the partial army led by Turge successfully arrived at the north wall of the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
"General Ezhen, the Ming army has camped in the northeast of the city. How should our army march?" Niu Lu, a leader of the army, rode a horse to Turg's commander's flag, reported the military situation, and asked about the next battle plan.
"How many Ming troops are arrayed outside the city?"
"Looking at the size of the camp, there should be about 20,000 to 30,000 people. The handsome flag hanging in the camp is Chen Xinjia's flag. It should be that guy who was lured here from Tongzhou by us."
"Twenty or thirty thousand people? This number of troops is still not enough! It seems that we have to fight a good battle in Minggou's capital."
"The Ming army will camp in the corner, making our attack a little uncomfortable. No matter which wall we attack, they will have the opportunity to flank our army."
"Ignore these Qinwang soldiers for now. Now that we have arrived at this place, we naturally have to see the splendor of Mingguo Jingcheng. According to this general's order, the entire army advances to the north city wall. I want to check how the defense of Mingguo Jingcheng is doing.
Sample."
"General, there are heavy artillery on the Ming army's city walls. It may be dangerous to break in."
""Let the army disperse and suddenly attack, it's not really about attacking the city anyway."
The sound of artillery continued on the walls of Beijing City, and Zhu Youjian, who had changed his soul, ushered in the first urban offensive and defensive battle he had experienced since his rebirth.
When the Qing army arrived at the city, he was already standing on the tower of Andingmen looking at the enemies from afar with a telescope. This was also the first time that he saw the legendary Manchu Qing Dynasty with his own eyes in two lifetimes.
Eight Banners Soldiers.
The Qing army under the city was different from what we imagined. In our imagination, the Qing soldiers, as a powerful army of this era, should have bright armor and neat ranks. But standing at the city gate tower and looking down at the Qing army, we found that their clothes were chaotic and their formations were chaotic.
It was also very scattered, and no array could be seen at all.
Compared with them, the night-time scouts of the Ming Dynasty King's soldiers looked like elites. They were in twos and threes with distinctive armor. They rushed left and right at the junction of the two armies. They were very majestic. After looking carefully for a while, Zhu Youjian saw it.
Some doorways. Although the formation of the Qing army is scattered, they are scattered but gathered together. They cooperate and support each other very well. They don't need to command and dispatch at all, and they can naturally adjust the battle formation according to the strength of the enemy. And the Ming army's
The scouts looked at Huan who was charging at night. In fact, they were strong on the outside and hard on the inside, and they did not dare to leave the military formation at all. The Qing soldiers seemed to have no formation, but during the cavalry confrontation, Zhu Youjian saw the skirmish line formation of later generations.
Shadows, they will naturally form linear arrays of different sizes for coordinated operations.
Many people will say that the skirmish line formation was invented by Napoleon. How could it be used by ancient armies? This is limiting. The standard skirmish line tactics were naturally invented by Napoleon. But this type of line tactics was not used in ancient times.
No, even wolves in the animal world use this attack method. In ancient China, there was a formation called the long snake formation, which was actually the prototype of the skirmish line.
This linear formation looks simple, but in fact, in ancient times when military theory was incomplete and training methods were inappropriate, it was very difficult to train an army that could always use the long snake formation flexibly. But this is just for normal people.
For agricultural societies, like the Jurchens and Mongols, they grew up in an atmosphere of coordinated warfare. War is like a family meal. Without any special training, they naturally know how to use the most powerful weapons in combat situations.
Fight in a reasonable organizational manner.
After seeing the situation outside the city, Zhu Youjian returned his gaze to the city wall. Then a surge of blood almost surged up, and he wanted to run away on the city wall.
No matter how bad the Qinwang soldiers outside the city are, at least they look decent, but these guys on the city wall are really too much to look at. The Qing army is still eight feet away from the city wall, and these guys are firing all kinds of cannons randomly.
and shooting guns. The command was even more chaotic. Commander-in-Chief Zhu Chunchen kept urging people to beat drums to help the battle. His soldiers could not see any useful arrangements except shouting and bluffing. This
It's hard to say whether the capital camp like this can hold the capital.
"Cheng Guogong, the military situation is in crisis. I have decided to set up a general headquarters for the defense of the capital at Andingmen. All matters concerning the defense of the capital will be under the unified command of Andingmen. I will personally be the commander-in-chief, and Duke Cheng will be the commander-in-chief of the front enemy. The British
Duke Dingguo was appointed as the former deputy commander of the enemy. Two hundred cadets were transferred from the general school hall to each war zone on the city wall, responsible for delivering military orders and supervising the execution of military orders by the generals in the Beijing camp. Another 300 cadets were transferred from the Longevity Mountain Imperial College to the city wall to be responsible for observation.
Statistics of the battle results of the Beijing camp and statistics of the enemy's battle losses."
Deep down in his heart, Zhu Youjian did not want to carry out micro-management in this battle. But the reality did not allow it. With the level of Zhu Chunchen and the generals in the Beijing camp, there was no doubt that problems would really occur if he did not micro-manage. In addition, the actual situation did not allow it.
The objective conditions also have the convenience of micro-management. Standing on the gate tower of Andingmen, you can have a panoramic view of the battle situation on the entire wall. If such good battlefield conditions are not taken advantage of, it will be a waste of the painstaking efforts of the ancestors of the old Zhu family.
It wasn't until he stood on the city gate tower that Zhu Youjian truly realized the benefits of establishing a city wall defense system. In front of the tall city walls of the capital, the Qing soldiers on horses looked incomparably small. Under such conditions, if people were to
If it is broken, it can be said that the ability is too poor.