Li Chengliang's troops did not move slowly in Liaodong. It only took about half a month. They first arrived at Liaoyang from Guangning, then drove from Liaoyang to Qinghe Fort, and then headed for Crow Falcon Pass.
Yang Yuan's actions were not as slow as expected. Although he had to take a detour, it only took him seven days to reach Dong E's department. However, his plan to win over Dong E's department did not look particularly smooth.
Dong E's Ministry said that they had suffered heavy losses, and it was just after the New Year. In fact, spring had not yet begun in Liaodong. They did not agree with sending troops or anything... They did not say they disagreed, but said that they needed time to prepare. In addition, Dong E's Ministry was also worried that if the spring could not end the war quickly, I am afraid that
Will affect spring plowing.
God knows that Dong'e's tribe does not have a few acres of good land in total. Rather than worrying about spring plowing, he is more worried about Nurhaci's future retaliation.
Yang Yuan was very dissatisfied with this, but at this moment, in order to complete the task, he had to fight with Dong E's tribe. He planned to ignore them and deceive them into sending troops first. It didn't matter if they sent more or less.
Yang Yuan knew what Li Chengliang meant by giving him this order. It was not that the few troops Dong E's troops could send would have much military impact, but because the main task of General Kuandian was to control Dong E in the north and deter North Korea in the east. Now there is no
What happened in Korea is obviously related to Dong E's tribe, so Dong E's tribe must be involved in order to show the power of the Manchurian winds coming together under the Ming Dynasty's order.
Of course, this was not that important originally, but when Ye He took the initiative to send troops to assist, Li Chengliang had to let Yang Yuan do this.
Ye He sent troops to assist ostensibly for the sake of Cao Yun, but in fact it was because of the pragmatism behind Cao Yun. The Practical School had not been operating in Liaodong for a long time. In the early years, Gao Gong sent Zhang Xueyan to do the Liaofu Conference.
Actually, even the Practical School had not regarded Liaodong as its own sphere of influence. It was not until Gao Pragmatic took office in Liaonan that the Practical School began to run Liaodong seriously under the influence of Gao Pragmatic.
But having said that, the Xin School did not regard Liaodong as its sphere of influence at the beginning. They only started to exert efforts in Liaodong after Li Chengliang surrendered. However, Li Chengliang’s foundation in Liaodong was solid enough, so the Xin School had a psychological advantage.
Advantages, I think that compared to the Practical School, Liaodong should be their home field.
In this case, the Shi School can make a strong Jurchen chieftain follow suit, and the other school, how can he, Li Chengliang, be compared to others in this regard? The problem is that Hada is useless now, Li Chengliang even wants to make Hada
Also zip up.
Although Meng Gebulu was praised for being pragmatic and decisive, Li Chengliang felt that Meng Gebulu would not dare to turn a deaf ear to his uncle Li's words - Li Chengliang still had this confidence.
So this tricked Yang Yuan, and he had been waiting in Dong E's department for five days. Dong E's department was still counting the grain and grain and "calculating" how many troops it could send.
Cao Yun and Qi Jin's march in the middle road was really not fast. Except for the section just after leaving Fushun Pass, the road was relatively easy to walk. Since Saarhu, it started to stretch.
Since they have already left the border wall, it stands to reason that they may encounter enemy troops at any time. Therefore, the infantry of the Ming army are marching in heavy armor, not to mention the attached artillery and vehicle camps. In the valley of Changbai Mountain where the ice and snow have not yet melted,
Where can we go quickly?
Even though Jinghua's gun carriages and Qi Jiajun's sidecars both use Jinghua's unique spring shock absorption technology, the main problem now is not the springs but the tires.
Not to mention that natural rubber is still in China, South America has not been discovered by anyone other than the indigenous people. Even if it is discovered, or even obtained by Jinghua, it does not mean much, because Gao Pragmatic does not know how to utilize natural rubber.
Technology.
The technical content of making natural rubber into tires for industrial use is obviously not something that can be achieved at present. Apart from remembering that sulfur seems to be of some use, Gao Pragmatic has almost no memory at all. He knows nothing about the rubber vulcanization process.
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The wheels used by Jinghua today are all thin wire spokes with wooden wheels, and the outer ring of the wooden wheels is wrapped with iron sheets. The thin wire spokes are easy to understand, just like the bicycle spokes of later generations, and the wooden wheels are wrapped with iron sheets. People who may know
Relatively few, but this technology is actually not new.
How was this iron sheet added? After the wheel was completed, the circumference of the outer end of the wheel was measured, and the blacksmith was asked to make an iron sheet of the same length. First, the wooden wheel was soaked in water, and then the heated
The iron ring is directly put on the wooden wheel, and then water is quickly added to cool down, so that the iron ring is quickly cooled. That is to say, the principle of thermal expansion and contraction is used to put the iron ring on the wooden wheel to complete the processing of the iron and wooden wheel.
There were so many carpenters in the Ming Dynasty...well, so many that there was even a carpenter emperor later. Therefore, Jinghua hardly made the wooden wheels itself, but directly outsourced them. Private carpenters became Jinghua's "parts and components supporting enterprises."
Jinghua itself has steel plants everywhere, so there are many blacksmiths, and they are responsible for post-processing. However, Jinghua also has its own unique skills, that is, Jinghua's iron sheet is not ordinary smooth iron sheet. According to high pragmatic requirements or guidance, Jinghua
The wheel iron sheet has anti-skid patterns.
But that's all. Although the patterned iron sheet is relatively non-slip, you still have to be careful in the icy and snowy wilderness of Liaodong. Especially those artillery carriages loaded with artillery. Due to the artillery, the weight of the car body is too great. Once it slips, it will be an accident, or even a collision.
It's not like the dead have passed away, so the march led by Cao Yun and Qi Jin was really as slow as a snail.
Among the four armies, Ma Chengxun was the only one who could march at a high speed. Under the leadership of him and Fei Yingdong, four thousand cavalry rushed directly through the Hada territory in just two days, and took one day to capture the Jianzhou Left Guards.
A village in .
In fact, this stronghold cannot be said to have been captured. It is actually an empty stronghold with no one inside. It seems that it was abandoned by Nurhaci long ago. The Ming army did not find anything useful after entering the stronghold. Ma Chengxun
He originally planned to burn the village on fire when he left, but was dissuaded by Fei Yingdong.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Although Fei Yingdong is reckless in fighting, he is a Jurchen after all. He knows that it is not easy to build a village with the Jurchens' construction ability. Nurhachi
It was probably for this reason that he evacuated people but did not burn the stronghold to create trouble for the Ming army. So he persuaded Ma Chengxun to leave the stronghold behind, "it can be regarded as a place to stay when returning to the army in triumph."
Ma Chengxun thought about it and felt that it didn't matter if he stayed. If he still didn't like it after beating Jianzhou Left Guard, it wouldn't be too late to go back and burn it again. So he gave Fei Yingdong a face, and the two of them and their cavalry were in the stockade.
We stayed there for one night and continued southward the next day.
After walking another seventy or eighty miles, they "captured" two empty strongholds again. Ma Chengxun couldn't help but sneered: "Nurhachi is not stupid at all. He knew that these small strongholds could not be defended anyway, so he simply gave up.
, it would be better to withdraw all the troops to their base so that they can fight to the death. Unfortunately, this idea is not that smart at all. Our soldiers are surrounded by soldiers from all directions, so he withdraws all his troops to Hetuala. In fact, it is just convenient for us to catch them all in one fell swoop."
When he said this, Fei Yingdong suddenly felt that something was wrong with the situation.
Let me first talk about a point that is different from the original history: at the beginning of the 16th year of Wanli in the original history, Hetuala was not Nurhaci’s old village. At that time, Nurhachi’s seat of government was in Foala City.
Foala and Hetuala are not the same place. Foala is located in Erdao Village, Yongling Town, Xinbin County, Liaoning Province in later generations, while Hetuala is located in Laocheng Village, Yongling Town, Xinbin County, Liaoning Province in later generations - you didn't read
Wrong, they are all in the same county, but their locations are different and their historical origins are also different.
The earliest Foala Old City was the village where the Jurchen leader Li Man lived. Its name at that time is no longer known. In April of the third year of Chenghua, the Jurchen leader Dong Shan and others accepted the Ming Dynasty's promotion and went to Beijing together with Li Gunaha and others.
The division paid tribute. In August, Dong Shan was trapped and killed in Guangning, and Li Gunaha fled back to Jianzhou. In September, the Ming Dynasty ordered Jinglu General Zhao Fu and others to lead an army of 50,000 to separate and attack Foala, the base camp of Jianzhou.
.At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also "dated Korean soldiers" to attack Jianzhou.
Therefore, North Korea sent Kang Chun and others to lead more than 10,000 troops to attack. They crossed the Yalu River on September 2, attacked Li Manzhu and other villages living along the Pozhu River on the 29th, and destroyed Wu on the 30th.
In Mifu, Li Manzhu, his son Li Gunaha and 286 people under his command were captured and killed, and the prisoners were sacrificed to Xianzong in the first month.
In the twelfth year of Wanli, Nurhachi built a city on the site. Because he was building a city on an old site, he named it "Foala". "Foala" means "old hillock" and "old old city" in Manchu.
After the city was built, Nurhaci used this place as his administrative center. It was not until the 31st year of Wanli that Hetuala was newly built and moved there.
However, this life was different. Because he received high pragmatic support in the early days of his rebellion, and high pragmatic support meant the support of Jinghua, Nurhaci obtained more income from the trade cooperation with Jinghua than in the original history.
financial resources are more abundant.
Therefore, Nurhachi did not set his sights on Foala this time. Instead, he directly built a city in Hetuala, his birthplace, and achieved success in one step.
Although these two places are close to each other, Hetuala is slightly further north and has a better location than Foala. It is located at a three-way intersection of the Sukeshu River - there is a river to the north and a river to the west.
The river is of course an excellent barrier and has high military value, but there is a problem: this is in the valley of Changbai Mountain in Liaodong, and it is early spring when the New Year has passed but the snow has not melted.
This means that the Su Kesu Hu River is still in the ice age, and the so-called isolation effect of the river cannot be reflected at all. Given the cold weather in Liaodong at the moment, there is no problem at all for four thousand cavalry to cross the river directly on the ice.
In this case, what is the use of Nurhaci withdrawing the troops and even the people from various villages in the north to Hetuala? Is it really just to facilitate the Ming army to catch them all?
Although Fei Yingdong has never been to Hetuala, he never believes that Nurhachi can build the old Jianzhou Zuowei camp as strong as Kaiyuan. And based on his understanding of the Ming army's firepower after this trip, if Nurhaci really defends
Hetuala, there is basically no difference between that and waiting to die - the Jurchens' "city" will definitely not be able to withstand the bombardment of the Ming army.
Fei Yingdong didn't believe that Nurhachi didn't know this, because Nurhaci had served in Li Chengliang's army, and Shuerhaqi had been with Cao Yun during the recent Battle of Northern Liaoning. The two brothers had no influence on the Ming army.
Everyone should have a very clear understanding of the firepower.
Therefore, Fei Yingdong believes that Nurhachi can never hope to defend the city!
"Ma Canrong, something is wrong with this matter." Although Fei Yingdong felt that Ma Chengxun was a bit arrogant and not very talkative, but it was related to the success or failure of the war, so he had to advise: "Brother Nurhaci, evacuate these villages
I'm afraid it's to tempt me to go deeper, and then..."
"And then ambush me?" Ma Chengxun waved his hand and interrupted: "It is a possibility, I have also thought about it."
When he said this, Fei Yingdong was a little surprised: "Since Ma Shenrong also expected this possibility, why did he still..."
"Why do we have to go deep alone?" Ma Chengxun looked up to the sky and smiled: "Ha! You don't dare to go up, and I don't dare to go up, so this battle is a bullshit? Damn my grandma's Li... Huh, he treats me like a fool.
, I also think he is a defensive boss (Datong dialect: worthless)! If you have the ability to go up and flatten Hetuala by yourself, you can do it. He looks like a human and a dog, and he does things like giving birth to a son without an asshole.
I won’t pee on him.”
Fei Yingdong did not expect that Ma Chengxun would dare to scold Li Chengliang so directly - you must know that the Jurchens all called Li Chengliang "Uncle Li", and Fei Yingdong had never dared to underestimate him.
However, although Ma Chengxun scolded him vigorously, Fei Yingdong was still a little worried, frowning and said: "Ma Shenrong is so heroic, but the right time and place are not with us at the moment. To be honest, we are all cavalry, and we are not in this Changbai Mountain."
It’s so convenient. Even if there are valleys all the way, there are very few places where we can set up our positions. If I were Nurhachi, I would definitely find a narrow place to set up an ambush..."
"I know that." Ma Chengxun looked around and lowered his voice slightly: "Why do you think I rushed so slowly all the way? I was thinking that Nurha didn't have many cavalry under his bare hands (there really weren't many at this time,
Because they don’t have much money yet), his infantrymen have to prepare in advance if they want to set up an ambush. If I come quickly enough, it means ‘soldiers need speed’, and it is possible that I will rush all the way over before they reach the ambush site.”
Fei Yingdong thought for a while and felt that although the truth was this, it was a bit of a gamble. What if Nurhachi moved fast enough?
Seeing that Fei Yingdong was still frowning, Ma Chengxun couldn't help but feel a little unhappy, and said with a long face: "It doesn't matter if you don't dare to go with me, then this is it: I go in front, and you hang far behind.
Now, just treat it as my queen, how about it? I won’t bully you, and when the time comes, you will be rewarded according to your merits, and I will still count you as a share."
These words hurt his self-esteem a bit, and Fei Yingdong's expression changed: "Does Shen Rong think that the young one is greedy for life and afraid of death?"
Ma Chengxun raised his eyebrows but said nothing. What does that mean...
Fei Yingdong was so angry that his temples were beating, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Fei Yingdong is not a hero, but he is not willing to be left behind. No matter how dangerous it is to join the army, even if it is a dragon's pond, a tiger's den, a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, I, Fei Yingdong, will accompany you to the end!"
Ma Chengxun laughed, and in a rare move, he put down his airs as a heavenly general. He patted Fei Yingdong on the shoulder and said, "Okay, very good. Only with such momentum is he qualified to walk with me!"
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