It is recorded in the official local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty:
"... Guangning Wei Xiping Fort is eight miles east of Wei, which is called Xixing Fort. There is Xining Fort to the southeast of the fort, and west of Xining, it is called Xiping Fort. There is also Pingyang Fort, which is two hundred miles east of Wei and connects with Haizhou Wei. Also.
It's called Pingyangpu.
The winning fort is twenty miles east of Wei. "Yi Tong Zhi": The forts located in the northern border of Wei are called Zhen'an, Zhenbian, Qingshi, Tuanshan, Shuangshu, Bei'an, Dong'an, Nan'an, Xi'an, Zhong'an and other forts.
Those in the east are called Gaomiao, Daupu, Banqiao, Pingyang and other forts. Those in the south are called Four Pagodas, Luyang, Liuhe, Shisanshan, Feng'an, Shawo, Shadun, Haichao and Dajue.
, Linghe, Shuangfeng and other forts, Fan twenty-five clouds. There is also Xianchang Village, a hundred miles south of Wei."
The Liaohe River flows seventy miles west of Haizhou City, where it crosses the Sancha River and goes northwest for more than a hundred miles, leading directly to Guangning.
In other words, whether the Ming army marches eastward to regain Liaodong, or the Chinese army takes Guangning, they must control the Xining Fort and Xixing Fort area.
The Ming army's large-scale dispatch of troops to Xining Fort was actually brewing for more than half a year. After Wang Huazhen was appointed governor of Liaodong, he has been planning to march eastward to regain Liaodong. In his view, the maritime pirate army is entangled with the remnants of the Jurchen Eight Banners in the north.
There was another conflict with North Korea in the southeast, which was a good opportunity for the Ming army to take the opportunity to advance eastward. He also sent food and silk to the Chahar and Horqin Mongolian tribes outside the border, encouraging them to send troops to attack the territory of the Chinese army.
When the troops were dispatched in early September, Wang Huazhen ignored Xiong Tingbi's advice and insisted on ordering almost all the grain and grass stored in Guangning Guard to be transported to the front line.
On that night, Zhang Pan not only launched a long-range firepower raid on the Ming army's central camp in the west, but also sent nearly 800 soldiers from the Liaodong militia regiment to attack the two Ming army camps outside and outside at night.
In his original intention, he did not intend to take risks. The number of guards at Xining Fort was too small. Zhang Pan was worried that after sending troops for a night attack, if the Ming army soldiers collectively bombed the camp, his own soldiers would be involved, so he did not dare to attack in the dark.
They risked attacking with the main force. However, Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Yi, commander of the Second Regiment of the First Division, and Supervisory Officer Guo Yun both believed that they must take advantage of the chaos to attack.
Zhang Pan compromised and sent members of the Liaodong Militia Regiment to attack in two groups, with locals leading the way.
As a result, when the Ming army's central camp collapsed, Zhang Pan was too cautious and missed the opportunity to loot the Ming army camp. However, he sent the Liaodong militia to sneak attack the Ming army camp in the north and south, but the north route militia captured Guangning.
The left army camp was in chaos, and the left army general Bao Chengfu had to use his private soldiers to maintain order: while the South Road militiamen got lost in the reed swamps, and when they arrived outside the Zhenwu Camp of the South Road Ming Army, Zhang
Pan's bombardment of the Ming Army's central camp had begun for half an hour. The Ming Army on the South Road had long been awakened. The whole camp was brightly lit and tense. The Liaodong militiamen had lost the opportunity to sneak attack and had to quietly return to Xining Fort along the same route.
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Generally speaking, the Chinese army performed quite well in the first stage of the defense of Xining Fort: it was only due to Zhang Pan's overly cautious character that the Chinese army missed the opportunity to further expand its results.
The Ming army's central camp retreated for dozens of miles that night. At dawn, Wang Huazhen relied on his trusted generals Jiang Chaodong, Sun Degong, Mao Wenlong and others to finally gather the troops. At this time, they discovered that following Guangning,
The troops running back were also the Jingying artillery. In order to attack Xining Fort, Mao Wenlong concentrated almost all the heavy firearms in the army and placed them all in the Jingying artillery camp.
At that moment, Mao Wenlong was so anxious that he didn't bother to ask Wang Huazhen for instructions and rushed directly towards Xining Fort with his troops.
Wang Huazhen was also anxious: If these firearms were destroyed or taken away by the Chinese army, then the Battle of Xining Fort would no longer have to be fought. His only option was to return to Guangning with his troops, and then be looked down upon by Xiong Tingbi. This was so hot
A bad-tempered guy might point at his nose and yell.
Wang Huazhen immediately ordered his Biaoying cavalry, led by Jiang Chaodong, to rush back to the original Chinese army camp. The first task was to protect the firearms.
Then, he ordered Sun Degong to gather his troops as soon as possible and return to Xining Fort.
The artillery raid launched by Zhang Pan delayed the Ming army's planned general attack for ten days. Mao Wenlong was pleasantly surprised to find that most of his cannons were intact. The Chinese army did not rush out of the city to sweep the Ming army camp, but only occasionally
Shoot a few shots at this place.
The Chinese army of the Ming army retreated three miles from the original camp and set up camp. They also sent an outpost near Xining Fort. Once they discovered that the Chinese army in Xining Fort was planning to attack, they immediately reported to the main camp. Mao Wenlong reorganized the troops and continued to organize the attack on Xining.
General attack on the fort.
In the past ten days, the two sides only had some sporadic conflicts, mostly encounters between the two sides' scouting horses and reconnaissance cavalry. The east side of Xining Fort to the Sancha River is full of wetlands and swamps, and there are reeds everywhere. In fact,
The Ming army was unable to form a tight encirclement of Xining Fort.
Mao Wenlong suggested to Wang Huazhen that he set fire to the reed swamps and cleared out a large wetland with good visibility, so that he could monitor and blockade Xining Fort. Zu Dashou received this assignment and set fire to the east of Xining Fort for several days. His troops and Xining Fort
There were the most conflicts between the defenders' reconnaissance cavalry and the Chinese army's reconnaissance horses east of the Liaohe River, almost ten times a day.
The twelfth day that the Ming army began to besiege Xining Fort was the seventh day that Zhang Pan bombarded the Ming army camp. It was also the seventh day that the first batch of reinforcements and student troops arrived at Xining Fort. A large number of soldiers carrying Chinese flags with blue backgrounds
The sailing ship appeared at the mouth of the Liao River.
The communication ship "Sea Bird" and two other clipper ships returned to Lushunkou and reported the fact that the student army went directly to Xining Fort to the deputy general manager of logistics of the Liaodong March Road and Colonel Huang Lue of the Lushun Fortress garrison.
The two captains of the communication ship did not know this: among the 200 student soldiers they sent ashore on the Sancha River, there was the son of their supreme commander.
Huang Lue knew about it. He had already received news that the student army was coming to Lushun to gather, and he also knew that among them was Yin Feng's son.
At this time, he became anxious and angry. On the one hand, he sent a horse to inform Zhao Tie of Liaoyang as quickly as possible. On the other hand, he quickly discussed with Luo Quanxiu, the commander of the Fourth Division who had just arrived in Lushun.
The troops of the Fourth Division had just been transferred from Jiangnan. They were going to North Korea to support Yan Siqi's Fifth Division in attacking Seoul. Huang Lue explained the situation in the shortest possible terms, and Luo Quanxiu's face immediately turned pale.
Luo Quanxiu immediately said: "Don't wait for the order from Liaoyang. I will give you a regiment of troops. Let's take the first regiment. Most of them are still on the ship. Let's go directly to Xining Fort. You can coordinate all aspects.
, I will bear the responsibility for deploying troops without permission!"
Huang Lue smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Lao Luo, after all, we fought against the Japanese pirates together, so we should also bear the responsibility for the unauthorized deployment of troops this time. I still have my own guards from the Biao camp on hand, and there are several Jiangnan merchants on the dock.
All the sailing ships must be requisitioned."
The admiral of the Sixth Squadron of the Navy's Beiyang Fleet who stayed in Lushun was Mai Dahai's cousin, and he soon heard about it from Huang Lue. The relationship between their Mai family and Yin Bin was even closer: Yin Bin's mother was
Yin Bin, a member of the Mai family, is their nephew and may be Yin Feng's future heir and the Mai family's backer. Without saying a word, the admiral of the Mai family launched all the ships at his disposal and moved himself
All the men and horses under their command were mobilized and worked day and night to help the Fourth Division troops carry arms.
So, on the seventh day after the student army arrived at Xining Fort, the Sixth Squadron of the Beiyang Fleet escorted thirty large blessing ships and arrived at the mouth of the Liao River.
From this day on, the Ming army's siege of Xining Fort completely deviated from Wang Huazhen's original plan, and Zhang Pan's steady defense plan became a waste of paper.
On the same day, Zhao Tie issued an emergency order to the Chinese Army in Liaoyang to the northern line and near the Liaohe River: All ministries gave up all combat arrangements at hand and marched westward with all their strength to support Xining Fort. All ministries used the narrowest Huangniwa of the Sancha River as a gathering point: here is
The bridgehead on the east bank of the Sancha River Floating Bridge. On that day, Zhao Tie sent his battalion out of the south gate of Liaoyang City and headed straight for the Sancha River.
Two days later, Zheng Zhihu, who was dealing with the Mongols in the Liao River Hetao, received an urgent order from Zhao Tie, immediately got rid of the Mongols, crossed the Liao River and returned to the main force of the cavalry brigade, and then traveled south to the Sancha River day and night.
The entire Liaodong War suddenly mobilized troops on a large scale around Fort Xining, and began a war that everyone felt was chaotic. Originally, the battle plan planned by Yin Feng and the Chinese Army's Old Battalion Operations Department was to wait for the northern and eastern fronts of the Liaodong War.
After everything came to an end, they took advantage of the onset of winter when the wet swamps in the lower reaches of the Liao River froze, and used the Chinese cavalry to quickly cross the river to support Xining Fort, and then mobilized the army to defeat the main force of the Ming Army in one fell swoop, striving to seize Guangning Guards by the end of the year.
This plan requires the garrison of Fort Xining to hold Fort Xining for three to four months with only minimal reinforcements.
However, because of the bold behavior of the military academy students, the entire Liaodong army changed its combat plan.
On the other side of the battle line, Wang Huazhen desperately transferred all the troops left behind in the past few days to the front line of Xining Fort. Hei Wenlong guarded the Pingyang Bridge, Zhu Shixun, the reserve guard of Xixing Fort, Chen Shangzhi of the Jinzhou Army, and Yu Yu, the guard of the Tiechang Fort
Hongjian, He Shiyan defended the Daling River guerrillas, Deng Deng guarded the Jin'an fort, Huang Zonglu guarded the Youtun camp, Cui Jinzhong guarded the Tuanshan fort, Li Shi guarded the Zhenning fort, Xu Zingcheng guarded the Zhenyuan fort, Zheng Weihan guarded the Zhen'an fort, and Zhengbao Chen guarded the fort.
General Zhou Yuanxun, Daqing Fort guerrilla Yan Yin, Dakang Fort Guard Wang Guotai, Zhenwu Fort Dusi Jin Li, Liu Shizhang, Li Weilong, Wang Yougong and other original garrison troops were all transferred to the front line of Xining Fort. The total number of Ming troops in Xining Fort
, increased to 88,000 to nearly 90,000.
"Crazy! This Wang Huazhen is completely crazy!" Xiong Tingbi was furious when he heard the news in Shanhaiguan. He couldn't bear it anymore. He took more than a dozen soldiers around him and rode to Guangning overnight.