When the Ming Army's camp on the South Road was broken, a large amount of food and grass was destroyed by the Chinese army, and part of it was looted by the Chinese soldiers.
When the defeated remnants of the Ming Army on the South Road retreated outside the gate of the Chinese army's camp, Wang Huazhen was furious and had to relocate the more than 10,000 defeated remnants to a small village south of the camp and set up a temporary camp.
Since the main general and deputy commander of the Ming Army in the South Route, Gao Gao, was temporarily missing, and the main force of the Ming Army in the South Route was the original Zhenwu Camp, but Liu Zheng, the deputy general of Zhenwu Fort, was also killed in the night attack, the Ming Army in this route was temporarily without a leader.
, I won’t be able to go to the battlefield for a long time.
Now, the Ming army that is besieging Xining Fort still maintains a strength of more than 70,000 to 80,000 troops. It still has a seven to eight times advantage over the Chinese army defenders at Xining Fort. Although the Ming army had never fought with the Chinese army in Liaodong before,
However, some veterans of the Ming Army's Jingying camp who had fought against the Chinese army in the capital and other places had a saying: it was impossible to defeat the pirate army without a manpower advantage of more than ten times.
After experiencing two attacks on the fortress, the soldiers of the Ming army who were initially hesitant about the veterans' words all agreed with this statement. The range of the artillery on the fortress, the exploding shells fired, and the rockets that flew over their heads like meteors and then exploded when they landed.
The Ming army soldiers who saw the Chinese army fighting for the first time were shocked by the bullets, rapid-fire guns, etc. These weapons and the fighting methods of the Chinese army soldiers were far beyond their imagination.
Nowadays, even Mao Wenlong, who had been the most active in the past, has lost the confidence to win. At this time, although the Ming Dynasty has entered troubled times, with wars in the north and south, and continuous natural and man-made disasters, the tradition of civil and military dominance still temporarily prevails
Upside, the status of civilian officials is still higher than that of military generals. The Ming military generals around Xining Fort did not dare to point their fingers at Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong, and could only continue to issue various complaints and threats against Mao Wenlong.
Among the entire army, Wang Huazhen was the only one who was still full of optimism about the war. He had been issuing orders to the rear, requesting the immediate transportation of grain, grass, arms and baggage to the front line of Xining Fort. At the same time, he also asked the rear to continue to send troops to him.
He even ignored the fact that the guard strength of the Liaoxi Corridor was already very empty, and sent a message to Shanhaiguan to request Xiong Tingbi to mobilize troops.
At this time, Xiong Tingbi was stranded in Ningyuan. On the road between Ningyuan and Guangning where he was, a large number of marines in blue uniforms of the Chinese Army had appeared. The number was about 2,500, and there were hundreds more in uniforms.
Among them were the motley Liaodong militiamen. These pirate troops straddled the road, dug a long trench to cut off the road, and set up their own camp there.
They are transporting cannons from Juhua Island and setting up a formation in front of Ningyuan City, as if they want to attack Ningyuan. At the end of the horizon in the distance, on the dark Bohai Sea, there are faintly visible pieces of sail. Those are the signs that keep coming to Juhua Island
The pirate sailboats in the surrounding waters. The powerful maritime maneuverability of the Chinese army was fully demonstrated at this time. Xiong Tingbi could clearly see at the top of Ningyuan City: pushcarts and flatbed carts pulled by donkeys and horses, piled high.
All kinds of things stretch continuously from the north of Ningyuan City to the coast opposite Juhua Island. Moreover, this sea route transfer process is almost non-stop day and night. God knows why this pirate army only has a few thousand people.
So many supplies are needed!
Some local people were actively working as coolies for the pirates under the threat of force and the lure of money.
The refugees who had previously been harassed and attacked by the pirates and driven out of their homes entered Ningyuan and other fortified fortresses in the Western Liaoning Corridor in groups. There may have been many spies of the pirates among these people. Someone had tried to attack Ningyuan the day before yesterday.
A fire was set beside the military powder magazine at Ximen.
Under the banner of the "Ryukyu Squadron", this unit of the pirate army posted a notice in Ningyuan City saying that it was the "Marine Corps of the Ryukyu Squadron of the Beiyang Fleet" demanding that Ningyuan City Kaicheng surrender, otherwise they would fire artillery to attack the city. They claimed that they were
Because the officers and soldiers took the lead in breaking the tacit understanding of the armistice in Liaodong and wantonly sent troops to attack Xining Fort, they landed and attacked cities in western Liaoning. As long as the officers and soldiers ceased fighting on the front line of Xining Fort, they would immediately retreat back to the sea.
Xiong Tingbi stretched out his hand outside the Ningyuan city wall and threw the announcement down the city. He glanced at the busy Chinese military camp in the distance, sighed, and turned back to the central area of the city to arrange and organize the city defense. At this moment, Xiong Tingbi
We still don’t know: the Ming army in Xining Fort is already in danger.
For five days in a row, the two Ming armies northwest of Xining Fort made no move: Wang Huazhen convened people for continuous meetings and discussions, but nothing could be decided. As long as the Ming army generals do not go to war, you Wang Huazhen can say whatever you want, and we are listening.
Wang Huazhen kept urging the generals to attack Xining Fort, but received no response from anyone. As a result, nearly 80,000 Ming soldiers were wasting food there.
Wang Huazhen didn't know where she got the news, saying that the Mongolian Horqin tribe north of the Liao River Hetao intended to go south to help the Ming army fight. Wang Huazhen happily sent a group of envoys to go north to Horqin Mongolia with gold and silver to attract them.
Help in the fight.
At the same time, in order to maintain the encirclement of Xining Fort, he ordered Zu Dashou to lead the forward battalion to attack the area along the Sancha River east of Xining Fort. Originally, the Ming army established many warnings on the dry platform surrounded by reeds in the Sancha River area.
At this time, all the sentries had been driven away by the Chinese army. Wang Huazhen ordered Zu Dashou to resume the blockade of the Sancha River crossing, which made Zu Dashou really couldn't bear to curse.
Since setting off from Guangning, Zu Dashou's troops have not only been at the forefront of the army, but also have the worst food in the army, and they have also been constantly receiving dirty work: the first tentative siege of the city and the blockade of the reed swamps.
District roads, patrolling the banks of the Sancha River, and so on. The main reason is that Zu Dashou and others are old people from the original Liaodong Town, and they have always listened to the words of Xiong Tingbi on Liaodong's strategy, although they can be regarded as the so-called Guangning newly built by Wang Huazhen.
However, some members of the army were often neglected and made things difficult by Wang Huazhen intentionally or unintentionally. Those generals recently promoted by Wang Huazhen, such as Mao Wenlong, were originally soldiers from Liaodong Town, and their original status was far inferior to that of Zu Dashou, who had a hereditary military position. Now they
Under the guidance of Wang Huazhen, he was promoted rapidly, so everyone rallied around Wang Huazhen and squeezed out the Zu Dashou tribe everywhere.
In the endless daily blockade and small-scale counter-blockade battles, Zu Dashou's troops suffered few casualties, but it made his troops very tired. So, after receiving Wang Huazhen's order that day, he immediately ordered the army to run out of food and grass.
He asked the Chinese army camp to provide him with supplies immediately, otherwise the sergeant would have no food in his belly and would not be able to go into battle.
This hit Wang Huazhen's vital point. No matter how much he could talk, he could not produce food and grass with his bare hands. He checked all the staff in the big tent and found that the entire army only had enough food for five days. He could not get it.
In order to provide food, Zu Dashou insisted on the policy of passively avoiding war, and only sent a few dozen people to the west of Xining Fort. After completing the task, they came back to deliver the goods. Then Zu Dashou reported to the old camp: The pirate army is powerful and has gathered in large numbers.
At the Huangniwa Ferry of the Sancha River, troops have also been divided to cross the river. Moreover, the pirates from Xining Fort also want to go out of the city to meet them. Therefore, our troops are few and weak, so we can only return to the camp temporarily.
Although Huangniwa was indeed a gathering place for the Chinese army's reinforcements, only a small number of reconnaissance horses crossed the river, and the Chinese army in Xining Fort had no intention of leaving the city in large numbers. After Zu Dashou's nonsense, Wang Huazhen had no choice.
Now, he has felt that the generals under his command no longer look at him with awe in their eyes. It is unwise to offend and anger these military leaders during wartime.
Therefore, in the next few days, the Ming army wasted time and food under the Xining Fort City. Xiong Tingbi was commanding the defense battle in Ningyuan City and could not come. Therefore, the two top commanders of the Ming Army in western Liaoning finally avoided
A quarrel occurred in the army. Wang Huazhen had already defected to Wei Zhongxian at this time, so the Ming court collected the last grains of food from the farmers in the vast north and sent them to the front line.
As soon as he took office, Wang Huazhen ignored the military strength of both the enemy and ourselves, and insisted on attacking the maritime invaders and regaining Liaoshen. This led to a "Jingfu feud" with Xiong Tingbi, who advocated defense first. Huazhen wanted to fight, and Tingbi
"Want to defend", "the two discussed, and a fire broke out", this kind of news is often heard in Tang newspapers.
Now, these two people have no intention of arguing. They are about to face the most dangerous war situation.
At this time, the Chinese Army had assembled a cavalry brigade of 5,000 people in Huangniwa, and nearly 6,000 infantry troops from various departments.