Xining Fort has become a logistics station for the Chinese Army's North Road. A large amount of arms and food supplies shipped from the east bank of the Liao River have filled all the warehouses of Xining Fort.
Lu Xiaotian, who had led the attack without permission more than ten days ago, was appointed as the temporary garrison of Xining Fort. He started to manage the logistics work very depressedly. This was his most hated document work, involving countless numbers. He had a headache but could not avoid it.
--This is a direct order from General Manager Zhao Tie.
Zhang Pan, the former garrison of Fort Xining, is now in charge of the infantry of the North Route Chinese Army attacking Guangning, and the director of cavalry is Li Jicheng. As the commander-in-chief of the battle, Zhao Tie went directly to Zhenwu Fort.
The entire logistics work of the Chinese Army on the North Road, as well as troublesome tasks such as searching and suppressing scattered Ming Army troops, sheltering Ming Army prisoners, settling Chinese Army sick and wounded, as well as stabilizing local people's hearts, and caring for the refugees returning home, are now all piled up in Lu.
In front of Xiaotian.
The Huanglue Headquarters of the Chinese Army on the South Road has the natural advantage of sea transportation, and the transportation of materials from the area east of the Sancha River section to Guangning is all overland, requiring the organization of a large number of manpower, animal power, and various large vehicles, but from Xining Fort to
Almost all the residents within a few hundred miles of Guangning Guard have become refugees, and Lu Xiaotian simply cannot recruit enough people locally. The Chinese Army has always attached great importance to logistics, so the officers sent by the Logistics Office of the Liaodong March Chief asked Lu Xiaotian
Xiaotian suggested: Recruit those Ming army prisoners to work on the spot.
Lu Xiaotian's eyes lit up and he immediately started to do it.
At this moment, most of the defenders of Xining Fort were members of militia groups who came from various places. Except for Lu Xiaotian's directly affiliated Biao Battalion, the only regular troops were the 200 teenagers from the First Battalion of the Student Army.
Zhao Yi and his several sentry commanders and captains discussed it and came to Lu Xiaotian together, asking to go to the front line to fight.
Lu Xiaotian and Zhao Tie have a good relationship. Zhao Tie treats him as his nephew, so Lu Xiaotian and Zhao Yi are also familiar with each other. Not only Zhao Yi, but also Li Jigong, the first sentry commander in this student army,
Captain Yin Bin and several other trainee officers were all acquainted with him.
Because of this, Lu Xiaotian shook his head like a rattle in response to the request of Zhao Yi and others: "No, no, no, Xining Fort is now a logistics and military supply center, and you need to defend it. You can't leave here."
No matter how these teenagers asked or pleaded, Lu Xiaotian firmly refused to allow them to leave.
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At this moment, Wang Huazhen, the governor of Liaodong who was in Zhenwu Fort, was regretting not leaving in time.
Two days ago, he was protected by Ming army generals such as Zu Dashou, Qi Bingzhong and Chao Chaodong. He ran in the fields, jungles and rivers for two full days before entering Zhenwu Fort exhausted.
Subsequently, a large number of defeated Ming troops followed him into Zhenwu Fort and surrounding forts. Soon a large number of defeated troops came upon hearing the news, and more than 30,000 Ming troops gathered uncontrollably in Zhenwu Fort.
In hot pursuit were more than 5,000 Chinese cavalry. They quickly deployed their troops and blocked the Ming army's way of continuing to flee west. In fact, if Wang Huazhen could make up his mind to break through at all costs at this time, he would not have formed a complete attack on Zhenwu Fort.
It was impossible for the tightly encircled Chinese cavalry to stop so many Ming soldiers from fleeing for their lives.
However, Wang Huazhen suddenly thought of the issue of face again: he thought that Xiong Tingbi might have rushed to Guangning Guard at this time and was waiting for him. Wang Huazhen went back in disgrace and bowed his head to him to admit his mistake. Literati in the Ming Dynasty were all good-looking, and so was Wang Huazhen.
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So Wang Huazhen said to all his generals: We must collect the defeated troops in Zhenwu Fort, regroup, and fight to the death with the pirates!
All the generals and Wang Huazhen's staff were dumbfounded on the spot. If Qi Bingzhong hadn't stopped him in time, Zu Dashou would have jumped up and had a fit.
At this time, a defeated army of the North Route Ming Army also came to Zhenwu Fort, bringing a glimmer of hope to Wang Huazhen. It is said that when the North Route Ming Army was defeated and retreated at Shalingyi, someone saw the appearance of the Horqin Grassland in the north.
A large group of Mongolian cavalry.
I don’t know how this news came out. In fact, some of the cavalry troops commanded by Zhao Tie were Mongolian cavalry, and some of them turned out to be Mongolian soldiers who were captured in the Battle of Hetuala. These Mongolian cavalry were organized into several outposts.
The team joined the cavalry brigade, and they participated in the Battle of Shaling. It is possible that what the fleeing Ming army saw were these Mongolian cavalry in the Chinese army. However, Wang Huazhen regarded this fact as a life-saving straw, and finally
A faint hope: "This must be the cavalry of the Tatar tribe. We can be saved! They have gone south and will join our army in a few days! By then, with the help of one hundred thousand Mongolian Tatar cavalry, we can defeat the sea in one fell swoop.
Kou Jun!"
Almost all the generals looked at Wang Huazhen as if they were crazy: Does the governor of Liaodong know what he is talking about? One hundred thousand Mongolian cavalry? If the Horqin Mongolian tribe really had so many cavalry, they would not be on the banks of the Songhua River again and again.
Defeated by the pirate army.
Because of Wang Huazhen's unreasonable request to stay at Zhenwu Fort, more than 30,000 Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers missed the opportunity to escape the encirclement of the Chinese army.
When Wang Huazhen discovered that the Mongolian Tatars had not arrived, it was already the third day of their stay at Zhenwu Fort. The Chinese Army infantry, under the command of Zhang Pan, arrived at Zhenwu Fort on this day, with a total of 10,000 soldiers.
One thousand infantrymen, with sixteen field guns, two thunder mortar guns, and one 2,000-pound bronze siege gun. They quickly used cannons to blast several small forts around Zhenwu Fort.
Zhenwu Fort is a heavily fortified military base. In addition to being surrounded by a solid city wall, seven or eight small forts have been built within a mile of the fort. According to regulations, hundreds of garrison troops must be stationed at each fort.
.And it is unrealistic for more than 30,000 Ming troops to be crushed inside the fortress. Zhenwu Fort cannot accommodate so many people. Therefore, many Ming troops were squeezed into these platforms, and eight platforms were enough to squeeze in.
More than 4,000 people attended.
As soon as the Chinese infantry arrived on the battlefield, they immediately pulled out these small forts respectively, spent half a day clearing the Ming army strongholds around Zhenwu Fort, and soon formed a tight encirclement of Zhenwu Fort.
At this time, Wang Huazhen and the rest of the Ming army completely lost hope of breaking out and returning to Guangning.
At this moment, Guangning is about to fall into the hands of the pirates.
After Huang Lue led two regiments of the Sixth Division to land in the Liaoxi Corridor, they went all the way north and captured Ningyuan, Zhongzuo Suo, Xingshan, Guangning Zhongtunwei (Songshan) and other places. Huang Lue always acted quickly and organized a group of troops.
A cavalry team headed north first. He led two regiments of regular infantry, more than a thousand marines, and thousands of Liaodong militiamen. They strode northward and encountered resistance from the Ming army at the Daling River area. The Ming army around Guangning had already strengthened its troops.
They were almost mobilized by Wang Huazhen. The Ming army troops in Dalinghe were gathered together by several civilian officials such as Fang Zhenru, the patrol commander of Liaodong, Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Jiliao, and Gao Bangzuo, the political officer of Liaodong Bingdao. They were the last bit of the Guangning Guard.
The Ming army is here.
How could the loosely gathered Ming army of more than 10,000 men stop Huang Lue's Chinese soldiers who were eager to fight? In the battle of Daling River, the entire Ming army of more than 10,000 men was wiped out in just half a day.
On the same day that Wang Huazhen was finally surrounded in Zhenwu Fort, Huang Lue's cavalry vanguard had already appeared on the outskirts of Guangning Guard.
Then, just one day later, Sun Degong, who had just escaped from the front line of Xining Fort, launched a mutiny together with his subordinates Qian Zonglang Shaozhen, Lu Guozhi, Guangning garrison Huang Jin and others. Sun Degong's rebels guarded the city gate and took control of Guangzhou.
Ningcheng. Then, without any suspense, they went out of the city and surrendered to Huang Lue, who had just arrived at Guangning City.