In June of the third year of Chongzhen's reign, Huang Taiji could no longer sit still. In just a few days, Lu Xiangsheng's army in the north occupied the weakly defended Liaohai Guard and was already launching an attack on Zhonggu City.
The Japanese allies also went crazy this time and continued to increase their troops by 100,000, and cooperated with the Ming army to storm Qingheguan with nearly 300,000 troops. The enemy troops coming from Jinzhou did not jump into the trap after completely destroying Deli Ying City. They were unexpected
They gave up and continued to go north to join the enemy forces at Shanhaiguan and invaded Xiuyan City. Then they once again avoided the heavily guarded Phoenix City, raided Xielie Station and Xin'an Fort, and captured Kuoyang Fort!
The enemies in the north were fighting fairly well, and the thieves in the south were running erratically, but what puzzled Huang Taiji the most was the main force of the Ming army that came out of Shanhaiguan. That shameless fat man took five days to get out of Shanhaiguan.
We wandered to Dalinghe Fort, and on the first day of June we divided our troops to garrison the Guangning Right Guards and the Guangning Rear Guards. Could it be that the enemy had the same idea as us this time and wanted to use the harassment of the two partial divisions to force us to take the initiative?
Attack, use the fortified city to consume the main force of our army, and then pursue the victory? He really thinks that we have no one in the Qing Dynasty, and he can think of such stupid methods!
Just when Huang Taiji thought of this and was about to mobilize some elite soldiers from the frontal defense line to encircle and suppress the Ming army that was messing around on his own territory, the enemy's main force moved again. The troops under the banner of Mao Wenlong were stationed behind Guangning.
Suddenly appeared in Daheishan and entered Liaohetao. Immediately afterwards, the Guangning Youtun garrison carried the banner of General Zhenguo and sent Fujiazhuang Taiwan troops directly towards Liaoyang! Wait for Mang Gurtai and Abatai to be urgent.
When the troops were gathered together, the enemy made no move again. According to the report from the most elite spies in the front, the damn fat man did not build a defense line along the river after joining Mao Wenlong's troops, but instead took his people to the Daliao River to fish.
Go! What on earth is he going to do? If you want to eat fish, can we give you tens of thousands of catties of fish? Mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops to destroy our Qing Dynasty, just to cover you to fish on our land? This is unavoidable
What a fuss!
However, Hong Chengchou, who had decided to serve the Qing Dynasty wholeheartedly, discovered a big loophole in the battle reports for the past few days. Now that the enemy's three armies are attacking together, how come no one has discovered their messenger, and they have been ambushing them everywhere
None of the excellent hunters has ever caught the enemy's carrier pigeon! Could it be that the enemy's three armies are fighting independently without unified command?
When this question was raised, the senior officials of the Qing Dynasty, including Huang Taiji, were stunned at first and then became excited! Yes, why didn't we notice this? The current situation is so similar to the Battle of Sarhu. The Ming Dynasty back then
The army was also aggressive and took the initiative to attack in four parallel directions. As a result, Yang Hao, the commander-in-chief, did not know that the fighting was starting until he was defeated. Thinking of this, Huang Taiji immediately decided, since the Ming army is making the same mistakes as before, then we should also
I will use the old method of taking several routes to attack you and I will only go one way. First, hold back the enemy forces from the north and south, and then concentrate your superior forces to attack the main force of the Ming army in Daliao River.
Mao Wenlong looked absentmindedly at the goose feather floating in the river, then leaned into Sun Chengzong's ear and said: "Commander Sun, you said it's been so many days, haven't the Tatars figured it out yet?"
"My commander is not that Tatar, how do I know what they think?" Sun Chengzong threw away his fishing rod in annoyance and whispered to Mao Wenlong: "Tell you, boy, if you ignore my promotion this time and fight for the vanguard position,
Dude, be careful I throw you into the river to feed you to the bastard!"
"General, I'm hooked, I'm hooked!" Ma Wannian, who had just returned from his mission, was not in the mood to join in the fun with the two old guys. He waited all morning and finally saw Zhu Youcong's fishing rod moving, and hurriedly shouted
He yelled to greet the fat man who was sitting drinking tea and looking at the sky.
"What do you mean, General, I'm hooked? With my weight, can you catch it with your broken line?" Zhu Youcong looked at the empty fishhook and said, "Where is the fish? Did you eat it?"
"This..." Fatty, you took a cup of tea before you even picked up the pole, but you still have the nerve to ask me where the fish went?
"It's boring, let's go! Let's go back to the meeting to discuss how to catch big fish!" The disappointed Zhu Youcong thought that Ma Wannian, who had deceived him, was not a good person. He stared at him and said, "When will you continue to stay here?
When can I collect a hundred catties of fish and go back to get the mission?"
One hundred kilograms? Ma Wannian picked up the broken fish basket with two crabs by the river and looked at it again and again. When everyone was almost gone, he gritted his teeth and stamped his feet and took out a few grenades from his waist...
"boom!"
The faint sound of explosions from the river did not interrupt the whispers in the Chinese army's tent. Standing in front of the map carefully drawn by Luo Jacob, Zhu Youcong looked serious. "It seems that the Tatars are not here this time."
Don’t you have the guts to step on the trap we have prepared? In this case, let’s think about how we can get them to gather more troops to fight us on the banks of the Daliao River.”
Zhu Youcong's army sent troops from Liaohetao not because it could attack the heartland of the Tatars faster, but because they deliberately exposed their backs so that Mang Gurtai and Abatai were willing to sacrifice Liaoyang to attack what they must save.
Shanhaiguan. Isn’t there a classic saying in later generations that says: if people save land and lose land, both people and land will survive; if they save land and lose people, both people and land will be lost. As long as the more than 400,000 troops can be introduced into this country, it has only been plowed but not sown for more than a year.
There were not even many weeds left in the Ningjin front line, and then they suddenly returned to drive them to the narrow strip from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan to annihilate them. Can the Tatars shrink the remaining troops to a few big cities for defense? But now it looks like
This strategy failed. I obviously made up my mind not to be fooled!
"General, it won't be difficult to mobilize the enemies in front of us..." Sun Chengzong, who first proposed this suggestion, was very dissatisfied. Where has the courage of the Tatars gone? There has been no movement for so many days?
Give them such a good opportunity, even if you have to block more than 100,000 of your main forces outside the customs?
"Tell me!"
"Should the general know about the turning battle that led to the complete fall of Liaodong?" It seems that Sun Chengzong and Hong Chengchou were probably taught by the same master, and they all thought of it together. "In the opinion of the last general, the Tatars dare not step on it.
Our trap, but some people must think that our army is repeating the same mistakes as Yang Hao..."
"Repeat the same mistakes? You mean..." Zhu Youcong didn't quite understand what he said. There were too many similarities between now and that humiliating battle. The first was the military strength. Yang Hao boasted that he had forty-seven men.
Ten thousand troops, but in fact, he only has more than 100,000 troops, which is comparable to the Tatars. In terms of numbers, Zhu Youcong is obviously at a disadvantage. The total number on his side is close to one million, but he only has four troops.
The Mongolian cavalry is close to 250,000 and the total number will not exceed 300,000, which is not very reassuring.
"One of our common flaws is that we have many troops but no messengers!" Sun Chengzong continued to explain: "Although our army is not needed because we have made arrangements in advance, in the eyes of the Tatars, it may be our fatal weakness...
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Zhu Youcong did not send a messenger to contact the other two armies because it was not necessary. Everyone had already made clear the purpose before setting off. Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of the northern front. In addition to cutting off the Tatars' retreat into the Greater Khingan Mountains, he also wanted to use Huang Taiji
He disagreed with Dorgon but did not dare to attack the weak point of the population to gather reinforcements. Zhang Polu's task was relatively easy. He avoided the enemy's heavily guarded fortified city and completely messed up the Tatar rear. Besides, Zhang Polu's task was relatively easy.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and messengers are not radio waves. Since Lu Xiangsheng and others can do a better job than themselves, why bother to cause trouble for them?
"Even if the Tatars know this, how can you make them believe that our army is in chaos now?" This is a difficult problem. Since they did not step on the previous trap, Zhu Youcong was really afraid that they would give up this one again.
A chance to fight with yourself.
"Is this..." Sun Chengzong suddenly said to Luo Jacob: "Brother Luo, donate a few more pigeons of yours!"
"Commander Sun wants to eat roasted pigeons now? Then I will roast them for you later and find the fattest ones!" As a temporarily unemployed former chief scientist, Jacob Luo was reluctant to part with the delicious roasted pigeons when he ran away from Anshan this time.
, forced Ma Wannian to bring out the cages of carrier pigeons used by the Tatars to send messages.
"Go away, you foodie!" Although Sun Chengzong often went to Luo Jacob's place to eat this delicacy, but at this time he wanted to use these pigeons for business. "My commander wants to send military orders to the Tatars.
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"Mr. Kaiyang, do you want to fake the letter to mobilize the enemy?" This method seems to be good, but Zhu Youcong's difficulty is that he does not know what secrets will be included in the Tatar's transfer order.
"No, the general wants the general to issue three different orders to Jiandou..." Sun Chengzong's strategy is to fight cattle across the mountains. He wants the Tatars who intercepted this information to think that the main army led by Zhu Youcong is now
Serious problems arose, so that the military order was not smooth and Lu Xiangsheng had to be transferred back to rejoin the troops.
"What about Daishan's army in the south? Is there any way to get them together?" Zhu Youcong has always been greedy. Since this method can allow the Tatars to take the initiative to attack, he might as well save some trouble and bring the Tatars on the border of the Ming Dynasty.
The troops were all packed up.
"This is more difficult, but eventually we will find a way to make them follow Zhang Polu obediently!" Even though he was dissatisfied with Zhang Pan's ungrateful behavior, Mao Wenlong decided to give him a chance to make contributions for the sake of the overall situation.
"Don't you want to..."
Mao Wenlong nodded and said: "Exactly, since Commander Sun has already sent a military order to the Tatars, we don't care about one more. We will simply betray Zhang Pan and expose his whereabouts to the Tatars..." Mao Wenlong's strategy is not very damaging.
, he just wanted Zhang Pan to lead Dai Shan by the nose while wreaking havoc along the way, dragging down his army of 100,000, and then attack back. Of course, if Huang Taiji did not want to lose the old village and ordered Dai Shan to return to defense in advance
Hetuala, then there will be more fun to play.
"Okay! I'll do as you say!" Zhu Youcong agreed readily, but in order to prevent this plan from failing again, he said to Ma Wannian, who had just returned with the fish basket: "Please rest your troops again."