Chapter 089
Although a dozen Jiannu cavalry who were far away from the center of the explosion were lucky enough not to be killed, they were frightened and stood there stupidly, letting the blood rain on their heads and their limbs and arms and organs smashed on them. His body was motionless, his face was green and white, his expression was horrified, his eyes had completely lost focus, he just felt that the sky was falling, the earth was cracking, and the end of the world was coming!
Five Ning Haijun Fenghuo garrison soldiers, led by veterans, rushed down the hillside, raised their swords and guns, and killed the dozen Jiannu cavalry.
"Kill the slaves!"
The sharp dog-leg knife hit a frightened Jiannu cavalry until the blade broke his skin. The severe pain made him wake up, but the problem was that it was too late now.
The five Ning Hainan Fenghuo garrison soldiers were only busy slashing and killing Jiannu like crazy. They did not notice that although these Jiannu cavalrymen, including the horses they rode on, had no scars on the outside, the shock wave of the explosion had already shattered their internal organs. , they are now bleeding from all their orifices and have no ability to resist at all.
The veteran searched among the broken bodies of Ning Haijun, and finally he found twelve iron plates, which were the identity symbols of Ning Haijun. He found twelve blood-stained iron plates between the two scout cavalry. One of the iron plates, which was deformed by the explosion, was engraved on the front: "Ning Navy Cavalry 0562, on the back Xie Chunwang, Haizhou Guard."
In the late Ming Dynasty, only Ning Haijun had ID cards. Even though these small ID cards were not easy to make, they were made by Cheng Shijie in a small hardware factory in later generations. The steel core was nickel-plated, and each ID card was made to order. It weighs ten grams and is shaped like a tombstone with a small hole on it.
It costs 2.9 yuan to process an ID tag alone. So far, some soldiers in Ning Haijun still don't have ID tags. This is mainly because Ning Haijun is developing rapidly and does not have enough time.
Cheng Shijie was different from other generals in the late Ming Dynasty. Other generals in the late Ming Dynasty regarded the lives of soldiers as numbers, or the cheapest cannon fodder, but Cheng Shijie cared about it very much. Every soldier killed in Ning Haijun's battle must bring back their identity tags, even if they cannot bring back their bodies.
Of course, the veteran was illiterate, and the other four soldiers cut off the heads of the slaves from the corpse. It was a pity that the twenty-five slaves only received 13 completed heads, and the other heads were not enough to count as military merit. .
"Boss, didn't you say that Jian Nu is very powerful?"
"Yeah, why are they so careless?"
"Yeah, not as powerful as the bandits!"
The veteran raised the bloody identity cards and said, "If these brothers hadn't used their lives to detonate the thunder, do you think the rest of us would have survived?"
The Fenghuo soldiers were silent. They quickly picked up a few pieces of the broken corpses of the two Ning navy soldiers, picked up their weapons, Jiannu's head and weapons, as well as the silver and armor captured on them.
They didn't stop until the five Fenghuotun soldiers could no longer carry them.
After less than half an hour, a dense crowd of Jiannu cavalry appeared at the mountain pass. These Jiannu cavalry discovered something unusual here. More than twenty Jiannu cavalry died on the spot, and thirteen Jiannu soldiers had their heads cut off.
"Damn it!"
Niu Lu'e, who was in charge of leading the slaves, was going crazy. It was this same thing again. As more and more Jiannu slaves gathered at the mountain pass, the five Ning Haijun Fenghuo garrison soldiers who were responsible for surveillance on the hillside directly set off the mines.
The mines were much more powerful than the thunderbolts in the hands of the cavalry scouts. Cheng Shijie, who relied on quality rather than quantity, loaded the mines with sixty kilograms of powder, and the entire mine weighed nearly one hundred kilograms.
As an orange-red fireball exploded, a large piece of the Jiannu cavalry fell down.
By the time Jiannu reacted, the five Fenghuotun soldiers had already disappeared on the hillside. Although they left footprints and footprints, these Jiannu soldiers did not pursue them because they were frightened.
Since going south, they have encountered a small group of Ming army cavalry scouts. To be fair, the riding skills of these Ming army scouts are very average, and their combat effectiveness is not strong. Compared with the elite Ye Bushou of the Guan Ning army, they are still far behind. . However, the problem is that these Ming army cavalry scouts are very difficult to deal with.
When their horses are exhausted and unable to escape, they will take the initiative to attack them. Once they get close to them, they will detonate thunder and kill themselves and their slave cavalry.
During this period of time, Jiannu successively killed dozens of Ming army cavalry, but they suffered several times the casualties. More importantly, they have not captured a single person alive so far, and they do not know what happened. Who is this tough cavalry?
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Gaizhou Acropolis is a city that is only slightly larger than Ning Haijun. It is a pity that the Ming Dynasty and Jiannu fought repeatedly in southern Liaoning. In order to prevent the Ming army from garrisoning Gaizhou City, Gaizhou City and Jinzhou Like the city, most of the city walls have been demolished by slave builders.
When Cheng Shijie led Ning Haijun soldiers to Gaizhou City, he divided Ning Haijun troops. The field soldiers and craftsmen who came with the army went to the south of Jinzhou Acropolis and landed on the sandy beach on the west coast of Jinzhou Acropolis. , went to Jinzhou City for resettlement.
This gravel beach was the Dalian Xingshu Port in later generations, a natural deep-water, ice-free port. Although the port area in later generations was not large, at this time, it became the largest port in southern Liaoning.
After Shen Mingyu's vanguard arrived in Jinzhou City and occupied the Jinzhou Acropolis, construction of a dock began. After more than half a month of hard work, a U-shaped floating port about six miles long has been formed here. The so-called floating port is to fix the felled rafts on the coast with ropes and extend them into the sea into deep water.
This was a temporary wharf built out of haste and desperation. It can accommodate large and medium-sized warships and transport ships. While the floating port was being built, this temporary port has transported more than 50,000 stones of grain to the Golden State Acropolis. There are also some machinery and equipment.
Cheng Shijie was very busy. He wanted to raise a team to dominate the mountain, but it was just a matter of throwing some blood, swearing, drinking a bowl of wine, and then throwing a bowl. But building a regular army was not so easy.
Cheng Shijie's thinking was very clear. There was nothing he wanted these days, and there was even a shortage of talents for farming. It was basically a fool's dream to make technological leaps in this era, build guns and cannons, sweep thousands of armies and dominate the world.
Don't say that the current social structure and population base do not have the industrial foundation for technological revolution. In today's war situation, where the army comes and fights every two days, even the most basic agricultural foundation cannot be guaranteed. At this time, It's a good idea to create some kind of technological revolution, but it's a pity that it can only be an idea.
Cheng Shijie did not have the ambition and courage to reform the entire superstructure of feudal society, nor did he have the capital unless everyone in his army had the quality level of a high school degree or above. More than 95% of people couldn't understand Cheng Shijie's order.
This was a very fatal question, and what was even more fatal was that as soon as he put down his chopsticks, he heard the sound of an explosion, and it was not that far away from Gaizhou City, only a dozen miles away at most.
Soon, thanks to the fact that Ning Navy soldiers were equipped with walkie-talkies at the sentinel commander level, they could use the walkie-talkies to quickly report intelligence to their respective commanders. At the level of President Bai, with a 50-watt car radio, he could contact Cheng Shijie directly.
Although there was no need for a war horse to run and break his leg, Cheng Shijie had to run and break his leg. He came from later generations with eight 600-watt solar panels, and had a total power of 6 kilowatts of solar panels. When the sun is sufficient, It can generate 278 kilowatt hours of electricity a day.
But the problem is that with the expansion of the use of walkie-talkies, coupled with the cold weather, the battery decays quickly, and the power is still not enough. Cheng Shijie needs to think twice about the power he needs to listen to some music.
When Cheng Shijie received news that a large number of Jiu slaves had appeared in the northeastern direction of Gaizhou, this situation was beyond his expectation. It can be regarded as an error of judgment on his part.
Cheng Shijie judged that Huang Taiji would not send troops to Liaonan because Huang Taiji gave up taking Jinzhou City when Jinzhou was within easy reach. This may be because Huang Taiji was short of food, or because Huang Taiji had other unknown reasons. .
Cheng Shijie judged that Huang Taiji had insufficient food and grass and could not send troops. In fact, there was a certain element of arbitrariness. No matter how bad Huang Taiji was, he was still the leader of hundreds of thousands of people. With patchwork, he could still get some food and grass, even if he could not organize a large army. A large army went south to Liaonan, but a small force can do it.
Of course, what Cheng Shijie didn't know was that this was actually a coincidence.
In the Battle of Daling River, Song Wei and Wu Xiang led 6,000 elite Guanning troops to support Daling River City. However, they encountered heavy fog and encountered Jiannu at the top of Changshan Mountain. Azig led more than a thousand men and horses under his command to fight against 6,000 Guanning troops, but Guan Ning's troops fled without fighting. Later, when Zhang Chun led the Ming army to support the Daling River, he and Yang Guli attacked again, intercepted and killed most of Zhang Chun's Ming army, and forced the Ming army back for more than 40 miles.
In this battle of Daling River, Azige's performance was outstanding. It would be unreasonable not to reward him, but Huang Taiji also took great pains on how to reward him.
In fact, Jiannu was not a real country at this time. They were still a tribal alliance of slaves. Although King Khan was noble, he needed the support of strength. Daishan, who controlled the red flag, Yue Tuo, who held the red flag, and Saha Lian supported Huang Taiji. This was the absolute advantage for Huang Taiji to gain the throne.
In fact, Nurhachi doted on the fourteenth-year-old Dorgon. When Dorgon was eight years old, he was awarded the title of Baylor, participated in political affairs, and even gave him a white flag. As Azig, Duduo, Dorgon and Huang Taiji appear to be inseparable, in this case, it is not in Huang Taiji's interest to reward Azig heavily.
But the problem is that he can't do it without heavy rewards. If he doesn't reward meritorious service, it will destroy the military merit system that Jiannu has finally established. How to reward him and how to reward him have become Huang Taiji's most worrying issue.
After more than half a month of discussion, Huang Taiji finally came up with a plan. Azige's failure to reward Niu Lu would definitely not increase Azige's strength, but it could reduce Zu Dashou's more than 13,000 Ming troops. As Azig's coated slave.
This is not a good thing. In fact, Cheng Shijie's guess is not wrong. Huang Taiji is indeed in a food crisis. These more than 13,000 prisoners have more than 13,000 mouths, even if they are only given one meal a day. A meal requires several hundred dan of food a day.
Azig could tell at a glance that this fat old man Huang Taiji had no good intentions, so he sent his subordinate Borji to lead 1,500 elite cavalry to drive these slaves to southern Liaoning.
Borji is Zalan Ezhen, also known as Jiala Ezhen. This was a high-ranking officer among the slaves, because three hundred slaves were born into one Niulu, five Niulu were called Zhalan, and five Zhalan were called one banner, which was also called Dutong.
Seeing that Azig was not in high spirits, Borji persuaded Azig: "Master, congratulations, master! Congratulations, master!"
"Slave dog, how dare you entertain your master?"
Azig was already angry. He had clearly won the battle, but he was punished by Fat Laoba. He was not rewarded with anything but 13,000 Ming army prisoners. If there is food and these slaves are raised, they can cultivate wasteland or graze, which will be a huge wealth.
But the problem is, Huang Taiji, the Khan King, has no food. Where can he get food?
If these slaves are killed, Fat Laoba will pretend to be benevolent and righteous, and punish him on the charge that he is bloodthirsty and prone to killing. Huang Taiji played this double standard method extremely smoothly. In April of the fourth year of Tiancong (1630), the Ming court mobilized reinforcements from various places. Under the command of Sun Chengzong, these reinforcements fought steadily, which made Huang Taiji feel very embarrassed. He knew that he would not get any advantage if he continued to fight, so he gave Ah Min had the right to make decisions before the battle, allowing him to lead his troops to stay in Yongping Mansion.
As a result, when Amin returned to Shenyang, Huang Taiji accused him of losing Yongping Mansion. As a result, Amin was unlucky.
Azig could not kill these surrendered Ming troops, but he did not have the ability to feed them.
"I don't dare. As far as I know, the Ming Dog Court has allocated a lot of food and grass to Huang Long, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army, so that they can appease the Dongjiang Army. If we take this opportunity to defeat Lushun..."
Azig first said doubtfully: "King Khan has an order that we are not allowed to cause war without authorization!"
"We escorted our slaves to Liaonan, and the Dongjiang Army attacked us with the white flag. Didn't King Khan allow us to fight back with the white flag?"
Borji smiled and said: "As for whether the Dongjiang Army will attack us or not, we still have the final say? If anyone dares to talk too much, I will skin him!"
"You bitch slave is finally useful!"
Azig said: "The people with you will be the vanguard, and Ben Beile will arrive soon!"
"Slave takes orders!"
In this way, Azig led his two Zalans, a total of more than 3,000 elite troops, and fought all the way to southern Liaoning.
After receiving the news, Cheng Shijie immediately assembled Ning Haijun's troops and prepared to go to Jinshi Pass.
Cheng Shijie has no other choice now. In Jinzhou Acropolis, he has finally moved over 4,800 field soldiers, as well as craftsmen who are arriving one after another. Once Jiannu succeeds in breaking through the Jinshishan defense line and arriving in Jinzhou, Although Jinzhou City is an acropolis, it cannot accommodate all Ning Haijun and his family members.
Once Jian Nu massacred Ning Haijun's field soldiers and their families, it would become an impossible task for Cheng Shijie to immigrate or relocate from Shandong in the future.
Without a population, how can we talk about development?
Population is the cornerstone of development.
Fortunately, Ning Haijun's cavalry and Fenghuo garrison used landmines and thunderbolts to slow down Jiannu's march, giving Cheng Shijie time to assemble his troops.
As the army was assembled, Cheng Shijie also made a long story short: "The Jiannu are here. Many people have come, a total of three thousand troops. It is obvious that this group of Jiannu does not take our Ning Navy seriously. They use only three people to come." Thousands of troops dare to attack our Ning Navy’s Liaonan, which shows that they regard our Ning Navy as weaklings like those from the mainland, and I don’t mind teaching them a lesson!”
Ning Haijun, a soldier on the school ground, did not speak. They used firm eyes and clenched the handle of the knife hard with their big hands. A bloody light appeared in their eyes. Ning Haijun, a soldier, told Cheng Shijie that they were not afraid.
"Set off!"
With Ning's navy soldiers leaving more than a thousand people to defend the city, more than 4,000 infantry, artillery, and more than 2,000 cavalry, Cheng Shijie did not engage in any conspiracy.
What the Ming Dynasty lacks is not wisdom. On the contrary, what the Ming Dynasty lacks is bloodiness and bravery.
It is precisely because there are too many smart people in Ming Dynasty that Ming Dynasty became like this. Back then, those soldiers charged against the enemy's artillery fire knowing that they were going to die. They never thought about whether they would die, nor what would happen to the country if they died?
They did not open their mouths to the world and shut their mouths to the country. They did not open their mouths to the system and shut their mouths to their freedom.
They used their actual actions and their passion to interpret the bravery of China and what it meant to be the pinnacle of light infantry.
Not long after Cheng Shijie appeared, the warrior Borji with a white flag appeared in the distance. They were soon discovered by Ning Haijun's cavalry, and a fierce cavalry scout battle broke out between the two sides.
Borji looked at the slowly advancing Ning Navy soldiers, especially the armor on their bodies, which actually exceeded 70% of the soldiers wearing iron armor. He asked in confusion: "Is this the Dongjiang Army?"
"The accent sounds like they all have Liaodong accents!"
"They are so rich, hurry up and tell the master that a big fish is coming!"
Cheng Shijie was sitting on horseback, with Chang Yu beside him.
Zhang Yu's eyes sparkled: "Commander, there are so many horses!"
"I saw it!"
Cheng Shijie put down the telescope, sighed deeply and said: "Across from us, this is a full armor of Jian Nu!"
"How many people does a Manchu Jiala have?"
Cheng Shijie was really speechless. He was already facing off against Jian Nu. The humble Du Si didn't know how many people there were in one Jia La.
Ma Shilin resisted the urge to spurt blood and explained: "One Jiala in Jiannu is five Niulu, and each Niulu has 300 people!"
"Definitely!"
The sound of horse hooves sounded again, the ground shook, and a line of cavalry appeared on the horizon. As the cavalry got closer and closer, there were more and more cavalry.
Cheng Shiyaojie was actually very nervous in his heart. Didn't he say that Jiannu alone would dare to charge towards the tens of thousands of Ming troops?
He only had more than 6,000 men and horses, but the opponent's cavalry of more than 1,500 people could not move like a mountain. Instead, more than 1,500 people came.
You really think highly of yourself.
Azig hurried over after getting the news from Borji. He held a telescope and looked at Ning Haijun's military formation and the steel wave that had stopped advancing five hundred steps away. As Borzi said, black flags, black helmets, and black armor are all visible, but among the six or seven thousand people in the team, more than three or four thousand are wearing iron armor. It is really a luxury.
Even their old acquaintance Guan Ningjun was not equipped with so much armor.
Unlike other Ming armies, which relied on the imperial court to distribute or build their armor, Cheng Shijie had his own steel mines and could manufacture them directly at a lower cost.
What's more critical is that the blades of Ning Haijun's armor are all directly cast, especially the breast shield on the chest, which is even more ridiculously large.
Azig estimated that there were more than 3,500 sets of armor anyway. He made a fortune. He really made a fortune this time.
Other officers with white flags looked at Ning Haijun's military formation and all geared up: "Master, let's do it!"
"Master, please give the order!"
"Guarja, there is no such thing as a coward!"
"My slave is willing to lead the troops to break the formation!"
Cheng Shijie picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Every fire support post, prepare your disguise and prepare to attack!"
The cavalry phalanx charge, this kind of attack method is Cheng Shijie, Ning Haijun, who has the thunder gun, likes this tactical method the most!
The elite cavalry under Azige began to accumulate horsepower and fed the horses with concentrates and even eggs.
Cheng Shijie also ordered: "The entire army forms an array, and the cavalry is divided into two wings to cover the left and right wings!"
In fact, Ning Haijun's old foundation has been formed. Under Cheng Shijie's order, the entire army began to quickly form an array.
However, even if they were arrayed in front of the enemy, there was no panic at all.
Azig looked at Ning's naval officers in formation and frowned slightly: "This Ming army has a city but cannot defend it. They actually dare to fight with us in the wild. It's really interesting!"
At this moment, Azig said: "Warka!"
"The slave is here!"
"Take your people and look around to see what Ming Gou is up to!"
"Definitely..."
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and a Jiannu scout knelt down towards Azig and said: "Master, Ming Gou, a reinforcement army has come from the south!"
"How many troops are there?"
"Four to five thousand people!"
"Are you playing this trick with me?"
Azig really didn't take it to heart. The refueling tactic is a taboo for military strategists. But the problem is that at certain times, it can have unexpected effects.
For example, when the two sides are fighting at an even pace, and the other side comes with a supporting force, the morale of the other side will definitely increase greatly. In this case, adding fuel tactics can actually defeat the enemy.
"Woooo..."
Azig ordered one of his subordinates, Niu Lu Ezhen, to take the lead in the battle. Of course, this was not a decisive battle, but a test of Ning Haijun's strength.
Cheng Shijie didn't care so much. He directly ordered: "The entire army will form an array and use firepower to suppress it!"
The first one to speak was the Franco artillery unit, and the preparations for the artillery were completed.
Yuan Shiliang gave the order to fire.
"Boom boom boom..."
Balls of orange-red fireballs were ejected from the cannon barrels, and the cannonballs flew towards the charging Jiannu cavalry.
PS: I fell asleep while writing this. I’m very sorry. Let’s just do this for now. I’m too sleepy!
(End of chapter)
