Chapter 091
The moon shines brightly on Kyushu. Some families are happy and some are sad.
Ning Haijun's soldiers were extremely excited, although those Ning Haijun soldiers who came from Dengzhou Guard did not know the power of Jian Nu, they only heard about it. But the Ning Haijun soldiers who came from the Dongjiang Army not only knew how powerful Jian Nu was, they had also experienced it personally.
The army of Jiannu was also divided into three, six and nine levels. You can become a flag officer at the age of fifteen. However, after participating in the assessment of physical fitness, intelligence, and force, those who pass the test will be infantry armor, and the outstanding ones will be vest. Infantry and horse armor can be used on the battlefield.
If you get more than 100 heads, you can become a red-armored soldier. After becoming a red-armored soldier, after going through the red-armored soldiers, after layers of selection, one in a hundred can become a white-armored soldier, that is, a white-armored soldier. In the late Nurhaci period, there were only more than 200 white-armored soldiers in the entire Eight Banners.
The equipment of the white-armored soldiers is excellent. They wear three layers of iron armor and weigh about sixty kilograms. They are not afraid of the Ming army's swords, arrows, spears and stabs. Except for their faces, there are almost no holes. In the Battle of Songjin, six white-armored soldiers fought against 240 Ming soldiers, annihilating all 240 Ming soldiers without any casualties.
Of course, during the Huang Taiji period, the number of red-armored and white-armored soldiers who established slaves began to increase dramatically. Mainly in the second year of Chongzhen, the slaves invaded the pass and massacred civilians. They slaughtered dozens of counties including Liangxiang County and Gu'an County, and established slaves through After massacring civilians, they were promoted to red-armored soldiers, while white-armored soldiers were selected according to proportion. In the late Nurhaci period, a Niulu could draw up to a hundred armored soldiers. Now, of the three thousand cavalry under Azige, three-quarters of them are red armored soldiers, and there are more than 140 white armored soldiers.
Even if the red-armored soldiers and white-armored soldiers of Jiannu have improved their combat effectiveness, the skinny camels are larger than horses. With the same number of people, they can crush the Ming army.
Even if there is only one Niulu cavalry, he can chase and kill tens of thousands of Ming troops.
In the past, if the Ming army wanted to annihilate a Niulu Jiannu, they would suffer three or even five times the casualties. However, the Ning navy soldiers shot all three hundred Jiannu cavalry with zero casualties.
Especially those Ning Haijun soldiers from the Dongjiang Army looked at Cheng Shijie with their eyes filled with awe. In terms of military bravery, the Dongjiang Army actually has no shortage of warriors. Not to mention Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Kong Youde, people like Mao Youjun and Mao Yourong are also fierce men who can build slave white armor soldiers head-on.
However, every victory of the Dongjiang Army was achieved with human lives.
Wherever it is like this, spearmen, sword and shield men, including crossbowmen don't even have a chance to take action.
The army is a place that values strength. A person can lead his soldiers to successive victories. These soldiers are willing to fight with such generals, even if they know they will die, they are not afraid.
At this time, the atmosphere in Ning Haijun's military formation was very relaxed.
Some Ning navy soldiers were holding rice bowls and eating horse meat while taunting Jian Nu: "This horse meat tastes good, give me some more for grandpa!"
"If I could have this kind of food every day, I would be happy to fight this battle for the rest of my life!"
"What a pity, the credit goes to the artillery and fire support troops!"
"They actually want to cry too!"
"what happened?"
"Of these more than three hundred slaves, only one hundred and sixty-two heads were chopped off!"
"impossible!"
"It's true. The other heads were all shattered. Oh, what a pity!"
Cheng Shijie, like other soldiers, had an iron pot in front of him. In the iron pot, large pieces of horse meat were tumbling in gurgling gravy. The only difference was that the broth in Cheng Shijie's iron pot was red.
As Cheng Shijie, who can travel through two time and space, he never embarrasses himself when it comes to food. There is spicy hot pot base in his pot. In the bitingly cold weather, eating spicy hot pot is a wonderful enjoyment.
Originally, Cheng Shijie was surrounded by Zhang Yu, Liu Qingsong, Zhou Ning and others.
"How about coming here and trying this horse meat!"
Shen Ming was not polite when he was defeated. He picked up his chopsticks and picked up a piece of horse meat. As soon as the horse meat entered his mouth, a strong beef flavor stimulated his taste buds. He gave Cheng Shijie a thumbs up: "Commander, Your horse meat is delicious!"
There were more than 300 horses on the battlefield, and no horse meat was wasted.
Li Zhixiang, who was sitting next to Cheng Shijie, sighed: "It's rare. I have been fighting for so many years, and this is the first time I have seen our army so relaxed after the war."
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "If you win, of course it will be easy!"
Li Zhixiang said sadly: "It's a pity that Marshal Mao couldn't see it..."
"you shut up!"
Zhao Wencai stared at Li Zhixiang and said: "Don't mention Mao Shuai in front of Cheng Shuai!"
Shen Mingyu quickly changed the topic: "Commander, what should we do next?"
"Let's just waste time with Jiannu here. If there is land reclamation in the Jinzhou direction, we will reclaim it, and if we need to build factories, we will build factories!"
Cheng Shijie said with a proud smile on his face: "We still have 600,000 shi of food, which is enough for our Ning Haijun army to feed for more than ten months. If we use it up, we will eat them to death!"
"But what if Jiannu bypasses us and goes straight to Jinzhou?"
Cheng Shijie said: "We need to build a new defense system. This defense system consists of trenches and parapets. The parapets do not need to be too high, chest high, but they must be strong, at least to prevent the slave cavalry from collapsing. A wall of parapets, There’s a trench down there!”
What Cheng Shijie showed was trench warfare consisting of trenches, barbed wire, and landmines from later generations, which was a standard tactic during World War I.
The core of this tactic is a three-dimensional defense tactic composed of a large number of squatting cannons and bowl-mouth guns captured by the Ning Navy as fulcrums, breast walls as lines, mines as surfaces, and trenches as communication lines.
Cheng Shijie took a broken arrow and drew it directly on the ground. In this way, it would be easy for Admiral Ning to understand.
Cheng Shijie judged based on later data that the number of artillery pieces in Huang Taiji's hands now totaled three to four hundred. The main sources of seizures were the seizures in the second year of Chongzhen and the seizures in the Battle of Daling River. No matter how few artillery pieces Jiannu had, they would definitely have Hongyi cannons in their hands. The Hongyi cannons with their range advantage would cause a lot of casualties to the Ning Navy.
Although after reuniting with Shen Mingyu and adding the artillery of the Denglai New Army, Ning Haijun now has ninety-six artillery pieces, but there are only ten Hongyi Gates, eighty-six of which are Folang machine artillery pieces.
In terms of artillery battles, Ning Haijun still did not have an absolute advantage, so he had to use trenches to reduce the use of Jiannu's artillery.
As Ning Haijun soldiers finished their meals in batches, construction began.
Is the ground frozen solid? It's simple. It's much easier to burn a fire on the ground, wait for the fire to melt the permafrost, and then dig the soil. The warm soil was patted into a wall, and when the cold wind blew, it immediately became as hard as iron.
Ning Haijun was beaming with joy, while Jian Nu opposite him was gloomy.
Although the loss of a Niu Lu would not cause Azig any serious injuries, it did make him feel very humiliated. He said angrily: "The whole army will press forward and trample these bright dogs into the mud! "
"Master, calm down!"
Borji said: "This group of Ming army has too many muskets and artillery. If we have three thousand cavalry to press on them, even if we are all dead, it may not have any effect. If so many Niulu are destroyed, the loss will be huge." But they are all masters!”
Borji was very smart. He actually wanted to say that Huang Taiji would not let Azig go if he lost these nine Niulu. But he couldn't say this. If he did, Azig would become angry and press the entire army up regardless.
"Ben Beile doesn't believe that their muskets won't explode, their artillery won't get hot, and their crossbows won't be able to finish firing!"
"Master wants to use up Ming Gou's guns and cannonballs. This is actually simple, there is no need for our people to get involved!"
"If we don't use our people, why don't we use your people?"
Borji is actually not a Jurchen, but a Mongolian. Although he is the first counselor of the Xiangbai Banner, that is, Zalan Ezhen, his tribe is not actually a Jurchen, but a Jurchen.
Azig's Mongolian tribe in later generations had more than 2,000 horsemen and was responsible for guarding Ming army prisoners of war.
"Master, have you forgotten that we have more than 13,000 Ming Dog prisoners of war in our hands. Wouldn't it be better to use them to consume Ming Dog's muskets and shells?"
Azig nodded and said: "That's right, this is better!"
The most trusted people among the Jiannu people must be their own people, followed by the Mongols, and then the surrendered Han army. The current Han army is Mele Zhangjing, Bao Chengxian, Sun Degong and others, and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty have not yet been truly established.
On the one hand, Azig urged the Mongolian cavalry behind him to escort the Ming army prisoners of war to come quickly, on the other hand, he drank some wine and ate roast mutton.
At this time, a defense line centered on Cheng Shijie's camp and extending east to west quickly took shape.
As the parapets and trenches were quickly excavated, Song Xiance suggested to Cheng Shijie: "Master, we cannot let Ning Haijun's soldiers do such rough work. They must maintain sufficient physical strength. The slaves will not retreat without fighting, and they must wait for the rear." Reinforcements or artillery are coming, and when they come, I'm afraid a war is about to begin!"
Cheng Shijie was also a man of good deeds. He thought Song Xiance's analysis was very reasonable, so he asked, "Your idea is to transfer the troops from the field?"
"Yes, digging this kind of trench is quite laborious, so we can only mobilize the field soldiers. There is no shortage of food in the Lord's hands now. Find some work for the field soldiers so that they can settle down quickly!"
"Okay, I'll leave this matter to you!"
The Ming army stayed up all night, because as Cheng Shijie arrived in southern Liaoning, two-thirds of the Ning Navy's navy was divided to transport the soldiers and their families. When the transport team was preparing to dock directly at Jinzhou Port, it received Cheng Shijie's order to turn around and head north.
As the garrison troops docked at Gaizhou Port, they were still divided. The old, weak, women and children went south to Jinzhou, while the young and strong stayed in Gaizhou, responsible for helping Ning navy soldiers dig trenches and build parapets.
Cheng Shijie doubled the wages of these migrating soldiers and gave them two buckets of food every day.
In just one night, a defense line composed of three parapets and three trenches actually stretched for seven or eight miles, and was still extending east-west at a relatively fast speed.
In fact, as more and more field soldiers join this project, at this rate, they will be able to build the defense line to Gaizhou City by night at most.
Early the next morning, Azig stared at the parapet built by Ning Haijun at the foot of the mountain and frowned: "Strange, what kind of medicine is sold in Minggou Gourd? I have been fighting for so many years, and I have seen all kinds of formations, but I haven't seen any. It’s such a weird fortification.”
Borji's attention was attracted by the parapet, which was less than a person's height. He sneered: "Ming Gou actually wants to use such a thin mud fence to block my Eight Banner elites? Are you looking down on us too much?"
"No, we can't let them continue cultivating like this!"
Azig said with a gloomy face: "In the Battle of Daling River, King Khan used three trenches to besiege the Ming army. It lasted for three months. The Ming army in the city was so hungry that they couldnibalize human flesh. This time, the Ming army used the same method. Dig trenches to keep us out!”
"Wouldn't it be better if they locked themselves up?"
"idiot!"
Azig pointed to the south and said: "This place is still more than 120 miles away from Jinzhou Guards and more than 240 miles away from Lushun. They have naval forces who can help and continuously transport food. When the time comes, they will be hungry." It’s us who die, not them!”
Borji said: "Then send people to fight. We can't let them repair the fortifications in peace!"
Borzi's words reached Azig's heart, and he said: "Let your people come up!"
Borji can be regarded as shooting himself in the foot. Now he wants to slap himself a few times for talking too much.
But Azig's orders cannot be violated. As long as they disobey his orders, death is the luckiest thing, and they will be tortured to death.
In desperation, Borji's own Mongolian subordinates shot Na, which means wolf in Mongolian.
This confidant was also named Duobenmeiergan. In terms of dignity, the Borjijit family was far inferior to Duobenmeiergan. However, at this time and that time, like the Central Plains Dynasty, in the Song Dynasty Zhao The surname is the national surname. By the Ming Dynasty, the Zhao family was far inferior to the Zhu family.
Shena led more than 500 horses under his command and swept toward the camp as fast as a hurricane. It seems that Jiannu also realized that there was something strange about this seemingly crude fortification.
As soon as he saw the Mongolian cavalry rushing up, Cheng Shijie smiled. Jiannu was afraid of killing his own people, so he sent Mongolian cannon fodder to fight.
Cheng Shijie knew what would happen to these guys without even looking. What drove the cavalry from the battlefield? It’s not the mini gun that is touted as a weapon that can destroy a country, but barbed wire and heavy machine guns. The former makes it difficult for the cavalry to move forward, and the latter makes the cavalry’s unreturnable charge turn into a moth flying into the flames!
Cheng Shijie doesn't have the ability to build a heavy machine gun, but a thunderbolt is enough! He ordered: "Yuan Shiliang, command the artillery! Kill these bastards!"
Yuan Shiliang muttered together with several Western staff officers who calculated their data.
When these Mongolian cavalry entered a distance of 800 steps from the parapet, sixteen Franco machine guns fired at the same time. As the guns burned under the guidance of the guns, balls of fireballs were ejected from the barrels of the guns, smoke billowed, and the shells roared out of the smoke. , fell into the formation of the Mongolian cavalry attack.
The Mongolian cavalry squadron suddenly splashed with blood rain, and the heavy lead ball with strong kinetic energy rushed across. Whether it was a man or a horse in front of it, it was covered with blood, and torn tendons and broken bones were flying. Up, disgusting.
With one salvo of sixteen cannons, more than a hundred Mongolian cavalry were knocked down. The effect was not bad. However, they only had time to fire one cannon. Before they could load the second cannonball, the Mongolian cavalry had already charged diagonally. Although the cannonballs could be fired, there were no Mongolian cavalry within the firing range.
Cheng Shijie smiled: "These bastards are quite clever!"
It's just that these Mongolian cavalry were too clever, and they actually rushed directly into the minefield. The Mongolian cavalry was getting faster and faster, and the artillery had no chance to aim at the target.
The Mongolian cavalry archers drew their horned bows like the full moon, and the arrows were like beads. The bow strings trembled and poured out a dense rain of arrows towards the Ning Navy's position.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
As the rain of arrows fell, sporadic screams came from Ning Haijun's position. Apparently someone had been hit by an arrow. Although the parapet could provide them with good protection, after all, the parapet was not omnipotent, and there would still be arrows thrown from it. Cross the parapet and shoot at them, causing casualties to Ning Haijun.
However, the problem was that Ning Haijun's counterattack came as expected, with more than 300 crossbows firing crossbow arrows at the Mongolian cavalry.
A row of crossbow arrows swept across, heart-rending screams rang out, and a large section of the Mongolian cavalry crowded in front of the parapet fell down. After shooting, Navy soldier Ning handed the crossbow to his comrades in the trench, took the loaded crossbow from their hands, scanned it briefly, and pulled the trigger again.
This time the screams of the Mongolian cavalry came even more fiercely. The Mongolian cavalry crowded in front of the parapet were almost wiped out, and both men and horses turned into piles of corpses.
Including Borzi's confidants, more than 500 cavalrymen were all shot dead in just one stick of incense.
Seeing that the Jiannu and the Mongols were not in an offensive posture, many Ning navy soldiers took hooks and hooked the Mongolian corpses into the trench, and then cleaned the battlefield.
Azig let out a long sigh when he saw this scene.
"Something weird!"
"Master, it seems the only option is to use artillery!"
Azig hit a real iron plate.
This time, Ning Haijun did not even fire a thunderbolt or detonate a mine. More than 500 Mongolian cavalry were wiped out.
Azig's face was very smelly at this time, even worse than eating dog poop.
None of the surrounding slave-building generals dared to touch Azig's troubles.
The soldiers of Ning Navy were overjoyed and sealed the naked corpses of the Mongolians in front of the battle, forming a wall of corpses. As for the shot horses, they became meat in the mouths of Ning Navy soldiers. This time they got more horse meat, and even if Ning Haijun soldiers opened their bellies to eat it, they wouldn't be able to finish it all.
Cheng Shijie distributed the excess horse meat to the field soldiers. Ning Haijun's field soldiers were so moved that they ate the horse meat. Some of them can't remember the last time they ate meat. Even if they occasionally catch a rabbit, they won't be willing to eat it and will have to sell it to buy salt.
Cheng Shijie could even clearly feel that Jiannu's morale was declining.
After five days of intense construction and using fifty-eight villages and hundreds of households, Ning Haijun's defense line has been initially formed, connecting it with Gaizhou City to the west and Jinshi Mountain to the east.
Now, if Jiannu wants to take another detour to Jinzhou Guard, he must either go by sea, directly attack Gaizhou City, or go through Jinshi Mountain. This mountain is actually the Changbai Mountain System, a remnant of thousands of mountains. What's more important is that there is an ancient city on the top of the mountain. Ning Haijun sent Zhou Ning's department to guard it.
Although it was impossible to completely block Jiannu's path south, Cheng Shijie could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
At the end of November of the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign, Hong Chengchou took office as the governor of the three sides. He truly stepped onto the stage of history. Hong Chengchou raised his butcher's knife and massacred the bandits, which had a miraculous effect.
The Ming army prisoners of war who were looking far away in Azig also arrived while stumbling.
Azig ordered his people to select 4,000 young men from more than 13,000 prisoners of war, give each of them two bowls of hot porridge, and kill more than 200 sheep in front of all the prisoners of war.
Azig announced that he would break through the Ming army's defense line and reward the armored men.
Jiannu used the flag to rule the army and the people to rule the people. They plowed the fields and hunted in peacetime, and wore armor and went into battle in war. These flag men were divided into three types according to their status: "Aha", "armored men" and "flag men" . Aha is a slave, mostly Han or Korean; the armored people are descendants, of different nationalities, and have a higher status than Aha; the bannermen are Jurchens.
Although the status of armored men is not as good as that of bannermen, they are the best treatment for prisoners of war. Although there is no military salary, they can seize property on the battlefield. If they are lucky, they will also be rewarded with a few slaves.
These Ming army prisoners of war have a very strange brain circuit. They are afraid of slave creation, but not afraid of the Ming army. Of course, because they were born in the Ming army, they are very aware of the true strength of the Ming army. In their eyes, the Ming army's combat effectiveness is scum.
These Ming army prisoners of war who had eaten a full meal had wolf-like gazes in their eyes.
"Go to war!"
Following Azig's order, the more than 4,000 Ming army prisoners of war began to line up with the swords and guns they had just received.
Cheng Shijie had just had breakfast and was about to teach the officers a lesson when a whimpering and tragic horn horn sounded from the hillside opposite.
The Jiannu cavalry on the opposite side began to disperse left and right, revealing an infantry of about 4,000 people. However, it can be seen from the clothing of these infantry that their infantry was once a Ming army.
That's right, this Ming Yu was the captives of the Ming army who surrendered to build slaves in Daling River City.
Seeing these Ming army prisoners, Ning Haijun, a soldier from the Dongjiang Army, immediately realized what Jian Nu was going to do. In fact, this was also the most common tactic used by Jian Nu. He first used Ming army prisoners and the captured Ming people to drive them to charge the Ming army's defense line.
Before the war officially started, the Ming army often needed to shoot muskets and crossbow arrows at their own people. In this way, it would not only consume artillery, muskets and crossbow arrows, but also damage the morale of the Ming army.
As the saying goes, a new trick can be eaten everywhere.
Jiannu relied on such rogue tactics to defeat the Ming army in a state of disarray.
At this time, almost all Ning Haijun soldiers were looking at Cheng Shijie. Can he take action against his compatriots?
Cheng Shijie looked at these Ming army prisoners of war who were running faster and faster, even with ferocious expressions on their faces. He seemed to see the Japs in another time and space.
Cheng Shijie was angry: "The entire army is firing on all cylinders and no longer retains its strength. The cavalry troops are ready and ready to chase and kill at any time!"
PS: Although I took the afternoon train and checked out of the hotel, there was no place to code. Once on the train, if possible, Lao Cheng would code another chapter.
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