Shenyang, north bank of Hun River.
Nurhaci is sitting under a six-foot-long gold-woven dragon cloth. He is wearing iron armor without embroidery, and his ear protection and neck protection are all made of cloth. This is a typical Ming Dynasty frontier army armor style.
Nurhachi looked at the sparkling river. The river wind blew through his gray beard and hair, revealing his face as strong as an axe.
The Hun River in late autumn is filled with plump fish and undulating rice waves in the distance, giving it an idyllic look.
However, just a hundred steps away on both sides of the Hun River, there were arrows flying, iron hooves clanging, blood flowing like a river, and the shouts of killing continuing, like Shura hell.
The bloody battle of Hunhe River, which decided the fate of millions of Liao people, entered the most brutal and bloody stage.
Suddenly, two Goshiha rushed to the front of the Khan and covered the Khan tightly with their long shields.
The surrounding atmosphere suddenly became tense. When the white-armored soldiers who were running in the distance to deliver messages saw this scene, they also rushed here with whips.
Two light arrows whizzed past the golden dragon cloth and shot into the crystal clear Hun River.
I don't know which reckless archer actually threw the arrow here.
An unlucky koi was shot by an archer, dragging its long arrow feathers and struggling and tumbling in the water.
"The city gate is on fire, which affects the fish in the pond."
Nurhachi looked at the struggling koi in the water and blurted out.
The Great Khan of Houjin has just turned sixty this year, which is what the Han people call his sixtieth year.
Over the years, Nurhaci has been a ruthless soldier, but he has always insisted on studying the laws of the Ming Dynasty, constantly improving his cultural quality, and respecting several Han officials around him.
When reading on weekdays, when I encounter allusions that I don't understand, I will humbly ask Hanchen for advice.
Yesterday, the Great Khan learned from Fan Wencheng that "a fire at the city gate will affect the fish in the pond", and he applied it here today.
In fact, he really wanted to tell this allusion in front of the burning gate of Shenyang City.
Unfortunately, the city gate was completely captured by the army without any fire.
There were no dead fish in the moat in front of the city gate.
In the moats of various gates in Shenyang, there are only the decaying corpses of the Ming soldiers who were killed by the warriors. Among them are white pole soldiers, Zhejiang soldiers, Liao soldiers, and pacesetters.
With Ding Bi's perfect cooperation, Zhenghongqi and Xiangbaiqi rushed into Shenyang City with lightning speed. Xiong Tingbi's pacesetter battalion was killed and Xiong Jinglue was captured by Houjin.
Thinking that this was the highest-ranking official he had captured from the Ming Dynasty since he started his army, Nurhaci was quite proud.
However, Mao Wenlong and the Zhejiang soldiers were still resisting.
And this white soldier in front of me,
Nurhaci thought for a while and decided to deal with the white pole soldiers in front of him first, and then concentrate his forces on the Zhejiang soldiers.
"Li Efu went to the north gate to recruit gunners, why didn't he come back?"
Nurhachi withdrew his gaze from the Hun River and re-examined the battlefield in front of him.
His most trusted Han minister, Li Yongfang, the prince-in-law of Fushun, volunteered to go to the North Gate to persuade him to surrender, hoping to use heavy sums of money to bribe Ming gunners and help the army open the white-pole shield formation.
Li Yongfang has been gone for more than half an hour and has not returned yet.
A thin-faced Han Chen next to him heard the Khan’s question and said quickly:
"Master, the city gate gunners are all Xiong Tingbi's people. I'm afraid Li Efu won't be able to persuade them, just like he persuaded the white pole soldiers and Zhejiang soldiers last time, and many slaves were injured."
Three days ago, Nurhachi sent Li Yongfang to recruit the generals of Sichuan and Zhejiang to surrender. Houjin Khan had great hopes for this, hoping to capture Shenyang without any bloodshed.
Qi Jin, Qin Bangping and others refused to persuade him to surrender. Not only did they refuse to surrender to Dajin, they also cut off the ears of several senior guards sent by Li Yongfang.
When the two countries were at war, they did not kill the envoys, but they did not say that ear cutting was not allowed.
After the bloodstained envoy returned to the Houjin camp, Nurhachi was furious and immediately ordered an attack on the Zhejiang soldiers.
As Huang Taiji and Jierhalang went to Kaiyuan to encircle and annihilate Liu Zhaosun, the remaining Six Banners troops were divided into two parts and attacked the Zhejiang soldiers and the Baigan soldiers respectively.
Among them, the Xianghong Banner and Zhenghong Banner led by Daishan, and the Xiangbai Banner led by Du Du attacked the Zhejiang soldiers;
Nurhaci personally led the Xianghuang Banner and Zhenghuang Banner to besiege the white pole soldiers.
Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan flag serves as a preparation.
The Mongolian Horqin Tribe and the Hercynian Yehe Tribe were on guard outside Shenyang.
Horqin and Ye He have low combat power and have recently joined the army. They can follow and fight with the wind. If they are sent to attack the white-pole soldiers and shield formation, thousands of people will be killed or injured, and they may mutiny immediately.
Hearing Tong Yangxing's insinuations about Li Yongfang, Nurhaci was a little unhappy. He raised his head and glanced at the slave, and said calmly:
"Have all the Bagas in the shield formation been withdrawn?"
Tong Yangxing already knew the answer, but he stood on tiptoes and looked over there, and then said to Nurha Chidao:
"The Great Khan has withdrawn. There are still a dozen white-armored soldiers and the archers with yellow flags are still covering. They should be able to break out."
Nurhachi nodded. Two hours ago, more than 200 Baya soldiers with yellow flags rushed into the shield formation of the white pole soldiers. After a fierce slashing and killing, they were surrounded by enemy troops. The white pole soldiers used large iron rings to He hammered open the heavy shield and killed them one by one.
Nurhachi's expression remained unchanged. The life and death of a dozen people was not a question he should consider. He could only let these Bagas seek their own happiness.
The next round of offensive must be organized as soon as possible without giving the white-pole soldiers any chance to breathe.
"The Sichuan soldiers are almost exhausted. The shield weighs only three or four kilograms. Even if they lift it for two days, they can't bear it."
"Tell Mang Gurtai to have Zhenglan Banner prepare to charge into the battle. This time we will definitely break through the Baiganbing camp."
Geshiha took the order and left, while Nurha looked gloomily at the shield formation of white pole soldiers two hundred steps away.
Two days ago, four thousand soldiers with white poles who retreated to the north bank of the Hun River built a temporary fence line of defense.
They formed a large circle around the horses, blocked the outside of the circle with oxen and carriages, and buried a large amount of caltrops between the horses and the fence.
With a strong enemy in front and pursuers behind, it only took half an hour for the white-pole soldiers to build these simple fortifications. The efficiency was so high that the Houjin Army was a little surprised.
It was such a crude position, equipped with the short arrows and long spears of the white-poled soldiers, that it withstood the attacks of 30,000 Jiannu twice, killing and wounding more than 2,000 Zhenyi armored soldiers, and the Baoji soldiers suffered countless casualties.
This time Nurhachi led a large army to attack Shenyang, and he only brought a small number of general cannons. The cannons often weighed two to three thousand kilograms, making transportation extremely inconvenient. There were a lot of French cannons, but they were used to attack the city gates after the war started. Nurhachi and Daishan believed that such sharp weapons were more needed for siege than for field battles.
As a result, from the attack three days ago to now, the east gate has not been captured, but the ammunition of the artillery has been exhausted. That's why Li Yongfang was ordered to go to the North Gate to recruit Ming gunners to bombard the shield array.
In the shield formation, the last twelve Bagas were surrounded by angry white-pole soldiers.
The white-armed soldiers with red eyes were like angry hungry wolves. Seeing that the Houjin soldiers had given up on these Baya assassins, some brave chieftain soldiers directly dropped their white spears and swung their heavy knives to kill them.
Ba Yala held a round shield in one hand, and used the other hand to slash and kill with a mace, a big stick, a heavy knife, and a long axe, desperately crashing into the shield formation of the white pole soldiers.
These Jurchen hunters were skilled in tactics. They smashed their long axes and big sticks at the white-armed soldiers who swarmed forward, slashing and killing five or six white-armed soldiers who rushed over, abandoning their spears.
The fanatical white-barrel soldiers in the front row retreated slightly, and the pike soldiers behind them filled in. Rows of fierce and fierce spearheads were thrust at them. Bagara was forced to step back and raised his buckler to try to block the aggressive white-barrel spears.
Behind Bagala was the shield formation of white-poled soldiers. These elite warriors with yellow flags were eager to fight, unaware of the danger behind them. They took a few steps back and bumped into the shield formation behind them.
Rows of denser spears shot out from behind. Baya was attacked from the front and back. Before he could withdraw the shield in front of him, his back was stabbed by the sharp spear head. The sharp spear head carried the brute force of the chieftain soldier and struck him fiercely. Enter Ba Ya and stab the back.
The head of the gun hit the fine chainmail, and the silver-white armor leaves made an unsettling sound of metal friction.
The white-armed soldiers behind the shield formation straightened their backs and exerted force suddenly. The white-armed spears in their hands were like dragons emerging from the water, piercing through the armor and piercing the backs of these barbarians.
The white pole soldiers in front of the shield array attacked at the same time, kicked the round shield out of the enemy's hands, and stabbed Ba Ya's neck with a heavy knife. The armor of Ba Ya's neck was easily broken by the heavy knife, and heads flew high. rise.
The scene of Ya La being beheaded was seen by the Ye He cavalry who were cruising outside the shield array, and they were all frightened.
Suddenly a gap opened in the chariot camp's shield formation. Some white-poled soldiers, all covered in heavy armor, faced the dense rain of arrows. They threw the enemy's corpses next to the chariot camp and built a barrier half a man high with the corpses of Jiannu. parapet.
As the last twelve Bagara soldiers were all killed by the white-pole soldiers, more than 500 corpses of warriors were added to the banks of the Hun River. The fried noodles and drinking water they carried were plundered by the Sichuan soldiers, marking the end of the battle with the yellow flag. The all-out attack involving more than 6,000 people failed again.
Nurhachi's face was gloomy. This was his first fierce battle since he started his army, and it was more dangerous than the decisive battle between the nine tribes he had with Buyangu's father.
The main weapons used by the Hou Jin soldiers to deal with this Ming army were bows, arrows and long knives. Facts have proved that these cold weapons were not effective when facing the white pole soldiers who were entrenched in formation.
This time the Eight Banners army besieged Shenyang and actually brought a lot of firearms with them.
In addition to the general cannon and Franchise machine, Houjin is also equipped with fire blunderbuss, three-eyed blunderbuss, mine cannons, etc.
Most of these firearms were captured from the Battle of Saarhu and were originally used by the Ming army under Jun Song and Ma Lin.
Due to Liu Zhaosun's intervention, it only took seven months from the end of the Saarhu War to the outbreak of the Shenyang War to fully calculate the outcome.
In these seven months, Nurhachi was full of martial virtue. He led the army of Houjin to conquer the east and west. Sometimes he defeated Yehe, sometimes he opened the Yuan Dynasty, sometimes he formed an alliance with Mongolia, and sometimes he threatened Liao Town. He had no energy or time to engage in the research and development of independent firearms.
Coupled with the newly established confidence in the Ming army, the Jin soldiers felt that they could easily conquer Shenyang and kill Liu Zhaosun without firearms.
The combination of multiple factors revealed that most of the firearms carried by the Hou Jin soldiers when they attacked Shenyang were actually dangerous goods.
The artillery was a little better. The firecrackers they captured from the Ming army were of extremely low quality. They were more efficient at killing their own people than the enemy on the battlefield.
Of the ten fire blunderbuss, two usually exploded and one misfired.
However, the quality of the gunpowder made by Hou Jindu was excellent. As long as it exploded, it would be powerful enough to take away the lives of one or two gunmen every time.
These weapons, not to mention the equipment for Baoyi Aha, even the most desperate Zhenyi armor soldiers dare not use.
Although the Houjin soldiers had the advantage in strength, they were in close combat, and neither their heavy swords nor their spears were any match for the white soldiers. Nurhaci did not want to exchange the precious lives of the Zhenyi soldiers with the chieftain soldiers.
In this way, they can only shoot with bows and arrows. Since most Baoyi Aha can't shoot arrows, they can only rely on Zhenyi armor soldiers to attack the white pole soldiers.
Of course, in the two-day battle, the most important role played by the coated Aha with yellow flags was to use their flesh and blood to consume all the poisonous arrows of the chieftain soldiers, so that the masters could stand a distance from the car camp. At twenty steps, use heavy arrows to kill those white-poled soldiers who dare to show their heads.
After the white-pole soldiers shot the poisonous arrows, they no longer showed their heads easily, but just huddled in the shield formation behind the car camp.
Hou Jin had an absolute advantage, but wanted to fight quickly. The white-pole soldiers fell into despair and became more calm and leisurely.
Of course, Nurhaci thought about a long-term siege, but at present, Kaiyuan Tieling was occupied by Liu Zhaosun, especially Tieling, which was only a hundred miles away from Shenyang. Although Liu Zhaosun now went to Hetuala, the thoughtful Houjin Khan was still a little worried.
Nurhachi had not received the military information sent to Shenyang by Huang Taiji and Jierhalang for a whole day, which further exacerbated his uneasiness.
It should be noted that in every battle, the Tang horses of the various ministries of the Later Jin Dynasty must report the battle situation on the front line to the Great Khan every other hour.
This was the case in Fushun, and it was also the case in Saerhu. This was one of the reasons why Hou Jin had powerful intelligence and was invincible.
Nurhaci took his eyes back from the white-armored shield array and turned to look at the north gate of Shenyang. The north gate was quiet, with only corpses scattered on the ground. He was a little surprised.
"Go and call Si Baylor over, why haven't you organized a Zhenglan Flag attack?!"
A personal officer, Goshiha, said quickly:
"Great Khan, Sibeile has gone to Beimen Wengcheng."
Nurhachi was slightly stunned. The enemy was facing the enemy. Why did the leader of the Zhenglan Banner go to Wengcheng instead of organizing his soldiers to charge into battle?
Wengcheng has been captured. It is enough for Li Yongfang to persuade him to surrender. Why does Mang Gurtai go to join in the fun?
Goshiha, who was next to the Great Kim Khan, was quite close to Huang Taiji on weekdays. Knowing that this was an opportunity, he quickly added:
"Master Manggurtai said that the Zhenglan Banner attacked Wengcheng just now and suffered too many casualties. He could not let the warriors in the flag be lost in vain, so he took the white-armored soldiers to Wengcheng, supervised the Nanmanzi gunners to fire the artillery, opened the white-armored shield formation, and then Attack again."
After hearing this, Nurhachi frowned slightly and said angrily:
"Five to six thousand men from Zhenghong Banner and Zhenglan Banner attacked Wengcheng guarded by thousands of people from both inside and outside. They said they suffered heavy casualties!"
"Li Yongfang is enough to bombard the shield formation. Let him come back and immediately organize the Zhenglan Banner attack formation!"
An imperceptible smile appeared on the corner of Ge Shiha's mouth, and he knelt down quickly:
"twitter!"
Ge Shiha called his companions, got on his horse and ran towards the north gate.
After watching Ge Shiha board the North Gate Urn City, Nurhaci stood up, looked up and said to Tong Yangxing standing next to him:
"Go and summon the Yehe cavalry and let them continue shooting arrows."
Tong Yangxing was stunned for a moment and whispered:
"Great Khan, the Yehe people are not very willing to fight..."
Before Tong Yangxing could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Dajin Khan:
"Let them come to Shenyang, not just to watch the excitement. Now that the troops of each banner are tight, it's time for them to go. It's just about shooting arrows and not letting them charge into the formation. What's the problem? Go quickly!"
Tong Yangxing turned around and was about to leave. He felt a little uneasy for some reason. His left eyelid twitched wildly, feeling like something was about to happen.
Tong Yangxing, a traitor as famous as Li Yongfang, was originally from a wealthy businessman's family in Liaodong. His life was quite comfortable, and his family's wealth was as much as that of the richest man Ding Bi.
After solving the lowest level of material needs, this Liaodong businessman began a higher level of spiritual pursuit:
After surrendering, Jin massacred the Liao people.
In the forty-second year of Wanli, Tong Yangxing was exposed for colluding with slave-building and was imprisoned.
Guo Guangfu, the governor of Liaodong at that time, had a sudden idea that this man could provide information to the slaves, and he must be of use to me. So after some threats and inducements, Tong Yangxing was sent to Houjin as a spy. After Tong Yangxing entered Houjin, he immediately surrendered to Jiannu and began to slaughter Liao people non-stop.
In the original history, in the fifth year of Tiancong (1631), Tong Yangxing was appointed by Huang Taiji as the commander-in-chief of the Han army (Wuzhen Chao Hagu Shan Ezhen). He was a highly respected official. He also supervised the casting of Hongyi cannons. The first artillery unit of the Qing Dynasty was established.
This artillery force later made great achievements in sweeping the world, such as the famous Tongguan bombardment of Li Zicheng's army and the blasting of the Yangzhou city wall, which were all their masterpieces.
Of course, due to Liu Zhaosun's intervention, Huang Taiji is now dying. It is not known how long he can last. The fate of Tong Yangxing, the commander-in-chief of the Qing artillery, will also undergo profound changes.
Of course, there are more important changes coming now.
Tong Yangxin got on his horse and went to the north to notify the ineffective Ye He cavalry. He accidentally raised his head and saw a black dot passing through the white-pole soldiers formation in the north of the city, and was rushing towards the Zhijin Longzhu where Houjin Khan was. .
"Big sweat! Big sweat! Get out of the way!"
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