On a raised soil slope on the north bank of the Hun River, Liu Zhaosun sat on a short horse, quietly watching the Second Guards Army's battle with Liao Town.
He asked the Chinese Guards to prepare this small maza in order to experience what it was like for the Japanese Warring States Daimyos to fight.
It doesn't feel very friendly.
The height of the maza was limited, and it was very uncomfortable for the tall Liu Zhaosun to sit on it.
On the battlefield in the distance, Zu Dale, who was full of confidence, was leading his elite servants to charge forward.
They first dispersed the Jianzhou Jurchens who were trying to climb the city at the front, and slashed the Jurchens with poor equipment along the way, showing unprecedented bravery.
"So it turns out that Liao Zhen is so good at fighting. Before, he was hiding his strength and pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger?"
Liu Zhaosun sat on the pony and muttered to himself.
After confirming that Song Yingsheng had escaped from Liaodong, Liu Zhaosun began to be in a trance and had to force himself to focus on what was in front of him.
In this way, he will not think of the woman across the mountains and sea.
Love across mountains and seas.
Zu Dalue's servants were full of morale, killing the scattered infantry along the way, and then began to attack the Mongolian Jurchen cavalry arrayed behind them.
The arrogance of the Liao Town servant made the foreign rider on the opposite side very unhappy.
This discomfort is completely understandable.
In the past, they pressed down on Liao Town and fought, and a dozen bagas could scare away thousands of Liao soldiers. What the hell happened today? A thousand servants dared to attack the Mongolian Jurchen formation with thousands of people.
However, with the support of Kaiyuan soldiers behind them, these Mongolian Jurchen riders, who were holding riding bows and wielding sabers, became more confident. They rose up bravely and decided to teach the ancestral army a lesson.
At this time, the black tiger flag of the Second Guards Army suddenly tilted forward, and the sound of trumpets and drums of cavalry charges sounded on the battlefield.
Two three-pound field guns symbolically fired twice at the servants in Liao Town in the distance, and then hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield. It is not known whether the guns exploded or the artillerymen had escaped.
The two artillery pieces, which did not look very reliable, could not dissuade Zu Dalue from killing Liu Zhaosun. The sporadic casualties caused by the field artillery further stimulated the ferocious and bloodthirsty nature of the servants.
At this time, more than two thousand foreign cavalrymen also screamed strangely and drove their horses to fight against the rolling Liaozhen cavalry.
Liu Zhaosun glanced across the moat. He was really not interested in Zu Dashou's younger brother. He just wanted to annihilate the thousand servants as soon as possible and create a deterrent for the following cities.
The small ponytail under the buttocks made Liu Zhaosun very unhappy:
"Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu, you are probably not very tall."
It's a pity that the Warring States period is far away, otherwise when Liu Zhaosun immediately rides to Fusang, he will definitely compete with these great names who are touted as war gods and generals.
At this time, Zu Dalue's general banner was running quickly on the battlefield. Wherever the banner passed, it was invincible. Jianzhou Jurchen suffered heavy casualties.
Liu Zhaosun raised his head and looked at the fluttering flag, his eyes suddenly widened with anger, revealing deep hatred.
The messenger of the Second Guards Army rode up to the banner of the Chinese army and asked Marquis Ping Liao whether the Kaiyuan Army would immediately launch a counterattack against Liao Town.
Liu Zhaosun glanced at the messenger and suppressed his anger.
"Tell Commander Deng that 300,000 people have surrounded Shenyang. The enemy cannot escape. He has full command of the main attack. The enemy must be defeated before sunset. Zu Dale, we must capture those alive, otherwise, military law will be engaged!"
The messenger immediately rode away.
Liu Zhaosun stood up from his horse, and the guard replaced him with a chair. He sat on the chair and nodded with satisfaction, continuing to observe the dynamics of the battlefield.
The fine cavalry of Liao Town fought in a melee with the Mongolian and Jurchen cavalry.
This foreign cavalry was mainly composed of Houjin prisoners, Ye He's old troops, and Mongolian herdsmen who volunteered to participate in the war. It can be said that they were a ragtag group. Since they were rushing into the battle this time, there was no wall-mounted charge. They were just hastily formed cavalry formations in front and back.
Fortunately, their individual riding skills were superb and they could barely compete with the Liao Town cavalry.
The servants in Liao Town are well-equipped with weapons, and are generally equipped with three-eyed muskets. Their armor and horsepower are far superior to their opponents. In addition, they are well-organized and well-trained. One thousand against two thousand, they are not inferior at all.
As time went by, the disadvantages of the foreign cavalry gradually emerged. First, the horse under the rider's crotch lacked horsepower, and the momentum of the dog fighting charge began to weaken. Secondly, the lethality of their mounted bows is limited.
Liu Zhaosun saw with his own eyes that the armor of a Liao Town horse soldier was hit by dense light arrows. The servant actually raised his three-eyed gun and pointed it at a Mongolian herdsman who was charging towards him with a knife.
Zu Dashou has not wasted these two years. Stimulated by the huge Liao salary, the strength of western Liaoning has developed unprecedentedly, and the Zu family's military strength has expanded rapidly.
The three brothers have thousands of servants under their command, and the number of servants under the general soldier Dashou has reached 2,500. It should be noted that when Li Chengliang was at his peak, he only had 4,000 servants under his command.
Zu Dashou increased the number of firearms in each department. He equipped cavalry and soldiers with a large number of fire blunderbuss. Spending a lot of money to purchase 20 Hongyi cannons from the pass, and set them up in Guangning, Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan and other cities. Although Shenyang is not under the control of the Liaoxi warlords, the city is also equipped with two giant cannons.
History always likes to joke with people. If nothing goes wrong, Ping Liaohou and his 300,000 troops will continue to advance along the Western Liaoning Corridor, and then be defeated by Zu Dashou, who is stubbornly resisting, at the foot of Ningyuan or Guangning City. If the cannon blocks it, Liu Zhaosun himself will most likely be hit by the Hongyi cannon like Nurhachi, ending his journey through time early.
Of course, the above are just the assumptions of some conspiracy theorists, and the facts may develop in another direction.
The lookout standing on the lookout pole monitoring the battlefield waved the black tiger flag and reported the defeat of the front line to the ordering soldiers. The ordering soldiers with the small black tiger flag on their backs quickly dismounted and galloped to the black tiger banner where Deng Changxiong was. , turn over and dismount.
"Commander Deng, Liao Town defeated the Mongolian cavalry. They suffered about two hundred casualties. They are still chasing the Mongols at this moment!"
Deng Changxiong, who was pacing back and forth under the banner, immediately stopped and asked the ordering soldier:
"Have the chariot camp defenders been dispatched?"
"No! It's just the servants of the ancestral family who are going to fight, and the six thousand soldiers in the car camp are still reinforcing their positions."
Deng Changxiong's expression remained unchanged, he waved the ordering soldiers to retreat, and he continued to pace back and forth under the black tiger flag that was one foot to seven feet high.
The five Second Army battalion officers standing around were eagerly looking at Deng Changxiong, waiting for his order.
At present, Zu Dalue's servants have broken through the foreign cavalry in front, and are only two miles away from the Second Army's formation. For the cavalry, they will arrive very quickly.
More than five thousand people in the Second Army lived and died in a single thought.
When he reached the second lap, Deng Changxiong suddenly stopped and said loudly:
"Pass my general's order, and the gunmen will cover it. The first battalion of spearmen will pretend to flee towards the north bank of the Hun River. When the enemy crosses the river, Wang Yingguan will lead the first battalion of cavalry to immediately cut off Zu Dalue's retreat and call for the artillery group to attack him. Intensive artillery bombardment, rocket troops covered and fired at the same time, and when Zu Dale's formation collapsed, Zhu He led the second battalion of cavalry to cover their left and right wings, and handed over the front to the second battalion."
He finished speaking in one breath and asked the ordering soldier to repeat it again. After confirming that it was correct, he asked the ordering soldier to carry his own order flag to each ministry to convey the order.
Cheng Liang, the battalion officer of the first battalion of the Second Army, was standing behind Deng Changxiong. After listening to the commander's battle plan, he said cautiously:
"Boss Deng, the rank of the Guards is similar to that of the Cavalry Regiment. Let Wang Zengbin cover us, I'm afraid..."
Deng Changxiong put down the telescope in his hand, turned around and glared at this little brother, and said firmly:
"General Liu has handed over the frontline command to me, and I will be fully responsible for it. It doesn't matter whether he agrees or not at this time, it must be implemented! Don't you want to retreat?"
Cheng Liang touched the helmet on his head and smiled awkwardly.
"That's not true, it's just..."
When Cheng Liang was still a master of the Tao Palladium, Deng Changxiong was his flag captain, and the two got along for more than three years. As the chief officer, Deng Changxiong knew Cheng Liang's temper. On the surface, this young man looks kind and carefree, and he agrees with everything others say to him. In fact, he has a very small mind and always likes to mutter in private.
If I don't make it clear to him, I don't know how many times I will be scolded by this kid when I execute the order later.
"Do you feel embarrassed to step back?"
"Here, what my subordinate means is that our former army has always made progress but never retreated. I have never heard of anyone retreating without starting a fight. I am afraid that other battalions will laugh at us."
"The prerequisite for advancing without retreating is to obey orders. It's in vain that the instructors and representatives of the soldiers have said it so many times. You have heard it in your dog's ears? Marquis Pingliao asked for the complete annihilation of Liao Town. How can we annihilate them all if we don't lure them out? ? Go! Execute the order immediately! Otherwise, military law will be engaged!"
Cheng Liang performed a military salute, and although he was very reluctant, he still rode his horse and ran towards the front line.
Deng Changxiong looked at Cheng Liang's retreating back. The low sounds of Kaiyuan Army's cymbals, gongs and horns sounded all around. The golden drummers beat the war drums on the drum carts, and the drums sounded majestic and powerful.
Deng Changxiong looked beyond the messy battlefield ahead and looked further into the distance.
The fortifications built by Zu Dale in Shenyang finally revealed their true colors.
Deng Changxiong took a breath.
Liao Town dug two more wide and deep trenches outside the car camp. Outside the trenches, trees were cut down, and a wooden fence that could be several feet high was set up staggered on three or four floors as peripheral fortifications.
The city walls and car camps are high and low, and firepower is staggered.
In this way, the defense of Liao Town was divided into three parts: the city wall defenders, the chariot camp defenders, and Zu Dalue's family.
Only by breaking through the Cheying defense can it be possible to capture Shenyang.
Ping Liaohou gave him one day to break the city, so the difficulty can be imagined.
Deng Changxiong's eyes tightened and fell on the barrel of the Hongyi cannon protruding from the crenellations at the top of the city in the distance.
"When will Wang Jinglue's model battalion be able to exert its strength?"
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