August 15th, the second year of Hou Jin Tiancong, is the Mid-Autumn Festival.
"This is......"
Huang Taiji took a deep breath as he climbed onto a high ground and looked at Yutian County, seven or eight miles away. Because what appears in the telescope is a castle that is somewhat similar to Zunhua County. Yutian County is relatively far from the Jizhen Great Wall and has not been rebuilt by Qi Jiguang. Of course, the old city cannot compare with Zunhua County, which was rebuilt only a few decades ago. But the moat outside the castle is the same as the moat in Zunhua County, which is a bit ridiculously wide. Moreover, outside the moat, you can also see layers of groundwood, crotchwood and antler trees. Needless to say, a lot of horse pits must have been dug!
In addition, Huang Taiji also saw a "Queyue Village" built with its back on the moat outside Beiguan City in Yutian County, on the north side of the moat... It was not a "formation" but a "village" with earthen walls. At the observation deck of the Zhaizha Archery Tower, the outside of the earthen wall of the village is covered with Huluo (a kind of wooden stake to prevent horses). Beyond the Huluo, there is a circle of trenches.
As for bed crossbows, tiger crouching cannons, and elite soldiers who are brave and good at throwing javelins, there will definitely be no shortage of them.
Huang Taiji's heart dropped when he looked at the impregnable castle in front of him. I originally thought that if I broke the border wall of Ji Town, I could eat meat, but who would have thought that any county within this wall would be similar to Jinzhou and Ningyuan!
The residence of the Emperor of Heaven is indeed a tiger's den and a dragon's pool. If I had known it, I would not have come...
"Great Khan," Sanbeile Amin was accompanying Huang Taiji at this time. He had already seen the defense of Yutian City and was a little eager to try it. "I will take the Mongolian warriors from Xianglan Banner and Neikalkha up there and try it!"
Huang Taiji glanced at Amin and said in his heart: Because you didn't participate in the previous battle of Zunhua, you don't know how powerful he is!
At that time, he led the Mongolians from the Xianglan Banner and the five Inner Khalkha tribes to pretend to be the main force of the Hou Jin Dynasty at Yiyuankou, and fought several field battles with the main force of the Ji Liao Ming Army commanded by Wang Zhichen, Yuan Chonghuan, and Zhao Lijiao. Although he didn't take any advantage, he still successfully completed the task of luring the enemy.
On the eighth day of August, when Huang Taiji's main force broke through San'ankou, Longjingguan, and Xifengkou and invaded, Amin also fought against the main force of the Ji Liao army of 50,000 Yuankou at Yiyuankou. Although Amin had less than 20,000 troops at hand, and the main force was the Mongols who were not strong in combat effectiveness, he was still not at a disadvantage. He relied on the mountains in the entrance of Yiyuan to resist and fought with the Ming army for three days. It was not until the evening of the tenth day of August that he led his troops to withdraw from Yiyuankou because of Huang Taiji's order. Then Amin's troops walked west along the border wall to the entrance again at Xifengkou, and met up with Huang Taiji at Santun Camp on August 12.
After joining forces, Huang Taiji's army gathered at hand reached as many as 58,000! Among them, there are about 20,000 Eight Banners soldiers, about 30,000 Mongolian soldiers, and about 8,000 coated slaves.
However, Houjin Tiancong Khan, who had 58,000 troops, did not choose to march eastward to fight a decisive battle with the Jiliao army stationed in Qian'an, Lulong, and Luanzhou. He also did not attack Zunhua again, but bypassed Zunhua and marched westward. . Because they had to clear grass valleys on the way westward, the march was not very fast. It was not until August 14 that they arrived outside Yutian County. After a night's rest, Huang Taiji took the Belles to the heights to watch the enemy.
"Sanbeile, then you take 5,000 people to attack that Queyue Village...be sure to be careful." Huang Taiji certainly couldn't dampen Amin's enthusiasm. "The Southern Army may have gunpowder specially designed to explode the car. I'm afraid the crossbows and the chariot formation won't work. In addition, there are probably horse pits around Queyue Village. The horse team can't go up unless the pits are filled."
Of course Amin had heard about gunpowder crossbows and horse traps, but hearing about it was different from seeing it with his own eyes, otherwise he wouldn't have invited this battle... So what about Huang Taiji's The Hou Jin Army would not be frustrated at the foot of Yutian City!
The Battle of Yutian that took place on August 15th was almost a replica of the previous Battle of Zunhua!
Lu Daqi, who guarded Yutian, was just like Shi Kefa. He was a die-hard scholar, and he also knew how to fight. In the original history, he was the commander-in-chief of Sichuan in the Southern Ming Dynasty. He was fighting against the Qing army until he died of illness!
Under his leadership, the combat effectiveness of the 3000 Yutian regiment is no less than that of the Zunhua regiment! Moreover, he also "copied" the bed crossbow from Zunhua, and copied the Queyue Formation from "Zi Zhi Tong Jian", upgraded it, and built Queyue Village.
Strong strongholds, bed crossbows, trenches, pits, and 3,000 simple regiments who fought to protect their hometown and relatives, were able to repulse the three fierce attacks of Houjin Sanbeile Amin, and also killed and wounded four to five hundred Manchurians, Mongolian soldiers and coated slaves also allowed Huang Taiji's soldiers to move in again.
Avoid the truth and attack the fictitious!
Yutian is clearly difficult to defeat. Even if it can be conquered, it will still require four to five thousand people... It is not worth it for a county!
So Huang Taiji decided to try his luck in another state, so he led his army to Jizhou.
Waiting for Huang Taiji in Jizhou was Yang Sichang of Jizhou Bingbei Road. Yang Sichang took office with his father. His father was Yang He, a veteran of the four dynasties who had clear aspirations and was well versed in military affairs. family), was dismissed because of his opposition to Wei Zhongxian.
After Wei Zhongxian was executed, I don't know how many people recommended Yang He to Zhu Youjian, hoping that he would come out as a cabinet minister and a supervisor. But Zhu Youjian was unmoved! His son Yang Sichang has received a military preparation, and he is still guarding the election. In order to show his military talents, Yang He took office with his son and helped his son supervise the regiment training in Jizhou.
Because Yang He is the favorite to become a pavilion elder, the high-ranking families in Jizhou have to give some face, provide jobs and food, and help the Yang family and his son build Jizhou City according to the standards of Zunhua City. .
At the same time, Yang He also relied on his face and hope to help his son invite former deputy general Meng Qiaofang who had been working in Yongping. With the help of Meng Qiaofang, he recruited and trained as many as 6,000 regiment members.
On August 20, Huang Taiji and others who climbed up to Chuangzi Ridge in the north of Jizhou City and overlooked the Jizhou City did not even take a breath and could only sigh.
There are indeed fortified walls everywhere within the Great Wall!
The two county towns of Zunhua and Yutian are almost as well built as Jinzhou and Ningyuan, not to mention the state capital of Jizhou... It is difficult to attack at first glance, the city is high and the trench is wide, and there are so many debris outside the trench. It won't be cleaned up in three to five days!
But now that we can't rely on the carriage, are we going to let the coated slaves work on the crossbows of the Ming army? This is impossible! The coated slave is not made of iron. If there are no Eight Banners warriors to supervise, how can these coated slaves be willing to risk their lives to fill the hole? But if the Eight Banners warriors are to go up, the warriors are not made of iron!
Huang Taiji and a group of Eight Banners and Baylors didn't know what to say for a moment? This scene is really embarrassing! In the end, "Faqiubele" Dorgon was clever and said: "Oh, this Jizhou city is shabby and dilapidated. The houses in the city are all thatched. It looks too poor!"
Jizhou is shabby, dilapidated and poor?
A few stupid Baylor still wanted to argue with Dorgon, but Huang Taiji had already reacted, "Old Fourteen is right... Jizhou doesn't have much money at first glance, let's move to a richer place! Fan Wencheng, you have been to Beizhili a few times, and can you tell me which place is richer?"
Fan Wencheng was so clever. He immediately understood what Huang Taiji meant and said to Huang Taiji quickly: "How about going to Pinggu? If not, go straight to Shunyi. Shunyi has always been the business route from the north to Beijing and is very prosperous. "
"Okay," Huang Taiji nodded repeatedly, "Change places... let's go to Pinggu, or if that doesn't work, go to Shunyi!"
A group of big and small Baylor finally let out a breath, and then there was a "嗻". However, Fan Wencheng still didn't understand the situation. It turned out that both Pinggu and Shunyi were poor! They are almost as poor as Zunhua, Yutian, and Jizhou... At first glance, there is no value in robbery!
After the Jin army came to Shunyi, Huang Taiji had three choices: go south to Tongzhou and Beijing, go north to Miyun, and go west to Changping...
