On April 22, the sixth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, the situation on the Xiaolinghe battlefield in western Liaoning was like this.
The large forces of the Ming army formed in formation south of Xiaoling River, and they had an absolute advantage in numbers. But they themselves didn't know that because the Ming army's reconnaissance cavalry was blocked by the Xiaoling River, they couldn't figure out the reality of the Jin army behind the other bank. Because he could not figure out the true and false, Zhu Youjian sent his strongest infantry, the governor of Jiliao, and asked Yuan Chonghuan to lead it personally to cross the river to form a strong formation.
After Yuan Chonghuan's 6,200 infantry formed, Zhu Youjian ordered the officers and soldiers of the artillery battalion of the Guard Regiment to cross the river together with a battalion of Jiliao Army's artillery mark. At the same time, he also ordered four 12-pound Hongyi short cannons and four 24-pound black pots. artillery and eight 3-pound field artillery were transported across the river (except for the four black pot artillery pieces that were pulled from Daning under Zhu Youjian's order, the rest were artillery pieces from the Ji Liao Army) and began to be supervised by Yuan Chonghuan. Artillery positions were set up on the beachhead seized by the army.
Then on the Jin Army side, there were 14,000 people brought by Hauge (half of which were Bao Yi) and more than 7,000 people by Amin (they were mainly soldiers from the Xianglan Banner Manchuria, Xianglan Banner Han Army and Xianglan Banner North Korea). , with a total of more than 21,000 people, the total strength was only one-third of the Ming army on the other side.
However, the Hou Jin Army did not have no chance of winning, because they occupied a favorable terrain.
Moreover, because the cavalry of the Ming Army could not cross the river for reconnaissance before, the Jin Army deliberately made a big show of their power, building a false camp and setting up flags widely. Therefore, the Ming army did not know the true strength of the Jin army until the battle started, and even thought that Huang Taiji was in Jinzhou.
In addition, the more than 21,000 people of the Later Jin Army were not evenly distributed along the long Xiaoling River, but were concentrated in a large camp in Jinzhou City and south of Jinzhou City. There were only ten wooden forts and more than a thousand cavalry used to guard the north bank of the Xiaoling River. This force was simply not enough to withstand the Ming army's large-scale crossing of the river. Moreover, the width of the Xiaoling River is limited. The 12-pound Hongyi short cannon and the 24-pound black pot cannon deployed in Henan can accurately blast the shells onto the heads of the defenders on the north bank.
Therefore, the Hou Jin army just used these more than a thousand cavalry and ten wooden forts to cover the battlefield, preventing their opponents from spying on their own strength, and at the same time keeping track of the movements of the Ming army crossing the river. The main force of Houjin was recharging its strength, waiting for the Ming army to launch a fatal blow when they were halfway across.
And now is the chance to strike halfway!
Yuan Chonghuan, who had just inspected the five spear phalanxes at the front and organized a large Queyue formation, returned to the Chinese military formation behind the Queyue formation when he heard his men shouting. : "The slaves are coming! Thousands of them..."
Slave thief! A lot of slaves and thieves! The first wave is several thousand, and of course there will be more after that!
Of course Yuan Chonghuan was afraid!
Although he had led troops to cut several crops of oats outside Jinzhou City in the past few years, he was just bullying the weak Amin. Moreover, Governor Yuan always sent troops when the farmers were busy, because he was sure that Hou Jin would not leave the crops in the vast fields uncut, so he gathered a large army to fight against him in Jinzhou. If Huang Taiji really comes, Governor Yuan will happily run back to Ningyuan to defend it - as long as Huang Taiji gathers his troops and misses the farming season, Governor Yuan will win!
Because when Governor Yuan went to Jinzhou to harvest crops, he had the idea of a military and food war.
Now the Ji Liao army has food, but then the Jin Kingdom has no food!
Ji Liao's army has supplies from the entire Ming Dynasty, and there are hundreds of thousands of Liao people who have returned to western Liaoning to help plant crops. Ji Liao's soldiers are completely out of production. Therefore, they can send troops during busy farming times to disrupt Houjin's production.
And Huang Taiji could bear it. He allowed Yuan Chonghuan to harvest crops in Jinzhou but did not send out soldiers...
But now is not the busy farming season, it’s already summer!
So Huang Taiji must have brought his troops to Jinzhou, and Yuan Chonghuan knew that he was in danger this time.
But Governor Yuan is still a bloody scholar after all. At this time, what he wants is to write history with green blood, and his name will be passed down through the ages!
Even if you die, you must die like a loyal minister!
Thinking about leaving his name for eternity, Governor Yuan took out the Shang Fang sword he had just received from Zhu Youjian, and then shouted loudly to the left and right: "Command the troops, today is the day when Yuan will die in service to the country..." ...Whoever dares to escape from the battle will be killed by Yuan with the power of his sword!
Today, Yuan and all of you are dead. You all take the first step, and Yuan comes later. We go to hell together, and then go to kill the soul of the thief chief Nurhaci! "
It’s Yuan Chonghuan after all! Just can blow! Even after death, Nurhaci will be killed!
Yuan Chonghuan can blow, and his pacesetters can shout. After receiving Yuan Chonghuan's order to "die together and go to hell, and then kill the souls of slaves and thieves", they immediately let out the loudest shout!
"I will die to serve my country. Today, I am willing to go to hell with the governor..."
The shouts shook the sky, startling Amin who was directing the soldiers with blue flags to advance.
Amin understands Chinese. His father Shuerhaqi also wants to join Li Chengliang and become a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. How could he not learn Chinese?
So he could understand the shouts of Yuan Chonghuan's men... This Yuan Chonghuan really crossed the river, and he was working hard!
"Amma, the morale of Yuan Manzi's soldiers seems to be very high!" Amin's son Airli came up to his father at this time, with a solemn expression on his face.
"What are you afraid of?" Amin glanced at his son, "No matter how crazy Yuan Manzi is, he only has this little ability, and it's not like he has never seen it before... He is seeking death by arraying himself against the enemy! Go and command the dead soldiers yourself, first Use the cart to push their spear array, and then pounce on them to fight hand to hand!"
Nowadays, the Hou Jin army rarely pushes the carts into battle, because the carts are easily bombarded, and those things will break into pieces when hit with a 3-pound or 3-pound projectile, and splinters of wood will fly everywhere. Everyone is either dead or injured.
However, on the Xiaolinghe front line, Amin still asked his men to build a batch of carriages. Because he felt that it was unlikely that the Ming Army's artillery would cross the river with the infantry in the first batch, and the carriages would have a certain restraint effect on the Ming Army's gun array.
So what Amin has set up now is a formation in which the Han army and North Korea with the blue flag push the carts in front and act as the vanguard as the dead soldiers, and the Manchurian army with the blue flag presses behind and acts as the sharp army.
Because Yuan Chonghuan set up a "hedgehog iron barrel formation" and lined up with his back to the water, Amin did not let the Manchu soldiers mount their horses and all advanced on foot.
Since Amin's starting position was a bit far away from Xiaoling River, they had to walk for a while before appearing on the battlefield.
The two warring parties now are not facing each other and pulling out a large formation from a place of two or three arrows. Instead, the Ming army placed an iron barrel formation to occupy the bridgehead. The latter Jin army used cavalry in small groups (Mongolia with blue flags) to control the battlefield and at the same time moved the large group to the Out of sight, the Ming army also followed the method of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and had a small group of cavalry dragging branches around to create smoke and dust, pretending that a large army was dispatching...
"It's a carriage!"
One of Yuan Chonghuan's soldiers, who was standing on the saddle to observe the enemy's situation as if performing acrobatics, suddenly roared.
"How many trucks?" Yuan Du asked.
"No less than 100 vehicles!"
There are at least 20 or 30 descendants behind a catapult cart. A hundred catapult carts equals two to three thousand people. These are still dead soldiers. If you add the sharp soldiers, it will be five or six thousand... The first wave came up. There are so many slaves and thieves who have to work hard!
Yuan Chonghuan's heart was already half cold, but he quickly regained his composure and shouted: "All the gunners, come forward with this governor!"
Well, Yuan Chonghuan is going to personally direct the battle!
The ones who were going to follow him were 6 fire gun teams, that is, the fire gun soldiers belonging to the six infantry battalions under his command, a total of 600 people. They have been drawn out from each camp by Yuan Chonghuan and are under his personal control. Moreover, these 600 fire gun soldiers were trained under the personal supervision of Yuan Chonghuan!
Yuan Chonghuan is from Dongguan County, Guangzhou Prefecture. His home is not far from Foshan Town, which is rich in turtledove guns. Moreover, he is so close to Sun Dapao. How can he not know how to use fireguns? He can learn even if he doesn’t understand!
Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan, the current right minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and censor of the right capital, and governor of Jiliao Military Affairs, has grown into an excellent fire gun captain.
The 600 turtle dove gun soldiers, under the command of "Yuan Huo gun", were divided into three teams. They faced more than a hundred carriages and set up a shooting formation with three phalanxes of spears at their backs. Yuan Chonghuan himself also got off his horse and stood in the middle of the first row of the fire gun team (the formation of the turtle dove gun is generally relatively scattered), with a flag bearer beside him, holding a red flag.
All the gunmen don't look at the enemy, they just look at the red flag. When the red flag falls, they will start shooting!
Seeing more than a hundred carriages getting closer and closer, already thirty or forty steps away, Yuan Chonghuan suddenly grabbed the red flag from the flag bearer's hand, then shook it hard a few times, and then dropped it violently.
The flag fell and the cannon sounded!
