Jinlianchuan grassland, Pingyan City.
This long-awaited castle across the Jinlian River and Kaiping Palace City, the main city of Ming Dynasty Duoyan Ten Thousand Houses of Orduo, was the foundation of Huang Taiji's post-Jin army in the Jinlian River grassland.
The battle over the grasslands between the Ming Dynasty and Hou Jin Dynasty was quite interesting. Although these two families brought together a group of Mongolians, they were not nomadic people after all, and they did not want the Mongolians who followed them to "wander". It is difficult to control the Mongols once they "swim", and they might swim into the hands of the descendants of a certain golden family...
Therefore, they all designated pastoral areas for their Mongolian households or alliance banners, limiting their nomadic capabilities and allowing them to live a settled life of both herding and farming.
And in the Xilinhe-Jinlianchuan dispute, which the Ming and Jin families personally fought, the two sides did not engage in a grassland mobile war, but a grassland fortress war!
Both sides used fortresses equipped with artillery and cannons as their basis, supplemented by a small number of elite soldiers, and used this method to compete for or control the vast prairie.
This tactic of using fortresses, firearms, and elite soldiers to control the vast grasslands may seem a bit unusual, but it is actually an inevitable trend after the rise of the gunpowder empire and the decline of nomadic civilization in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Take Kaiping Fortress, the main city of Duoyan Wanhu Orduo, as an example. It was a small three-sided bastion at the beginning, and was later upgraded to a hexagonal bastion after Wu Sangui's expansion.
However, the upgraded bastion does not occupy much space, and it does not use any solid materials. It is just a combination of sandbags, soil and wood. However, because the 3-pound cannon and the turtle dove gun were sandwiched on the six corners of the hexagonal bastion, they could produce cross fire, leaving the enemy trapped in the ditch outside the city to be hit by bullets in the front and back, leaving no place to hide. Therefore, the general manager of Duoyan Wanhu Orduo was as fierce as a tiger and could use only 2,000 Mongolian defenders and 8,000 front infantry troops plus 18 3-pound cannons and 4,000 turtledove guns to defend Kaiping City impregnably.
After testing it a few times, Huang Taiji quickly realized that the hexagonal bastion was difficult to defeat!
His copycat Hongyi cannon couldn't blast the Kaiping Bastion at all - these walls were made of sandbags and had slopes built on the outside. They were extremely bulletproof and equipped with high-explosive equipment. It is difficult to destroy explosive grenades, let alone the solid bullets of front-loading guns?
The Hou Jin army pushing the carriage was severely injured and killed by the crossfire of the 3-pound cannon and turtle dove gun set up on the prismatic gun platform (that is, the six corners)!
However, Huang Taiji did not go all out to fight against the Kaiping Hexagonal Fortress. Instead, he came to learn from his master and learned his skills, and he also used gourds to build a new one across the river from the Kaiping City to the southwest of the Kaiping Fortress. The hexagonal fort is named Pingyan City, which means flattening Yanshan Mountain!
While building Pingyan City, Huang Taiji also ordered people to build a small fort on each side of Kaiping City. He also dug trenches and built parapets on the east, south and north sides of Kaiping City (the west of Kaiping City faces Jinlian River). Kaiping City was completely besieged.
After completing the fortification and siege of Kaiping City, Huang Taiji ordered most of the Houjin expeditionary force who had followed him across thousands of miles of pine forests to retreat, leaving only about 15,000 elite troops to rely on Pingyan City to continue the siege. Call for reinforcements.
In addition, Huang Taiji also left 3,000 elite soldiers in Qingping Town on the west side of Dalahaizi in the north, and ordered them to transform Qingping Town into a hexagonal fort as the second large stronghold and logistics base of the Jin Kingdom to the west of Qianli Pine Forest—— Huang Taiji has long-term plans for sending troops this time!
Most of the soldiers who followed him through the pine forest for thousands of miles were auxiliary soldiers responsible for transporting baggage, building castles and sowing oats. After completing these tasks, they retreated home to harvest crops.
The 18,000 elite soldiers left behind were divided into two parts. 1,5,000 of them stayed at the Jinlianchuan grassland to provide reinforcements, while the other 3,000 stayed in the Da La Haizi area to look after oats, cattle and sheep.
The reason for this arrangement is of course to last long with the Ming army on the Jinlianchuan grassland!
It is difficult to supply supplies on the grassland and cannot feed the army at all. Moreover, the Jinlianchuan grassland is far away from the rear areas of both sides, so it is difficult to rely on food transportation to maintain the army for a long time.
If you want to last, you can only use fewer but better soldiers and generals, and at the same time, you must herd and farm the fields.
Therefore, Huang Taiji not only let people graze and grow oats around Dalahaizi, but also let people graze cattle and sheep on the Jinlianchuan grassland to maintain the supply of the army.
In short, he put on a posture that the Ming army would spend ten or eight years on the Jinlianchuan grassland - this Great Khan is better than Zhuge, which means surpassing Zhuge Liang, and he will not return after running out of food again and again.
Huang Taiji's opponent, the concubine Wu Liangha, who was also his sister-in-law, was known for her impetuous and aggressive temperament, but this time she learned Sima Yi's method of shrinking back and became particularly calm.
No matter Huang Taiji surrounded Kaiping City and built Pingyan City on the edge of Kaiping City, she did not move. However, the Luotuoshan Bastion was built on Luotuoshan between Jinlianchuan Grassland and Xuanfu Town. She also ordered Concubine Siqintu (the last of the five Mongolian concubines) under her command to lead 3,000 troops of the headquarters and 8,000 troops of the front army to garrison. Camel Mountain City. He led the main force of the five noble concubines, Orduo, to the Duoluo Palace City north of Xinghesuo City. While expanding the Duoluo Palace City, he trained the Mongolian soldiers under his command.
Regarding the fact that Concubine Wu Liangha became the "Concubine Sima", Huang Taiji was not anxious at first - he was not like Zhuge Liang, who "eat less and have trouble" and "sleep in high spirits at night".
He eats a lot, big fish and meat every meal, he must eat more than the noble concubine Wu Liangha! Moreover, Huang Taiji slept in every day and did not get up until three o'clock in the morning. After being stationed on the Jinlianchuan grassland for several months, Huang Taiji's figure has become a bit "stronger", and he looks like he will live a long life.
But today, Huang Taiji, who eats well and sleeps well, is starting to get anxious.
Don't worry, Sony is here!
...
"Khan, the eldest brother really tried his best... But Zhu Youjian is too cunning! He is too cruel! He did not display the emperor's banner, but quietly went to the front line of Jinzhou and beat the eldest brother Caught off guard.
He also brought a total of 100 Hongyi cannons that can fire 24 kilograms of explosive shells. The sound of the cannon was really devastating!
Moreover, Zhu Youjian was not only skilled in artillery, but also extremely brave. He personally led the armored cavalry to attack... After the cannon blasted, the cavalry charged, and the cavalry charged after the cannon shot. They fought eight waves over and over again! The previous seven waves of attacks were all repelled by the eldest brother, but in the end the eldest brother met Zhu Youjian himself while leading the team to fight! "
When Sony said this, he suddenly paused, and then secretly looked at Huang Taiji, whose face was red.
"Huh, can he still survive if he meets Zhu Youjian?" Of course Huang Taiji knows how brave Zhu Youjian is! That is the Overlord of Chu who is alive, the Overlord of Ming!
"I can live, I can live..." Sony said, "My eldest brother has been practicing martial arts with Ao Bai every day these days, and his kung fu has improved! He fought with Zhu You for 18 rounds before he was defeated by Zhu You Injured with a concealed weapon!"
"Hidden weapon? What hidden weapon?" Huang Taiji asked.
"A kind of hand gun that doesn't use a match rope!" Sony explained, "It's so powerful that you don't have time to dodge."
"Is he okay then?" Huang Taiji finally said a word of concern for Hauge.
"Okay, okay... I just lost half of my hand," Sony said. "We just lost the battle of Jinzhou... Now the eldest brother is leading his troops to retreat to Guangning, while Er Baylor is defending Jinzhou. Awaiting assistance.”
"How much was lost?" Huang Taiji asked, "How many people are left in Guangning?"
"The loss...the loss is over ten thousand!" Sony said, "Guangning City and some Zhuangzi around it can still gather 6,000 combatable soldiers, half of whom are people with blue flags."
Of course it's nonsense to lose more than 10,000 yuan... Only bringing back 3,000 people is a real number. However, because Jinzhou was besieged and Amin was trapped, it was unclear how many people there were in Jinzhou City.
"What? There are only 6,000 soldiers left to fight?" Huang Taiji felt his eyes glowing golden, "Can Guangning still be able to defend it? Also, how long can Amin defend Jinzhou?"
"this......"
Sony couldn't answer. Just when he didn't know what to say to Huang Taiji, there were sudden rapid footsteps outside the door, and then Azig's voice: "Khan, good news, that slutty bitch Wuliangha I can’t hold back my anger!”
