Building strongholds and fighting dumb wars is of course a very safe way, but it also has one disadvantage, that is, it is too tiring.
In order to build the stronghold more firmly and faster, most of the nearly 14,000 Eight Banners heavenly soldiers changed their careers and became migrant workers. Regardless of the fatigue of days of marching, they just started working with shovels and shovels. Some of them had to go into the mountains. The job of cutting down trees. He hitched the ax to the carriage and went to the nearby mountains. He cut down trees during the day and pulled the cart at night, finally bringing back some wood for Li Lingyi's construction site.
The 14,000 people under Huang Taiji were busy for a full day and a half. On the afternoon of the 10th day of May, they finally managed to build a stronghold into a decent shape. The stronghold had just been set up, and before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, Concubine Wu Liangha's camel soldiers arrived!
Huang Taiji, who had experienced more eclipses and had more things to do in the past few days, didn't bother to rest. Accompanied by Taisong Dafujin, he quickly climbed to the highest point of Li Lingyi's camp. He raised his telescope and looked at the camel army that gave him a headache.
The most eye-catching flag erected high among the marching troops was a flaming phoenix flag with a white background. This was the first time Huang Taiji saw this big flag, but he had heard about it for a long time. He knew that this big flag was the military flag of Concubine Wu Liangha. Hauge and several other Manchurian generals were fighting against this flag. The troops under the flag suffered heavy losses in the fighting.
The fire phoenix on the white flag was very dazzling. After Huang Taiji glanced at it for a few more times, his eyes seemed to be burned and he couldn't help but look away. In addition to this high flag flying high, on the green grassland, there are tens of thousands of Mongolian and Han soldiers and horses, forming a mighty marching column, marching along the west bank of Jinlian River.
The sound of hooves rumbled like thunder. As it got closer and closer, it still gave people a feeling of oppression that made it difficult to breathe.
"There are a lot of people! I'm afraid it's more than 20,000, right?"
"There is nothing to be afraid of in large numbers. The question now is where are they going?"
"Yes, they are marching on the west bank of Jinlian River. They are probably not coming to attack Li Lingyi where we are, right?"
"It shouldn't be...are you going to defeat Yancheng?"
"Pingyan City is a fortress, and Shi Wuli's concubine (Tong Yangxing) has a firearms camp to defend it. It should be foolproof, right?"
"Yeah, now this naughty bitch Wu Liangha miscalculated!"
"That's our great Khan Yingming!"
"Great Khan, Zhuge is still alive!"
"The Great Khan is wise..."
Not to mention, the important ministers of the Kingdom of Jin are very enlightened. No matter what they discuss, they can always bring the topic to the Great Khan Yingming.
Of course, Fat Zhuge Huang Taiji really felt that he was very wise...but he was a little sleepy, his eyelids were a little heavy, and he kept yawning.
Huang Taiji, who suppressed his sleepiness, looked around, and all he saw were faces that were still awake. In the past few days, he had been marching and constructing, and he had to be wary of the camel soldiers of Concubine Wu Liangha coming to sneak attack. Everyone was worried. I didn't get a good rest... I was indeed a little tired from this battle.
But this is nothing to the Eight Banners powerhouse... Thinking of this, Huang Taiji yawned again, feeling tired and feeling a little dizzy.
In fact, his health is not as good as Zhuge Liang's! Zhuge Liang lived to be 53 years old despite having little food and many things to do. Huang Taiji took so many supplements and only lived to be 51 years old in history. Now Huang Taiji is 41 years old. Although he looks very strong, he is actually puffy and fat. His health is not good and he gets dizzy when he is tired...
But no matter how dizzy I am, I still have to fight through this battle!
Huang Taiji took a deep breath and ordered a chair to be brought for him, so that he could sit and watch the camel soldiers of Imperial Concubine Wu Liangha pass by in a mighty manner from the west of Li Lingyi Dazhai about 10 miles away.
During the whole process, Huang Taiji's Eight Banners soldiers just looked across the water, and no one had the courage to rush across the shallow Jinlian River to harass the marching Wu Liangha's troops.
The reason for this is not that today's powerful Eight Banners team has lost its former bravery. And Concubine Wu Liangha's Fire Gun Camel was too difficult in the battle of a small group of troops - this is equivalent to a mobile Fire Gun unit, which perfectly combines firepower and mobility!
At the beginning, there were only a few hundred or thousands of Fire Gun Camels, but now they have increased to a full 3,000! They formed a team of Baifeng, guarding both sides of the main team, and could gather together to fire volleys at any time!
And camels are stronger than horses, so camel cavalry are completely covered in heavy armor and carry spears and bows. After volleying, the camel cavalry can also fight with bows and arrows and lances. The only thing they are inferior to the horse cavalry is that they are slower and cannot charge at all.
However, Concubine Ulyanha's army also has ordinary cavalry that can launch attacks. They will cooperate with the camel cavalry to launch an attack while the camel cavalry shoots the enemy with volleys and bows.
The Eight Banners soldiers who had suffered a lot now no longer dared to show their bravery in front of these camel cavalry.
I saw the army of Concubine Wu Liangha passing by Li Lingyi in a mighty manner and heading north. Huang Taiji took a breath and asked in a low voice: "How is it?"
"The odds of winning are high!" Dorgon, who was responsible for the unbroken siege of Kaiping City, said with confidence, "Wuliangha probably wants to use the method of encircling the point and calling for reinforcements to deal with us... But where is Pingyan City? So easy to fight? It is a small but strong fortress. Although the defenders only have 1,000 people, they have sufficient firearms and insufficient food and grass. If Wu Liangha wants to attack by force, he will have to lose thousands of people!"
"To the Ming Dynasty, thousands of people are nothing, right?" Huang Taiji said.
"No, no," Dorgon said, "Although the Ming Dynasty had many people, how many Ming troops could there be on the battlefield in Kaiping? The maximum number under Wu Liangha's command was 25,000, and there were still about 2,000 in Kaiping City... .If you attack a fortified city with thousands of casualties, your vitality will definitely be greatly reduced after the battle. Then is our chance to defeat it in one fell swoop!
Moreover, less than half of Wu Liangha's army rode camels. Camels ran slower and it was difficult to escape once they were defeated. This is our chance to severely injure her... If she fails miserably, the Monan Grassland will be revered by the Great Khan. "
"That makes sense!" Huang Taiji turned to look at the veteran Yang Guli again, "Sir, what do you think?"
Shumulu Yanguli was the founding general of the Later Jin Dynasty. He rose to prominence as early as the Nurhaci era. He even married Nurhaci's daughter, so Huang Taiji called him "Erhaci".
"Great Khan, the key to this battle is whether Wuliangha can quickly attack Pingyan City!" Yangguli said, "If Wuliangha fails to attack Pingyan City for a long time, and we build a bridge between Pingyan City and Kaiping City, Fortress, cutting off the communication between Wu Liangha and Kaiping City, then it is only a matter of time before Wu Liangha's defeat.
If Pingyan City is quickly captured by Wu Liangha..."
"Impossible, impossible..." Dorgon said confidently, "No one in the world can break the fortress quickly... Even if Wu Liangha is willing to take human lives, it will be useless. !”
Yangguli refuted what Dorgon said, because he also felt that the bastion was very difficult to fight with firearms!
Huang Taiji nodded and said: "That's good... Let's rest for half a day and set off tonight to go to the village between Pingyan City and Kaiping City, and then watch how she suffered a bloody head under Pingyan City. .”
Pingyan and Kaiping are not completely across the river. There is still a small distance, which is enough for Huang Taiji to build a village between the two cities. This stockade can be built east of Jinlian River, watching over Pingyan City, and preventing the Uliang who defeated Pingyan Bupo from entering Kaiping...
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At the same time, Concubine Wu Liangha was also at the end of her own army. She looked at Li Lingyi's Houjin Army camp from afar. After looking at it for a while, she said to Zhu Youjian beside her: "Long live my lord, you are really fast." Can you capture Pingyan City?"
Zhu Youjian smiled: "Soon...a few days, and not many people will die! Wu Liangha, Huang Taiji will be beaten by you then, don't lose!"
"Don't worry, Lord Long Live," said the noble concubine Wu Liangha with a smile, "I have issued a military order... If I can't kill Huang Taiji, I will let Lord Long Live punish me severely!"
"Okay! It's a deal!"
