On the same night, Hong Chengchou, the right minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty and the governor of the military affairs of the Second Town of Yanning, was inspecting the newly established camp with Zhu Chunchen, the garrison of Yanshan Town and the Duke of Chengguo.
Hong Chengchou's army is mainly infantry. He has 4 standard Ming Army infantry regiments under his command. Each regiment has four square camps with more than 1,000 people. The total strength of a regiment is as many as more than 4,000 people! Four such regiments are enough to become the main force of the Yanning Army.
In addition to 4 infantry regiments, the Yanning Army also has 1 artillery regiment, 1 baggage regiment, 1 personal regiment, and 1 fortress regiment. These "auxiliary regiments" have only more than 1,000 troops. The total number of 8 regiments is More than 20,000 people.
In addition, the Yanning Army was also assigned the "Thousand Household Cavalry" of Yanshan and Daning Towns, which were cavalry provided by the 40 Thousand Households under the jurisdiction of the two towns' garrison departments.
In theory, the regular soldiers handed over by the thousands of military and civilian households in Yanshan and Daning towns must prepare their own war horses and auxiliary troops. In theory, 40 thousand households can have 4,000 cavalry!
However, many Qianhu stations have just opened, and their strength is limited, so they cannot provide so many cavalry. However, under the supervision and efforts of Hong Chengchou, Zhu Chunchen, Sun Zushou and others, 2,000 cavalry were still sent out to accompany the expedition.
So the total number of Hong Chengchou's troops who left Daning Fortress last night was 22,000 people!
Well, the information obtained by Obai's people is quite accurate! They made a mistake...the Ming army they found that set off from Beining City and marched near Nalin City was not the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou himself.
In fact, there are now three Ming armies, each with more than 20,000 people, on the battlefield near the Laoha River.
In addition to the Ming army in the Lincheng area and the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou, there is also a Ming army advancing north along the eastern foot of Mameng Mountain, advancing towards the Luoma River that merges into the Laoha River - if the Ming army The Hou Jin Army will engage in a decisive battle in the Nalin River area, and this Ming army of more than 20,000 people will circle back behind the Hou Jin Army!
"Military Gate... Do you feel that there is something wrong with our arrangement?" Yanshan garrison Zhu Chunchen walked inside the camp that was as solid as a turtle shell, but he did not feel safe at all and had no intention to check and prepare. situation, but once again pointed out the mistakes in his deployment to Hong Chengchou.
"Oh?" Hong Chengchou squinted his triangular eyes and looked back at Zhu Chunchen, who looked worried, "Does the Duke want to say that my deployment has dispersed the troops and has the potential to add fuel to the fire?"
Zhu Chunchen nodded vigorously: "Military Gate, our 72,000-strong army is divided into three groups, and each group is too far apart. There is no way to support each other... This is a taboo among military strategists! Now The layout is very similar to that of Saarhu back then. What if Huang Taiji concentrates his forces and attacks us first?"
Zhu Chunchen has really made progress. In the past few years, he has been working as a garrison in Yanshan, managing more than 20 military and civilian residences with thousands of households. He is always faced with the risk of war, so of course he has to pick up the skills of his ancestors. Now not only can they charge on horseback with spears (no longer using fists), but they can even form troops.
"Does the Duke know where our army's biggest mistake was in the Battle of Sarhu?" Hong Chengchou asked.
"Of course the troops are divided into several groups!" Zhu Chunchen said, "If the troops are not divided, the 80,000 Ming army alone (and 13,000 North Korean and Ye He tribe troops) cannot be eaten by Nurhachi."
Hong Chengchou smiled and said: "Of course it was a mistake to divide the troops...but it was not the biggest mistake! The biggest reason for the defeat of Saarhu was that the army had become weak! There was no longer the bravery and good fighting skills of Taizu and Chengzu. Oh! Otherwise, how could the 50,000 to 60,000 slaves and traitors have eaten up Jun Song, Ma Lin, Liu Wei and other troops so quickly?
The first one to be beaten was Du Song's camp in Sarhu. There were more than 20,000 soldiers guarding the camp! If it can be defended, then the Battle of Salhu will be the end of the slave thieves... How about dividing the troops? How about adding oil? As long as Nurhaci is killed, nothing will be a problem!
The governor now wants to divide the troops and add fuel to the fire. He wants to let General Lu serve as Wang Xuan and Zhao Menglin of the Salhu camp... Because if I join forces in one place, the 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers will be killed. Troops! How much momentum is there? Huang Taiji might be scared away! "
"But Mr. Lu only has two or five people on hand..."
Hong Chengchou said: "But his 25,000 left troops in front of the tent should be able to block Huang Taiji's 100,000 army! If he blocks it, Huang Taiji will definitely lose this time.
Duke, I am dissatisfied with you saying that I am not worried about Mr. Lu at all now. What I am worried about is that Huang Taiji will not take the bait and Huang Taiji will run away.
Huang Taiji's troops are so grateful that they can run faster and we can't catch up! "
It turns out that the Ming army discovered by Obai's forward battalion was not the Yanning Army led by Hong Chengchou, but the strongest army in the world led by Lu Xiangsheng - the Zhangqian Left Army, also known as the Zhangqian Youth Army!
In addition, detouring from the eastern foot of Mameng Mountain was the Dianqian Army led by Sun Chuanting.
The Yanning army led by Hong Chengchou was following Lu Xiangsheng... Once Lu Xiangsheng's troops successfully entangled Huang Taiji's army, Hong Chengchou would lead his army into battle.
Hong Chengchou estimated that as long as he and Lu Xiangsheng joined forces, Huang Taiji's army would be defeated! However, Huang Taiji's army had many horses and must be very mobile. In order to prevent them all from fleeing when the situation was unfavorable, Hong Chengchou arranged for Sun Chuanting to block Huang Taiji's retreat.
Now Huang Taiji's outpost has only discovered Lu Xiangsheng's troops, but has not yet discovered the existence of the two armies of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting. But even if it was discovered, Hong Chengchou felt that Huang Taiji might still take the risk and join the battle... Because his army was much larger than Lu Xiangsheng's, was he still not confident of a quick victory? If he didn't dare to fight, then how could Huang Taiji be the slave thief's khan?
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Nalin City opposite is Lu Xiangsheng's first target! This dark city under the moonlight is not a bastion, but a very ordinary earth and wood fortress. It is incomparable to the two fortress-level bastions of Daning and Beining, but after all, it is a small but strong city with at least 1,500 Mongolians garrisoned.
Contrary to Huang Taiji's expectation, Lu Xiangsheng, who had only more than 20,000 troops, chose to besiege the city even though he knew the position of Huang Taiji's army. He not only wanted to besiege the city, but also attacked it!
Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng had to capture Nalin City before Huang Taiji's army arrived on the battlefield...With Nalin City, Lu Xiangsheng would be invincible. Moreover, they can also use the noise generated during the siege to attract Huang Taiji to come for a decisive battle.
He and Hong Chengchou were worried about the same thing, they were afraid that Huang Taiji would run away!
As long as he doesn't run away, this big battle will definitely hit the slave thief hard!
"General, the artillery regiment has been deployed!"
When Feng Sizhong, a staff officer of the Left Army Artillery Regiment in front of the tent, reported to Lu Xiangsheng, 6 6-pound cannons, 12 3-pound cannons, and 12 24-pound mortar cannons had been placed in place, and 30 cannons were placed along the south side of Nalin City. An arc-shaped position was set up in front of them. The gunners and the guards covering the cannon were sweating profusely and busy building artillery emplacements with sandbags.
Lu Xiangsheng looked up at the sky. Today is the tenth day of June. Although there is no full moon in the sky, the moonlight is still very bright. It seems to be a good day for night fighting.
The infantrymen in front of the tent of the brigade were carrying muskets and ladders, and pushing the carts that had just been converted from grain trucks. They were ready and waiting for Lu Xiangsheng's order.
"Okay! Start bombarding now!" Lu Xiangsheng ordered loudly, "Hit me hard! We must let Huang Taiji know that we have begun to attack the city!"
"Got the order!"
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"Sweat profusely, sweat profusely..."
Outside Huang Taiji's imperial tent, as the sky was getting dark, Obai's urgent and fast voice came.
"The Confederate army is shelling Nalin City! The artillery fire is very fierce, and the flames on Nalin City are shooting into the sky!"
After a busy day, Huang Taiji, who was lying on the bed in a daze, was suddenly awakened. He sat upright and heard the sound of rolling thunder in his ears.
Huang Taiji knew that this "thunder" was the roar of the Ming army's artillery...
It seems that the Ming army has quite a lot of cannons!
