I found the feeling of Salhu again!
In the latter part of the night on the tenth day of the sixth lunar month in the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign in the Ming Dynasty, at the Houjin Army camp located on the banks of the Laoha River, forty or fifty miles away from Nalin City, which was being bombarded by the Ming army, Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji ordered the entire army to attack. After the order, things started boiling immediately.
Because the generals above Niulu Zhangjing and above in the main army of the Later Jin Dynasty had already known that Hong Chengchou's 20,000 troops had arrived outside Nalin City before Huang Taiji ordered the attack. Moreover, the sound of the Ming army's bombardment of Nalin City had also reached the Hou Jin army camp.
It seems that Hong Chengchou wanted to break through Nalin City before the main force of the Jin army went south, and then use Nalin City as a basis to organize resistance and wait for reinforcements to arrive!
According to repeated investigations by the forward battalion, on the 10th day of June, there were no Ming army troops moving within a hundred miles south, east, and west of Nalin City.
This shows that it will take at least a day for the reinforcements that Hong Chengchou is waiting for to arrive on the battlefield. If the Jin Army sent out elite forward battalions and guard battalions to block reinforcements, then Hong Chengchou would have to wait longer for reinforcements to arrive... And every soldier of the Jin Army had horses and would be more mobile. If they marched by force, If we move forward, we will reach the battlefield in less than half a day.
There are 1,500 elite Mongolian soldiers in Nalin City, all of whom are elite soldiers sent by the Zhaowuda League (the locations of the Zhaowuda League and the Zhelimu League were mistaken before, Horqin should belong to the Zhelimu League). Moreover, Lin City is a small but strong stronghold. It should be no problem to defend it for a day or two, right?
In just one or two days, no, just one day, Dai Jin's 70,000 army can crush Hong Chengchou's 20,000 army!
Then, the victorious Dajin Heavenly Soldiers could use the power of victory to launch an attack on the reinforcements of the Ming Army... They should be the Jiliao Army coming from Yingzhou in western Liaoning. If the Dajin soldiers can defeat them again, then the Battle of Wuchu Yanshan will become another Battle of Saerhu!
Daikin's national destiny will also reach a new peak because of this victory!
Attack! Attack!
In the dark night of the early morning of June 11th, the Hou Jin Army in the brigade, in battalion units (forward battalion, guard camp, Xiaoqi battalion, etc.), successively drove out of the camp and rolled southward. On the west bank of the Laoha River, there was the sound of people shouting and horses neighing. All the Dajin soldiers and generals who left the camp carried three days of provisions and moved forward desperately, hoping to reach the gate of Nalin City as early as possible.
There are rumbles of cannons in the distance, and faint lights of fire can be seen, which shows that the battle in Lincheng is not over yet!
The Mongolian men in Zhaowuda League are really good!
Dajin Tiancong Khan, Huang Taiji, who has eaten very little recently (he is losing weight) and has a lot of things to do, is riding on a horse, together with the forward battalion directly under the Great Khan, the guard camp of Zhenghuang Banner, and the heavy military battalion carrying cowhide cannons and Korean shotguns Forward. Despite working hard for days, Huang Taiji's face was still full of excitement that could not be concealed. Behind him, on his left and behind, were all large groups of elites from the Kingdom of Jin, holding torches and riding mules and horses, advancing forward.
In the night, in addition to the sound of marching, you can occasionally hear the officers mobilizing and cheering: "Now the Southern Army has come in several groups, but we are going all the way. This is like a great victory in Salhu... ..This is how the old Khan of Destiny led us to defeat the many with less, and defeated the Ming Dynasty's 470,000 army with 60,000 Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers! Now the tens of thousands of soldiers and generals at hand of Hong Chengchou and Yuan Chonghuan are not enough for us to kill!"
"Yes! That's how the victory of Saarhu was back then! I was the first group to enter the Ming army's Saarhu camp! Kids, now it's up to you!"
"Don't let this old boy Hong Chengchou get away. His Yanning soldiers have killed many of our people in the Laoha River and Luoma River areas over the years. If we catch him this time, we will have to cut him to pieces to satisfy our hatred!"
"Yes! Hong Chengchou was cut into pieces with a thousand cuts!"
There were calls to kill Hong Chengchou in the queue... These calls were all shouted in Mongolian. Without asking, you knew that they must be the Eight Banners of Zhaowuda who were fighting against the Ming army in the Laoha River and Luoma River areas. The Mongols!
This Hong Chengchou was a ruthless man in his previous life. When he was fighting against the peasant army, many of the treacherous ministers and officials of the Ming Dynasty still had some compassion and advocated giving priority to appeasement, or at least they had the idea of appeasement. He was the most ferocious, suppressing the enemy from beginning to end, wishing he could drive out all the peasant soldiers!
Li Zicheng personally dealt with the intruders in this life, so Hong Chengchou used all his brutality on the Mongols in Yan and Ning towns and the neighboring Jin Mongolia.
His policy is just one - those who follow Zhu will prosper, and those who go against Ming will perish! There is no middle way, either join the more than 40 Yanning military and civilian units with thousands of households, or join the five noble concubines with thousands of households in Orduo...or go to hell!
Moreover, what Hong Chengchou meant by "joining" was to break up the tribe and integrate it thoroughly into each household, so that there would be no possibility of leaving or going out independently.
Huang Taiji rode on his horse and looked at his army with satisfaction. All he could think of was his father Nurhachi's heroic appearance in the Battle of Sarhu. The situation he faced now was much stronger than during the Battle of Saarhu.
In the Battle of Sarhu, although the Ming army did not have 470,000 soldiers, there were still 112,000 soldiers. And Daikin only has 60,000...these 60,000 have to be dismantled and used. The idea of "it doesn't matter which way you come, I will only go one way" is actually the idea of concentrating troops. In an actual battle, it would be difficult to gather all 60,000 people. When they attacked the Ming army camp in Sarhu, Dajin only gathered 45,000 people, while the Ming army had at least 20,000 people, and they still defended the camp, so they had no chance of winning.
If the main force of Dajin that storms the Sarhu camp cannot win... the Battle of Saarhu will become a war of destruction for Dajin!
But now, Huang Taiji can gather at least 65,000 troops to attack Hong Chengchou's more than 20,000 people... and Hong Chengchou still has to deal with Huang Taiji's main force while gnawing at Lin Jian City.
The situation is really favorable for Huang Taiji!
In the darkness, the cavalry from the three forward battalions galloped over. After questioning the Zhenghuang Banner cavalry in front, they learned that Huang Taiji was here and hurriedly came over. The three cavalrymen were quickly stopped by several white-armored soldiers. They first exchanged commands and then were brought to Huang Taiji.
"Thank you, Great Khan, my slaves discovered the Confederate reinforcement camp last night!"
Found reinforcements?
Huang Taiji became nervous.
"Where are they?" Huang Taiji asked quickly.
"It's just north of Beining City, more than 60 miles away from Nalin City. When I discovered them, they were setting up camp!"
In this era, there were no satellites or airplanes. Reconnaissance basically relied on cavalry, and the transmission of enemy information was relatively slow. The previous report Huang Taiji received was that there were no Ming army reinforcements within a hundred miles of Nalin City - that was the situation early yesterday morning. What is reported to Huang Taiji now is the situation yesterday evening.
"Call Obai and Tu Lai over..." Huang Taiji immediately called the two commanders of the forward battalion to him, "You two will immediately lead the soldiers of the forward battalion around 30 miles to the west and south of Nalin City to spread out. Outpost, stop the Confederate army's sentry horse and horse riding!"
"嗻!"
