Fan Wencheng had a premonition that something big had happened in the old city of Hetuala, and he asked Da Yu'er to urgently recall Sony, Aobai and Sukesaha on the front line, and at the same time, he immediately transferred 10,000 elite cavalry, quickly entered the mountain, and went straight to Hetuala, seeing what was going on at the bottom At this time, Li Dingguo had completed the defense of all the fortresses from Hetuara to Shengjing, and the cannons needed for the fortress were transported from Hetuala.His own artillery had also arrived in Hetuala, and the troops of the Nanking Military Region had already begun to build a road from the southern port to Hetuala, braving the snow and cold.As long as the land thaws in the spring of next year, Wang Shuo's army will quickly reach Hetuala, and then attack from the mountains and besiege the Manchu Shengjing.That one said, Wang Shuo can't enter the army now.First, the port has been frozen, and the big ships can't get close, and when they encounter the frozen ice ballast, the wooden ships can be crushed to pieces.The second is to march in the severe cold, and there is not so much equipment to protect against the cold.Wang Shuo, who can equip the advance army with 20,000 people, will do his best, he is not old and beautiful, rich and oily.He couldn't afford the kerosene needed for kerosene stoves and hot air balloons.Even if the 20,000 soldiers of the Nanjing Military Region build roads, they must first build military stations and have houses to protect them from the cold, and then they can repair them section by section, and it will be good if they can complete half of the repairs over Changbai Mountain next year.Get back to business.10,000 Manchu cavalry, under the defense of the Northwest Musket Army with fortresses and artillery, could not even break through the first line of defense into the mountain, so that the Northwest Army was beaten up, and most of the men and horses were lost, and they ran back to Shengjing.Anyway, this time the situation in Hetuara is clear.Hetuara let the family take away it, and even the passes built along the way have become people's.Judging from the weapons used by the other side and the military uniforms they wore, it was Wang Shuo's Northwest Army that occupied Hetuala, and there were quite a few of them, and there were no less than 5,000 people defending the first pass, as for how the Northwest Army ran to their rear, whether it flew over or escaped over, I don't know.At this time, the three ministers in charge who were at the front came back.The rear area was lost, and no matter how good the front border guard was, he used this anger to put the military department from Chengzheng to Zhangjing, and put all of them in prison.What's the use of raising you waste, it will delay things, if it weren't for Sonny on the side, he would have been able to slaughter these people in the military department without asking, now aren't we short of manpower, you slaughtered them all, whoever does things for us will be handed over to the criminal department for interrogation, and all those who are responsible for this matter will be slaughtered.The slaughter is small, and the key is to take Hetuara back.Most of our supplies are there, so let Wang Shuo pull them away, and this battle will not be able to be fought.Sukh Saha thought of another question, Wang Shuo occupies Hetuala, this is to march from there, and surround us from our rear Ah, if this is the case, our troops, men and horses in front of us will be useless, and Sonny pondered for a long time: "He occupied Hetuala, just looking at the empty leak in our rear."
No matter how his troops went, he would never have the ability to transfer the army there.I pondered that he didn't have many troops in Hetuara now, otherwise he would have gone out of the mountains to attack Shengjing.We have to take advantage of his small number of troops to quickly take Hetuara back and block him the road behind us.Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable" The three of them totaled half a day, or returned to the south from Suke Saha, sat in Guangningwei, and strictly prevented Wang Shuo's army from attacking.Sony sits in Shengjing and dispatches in the center.Ao Bai personally led 200,000 horse infantry troops defending Shengjing and entered the mountains to recapture Hetuala.The three of them entered the palace to inform the Shunzhi Emperor and the Empress Dowager of the plan, and after getting the approval, Ao Bai ordered all the soldiers and horses, brought twenty red-clothed cannons, and went straight to Salhu.From Salhu to the east, to Hetuala, more than 200 miles of roads are traversed through lofty mountains.It was precisely because Sony valued this steep road that it proposed to build fortresses along the way.In case Sheng Jing could not resist Wang Shuo's attack, and the imperial court retreated into the mountains, the fortresses along the way would be enough for Wang Shuo's army to gnaw for a while.The fortress was built under the supervision of Sony's son, the Minister of the Guard, Suo Etu, and the steep mountains along the way, the narrow passes of the road, or the pass in the middle of the road, or the wall was built with the mountain, and the fortresses took care of each other, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.Unexpectedly, this fortress, which had just been completed not long ago, not only did not become a stronghold to resist Wang Shuo's army, but was used by others and became a nail planted in the heart of the imperial court.Ao Bai led his army through Sarhu and ran into the first fortress head-on.The mountains on both sides of the road are steep and extremely difficult to climb.The fortress was built on the mountainside and the top of the mountain.Halfway up the mountain, there are ramparts that wind along the road.As long as men and horses pass by the middle road, and stones and cannons are knocked down from the wall halfway up the mountainside, the men and horses on the road will surely suffer heavy losses.The walls built on the mountain ridge will effectively prevent the enemy from attacking the barrier halfway up the mountain after capturing the top of the mountain.Standing at the entrance of the canyon, looking at the dense barriers on both sides of the road in front of him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.It's a harsh winter, and there is snow on this lofty mountain, and if you want to attack the barrier or the top of the mountain, you don't need to be beaten by anyone, and this snow alone can slide down your soldiers.The snow in the Northeast is not as good as in the Central Plains.It snowed in the Central Plains, and no matter how thick the ground was, the snow would melt away in a few days and become gone.The snow in the northeast does not melt, the next layer is a layer, the thicker and thicker it accumulates, and the snow will be there forever before it thaws in the spring.In such weather conditions, there is no difference between storming a fortress and sending it to death.Ignoring the artillery fire of the fortresses on both sides, the road was also covered with snow, and the soldiers and horses advanced on the snow, marching slowly.Wait for the army to pass through the fortress slowly, and it would be good if there were 200,000 people left, and the key was that there was not only this fortress along the way, there were more than a dozen places like this, if you forced your way through it like this, it was needless to say that if you go to Hetuala, you will become a commander halfway through, maybe he will not be able to pass, and he will not know that he will fall in front of the one of these fortresses.Thinking about it, there was no other way but to storm it, and he took these difficulties into account before taking the fortress into the army, and made full preparations.He ordered his soldiers to wrap straw ropes around their shoes to prevent them from slipping, put ropes on their backs, and hold pickaxes with pointed ends at both ends, and climb the mountain from the dead end of the enemy's fire.The soldiers in front climbed the mountainside, lowered the ropes, pulled the soldiers below, and then attacked the barrier halfway up the steep slope.Capture a barrier, use it as a backing, pull more soldiers from down the mountain, and then attack the next one.Even if you pay tenfold, or even twenty times the casualties, you have to take the fortress down for me, and the brutal battle for the fortress begins
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