On April 20, the ninth year of Chongzhen, with the first cannon sound of Chen Liang's column stationed in Panshan, marking the upcoming year-long war of recovering Liao and destroying the country, officially kicked off.
Chen Liang's column, after the cumbersome maddening ceremony of Kong Bangguo, a descendant of the Confucian family who could not be beaten by eight poles, took an army of 20,000 and 5,000 people and Ding Zhuang, and officially crossed the Liao River and rushed to Niuzhuang.
The current city wall of Niuzhuang was repaired by the Manchu defenders after being destroyed by Lu Hanqiang last time, and it seems to have been increased and strengthened compared with the original.
And according to the news brought out by the sergeant lurking in Niuzhuang, the guard general Liu Zhiyuan was originally a general of the Ming Dynasty, starting from a small soldier, until the thousand general, it can be said that it is a solid step by step, which is also a rare outlier in the original military system of the Ming Dynasty, after being captured in the war between the former and Houjin against the Ming Dynasty, because he is very familiar with artillery, so he is deeply used by Huang Taiji, in the last time the Marine Corps captured Niuzhuang, his younger brother, in order not to make his subordinates fearless sacrifice, single-handedly faced nearly 10,000 troops, The death was heroic.
It is precisely because of this that this guy is even more popular in front of Huang Taiji, not only appointed him the owner of the Yellow Flag of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, but also directly handed over the territory of the Yellow Banner to him, and now Liu Zhiyuan is holding two flags, a total of more than 300,000 people, and 30,000 cattle people.
This time, he personally rushed back to Niuzhuang, and after Huang Taiji allocated him a large amount of grain, grass, gold and silver, he trained 30,000 of his subordinates hard, and vowed to avenge his younger brother and be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.
After all, this guy has been in the Ming army, and he definitely has a set of defending the city, he not only strengthened the city defense, but also made full use of the disaster relief food allocated by Huang Taiji in view of the sharp characteristics of Lu Hanqiang's Liao army, and used it to work for relief methods, driving the people to mine boulders day and night to strengthen the city wall, and after the city wall was completed, he also dispersed the people in the city, blocked two of the four city gates, leaving only the south gate and the north gate, the south gate is for the salt field, and the north gate is for reinforcements, that is, This Liu Zhiyuan built Niuzhuang into a real fortress Iron Walnut, and he was desperate to be buried for the Manchu Dynasty.
As soon as the Fuliao army arrived, camped and settled, this Liu Zhiyuan didn't do anything to steal the camp and rob the village, so honestly stood at the head of the city, watched the Fuliao army build the camp in all directions, and then rested peacefully for a night to recover his strength.
Liu Zhiyuan pointed to the orderly construction of the Fuliao army camp in the distance and said: "You see that the Fuliao army is now, the main army is not moving, and the people are building the camp in an orderly manner, and around the camp, digging more small trap pits in front of the queue formation, just waiting for you and me to attack, and we attack, there are fewer people, but it is just killing people, and more people and horses may not be able to play a role, but weaken our strength to defend the city, no matter what, it is a thing that outweighs the loss." ” Tong Tao said unwillingly: "The Fuliao army came from afar, and they must be tired of camping on this day, so I will take three thousand warriors to steal the camp and rob the village at night." ” Liu Zhiyuan simply scoffed at this suggestion: "You Lu Hanqiang's Three Kingdoms have seen too much, it's all nonsense, and you still steal camps and rob villages, you can't see the road at night with three thousand, and you can't distinguish between the north and the south go out to try, maybe you can't even find the enemy's camp and go to the sea." ” Then patted the frustrated deputy on the shoulder: "This war is not a sneak attack that can decide the outcome of the war, this war will be a protracted war, a war of destruction and survival, we will rely on this solid city wall that cost countless money, food and people's power to build, and the Fuliao army to carry out a protracted war of attrition, as long as the longer it drags on, the more beneficial it will be to us, and the greater our chances of victory."
Then he looked at the gradually formed military camp of the Fuliao Army, and muttered with a flat face: "This time, it depends on whether you use up my energy, or I consume your ability, let's compare which of us consumes more energy than whom, as long as the energy consumption reaches the winter, this cold winter that has not been seen for a hundred years will completely wipe you out." ” Turning around, he said to the deputy general Tong Tao: "From now on, clean up all unrealistic ideas, you and I will be divided into two waves, and it is only right to guard this city wall day and night, you watch now, I will go back to the yamen to sleep."
After saying that, Shi Shiran really went home and went to sleep.
Standing in front of Niuzhuang, Chen Liang shook the horsewhip in his hand to observe the sturdy and perverted Niuzhuang City, but his mouth said indifferently to Kong Bangguo: "It's also difficult for this Liu Zhiyuan, in just one year, he can make a stone city in this plain area, and he can be regarded as a capable person." ” Kong Bangguo does not have Chen Liang's relaxed face, in Kong Bangguo's opinion, Chen Liang's guy is a person with thick nerves to the point of outrageousness, in addition to being careful and speechless to the stupid daughter-in-law who doesn't know what her name is, he doesn't care about everything, it seems that this war has to bother him a lot.
"Niuzhuang is the south gate of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or the only salt production area, the most important place, Huang Taiji will definitely make great efforts to guard against it, take this city wall as an example, more than half of it is made of bluestone, which limits the power of our explosives, so that our attack becomes difficult, you look at the defenders on the city, the banner is strictly orderly, it can be seen that the military heart is stable, no matter from which point of view, Liu Zhiyuan is a capable person, the battle of Niuzhuang will be a protracted war."
"Liu Zhiyuan, this traitor, don't say it, there are really two brushes in the construction of the city."
Chen Liang hit his thigh with a horsewhip: But no matter how strong the city is, one car of explosives can't destroy him, then two cars, anyway, I am the first to restore Liao and destroy the country, I am going to decide.
Kong Bangguo hurriedly dissuaded: "The general is heroic, of course it is good, but we have to take into account the overall situation, this time we have to destroy the country, but there is a sequence, we are the first to fight here, but we can't capture it in one fell swoop, our purpose is to mobilize the Huang Taiji cat in Shengjing City Manchurian Eight Banners to help, to create opportunities for Zhao Sihai and Da Zhuang Captain on the Xinmin front, if you attack Niuzhuang at once, it will destroy the deployment of the entire campaign."
Then he looked at the indignant Chen Liang, and added: "This is the military order of the Inspector, and we can't disobey it." ” So Chen Liang looked at Niuzhuang, looked at the arrogant banner in the city, and finally turned around with a smile, and said to Kong Bangguo while walking back: "You keep an eye on it, I'll go to sleep." ” The two sides did not speak for a night, and the next day, Chen Liang went out to fight and prepared to attack Niuzhuang.
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