Chapter 296 Leaving them here to fertilize the land actually really made Sun Chengzong guess right.Just when Huang Taiji received information from Fan Wencheng that Hongshankou City was conquered, he had the intention of retreating.It's not that Huang Taiji was afraid of the Ming army, although the performance of the Ming army under the capital city was not as bad as in history, but Huang Taiji still had the confidence to win.As an old opponent of the Ming army, he knew that when the Ming army met the Houjin army on a small scale, it was often more victorious than defeated, and once the soldiers and horses exceeded 100,000, it was very easy to defeat the Ming army.This is mainly because the more soldiers and horses the better, but in moderation.The Ming army was dominated by infantry, and the more soldiers and horses, the more people were needed, and with the cooperation of allies, as long as there was a slight incitement, the Ming army would collapse.But the problem is that he has more important things to do right now.That's Amin's cancer.The fiasco of the red flag, Huang Taiji never believed that it was the result of the strong combat effectiveness of the Ming army, he preferred to believe that Amin was playing tricks, and the Huerha Thorn who lured Yue Tuo to send troops had been found.After interrogation, Huerha couldn't stand the torture, so he had to follow the tone of the interrogation and lead the matter to Amin's head, and the result became Amin's trick, luring Yue Tuo to send troops and falling into an ambush by the Ming army.The Ming army cooperated with more than 20,000 troops of the Tianxiong Army and the Shanxi Army, and because Yue Tuo was accidentally hit by the cannon and died, the Red Banner Cavalry under his command was worried that they would be punished when they went back, so they no longer retreated, fought to the death with the Ming army, and finally the whole army was annihilated.Such a result does not mean anything, it can only show that the luck of the Ming army is too good, and the highest-ranking general killed by the artillery of the Ming army is Yue Tuo, which is also an accident.However, accidents are everywhere on the battlefield.I'm afraid that Amin didn't think about killing Yue Tuo, but wanted Yue Tuo to suffer a defeat and hit his prestige.Another piece of information is that Huang Taiji miscalculated, and he wanted to kill Amin very much.According to the surviving Red Flag Bannerman: "The chariots and artillery of the Tianxiong Army are fighting in formation, and they are not afraid of our arrows like rain!"
”This is the truth, but it reminds Huang Taiji of an old opponent, the Qi family army who is good at using artillery.The annihilation of the Qi family army is something that both the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty know, but the question is, why did the Qi family army resurrect?
Huang Taiji's first reaction was that if there were survivors in the Qi family's army, it could only be the blue flag that was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield at the beginning and secretly released water.If it weren't for Daming releasing water, Houjin would have long since ceased to exist, but in the same way, for the sake of profit, it is not surprising that Amin released water in secret.Huang Taiji's biggest mistake was not to bring Amin to Jingshi, but to let Amin guard the back road of Zunhua Mansion and Yongping Mansion.What's more, Hongshankou City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, how can it be lost?
The only possibility is for Amin to release the water, after all, there are many of Amin's clothed minions in Hongshankou City, these people can't fight, but it is still possible to open a city gate and let Hongshankou City fall.Under Amin's intrigues, Houjin has lost twenty-two Niu Lu, which is the biggest loss since the founding of Houjin.At this time, Huang Taiji has already had the idea of retreating, for him, he must first settle down inside, if he doesn't clean up the unstable factor of Amin, how can he fight with the Ming army in a dignified manner?
After Huang Taiji decided to withdraw the army, the speed was very fast, and he ordered Azig to lead the captured materials and people to retreat first, and the rest of them launched a feint attack on Yongdingmen.On December 19 of the second year of Chongzhen, Houjin led by Mang Gurtai rushed to Yongding Gate, and then fired three rounds of arrows totaling tens of thousands of arrows on the city wall.The soldiers of the Ming army on the city wall were suppressed so that they could not raise their heads, at this time, the Ministry of Mang Python Gurtai retreated, and the Ministry of Azig stepped forward, and the Houjin army took turns to swear to retreat to the Ming court in the way of showing off their might.It's just that what Huang Taiji didn't expect was that just as Mang Gurtai was retreating, Zu Dashou launched an attack on the unarmored infantry under Mang Gurtai.Under the attack of the cavalry of the Guanning army, fortunately, Azig led 2,000 elite cavalry to save the scene.Although Zu Dashou did not achieve a decisive victory, he still caused three or four thousand casualties in the Houjin army in the case of fewer enemies and more enemies, and his own losses were only a few hundred horsemen.As a result, other Ming generals had different thoughts.Of course, the minds of these Ming army generals are different, such as the general soldier Man Gui, his purpose is simply to kill the enemy and serve the country, and thank the king.For example, Hou Shilu, his idea is to take the opportunity to brush up his achievements.However, no matter what the situation is, with Zu Dashou's battle, and then the pair of Man Gui and Qin Chengzu, they also led 8,000 soldiers and horses to fight.The combat effectiveness of the elite cavalry under the command of Azig was extraordinary, but the eight thousand elite cavalry under the command of Man Gui and Qin Chengzu rushed directly towards the large array of Azig like a brute bull.To be precise, Qin Chengzu is Quan Xu's student.He learned from Quan Xu's form, and bombarded Man Gui and dozens of 105 field cannons under his command at the cavalry who were preparing to fight Man Gui's tough Azig central defender.The rear camp of the Azig tribe was defeated first, and Man Gui and Qin Chengzu won a great victory, beheading more than 1,000 ranks.Now the generals of the Ming army became excited, the generals of the Ming army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, have developed the habit of being generals, the losses are their own, if they lose the battle, not only will they be held responsible, but there is no way to make up for the losses, so in this case, almost all the generals in the face of Houjin, they can not fight without fighting.But when they saw Zu Dashou and Man Gui leading their subordinates to slaughter all sides under the city, other Ming generals no longer retained and went to war one after another.Then since then, Houjin has been a tragedy.Huang Taiji is a smart person, when he learned that Hongshankou City was conquered and the back road was cut off, he sent Dai Shan to march in the direction of Hongshan Pass, Dai Shan was the vanguard, and Huang Taiji was in the center, Mang Gurtai and Azig were actually just the troops behind the palace.The two of them had nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, and they were huddled together, and the two armies were not separated by a few miles, and for the cavalry, the distance of several miles was simply not a distance.But at the moment, the collapse of Azig directly led to Mang Gurtai being attacked on his back, but the key is that the Ming army's best thing is not to fight a tough battle, but to beat the water dogs.When they knew that Mang Gurtai and Azig were the same thing, the generals of the Ming army immediately formed an encirclement on the periphery, and more than 200,000 troops pressed towards Mang Gurtai and Azig's headquarters."
Rush, kill all the gold people!"
The more the Ming army fought, the more momentum grew, but the more Jin fought, the more cold he became.As the so-called, two fists are hard to beat four hands, a good tiger can't stand up to many wolves, and the more Gurtai fights, the more aggrieved he becomes.Of course, at this time, Mang Gurtai could break through, but he couldn't lose this face.Emperor Chongzhen, who was in the palace, received a report from Wang Chengen, and Emperor Chongzhen, who had not seen a smile for several days, finally smiled."
Deliver a decree to reward the three armies!"
When Huang Taiji learned that Yue Tuo and Mang Gurtai were besieged, he had already arrived in Changping with the Chinese army and various supplies such as looted population and food.In desperation, Huang Taiji had no choice but to personally lead the Chinese army to Beijing, and flanked by Azig and Mang Gurtai to break through.Although under the side of Huang Taiji, Python Gurtai and Yue Tuo successfully broke out of the encirclement after bloody fighting, but the two suffered heavy losses.On the contrary, Azig's losses were lighter, and in the eyes of the Houjin weight, whether they were bottomless slaves or pawns, they were not considered a person, they just belonged to property.On the contrary, Mang Gurtai lost more than 10,000 horses, 8,000 light infantry were dumpled by the Ming army, and the whole army was annihilated, especially the looted property, and thousands of captured Ming people were lost in Beijing.Huang Taiji didn't have the heart to calculate, this failure was beyond his expectations.What he is most worried about now is Fan Wencheng, the dog minion, who stayed in Zunhua City, there are only 800 guards around Fan Wencheng, of course, because Houjin is the master and the servant to fight, these 800 guards are divided into eight Niu Lu, not only guarding tens of thousands of prisoners of the Ming people, but also hundreds of thousands of stone grain and grass.In Huang Taiji's opinion, Fan Wencheng can't support much time at all.However, the problem is that Fan Wencheng, who Huang Taiji didn't look at, exceeded his expectations, not only guarding Zunhua City, but also losing not a single soldier.On December 19, outside the city of Hongshankou, the Houjin army, with only a few hundred cavalry, did not attack.Quan Xu knew that Houjin was beaten badly and his strength was not strong, so he decided to lead the newly reorganized soldiers of the whole family army, three artillery regiments, as well as three infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments, plus 3,000 people, and five or six thousand "troops" to go around Zunhua City as an armed march.But when Quan Xu arrived at the foot of Zunhua City at around noon on the 20th, Quan Xu was dumbfounded.I saw that on the edge of the trench under the wall of Zunhua City, rows of people were tied to each other, and the people were shivering in the cold wind.Not only under the city, but also on the city wall, densely packed with men, women, and children, trembling under the blades of the Houjin Protectors, I don't know if they are frozen or frightened."
Hold the grass, your ancestor!"
Quan Xu was so angry that he scolded under the city wall.However, the problem is that no amount of scolding can solve the problem.Since the moment Fan Wencheng was willing to be a traitor, he was never afraid of being scolded.If it was not the Ming Dynasty people who were captured under the city wall and on the city wall, but only the Houjin army, Quan Xu did not hesitate and directly ordered the artillery to start bombardment.Although the artillery could not collapse the city wall, this ultra-long-range weapon was very demoralizing, and it would not take two or three days for the Houjin army in Zunhua City to be destroyed.However, Fan Wencheng used the people of the Ming Dynasty as a meat shield, and Quan Xu instead threw himself into a rat trap."
Master, how should this be?"
Ma Yinghu looked at Quan Xu with a depressed face: "I can't wait to eat these mongrels!"
”Quan Xu looked at Su Yin: "Microphone!"
”Quan Xu took the microphone: "Soldiers, you have also seen, what is the city wall?"
That's our compatriots, what are we going to do?
”All the soldiers of the family felt that their blood was burning."
These people from the northeast, they don't dare to fight with us in a dignified manner, they will only be angry with the old and weak women and children, today, at this moment, they don't have to go back, leave them here to fertilize the land!"
S: Twenty plus more, today is finally done.Thanks again for exaggerating the two leagues for the tip.