East Factory Governor

Chapter 764 Huang Taiji's Risky Fight

The red-clothed cannons are so powerful that even the soldiers of the Ming army who have seen the tragic situation in the city on the high platform can't help but feel terrified-you must know that these are only ten red-clothed cannons, if there are a hundred cannons, wouldn't it be possible to overwhelm the entire city? Boom to ashes?

The Tartar soldiers, Mongol soldiers, and Western Region soldiers in the city were even more frightened, as if seeing the end of the world coming.This kind of incomparably powerful psychological awe is unmatched by any other method.

In the city, Manggurtai is also facing tremendous pressure.

Facing the powerful artillery fire of the Ming army, the generals including Hauge and Azig demanded to lead their troops to fight the Ming army immediately. Even if they died in battle, it would be better than dying like this!

And the Eight Banners people in the city are filled with righteous indignation. Now they don't even have their homes, and they have no hope of living. They might as well fight with the Ming army!

Mang Gurtai knew very well that the biggest purpose of Qin Shuhuai's bombardment of Ashniulu was to force him out of the city to fight.

But what's the difference between leaving the city now and courting death?Do you think the [-] Ming army outside the city, or the [-] Ming army a few years ago?That's [-] wolves!

If you can't bear it, you will make big plans. Mang Gurtai, who is rational enough, will never leave the city at this time!
He wasn't worried, because he had already moved all the grain in the granary to another secret cellar a few days ago, and the grain was enough for him to last for a month. Why would he panic if he had grain in his hand?
And he has bigger plans!

At night, Qin Shuhuai ordered to stop the shelling, and then sent someone to throw the letter of persuasion on the wall.

In addition to persuading them to surrender this time, he also suggested that the Ming army could retreat a mile, allowing the old, weak, women and children in the city to leave the city, and the Ming army could properly arrange them.

Release goodwill again, and make a gesture of not wanting to kill them all.

But how could the Manchus in the city believe it?Without even thinking about it, he directly rejected the proposal.

So the next day, Ming army artillery bombarded the city again!

Another day of bang!
Now, Ashniulu was basically flattened!
All the bannermen in the city only dared to stay in the cellar and did not dare to come out at all.

Mangurtai still couldn't hold on.

At the same time, in Kaesong.

The [-] troops led by Zhao have also arrived smoothly.

It was Dorgon who had withdrawn from the front to guard Kaesong.

Zhao Liaojiao and Qin Shuhuai adopted the same strategy. First, they bombarded the city with five cannons in red. They bombarded the city for a whole day.

At night, Zhao led the order to attack the city.

He chose to attack the city, firstly because the walls of Kaesong were relatively low, and Zhao Liaojiao felt that he should be able to take it.The second is because he wants to occupy Kaesong as soon as possible, so that the Ming army can fully grasp the initiative - as long as Kaesong is occupied, Huangtai Jixi's escape from Mongolia will be blocked, and he will either go north to spend the winter in a wild place, or go east Jump into the sea.

Therefore, the strategic significance of Kaesong is great, and Zhao Lediao must win it as soon as possible.

Unexpectedly, the defenders of Kaesong had an extremely tenacious will to resist, and their equipment was excellent, ranging from firecrackers, bows and arrows, artillery to kerosene, asphalt, and even thunderbolts. The thunderbolts of the Tartars could not be mass-produced, but that does not mean that there were no .

Under the cover of night, the Ming army attacked in three stages in turn.

After fighting for a full hour, the Ming army captured a small section of the city wall in the south of the city.

Just when Zhao led the teaching to add troops there, suddenly the horse sentry reported that a large group of Tartar cavalry was found in the north, and they were killing here!
Zhao Ledjiao had been prepared for a long time, and immediately sent [-] shield-grabbing soldiers to resist the horse formation, and pulled them to the north to stop the cavalry.

But when the opponent's cavalry arrived, he realized through the strong light of the flare that it was a vast group of cavalry!
According to visual estimation, the number is at least around [-]!

He was shocked.

According to estimates, he believed that the number of cavalry that the Tartars could draw out now would not exceed [-] at most.

why?
In the previous two battles, at least [-] Tartar cavalry had been annihilated. According to the Ming army's assumption, there were at most [-] to [-] Tartar cavalry left to die.

And these cavalry, it is impossible to concentrate all of them in Kaesong, right?Isn't Huang Taiji allocating some cavalry in Shenyang?Why don't you assign some cavalry in Ashniulu?

The Ming army obviously underestimated Huang Taiji's determination to fight back, and also underestimated the number of Tartar cavalry.

Before the war, the Tartars had [-] cavalry, and now there are only [-] remaining. Among the [-] cavalry, except for the [-] Gongwei Shenyang, all the other cavalry are here.

As for Ashford?Not a single cavalry!

This is the strategy proposed by Mangurtai.

He led [-] soldiers to guard Ashiniulu, holding back Qin Shuhuai's army.

The rest of the troops will concentrate on attacking the relatively weak Zhao Late Ministry of Education!
In order to achieve this strategy, he almost spared the troops from other places—now Huangniwa Fort is almost an empty city, with only [-] soldiers pretending to be standing at the top of the city, and the elite soldiers inside have already been transferred to the vicinity of Kaesong.

Even among the forbidden army, [-] were transferred!

Now the elite Tartars concentrated near Kaesong have reached 5 people, of which [-] are elite cavalry!
As for the elite guarding Shenyang, the capital city, there are only tens of thousands of them!
It has to be said that Huang Taiji was betting.

He bet that Qin Shuhuai would not dare to go deep alone, he bet that Zhao Lediao would win the strategically important city of Kaesong at any cost, and he also bet that the last elite of the Eight Banners could defeat Zhao Lediao's department in one fell swoop, and then move eastward to relieve Ah What a siege!

He had to gamble.

Because once Qin Shuhuai broke through the second line of defense, he would be able to surround Shenyang City to death, so what if he had tens of thousands of forbidden troops?
Let's say that after the large group of Tartar cavalry arrived, they immediately divided into several groups, some bypassed the Ming army's horse-rejection formation from the outer edge, and some tried to pass through the gap between the horse-rejection formations.

Eight thousand Ming troops grabbing shield soldiers, naturally it is impossible to block fifteen thousand cavalry!
On the Ming side, there were only [-] cavalry.

Zhao led the teaching without hesitation and sent out all of them to block the opponent's cavalry.

The two sides fought fiercely outside the city.

At the same time, the city gate of Kaesong was also opened, and a large number of Tartars rushed out from inside.

There are as many as [-] soldiers and horses in Kaesong, more than half of them are pure Eight Banners soldiers.

As a result, the Ming army suddenly fell into the double-team of the inside and the outside.

As far as field battles are concerned, the Ming army is not afraid of the Tartars now.

But this sudden change took the Ming army by surprise. In addition, because of the siege, the ministries were scattered around the city. It was impossible to organize a group counterattack for a while, and the only way to organize resistance was by the ministries themselves.

In this way, the battle will be difficult to fight.

What's more, the [-] fine cavalry of the Tartars are not vegetarians. In the case of insufficient anti-cavalry forces of the Ming army, they are simply harvesting machines when they wreak havoc.

One after another Ming army soldiers fell. This was the most intense attack the Ming army had encountered since the Northern Expedition.

Zhao led these veterans to see how sharp the situation is. One look at the situation and you can tell that Kaesong will not be won today, and it is hard to say whether they can even go back alive!
So he immediately sent a signal: all go west, break out to Qin Shuhuai's troops!
It should be said that by this time Huang Taiji had already made half of his bet right!
Because the other half depends on whether Mang Gurtai can keep Ash Niulu!

(End of this chapter)