The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 299
Every time before the start of a war, Hong Jie would ally with the Mongols and emphasize military discipline, and this time is of course no exception.

On August [-]st of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Hongxie held a banquet in honor of the Mongolian tribes who came to join the war.

When the wine was hot, the slave chief seriously warned them not to kill the prisoners, but to accept surrender as much as possible. If anyone dares to violate the order, Amin's ending will be a lesson for the past.

The next day, the Jin army merged and divided into two groups, one led by Belledegrei, Yuetuo, and Azige led [-] troops, and settled between Jinzhou and Daling River via Yizhou, cutting off the link between Jinzhou and Daling River. connect.

Hong Zai personally led the army to press down on Dalinghe City from the front through Montenegro and Guangning.

At this time, the population of Dalinghe City is [-] less than in history, and the food is [-] shi more. It is conservatively estimated that it can last for four months. If we make preparations for long-term persistence, we may be able to last for more than half a year if we kill the horse immediately. .

Originally, Huang Han was unhappy with Sun Chengzong, and he also thought that Dalinghe City would not be completed.

Unexpectedly, there was an accident. The old and strong Sun Chengzong not only insisted on his own opinion to practice, but also completed it better than in history.

It seems that Hong is going to be tough. He Kegang, who has the prince Taibao and Zuo Dudu Rongxun, is a loyal minister and good general. When his comrades can't hold on anymore, they are ready to surrender and become slaves.

Zu Dashou is also a famous general of his generation. There are not many generals in Liaodong from his ancestors. Their level of defending the city is unambiguous. It may not be a problem to confront the Jin army for a year or so without starving to death.

The problem is that the Houjin Army has gathered 5 people in Dalinghe City. A protracted offensive and defensive war will consume a lot of money and food, and will delay the spring plowing next year. Will Houjin's already unsustainable food supply chain be broken? ?

Hongxie's established tactic is to encircle and fight for aid, and the key point when he came to Dalinghe City was the word "encircle".

He ordered the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the conscripts to dig four trenches around Dalinghe City, and built a wall more than ten feet high, surrounding the small Dalinghe City like an iron barrel.

The Ming army never expected that the Jin soldiers would make such a ruthless move. They looked down from the city and saw: "Niannu surrounded Dalinghe City, dug four trenches in a row, it was difficult to bend, and the equipment was fully equipped. Cunning."

Hongxi is that this kid is so self-taught, he actually used the trench warfare used by both sides during World War I and World War II in advance.

At this time, none of the [-] soldiers under Zu Dashou thought about surrendering, because the story of Amin killing Daming's surrendered army and surrendered general was preached everywhere by the slavery atrocities complaint group formed by Huang Han.

Although the report group did not go to Liaodong to give speeches, all the Guanning Army listened to other people repeat the surrender of civil servants Bai Yangcui and Zhang Yangchu whose heads had been chopped off by Amin, their wives and concubines. And how all the female relatives were raped and then killed.

Coupled with the wanton massacre of Liao people during the old slave period, these Guanning troops had blood feuds with Jiannu in all likelihood, and almost none of them were willing to surrender Jiannu before they were pushed to the brink of death.

When Jiannu first started digging trenches, it was not very smooth. Zu Dashou and He Kegang led the cavalry from time to time to rush out of Dalinghe City, slash and shoot, and then turned back. When Jiannu and Tartar cavalry swarmed in, the Guanning army had already fled Enter the city.

The gunners of the Ming army at the head of the city discovered that the Jin army entered the range of the artillery, and the Hongyi cannon fired immediately, and the Jin army suffered a lot from chasing too close.

Seeing the frequent attacks of Guan Ning's army, Hong has no good solution, but Aha and the bannermen who ordered the recruitment rushed to work day and night and dug hard.

He ordered Dorgon and Duoduo to lead the cavalry to maintain a state of assembly, and immediately counterattacked when they found that the Guan Ning army was out of the city to destroy.

Later, due to the gradual completion of the trench warfare system, the Guanning Army's surprise attack was hindered by the earth wall, and the losses caused by the rapid shooting of the Jin Army's infantry increased.

Next came the confrontation stage. The Hou Jin army was not in a hurry to break through Dalinghe City, because it was a bait, and the success of the strategy of encircling and attacking reinforcements depended on whether Daming sat back and watched the Guanning Army guarding Dalinghe City be encircled and wiped out.

Hong is confident, no leader will sit back and watch his subordinates be encircled and wiped out and do nothing. If there is a general who dares to ignore the lives of his soldiers, who will accept the tasks assigned by him in the future?
Therefore, whether he wants to or not, Sun Chengzong must go all out to rescue Dalinghe City, which is surrounded by him. As long as the reinforcements of the Ming army come, the Dajin army, which is waiting for work, will achieve results.

Insufficient troops are the shortcoming of the Houjin Army. How to make good use of the few soldiers from the Eight Banners is the first question to consider. Now that the fortifications for the siege of Dalinghe City have been completed, too many people involved in the siege can be used for maneuvering .

Hong Jie is indeed very smart. Although the construction of fortifications is laborious, the effect is good. Zu Dashou's men and horses go out of the city to attack. Every time they hit their noses, they leave dozens of riders and flee back in embarrassment. After that, they will no longer engage in loss-making business. .

Therefore, the Hou Jin army can completely guard the trenches and besiege Dalinghe City with infantry and bannermen, as long as two armored cavalry are left to maneuver, the number of cavalry that can be used intensively in Hong's hands will be doubled immediately.

Because the Jin army came too fast, the wheat near Jinzhou did not have time to harvest. This is the private land of the Guanning army. The wheat they get every year is extra money. Selling it to Mongolia, which is short of food, can earn 10,000+ taels of snowflake silver.

Hong Xie was very diligent. After besieging Dalinghe City, he did good deeds and volunteered to help the Guan Ning Army harvest the wheat. He got seventy to eighty thousand shi of wheat.

Qiu Hejia, Governor of Eastern Liaodong, was in Jinzhou at this time. He heard that Nu Chief personally led an army of [-] to surround Dalinghe City.

The old grandson knew that the matter was too big and dared not be good at it, so he sent six hundred li to express his request to the imperial court to send reinforcements to Liaodong to participate in the war.In fact, Sun Chengzong had nothing to do at this time, and he could only pin his hopes on the court.

As expected, the Hou Jin army surrounded Dalinghe City, and Chongzhen, who had received an urgent request six hundred miles away from Liaodong, was extremely anxious.

But who is worthy of a fight?At the time of the court meeting, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were on a break, and no one dared to be the first bird. Finally, Zhang Chun, the Yongping soldier, was sent to lead the army to help.

I don't know why Chongzhen rejected Ma Xianglin's request to lead [-] white soldiers to join the war, and strictly ordered him to stick to Shanhaiguan without any mistakes.

It may be that the emperor was worried that after the defeat of the Ming army at the Daling River, Jiannu would seize Shanhaiguan in one fell swoop. He trusted the white soldiers and knew that the Sichuan army was good at infantry. Ma Xianglin's men and horses participated in the last barrier of Shanhaiguan to make him feel at ease. .

Minister of the Ministry of War Xiong Mingyu's proposal to recruit Huang Han's Yongping reinforcement battalion and hand it over to Zhang Chun was also rejected by Chongzhen on the grounds that there were too many recruits in the "Red Banner Army" and it took time for training.

(End of this chapter)