The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 312
Hong Jie suffered for more than ten days in a row, and finally heard that [-] to [-] Ming troops had left Ningyuan and were heading towards Dalinghe City after the Mid-Autumn Festival.

At this time, he also received a report that the "Red Banner Army" and Dongjiang Township had besieged Jinzhou tightly.

The slave chieftain did not inform the generals of Jinzhou's military situation, but only told everyone that the Ming army sent [-] to [-] reinforcements to Daling River, and it is now close to Jinzhou.

The generals of the later Jin army were very excited when they got the news. They were gearing up and waiting for the Ming army to throw themselves into the trap.

Unexpectedly, the efficiency of the Ming army was too low. The Jiannu scouts watched them march ten miles and then stopped to set up camp. The Ming army was not afraid of trouble, but they also followed the example of the Jin army by digging trenches, erecting earthen walls and inserting wooden stakes. A staunch posture.

The slave chief who had no waves in the ancient well found that the Ming army was so cautiously walking on the road approaching the encirclement that his forehead began to sweat. It seems that a good pair of teeth is needed to eat such a Ming army.

How could the speed of the Ming army's advance to aid Liao be so fast?What's more, this time was different, the Ministry of War and the emperor didn't urge them at all.

Originally, the Ming army's will to fight was open to question. Coming out of Ningyuan to Jinzhou meant approaching the Dalinghe battlefield.

Commander Zhang Chun, Deputy General Sun Dingliao of Guan Ning, General Jiang Xin, General Soldier Wu Xiang and Song Wei who came to join the army, and dozens of other generals were full of anxiety. They thought it was the emperor who found them. The march was slow and an order was issued.

Unexpectedly, this time was an exception. The Holy Son of Heaven was magnanimous, and he strictly ordered the rescuers not to underestimate the enemy, but to fight steadily, and instructed the rescuers to prevent Jiannu from besieging and attacking the rescuers.

After receiving the imperial decree, all the generals celebrated with their crowns, and they were very good at fighting steadily, so the 5 or [-] horses marched every day for less than the time for camping and camping.

They moved closer to Daling River City step by step. They found that the dangerous land with high mountains and dense forests simply camped for three days and carefully investigated before moving. They estimated that it would take less than a month to reach Daling River City. no.

The slow motion of the Ming army almost drove the Hou Jin army, who was eager for a quick battle, crazy. Jiannu endured the pain of being ravaged by the Huang Han and persisted in Daling River. Today's Hong is like being put on fire. Roast, if this goes on, I'm afraid Nuqian will be burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.

Little did they know that the Ming army was procrastinating according to the order this time, and the purpose was to make it difficult for the Hou Jin army to look at the head and tail. possible.

In fact, in his heart he hoped that the main force of Jiannu would leave Daling River. If so, he would lead an army to attack Jiannu until they entered Dalinghe City, and he would make extraordinary achievements.

But rationality tells Zhang Chunjian that it is impossible to be exhausted, and he should wait for a decisive battle with the army he led near Dalinghe City. time.

Zhang Chun used more than a year to train an infantry unit. This team relied on the chariot battalion to fight. The carts carried by the chariot battalion were covered with cowhide and wooden boards, and even the important parts were covered with iron sheets.

Such large carts come across when arrayed, and there are shooting holes on the cart, which can satisfy three Ming army bird musketeers to shoot inside.

Zhang Chun Cheying's cart has obvious disadvantages. It is too large, difficult to transport, and easy to damage. However, compared with the unicycle, this kind of chariot has much greater protection, and it is simply the original version of the armored chariot.

The Ming army formed a formation of chariots to slow down the impact of the slave-building cavalry, which really made the soldiers more psychologically stable. As long as the formation is not chaotic, building slaves is really not easy to talk about. Mental preparations against the main force of slavery.

On August 500th in the fourth year of Chongzhen, Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian brought the [-] battalion and Jinyiwei's less than [-] troops to Lushunkou from Tianjin Weishui battalion.

The Three Thousand Battalion, also known as the Shenshu Battalion, is a very powerful Beijing camp. The officials and assistants are all well-known, and Jin Yiwei is even the emperor's pro-army.

Seeing these ancestral Tianjin Guard commanders, how dare they neglect, not only dispatching the best warships and transport ships, but also personally leading most of the thousands of household officials and above to accompany them all the way.

Huanglong kept the contract and tried his best to manage Lushunkou. He, Jin Sheng, Shen Shikui, Shang Keyi and others brought more than half of the Pidao troops here to deploy defenses as early as mid-July.

At this time, seeing the angels and seeing the unprecedented lineup of decrees, Huang Long, Jin Sheng, etc. felt that something was wrong.

The Holy Son of Heaven attached great importance to counterattacking the Southern Four Guards, so he sent Fang Zhenghua, the eunuch of the Royal Horse Supervisor, and Li Ruolian, the official of Jinyiwei. They brought three thousand battalions and more than [-] elite cavalry of Jinyiwei. What does this mean?Did they really come to the battlefield to fight?
I'm afraid that's not always the case, they may have the main purpose of supervising the battle, and there are five hundred cavalry in the formation, which can really calm down the grandma who is thinking about turning around and running away.

Jin Sheng was full of enthusiasm, seeing that the emperor attached so much importance to this counterattack against the Southern Four Guards, he was inexplicably excited. Of course, he didn't mind having Jinyiwei and Shenshuying cavalry to supervise the battle.

Huang Long had nothing to say, he was staying in his post after all, and it would be great to have the opportunity to lead troops to make meritorious deeds, so he didn't care if the emperor didn't trust the people of Dongjiang town at all.

Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian summoned officials from hundreds of households stationed here at Xingyuan to discuss matters.

Now they have also deeply understood the principle of not keeping secrets, and on the day they landed at Lushunkou with their troops, they issued an order of martial law, no entry and no exit, and every ship that needs to leave must get a release document and Jin Yiwei to board the ship. Only after inspection can you leave the port.

When they came, Fang Zhenghua and the others stayed in Tianjin Wei for a day to prepare for the sea. The commander of Tianjin Wei and some civil and military generals sent a lot of tribute.

Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian were determined to fight desperately on the battlefield, so they didn't care about the yellow and white things, they all replaced them with rice noodles, vegetable oil, wine, bacon, ham and other food and brought them to Lushunkou.

Calling a hundred household officials or above to discuss matters is also a banquet for everyone to drink and eat meat. Li Ruolian and Fang Zhenghua knew that they would have to use Dongjiang Town's troops to fight Jian Nu soon, so of course they would not put on airs at this time, and exchanged cups with the generals. Be lively.

For many years, Dongjiang Town seems to have been forgotten by the Holy Son of Heaven. Today, not only angels came, but also many Jinyiwei, and these people are completely different from the ones in memory. The junior officer was really moved to tears.

They missed Marshal Mao Wenlong and lamented the unfair treatment these years. They also wanted to be upright and dignified, and they also wanted to kill the enemy for the country without hesitating to wrap their bodies in horse leather.

(End of this chapter)