Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

An hour later, at about 8 o'clock, the Chinese army led by Sony also arrived at Bali Bridge, and Kong Youde had already led a group of generals to meet him at the head of the bridge.

"The last general waits to kowtow to the Great General Dingguo."

Kong Youde brought a group of generals to greet Sony.

"Get up." Sony looked down at Kong Youde from the horseback, and asked again, "Where is the Ming army? How far is it from Bali Bridge?"

Kong Youde said: "The Ming army has already passed Shisanlipu, less than ten miles away from Bali Bridge."

"The Ming army has already passed Shisanlipu?" Sony's face darkened slightly, so it seems that there is not enough time?The last 20 Lianyong may not have time to cross the bridge.

"Don't worry, General." Kong Youde continued.

"The Ming army is timid, and they dare not go any further. They are currently busy arranging troops."

After a pause, he said again: "So our Qing soldiers have enough time to cross the Bali Bridge."

"Really?" Sonny said with a relaxed expression, "So Chongzhen is nothing more than that. If he leads the Ming army to go five miles forward, our Qing soldiers will be very troublesome."

Because the Ming army walked about five miles forward, they could block the Bali Bridge with red cannons.

As a result, the training of bravery, civilian husbands, and military supplies of the Qing army would not be able to cross the Bali Bridge.

In this case, we can only temporarily build a pontoon bridge east of the Bali Bridge, and the time will be much slower.

If the Ming army launched a rush to attack before the Qing army's luggage had crossed the river, the situation would be very passive.

Even if the Qing soldiers were able to gain a firm foothold on the north bank of the Tonghui River in the end, they would have to pay a considerable price.

But now, the Ming army stopped early to form an formation near Sansanlipu, but they missed a good opportunity in vain.

At that moment, Sonny shouted again: "The order is for the Eight Banners Han Army, Eight Banners Mongolia, Eight Banners Manchuria, Lvying, Lianyong, and the peasants to hurry up and cross the bridge. After crossing the river, immediately form an formation. After the peasants cross the river, they will cut down all the nearby birch trees. Set up two wooden fences outside the formation, and then build a watchtower and arrow tower!"

It is the strategy in Sun Tzu's Art of War to plan for defeat before winning.

Although Sony is a Manchu, he is proficient in Manchu, Han and Mongolian, and he was familiar with Sun Tzu's Art of War.

So before launching an attack on the Ming army, the first thing Sony did was to set up a fence. Once the Ming army wanted to take advantage of the Qing army's unstable foothold to launch an attack, this fence would provide protection.

But Sony was too worried, and the Ming army didn't plan to attack at all.

Because it is Jiannu who is eager to attack now.

……

At this moment, the Ming army was busy arranging troops and digging trenches.

明军的7个步兵镇已经按照次序从南到北一字摆开来，其中第1、第3、第4、第5以及第6镇各摆了一个边长为400步的空心方阵。

A hollow phalanx with a side length of 400 steps (640 meters) can accommodate almost 5000 people on each side, which can just stand in a three-row line array of nearly 1700 people in each row.

The reloading time of the Ming army's flintlock has been shortened to five or six seconds.

Therefore, three rows of line arrays are actually redundant, and two rows are enough to ensure the continuity of firepower.

However, to be on the safe side, Xu Yingwei still let each infantry town adopt a three-row line array.

The 7th and 8th towns in the center even set up a hollow square array with a side length of 800 steps.

The infantry of the seven towns were busy digging trenches, and the artillerymen of each town were busy building artillery positions. Of course, the artillerymen of the five mountain artillery brigades had to assemble the 5-inch mountain artillery first.

Even the civilian husbands and medical soldiers who went out with the army came to help.

The only place that doesn't have to work is the Cavalry Town on the northernmost side.

Instead of working, the soldiers in the cavalry town can eat and drink.

At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can have a panoramic view of the one-line formation of the Ming army. This formation has more than 4000 steps from south to north and is seven kilometers long.

But the depth from east to west is very shallow.

The deepest Chinese army is only 800 steps, less than 1300 meters!
If it was in the era of cold weapons, setting up such a long snake formation is basically no different from suicide, because as long as the enemy army concentrates its forces to penetrate your central army, you will die.

Don't expect the armies on the flanks to stand still.

After the flag of the Chinese army falls, the entire army will collapse instantly.

But the logic of the age of firearms is different from that of the era of cold weapons.

In the age of firearms, this kind of line array with shallow depth and large front is easy to give full play to its firepower advantage. If it is a line array composed of independent hollow square arrays, it will be more attackable and defensive.

Chongzhen was not idle either, and with Gao Qiqian, Lu Jiude and other eunuchs, they were also helping to dig trenches. It has to be said that Chongzhen's setting an example is really not just talk, but seriousness.

Even eunuchs such as Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude are used to working.

It is said that following such an emperor, you can't get used to it.

Xu Yingwei ran around from south to north, and after delineating the territory of each town, he returned to the main line of the Chinese army. Seeing Chongzhen digging trenches with a group of eunuchs, he hurried forward to dissuade them.

"Your Majesty, you should rest and go, you are the only one left and right."

"With more effort, the trenches can be dug a second faster, and it can also provide more protection for soldiers."

Seeing that Chongzhen could not be persuaded, Xu Yingwei had no choice but to jump into the trench and work together with a shovel.

With the concerted efforts of tens of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army and tens of thousands of accompanying civilians, a trench with a length of more than seven kilometers and a width that could accommodate three rows of soldiers was quickly dug into shape.

However, the depth of the trench is not enough, so it needs to continue to deepen.

Of course, the trenches are not continuous, and there are specially reserved gun carriage passages in the middle.

Zheng Sen's air force is not idle either, and has already assembled all 19 flying cars.

Today's weather is not bad, the sky is clear and the wind is not strong, which is very suitable for air force operations.

Facing the breeze blowing across his face, Zheng Sen couldn't help sighing, it's true that the heavens and the earth are working together, even God is helping Daming, how can today's decisive battle be invincible?

……

Chaoyangmen, the inside of Urn City was already crowded with cavalry with two white flags.

However, there are less than [-] cavalrymen in the two white flags, so an urn city can't accommodate them at all, and more cavalry can only stand by on Chaoyangmen Street in the city.

Among the Eight Banners soldiers on standby is Badahhai.

The past few days have been like riding a roller coaster for Badahai. First, he changed from Niulu Ezhen to Zhengbaiqi's Baya Latiao Zhangjing, but he has been Baya Latiaozhang for less than ten days. In Beijing, he was relegated to a step armor again. The reason was that the emperor's father and regent Dorgon died suddenly.

Just when Badahai thought that he might be a rifle for the rest of his life, good luck fell on his head again.

Last night, the emperor suddenly ran to Prince Rui's mansion to pay homage to the Prince Regent, and he worshiped with the ceremony of Emperor Examination. After the worship, he gave the Prince Regent a posthumous title and a temple name.

Immediately afterwards, there was a reward for the two white flags.

Badahai became Niulu Ezhen from Bujia again.

Although it is only Niulu Ezhen, it is incomparable with the previous Baya Latuzhangjing, but Badahai is already very satisfied, at least much better than Bujia, if he can still win a few first prizes in this war of annihilating the country One level, maybe you can be promoted to Jiala Ezhen, because Zhengbaiqi still lacks several Jiala Ezhen.

Badahay felt that his hope was very great.

Thinking of this, Badahey suddenly became full of energy.

In this war of annihilating the country, we must fight bravely to be the first.

While looking forward to it, a fast horse came galloping.

"The general has an order, and the two white flags will be pulled out of the city immediately!"

The fast horse galloped past, leaving only the crisp sound of horseshoes on the street.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners who had been resting on both sides of the street got up one after another.

Badahai buckled the bowl on his head forcefully, and tightened the leather belt on his body to make sure that the armor was not loose. Then he got on his horse and walked out of the city gate with a group of soldiers under his command.

Although Chaoyang Gate has three gate openings, it is still a bit crowded.

While waiting, another fast horse galloped over and shouted, "Leave the city through the gap..."

"Go, go to the gap!" Badahai decisively brought the Eight Banners soldiers of this Niulu towards the gap on the right side of Chaoyang Gate. The gap collapsed by the red cannons of the Ming army did not have time to repair, and now it is convenient for the Eight Banners soldiers to leave the city .

After walking out of the gap, Badahai saw Baiyintu at a glance.

Baiyintu is wearing a tasseled spear that is two feet high, and the white tassels on the tasseled spear are particularly eye-catching.

Beside Baiyintu, Hong Chengchou was standing, and Hong Chengchou was talking to Baiyintu.

Bai Yintu waved his hand disdainfully, as if he rejected Hong Chengchou's suggestion.

When passing by the two of them, I vaguely heard Hong Chengchou saying: "General, it seems a little early to leave the city at this time, because the decisive battle between the main force of the Qing army led by General Dingguo and the main force of the Ming army will not be so fast." It is now the decisive moment, so the army of the two white flags went too early, and it is difficult to do anything, and only when the battle situation is stalemate and stalemate, the elite of the two white flags suddenly rush out from behind the Ming army, can the final decision be made."

"The general has made up his mind, don't talk too much."

Bai Yintu resolutely rejected Hong Chengchou's suggestion.

Badahai vaguely felt that what Hong Chengchou said was reasonable.

But if Baiyintu didn't accept it, he couldn't help it.

He could also vaguely guess Bai Yintu's inner thoughts.

It's nothing more than worrying about going too late to catch up with this big battle.

If this is the case, Sony alone will be responsible for this great contribution.

After a while, the Niulu Eight Banners soldiers led by Badahai had merged into the rolling torrent of the two white flags, the sound of rumbling horseshoes filled the ears, and the moving horse heads were all in sight. There are also tassels on the top of the tasseled spears, and then there is a pure white or white cloth face armor with red borders.

Many generals of the Eight Banners wore armor on their bodies.

Badahai wore a set of iron armor on his body.

And this set of armor is made of more than 2000 pieces of iron.

Such a set of armor is worth thousands of gold, and it was rewarded to him by Dorgon.

Thinking of this, Badahai felt a little regretful, the regent passed away so young, it was really sad, but he, Badahai, would never disappoint the regent's expectations.