golden scales

The raging mountain fire burned most of the sky red, and the billowing smoke was like a monster hovering in the sky. The scorched gas brought by the burning trees drifted to the Qing army camp dozens of miles away with the north wind.Both Dorgon and Wu Bai stared blankly at the sudden bonfire.

Manchurians would not set fire to the forest, which would not only offend the gods of heaven and earth, but also make life difficult for them.

Only the ignorant Ming army would do such cruel things.

Of course, the Ming army was not a brat who set fire to anything.From this point of view, Ulinbai's pursuit force is likely to be in danger.

Jiang Jun himself was also taken aback. He didn't expect the fire to rise so quickly that even the Ming army who was in charge of defending the fortifications almost had no time to withdraw.As for those who set fire to the downwind outlet, there was no news for a long time. It is not known whether they lost their way in the forest, but they still encountered an accident.

"No more waiting."

Jiang Jun sighed. After counting the number of people, there were more than ten people missing. They were all soldiers who were ordered to disperse and set fire.

"Assault on Liaoyang, let's go!" Jiang Jun ordered.

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Xiao Donglou sniffled his nose, sniffing the faint smell of charcoal in the air, the sky in the north had become gray, with red flames jumping in it.

A gust of cold air penetrated into Xiao Donglou's nostrils, like a knife cutting, making Xiao Donglou tremble all over, and quickly pulled up the fur mask to cover his nose.

"The gang of lunatics from the first army?" Cao Ning came over, holding a notice in his hand: "Yesterday they sent us a Tang newspaper saying that we would leave this morning. Now look at it, I am afraid that the vanguard troops have arrived in Liaoyang."

"Those bastards." Xiao Donglou gritted his back molars, reached out and grabbed the notice, and read: "Our division will set off from camp on the ninth day of this month to attack Liaoyang and threaten the rear of the enemy army on the east road. Cooperate with your troops Combat. The vanguard will set off a little earlier, please take care of your defense area... When did their vanguard pass through our defense area?"

Cao Ning's eyes were full of helplessness, and he said: "I went to check, and I didn't pass through our defense zone at all. The report from the horse inspector said that there was a group of troops going north last night, which should be this vanguard. But they just happened to come from outside our defense zone. Passed by. So it didn't alarm us."

Xiao Donglou said: "The First Army is also setting up a special investigation battalion? I don't know if there is any special target in the forest, making such a big commotion."

"A special investigation battalion of 1000 people?" Cao Ning rolled his eyes: "It's the tank division, the only unit in the entire army that has a title. If you attack Liaoyang for [-] miles, you will really have a big face. gone."

"Don't say it before the fight, and we'll move after the fight, what kind of human nature is this!" Xiao Donglou seemed to spit to emphasize his words, but he thought it was too cold, and he didn't want to let go of his mouth.I had no choice but to swallow this breath.

"But this move is really beautiful." Cao Ning seemed to be intentionally adding to Xiao Donglou's obstacles, pretending to admire: "He rushed to pull the thousand headquarters, no matter whether he defeated Liaoyang or not, Dong Lu was so frightened that he had to divide his troops to Qianshan Intercept in the opposite direction to protect their flanks. In this way, their forces are scattered and their frontal defense is weak."

"Especially once the fire is set off. They don't even have a way out. Either move westward and join Jierhalang. Or dig a fire ditch and stick to it. Looking at the fire, I'm afraid it won't be extinguished in a few days or nights." Cao Ning Almost intoxicated.

"Can you come up with such a good idea?" Xiao Donglou scolded in a low voice, and then said loudly: "What are you waiting for? Hit the mother! Let the cannons be set up to blast, and there is that one-nine-style Military artillery, pull it up and loosen the soil for them! The whole army is ready, don't let that kid Dorgon escape again!"

Following Xiao Donglou's order.The two divisions of the Second Army began a strong attack on the Qing army camp.In this era, the range of gunfire is far shorter than that of artillery, and it has not yet become the protagonist of war.Relying on Lao Tzu's best range and lethality in the world, especially the psychological lethality, artillery is the well-deserved king of war.

It can be said.Whoever has more cannons has a greater chance of winning.

After Manchuria occupied Liaodong, they naturally took over Daming's iron works in Liaodong. It can be said that there is no shortage of coal and iron.The problem is that their own smelting technology can't improve. For a long time, they can't even be self-sufficient in cold weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds, let alone make artillery.It wasn't until Kong Youde and Li Jiuzheng defected that they brought the cannon casting technology with them.

Even so, the performance of Manchurian self-casting guns was far behind that of Ming Dynasty.

Before seeing the artillery array of the Ming army in Donggong, Donglu used all the cannons of Jinzhou Cannon Factory-this is the cannon foundry opened outside the customs during Zu Dashou's time, and it also has the first-class technology of casting iron-bodied copper-core cannons.

After being taught a lesson by the artillery of the Ming army in North China, the Qing court, which retreated outside the pass, began to cast artillery on a large scale.Because there is no iron mold casting technology, the scrap rate of mud casting cannons is too high, so the number of Donglu's artillery has been unable to increase.Even the acceptance criteria have been relaxed, and even dangerous goods that have honeycomb holes are deployed in the army, only to be able to make a sound when the enemy is an enemy.

Dorgon ordered these unreliable artillery formations to fight back, but the morale of Donglu dropped to freezing point.

These self-made cannons, because the gunpowder was unqualified, could not reach the range of the Ming army at all.In addition, the artillerymen were afraid that these defective products would explode, and they did not even dare to use unqualified artillery powder. Not only did the shells not fly to the Ming army's positions, but the sound was suppressed by the Ming army artillery.

It's like a jackal succumbing to a lion in front of a lion.

On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month in the 21st year of Chongzhen, Xiao Donglou issued an order to charge the whole army in the northeast of Haizhou City, breaking through the Donglu camp, and Dorgon fled back to Shenyang in panic.

On the same day, the Han people in Liaoyang City revolted against violence, occupied Tianyou Gate in the south of the city, and welcomed the tank division that had just rushed to the city to enter the city.

Wang Yi led his troops in a desperate bloody battle with the guards in the middle and east of the city. An hour after entering the city, several red flags of the Ming Dynasty were hoisted up from the Octagonal Dragon Hall, the highest point in the city, the highest of which was the two-winged flying tiger flag with a red background and a gold thread.

In this battle, the 5000 soldiers of the Tank Division killed more than [-] recalcitrant Eastern captives. Blood flowed in the city and corpses were strewn all over the place.Another captive of more than [-] Dongzhu Ding Zhuang was imprisoned in the Amitabha Temple and nearby residential buildings in Dongcheng, guarded by the Ming army.There were less than [-] old, weak, women and children in the city, all of whom were driven to the west of the city and imprisoned. They were guarded by the Han people who led the uprising by sergeants, and were responsible for boiling water and cooking for the Ming army.

Wang Yi stepped on the bloody frost on the ground and climbed onto the city wall of Liaoyang.

The city wall is three feet and three feet high, and it is indeed considered a strong city in Liaodong.Back then, Nuerhachi opened eight gates on this city wall with a circumference of only a thousand feet in order to show off its grandeur, which looked rather nondescript.

"Such a small county with a population of less than [-] is actually called 'Jing'." Wang Yi said with emotion to Zhang Li who followed.

"The counties in my hometown are bigger than here." Zhang Li also looked to the south, which was the direction they entered the city, and Tianyoumen was under their feet.

I have to admit that it is somewhat difficult to conquer the three-foot-high fortified city with only 500 people from the tank division.To be able to respond to the riots in the city, there is indeed an element of God's blessing in it.

"How about the battle damage?" Wang Yi looked at it for a while and asked in a deep voice.

"17 people were killed and 34 were injured," Zhang Li said, "There are also [-] non-combat casualties."

"Does non-combat attrition count as death?" Wang Yi asked, "What did the trainer say last time?"

"Reductions due to lack of logistics and military resources are counted as deaths. Those caused by violations of regulations and disciplines are not counted," Zhang Li said.

"Well, that's okay." Wang Yi patted the bricks on the city wall: "Hurry up and count the food stored in the city. The soldiers should wash and sleep. We are not done yet."

"Don't you want to fight Shenyang?" Zhang Li cried out.

"500 people are attacking Shenyang, are you going crazy?" Wang Yi glanced at him.

Zhang Li stroked his chest and said, "I thought you were crazy."

"I want to fight Dongningwei." Wang Yi said casually.

"You're really crazy..." Zhang Li felt his heartbeat stagnate for a moment, and it took him a long time to hold back a reasonable sentence.

Dongningwei had a more famous name in Zhu Cihong's previous life: Benxi.

Benxi is famous for its low-phosphorus, low-sulfur and low-impurity open-pit iron mines, and the iron produced is called "ginseng iron".This kind of high-quality iron ore is rare in China, especially with high-quality coking coal mines, which is a treasure land for establishing a coal-iron composite base.

Wang Yi chose Dongningwei not because of the resources here.

What he needs is a strategic location.

"Dongningwei is already at the southeast gate of Shenyang. It can attack Shenyang directly, or go north to attack Fushun, forming a siege to Shenyang." Wang Yi said: "If we don't take it now, the second army will also occupy it. Our division was placed in Liaoyang, and there was no tactical position for fighting against Shenyang."

"Do you know how risky this is?" Zhang Li shouted: "If the second army doesn't follow up, we will be alone in Dongning. Donglu concentrates his forces to attack us, will you ask General She to save us?"

"General She will definitely come to our rescue, and Xiao Donglou will not just sit back and watch Donglu attack us." Wang Yi was full of confidence.

"Don't forget, we just robbed him of Liaoyang." Zhang Li said angrily.

"You are too narrow-minded." Wang Yi waved his hand: "Xiao Donglou will definitely attack Shenyang while Donglu is attacking us, or simply use us as bait to surround and annihilate Donglu's army."

The corners of Zhang Li's mouth twitched: "No matter what we do, we are not going well!"

"But we have opened up the situation, which is the stepping stone to the recovery of Shenyang." Wang Yi said: "If we wait for the army to arrive and arrange it calmly, the Eastern Prisoners will definitely stabilize the city defenses, and this wave of offensive will be broken by then. General Xiao has always said that fighting For example, when listening to a piece of music, there must be a mat, high and low, continuous, and the lingering sound will linger... So you say whether to play or not?"

Zhang Li's face was ashen, and said: "I said no to fight. Don't say anything else, there are so many prisoners in the city now, Jiang Jun doesn't know how long it will take to arrive. Can you rest assured?"

"Impossible." Wang Yi closed his mouth and said in a low voice, "Let the brothers torture Dongningwei for news, and then kill them all." (To be continued...)

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