Win the Ding 1617

Ningyuan, which has the title of the first city outside the pass, is now Liaoning Xingcheng. Its official name is Ningyuan Weicheng. It was built in the third year of Xuande in Ming Dynasty.In the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Ningyuanzhou City.In later generations, it was renamed Xingcheng.In the third year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, there were 96 steps in the city on Friday.The wall is three feet high, there are four gates, and Xuande was five years old.The outer city was built again, Zhou Jiuli 120 four steps.

Since the Liaodong War, Ningyuan City has been continuously repaired. At this time, the city wall is three feet two feet high, and the pheasant is six feet high.There are bell and drum towers in the city, echoing the four towers of the city wall, and fighting.Climbing to the top of the building, you can have a panoramic view of the city wall and the city landscape.

The city wall of Ningyuan is quite distinctive. When it was built, in order to make the city wall strong, a large number of irregular city stones were used to build the inner wall, and then the wall surface was chiseled flat.Therefore, it is called "hair stone wall". Because most of the stone materials are local materials, its color looks like tiger skin from a distance, so it is also called "tiger skin hair stone wall".

Today, Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, Qiu Minyang, governor of Liaodong, Zhang Dou, Yao Gong, Cai Maode in the army, Zuo Guangxian, Li Fuming, Li Fuming, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Bai Guangen, and Ma in Shanhaiguan Many civil and military officials such as Ke, Liaodong General Soldier Liu Zhaoji, Liaozhen Dongxie General Soldier Meng Dao, and Ningyuan Regiment Training General Wu Sangui are stationed here.At this time, Ningyuan was already a large military camp.Inside and outside the city, there are as many as 10,000+ troops, and all the private houses and official houses in the city cannot be piled up.The banners of the generals and lieutenants are everywhere, and as for generals and guerrillas, they are everywhere.

The troops that arrived earlier, such as the armies from various places in Jimi, were mostly stationed outside the city. The barracks were chosen to be sheltered from the wind and sunny, where it was convenient to fetch water and firewood, and it was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Three Mountains, Luofeng Mountain, five miles northeast of the city, and Ganchai Ridge, fifteen miles northeast of the city.Zao'er Mountain, eight miles northwest of the city, Huangtukan Mountain and Mahala Mountain in the northwest of the city, etc.

There are four streets in Ningyuan City.The locals call it East Street, South Street, West Street and North Street.The perimeter of the city, the number of gates, and the number of streets are all even numbers, which is considered odd in Ningyuan.

Hong Chengchou's Jiliao Governor Xingyuan was set up in the inner city.On the southwestern side of the Drum Tower, hundreds of Nanzhong armored soldiers who followed him from Shaanxi when he fought all the way to suppress the thieves stood majesticly on duty in the Yuanmen, and more than a hundred people carried firecrackers on their backs. The muzzle is covered with cloth to prevent the entry of dust and rain.Hundreds of people lined up from the gate to the front of the handsome hall like steel cast iron.

Outside the shaft gate, the black muzzles of two eight-pound guns pointed obliquely at mid-air, but the gunners were not as disciplined as the soldiers. Several gunners whispered and laughed behind the gun emplacements built with earthen bags.Suddenly.The gunners felt faint tremors in the street under their feet, and immediately felt that something was wrong, so they hurriedly got up from the powder keg and stood up.

In a blink of an eye, a group of men and horses came out from a corner of the street, all of them were cavalry.The cavalrymen were all wearing iron armor, black cloaks behind their backs, and sharp and strong knives and guns in their hands.Armored with iron helmets and black cloaks, this fierce man rushed straight towards him like a black whirlwind.

It was Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan Regiment, who served under Wu Sangui!

"Is your lord in the mansion?"

Under the service of his family Ding's general, Wu Sangui jumped off his horse.He bowed his hands and saluted a guerrilla on duty at the gate with a smile on his face.

Wu Sangui is of medium build, but he is very strong, and he can be considered handsome.It's just that there is a scar on the bridge of the nose due to the battle, which is considered disfigured according to physiognomy.On the head is a six-petal iron-pointed helmet, with a scarlet plume fluttering, and a maroon open-chested robe on the outside, revealing the polished Nanzhong breastplate inside, with a sword under his ribs, Gu Pan His eyes were like lightning, and there was a majestic and deep taste.

Although the guerrillas of the Dubiao Camp on duty at Yuanmen are Hong Chengchou's confidantes.But he didn't dare to do anything wrong with this Ningyuan Regiment's training commander, but was quite fawning on the contrary.

There is no other reason.The word strength!

This fair-skinned Tonghou and the youngest Wu Sangui came from the ancestor's family and Wu's family in the Liaoxi Jiangmen Group.His father, Wu Xiang, and Zu Dashou, the head of the ancestral family, are uncle Lang's close relatives.Speaking of which, Wu Sangui called Guan Zu Dashou uncle.

In addition to his prominent family background, Wu Sangui is also very good at public relations. When he was a high-level supervisor in Liaodong, Wu Sangui recognized him as his foster father.When Fang Yizao was in charge of Liaodong, Wu Sangui and his son Fang Guangchen became sworn brothers. After Hong Chengchou managed Liaodong, he quickly became best friends with Hong Chengchou's confidant Xie Sixin. It is hard for Wu Sangui not to develop his combat exploits.

After Wu Sangui served as the commander-in-chief of the Ningyuan Regiment, he trained vigorously with the support of Hong Chengchou. In two years, he trained [-] Liao soldiers, all of whom were quite brave and able to fight.Together with his father Wu Xiang, he also trained a family member of the Wu family, including two thousand cavalry, each of which is divided into forty teams of fifty, and each team has a leading cavalry officer.Wu Sangui wrote the names of these cavalry officers respectively on bamboo sticks, and usually stuck them on his boots. In case of emergency, he took out a stick from the boots and called a certain cavalry officer. Cavalry, following him in conflicts and decisive battles, is always invincible.

These servants all have fields and manors in western Liaoning, and they seem to be landlords big and small.Everyone has hundreds of acres of land, and those who have a permanent property have perseverance, plus defending their homes, this is why they dare to fight.

And they were treated very well, Wu Xiang once said back then that he himself ate nothing more than simple tea and light food, while the three thousand soldiers all ate fine wine and fat sheep.He was wearing coarse brown clothes, while the three thousand soldiers were all wearing silky clothes.Although the imperial court has not been able to pay them for a long time, they still live well.Together with their subordinates, they already have land and property.Life is worry-free, and besides training, they don't have to worry about farming in the fields, because almost all military households in western Liaoning.They are all their tenant farmers, working hard for them.

The same is true for the ancestral family with a longer history and more intertwined influence among the generals in western Liaoning. Zu Dashou has thousands of family members under his command, and everyone fights bravely.This approach has been formed as early as the last Ningyuanbo, Li Chengliang, guarding Liaodong. Li Chengliang claims to have [-] family members, each wearing double armor and straddling two horses. Naturally, he is invincible against those tribes in Liaodong.This is why Nurhachi developed a large number of heavy cavalry after he rebelled.

Same as Wu Jiajun.The thousands of family members of the Zu family are purely the private arms of the Zu family.Relying on the power of their ancestors, they are all rich.However, everyone in the ancestral family relied on their servants to gain a foothold, and they were also very worried about the loss of their forces. These are common problems of warlords of all generations.This is true regardless of past and future generations.

Wu Sangui was able to stand out among the Liaoxi Jiangmen Group. In addition to his family background, he was also quite good at fighting.In the 13th year of Chongzhen, Qing soldiers besieged Jinzhou.Regardless of the encounter at Jiama Mountain, the surprise attack on the Xianglan Banner camp of the Qing soldiers, or the ambush at Wudaoling, many of them performed outstandingly.

Especially in the 14th year of Chongzhen, Qing cavalry flooded Jin and Song, and the situation was extremely rampant. Jinzhou was short of grain and grass, and the grain transport officials were alarmed.Afraid to go, Wu Sangui volunteered to take the New Year's holiday and transported the grain and grass away by surprise.

On the second and third days of the first lunar month, Wu Sangui transported grain to Jinzhou with [-] carts of oxen, mules and donkeys, loaded with [-] shi of rice, and guarded by more than [-] soldiers and horses under his command.Then returned to Ningyuan safely with an empty car.He was not caught by the police, and he made no mistakes. He was even more praised by Hong Chengchou, governor of Jiliao, and Qiu Minyang, governor of Liaodong.

Family background, military exploits, power.This constitutes Wu Sangui's comprehensive strength, plus he is quite good at being a man, and he gets along well with everyone in the governor's yamen. After a few greetings, he was led into Hong Chengchou's signing room by the Superintendent Biaozhong Army .

Hong Chengchou is still so gentle and elegant, every move has an indescribably graceful demeanor, he wears a big red python suit, and has three long beards.All neatly groomed.

"The eldest uncle is here? Please sit down! Serve tea!"

Immediately, someone put the newly brewed Kung Fu tea in front of Wu Sangui, along with the teacup.There are also a few Fujian-style snacks, such as sweet fruit, orange cake, rice cake, and swallow skin soup.

"Uncle. Your ancestral home is in Weiyang, and you are born in a family of fate. Normally, you have a broad horizon, but this is the flavor of your hometown. Please, Uncle, appreciate it."

Master Supervisor treats himself to a snack, what kind of grace is that?Even if it is a bowl of Mi Tian Gong, you have to eat it with a smile.It is inevitable that after tasting these snacks one by one, Wu Sangui will give him a lot of praise.

After the two were courteous, they immediately brought the topic to the main topic.

Hong Chengchou's general strategy for the Battle of Jinzhou was the strategy agreed with Zu Dashou to "establish a salary road, step by step, advance while fighting, and relieve Jinzhou from the siege".Hong Chengchou is cautious, for the past two years, he has rescued Jinzhou from Ningyuan, and every time he gathered his troops in one place, forcing them to camp with chariots, not talking about fighting lightly, taking one step forward and consolidating one step.

Another point is that there is absolutely no division of troops!

Back then in the Saerhu battle, Yang Gao, a bastard who didn't know the art of war, defeated Daming in North Korea and went to Saarhu to defeat.But Saerhu is no longer the Ming Dynasty during the Korean War, it has been completely defeated by the honest gentlemen of Donglin.I can't stand his defeat with such a big deal.

Under Nurhachi's concentrated force, Ren Er came several times, and I only went all the way under the combat principle, his strategy of dividing troops and attacking was completely exposed.

Yin Jian is not far away, so naturally Hong Chengchou will not follow Yang Gao's old path, he will take another path.

Never divide troops!

But in this way, 10,000+ people gather in Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan to Jinzhou, and the supply of food and grass is the biggest problem.

Today Wu Sangui was summoned to Xingyuan by him, apart from commending him face to face for his achievements in transporting grain and grass to and from Jinzhou twice, he also wanted to discuss with him how the war should be carried out.

Nowadays, the army consumes a huge amount of food every day, not counting the tens of thousands of mules, horses, camels and other forage and beans needed by the army. In addition to the food for the soldiers, there are also tens of thousands of civilians. It takes at least two catties of grain to eat (without non-staple food, the nutrition of protein and fat cannot keep up, so it can only be supplemented by starch.) Calculated, these 10,000+ people will consume at least two to three thousand stone grains of rice every day .

Moreover, for the sake of the overall strategic conception, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, made great efforts to stockpile food in Xingshan, Tashan, Ningyuan and other places, and each place had at least half a year, or even a year's food and grass for the defenders, in order to be able to compete with the enemy on the opposite side. The Qing army fought a war of attrition.

The reason for the failure of the so-called Battle of Songshan and Jinzhou was that the Qing army captured Bijia Mountain, which was only a secondary reason.Bijia Mountain hangs alone in the sea, and because of the convenience of sea transportation, this place is only used as a transit point.Generally, as soon as the grain and grass arrive, they are transported into the nearby city. There is not much grain and grass in Bijia Mountain itself.

How much food is there on Bijia Mountain at most?Twelve piles!Twelve piles of food and grass, how many days can 10,000+ Ming troops be fed?

Now Dushi Hong does not do other things every day, but exchanges letters and documents with the big men in the court, for nothing more than two things.One is soldiers, and the other is food.

"The lords of the court have agreed to transfer Wu Biao, who is quite powerful in suppressing thieves under the command of Yang Ge, to the front line of Liaodong. They will set off from Sichuan in the next few days. In this way, there will be two Wu generals in Liaodong. Yes. The twin stars are shining. It is also a good story for a while." Half of encouragement, half of encouragement, Governor Hong introduced the new progress of the military situation in recent days to Wu Sangui.

Although Wu Sangui was young, he was quite wealthy. Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, he was overjoyed: "I heard that General Wu Biao's troops are very disciplined, and the whole army is good at using firearms to destroy the enemy. Now the slaves' firearms are also quite sharp. It is a great blessing for me to have an army of skilled firearms now!"

What Wu Sangui said was true.

Since Hong Chengchou arrived at the front line of Liaodong, he found that the Qing army on the opposite side was far from being comparable to the peasant army who only knew how to kill the enemy with fast horses and light knives.

Fan Chenggong, the Songshan defender, described it in his pond newspaper: "The bandits carried a lot of artillery fire and attacked Songshan on the 25th and 26th. The situation is very critical. More than 601 cannons were found in the city, each weighing more than ten catties. At present, there are forty red cannons installed on the south wall. One cannon is fired by twelve oxen."

In order to change this unfavorable situation that the enemy's firearms are far better than mine, Hong Chengchou set up a gunpowder bureau in Jizhou and made guns and cannons.It is constantly playing to the court, asking the court to provide guns and cannons.However, he asked the Ministry of Industry to send fifty No. [-] and No. [-] cannons each, and [-] bird guns for many days. However, the Ministry of Industry only issued fifty captive-killing guns and two thousand bird guns.

This is a far cry from what is needed on the ground.

"My lord, didn't you go to the imperial court and prepare to mobilize the strong troops of the Southern Guangdong Army to come to Liaodong to defeat the bandits?" Wu Sangui, who was born in the Guanning Army system, had complicated feelings about the Southern Guangdong Army in Lingnan and Fujian.

first.He admired the extremely powerful army from the bottom of his heart, and was quite fascinated.Willing to work with such a strong person.Secondly, he hated the Southern Guangdong Army extremely.The reason!It was nothing more than thousands of officers and soldiers captured by the Guanning Army that day were killed by the Nanyue Army.Even Zu Kuan, the general who came from his uncle's family, was executed by Li Shouhan's army.Moreover, this fellow brazenly accepted the title of Uncle Ning Yuan from the imperial court.This is a knighthood!In today's Ming Dynasty, it is relatively easy to have the right and left governors on the heads of military generals, and the top-ranking officials. However, it is not easy to be named Bo Fenghou?Even his uncle Zu Dashou is only the official title of the Ming Dynasty crown prince Shao Fu, Zuo Dudu, and Jinzhou General Soldier.

The shallow layer of film is like a natural moat, blocking the Du Du of Daming from outside.

"His Majesty has dispatched important figures from the Rites Supervisor to Nanzhong to serve as imperial envoys, urging the Southern Guangdong Army to go north quickly, and to transport the food and salaries for this year and next to Liaodong as soon as possible."

"Minister, if there is money and food from the Southern Cantonese Army, the last general is willing to go to Jinzhou to relieve the siege for the front! One is to be loyal to the court, and the other is to be filial to the family!" Hearing Hong Chengchou's words, Wu Sangui couldn't help but feel relieved .With the troops, horses, money and food of the Southern Guangdong Army, the siege of Jinzhou is nothing. Even if Huang Taiji leads the troops here, he can only return in defeat.

However, it is necessary to communicate with uncle in advance, so as not to cause too much loss to Huang Taiji. Uncle naturally understands the mystery of this.

"Uncle Chang, you went to Jinzhou with grain and brought back the ancestor general. The grain in Jinzhou City is enough to last for half a year, but the material and salary are not sufficient for the army. If the Southern Guangdong Army comes, this battle will be another matter!"

"The late general is dull, please teach me."

"Get a map!"

In the signing room, Hong Chengchou unfolded the map of Ningyuan, Songshan, Xingshan, and Jinzhou on the huge table case, pointed to Wu Sangui, and told him the strategy in his heart.

Wu Sangui was a general in the Liaodong Army, so he knew the topography of this area very well, and Hong Chengchou was also the commander of the military for a long time. Far from being comparable to scholars like Yang Gao and Yuan Chonghuan, he also knew the topography of this area very well.

Bijia Mountain, Juehua Island, Dayu Mountain and other important maritime locations were specially marked by Hong Chengchou on the map with cinnabar. These islands, as the transit places for the Ming army in Liaodong, were extremely vigilant, and there were sailors on the sea from time to time. During the cruise, there were constant fleets of military supplies to Liaodong, and many Nanzhong merchant ships brought large quantities of meat, wine, and other supplies for the Ming army.

At the estuary of the Xiaoling River in Jinzhou Bay, which the locals call Donghaikou, Governor Hong circled two circles here with a Chinese ink pen to show its importance.

Wu Sangui is also very familiar with this place. Since the Song Dynasty, the sea area of ​​the Empress Palace has been a prosperous port. In the Ming Dynasty, it was even a thousand-sail race. A large amount of commercial goods were directly transported to Jinzhou City through the Xiaoling River.

At the end of autumn, patches of red Suaeda salsa can be seen everywhere on both sides of the seashore and river, scattered on both sides of the Xiaoling River estuary, as if the burning flames fell between the sea and the sky, and groups of seabirds came from time to time. Ups and downs among the grass canopy.Going down the mouth of the Xiaoling River, there are many salt fields on both sides of the river, spreading all the way to the mouth of the Daling River.In the past, these salt fields were an important source of income for Liaodong generals, and they became an important source for them to support their servants and maintain a luxurious life. Naturally, these salt fields were regarded as forbidden by them.However, with the Jinzhou war, these salt fields were abandoned.

"It's a pity that the strength of the Longwu Navy stationed on Juehua Island has long been different. If it was as prosperous as it was when Sun Gong was first built, our army can directly transport the firewood, grain, and rice needed in the city along this Xiaoling River." It was transported to the city of Jinzhou, so the first step discussed with General Zu was easy to achieve!"

Compared with later generations, the Xiaoling River has been silted up. At this time, the section of the Xiaoling River, below Jinzhou, can be accessed by boats, and the geographical advantage is very obvious.

"So, more than ever, this governor looks forward to the arrival of Uncle Ning Yuan's army from the Southern Guangdong Army. With their firearms soldiers, our army will not be afraid of Jiannu's artillery fire. With Uncle Ning Yuan, a navy that can regard thousands of miles of waves as a thoroughfare Here, our army can easily open up the grain road with Jinzhou! Even if Hong Tai has a million strong soldiers, why be afraid!?"

Wu Sangui immediately stood up from his seat, and knelt down in front of Hong Chengchou like pushing a golden mountain or falling a jade pillar, "The general is willing to follow the supervisor and build this immortal merit for the court, so as to share the worries of the emperor and father!"

Outside the city of Ningyuan, a wind blew up on the sea, and the fierce sea breeze made the sea rough, and the violent waves beat on the rocks continuously, hitting the sky with waves. The servants who saw the sea being so angry, Even though he lived here for a long time, he couldn't help showing awe on his face.

Wu Sangui rode his horse and stood by the sea, letting the strong sea wind blow his cloak like a sail, and the strong wind on his face was like a knife.However, only a few words of Master Supervisor just now echoed in his ears.

"General Changbo, the military situation has been calm for the past few days, and this governor intends to invite you to the capital. First, I will pay my respects to my father, Old General Wu, and second, I will go to the imperial court to urge the payment of food and military equipment."