Win the Ding 1617

On the 15th of the first month of the 27th year of Chongzhen, outside Liaoyang City. ↖,

The wind and snow subsided for a while, and the sun respectfully rose from the eastern horizon. The sun shone on the thick snow, reflecting a faint dazzling red light.The eyes of those who were photographed were a little stinging.

On the city, Chen Ban supported the crenel with his big hands, looking at the factories that were smoking in the distance outside the city.

From the day when he withdrew the soldiers and horses guarding the workshop into the city, the dozens of smelting workshops, gun yards, and craftsmen's workshops on which he devoted a lot of effort became Wu Sangui's spoils of war.The high-quality refined iron that was too late to be transported into the city, most of the completed guns, the completed swords, guns and armor, and the piles of pig iron and carbon materials all belonged to the Ming army.

"It doesn't matter!" Facing the blank eyes of everyone in the city, Chen Ban stood up strong, "I withdrew the artisans into Liaoyang City in the first wave. As long as these artisans are here, we can build the workshop again! But these artisans If there is no teacher, how can we make firecrackers and cannons?"

Naturally, this kind of self-excusation cannot be accepted by everyone.In a short time, Chen Banda turned from a sweet pastry into a pile of stinky dog ​​shit in the city.The Eight Banners generals and officials who usually ran over from a long distance to say hello and salute, now their noses collided with Chen Banda, and they pretended not to see them.

"My lord, look!" A factory guard with sharp eyes saw several factories in the distance that served as temporary camps for the Ming army.

"Those smart dogs are going to attack the city!"

The Liaodong rebels in the city began to get nervous.There are not many people in the city, and no rescuers came to Shengjing to ask for help, so the success of defending the city is not very sure.But if it is to abandon Liaoyang, no one dares to do so.

Not to mention abandoning an important gateway town like Liaoyang, what kind of military punishment will the second lair of the Liao thieves bring to themselves.All that can only be faced after escaping to Shengjing.Now, can everyone escape to Shengjing?

The heavy snow for several days has already covered the road, and the snow everywhere is no longer enough. If the three-foot boy is not careful, he can almost be submerged in the snow.The slightly dilapidated houses in the city.Some have been crushed by the snow on the roof.

Outside the city, Wu Sangui took a look at Shi Lang, whose head, face, and hands were tightly wrapped in fur, and the soldiers of the Southern Guangdong Army, and couldn't help but feel a burst of pride in his heart.Although these Southern Cantonese troops fought bravely and had strict military discipline, but fighting in the land of Liaodong, only he and his Ningyuan Town were the last kings!

Since the landing operation, the naval and land battalion, which was originally the core of the 6000-strong army, has not adapted to the harsh environment due to the weather. A team of 2000 people was frozen down and 500 people were frostbitten.He had no choice but to leave these frostbitten soldiers in various fortresses along the way to serve as defenses. While protecting his rear and flanks, he allowed these brothers to receive treatment.

"Wu Shuai, can we start?"

Looking at the thousands of army horses swarming out of the dozens of barracks temporarily used as factories and workshops, Shi Lang gestured to Wu Sangui.

A few crow soldiers under Wu Sangui escorted a bound Liao bandit officer who was similar to a meat dumpling out of the barracks by pushing and beating him.This kind of workshop is built with blue stones as the foundation, built five feet high, and then built with big bricks.Originally, it was because of the pursuit of sturdiness and durability, but now it has become the best cold camp for the Ming army and the place where prisoners were held.but.These captives, even if you let them escape, they may not dare to escape at this time.

The wind and snow all over the wasteland, the hungry beasts in the mountains and forests, with no clothes on their bodies and no food in their stomachs, even if they escaped by luck.It is also difficult to guarantee that you will not become food for wild animals.

One after another, hundreds of Liao captives were escorted out of this temporary cell by Wu Sangui's soldiers.

"Nu Dahai, I will ask you one last question. Surrender or not?" Wu Sangui looked over the heads of the group of prisoners and asked casually.

Nanu Dahai was an officer of the Liao bandits guarding the Dashiqiao, after being captured by Wu Sangui.Our Prince Pingxi, out of caring for the warriors and also in order to recruit thugs, planned to take this man and recruit a group of local cannon fodder in Liaodong to fight.

"Bah! You Nikan! Let me surrender, unless I step on my corpse!"

"Okay! This handsome man will help you!"

Several of Wu Sangui's servants lifted Nu Dahai who was struggling left and right, walked more than ten steps along the muddy road, and threw him in a low-lying place.Make his face upward so that he can see clearly.

There was a rumbling sound behind them, and several artillery carriages were dragged out of the barracks of the artillery battalion by the horses.

Due to the wear and tear of rubber tires, the heavy gun carriages only have huge iron wheel skeletons.

There were several muffled puffs, and the heavy artillery passed by on the road where Nudahai was used as paving stones, and the wheels were covered with blood and flesh.

"Seek benevolence and get benevolence. This commander also fulfilled you."

Seeing several artillery carts rolling over Nu Dahai, Wu Sangui snorted coldly, "Go, Wu Qinsi, ask those people if they are willing to act as paving stones like Nu Dahai? My commander's cannons will be delivered To the city of Liaoyang, there will be a lot of paving stones!"

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Nearly 4000 people formed a formation below Liaoyang City, and the five phalanxes brought great coercion to the defenders on the city.In front of these five phalanxes, dozens of artillery and rocket launchers were lined up, and the black muzzles pointed directly at the city wall of Liaoyang.

"Everyone! We broke the city in a battle today! We will have a feast in the city! We will break Shenyang in the future, and I will get drunk with you all again!"

In front of their respective teams, Shi Lang and Wu Sangui made a short but powerful mobilization for the subordinates.

"ignition!"

"fire!"

The rockets that were carefully transported all the way to Liaoyang were extravagantly placed on the launch pads by the rocketers, and the fuses were lit with the torches in their hands.

The long rocket pierced through the air with screams, flew over the city wall, swept a perfect arc, and then heard a low-pitched explosion in the city.

Before the explosion landed, more than a dozen rockets flew over the city, or ignited fires in the city, or made bursts of explosions.

Compared with the screaming and panic of the old, weak, women and children in the city facing the sudden disaster, the defenders on the city faced greater pressure.

Those twelve-pound guns, eight-pound guns, Dafu Langji.Just pour artillery fire on one point.

Using artillery fire to open the way for the siege, whether it is the Nanyue Army or the Ningyuan Army, has already gained experience in small-scale sieges in Liaodong several times.

Attack with cannons first, and lure the artillery fire from the city to fight back.Then use more cannons to take down these defending artillery pieces.After canceling the right to speak of the enemy's cannons, it began to open the way for the siege troops.

The city walls of the Ming Dynasty.Most of them are covered with bricks on rammed earth walls.When a solid shell passes, bricks and stones fly randomly, and when the second shell passes, there is a gap in the city walls rammed with loess.

The field soldiers under Wu Sangui brought a ladder from the rear of the team and waited in line behind the artillery position.Taking advantage of this short interval, these sturdy soldiers from Jiaodong, Dongying and other places checked each other's equipment to see if there was anything that was not tied properly.

Get back a little bit.Wu Sangui was unblinkingly watching his artillery team and the gunners of the Navy and Land Battalion pouring gunpowder and shells to the top of the city together.

Regarding the siege of Liaoyang City, the two generals were well versed in the tricks that siege is not as good as fraud.That is to say, it is better to be scared than to be beaten.Wouldn't it be better for the soldiers and civilians in the city to collapse under the tremendous pressure of the Ming army and abandon the city?For this reason, Wu Sangui and Shi Lang concentrated all the artillery at the south gate of Liaoyang.As for the east gate and north gate, only a few troops were left to monitor, and as for the west gate, even the monitors were not released.The purpose is to allow the soldiers and civilians in the city to escape in the direction of Shenyang with peace of mind.

Such a tactic is encircling three and missing one.There are hidden pockets in Xuliu Shenglu.On the hunting ground, hunters use this trick.called playing.It is to disturb the wild beasts and hunt them one by one in motion.

Holding a large copper bowl in his hand, which was full of steaming hot broth, while drinking the broth with the soldiers to resist the cold, Wu Sangui stole half a day's leisure to watch the drill of his own artillery in the hands of the gunners.

Under the training of Li Huamei, who spared no expense, the gunners of the Ningyuan Army have also been fully trained.The technical level of the gunners is not far from that of the navy and land battalion.but.The part of the gap is precisely in the most critical aspects such as ranging and command.

Taking the Dafo Lang machine as an example, most of the gunners of the original Ningyuan Army who loaded the same ten-pound projectile can only fire one shot in one minute, and the accuracy is still hard to say.But now it can be launched once every 1 seconds.But the gunners of the navy and land battalion didn't even need 20 seconds.They fired, reloaded and fired again, accurate and ruthless.Wu Sangui's subordinates have long been amazed by the skillful operation of the artillery. It turns out that the artillery can still be fired like this.

They gave a good lesson to the gunners in Ningyuan Town, perfectly explaining what bullet rain is, what is the perfect combination of speed and accuracy, and what is classic shelling.

The stormy shells poured down on the city wall of the south gate of Liaoyang, within the optimal range of the artillery. The accuracy of the gunners was astonishing. Several gunners of the Ningyuan Army even aimed the eight-pound guns directly, and smashed the shells at the point where the shells hit just now. Within two feet of him, he roared excitedly.

The cannonballs whistling and flying up to the top of the city filled the city with smoke, broken limbs, bones and flesh flew all over the place. Fortunately, the Liao thief who was not hit by the cannonball held a shield in his hand and carefully covered his body, looking eagerly at the masters at all levels. their attitude.

The artillery fire below the city began to adjust the shooting angle, and no longer aimed at the city wall. The city wall had already been smashed by more than a hundred shells and collapsed in half, revealing a huge gap, like the mouth of an old woman with missing teeth.

The city began to clear the passage for the infantry who were about to ascend the city, and the artillery shells were thrown on both sides of the gap, and the slave soldiers hiding behind the crenels of the city wall were the main targets.

As a result, those Jiannu soldiers who were holding their knives and guns tightly and were about to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army who ascended the city were in bad luck.The ruthless shells fell on their heads, and a heavy cannonball smashed on the city wall. Those Jiannu soldiers who were going to give them a look when the Ming army charged, or their bodies were hit by shells. It was broken into two pieces, with bloody red flesh flying, or a huge blood hole appeared on the body, and the inner intestines coiled in the middle were ruptured.Or a whole thigh, a whole arm was broken, blood gushed out like a fountain, and the flesh and blood of the severed limbs filled the air, making it even more ruthless in this cold weather.

Blood and various human body fragments froze on the city wall in an instant.

The city bricks were filled with flesh and blood, and the city was ablaze.

Those rockets, the full range of shooting performance on the house.And the ice and fire that were originally incompatible with water and fire.This time, they colluded together and became gangsters.The ice melted by the rocket's enthusiasm turned into cold water flowing around, and those oil arrows made of fish oil and fierce fire oil spread everywhere with the help of water flow, spreading the fire!

In a blink of an eye.Half of Liaoyang City was shrouded in smoke and flames.

"Commander! Lord Shi! The Liao bandits in the city are in complete chaos! Can we attack the city now!"

Wu Qinsi, who took Wu Jingsi's place in command of this expedition, was eager to challenge the two adults.

"What are you panicking about? Don't be so anxious to make meritorious service!" Wu Sangui lightly punched Wu Qinsi in the chest, and handed him the big copper bowl in his hand, "Go, get me another bowl of soup! Look!" Let's see if Master Shi will come again."

Reluctantly, Wu Qinsi went to the kitchen cart to scoop up soup and meat for the two adults, but he couldn't figure out why he didn't order the siege of the city at this time. Could it be that he really planned to use artillery fire to collapse the city wall of Liaoyang before going back to the city? go?

Although his guess was wrong, it was not far from the answer.

Two great traitors and lackeys in history.But they are all people who grew up on the battlefield.Now that he is the commander-in-chief of an army, he naturally can't just consider the one city and one place in Liaoyang.

Today, because of the need to protect the grain roads and because of frostbite, no more than 400 people can go into battle.How can the two adults not have to think carefully about this little capital?For problems that can be solved with gunpowder, try not to consume troops.

Although the infantry is now starting to attack the city, along the walls destroyed by the artillery fire, they can also go down with one drum, and immediately take down the second most important town for slavery.Open the gateway to Shenyang.

But Wu Sangui and Shi Lang deliberately didn't do this, just to make Jiannu keep filling the cannon with people.The purpose is to reduce the casualties of one's own troops as much as possible.But it's okay to talk about Wu Sangui, but Shi Lang's heart is full of ferocious laughter.Although his own reasons are also very sufficient, but under the appearance of a tall coat, there is also a huge selfishness.

"Dare to touch my future wife, let's see how I can turn you into flesh!!"

After the Battle of Tashan, the little ambiguity between Shi Lang and Li Huamei has gradually become public.Li Huamei, who is the princess, has already accepted Shi Lang.And Li Peiting is the uncle of the woman.Naturally, he is the woman's duty-bound matchmaker. At the same time, he was entrusted by Shou Han to write a letter to Zheng Zhilong, explaining the marriage between Li Huamei and Shi Lang, and asked him to be Shi Lang's matchmaker.

Shi Lang and Shi Daxuan father and son.From then on, he will step into the high-level ranks of the Southern Guangdong Army, and from then on, at least like the Zheng Zhilong family and those families who followed the Shouhan first, become the core and foundation of the Li Shouhan Group.Shi Lang himself is a proper county horse master certified by the imperial court!How can these things be kept secret?Shi Lang's battle in the Liaodong Peninsula this time is also to avoid the endless fawning people, and at the same time to add to his credit.

In addition to these, it was also to give Li Huamei a bad breath of defeating Tashan.As a result, the Liao thieves on the Liaodong Peninsula are full of blood mold!

After a rough calculation, there were tens of thousands of Liao thieves who were escorted to Ningyuan to serve as cannon fodder for Wu Sangui's subordinates, and were escorted to Nanzhong to send lifelong coolies to various mines and forest farms.What's more, those military leaders who were killed by the Nanyue Army and Ningyuan Town along the way?What's more, those wolf totems and black blind men written by some people who fled to the deep mountains and old forests because of avoiding the flames of war have become food to survive the cold winter.

Shi Lang's anger burned the lives of at least 10 people on the Liaodong Peninsula, and turned hundreds of villages and more than a dozen towns and castles along the way into ruins.Shi Lang also used the same bloody facts to educate the Liaodong rebels that wars will always be purely unilateral killings. He raised his knife and had to be prepared to be stabbed.Where the Ming army passed by, the rural cottages turned into deserts. Not only could the Liaodong rebels not be able to use the population and production on the Liaodong Peninsula as their war potential within a few years, on the contrary, they had to invest a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to carry out the war. recover.Because, if it is destroyed, it is very simple, as long as a fire and a bucket of gunpowder are enough, if it is to be built, it will consume many people's efforts and sweat.

Don't say that the Liaodong rebels don't have that much manpower and material resources. Even if they have, they must first invest in the war against Ming.Because only by constantly launching an offensive can it be possible to solve one's own crisis.

Facing a behemoth like the Ming Dynasty, which was riddled with holes, but was several times or even dozens of times stronger than the Qing Dynasty in all aspects, Huang Taiji and his courtiers and servants knew it very well.Only by continuously launching campaign-level offensives and adopting strategic defenses can it be possible to survive. If, like Yang Yinglong in Banzhou and the Mongols in Ningxia, they cannot see the situation clearly, they will attack blindly or defend to the death.It is bound to be consumed by the Ming army.

(Speaking of this, the stupid and slow author is thinking about the approach of the plane from the United States in the South China Sea that has been hyped up by countless big Vs these days. Countless people aggressively accused the Navy, saying that they fear the enemy and fight, Why didn't they shoot down the American planes and so on. Not to mention whether these people really have the courage to face the war as they said, when the Beiyang Navy was fighting, the Qingliu of the court also accused Deng Shichang and Ding Ruchang. In short The talkers always put themselves in the seat of the presiding judge, regardless of whether they have the qualifications. Second. I don’t know why the US imperialists have been hyping up the South China Sea recently. If it is true as they claim Just like what we said, the uncanny workmanship of nature has changed the feng shui of the South China Sea. We should be smiling! The more we are accused by the enemy, the better we are doing. Our navy is not as good as you, but we can play with you Conquer the sea with land.)

Amidst the sound of cannons and flames, the cries and screams in the city became louder and louder.

Gradually, some people began to flee secretly from the top of the city to the bottom of the city.Find a way in the city and prepare to escape from the city.

"It's over! Liaoyang City, it's over!"

Chen Ban looked up at the sky.Heading towards the northwest, two lines of hot tears streamed down his face, "Your Majesty, the servants have tried their best!"

The strong north wind blowing from the northwest quickly dried the tears on his face.

In the fierce north wind, someone opened the west gate first.He escaped from Liaoyang with his family, and fled towards Shengjing along the vaguely identifiable official road.

More and more people followed behind and poured out of Liaoyang City.

south gate.Wu Sangui commanded the soldiers and horses to rush to the top of the city, and opened the city gate to let the brigade enter.

All the soldiers and civilians in the city who had no time to escape became prisoners of the Ming army.

"Master Shi, follow the old rules. Let's screen these people first. All skilled craftsmen are yours." Looking at the black mass of heads, Wu Sangui's face was full of bloodthirsty smiles.

"Marshal, even if we want to regain Shenyang, we have to make a calculation in advance. Right now it is snowing and snowing, and supplies are difficult. In the future, it seems that we can reduce the number appropriately. The old and weak will save a few days to fill the hole, and the women will choose Take away the good-looking ones, and the strong men must know some crafts or be willing to fight with us, otherwise they will all stand in the way." Wu Qinsi's face was full of murderous intent.

"I'll leave this matter to you. When I was in Pidao, I heard from a few Jurchens that the Buddha Kulun they believed in had boundless magic power. Well, I'll nail them to the road one by one, and let people immediately Step over and see which god can save them. If you want to survive, you must be obedient and be an obedient citizen under this commander for the rest of your life."

At the celebration banquet, Wu Sangui held a wine bowl and pointed at the captives of the Liao bandits who were transporting supplies and supplies for the Ming army in the city, pointing proudly for Shi Lang to see. "Tomorrow morning, I will send a thousand cavalry out of the city to form a mountain search team. They will pull out Jiannu one by one like rats and let them bleed. Those old and weak women and children, they can't go too far in this weather, and they didn't bring anything. The food obligation, they can't survive for too long. This commander will use their flesh and blood to pay homage to their Fokulun!"

Facts have proved that what King Pingxi said, I don’t know whether there is really a goddess of Fokulun, or Wu Sangui’s ferocity and arrogance angered a certain true god in the sky. The result is just like a certain CCTV weather forecaster in 07. This year's warm winter is a foregone conclusion, so let the Siberian cold snap over.

That night, there was a sudden blizzard in Liaoyang, with more than five feet of snow accumulated, and the northwest wind howled all night, like the roar of evil spirits from hell.It's just that under the wrath of Goddess Fokulun, the first batch of unlucky people were the people of Fokulun who fled outside the city. The slave civilians who had no clothes, food and no bonfire, wine and meat died in the wild in batches.Facts have proved that even for residents of cold regions, staying in the wild in winter is dangerous.Not to mention human beings, even those touted godlike Steppenwolves were also frozen to death.

The continuous heavy snow covered the sky, and the ground was covered with five feet of snow.

Although countless fleeing Liao thieves were frozen to death, it also made it difficult for the Ming army preparing to attack Shenyang.Blizzard stunned Shi Lang and Wu Sangui, because under such a blizzard, hitting Shenyang in one fell swoop seems to be only a dream.

"Fokulun bless! Ancestors bless! Ama is blessed by the spirit of heaven!" Facing the heavy snow falling from the sky, Huang Taiji, who didn't know how to deal with the current dilemma outside Guangning City, learned that Liaoyang was lost, but Chen After Ban Da led the report that most of the craftsmen under him had escaped, and when he learned that the Ming army that had been killed from the Liaodong direction had to temporarily stop the attack because of the heavy snow, he couldn't help but kneel outside the big tent, letting Heavy snow fell all over the sky, and he couldn't help praising the ancestors and gods.

Li Shouhan in Ningyuan City looked at the grain ship frozen in the sea by the heavy snow, and was in a daze. He didn't know whether to cry or curse the sky?

"No matter what, we must break the ice and go to sea, and tell the ships on the sea to Ningyuan not to come to Ningyuan. Find an island at random to unload the grain, rice and supplies for the time being. Go to Liaodong and bring Shi Lang and Wu Sangui back!"

Looking at the frozen sea surface like a huge mirror, Shou Han had no choice but to do so.

"Even if you plan by hand, you have to break the ice! Let the sea boat go out!" (To be continued...)

ps: If some friends think that this snowstorm is too fake, you can go and see the snow disaster that happened in Northeast China in March 07.CCTV's weather forecast had just finished saying that it seemed to be a mild winter, and there was a heavy snowfall that night.