Daming wolf ride

Shenyang City was first built in the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, and was supervised by Min Zhong, the commander of Liaodong Capital.During the several years of battle between Nurhachi and the Ming army, almost all of Shenyang's Ming city walls were destroyed except for the north gate.Therefore, the Shenyang City that Dayong sees now was built after Nurhachi and Hong Tai.They are Neizhi Gate and Fujin Gate in the East; Tianyou Gate and Desheng Gate in the South; Luan Gate and Huaiyuan Gate in the West; Zai Gate and Fusheng Gate in the North.

The names of these eight city gates, which Dayong may find a bit awkward, were presented by Han officials who have fallen to gold in recent years. The original names are familiar to people. Small East Gate, Big East Gate, and Small South Gate are so easy to remember. ah.

Mang Gurtai told Dayong that the city of Shenyang was divided into an inner city and an inner city. In the inner city was the Khan Palace built during the Nurhaci period, and the various Baylor Mansions. In addition, the six government offices of the Kingdom of Jin, which were established just last year, were also in the inner city.The outer city is where Shenyang Banner people and Mongolian and Han people live. It is very messy, but the population is large. There are nearly [-] people, but most of them are Han people who are slaves.

Although the number of Han people Aha is large, Mang Gurtai believes that even if Daishan is in a daze, he will not enlist these Han people to help the battle. His greatest possibility is to enlist the left-behind bannermen from the big and small Baylor mansions, as well as the Khan Palace. There are more than 100 waving soldiers.If Daishan conscripted Han people to help in the battle, then he would have to worry about whether there would be civil strife like when Dajin attacked the city of Ming Dynasty.

Buying Han Chinese spies to set fire to the city and robbing the city gate was a trick that Nurhachi played very happily in the past, and it worked repeatedly. He fought with Nurhachi for many years. Daishan would not do such a stupid thing. Although the Ming army never bribed the Han people in the city, Daishan must consider how these Han people came to Shenyang City.Among these people, how many have no blood feud with Da Jin, and how many of them are willing to continue to be ruled by the Jin people when they see the Ming army attacking!

As for how many defenders Daishan could make up, Mang Gurtai gave a figure of [-], which was quite different from Wu Heyin's previous estimate.

Wu Heyin also told Dayong on the sidelines that after the Jin people established their capital in Shenyang, in order to prevent the Ming army from coming back one day, not only did Shenyang City be built extremely strong, but most of the artillery seized from the Ming army over the years were also placed in Shenyang City. There are no less than a hundred large and small artillery.Mang Gurtai also agreed on the sidelines.

Hearing the hundreds of cannons, big and small, really surprised Dayong, but he didn't care immediately.

Nurhachi and Hong Tai accidentally did Dayong a great favor. In order to make the capital of the so-called Dajin Kingdom look particularly grand, under the guidance of a Feng Shui master, they built four additional city gates on the basis of the original Shenyang City of Ming Dynasty. Eight streets, the so-called "eight gates to eight streets".This kind of layout naturally makes Shenyang City spacious and tidy at once. It can accommodate a population of no less than 10 people. It is very suitable for the capital of a small country, but the problem is that these eight city gates have inadvertently shared the Shenyang defenders. the power of. [

In the past, the Jin army won consecutive battles and launched an offensive against the Ming Dynasty. The Ming army outside the pass could not breathe. They burned incense and worshiped Bodhisattvas and begged the Jin army not to come and attack them. up.

Even if the Ming army had the courage to attack Shenyang, they had to cross the hurdles of Guangning and Yizhou first. If they did not take these two cities, it would be impossible for the Ming army to march straight to Shenyang.It's a pity that after so many years, not to mention Guangning and Yizhou, even the Linghe Ming army, which is only a few tens of miles away from Jinzhou, has not been able to cross it.

Therefore, although Mrs. Hong and the Eight Banners officials knew the shortcomings of Shenyang city guards, they never took it to heart. In their view, worrying about how many Han people will freeze to death this year is worse than worrying about the Ming army attacking Shenyang.

It's all right now, something that Mrs. Hong never dreamed of happened. During the time when he led the army to conquer Mongolia, Shi Dayong, who had caused him to be beaten badly under the city of Jinzhou, unexpectedly killed him from southern Liaoning. come over.A butcher's knife slashed hard and quickly on his soft flank, fatally, but the owner of the butcher's knife was completely mistaken, and the reason why he decided to cross the sea was just to take advantage of Kong Youde's help. In the name of fishing in troubled waters, it takes some advantage.God knows how big Shi Dayong's fish is. He did what no one did until the end of Ming Dynasty, and did what Mao Wenlong wanted to do but had no time to do.

Whether it is the [-] defenders estimated by Mang Gurtai or the [-] garrison proposed by Wu Heyin, for Shenyang City with eight gates, there are too many monks and too few porridge, which is not enough at all.The Ming army can launch an attack at any city gate, but the Jin army cannot concentrate its main force in one place, and can only share the guards. When they come down, they will get tired first.

In the same way, more than a hundred cannons sound like a lot. Putting them all in one place is really too much for the Ming army, but how much lethality can be spread over the eight city gates.These cannons seized from the Ming army over the years are not Portuguese-made Hongyi cannons, but cannons with serious quality problems supervised by the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty. I am afraid that the Jin army paid more attention to how the cannons were fired Sometimes the chamber will explode, instead of paying attention to how many Ming troops were killed.Moreover, Mang Gurtai gave Dayong a reassurance. He told Dayong that in fact, the Jin Army did not have much gunpowder and did not have the ability to make gunpowder. The gunpowder that was used when they attacked Daling River last year was actually the gunpowder that Hong Tai asked Tong Yangxing to spend a lot of money from. The gunpowder was bought by a businessman in Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty, and this bit of gunpowder is almost used up.

Mang Gurtai said affirmatively that if the artillery at the head of Shenyang City could fire three rounds, he would be killed by head-on collision.

Dayong was overjoyed by Mang Gurtai's guarantee. Since those artillery pieces are good-for-nothing, they can attack the city immediately when the artillery arrives.There is no need to rush to make any siege equipment, just attack the city gate.

In fact, when Daishan deployed Shenyang's defense force, he had already made a move of a strong man breaking his arm. The defense force he deployed in the outer city was only 1000 unarmored bannermen and [-] trusted Han people.And the more than [-] armored soldiers he can really rely on, together with the Yala of the Khan Palace, and the remaining [-] bannermen are all deployed in the inner city.

Daishan didn't want to defend the outer city at all, nor did he have the confidence to defend it.If it was the Ming army alone, Daishan might be able to mobilize the entire city's soldiers and civilians to fight against the Ming army, but the existence of Mang Gurtai made him dispel this idea, because it is impossible for Mang Gurtai not to know Shenyang City According to the real situation, as long as he tells the Ming general that Shenyang's defenders are actually insufficient, it will be a matter of time before Shenyang City is broken.

More importantly, Mang Gurtai is the owner of the Zhenglan Banner. Although he was stripped of the title of Big Baylor and his Niulu was divided, there are quite a few bannermen and Ahas belonging to him in Shenyang City, who sympathize with and support him. There were also quite a few people, and most of these people lived in the outer cities. Once these people were in chaos and responded to Mangurtai, it would undoubtedly be a catastrophe for Shenyang.

Mang Gurtai has been the political leader Baylor for so many years, who knows how many people have secretly colluded with him.The emaciated camels were bigger than horses. After Mangurtai fled, although Daishan ordered the arrest of officials and generals related to Manggurtai, it was impossible to kill them all. Disquiet over Gurtai's defection fueled the unrest.Just as Dayong did not sacrifice the butcher knife for a stable Liaoyang City as the rear, Daishan also needs to temporarily spare some people he wants to kill but cannot for a stable Shenyang.

The decision to focus on the outside and focus on the inside is the result of joint discussions between Daishan and Adun, Yangguli, Dudu, Yilintai, Sony and other civil and military personnel who stayed in Shenyang. In the end, both ends of the chariot could not be taken care of, and only the chariot and pawns were lost.

The inner city is where the military and political center of Dajin is located. The city wall is stronger than the outer city, and there is only one gate, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Concentrate the elite and rely on the city to defend it. As long as you defend it for seven or eight days, Daishan believes that he can see To the banner of the main force of the Eight Banners.

In order to appease the turmoil caused by the Manggurtai rebellion and the arrival of the Ming army, Daishan ordered money and food to be allocated from the household department to reward the banner men who participated in the defense of the city, and the best weapons were selected from the arsenal of the military department and sent to the city. In addition, he continued to send fast horses outside the city to dispatch reinforcements.After the Ming army reached the south bank of the Hun River, they refurbished the pontoon bridge with a history of more than ten years, and then began to approach Shenyang City. After arriving, they shot arrows into the city. The owner of the call-to-action is not Shi Dayong, the commander-in-chief of the Ming army, but Mang Gurtai. [