Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

After Qin Liangyu's army returned to the camp, Namutai, Turge, and Tang Gudai were all sweating because of the blockade of the city gate just now.Unlike the post-Golden army who underestimated the power of firecrackers, all post-Golden generals regarded artillery as a magical weapon.

Today, in order to block the city gate, the Jin army suffered more than 100 casualties, plus those who were killed and injured by firecrackers on the city wall, there were less than 200 people.With the level of medical care in this era, those soldiers injured by firearms also have a high probability of eventually dying.

Although the casualties today are basically the Mongolian soldiers and the Ming army who surrendered, there are not many bannermen in the Xianglan Banner.But now in the entire city of Luanzhou, there are less than [-] post-Golden troops at full count.

In addition, in Luanzhou City, except for the hundreds of young women who returned to the Jin Army to have fun, everyone else was killed and looted.So now there is no place in the city to catch a strong man.

In today's battle against the city gate, the Hou Jin army only shot to death a few white soldiers who cut the iron chains of the suspension bridge, and the casualty ratio of the two sides was very different.If the fighting continued like this, there would be no need for Qin Liangyu's army to attack the city. As long as the fighting lasted for a dozen or 20 days, the Houjin army in the city would be exhausted.

Therefore, Turg said to Namutay: "We can't be beaten passively like this. Even if the people of the country are brave and brave, one can count as ten, but the Han people are a hundred times stronger than me. Even the exhaustion will kill us all. And today the Ming army This white soldier has not shown any flaws at all, and there are artillery, this battle is absolutely difficult to fight!"

Tang Gudai went on to say: "Exactly! Shall we go to Lord Baylor for an idea? If we want to fight, let Lord Baylor send reinforcements, and we will have a good field battle with the Ming army; if we want to withdraw, we can also make early arrangements Well."

Namutay nodded after hearing this, and said: "I will immediately send someone to Yongping City, tell Lord Belle about the situation here, and come back for advice. However, you also have to keep an eye on those soldiers, especially those who surrendered." Ming army, tell your confidantes to gather their horses at the north city gate, and if they can't resist, we will withdraw our troops to Yongping City."

Both Turge and Tang Gudai agreed.They knew that if the troops were withdrawn, the horses in the city would only be able to bring their own bannermen and the Mongolian army with the blue flag, and those Ming troops who surrendered would definitely be abandoned.

And the next day, under the command of Qin Liangyu, the army began to attack the city.It is said to be siege, but it is actually doing some civil engineering.Qin Liangyu told Wu Shigong: "Wars, especially sieges, are done slowly and meticulously. Only after the civilians have done a lot of work can the safety of the siege troops be guaranteed and it is convenient to attack the city. Sometimes, the attack A city will take one to two years or even longer."

First of all, those peasants still went around the city gate and dug two U-shaped trenches. Then, under the cover of the carts and gunmen behind the carts, they began to cut off the water in the moat and fill up the moat.There are also roads that can be leveled to allow rushing cars to pass.

Of course, in the process of filling the moat, under the shooting of the bows and arrows of the Houjin Army, those civilian husbands were killed and injured a lot.Of course, those post-Jin troops who shot arrows on the city wall were also shot to death and injured a lot by the firecrackers.

During this process, of course, some civilian husbands could not bear the threat of death and turned and ran away, but they were all beheaded by the supervisor team sent by the white soldiers.Therefore, although it seems that the casualties on both sides may be much greater than Qin Liangyu's, but Qin Liangyu's deaths are all civilians, and the soldiers basically have no casualties.

And there are also a group of civilians in the camp. Under the guidance of the craftsmen carried by the white-armed soldiers, they are also stepping up the construction of carts and ladders, preparing tools for attacking Luanzhou City.

This process can only be said in a few words, but it took more than [-] days to do the work.During this period of time, the Hou Jin army in Luanzhou City was not idle either.Although they saw that the siege troops had no flaws, they gave up their plan to go out to fight in the city.However, the Hou Jin Army still sent a force to rob the camp one night.

But that night, after they saw what Qin Liangyu's camp looked like, they immediately despaired.Without even trying to attack the camp, the Jin army returned to Luanzhou City in despair.

Wu Shigong has been studying the preparations for attacking the city with ancient traditional methods by Qin Liangyu's side.Some sighed in my heart: "I always thought that in the ancient traditional siege, it was just climbing ladders, throwing stones, flying arrows and fighting at the top of the city. I didn't expect so much civil engineering to be done before the siege The ancient siege soldiers seem to have to learn to be an engineer first!"

Wu Shigong's exclamation was not wrong.In the Ming Dynasty, not only during the siege, but also during the march, the army had to do a lot of civil engineering to cross the river and set up camp.Besides, there were no machines to help in the Ming Dynasty, so to be a qualified soldier in the Ming Dynasty, you must first be a qualified engineer.

In addition, the battles in the Ming Dynasty were basically face-to-face fighting, and the soldiers consumed a lot of physical strength, and these soldiers needed physical strength to do civil engineering. Therefore, the physical requirements of the soldiers were also particularly high.

In order to solve this problem, the army of the Ming Dynasty recruited a large number of young and strong civilians from the people to do these civil projects.Although this approach allowed the soldiers to get a good rest, it caused the soldiers to be unwilling and unable to do these civil engineering projects. Therefore, in the event of a situation where civilians cannot be recruited, a surprise attack will often occur. The defeat of the Ming army.

There is also a sequelae, because to put it nicely, it is to recruit civilian husbands, and to put it badly, it is to forcibly arrest.The civilian husbands captured in this way not only do civil engineering, but also often play the role of cannon fodder in the army.

Therefore, when the Ming army fought on the inside, it did not receive any support from the local people at all.In the eyes of these ordinary people, the Ming army and the enemy army are also the same as raccoon dogs, at most they are only fifty steps away.In this way, the Ming army lost the two major victory factors of geographical advantage and human harmony in vain in the internal battle.

The purpose of Qin Liangyu's siege this time was to capture Luanzhou City, and did not require how many Houjin troops to be killed.Therefore, Qin Liangyu only arranged some soldiers to monitor on the other three sides of Luanzhou City, and his main force focused on attacking the south wall of Luanzhou City.Therefore, the traffic information of Luanzhou City and Yongping City has not been blocked.

On the eve before Qin Liangyu was going to attack the city, Zu Dashou, the commander of the main force of the Ming army, sent a messenger to tell Qin Liangyu: Zu Dashou was only five days away from Luanzhou City.Moreover, the main force of the Ming army also carried six red cannons.Let Qin Liangyu wait until the main force of the Ming army arrives, and after blasting Luanzhou City with red cannons, everyone will attack the city together.

After receiving the news, Qin Liangyu was also very happy.Qin Liangyu is not a person who treats his soldiers like nothing for the sake of his own honor.Although Zu Dashou was there to share the credit, but now that there are red cannons and Qin Liangyu's soldiers, the losses will definitely be much smaller.Therefore, Qin Liangyu stood still and waited for the arrival of the main force of the Ming army led by Zu Dashou.

At this time, Amin in Yongping City had already received the news from Namutai in Luanzhou City.In addition, Amin received the news from the spies of the Hou Jin Army that the main force of the Ming Army behind them marched towards Luanzhou City with cannons in red.So, Amin made such a decision.

On the one hand, Amin sent a batch of seized Ming army defense weapons to Luanzhou City, and asked Namutai to try his best to defend Luanzhou City; The main force of the army.That's what Amin thought. Without the red cannon, it would be very difficult for Qin Liangyu's army, the vanguard of the Ming army, to capture Luanzhou City.

The main force of Zu Dashou's Ming army marched very slowly because they had to transport red cannons.When they encountered the Houjin Army led by Amin, the entire army came to a complete standstill.

Zu Dashou was not interested in a decisive battle with the Hou Jin army, because Zu Dashou had already been promoted to the highest position among the generals in Liaodong. .Therefore, Zu Dashou's combat thinking is not to seek merit, but to seek no fault.Besides, Zu Dashou also understood that the reason why the imperial court came to appease him after Yuan Chonghuan was arrested was that he still controlled the largest part of the Liaodong cavalry.

And Amin's purpose was only to hinder the progress of the main force of the Ming army, and he was not interested in a decisive battle with the Ming army.Besides, with the addition of civilian husbands, the main force of the Ming army led by Zu Dashou has more than 3 people, which seems to be a huge force, so Amin is not sure about defeating this Ming army.Thus, the two sides became deadlocked.

But it is not a solution to continue this stalemate. After all, under the orders of the court and Sun Chengzong, the main force of the Ming army still has to rush to Luanzhou City as soon as possible.

Therefore, Zu Dashou made the army form a group, put the red cannon in the middle of the team for protection, and forcibly marched towards Luanzhou City.But the army just acted like this, and those peasants and the Shanxi and Shandong army that had already been defeated once showed their flaws.

Seeing the situation, Amin immediately ordered the Empress Jin army to attack the place where the main force of the Ming army was weak.Once again, the civilian husband and the Shanxi and Shandong army were defeated.But the Liaodong iron cavalry is indeed very powerful in combat. After seeing the Houjin army charging, they gathered the Liaodong iron cavalry and carried out a countercharge towards the Houjin army.

Because both sides were unwilling to fight to the death, they both retreated after a little fight.But in this way, although the Ming army avoided the consequences of a complete defeat and basically guaranteed the integrity of the main force, they did not dare to move forward towards Luanzhou City.And the post-golden army led by Amin also achieved his expected goal.

Zu Dashou led the main force of the Ming army to retreat, and immediately sent a messenger to Qin Liangyu, asking Qin Liangyu to send an army to respond, and then drove to Luanzhou City together.

When the messenger reported Zu Dashou's request to Qin Liangyu, the military officers in Qin Liangyu's tent were all surprised and speechless.Especially Qin Liangyu, who has spent most of her life in the military, has never encountered such a weird situation where the front supports the rear, and the vanguard supports the main force.So Qin Liangyu categorically rejected Zu Dashou's request for reverse support.

Qin Liangyu ignored the messenger who was still kneeling on the ground, and immediately ordered to the military officers in the big tent: "Get ready, attack Luanzhou City immediately tomorrow."

Then, Qin Liangyu said to the messenger: "Go back and tell Zongbing Zu that attacking Luanzhou City here is the best way to rescue you."