Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 515 Qing Army Defending Forces in Shengjing City
There are eight city gates in Shengjing City, and there are eight streets in the whole city, each street corresponds to each city gate, and in the center of the city is the imperial city of the Qing Dynasty in Shengjing, where there are Khan Palace, Wangfu, six government offices and temples, etc. .

When the 15 soldiers and horses of the Second Guards Army arrived at the Tiger Skin Station near Shengjing City, it happened to be the 23rd day of the first lunar month in the [-]rd year of Chongzhen. The entire vicinity of Shengjing City is muddy.

The army had to stay in Baitapu for four or five days, and began to encircle Shengjing City after the weather cleared for three or four days.

Among them, the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards was preparing to cross the Hun River to Shenyang City along the official road, while the Second Corps was preparing to go to Fengji Fort along the official road. Tuala's retreat.

The entire Shengjing City was built in Shenyang Zhongwei in the former Ming Dynasty. The former Shenyang Zhongwei had four defensive castles and two checkpoints in the area south of Fushun, namely Dongzhou Fort, Magendan Fort, Sanyangyu Fort and Qinghe Fort and Raven Pass and Fushun Pass.

After leaving Fushun Pass and walking along the Hun River, you can reach Sarhu directly.

And go out of the crowfalcon pass and pass through Zaotu Mountain to be Hetuala.

However, the march of the army basically followed the river to ensure sufficient water sources. During the Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty conquered Jianlu along the road from Fushun to Sarhu, because this area is where the Hun River and Suzi River flow. Today It is still an important stronghold for the Qing army to defend Hetuala.

The general manager of Shengjing, Meile Ezhenzhangjing Ye Keshu, did not transfer the Qing troops along the Suzi River from Fushun Station, Fushun Pass, and Sarhu to Hetuala along the Suzi River to Shengjing City even though he wanted to protect Shengjing.

Even in addition to Fushunsuo and Fushun Pass, Dongzhou Fort, Magendan Fort, Sanyangyu Fort, Qinghe Fort, and Yahu Pass were still stationed by Qing troops.

But no matter how many Qing troops are defending these four forts and two passes, if you want to support Shengjing, you have to take Fengji Fort from the official road, cross the Hun River from Baitapu, and enter Shenyang. Therefore, the Second Corps of the Second Guards Army needs First occupy Fengji Fort, and then harass other fortified cities to prevent the support of Qing army Shengjing in these places, and then the First Corps of the Second Guards Army is responsible for attacking Shengjing.

The First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards attacked Shengjing City along the official road and had to cross the bridge and cross the Hun River.

But now that the weather has warmed up, the Hunhe River has not been frozen. At the same time, the Qing army also demolished the stone bridge on the Hunhe River, which made it difficult for the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards to cross the river. The Hunhe River is in the flood season, which has caused great difficulties in crossing the river.

The First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards had no choice but to march eastward along the Hunhe River, and the infantry swam across the place where the water flow was slow.

Most of the guards were soldiers from the south, and their swimming skills were naturally not bad, but it was still the warm and cold season of spring, and the river water was still very bitter.

The infantry of the Second Army of the Guards almost froze to death shortly after entering the water, but they could only grit their teeth and cross over.

The artillery fired on the opposite bank at all times to prevent the Qing army from appearing on the opposite bank and preventing the infantry of the Guards from landing on the shore.

There were also infantrymen of the Guards who brought felled wood and began to build pontoon bridges in the bitter river water. After all, artillery, war horses, and luggage could not wade across the river.

As a result, it took a lot of time for the First Corps of the Second Army of the Guards just to cross the river, and they arrived at the city of Shengjing after the third day of February.

At this time, Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, had already summoned the Chang Liaohaiwei, Tielingwei and other Qing troops to Shengjing City, and armed with the landlords, there were [-] Qing troops in Shengjing City.

Seeing this, Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, breathed a sigh of relief, but when he learned that only tens of thousands of Ming troops crossed the river, he thought that Shengjing City was a place with high walls and thick walls, and even the cannons in red couldn't conquer him. The ten-foot city wall also slightly reduced the fear that the Ming army might break through their own Shengjing City.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Qing court moved the capital to Beijing, and set up the post of general manager in Shengjing City. At the same time, eight banners were left to guard the eight gates. School, Zuo Ling and other officials.

Now Ye Keshu also assigned the 12 defenders in the city to the deputy commanders of the Eight Banners, responsible for guarding the eight cities of Shengjing.

After all, Shengjing City is the capital of Jianlu. In addition to the officials of the Eight Banners and Six Ministries who stayed behind, there are even many craftsmen who make ordnance. .

Among them, the Manchurian Xianghuang Banner, Zhenghuang Banner, Zhengbai Banner, Xianghong Banner, Zhenglan Banner, and Xianglan Banner each have [-] armored soldiers, equipped with four blacksmiths each; Zhenghong Banner and Xiangbai Banner each have [-] armored soldiers, Blacksmiths are equipped with two each.

A total of 720 armored soldiers are in charge of city defense.

In addition, the Shengjing House of Internal Affairs also has three banners to guard the Shengjing Palace, each with 230 armored soldiers.

In addition, there are [-] armored soldiers guarding Fuling and [-] armored soldiers guarding Zhaoling.

That is to say, there are a total of [-] armored soldiers in Shengjing City today, the so-called most powerful elites of the Qing Dynasty, while the rest are green battalion soldiers composed of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and the armed forces of landlords.

Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, also summoned all these armored soldiers. Among them, [-] armored soldiers were evenly distributed to the eight city gates to supervise the battle, and he himself led a hundred armored soldiers to support various places in the city.

Ye Keshu looked solemnly at his own defenders in Shengjing City, and sighed secretly: "This is the last army of my Qing Dynasty in Liaodong. If I lose again like this, I, Ye Keshu, will be ashamed to see the spirit of Taizu, and I am ashamed." Long grace to the current Holy Majesty."

Originally, Ye Keshu was not too shocked when he learned that Gao Di’s [-] Han cavalry were wiped out by the Ming army. However, after he personally led [-] Manchu iron cavalry to ambush the Ming army and the entire army was wiped out, he realized that the Ming army was stronger than he had imagined.

"In the past, [-] iron cavalry in the Qing Dynasty were enough to pacify Liaodong and aspire to the top of the world. How could I have thought that I would be wiped out even though I already had a geographical advantage? What are the firearms used by the Ming army? What should I do?"

Ye Keshu finally felt a little worry, and at this time, Ye Keshu's deputy governor, Ahani, came over and said: "My lord, the Ming army is here!"

"Order to go down, strengthen your guard, hide first, and wait for the enemy's artillery bombardment before going up the tower! Drive all the captured Han people to the city wall!"

Ye Keshu ordered.

Now, the only thing he can think of is to use the Han people as human shields or hostages to cause trouble for the Ming army to attack Shengjing City.

(End of this chapter)