Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 82 Bloody Battle in Zunhua ([-])

Tan Tai wants to avenge Yuyang for winning the ambush first and then losing, this time the attack is even more ferocious.

Lu Xiangsheng was good at using troops, but Tan Tai was not a warrior either. After learning that the city of Zunhua had set up three strongholds inside and outside the city, the Tazi soldiers rushed over in three groups, and charged at the two earthen platforms outside the city and Zunhua City. attack at the same time.

In this way, Zunhua opened up three local battlefields, all of which were extremely fierce.Lu Xiangsheng's troops are limited, and they are mainly on the defensive.

But the Tartars did the opposite. They knew that Lu Xiangsheng's troops were limited, so they concentrated all their troops aggressively, and they were bound to win.

To the two Tutai cities outside the city, Tan Tai sent two Gushan Ezhen led troops to attack. One Niulu of the Tartars had about 300 people, five Niulu were one Jiala, about 1500 people, and five Jiala It is a Gushan, which is about 7500 people.

Tan Tai personally commanded the remaining ten thousand troops to attack Zunhua City.

这三处战场双方的兵力对比是，7500:1500，7500:1500，1万:2000。

This means that Tan Tai deployed heavy troops in three places and launched a fierce attack on the Ming army, making them unable to look at each other.

Faced with five times the onslaught of the enemy, the Ming army took advantage of the favorable terrain and the solid ancient city to guard against death.Both sides used bows and arrows, firecrackers and red cannons, and the fight filled the air.

Sure enough, the Tianxiong Army lived up to its reputation. This kind of army chain of relatives and villagers, one person sacrificed his life, and all of them sacrificed their lives, repelling the fierce attacks of the Tartars time and time again.

But when the war progressed to the third day, the ancient city of Zunhua that Lu Xiangsheng insisted on was fine, but the two strongholds outside the city could not hold up.

The reason is that the Tartars have too many troops, and their eight-foot-high earthen city is a temporary construction, which is made of earth, wood and stones, broken bricks and rocks.There is no moat, just a deep ditch with no water in it.There were no solid city gates in the land reform, and there were no drawbridges or golden gates at all.

Therefore, after a long time, the crazy attack of the Tartars could not be stopped at all.The red cannons of the Tartars are also very powerful, and now they are no less inferior to the artillery fire of the Ming army.

In the Nurhachi period before Huang Taiji ascended the throne, that is, the post-Jin period before the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the artillery fire of the Ming army had an absolute advantage.No matter if it was firecrackers, bird blunderbusses, three-eyed blunderbusses, or red-clothed cannons, the Tartars didn't have them, and they didn't even care about them.

They all relied on bow and arrow shooting, and collectively charged on horseback to win.Regarding the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, they believed that as long as they could break through the fire defense line, the Ming army would have to be slaughtered.

Therefore, they are good at field battles, coming and going like the wind, while the Ming army relied on firepower superiority and solid fortifications to defend.

As early as the Battle of Sarhu, the Ming army was defeated, and the Jin army captured a large number of military supplies of the Ming army, including firecrackers and cannons.The very scheming Huang Taiji began to study this kind of weapon of the Han people.

After the Battle of Ningyuan broke out, the Tartars suffered a great loss, and Nurhachi died shortly after being injured. After a power struggle, Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne and changed the country's name to Tiancong.

In the Battle of Ningyuan, although the Tartars were defeated, the victories in some battlefields enabled them to seize certain firearms. Huang Taiji also reused the big traitor Tong Yangxing to imitate Han artillery for them.

In the Battle of Dalinghe in August 1631, the Tartars used their astonishingly powerful artillery for the first time, and the Ming army suffered a strategic defeat.In the next two years, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, who were equipped with the most artillery, led their troops to surrender to the Tartars and became shameful traitors.

In this way, in 1936, that is, the year that Lin Yi traveled through, Houjin became the Qing Dynasty, and the artillery power of the Qing Dynasty developed rapidly, and the artillery advantage of the Ming Dynasty actually no longer existed.

This time, Huang Taiji sent Azig and Amin to lead [-] Tatars to attack the Ming army, and also brought a certain number of cannons in red.

They used cannons to siege cities and land, and fought tough battles. The Ming army was defeated one after another. That's why they occupied more than a dozen cities in a short period of time and hit the vicinity of Gyeonggi in one breath.

On the current Zunhua battlefield, the artillery fire of the Ming army bombarded the Tartars, and the artillery of the Tartars also aimed at the fort positions of the Ming army to fight back violently.

The two sides clashed, the ground shook, the mountains shook, smoke billowed, and the flames shot into the sky.Both sides suffered heavy casualties, but the Ming army was weak after all, and the contrast in military strength between the two sides was too great.

The two earth-built city towers outside the city barely lasted for two days before they were blasted into ruins by the Tartars. Then the Tartars broke through the artillery defense line and attacked the Ming army's city towers.

Liu Chongzhen, the commander-in-chief of the army, stood firm on the city tower, and did not retreat in a bloody battle. Finally, the entire army was wiped out. Liu Chongzhen was hit by three arrows and eight knives, and fell into a pool of blood.

After Liu Chongzhen died in battle, the Tartars chopped off his head, and the city platform outside the left city of Zunhua fell like this.

Immediately afterwards, the Tartars attacked the city tower on the right. In a hand-to-hand fight, there were only 1000 of the more than 300 Ming troops left.

Seeing that this place could not be defended anymore, Luo Dai, the deputy commander, was also injured, and led his men to retreat into the city.

At this time, Zunhua City also fought for three days and two nights. Tan Tai personally led more than 1 Tartars to storm the ancient city. The artillery roared and many crenels on the city wall were blown down.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was fully armed, went to the city to direct the battle in person. For three days and two nights, he only ate three meals and slept for more than two hours. Repairs were carried out, and the attacks of the Tartars were repulsed many times.

After three days and two nights of fierce fighting, more than half of the 2000 Tianxiong troops in the city were killed or injured. In addition to the two or three hundred defeated soldiers brought by Luo Dai, there are now only 1000 people in the city who can fight, and the two earthen towers outside the city are completely destroyed. After the fall, Zunhua was left with an isolated city.

What's more terrible is that the cannons and firecrackers are out of ammunition and have become scrap iron, leaving only a few bows and arrows. Now the defense of the city depends on limited bows and arrows, bricks and stones, and abandoned houses have been stripped away. At least, some trees were cut down and made into rolling logs, and they were counted on to defend the city.

It's only a matter of time before ammunition and food run out, and Lu Xiangsheng knows what's waiting for them next?But he vowed to live and die with this city.

I don't know how the Qianxi battlefield is like?Just as Lu Xiangsheng was about to send someone to investigate, Zhang Hua entered the city with two relatives. Seeing Lu Xiangsheng, he briefly described the battle situation in Qianxi, and presented Lin Yi's personal letter.

After Lu Xiangsheng read this letter, he was happy at first, because Lin Yi planned to burn down the Tartars' grain and grass depot, and this battle was fought beautifully.

Then he yelled at Zu Kuan. He used to know that his army had poor discipline, robbed everywhere, burned houses, and raped prostitutes.Lu Xiangsheng persuaded him more than once, and he listened and refused to listen for a while, and Lu Xiangsheng could bear it.

But this time, he led his troops to flee in front of the battle, so he could be killed but not kept!

But Lu Xiangsheng was only able to satisfy his mouth addiction and relieve his anger, but he couldn't do it anymore. Zunhua was already too busy to take care of himself, and he really couldn't control the Qianxi battlefield.

Ji Dong and the others only have more than 1000 people left. How can they hold Qianxi?

He thought of what Gao Qiqian said again, and after thinking about it, he wrote back a letter to Lin Yi, in which he praised Lin Yi for his loyalty and resourcefulness. , You can make your own decisions at critical moments.

This is tantamount to telling Jiong implicitly that whether to fight or to retreat, he has full authority to decide everything, and there is no need to ask him, the governor, for instructions.

After the letter was written, it was handed over to Zhang Hua, but at this moment, the Tartar soldiers came to the city, and the three groups of Tartar soldiers joined together, and the elite of [-] Banners surrounded Zunhua City.

It is impossible for Zhang Hua to go back to Qianxi. Lu Xiangsheng comforted him. Tonight he arranged for someone to break into the camp and escort Zhang Hua out of the city. Zhang Hua was very grateful...

Tan Tai's results in the past two days were not bad. Although the casualties were 6000 to [-], all the outlying Ming army strongholds in Zunhua were removed, and there was only one isolated city left in Zunhua, and the firearms became dumb. Based on this, they speculated that the Ming army The cannon ran out of ammunition, and it was just around the corner to break through the city and capture Lu Xiangsheng.

Just when Tan Tai was full of ambition, he suddenly received an order from Azig and Amin to withdraw his troops. Tan Tai was very puzzled. He stared at the secret order six times with wide-eyed bull eyes. Wrong, the secret order can't be fake, but isn't the retreat now a waste of all previous efforts?If you fight well, let the troops withdraw. Why?There is not much to say in the secret order.

Just tell him the deadline for retreat is tomorrow morning.

Tan Tai was a little confused, and while sending people to Azig's camp to find out what happened, he ordered his subordinates to pack up and prepare to retreat.

The retreat of the [-]-strong army is not just a slap on the butt, it requires a lot of preparation work, tents, food and supplies, pots and pans and other military supplies have to be brought, and the front is opened, and the rear is broken, all these have to be arranged.

Only one day of preparation time was enough, Tan Tai was unwilling to disobey orders.

At the end of the night, the people sent by Tan Tai came back. It turned out that the food supply was not enough, and the grain depot was burned. If they did not retreat, the consequences would be disastrous.

Tan Tai scolded his mother straight away, what happened, the battle that was sure to win turned out like this, and at the critical moment, it was this Lin Yi who broke the big deal again!

Tan Tai calmed down and thought about it, retreat tomorrow morning, it’s completely in time, prepare for the retreat during the day, use troops at night, and take down Zunhua even if he doesn’t sleep all night tonight, the Ming army can’t just be cheap like this, You have to catch or slash Lu Xiangsheng!
After Tan Tai made his decision, he immediately summoned the heads of the army to arrange the retreat and the siege of the city at night...

The spies Ji Dong sent this time came back after only half a day.

Zunhua was besieged and was in danger. Master Lu was in trouble. No wonder Zhang Hua hadn't heard from Zhang Hua for the past few days. It turned out that he was trapped in the city.

"We must rush to help Zunhua and rescue Governor Lu!" Lin Yi immediately made a decision.

When Zu Keyong was called, Ji Dong decided to dispatch troops immediately to rescue soldiers like firefighting.

Let Zu Keyong stay in Qianxi, give him 600 troops, and guard two camps. In order to guard against the Tartars attacking, Lin Yi asked him to spread banners in the camp to confuse the Tartars.

Then Lin Yi galloped to Zunhua with 2000 Guanning cavalry.

Now Lin Yi has become a veritable guerrilla general, fighting guerrillas everywhere in Yuyang, Qianxi, and Zunhua.

After running for more than an hour at a stretch, when it was dark, Zunhua City was in sight from afar.

But Ji Dong and the others were also exhausted. They were sweating and panting. The distance of more than 120 miles was measured by the four legs of the horses. The horses couldn't stand it anymore. If you are lying down, you must rest your troops and horses before you can recover your combat power.

It happened that the Tartars hadn't attacked the city yet. If there were shouts of killing, they should be able to hear them here. Just taking advantage of the night to rest and break into the camp at night, Lin Yi immediately gave the order...

(End of this chapter)