Chapter 357 Surprisingly

The second year of Chongzhen, October.

Yang He, the commander of Shanhaiguan who was hastily sent troops, personally led 50,000 elite Ming troops to go out to Shanhaiguan and pass through Jinzhou. After more than ten days, he crossed the Liao River and was surrounded on the east bank of the Liao River. After the battle was unsuccessful, he had to carry the waters and form a formation to stand guard and wait for assistance. Two days later,

The 50,000 Ming troops surrounded on the east bank of the Liao River were bombarded violently by the artillery team of the Eight Banners Han Army with more than 30 cannons. The entire army collapsed. The commander Yang He was captured, and more than 200 generals were killed or captured. The rear team

The 120,000 Ming troops were shocked and left their supplies, grain and grass, and hurriedly retreated to Shanhaiguan, and refused to leave the pass again.

Ma Cheng changed his sternly after receiving the military report: "Where is the red cannon."

The Shanhaiguan messenger who came to report the message said ashamed: "The villain doesn't know that it must have been taken away."

Ma Cheng kicked him hard and said angrily: "How many heroic cannons have been taken away, say!"

The messenger cried: "The villain really doesn't know, but only knows that many cannons in the city have been removed and transported away, and there are always more than a dozen or twenty."

Ma Cheng was so dark that he was almost fainting. The deadly red cannon, the front-mounted smoothbore cannon weighing 3,000 kilograms, was inconvenient to operate. It must have fallen into the baggage team behind the brigade, and most of it had already fallen into the opponent. Two days later,

Zhang Fengyi, as the Minister of War, was the commander of Ji Liao, and rushed to Shanhaiguan to command the army. He reorganized the army and fought against Jianlu to fight the city of Jinzhou. Zhang's commander killed Shanhaiguan, slashed the heads of several escaped generals and slashed Jinzhouguan.

Ning Shou's iron barrel was like that, he never dared to penetrate deep into the heart of Liaodong again. The 50,000 elite troops were wiped out, and the Ming army in Shanhaiguan was devastated.

At this time, Shanxi and the capital was in a hurry, and they all discovered large groups of cavalry, which surprised Lu Xiangsheng how many soldiers and horses were there in Jianlu. It was obvious that the main force had entered the pass, why could it still annihilate the 50,000 elite troops in the Ming Dynasty in the Liaohe River? Ma Cheng smiled bitterly, 200,000.

There are always infantry and cavalry. Are those who fight against the Liaohe River called elite? They look down on the Eight Banners Han Army too much. The masters let go of the plunder in the Ming Dynasty, and the slaves can still guard the house and protect the house. The Eight Banners of the Han Army are also comparable to

There were many elite Ming troops in Shanhaiguan. The capital was in a hurry. Qi and Jin chose to be loyal ministers in a dilemma and gave up the entire army in Dongjiang Town to return to the capital from sea to aid the capital. History has been beyond recognition.

20,000 Zhejiang soldiers from Dongjiang Town returned to the capital from sea to help the capital. Qi Jin was a loyal minister and general of the Ming Dynasty. He did not ask the court for a piece of money and brought his own food and salary to the capital to serve the king. Ma Cheng asked himself that he could not be loyal, but fortunately Qi Jin was foolish.

Zhong was not stupid. Before leaving, he handed over the large amount of military equipment stored in Dongjiang Town to the Yizhou Army under Mao Wenlong. He also wrote a long letter to Jizhou, and his attitude of being determined to die was sighing.

Defeat the elite Ming army in Liaohe River. Huang Taiji unscrupulously led more than 100,000 cavalrymen, and under the sight of Lin Dan Khan's troops in Baicheng, he entered the pass and plundered. He successively defeated Malanyu, Panjiakou and other border cities, Zunhua, Yongping, Qian'an and other cities

The emergency was approaching the capital, and the world shook the people in the capital, and many people were killed and injured. The new Ji Liao commander led 80,000 infantry and cavalry, and the governor of Xuanda Yuan Chonghuan led 40,000 infantry and cavalry back to the aid. The panicked Donglin Cabinet urgently ordered the two armies to return to the aid.

In the capital of the capital, the defense line was built outside the Yongding Gate to intercept the enemy cavalry.

At night, Jizhou Daying.

In a brightly lit camp, Ma Cheng frowned at the map. Huang Taiji's troops would not exceed 100,000. From Xifengkou, Da'ankou, Malanyu entered the pass, and broke through the military fort along the Great Wall with a strong force.

Through the mountainous areas with complex terrain, they went straight to Yongping Luanzhou, captured Santun Camp, threatening Zunhua, and the other direction was unknown. The reconnaissance cavalry had already been circulating, and it took time to reconnaissance the enemy situation.

The cabinet's response was too clumsy, so clumsy that it could not be seen directly.

The cabinet and the Ministry of War have lost their limits, and the enemy has not moved, so I move around.

The latest strategy of the cabinet is to gather troops in the capital, and arrange the king-supporting troops from all directions on the periphery of the capital, with layers of defense, making Macheng really want to overturn the table and curse people. There are more than 100,000 Beijing camps in the capital,

Shenji Camp, Shenshu Camp, and Warrior Camp are all war-capable troops that have been rectified by the Tianqi Dynasty. The capital is so large that the population exceeds one million. Huang Taiji will be so stupid that he can enter the city unless he is a broken brain.

What are Jianlu going to the capital? Waiting to be trapped in the streets and alleys of the capital? There are more than 100,000 fixed Beijing camps in the capital, and they have to arrange reinforcements from all over the country in the capital. This is simply a fear

He died to the extreme. If he did not save Zunhua, Yongping, and Luanzhou, he would give the large area of ​​urgent prefecture north of the capital to Jianlu to plunder.

Two days later, the whereabouts of the third arch cavalry were found.

Twenty thousand enemy cavalry went west along the Great Wall, avoiding the reconnaissance in Jizhou toward Shunyi, and heading towards the capital. At this time, they should be attacking Shunyi. Further forward Shunyi is the capital, and the capital should be in chaos. Macheng is now in chaos.

He stared at the map and pondered without saying a word. He had long seen through Huang Taiji's plan. The attack on Shunyi was a feint, restraining, or in other words, a partial army that scared the wise rulers and ministers. The main force of the captive cavalry was in Yongping, Luanzhou and Qian'an areas.

The plundering is what Huang Taiji really wants to do, population, gold, silver, food, and whatever he sees. In the quiet camp, the detective cavalry came to report that the large number of Jianlu were attacking Zunhua. Zunhua asked for help in urgent need.

After an hour, Yuan Chonghuan's messenger arrived. Yuan Chonghuan led 40,000 infantry and cavalry to rescue Zunhua, and invited Jizhou troops to attack from north to south, and wanted to encircle and annihilate Jianlu under Zunhua City. Ma Cheng said nothing, but stared at the map and pondered.

Zunhua is not a good battlefield. Zunhua is too close to the Great Wall, and Jianlu can flee north at any time. Governor Yuan was too willing to encircle and annihilate the captive cavalry under Zunhua City. Is it a fool? Huang Taiji attacked Zunhua very hard

Cunning, attacking is naturally excellent. If you can't defeat, you can escape north at any time. This is an invincible place.

A huge cavalry group wanted to escape, but Governor Yuan's 40,000 troops could never be stopped. In addition, 35,000 troops in Jizhou were useless, and only 5,000 cavalrymen in Jizhou were used to chase tens of thousands of cavalry.

So, Macheng is not so confident. This is the helplessness of attacking cavalry with footsteps. Zunhua is only a few dozen miles away from the Great Wall and the grassland. The enemy cavalry can escape at any time. This journey is also a half-true and half-false partial master.

After a long time, Ni Yuanlu said cautiously: "Master General, the Ministry of War has urged us to return to the capital."

Ma Cheng said angrily: "Including the king-fighting troops from all over the country, can't even defend the capital hundreds of thousands of people? I'm fool!"

Ni Yuanlu said helplessly: "If we disobey our orders, it is probably inappropriate."

Ma Cheng's eyes became fierce, and he finally made up his mind to say, "I want him to come and go in Yongping!"

Ni Yuanlu no longer looked at the map and couldn't help feeling a little nervous. Lu Xiangsheng called out: "It should be so. Yongping and Luanzhou cities went deep into the hinterland of Zhili, with a dense population, so they can fight their laziness!"

Ma Cheng picked up the wolf hair and drew two straight lines on the map, and said slowly: "Yongping reaches Xifengkou for 300 miles, and Shanhaiguan is only 200 miles."
Chapter completed!