Chapter 167: Huang Taiji Was Trapped by the Goblin Army Master
Before dawn on the third day, we were still 30 miles away from Liaohe River.
Normally, a rush march would arrive soon.
But at this time, Huang Taiji's Zhengbai Banner was behind him, and 3,000 Mongolian cavalry and the remaining 3,000 Zhenglan Banner were on both wings, making it look like they were encircling and annihilating them all in one go.
Wang Hongyu wants to carry the coffin and fight to the death.
The eldest brother learned the last lesson and put himself to death to survive.
The veteran fought hard for everyone to survive, and now he has understood the spirit of the Ming Dynasty's army.
Wang Hongyu had already thought about what would happen tomorrow. Now he looked at Zhao Hannian and Zhou Yijie to see how far they could think.
Zhao Hannian was re-promoted. At this time, he had a first glimpse of the way to be a general. He eagerly started to analyze:
"The enemy will no longer use these small tricks of bypassing and detouring, because these tricks have been broken by us and caused them a lot of losses. Therefore, the enemy will fight openly and openly again."
Not bad~
Wang Hongyu just nodded calmly on the outside, but inside he was actually quite happy with Zhao Hannian's growth.
The slight suppression before was to make him realize that to be brave, he also needed to have the brains of a general.
Zhou Yijie also nodded. As a veteran of the Sichuan Army and a servant who has followed Zhou Dunji for many years, he also felt that this analysis was more accurate.
"Yes, in this case, although our army only has 30 miles to go, it will not be possible to safely pass this stretch of road unless we repel the enemy in an upright manner." Wang Hongyu concluded, judging that tomorrow will be a fierce battle.
At present, the Ming army here has a total of more than 2,700 people. After several days of fighting between the eight banners, the number of soldiers and horses of each banner ranges from 2,500 to 3,500.
This means that flying one flag is more than enough, flying two flags is a little trickier.
If there are two flags, plus 3,000 Mongolian cavalry... that would be quite difficult.
If we had not arrived at the Liao River 30 miles away today, we might not be facing two banners and Mongols tomorrow.
But the numbers are enough to annihilate our enemies.
The three of them looked at each other and unanimously thought that before Hun He finally escaped, he attacked the Zhenghuang Banner camp and captured the camp guards, beating Nurhaci so hard that other banners went to rescue him.
At this time, most of the Ming army had the opportunity to retreat and destroy the cannons and gunpowder.
Now, it should be the same.
Zhou Yijie said: "In order to cover the injured and injured, we should take the initiative and directly counterattack the enemy general."
"That's true, but..."
Wang Hongyu changed the subject and said: "Who will be us at that time? Who will be the second brother Zhang Shenwu at that time?"
These words hit the key point.
At that time, Wang Hongyu and others retreated and then fought back. Zhang Shenwu arrived and led 230 servants to break the formation.
"Zhang Shenwu is a staff general. In addition to the servants, he has an independent reinforcement camp, with as many as 3,000 troops. I contacted my second brother in advance to come for support, but he only had 230 servants to arrive, and the rest are supposedly on the way. There are also others in Guangning
Soldiers and horses, it is said that even if we know that Shenyang is attacked and send troops, they will definitely be able to reach the Liao River."
"yes!"
Zhao Hannian and Zhou Yijie slapped their heads, thinking that these soldiers and horses should be arriving soon. They should be able to become a surprise force that can tear the enemy's line from the outside when the battle situation is stalemate.
"The problem is, I knew that my second brother would definitely come at that time, and it was basically on that day. But now... I have to send someone who is familiar with Guangning and has a military background to contact him."
The one who is familiar with Guangning is none other than Lao Tan.
He became very prosperous at the Guangning Intelligence Station, engaged in trade counter-intelligence intelligence, and even investigated Saarhu.
But we still need someone who is familiar with the military.
"I'll go!" Zhou Yijie responded.
He was the core of Zhou Dunji's retainers. Although he did not know Zhang Shenwu's newly recruited Kaiyuan refugee soldiers, he was from the same family as the thousands of Sichuan soldiers under his command, and he knew many of the veteran soldiers among them.
"good!"
Wang Hongyu sent 50 people, including Zhou Jie and Lao Tan, to the Liao River overnight to search for reinforcements.
Near dawn, Jiang Bi, Zhang Mingshi, Zhao Shujiao and others also rested.
Wang Hongyu explained the plan to them.
The two of them made some additional suggestions based on their experience: Since the location of the reinforcements in this decisive battle is temporarily uncertain, they can pretend to be weak and adopt a defensive posture to delay for a while. After the enemy's formation is surrounded, the entire army can attack the enemy's general.
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"Very good!"
Wang Hongyu readily agreed.
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It's daybreak.
The 3,000 Mongolians looked very lazy, still not getting up, and there were not many people watching over the horses.
This is of course a disguise, and they are preparing to ambush the Ming army by fishing.
The soldiers and horses of Zhengbai Banner and Zhenglan Banner have been ambushing nearby, waiting for the Ming army to attack early in the morning.
It turned out that when Fan Wencheng directly judged that the Ming army might imitate Hunhe, he attacked unexpectedly and fiercely.
The Jin soldiers and horses did not attack at night last night.
Then at dawn, the Ming army would turn around and attack.
The estimated time is at dawn!
As early as when he was lurking in Shenyang, he had spied on the fact that Zhou Dunji, Zhang Shenwu and Wang Hongyu were sworn brothers. At this time, he rolled his eyes and thought that he had become proficient in predicting people's hearts, so he persuaded Huang Taiji to set up an ambush and wait for the Ming army to be fooled.
An ambush was set up before dawn, with Mongolians as bait and Zhengbai Banner and Zhenglan Banner lying in ambush on the left and right.
But they waited and waited, but the Ming army never came.
Mang Gurtai asked Huang Taiji: "Eighth brother, it seems that the Ming army will not attack?"
Huang Taiji replied: "Fifth brother, please be patient. Wang Hongyu is the sworn brother of Zhou Dunji and Zhang Shenwu. They are good at making strategies and are brutal and cunning. They will definitely want to fight to the death with us."
"But no one is here, so what's the use of our ambush?"
"Don't be anxious, wait for three more sticks of incense."
After waiting for three more sticks of incense, the Ming army had not come to fight to the death, so they decided to wait for three more sticks of incense.
Three sticks of incense followed by three sticks of incense, this time even Huang Taiji was beating drums in his heart.
Shouldn’t it? I will never make a mistake in my judgment~
Fan Wencheng lurked into Shenyang at that time and obtained information about the Sichuan Army from the Liao Army Sun Qing and others. The three brothers Zhou Dunji, Zhang Shenwu and Wang Hongyu basically did everything in the same way.
During the bloody battle of Hunhe, they suddenly broke into the Khan's camp, disrupting Hou Jin's attack plan.
Now, I will try my old tricks again.
Three sticks of incense followed by three sticks of incense.
The Ming army still didn't come.
Huang Taiji knew that the Ming army would not rush over. Fan Wencheng was really a dog-headed military advisor!
However, he was quite dignified and did not lose his composure at this time. He said very calmly: "The Ming army must have lost their courage. This time we pressed forward with an upright force. They can't do anything like yesterday."
This section of the Liaohe River runs from north to south, and the bridge and ferry are 30 miles south of here.
Huang Taiji knew that he could not delay any longer, as other Ming troops would join them.
So the Zhenglan Banner was in the east, the Mongols were in the west, and the Zhengbai Banner was in the middle. In order to prevent the Ming army from escaping quickly, everyone on horseback chased them.
After advancing ten miles, I saw the Ming army. I was very surprised that the enemy did not rush to flee towards the Liaohe River, but instead prepared a tight formation and waited.
this……
Sure enough, we still want to attack our Chinese army!