At this time, the giant shield soldiers kept advancing.
They began to attack the enemy's village gate.
Soon they came to the door.
At this time, several old Jurchen bannermen started shooting.
Then they were all blocked by shields.
The musketeers also shot through the shooting holes in the shield in time.
A row of bullets passed by, and the old female soldier who was trying to shoot fell down.
In fact, this tactic is similar to a car camp.
However, this kind of military unit has not appeared on a large scale in history.
Obviously it has great disadvantages.
One of the disadvantages is that it has poor mobility.
The second disadvantage is that the cost is too high.
You have to make a shield, and you have to make a stomach.
For Westerners, their manpower at this time was very cheap.
Those mercenaries are all guys who don't have enough to eat.
The mortality rate among sailors is as high as 75%.
How do ordinary sailors get here?
When they arrived at the port, they invited people to drink, got a group of them drunk, and then bundled them onto the ship.
Therefore, it is normal for a rebellion to occur on a ship and to kill people.
The same is true for mercenaries. The reason why musketeers appeared in large numbers to replace archers is because they relied on whips and sticks and took three months of training to take shape.
Going to the battlefield means doing whatever the officer tells you to do.
Use sticks to create conditioned reflexes.
Feudal archers cannot be trained in this way. It takes at least 3 years to make a bow.
When the Jurchen veterans were beaten to death.
Several other old, weak, sick and disabled Jurchens also began to run away.
In fact, the Jurchens are certainly afraid of death.
In this case, they have already resisted and will not be beheaded if they escape.
They can escape in the name of reporting a message.
But if you run away without resistance, you will definitely be beheaded.
This is the cruel military law of the Jurchens.
Of course, if there is an Eight Banners dignitary leading the team and the opponent is found to be strong enough, they can also retreat before the formation.
Not a problem.
There is still a difference between the master's life and the slave's life.
The old, weak, sick and disabled people desperately mounted their horses and mules and tried to escape through the back door of Zhuangzi.
However, they did not escape far because the exit from the back of the village had long been blocked by people outside.
There was another volley of guns, and these people fell.
Several horses also fell down, which made them feel very distressed.
After all, these horses are precious, and transporting them over long distances would be too expensive. It would be best to replenish them locally.
The necessary condition for a scout in this era is to have a horse.
You can't be a scout without a horse.
As the Jurchens were killed, some of the remaining coated slaves soon began to surrender.
There were a few surrendered soldiers, and they obviously had active hatred in their eyes, and they took the initiative to lead the way.
With their help, the army found the food and grass in Zhuangzi and replenished it.
There are also three wells for replenishing fresh water.
Because they came too quickly, the Zhuangzi people had no time to destroy the grain, grass and wells.
This provided some convenience for the army to advance.
After plundering the grain and grass, they burned the village and escorted the prisoners to the rear.
These people breathed a sigh of relief.
If the Jurchens did this, they must have killed the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving only the young and strong.
At most one-third of the people were left. If anyone dared to resist, it was normal to kill them all in the old Khan era.
At Huang Taiji's time, he didn't often kill them all, but he would also capture them as slaves.
Huang Taiji is not benevolent, he just knows how to utilize human resources better.
These coatings will be sent to some uninhabited islands along the way for reclamation and maintenance of supply points.
Especially if you have to raise horses on a nearby island, long-distance transportation would be too time-consuming.
A horse may be jolted for ten days without dying, but it may die after being jolted for 15 consecutive days.
If there is an island in the middle that can provide a transfer, turning 15 days into two periods, and the horse rests on the island in the middle for three days or half a month, then the transfer can be successful.
These coatings are valuable human resources.
They are prisoners anyway, and no one takes their wishes into consideration.
If I don’t kill you, I’ll give you something to stutter and keep you alive. What else do you want?
Wen Rensheng cannot use any advanced concept that everyone is equal.
He can only achieve his goal by relying on the power of everyone and using the existing concepts and technologies of this period.
Then came the second Zhuangzi, the third Zhuangzi, and the fourth Zhuangzi, all the way.
With their huge force of 7,000 men, they invaded at this time, which obviously caught the Jurchens by surprise strategically.
You must know that Mao Wenlong was dead at this time, and people in Dongjiang were in chaos, and they did not play a containment role at all.
The Jurchens also boldly chose to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Wen Rensheng understood that if the player Huang Taiji could see his progress, then he would leave enough defensive troops.
If the other party cannot see your progress, then your own side will have a great advantage.
From the current point of view, it seems that the other party cannot see it.
Probably because the person he was betting against was a golden-armored god. A mere player was just a chess piece, and the chess pieces were not qualified to see the player.
It's easy to verify.
At this time, Wen Rensheng saw Huang Taiji under a yellow umbrella in the distance of a city, directing the siege.
After watching it for a while, he understood that the other party was trying to establish a logistics supply point.
Long-distance attacks also require a foothold.
Otherwise, what will happen to the wounded soldiers?
Without a place to recuperate, minor injuries will turn into serious injuries, and serious injuries will lead to immediate death.
For the Jurchens, the wounded soldiers of the Eight Banners of Han and Mongolia can be abandoned, but the wounded soldiers of their own clan cannot be abandoned unless the situation is critical.
Even if he is seriously injured, he has a one-to-two chance of surviving thanks to his strong physique and rich nutrition.
Or maybe three or five out of a hundred can survive.
If it is a minor injury, seven or eight out of ten people can live.
The premise is to rest in one place.
But at this time, the city could no longer support it.
There were no red cannons here, so the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty captured the city after paying a certain amount of casualties.
Then came the massacre of the city, which was the tradition of the Eight Banners soldiers.
Those who resist will definitely massacre the city, there will be no exception.
It can be said that they are the lowest team in history.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Only some of the young men will be left as guards to reduce the pressure on logistics and promote some of the heavy supply troops.
Relying on this layer of oppression, the morale of the soldiers who invaded the Eight Banners increased again.
The Han Eight Banners and the Baoyi soldiers who had destroyed the city were compensated. Although the Man Eight Banners ended up taking most of the spoils, they were still able to obtain some slaves and property, which greatly improved the morale that had been lowered due to the serious losses.
In terms of clear distinction between rewards and punishments, the Jurchens were ten times ahead of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was able to annihilate all the Qi family troops who were asking for military pay. Based on this, there is nothing to say about destruction.
The Manchus never did this until the end. It can be seen that the Manchus have always understood the importance of force, but they never understood the importance of ideas. They always treated others as minions and slaves... In the end, they died of ideas and were built by themselves.
The New Army was overthrown.
Huang Taiji was obviously very happy.
With blood everywhere in the city, a banquet was held in honor of the warriors who broke into the city. Some of the humble warriors among them promoted them to the flag on the spot.
In this case, those incarcerated people forgot about the oppression they had suffered and the hatred they had against the Jurchens, and turned around and became converts.
From here, Wen Rensheng knew that Huang Taiji would not be so happy if he knew that he had sent troops north.
And his team, starting from the temporary port and going 200 miles deep, finally encountered danger.
Jurchen cavalry began to appear.
At first they were in groups of three or five, and later there were more than ten or twenty.
They rode on horses or even stood on horses, looking at the army from a distance.
Those pairs of wolf-like eyes stared intently at this team.
It's full of hatred.
They began to strangle the scouts of the army marching north from time to time.
Obviously, the scouts of the army going north would definitely not be able to survive this kind of strangulation.
They have never fought many land battles, they have always fought at sea.
Fortunately, they also have advantages, that is, they have telescopes and better stomachs.
If you can't beat him, you can run away.
If your opponent pursues you, use a short-fire blunderbuss to attack the opponent's horse.
Those bullets are very powerful, but if you rely on horses to pursue them, you cannot use powerful walking bows. The power of riding bows is too small.
It cannot break the mail armor of cavalry or the leather armor of horses.
But it's enough to drive away these scouts.
The scouts quickly returned to the army.
Now the trouble is big.
If the scouts cannot defeat the opponent, it means that the battlefield map is blocked.
Where do the enemies come from? How many are there and where are they ambushed?
Are you trying to outflank your own retreat?
These are all unknown.
Now if you want more results, you need to attack further.
But in that case, the danger is great.
The other party can quietly steal your retreat.
Then dig trenches to block the retreat, which is the specialty of the Eight Banners.
Wen Rensheng's soldier output is mainly firearms.
This firearm is very powerful, but it also consumes a lot of energy.
Once the gunpowder is gone, the main output is spent.
The infantry and cavalry of the Eight Banners cannot be dealt with by spearmen and shield soldiers.
They wore heavy armor and fought in formation.
He also has a powerful walking bow, which is a talent brought by the fishing and hunting life.
If you fight like this, the shield soldiers can protect you for a while, but you will suffer a lot in the confrontation.
Shields consume too much energy.
How to obtain battlefield intelligence now?
Wen Rensheng did not give any advice.
Yi Zijia sent out an infantry squad using heavy matchlock guns, combined with the cavalry to act as scouts.
Use infantry to cover the cavalry.
They relied on their heavy matchlock guns to drive away the enemy's cavalry.
Unless the enemy cavalry dismounts and uses a walking bow, otherwise the mounted bow cannot cause effective damage.
But the power of the walking bow is not focused on range and rate of fire, but on breaking armor.
However, the range of the heavy matchlock gun can reach 200 steps, which far exceeds the range and power of the Jurchen infantry bow.
Breaking armor is very easy.
A fork is required for support.
So with the help of infantry to drive them away, the opponent's precious scouts stopped approaching these teams after losing a few.
It's too much of a loss to fight.
You must know that all of these scouts can be said to be qualified to be white-armored soldiers, and some can even become Gebushexians.
Scouts are the most elite soldiers in the army, bar none.
If anyone uses miscellaneous soldiers as scouts, the general is either a fool or does not want to live.
Intelligence is always the most important in war.
In this way, the small group of infantry cooperated with the cavalry, and finally drove away the Jurchen cavalry surrounding the large group of people.
They often start to retreat as soon as they see the team approaching.
No one would be stupid enough to charge into a confrontation.
Even if it is possible to disperse, before that, within 200 steps, two rounds of shooting, a total of 60 to 100 bullets, will be fired.
The hit rate is very high.
Because the opponent is hitting a horse.
Without the horses, the scouts like them would be doomed.
Soon, new information arrived.
There was a Jurchen team of about 300 people in front, setting up camp in front.
It is a river with only one bridge on it.
The other party is setting up camp behind the bridge.
The three hundred people consisted of 30 white-armored soldiers, 200 armored Eight Banners soldiers, and 70 mixed Mongolian and Jurchen cavalry.
Obviously they are mainly infantry.
All 300 people are soldiers.
It's not surprising that he can defeat Ming Dynasty head-on with thousands of people.
And now, they obviously have the confidence to block the strange army of 7,000 people.
It's just that they obviously don't know the details of their opponents.
Yi Zijia called the other four people and began to discuss the next arrangements.
"There are only 300 of them. Instead of running away, they are setting up camp. It is obvious that they are trying to stop us and wait for reinforcements to gather." Yi Ziyi said.
"In this case, we must quickly investigate the upstream and downstream of this river to prevent the other party from outflanking us," Yizi Bing said immediately.
"I have already done this. I ordered them to find out the situation upstream and downstream at any cost." Yi Zijia nodded.
"We are not familiar with the terrain now, but they are very familiar with the terrain. It is best for us to retreat to the harbor." Yizi Bing said again.
He is obviously conservative.
There are always three factions in a battle.
Positive, conservative, neutral.
Yi Zijia was silent.
It is safest to retreat, but this will yield no results.
The Jurchens were also very smart, and they did not dock.
Instead, they farmed the plains far from the coast.
Moreover, they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and the poor Zhuangzi, in total, captured more than 2,000 slaves and killed more than 100 old, weak, sick and disabled Jurchens.
It can be said that there are basically no results.
Totally a big loss.
The freight and various expenses of this trip north, and the dead horses alone far exceeded the results of these battles.
If you just quit like this, you won't be able to fight again next time.
Because it’s not cost-effective.
The Jurchens could sustain such a battle a hundred times, but they could only persist two or three times.
So we must continue to fight.
At least there must be enough harvest, either war experience or war capture.
Thinking of this, he immediately said: "Immediately notify the guards on the back road and ask them to closely monitor the movements of the back road. If any enemy scouts appear, report them immediately. And ask them to try their best to expel and kill the scouts they encountered on the back road.
, we cannot let them figure out our retreat."
Obviously, he was cautious and cautious enough. This was also specially chosen by Wen Rensheng.
In the first battle, it is better to be cautious and lose money than to make a bold advance and annihilate the entire army.
Soon everyone started to move.
"Our goal is, at the minimum, to kill the 300 Jurchen soldiers in front of us. The highest goal is to continue to penetrate deeper and reach Yangliao City, the first Jurchen city."
