This is the so-called shadow of a famous tree. The Battle of Shanyang made Yan Yingyuan famous. Even Dorgon had heard of Yan Yingyuan's name.
"It really deserves its reputation."
“He gave us a strong start as soon as he came up.”
With a sneer, Dorgon added: "It's just that in the face of absolute strength, no amount of conspiracy and tricks will have much effect. He shouldn't have come to Dagukou."
"What the master said is absolutely true." Hou Fangyu complimented.
“Yan Yingyuan’s coming to Dagukou can only lead to his own death.”
"Chongzhen thought he had a plan, but he was actually ruining his generals."
Hou Fangyu really hated Chongzhen and smeared him every chance he got.
Dorgon snorted softly and said: "Preaching the decree, we will camp here."
Dorgon's decree was conveyed, and the accompanying Eight Banners Han Army, Green Camp and a small number of Eight Banners soldiers began to set up camp on the south bank of the Wei River, setting up three camps in total.
The Eight Banners Han Army has one camp and the Green Camp has one camp.
Between the Eight Banners Han Army and the Green Camp, there was a separate camp of two thousand white-armored soldiers.
It was busy until almost noon, and the three camps of the Qing army were basically settled.
Because the Ming army that attacked Dagukou was only about 5,000, Dorgon did not recruit too many troops. In addition to Wu Sangui's 20,000 green battalion troops, there were only 18,000 Han troops and 2,000 Baya soldiers.
Two thousand white armors, one thousand with white flags, and another thousand with yellow flags.
Needless to say, a thousand soldiers with yellow flags came to protect Fulin.
The camp had just been set up, and Shi Tingzhu had also calculated the losses of the Eight Banners Han Army.
Shi Tingzhu walked into the Chinese army's tent with an ugly face and reported to Dorgon: "Master, the losses have been calculated clearly. A total of 481 ice sledges fell into the water, and the materials loaded included a total of 48 red cannons, eight
More than a thousand stones of wheat or millet, more than a thousand barrels of gunpowder and more than 20,000 kilograms of dried meat."
Dorgon's face immediately became ugly.
He asked with a dark face: "Can the red cannon and supplies still be picked up?"
Shi Tingzhu said: "My master, it is not difficult to fish out grain and dried meat, and it can still be eaten after being fished out. However, it is difficult to fish out the red cannon that fell into the water because the Wei River has not yet thawed, and the navy's
If the warships can't get here, there's no way to salvage the red cannon that sank to the bottom of the river."
Dorgon said: "Can't we wait until the Wei River freezes again and then dig out the ice and salvage it?"
There are generally only two ways to salvage sunken cargo in rivers or lakes. One is to use a boat and winch to salvage, and the other is to cut the ice after the river or lake freezes, and then salvage it from the ice cave.
However, the ice-cutting salvage method can only be used in cold weather and cannot salvage heavy objects.
"Master, the ice after refreezing is too thin and too brittle." Shi Tingzhu said with a bitter smile, "It can't bear the weight of the red cannon, so we can only wait for the navy to arrive after the Wei River thaws."
"Damn it." Dorgon said, "How many red cannons are left now?"
Shi Tingzhu said: "A total of one hundred red cannons were brought this time, and there are fifty-two left. It should be enough. If the master feels that it is not enough, he can bring fifty more cannons."
Dorgon said: "Forget it, let's make do with it first."
Even before the battle at Dagukou was fought, troops had to be transferred from Beijing. It would be very embarrassing and would severely damage his prestige, so it was better not to transfer troops.
After a pause, Dorgon asked again: "How many casualties did the Green Camp and the Eight Banners Han Army suffer?"
"More than three thousand." Shi Tingzhu's face dimmed and he whispered, "More than 500 of them were killed in the bombing, more than 100 drowned after falling into the water, and more than 800 were seriously injured. Even if they were saved, they would be disabled.
"
"Then find a place where no one is and deal with it quietly." Dorgon said coldly.
The food supply in the Qing Dynasty was very limited, and it was impossible to feed useless people, so they had to be disposed of.
"Hey!" Shi Tingzhu agreed, and left the tent with a gloomy face. His mood was undoubtedly very bad at this moment, because he lost hundreds of elite Han troops today.
As for the life and death of Luying, he doesn't care.
Dorgon's eyes fell on Ah Shan again and shouted: "Ah Shan, do you know your sin?"
Ah Shan lowered his head and did not say a word. Such a big mistake had occurred this time. He, as the Zhengbai Banner Gu Shan'e, could not escape the blame, because he was the one who led the front line of the army.
Last night, he personally led more than a hundred bagaras to conduct reconnaissance. At the closest point, they were only less than a hundred steps away from the Ming army at Dagukou. During this period, no abnormality was found.
Dorgon continued: "You participated in the Shanyang War two years ago, and you also experienced Yan Yingyuan's conspiracy. Why did you neglect the reconnaissance of Weihe this time? Om?"
Ah Shan wanted to say that I am not a shaman, how did I know that Yan Yingyuan would come?
Besides, the Wei River is so wide and long, how do I know where the Ming army buried the gunpowder? Is it possible that I take an ice ball and stick it everywhere along the Wei River? Can I get through?
But in the end, Ah Shan still didn’t have a word of excuse.
Regardless, it is always true that it was all due to his negligence.
Ah Shan's good confession attitude made Dorgon feel better, and he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Ah Shan, because your negligence has caused such heavy losses to the army, I will demote you by two levels and fine you one hundred taels of silver. However,
I allow you to perform meritorious deeds for your crime, as long as you perform meritorious deeds in the next war, you can atone for your crime."
"I thank my master for not killing me." Ah Shan knelt down and beat him a thousand times before retreating.
Dorgon looked at Shi Tingzhu again: "Shi Tingzhu, you have one hour to set up all the red cannons, and then first destroy the two cannon towers outside Dagokou."
"Hey!" Shi Tingzhu knelt down and turned around to leave.
…
At the forward position of the Ming army.
Before Jiannu launched an attack, Sun Fanzhi and his New Army soldiers were seizing the time to reinforce the gun platform. The walls and slope protection of the gun platform had been compacted and tightened. Now the main task was to deepen the trench.
Zhou Peigong also helped, using a dustpan to lift the soil dug out of the trench to the outside of the slope protection.
These soft soil layers covering the slope protection can form a certain protection for the slope protection. In this way, the damage to the slope protection will be reduced after Jiannu's artillery shells are digested by the loose soil layer.
Then the life of the outer slope protection will be greatly extended.
Zhou Peigong was very curious about the cannon fortifications in front of him.
"My benefactor, is this also a castle?" Zhou Peigong asked, "I haven't seen it in the book."
"In the book?" Sun Fanzhi asked while lifting dirt, "What kind of military books have you read?"
"I haven't read a few books. I only read a new book on performance." Zhou Peigong said a little embarrassed, "This is not included in the illustrations of Putcheng's various weapons."
"Of course there is no such thing in the new performance book."
Sun Fanzhi said with a smile: "This is called a gun platform. It was improved by the current emperor based on the Western gun platform. It can be used to defend against artillery and has miraculous effects. It is even stronger than a city wall several feet thick."
"That's it?" Zhou Peigong obviously didn't believe it, "Can it be stronger than a city wall several feet thick?"
"Boy, you don't understand this. Don't underestimate this slope protection. The most powerful thing about this slope protection is the angle between it and the ground. Since this angle is extremely small, the shell will not hit the slope after it hits the slope.
A ricochet will be formed, so the impact force on the slope protection itself will be greatly reduced." Sun Fanzhi patiently explained to Zhou Peigong.
As he spoke, a scream sounded like the air was being torn apart from above the trench. As soon as he heard this sound, Sun Fanzhi knew that the Eight Banners and Han Army had begun the artillery bombardment.
"go back!"
Sun Fanzhi immediately led Zhou Peigong and other New Army soldiers under his command around to the back of the gun platform, and then entered the bunker from the entrance behind the gun platform to avoid Jiannu's artillery fire.
…
Dorgon has already boarded the newly built well carriage.
Standing on the Jinglan chariot, which is more than five feet high, you can clearly see the Ming army's gun platform in front of you.
Through the telescope, Dorgon could clearly see that in just three days, the Ming army built a large gun tower on the west and south sides of Dagukou.
This seems to be different from the tactics of the Xuzhou Ming Army.
The Xuzhou Ming Army relied on the number of gun platforms. Each gun platform was not large in size and not necessarily very strong, but its victory was due to its large number, which made the Qing army at a loss when attacking.
However, the Ming army in Dagukou only built two large gun towers.
The two blunderbuss platforms plus Dagukou itself form exactly a "pin" shape.
Except for the size of these two large gun platforms, which are larger than the ones in Xuzhou, there is almost no difference in shape. They are both concave hexagons. No matter which direction the Qing army attacks from, they have to face the Ming army from two directions.
Cross shooting, but each edge is temporarily only a wooden fence, which is not too strong.
Judging from the thickness of the wood, a flintlock gun would definitely not be able to penetrate it.
But the red cannon's shells can be easily destroyed.
Dorgon originally thought that the wooden fences of the two gun platforms would be easily torn apart by the red cannons, but soon he discovered that something was wrong. The red cannons' bombardment never stopped, but the wooden fences of the gun platforms were
Unscathed, what it looked like when the bombardment started and what it still looks like now.
"Master, the problem lies with the slope protection outside the gun platform."
Hou Fangyu said: "Because the outer slope protection is slightly higher than the wooden fence of the cannon platform, the red cannons of the Eight Banners Han Army cannot hit the wooden fence at all unless they fire from top to bottom."
"That's true." Hong Chengchou said, "Unless we break through the slope protection first, we won't be able to hit the wooden fence."
"Mr. Hengjiu, it's impossible to penetrate the berm," Hou Fangyu said, "because the slope of the berm has a very large inclination and looks like flat ground. The red cannon's shells will jump up when hit."
"It's really true." Dorgon also saw it now, and cannonballs kept jumping up.
Although there were many craters on the front slope protection, there was no substantial damage.
