Chapter 135: If you don’t take Jinzhou, you will be condemned by God
Update time:2012-12-01
When the news of Zu Dashou's death came, Huang Taiji was so shocked that he dropped his wine glass. Zu Zehong even fainted on the spot. Zu Zerun and his two uncles also instantly became wooden, unable to believe their ears.
Everyone in the tent was dumbfounded. Even Zhang Chun was extremely shocked. He didn't understand why Zu Dashou was killed.
Most of the surrendered generals were thinking at the same time, had Huang Taiji betrayed his trust and ordered someone to kill Zu Dashou?
The suspicious glances of the surrendered generals made Huang Taiji shocked and angry. He overturned the table in front of him and rushed towards Ashan and Darhan angrily. He asked sternly: "How did General Zu die! Who killed me, General Zu! Is that right?"
What a cruel attack you two slaves have done!..."[
"It's not us, it's not us..." Ah Shan was so frightened that he waved his hands hurriedly, shaking his head violently, and shouted in panic: "No matter how brave I am, I don't dare to kill Zu Dashou..."
"King Khan calmed down. Zu Dashou was not killed by his ministers and others. He died five miles outside Jinzhou City. When the ministers and Ashan arrived, Zu Dashou was already dead, and his face was chopped beyond recognition. I think the murderer was a ruthless person.
, I was afraid that someone would find out that it was Zu Dashou who died, so I took cruel measures. If I hadn’t carefully inspected it, it would have been difficult to identify that it was Zu Dashou who died..."
Darhan was Huang Taiji's brother-in-law, and he and Huang Taiji were in the same family. He was not as frightened as the slave Ah Shan, but calmly told the story in detail. After speaking, he stayed silent and waited for Huang Taiji to ask again.
After listening to Darhan's narration, Huang Taiji's face became darker and darker. After he finished speaking, he asked in a deep voice: "Have you ever found out who killed General Zu?"
Darhan shook his head and said: "When I arrived, the murderer had already escaped. But..." After saying this, he paused.
Huang Taiji hurriedly asked him: "It's just nothing, my brother-in-law, tell me quickly."
Darhan hesitated and said: "But according to my calculations, the murderer of General Zu should be the Ming army in Jinzhou City."
Hearing this, everyone was shocked again. Huang Taiji lost his voice and said: "Why did my brother-in-law say that?"
Darhan explained: "I say this because the place where General Zu was killed was outside Jinzhou City, and outside the city besides our Eight Banners, there were also a small group of detective cavalry from his Ming army. The murderer would definitely not be us. In this way,
Only the Ming army in Jinzhou City can be blamed for this."
Darhan's analysis made everyone nod subconsciously. In fact, apart from the Jin army, there was only a small group of Ming troops outside Jinzhou City. This shows that it was either the Jin army or the Ming army that killed Zu Dashou. Look.
The surprised look on Huang Taiji and all the Baylors did not seem to be false. The generals who had previously suspected that Huang Taiji ordered the killing of Zu Dashou were relieved, but then they became confused again. Why did the Ming army in Jinzhou City want to kill Zu Dashou?
Birthday? Do they know something?
"Strange, how did Jinzhou know that General Zu would escape late at night?" Daishan curled his lips strangely and glanced at everyone in the tent, "Did someone leak the news?"
After hearing Daishan's words, Huang Taiji froze, turned around and shouted: "Ajige!"
"My brother is here!" Azig hurriedly walked out of his seat.
Huang Taiji asked him: "After General Zu surrendered, could any of the soldiers and civilians in the city escape?"
Azig said with certainty: "Back to King Khan, after General Zu surrendered, my brother led the red flag into the city and moved all the soldiers and civilians in the city outside the city. He carefully searched the city and made sure that people were hiding in it before leaving the city. My brother
I can guarantee that unless he can fly, no one will escape!"
"If there was no Ming army escaping, how did the news leak out?"
Huang Taiji frowned. Even if Ming troops or people really fled back to Jinzhou, then Jinzhou only knew that Zu Dashou surrendered. How could he know that he would return to Jinzhou late at night and lay an ambush halfway to wait for Zu Dashou?
This matter is too strange. Unless the Jinzhou Ming army could predict the situation beforehand, they would not have known in advance that Zu Dashou was going to return to Jinzhou to cheat the city!
Who leaked the news?[
Huang Taiji's doubts became more and more serious. He believed that someone must have leaked the news to the Ming army. Besides himself, the people who knew that Zu Dashou was returning to Jinzhou were Daishan, Jierhalang, Azige, and Tong Yangxing.
As well as Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and I, even Dorgon and the other little Beile don't know about this. Except for Zu Dashou's brother and son among the generals, no one else knows where Zu Dashou has gone. It is definitely impossible for Zu's family to leak it.
News, but besides them, who could it be? It can’t be the second brother or others, or Fan Wencheng and the others, right?…
Huang Taiji didn't dare to think about it anymore, but he heard someone shouting in grief and anger: "King Khan, I know who killed my father!"
"who?!"
Huang Taiji suddenly turned around and found that the person shouting was Zu Zerun, the eldest son of Zu Dashou.
"Qiu Hejia, the governor of Liaodong, must have killed my father!" Zu Zerun gritted his teeth, clenched his fists tightly, and looked like he really wanted to eat Qiu Hejia alive.
Liaofu Qiu Hejia?!
Huang Taiji was startled and asked Zu Zerun: "Why is the young general so sure?"
Zu Zerun believed that it was Qiu Hejia who killed his father, and said bitterly: "Qiu Hejia has been at odds with my father since he became governor of Liao Dynasty. He has repeatedly tried to seize my father's military power. If Sun Chengzong, the military commander, had not supported my father, my father would have been dead."
The military power had long been taken away by him, Qiu Hejia. Qiu Hejia could not seize my father's military power, so he made another plan to build a new army. After being blocked by my father and the general, he regarded my father as a thorn in his side and a stab in his flesh! My father was killed
When we were trapped in the city, Qiu Hejia did not try his best to rescue him, but instead obstructed him at every turn. He wished my father had died in this city! I ask, if he hadn't sent people to kill my father, who else in Jinzhou City would have dared to kill my father with such a leopard?!"
After hearing Zu Zerun's words, everyone in the tent nodded in unison. Zu Dashou's subordinate generals also said that it must be Qiu Hejia's murderous hand. Even Zhang Chun felt that the person who killed Zu Dashou was really the Jinzhou Ming Army.
It's hard to say that Qiu Hejia sent someone to do it. But he felt so happy that he just shouted, "Kill!"
Huang Taiji also somewhat believed that Qiu Hejia killed Zu Dashou in order to fight for power, so that he would not contact his old troops to shake his position after returning to the city, but he still didn't understand something.
"What the young general said makes sense, but even if Qiu Hejia had the intention to kill your father, how did he know that General Dashou would return to Jinzhou tonight?"
"this…"
Zu Zerun was stunned for a moment, but he had never thought about this problem.
Azige was impatient, thinking that since his ancestor Dashou was dead, Jinzhou City could not be deceived, so he simply suggested: "King Khan, Zu Dashou is dead, so Jinzhou City cannot be deceived, but Jinzhou City has no troops and can fight."
We don’t have many soldiers, so why not let my younger brother lead his troops to attack tomorrow and seize Jinzhou City in one fell swoop! King Khan can then lead his army to Ningyuan and break into Shanhaiguan!"
Dorgon was also moved and said: "There is a large amount of grain and grass for the Ming army stored in Jinzhou City. There are also many merchants and gentry, and there is also a lot of gold and silver wealth and a large population. It can be said that it is rich. We have been besieging the city for such a long time, and now we are short of food."
.Why not attack Jinzhou tomorrow and give him a big hug!"
Duoyi was even more impatient: "King Khan, we will set off tomorrow, my brother is willing to be the pioneer!"
Ji'erhalang was opposed: "King Khan, I think it is better to be more cautious. Jinzhou is a strong city, and Qiu Hejia dares to defend the city alone. They must be prepared to die together, and they must be defending the city."
We have put in a lot of effort. The Art of War says: A soldier will die before he survives. Jinzhou City is now a dead ground, and an attack will cause heavy casualties. Furthermore, our army has suffered heavy casualties, and every flag has been damaged. What is the situation inside Jinzhou City now?
I still don’t understand. If you know yourself and the enemy, you will be safe in a hundred battles. If you don’t know the enemy, how can you fight? Therefore, I think it is better to send spies into Jinzhou first to find out the situation in the city and cooperate with the inside and outside. This way, the attack will be more confident and casualties can be reduced.
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Azig looked down on Jierharang's maturity and prudentness, and shouted dissatisfied: "Third brother, you are too cautious. In a mere Jinzhou city, our Eight Banners have tens of thousands of cavalry, and each person demolished it brick by brick, and leveled it."
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"No matter how strong Jinzhou City is, if there is no one to defend it, it will be like picking something out of a bag. According to me, this Jinzhou City can be beaten."
Dai Shan was always a cautious person, but he also believed that Jinzhou could be attacked. The reason was that he knew that there would definitely not be many defenders in Jinzhou City. Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, if he did not attack now, he would wait for Ming army reinforcements to arrive before trying to attack again.
Jinzhou is difficult.
Huang Taiji was noncommittal and remained silent.
Zu Zerun was eager to avenge his father. When he saw this, he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on the ground, crying and crying: "King Khan, my father died unjustly. Please ask King Khan to avenge my father!" [
All the surrendered generals also knelt down and said in unison: "I am willing to be the vanguard of King Khan's attack on the brocade!"
"Fight Jinzhou, fight Jinzhou, fight Jinzhou!"
Azig, Dorgon, Duoyi, Yuetuo, Shuotuo, Baylor and the Manchu and Mongolian generals also asked for battle. The wealth in Jinzhou City has made them completely jealous.
Seeing that everyone agreed to attack Jinzhou, Huang Taiji did not hesitate. Although Jierhalang's words were reasonable, the city of Jinzhou was empty now. If he didn't take it, he would be punished by God. It would be better to comply with everyone's wishes and attack Jinzhou tomorrow and destroy the city.
After that, money, silk, population and food were obtained and distributed to various banners to make up for the loss. Even after returning to the army, the people of the country were happy and would not be resentful because of too many casualties.
Unexpectedly, Ning Wanwo braved the great disobedience of the world and suddenly rushed forward, knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed several times, and admonished: "King Khan, gentlemen Beile, have you forgotten the battle of Ningjin?
A lesson!"
After hearing this, everyone fell silent, and Huang Taiji's expression changed even more.
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The Battle of Ningjin mentioned by Ningwan refers to the May of the first year of Tiancong. Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners army that had just returned from North Korea to attack Hexi and quickly captured the small and large Linghe rivers and Youtunwei. Yuan Chonghuan built in the Hexi area
The castle was trampled by the Jin army, and only Jinzhou remained.
On May 11th, after the Jin army plundered the surrounding areas of Jinzhou, they joined forces at the foot of Jinzhou City and surrounded Jinzhou. The Ming Dynasty Pingliao General Zhao Lijiao and the eunuch Ji Yong were stationed in Jinzhou together. Since the construction of Jinzhou City had just been completed, the emperor
Taiji suddenly sent out troops, and the preparations for the city defense work were very inadequate. There were only 30,000 soldiers and migrant workers combined. However, the guard general Zhao Lijiao and the deputy commander-in-chief Zuo Fu, Zhu Mei and others had experienced many battles and had been in the fortress for a long time.
, the veteran general with great experience in generals, and the eunuch Ji Yong who was in charge of the army also gave full play to their supervisory functions. Everyone worked together, responded calmly, and dealt with Hou Jin.
After hearing the news, Shanhaiguan also entered a state of war preparation. General Mangui moved forward from Shanhaiguan to Qiantun, Sun Zushou moved from a stone to Shanhaiguan, and Heiyunlong moved to a stone. They pressed forward layer by layer, ready to respond to the front at any time. Yuan Chonghuan and the eunuchs in charge of the army
Liu Yingkun led Zu Dashou and others to guard Ningyuan.
Huang Taiji repeated his old trick and sent 400 surrendered soldiers back to Jinzhou (some of them were spies), intending to attack the fortress from the inside. However, Zhao Shujiao and others had already learned from previous mistakes and kept the surrendered soldiers away.
On the 12th, Zhao led the army and Ji Yong sent people to lower the city and make peace in the Houjin camp in order to delay time, deploy the city defense, and wait for reinforcements. Huang Taiji wrote a letter persuading surrender and asked the envoy to take it back to the city.
However, the messenger never returned, so at noon that day, Huang Taiji issued an order to attack the city.
The battle was very fierce. The golden soldiers took turns to attack, launching crazy attacks from the west and north. The ladders were covered with siege soldiers, like ants climbing a tree, and the heavy carts hit the south wall.
Some soldiers desperately dug under the wall. The Ming army on the city showed no mercy. Zhao Lijiao, Zhu Mei, Zuo Fu and others wore armor and went to the city wall to supervise the battle in person.
Since Jinzhou City had just been built, there were still a lot of wall bricks left, and they were all put to use at this moment. Soldiers, civilians and others all picked up the bricks and threw them at the enemy's head. For a time, arrows rained down like rain, and bricks fell like hail.
After falling behind, Houjin suffered heavy losses. The battle lasted from noon to night. The Ming army repelled the enemy's attacks again and again, and Jinzhou City remained motionless. Huang Taiji saw that the attack failed and it was getting late, so he ordered to retreat five miles to camp, and at the same time ordered
People returned to Shenyang to mobilize troops.
From the 13th to the 25th, the two sides fought and talked while waiting for reinforcements. A more brutal battle was about to come.
When Jinzhou was in danger, Governor Yuan Chonghuan led Zu Dashou and others to garrison Ningyuan, but they insisted on not rescuing and refused to send reinforcements. However, Mangui resolutely led his army from Qiantun in the rear, and together with the commander-in-chief You Shilu reinforced Jinzhou, they marched on the 16th
When they arrived at Yanli Mountain, they encountered Hou Jin's partial force protecting the grain and were surrounded. This partial force was led by Da Beile Mang Gurtai, Bele Zir Harang, Ajige, Yue Tuo, Sahalian and Hauge.
A powerful force, its strength is no less than that of the Manchu and Gui armies.
Man Gui was the first warrior in the Ming army. He took the lead in charging towards the enemy, and the two sides launched a fierce field battle. The Ming army fought bravely and killed many people, but Man Gui had the upper hand. Although Man Gui repelled the enemy, there were also casualties among the troops.
So he led his troops to Ningyuan. After discovering Mangui, on the 28th, Huang Taiji led the Eight Banners army across Jinzhou to attack Ningyuan. Mangui personally went out of the city to attack, and led the Ming army to camp two miles east of Ningyuan City, with his back against the city wall.
, lined up guns and artillery, and stood ready. Seeing that the Ming army was in order and with high morale, the Jin soldiers hesitated to attack and retreated to the mountains to wait and see.
Three of the four ruling Baylors, Daishan, Amin and Manggurtai, advocated retreat. Huang Taiji insisted on fighting. He personally led his army to rush towards the Ming army. Daishan, Amin and Manggurtai saw this.
They had no choice but to follow up in a hurry. The two sides started a life-and-death struggle outside Ningyuan City.
Man Gui led his lieutenant general You Shiwei and others out of the city to meet them, which was quite lethal. Man Gui was also seriously injured. The Jin army also suffered heavy casualties. Jierhalang, one of the eight great Beile, was seriously injured, and Sahalian, the third son of Dai Shan, the great Beile, was seriously injured.
The fourth son Wakda was seriously injured, and he was killed in the guerrilla attack on Jueluobai Mountain, Beiyu Bashi and others. Seeing that he could not gain any advantage, Huang Taiji had to order the temporary withdrawal of troops.
At this time, Zhao Lijiao, who was guarding Jinzhou, saw that the main force of the enemy outside the city had left and his troops were slack. He suddenly opened the city gate and led his troops to attack the enemy camp. After a while of killing, he quickly withdrew his troops back to the city to support Ningyuan in the rear. Huang Huang
Taiji felt that he was in danger of being attacked from both sides, so he withdrew his troops from Ningyuan and attacked Jinzhou again.
On the fourth day of June, Huang Taiji led his army back to the outside of Jinzhou City and launched another crazy attack on Jinzhou. The Ming army still used "cannons, bows and arrows, and bricks" to serve, and dealt a heavy blow to the Jin army.
The Jin soldiers suffered heavy casualties, had no food or drink, and were exposed to the hot sun. Their morale was very low. However, Huang Taiji, who was red-eyed at the loss, lost his own face and refused to withdraw his troops regardless of the life and death of the soldiers. He forced the soldiers to attack the city and fight.
From morning to evening, Huang Taiji got nothing but corpses, so he had to order the troops to retreat.
This battle was called the "Great Victory of Ningjin" by the Ming Dynasty, but the Jin Dynasty only fought for Jinzhou and did not mention Ningyuan. It can be seen that the Jin army regarded its opponent in this battle as the general of Pingliao, Zhao Lijiao, rather than the governor of Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan.
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In the Battle of Jinzhou, the Jin army suffered over 10,000 casualties and fought for miles with corpses stinking to the point that no one in the Jin Kingdom wanted to mention this tragic battle. Huang Taiji also suffered a huge defeat because of this battle.
I don't want to mention it, so for many years, the Battle of Jinzhou has been almost a forbidden area among the Jin Army, and no one dares to mention it. Now Ning Wan, I boldly bring it up, and use this to urge Huang Taiji not to attack Jinzhou to avoid repeating it.
The repeated mistakes made Huang Taiji hesitate. The battle was so tragic back then, and now he is very scared when he thinks about it.
"This time, that time!"
Just when Huang Taiji hesitated to speak, Tong Yangxing stood up and said forcefully: "Back then, the Ming army had a lot of troops defending Jinzhou, and there were famous generals in charge, and there was a steady stream of reinforcements from the rear. But today, the Ming army is trapped in the isolated city. Once again,
The soldiers came to the rescue, and the general took charge. But we are the masters of victory. With the power of victory, we attack a city that can only be defended by thousands of old and weak soldiers. Why not attack! King Khan, don’t hesitate, this time
We are about to capture Jinzhou and march into Ningyuan to achieve great success!"
When he heard that veterans like the consort in the west room also supported the attack on Jinzhou, Azig became active again and shouted: "The consort is right, we get up wherever we fall. The city of Jinzhou used to be undefeatable, but today it is easy to win."
!Why did Xianhan raise his army? It’s not because we, the Jurchen clan, can no longer be bullied by the Ming Dynasty! Now we have defeated the Ming army and annihilated all the Ming Dynasty’s soldiers and horses outside the pass. All his cities are now as if they were gone.
Women who are wearing clothes usually lie in front of us. If we don’t take it, God will be angry with us!"
"Twelve Baylor, don't forget, we don't have siege equipment!" Seeing that Azige and Tong Yangxing still wanted to attack Jinzhou, Ning Wan and I were anxious and reminded him of the most practical issue, that is, whether the Jin army can
There are no siege engines.
Dorgon said disapprovingly: "There are plenty of tools in Dalinghe City. We worked all night to make enough to siege the city. These tools are not a problem."
"Yes, siege equipment is not a problem. Ning Wanwo, please stop making alarmist comments here!" Azig glared at Ning Wanwo.
Ning Wan was startled and looked towards Fan Wencheng and Bao Cheng first, but they shook their heads at him and signaled him not to persuade him any further.
After Ning Wan, I sighed and had no choice but to say to Huang Taiji: "If King Khan really wants to attack Jinzhou, I can talk to you. However, I think it is best to send a group of troops to test it. If the Ming army in the city is well prepared, what will happen to me?"
To avoid unnecessary losses, King Khan had better withdraw his troops and go back."
"You're the only one who talks too much!" When Azig saw that Ning and I were still talking there, he was so angry that he wanted to rush up and kick him.
Hu Daxian suddenly emerged from among the surrendered generals and said to Huang Taiji swornly: "King Khan, there are no soldiers at all in Jinzhou City. The basic strength is only two or three thousand regiment training and guard troops. Qiu Hejia recruited civilian men and young men to help.
Defending won't help. I'll put it bluntly, Jinzhou is indeed very easy to fight."
Huang Taiji perked up: "Are you sure that there are only two or three thousand regiments and guards in the city?"
Hu Daxian nodded solemnly: "The general has confirmed it, King Khan can rest assured! If the king doesn't believe the general, he might as well ask Mr. Zhang. He knows best how many soldiers and horses there are in the city." After saying that, the court said with ill intentions.
Zhang Chun looked over.
"shame!"
Zhang Chun was so angry that he picked up a tea bowl and threw it at Hu Daxian. Hu Daxian stepped aside and the bowl hit Ah Shan, which made Ah Shan prepare to hit him in anger.
Huang Taiji was overjoyed. Didn't Zhang Chun's attack prove that what Hu Daxian said was true? There really were no soldiers and horses in Jinzhou City!
God help me!
If you don’t take the empty city, you will be blocked by it in the future!
Huang Taiji frowned, and there were people from his ancestors over there clamoring for him to avenge Zu Dashou. It was not easy for Huang Taiji to get a good general like Zu Dashou. He was going to use him as a vanguard to conquer the Ming Dynasty, but he was actually sent to be killed by Qiu Hejia.
Damn! The anger stems from his heart. If he doesn't avenge his ancestor's birthday, how will he deal with the surrendered generals?
Dai Shan observed the words and expressions on the side and knew that Huang Taiji was moved, so he struck while the iron was hot: "Since Jinzhou is heavily guarded, I asked the Khan King to lead his men to attack. Firstly, he can take the wealth in the city to offset the losses of the banners; secondly, he can also occupy Jinzhou."
, use Jinzhou as the base, and then attack Ningyuan; come the third time, we can also wash away the humiliation of the Ningjin battle."
Huang Taiji no longer hesitated, but he was not impulsive. Instead, he ordered Azige: "Ajige, tomorrow you will lead the red flag and command the four thousand Han troops to descend to attack Jinzhou!"
Azig was overjoyed and responded solemnly: "My brother accepts the order and will dedicate Jinzhou City to the Khan King tomorrow!"
Jierharang saw that Huang Taiji decided to attack Jinzhou, but he had no choice. Fortunately, Huang Taiji asked Azig to lead the attack and did not ask him to take the Zhenglan flag. In this way, even if there were casualties, it would still be a matter of setting a red flag. As long as the Zhenglan flag has the strength
If there is no loss, he doesn't bother to care whether Jinzhou fights or not.
When their brothers first attacked Jinzhou, Dorgon and Duoyi were also very excited. The two brothers discussed whether to allocate a few Niulu from their banners to put up red flags so that Azig could successfully capture Jinzhou.
At that moment, Azig received the order to mobilize 4,000 Han soldiers to surrender, while Dorgon led people into the city to get the equipment of the Ming army, and asked the Han army craftsmen and soldiers accompanying the army to rush to make siege equipment overnight. The other banners made
Be prepared accordingly, the camp is extremely busy.
When the Jin soldiers heard that they were going to attack Jinzhou tomorrow, the city was filled with food and wealth, and there were still several Han people and few defenders, so they were all very excited. After days of fighting, the casualties were too great and the gains were little, so Jinzhou City was needed.
The Ming people replenished supplies. For a time, the Jin army was full of fighting spirit and geared up, and their morale was greatly boosted. Huang Taiji's patrol camp looked at it and couldn't help but feel that his decision was correct, and he should capture Jinzhou in one fell swoop to comfort the soldiers.