After Qin Liangyu's army returned to the main camp, Namutai, Turge and Tanggudai were all sweating over the blocking of the city gate. Unlike the Later Jin army who despised the power of fire cannons, all the Later Jin army
Generals all regard artillery as a magical weapon.
Today, in order to block the city gate, the Hou Jin Army suffered casualties of more than 100 soldiers. In addition to those killed and injured by firecrackers on the city wall, there are a small number of 200 people. However, the medical level of this era, those injured by firearms
There is a high probability that the soldiers will eventually die.
Although today's casualties were basically Mongolian soldiers and surrendered Ming troops, there were not many bannermen in the Xianglan Banner. But now in the entire Luanzhou City, there were only less than 3,000 Houjin troops.
In addition, except for the hundreds of young women who returned to the Jin army to enjoy themselves in Luanzhou City, everyone else was killed and plundered. So now there is no place in the city to capture even a strong man.
In today's battle to attack the city gate, the Hou Jin army only shot to death a few white-pole soldiers who were cutting the iron chains of the suspension bridge. The casualty ratio between the two sides was very different. If the battle continued like this, Qin Liangyu's army would not be needed to attack.
If the city is occupied, as long as it lasts for ten or twenty days, the Hou Jin army in the city will be exhausted.
Therefore, Turge said to Namutai: "We can't just be beaten passively. Even if the nation's heroes are brave, one can be worth ten, but the Han people are a hundred times more powerful than me. Even the consumption will kill us all. And today the Ming army
This white-armed soldier has no flaws at all, and it also has artillery, so this battle will definitely be difficult to fight!"
Tang Gudai then said: "That's right! Let's go to Mr. Beile for an idea. If we want to fight, let Mr. Beile send reinforcements. We can have a good field battle with the Ming army. If we want to withdraw, we can also make arrangements in advance.
Well."
Namtai nodded after hearing this and said: "I will immediately send people to Yongping City to tell Lord Beile about the situation here and get an idea back. However, you must also keep a close eye on those soldiers, especially those who surrendered.
Ming Army, you can talk to some of your confidants and ask them to gather their horses at the North City Gate. If they can't resist, they will withdraw our troops to Yongping City."
Both Turge and Tanggudai agreed. They knew that in case of withdrawal, the horses in the city would only be able to bring their own bannermen and Mongolian troops with blue flags, and those Ming troops who surrendered would definitely be abandoned.
The next day, under the command of Qin Liangyu, the army began to attack the city. They said they were attacking the city, but they were actually doing some civil engineering. Qin Liangyu told Wu Shigong: "This war, especially the siege, is all about slow work and careful work."
.Only after the civilians have done a lot of work can they ensure the safety of the siege troops and make it easier to attack the city. Sometimes, it takes one, two years or even longer to attack a city."
First, the civilians still dug two U-shaped trenches around the city gate. Then, under the cover of the carts and the gunmen behind the carts, they began to cut off the water in the moat and fill up the moat.
There are smooth roads for rush vehicles to pass through, etc.
Of course, during the process of filling in the moat, many civilians were shot to death and injured by the bows and arrows of the Hou Jin Army. Of course, those Hou Jin soldiers who were shooting arrows on the city wall were also shot to death and injured by fire blunderbuss.
few.
During this process, of course some civilians could not bear the threat of death and turned around to run away, but they were all beheaded by the supervising team sent by the white pole soldiers. Therefore, although it seems that the casualties on both sides may be much greater than Qin Liangyu's, but
Qin Liangyu's victims were all civilians, and there were basically no casualties among the soldiers.
There was also a group of civilians in the camp. Under the guidance of the craftsmen carried by the white pole soldiers, they also stepped up the construction of rams and ladders, preparing the tools to attack Luanzhou City.
This process can be described in just a few words, but it took more than twenty days to complete the work. During this time, the Hou Jin Army in Luanzhou City was not idle either. Although they looked at
When the siege troops had no flaws, they gave up their plan to go out for a field battle. However, the Hou Jin Army still sent a troop to rob the camp one night.
But that night, after they saw the appearance of Qin Liangyu's camp, they immediately despaired. They didn't even try to attack the camp. After that, the Jin army returned to Luanzhou City in despair.
Wu Shigong has been learning from Qin Liangyu the preparations for attacking the city in ancient traditional ways. He sighed in his heart: "I always thought that in the ancient traditional siege, you just climb up ladders, throw stones, and fight with arrows at the top of the city.
.I didn’t expect so much civil engineering to be done before attacking the city. It seems that the soldiers who attacked the city in ancient times had to learn to be engineers first!"
Wu Shigong's sigh is correct. In the Ming Dynasty, not only when attacking a city, but also when marching, the army had to do a lot of civil engineering to cross the river and set up camp. Besides, there were no machines to help in the Ming Dynasty, so it was necessary to
To be a qualified soldier in the Ming Dynasty, you must first be a qualified engineer.
In addition, the battles in the Ming Dynasty were basically face-to-face fights. The soldiers consumed a lot of physical strength, and these soldiers needed physical strength to do civil engineering. Therefore, the physical requirements for the soldiers were also particularly high.
In order to solve this problem, the Ming Dynasty army recruited a large number of young and strong civilians from the private sector to do these civil engineering projects. Although this approach gave the soldiers a good rest, it caused the soldiers to be unwilling and unable to
To do these civil works, if there is a situation where no civilians can be recruited, and a sneak attack occurs, the entire Ming army will often be defeated.
There is also a sequelae, because to put it nicely, it means recruiting civilian husbands, and to put it worse, it means to forcibly arrest them. The civilian husbands captured in this way not only have to do civil engineering, but also often play the role of cannon fodder in the army.
Therefore, when the Ming army fought on the inside, it could not get any support from the local people at all. In the eyes of these people, the Ming army and the enemy army were the same, and at most they were just fifty steps and a hundred steps away. In this way
Later, when the Ming army fought on the inside, it lost the two major factors of victory: geographical location and people.
Qin Liangyu's purpose of attacking the city this time was to capture Luanzhou City, and it did not require killing many Houjin troops. Therefore, Qin Liangyu only arranged some soldiers to monitor the other three sides of Luanzhou City.
The main force focused on attacking the south wall of Luanzhou City. Therefore, the traffic information between Luanzhou City and Yongping City was not blocked.
Just before Qin Liangyu was about to attack the city, Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of the main force of the Ming army behind him, sent a messenger. He told Qin Liangyu: Zu Dashou was only five days away from Luanzhou City. Moreover, the main force of the Ming army also brought six gates with him.
Red-coat cannon. Ask Qin Liangyu to wait until the main force of the Ming army arrives, use red-coat cannon to blast away Luanzhou City, and then everyone will attack the city together.
After receiving the news, Qin Liangyu was also very happy. Qin Liangyu is not a person who treats his soldiers as trivial for his own honor. Although he has Zu Dashou to share the work, now he has a red cannon and Qin Liangyu's soldiers
, the losses would definitely be much smaller. So Qin Liangyu stood still and waited for the arrival of the main force of the Ming army led by Zu Dashou.
At this time, Amin, who was in Yongping City, had received news from Namutai in Luanzhou City. In addition, Amin had received news from the spies of the Hou Jin Army. The main force of the Ming Army behind them came with red clothes.
The artillery moved towards Luanzhou City. So Amin made such a decision.
On the one hand, Amin sent a batch of captured Ming army defense weapons to Luanzhou City, asking Namutai to try his best to defend Luanzhou City; on the other hand, Amin took the main force of more than 4,000 Jin troops to stop the attack.
The main force of the Ming army. Amin thought so. Without the red cannon, it would be difficult to capture Luanzhou City just relying on Qin Liangyu's army, the vanguard of the Ming army.
The main force of Zu Dashou's Ming army marched very slowly because they had to transport red cannons. When they met the Hou Jin army led by Amin, the entire army came to a complete stop.
Zu Dashou was not interested in a decisive battle with the Hou Jin Army, because Zu Dashou had already risen to the highest position among the generals in Liaodong. If he had any more merit, it would just be a false title or a general title, which has no practical significance.
.So Zu Dashou’s fighting philosophy is not to seek merit, but to seek no faults. Besides, Zu Dashou also understood that the reason why the court came to comfort him after Yuan Chonghuan was arrested was that he still controlled the largest part of the Liaodong Iron Cavalry.
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And Amin's purpose was only to hinder the progress of the main force of the Ming army, and he had no interest in fighting a decisive battle with the Ming army. Besides, after adding the civilian husbands, the main force of the Ming army led by Zu Dashou had more than 30,000 people, which seemed huge, so Amin
Min was not sure that he could defeat this Ming army. So, the two sides were in a stalemate.
But continuing the stalemate like this was no solution. After all, under the orders of the imperial court and Sun Chengzong, the main force of the Ming army still had to rush to Luanzhou City as soon as possible.
So, Zu Dashou asked the army to form a group, put the red cannon in the middle of the team for protection, and forcibly marched towards Luanzhou City. But as soon as the army moved like this, the civilians and the Shanxi and Shandong troops who had already been defeated once were exposed.
Got a flaw.
Seeing the situation, Amin immediately ordered the Hou Jin Army to attack where the main force of the Ming Army was weak. Once again, the civilians and Shanxi and Shandong troops were defeated. However, the Liaodong cavalry did have a very strong combat effectiveness. After they saw the Hou Jin Army charge,
, gathered the Liaodong cavalry and launched a countercharge towards the Hou Jin Army.
Because both sides were unwilling to fight to the death, they both retreated after a small battle. However, in this way, although the Ming army prevented a complete defeat and basically ensured the integrity of the main force, it did not
Dare to move towards Luanzhou City again. And the Houjin Army led by Amin also achieved their expected goal.
Zu Dashou led the main force of the Ming army to retreat, and immediately sent a messenger to Qin Liangyu, asking Qin Liangyu to send troops to respond, and then they drove to Luanzhou City together.
When the messenger reported Zu Dashou's request to Qin Liangyu, all the military attachés in Qin Liangyu's tent were speechless in surprise. Especially Qin Liangyu, who had been in the military for most of her life, and had never encountered this kind of front-line support for the rear.
, the strange situation of the vanguard supporting the main force. Therefore, Qin Liangyu categorically rejected Zu Dashou's request for reverse support.
Ignoring the messenger who was still kneeling on the ground, Qin Liangyu immediately ordered the military attachés in the tent: "Get ready to attack Luanzhou City immediately tomorrow."
Then, Qin Liangyu said to the messenger: "Go back and tell General Zu that attacking Luanzhou City here is the best way to rescue you."