Hauge looked at Du Du with disdain and said: "Du Du, you are afraid of being beaten by Li Zhi. Li Zhi is good at fighting in the field, but he may not be good at defending the city."
Du Du panicked and said: "We can abandon Qingshan Pass and attack other Great Wall passes! Exit from other passes!"
Hearing Du Du's words, all the Baylors were a little scornful, feeling that Du Du was really defeated by Li Zhi.
How easy is it to temporarily attack other passes? The Ming Dynasty has been operating the Great Wall for hundreds of years. All major passes of the Great Wall are equipped with high walls and deep trenches, and are well prepared. Every time the Qing army entered the pass, they had to coordinate carefully and conduct careful reconnaissance at each pass of the Great Wall.
Only when the defense at any pass is empty can we attack it with force.
Even so, it may not be possible to capture, and we have to cooperate carefully and wait for the right time and place to break through. For example, entering the border this time is a careful detective to obtain information. When Wu Guojun, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, went to congratulate the supervisor Deng Xizhao on his birthday,
When he was very drunk, he suddenly attacked and succeeded.
Sometimes the border walls near Gyeonggi were tightly defended and impeccable. In order to enter the pass, the Qing army even had to detour thousands of miles to Xuanfu, Datong and even Shanxi to break through a fortress with empty defenses. This shows how difficult it is to break through.
As long as the Great Wall pass is slightly tightly defended, Dorgon cannot break it. The Qing army's ability to attack fortresses is not strong. As long as the Ming army is not too weak, the Qing army is generally helpless against the fortified city. There are only a thousand weak in Jinan City.
Soldiers, this time Dorgon's tens of thousands of troops surrounded Jinan for two months but failed to capture it.
At this time, Dorgon was in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchus and Qing soldiers all over the Ming Dynasty made detailed reports to Huang Taiji. Dorgon could not get the information for a while, and he did not know the reality of each pass of the Ming Army's Great Wall, and he was unable to break out.
To attack a well-defended pass is to sacrifice the lives of Qing warriors to the Ming army for military exploits.
If we abandon Qingshan Pass and attack other Great Wall passes with high walls and deep trenches because of Li Zhi's four trenches, we will undoubtedly be abandoning the easier for the difficult.
Abata ignored Du Du's words and said to Hauge: "It's a good idea to use giant wood to make a wooden bridge across the trenches. As long as we rush through these four trenches, 70,000 of us can defeat Li Zhi."
Ten thousand people!”
Hauge nodded and said: "General, we can give it a try. If 70,000 people abandon Qingshan Pass because of four trenches, how can our warriors dare to meet Li Zhi in the future? Then how can our warriors enter the pass and rob
Plunder?”
What Hauge said is true. Battles in the cold weapon era are all about morale. If the 70,000-strong army fled because of a few trenches, and they met Li Zhi in the future, the Qing army would have no choice but to flee as soon as they met.
Dorgon thought for a long time, then turned and looked behind him.
Behind Dorgon, 70,000 Qing soldiers lined up behind the central army, like a sea of iron armor in full swing. 70,000 people stood in the valley, covering every corner of the valley, seemingly endless. Those tens of thousands of warriors
The tassels on the helmets fluttered in the wind, looking like flowers blooming in the valley in spring, which was dazzling. The flags on the backs of the warriors connected into clouds one after another. Seventy thousand people were majestic.
It makes people feel invincible.
How could such a large army stop because of Li Zhi's small stronghold?
Dorgon said loudly: "Just do what Hauge said and make a wooden bridge!"
The generals sang loudly, and each led his men to set up camp, light a fire, make food, and prepare to go to the nearby mountains to cut down trees to build a wooden bridge.
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Li Zhi personally climbed onto the lookout vehicle and used binoculars to observe the enemy in front.
The Qing army had too many people, 70,000 in total, and its mighty momentum was intimidating. Coupled with the more than 200,000 Ming civilians who had been robbed, the Qing army's troops spread all the way to the valley more than ten miles away.
Outside, looking from the observation pole car, the Qing army feels like a swarm of ants occupying the entire land, boundless.
The world seemed to be filled with the Qing army.
Li Zhi took a breath and carefully observed the details of the mighty Qing army with his binoculars.
Li Zhi looked over carefully and felt that the Qing army had well-organized orders and reasonable arrangements. Soldiers from each banner camped in the valley in batches, specifically choosing places with higher terrain and easy access to water, and arranged them in an orderly manner. Next to the central army of the Qing army,
Auxiliary soldiers pushing carts were waiting in front of the baggage cart. They stood solemnly one by one. There was no crowding and noise like when the Ming army distributed food. It was obvious that the Qing army had strict military discipline. Two hundred thousand Ming people were divided into 20 large groups and arranged in the Qing army.
Although there were more than 200,000 Ming civilians and hundreds of thousands of livestock in the belly of the Qing army, there was no chaos in the Qing army's formation.
The Qing army's rangers and sentries were densely deployed within two miles outside the camp, blocking and interrogating anyone who tried to enter the camp. Although Li Zhi had few soldiers, the Qing army dug two trenches outside the camp to resist the enemy. As a means of war
The Jianzhou Jurchen of the nation has no loopholes in fighting wars.
The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty at this time were also an elite force compared to the whole world. If Li Zhi had not mastered weapons that were far ahead of this era, how would he have dared to confront such an enemy head-on.
Even though there were all kinds of fortifications in front of the stronghold and the defense was tight, when he saw the mighty momentum of the Qing army with his own eyes, Li Zhi was still overwhelmed by the momentum and became a little nervous.
Li Zhi looked at the various strict arrangements in front of his stronghold and felt a little more at ease.
This time, the Qing army, with Dorgon as its general, had troops and horses from the Eight Manchurian Banners: pure white, bordered white, pure red, bordered red, and bordered blue. The Eight Banners of Mongolia came out in full force to participate in the battle.
After several months of fighting, the Ming army has basically figured out the configuration of the Qing army. Among these 70,000 people, there are about 25,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners Manchuria, 20,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, and another
There are more than 20,000 auxiliary soldiers and miscellaneous servants.
Such a mighty army was enough to defeat hundreds of thousands of Ming troops. The so-called throwing a whip to cut off the flow was nothing more than this, but Li Zhi had to use a stronghold to stop them.
Li Zhi carefully checked his arrangement in front of the formation again, repeatedly imagining where there were loopholes.
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On the morning of February 16th, Li Zhi was observing the Qing army with a telescope on horseback. He saw the middle gate of the Qing army camp wide open and Qing soldiers walking out of the camp holding huge wooden bridges. The wooden bridges were covered one by one.
They were lifted out and lined up in front of the formation. Twenty to thirty Qing troops stood under each wooden bridge.
Li Zhi observed with a telescope and found that the wooden bridges were three meters wide and more than six meters long. Each wooden bridge was made of three giant trees more than six meters long as the keel, and then the keels were covered with densely packed small wood.
The bridge deck is fixed with ropes. Not only that, there is also a wooden barrier in front of the wooden bridge, which is like a wooden shield hanging down in front of the wooden bridge. It is probably used to prevent Li Zhijun's rifle fire.
Li Zhi took a closer look at the wooden bridges and found that the Qing army built a thousand wooden bridges in three days. 8
