Everyone was thinking about their own concerns. The nobles of Eight Banners Manchuria were silent for a while after Adun was hacked to death. After losing several games in a row, the generals were a little discouraged and disappointed, and they had no energy during the discussion.
After a long time, Jierhalang said: "Your Majesty, now that the Ming Dynasty has a strong army, how can we resist the enemy?"
Huang Taiji firmly grasped the handle of the dragon chair and said slowly: "This decisive battle in Jinzhou can be won but not defeated. If defeated, the Mongolian vassals and North Korea will have different intentions and fall to the Ming Dynasty."
After hearing Huang Taiji's words, all the generals were stunned. Although the Mongolian vassals and North Korea were now surrendering to the Qing Dynasty, they were not completely willing. Especially in North Korea, there was a group of people in the country called the pro-Ming faction.
, has a vast influence. As long as the Qing Dynasty weakens slightly, North Korea may rebel against the Ming Dynasty.
If both Mongolia and North Korea rebelled, how much would the territory of the Qing Dynasty be reduced? How much would its national power be weakened? I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty would return to the thorny path of its founding.
This decisive battle was about the national destiny of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and neither side could afford to lose.
Huang Taiji pressed the handle of the dragon chair and said word by word: "National mobilization, all men over the age of sixteen in Manchuria and Mongolia are recruited, we will definitely defeat the Ming Dynasty!"
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After seeing off the prince and the two ministers, Li Zhi and the generals returned to the tent to discuss the military situation.
Now that Li Zhi was already a marquis, Hong Chengchou did not dare to entrust him to the throne, so he asked Li Zhi to sit at the top and he sat with him at the bottom. Although Hong Chengchou was the governor of Jiliao and had the power to control the generals, Li Zhi's title was too big.
Hong Chengchou could no longer suppress Li Zhi.
Hong Chengchou sat down at the bottom, coughed and said, "Now that Dabi Mountain cannot be conquered for a long time, what are your plans?"
The generals stared at each other for a while without saying anything. The fortifications at Dabi Mountain were so complete that Cao Bianjiao couldn't attack them. What could the other generals do? Everyone thought about it, but no one said anything.
Li Zhi was really too lazy to see the Ming army wasting time under Dabi Mountain, so he nodded and said: "Tomorrow, General Cao's troops will withdraw, and I will lead the army to attack the mountain."
Although Hong Chengchou accepted the emperor's secret edict, he easily refused to let Li Zhi take action. But now that Li Zhi was in a high position, how could Hong Chengchou dare to command Li Zhi? Since Li Zhi said he wanted to attack the mountain, Hong Chengchou did not dare to stop him.
Stroking his beard, Hong Chengchou said: "In that case, we will wait from the rear to watch Xing Guohou attack the mountain."
Li Zhi smiled and said nothing.
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On the morning of February 29th, Li Zhi dragged out seventy heavy cannons, each of which was pulled by twelve strong horses, and quickly headed down the Dabi Mountain.
Although Li Zhi's 18-pounder can shoot three miles, the cannon cannot hit that far when fired upward. Li Zhi had to use the cannon to bombard the fort on the top of the mountain, and he had to rush two miles down the mountain before he could shoot upward.
Dorgon placed thirteen cannons on the top of the mountain, seven of which were small cannons and six of which were heavy cannons. Seeing Li Zhi's artillery carriage moving toward the foot of the mountain, the five heavy cannons on the top of the mountain opened fire.
Before the artillery removed the artillery position on the hilltop, the firing position in front was too dangerous. Li Zhi did not rush to the foot of the mountain, but stood a few miles away and commanded with an order flag. The artillery on the front line was commanded by Xue Sanku.
Li Zhi heard a rumbling sound coming from the top of the hill, and then six artillery shells were fired from the top of the hill, towards Li Zhi's artillery. However, the first round of artillery fire by the Qing army was not accurate, and none of the artillery shells hit the target.
Li Zhi's artillery cart quickly maneuvered forward, and after walking two miles forward, the six heavy artillery guns on the mountain fired two more rounds. The Qing army's second round of artillery bombardment was empty again, until the third round of artillery bombardment, Dorgon's
The heavy artillery hit one of Li Zhi's artillery carriages, smashing the carriage and killing two pack horses and one artilleryman.
Li Zhi cursed the bastard and said loudly: "Send the order, use explosive bullets to fight back!"
The forts built by the Qing army on the top of the mountain were very particular and they made full use of the mountain terrain. In fact, they dug several shallow holes on the top of the mountain and placed the cannons in the holes. As long as the cannons on the mountain had correctors, they could take advantage of the mountain terrain.
The cannons were hidden in shallow caves and fired down the mountain. When the cannons at the bottom of the mountain attacked the fort from above, the cannonballs would be blocked by the land outside the fort and would not be able to shoot directly at the fort.
Of course, this is not a problem for Li Zhi. Since he can't shoot solid bullets directly, he can just eject split bullets.
The artillerymen calculated the location of the fort based on the shells fired from the top of the mountain, raised the muzzles of the cannons high, and began to throw explosive shells towards the top of the mountain. Only a rumble was heard, and sixty-nine cannons spit out tongues of flame, blasting six
Nineteen shells were fired towards the top of the mountain.
The artillery shells shot into the platform on the top of the mountain, exploded one after another, and exploded into clouds of sparks on the top of the mountain. Although the Qing army's fort was hidden behind the mountain and Li Zhi couldn't see it with his telescope, Li Zhi could imagine seventy of them.
The spectacular sight of shells exploding on the platform.
Dorgon, Prince of Rui County in Manchuria, stood in the watchtower on the top of the mountain. He was overlooking the charging Li Zhi artillerymen from a high position, but suddenly he saw flames spraying from the muzzle of the cannon at the foot of the mountain, and seventy shells were fired towards the top of the mountain. The sound was heard.
The speed of propagation is much slower than that of light. Dorgon only heard the rumble of cannons from the foot of the mountain a few seconds after seeing the tongues of flame when the cannon was fired.
Seventy shells roared towards the fort. When Dorgon turned around, he saw flowers exploding inside the fort.
The gunners could dodge after the explosive shells hit the ground, but the cannons could not. In just one round of shelling, four of the six heavy cannons were destroyed.
Not only were the heavy artillery destroyed, but two light Hongyi cannons were also damaged by indiscriminate exploding shells. A light cannon weighing several hundred kilograms was overturned by the blast of exploding shells and flipped outside the fort.
Dorgon's face turned pale, and he secretly thought that Li Zhi's bomb was too powerful.
Mele Zhangjing, a Zhengbaiqi man next to Dorgon, gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, Li Zhi's cannon is too powerful. I'm afraid I won't be able to defend Dabishan!"
Dorgon frowned and said nothing.
The two remaining heavy artillery pieces on the mountain counterattacked and fired two shots down the mountain, but failed to hit any targets.
A minute later, another sixty-nine shells flew up. This time the shells were fired more accurately, and at least a dozen shells landed in the fort where the two heavy guns were. Dorgon's gunners were in chaos.
A pot of porridge, running around like crazy, they all ran to places where there were no shells and lay down to hide.
Only a rumble and explosion was heard, and more than a dozen rounds of ammunition exploded inside the fort.
The powder barrel of a heavy artillery was ignited by the explosive shell. Only a loud bang was heard, and all the dozens of kilograms of black powder in the powder barrel exploded. The huge air wave caused by the explosion destroyed a heavy artillery that had been destroyed.
It was lifted up. The heavy artillery carriage disintegrated in the air, and its parts flew everywhere, scaring the nearby gunners to flee in panic.
The several-kilogram barrel of the heavy cannon was blown away by the air wave and hit the watchtower where Dorgon was sitting, smashing the northeast corner of the watchtower into powder.
Mele Zhangjing was so frightened by the impact of the cannon barrel that he lay on the ground in panic. When the damage caused by the cannon barrel stabilized, he realized that Dorgon didn't even hide. He got up and flattered the ground.
Said: "Your Majesty, Taishan collapsed in front of him without changing his color. He is really calm and brave."
Dorgon frowned and looked at the collapsed northern part of the watchtower, silent.
Six precious heavy-duty Hongyi cannons were suddenly thrown away by Li Zhi, which made Dorgon feel a little heartbroken.
The artillery at the foot of the mountain fired two rounds and knocked down the heavy artillery on the mountain. Li Zhi's artillery dominated the battlefield and could shoot at the targets on Dabi Mountain at will.
