It is not an exaggeration to say that the Qing army's surrounding walls were heavily fortified, with deep ditches and high fortifications. With such intensive firepower from the enemy, unless the Dashun army forced a breakthrough regardless of the cost of casualties, it would not be able to prevent the opponent from further digging for important resources with just some harassment.
Trench.
Hao Yaoqi and Zhang Pizhu withdrew again after being harassed and fired by Shu Shu.
Li Laiheng also understood this. He stopped at the top of the mountain and saw how tight the Qing army's defense was. He knew that relying solely on cavalry troops would not take into account the casualties of Yulin's elite and leave thousands of Dashun soldiers in front of the trench.
body, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve a major breakthrough.
Zhang Piju had a shameful look on his face, while Hao Yaoqi rode back to the Dashun Army's central position. He immediately stood under the yellow dragon banner of the King of Jin's supervisor and said boldly:
"The enemy is heavily fortified, and the battle can only begin after the follow-up troops arrive. However, the walls of Xuzhou are strong, and Brother Gu, who is in charge of the overall defense, is also a famous general in our army. Dorgon cannot easily succeed, so His Highness does not need to worry."
Li Laiheng, Liu Fangliang, Guo Junzhen, and Gu Junen have been gathering together to discuss the current military situation. The four of them, except for Fang Yiren who is not here, are currently the top military decision-making team of the Dashun Army.
Liu Fangliang could no longer restrain his spirit of taking the initiative to attack. Guo Junzhen and Gu Junen both accepted Hao Yaoqi's judgment and agreed that the time for battle was not yet mature. They both proposed that they should follow the direction of the Qing army's west wall defense line and fight with them.
Like the enemy, they dig a trench in parallel and prepare to build a camp for a long-term confrontation.
Gu Junen said: "The defense of the Yellow River is in the hands of our army, not to mention the countless grain reserves in Kaifeng. If we talk about a long-term confrontation, the advantage will certainly be on the side of Dashun Army.
Dorgon only had enough food for ten days, but he dared to defend the city and confront me in a trench. This was undoubtedly a way to die. Dorgon's fall will be the same as the end of the Manchus.
Look forward to it.”
Guo Junzhen raised the issue of Nanming Navy:
"The army in the palace has been deployed southward for a long time, which has brought back the progress of the Nanming army. The Ming army spread its sails and advanced very fast. It is estimated that it has now passed the line of Luliang Mountain. Xuzhou is surrounded by enemies from both sides. The situation may not be optimistic.
The biggest problem is that the thousands of sails sent out in the Southern Ming Dynasty are bound to carry a huge amount of food. Once they join forces with Dorgon, they can support the Qing army, and our army's logistics supply advantage will be greatly weakened."
Li Laiheng nodded slightly. Although he looked down upon the combat effectiveness of the Nanming army, he still needed to admit that once the Nanming navy arrived, the large amount of food they carried would likely change the direction of the war.
Now it seems that Dorgon dared to bring only dozens of rations and left no room for the violent advance at the rear, because he pinned his hopes on the Southern Ming army's support for the Northern Expedition.
Like Shi Kefa, Li Laiheng also had a very strong sense of absurdity in his heart.
But His Highness Prince Jin just felt funny:
"If Huang Taiji is a world hero who can compete with Lao Wansui, then Dorgon, this cunning white fox, is so stupid that he can't even compare to Huang Taiji and the late emperor. Compared to Emperor Chongzhen, he can only be compared to Emperor Chongzhen.
I just have better luck."
Judging from the historical situation, Dorgon immediately got carried away after his great victory in the Battle of Shanhaiguan and deployed Azige to attack northern Shaanxi and Duduo to attack Jiangnan. The two routes were thousands of miles apart and could not respond to each other.
The Great Split Offensive, if not for Huaiqing's counterattack, would have been self-destructive.
Dorgon's hair-cutting order turned the anti-Qing war that could have been suppressed within a few years into a life-and-death issue that lasted for decades and continued to plague the Qing court until the Kangxi period.
Whether it is strategic and tactical vision or power control, the gap between Dorgon and Huang Taiji is wider than that between Li Laiheng and Li Zicheng.
Li Laiheng clapped his hands and said: "If Huang Taiji were here, Gujue would not dare to be so entrusted. He would have to wait until all the armies gathered and the Dashun army had at least twice the advantage in strength before the battle could begin.
But if it is just Dorgon's words, even if our army is smaller than the Qing army, we are determined to win. What's more, today the enemy and our soldiers are evenly matched, there is no doubt that we will win this battle, and I can't predict it.
, Dorgon will never escape the clutches of isolation."
Li Laiheng immediately accepted Guo Junzhen's suggestion, first recalled Hao Yaoqi and Zhang Pikui, and then ordered the cavalry troops to dismount and build camps, waiting for Fang Yiren's main infantry group to arrive on the battlefield.
"If our army wants to confront the Qing army for a long time, we need to deploy a defense line parallel to the enemy's west wall. The two cavalry units, Hao Yaoqi and Zhang Pikui, will patrol the perimeter and continue to alert the enemy to prevent the Qing army from sending troops to counterattack and disrupt us.
arrangement.”
It only takes a day or two for Fang Yiren to arrive at the battlefield. Li Laiheng absolutely believes that Gu Kecheng, Xu Du and Xuzhou City can definitely hold on for more than ten times this time.
However, in order to encourage and boost the morale of the soldiers and civilians in Xuzhou, Li Laiheng also appointed Liu Fangliang to supervise and lead a group of light cavalry to make a circuitous development to the south, trying to break into the Xuzhou city through the vacuum zone where the Qing army's siege troops had not yet extended.
Or assuming that it is impossible to break through directly into Xuzhou City, the defenders of Xuzhou City must also be allowed to see the activities of the Qingqi of the Shun Army, so as to inspire morale.
On the side of the Qing army, in Dorgon's central army tent, the mood of the Manchu generals was not very good. The two Han vassal kings, Shang Kexi and Kong Youde, also had no confidence in the rapid attack on Xuzhou City.
Dorgon had to place his hopes on the blue-eyed Qintian Jianzheng beside him. This blue-eyed Westerner was originally a Jesuit monk.
On the recommendation of the emperor, he served in the Qin Tianjian, translating almanacs, promoting astronomy, and making instruments.
When the military situation was tense during the Chongzhen period, Tang Ruowang was ordered by the Ming court to supervise the manufacture of war artillery using Western methods, and dictated the principles and techniques of cannon casting, manufacturing, storage, transportation, performance, gunpowder preparation, and artillery shell manufacturing.
Xu compiled it into two volumes of "The Essentials of Fire Attack" and one volume of "The Secret Essentials of Fire Attack".
After the Qing army occupied Beijing, Tang Ruowang was protected by the Qing court for his knowledge and skills in astronomy and calendar. And because of his history of supervising the manufacture of firearms, he was able to lead a group of Jesuit monks to follow Dorgon in the expedition.
The method of calculating various elements of artillery fire mastered by this group of Western missionaries was so trusted by Dorgon that Tang Ruowang was given the title Tongxuan Teacher.
At this time, Tang Ruowang was wearing a sapphire-topped court cap and a peacock-embroidered court gown in the military camp. A lapis lazuli beads and a golden cross shone together. He was leading other Jesuit monks to the military camp.
Ergon reported on the progress of the Hongyi artillery attack on the city.
Both Kong Youde and Monk Kexi scorned this Westerner, but they also knew that they were Han Chinese and were somewhat feared by the regent. They were not as rootless and easily controlled as Tang Ruowang and other Westerners.
After Dorgon listened to the reports from these people, he decided to go to the front line to inspect the military situation in person. There was much opposition from the Manchu clan nobles. Everyone believed that Shunjun's muskets had a long range and accurate shooting. If a famous general appeared on the front line,
, it is easy to be concentrated and shot by the gunmen of the army.
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I would like to recommend the Republic of China military espionage novel "Subtle Striker" written by book friends.