As a die-hard traitor who put all his wealth and life on the side of "we, the Qing Dynasty", Kong Youde certainly did not dare to have the slightest hesitation in the dispatch of any master.
He knew very well that if one day the Ming Dynasty really overturned the situation, then people like him would definitely be crushed to death without a burial place.
Therefore, after receiving the order, Kong Youde immediately mobilized his troops and prepared carefully to ensure that he could attack on the same day.
Of course, Kong Youde is not mentally retarded. He is just greedy for merit and dares to sacrifice his life. This does not mean that he is not cautious in combat.
While preparing, he did not forget to ask the messenger about the military situation ahead: "May I ask the envoy, how many men, horses and warships are there in the Ming Navy this time? Who is the general?"
The envoy was sent by Azig, and he had obviously already had a preliminary understanding of the enemy's situation. He did not deliberately deceive Kong Youde, so he followed Azig's understanding and said truthfully:
"The navy of the Ming army has about one or two hundred large ships, which can transport at least 20,000 people! Otherwise, it would be impossible to evacuate the remnants of Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming. King Gongshun cannot underestimate the enemy.
This time, the main focus is to harass and siege, so forget it if we can't attack by force. As long as we can sneak attack on its weak points and attack the Nanmanzi's troop transport ships, the two princes will definitely appreciate your great contribution."
It turned out that when Azig sent troops to attack Bijia Mountain, some of Zheng Chenggong's ships were still floating in the open sea, at least dozens of miles away from the shore. Azig could not hope to find them.
This is not because Zheng Chenggong intentionally avoided revealing his true strength, but mainly to prevent accidents, such as being blown too close to the shore by wind and waves, and having too few close combat troops on board to be captured by the Tatars.
Therefore, only the transport ships needed to transport the number of people from Li Fuming Cao Bianjiao's tribe, plus the dozen or so gunboats equipped with Hongyi cannons, were left near the dock.
This is also the consistent basic operation of generals who are well versed in naval tactics. There is no need to let a large ship with only a few sailors get too close to the shore easily, as it will only cause chaos.
Azig was not aware of this factor, so he lowered the number of Ming ships by half, which was not an unethical statement.
Even so, Kong Youde was slightly startled when he heard that there were one or two hundred ships on the opposite side. He also made a decision almost at the same time: he really couldn't go head-to-head with the main force of the Ming army! He especially had to avoid the gunboats! He should quietly
Mimi makes a sneak attack, specifically picking out troop transport ships to burn!
He paused and continued to ask: "So, Xiao Wang has an idea in his mind. However, the envoy has not yet answered. Who is the general of the Ming army this time? Is it because he was in a hurry and didn't find out?"
To the second half of the question, the envoy answered readily: "We have already found out that the warships of the Ming army all carried flags. During the bloody battle this morning, many prisoners of war under Cao Bianjiao were captured, and some information was obtained through torture.
The leader of this Ming navy was Zhang Mingzhen, deputy commander-in-chief of the sea route.
However, there is another officer in the fleet named Zheng Chenggong. Although he is only 18 years old, he already holds a high position and has achieved the title of head of the Nanjing Household Department. It is said that he is the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, the general of Fujian Army.
Cultivation.
Zhang Mingzhen should be here to protect this young master, and the Zheng family should have given Zhang Mingzhen so many red cannons because of this relationship, so that Zhang Mingzhen can lead his eldest son to perform meritorious deeds!"
After Kong Youde heard this, he immediately imagined an image of a young man who eats, drinks, and lives in poverty.
An 18-year-old boy who has just entered the officialdom! He actually became the sixth-rank chief of the Sixth Department and was promoted by Kaidou!
What kind of skills can this kind of useless snack have! Of course, it relied on father to get here! The corruption of the Ming Dynasty is really disgusting! People who really have the merit of killing with swords and guns are not allowed to be reused. These beasts who are rich because of their father,
You can reach such a high position at the age of eighteen!
Kong Youde came from a poor background, and of course he particularly hated the rich, especially the second-generation officials and the second-generation rich. Coupled with the hardships he endured in the Ming Dynasty and the old hatred of being excluded and framed by officials, he immediately characterized Zheng Chenggong
He became a useless snack who relied on his father for promotion.
Kong Youde pondered: "Then it seems that the main person we have to face in today's battle is Zhang Mingzhen. I have heard of this man. When I surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Mingzhen was just a defensive officer under Ning Shaohaidao.
A battalion of Zhoushan garrison.
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His combat prowess when he was annihilating the pirates was far inferior to mine! This kind of person has been promoted to deputy general of the guerrilla army in the past seven or eight years, probably because he curried favor with Zheng Zhilong and helped his son defraud him.
, let the Zheng family help him spend money to clear up the officialdom!"
After thoroughly understanding the enemy's situation, Kong Youde was more confident. According to his own imagination, he strengthened the troop deployment in a targeted manner. After the troops had had dinner, they were ready to sail out for the expedition.
After boarding the ship, Kong Youde drifted on the sea, idle and idle, happily thinking about his great future after this meritorious service.
I heard that His Majesty Huang Taiji intends to officially expand the Han military flag from four flags to eight flags this year. He originally got inside information, but because he was relatively junior in the investment, he probably could only be the deputy flag master of Mele Erzhen, who was the main red flag.
If I can help the two masters Azige and Jierhalang make great achievements this time, then maybe I can jump to another level and directly become the true banner master of Gushan'e!
The Han military flag of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was officially set up as early as the 7th year of Chongzhen, after King Sanshun came to vote for it. It has now been eight years of construction.
It was just that the total strength of the Han military flag was relatively small at the beginning, so they were all organized under one banner. The oldest traitor, Tong Yangxing, was appointed as the general manager of the Han military flag in Angbang Zhangjing. Tong Yangxing held this position until his death, that is, regardless of the subsequent dismantling of the Han military flag.
How many flags were produced? On top of each flag, there was Angbang Zhangjing who was in charge of all the Han military flags.
In the next eight years, first in the ninth year of Chongzhen, one was split into two, then in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the second was split into four, and now in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the four were officially split into eight, and the entire establishment was completed.
When appointing the banner leaders of each banner, the Manchus and Qing Dynasties mainly looked at the time when they came to join the Qing Dynasty and their seniority. They did not look much at their official position in the Ming court when they joined the Qing Dynasty and the number of troops they brought.
Therefore, historically, after Tong Yangxing, the Eight Banners were led by Shi Tingzhu and Ma Guangyuan, two generals from the Ming Dynasty during the Tianqi period. Later, when the Four Banners were expanded, Zu Zerun and Wang Shixuan were added, and they were also Tianqi
It was reduced to the Qing Dynasty during the year.
Kong Youde and others surrendered after the Wuqiao Mutiny in the fifth year of Chongzhen. Although they brought many troops and were granted the title of Sanshun King, they could not bypass seniority. They arrived late, and according to the plan, they could only serve as deputies in each banner.
Ezhen, Gushan Ezhen can't hold a regular position.
Unless you happen to make a great contribution at this juncture!
Nowadays, the Han army actually has more than 130 Niulu troops in total. According to the establishment, each banner has 25 Niulu troops, and the Eight Banners should have a total of 200 Niulu troops to be considered full.
So in fact, Huang Taiji regarded the besieged Ming army Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Li Fu, Ming Cao Bianjiao and others as "about to be captured and surrender" in advance, so he reserved about seventy or eighty Niulu for Hong Chengchou and others in advance.
preparation.
When Hong Chengchou was defeated and surrendered, and the troops under his command also surrendered, the Qing and Han military flags could suddenly increase by 30% of their troops out of thin air! Enough to make up 200 Niu Lu! The Eight Banners would reach its full strength!
Unfortunately, more than 15,000 prisoners have now escaped to Beacon Mountain, and 5,000 of them have returned to Shanhaiguan by boat.
If Huang Taiji, who was in the rear, was well-informed, he should immediately deduct at least twenty Niulu Han military flags from the obscene plan from the beginning, or even directly deduct one full flag.
This is like the war between the human race and the undead tribe in Warcraft. Every time the human race escapes one more militiaman, the meaning is not only that one more militiaman survives, but also causes the undead tribe to lose one corpse resource for turning into a skeleton.
, the value of one positive and one negative must be calculated twice.
Historically, the Han military flags will be expanded from the Four Banners to the Eight Banners this year. It is estimated that for the time being, they can only be the "Seven Banners of the Han Dynasty" at most.
Unless Huang Taiji, for the sake of face, directly captured some strong men from the Han people in Liaodong to increase the number of people and save face. But the combat effectiveness of such temporarily captured strong men is definitely not as good as the prisoners of war of the Nine-Border Ming Army who fought bloody battles for many years.
The words were divided into two parts. Kong Youde mobilized his troops and prepared to attack Zheng Chenggong's troop transport ship at the same time.
Because of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen's agitation, the Qing army also had to accelerate the battle process on other fronts at all costs.
Jilhalang's troops did not dare to mobilize too much, because the land route was equally important to the siege of Jinzhou.
When Chen Shuren explained the battle plan to Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen before their expedition, he did not mention rescuing Zu Dashou at all, because Chen Shuren had turned on the clairvoyant device and knew that there were too many traitors in the Zu family. This time Hong Chengchou came to rescue him.
Zu Dashou itself is also a big pit.
Moreover, as an indigenous general in western Liaoning, the ancestors' local interests are intertwined. Even if there is still one or two points loyal to the Ming Dynasty, their family interests are destined to be tied to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and they have already bet on both ends. The reason why they dare not directly and completely
They turned to the Manchus only because the situation was still unclear.
But the problem is that Chen Shuren knew that there was a traitor in Zu Dashou's family, so Zheng Chenggong didn't take the risk, but Azige and Jierhalang didn't know. In their opinion, if the Ming army wanted to rescue the trapped troops in Liaodong, it would be impossible to save Zu Dashou.
The priority should also be quite high.
This misjudgment immediately caused Jilharang's flag to rise, and more than half of the troops did not dare to act rashly.
The final decisive attack on Songshan was only carried out by two Jia-la from Azig's flag, plus one Jia-la from Jierhalang, and a large number of cannon fodder from the Han army's flag.
Fortunately, the Qing army finally had some second-line troops that were not too far away and could be mobilized.
In the afternoon of the fourth day of March, Azig began to ask for help. Just half a day later, at midnight that day, Abatai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner who was originally stationed in the defense area north of Jinzhou slightly far behind, took the main force of the Zhenglan Banner.
Came here.
Abatai is the seventh son of Nurhachi, and is also the seventh brother of Huang Taiji and Azig. He was also named a county king and has the same status as Azig. Huang Taiji is the eighth son of Nurhachi, and Abatai is four years older than Huang Taiji.
, already in his fifties at that time
As a result, the main force of the Qing army on the Songjin battlefield once again returned to the size of the three flags: Zhengbai Banner, Xianglan Banner, and Zhenglan Banner.
The size of the force can finally support the main attack on multiple enemies at the same time, while maintaining a siege and surveillance posture on the other two sides.
Of course, considering that one of Abatai's banners marched a relatively long distance to the Songshan battlefield, it would not be used as the first echelon in the siege.
He will be arranged to rest and recover first, and Azig's direct troops will still open up the situation, and Abatai will clean up the mess later.
At around dawn on the fifth day of March, which was about a quarter of an hour before dawn, the Qing army was fully prepared. For more than a day before, they had done a very good job in blocking Songshan.
Therefore, Xia Chengde, the deputy commander-in-chief who had promised to surrender in the city, had no idea that reinforcements from his side had arrived and arrived at Beacon Hill. Xia Chengde had no doubts about the Qing army's sudden threat to him to take action in advance, and he just accepted it out of cowardice.
Did it.
At about the same time, the east gate of Songshan City controlled by Xia Chengde's troops was opened by the traitors as scheduled. Azige ordered two cavalrymen under his command to rush into the city immediately, and then decisively controlled the city gate.
Azig did not dare to trust Xia Chengde too much. Even though Xia Chengde had sent his biological son Xia Shu to Azig as a hostage to guarantee the authenticity of the surrender, Azig was still afraid that this was a death trap played by the Han people.
, thinking of tampering with the urn city, or digging trenches and ramming earth walls inside the city gate to form a second line of defense.
Xia Chengde urged Azig to rush into the city and attack Hong Chengchou's mansion to control the situation, but Azig would rather waste time and take over everything near the city gate first.
This delay and chaos wasted for more than ten minutes. Then Azig asked Tong Tulai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army, to follow him into the city and take the damage and engage in street fighting.
Tong Tulai, a hard-core traitor, could be the leader of a banner, so of course he would not be shy. His master asked his subordinates to die first, so he went there obediently.
The Ming army also reacted at this time. Governor Hong Chengchou and Liaodong Governor Qiu Minyang respectively organized their own soldiers to attack the east gate and tried to plug the gap.
Thousands of Han people started a bloody massacre on Songshan Long Street. It was obvious that both sides were Han people, and not a single soldier was seen. It was just killing and wasting in vain.
Xia Chengde's troops, who were obviously Ming troops half a day ago, were now fighting side by side with Tong Tulai's Manchu and Han banners, and began to unconsciously kill their comrades from yesterday.
"Hong Chengchou is here! The Tatars have the guts to kill me quickly!" At this moment, Hong Chengchou actually showed a bit of the bloody spirit of a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. He personally drew the official's sword to supervise the battle and kill him.
It's a pity that this kind of shouting was just to promote hatred, which caused disaster to the soldiers around him. When Tong Tulai's troops heard that Hong Chengchou was here, they rushed forward like crazy and tried to snatch people's heads. The bloody massacre on both sides soon made people on the long street
Thousands of corpses lay buried.
Seeing that Tong Tulai and Xia Chengde had consumed Hong Chengchou so miserably, Azig was also overjoyed and screamed in his heart: "I knew Xia Chengde was so hardworking! He just surrendered and killed his old master like a mad tiger, we all
No need to ask Brother Seven to help!
Five thousand Ming troops defected and the remaining 20,000 Ming troops were killed. After all, 10,000 Ming troops were lost! The remaining Ming troops can only be captured by our Eight Banners warriors with a few charges!"
Seeing that the situation was looking good, uu Kanshu www.uukanshu.com Azig decisively asked his two Jia La to charge in a roundabout way. He first went around the poorly defended streets in the city to behind Hong Chengchou and Qiu Minyang, and then charged forward directly from behind.
When the Ming army saw that the situation was completely over, the guards at the other three gates did not care and opened the gates directly, trying to escape from the city.
Unfortunately, the south gate, which had the best escape effect for the Ming army, happened to have Abatai's Zhenglan Banner stationed outside the city.
Abatai had not originally planned to fight a tough battle. Seeing that the Ming army took the initiative to open the city gate, he also realized that the city might collapse. This was a good opportunity to steal people, so he rushed forward like a mad tiger to block the blockage.
The Ming troops who tried to escape at the south gate were slaughtered.
Only the northwest gates were far away from the Ming Dynasty. The defenders there rushed out of the city. In the panic, no Qing troops came to intercept them. What they cared about now was to capture Hong Chengchou as soon as possible. These stragglers could not care about it. Instead, they happened to form a secret siege.
The essentials of the art of war where three are missing and one is missing.
A quarter of an hour later, as the killings gradually stopped, Qiu Minyang, the governor of Liaodong, still fought hard and died for his country. Another commander-in-chief and a deputy general were also killed, and Hong Chengchou was captured alive.
The only butterfly effect was that because the Qing army had relatively few troops, there were no people to block the two northwest gates leading to the rear of the Qing army. Thousands of people escaped from each side, and even the overwhelming crowds in the dark were unable to catch up.