Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 705
There was an atmosphere of panic in Jinzhou City. The military households and soldiers who had withdrawn from the Daling River brought horrible news one after another. Attack, imagine besieging Jinzhou City like Dalinghe City... The terrifying memory of the bones and bones in the Dalinghe Battle has been awakened again. No one wants to experience what the defenders of Dalinghe City have experienced. Those who could afford it began to pack up their parcels and flee, while those who couldn't escape tried every means to hoard food and firewood. The price of goods in the city rose accordingly, which aggravated the chaos.Although Jinzhou City is notoriously strong, and is surrounded by mountains and seas, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but after the Battle of Daling River, the Guan Ning Army's fear of Houjin has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and no matter how strong the city wall is, it will not be able to stop the attack. They are brave.

In the General's Mansion, the eyes of many generals of the Guan Ning Army wandered. Zu Dashou's face was ashen, and he clenched his fists tightly, his facial muscles twitched like an angry lion.

Miscalculation, complete miscalculation.

He was not ignorant of Hou Jin's big move. In fact, as early as a month ago, he had obtained the information that Hou Jin had begun to gather heavy troops. Now it seems that the information was accurate, but the judgment was completely wrong.He believes that there are only two directions that Hou Jin can choose, either to fight North Korea or to fight the Dongjiang Army. The possibility of fighting Jinzhou is very slim.

There are good reasons to fight against North Korea. North Korea, which once provided Hou Jin with a large amount of coolies and food, has now completely turned to Ming Dynasty, and the Denglai Navy blocked the Yalu River, becoming more and more unscrupulous. Hou Jin sent envoys to negotiate several times, and they all ate Shut up.Now that the Yalu River has been frozen, people can drive away everywhere on the Qianli River, and the powerful Denglai Navy is forced to retreat to Dalian Port. If they don't fight now, when will they wait?

The reason for fighting the Dongjiang army is even stronger. After last year, Jin suffered a disastrous defeat in Lushun, which was too embarrassing. It lost [-] troops and its prestige was shaken.Even if it's just to wash away the shame and restore the lost prestige, Houjin must win a big victory over Lushun!What's more, the sea salt business and farmland of Lushun Dongjiang Army are doing well, and Lushun has a lot of money.The most important point is that the Dongjiang Army has devoted all its energy to developing the economy and farming. It did not build a large number of strong fortresses like the Guanning Army did. It just pulled a few barbed wire fences and dug a few trenches. It is a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch.

But he never expected that Hou Jin would come to pinch Jinzhou instead of pinching these two soft persimmons!

Zu Dashou didn't believe that Houjin was going to attack Jinzhou. If Jinzhou was really easy to fight, they would have fought it long ago.Zu Dashou judged that Houjin came from the farmland reclaimed by the Guanning Army in the area of ​​Xiaolinghe and the food produced by the civilian husbands and military households scattered in the series of fortresses. These are the resources that Houjin is in short supply. After they have stripped away all the fortresses in the Linghe area, they should withdraw and pose little threat to Jinzhou.It's just... It's really uncomfortable to be treated as a crop planted in one's own field, and to come and harvest once when you're in a good mood!
"Marshal Zu, Marshal Wu is here!"

The soldier's report pulled Zu Dashou out of his thoughts.Zu Dashou raised his head, a little surprised: "The eldest uncle is here so soon? Please!"

There was a clanging sound of nail leaves colliding, and the heroic Wu Sangui, wrapped in the cold wind and covered with snow flakes on his cloak, walked in with great strides.Now the Guanning army is enthusiastically admiring the armor of the Heluo New Army. This piece of armor is made of large steel plates, and its defense ability is much stronger than that of Shanwen armor. It may not be possible to penetrate with a three-eyed gun.But Wu Sangui was an exception. Out of resentment towards Heluo's new army, he always insisted on the Phishan Wenjia, and every leaf of the armor was polished so that it would shine brightly wherever he went.As soon as he came in, he saluted Zu Dashou: "Uncle, I'm here!"

Zu Dashou showed a smile, stepped forward to help him gently, and said with a smile: "It must have been a lot of hardships to fly from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou in just two days in such a cold day? Why is it so urgent? In case of frostbite It’s okay if you get hurt or hurt?” He really likes this nephew, in his eyes, Wu Sangui is brilliant, brave and good at fighting, and the most important thing is that he is tactful and able to take care of the overall situation. Only when Guan Ningjun was handed over to him, he and Wu Xiang would be at ease.

Wu Sangui said: "Jiannu is approaching menacingly, and he regards me as nothing in the Guanning Army. The eldest uncle is concerned about the safety of Jinzhou, so he must arrive as soon as possible. By the way, uncle, how is the situation now?"

Zu Dashou pulled Wu Sangui to sit down at the tea table, and asked his servants to bring a bowl of hot ginger soup for him to drink to drive away the cold.Wu Sangui drank it in one gulp, pushed the bowl aside, and asked impatiently, "How is the situation now?"

Zu Dashou shook his head and smiled bitterly: "What else can be done? All the efforts in farming and reclamation in the past few years have been ruined. According to those who escaped, all the military camps and fortresses on the other side of the Xiaoling River were stripped bare, at least 2 people They were captured by Jiannu, and the food and weapons stored there were all made cheaper by Jiannu!"

Wu Sangui said: "What a heavy loss!"

Zu Dashou said bitterly: "If the imperial court hadn't transferred Da Le, Da Bi, and those two thousand cavalry, why would I have no power to fight back against Jian Nu!" How did Zhong preserve his strength? Even if the two thousand cavalry were not transferred away, I am afraid that he would just shrink back in Jinzhou City and would never take the initiative to fight to the death with Jin.With such a commander on the stand, even a group of lions will be turned into sheep by him. There is no way, the generals of Liaoxi are not willing to lose too many elite soldiers in the fight with Hou Jin. The first thing he has to consider is the interests of the generals of Liaoxi. The second is the national interest.

Wu Sangui snorted: "It's all Yang Menglong's fault! If he hadn't been bewitching everyone in front of the emperor, how could the emperor have disregarded the safety of Guanning's line of defense and sent away so many elite cavalry!" Mentioning Yang Menglong made him angry, half because Under Dengzhou City, being played by Yang Menglong like a monkey, the anger is hard to dissipate, half of it is out of jealousy.He has always been the most dazzling star no matter where he goes. Guan Ningjun regards him as a thousand-mile horse, and the court regards him as a golden beam. They all think that he has a bright future and will become a great weapon. But since Yang Menglong appeared, everything Everything has changed.Yang Menglong's four hundred iron cavalry broke through the army of slaves, spearheaded Huang Taiji's horses, quelled the Denglai Rebellion in January, the Lushun War made the gold blood flow into rivers, and the Yiluo Valley almost solved 10,000+ rogues without blood... These can only be used " The military exploits described as "miracle" made that baby-faced Heluo new army the object of attention from all over the world. As for Wu Sangui, he was completely put aside, how could Wu Sangui stand it!His resentment towards Yang Menglong was getting deeper and deeper, and he just wanted to kill this bastard!But now that Yang Menglong is the Marquis of the Empire, and his position is still higher than him, he is no longer something he can easily kill, and he can only think about it in his heart.He lowered his voice and asked, "Then what shall we do now?"

Zu Dashou looked at him and asked, "What do you think we should do?"

Wu Sangui said: "My nephew thinks that the most urgent thing to do is to strengthen security to prevent Jiannujian spies from making trouble in the city. It's freezing cold, and Jiannu came to attack from afar. They don't even have a place to hide from the wind and snow, so they can't persist in the wilderness. How long, it will take ten days and a half months at most, they should withdraw, and when our army sees the opportunity to attack, there will be good news!"

Zu Dashou nodded with satisfaction. This is indeed a feasible strategy. In fact, Guan Ning's army only used this trick to deal with Hou Jin: defend the strong city, wait for Hou Jin to withdraw, and then take a chance to attack him. , capture a batch of heads, then multiply the number of enemies killed by ten or even a hundred, concoct a great victory and ask for a reward from the court.Yuan Chonghuan played this trick more ruthlessly. During the battle of Ningyuan, he boasted that he killed and injured over [-] slaves every day. Unfortunately, the heads he handed over in the end were only over [-] levels.It’s just that this trick doesn’t seem to work very well now, because the records of the Heluo New Army and Tianxiong Army are too dazzling. In the Battle of Daling River, these two new armies beheaded more than [-] people, and the Battle of Lushun was even more terrifying. , beheaded [-] people and captured [-] alive, all of them were real. Now using more than a hundred heads to brag about annihilating more than [-] enemies will only make people laugh.

Alas, it's all Yang Menglong's fault... If there is no big deal, and everyone continues to play according to the previous rules of the game, knowing that they are fake, they will not expose it, how good would it be?
While they were discussing, there was a burst of thunderous cheers outside.Zu Dashou frowned, very displeased, and was about to send someone out to see what was going on, when Zu Kuanye walked in with blood all over his body, and loudly said after entering the door: "Shuai Zu, the last general is back!"

Zu Dashou glanced at him and asked, "Did you fight Jiannu?"

Zu Kuan said: "Yes, I bumped into Jiannu's rangers who were chasing and killing our army on the Shizipo. There were a hundred people, and the last general also pulled out a hundred riders. The two charges sent them all on the road. Western sky."

Wu Sangui was shocked: "Jiannu has a hundred cavalry, but you only send a hundred cavalry, and the two charges are all solved?"

Zu Kuan said: "The two charges were all resolved, and one was not left behind. Just after finishing this ranger, Jiannu Zhenghongqi and a Jiala rushed over again..."

Zu Dashou stood up eagerly: "What happened?"

Zu Kuan punched the air: "The last general smashed them to pieces, let them drop more than five hundred corpses, and fled back crawling and crawling! If it weren't for the exhaustion of the spear and the stamina of the horse If not, none of this Jiala can expect to escape back with his life!"

The Guan Ning army generals who were arguing endlessly froze as if under a petrification spell, and stared at Zu Kuan in a daze, their eyes widened in disbelief.If it weren't for the bloody smell on this guy's body that was so strong that he almost turned into a blood man, and he had obviously gone through a fierce battle, someone would have jumped up and scolded him for bragging.Just kidding, Hou Jin has more than [-] elite soldiers in a single armor. With such a powerful force, it is trivial to defeat tens of thousands of Guanning troops in field battles. The Guanning army must rely on fortresses to compete with them. Your old man actually said He crushed them with only a thousand cavalry, and nearly wiped them all out?This cowhide is too big!
Zu Kuan pointed outward: "There is a head as proof!"

Zu Dashou walked out quickly without saying a word.The scene in front of him made him gasp:
Thousands of Guanning Army Lancers used broken cavalry spear shafts to pick up the heads of the bloody and grinning post-golden warriors, and lined up in three rows to pay tribute to him.In front of this front horse, the bloody armor stripped from the corpse piled up into a hill!

A big victory, a real big victory!

Zu Dashou looked at all this and was silent for a long time, then suddenly he laughed wildly, tears came out of his laughter.

Daishan bit his lip hard, looking at the dead bodies lying on the ground, a thread of blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Each of these corpses had a broken spear stuck in the chest or abdomen, and anyone who wasn't an idiot knew who it belonged to.

Lancers, another good thing done by the Lancers of the Ming Army!
A Jia La against a thousand Ming Army Lancers, two rounds of confrontation, this Jia La was beaten and disabled!

Daishan raised his head suddenly, and let out a howl like a wounded wild wolf towards the sky.

(End of this chapter)