the world is at stake

Zhou Qingfeng ordered the naturalization battalion to clean up the battlefield, but the [-] Liaodong mountain people cheered and went out full of hatred.

Batu was still lying on his stomach a hundred steps away from the Han people's horses, with corpses and wounded in front of him and behind him.Blood pooled around him like a mountain stream.

The Jurchen warrior who used to show off his might was killed by a bullet for five cents.These bullets come from the Firearms and Ordnance Bureau of Songjiang Prefecture, and are handmade by Jiangnan women who used to grow mulberry and weave cloth.

This comes from the blow of industrialization, beyond the comprehension of barbarians.

After taking the horse a hundred steps away, the Han soldiers stopped shooting, but kept the sentries to observe.Batu moved back little by little, trying to leave this place of death without attracting attention.

away, away, far away.

Batu would rather go to Haixi to become a wild Jurchen than face these terrible Han people again.In the past, the massacre of the Han people in Liaodong was probably an illusion. If they cheered up a little, how could there be any way for the barbarians to survive?

It's just that Batu wanted to leave, but two or three hundred soldiers came out from behind the Han camp opposite.They didn't have muskets, but they held spears, and stabbed the corpses on the ground one by one to ensure that no one was alive.

It's over...Batu's heart was cold, and he sobbed and shed tears. The Liaodong Han people also became cruel and terrifying.How Dajin dealt with them in the past, they must retaliate tenfold!

Chapter 45 Countermeasures?

When Zhou Qingfeng intercepted Mangurtai near Guanshui Town, the situation in Hetuala, a hundred kilometers away, suddenly became tense.Yingming Khan Nurhachi suddenly ordered the arrest of all the "Federation" people from the Ming Dynasty, and tortured them severely.

In the past six months, Guo Hai and others have taken good care of Dajin, sending money, food, ironware and goods to the Jianzhou Department in large quantities.

The "Federation" team sold treasures such as "Night Pearl" in the imperial capital, and all the money in exchange was posted to Nurhachi.He also helped this backward barbarian bandit form the Han army in advance and use firearms.

When everyone in Dajin felt that Guo Hai and the others had done Nurhachi comparable to the Tong family, this "wild boar skin" suddenly turned his back on him. Except for Guo Hai who went to Kuandian, none of the other nine people escaped and were arrested. with.

Immediately after the arrest, they were tortured, and the nine people were tortured separately, and they were forced to question their true origins.Nurhachi also personally went to the execution room to interrogate Yan Li, one of the nine, with ruthless methods.

The torture room is a semi-enclosed wooden house, and the torture tools are very simple, just wooden benches and hanging ropes.

On the day of the execution, Yan Li was stripped of her clothes, and several savages tortured her all night. Then they beat her skin to pieces with a whip dipped in water, and screamed for a long time.

Yan Li was already on the verge of death after she had overtaken her majesty.Nurhachi with a gloomy face came to ask: "Yesterday, I ordered my concubine Ulanara to give you jewelry and food, and asked you about your daily life.

You are a woman, you know a lot about my Jurchen ministries but you have no respect in your words, and you even talked about asking me, Dajin, to fight more with Xinhua.

Before you came, I, Da Jin, wanted to take Fushun.After you came, you lobbied all parties to send me news that you were going to fight Kuandian.Now Kuandian is besieged, Amin is dead, and all the three bannermen of Zhenglan, Xianglan and Zhengbai are trapped.

All the plans of my Daikin were disrupted.What is your background?Is it the Ming Dynasty Han people or the Xinhua Han people?Is it a dead man who commits countermeasures? "

After Nurhachi finished speaking, Tong Yangzhen, who had escaped from Zhenjiang Fort, stood up from behind him and testified: "Khan, it is this group of Han people who are behind the scenes, sending money and goods in the open, but in fact they are messing with our soldiers.

My Tong family is loyal to the Great Khan, working hard day and night for the prosperity of the Great Khan.They must have been jealous and tricked us into going to Zhenjiang, causing the death of my Patriarch. "

Tong Yangzhen gritted his teeth in hatred, weeping blood every sentence.

Yan Li fainted several times after being tortured, and almost died.She was hanged in the torture room with disheveled hair. It wasn't until she was questioned by Nurhachi that she found out that Abahai came to greet her yesterday.

At that time, thinking that Abahai was a concubine and also a woman, Yan Li said a few more words for a while, talking about the secret scandal of "accepting an adopted marriage" in her words, with a kind of pride in pointing out the other party's maze.

Unexpectedly, Abahai nodded repeatedly when he heard it, and told Nurhachi when he went back that the 'wild boar skin' was old, but Abahai was young. The barbarians have the custom of letting their sons marry their father's concubine.

But how can this kind of family affairs be told to outsiders?Nurhachi was shocked and angry when he learned about it. After careful consideration, he wondered if he had been fooled by this group of foreigners?

The 'Federation' team is all skinny and tender. They have never suffered, and they talk nonsense after a few whips.What they said contradicted themselves, so the torture was even worse.

Some people are so sad that they just want to die quickly, and they simply say that they came here specifically to deal with the Xinhua Han people, and guide Nurhachi to fight with them, the harder the fight, the better.

Nurhachi was even more furious when he heard it.He felt that he was famous all his life, but he didn't expect to capsize in the gutter and be slapped severely by this group of "tricksters".

Tong Yangzhen babbled at the side, telling the results of the interrogation of other people.Yan Li, who was hanged and beaten, knew that the matter was revealed and irreversible, and all her ideas were instantly shattered.

"You are Nurhachi?"

Entering Hetuala, Yan Li only saw this Dajin Yingming Khan today.Knowing the desolation in her heart, all thoughts were lost, and she said coldly: "You are nothing special, you are just a grass head king. We are going to die, and you are not far away.

You have no idea what kind of opponent you are facing. Those guys from Xinhua are powerful and hate you to the bone. They will never compromise with you.Because they come from..."

Yan Li was tortured, and she still had the idea of ​​waiting for the mission to end.But Nurhachi uncovered the 'source', knowing that there was no possibility of survival, so he simply blew himself up and kept his secret, just for fun.

Nurhachi watched the woman's mouth open but no sound came out. After a while, it seemed as if her heart was caught and she stopped suddenly and died.He didn't ask any more secrets, and shouted angrily, "Chop off the woman's head, and throw the body into the mountains to feed the wolves."

Several jailers who were tortured kept responding, but it's a pity that although this girl is not young, her skin is tender and her skin is better maintained than the Fujin of the master's family. She didn't play enough last night, so today... it's not like she can't play anymore.

A shocking change in Hetuala did not affect the situation of the Kuandian battlefield.

When there are modern differences in tactics and weapons, the war will be one-sided - this is what Chen Ding, the military team, told Zhou Qingfeng before the expedition to Liaodong.

Examples include Rommel's attack on France in World War II, Manstein's violent attack on the Soviet Union, and hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops being forced to withdraw from the three eastern provinces by [-] Japanese troops.

This is still the result of an astonishing exchange ratio when there is no difference in weapons.There is a generational difference, that is, the British beat the Zulu people, and Seng Gelinqin rushed to the British and French allied forces at the Bali Bridge.

Although Zhou Qingfeng didn't have a Maxim machine gun, he still boldly used the terrain to lure the enemy into a trap on the seemingly open mountain road, and carried the Zhenglan flag.

In terms of strength, the Xinhua infantry is at an absolute disadvantage; but in terms of weapons, this small force has an advantage across the ages.Facing the overwhelming firepower, Mang Gurtai could only rage impotently.

Standing on the soil slope, watching the enemy come in like a tide, and recede like a tide, the joy here is beyond words.The whole battalion became joyful and full of confidence.

In the morning, a naturalization battalion arrived to help.In the afternoon, Wang Xin led the artillery to appear and brought an unconfirmed piece of information-Nurhachi intends to send troops south to rescue Kuandian.

"When did the news come?"

"This morning, a naturalized investigation team sent back information from the north. However, there is no other information to cross-check it, and its authenticity cannot be confirmed."

When the Xinhua expedition team arrived in Liaodong, in addition to recruiting local Liao people to join the army or do engineering work, they also naturally took advantage of their familiarity with geography and human relationships to collect intelligence.

Before Zhou Qingfeng took down Aiyang Fort, more than a dozen naturalized civilian investigation teams were formed and ordered to collect intelligence in various places in Liaodong, and Hetuala was the focus.

"If I remember correctly, in the original history, Nurhachi should be preparing for war at this time. It will attack Fushun early next year, gather more than 20 people in Liaodong, and expand its power by four or five times in an instant."

"Wild Boar Pi is in no mood to fight Fushun right now. His attention should be on us. Even if we do nothing, the outcome of the Battle of Salhu will change. Dajin Kingdom is now facing life and death."

Wang Xin joked about the current situation, "The Huangtai class currently has little power, and Mangurtai and Fei Yingdong are in control of Kuandian. If these 1 people are wiped out, Nurhachi will immediately wither."

Standing behind the crude horses in the interception position, Wang Xin saw the results of Zhou Qingfeng's battle all morning.Pointing to the scattered corpses in front of the formation, he said:

"Nurhaci's 'Dajin' is still just a barbarian tribe. Only when the Huangtai-level superiors reformed the 'Eight Banners' and established the 'Great Qing', the forces outside the Liaodong wall gradually became a family-state system.

Mang Gurtai said that there were more than 1 people, but Zhenglan Qi now only has [-] bulls, and the number of his men who can really fight will never exceed [-].If five or six hundred people are killed here, half of them are elites, it is tantamount to destroying Zhenglan Qi.

At present, Kuandian has gathered nearly [-] main players such as 'Zhenglan', 'Jianlan' and 'Zhengbai', and Nurhachi will definitely not sit idly by.It is reasonable to say that the army of slaves came to help. "

and so……

"So we'd better defeat Mangurtai's Zhenglan Banner here, and destroy the Huangtai-level Zhengbai Banner and the remnants of Amin Xianglan Banner before Nurhachi arrives."

Zhou Qingfeng looked at his watch, "The time is now 12:[-] noon, we now have two battalions of flint infantry and three battalions of naturalized cold soldiers, with a full [-] main combat troops and [-] auxiliary troops.

There are only more than 3000 people on the opposite side, and they are still the newly defeated army.Give the second infantry battalion and the two naturalized battalions who just arrived a two-hour rest, and launch an attack at 14:[-] to defeat Mangurtai. "

Wang Xin made a 'hmm' sound, looked at the numerous corpses lying in front of the hillside, and shouted with bright eyes: "Jiannu is nothing more than that, I used to overestimate these bandits. Let them taste the feeling of being shelled today." .”

Down the hillside, more than a dozen carriages brought supplies to Zhou Qingfeng.

Two of these batteries carried sixty-millimeter muzzle-loading guns.Each artillery group actually has NO.15 people, which is equivalent to half a platoon, and its commander is indeed at the platoon level.

The two horses were unloaded from the carriage, and turned to pull the artillery up the hill.The naturalization battalion acted as a coolie, helping to push the artillery carts while building artillery positions under the command of the artillery crew.

The 200mm muzzle-loading gun hits a "moving-to-moving" target on a small steamer, and the effective range is only 600 meters.It can be moved to land to hit 'quiet-to-quiet' targets, and the effective range can be greatly increased to [-] meters.

The arrival of these two cannons has greatly enhanced Zhou Qingfeng's attacking ability, and it is perfect to use them to deal with enemy camps and dense formations.

At this moment, while Manggurtai was building the camp, he sent sentry scouts to return to Kuandian Fort, and informed Fei Yingdong and the Huangtai class that he was intercepted halfway and his strength was greatly damaged.

Five or six hundred troops were killed and wounded in half a day, and half of them were the elite main force of each bull record. This news made the Huangtai class feel like they were pinching a hot potato, but they couldn't get rid of it.

Compared with Zhou Qingfeng, who played slowly and quickly, Chen Ding, who came from Pushihe, was a standard PLA army routine. He calculated logistics, troops, and firepower rigorously, and then decided whether to outflank or break through.

Chen Ding led more troops than Zhou Qingfeng. He also moved the artillery ashore, and set up camp outside Kuandian Fort, and moved the artillery outside the fort step by step for point-to-point shooting.

This is a bit of the meaning of "strengthen the stronghold and fight dumbly", but the speed of moving two or three kilometers a day is actually very fast.

In the face of firepower superiority, Fei Yingdong and Huangtai class just couldn't handle Chen Ding.They have nothing to do during the day, they can only engage in night raids, or detours to attack the logistics line.

Night raids on camps often step on landmines, and sneak attack logistics are ambushed by anti-counterfeiting.

Huang Taiji watched helplessly as Chen Ding put the artillery under his nose.He originally hoped that Mangurtai would win the field battle, at least to relieve the plight of the northern rear, but he did not expect that Mangurtai would be even worse.

"There is no solution to the water battle, and there is no chance of winning the field battle. We can only hope that the sweat will lead the troops to rescue." Fei Yingdong was also helpless.His decades of combat experience are all ineffective at present, and he is passively beaten everywhere.

The Huangtai class looked at the weather, and wondered whether the thousands of troops of his fifth brother would get closer to the Xinhua Han people at night, and whether they could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Mang Gurtai also had the same idea. During the daytime, the light was good, and it was a suicide attempt to go directly to the battle.The firecrackers should not be aiming far at night, which naturally gave the Jurchens a chance--the fishing and hunting people are more proficient in mountain and field warfare.

The morale of the newly defeated army was low, and a dozen or so soldiers were looking for places to rest.The Jurchens were not good at construction, and they didn't even repair the fortifications, so they used the deserted village by the mountain road as a barracks.

Fighting fiercely in the morning, hungry at noon, the Jurchen soldiers and horses were tired and hungry, and vented their anger on the heads of the enslaved slaves they enslaved.In the time it took to eat dry food, more than a dozen people were hacked to death.

Mangurtai moved his Zhenglan banner to the edge of the deserted village, stood at the entrance of the village and held up a bronze telescope to look at the two mountains hundreds of meters away.He didn't know what to aim for, he just observed every move of the powerful enemy.

The Han people on the opposite side did move. The figures behind the two rows of simple horses shook, as if something was being pushed up.That thing is quite bulky, probably to prevent waterproofing, it was covered with an oilcloth.

Mang Gurtai looked at the opposite side, and several people stood up on the other side, also looking at him with bronze binoculars.There are only five bronze binoculars that Guo Hai gave to Dajin, not even the eight banner owners.

But on the opposite side of the Xinhua Han team, there are five or six on a hillside, and everyone has platoon-level officers.The ones they use are small in size and light in weight. Maybe the lenses are better ground, so they can see farther and clearer.

Mang Gurtai was very annoyed, as if nothing could compare to the other party's depression.He heard the news that the Huangtai level sent people to spy, saying that the soldiers of the Han people in Xinhua had a lot of fish and meat, and they had enough rice.

Field dry food is also packaged in a special iron box, complete with meat and vegetables, and even sugar.

Because the stomach absorbs sugar quickly, it can quickly restore physical strength, and brown sugar is dark red like blood. According to the saying of "replenishing form with form", the ancients superstitiously believed that brown sugar can nourish blood.

On the other hand, at Jiannujian, they eat whatever they have, and they eat whatever they grab.logistics?Let the coated slaves drive the horse-drawn carts, and let them carry them if there is no cart.

Comparing the two, the morale of the Xinhua Han people is naturally higher.

It was also lunch time in Manggurtai, and the White Armored Army sent up a roasted smoked leg of lamb.He drew out his dagger and sliced ​​the leg meat, mixed it with rice and tea and ate it.

It is a privilege to be able to eat this kind of food in field battles on weekdays, but today it is not delicious.

The meal was only half eaten, and the white-armored sentinel sent to find the way came back in a hurry, and reported anxiously: "Master, something is wrong. The slave went around the mountain and found that there was another large group of people behind the Han people opposite."

"How many have you come?"

"About a thousand people, less than half of them are armed with firecrackers."

Another thousand people?There were about [-] soldiers on the opposite side.There is no longer a disparity in the strength of the two sides.Things are bound to change.

After talking about the strength of the troops, the Baijia Sentinel continued: "The Han people not only increased their troops, but also brought more than a dozen carriages, including two-wheeled artillery carts. When the servant came back, he saw them firing their artillery towards the slope from a distance. Push up."

What...cannon?

Mang Gurtai got up suddenly, grabbed the bronze binoculars and looked towards the opposite side.The tarpaulin that had just been covered was lifted, revealing two bronze cannons on the hillside.

This Han Chinese cannon actually has wheels?

Chapter 46 Rulin's Spear Stab

There are not many cannons in Ming Dynasty, but they are all without wheels. Most of them are fixed on the city head, and a few are mounted on the gun box or the bow.

Even the tiger crouching guns used in the field do not have wheels.It looks light, but in fact it is heavy, and its maneuvering speed is extremely slow.This impression was so deep that Mangurtai felt that his world view had been subverted when he saw the artillery with wheels.

Cannons have wheels, wouldn't they fall apart when fired?Even if it doesn't fall apart, a sudden backseat will make the gun cart shift or even overturn.

Mang Gurtai couldn't stand the rapid-fire firecrackers made by the Han people in Xinhua. He really couldn't bear to see the mobile artillery.He stood by the deserted village on the mountain road, looked and looked through the binoculars, his mind was buzzing, and he couldn't figure out how to deal with it.

The Baijia sentry spread the news that the Han people on the opposite side had artillery, and the Jiannu stationed around the deserted village didn't even eat lunch, and ran out one after another.This is not only a surprise, but also an estimate of how much threat the opponent's artillery poses to him.

Among the horse infantry, He Shuutu's unit suffered heavy losses in the morning. Hearing the news, he ran to Mangurtai, "Master, this place is only [-] steps away from the Han people stationed on the hillside. If the Han people have artillery, we have to get out of the way."

avoid?

It is necessary to avoid.

But Mang Gurtai's face was shaking again, hesitating.He also knew the danger of artillery fire, but he was more worried that if he ordered a retreat, the team would fall apart.

After today's battle, the Niulu of Zhenglan Banner have become afraid of the Xinhua Han people.If it can be delayed until night to fight again, even if it doesn't take advantage, it will be considered a draw, at least to prove the means of exchanging lives for lives.

If they retreated again and again, the team would have to retreat back to Kuandian, and the night attack plan would be out of the question—the border barbarians were not that resilient.Mang Gurtai was not afraid of defeat, but even more afraid of losing his prestige.

Seeing that Mang Gurtai was silent, He Shuutu stomped his feet impatiently.His five cattle recorded too many casualties, and even lost one of his sons.Many bannermen fled into the mountains to avoid the battle, and came back only when they were eating.

If he loses again, Mang Gurtai's Zhenglan Banner doesn't know what will happen, but He Shuutu's status as Jiala's true status will definitely not be guaranteed, and he will be the next Tong family in the blink of an eye.

"Master, why don't you move your general flag first, it's too conspicuous." He Shuutu looked at the general flag representing Mangurtai's identity, meaning that this thing might be shot.

Communication was inconvenient on the ancient battlefield, and generals at all levels used battle flags of different heights and shapes to indicate their presence.Where is the flag, where is the general.If the flag falls, it means the general is finished.

The so-called "flags waving" has practical significance.

Ordinary soldiers in the army can't see where the commander is, they just look at the flag.If the flag of the general is retreating, the battle will be lost, and the soldiers fighting on the front line will retreat accordingly.

Hearing that He Shuutu wanted to move his general flag, Mang Gurtai cursed angrily.

"Whether it's white armor or banner soldiers in the army, even the humblest servants will stare at my general flag. If the flag is withdrawn, the army's morale will be defeated. If you talk nonsense again, I will kill you first."

He Shuutu's face was even more bitter, and he wanted to say more, but he was afraid that Mang Gurtai would really use him to fight, so he could only sigh, turned his head and left.