Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 114
Does Jiannu also have a navy?
This point is not clearly recorded in the history books.

As for the reason, it is very simple, because they are embarrassed to record.

Historically, their naval commander Liu Aita was persuaded to surrender by Yuan Keli, governor of Denglai. Moreover, this Liu Aita was Nurhachi's favorite son-in-law. Do they have the nerve to record it?

In fact, there are very few records about Yuan Keli in the Ming Dynasty. The historical materials "Ming Shilu" about Yuan Keli are even vague, and the "Ming History" mentions it in a few strokes, and there is no biography at all.

As for the reason, it is actually very simple, because neither side wants the story of this person to be passed down.

On Jianu's side, it was because Yuan Keli made them lose face, and even made them almost capsize in the gutter. Naturally, they didn't want to record such a thing that made them lose face in the history books.

On the Ming side, the eunuchs who were in power at that time didn’t have the face to record Yuan Keli’s affairs, because they dismissed and investigated the man who almost reversed the national fortune and overthrew the establishment of slaves, and also caused the massacre of the Southern Four Guards. Recording these down, wouldn't future generations be scolded!

Therefore, most of Yuan Keli's deeds are handed down from those unofficial histories or even biographical novels. In the official history, he seems to be an ordinary little person, and he is mentioned in one stroke, including Liu Aita.

In fact, at this moment, Jiannu really has sailors, and the number and scale even exceed the Denglai navy led by Yuan Keli at this time, because Gaizhou Guard, Fuzhou Guard and Jinzhou Guard are all like Zhenhai Guard. The coastal defense post of Liaodong border town, and the coastal defense post of Liaodong border town, must have much more warships than that of Denglai water city.

However, there are not many naval warships appearing in the middle of the battlefield at this moment, the number is about a hundred, and most of them are manpower-driven warships like centipedes.

Because sailboats need to be pulled by piles of trackers if they want to go upstream in the absence of strong winds, it is obviously impossible for trackers to pull hundreds of sailboats from the mouth of the Daling River more than 100 miles here, so , there are only centipede boats, fire dragon boats, wheel boats and other warships that are rowed by human power.

Moreover, these warships seem to have been baptized by a lot of arrow rain. Not only are there many arrows stuck in the canopy, but there are even traces of fire in some places.

Obviously, they were attacked when they passed Ma Shilong's defense area, and they were attacked more than once.

At this time, the archers under Man Gui were almost too tired to draw their bows, but he still gritted his teeth and raised his hand and said, "Rockets are ready!"

There is no way, he can't just watch these warships carrying infantry come over to kill them!

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh," thousands of archers almost exhausted all their strength and barely shot a rocket.

"Aggressive", more or less hit some of the hundreds of warships on the opposite side.

It's a pity that rockets alone can't burn down the warship, because people can put out the fire.

Soon, many sailors holding shields, wet cloths, and even buckets poured out of the cabin, and in a short while, all the rockets on the ship were extinguished.

Seeing this, Man Gui couldn't help but slapped his thigh angrily, and then shouted: "Here's an order, order Zhao to send ten thousand pikemen over quickly."

"Da da da", a messenger guard with a command flag on his back immediately sped up his horse and headed straight for Guangning.

There is no way, he must not be able to withstand this small force, and there are many Jiannu on the opposite side.

Fortunately, these manpower-rowed warships are not very big, and the largest wheel can only carry twenty or thirty people, and the others can basically squeeze more than ten people when they are full.

In other words, more than a hundred warships can carry up to two to three thousand people in one trip, and it is not a problem for him to survive a few waves.

Soon, Li Yongfang commanded two to 3000 people to swarm onto the warships. With the sound of chant, hundreds of warships rowed to the opposite bank.

Of course, they would not row against the embankment defended by Mangui. Even if they rowed directly against this side, the boat would be pushed downstream by the current, so when more than a hundred boats rowed over, they would all be to the south. Nearly a mile away.

This is why Li Yongfang dared to let two or three thousand men rush over like this, because after the first wave passed, he would not fight immediately, and he still had the opportunity to continue to send the second wave across the river.

If two or 3000 people are charging against tens of thousands of people, wouldn't they be looking for death!

Seeing this, Man Gui frowned slightly, and ordered decisively, ordering General Sun Zushou to lead [-] archers and [-] swordsmen to guard in place, while he went straight downstream with [-] swordsmen and shields .

"Kill!"

This side shouted to kill people, and over there hundreds of warships had already left the river bank, trying to row upstream to pick up people.

Man Gui took the lead and led his men to slash and kill, and soon gained the upper hand. The first group of two or 3000 people who came ashore saw that they could not be defeated, and ran south wildly!

This time, Man Gui was really depressed. He probably wanted to divert the tiger away from the mountain!
In desperation, he had no choice but to abandon the rout and return to the place where he was originally stationed.

Less than an hour later, another two to three thousand people were sent over from the opposite side. Man Gui could only continue to order three thousand swords and shield hands, and rushed all the way to the south to kill fiercely. As a result, they continued to flee south!

Obviously, the opposite side wants to use this method to gather troops.

He had no choice but to take people back and forth to hack and kill, because he couldn't leave too far away from the place where the pontoon bridge was built. If he left too far, the enemy might have occupied this side when he came back.

After going back and forth several times in this way, when the evening approached, all the 1 men under Li Yongfang came to the west bank of the Daling River, and set up camp ten miles away from the Mangui garrison.

I have to say, this guy is quite a chicken thief.

His push and pull not only made Man Gui lead his men and horses to run wildly back and forth, panting, but also stood firm on the west bank with the least loss.

Perhaps, he wanted to gather more than 1 men under his command the next morning to disperse the less than [-] men under Man Gui's men in one wave.

Who knows, not long after, tens of thousands of horses galloped towards Guangning in the dark!

This time, he had no choice but to order someone to go to the opposite bank by boat to ask Nurhachi for help. He had less than 5000 men under his command, and he must not be able to defeat the opponent's nearly 2 horses.

Fortunately, the river is still under the control of their warships at this moment, otherwise, his 1-odd people would be in danger.

It is said that Nurhachi has transferred the naval warships of the South Four Guards under Liu Aita to support them. Why didn't Sun Chengzong transfer Yuan Keli's Denglai naval warships to support them? Didn't he expect that Jiannu would have naval warships? ?
He naturally thought of this, but he couldn't transfer Yuan Keli's Denglai navy warship to support him.

Because at this moment, the number of warships of the Denglai Navy is not as large as that of the Nansiwei Navy. Moreover, when the wind direction is wrong, the sailboats cannot cross the sea to support, and the warships rowed by manpower are generally It is a small boat. If there is no protection of a large sailing ship at sea, the whole army may be wiped out if it encounters a little wind and waves.

That is to say, even if he transferred Yuan Keli's Denglai navy warship to come to support him, he might be surrounded by the Nansiwei navy warship, or the galleon could not pass, and only hundreds of small boats came over, or even this It is possible that a hundred small boats are all overturned by the waves.

There is no way, when the warships of the Nansiwei Navy were still in the hands of Jiannu, the Denglai Navy was really no match for the Nansiwei Navy. They could only send some grain and grass to Shanhaiguan or Ningyuan when the wind direction was westward. If you really go directly to the north and fight desperately with the Nansiwei Navy across the sea, then maybe all the naval warships will be wiped out.

This is the case in history. Yuan Keli did not dare to lead his army to fight across the sea before persuading Liu Aita to surrender. He could only slowly advance towards Jinzhou through a series of islands between Dengzhou and Jinzhou.

And before Liu Aita surrendered, it was impossible for Sun Chengzong to let Yuan Keli lead the Denglai navy to die.

(End of this chapter)