I want to be emperor

Chapter 547 Misjudgment
On May 24, the seventh year of Chengshun, Brigadier General Bian Liming led the 522th Division one step ahead and went straight to Tashan. (PS: The previous article started from chapter [-], and the year description of some chapters was wrong. The seventh year of Chengshun was written as the sixth year of Chengshun. I couldn’t correct it for a while, sorry for the inconvenience caused!)

It's just that along the way, Brigadier General Bian Liming no longer had the depression he felt two days earlier.

This is naturally because he met General Zuo Yingzhe, who explained to him the mission of this battle in detail.

At this time, Brigadier General Bian Liming knew that the attack on Tashan was a fake, and the real thing was to lower the enemy's vigilance and hold the enemy back.

The superiors were afraid of sending the main force to fight there, so they couldn't hold back their strength to knock down Tashan, which would cause the enemy troops in Jinzhou and Songshan to panic and even flee.

Under such circumstances, the top leaders of the Third Army thought of the only second-class division in the front line, the [-]th Division.

This division is among the large number of second-class divisions of the Chu Army, and it is actually considered to have a good combat effectiveness. Otherwise, it would not have been incorporated into the Third Army, and it would go deep into the front line with the Army Command, the Ninth Army and other troops.

Even if what they had undertaken before was only some secondary combat missions to maintain the logistics line, there are actually not many second-class divisions that can do this.

Because this means that if the second-class division can keep up with the march of the main force, it needs to be equipped with a large number of mules and horses, which also means an increase in maintenance costs.

In order to control costs, most of the second-class divisions in the Chu army actually lack mobility and auxiliary forces. The force is mainly infantry, supplemented by a small amount of artillery that lacks horses, and there are not many mules and horses in the supply troops , These second-class divisions are generally stationed in places where the point guards are mainly located.

In defensive operations, the combat effectiveness is not bad, but if you want to leave the station for mobile operations, you need to temporarily replenish a large number of mules and horses.

Therefore, when it is not necessary, the Chu army generally does not allow second-class divisions to go to the front line for mobile operations.

The [-]th Division is quite special. The predecessor of this division was the former Ming Army frontier army who surrendered in the Battle of Tianjin. The Chu Army selected some elites from a large number of surrendered troops to form the [-]th Division. Stationed in Shanhaiguan, and cooperated with the main force to garrison Shanhaiguan.

In the follow-up preparations for the Northeast Campaign, considering the limited number of main forces, and the rear logistics line also needs to be maintained, because the two second-class divisions were motorized and strengthened, so that they have the ability to maneuver in the field.

It happened that there was one on the Ji Town side, and one on the Shanhaiguan side.

The motorized second-class division on the Shanhaiguan side is the [-]th division.

After the division marched eastward with the main force, it has always undertaken secondary combat tasks in the rear, mainly stationed at the material transfer station in the rear to eliminate remnants of the enemy.

The overall performance is neither good nor bad, it's quite satisfactory...

It's just that they didn't expect that there would be a chance to go to the front line, or even serve as the forward of the whole army...

In this regard, Brigadier General Bian Liming, who had just assumed the post of commander of the division for a few months, had already swept away his depression. Instead, he showed great interest and even ambition.

This time, if he can successfully complete the task of stabilizing the enemy assigned by his superiors, the epaulettes on his shoulders after the battle will probably have one more star.

After all, fighting on the front line and being able to successfully complete the combat mission is much better than maintaining the logistics line in the back.

If he has been maintaining the logistics line at the rear, under normal circumstances, he can at most allow himself to accumulate some qualifications, but don't expect to be promoted directly after the battle.

But on the front line, it is different to directly participate in the battle plan.

Brigadier General Bian Liming is looking forward to this!
Brigadier General Bian Liming led the [-]th Division all the way eastward, and arrived outside Tashan City in less than two days!

Looking at the tortoise-like Tashan Fortress in front of him, Brigadier General Bian Liming thought about it for a while and then felt relieved: With the strength of his [-]th Division, he would definitely not be able to swallow this kind of fortified city in a short time.

His [-]th Division, although one of the few second-class divisions with mobile combat capabilities in the border areas, also switched to flintlocks and followed the example of the first-class divisions in adopting a new organization.

However, the new organization of the second-class division is different from that of the first-class division.

The first-class division consists of three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one cavalry regiment, one logistics regiment, one engineer battalion, and one light infantry battalion.

And it is as full as possible.

However, at the beginning of this year, several second-class divisions that began to adopt the new establishment one after another, and possessed mobile combat capabilities, adopted the downsizing establishment.

The [-]th Division consists of three infantry regiments, one artillery battalion, one cavalry battalion, and one engineering post, and the above is still a theoretical establishment.

In fact, there are only eight [-]-jin field artillery in the artillery battalion, and there are only a few hundred cavalrymen in the cavalry battalion, and the engineering post is only theoretical. There are only dozens of carpenters and blacksmiths, let alone engineers It's a maintenance soldier...

The three infantry regiments are not full...

There are actually only two and a half infantry battalions in each infantry regiment... two full-staffed infantry battalions plus a half battalion with only three sentries, and at the same time lack the direct troops of the regiment.

The infantry regiments in the first-class divisions are often directly equipped with four two-and-a-half-pound field guns and four nine-pound light howitzers.

But the infantry regiment of the second-class division only had two nine-pound light howitzers.

This kind of second-class division is actually a seriously shrunk first-class division, with much fewer troops!
The whole teacher adds up, there are only ten thousand people!

This is why they are all division commanders, but the division commander Bian Liming is only a brigadier general, because to a certain extent, the mobile second-class division with this amount of troops, in the eyes of the Chu army, is just a little more troops, but the firepower is severely weakened. It's just a mixed trip.

It is normal to attach a brigadier general!
Such a one hundred and eighth division, even if it is strengthened with a small amount of artillery and cavalry, don't expect to be able to conquer Tashan.

According to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Department, Tashan, as part of the entire Jinzhou defense line of the Dongyao people, formed a whole with the three cities of Jinzhou City, Songshan, and Xingshan in the rear.

Tashan exists as the forefront of the entire defense line.

The Dongbang people deployed no less than [-] troops here, and had a considerable number of artillery for combat.

At the same time, they can also get military support from Xingshan City in the rear at any time.

At the same time, the terrain here is open, and the enemy cavalry can easily kill them.

Under such circumstances, his [-]th Division did not expect to be able to take Tashan at all.

And this... is exactly what the top Chu army wants!
If you just want to take down Tashan, you don't need his [-]th division to come over, just a first-class division, plus the support of the heavy artillery unit and the cover of the cavalry unit, you can take down Tashan in a few days .

But when the Chu army finishes fighting Tashan, it is estimated that the Dongyao people on the opposite side will almost run away...

And letting the [-]th Division fight can create an illusion that the Chu army's siege ability is mediocre, which can be regarded as showing weakness to the enemy.

With this mentality, Brigadier General Bian Liming is very relaxed!

After arriving outside Tashan City, it is right to let the soldiers under your command build camps, parapets and trenches step by step to show the enemy weakness, but don't let the opponent attack and cause your own defeat...

When the [-]th Division was doing this, the Dongyao people in the front tower mountain were indeed panicking... for fear that the Dongyao people on the opposite side would pull out hundreds of artillery pieces in a second, and then blow up Tashan Mountain into ruins.

The Eastern captives who were brought back from Ningyuan City said before that Chu Manzi's guns were extremely sharp, and the attack on the city was earth-shattering...

Although such words sound exaggerated, there are no waves without wind. Even if it is exaggerated, it is a fact that Chu Manzi's guns are sharp.

Therefore, as the defenders of Tashan, they are also particularly worried about bearing this level of shelling.

Soon...they also felt Chu Manzi's shelling...then, after a burst of shelling, they felt weird...

You said that Chu Manzi’s shelling is not sharp, and he doesn’t like that... A dozen long-barreled cannons were pulled out from the opposite side, and many small short robes were pulled out, and indeed a lot of flowering shells that could explode were fired. A small number of casualties were caused to the defenders in the city.

But... that's it?
After several days of fear, the defenders of Tashan East Road came to defend Tashan with the determination to die. Well, of course, it cannot be ruled out that there are also many people who just turned around and ran away thinking that if Chu Manzi’s guns were really so sharp. .

However, after the first day of Chu Manzi's attack...they actually gave birth to Chu Manzi, but it was just a mere idea!

Is it my illusion?Or is Chu Manzi on the opposite side exaggerating?
For a while, many captive generals were completely confused!

Could it be that the rout soldiers who were defeated in the front deliberately exaggerated Chu Manzi's true strength in order to avoid guilt?
Blow up your opponent to the sky, and then cover up your own incompetence?

They didn't know and couldn't figure it out, but the corresponding battle report was still sent to Jinzhou.

It's just that until now, Huang Taiji is still unconscious, and now Dorgon and Hauge are in charge of affairs in Jinzhou.

Before, Dorgon once took advantage of Huang Taiji's coma to eradicate Hauge's forces in advance, and wanted to seize the power of the Eastern Captives.

But Hauge came back fast enough, and he brought an army of [-] to fight back. In addition, Hauge, as the eldest son of Huang Taiji, has extremely high prestige and connections.

Many people, who seemed to have surrendered to Dorgon's civil and military officials, immediately jumped to Hauge's side when they saw Hauge's return.

In order to fight for power, Dorgon and Hauge fought several times... There was a small-scale fight between the two sides.

If it wasn't for the current enemy, I'm afraid they would have directly broken out into a large-scale civil war.

However, it coincided with the disastrous defeat on the front line of Zhongqian Institute and the defeat of the former guards. In order to avoid civil strife and lead to a complete failure, the two sides had to hold their noses and continue to cooperate.

As a result, today's Eastern exile regime has formed a very strange scene. Huang Taiji continues to be unconscious, while Dorgon and Hauge are fighting for power and profit while cooperating against the Chu army.

After the battle report of the Tashan garrison was sent to Jinzhou, it caused huge differences between the two sides!
Dorgon put down the battle report sent by Tashan, squinted his eyes and said: "The Chu barbarians don't seem to be as scary as the rumors say, they say their artillery is sharp, but it's not impossible to fight!"

At this time, several generals under Dorgon were talking to each other, echoing Dorgon's words.

"That's right, if you want me to say, Chu Manzi was exaggerated too much before. We don't have artillery, or even a lot, but it's still not enough to attack the city with these artillery alone."

"We even made some flowering bombs, and some sky cannons. Those things sound powerful, but in fact they are too restrictive to use, not to mention the consumption of gunpowder, and when they explode, many of them just make a noise. .”

"As long as the city walls are strong, and some anti-cannon ditch fortresses are properly arranged, it will be enough to offset the shelling!"

"Siege battles rely on the bravery of armored soldiers. I heard that Chu Manzi has commandos, and their commandos are all wearing heavy armor. They are dedicated to attacking fortified cities. In the past, Ming Manzi's strong cities were taken down by Chu Manzi. It's because they can't stop their commandos!"

"But we are different. When it comes to armored heavy infantry, who else is better than me!"

"Ming Manzi's soft-footed shrimps, I'm afraid they would collapse immediately when they saw Chu Manzi's commando coming up. If it was replaced by my Eight Banners warriors, these Chu Manzi's commandos would definitely be able to come and go!"

"That's right, my Eight Banners started out with heavy armor. Fighting with heavy armor is our specialty. They are only a few years old, so how can they be compared with us with the half-baked assault heavy armor? As long as the city defense is done well, Avoid being killed by their artillery due to carelessness, then when Chu Manzi's commando kills them, it will definitely make them look good!"

Hearing that the group of people on the opposite side changed the topic to the battle of heavy armor, Hauge snorted coldly: "This statement is wrong. When Chu Manzi hit the previous place, although I didn't go close to see it with my own eyes, but that The sound of the cannon that shakes the earth cannot be faked!"

"Such intensive and sharp shelling cannot be resisted by human beings."

Dorgon glanced at him, and immediately said: "Humans are flesh and blood, so naturally they cannot block the shells, but we can take precautions to avoid being injured by the shells!"

"As long as we can avoid being injured by the enemy's shells and resist their shelling, then if they want to capture our city, they can only send heavy armored commandos, and close combat with heavy armor is our strength!"

"Not to mention, I still have tens of thousands of fine cavalry in the Qing Dynasty. Although I lost in the middle and front before, it was a mistake in command. This time, the king personally commanded the cavalry, and there will be no mistakes!"

What Dorgon said made Hauge's face turn black.

Dorgon was talking about the defeat of the Zhongqian Institute in Guangning, and now he blamed the failure of the cavalry battle in the northern suburbs of the Zhongqian Institute on Hauge, thinking that his command was wrong.

He wanted to refute, but for a while he didn't know how to speak.

After all, Hauge was indeed to blame for the failure of the Zhongqian battle, especially in the cavalry battle, Hauge personally commanded it, but the result was a crushing defeat.

If Huang Taiji hadn't happened to be in a coma, he would probably have been beaten by Huang Taiji directly to the end, even Wang Jue might not be able to keep him.

There is no point in arguing forcibly, so Hauge could only change the subject: "In my opinion, the main force of Chu Manzi must have not yet come up. This is just a forward force of Chu Manzi, and they are just trying to attack!"

"As stated in the battle report, the Tashan defenders were only bombarded by dozens of cannons from Chu Manzi, and most of them were small cannons. As far as I know, Chu Manzi has hundreds of cannons, including hundreds of cannons. So much!"

"Once the main force of Chu Manzi arrives, Tashan will be in danger!"

Dorgon did not refute him, but expressed his agreement: "This is reasonable. Chu Manzi's cannons are famous, and there must be more than these dozens of cannons. There must be more cannons in the future." Arriving, it doesn't make much sense to continue to defend Tashan."

"Tashan is still far away from Jinzhou, so it's more troublesome whether it's reinforcements or counterattacks!"

"Now that we have tried it on Tashan, it is better to withdraw the troops from Tashan to Xingshan!"

"Xingshan, Songshan, and Jinzhou can form a triangle with each other, and they can support each other. If Chu Manzi sends the main force to attack Xingshan, then we can send troops from Jinzhou and Songshan to directly attack the enemy's flank!"

"Even if Chu Manzi besieged Xingshan first, and then sent troops to bypass Xingshan to attack Jinzhou or Songshan, we can still disperse the enemy's troops and then annihilate them separately!"

"Use Xingshan as a fortress to block the attack of the Chu barbarians, and Jinzhou and Songshan as backup, so that Jinzhou will not be lost!"

"As long as Jinzhou is not lost, Chu Manzi will not be able to break through the Liaoxi Corridor and go deep into the Liaohe area behind."

After hearing this, Hauge wanted to refute something... After all, no matter how he saw Dorgon's displeasure, he always wanted to criticize him!

However, now that the enemy is at hand, and Dorgon said that it is in line with his idea to withdraw the troops from Tashan and redeploy the defense to Xingshan.

Immediately said: "It's so feasible!"

"A few days ago, a number of barbarians from the former Ming Dynasty came to vote. They were all generals of the new and new standard army of the former Ming Dynasty. They had fought against the Manzi of Chu and were good at city defense. I will let them take charge of the construction of artillery fortifications!"

"In terms of building anti-aircraft fortifications, the new standard army from the former Ming Dynasty is better at it!"

Dorgon saw that Hauge subdued and supported his opinion, he immediately showed a smile: "It's so kind, I've heard that Mingxin Standard Army is good at defending the city, it's best to have them join!"

After the two speakers, Dorgon and Hauge, reached an agreement, Dongyao also began to take active actions.

The Dongyao defenders in Jinzhou, Songshan, and Xingshan brought a large number of young and strong civilians who were forcibly conscripted to strengthen the defenses of the three cities on a large scale.

But this time they built the fortifications. Because of the addition of a group of remnants and defeated generals from the Ming and New Standards, the overall fortifications became more standardized.

They not only reinforced the city wall, but also stacked a large number of circular sandbag fortifications on the city wall, and dug trenches and parapets outside the city wall.These trenches often have anti-bunker holes to defend against bombardment of flowering bullets.

Fortresses outside the city were built at a distance of 200 meters from the city wall. These fortresses were connected to the foot of the city wall through trenches. During wartime, reinforcements on the city wall could enter and exit through hanging baskets and long ladders for quick reinforcement or retreat.

The entire system of fortifications is almost the same as that of the Ming army's city defenses.

It's just that the time is short, and it's not easy to build all the fortifications in a short time, and the fortifications built in a hurry are not very strong.

The intelligence personnel of the Chu Army who were active in the surrounding area saw that the Dongyao people began to build a large number of anti-artillery fortifications that had not been done before, so they decided that Dongyao's convenience must have changed.

At the same time, several intelligence agencies, including the Military Intelligence Division, also cooperated with each other to investigate the transformation of the Dongyao people's city defense fortifications, and finally discovered a group of former Ming and Xin standard army generals who defected to the Donglu people.

For this reason, the Military Intelligence Department also organized several assassinations... in order to kill this group of ex-Ming and New Standard Army generals who had defected to other races, so as to prevent the Dongbang people from building new fortifications and reduce the difficulty for the subsequent army to attack the city.

It's a pity that although two were assassinated, the others were strictly protected by Dongyao, who reacted quickly, and there was no chance for them to follow up.

After learning that the former Ming and Xin standard army generals had been targeted for assassination, Dorgon was not angry but happy: "Haha, they are in a hurry!"

"It seems that the artillery fortification we are doing now is still good, otherwise these Chu barbarians would not jump over the wall in a hurry, and use such indecent methods as assassination!"

"This Jinzhou, I think it can be defended!"

The people at the Military Intelligence Division probably didn't know it yet, but they did a big favor to the Third Army by mistake!
The intelligence personnel at the Military Intelligence Department didn't know the plans of the top leaders of the Third Army... they didn't even know that the top leaders of the Third Army wanted to keep the Dongbao people and prevent them from running away.

The intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Division discovered that the Dongbao people had used a new method to build fortifications, and they immediately realized that this thing was the turtle shell used by the New Standard Army of the Ming Dynasty. It was unfavorable, which caused a large number of casualties when our army attacked the city, so they almost carried out an assassination, trying to destroy the Dongyao people's fortifications and reduce the difficulty of subsequent sieges.

As a result, the Dongbao people believed that the Chu army was really afraid of this kind of fortification, and thus increased their determination to stick to the Jinzhou defense line.

To be honest, the so-called show of weakness of the third group army is actually only considered by Dorgon and the others that the main force has not yet been killed, and it is just a vanguard...

They relaxed a little bit about this, but in fact they still failed to make them firm in their determination to defend Jinzhou, at most they watched while fighting.

Once Chu Manzi's main force came up, and if the siege was really as sharp as the rumors said, they would run away without hesitation.

However, this assassination by the Military Intelligence Department further strengthened Dorgon's determination to defend Jinzhou.

They think they have found a way to deal with Chu Manzi... Using the city defense system of the former Ming and Xin standard army, coupled with Dongyaoren's own heavy armor elite, it is enough to keep Chu Manzi under Jinzhou!
If you die, it will be a long-term siege, but there are still tens of thousands of elite cavalry in Dongyao. If Chu Manzi dares to besiege Jinzhou for a long time, it is not certain who will fight who will be hit by then.

And these, the Chu army doesn't know yet... Brigadier General Bian Liming of the [-]th Division is still pretending to attack the city at the front, but the thunder and rain are small, and the infantry has not even launched a few times to make a tentative attack...

The one who hit him was being careful, for fear that the Dongyao people on the opposite side would turn around and run away.

However, even though he was so careful, the Dongbao people still ran away...

On June [-]st of the seventh year of Chengshun, the Eastern captive defenders in Tashan quietly left the city before dawn, heading east and never returning.

After learning that the Dongyao people had escaped, Brigadier General Bian Liming was stunned...

"Nimma, run away like this? I didn't fight much. How could you run? If you run away, what will I do with my mission?"

Brigadier General Bian Liming panicked at this moment!

You must know that the task given to him by Admiral Zuo Yingzhe is very simple, which is to put on a show at the foot of Tashan, show the enemy weak, and prevent the enemy from running away on a large scale, and then gradually escalate the battle to drag in more enemy troops.

However, it has only been a few days, and the battle has not yet escalated, let alone dragged in the main force of the enemy army, and the opposite side ran away.

I'm afraid this task will be ruined.

Thinking that his rank of major general was about to leave him, Bian Liming became anxious!

"Damn it, if you want to run away, you have to ask me!"

"Pass down the order, and the whole army marches in a hurry to pursue the enemy, and catch them up and entangle them."

Unable to keep them in Tashan, entangled them in the wild, and forcing the reinforcements from Xingshan and other places is also an effect.

Anyway, what Zuo Yingzhe wants is to gradually bring in more soldiers from the east. Zuo Yingzhe doesn't care about you in what way.

Bian Liming hurried to catch up, and Zuo Yingzhe in the rear also learned the news of the escape of the enemy defenders on Tashan from the emergency horse within a few hours.

After hearing the news, Zuo Yingzhe sighed: "It seems that these captives from the East are more cautious than we expected. This Tashan just fought, and before launching a full-scale attack, the opposite side began to withdraw troops on a large scale. Look! It seems that he is determined to play the trick of the enemy advancing and retreating with us."

"Forget it, since you can't show the enemy's weakness, then let's go after them and let the troops go faster, and keep as much as possible, so that the pressure will be less when we attack Shenyang later, or even enter the deep mountains and old forests!"

"Oh, just in this way, the Northeast War cannot be resolved quickly."

Zuo Yingzhe, it is already predictable that His Majesty will look at him with disappointed eyes!
At this time, he leaned on the window with both hands and looked northeast, his fingers holding the window sill turned white from too much force.

Damn Dongyao, if you don’t even cooperate with death, you’re going to die anyway. Wouldn’t it be nice to be born early, and you have to run all the way...

After taking a few deep breaths, Zuo Yingzhe recruited his confidant adjutant and whispered a few words, the confidant adjutant's face changed slightly after hearing this, and immediately said: "General, you should be cautious in this kind of thing!"

Zuo Yingzhe said: "Don't leave any written records, and don't dictate directly, just hint a thing or two. People who have come out of a sea of ​​corpses and blood understand it!"

After the confidant adjutant left, Zuo Yingzhe continued to look north, muttering:

"A bunch of shameless things!"

I don't want to fight you upright, I have to force my official to play hard!

Zuo Yingzhe was already preparing to use some unconventional means, so he didn't have any psychological burden for this!
Few people know that although Zuo Yingzhe has an elegant name, he is indeed a scholar, so that he became the first batch of students in the camp school of the Great Chu Empire.

But this gentleman was born as a serious thief...

When he was a bandit in his early years, he even earned himself the nickname of "Blood Scholar"!

And only the wrong name, no wrong nickname, his nickname was created with countless blood!
(End of this chapter)