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The terrain on the south bank of the Naughter River is narrow. Because there are many large and small mountains such as Rufeng Mountain and Shimen Mountain, there are very few plains, and most of them are concentrated near the river bank, which is not conducive to the formation of troops.

However, what is mentioned here is not conducive to the deployment of troops. It refers to the formation of tens of thousands of troops on both sides. Due to the limited terrain, it is not conducive to the narrow strip on the south bank of the Naughty River.

However, if the small-scale encounters are still unaffected, just like the army of Qing Guorui Prince Dorgon and Wu Sangui confronted each other for several days here.

Today, the Ming army has established camps on the south bank as bases for the army to cross the river to attack. The entire south bank of the Daughter River is several miles away, and even those places with soft soil are occupied by the soldiers and strong soldiers.

The Qing army on the north bank is also well-deployed. They cut across the major roads and main roads everywhere, and camped in Miandan, layer upon layer. Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers and horses.

The wilderness outside Jinzhou City was covered by a sea of ​​their flags and armors, especially the Qing troops in the west and south of Jinzhou City were the most numerous.

"Wait for work with ease, brake with stillness!" is Dorgon's Jinzhou strategy at this stage!
On the basis of Huang Taiji's original shrinking defense, Dorgon proposed a new concept of "defensive counterattack". He gathered heavy troops to defend on the north bank of Daughter River, thinking of attacking the Ming army crossing the river head-on, and then took advantage of the Ming army's exhaustion. , Waiting for an opportunity to launch a counterattack to expand the results.

On the north bank of the Daughter River today, the banners of the Han Army with the crescent moon symbol on the front of the mountain are fluttering, and occasionally a flag with a slightly lower Tai Chi pattern appears.

It was the Han army and Korean army stationed on the banks along the river that were easy to land. Under these banners, the banners of the Han army, Gushan Ezhen, and the generals of the Korean country were looking towards the other side of the Nür River.

The costumes of the soldiers of the Four Banners of the Han Army are not much different from those of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia. In addition, there are also armored soldiers of the Korean Army who also wear red foam-studded cotton armor with a three-pronged pole on the top of the helmet.

Most of the armored soldiers of the Four Banners of the Han Army are in control of the bird system. When Huang Taiji formed the Han Army Banner, he aimed to fight the Ming Army with firearms. Therefore, the Ming Army artillery and firecrackers they captured over the years were also handed over to the Han Army. The Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia are still dominated by swords, guns, bows and arrows.

The total number of cattle recorded by the Han army in the Four Banners has reached nearly a hundred, and the number of Dingkou is more than 3, which is much higher than that in the Eight Banners of Mongolia. There are only 8000 real soldiers.

The rest can only be regarded as the young and strong in each banner, and they cannot be called soldiers. They have a common title called "Yu Ding in the Banner", which belongs to the supplement and reserve of the soldiers.

And these Yu Ding also did not have weapons and armor, and of course they were not qualified to participate in battles. At most, they served as handymen in the army during wartime, doing some hard work such as transporting grain and grass, digging trenches, building equipment, and feeding horses.

Of course, if needed during the war, Yu Ding in these banners can also fight, and if they perform well, they may also be directly transferred to soldiers of each banner to supplement the loss of soldiers of each banner.

At this time, there were more than 5000 gunfire soldiers in the banner of the Han army, and they were distributed among the various banners of the Han army. The rest were sword and shield soldiers, spearmen, and some gunners.

And the most powerful force of firearms is the Heavenly Blessing Army under Kong Youde, the king of obedience. You must know that the soldiers under Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming are mainly Liao people, and they have been carefully drilled by Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua. Army of firearms.

It's a pity that in the fourth year of Chongzhen, when Kong Youde was ordered to lead his troops to aid Liaodong, an unprecedented catastrophe was caused by "a chicken". It was not weaker than a disaster for the Ming Dynasty, but it was a big disaster for the Tartars. gift bag.

It turned out that in August of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji, the post-golden slave chieftain, was leading an army to besiege the Dalinghe Fort in Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty. More than [-] soldiers and horses were in danger. Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai in Dengzhou, was ordered by the court to Eight hundred soldiers including Kong Youde under his command were dispatched to support Dalinghe by land.

On November 28th of the same year, Kong Youde and others marched near Wuqiao in North Zhili. Due to heavy rain, wind and snow blocking the road, they were not allowed to continue marching. Moreover, due to insufficient supplies for the troops, the soldiers, under the conditions of hunger and cold, forcibly captured the famous people from Shandong. A chicken belonging to Wang Xiangchun's servant.

Afterwards, the soldier was "traveled through the camp with arrows", which aroused the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, and because the Liao soldiers had always been at odds with the soldiers and people in Shandong, the soldiers went out of the camp to kill the servant of Wang Xiangchun.

However, the son of Wang Xiangchun refused to stop because of this matter, and demanded to thoroughly find out the truth and punish the soldiers who committed the crime. At this time, Li Jiuzheng was ordered by Sun Yuanhua to return from the horse market. He was afraid of being criticized for squandering the horse money given by Sun Yuanhua .

Ever since, Li Jiucheng colluded with his son Qianzong Li Yingyuan, instigated a mutiny among the soldiers, burned Wang Xiangchun's manor, and held Kong Youde hostage to launch the Wuqiao mutiny.

Under the leadership of Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, the rebels swung their troops back and fell into various counties in Shandong, and finally captured Dengzhou, an important town in Shandong, and once attacked and surrounded Laizhou.

This incident shocked the Ming court, quickly mobilized reinforcements from all walks of life, and even used Liaodong army generals such as Wu Xiang and Zu Kuan, and finally defeated the rebels after eighteen months.

At that time, Li Jiuzheng had already died in battle, and the rebels were led by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others. They fled in embarrassment because they could not hold on to Dengzhou in Shandong, and finally surrendered to Houjin in Fuhai.

Although this battle ended with the final victory of the Ming army, it seems that the victory in quelling the She'an Rebellion together saved the Ming army a little false face and boosted the morale of the soldiers and civilians a little.

However, the situation in Denglai was completely corrupted by the turmoil, and the hinterland of Shandong was also ravaged by the rebels. As a result, Daming lost tens of thousands of troops, more than a dozen good generals, and warships, artillery, and food and money were useless.

From then on, the Denglai area gradually became deserted, and Dongjiang Town's military morale was also shaken. The courtiers no longer paid attention to the power to contain Houjin at sea, and no one cared about the strategic offensive.

This is probably a more dangerous result than Hou Jin's acquisition of the cannons brought by Kong Youde and others, as well as those cannon-casting craftsmen and technology!
At this moment, Kong Youde, who was conferred the title of King Gongsun by Qing Emperor Huang Taiji, also had a blunderbuss force of more than 3000 people under his command, especially the thirty newly cast red cannons.

Kong Youde was bravely wounded in the earliest battle at Shimen Mountain, and now he has healed up to seven or eighty-eight, basically recovering as before, and the most elite [-] soldiers in the Tianyou Army, he is also personally leading the garrison in Jinzhou Outside the South Pass.

And the huge cannon group of the Wuzhenha super artillery battalion is also arranged here, including the Tianyou Cheering General Cannon cast by gold in the future, some artillery brought by Kong Youde from Dengzhou, and the newly cast Shenwei General gun.

At this time, there were more than 150 Hongyi cannons in Wuzhenhachao Cannon Battalion, which can be described as a huge number.

In fact, there was no shortage of large and small artillery in the Qing army. In the wars over the years, they seized various types of Flang machine and other artillery from the Ming army.

Just like in the fourth year of Chongzhen, when Zu Dashou ran out of food and pretended to surrender to the Tartars in the Battle of Dalinghe, the Qing army already had its own artillery. important.

Every time a city or place was seized, the artillery and guns in the city would be collected wantonly. Therefore, the Qing army did not lack guns, but what they lacked were sergeants who could handle guns proficiently.

Although Chongzhen established its own artillery team in four years, excellent gunners were not so easy to cultivate. Even if the Qing army gave preferential treatment to the captured Ming army soldiers, there were not many gunners in the Ming army.

Therefore, the large and small cannons and blunderbuss they seized had never been used by anyone, and most of them were piled up in warehouses to eat ashes. This situation did not change until Kong Youde, a rebel general from the Ming Dynasty, returned from the sea.

You must know that Kong Youde served as a guerrilla general under Sun Yuanhua, and the Liao soldiers he led back then were the most advanced firearms troops in Ming Dynasty.

It was built by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, who spent a lot of money on it. For this reason, dozens of Portuguese were hired from Macau to participate in the production of artillery and firecrackers, as well as the military training of the firearms troops.

It was the addition of the most elite firearms unit of Ming Dynasty that Sun Yuanhua spent a lot of money to build, which made the strength of the Wuzhenhachao Artillery Battalion of the Qing Dynasty not to be underestimated.

If it wasn't for Zhang Cheng's timely appearance, based on the Qing's firearms battalion's familiarity with the regulations, rulers, and square meters, as well as artillery operations, no one in the Ming army's artillery force could be their opponent.

Even a firearms battalion as elite as the Shenji battalion could not compare with Kong Youde's Tianyou Army in terms of proficiency in gun handling and the morale of the gunners.

In fact, in the original history, when the Qing army was invited by Wu Sangui to enter the customs, the artillery unit led by Kong Youde made great contributions to the Qing's siege of the city and the central plains.

Every emerging power group in history has an extremely terrifying learning ability, and everything that can make them strong will attract them, making them eager to learn and quickly put into actual combat.

Once they have gained an absolute advantage and stopped this kind of learning, it is also the moment when they gradually decline. Just like the Jin Kingdom in history, it was once so powerful that it drank horses from the Yangtze River, but failed to unify China in the end. After losing an opponent, I stopped studying.

Today's Qing Dynasty is at the pinnacle of learning. Under Huang Taiji's strong push, they study the classics and experience of the Han family throughout the country, from farming to artillery, and learn everything that is useful and beneficial to them.

The reason why Kong Youde was conferred the title of King Gongshun as soon as he took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and he still taught him to lead the original trilogy, besides setting an example for other Ming army generals, another bigger factor was to borrow his strength in artillery fire. Ability to shoot guns.

Now, where Kong Youde is located is a high-built earthen city, with high platforms built in the city, and on those high platforms, there are a lot of Shenwei Great General heavy artillery of the Qing army.

The sounds of various flags hunting in the Tucheng, standing on the highest point in the Tucheng, you can clearly see the situation on the other side of the Nuer River south of Jinzhou Nanguan.

It was Ningyuan Wu Sangui who was stationed here by the Ming army, and all their movements were sent back to the Chinese army where Dorgon, the Qing army camp, was sent by waves of Qing army sentry cavalry.

Dorgon will also report to Kong Youde the information about the movements of the Ningyuan Army and the military situation of the Ming Army crossing Hebei, because all the heavy artillery of the Qing Army is in his army, which is the killing weapon of the Qing Army.

In addition, Kong Youde was the only one among the Four Banners of the Han Army, the Tianyou Army, and the Tianzhu Army who owned a telescope. He held the telescope in his hand and held it up in front of his eyes from time to time to look in the direction of Nuuhe.

In the binoculars, the Ming army on the south bank of the Daughter River was densely packed, with banners covering the sky and the sun, not only the river beach was covered with their queues, but also some gentle hills and hills were also full of their troops.

Especially in some solid places on the south bank, flat earth platforms have been laid everywhere, and a heavy artillery of the Ming army is being pushed forward by the sergeants and fixed on the earth platforms.

At this time, the Ming army had already begun to cross the river with all its strength, and the Qing army's artillery team deployed on the river bank was also struggling to bombard them. Cannons, etc., even bombarded the Qing army on the north bank at close range.

Looking at their banners, one can tell that the Ming army crossing the river first is the Jizhen army and Shanhai army of Bai Guangen and Ma Ke.

Crossing the river and landing on the beach are actually a series of very complicated tactics that require the organizational ability of both the offensive and defensive sides. It can be seen that the Ming army under Bai Guangen and Ma Ke lacked this ability.

It made their crossing the river and grabbing the beach look messy, and there was no sense of coordination!

Because all the pontoon bridges on the Daughter River had been burned down by the Qing army, almost all the ships floating on the river at this time were Ming army ships. In addition to large boats and small boats, there were also many small bright boards and wooden rafts.

There were only a few to a dozen soldiers of the Ming army on these ships. The civilian sailors braved the artillery fire and arrows of the Qing army, rowed to the opposite bank, and lined up in rows, connected by iron chains and ropes Then lay the prepared planks on top.

The ants-like followers of the army and the strong men either carried planks back and forth, or felled wood on the spot, and split some trees into planks. The materials used to build the pontoon bridge were varied, and there were even many door panels that were dismantled from nowhere.

For a while, the sound of slogans, shouts, and roars mixed with the artillery and firecrackers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which made the Daughter River very lively. city.

In order to cover the civilian husbands and strong men to build the bridge, those Ming troops who had already boarded the North Bank of the Daughter River in advance were forming some chaotic military formations on the river beach, nervously defending.

They even directly lifted some small boats to the river bank to use them as fixed chariots. After all, artillery was installed on the bow of the ship before. Just simply change the direction, and it will be a wooden fort, which can stop the enemy, Bomb the enemy, but also protect.

In fact, there are only a few places where the Daughter River can be easily landed. In some shallow water areas, even ordinary ships cannot dock, and soldiers have to jump into the icy river and walk ashore.

Therefore, the first batch of Ming soldiers who landed were all daredevils under heavy rewards, and all of them held swords and shields in their hands.