The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 220
"Report!"

"Report to Your Majesty, the slave-building army has stopped advancing and is setting up camp. According to our army's camp, it is less than fifteen miles away."

"Rampant, it's too rampant!"

"Your Majesty, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and defeat the slaves!"

"Your Majesty, the last general invites you to fight, and is willing to lead the right army to raid the slave army. He is about to capture the false king Dole alive and present it to His Majesty!"

In the big tent, following the scouting horses to report, they learned that Jiannu had set up camp under their own noses. Almost all the generals stared at each other and knelt down on one knee to ask for a fight.

Zhu Cihong's face was also gloomy. Although he knew that Jiannu was deliberately provoking them to attack, the anger in his heart still surged upwards.

Fifteen Li had almost set up camp under their noses. This was no longer madness, but humiliation, naked humiliation.

He glanced at the generals in the tent and saw that all of them had red eyes and a fighting spirit, and knew that it would be impossible not to teach Jiannu a lesson.

"Everyone, Jiannu is killing himself. It's getting late today, everyone go back to rest for now. The whole army will attack tomorrow. I want Jiannu to know the price of angering my Ming soldiers!"

Zhu Cihong got up and roared angrily.

However, he was not really overwhelmed by anger, and ordered the army to attack immediately, but planned to prepare overnight, not to mention that it was already afternoon, and it was not suitable for today's battle.

Although attacking immediately, you can take advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold, but after dark, the attacker will suffer more than the defender, not to mention the opponent's cavalry is still eyeing, so it is undoubtedly safer for Bai Tiantang to attack upright.

"Yes!"

Seeing that His Majesty finally decided to attack, the generals were overjoyed and replied in unison.

And as the military order was issued, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the entire army were boiling, and for a while, the murderous aura filled the air, and the fighting spirit was overwhelming, and everyone held back their energy.

This kind of militant, war-seeking, and eagerness to do meritorious service may be a mentality that Zhu Cihong, a modern person, will never be able to understand!

In order to better defend against the opponent's cavalry attacking the two wings when attacking, Zhu Cihong almost emptied all the carriages in the battalion, and together with the chariots, he gathered tens of thousands of carts.

This night is destined to be a busy night. The tens of thousands of military households of the Ming army are busy unloading their horses and carts to reinforce the camp. The Han soldiers are recharging their energy.

The next day, before dawn, the Ming army began to assemble a large army, and also only assembled 16 troops from the left, central and right armies.

The [-] left army is responsible for guarding the left wing in the north, the [-] right army is responsible for guarding the south right wing, the [-] central army is responsible for the main attack, and the cavalry and chariots are responsible for the rear.

The [-] Royal Forest Army and the logistics arms of each army, as well as the [-] young and strong military households also stayed in the camp as a reserve team.

When the sun was high in the east, the 16 troops of the Ming army were ready, and amidst the sound of war drums, the phalanxes began to move forward steadily.

Five thousand horse-drawn carriages lined up on the left and right, slowly drove out of the camp, and followed the army forward.

On Jianu's side, Dorgun sent out all 12 cavalry early in the morning, and [-] Han soldiers were waiting in the camp.

In order to consume the strength of the Ming army, the Jiannu camp was also arranged in nine battalions and divided into nine small battalions.

There are three in the front, three in the middle, and three in the back. The distance between the front and back of the camp is one mile, but the left and right are only two hundred paces.

Moreover, for the three camps in front, a trench one meter deep and two meters wide was dug on the periphery, and an earth wall one meter high and one meter thick was piled up behind.

The three big camps in the middle and the three big camps in the back had no time to dig, and they were obviously planning to dig while fighting, and fought a war of attrition and a protracted war with the Ming army.

There are nine big camps, each side is only one mile long, and the three big camps added together, counting the gap in the middle, are only about four miles wide.

Of the 12 Han soldiers, [-] were deployed to the three front camps for defense, and the remaining [-] were to defend the middle and rear six camps.

Originally, according to the formation of the Nine Palaces Formation, the most suitable deployment of troops should be [-] each for the eight outer battalions, and [-] for the central battalion, so that all battalions can be reinforced at any time.

But Dorgun felt that under the threat of their cavalry, the Ming army could not choose to attack from multiple sides, so they focused their forces on the three camps ahead.

The 10,000+ army advanced for two full hours before advancing three miles in front of the Jiannu camp. At this time, it was past noon. Although the Jiannu cavalry had been watching, they never found a chance to launch a surprise attack.

Because [-] carriages, even if there are two in a row, with only a two-meter gap in the middle, they can extend for several miles. Two roads in the north and south are enough to protect the left and right wings of the army.

So when Dole looked at the two carriage walls made up of carriages, he was immediately dumbfounded.

His original plan was that when the Ming army was unable to attack for a long time, suffered heavy losses, and their morale was frustrated, the cavalry would forcefully attack from the left and right wings and annihilate the Ming army in one fell swoop.

But now that there were these two chariot walls, and the Ming army was defending against the wall, it would be difficult for the cavalry's assault to achieve any results, and the Ming army could abandon the chariot at any time and retreat to the camp.

Thinking of this, Dorgon couldn't help scolding the Ming army for being cunning, so he had to pin his hopes on the Han soldiers, hoping that they could firmly hold on to the camp and consume the Ming army.

Dole was not the only one who was dumbfounded. Zhu Cihong was also dumbfounded when he saw that Jiannu had also set up a nine palace formation. He almost yelled at Jiannu for shameless plagiarism. The Jiugong Formation has led to being learned by Jiannu now.

Because in terms of defense, the Jiugong Formation is indeed the most suitable formation, and with the slave cavalry on the side, the army will definitely not be able to directly encircle and attack from all sides, which will undoubtedly greatly increase the difficulty of attacking the palace.

In order to ensure the safety of the two wings of the attacking force, Zhu Cihong could only choose to attack the front three enemy battalions from the front, and then continue to advance, pulling out the six camps in the middle and the rear.

There were few trees on the grassland, and the Ming army did not have many siege equipment, not even the simplest ladders, and Jiannu also had no wooden fences for defense. The only thing they relied on was a ditch and an earthen wall. That being said, it's relatively fair.

However, the red cannons of the Qing army have been completely lost. In the past two years, dozens of them have been recast and placed in Jinzhou, and only a small number of firecrackers are equipped.

Following Zhu Cihuang's order, more than 400 Franco cannons, large and small, lined up and blasted towards the three camps of the Qing army.

boom boom boom…

For a moment, projectiles the size of a child's fist fell like raindrops on the Qing army's camp, and a small amount directly hit the earth wall, blowing up the earth wall that was not very strong.

In the big camp, except for the white military tents, there were only carriages. The Han soldiers inside were bombarded and hid behind the earthen walls, and some even got under the carriages.

Seeing that only one round of shelling by the Ming army caused confusion among the Han soldiers in the three battalions, Dole frowned involuntarily, and missed the two hundred red cannons back then.

(End of this chapter)