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Chapter 177

As a hard-core traitor who put all his wealth and life on the side of "My Great Qing", Kong Youde certainly did not dare to hesitate in the dispatch of any master.

He knew very well that if Da Ming really turned his back on him one day, then a person like him would definitely be crushed to death without a place to bury him.

So after receiving the order, Kong Youde immediately mobilized his troops and made careful preparations to ensure that he could attack on the same day.

Of course, Kong Youde is not mentally retarded, he is only greedy for merit and dares to sacrifice his life, which does not mean that he is not cautious in combat.

While preparing, he did not forget to ask the messenger about the military situation ahead: "Dare to ask the envoy, how many troops and ships are there in the Ming army navy this time? Who will be the general?"

The envoy was sent by Azig, and he obviously had a preliminary understanding of the enemy's situation.He didn't mean to deceive Kong Youde, so according to Azige's understanding, he said truthfully:

"The navy of the Ming army has about one or two hundred large ships, which can transport at least 2 people! Otherwise, it would be impossible to withdraw the remnants of Cao Bianjiao and Li Fuming. King Gongshun cannot underestimate the enemy.

This time, we still focus on harassment and siege, and it's fine if we can't attack by force.As long as you can sneak attack its weak point and attack the troop carrier of the Nanmanzi, the two princes will definitely remember your great contribution. "

It turned out that when Azig sent troops to Bijiashan to attack, some of Zheng Chenggong's ships were still floating in the open sea, at least dozens of miles away from the shore, so it was impossible for Azige to look out and find them.

It's not that Zheng Chenggong deliberately avoided revealing his true strength, but mainly to prevent accidents, such as being blown too close to the shore by wind and waves, and the melee troops on board were too small to be captured by Tartars.

Therefore, only the transport ships needed to transport the number of Li Fuming and Cao Bianjiao's tribe, plus the dozen or so gunboats equipped with Hongyi cannons, were left near the dock.

This is also the consistent basic operation of generals who are well versed in naval tactics. There is no need to let a large ship with only a few sailors easily get too close to the shore, which will only add to the chaos.

Azig didn't know this factor, so he reported the number of ships of the Ming army by half, which was not a flaw.

Even so, Kong Youde was a little startled when he heard that there were [-] or [-] sea ships on the opposite side, and he also made a decision in his heart at almost the same time: It is true that we cannot go head-to-head with the main force of the Ming army!Especially avoid the gunboats!It should be a sneak attack quietly, and the troop carrier should be picked and burned!
He paused for a moment, then continued to ask: "In this way, Xiao Wang has a clear idea, but the envoy has not yet answered, who is the general of the Ming army this time? Could it be that he hastily did not ask?"

For the second half of the question, the emissary answered very straightforwardly: "I have already found out that the warships of the Ming army all carried flags, and during the bloody battle this morning, many prisoners under Cao Bianjiao's command were also captured, and some information was obtained through interrogation.

The commander of this Ming army navy is Zhang Mingzhen, the deputy commander of Haidao, but there is also a civil servant in the fleet, named Zheng Chenggong. Although he is only eighteen years old, he already holds a high position. It is said that he is the eldest son of Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian Province, and he has been cultivated by the family.

Zhang Mingzhen should have come to escort this son-in-law, and the Zheng family should have given Zhang Mingzhen so many red cannons because of this relationship, in order to let Zhang Mingzhen lead his eldest son to make meritorious service! "

After Kong Youde listened to it, he immediately imagined the image of a young boy from Gaoliang who was eating and drinking.

A young boy who just joined the officialdom!To be able to do the sixth-rank master of the six parts and the promotion of Haidao!
What kind of skills can this kind of trash snack have!Of course it came up by fighting father!The corruption of this Ming Dynasty is really disgusting!People who really have the merit of fighting with a knife and a gun should not be reused. These bastards who rely on their father's money can climb to such a high position!

Kong Youde came from a poor background, so of course he hated the rich, especially the second generation of officials and rich second generation.Coupled with the hardships he suffered in those years in Daming and the old enemies of being squeezed out and framed by civil officials, he immediately defined Zheng Chenggong as a waste snack who was promoted by his father.

Kong Youde pondered and said: "It seems that in today's battle, the main one we have to face is Zhang Mingzhen. This king has heard of this man before. When this king surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Mingzhen was just under Ning Shaohaidao's command and defended him. The garrison of the first battalion in Zhoushan.

In terms of combat power when we wiped out pirates back then, this name is far below me!In the past seven or eight years, this kind of person has surpassed the guerrilla generals of the capital and was promoted all the way to the deputy commander. It is probably because he flattered Zheng Zhilong and helped his son cheat his son. The Zheng family helped him spend money to clear the officialdom! "

After thoroughly understanding the enemy's situation, Kong Youde became more confident, and according to his own imagination, he made targeted reinforcements for the deployment of troops.After the troops have had dinner, they are ready to set sail.

After boarding the ship, Kong Youde drifted on the sea, idle or idle, happily thinking about his great future after this meritorious service.

I heard that this year His Majesty (Huang Taiji) intends to formally expand the Han army banner from four banners to eight banners.Originally, he got inside information, because his qualifications to invest are relatively shallow, and it is estimated that he can only be the Red Flag's Mailer Ezhen (deputy banner owner),

If he can help the two masters Azige and Jierharang make great contributions this time, then maybe he can jump to another level and become Gushan Ezhen (the banner owner) directly!

The Han Army Banner of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was officially set up as early as the seventh year of Chongzhen, and King Sanshun successively came to cast it. Now it has been eight years of construction.

It’s just that the total strength of the Han Army Banner was relatively small at the beginning, so they were all compiled under one banner, and Tong Yangxing, the oldest veteran traitor, was Angbang Zhangjing (the general manager of the Han Army Banner, Tong Yangxing held this position until his death, that is, regardless of the later Han Army Banner How many flags have been dismantled, on top of the Gushan Ezhen of each flag, there is still Ang Bangzhangjing in charge of all Han army flags)

In the next eight years, it was first dismantled into two in the ninth year of Chongzhen, and then divided into four in the 11th year of Chongzhen. Now in the 15th year of Chongzhen, it was officially dismantled into eight, and the entire establishment was completed.

When appointing the flag masters of each banner, the Man Qing mainly looked at the timing and seniority of the people who came to vote for the Qing Dynasty, but not so much about the official position in the Ming court and the number of soldiers and horses they brought with them.

Therefore, in history, after Tong Yangxing, the Eight Banners' masters, it was the turn of Shi Tingzhu and Ma Guangyuan, the two generals of the Ming Dynasty during the apocalypse years.Later, when it was expanded to the Four Banners, it was the turn of Zu Zerun and Wang Shixuan to add it, and they were all brought down to the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Tianqi.

Kong Youde and others surrendered after the Wuqiao Mutiny in the fifth year of Chongzhen. Although they brought a lot of troops and were named Sanshun Kings, they could not bypass the seniority ranking.They came late, and according to the plan, they could only serve as a deputy to Mei Le Erzhen in each banner, but Gushan Erzhen could not be the official.

Unless it happens to make a great contribution at this juncture!
Today, there are actually more than 130 Niulu troops in the Han Army Banner.Calculated according to the establishment, each banner has 25 cattle records, and the Eight Banners should have a total of [-] cattle records to be considered full.

So in fact, Huang Taiji regarded the besieged Ming army Hong Chengchou, Zu Dashou, Li Fuming, Cao Bianjiao and others as "about to be captured and surrendered" in advance, so he reserved about [-] or [-] cattle records for Hong Chengchou and others in advance preparation.

When Hong Chengchou was destroyed and surrendered, the troops under his command also surrendered, and the Qing Han army flag could suddenly increase its strength by [-]% out of thin air!Make up two hundred cattle records!Reach the full heyday of the Eight Banners!
Unfortunately, more than 5000 captives have fled to Bijia Mountain, and 5000 of them have returned to Shanhaiguan by boat.

If Huang Taiji, who was in the rear, was well-informed, he should immediately deduct at least twenty Niulu's Han army flag weaves from the initial plan of obscenity, and he could even deduct a full weave flag directly.

This is like the war between the human race and the undead in Warcraft. Every time the human race escapes a militia, it means not only that they survive one more militia, but also causes the undead to lose a corpse resource for turning into a skeleton. , One positive and one negative have to calculate the value of the account twice.

Historically, the Han Army Banner, which will be expanded from the Four Banners to the Eight Banners this year, is estimated to be the "Seven Banners of Han" at most for the time being.

Unless for the sake of face, Huang Taiji directly grabs some strong men from the Han people in Liaodong to make up enough numbers and save face.However, the combat effectiveness of this kind of temporarily captured strong man is definitely not as good as that of the Jiubian Ming Army prisoners of war who have been fighting for many years.

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The conversation was divided into two parts, Kong Youde prepared to attack Zheng Chenggong's troop carrier at the same time.

Because of Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen's agitation, the Qing army had to accelerate the progress of the campaign on other fronts at all costs.

Jierhalang's troops did not dare to mobilize too much, because land is equally important to the siege of Jinzhou.

When Shen Shuren explained the battle plan to Zheng Chenggong and Zhang Mingzhen before they set off, he never mentioned the rescue of Zu Dashou, because Shen Shuren opened the perspective, and he knew that there were too many traitors in the ancestor's family. This time Hong Chengchou came to save Zu Dashou. It is also a big pit.

Moreover, as the native generals of Western Liaoning, the ancestor's family has intertwined local interests. Even if there is still a little bit of loyalty to Daming, his family's interests have long been doomed to be tied up with the Manchus, and they have already placed their bets on both sides.The reason why they dare not directly and completely fall to the Manchu Qing Dynasty is only because the situation is still unknown.

But the problem is, Shen Shuren knew that Zu Dashou's family was a traitor, so that Zheng Chenggong could not take risks, but Azig and Jierhalang didn't know.In their view, if the Ming army wanted to rescue the beleaguered troops in Liaodong, the priority of saving the ancestor's birthday should also be quite high.

This misjudgment immediately led to Jierhalang's flag, and more than half of the troops did not dare to act rashly.

In the final decisive battle against Songshan, there were only two Jiala from Azig's flag, one Jiala from Jierhalang, and a large number of Han army flag cannon fodder.

Fortunately, after all, the Qing army has some second-line troops that are not too far away to mobilize.

In the afternoon of the fourth day of March, Azig began to ask for help, only half a day later, at midnight that day.Abatai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner who was originally stationed a little farther in the rear, in the defense area north of Jinzhou, came with the main force of the Zhenglan Banner.

Abatai is the seventh son of Nurhachi, that is, the seventh brother of Huang Taiji and Azig.He was also named the king of the county, and his status was comparable to that of Azig. (Huang Taiji is the eighth son of Nurhachi, and Abatai is four years older than Huang Taiji, and he was in his fifties at the time)
In this way, the main force of the Qing army on the Songjin battlefield once again returned to the size of the three banners of Zhengbai Banner, Xianglan Banner, and Zhenglan Banner.

The size of the troops can finally support the simultaneous main attack on multiple enemies on one side and the siege and surveillance on the other two sides.

Of course, considering that one of Abatai's flags marched a relatively long distance to the Songshan battlefield, it would not be used as the first echelon when attacking the city.

He will be arranged to rest and recover first, and Azig's direct troops will still open the situation, and then Abate will clean up the mess.

At Limingmao on the fifth day of March, when there was still about a quarter of an hour before dawn, the Qing army was fully prepared, and the blockade of Songshan was also done very well for more than a day before.

Therefore, Xia Chengde, the deputy general who was about to surrender in the city, was completely unaware that reinforcements from his side had already arrived and arrived at Bijia Mountain.Xia Chengde had no doubts about the Qing army's sudden threat to force him to act in advance, but simply accepted it out of cowardice.

At Maoshizheng, the east gate of Songshan City under Xia Chengde's department was opened by the traitors as scheduled.Azig ordered two of Jiala's cavalry to rush into the city immediately, and then decisively controlled the city gate——

Azig did not dare to trust Xia Chengde too much. Even though Xia Chengde had sent his own son Xia Shu to Azig as a hostage to guarantee the authenticity of the surrender, Azige was still afraid that this was a deadly trick played by the Han people. , Want to do something on the urn city, or dig trenches and rammed earth walls inside the city gate to organize a second line of defense.

Xia Chengde urged Azige to rush into the city and go straight to Hong Chengchou's mansion to control the overall situation, but Azige would rather waste time and take over everything near the city gate first.

This delay and chaos wasted more than ten minutes.Then Azig asked Tong Tulai, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner of the Han Army, to follow up and enter the city to take the damage and fight head-on in the street.

Tong Tulai, a hard-core traitor, can be the leader of a banner, and of course he will not be ambiguous. The master asked his subordinates to die first, so he obediently went.

The Ming army also reacted at this time. Governor Hong Chengchou and Liaodong governor Qiu Minyang respectively organized their own soldiers to kill at the east gate, and tried to plug the gap.

Thousands of Han people started a bloody massacre on the Songshan Long Street in this way. It was obvious that both sides were Han Chinese, and no one was full of soldiers. It was just killing and wasting in vain.

Xia Chengde's army, which was obviously the Ming army half a day ago, has now fought side by side with Tong Tulai's Manchu and Han army flags, and began to unconsciously kill yesterday's comrades-in-arms.

"Hong Chengchou is here! The dog tartar has the guts to kill me quickly!" At this moment, Hong Chengchou actually still has the bloody appearance of a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, and he personally drew out the sword of a civil servant to supervise the battle and slash.

It's a pity that this kind of yelling was purely to incite hatred, causing the soldiers around him to suffer.When Tong Tulai's troops heard that Hong Chengchou was here, they rushed up like crazy to grab the head. The bloody massacre on both sides soon left thousands of corpses lying on the long street.

Seeing that Tong Tulai and Xia Chengde exhausted Hong Chengchou so badly, Azige was overjoyed, and screamed in his heart: "I knew Xia Chengde worked so hard! Just surrendered, he was so aggressive and killed the old master, we all No need to ask Seventh Brother to help out!

The 1 Ming army defected and cut down the remaining [-] Ming troops. After this, [-] people will disappear!For the rest of the Ming army, our Eight Banners warriors will take it in a few charges! "

Seeing that the situation was very good, Azig decisively let his two Jiala detours to charge, first went around from the poorly defended streets in the city to the back of Hong Chengchou Qiu Minyang, and then directly charged forward.

The Ming army saw that the general situation was over, and the guards of the other three gates couldn't care less, they opened the city gate directly, trying to escape from the city.

It's a pity that the South Gate, which is the best escape effect for the Ming army, happened to be stationed outside the city by Abatai's Zhenglan Banner.

Abatai hadn't planned to fight a tough battle at first, but when he saw that the Ming army took the initiative to open the city gate, he also realized that the city might collapse.Killed the Ming army who blocked the south gate and tried to escape.

Only the two northwest gates were away from the direction of the Ming Dynasty. The defenders there rushed out of the city, and there was no Qing army to stop them in a panic. What they care about now is to take Hong Chengchou as soon as possible. The essentials of the art of war with three missing one.

A quarter of an hour later, as the massacre gradually stopped, Qiu Minyang, governor of Liaodong, was still fighting to die for his country. The other generals and a lieutenant general were also killed, and Hong Chengchou was captured alive.

The only butterfly effect was that because the Qing army had relatively few troops, there was a lack of people to surround the two northwest gates leading to the rear of the Qing army. Thousands of people escaped on each side, and the dark clouds in the night couldn't catch up.

(End of this chapter)