Borrow the day to change the day

In Shengjing, Liaodong, when Huang Taiji received Daming's reply, although he was mentally prepared for such a reply, he was still a little disappointed.

Because for the current Dajin, the best measure is to recuperate and get through the food shortage caused by the disturbance of the Ming army last year.Then find a way to shorten the gap in military power with the Ming Dynasty, so as to reduce the feeling of powerlessness when facing the new army of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the defeat in the Guannei War last year, Dajin's troops have lost a lot without knowing it.Although he tried his best to make up for the lack of troops by plundering the Nuzhen, and reorganized the Eight Banners of Mongolia, it seems that the number has not decreased but increased, but Huang Taiji understands that the overall combat power of Dajin has dropped a lot.

The current Huang Taiji no longer dared to waste his troops at will.Therefore, although he was still preparing for war under the banner of peace talks, he only deployed a large army at Niuzhuang Station, not all the way along the Liaohe River.

When Zhong Jinwei received the report from the Clippers, saying that Jianlu destroyed the pier at Niuzhuang Station and arranged countless catapults, he just smiled contemptuously.

He let the replenished new army come ashore not far downstream of Niuzhuang Station. Under the watchful eyes of Jianlu's scouting horses, the new army came ashore one after another, and then formed a defensive formation.

Although there are no dock facilities, it took a long time for the car battalion in the new army to go ashore.But Zhong Jinwei was not in a hurry this time and spent a whole day to get off the boat.

After Jianlu returned from the inspection, many troops came as spectators, and watched how the new army car battalion disembarked from the beginning to the end, but there was nothing they could do about the new army waiting in full force.

The slave chief who was stationed at Niuzhuang Station was Dorgon. He tried to attack the camp of the new army several times at night, but because the camp of the new army was backed by the Liao River, there were fleets on the Liao River as cover on the left and right sides, and the front was heavily guarded. There was also the imperceptible landmine buried, so that Jianlu lost his troops in vain, but he didn't gain any benefits.

Dorgon finally realized the power of the new army's firearms like Huang Taiji, and he had nothing to do with the new army that was slowly advancing towards Niuzhuang Post the next day.

When Zhong Jinwei was advancing along the Liaohe River to Niuzhuang Station, he suddenly received a report from a fast boat on the Liaohe River, saying that the Jianlu at Niuzhuang Station was evacuating.

When Zhong Jinwei heard this, he immediately held a military meeting while walking.He said to Cao Wenzhao: "We can't always be escorted by Jianlu, we have to seize the initiative in the field battle. Now that Jianlu sees that our army can't be prevented from advancing, he wants to withdraw the catapults at Niuzhuang Station to the rear. Go, I guess it is to find a place with suitable terrain to stop our army."

Before Cao Wenzhao could speak, his nephew Cao Bianjiao asked for instructions first: "Master Hou, we can't let Jianlu escape, shall we chase after him?"

Zhong Jinwei smiled and said, "That's exactly what I meant. Those catapults were built very large to fight against our army's artillery. It must be very inconvenient to evacuate. I invited you here to prepare for your initiative. Keep those catapults."

When he said this, Cao Wenzhao led the three men to stand up straight, and said loudly, "Please order, Lord Hou."

At this time, the death camp had all been integrated into the new army. Cao Wenzhao became the commander of the new army after training in the early stage, and was directly responsible to Zhong Jinwei.

Not much time, the new army began to adjust the formation.A thousand heavily armed fusiliers led by Cao Bianjiao first attacked.

Although he was a heavy-armed fusilier, he only added more protective gear to key parts of his body, and his actions were not affected much.

The car camp quickly opened a hole, and the new army inside got on horses and came out of the hole, heading straight for the Jianlu on the opposite side.

Jianlu did not expect that the new army would take the initiative to attack. Their main force is now at Niuzhuang Station, and Jianlu, who is monitoring the advance of the new army, only has more than 3000 troops.

After going through the initial surprise and panic, it was replaced by ecstasy.Jianlu can't do anything about Cheying, but now the Ming army has escaped from that tortoise shell. Isn't this just looking for death!

So, while sending people to quickly report to Niuzhuang Station, they began to organize a counterattack against the Ming army that rushed out.

Jianlu made no mistake this time, and directly sent cavalry to hedge.They have reason to believe that the cavalry's hedging will definitely kill the Ming army in large numbers.

But because the new army moved first, it gained the initiative.Before Jianlu's horse speed reached the maximum, the new army rushed to Jianlu's eyes.

I saw the new troops dismounted one after another, and quickly lined up in multiple rows, and the platoon gang appeared.

As soon as the gunfire of "呯呯呯" sounded, the Mongolian cavalry who charged first became timid, and unconsciously wanted to bypass the front of the Ming army.

But the Ming army did not only have such 1000 people who fought, they rushed over continuously, and the spear formation became thicker and thicker, so that no one of the Jianlu cavalry dared to charge up the spear formation.

Because the guns of the Ming army have a shining tip on the muzzle, this gun can shoot and can also be used as a spear. Although it is not as long as a special defensive spear, it can shoot, which is enough to make up for it.

Besides, the cavalry charge is most suitable for the infantry without formation. Chasing and killing the defeated army is also a good skill of the cavalry, but once it is against the infantry with a tight formation, it is not easy to use.

After losing a group of troops, the Jianlu Cavalry Army fled back in despair.

Jianlu, the leader of the army, could see that the most suitable time to break the formation of the Ming army was when the Ming army charged and did not form a formation.He very much hoped that such an opportunity would appear again, so that he could have the opportunity to do meritorious service.

Ming Jun seemed to know what he was thinking and gave him hope.

I saw that the Ming army started to mount their horses again and rushed towards Jianlu.But Jianlu, who led the army, still had no choice but to lead the army back.

Because the number of Ming troops rushing out of the chariot camp had exceeded his strength, he didn't even have the guts to fight.

Seeing Jianlu fleeing, Cao Wenzhao, who finally led the army to rush over, immediately ordered to deviate from the bank of the Liao River and go straight in the direction of Jianlu's retreat.

And Zhong Jinwei led Che Ying to speed up and rushed to Niuzhuang Station.

Fortunately, the ground is no longer as muddy as it was when I came to Liaodong. The speed of the car camp is very fast, and it is rolling towards Niuzhuang Station.

When Dorgon heard that the Ming army had taken the initiative to attack, he was also taken aback. When he hurriedly led 1 people to support along the Liaohe River, he saw that only 3000 of the 2000 people he had arranged were left, and they fled back in embarrassment.

The escaped Jianlu reported to Dorgon that more than 4000 cavalry troops of the Ming army had stepped into their retreat in an attempt to cut off the road from Niuzhuang Station to Haizhou.

When Dorgon heard this, he couldn't control the chariot camp of the Ming army, and the army immediately turned to find the cavalry army of the Ming army.

Zhong Jinwei didn't see the Jianlu army rushing over after a long time, so he knew that the Jianlu army should be looking for Cao Wenzhao's trouble.

But he was not too worried, because Cao Wenzhao had more than 500 fusiliers.As long as the formation is completed, Jianlu's cavalry will be helpless.

In order to destroy Cao Wenzhao's army, Jianlu must either use long-range weapons to blast away Cao Wenzhao's spear array, or attack with infantry.

Now the only threat to Cao Wenzhao's troops is Jianlu's catapults. If they were archers, the range of the two sides would be about the same. If they really want to shoot each other, Jianlu can only cry.

Zhong Jinwei once again ordered Cheying to speed up, to bite the retreating Jianlu and prevent Jianlu from moving the catapults away.