Daming Military Empire

Chapter 140
The next day, the army continued to set off and rushed to Guangning. At this time, the snow in Liaodong had hardened and the roads were muddy. It was difficult for the army to move forward. It was completely dark.

Zhu Cijiong was about to send someone to inform the Tianxiong Army behind him to set up camp on the spot, and to meet up again tomorrow morning, and when they rushed to Dalinghe Fort together, suddenly there was a sharp sound of horseshoes behind, and a scout of the Ming Army with a small flag on his back was beating his horse. Running towards him.

Zhu Cijiong's heart skipped a beat, and he thought to himself: "This can't be a big deal, right? It stands to reason that Huang Taiji's movements shouldn't be so fast!"

Naturally, the scout couldn't get close to the dragon chariot, and the thousands of Jinyi guards around him weren't just there to watch. He was stopped just as he approached the outer edge of the dragon chariot. He beat his horse and ran to the dragon chariot, bowed his hands and saluted, "Report to the emperor, it's Mao Wenlong, the general of Dongjiang Army, who sent you to expedite the eight hundred miles."

Mao Wenlong and Zhu Cijiong breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the words. He may have come to report that he had already sent troops to attack Dingliao Youwei as required. After all, the snow had only melted for less than two days. At least he sent a letter from Pidao. It will take a day, and calculating the time, he should have sent the letter as soon as he arrived at Dingliao Youwei.But this guy is really, you send troops as soon as you send them out, even if you get to Dingliao Youwei, you don't have to rush for eight hundred miles.

Zhu Cijiong shook his head helplessly, took the envelope from Jin Yiwei Qianhu, checked the seal slightly, then tore open the envelope and took out the letter paper inside, then opened the letter paper and held it in front of his eyes, looking at the faint glare of the sky, Difficult to look at.

Mao Wenlong wrote in the letter:
Weichen Dongjiang Army Commander Admiral Mao Wenlong wrote to the emperor:

Chen led one hundred thousand soldiers of the Dongjiang Army to launch a fierce attack on the Dingliao Right Guard on the [-]th day of March. After nearly two hours of fierce fighting, he finally took down the Dingliao Right Guard in one fell swoop.In this battle, more than [-] soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were killed, more than [-] were injured, and more than [-] enemies were killed. Xi Jian's slave owner, General Xianglan Banner, led Amin to flee with the remnants of the army when Wei Chen was about to break the city. Failed to catch in one fell swoop.The minister was afraid that he would encounter Jiannu reinforcements on his way, which would only increase casualties, so he never sent troops to chase him. Please forgive me.

The more Zhu Cijiong watched, the more excited he became. After finishing, he couldn't help but patted the handle of the seat, and praised: "Mao Wenlong, that's great."

Sun Chengzong, who was driving beside him, was pleasantly surprised when he heard the words: "Could it be that the Dingliao right guard has already been captured?"

Zhu Cijiong replied excitedly: "Yes, the Dongjiang army took down the Dingliao right guard at noon yesterday. Well, it will be easy to regain the southeastern part of Liaodong now. The Taifu really has a clever plan."

Sun Chengzong hurriedly said modestly: "It's all due to Mao Wenlong. I don't dare to take the credit. This kid is more active than anyone else when he encounters a promotion and fortune. He can win Dingliao Youwei in such a short time. It's not surprising. It's just that the casualties are too high, if Jian Nu counterattacks wildly, I don't know if he can survive."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong became anxious. He looked at the Guangning Zhongzuo Tunwei who was close at hand, and couldn't help urging: "Quick, hurry up and enter the city."

The speed of the dragon chariot increased instantly, and the Jinyiwei in front shouted, and the imperial guards who were entering the city hurriedly moved aside, and soon the dragon chariot arrived at the mansion of the commander of the Tunwei. Jin Yiwei, eunuchs, and maids were carrying the daily necessities brought by the palace. Zhu Cijiong said to Cao Huachun who was at the side as he got off the dragon chariot: "Quick, find someone to take me to the study."

Cao Huachun, who had just got off his horse, put his feet on the ground, and rushed out with a whoosh. After a while, he led an eunuch and galloped over.

At this time, Zheng Chenggong, a clever ghost, had already run over panting, Zhu Cijiong didn't say anything, he waved to him and Sun Chengzong, and then walked in behind Cao Huachun and the eunuch.

As soon as he entered the study, Zhu Cijiong couldn't wait to ask: "Teacher, since the right guard of Dingliao has been captured, there should be no threat from Shandong. How about sending [-] Shandong defenders to supplement the Dongjiang army's battle?" damage?"

Sun Chengzong nodded and said: "Well, what the emperor said is very true. If you can equip them with flintlock guns and grenades, it will be safer."

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, thought for a while, and then shouted towards the door: "Eunuch Cao, draw up an order."

Upon hearing the words, Cao Huachun walked in quickly, stood in front of the desk, poured water with one hand, and rubbed the ink with the other, rubbed the ink twice to finish the ink, then took out a blank imperial decree from the box next to him, stood there with a pen in his hand, waiting for Zhu Cijiong to speak.

Zhu Cijiong watched him busy while sorting out his thoughts. As soon as he was ready, Zhu Cijiong immediately said: "Song Yingxing, the Lang Zhong of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Cleaning Up Officials, immediately prepares [-] flintlock guns and [-] grenades, which are not enough to go. The Second Corps of the Imperial Guard asked Shi Kefa to make up for it, and immediately sent it to Tianjinwei Harbor."

Cao Huachun stood there brushing a few times to finish writing, and then handed it over to Zhu Cijiong to check, and then dug out the big seal and stamped it.

Seeing that he was finished, Zhu Cijiong continued to issue an order: "Order Shandong Capital Commander to immediately dispatch [-] defenders to Tianjin Wei Harbor by sea. After receiving the weapons, go directly to Dingliao Youwei by sea. The Dongjiang Army was damaged in battle."

When Cao Huachun finished his work, Zhu Cijiong asked him to immediately arrange for people to rush to the capital and Shandong to pass the decree overnight.

Sun Chengzong watched Cao Huachun walk out in a hurry, and then said: "Your Majesty, we must hurry up."

Zhu Cijiong heard the words, and humbly asked for advice: "Please give me advice."

Sun Chengzong went to the front of the bookshelf and took out the map of Liaodong, spread it on the desk, pointed to the direction of Liaohe and analyzed: "According to the information collected earlier, the army of various Mongolian ministries should not have entered Liaodong, and Huang Taiji still can't get enough troops. Go and attack the Dingliao right guard. However, at the latest tomorrow night, the Mongolian army will reach Haizhou and the Dingliao middle left guard. That is to say, the day after tomorrow, Huang Taiji will be able to draw out troops. We must attack the Haizhou guard the day after tomorrow. Launch an attack, so as to delay the time for them to attack Dingliao right back."

Hearing this, Zhu Cijiong frowned and said, "This road is too difficult to walk. I'm afraid we won't be able to make it to Sanchahe Castle tomorrow."

Sun Chengzong shook his head and said: "The main reason is that the Tianxiong army can't get up quickly to escort the grain, grass and luggage. We can take the first regiment of the imperial guards to Sanchahe Fort first, and let the Tianxiong army distribute the grain, grass and prisoners to Daling tomorrow. Hebao and Santaizi Fort will do.”

Zhu Cijiong asked again: "Should we take the Liaodong Army and the Qin Army to attack the city? But half of the artillery brought this time is with the Tianxiong Army. It is too wasteful for the Tianxiong Army to guard the food and grass."

Sun Chengzong shook his head again and said: "No, after we arrived at Sanchahe Fort, we asked Man Gui and He Kegang to change defenses. The Tianxiong Army only arrived at Sanchahe Fort a day or two later."

Zhu Cijiong said worriedly: "It's not enough to attack the city with the first regiment of the imperial guards and the Qin army. When the Mongolian army arrives, there may be more than 20 people in Haizhou city."

Sun Chengzong still shook his head and said: "Haizhou City can't accommodate so many troops, at most 15, if there are too many, there will be no place to camp. Huang Taiji will not gather so many troops in Haizhou. Besides, we don't want one or two We will attack Haizhou City in the next day, just pretend to attack and disrupt their deployment."

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help nodding when he heard the words: "If it's just a feint attack, 20 troops are enough. What about Jinzhou Wei and Fuzhou Wei, you can't just leave them alone, right?"

Sun Chengzong thought for a while and replied: "Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Army is gathering for drills in Gaizhou. Why don't you let him send the commander-in-chief Zhao Ledjiao and Cao Bianjiao each with 2 troops to attack Jinzhou Wei and Fuzhou Wei tomorrow?" , The total number of Jian slaves in these two cities is less than 5000, and they should be able to take them down soon."

Zhu Cijiong nodded and said, "Let's leave it at that. I don't know how Huang Taiji will react when he learns that Dingliao's right guard has fallen. I just hope he doesn't make any mistakes."

At this time, Huang Taiji already knew that the right guard of Dingliao had fallen, so he thought of something, but there was no one.

Although the Mongolian ministries agreed to send troops, the speed of sending troops was ridiculously slow. Sun Chengzong guessed that they would be able to reach Haizhou and Dingliao Zhongzuowei tomorrow night.

If there are no troops from the Mongolian ministries, the [-] troops in Haizhou cannot be mobilized. For the rest of the troops, even if Huang Taiji abandons Dingliao Zhongzuowei and Shengjing, there will be less than [-] troops to attack Dingliao. Liaoyouwei, that was just a joke, it would be good if Mao Wenlong didn't run out of the city to beat them up.

Zhu Cijiong naturally did not expect that the Mongolian ministries would be so procrastinating. He rushed to Sanchahe Fort with the First Army Corps of the Imperial Guards the next day, rested for the night, and assembled the First Army Corps of the Imperial Guards and the Qin Dynasty in the early morning of the third day. The army, with a total of 20 horses, marched to Haizhouwei in mighty strength.

At this time, Daishan in Haizhou City had received Huang Taiji's order and gathered [-] elite riders. As soon as the troops from various Mongolian tribes arrived, he would lead [-] elite riders to join Huang Taiji and take over from him to guard Haizhou Wei is his twelfth younger brother, and Azig is in charge of Xianghuang Banner.

At this time of day, the 20 Mongolian troops from various tribes finally arrived in Haizhou. Daishan and Azig handed over their defenses and were about to lead [-] fine riders to Shengjing to join Huang Taiji when the scouts suddenly heard an urgent message. The newspaper: "More than [-] Ming troops are rapidly approaching Haizhou Wei, and it is estimated that they will arrive before noon."

Now Daishan and Azig were dumbfounded, whether to go or not to go, this is a question, Daishan didn't know how to make a decision for a while.

Azig looked at the sluggish Mongolian soldiers, feeling even more uncertain, at least give him some time to rectify, with such a lazy look, he estimated that the Ming army would start to run away in fright when they started attacking these people.He couldn't help begging Dai Shan to say: "Brother, help me hold back the formation, look at them like this, I'm really afraid that they will all run away when the Ming army's cannon fires."

Daishan didn't know what Huang Taiji was thinking. He, the eldest brother who was upgraded from the second brother, still took good care of the younger brothers. Now that the twelfth younger brother begged him, he was naturally embarrassed to leave, so he sent a quick Ma asked Huang Taiji for instructions, and at the same time ordered [-] fine riders to station outside the north gate.If these Mongolian soldiers dare to escape, he will definitely come and chop one by one!At the same time, he can help the twelfth brother defend the north, at least not let the Ming army surround Haizhou City.

Zhu Cijiong didn't know that they were still coming out, and he didn't plan to surround Haizhou City. Now he is just feinting, and he just needs to frighten them from the south.

As a result, the two sides were at a stalemate. Zhu Cijiong set up camp less than five miles away from the southern city wall and began to build siege equipment; A banner soldier and a hundred Mongolian soldiers stepped up their drills; Dai Shan was stationed outside the north gate, anxiously waiting for further instructions from Huang Taiji.

(End of this chapter)