Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 663 Jiangyin Will Not Fall

Every time the Ming Dynasty made a key decision, Emperor Chongzhen and the officials in the court hesitated and vacillated, and finally lost many opportunities in vain. However, when it was their turn to build slaves, they were not decisive enough.

The Qing army has four branches in Jiangnan, one is the army guarding places like Yingtian Zhenjiang Jurong and other places. These are the largest in number but also the most unreliable. Most of them are puppet troops recruited on the spot. The second is the Manchu-Han army in the Shaoxing area of ​​Hangzhou, commanded by Daishan’s son Man Dahai. After defeating King Lu’s supervision of the country, he stayed behind to pursue the army. However, there were only 3 people. Thirteen thousand, the rest are green battalion soldiers.

The third army is far away in Huguang, led by Prince Su Hauge. Among them, Pingxi King Wu Sangui, Sanshun King's army and Mengman's army have a total of more than 30 main forces. After Zuo Liangyu's death, Zuo Menggeng's troops surrendered , with a number of up to [-], but this army was attacking the Daxi Army in Chengdu, which was founded in Chengdu, and the rest of the Chuang army after the death of Li Zicheng in Jiugong Mountain, and deviated to the west.

It is Jiangyin Boluo and Kong Youde's army that really decides the fate of Jiangnan, including the Manchu Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners with 13, and the Han Eight Banners with 27. In addition, Liu Liangzuo led the three Jiangbei towns to surrender troops as high as 30, and there were [-] at the peak. This army is considered to be extremely powerful, and it was also the main force that defeated King Lu's supervision of the country.

But within six days of Song Qingshu's capture of Jinling, not only did the main army of slaves not move a single step to Jinling, which is hundreds of miles west, they even stopped attacking Jiangyin. For six days, they just waited and watched. So, the opportunity was wasted in vain.

However, this cannot be blamed on the Jiangyin army. There is no phone these days, and the Jiangyin army is composed of four towns, Boluo's Manchu Banners, Kong Youde's Han Eight Banners, Liu Liangzuo's Green Battalion, and Mongolian Eight Banners. Although the Manchu Eight Banners have the highest status, except for the Mongolian Eight Banners, the rest are bullied and may transfer Kong Youde, but Liu Liangzuo is only Duoduo from Yingtian. There was no news, and they didn't know that Yingtian fell that night. With their consistent trust in the fighting power of the Eight Banners Army, the army that thought it was all right attacked Jiangyin for another two days. It was not until the [-]th that they received the news of the fall of Jinling City.

On the 21st, since the day of the incident, Jiangyin has persisted for a full 81 days. The city has reached the point where the oil is exhausted, and Yan Yingyuan has not eaten for several days. Standing firm, he staggered towards the battlements again.

It is said to be battlements, but in fact there are some broken stubbles left. The city wall has collapsed a lot in the past few days of Jiannu bombardment, and the battlements were broken early. As a last resort, some sacks were used to fill them with soil to block them. The method is to choose the front Army Song Yongzhong taught, behind the sack, Jiangyin rebels lay there in disorder one by one, the youngest was only twelve or thirteen years old, not as tall as a firecracker, holding a stained flintlock, falling asleep there.

too tired!
In 81 days, Jiannu attacked the city wall 56 times, and the Jiangyin rebels went out of the city to fight fiercely 27 times. The gunpowder was fired long ago, and the cannon was turned into scrap iron. Jiannu, in the end, only hand-to-hand combat is left. A group of common people have reached their limit. Yan Yingyuan can't help but sigh, seeing that he can't stand another battle.

After patrolling the army tiredly, he habitually raised the binoculars that Song Yongzhong gave him, and habitually looked at the Jiannu camp opposite. But at the first glance, Yan Yingyuan just stood there in disbelief, as if he would never move away. The slave barracks that were also suppressed there are gone!
At first, I thought my eyes were dazzled, but after I rubbed it vigorously, I looked again, but there was still nothing. Just when Yan Yingyuan was surprised, some soldiers started to scream.

"The Tartars are back!"

More than a dozen death squads were lowered from the city walls, and they ran around the four cities before Fang came back with the exciting news that Jian Nu had indeed retreated.

It’s no wonder that Jiangyin people can’t believe it. Since Jiannu went south, it’s like a mountain pressing on top of people’s heads. People can’t breathe. The more than 30 imperial Jianghuai defense lines were broken in less than a month. After the defeat, Emperor Hongguang was captured alive. A while ago, I heard that Jin Sheng hoarded Huizhou, Huang Fei stationed troops in Taihu Lake, and Wu Shengjia, the commander-in-chief, protected King Lu to counterattack Hangzhou. The slave-building army of the King of Lu has come. Up to now, the people of Jiangyin have come to fight with the intention of dying. But at this time, the slave-building army has withdrawn. The feeling of narrow escape is enough to make everyone weep with joy .

However, what really made people cry was one afternoon two days later, when the long-awaited Master Wang finally came!
There is no need to hide anymore. The large sailboat of the Qihuo Army is going down the river from the upper reaches. The huge hull seems to fill the entire Yangtze River. From a distance, you can see a forest of white sails, which can hardly be seen to the edge. Wearing The sailors in white armor spread out between the decks with their bayonets held high. The river wind blows, and the white military belts on their military caps float out of the ocean, which is truly mighty.

The road from Jinling was even more dusty. A division formed five columns, striding forward with guns on their shoulders. The flags were fluttering, and the shaking bayonets reflected a cold light, which dazzled people's eyes. Oh, and the pushing artillery, the clumsy cannon god has pressed two marks on the hard Jadobao asphalt road, more than 100 divisions are pulled into a column, there is no end in sight, and it is even more mighty.

The only shortcoming is that there are too few cavalry, even less than [-], but the magnificent military appearance seems to make up for this.

The arrival of this legion made the Jiangyin people finally feel at ease, and they no longer have to worry about Jiannu's counterattack.

The army did not enter the city, but was stationed under the city on the spot, thanks to the primitive industrialization of the West India Company. Immediately, it became as mighty as a mushroom forest.

The battlefield is right in front of the barracks. Although Jiannu has already retreated, there are still quite a few traces left for deliberation, just like in Sun Bin's plan to reduce the stove, using the traces of the stove to calculate the number of enemy troops, and the Bayin map The Mongols' strong point is to use horse manure and horseshoe marks to roughly estimate the number of enemy troops.

Jiannu walked in a hurry. Along Song Qingshuxiu's main road, horse dung fell all over the ground, and there was a large circle of heavy ruts pulled directly from the battlefield. Experienced people could recognize it at a glance. It was a cannon.

In the impression of later generations, most of the Qing army carried swords and spears, wore thin uniforms, and charged forward with spears in battle. In fact, this is a misunderstanding, even if most of them were Boxers and Xiangbing Yong, some dilapidated green battalions, if it is really that level, how can Jiannu defeat Ming Dynasty repeatedly, and destroy several times more Chuang troops than themselves. Even firearms surpassed the Ming army to a certain extent.

Jiannu, who was frightened by the Hongyi cannons in the Battle of Yuan Chonghuan and Ningyuan, attached great importance to the Hongyi cannons. After capturing the Ming army cannons, he continued to build them. Compared with Song Qingshu's ever-improving artillery technology, it is still a lot worse. However, the number is quite considerable. Looking at the traces, this army of slaves has no less than eighty thousand catties of red barbarian cannons. A piece of more than 200 doors.

And looking at the city of Jiangyin, the dense trachoma was obviously made by firecrackers. Even if the Jiannu infantry did not have many birdguns, Liu Liangzuo's army was a regular army of the Ming Empire, equipped with a lot of firearms. The number of firecrackers is piled up.

However, in terms of firearms, at least the beggars still had the upper hand, and it was the cavalry that made Song Qingshu frown even more!Looking at the traces, there are no less than [-] to [-] cavalrymen. In this era, cavalry were tanks on the battlefield. Until World War II, there were records of large-scale Chinese cavalry fighting with Japanese cavalry. Paul Kocha, the protagonist of "How Steel is Made" Jin also used to be a Russian cavalry to kill the machine gunner of the White Army. In this era, Jiannu can be called the number one cavalry in East Asia. Relying on large-scale infantry to fight cavalry is obviously at a disadvantage.

In particular, as the main force of more than 100 divisions, most of them are workers who have just taken up arms and tenant farmers who cultivate land. Even if he brought 10 people, a large part of them are immigrants recruited by the Southeast Asian colonies. Humans also lack experience against cavalry.

Come up and take the magic weapon of the flintlock gun and clean up the Jiannu cavalry with two or three shots. It is a crooked master. A skilled flintlock gun can shoot about five to six shots in one minute. A division is about seven thousand to 1 seconds. 30 rounds. In this era, bullets with an accuracy of about 500% or [-]% will miss, or hit in an unimportant position, that is to say, only about [-] rounds will hit, and one shot will definitely kill an enemy. For the same [-] cavalry, more than [-] of them can rush into their own infantry formation, and it will be a hard battle.

In the battle of Gaoyang County to save Sun Chengzong, Jiannu had only a few cavalry, and he almost pierced through the army formation against his well-trained veterans. Field battle, but this time, more than [-] untrained recruits and [-] to [-] slave cavalry who have been fighting on horseback for many years in a field battle are indeed very difficult!

Very hanging!

Such a powerful army, relying only on the low city wall behind it, and two 10,000+ people guarding it for a full 81 days, is really a miracle. Song Qingshu even finds it hard to imagine how he did it.

"Yan Yingyuan pays homage to the commander-in-chief!"

Looking at the traces of Song Qingshu's kung fu frowning, a weary voice suddenly sounded from behind, turning around, three people wearing ninth-rank official uniforms arrived at some time, and they were bowing to him neatly. Song Qingshu couldn't help being excited by this name, He hurriedly stepped forward to help him up with both hands, clasped his fists with the same excitement, and said passionately.

"Duke Yan, please stand up! Gong Yan and Jiang Yin constitute the body of the Ming Dynasty! This commander should thank you Gong!"

(End of this chapter)