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Chapter 869 The Battle of Xiaoling River (Part [-])

The Xiaoling River is an important river in western Liaoning. It originated at the foot of Louzi Mountain in the northeast of Jianchang. It has a total length of more than 400 miles and flows for more than 100 miles in Chaoyang. into the Bohai Sea.

The Qing army built fortifications along the Xiaoling River in Chaoyang County. At that time, Chaoyang was called Jinxi, with many mountains and hills. The Ming Dynasty set up a state guard here, and later entered Taizhou Guard.

After these few battles, the Qing army no longer dared to fight the Ming army in the field. They were able to hold on with their fortifications and firepower.During the Chongzhen period, facing repeated harassment from the Tartars outside the pass, the Ming army could only build cities and fortresses to defend against danger, and would never engage in field battles with the Tartars unless absolutely necessary.

Now the Qing army has become a shrinking tortoise. Whether it is the Eight Banners Army or the Green Battalion soldiers, it has become history to gallop across the wilderness without a trace. Now they can only stay in the castle to defend the Ming army.

Qingfeng Ridge by the Xiaoling River in Jinxi is one of the fortifications built by the Qing soldiers. More than 1 Qing soldiers built a fortification by virtue of the mountain to contain the Ming army.

This small castle is backed by Qingfeng Ridge and faces Xiaoling River.Now at the turn of spring and summer, the water of Xiaoling River has become clear and turbid, and the river surface is several feet wide. Although there is no momentum to empty the turbid waves, it is enough to build a natural barrier for this small town.

To the south of this small castle, about 30 miles away, is another small city of the Qing army. Because there are many mountains and hills in this area, this small city is also surrounded by mountains and rivers. The natural barrier of this small castle is mainly the daughter river.

The water potential of the Nuerhe River is much greater than that of the Xiaoling River. Although it is not yet the flood season, the water in the Nuerhe River has risen a lot. The average depth has exceeded three meters, and the average width of the river is about 50 meters.The current is not too fast, but it is enough to protect half the sky of this small castle.

Nearly 20 years have passed since the Battle of Daling River. In this battle, Huang Taiji, the founder of the Qing Dynasty, changed the tactics of fierce attack and used the strategy of besieging the city and fighting for aid to the extreme.The Ming army was defeated in that battle. Zu Dashou, Zu Kefa, Liu Tianlu and many other famous generals of the Ming Dynasty surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.The most elite unit of the Ming army, the Guanning cavalry was destroyed, and part of it was incorporated by the Qing army and became the combat power of the Qing army.

Seven years later, Huang Taiji commanded the Eight Banners Army to launch the Songjin Battle. This battle lasted for four years and ended in the defeat of the Ming army. The most ironic minister of the Ming Dynasty, Hong Chengchou, also became the leader of the Qing army. captive.

After these two wars, the Qing government became more aware of the importance of Jinzhou's strategic position and stepped up the construction of fortifications. In addition to the three cities of Xingshan, Songshan and Tashan in Jinzhou, which are as solid as gold, on the outskirts of Jinzhou City, Fangyuan dozens of miles away.They built many fortifications. In addition to Ningyuan City in the south, there is the Naughty River, the Xiaoling River in the southwest, and the Heishan and Daling Rivers in the north.

The strongholds of these castles range from tens of thousands of troops to thousands of troops, forming the outermost barrier of Jinzhou City.

But now, with the defeat of Dorgon Shanhaiguan and the personal conquest of Emperor Shunzhi to Jinzhou, these strategic strongholds have increased their troops for defense. More than 3 people.

At this time, Li Zicheng led his cavalry to Yingzhou, which is today's Jianchang County, Liaoning Province.

Li Zicheng led the cavalry to spare Ningyuan. If he wanted to attack Jinzhou from here, he had to take the Quqing army's Xiaolinghe and Nuerhe castles.

There are many mountains and hills in this area. Li Zicheng and the others have already left the artillery and other heavy battalions far behind. In addition to his horse army of 5 expeditionary troops, the 2 yuan conscript special forces led by the imperial concubine Ma Jinhua are also under the command of Li Zicheng. , this team is not far from him.

Li Zicheng was eager to succeed, so of course he couldn't wait, he planned to take the two cities at the same time.Otherwise, if any one of them is concentrated, the other will attack their rear.Because the two castles of the Qing army are 30 miles apart, each of the castles has a Qing army of more than 2, with red cannons, strict defense, and strong strength.

Moreover, the distance between the two cities is very close to the infantry, not to mention the cavalry.

Therefore, after Li Zicheng's Ma Jinhua's special forces arrived, the 7 men and horses began to divide the troops and send generals. As for the artillery battalion, which was at least two days away from them, they did not wait any longer.

Li Zicheng divided the cavalry of the 5 expeditionary army into two, and let Liu Wenxiu and Ma Wannian lead 2 troops to attack Xiaolinghe.Li Zicheng and Lu Xiao led the remaining nearly 3 troops to attack the eldest daughter He.

At the same time, Ma Jinhua was asked to divide her 2 special forces into two. In fact, there are more than 3000 of the 3000 that Ma can use.One is 5000 white soldiers, the other is 9000 bow and arrow battalions, plus [-] musket battalions.For the rest, [-] engineering and demolition troops are temporarily unavailable.

马金华带着3000白杆兵和2000多名火枪营，配合刘文秀的2万人马攻打清军的小凌河，刚还带着3000弓箭营和2000多名火枪营，配合李自成的2万多人马攻打女儿河。

Since there was no artillery support, the casualties in the storm would definitely be huge. After discussing with Li Zicheng, Ma Jinhua and others, they adopted the strategy and tactics of feigning a frontal attack and letting the special forces play an important role.

In this way, the battles in the two places started at the same time.

The Ming army invested more than 6 troops in these two battlefields, and the Qing army invested more than 5 people in these two cities.

Li Zicheng's strategy really made the two cities unable to look at each other, but the Qing army's artillery fire in these two cities was very fierce, while the Ming army did not have red cannons at this time, and just let thousands of musket battalions form light firepower to carry out a feint attack. The Wanma team is behind and ready to charge at any time.

At this time, the archers and white soldiers were dispatched.

Special combat soldiers are equivalent to the special forces of later generations. They are specially designed to perform special tasks during wartime, which will be difficult for ordinary soldiers to complete.

Facing the fierce artillery fire on the Xiaolingcheng River, the firepower of the Ming army's musket battalion was suppressed.Naturally, the cavalry couldn't rush up.

But this is only on the surface, the 3000 white pole barracks under the command of Ma Jinhua has already circled to Qingfeng Ridge behind Xiaolinghe City.

This is a mountainous area, and ordinary troops can't go up at all.But for white soldiers who are best at fighting in the mountains, this is not a problem at all.

They hold the white guns in their hands, the hooks on the head and the rings on the tail are connected, just like having wings.Soon 3000 soldiers arrived on Qingfeng Ridge.

"Rush!" Ma Jinhua gave an order, and 3000 white soldiers descended from the tigers on the mountain and rushed into the castle of the Qing army.

For the 3000 men who fell from the sky, and more importantly, the prestige of the white-armed soldiers who made the Tartars fearful, the more than 2 Qing troops in the city completely collapsed.

　The second is delivered.In the past few days, there are inspections and busy farming.The update speed had to be slowed down.I don't know if I have time to update you tonight, please forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)