Chapter 544: The Temple of the Prairie Jackal: The Defeat of Guangning (7)
The land of Shalingyi in early spring was particularly wet. The nest car used by the Jurchens to attack the Shalingyi City Wall was driven slowly on some muddy land with more than twenty flag guards. As the guard of Shalingyi, Wang Yiquan carefully observed every step of the siege of the nest car. The Jurchens' nest car was well-made, with cowhide covered with cowhide and thick mud on the cowhide, which indicates that the Jurchens were not afraid of the defenders' fire attack on the nest car. Wang Yiquan knew that generally using nest car to attack the city was prepared for a long-term battle for the attacking side, but looking at the Jurchens' siege, it seemed that this speculation was a bit reluctant.
At this moment, Mangui sent someone to send an urgent report. Wang Yiquan opened it and saw that it was a warrant for him to withdraw his troops after dark. Wang Yiquan was a little confused at the time. He looked up and saw that the sky had reached the hour of You, which was not far from the time given by General Mangui. Wang Yiquan looked at the city wall again, and the five siege siege chariots followed by about two thousand armored Jurchen Tartars. He silently calculated that it would take half an hour for the Tartars to reach the city wall.
While Wang Yiquan ordered the transfer of wounded soldiers to the north, he ordered the city guards to prepare to throw all the remaining "*" to the enemy's nest cart. But the more Wang Yiquan thought, the less he felt something was wrong. After a while, Wang Yiquan realized that the soldiers behind the Jurchen Tartars nest cart did not bring a ladder to siege the city. This strange action made Wang Yiquan even more uneasy. Even if the ladder approached the city wall, it would not immediately hollow out the wall base. At least it had to use the ladder to siege the city to cover the ladder.
Anomaly is a monster. As a veteran guarding the city, Wang Yiquan instantly focused his attention on the one, with the shell of the nest car without the siege hammer on all sides. As the nest car gradually approached, Wang Yiquan urgently thought about a solution to the problem. Soon after, a cold sweat broke out on Wang Yiquan's forehead in the cold air. He thought of a terrible guess. The Pou Nu Army used a decisive battle chariot to explode the north wall of Xiping Fort, and Wang Yiquan was on the scene. If the Jurchens learned the Pou Nu Army to make the Nest Car, the city wall on the south side of Shalingyi would be in an instant.
Wang Yiquan had no artillery that could be fired from afar. When the Jurchens built Shaling Post, the focus of the trench construction was on the north side, and the trench on the south side was not deep. The Jurchens had already built several passages with wooden boards during the attack just now. Given that there was no feasible solution, Wang Yiquan could only send someone to inform Mangui of his guess and threw firewood under the city wall. At this time, the Jurchen archers who were covering the siege of the city again tapped the bow and arrow, aiming at the Ming army that threw firewood on the city wall, but the Ming army also learned the skill. They threw firewood down behind the wall without revealing half of the head. The Ming army's emergency measures also left the Jurchen archers helpless.
At this moment, the Ming army threw out several burning pots under the city wall, and instantly ignited the fire under the city wall. The raging fire rose several meters high with the heat, which made the Jurchen siege troops twenty meters away feel fear. As Wang Yiquan expected, the Jurchens who were good at learning in war learned a lot of practical tactics from their opponents Po Nu Army. One of the siege nest cars sent by Huang Taiji was filled with 500 kilograms*, and they wanted to blow up the Shalingyi City Wall.
However, the firewall created by the Ming Dynasty's city guarding official army blocked the way of Chaoche, especially the Jurchen flag Ding who was carrying the * Cangchao car, knew the dangers and did not dare to move forward again. Huang Taiji was furious when he saw the Cangchao stop. The shouts behind Shaling Post were shocked. Huang Taiji guessed that the Ming Dynasty's official army had entangled the Yellow Banner Warriors, otherwise there would not be such a big move. If the siege troops led by him could not take down the Shaling Post Castle as soon as possible, once the Jurchen Yellow Banner Warriors here were completely wiped out, he would lose Dorgon, his ally.
Huang Taiji immediately issued an order, and the other nest trucks stopped moving forward. The nest truck loaded with * would push it to the wall of Shaling Yicheng, no matter what, the lazy warrior died! Huang Taiji's murderous order made the paused nest truck push forward again. However, when the nest truck was about to arrive under the city wall, the flames ignited the * in the nest truck, and a huge explosion inevitably occurred. Although this huge explosion peeled off the bricks outside the Shaling Yicheng wall, it did not blow up a section of the wall.
Huang Taiji felt a little incredible about this result. Why is the "death-death" chariot made by the grassland jackal wolve so powerful? The nest chariot he made is so much different. Although the Pou Slave Army's "death-death" chariot is thick overall, it contains mystery. This mechanism is the medicine leak hole of the chariot. The weakest part of the Pou Slave Army's "death-death" chariot is the front end of the chariot. The impact force of the chariot explodes first acts on the front end of the chariot, which can maximize the destructiveness of the wall.
The Jurchens did not know how to investigate things and did not respect craftsmen. The nest car explosion they made could only reach 10% of the power of the "decisive" chariot of the Slave Army. Despite this, the nest car explosion destroyed at least the bricks of the castle's outer wall, which was more than 40 meters long, and swept away the fire wall fifty meters wide. Both sides of the warring parties were stunned by the big explosion. The first thing they realized was the Ming army defending the city. Although many of their soldiers were stunned by the explosion, they saw the benefits of Wang Yiquan's use of the fire wall to resist the Jurchen attack.
Wang Yiquan issued an order without any use. All the soldiers guarding the city hurried the Ming army once again threw firewood under the city wall. The once vicious Jurchen archers were now stunned by the explosion of the nest car ignited by their own people and no longer posed a threat to the Ming army on the city wall. Taking this opportunity, they quickly transported wood from behind the city wall, and all the houses in the entire Shalingyi were demolished by the Ming generals. When the fire wall burned under the Shalingyi castle again, Huang Taiji was filled with helplessness and unwillingness, which also allowed Huang Taiji to see the unyielding side of the Ming army.
However, the battle between Mangui and Zhao led the sect to annihilate the Jurchen Yellow Banner infantry was extremely difficult. The Guanning Iron Cavalry did not disperse the crescent formation of the Yellow Banners several times. Although the Ming border army had cavalry to assist in the battle, the infantry was still no match for the Jurchens. Although the three-eyed guns in the Ming army were close to shooting the Jurchen Tartars formation, killing and injuring countless Jurchen Tartars, the power of the three-eyed guns was limited, and a distance of ten feet might not be able to penetrate the front of the Jurchen military formation.
As the strongest warrior of Jurchen, the outer swaying swaying is coated with iron armor and lined with leather armor and cotton armor. The Ming army's three-eyed gun can only tear the Jurchen's outer armor apart but cannot penetrate it. The three-eyed gun can only shoot for one round on the battlefield, and it is impossible to reload it on the battlefield again. Fortunately, the three-eyed gun can be used as an iron hammer after shooting. The fired musket soldiers raised the musket and smashed the Jurchen Tartars. Although the Jurchen's toothing warriors broke their ribs by the three-eyed gun, they gritted their teeth and swung their swords to fight against the Ming army's infantry.
The fierce performance of Jurchens swaying teeth instantly hit the fragile mentality of the Ming army's infantry. Facing the wolf-like and tiger-like Jurchen soldiers, they were gradually forced back by the Jurchens. Looking at the increasingly unfavorable battle situation, Mangui transferred from the rear to monitor the two thousand cavalry on Dujiatun Mountain Road. What Mangui thought in his heart was that he would not seek to completely annihilate the enemy troops, but only to defeat them. At least this would leave a safe retreat for the Ming army in Shalingyi.
Since Dorgon took over Dujiatun Post, he has been thinking about the battle soldiers of the banner led by Tu Lai. The Yellow Banner of the Eight Jurchen Banners was the second only to the Zhenghuang Banners, and since they were divided by several brothers, the vitality of the Yellow Banners was greatly damaged. This time, the main force of the Yellow Banners led by Tu Lai was a little short. He didn't know when Dorgon would wait for his comeback. Therefore, when Dorgon took down Dujiatun without a single soldier, the first thing he did was to take two thousand infantry soldiers to take over Tu Lai.
Unexpectedly, Dorgon received a scout before he left the mountainous area, and the two thousand cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were at the exit of the mountain road. This news made Dorgon very depressed. Even if the Ming border army was unable to fight, his two thousand infantry might not be the opponent of the cavalry. What's more, this is the most elite cavalry in Liaodong, Guanning Iron Cavalry. Dorgon did not dare to fight head-on with the Ming border army, and could only hide in the mountains and wait for an opportunity.
It was not until Mangui was unable to capture the Jurchen Yellow Banner led by Tu Lai for a long time, and transferred the Guanning Iron Cavalry that monitored the Dujiatun Mountain Road that gave Dorgon a chance. Dorgon, who walked out of the mountain road, did not immediately issue an attack order and he had to wait for the opportunity. Dorgon had a unique vision. As soon as he left the mountain pass, he noticed that the Ming Dynasty had left the camp on the northwest of Shaling Post. There was no need to think too much about it. This must be the Ming army's military camp to meet Shaling Post. Dorgon also heard the sound of killing that was trembling ten miles away. This must be the bloody battle of the border troops led by Tu Lai against the Ming border.
Although the shouts of war between the two sides could be heard, the dark sky made Dorgon unable to understand the situation on the battlefield. For this reason, Dorgon prepared to lead troops to attack this camp in the northwest of the Ming army, and adopted the strategy of besieging Wei to rescue Zhao to prompt the Ming border troops to withdraw their troops. Dorgon, who had a firm plan, quietly touched the edge of the camp with two thousand infantry invaders of Huangqi. Dorgon led the way into the camp from the west of the camp. The Ming official army in the camp was already attracted by the Shalingyi battlefield and did not notice the enemy attacking from behind.
In addition, it was dark, and the Ming army did not realize until the Jurchen soldiers approached the camp that the sentry had just sounded the gong to warn, and was shot through the throat by a wolf-tooth arrow. Although the underprepared Ming army received the order of alert, they were then given the order to evacuate. The overlapping of the two orders and fear of the Jurchen army made the Ming army's officers and soldiers focus all the attention on the order to evacuate the battlefield. Under the escort of one hundred Baiboyala warriors, Dorgon disrupted the Ming army camp while setting fire to attract the Ming army on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!