Chapter 624: My Eight Banners Are the Master
Dai Shan said, "King Khan, there is a saying among the Han people, "I'm going to kill the master with random punches."
Maybe Zhang Jiuyan won’t fight at all. He just relied on his own life and knew that we wouldn’t dare to exchange it with him.”
Huang Taiji was stunned when he heard this. It took him a long time to react.
Huang Taiji suddenly realized the truth and said with a smile: "No, not bad, that's it, that's it.
Zhang Jiuyan is not old and has never led his troops to fight alone. Before becoming a high-ranking official, he was a bandit. What skills could he have?
And his family is so poor that who can teach him how to do it?
He is just lucky, he just has the ruthlessness of life than ordinary people. If he doesn't have this ruthlessness, he is a waste."
Huang Taiji laughed wildly and finally burst into tears because he knew that Zhang Jiuyan was such a person, and he now understood.
But the more he understood, the more he felt powerless and helpless.
Because even though he knew this, he had no way to deal with Zhang Jiuyan. It was really difficult for him to use the fate of Jin Kingdom to bet against a lunatic.
At this time, Huang Taiji only felt that he was even more depressed than when he didn't understand it at first.
Yes, Huang Taiji really has no way to deal with Zhang Jiuyan.
On several occasions, Huang Taiji planned to attack Zhang Jiuyan on his own, and ordered people to go out from other city gates to detour the flanks of Zhang Jiuyan's army.
At that time, you can attack on both sides or even attack on three sides.
But unfortunately, this plan won't work when it is implemented.
Because Zhang Jiuyan's Mingjun did nothing all day long, he just digged ditches.
The Ming army not only digs around Shenyang City, but also digs along its own camps. The situation was like digging Shenyang City and its own Ming army camp into small islands.
Could it be that Zhang Jiuyan, isn’t he afraid that the Eight Banners will use these ditches to surround him?
Huang Taiji couldn't understand this question for a while.
However, because these ditches are both deep and wide, Huang Taiji's idea of attacking the Ming army's flanks was finally ruined.
Is this really the case?
Of course, Zhang Jiuyan would not dig his camp into a small island. Zhang Jiuyan did this just to prevent it.
Dig open the two sides of yourself, leaving only the front and back, and set up suspension bridges on the ditches on both sides.
In this way, the Ming army can advance and retreat freely. If the Eight Banners want to attack themselves, the difficulty will increase by several times.
In addition to strengthening defense, Zhang Jiuyan also had another consideration, which was to save troops.
By doing this, Zhang Jiuyan could concentrate more troops in the frontal struggle with the Tartars to achieve a strong comparative advantage.
Unlike Huang Taiji, although he has 300,000 people in his hand, he is comparable to Zhang Jiuyan's soldiers.
However, there were only a few hundred thousand mobile people that Huang Taiji could use, and the rest had to protect the city gates on all sides to avoid being attacked by the Ming army.
Now that he has fought several times, Huang Taiji has suffered a considerable loss, with 50,000 or 60,000 casualties, and now he still has about 300,000 troops in his hands.
More than 5,000 people were killed or injured by Zhang Jiuyan.
Judging from the numbers alone, Huang Taiji fought against Zhang Jiuyan's 400,000 with 300,000, which seemed to have a small difference in strength.
Chapter completed!