Chapter 299: A Fortress Broken from the Inside
Then let's talk about Shenyang City.
When he received the news that Shenyang City was under siege, Yuan Yingtai immediately mobilized men and horses to help.
This is to say that the Shenyang garrison general He Shixian and You Shigong are two 'fierce generals', it is said that these two closed the city gate and guarded the city gate after sending a request for help to Yuan Yingtai, the lord of Jinglu.
They didn't like it, after the chief soldier He Shixian, who loved to drink, sent a request for help, the first thing he did was to roll up his sleeves and carry a machete to take the lead and charge out of the city with a thousand elite cavalry under his command to cut people.
Why is the chief soldier so violent? Why is it so different from the painting style of the Ming army generals who talked about the color change of the Eight Banners later?
This is to say that after Salhu, Xiong Tingbi, who was urgently activated, was really powerful, and after his careful management, the total strength of the Ming army in Liaodong had reached 160,000, not 100,000 people of Yuan Yingtai.
Yuan Yingtai reported to the court that there were 100,000 before, but after he came, it increased to 180,000, which was to belittle others and elevate himself.
Xiong Tingbi left behind 160,000 people, and the troops he made himself were only 20,000, and most of them were enemy vests.
Xiong Tingbi's strategy towards Nurhachi has always been to 'look south and north, sit and turn around', stick to the central castle, and build small cities everywhere, step by step compress the living space of the Jin soldiers, and trap and block Nurhachi.
During this period, he expected that Nurhachi would definitely break out of the cage and fight him in order to survive, so it just so happened that I would wait for you in the fortified city.
This strategy and tactic is considered to be the smartest and most effective of all the strategies and tactics in the struggle for the strategic initiative with the Eight Banners.
Later, Sun Yuanhua, Mao Wenlong, and Yuan Chonghuan did a good job, but they were not lower risk and more time-efficient than Xiong Tingbi's ambush on all sides.
You come and go, Nurhachi attacks from all sides, Xiong Tingbi is surrounded on three sides, Nurhachi saw that his tactics could not be cheapened, so he changed the attack from all sides to a focused attack.
Hehe, how does it sound like a civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party? Even the location of the battlefield is similar.
During Xiong Tingbi's tactical advance, He Shixian was one of the important executors.
He also repelled Nurhachi's first assault on Shenyang City and Fengji Fort after the Jin army adjusted its tactics.
In the battle, He Shixian led the Shenyang defenders to fight with Nurhachi in the field 20 miles east of the city, and finally the Eight Banners Army was defeated and retreated 15 miles.
The location of twenty miles east of Shenyang City is probably not far from the present-day Shenyang Dongling.
If history had not been undisturbed, Shenyang Dongling would have buried Taizu Nurhachi and Empress Tong Chunxiu.
However, after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he changed the first empress to his biological mother, Yehenara.
It's far away, let's talk about He Shixian, he and his partner You Shigong are both from the Qin army, and the Qin army mentioned here is a generational military household between the two of them from Yulin, Shaanxi, and the two are fellow villagers.
There is no information to show that he was Xiong Tingbi's ten commanders in charge of the reinforcements, and most of the history of the late Ming Dynasty was modified by the later literary prison, and many of them had to rely on the comprehensive analysis of the diaries of various Ming people in their hands.
However, He Shixian should be one of the commanders of the reinforcement army, and You Shigong was promoted to the chief soldier after Yuan Yingtai took office, and he is definitely not one of the ten general soldiers.
That's speculation.
Speaking of He Shixian, under Xiong Tingbi's tactics of building the city on all sides and taking the battalion step by step, soon after, the Jin army was led by Huang Taiji to arrive in the east of Shenyang with four banners on the right wing: Zhenghuang, Zhenghong, inlaid red, and inlaid blue.
Dai Shan and Amin led the left wing: Zheng Bai, Huang Mosa, Bai Mosa, and Zheng Lan to the north of the city.
He Shixian sent troops to fight in the north of the city again, killed 200 enemies, the eight banners retreated, and He Shixian returned victorious.
The two small victories paralyzed He Shixian, and he didn't realize that once Jin Bing realized that the fighter plane was not big, the battle would only be an attempt.
And this time, people think that the opportunity has come, not to fight with you, but to swallow Shenyang City and you He Shixian and You Shigong himself in one bite.
The two generals of the world's generation are definitely worthy of admiration, but they are not keenly aware of the changes in the situation of the battle.
According to Manchu records, the Jin army attacked Shenyang City three times, and He Shixian fought in the east of Shenyang City for the first time, killing eighty-nine enemies, and people even remember the single digits.
The second battle was fought in the north of Shenyang, killing 200 enemies.
This third time, He Shixian did not kill 200 enemies, but lost 1,000 himself.
The 1,000 men and horses he brought out were lured farther away, and then ambushed, and when the brave general soldier fled back to the west gate of Shenyang, the officers and soldiers defending the city were shocked to find that the chief soldier had been hit by fourteen arrows.
Besides, after receiving He Shixian's request for help, Yuan Yingtai dispatched all kinds of troops to help Shenyang.
At that time, the garrison of Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua was not in Liaoyang, but in Huangshan.
This Yellow Mountain is not the Yellow Mountain that you don't look at when you return. It is said that it is a hundred miles east of Liaoyang City, without verification, but the author himself often travels in Liaoyang and Anshan generation, and guesses that this Yellow Mountain should be part of a thousand mountains.
A scenic spot in Qianshan is indeed called Little Yellow Mountain, and the scenery is pleasant.
In addition to the speculation of geographical distance, there are two other bases for this speculation: when Xue Rengui of the Tang Dynasty conquered Goguryeo, he had stationed troops nearby.
After the defeat of the Qing army in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the Japanese army invaded the northeast, and part of the northeast Qing army also retreated to the dangerous defense here.
Tong Zhonghua's 20,000 reinforcements set out from Huangshan and walked a hundred miles, and the journey to Liaoyang and then to Shenyang was also more than a hundred miles, but this support army was the first to arrive.
However, no matter how fast Tong Zhonghua arrived at the battlefield, he was not as fast as Shenyang City was lost.
On March 10, the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi made up his mind to start sending troops to attack Shenyang.
It took a day to prepare siege equipment, a day to march and walk, and then it took a day to break the city.
Does this make people cry or laugh?
Let me cry three times and laugh three times.
Besides, Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua, who were walking on the road to Shenyang, were stunned when they learned that the tall and sturdy Shenyang City had been conquered in just one day.
Friends who have been to the Shenyang Forbidden City should find that the imperial city walls of Shenyang City are more than ten zhang high, and there are almost six or seven floors by sight.
Although it was the Qing city wall of two generations of emperors, the Ming Dynasty city wall of Shenyang City was also high enough and strong.
But no matter how strong the fortress is, it can't withstand being breached from the inside, so Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce have the heart to retreat.
Since the city is broken, then rescue a fart?
Even if it is a retreat, there is nothing wrong with it, but here we have to talk about the role of one person, this person yelled at the two commanders, demanding that they must be defeated.
It is said that the commander-in-chief has spoken about withdrawing his troops, so why are there still different opinions below?
Then it must be said that although Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce are the chief soldiers, they basically do not have many of their own soldiers to general, and the commands under their control are the strongest armies of the Ming Dynasty.