665 three defenses, strong attack on Jinzhou

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"How many firecrackers can be made here every day?" Huang Taiji frowned slightly and asked.

"Back to His Majesty the Emperor, if our workshop is at full capacity now, we can build about thirty firecrackers every day.

Mainly, there are too few tools that have just been built on our side, and there are too few skilled craftsmen and apprentices to continue to scale up production for the time being.

Unless we wait for a group of skilled craftsmen and apprentices to be trained, there is no hurry. ”

It has been more than a year since Abel came to Guanwai, and the high salary offered by Huang Taiji to him made him reluctant to leave.

And he is familiar with the style of these Tartars, and he is very respectful to all of them, otherwise they will cut off your head in anger, and you will have no place to reason.

"Thirty sticks a day, less than a thousand sticks a month, that's too slow.

Yaba, I will send you another thirty craftsmen and a hundred apprentices, and next month, you will increase the mass production of firecrackers to fifty per day.

If you can do it, I will reward you with fifty taels of gold. Huang Taiji said very proudly.

"Your Majesty, Abel will do his best."

As soon as he heard the gold, Abel's eyes flashed with gold, and he readily agreed to Huang Taiji.

And Huang Taiji also nodded slightly, he had already guessed Abel's performance, Huang Taiji knew that these overseas foreign devils liked those yellow and white things the most.

"Has there been progress in the development of new artillery?"

Immediately, Abel followed behind Huang Taiji, and their group slowly walked towards the camp to check the situation in the workshop.

"Back to Your Majesty, the Spaniard you found a few years ago has a really good level of cannon casting, and with his help, we have now created more cannon casting tools.

We have been able to produce twelve-pound guns, and now we are looking for ways to increase the speed of production, and the lack of skilled craftsmen is still there.

In addition, that Dutch dude, Clark, led people to build more than a dozen furnaces, which greatly improved the quality of iron smelting, so that we could support the casting of new artillery.

Now we can produce two or three new twelve-pounder guns a day, or five or six eight-pounder guns, and many more furlong machines. ”

Abel followed behind Huang Taiji, and said excitedly in a broken Chinese full of Hokkien accent to Huang Taiji.

Huang Taiji can understand Chinese, but he can't understand Barber's Chinese, and he still needs a translator next to him to translate it for him at all times.

"No, it's too slow, it looks like I need more craftsmen, more apprentices, more slaves."

Huang Taiji was not satisfied with the current production speed of their firearms, and spoke.

Immediately, Huang Taiji turned his head and said to a forty or fifty-year-old man next to him: "Xian Dou (Fan Wencheng's character), after I go back, let people send another batch of slaves from North Korea, and we need more manpower here."

From the north, too, word came that they had found some coal and iron ore in the deep woods there, and that it would take a lot of labor to extract them.

Let Dolgon bring another 50,000 slaves from Korea, young men and women, and send them to a new mine in the deep forests to the north. ”

Huang Taiji said as he spoke, Fan Wencheng respectfully followed behind and quickly wrote it down in his heart.

"Yes, the minion has already written it down, and I'll do it when I get back."

At this time, the Tartars lacked a population, especially after Huang Taiji decided to develop firearms, they needed mining and iron smelting, which were jobs that required a large number of people.

And last winter, Li Zixiao took away more than 100,000 people in the Zhenjiang area, and almost all the people west of the Yalu River.

In this way, the gap in the Tatar population has been exacerbated, which is one of the reasons why Huang Taiji will send troops to destroy North Korea after the year.

In the past two months, they have forcibly plundered more than 200,000 young men in Korea and brought them back to Kwantung to fill the population gap there.

After Huang Taiji incorporated North Korea into their territory, he did not plan to spend any more effort to operate vigorously there, after all, the Korean Peninsula is a bit far away.

At this time, Huang Taiji's focus was still on the area of Shenyang outside the Guan, so he asked Dolgon to continuously plunder the young and strong people from North Korea and bring them back to Guanwai.

Most of these Korean people who were brought back to the Tatar territory outside the Guanwai will be arranged to work in agriculture and grow grain, and some will be sent to mines for mining and iron smelting.

In the middle of May of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Dolgon led more than 20,000 Tartar men and horses to return from Korea, bringing back more than 100,000 people, leaving only a small number of troops stationed in Korea, for which he ruled.

For a period of time in the future, the Tatars will squeeze North Korea and supply themselves, and it is believed that the people there will live in misery for a period of time in the future.

After Dorgon crossed the Yalu River with his army, he had Duoduo return to Shengjing with the population, while he continued to lead his army to southern Liaoning.

At this time in southern Liaoning, the 10,000 Tartar army led by Zierharang, as well as more than 20,000 Han and Eight Banner troops, were stationed at Hongzui Fort, preparing to attack Jinzhou.

And Dolgon was not willing to accept the defeat last time, and this time he brought his troops over, ready to be disgraced.

If the Tartars wanted to attack Jinzhou, they could only attack from land, that is, they could only take the road of Jinzhou Isthmus, and as for the sea route, it was completely blocked by the White Dragon Army fleet.

The Tartars did not think of attacking Jinzhou by sea, and Huang Taiji sent people to sea several times after the year.

As a result, these ships that went to sea basically went and never returned, and all of them were sunk or captured by the White Dragon Army fleet patrolling the sea.

Only then did Huang Taiji realize that their idea of taking the sea route could basically be dispelled.

Moreover, in order to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of Li Zixiao's landing on the coast last winter, Huang Taiji ordered all the people near the coast outside the Guanxi to move 100 miles inward.

Therefore, at this time, near the coast outside the Guanwai, there were basically no people to be seen.

Unfortunately, Huang Taiji did not issue an attack on Jinzhou until June, when Geng Jingzhong again led 20,000 Han troops to arrive.

They also brought more than 3,000 guns and more than 100 artillery pieces, as well as orders from Huang Taiji to send Zilharang and Dolgon to attack Jinzhou.

At the same time, Huang Taiji also issued a summoning order to the Eight Banners of Tartars, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, and other armies of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

Huang Taiji was planning to enter the customs again to loot, he wanted to enter the customs to make a profit before he died, and Huang Taiji set this time in the autumn.

And before Huang Taiji entered the customs, he thought that he had to solve the hidden danger of Jinzhou first, otherwise when he sent troops to enter the customs and plunder again, he would leave a team of men and horses to guard Jinzhou's side.

"Haha, the emperor has finally come to order, this time the king must personally enter Jinzhou."

Dolgon had stayed at Fort Redmouth and had not returned to Shengjing, looking forward to participating in the assault on Golden State.

"Dolgon, I remind you that I am the commander of this battle, and you must obey my orders and not fight without permission."

Zilharang looked at Dorgon and said solemnly.

"I've got it."

Dolgon said lightly, he didn't have much respect for Zilharang, even if he was his cousin, because he was a member of Huang Taiji.

In the middle of June of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zilharang finally gave the order to launch an attack on Jinzhou.

Liu Chong and Zhou Dazhu mainly did not know that there were three lines of defense in Jinzhou, and the outermost line of defense was several fortresses in the Great Black Mountain.

These forts occupy a higher terrain and defend against the danger, blocking the north of Jinzhou City, and it is also an obstacle that the Tartars cannot bypass to attack Jinzhou.

The forts set up on these forts can even be directly hit outside the city of Golden State.

If you don't get rid of these fortresses on the Great Black Mountain first, when the Tartars attack Jinzhou City, they will always suffer from artillery fire from behind.

The second line of defense is Jinzhou City, which is located north of the Jinzhou Canal.

At this time, Jinzhou City, led by Li Sheng, was led by tens of thousands of people, and after several months of repair, it was taller and stronger than the original city wall.

As for the last line of defense, it is undoubtedly the Golden State Canal, which runs through the entire Golden State Isthmus, opens the bay, and divides the land in two.

Once the Great Black Mountain Fortress Group and Jinzhou City are all lost, then the Jinzhou Canal will be Liu Chong's last line of defense against the Tartars.

In the face of the Tartar army, Liu Chong has been eyeing the north side, and has never slackened, has been training soldiers and horses, and always guarding against the attack of the Tartars.

At this time, Liu Chong had more than 23,000 soldiers under his command, of which nearly 10,000 were the elite of the White Dragon Army, and the rest were soldiers of the city defense army.

Some of these horses were brought by Liu Zhong himself, some were sent by Li Zixiao later, and some were recruited and trained by them locally.

In general, Liu Chong only wanted to hold Jinzhou at this time, and 23,000 men and horses were more than enough.

On the other hand, this time, on the Tartar side, in order to take the Golden State in one fell swoop, it can be said that they have made a lot of money, in addition to the 10,000 red flag inlaid with Zilharang, there are also 20,000 people and horses with the white flag and white flag brought by Dolgon.

In addition, there are Geng Jingzhong and other Han troops, with more than 50,000 people, and the total strength has reached 80,000.

There is something strange about the fact that so many people and horses are gathered together just to attack a Golden State, and the Tartars are not good at attacking cities.

"The Tartars sent so many men? Why does it always feel wrong? ”

After Liu Chong received the news, this idea immediately popped into his mind.

But some of his subordinates also thought that maybe it was because the Tartars regarded them as a thorn in their side, and they had to be removed to feel at ease, so they sent so many men and horses to attack.

But Liu Chong always felt that this was not the case, but for a while Liu Chong couldn't think of anything wrong there, so he had to wait for the attack of the Tartars.

Boom Boom!

On June 20, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, fierce artillery rang out outside Jinzhou City, and the Tartars really chose to bypass the Great Black Mountain and attack Jinzhou City directly.

Moreover, as soon as the Tartars came this time, they directly used hundreds of artillery pieces to bombard Jinzhou City, and destroyed several forts on Jinzhou City as soon as they came up.

"What's going on? Where did the Tartars get so many artillery. For a while, even Liu Chong was a little blindsided.

There were 10,000 defenders in Jinzhou City, but fortunately, Liu Chong reacted in time and ordered the artillery to counterattack, and at the same time sent a message to the Great Black Mountain fortress group to let their artillery bombard the back of the Tartar army.

"Kill!"

On the day of the 20th, fierce shouts and killings resounded outside the city of Jinzhou, accompanied by fierce artillery fire and crackling gunfire.

This time, when the White Dragon Army was defending the city, it was rarely attacked by the musketeers of the Eight Banners of the Tartar Han from outside the city, and the musketeers on both sides appeared to shoot at each other.

This kind of confrontation scene was extremely difficult to see when the White Dragon Army fought against the Tartar Army in the past.

I have to say that although Geng Jingzhong's Han army musketeers are still equipped with bird guns, which belong to arquebuses.

But they are superior in numbers, and as soon as they come up, they can also shoot against the White Dragon Army musketeers in Golden State City for a few rounds.

However, after a noon battle between the two sides, the losses of the musketeers on the Tartar side were far greater than those on the side of the White Dragon musketeers.

However, the sacrifice of these musketeers of the Tartars successfully pinned down most of the musketeers in Jinzhou City and covered the siege of other Han soldiers.

From beginning to end, only Geng Jingzhong and other soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were besieging the city, and the Tartar army had never participated in the siege, and they themselves knew that they were not good at this kind of siege.

What's more, the Tartars will not allow their men to participate in this kind of siege war of attrition.

If they lose ten Han soldiers, they may not blink their eyes, but if they lose one Tartar soldier because of this, they will feel distressed for a long time.

The reason why Jierharang directly let Geng Jingzhong lead his troops, bypassed the Great Black Mountain, and directly attacked Jinzhou City, was that he didn't want to fight those turtle shells in the Great Black Mountain.

Zilharang personally led people to inspect the terrain of the Great Black Mountain, and he found that the five fortresses erected on the Great Black Mountain at this time were connected to each other to form a fortress group.

The last time Dolgon faced a fortress, he paid a heavy price, but he couldn't conquer it, and now the fortress group on the Great Black Mountain, Zilharang felt that if he really captured it, he couldn't do it without filling in tens of thousands of people.

Therefore, Zilharang decided to directly bypass the Great Black Mountain and directly attack Jinzhou City, hoping to surprise and quickly attack Jinzhou City.

But soon, Zilharang knew that his strategy had failed.

Geng Jingzhong's more than 20,000 men and horses, who launched a strong attack on Jinzhou, did not attack smoothly and suffered huge losses, and it was still difficult to attack Jinzhou City.

At this time, the Great Black Mountain Fortress Group behind them, with the advantage of the terrain, could directly use artillery to bombard the Tartars' camp a few miles outside the city of Jinzhou.

However, Geng Jingzhong was very helpful in this battle, and he received 3,000 guns and 100 artillery pieces, which provided them with strong fire support for the siege.

With the use of these firearms, the Han soldiers under Geng Jingzhong stormed Jinzhou, and the White Dragon Army also paid a lot of price.

But in the end, after three days of strong attack, Geng Jingzhong's men lost more than 3,000 people, damaged 500 guns, and more than 30 artillery pieces, but still failed to conquer Jinzhou.

And they couldn't bear it anymore, and they were always bombarded by the batteries of the Great Black Mountain fortress group behind them, and after seeing this situation, Zilharang sighed and asked Geng Jingzhong to withdraw his troops.

Immediately, Zilharang sent someone to send a piece of music to Huang Taiji, which read: "Jinzhou City is well defended, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

If we want to take Golden State City, we must pay at least 20,000 people, which will delay our plan to plunder in the fall.

Therefore, Weichen once again suggested that we give up the plan to storm Jinzhou City and besiege it instead. ”

Two days later, Shengjing City sent a herald to bring a letter from Huang Taiji to Jierharang, which read: "However, the plank road of Ming Xiu is dark. ”

(End of chapter)