470 is like a bamboo, take the initiative

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As half of the city wall was blown down, more than 30 Tartars and traitors in the city were killed by the way, all of whom did not have time to escape when the city wall fell.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still many people in Qingniwa City, Lu Yuan could have ordered his gunboats, concentrated firepower, and fired a few more salvos to destroy the entire Qingniwa Castle.

At that time, the White Dragon Army estimated that there was no need to send troops at all, and when the shelling was over, they would go directly to the ruins to count the corpses of the Tartars.

When Li Sheng led the white dragon soldiers to rush close to the green mud puddle, a group of Tartar cavalry, roaring angrily, rushed out from behind the collapsed city wall, brandishing broadswords.

"Prepare for the muskets! Put! Li Sheng shouted loudly.

These Tartar soldiers were greeted by rows of guns, the sound of crackling guns, the smoke of gunpowder rising, and the flintlock muskets firing lead bullets.

At this time, the musket team of the White Dragon Army cooperated more and more tacitly, which was the result of their thousands of drills.

After the musketeers in the first row finished firing, they would automatically retreat to the back, allowing the musketeers in the second row to step forward.

Three rows of musketeers stepped forward in a row, firing uninterrupted, ensuring uninterrupted fire.

Those fierce Tartar cavalry could not rush to the White Dragon Army at all, and they fell one after another.

There are really a lot of musketeers on the side of the White Dragon Army, more than 600 people.

And the Tartar cavalry of more than 100 people who rushed on the opposite side faced an overwhelming rain of lead bullets.

By the time they approached, they were all dead, and only a few unshot horses remained, dragging their master's corpse and running.

"Put away the gun, keep going, if you are not dead, remember to mend the knife!"

Li Sheng shouted loudly, and the musketeers put away their flintlock muskets and began to continue their march towards the castle of the green mud pool, which had been bombarded with a wall.

Along the way, whenever they saw a Tartar soldier who had been shot but had not yet smoked, they would use a dagger to replenish their swords to ensure the complete death of the enemy.

In the White Dragon Army, it is stipulated that when fighting in the Tartars, there is no need to take prisoners, and only the dead Tartars are good Tartars.

Next, Li Sheng led the infantry and musket team of the White Dragon Army through the gap in the collapsed city wall and entered the Qingniwa City, but no one intercepted them.

At this time, the original 200 Tartar soldiers in the green mud pool had basically all been killed after a burst of artillery bombardment and the killing of the musketeers just now.

The only thing left in the city is the 600 traitor soldiers, how can these traitor soldiers not be afraid of death.

Facing this invincible Ming army, they consciously dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground, begging for mercy.

Qingniwa was soon occupied by the White Dragon Army, and Lao Zixiao began to repair the city according to his previous plan, while pacifying the small number of people in the city.

Li Zixiao renamed Qingniwa City Liangang City, and began to design a new castle drawing, a Western-style fortress, which Li Zixiao named 'Crown Fortress'.

After the castle was built, it resembled the crown worn by the kings of the ancient West, hence the name.

This is a powerful new form of defense that evolves as artillery evolves.

Among them, the combination of Western-style forts and artillery is a very terrifying defense mode.

Compared with the original ordinary city fortress, this western fortress has a multi-angular fortress, with inclined embankments, moats, breastwork, concave forts, triangular forts, half-moon forts, hollow forts, solid forts, cantonment posts, middle embankments, hidden roads, etc.

The design idea of this fortress is to change the straight layout of the original city wall, reduce the blind spot of shooting, and increase crossfire.

Although the city of the Ming Dynasty is also set up with enemy platforms, there are still many blind spots in this kind of enemy fortress compared to the sharp corners.

And this new type of fortress has more edges and corners, so that there are no blind spots, and the cross fire is stronger, and the slope paved outside the outer city wall is more conducive to the shooting of shells and firearms.

Moreover, coupled with the existence of triangular forts, half-moon forts, solid forts and hollow forts, they perfectly form a set of three-dimensional defensive fortresses.

The difference in height is more conducive to artillery fire, and such a castle, even if there is a gap, has a stronger defensive ability.

Concealed roads and cantonment stations were bunkers for infantry before counterattacks.

In order to prevent the enemy's longitudinal fire, there are many horizontal walls in the concealed road, and the outermost inclined embankment is the most dense place for crossfire, and its inclination angle also helps the defender's firepower to play.

The whole fortress should be built with masonry as much as possible, and if for some reason it is necessary to use masonry, then the outside should be covered with thick soil.

Because the soil layer can absorb energy, the masonry is not only easy to damage, but also prone to ricochet, causing serious casualties.

When new artillery appeared, the original wall defense system became more and more weak, and new fortresses also came into being.

Now in Daming, it is estimated that no one has used this Western-style castle, and Li Zixiao is the first person to eat crabs.

"Then build this 'crown fortress' between the port and the port city, and you can take care of both sides. At the same time, the warship can also support the defense of the fortress city when necessary. ”

After thinking about it, Li Zixiao decided.

In the end, Li Zixiao still chose to separate the city of Liangang from the fortress.

However, in order to enhance the city's defense, when repairing the city wall, it is still possible to improve the city wall slightly, and build a wave-shaped city wall to improve the defense of the city wall.

"General, what to do with the more than 400 traitor soldiers who have been captured?" Li Sheng came over and asked.

"Needless to say, sift through it, the heinous ones were cut down, and the ordinary traitors were left, all of whom were left to serve five years of hard labor.

Now we need manpower to restore Liangang City and build a castle, and these are all free labor, so let them pay for it.

This is the fate of their defection to the Tartars, and the Tartars will not be taken prisoner on the battlefield in the future, as for these traitor soldiers who can not kill them, they will be counted as our Ming people after all.

All the traitor soldiers captured in the future will be beheaded if they commit extremely heinous crimes, and they will all be beheaded if they have the lives of our Ming people in their hands.

The rest were sent to the mines, or to the construction site, for a minimum of five years, and when the time was up, they were given their freedom. ”

Li Zixiao sneered and said, he had already thought about how to deal with these traitors, and he would not tolerate the most heinous crimes, and punish those who were not responsible.

Just when Li Zixiao led people to take the Qingniwa, in the north, Liu Chong left a thousand city defense troops to garrison after breaking through Jinzhou.

Subsequently, he took 5,000 soldiers of the 'Zhenliao' army to continue north, and two days later, broke through Hongzui Fort, and then left another 1,000 city defense troops, and marched west with 4,000 soldiers, and went straight to Yongning.

At this time, Geng Zhongming had already fled to Yongning City with a group of routed soldiers.

At the same time, Geng Zhongming also told the Tartar guard Danzak of Yongning the news that Jinzhou was attacked and captured by the Ming army.

In Geng Zhongming's description, Jinzhou encountered an attack by tens of thousands of Ming troops three days ago, and more than 100 artillery salvos directly smashed their city walls and killed them.

In the end, Geng Zhongming led people to fight bloodily, but his troops were insufficient, so he had to temporarily withdraw from Jinzhou and flee to Yongning.

However, after listening to Geng Zhongming's words at first, Yongning's Tartar guard Danzak didn't believe it at all.

What hundreds of cannons, what tens of thousands of Ming soldiers and horses, how could they appear in Jinzhou? Could it be that the Ming army put on their wings and flew over.

"The Ming army that attacked Jinzhou this time had at least tens of thousands of horses, fortunately, most of them were infantry, not many cavalry, but there were many cannons, all of which were thousands of catties of cannons like Hongyi cannons.

There were also a large number of musketeers, who came from the south, and the king guessed that they probably landed in Lushun and then attacked Jinzhou.

His Majesty's previous letter reminded him that most of the people who landed in Lushun this time were the Ming troops under Li Zixiao.

They set off from Yangzhou and arrived in Lushun by boat. ”

Geng Zhongming finally found Zachdan and gave him a serious analysis.

Because Geng Zhongming had Huang Taiji's letter in his hand, Zachdan had to listen to him patiently.

In the end, after listening to Geng Zhongming's words, Zachdan carefully analyzed it, and there was still this possibility, which shocked him beyond measure.

Zakdan led a section of the Tartar Blue Banner, Zakdan was also a Tartar third-class Lazhangjing, since Cheng Tartar captured the Liaodong Peninsula, he was responsible for leading his troops to guard Yongning.

At this time, in the city of Yongning, there were more than 2,000 people stationed in the city of Yongning, including two Niulu Tartars with blue flags, three Niulu Mongolian soldiers, and more than 2,000 people from the Korean and Han armies, adding up to more than 3,000 horses.

If it weren't for, some time ago, Huang Taiji ordered the transfer of troops from the entire Liaodong Peninsula, and half of the troops in Yongning City were transferred, and there were more garrisons in Yongning City before.

Because, Yongning was originally an important city for the Tartars to defend the Liaodong Peninsula, and it was the city with the most garrisons of the Tartars on the Liaodong Peninsula.

The defense of the Tatars on the Liaodong Peninsula was mainly concentrated in the three states of Jinzhou, Yongning and Gaizhou.

Among them, the southernmost is Jinzhou, that is, Geng Zhongming's subordinates, this time Liu Chong raided Jinzhou, Geng Zhongming was completely unprepared, so Jinzhou easily changed hands.

"Don't worry, adults, Li Zixiao's Ming army is just relying on the benefits of guns and firearms.

Let's not let them take it easy, go to the city to set up a formation, fire artillery to attack the city, let's take the initiative to kill it, and intercept and kill halfway. ”

After listening to Geng Zhongming's words, a Tartar Niu Lu Zhangjing proposed loudly.

Niu Lu Zhangjing, another Mongolian soldier, also nodded in agreement: "Minggou's cannon is indeed sharp, but as far as I know, Minggou's cannon is heavy and difficult to transport, and every time before using the cannon, you have to prepare for half a day."

We rode quickly and ambushed them halfway, and when the cannon of the Ming Dog could not be used in time, it was close to our light horse, and the Ming Dog was not vulnerable at all. ”

"Well said, to deal with these bright dogs, you have to take the initiative......"

A group of Mongol and Tatar generals under Zakdan, you didn't take the White Dragon Army too seriously.

In their opinion, didn't the Ming army rely on the advantage of artillery? But the cannons are dead, and their cavalry can restrain them.

In the end, Zachdan was also moved, and instead of passively sitting in the city and waiting for the Ming army to attack, it was better to ambush halfway.

"Okay, let these bright dogs see the ability of our warriors to ride and shoot." Zachdan shouted as he slapped the table.

Immediately, he gathered 1,500 Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry, personally led the attack, and let Geng Zhongming stay in Yongning, and they galloped out of Yongning.

Zachdan did not participate in the battle led by Dolgon the year before last, and never fought against Li Zixiao's White Dragon Army.

Although, after Dolgon returned, Huang Taiji became wary of Li Zixiao and his White Dragon Army, but it was only from the vigilance of the Tartar high-level.

For a low-level Tartar general like Zakdan, and he is also the kind of Tartar general who is stationed in Yongning, he has never treated Li Zixiao's White Dragon Army differently at all.

In Zachdan's eyes, Li Zixiao's Ming army is no different from the previous Ming army, and the artillery in his hand is more powerful, and the rest is nothing.

The artillery of the Ming army back then was also sharp, but after those iron bumps were close to their light horses, they were completely wasted and useless.

Even, even Geng Zhongming at this time did not block Zachdan's initiative to attack.

In fact, the night before, Liu Chong's capture of Jinzhou was so fast that he didn't even see the White Dragon Army.

I only heard a burst of artillery and crackling sounds, and then I was escorted by my soldiers and escaped from Golden State.

Therefore, he didn't know how powerful the soldiers of the White Dragon Army were, and he didn't see the musketeers under the White Dragon Army, so he didn't stop Zachdan's battle.

If Geng Zhongming had seen the White Dragon Army's platoon guns firing with his own eyes, he would definitely have stopped Zakdan's battle this time.

At this time, Liu Chongzheng led 4,000 soldiers of the 'Zhenliao' army, the main force that was the 'trapped camp' under him, to Yongning.

Soon, the vanguard sentinel sent by Liu Chong reported urgently, and the Tartar soldiers and horses were found ahead.

"Report, general, urgent military situation, the enemy has been found in the front, about fifteen hundred people, all cavalry, judging from the banner, there are all over Mongolia."

A White Dragon Army sentry, urgent report.

"Hey, the Tartars in Yongning City, they still dare to go out of the city to fight? Who gave him confidence? General, didn't say anything, eat this group of Tartars who don't know the height of the sky. ”

Liu Zhong was next to him

Liu Chong also smiled at the soldiers around him and said, "Since everyone is here, let's treat them well." The order was given, the infantry and cavalry formed formation, and the artillery was in position. ”

Zakdan originally wanted to go out of the city to ambush, but Liu Zhong was known for his steadiness and prudence in the White Dragon Army.

If the people who led the troops this time were replaced by Luo Chao or Qi Wei, they would kill Yongning as quickly as possible at this time, and it was estimated that they had already arrived at Yongning City at this time.

And after Liu Chonghui arranged all the affairs of Jin and Hongzui Fort, he cautiously led his troops to Yongning, and did not relax his vigilance at all.

Whether it was marching or garrisoning, he would send scouts and scatter far away, keeping an eye on any disturbances.

It is precisely because of Liu Chong's cautious style that it is very difficult to sneak attack him.

(End of chapter)