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Dorgon personally led Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and Ajige to Ningyuan, with a total of 60,000 troops. The first thing he did was to drive Haoge back to Shanhaiguan.

As expected, Jirgalang transferred Haoge to Ningyuan to plan a counterattack against Juehua Island, but he was lucky that he had taken a step earlier. Dorgon said with a secret hope.

The sea outside Ningyuan City has been completely frozen, and the white sea ice leads directly to the island not far away. After testing, the cannons can be unobstructed on the ice surface, and the solid ice surface is enough to withstand the bombardment of heavy artillery. The shells can only leave a white mark on the ice surface and cannot be penetrated at all.

Just as Li Xin set foot on the coast of Tianjin, Dorgon organized a large army to leave Ningyuan City, rectify the formation, and launch a general attack on Juehua Island.

Ajige was not the banner leader, but Dorgon temporarily gave him some of the two yellow flags, totaling 100 Niulu, 30,000 troops, and 10,000 Mongolian Eight Banners and 20,000 Han Army Eight Banners.

"Brother, I'll give it to you for this battle."

Dorgon bowed.

"ha!"

Azigha smiled: "Second brother, don't worry, if you are on the flat ground, the thief can still bury landmines, but how can he bury mines on the ice? This time, I will let my elder brother get back more than 10,000 heads for you, and it will be a shame to the city of Beijing!"

Dorgon felt uncomfortable when he heard this. Since Huang Taiji died, Ajige gradually showed his arrogant side. This is why Dorgon did not dare to keep Ajige in Shenyang and had to keep him with him.

He was worried that he would not be able to control Ajige. Now he was surrounded by enemies and could not have any more trouble.

Relatively speaking, Duoduo is his younger brother and is easier to control.

"It depends on my brother!"

Dorgon did not show dissatisfaction with Ajige, but just smiled slightly.

"Beat the drum!"

Azig waved his hand violently.

"Dong!"

"Dong!"

"Dong!"

The thick cowhide drums were beating heavily, arousing countless sea birds.

The Eight Banners of the Qing army were united with Niulu, with the chariot formation beginning with gunners and infantry and cavalry accompanying. The Eight Banners of the Han army were mainly artillery and confuseways, parallel to the Eight Banners, and the left and right wings were Mongolian cavalry.

Dorgon did not dare to despise the enemy army at all. He prepared for a wave of horizontal push, and the ice surface was wide and there was no cover. Many tactics and tactics were not used, so he could only attack and fight hard.

Sixty thousand people walked forward on the ice, like a black line.

On Juehua Island, the artillery of the warships had been dismantled and placed on all sides of the island along the mountain. There were thousands of artillery guns. The ships were behind the island, frozen and solid.

Chen Yongfu and Xu Kai both raised their telescopes and observed the Qing army formation.

"Hey!"

Chen Yongfu suddenly smiled: "Dorgon has never fought on the ice, so he thought it was too simple."

"Oh? Could it be that General Chen has experience in ice combat?"

Xu Kai was puzzled.

Both of them were surrendered generals of the Ming army and they still had a common language. Before surrendering to Li Xin, Chen Yongfu had resisted Li Zicheng's three attacks and opened the seal. He had rich experience and command in the battle. He also shot Li Zicheng with an arrow, and was even more famous. Compared with this, Xu Kai was nothing. He himself knew that the only reason for being the commander of the Shanghai Army was that he surrendered to Li Xin earlier, and he was the type of Mingzhu who was the type of man. It happened that he was the admiral of the navy. All kinds of luck made him reach this point.

Therefore, Xu Kai did not dare to be arrogant in front of Chen Yongfu.

Chen Yongfu nodded and said, "General Xu, the ice surface is uneven and difficult to move. The Qing army is walking very slowly on the ice surface. It takes at least one and a half hours to set out in the cold wind to travel twenty miles of ice surface. After arriving at the battlefield, it takes less than half an hour to rectify the formation before attacking. In other words, the Qing army will take as fast as two hours to launch an attack.

If the Qing army could not conquer Juehua Island in one battle, then he had to consider returning to the camp before dark, and then counting the time to return, they had less than an hour of attack.

General Xu thought that even if the Qing army had put all its strength into it, could it be able to conquer Juehua Island within one hour?”

"oh!"

Xu Kai suddenly realized: "General Chen is indeed very good. He saw through the mystery at first sight. Ha, as long as Dorgon withdraws his troops a little hesitates, it is probably the cold at night that will cause him to suffer heavy losses."

Indeed, the end of December is before the New Year. At the coldest time of the year, the thickness of sea ice exceeds 30 centimeters, and the temperature during the day is still hovering between zero degrees and minus five degrees, but at night, the temperature drops rapidly and can reach minus twenty degrees.

Moreover, the ice surface is affected by the waves, and the stack is uneven, and it is not a smooth surface like the frozen rivers and lakes.

Dorgon was behind, watching the entire army move slowly and gradually scattered, and he couldn't help but frown his thick eyebrows.

The sea ice is smooth and flat from a distance. Only by walking on it can you feel the ups and downs. The people sent out before were scattered teams, and some ups and downs were not hindering, but the large army marched from the ice surface, and this ubiquitous ups and downs was enough to break the formation.

Juehua Island is east of Ningyuan City. In order to avoid the sunlight, walkers will not help but bow their heads to rush. After all, the ice surface can reflect sunlight. If you look directly ahead for a long time, your eyes will not be able to withstand it, and as a result, you cannot rectify your formation.

Dorgon took out his pocket watch and looked at the time, his thick eyebrows became tighter and tighter.

Ajige is a general who has experienced a long battle formation and is also in a dilemma. He really wants to purify his formation, but it takes time. He understands the importance of time and can only curse inwardly and urges the march.

Walking on the ice surface is very physically exhausting because it is necessary to maintain balance at all times. At about noon, the sun was high and the sky was rising. The Qing army also rushed to a position more than two miles from Juehua Island. Going forward, it entered the range of the artillery of the bandits and had to rectify the formation.

Everything was as Chen Yongfu expected. The Qing army spent half an hour to rectify the formation. Then the Mongolian cavalry rushed rapidly, and the horse's hooves roared on the ice, and snow splashed everywhere. The artillery then advanced rapidly. They had to use this opportunity to unfold the artillery position and fire at Juehua Island, otherwise there would be no suspense in this battle.

"kill!"

The Mongolians controlled horses to gallop, without any sorrow as cannon fodder.

"fire!"

Xu Kai waved his hand!

The dull sound of cannons rang out in the sky, and a black iron bullet hit it. Because the ice surface was smooth and the resistance was almost gone, the shells hit the ice surface. The number of times it jumped several times or even more than ten times that of land. Moreover, the ice surface was corrugated and uneven, and the trajectory of the jump was more elusive than the ground. When I saw the dark cannonballs jumping around on the ice surface, Dorgon couldn't help but clench his fist.

He still lacks the randomness of ice battles.

In the sixth year of the Tianqi revelation, Nurhaci was angry because he had been attacking Ningyuan, who was guarding Yuan Chonghuan for a long time, so he took advantage of the winter to attack Juehua Island. At that time, the Qing army had tens of thousands of troops, and the total number of soldiers and civilians on Juehua Island was about 15,000. The personnel comparison was similar to today. Nurhaci defeated him in a battle, and only more than 200 people died, slaughtered all the soldiers and civilians on the island, and burned about 200 ships.

This made Dorgon optimistic that he could replicate Nurhaci's victory.

But he forgot that his opponent was no longer the low-spirited Ming army, but the well-trained and armed bandit army.

In the sixth year of the Tianqi revelation, in order to strengthen its defense, the Ming army dug a fifteen-mile ice moat along the island to prevent the Jin cavalry from breaking in. However, the weather was severely cold and the ice moat was quickly frozen. The Ming army kept digging ice moats. Due to the ice moats being chiseled day and night, the weather was cold, and the lack of necessary warming measures such as gloves, many people's hands were severely frostbite, which made them weak and even their fingers were frozen.

How can I get weapons without hands?

When Nurhaci attacked, it happened that heavy snow fell, the temperature dropped sharply, and the ice and moors froze again. The cavalry charged and rushed directly to Juehua Island. It was not surprising that they won a complete victory in the face of the almost unresisting Ming army.

After all, the Ming army was defeated by insufficient estimates of the severe cold and insufficient warming measures for grassroots soldiers.

The bandits did not dig ice trenches. Every soldier wore gloves to fully protect his hands. He also had more than a thousand artillery pieces, and his firepower was more than a hundred times stronger than the Ming army at that time.

The shells bloomed among the Mongolians, and blood stained the ice surface red. Fortunately, Juehua Island is a gourd-shaped, with a frontal battlefield of more than ten miles wide. The Mongolian cavalry were divided enough. Although the shells jumped around the ice and there were shots of shots, they did not hurt the roots and were still densely approaching Juehua Island.

"good!"

Dorgon, who was watching the battle behind, said goodbye. According to his estimate, after being shot by the bandits, about five or six thousand Mongolian cavalry would rush to the island and the battle situation would be settled.

And he could also capture the artillery and firearms of the bandits, which was exactly what he needed most.
Chapter completed!