Chapter 23 Dead turtle, come out!
The "Kudian Attack Battle" of the Ming Emperor's personal army led by Eunuch Wei two years ago turned the Kuandian Six Forts into a "no man's land" where they could not be stationed. To some extent, it was a historical regression and a heavy move in the development history of Kuandian. However, it greatly restricted the pace of Jianzhou's reactionary separatist group's efforts to explore the south and effectively safeguarded the territorial sovereignty of the Ming Dynasty.
E Yidu, one of the four ministers of the pseudo-Jin, said in his memorial to Nurhaci: "The loss of the six castles is like a loss of one guard."
The Kuandian Liubao is equated with one of the left and right guards of Jianzhou, which shows the importance that Eyidu and others attach to Liubao.
After the loss of Liubao, Jianzhou was not trying to recover, but the Ming army took away all the soldiers and civilians of Liubao, leaving only one piece of open space. Even if they invaded them, they could not station them, let alone develop Liubao land, so they could only swallow the bitter fruit.
On the one hand, symbolically sent personnel to Liaoyang to strongly condemn the Ming army's "cross-border" behavior, while on the other hand, the direction of military use was focused on the Mongols and Yehe tribes in the northwest.
In Kuandian area today, in addition to the bold and arrogant horse bandits hidden in it, there are some Korean fugitives who crossed the river to make a living. The total number of people is only a few hundred. If this number is not available in Kuandian area, which is hundreds of square miles, it will be difficult for outsiders to find people on this vast land unless they are particularly careful.
However, these horse bandits and North Korean fugitives have been rarely seen recently. These guys who are always struggling on the brink of death are particularly sensitive to the outside world and have long since escaped when the Ming and Jin sides used their troops to use Kuandian.
Some unlucky guys with slow legs were either forcibly requisitioned by the Ming army or were kidnapped by the Jin army that arrived later, and it was difficult to survive the general trend.
In the middle of the month, Jun Ying, who was stationed in Yongdian Fort, got accurate news that the Ming army in Yizhou had made a large-scale exit from the city.
After waiting for many days, Qian Ying happily said to his master Gong Zhengliu: "Master is indeed right. Wei Yan will eventually take the bait this time!"
However, just when Zhu Ying was about to lead the main forces of the two white flags to cut off the retreat of the Ming army in Yizhou, he was surprised to find that the Ming army did not drive towards Songshan Fort, but went north to his Guangluo Dabeile.
Whether the Ming army is heading for Songshan Fort or coming by itself, as long as they leave the city!
Chu Ying didn't think too much. He had been in Yongdian for too long and needed a big victory to prove himself and calm down all the dissatisfactions of some people in Heituara with him.
On the 21st, Zhu Ying personally led the main force of Zhengbai Banner out of Yongdian Fortress to move south, and ordered his younger brother Abai to lead the Enanguan Bai Banner to move south from Changdian. The two armies agreed to meet in Sanlitpu, the middle reaches of the River Ruo, and then formed an encirclement of the Ming army and encircled and annihilated it in one fell swoop.
In order to ensure the victory of this decisive battle, Qian Ying ordered the Yierhan tribe, the side division of the Yinghuang Banner, to go south as much as possible to harass Yizhou, in order to force Wei Yin to divide his troops or shake his morale.
However, the subsequent situation made Qian Ying and his younger brother, Abai, the leader of the Inlaid Banner, feel very difficult. The Ming army in Yizhou left the city under the leadership of Wei Yan, but like a turtle, they set up camp every ten miles, building a camp like a hedgehog, making the two white flags that lacked siege equipment know that their opponents were there, but they couldn't do anything, so they could only sigh.
The Ilhan tribe, used as a partial division, could not pose enough threat to the Ming army, and was even defeated once by the Ming army's cavalry and lost a Niulu.
The Ming army carried a large amount of food and grass, and the camps they built were not discarded after use, but were accompanied by soldiers of varying numbers of soldiers to guard the camp, and a large number of firearms were installed inside, forming a situation of fortresses all the way.
Ju Ying once ordered a member of the Inlaid White Banner led by his younger brother Abai to tentatively attack the Ming army camp where only a small number of soldiers were stationed, in an attempt to seize one or two fortresses for his own use, and at the same time cut off the channels between the Ming army and Yizhou. However, not only did he fail to occupy the Ming army camp, but he lost more than 100 armored people.
At the two White Banner Army discussions, the Eight Banners generals unanimously made the view that they should not attack the Ming army camps. Abai also insisted that if they had to attack the Ming army, they had to wait for Heituara's siege equipment to arrive.
The Eight Banners are not without the ability to attack. Since Nurhaci's rebellion, the Jianzhou army has fought many battles to siege cities and villages. They attach great importance to the manufacturing of siege equipment such as cloud ladders, tube ladders, shield vans, etc.
But this time, the two white flags were urgently allocated south. In order to reach the front line as soon as possible, they did not carry too many siege equipment. Moreover, Nurhaci, who was far away in Hetuara, also forbidden Feng Ying from attacking Yizhou City, which made the two white flags not have any ideological preparations for attacking the toughest.
After Gong Zhengliu made plans to go south to Dingliao Guards to attract the Ming army in Yizhou to leave the city and then implement the strategy of fighting against him, Ju Ying did not ask Heituara for siege equipment.
In his opinion, as long as Wei Yi left the city, the decisive battle between the two sides was to fight in a field, and there was no need for any siege equipment.
Unexpectedly, the Ming army left the city, but the Wei Yin became a turtle with a head-shrinking turtle!
Looking at the camps that could rise up in almost one or two hours, Jun Ying really regretted not allocating siege equipment as soon as possible.
By the end of the month, the situation was no longer a stalemate, but was completely unfavorable to Kuying.
Eunuch Wei carried forward the Tortoise Fortress tactics to the extreme, and continued to move forward at a speed of ten miles every day. The purpose was very obvious, which was to force Qianying to completely withdraw from Kuandian Six Fortress.
Qian Ying was in a dilemma. The two white flags that could not obtain supplies had consumed dangerous numbers. He had to make a choice between fighting or not.
At the same time, the Ming army began to provoke the Eight Banners, and from time to time they took the initiative to attack with elite troops, and retreated immediately after achieving certain results, without giving the two white banners reaction time at all.
All signs indicate that the Ming army is also seeking fighter jets for decisive battles, but neither side is sure where the battlefield and when the fighter jets appear.
After a fierce quarrel with his master Gong Zhengliu, Chu Ying made a decision that shocked his younger brother Abai. He would never withdraw his troops. Even if he killed his horse and fed him, he would have to fight the dead turtle Wei Liangchen.
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The Pu River, which runs through the entire Kuandian area, is the main source of water for Liubao’s former military farming. Now, except for the wild ducks and the red-crowned cranes coming from the north, there is no ship on the surface of the river.
However, in the night, the sound of wood pulp passing through the flowing water in the river where there was no boat on weekdays. Under the moonlight and stars half covered by dark clouds, a raft was sailing forward quickly.
Chapter completed!