Chapter 2116 Before the Battle
At this time, the giant shield soldiers kept advancing.
They began to attack the enemy's village gate.
Soon they came to the door.
At this time, several old Jurchen bannermen started shooting.
Then they were all blocked by shields.
The musketeers also shot through the shooting holes in the shield in time.
A row of bullets passed by, and the old female soldier who was trying to shoot fell down.
In fact, this strategy is similar to a car camp.
This type of military unit has not appeared on a large scale in history.
Obviously it has great disadvantages.
One of the disadvantages is that it has poor mobility.
The second disadvantage is that the cost is too high.
We need to get shields and armors.
For Westerners, their manpower at this time is very cheap.
Those mercenaries are all guys who can't afford to eat.
The mortality rate for sailors is as high as 75%.
How do ordinary sailors get here?
When we arrived at the port, we invited people to drink, got a bunch of them drunk, and then bundled them onto the ship.
So it is normal for a rebellion on a ship to cause loss of life.
The same is true for mercenaries. The reason why musketeers appeared in large numbers to replace archers is because they relied on whips and sticks and took shape in three months of training.
Going to the battlefield means doing whatever the officer tells you to do.
Beat with sticks to create conditioned reflexes.
Feudal archers cannot be trained like this, it takes at least 3 years, and it takes 3 years to make a bow.
When the Jurchen veterans were killed.
Several other old, weak, sick and disabled Jurchens also began to run away.
In fact, of course the Jurchens are also afraid of death.
In this case, they have already resisted and will not be beheaded if they escape.
They can escape in the name of reporting the news.
But if you run away without resisting, you will definitely be beheaded.
This is the cruel military law of the Jurchens.
Of course, if the Eight Banners dignitaries lead the team and find that the opponent is strong enough, they can also retreat before the formation.
Not a problem.
There is a difference between the master's life and the slave's life.
The old, weak, sick and disabled people desperately mounted their horses and mules and tried to escape through the back door of Zhuangzi.
However, they did not escape far because the exit from the back of the village had long been blocked by people outside.
Another volley of guns, these people fell.
A few horses also fell down, which made them feel distressed.
After all, these horses are very valuable. It would be too expensive to transport them over long distances. It is best to replenish them locally.
The necessary condition for a scout in this era is to have a horse.
You can't be a scout without a horse.
With the Jurchens killed, the remaining coated slaves soon began to surrender.
There were a few surrendered Bao Yi, and they obviously still had active hatred in their eyes, and they took the initiative to lead the way.
With their help, the army found the food and grass in Zhuangzi and replenished it.
There are also three wells used to replenish fresh water.
Because they came too quickly, the Zhuangzi people had no time to destroy the grain, grass and wells.
This provides some convenience for the army to advance.
After plundering the grain and grass, he burned Zhuangzi and escorted the coaters to the rear.
These people breathed a sigh of relief.
If it was the Jurchens who did this, they must have killed the old, weak, sick and disabled, leaving only the young and strong.
At most one-third of the people were left. If anyone dared to resist, it was normal to kill them all in the old Khan era.
At this time, Huang Taiji did not often kill them all, but he would also capture them as slaves.
Huang Taiji is not benevolent, he just knows how to utilize human resources better.
These coatings will be sent to some uninhabited islands along the way to cultivate and maintain supply points.
Especially if you have to raise horses on a nearby island, long-distance transportation is too time-consuming.
A horse may be jolted for ten days without dying, but it may die after being jolted for 15 consecutive days.
If there is an island in the middle that can provide a transfer, and the 15 days are turned into two periods, and the horse rests on the middle island for three days or half a month, then the transfer can be successful.
These coaters are valuable human resources.
They are prisoners anyway, and no one considers their wishes.
If I don’t kill you, I’ll give you something to stutter and keep you alive. What else do you want?
Wen Rensheng cannot use any advanced concept of equality for everyone.
He can only achieve his goal by relying on the power of everyone and using the existing concepts and technologies of this period.
Then came the second Zhuangzi, the third Zhuangzi, and the fourth Zhuangzi, all the way.
With their huge force of 7,000 people, entering the invaders at this time obviously caught the Jurchens strategically by surprise.
You must know that Mao Wenlong was dead at this time, people in Dongjiang were in chaos, and they did not play a containment role at all.
The Jurchens also boldly chose to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
However, Wen Rensheng understood that if the player Huang Taiji could also see his progress, then he would leave enough defensive troops.
If the other party cannot see your progress, then your own side will have a great advantage.
From the current point of view, the other party seems to be invisible.
Probably because the person he was betting against was a golden-armored god. A mere player was just a chess piece, and the chess piece was not qualified to see the player.
It's easy to verify.
At this time Wen Rensheng saw Huang Taiji under a yellow umbrella, commanding the siege in the distance of a city.
After watching it for a while, he understood that the other party was trying to establish a logistics supply point.
Long-distance attacks also require a foothold.
Otherwise, what will happen to the wounded soldiers?
Without a place to recuperate, minor injuries will turn into serious injuries, and serious injuries will lead to immediate death.
For the Jurchens, the wounded soldiers of the Eight Banners of Han and Mongolia can be abandoned, but the wounded soldiers of their own clan cannot be given up unless the situation is critical.
Even if you are seriously injured, you have a one-to-two chance of surviving with your strong physique and rich nutrition.
Maybe three or five out of a hundred can survive.
If it is a minor injury, seven or eight out of ten can survive.
The premise is to rest in one place.
At this time, the city could no longer support it.
There are no red cannons here. The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty captured the city after paying a certain amount of casualties.
Then there was massacre and kidnapping, which was the tradition of the Eight Banners soldiers.
Anyone who resists will definitely massacre the city, there is no exception.
It can be said that they are the lower limit of the team in history.
Only some of the young men will be left as coaters to reduce the pressure on logistics and promote some of the heavy supply troops.
Relying on this layer of oppression, the morale of the soldiers who invaded the Eight Banners increased again.
The Han Eight Banners and the Baoyi soldiers who destroyed the city were compensated. Although the Man Eight Banners took most of the spoils in the end, they were still able to obtain some slaves and property, which greatly increased the loss that had been reduced due to serious losses. morale.
In terms of clear distinction between rewards and punishments, the Jurchens were ten times ahead of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was able to annihilate all the troops of the Qi family who were begging for military pay. Based on this, there is nothing to say about destruction.
The Manchus and Qing Dynasties never did this until the end. It can be seen that the Manchus and Qing Dynasties have always understood the importance of force, but they never understood the importance of thought. They always treated others as minions and slaves... and finally died in Thoughts were overthrown by the new army he built.
Huang Taiji is obviously very happy.
While the city was full of blood, a banquet was held to entertain the warriors who broke the city. Among them, several low-ranking officials promoted them to the flag on the spot.
In this case, those prisoners forgot about the oppression they had suffered and the hatred they had against the Jurchens. They turned around and became converts.
From here, Wen Rensheng knew that Huang Taiji would not be so happy if he knew that he had sent troops north. And his team, starting from the temporary port and going 200 miles deep, finally encountered danger.
The Jurchen cavalry began to appear.
At first, there were groups of three or five, and then there were more than ten or twenty.
They were riding on horses, or even standing on horses, looking at the army from a distance.
Those pairs of wolf-like eyes were staring at this team.
It is filled with hatred.
They began to strangle the scouts of the army heading north from time to time.
Obviously, the scouts of the army going north will definitely not be able to survive this kind of strangulation.
They have never fought on land, only at sea.
Fortunately, they also have advantages, that is, they have telescopes and better armor.
If you can’t beat him, you can run away.
If your opponent is chasing you, use a short fire blunderbuss to attack the opponent's horse.
Those bullets are very powerful, but if you rely on horses to pursue them, you cannot use powerful walking bows. The power of riding bows is too small.
It cannot break the mail armor of cavalry or the leather armor of horses.
But it's enough to drive away these scouts.
The scouts quickly returned to the army.
Now we are in big trouble.
If the scout cannot defeat the opponent, it means that the battlefield map is blocked.
Where do the enemies come from? How many are there and where is the ambush?
Are you trying to outflank your own retreat?
These are all ignorant.
Now if you want more results, you need to attack further.
But in that case, the danger is great.
The other party can quietly steal their retreat.
Then dig trenches to block the retreat, which is the specialty of the Eight Banners.
Wen Rensheng’s soldier output is mainly firearms.
This firearm is very powerful, but it also consumes a lot of energy.
Once the gunpowder is gone, the main output is spent.
Pikemen and shield soldiers cannot deal with the infantry and cavalry of the Eight Banners.
They were heavily armored and fought in formation.
There is also a powerful walking bow, which is a talent brought by the fishing and hunting life.
If you fight like this, the shield soldiers can protect you for a while, but you will suffer a lot in the confrontation.
Shields consume too much energy.
How to obtain battlefield intelligence now?
Wen Rensheng did not give any advice.
Yizijia dispatched an infantry squad using heavy matchlock guns, combined with the cavalry as scouts.
Use infantry to cover the cavalry.
They relied on their heavy matchlock guns to drive away the enemy's cavalry.
Unless the enemy cavalry dismounts and uses a walking bow, riding a bow will not cause effective damage.
But the power of the walking bow is not focused on range and rate of fire, but on breaking armor.
But the range of the heavy matchlock gun can reach 200 steps, which far exceeds the range of the Jurchen infantry bow, and its power far exceeds it.
Breaking armor is very easy.
Need to use a fork stick for support.
So with the help of the infantry, the opponent's precious scouts stopped approaching these teams after losing a few.
It's such a loss to fight.
You must know that all of these scouts can be said to be qualified to be white-armored soldiers, and some can even be Gebusxian.
Scouts are the most elite soldiers in the army, bar none.
If anyone uses miscellaneous soldiers as scouts, the general is either a fool, or he doesn't want to live.
Intelligence is always the most important in war.
In this way, the small group of infantry cooperated with the cavalry, and finally drove away the Jurchen cavalry surrounding the large group of people.
They often start to retreat as soon as they see the team approaching.
No one is stupid enough to charge into a confrontation.
Even if it is possible to disperse, before that, within 200 steps, there will be two rounds of shooting, a total of 60 to 100 bullets.
The hit rate is very high.
Because the opponent is hitting a horse.
Without the horses, the scouts like them would be doomed.
Soon, new information arrived.
There is a Jurchen team of about 300 people in front, camping in front.
It was a river with only one bridge on it.
The other party is setting up camp behind the bridge.
The three hundred people were composed of 30 white-armored soldiers, 200 armored Eight Banners soldiers, and 70 mixed Mongolian and Jurchen cavalry.
Obviously they are mainly infantry.
All 300 people are soldiers.
It is not surprising that thousands of people from the Ming Dynasty can be defeated head-on.
And now, they obviously have the confidence to block the strange army of 7,000 people.
It’s just that they obviously don’t know the details of their opponents.
Yi Zijia called the other four people and began to discuss the next arrangements.
"There are only 300 of them, but they did not escape. Instead, they set up camp. It is obvious that they are trying to stop us and wait for reinforcements to gather." Yizi Yi said.
"In this case, we must quickly explore the upstream and downstream of this river to prevent the other party from outflanking." Yizi Bing said immediately.
"I have already done this. I ordered them to find out the situation upstream and downstream at all costs." Yi Zijia nodded.
"We are not familiar with the terrain now, but they are very familiar with the terrain. It is best for us to retreat to the harbor." Yizi Bing said again.
He is obviously conservative.
There are always three factions in combat.
Positive, conservative, neutral.
Yi Zijia was silent.
It is safest to retreat, but there will be no results.
The Jurchens were also very smart, they did not dock.
Instead they farmed on the plains far from the coast.
And they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and the poor Zhuangzi added up to capture more than 2,000 slaves and killed more than a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled Jurchens.
It can be said that there are basically no results.
A total loss.
The freight and various expenses for this trip north, and the dead horses alone, far exceeded the results of these battles.
If you just retreat like this, you won’t be able to fight again next time.
Because it’s not cost-effective.
The Jurchens could support such a battle a hundred times, but they could only persist two or three times.
So we must continue to fight.
At least there must be enough harvest, either war experience or war capture.
Thinking of this, he immediately said: "Immediately notify the guards on the back road and ask them to closely monitor the movements of the back road. If any enemy scouts appear, report them immediately. And ask them to expel and kill the back road as much as possible. The scouts we met on the road cannot let them figure out our way back."
Obviously, he is cautious and careful enough. This was also specially chosen by Wen Rensheng.
In the first battle, it is better to be cautious and lose money than to make a bold advance and annihilate the entire army.
Soon everyone started to move.
“Our goal, at the minimum, is to kill the 300 Jurchen soldiers in front of us, and the highest goal is to continue to go deep and hit Yangliao City, the first Jurchen city.”
(This chapter End)