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Although Huang Taiji thinks that this is not very reliable, after all, the current Ming army is not the Ming army of the past. The current Ming army should actually be the Yu Jiajun. The combat power of the Yu Jiajun is definitely not the same as that of the Ming army back then.

The Ming army during the Battle of Erhu was comparable.

Therefore, it is very doubtful whether such a strategy of concentrating troops to attack all the way will be effective. What is even more tragic is that now the Eight Banners of Mongolia have collapsed, and most of them have turned against each other. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the various Mongolian tribes have also

They began to send troops, launched an attack and harassment on their Houjin side, and contained a large number of Qing troops in western Liaoning.

Another thing that makes Huang Taiji even more worried is that due to various reasons this year, Houjin has completely cut off the channels for imported grain, and the agricultural situation outside the customs itself is not optimistic this year. The weather has been dry since the beginning of summer, and many farmland

There was no water available at all, resulting in a reduction in grain production. Now that the weather had turned cold, Yu Xiaotian chose to go out and launch a war against Hou Jin at this time.

After the Yu Jiajun achieved an initial victory, they began to send out large numbers of cavalry, in-depth destruction of many places in Houjin, and set fire to many crops that were about to be harvested. In this way, even if the Houjin Army won the war

victory, we will also face severe famine after winter. A large number of people will definitely starve to death this winter.

The two consecutive years of starvation operations have killed the possibility of Jianguo's expansion of troops. Due to lack of troops, they were unable to launch an invasion of the pass and had to invest more manpower in agricultural production. This also led to the decline of their military strength.

It has been unable to improve in the past two years.

In addition, in order to fight against the future war launched by the Ming army against Houjin, Huang Taiji devoted all the efforts of Houjin to build various firearms, which occupied a large amount of human, material and financial resources, which made their economic situation worse and completely plunged into

It has reached the point where it is difficult to move forward.

Now, although they plan to gather a large number of troops and eat all the Yu family's troops first, even if they mobilize all available troops, they will only have a mere 30,000 troops, and they will no longer be as powerful as they were in the past.

Even so, Huang Taiji also knew that this battle was related to the life and death of the entire Houjin. Unless they were forced to the gate of Shengjing sooner or later, they still would not be able to hold on. The grain reserves in Shengjing had bottomed out.

There will be frost soon in the future, and the temperature will drop sharply, and their lives will be very, very difficult.

Their only chance is to completely defeat the "invading" Ming army before the weather cools down completely. Then relying on the captured food, they may be able to survive this winter. Otherwise, they may be famine after winter.

It will knock them down completely.

So Huang Taiji finally made up his mind, gathered all the available troops, and went to Haizhou to have a decisive battle with the Yu family army. If they win, they will have a chance to survive. If they lose, it will mean that they have not been established for a long time.

The Qing Dynasty will then completely disappear.

This time Huang Taiji also acted with the greatest cruelty. He handed over the command of this battle to his young brother Duduo and appointed him as the ordered general. With his seventh brother Abatai as his deputy, he commanded nearly 40,000 troops.

They mobilized all the elites available to Houjin, and also recruited a large number of soldiers to assist in the battle. They were known to the outside world as an army of 100,000, and went to Haizhou to block the Ming army led by Xiaotian himself, and fight to the death with them in Haizhou.

On the seventh day of September, Commander Yu Xiaotian, including more than 40,000 elite Guanning troops including Yu Jiajun and Zu Dashou's subordinates, arrived at Xining Fort on the west bank of the Daliao River. They easily captured Xining Fort and then began to cross the river and head towards the sea.

Advance in the direction of the state.

At the same time in Duduo, the Jiannu army led by Abatai also arrived in Haizhou. They learned that the Ming army had captured Xining Fort and were about to cross the Daliao River and attack Haizhou (later Haicheng area), so they immediately accelerated their march.

, rushed to the east bank of Shuangtaizi River to set up defenses, preparing to defend the Ming army at Shuangtaizi River.

This time Huang Taiji could be said to have taken out all the goods from the bottom of the box, took out 68,000 taels of silver from the warehouse, distributed them to the soldiers and generals in the army to reward the soldiers, and also mobilized the red cannons that had been cast in recent years.

All were allocated to Duduo, and tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder and more than 3,000 newly made blunderbuss were raised for his use.

In addition, nearly 10,000 cavalrymen, more than 15,000 war horses, and more than 2,000 pack horses and mules were mobilized to haul the heavy red cannons.

In short, Huang Taiji took out everything he could. At the same time, he ordered the people left behind in various places to start working hard to harvest food to supply the army and prepare for winter reserves.

On the tenth day of September, the Ming army, under the command of Governor Yu Xiaotian, arrived at the Shuangtaizi River and began to build a bridge to cross the river. Duduo immediately sent cavalry to launch a fierce attack on the Ming army who was the first to cross the river.

The first batch of people to cross the river were the Guan Ning Army who were used as cannon fodder by Yu Xiaotian. As a result, the Guan Ning Army that crossed the river was attacked head-on by the Jiannu cavalry, and the defeated army retreated to the other side.

After Yu Xiaotian's main force arrived, he used artillery to suppress the Jiannu cavalry on the other side. Then he sent engineers to build bridges at the downstream and upstream areas at the same time and began to forcefully cross the Shuangtaizi River.

Finally, a group of Yu Jiajun moved covertly in the area of ​​Niuyai Station upstream, and finally built a short bridge. Two battalions of Yu Jiajun infantry and a company of artillery successfully crossed the river overnight, attacked Niuyai Station in a sneak attack, and captured Niuyai Station.

Only then did they seize a bridgehead on the east bank of the Shuangtaizi River and establish a relatively solid defense line.

Duduo was shocked after hearing the news, and immediately sent a large number of cavalry to attack the Yu Jiajun headquarters that had crossed the river in advance at Niuyai. Two battalions of Yu Jiajun infantry and a company of artillery were attacked by nearly 10,000 Jiannu troops at Niuyai.

onslaught.

More than two thousand infantrymen of the Yu Jiajun, relying only on the extremely crude fortifications of Niuyai Post, blocked the fierce attack of the Jiannu army, and protected more Yu Jiajun from crossing the Shuangtaizi River from the bridge to the east of the river.

shore.

As the Yu family's army crossed the river with more and more troops, Abatai's son Bolo, who led the attack on Niuyayi, was shot and killed. This made Duduo realize that he could no longer attack the enemy halfway across the river and block the Ming army from crossing the river, so he ordered a retreat

They built fortifications on the lower reaches of the east coast leading to Haizhou, preparing for a decisive battle with the Yu family's army crossing the river.

On September 13, the main force of the Yu Jiajun completely crossed the Shuangtaizi River. Subsequently, the Guan Ning Army, led by Zu Dashou, detoured to the downstream area, reselected the crossing point, and crossed the river from the downstream to cooperate with the main force of the Yu Jiajun.

The Jin army formed a pincer attack.

After a short rest, on September 15th, Superintendent Yu Xiaotian arrived at the place where the Jiannu army was stationed. The approximate location was in the area of ​​Panjin City in later generations. The terrain here was flat and open, which was very suitable for the main forces of both sides to fight.

For Jiannu, they had the advantage of geographical location, because they arrived here earlier, had already built certain fortifications in this area, built some forts, and arranged for the more than 30 cannons they brought this time.

The red-coated cannon is also ready for the decisive battle.

As for Yu Xiaotian, the Yu family army under his command had to go on an expedition. When they first arrived on the battlefield, their foothold was not stable, and their military strength was also slightly at a disadvantage.

However, after Yu Xiaotian observed the battlefield through the telescope and listened to the feedback from the scouts, he made a rough judgment on the battlefield without feeling nervous at all. After arriving at the battlefield, he immediately ordered the camp to be set up and blocked it that day.

The raid carried out by Duduo's troops established a firm foothold on the battlefield.

Early the next morning, Yu Xiaotian went out with all his elite troops, threw his troops into the battlefield, and began to take the initiative to launch an attack on the slave-building army.

The two sides immediately launched a life-and-death battle in the Panjin City of later generations.

Although Duduo led the army on this expedition and brought with him the most elite troops of the Jiannu, including some white-armored Baja soldiers they were proud of, as well as a large number of firearms, but in the face of the Yu Jiajun's attack,

But they didn't take any advantage at all.

The two sides first had a head-on contact with the cavalry. Jiannu thought that their cavalry was quite powerful, but he did not expect that the Yu's cavalry was no weaker than them.

Among the Yu Jiajun cavalry, the main force is the newly established Mongolian cavalry battalion, and the rest are all cavalry teams mainly from the north that have been trained for many years. Although these Mongolian cavalry were not the opponents of the Jiannu cavalry before,

The key is that their equipment is of poor quality, and they belong to different Mongolian tribes without unified command and dispatch, so they are no match for the Jiannu.

But now that they have been disrupted and reorganized, the situation is very different. First of all, they have obtained extremely sophisticated weapons and armor, and the war horses are also the best war horses provided by the Mongolian ministries, including the war horses. They are also protected by light armor. Although

Yu Xiaotian did not equip them with firearms, but he equipped them with the best riding bows. With these armors and weapons, their combat power immediately increased a lot.

In addition, they received good command and dispatch. The officers were all direct descendants of the Yu family. These Mongolian cavalry were straightforward in character. After being treated well, everyone was very dedicated to Xiaotian. What they never lacked was courage. Now

After forming an army, they became even more brave.

Therefore, when the cavalry from both sides came into contact, they immediately fought inextricably. Only then did Jiannu realize that their cavalry could not take any advantage against the Mongolian cavalry of the Yu family army. After a fierce battle between the two sides,

The losses were deceptive, but the losses on the Jiannu side were much higher than those on the Yu Jiajun side, so Duduo had no choice but to withdraw his cavalry and began to switch to positional warfare.

This adjustment can be said to have immediately decided the fate of Jiannu. In this era of positional warfare, no one can be the opponent of the Yu family army. Even though Jiannu is also equipped with a lot of matchlock guns and red cannons, but in the face of

When facing the Yu Jiajun infantry who were armed to the teeth, they could only be beaten.

The Yu Jiajun pulled their artillery to the front of the formation, lined up a temporary artillery fort, and then began to attack each other with Jiannu's artillery team on the opposite side.

The cannons on both sides fired desperately, and the shells whizzed through the air and hit each other's positions. However, in terms of artillery battle, Jiannu was in front of the Jiajun artillery at best, and at best it could only be regarded as the level of kindergarten children, while Yu Jiajun

The artillery belongs to the category of university graduates.

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