Chapter 107 (9) Battle of Life and Death on Rufeng Mountain

At this stage, Huang Taiji personally commanded soldiers to besiege Jinzhou. First clear the Duntai of the Ming army on the outskirts of Jinzhou. These Duntai were used by the Ming army to monitor the Qing army and transmit news.Duntai was destroyed, and Zu Dashou of Jinzhou became deaf and blind. Then all the Qing troops mobilized to cut off all the crops on the outskirts of Jinzhou. There are still deep ditches and barriers, filling in trenches and destroying moats, completely isolating Jinzhou. The Ming court was shocked. First, the Ministry of War presented a research report: Huang Taiji's Battle of Jinzhou was a repeat of the Battle of Dalinghe.

Obviously, this time the Qing soldiers not only wanted to take Jinzhou and Zu Dashou, but also wanted to take this opportunity to take Songshan. Emperor Chongzhen was furious, and issued an order to ask: Hong Chengchou, what are you doing?Hurry up to rescue Jinzhou. So Hong Chengchou led eight generals, Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Cao Bianjiao, Ma Ke, Wang Tingchen, Wu Sangui, and more than 200 leaders at all levels below the deputy general. Aid Jinzhou. The old tradition of the Ming army is that before the battle, there is a swearing-in meeting first. This time, the venue was chosen in Ningyuan. The 130,000 soldiers launched representatives and read the letter of determination impassionedly. , the mood is very high.

Hong Chengchou said: Use it, use your size, of the eight generals, only Bai Guangen, Ma Ke and Wu Sangui are the same thing, and the other five generals are just to make up the number of people, to help eat, and I still use you You must win, don't be fooled. After inspecting the front line, Hong Chengchou made a report and asked for more troops.130,000 people are far from enough, and the Qing army has more people than the Ming army, so the Ming army must increase to at least 150,000. After the report was submitted, the cabinet meeting of the Ming court went through fierce debates, but in the end there was no result, so it was submitted to Chongzhen for a decision.

Chongzhen said: Approved. The approval is approved, but the 20,000 reinforcements are still unknown.Hong Chengchou had no choice but to move on. As he was walking, Hong Chengchou called to stop.He pointed forward: Did you see that mountain, that is Rufeng Mountain, is the decisive commanding battle for this battle, and the Qing soldiers are already preconceived, if they can't take Rufeng Mountain, then there is no need to fight this battle , we lose. The elite dispatched and took down Rufeng Mountain. Immediately, the soldiers and horses of the eight towns, except for Tang Tong who was late all the way, the other seven towns all dispatched elite infantry, armed with bows and arrows, armed with guns, divided into east and west sides, divided into seven groups, and attacked towards the top of the mountain.

When the Qing soldiers on the top of the mountain saw the Ming army rushing up, they yelled, lifted stones and threw them down hard.Unexpectedly, these seven Ming soldiers were the most elite fighters. Seeing their brothers being smashed to death by stones, the Ming soldiers not only did not back down, but aroused the same hatred against the enemy, let go of their throats and roared desperately , you Qing soldiers didn't smash me to death, I have to climb up today. In Jinzhou City, Zu Dashou heard shouts from outside, knew that the reinforcements had arrived, he immediately opened the city gate, led the troops out, lined up, stood there and shouted loudly.This approach is mainly to make the Ming army more energetic, and to give a little psychological blow to the Qing soldiers.

The Ming army finally climbed up Rufeng Mountain, and the Qing soldiers rushed up fiercely. The two sides launched a terrifying hand-to-hand combat. The weapons used were mainly teeth and nails. You pinched my neck, and I gouged your eyes. The non-stop people, shouting and killing can not be heard. At this time, the sound of shouting and killing suddenly sounded from the foot of the mountain. A group of 20,000 Qing cavalry ambushed in Xishimen suddenly rushed out and charged the left flank of the Ming army, and they were caught off guard when they were about to attack the Ming army. But this Qing army had no eyes, and the left-wing troops were precisely led by Wu Sangui.

This year, Wu Sangui was twenty-nine years old and commanded an army of 20,000 troops. He used a strange method to train his own troops, selecting one thousand dead soldiers from among twenty thousand people, and forming a team of fifty people for a total of twenty teams.Each team has a team leader, and he writes the names of the twenty team leaders on bamboo sticks, and the bamboo sticks are inserted into the boots. When encountering a war, he will call out the name of the team leader, and the leader It will come out on a flying horse and gallop side by side with Wu Sangui, invincible and invincible.

This time the Qing soldiers came in a menacing manner, and there were a lot of them, so Wu Sangui pulled out all twenty bamboo sticks from the boot, and shouted: Come with me, kill. A thousand elite cavalry immediately screamed, rushed ahead of Wu Sangui, and rushed towards the Qing soldiers.They rushed straight into the pile of Qing soldiers, circled around and rushed out again, turned around and rushed in again, and this was endless. They rushed more than ten times in a row, completely dumbfounded by the impact of the Qing soldiers. It turned out that the most common tactic used by the Qing soldiers to attack the Ming army was to use cavalry to attack the Ming army's infantry, and they would disperse as soon as they rushed, and then the Qing cavalry happily chased the single Ming army and chopped off their heads.Unexpectedly, things were reversed this time. Instead of being dispersed, the Ming army was rushed to pieces. Due to the lack of sufficient psychological preparation, many Qing soldiers burst into tears and turned their horses around. He fled and was hunted down by Wu Sangui. He alone picked off ten heads of Qing soldiers.

The Qing army is on fire, what a Ming army, you dare to use my Qing army's tactics, then don't blame my Qing army for using your Ming army's tactics. The ox cart drove out meanderingly, pulling thirty red cannons. The Qing soldiers fired at the Ming army.