Beiyang new warlord

Although he changed all his plans to Mao Jue, and his heart was terrified, but Shorty Song was really a character, and the expression on his funny big head didn't change at all, and he asked coldly.

Even if this name had not been translated into Jurchen Tungusic, the dozen or so chiefs of Jiashan tribes present trembled when they heard it.

The Jurchens of the Northern Regions in this era don't know Yue Fei, but they don't know Li Chengliang. This old guy, like Gao Xianzhi, a famous Tang Dynasty general, was born in the Korean peninsula. Three generations of his ancestors were from the Li family who crossed the river and settled in Daming. , this old guy has supported Liaodong for 48 years since the Wanli year. During this period of time, it was the most prosperous period of Ming Wuwei. The tactics are very simple, whoever pretends to fight will fight! When he was young, he led the army in Liaodong. Without the development of the Jurchen tribe, he wiped out all those who dared to take the lead, and massacred the city at every turn.

Nurhachi's grandfather, Jue Chang'an, and his father, Ta Keshi, were both killed when Li Chengliang attacked Atai and massacred Gule Village.

However, this old guy has mixed reputations in his life. Maybe he was smoothed by the ups and downs of the officialdom. The developed Kuandian Liaozuo Fourth Fortress no longer went out to attack the Jurchens, and the biggest mistake in his life was to treat Nurhachi as the spokesperson of the Ming Dynasty in the Jurchens, and indulged in cultivating them.

But even so, it can't affect the deep fear left in the Jurchen's memory by the God of Killing. He looked angry at first, but when Shorty Song spit out such a name, all the leaders of Jiashan's various tribes couldn't help but tremble. Down.

The scene was silent for a few seconds, and then the chief of the various tribes of Jiashan who was carrying an ax panted heavily and snorted coldly.

"Grand Master Li is dead, and even if Grand Master Li is not dead, he has never collected taxes from our Jurchens. What kind of shit in your family, Deputy General Tie Yi dares to come, I will chop off his head!"

"So, did your Jiashan tribe choose to go to war?"

Seeing Jiashan Mang Huoli's old face gloomy and silent, he suddenly put the military order into his arms, this Song Datou was quite the arrogance of a civil servant in Ming Dynasty, he turned around and left with a flick of his sleeves.

Behind them, a dozen barbarian chiefs roared like beasts.

"What the hell is General Mao thinking? It's enough to make these barbarians bow their heads. Why do you have to use knives and guns?"

More than a dozen horses were galloping on the mountain path. Shorty Song was still muttering and complaining while running. No wonder he was sour. In fact, this guy was not easy. The layout of Mirror Dao was really something he had painstakingly studied for a long time, and he wanted to use it as a qualification for promotion.

It's not that this old boy has no talent, but the unspoken rules in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty judge people by their appearance, even those who are ugly can't be an official, let alone him as a second-class disabled.

Sun Shan failed several times in the imperial examinations, and even the guy who was stepped on by him passed the exam. You can imagine how upset Song Xiaozi was. He was unwilling to be a master behind the scenes for the rest of his life. The dwarf is also accurate, the next few years will definitely be chaos in the world, in the army, maybe he can win the title of Marquis and Uncle?

In the name of watching, he walked around the Nine Sides of the Ming Dynasty, and the one he was most optimistic about was Dongjiang Town, the easternmost side of the Nine Sides, the Dongjiang Town of Mao Wenlong and Mao Jue and his son. Dongjiang lived so comfortably in those bitter cold places, drinking a little wine, smoking a small cigarette, peeping outside the Mao Jue Baima Hot Spring Valley Officers Club for three days and three nights, looking at the waitresses in kimonos with half-exposed shoulders , as soon as the old boy slapped his thigh, it's here!

It's really that the plan can't keep up with the changes. Originally, I wanted to rely on the Xianjing incident to act as a force, and I became a popular think tank like Zhuge Liang next to Mao Jue, but now the plan is fragmented. Don't let Mao Jue obey. This battle is over. He didn't even know if Mao Jue could ask for his head after turning over the bill.

Frustrated in the officialdom again, this guy is like a woman, talking about trivial matters in his mouth.

However, listening to Shorty Song's murmurs there, the Dongjiang Tieyi soldiers who were in charge of sending him to each other became disdainful, especially the whistle chief at the front, who couldn't help humming beside him.

"What do you know, you charlatan? Our general is called once and for all, and there will be no future troubles. The general only has the reputation of being killed. The general is going to become Li Chengliang's second!"

"Even if Grand Master Li in Liaodong, it will be the same in the end"

Unconvinced in his stomach, Shorty Song wanted to defend himself, but unexpectedly, the whistle chief who was talking to him just now grabbed him by the neck and pulled him off the horse abruptly.

"Ai! Ai! Speak well, without hitting anyone!"

Ignoring the guy's bared teeth, he reined in the horse and threw him into the middle of the horse team. With a short body and a flintlock gun in his hand, the whistle chief yelled into the forest vigilantly.

"come out!"

Full of surprise, more than a dozen Jiashan Jurchens wearing animal skins with bows and arrows came out from the bushes by the side of the road.

Chapter 256. Even Appetizers Are Not Counted (Repair)

Shorty Song's return officially kicked off the war between Dongjiang and Xianjing Taoist Jurchen. On May [-]th, Mao Jue, who had already been sharpening his sword in Xianxing Mountain City, directly opened the battle.

Typical Mao Jue-style swearing-in, 30 taels of silver for one head! This hard currency exchange rate directly made the Dongjiang soldiers and beasts of the three regiments boil with blood. At this time, the Dongjiang Army only followed two principles, loyal to the general, and then worked hard to earn money , As for the righteousness of the court, cut off your head, will the governor's mansion give you 30 taels of silver?

Straw sandals are very advantageous in the mud, but in the Liaodong mountains full of gravel, grass roots, and snakes, the effect is obviously much worse. Dongjiang's light and strong military leather boots are really effective. It was the Roman Legion back then. A line of four marched neatly along the path, carrying military flags in front, neat rifles with bayonets hanging in the back, pointing at the blue sky with cold light, all black cotton armor and iron helmets, thumping and thumping. The sound of the boots is as neat as drumming, which is pleasing to the eye.

It's just that not all the troops are so relaxed and freehand. The artillery troops behind were crying. This time, the artillery was equipped with two reserve soldiers to help push the artillery carts, and left the one-ton Hongyi cannon in Hamxing Mountain City. But even so, the field three-pounders and six-pound guns of six or seven hundred catties are still struggling to walk, and the wheels of the wheel seem to pass through a ghost gate without passing a hurdle.

In the back of the warlord, Mao Jue grinned straight at the sight. Now he understands Qi Jiguang a little bit. No wonder he wanted to use the tiger squat cannon with short range and low power during the Southern Japanese War. If the tiger squat he carried Cannon, two people carry one, at least two or three hundred can be carried. The space in the mountains is narrow, and the range does not need to be as wide as the plains. The exchange of fire is only a few hundred meters. In this way, the tiger crouching cannon in the mountain is better than the field cannon. many.

Should one or two mountain regiments be specially formed, and two tiger squatting cannon castings be opened?

While walking, Mao Jue was still thinking with his head tilted.

But at this time, suddenly a sound of wind rang in his ears, and suddenly, three feathered arrows appeared from the forest in front, and shot straight at Mao Jue's head. He didn't seem to notice it at all.

But seeing that his head was about to bloom, a cold light shone, and in the sound of "clicking", all three arrows from different angles were blocked. With the horizontal knife in hand, Mao Liying glanced dangerously like a female vulture. Looking at the woods beside me.

I have to say that Japan is more professional than China in this area. Japan has been fighting for a hundred years, and it has been fighting almost every day. It also uses everything against the opponent's generals. The fierce war has made martial arts and sword skills develop rapidly. , In the school of kendo, there is the broken arrow style that specializes in dealing with hidden arrows, while Mao Li Yingxiu's is the Iai way, also called the sword drawing style, which also pays attention to killing with one sword. The generals and soldiers must be strict.

However, martial arts is not an absolute factor in determining the outcome of a war. Just like Japan's number one swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi, participated in the Sekigahara War as Ukita's Ashgaru during the Sekigahara War, but when Ukita's troops came up He was beaten back by the Eastern Army with less than half of his own strength, crying like ghosts and wolves.

This is also the kind of defense that made Mao Jue keep his head down to think about tactics, and he didn't even think about encountering an attack. Mao Liying and others formed the most solid shield, and the Dongjiang army on the periphery also had sharp spears. Survival training in the mountains and forests did not lack the use of flintlock guns to shoot birds to satisfy hunger. Before the attacker could escape, the guards had already picked up the firecrackers. Under the sound of rapid gunfire, three corpses fell heavily from the book. fell down.

There have been more attacks like this since the Dongjiang Army first stepped into Jiashan Forest. I have to say that these hunting peoples are indeed fierce and cunning. Their familiarity in the mountains is far higher than that of the Dongjiang Army. It's a pity However, the results of such harassment are negligible.

No way, the Dongjiang army can be called thick blood and high defense. No matter how awesome the old hunter is, you can't shoot through the armor made of cold forging with bone arrows. It doesn't make sense to put you down.

The attack was fought all morning, and Mao Jue wounded about 40 people on his head, but there were more than [-] Jurchens who were shot down, and five or six were injured and captured alive. There was no war at all in this era. The method of catching them was directly pressed on the side of the road and chopped off their heads in public, which made the morale of the Dongjiang army who was irritated by the attack even more high.

Hamgyong Road is said to be one Dao, but in fact it is only a fraction of the size of a province in China, and it is not as big as Hainan Province in later generations. As for the distance between Jiashan and Hamxing Mountain City, it is shorter than the distance between cities in later generations, about In the afternoon, the Dongjiang army arrived at the location of the Jiashan tribes.

It’s really much more difficult here than the Sanshui tribes. It’s just slightly slower hills, and the villages are more scattered. It’s good to see a small village in a mountain pass. There is no cultivated land. It’s all about relying on the mountains to hunt pheasants. Rabbits, picking fruits, fungus, etc., but in this place, Jiashan Nuzhen made a serious strategic mistake, and they were not willing to give up the shack that was thrown away in another place. About 3000 strong men from the tribe lived in Jiashan hills. Toushanao opened up his battle to face the Dongjiang Army.

Looking at the opposite army formation, the little chief who was pretending to be aggressive with an ax last time was yelling in front of the messy team. Shorty Song showed a triumphant expression of his plot, and turned his head to look at Mao Jue. Knowing that he tilted his head in distress, the dwarf immediately became depressed.

This master is too difficult to serve, right?He couldn't figure out the brain circuit at all.

However, judging from the scene, these Jiashan Jurchens really have an advantage at this time. First, they are waiting for work at ease; second, they occupy the high hillsides on the terrain first; There are 400 people, and the artillery logistics is removed, there are less than 2000 people, and the opponent has more than 1000 more.

But even so, Mao Jue still didn't change his casual look, and he didn't make any pre-war speeches to boost morale. He just waved his hands and muttered to Wen Meng, Kong Youde, and Tian Tao, the leading generals like chasing flies.

"Go and play!"

"Have you heard, the general has an order to let everyone have fun! You can get money if you play well, brothers!"

But there wasn't any negative buff of the Ming army's cowardice. As Wen Meng raised his knife suddenly in front of the army formation, the entire Dongjiang army's battle line boiled like mixed oil.

What a strange team!

He has traveled all over the Nine Sides over the years, and he has seen the Datong Army, the Yulin Army, and the Liaodong Army, which are known as the main force of the Ming Army, and he has seen them before, but this is the first time in his life that this is an army that is more belligerent than the barbarians. See, riding behind Mao Jue, this guy couldn't help squinting his eyes.

The cannons are always the first to speak, and no one can compare to them in terms of qualifications. The dozen or so field cannons that have been dragged through all kinds of hardships are pushed to the front of the army. Cannons are the pride of the Dongjiang Army. In the complacent expression of the righteous soldiers, the ferocious roar shook the mountains, and the shrapnel flew towards the hillside, instantly tearing open the formation of these savage Jurchens. Every shot went down, They are all blooming flowers.

Now these Jiashan tribes are embarrassed. They have no weapons with a longer range than the field artillery, and their height advantage has become a disadvantage. They either wait to be bombarded in place, or they have to charge and take the initiative to attack the plains. The Dongjiang Army Corps that has already lined up consumes their physical strength.

These guys with their brains full of muscles really chose the latter. Under the roar of the ax chief, more than 3000 savage Jurchens rushed down like a roe deer, shouting slogans, and I don’t know how many more The man drew his hunting bow while running.

At this point, we have to talk about the Battle of Sarhu. For the Qing army, many people have the impression that the Eight Banners cavalry are all over the world. However, when Nurhachi started his family, how could he take advantage of so many cavalry? The army is mainly composed of light armored archers and cannon fodder dead soldiers in heavy armor. In the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi relied on the light armored archers to launch an attack from the mountain. Random arrows shot Juniper, Liu Ting and others Human firearms troops, and then heavy armor troops accompanied by a small number of cavalry broke through the formation, killing the corpses of the Ming army all over the field.

It is recorded in history that the deaths of Liu Ting's several generals were all covered in arrows, until the bones and flesh were rotten.

This scene seems to be staged here in Jiashan.

But the effect is reversed.