After returning to the camp five miles away from the new city, Abatai had a headache. Although the Eight Banner Army was good at attacking cities, it was also aimed at cities. There were numerous cities in the Ming Dynasty, and many cities had strong defenses.
In the past, the Eight Banner Army only relied on the ancestors' blessing to conquer all the cities. Those cities were held by a group of useless Ming armies. At the beginning of the siege, they either abandoned the city or fled or surrendered.
Whenever the fearless Ming army defends the city, it will be a headache. Even if it is captured, it will also suffer heavy losses. Therefore, Huang Taiji requires that this entry is mainly to plunder people, livestock, food and property, and try to bypass the well defended city.
This new city is ruled by the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, who is of high status. The garrison generals will surely defend it. With no shield car, the Qing soldiers will suffer heavy losses when approaching the city wall.
Abatai has always been cautious. At this time, he thought of the words of Huang Taiji, the fat man, and the idea of retreating came into his mind.
At this time, when he returned from his horse exploration, he came to join forces with 10000 troops.
In the afternoon of that day, the camp of the Qing army five miles away from the south gate of the new town was densely covered with tents of the Qing army. Banners of all colors were flying. A huge gold weaving dragon banner was inserted in front of the Chinese army tent.
In the broad tent of the Chinese army, there were full of Qing generals in gilded armor, each with shiny scalp and a slender money mouse tail behind his head, shaking their heads and talking Manchu, discussing the military situation.
Since Yang Guli arrived, he urged us to continue attacking the city tomorrow. Abatai had to hold a military conference to discuss how to fight tomorrow.
Among the generals of the Qing army, Abatai was at the top, Yanguli was at the left side of the lower head, and other generals with the blue flag and the white flag were standing on both sides of the lower head.
Abatai saw the people greeting, so he said, "My husband proposes to continue attacking the new city tomorrow, what do you think?"
"Since our troops entered the capital of the Ming Dynasty in July, they have been invincible. They have conquered Changping, Liangxiang, and Dingxing. They have gone down to Ansu, fought Zhuozhou, attacked Gu'an, conquered Wen'an, and broken Baodi. They have captured 12 prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty, killed hundreds of garrison officers and officials of the Ming Dynasty, and captured hundreds of thousands of people, money, and silk. How can we fear this small new town, and raise our troops tomorrow to level off!"
It was Abatai's second son Bo and Tuo who spoke. His words immediately aroused the howl of all the generals present. It seems that he forgot that even today he was played as a sand sculpture by the Ming army.
Abatai glared at his second son. Bo and Tuo suddenly stopped talking.
At this time, Yang Guli said, "Rao Yubei, the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty is in the new city. This is a good opportunity. Our Qing army will break the city and kill it to frighten the Ming court!"
Abatai said: "The new town is so close to the capital of the Ming Dynasty. If the city is attacked in a large scale, how about the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty send troops to reinforce it? How about the general forces from all walks of life send troops to reinforce it?"
Yang Guli smiled: "Don't worry about Baylor. Princess Wuying has arranged properly. Our army still has 70000 heroes, of which 10000 are blocking all reinforcements. Lord Baylor and I lead 30000 troops to attack the city. Prince Wuying leads 20000 troops to continue to plunder all parts of the Ming country eastward, follow the trend to open the way to Cold Valley, and 10000 are transporting supplies and booty and driving the people out of the border. We kill the crown prince of the Ming country in the broken city See you later and head north to get out of the pass. "
Bo Hetuo asked, "Is it too little to send only ten thousand soldiers to stop Ming's army?"
Yang Guli said with a smile, "I don't know. The generals of the Ming Dynasty will only send a small group of Ming soldiers to harass our army for several times. After our Qing soldiers take the initiative to attack, they will shrink in the city like turtles and dare not stand. I have ten thousand Qing soldiers to fight in several ways, which is totally irrelevant."
Hearing the words, all the generals in the account laughed and thought Yang Guli's description was appropriate.
Abatai, who was sitting at the main seat, thought he was old and could not be as happy as others. He stroked his moustache, nodded slowly, looked at Yang Guli and said, "My husband, this is your plan to divide troops!"
Yangouli was stunned, and then smiled: "Spare Yubaile!"
After Yang Guli was crippled by a mysterious Ming army in the battle of Liangxiang, he managed to find out the name of the Ming army. When he knew that the leader was actually a hairy boy, he nearly vomited blood and vowed to kill the prince of the Ming Dynasty, who did not know how lofty the land was.
However, after that war, the prince of the Ming Dynasty hid in Beijing and never came out again, which made Yang Guli angry. If Huang Taiji had not ordered him not to attack Beijing, he would have led the army to attack the city.
This time, it was said that the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty finally left Beijing and went on the expedition on behalf of the Crown Prince. Yang Guli was excited and hurriedly asked for the order from the commander in chief, Azig, and offered this plan.
Abatai sneered in his heart, because that fool of Azig could think of this plan? He continued: "Since Princess Wuying has made a decision, let's discuss how to attack the city!"
Bohe asked: "According to our report in the Ming Dynasty, the prince of the Ming Dynasty gave an order to pacify the refugees in Beijing more than three months ago, and built this city here. The soldiers recruited in the city were all selected from the refugees. At present, there are still Yong Wei camps under the prince of the Ming Dynasty."
A Mongolian flag leader of the Eight Banners said, "The prince of the Ming Dynasty has some ability to build this city in such a short time. Since most of the soldiers in the city are new soldiers, it's no worry!"
Yanguri was surprised and said, "My dear, do you mean that the brave guard camp of the Crown Prince is also in the city?"
He was beaten by the Yongwei Camp with five thousand men and horses. His muscles were broken and his strength was severely damaged, which made him feel cold.
Bohe said with a smile, "Yes, what happened to my husband?"
There was silence in the hall. Many people knew that Yang Guli was basically destroyed by a Beijing battalion army in Liangxiang. If he hadn't made several atonement later, he would have been beheaded by Azig on the spot.
In the silence, Yanguri saw the contemptuous eyes of the crowd, and his face sank. He suddenly stood up and said to Abatai, "Rao Yubele, that Yongwei Camp has sharp firearms, many fierce soldiers, and even the cavalry is brave. I dare to fight with my cavalry, and I think we must pay great attention to it!"
He said positively, "The last general thinks that the Yongwei Camp must be eliminated, otherwise our army will return to the north, and they will follow with a tiger's eyes on the side. When we rise up, our warriors in the Qing Dynasty will be full of plunder, and it will be difficult to transport them out of the customs."
Abatai has been paying close attention to the information about the Yongwei Camp, and did not despise Yang Guli's words. He nodded: "What your husband said is very reasonable. In this case, we will kill him completely to prevent accidents!"
Now, let's get to the point. Everyone talks about how to destroy the city at the minimum cost.
The Mongolian generals of the Eight Banners and several Han army Jialas kept silent. As cannon fodder of Jiannu, they could not get in touch with such strategic and tactical events. Anyway, no matter what was discussed, they were always the vanguard cannon fodder.
In the end, Yangguli's tactics made the whole tent full of applause, including several generals of the Mongolian and Han armies, and everyone was happy.
It turned out that Yangguli found a large area of shack area around him when he was on the way to join the army. There were about 10000 Ming people living in it.
Yang Guli proposed to use the people of Ming Dynasty to open a road in front of us. These people can not only dig earth to fill the moat, but also cover the Qing army to attack the city.
This method is not unique to Yang Guli. It is a tactic often used by the Qing army in the past. When encountering the entangled Ming army forces or hard cities, the Qing army will most likely drive the people to cover in front of the army.
Many officials guarding the city are afraid of being impeached and damaging their own reputation if they hurt people by mistake, so they become afraid of hands and feet, and the morale of the army below is also vulnerable to be affected.
Later, the strength of the Ming army was getting worse and worse. It was easy for the Qing army to have hundreds of Ming armies. Gradually, this tactic was no longer used.