All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 22: Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain: Liaozhen Soldiers
"No baggage."

"All the artillery pieces were left behind. There was no time to transport them."

"The cavalry rode on pack horses and led the war horses along."

"All pack horses and wagons, follow up, armor, weapons, and gunpowder."

"I told you not to bring civilians with you, not even one!"

"Leave Yebushou first. If we meet any Jiannu scouts on the road, we must not let any of them go."

As the day brightened, the army, well fed and drunk, began to move out.

Even though he has been studying hard for such a long time, at this busy time, Chen Ran is still overwhelmed and has to make decisions on all kinds of things.

"After this battle, we must establish a staff system. What oath am I swearing here?"

After struggling for nearly half an hour, the order was finally sorted out and the army set out one after another.

The core consisted of six hundred musketeers and eight hundred cavalrymen who considered themselves to be retainers.

In addition, there were 3,000 elite soldiers selected from the Shanxi troops, Zhu Laitong with 700 people, and 1,000 soldiers from Zunhua City.

In addition to the hundreds of Yebushou who were released in advance, there were almost 6,000 troops, and more than 70% of them were armored.

Zhao Lujiao from a nearby camp has also sent out troops.

He had 4,000 soldiers in his own army, 4,000 soldiers in Jizhen's army, and several thousand elite soldiers from Jizhen who were gradually gathered, with a total force of more than 12,000.

These are all selected soldiers who can at least fight.

The rest of the troops followed the soldiers from Henan and Shandong who came to support the king and headed north to Deshengmen.

Not everyone is like Chen Ran who has connections in the court and can simply disobey the imperial edict.

They had to go wherever the emperor and the court told them to go.

At least at this time, the Ming emperor and the court still had prestige.

"Liu Youfu." Chen Ran, who was riding forward, called his logistics manager, "Distribute the remaining grapes, a few per person to supplement the sugar."

The apples had been eaten long ago and there weren't many grapes left.

At this time, I can only send a few as a token of my appreciation.

The two armies, totaling nearly 20,000 people, were divided into several columns and marched quickly across the land of the capital that had already frozen.

The winter sun rose higher and higher, and time passed quickly until it was half past nine, which was 2:15 am.

The subtitles appeared in front of Chen Ran again.

'The modification has been completed, and the reward will be issued.'

'Note: 600 kilograms of sugar cubes and 200 jars of honey will be distributed.'

"Has Huang Taiji begun to besiege the Liaodong garrison?" Chen Ran's heart tightened, and he turned his horse around and came to a carriage.

The car was loaded with large boxes filled with silver, which were used to distribute rewards.

He lifted the lid of the box, reached in, took the silver and put the sugar cube in.

Several boxes were emptied one after another, and the six hundred kilograms of sugar cubes were placed.

"Liu Youfu!" He called the logistics manager again, "Distribute all the candies, one piece per person. Anyone who dares to take it will be punished by military law."

The sugar cubes were not big, weighing about one or two ounces each, enough for every soldier.

"If you want to replenish your energy and calories in this cold weather, you have to eat sugar."

Compared to Chen Ran's side, which was rich enough to distribute expensive sugar to the soldiers on a rapid march, Zhao Lujiao's side was much scarcer.

He couldn't afford so much candy, so he distributed wine. Each person drank a bowl of wine, which at least made them feel warm on the surface and gave them more strength to hurry on.

At the end of the Si hour, a fast horseman named Yebushou came back to report that "more than ten miles ahead, the Jiannu army is besieging the Liaozhen troops."

Tongzhou City is only fifty miles away from the capital. Chen Ran and his men set out from the north and headed south, and the battlefield was only forty miles away in total.

During a normal march, it is impossible to run dozens of miles in the morning. This is a day's journey.

Chen Ran used a forced march.

The reason why we had a good and full meal in the morning and distributed grapes and candies on the way was to replenish the soldiers' physical strength and avoid falling behind as much as possible.

After walking a few miles forward, the rumbling sound of artillery in the distance could be clearly heard.

"Not bad." Chen Ran breathed a sigh of relief. "The soldiers in Liaozhen didn't collapse immediately."

What he had been worried about was that the Liaozhen troops would collapse at the first blow, and he would have to come here with great effort only to face the main force of the Later Jin head-on.

The reason why he had this idea was mainly because Liao Zhen's performance up to now made him unable to trust him.

In his eyes, the Liaozhen soldiers were proficient in the essence of Fenglinhuoshan's tactics.

The enemy advanced as fast as the wind.

Close the city and defend it, their movement is as slow as a forest.

They plundered and invaded like fire.

Friendly troops are in trouble and remain as motionless as a mountain.

In fact, the Liaozhen Town cost several million taels of silver to maintain every year, and had to fight with the Jiannu every year. Its combat capability was the best in the Ming Dynasty.

When they were attacked before, He Kegang and others quickly surrounded the carts in the camp and formed a circular formation.

The numerous artillery pieces and muskets they carried were placed on the chariot formation, and their continuous firing temporarily blocked the Jiannu's attack.

Faced with this kind of defense, the Later Jin could concentrate its strength to attack one point, break through the formation after paying a price, and basically determine the overall situation.

But no one expected that the Jizhen troops, who were supposed to head north to Deshengmen, actually appeared on the outskirts of the battlefield.

And it came so quickly!
Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, the morale of the besieged Liaozhen troops immediately boosted.

I guess they wouldn't surrender or collapse once their formation was broken.

The pressure now is thrown on the Later Jin Dynasty.

"Great Khan," Abatai was the first to speak up. "Retreat."

Huang Taiji had a sullen face and said nothing.

His eyes were fixed on the large flags of Chen Ran and Zhao Lujiao in the distance.

"I've been hunting geese all day, but today I got my eye pecked by a goose." Daishan let out a breath and sighed slowly, "Let's retreat, we are attacked from all sides." "Do you think so too?" Huang Taiji's eyes swept over the people around him.

They can indeed withdraw now, after all, they have more horses.

But the problem is that if they withdraw now, the prestige of Huang Taiji, who led this battle, will inevitably be damaged.

Although he was the Khan of Heaven's Mandate, the four great beiles were in power at the same time.

He could not accept the result of his prestige being damaged.

"When will we, the men of the Eight Banners, hide and run away when we see the Ming army?" Huang Taiji, who had made up his mind, completely relaxed. "It has always been the Ming army that runs away when they see us!"

"If we withdraw now, what will the Ming army do if they follow us? The old camp is right behind us!"

During these days, the Jiannu troops swept through various counties and prefectures within the capital and looted countless places.

A lot of wealth, supplies and people were sent out through Gubeikou one after another.

However, there were still a large amount of seized materials and captured people, all of which were kept in the old camp.

"If we retreat now, what should we do if the Ming army gathers together and surrounds the old camp? Should we abandon the old camp and continue to retreat?"

There was complete silence all around, with only the rustling sound of the flags fluttering in the cold wind.

After coughing twice, Huang Taiji said loudly, "They are just the Ming army. It's not like we haven't fought them before! Fight them!"

"Old Fourteen, Old Fifteen."

Upon hearing the call, Dorgon and Dodo immediately stepped out and saluted, "Great Khan."

"You two lead the two white flags and the Khorchin tribe to surround the Liaozhen soldiers and don't let them out."

"Cha~~~"

"The rest of the flags, the Mongolian tribes." Huang Taiji's eyes were slightly red, and he drew his sword and pointed it in the direction of Chen Ran's flag, "Follow me to kill the enemy!"

He was really angry.

He has always been the one calculating against others. Even Yuan Chonghuan, the Liaodong governor of the Ming Dynasty, was fooled by him.

Today we were planning to plot against the Ming army, but unexpectedly we were caught off guard by Chen Ran.

This made Huang Taiji, who was proud of his military prowess, feel humiliated.

If you want to wash away the shame, you must win!

At three quarters after noon, the regrouped Later Jin army slowly moved toward the north.

"Everyone." When the Houjin troops gathered, Chen Ran had already shouted the order, "Drink water and eat dry food when it's convenient."

After a morning of forced march, hundreds of Chen Ran's men fell behind.

On Zhao Lujiao's side, even more people fell behind.

There was no time to wait for the people behind him, so he had to eat and drink first. Then he put on his armor, picked up his weapons, and fed bean cakes to his warhorse.

After doing this, start lining up.

Chen Ran and Zhao Lujiao divided into two large formations, one on the left and one on the right, each taking care of their own affairs.

His infantry was in the middle and the cavalry was on both wings, a standard offensive formation.

The Later Jin army on the opposite side began to split up their forces when they were seven or eight miles away.

The two yellow flags and the bordered red flag, with a part of the Mongolian cavalry, attacked Zhao Rujiao.

The two blue flags and the red flag led some Mongolian soldiers to attack Chen Ran.

Daishan and Manggurtai had never fought with Chen Ran before, and they still had some contempt for him in their hearts.

Moreover, Chen Ran's side obviously had fewer soldiers, so after some discussion, the two of them quickly decided to go ahead and take away the opposing Ming army in one go.

The attached Mongolian cavalry was arranged to entangle the cavalry on both wings of the Ming army.

Daishan and Manggurtai concentrated the strength of the three flags and launched a strong attack on the Ming army's center.

The sun was high in the sky, but the cold wind on the ground was getting stronger and stronger.

What made Chen Ran unhappy was that the wind was blowing from the south today. The cold wind was sweeping sand and dust towards the north, which was very unfavorable for the army.

"This is the damn heaven." Looking up at the sky, Chen Ran said sternly, "Even the wind blows, it helps the Tartars!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two lines of subtitles appeared in front of his eyes.

"Your army is in a decisive battle with the main force of the Later Jin, and a strong south wind is blowing on the battlefield."

'Note: You can modify one of the words.'

"Uh~~~" Chen Ran was a little embarrassed. "Oh my God, I was just talking casually just now, don't take it seriously."

The Tartar troops on the opposite side had already rushed over, and Chen Ran immediately erased the word "Nan" in "Nanfeng" and changed it to "Bei".

In an instant, the wind and clouds surged, and the cold wind swept in with a whistle.

The wind direction changed, and the cold wind blew from the north to the south, raising a cloud of dust and sweeping across the Tatar army like a wave.

The momentum of the Tatar army, which was gradually accelerating, was suddenly curbed.

"The musketeers advance and line up, with the musketeers as the columns, one hundred men in a row. The shield bearers hold their shields, the long weapons are in front, and the crossbows are in the back!"

Chen Ran quickly prepared for the battle.

The musketeers went forward, followed by the shield soldiers, the long weapons followed behind the shield soldiers, and the archers and sword and shield soldiers came last.

Several servants rode out of the formation on horseback and threw down stones painted white a hundred steps away.

This is used to mark the distance for musketeers.

I had conducted many experiments in Santun Camp before, and found that the effective armor-piercing distance of a high-quality Rumi gun was roughly one hundred steps.

When the fastest charging Red Banner soldiers passed the stones, goose flutes sounded and gunshots rang out.

The subtitles appeared in front of Chen Ran again.

'The changes have been made, and the rewards are now being distributed.'

'Note: 6,000 chicken eggs, 5,000 duck eggs, 4,000 goose eggs, and 800 ostrich eggs will be distributed.'

(End of this chapter)