Chapter 123 Mongolian Cannon Fodder (1)
"Boom" The earth seemed to have a severe earthquake, and it sank a large pit that was more than 40 meters long, twenty meters wide and ten meters deep.
Shield chariots, sandbags, coated Aha, white armored soldiers, red armored soldiers, vests, stairs, and armored men, like toys, fell into the big pit. The heavy shield chariots fell into the big pit, pressing the coated Aha who was pushing the cart and the armored men who were following the back into meat pie. The white armored soldiers and red armored soldiers who were shooting archers were not afraid of falling into the trap. Although they were not hit by the shield chariots and sandbags, the Jin soldiers who fell into the trap hit a sharp wooden stake. The people who fell first hit the wooden stakes, and the people behind fell down and pressed on them. The first batch of white armored soldiers and red armored archers who fell seemed to be unable to survive. They were tied into hornet's nests. The double and three thick armored men on their bodies could not save their lives.
Trap! Another trap!
The same person, against the same enemy, used the same method twice, and both times succeeded, which is unique in the history of human wars.
Dorgon only felt that he had suffered a great shame. As the saying goes, no one would fall twice in the same place, but Dorgon did it. I don’t know how Huang Taiji would think of him in this matter.
What was Li Laoer doing in his previous life? He was an engineer! His best job was to dig fortifications, dig tunnels, and arrange various traps. This time, Li Laoer saw that Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner attack was the most fierce, so he thought of a way to dig a trap. He first tricked Dorgon once. The second time was the same method, which caused Dorgon to lose a Niulu army.
In fact, the second trap was pre-digged. Long before the attack of the Later Jin army, Li Laoer asked the civilians to dig a huge military pit between the first trench and the second trench. The specific implementation plan was to dig a trench behind the second line of defense, dig a trench from the trench, dig out a slump pit, lay wooden boards on the top, and support the columns with multiple pillars. In the military pit, a large number of sharpened wooden piles were buried. Once the military pit collapsed, the person who fell down would be stabbed into candied haws by the pointed wooden pillars. The wooden board on the top fell to the ground and became fragments, which could also hurt people.
The thickness of the soil layer above and the support force of the wooden pillars were strictly calculated by Li Laoer. Under normal circumstances, the Later Jin army pushed a heavy shield cart through the above the army pit. The army pit would not collapse, which would allow the Later Jin army to enter the above the army pit in large quantities. When the Later Jin army's shield carts were all on the way, the mechanism would be activated.
The so-called mechanism is that all the wooden pillars used for support in the military pit are pulled with ropes, and one end of the rope is tied to the winch, which saves even gunpowder.
As for the location of the military pit, Li Laoer deliberately left two weak points on the defense line, allowing the Jin army to attack from its own weak position. As a result, all the troops of the Niulu in Zhengbai Banner were above the military pit.
When the shield chariots of the Later Jin army were all above the sinking military pit, Li Laoer ordered Yan Yingyuan's civilians to pull the winch and pull all the wooden stakes out. In this way, the support above the sinking military pit lost its support and could not bear the weight of the shield chariots and people. It collapsed, causing the Later Jin soldiers above the sinking military pit to fall into the pit.
Some of the Later Jin soldiers who fell behind were pressed by the falling shield and immediately turned into meat pies. Some of them were lucky enough not to be pressed, and some people below helped him block the wooden stake. They were lucky enough to not die, and they struggled to try to climb up from the trap.
The Ming army above the earthen wall would not give them a chance to climb up. Countless bird guns, three-eyed guns and other firearms extended behind the wooden fence, aiming at the Later Jin soldiers who had lost their resistance and lost their ability to resist. A row of roaring guns, all the Later Jin soldiers who fell into the Sunken Army pit were shot and killed in the pit.
Dorgon suffered a great loss throughout the journey, but Huang Taiji did not order the Jin Dynasty to withdraw his troops. Dorgon could only run back to Huang Taiji's central army to ask for instructions.
"Khan, the slave suffered heavy losses! The Han Dog Li Laoer and Sun Chengzong were extremely cunning and arranged two traps in succession. The servants' men had already fallen into the trap! The two Niulu's flag directors were almost completely lost. Please agree to the slave to let the two white flags retreat first." Dorgon knelt in front of Huang Taiji and beat a thousand ways.
Huang Taiji was furious: "Did you lose two Niulu? Since you lost it, just cut off two white flags and two Niulu! The flag managers are almost completely lost? The remaining corrupt scholars are all incorporated into two yellow flags! You continue to lead people to attack! If I, the Jurchen Warriors, suffer heavy losses, don't do it, the Master of the Zhengbai Banner."
Dorgon was very angry when he was cut off two Niulu by Huang Taiji, but he did not dare to show any dissatisfaction in front of Huang Taiji, so he had to beat him up: "Zhe!"
In the other two directions, the Later Jin army with the two red flags and two blue flags continued to attack the Ming army's positions. However, their attack rhythm was not as fierce as Dorgon, so the casualties were less, but they were blocked outside the first line of defense and could not move forward at all. The sandbag and the bodies of the Later Jin army filled the first trench, and the two red flags broke through the earth wall and rushed into the first line of defense of the Ming army.
Cao Wenzhao personally brought his servants to block the gap. With the courage of Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, as well as more than 100 most elite servants, he finally drove out the Later Jin soldiers of the Red Flags, and the Ming army blocked the gap again.
The attack of the two blue flags was weaker than that of the two red flags. Abatai lost countless Baoyi Aha and the armored men in front of the first line of defense of the Ming army, and even the first trench was unable to be filled.
Dorgon retreated and immediately ran back to his formation. He called the Mongolians Du Laer and Hubiertu: "You two should click on your troops, follow our shield cart, and shoot Mingdog with bows and arrows! We Jurchens will expel Aha and the Han Nikan to fill the pit!"
This is how Dorgon directly pushed the Mongols as cannon fodder in order to reduce the casualties of the two white flags.
After an hour, Li Laoer, who was standing on the arrow tower behind the second line of defense, saw that the two white flag shields were pushed up again. Li Laoer discovered that the cart of the Later Jin army that came up this time was probably Baoyi Aha, and followed by a group of armored men who did not belong to the flag lie. The one who came behind the armored men was not the Jurchen Eight Banners, but the Mongols!
"Hmph! The Mongolian Tartars are coming! Their weak armor is a good time for our archers to play!" In Li Laoer's eyes, those Mongolian cannon fodders were already corpses in front of the formation.
When the Later Jin army pushed the shield chariot to approach the collapsed sinking army pit, a large number of Baoyi Aha and the captured Ming people walked out from behind the shield chariot carrying sacks and preparing to fill the pit, the Ming army's large and small artillery roared again. In the thick white smoke, countless iron balls shot away.
Chapter completed!