I want to be emperor

Chapter 457 The Death of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui
Digging earthworks is not only for the Chu Army, but also for the Eastern captives... It's just that their earthworks are more traditional, and their level is not as high as that of the Ming army during the Jiangnan and Jiangbei campaigns...

Still the same sentence, the Dongbang people have not been beaten by intensive shelling, and for the time being they don't feel the importance of anti-cannon fortifications... When they attacked Shanhaiguan, they also followed their past experience.

Ever since, Zhu Xingfa looked at the large-scale construction work on the opposite side and began to build many messy fortifications, but these fortifications basically lacked the ability to prevent artillery, especially the ability to fire mortars.

Zhu Xingfa wondered, should the other party give him a big gift?
Ever since, it took seven or eight days for the Dongyao people to dig a lot of fortifications and trenches, and when they were stationed in front of them, and they were about to approach gradually, they were suddenly bombarded by the Chu army intensively!
In one breath, Zhu Xingfa pulled out all the mortars in the army, from infantry support firepower 48-jin mortars to [-]-jin siege mortars, all of them were pulled out and put forward.

Then launched a surprise mortar attack on the fortress of the Dongbang people who were close to deployment!

Their messy fortresses seriously lack the top fortifications of the artillery mortars, and some artillery positions near the deployment have no ring sandbag fortifications, and they are all deployed on the forts.

These have become the key targets of nearly 100 mortars of the Chu army!

When the mortars launched intensive shelling, all kinds of long-barreled artillery also launched intensive shelling, and then the commandos under the First Division took the initiative to fight out several local counterattacks!
During this day, the Dongcap people and Zu Dashou's troops suffered heavy losses!
The casualties alone reached more than 5000 people, and a considerable part of them were elite and technical arms such as gunners and heavy armor.

In addition, more than a dozen large and small red cannons deployed nearby were destroyed!
Coupled with the loss of more than a thousand people who attacked on the first day before, and the scattered losses of more than a thousand in the past seven or eight days, the Dongyaoren and Zu Dashou coalition forces have lost more than 7000 soldiers before they can clearly see the city wall of Shanhaiguan. [-] people,
Mahler Gobi, Shanhaiguan, who looks like a ghost... Huang Taiji is also a resolute and decisive person. When he sees that he can't do anything, he immediately leads the army to retreat to Guangning Zhongqian.

Fighting against the Chu thieves, and even entering the customs later, has to be considered in the long run!

Now, Huang Taiji is going to stabilize the interior first...

Ever since, after returning to Guangning Zhongqian, when Huang Taiji summoned Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui and other Liaoxi army generals, he directly sent armored soldiers to hack them to death...

Since the Liaoxi Corridor has been controlled by me, and I can't enter the customs, I can't really return Liaoxi to Zu Dashou, let him live in Liaoxi forever... That's not nonsense!

In addition, at this time Zu Dashou and his Liao army were also under the supervision of the Dongyao army, Huang Taiji naturally wanted to take the opportunity to completely control the Liaoxi army of more than 5 people.

Get rid of this group of senior generals, and then take carrots in one hand and sticks in the other. I am afraid that the more than 5 ordinary soldiers will not be recovered.

In this regard, Huang Taiji is still somewhat confident.

So, Zu Dashou's Liao King and Wu Sangui's Pingxi King only served for less than half a month, and even lost their lives...

In order to avoid future troubles, Huang Taiji even killed many of their confidants and generals.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Taiji opened the granary, fed the soldiers of the Liao army on the spot, and incorporated them into the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty to enjoy the treatment of the Eight Banners. This can be regarded as initially stabilizing these ordinary soldiers.

While stabilizing the rear, Huang Taiji began to learn from the previous Ming army and began to strengthen the city defenses.

Since he couldn't enter the pass, he naturally had to prevent the Chu thief from getting out of the pass.

However, Huang Taiji didn't expect that the city defenses of the Liaoxi Corridor alone would be able to block the Chu thief's eastward advance. They have even more ruthless tricks!

After suffering at Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji turned around and sent Hauge to lead tens of thousands of cavalry around Mongolia... straight to Miyun Xuanfu.

Since I can't win the tough battle, who would be stupid enough to fight a tough battle with you face to face? I will go around Mongolia, tear through a certain weak line of defense on the Great Wall, and directly plunder North Zhili Shandong.

Secondly, although Huang Taiji led the army to strengthen the city defenses of Guangning Zhongqian and other cities, he still never thought of relying on the city defenses to fight against the Chu thieves!

Many examples of defeats in the previous Ming Dynasty showed that the Chu thieves were very capable of attacking fortifications, and they could not be easily stopped at all.

What he has to do is, when the Chu thief's general situation is advancing eastward, he will directly pull the army out, and have a field battle with the Chu thief on the plain!
Fighting in the field is their strong point!
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It's just that Huang Taiji didn't know it at this time, or he said he knew it, but he didn't care: in fact, the Chu army is best at not attacking fortified positions, let alone defending, but field combat!

Especially the one where the armies of both sides put up a posture and smashed face to face!
The line tactics of the Chu army, the one-vote field artillery and even the flintlock guns, bayonets, etc., to put it bluntly, were born specifically for large-scale field battles.

It's just a pity that, except for a few large-scale field battles with Lu Xiangsheng and Zuo Liangyu in the early years, the Chu army has rarely fought such field battles.

The Ming army did not give the Chu army a chance to fight in the field!

Perhaps, someday in the future, the Dongbuo people will be able to accompany the Chu army in a large-scale field battle.

But, that is also a follow-up matter!
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As for now, since Huang Taiji took the initiative to retreat to the east, Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa stabilized the Shanhaiguan defense line. Due to his limited troops and troublesome supplies, there was no extra problem, but continued to stick to Shanhaiguan.

He needs to wait for the friendly forces in the rear to settle the fronts in Beizhili, and he needs to wait for the logistics department to transport more artillery and shells, especially heavy artillery.

In the end, if he goes eastward in a big way, he will need more cavalry support!

Dongyao and the Liao army on the opposite side joined forces, and the number of cavalry was tens of thousands. Not to mention the Mongolian cavalry under Dongyao's people, the four or five thousand Guanning cavalry in the Liao army alone were enough for them to drink a pot.

In order to avoid a fiasco caused by rushing eastward, Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa still chose a cautious plan: stick to Shanhaiguan!
And this is actually his main strategic task!
Before leading the army to Shanhaiguan, General Li Chengtong gave him a strategic mission to seize Shanhaiguan. If he could not seize Shanhaiguan, he would block Shanhaiguan.

In short, it is impossible to let the Dongbang people come out from the direction of Shanhaiguan.

Looking at it now, Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa has successfully completed the strategic task assigned by Li Chengtong.

Just know that the right army in the rear is fighting like this?

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What Zhu Xingfa didn't know was that the friendly troops in the rear were much easier than him.

Lieutenant General Zhu Xingfa still needs to face the pressure brought by the 20 East captive army, but the Second Army and the Tenth Division and other friendly troops will not have so much pressure.

The No. 20th Division and the Tenth Division went north to Xuanfu, Jizhen and other places respectively, and basically did not encounter too stubborn resistance.

Since Chongzhen is dead and the Ming court is dead, the strength of the left-behind frontier army in the north is not good. There were only more than 4000 Guanning iron cavalry left in the Wanbian army and fled. A small number of others were killed or injured, and the rest became prisoners of the Chu army.

There are not many left behind frontier troops in Jizhen, Xuanda and other places!
At the same time, for these frontier troops, the Chu army still yelled the slogan of preferential treatment of prisoners of war as always, which led to many frontier troops surrendering decisively under the leadership of local generals.

Many frontier fortresses and border towns have not yet been killed by the Chu army, and even before the envoys to persuade them to surrender have been dispatched, the local generals in charge directly changed their banners, and then took the initiative to contact the Chu army for an uprising anyway.

If the local civil servants or other generals disagree, there will often be more brutal infighting.

In the case of a large number of frontier army uprisings anyway, the Chu army did not expend too much effort at all, and directly controlled some important cities, such as Jizhou Town, Zunhua, Pinggu, Miyun, Changping, Yanqing, Juyongguan, Longmenwei , Xuanfu Town, Huaian and other places.

At present, there is still a part of the No.20 Division, which has already gone to the front line of Datong Mansion in Shanxi, and the local Ming army does not have much resistance, and it is estimated that it depends on the spread.

It depends on the situation of large-scale propaganda in various border towns in the north. The main reason is that the current situation is very good for the Great Chu Empire!

Now the Great Chu Empire has controlled the southern provinces, and also controlled Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Shandong, and all parts of the Central Plains east of Tongguan, and now even Beizhili has been taken.

The most important thing is that Chongzhen and his clan, as well as many ministers and dignitaries of the Ming court, were taken over by the Chu army in Youzhou City, and they basically died cleanly.

The Ming Dynasty has been declared over.

Under such circumstances, it is basically difficult for those who are not particularly strong, or have a large number of troops in their hands, to develop a stubborn heart against the Chu Dynasty.

In addition, the Chu army often gave preferential treatment to these frontier soldiers when they surrendered. After they were eliminated and selected to a certain extent, a large number of ordinary frontier soldiers were successively reorganized into second-class divisions.

The treatment of the soldiers of this second-class division is that of the regular army in the Chu army, and the treatment is higher than that of the previous garrison troops.

This treatment is what many frontier soldiers dream of!

Although the Chu army killed many officials in Youzhou City, they still maintained a preferential treatment attitude towards ordinary soldiers, regardless of whether they surrendered or surrendered.

After all, the values ​​of both parties are different for the Chu Dynasty.

To a certain extent, the Chu Dynasty needed to recruit these frontier troops to alleviate the shortage of troops on the northern front, but it did not need these civil servants who were only corrupt and making money.

As for the lack of manpower in the local administrative yamen, there is no need to worry about this. Guo Quanshu of the Ministry of Civil Affairs had already begun to prepare manpower before the Northern Expedition.

The Great Chu Empire has summoned many officials from various places in advance, and temporarily recruited local scholars as officials in Jiangbei and the newly occupied areas. I dare not say anything else, but it is still possible to establish an administrative office in time to maintain basic rule.

(End of this chapter)