I want to be emperor

Chapter 545 National War
At the beginning of May of the sixth year of Chengshun, the Liaoxi Corridor.

Ningyuan Zhongyousuo, this small city in the western Liaoning Corridor, has experienced a hundred years of ups and downs, the Ming Dynasty, and the Eastern Captives ushered in a third master: the Great Chu Empire!

At the end of April, the Chu army had already occupied this place without a single soldier. However, this place was voluntarily abandoned by the Dongyao people. Before they withdrew, the Dongyao people almost destroyed all the facilities in the city that could be destroyed.

As for money and food, nothing was left behind, and even all kinds of houses and buildings were burned as soon as they could be burned.

Even all the wells in the city were polluted by the rotting corpses thrown by the Dongbang people.

Therefore, although the Chu army seems to have obtained a city, in fact, the city is no different from the ruins, because there are many ruins in the city, and even drinking water is not easy to solve, so the Chu army spent the first few days in the city. Mainly stationed outside the city.

Because the cleaning project was relatively large, and the city was originally small, the Chu army simply did not let a large number of main forces enter the city to garrison, but only regarded it as a military fortress and stationed thousands of people.

A large number of main forces are stationed in the wilderness south of Zhongyousuo, and are relatively close to the sea.

The reason why the main force is deployed at the seaside is mainly to be able to obtain sea supplies more conveniently, and at the same time to cover the navy's transport fleet to dock and load and unload supplies.

In the Battle of Liaoxi, the logistics supply of the Great Chu Empire was carried out by sea and land. On the one hand, a large number of civilians were mobilized to form a large number of transport regiments, and a road was built from Tianjinwei to Shanhaiguan, and then transported to the frontlines with Shanhaiguan as a transit point. supply line.

Another one is directly to the east by sea, and the nearest supply along the coast.

Especially with the gradual eastward advance, the main force of the Chu army is already hundreds of kilometers away from Shanhaiguan in the rear. As the distance increases and the difficulty of land transportation gradually increases, the Chu army also increases the supply by sea. intensity.

The troops directly under the Third Group Army and the Ninth Army currently stationed in Ningyuan Zhongyou, the First Cavalry Army and the Guards Cavalry Detachment that captured Jinzhuang one step ahead of schedule, and the Third Division of the Guards that captured Xiaotuanshan Fort , The Sixth Mixed Regiment of the Second Division, and the Eighth Army that captured Xingshui County Fort and Baitayu Fort. The above-mentioned total of more than [-] troops, half of which was replenished by sea.

Many ships of the Great Chu Empire were loaded with various supplies from various coastal ports in the rear, and then transported to the north under the escort of naval warships.

Some of these ships docked and unloaded at Shanhaiguan, some unloaded at several small ports along the way, and some unloaded at the newly occupied Ningyuan Zhongyousuo.

The reason why all the materials are not transported to Ningxiang Zhongyou Institute is purely because the throughput of these ports is limited...

The 10,000+ army of the Great Chu Empire consumes a huge amount of materials, and there are also many ships called from the rear.

However, there are relatively few ports for reliable berthing and unloading, and the throughput of these ports is relatively limited.

Among the series of ports in the West Liao Corridor, only the port on the Shanhaiguan side can berth a large number of ships, because this place has undergone two years of infrastructure construction by the Chu army. Not only has various defensive facilities in Shanhaiguan been improved, but also a military port with many berths and hoisting facilities has been built.

Nowadays, the port terminal on the Shanhaiguan side can meet the throughput of materials consumed by 10,000+ troops in an emergency.

In the previous two cold winter seasons, when the Youhang Canal was frozen and the northern land was frozen, the Chu army used large-scale sea transportation to transport supplies to the northern garrison.

Although there are problems of one kind or another, it can be transported anyway.

But apart from Shanhaiguan, there are no large-scale ports in some coastal areas of the Liaoxi Corridor that the front line has just occupied, and some are just some primitive small ports. These small ports are fine for a small number of large ships, but don't expect to At the same time, a large number of sea-going ships are berthed, and there are not enough berths at the pier...

The supporting facilities such as hoisting facilities and dock warehouses are even more insufficient.

Even if the engineering units of the Third Army and the engineering units of the Navy's Beiyang Fleet expanded and built the pier of Ningyuan Zhongyou Station day and night, they could not accommodate the huge sea transport fleet of the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, the sea transportation of the Chu army can only be dispersed to various ports for unloading, and then continue to be transported to the front line through land transshipment.

With the emergency construction of the Ningyuan Zhongyousuo port, this place will become the main material transfer point for the follow-up operations of the Third Army of the Great Chu Empire and the Guards.

According to the plan of the logistics department, this port will be responsible for at least half of the supplies of the frontline army in half a month.

General Zuo Yingzhe, the commander of the Third Army, was actually a little dissatisfied with this, but he couldn't help it.

Land transportation is too troublesome, too many people need to be mobilized, and the speed is slow. The most important thing is that they will face the threat of Dongbang cavalry.

Although the Chu army had already defeated [-] cavalrymen from Dongyao in the middle of Guangning...but there were not only [-] cavalrymen from Dongyao...

They also have tens of thousands of cavalry, and Monan Mongolia controlled by the Dongbang people also includes the Duoyan Sanwei area.

The Mongolian cavalry in these areas can also threaten the safety of the supply line of the Chu army in the Liaoxi Corridor in the south.

Speaking of this Duoyan Sanwei, its changes are very interesting!
From the changes in Duoyan Sanwei, we can basically see the changes in the internal and external policies of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli, Tianqi, Taichang, and Chongzhen dynasties for decades.

In the early years, Duoyan Sanwei basically chose to submit to the Ming Dynasty honestly, especially after being beaten up by Qi Jiguang.

Therefore, in the middle and late period of the Wanli period, the three guards of Duoyan were all loyal vassals or mercenaries of the Ming Dynasty.

Regardless of the name, the Duoyan Sanwei at that time was used by the Ming Dynasty.

Later, after the rise of the Dongyao people, the Ming Dynasty continued to win over and support the Duoyan Sanwei, so as to use their power to continue to suppress and suppress the Dongyao people.

However, changes gradually occurred in the follow-up. First, Lin Danhan of the Chahar tribe of Monan Mongolia was ambitious to unify Monan Mongolia and launched a war of conquest against many Monan Mongolian troops.

During this process, many tribes in Monan Mongolia switched to Dongyao people in order to protect themselves, including some tribes of Duoyan Sanwei.

Part of the reason why these Duoyan Sanwei tribes betrayed the Ming Dynasty was that the Ming Dynasty chose to cooperate with Lin Danhan...

In the early years, the situation in Monan Mongolia was very complicated. The Ming Dynasty, Dongyao people, Lindan Khan and other tribes in Monan Mongolia mixed together and fought for their own interests.

During this period, Monan Mongolia was actually a mess. Instead of relying on their power, the Dongyao people were threatened by them. The Ming Dynasty could also obtain Lin Dan Khan and part of the power of Duoyan Sanwei.

However, changes have occurred since more than ten years ago... On the one hand, after Huang Taiji came to power, he gradually stabilized his internal situation and shifted his strategic direction, changing the main expansion direction from western Liaoning to Monan Mongolia and the Koryo Peninsula. Conquer these areas to obtain materials such as population, money, food and livestock.

Monan Mongolia couldn't hold back the Eight Banners army of Huang Taiji at all!
As for the Ming Dynasty, after Chongzhen came to power, its foreign policy has undergone major changes, and the previous wooing and division gradually disappeared...replaced by a tough foreign policy...

The change of Duoyan Sanwei is a typical manifestation of this policy.

With the gradual battle with Lin Dan Khan, who was better in the Ming Dynasty, when trying to unify Monan Mongolia, some tribes of Duoyan Sanwei defected to Dongcap for self-protection.

However, at that time, some tribes still chose to be neutral or to vote for the Ming Dynasty...

It's just that Chongzhen's monarchs and ministers may have misjudged, maybe they were arrogant, or some other messy reasons... They even gave up their previous strategy of winning and supporting Duoyan Sanwei.

Ever since, the remaining Duoyan Sanwei tribe who had not defected to the Dongyao people finally defected to the Dongyao people in order to protect themselves.

According to the records of Chongzhen, there were Chaohua, Nuantu, and Guiying tribes outside the Great Wall in Guangning.There are 36 gatekeepers in Jizhen Sanxie.All are rewarded.As a result, China and foreign countries welcomed the decree and rewarded it.Zhu Yi has been stunned.Will be hungry outside the Great Wall, please millet.Those who are firm and not given, and who are guilty of crimes.So the tribes in the east gathered together and went away, and the Qing Dynasty collected all the tribes, and the frontier affairs could not be done'

Don't worry, because this passage is the official history written by the Dongyao people, so you have to read it carefully and slowly.

For example, 'I will be hungry outside the Great Wall, please millet."Shangjian refuses, and those who have committed crimes" just look at this sentence, and you think that the Ming Dynasty was stingy, or that the Chongzhen had no brains, and just kicked Duoyan Sanwei into the hands of Dongyao.

In fact, at that time, the Duoyan Sanwei had been divided into many parts, some of which had defected to the East, some were conquered by Lin Danhan, some remained neutral, and some of them defected to the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty gave up the three guards of Duoyan during this period, but in fact only a small part of them were abandoned... As for the other three guards of Duoyan, they had already defected to the Dongyao people...

But the people from the Dongyao did not write about this situation...but they cherish words like gold, talking about 36 families before, and talking about Zhuyi later.

So, when you see 'Beyond the Great Wall, please millet.Those who are firm and not given, and who are guilty of crimes. 'During this period, I would subconsciously think that it was the entire 36 families of Duoyan...In reality, there were only a small number of Duoyan tribes who were neutral or biased toward the Ming Dynasty. They approached the Ming Dynasty for help...they were rejected by Chongzhen .

This paragraph "then the tribes in the east gathered together, and the Qing Dynasty collected all the tribes and the border affairs can't be done" is even more nonsense.

At first glance, the three Duoyan guards defected to Dongyao after Chongzhen refused to rescue Duoyan three guards, but in fact the Dongyao people had already regained some tribes through war more than ten years ago, and some tribes were in Dongyao. Lin Dan Khan's persecution to write and go to captivity to protect himself...

The three guards of Duoyan finally defected to the East as a whole, largely due to Lin Danhan's attempt to unify Monan Mongolia, and it has some relationship with the Ming Dynasty, but the relationship is not that big...

To put it bluntly, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was difficult to protect itself, and they simply did not have enough ability to determine the overall direction of Duoyan Sanwei.

But if you don’t study it carefully, just look at the history of the Ming Dynasty written by Dongyao people or the real records of Chongzhen, and you will come to the conclusion that the reason why Duoyan Sanwei defected to Dongyao was because Chongzhen was too stupid...

History books, especially the official history of the previous dynasty written by the later dynasty, we have to look at it with suspicion and dialectics, otherwise, the history you see is just the history of the previous dynasty that the later dynasty wants you to see.

Because the text you see is not 100%, but nine times out of ten it is missing something. Different texts record the same thing, so what you see is completely different.

The above section of Chongzhen Records compiled by the Dongcap people is exactly that.

How should I put it, although Chongzhen is quite stupid, but he is not so stupid as to force the entire Duoyan Sanwei directly to the Dongyao people...

Even if he is stupid, his courtiers will not be so stupid...

There must be more complex and profound secondary reasons here, but it is enough to write a historical paper with hundreds of thousands of words, and those who are interested can understand it by themselves.

However, from this record, we can still understand that during the Ming Chongzhen Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's policy towards Duoyan Sanwei had undergone tremendous changes.

This kind of policy change is good or bad, let’s not evaluate it first, just talk about the result: during the reign of Tianqi, the Duoyan Sanwei, who were still a barrier to the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, after the reign of Chongzhen, completely changed from a mercenary of the Ming Dynasty to an enemy of the Ming Dynasty...

Not only has the strength of the Dongyao people increased greatly, but also border areas such as Jizhen, Miyun and even Xuanda have been directly exposed to the frontiers of the Dongyao people.

The subsequent detour of the Dongyao people to Mongolia and entering Beizhili from Xifengkou was the bitter fruit of the complete failure of the Ming Dynasty to manage Duoyan Sanwei.

This also led to the fact that when the Chu army entered the Liaoxi Corridor, the north also faced the threat of the Duoyan Sanwei under the control of Dongyao.

This is also the reason why the Third Army deployed heavy troops in the north!

On the front line of Ji Town, there is the Sixth Army under the command of the Third Army, and at this time they are also heading towards the direction of Duoyan Sanwei!
At the same time, on the north side of the Liaoxi Corridor, the Eighth Army is also advancing eastward along the Great Wall on the north side of the Liaoxi Corridor, basically with the First Cavalry Army, the main force of the Third Army, the Ninth Army, and the troops directly under the Group Army. The Guards keep the same rhythm.

It was to cover the flanks of the southern main force.

The entire Northeast Campaign was not just a few checkpoint cities in the south of the Liaoxi Corridor, but a large-scale battle that spread hundreds of kilometers.

The Liaoxi Corridor is the main battlefield, but there is still the Seventh Army in the direction of the Liaodong Peninsula. At this time, the Seventh Army has also made an attack posture, and even attacked the Dongyao people several times to threaten the Dongyao people in Fuzhou and other places. , to prevent them from being transferred back to the Jinzhou area on a large scale.

In the direction of Jizhen, the Sixth Army moved eastward, threatening Duoyan Sanwei.

On the front line of Xuanda and even Miyun, the Second Army also launched an offensive against the eastern tribes of Monan Mongolia with the cooperation of Tumed's troops.

Several independent cavalry brigades and regiments, including the Second Cavalry Army under the Second Army and the Fifth Cavalry Division in the direction of Miyun, tens of thousands of cavalry have launched a large-scale battle in the eastern region of Monan Mongolia.

The entire northeast battlefield covers a very large area. From the Xuanda line to Jizhen, then to the Liaoxi Corridor, to the Liaodong Peninsula, and finally to the Pidao line of the Koryo Peninsula, there are soldiers of the Great Chu Empire everywhere.

For this all-out attack, the Great Chu Empire has invested nearly 30 ground troops, and currently has more than 20 troops directly participating in the front-line battle.

This is not counting the thousands of transport ships of various sizes and hundreds of warships of various types in the navy.

Not counting the various transportation regiments and battalions organized by the logistics department as many as hundreds of thousands of young and strong civilians and soldiers from the Ming army.
The battle between the Great Chu Empire and the Dongyao people was not only in the Liaoxi Corridor, and it was not just in the front line of Ningyuan City.

Otherwise, Dongyao wouldn't be so passive, and couldn't even dispatch reinforcements.

It is really a multi-line battle, and the troops in other directions are being restrained, and the Dongyao people have no way to mobilize more troops.

In response to the full-scale attack of the Chu army, in order to support the front line in western Liaoning, the Dongyao people had already organized all the remaining young and strong in their various Eight Banners into the army, and later recruited all the servants of the Koryo Peninsula. .

However, the combat effectiveness of these young and strong servants recruited later is too poor to play much role on the battlefield.

The Dongbang people could only rely on the original main force to resist, so they fell into a situation of insufficient troops and gradually defeated.

The Northeast War between the Great Chu Empire and the Dongyao people was a full-scale war, and the competition was not about the bravery of the soldiers of the two sides, or the tactics and strategies of the generals.

It's a direct competition of national strength!

Unfortunately, the national strength of the Dongyao people is far inferior to that of the Great Chu Empire. They are all behind in terms of population and money and food. They cannot resist the Chu army's almost tactical advance.

The cities of Guangning in the front have just finished, and the city of Ningyuan in the back is also in crisis.

The various tribes of Dongyao who had retreated all the way from the front fled back to Ningyuan City, and by the way, they also spread panic to the more than 1 Dongyao defenders in Ningyuan City.

Ever since the forward of the Chu Army arrived at Jinzhuang Post, the Dongyao defenders in Ningyuan City had already begun to panic.

And on the sixth day of May, after the Eighth Army of the Chu Army successfully crossed the upper reaches of the Ningyuan River and captured Xingshui County Fort and Baitayu Fort, the Dongcap defenders in Ningyuan City became even more panicked...

On May [-], the Ninth Army of the Third Army and the troops directly under the Group Army, which had rested for a long time in the Zhongyou area of ​​Guangning, continued to advance eastward and soon reached the west bank of the Ningyuan River.

Ningyuan City is on the west bank of Ningyuan River!

The forces of both sides confront each other across the Ningyuan River!
On May [-]th, taking advantage of the high water level of the Ningyuan River during the summer flood season, the Great Chu Empire Navy sent a large number of small and medium-sized warships up the river to provide sufficient fire support for the army and cover the army to build a pontoon bridge.

The firepower of the navy's naval guns is much stronger than those of the army's field guns.

With the cover of the navy's naval gun fire, and the army itself had a large number of artillery swung to the shore, the Dongyao defenders on the opposite side didn't even have the courage to approach the engineer troops who attacked the Chu army's pontoon bridge...

It could only be that more than a dozen artillery pieces were placed far away to bombard the Chu army from more than 1000 meters away.

Because the opponent's artillery was few and the distance was long, although the Chu army had suffered some losses, it was still impossible to prevent the Chu army from forcibly building a pontoon bridge and starting a large-scale crossing of the river.

In the afternoon of May [-]th, when the pontoon bridge was first completed and the Chu army began to cross the river on a large scale.

At this time, seeing that the long-distance bombardment was unsuccessful, and seeing that the Chu army was about to cross the river on a large scale, the Dongcap defenders in Ningyuan City immediately sent a large number of troops out of the city to attack.

They braved the fierce artillery fire of the Chu army to charge once in the evening, but the result was very bad, because the artillery fire of the Chu army was so fierce that they suffered heavy casualties, leaving hundreds of corpses directly...

The attack during the day was too threatening, and they were almost directly exposed to the artillery of the Chu army. For this reason, they changed their tactics and waited until nightfall to launch a larger-scale attack!

They wanted to break through the interception of the Chu army's beachhead troops, directly attack the Chu army's troops crossing the river, and attack the Chu army halfway across the river.

However, with the support of a large number of firepower from our own side, the beachhead troops of the Chu army were as stable as Mount Tai, and once again repelled the night attack of the Dongyao people!
After the failure of the large-scale night attack, the Dongbuo people still did not give up. They launched several small and medium-scale night attacks that night, trying to counterattack while taking advantage of the darkness.

On the Ningyuan River in the south of Ningyuan City, guns and guns rumbled and the flames were shining all night.

After dawn the next day, the Eastern captives retreated gradually.

The Chu army sent people to clean up the battlefield, and when the beachhead troops began to advance under the cover of a large number of field artillery that had already crossed the river, what they saw were at least 2000 bodies of Dongcap people!
A large-scale attack yesterday afternoon, a large-scale attack after nightfall, and several small and medium-scale attacks in the evening left more than 2000 corpses and countless wounded.

It can be seen that the Dongyao people were cruel in order to prevent the Chu army from crossing the river... To lose so much in the offensive battle, they really gritted their teeth and fought again. Maybe the supervising team will go into battle on a large scale Killed the deserters.

However, the strength is not good, and it is impossible to break through the beachhead firepower of the Chu army.

That is to say, most of the attacks by the Dongyao people were at night. In the night, the Chu army's artillery hit rate was not high enough, and the fighting was extremely chaotic. Otherwise, the Dongyao people's casualties would be even greater.

The reason why the Dongyao people made such a big determination was that they knew very well that once the main force of the Chu army, especially a large number of artillery pieces of the Chu army, passed the river smoothly, it would be impossible for Ningyuan City to hold.

Anyone who knows a little bit about the Chu army knows that the Chu army's ability to attack tough battles is groundless, or even unsolvable.

In the field battle, Dongyao people may still be able to fight back and forth with the Chu army, just like the previous ferry attack, no matter whether it is successful or not, how many casualties, but at least the Dongyao people can still fight against the Chu army. Hit a dozen.

But stick to the city and wait for the Chu army to attack...

That is the fate of being bombed unilaterally!
Before, the Dongyao people were still a little doubtful about the ability of the Chu army to attack fortified positions, so when they were in Guangning Zhongqian, they came to stand by and wait for help...

As a result, more than 2 defenders suffered heavy casualties after failing to hold on for a few days under the fierce shelling of the Chu army.

Although Ningyuan City is bigger and has more troops, it won't be able to hold for a few days if it bears shelling unilaterally.

It doesn't even have anything to do with the morale of the defenders...

Under the bombardment of batches of 48-jin, 24-jin, and [-]-jin howitzers, courage is nothing but clouds...

This point, the defenders of Ningyuan City are also very clear... That's why they once wanted to directly block the Chu army from Ningyuan River!
For this reason, they did not hesitate to use tens of thousands of troops to launch attacks in turn, but they were defeated by the fierce firepower of the Chu army.

It was not until there were more than 2000 corpses and countless wounded before the battle that the sky was bright again, and the attack was given up in desperation!

At about ten o'clock in the morning, when the senior generals of the Dongcap people in Ningyuan City saw that a large number of heavy artillery from the Chu army were also starting to cross the river, Qi Qi had an idea:
It's over!
Ningyuan City is coming to an end!

One of them said: "What should we do now?
A Baylor Road next to him gritted his teeth and said, "What else can I do, withdraw!"

"The barbarians of Chu are powerful. We cannot defend Ningyuan City by relying on us. Not only will we not be able to defend the city, but we will also ruin tens of thousands of elites from the Qing Dynasty in vain!"

"Let's go to Jinzhou to join the emperor's Chinese army now, and then we will fight to the death with Chu Manzi under the city of Jinzhou!"

On May [-], more than [-] defenders of Ningyuan City, who tried to cross the river but failed, abandoned the city directly before the main force of the Chu army crossed the river!

Then he ran all the way to Jinzhou!

(End of this chapter)