I want to be emperor

Chapter 549
Dorgon and Haoge fought openly and secretly, and cooperated against the Chu army at the same time.

This also caused more or less problems in the mobilization of troops and strategic deployment of the Dongbang people. There were often some conflicts between the two sides. When the conflicts were coordinated, a lot of time would be wasted.

Last but not least, without Huang Taiji's personal suppression, they recruited Duoyan Sanwei

The qualifications and prestige of Dorgon and Hauge alone, or their deterrent capabilities, are no longer able to make many tribes in Monan Mongolia listen to what they say.

If it were normal times, when Dongyao was in the middle of the sky, even if Huang Taiji really died, the Dongyao people would still be able to continue to order Monan Mongolia.

In history, when Chongzhen hanged himself and the Eastern captives entered the customs, Huang Taiji had been dead for several years, and the interior was also in turmoil. However, compared with the Ming Dynasty, it was still at the height of the sun. He is willing to follow the Dongyao people into the customs and go south, plundering money, food and livestock.

but now……

The south is not the weak Ming Dynasty, but the newly rising and extremely powerful Great Chu Empire.

The Chu army was on the front line of Ji and Liao, overwhelming the captives from the east. They had already captured most of the corridor in the west of Liaoning, and they were about to take Jinzhou and enter the vast Northeast Plain.

Under such circumstances, the so-called Great Qing Dynasty, which was captive in the east, has already set in the west, and it is uncertain when it will be completely finished.

Many tribes in Monan Mongolia naturally don't want to die with them...

They went to captivity in the past, and their motivation was very realistic, that is to protect themselves!
At first, he defected to the tribes in the past because Lin Dan Khan wanted to conquer them, so he defected to the east to protect himself.

Later, Lin Dan Khan was killed, and the remaining tribes had no choice but to go to Dongyao to protect themselves under the threat of Dongyao.

Now that Dongyao saw that he was dying, they naturally became more thoughtful.

The Tumed tribe, before the Chu army launched the Liaoxi campaign, had already defected to the Great Chu Empire. Now the warriors of the Tumed tribe have put on the gray uniforms of the Great Chu Empire. Using the standard weapons of the Great Chu Empire, they were incorporated into the Sixth Cavalry Division and the Eighth Cavalry Division (Naturalization Recruit Battalion), and transformed into soldiers of the Great Chu Empire Army to fight against Monan Mongolia.

The leader of the tribe, Brose, has been officially conferred the title of Earl by Luo Zhixue, the Emperor of the Great Chu Empire, with the rank of Major General of the Army, and has served as the commander of the Sixth Cavalry Division.

From the lost aristocrats of the Tumet tribe in the past to the powerful military aristocrats of the Great Chu Empire, it is impossible to say that no one is envious of this transformation.

Therefore, the situation in Monan Mongolia is very complicated now. Some tribes have surrendered to the Great Chu Empire one after another, while some have hung up neutral plaques, and some are diehard loyalists of the Dongyao people, so they can only follow the Dongyao one way. go black.

These tribes fought against each other, formed an alliance today, and tore up the alliance two days later to fight.

After the Tumed tribe voted to Chu, the Second Cavalry Army of the Great Chu Empire entered Monan Mongolia, and today's Monan Mongolia has become a mess.

And the dozens of small and medium-sized tribes in Duoyan Sanwei are similar.

Duoyan Sanwei is not a family. In fact, it has been divided into more than [-] tribes in the long history. They are inevitably involved in the chaos of Monan Mongolia.

Some of them continued to stand firmly on the side of the Dongyao people in order to protect themselves against the Chu army and Tumed's army.

Some of them were fools, especially the tribes of Duoyan Sanwei near Ji Town. These tribes had defected to the Ming Dynasty not long ago. It was only after the strategy of the Ming Dynasty changed that they defected to the Dongyao for self-protection.

Now that the Central Plains people in the Great Wall have risen again, and they have been wooed several times, they have already meant to return to the Central Plains Dynasty before.

Now that the Northeast War broke out, and the Sixth Army of the Chu Army and other troops began to set out from Jizhen to fight outside the Great Wall, they also surrendered to the Great Chu Empire.

Today's Duoyan Sanwei has actually become a three-party force...one side has surrendered to the Great Chu Empire, one side is still loyal to the Dongyao people, and some are trying to maintain neutrality to protect themselves and try to avoid being involved in the tragic war between the two sides inside.

Under such circumstances, Dorgon still wanted to recruit at least tens of thousands of cavalry from the Duoyan Sanwei area, which was actually very difficult.

Even if some tribes are still loyal to Donglu, these tribes loyal to Donglu are no longer able to protect themselves, and there is no extra troops to reinforce Dorgon and Haoge in Jinzhou.

This is why, before the Great Chu Empire launched the Battle of the Liaoxi Corridor, it first wooed Tumed, and did not hesitate to accept the entire Tumed tribe, made Bose an earl, and set off a bloody storm in Monan Mongolia.

In order to cut off a large aid of the Eastern captives when the Liaoxi campaign was launched, and even turn this strong aid into the Great Chu Empire's own foreign aid.

Now, this strategy is working tremendously!

Specifically, the Chu army surrounded Xingshan for several days, the guards had already reached the city of Jinzhou, and the Eighth Army defending the Mongols in the north was still calm and did not suffer any attacks...

The Eighth Army, which had nothing to do, left a division in the north to guard against possible Mongolian cavalry, and the other two divisions went directly to the north of Jinzhou to participate in the siege of Jinzhou.

Ever since, the Mongolian cavalry that Dorgon was waiting for did not come...

Instead, it was discovered that an army of at least [-] Chu barbarians had appeared on the north side of Jinzhou!
Unwilling to give up, he even went to the north city gate to see it himself. Several miles away was the field tent of Chu Manzi covered in dust!
At this time, not to mention that Xingshan was surrounded strategically, even Jinzhou was surrounded by the Chu army on three sides, leaving only one way to escape to the east.

But at this time, generals with a little military common sense can think of an idiom: Wei Sanjueyi.

Dorgon can also think of it!
So when he saw the Chu army appearing in the north of Jinzhou City, he immediately felt something was wrong.

At the same time, I also feel a little regretful. I knew that Haoge should not have agreed to let Haoge take away the more than 2 cavalry in the city two days ago. Otherwise, he would have sent cavalry to attack Chu Manzi at this time. Retire them, so no matter how bad it is, you can buy a few more days of contingency time.

Just two days ago, Xingshan City was in crisis. According to Chu Manzi's unscrupulous siege method, I am afraid that Xingshan City will not be able to last for a month at all...

Let alone a month, even half a month may not last.

When the time is too short, it is impossible to wait for cavalry reinforcements from Mongolia.

Under such circumstances, some Dongren generals led by Hauge believed that there was no need to wait for the Mongolian cavalry, and they would directly gather the cavalry forces from Jinzhou and Songshan to help Xingshan.

It is not necessary to directly highlight the siege of Xingshan City, but it is also necessary to create some pressure on the Chu Manzi so that they cannot attack the city unscrupulously.

You must know that when the Chu army discovered that Dongyao did not send troops to rescue Xingshan City a few days ago, it had gradually sent the subordinates of the Ninth Army to the northeast of Xingshan City, that is, a first-class division facing Jinzhou, and sent them to Xingshan City. In the southeast direction, that is, a first-class division facing Songshan gradually retreated, and then launched a siege to Xingshan City in conjunction with the frontal assault force.

This means that in the past few days, Xingshan City has been fully besieged by three first-class divisions, one first-class division and several independent artillery units of the Chu army.

The number of troops participating in the siege reached more than 5, and two artillery brigades assisted in the battle, bringing together at least [-] artillery pieces.

The navy also dispatched a temporary naval heavy artillery battalion to participate in the battle.

As a result, the pressure facing Xingshan City can be described as enormous.

Even they, under the guidance of the surrendered generals of the former Ming Xinbiao Army, built the city defense facilities that the Ming army had done, and greatly improved their defense capabilities against artillery.

But having said that, if the new standard army city defense facilities of the former Ming Dynasty could really stop the Chu army's bombardment, then the Ming Dynasty would not have been defeated so quickly.

Sun Chuanting's troops in the Ximing Dynasty used to rely on Tongguan, a world-renowned dangerous pass, relying on many new standard troops and artillery, and relying on new-style city defense fortifications, but in the end they still failed to withstand the shelling of the Chu army.

How should I put it, the city defense system developed by the Ming army is very effective against direct-pointing solid artillery, especially for defense systems such as trenches and fortresses, where solid artillery is basically useless.

Although the mortars have good lethality, their accuracy is poor, the rate of fire is too slow, and the shells are not very reliable, so it is difficult to shake this city defense system.

But when they encountered the new howitzers of the Chu army, these city defense systems were not enough.

The Tongguan city defense system was finally broken by the new howitzers of the Chu army, which eventually led to the defeat of the Ximing army.

At that time, there were not many new howitzers equipped in the Chu army.

Now... On the battlefield in western Liaoning, the number of new howitzers equipped by the Chu army is extremely large, and the shelling power has increased by several levels compared to when they attacked Tongguan.

Under such circumstances, even though the defenders in Xingshan City had a new type of city defense system and more anti-cannon facilities, they were still suffering unspeakably from being bombed.

If the Chu army continued to bomb it like this, Xingshan City would not be able to hold on for long.

If the Dongbao people don't want to see Xingshan City and Guangning Zhongqian City fall into the same ending, then they must take action.

Reinforcements must be sent!

Whether it is to break through the siege of the Chu army and directly rescue Xingshan City, or to create pressure on the Chu army by attacking the Chu army so that the Chu army cannot attack the city smoothly, actions are required.

And these were also the strategies that Dorgon, Hauge and others had finalized when discussing the entire Jinzhou defense operation earlier.

The entire direction of Jinzhou is actually composed of the three cities of Xingshan, Songshan, and Jinzhou. Only in this way can we actually control the east end exit of the entire Liaoxi Corridor.

If it is only guarding the city of Jinzhou, then the Chu army can directly send the Songshan area around Jinzhou, and cross the Xiaoling River to the back of Jinzhou.

That is tantamount to directly opening the queen to the west of Jinzhou to the Chu army!

Therefore, guarding Jinzhou also guards Songshan.

At the same time, considering that the two cities are one south and one north, in order to avoid being divided and surrounded by the Chu army, an additional tactical support point is needed, and this tactical support point is Xingshan.

How should I put it, if Xingshan is not broken, then the Chu army will not be able to attack Songshan or Jinzhou directly.

At this time, Xingshan City has become the easternmost section of this triangle, and the frontier stronghold of the Jinzhou defense line of the Dongyao people.

In this way, a Jinzhou defense line system with three cities in one is formed. The three cities can support each other, and at the same time, they all have a solid city defense system.

According to the original thinking of the Dongyao people, then as Xingshan was the frontier strategic support point, once it was besieged by the Chu army on a large scale, both Jinzhou and Songshan had to send reinforcements to relieve the pressure on Xingshan.

According to the initial plan, traditional forces, that is, the main forces of cavalry, infantry, and artillery should be sent to directly kill them.

However, in the pre-battle of Tashan-Xingshan, that is, the retreat of the defenders of Tashan, the Dongyao people found that they had fallen into a disadvantage in the field battle.

Although many of them are unwilling to admit it, the fact is that they were defeated by Chu Manzi in the field battle.

When the Tashan defenders retreated, they were rescued by [-] troops from Xingshan, including [-] cavalry.

But in actual combat, they found that Chu Manzi's field combat capabilities were quite impressive, especially their field artillery was so scary that they had to retreat thousands of broken troops in the end.

At the same time, this kind of large-scale field battle is tantamount to making the Dongbang people give up their original city defense advantages.

Finally, Chu Manzi has a cavalry force that is not small in size and not weak in strength!
The [-] cavalry of the First Cavalry Army and the Guards Cavalry Detachment were stuck between Jinzhou-Songshan and Xingshan like a steel thorn.

Any reinforcements from the Eastern Captivity must pass through the cavalry of the Chu army before they can arrive.

And only the cavalry can defeat the cavalry!

That is to say, even if the Eastern captives want to send the main force westward, they must first send cavalry to kill the cavalry of the Chu army. Even if they do not kill them, they must be driven away. pull out.

Therefore, the Dongyao people finally decided to let Hauge lead the [-] cavalry on the front line of Jinzhou to go south first, join the [-] cavalry on the Songshan line, and then go east to Xingshan.

After Hauge successfully defeated or expelled the Chu cavalry and established the forward passage, then the Dongcap infantry and artillery forces from Songshan and Jinzhou would quickly march westward to reinforce Xingshan to relieve the siege of Xingshan.

It's just that what they didn't expect was... the Chu army from the north came so quickly!
The Eighth Army marched eastward without encountering any obstacles along the way. The Dongyao people did not see them. Many tribes in the Duoyan Sanwei of Mongolia did not take any hostile actions. On the contrary, many found the Eighth Army to express their submission... …

The military and political officials accompanying the Eighth Army managed to win them over, and they actually pulled seven or eight small tribes from Duoyan Sanwei to send troops to fight with the Eighth Army to attack Dongcap...

So when the Eighth Army appeared in the northern direction of Jinzhou City, in addition to the Eighth Army's own troops, there were more than 4000 Mongolian cavalry... These Mongolian cavalry were also awarded a temporary designation by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, and they were temporarily designated as No. .11 Cavalry Division.

This has to be said to be ironic...

Dorgon had originally hoped to receive cavalry reinforcements from Monan Mongolia, especially the Duoyan Sanwei reinforcements who were relatively close.

But he never imagined that more than half of the thirty-odd tribes in the Duoyan Sanwei had turned against each other. They responded to the call of the Great Chu Empire and sent troops to fight with the Chu army one after another. Reinforcements rescue Jinzhou.

In fact, in the past few months, in addition to being a typical Tumed tribe, there were many other Mongolian tribes who defected to the Great Chu Empire. They either surrendered under the pressure of the Chu army, or they were defeated. Reluctantly surrender, or voluntarily surrender in order to earn a fortune.

So far, more than 50 tribes, large and small, have expressed their submission, and they have sent young and strong men from the tribes to join the Chu army's combat sequence with their own horses and grain, and participate in the war against other Mongolian tribes and Dongcap people.

This can be seen from the rapid expansion of the number of cavalry divisions in the Great Chu Empire.

Before the launch of the Northeast Campaign, the Great Chu Empire Army actually had only five cavalry divisions, three independent cavalry brigades, and five cavalry regiments.

After the surrender of the Tumed tribe, the Mongolian youths of this tribe and some small and medium-sized tribes around them brought their own horses and organized them into the sixth cavalry division and naturalized recruit battalion of the Great Chu Empire Army; later the naturalized recruit battalion was officially awarded the eighth The number of the cavalry division.

The Seventh Cavalry Division in the middle was recruited and trained by the army itself, and it was formed by attaching a large number of war horses captured in the cavalry showcase in the northern suburbs of Guangning Zhongqian.

After the second group army launched a large-scale offensive to Monan Mongolia, six cavalry regiments were successively reorganized from the Mongolian tribes who surrendered outside the Miyun Great Wall, and four of them were used to form the temporary Ninth Cavalry Division.

Later, a group of cavalry was reorganized from the Mongolian tribe outside the Great Wall of Ji Town, that is, the first group of Mongolian tribes in Duoyan Sanwei who surrendered to the Chu army, and a group of cavalry jumped out of these tribes. Formed Tenth Cavalry Division.

Finally, when the Eighth Army marched eastward, the temporary No. 11 Cavalry Division was reorganized with the cavalry from the Mongolian tribes who surrendered along the way.

These temporarily organized cavalry divisions seem to bear the name of cavalry divisions, but in fact they have been fully incorporated into the cavalry system of the Great Chu Empire Army. Take control.

Instead of forming the Mongolian Eight Banners on the basis of tribes like the Dongyao people, the Great Chu Empire only let each tribe send out troops, but these soldiers and horses served in the cavalry unit, and the tribes had no authority to interfere.

After this series of means, the most important thing is that the Great Chu Empire is powerful, and at the same time, it does not maintain great hostility towards these nomads like the traditional feudal dynasties. It wishes to expel them all. The attitude of these nomads is more practical.

If you are willing to join us, then you are one of us. Since you are one of us, then there is no distinction between you and me. There is no such thing as conferring feudal lords or granting a certain tribe grazing land.

There are no such titles as Mongols... They are all the people of the Great Chu Empire. They have adopted a comprehensive Sinicization policy, from book culture to clothing and language names have to be changed.

In addition, according to a series of policies of the empire, the people of the empire enjoy freedom of employment and freedom of residence...

To put it simply, what do you like to do, where you like to live is the Lord's house... The imperial officials basically don't interfere.

Applying it to grazing, as long as you abide by the laws and disciplines, you can graze wherever you like within the borders of the empire.

Similarly, if other people in the interior of the empire want to go to the grassland to graze or something, that is also reasonable.

And these are those who are willing to join, but if they are not willing to join... what else to say, the army will directly crush it...

This set of policies is actually the integration of the ancestors for thousands of years, but it is milder, at least not killing all their men...

According to the high-level estimates of the empire, with regard to the population of the nomads in the north, there will be a wave of immigration exchange, so that a large number of Han people will go north to herd and farm, and then some herdsmen on the grassland will move south to key points, and then encourage intermarriage. fusion.

Then promote the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry as much as possible, establish settlements and establish fixed pastures in places where conditions meet.

At the same time, in places where the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry cannot be implemented, a fixed nomadic method should also be implemented to delineate grasslands in four seasons.

In short, it is to establish an effective rule as much as possible, and not let them mess around like before.

The Great Chu Empire's activities in the grasslands actually attracted many nomadic peoples. After one line of surrender, they could go to live and work in the prosperous and warm Central Plains or even in the south of the Yangtze River, which made countless nomadic peoples , even the nobles in the nomadic peoples longed for it...

Living in the grassland these days is not a poetic and picturesque thing, but if they have a choice, they are willing to go to live in the warmer and more prosperous Central Plains.

In the past, their ancestors wanted to go south for generations... In the past, they used to foolishly go south through war, but now, they found that there is no need for war, as long as they put down their resistance and become a part of the Great Chu Empire, they can run to the south of the Yangtze River to enjoy the prosperity Live, and let your descendants become civilized people, not barbarians.

Of course, there are people who are not willing... just like the Tumed tribe back then, most of the dignitaries are not happy, but there will be people like Brose in every tribe!

What the Great Chu Empire has to do is very simple, find people like Brose, give them a little support, and wait for these Brose to deal with internal opposition, and then accept them openly.

The Great Chu Empire has never forced others to join itself.

If you surrender willingly, the empire doesn't want it!

The series of military operations and wooing policies of the Great Chu Empire in Monan Mongolia made Monan Mongolia a mess, and the Eastern Abductees lost reinforcements from Mongolia.

Not only lost reinforcements, but also faced the threat of Mongolian cavalry...

The appearance of a large number of Chu troops in the north of Jinzhou, and even the Chu troops who brought the Mongolian cavalry to kill them together, is a direct manifestation of the great advantage that the Great Chu Empire and Dongyao have gained in competing for Monan Mongoliali.

And this directly affected the outcome of Jinzhou and even the entire Liaoxi Campaign!

When Dorgon was encircled on three sides in Jinzhou, Hauge, who had just led the Jinzhou cavalry and Songshan cavalry to meet up the day before, and was preparing to go east to fight Chu Manzi's cavalry, was also caught in a tangle.

Do you want to go back to meet the defenders in Jinzhou?
If you don't go to respond, the more than 4 defenders staying in Jinzhou City are likely to be completely surrounded, or they will be chased and defeated during the retreat. No matter how you look at it, it is an extremely dangerous situation.

But let's go to meet him, there is Dorgon...

(End of this chapter)