The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 797 Ding Yi's Northern Expedition
Dorgon remembered that when the old slaves were there, the Manchus were brave and good at fighting, and no difficulties would be difficult for them. No matter how many artillery pieces the Ming army had, they dared to charge.

Now the Ming army has only fired a cannonball, and they actually retreated.

My Qing Dynasty has been inferior to one generation after another.

Dorgon couldn't help but began to miss Huang Taiji. If Huang Taiji was still there, what should I do now that my Qing Dynasty is in such a miserable situation?

"Prince Rui, it's not easy to gather troops. Retreating without a fight will disturb the morale of the army." Jierhalang sighed at the side.

They mobilized the army, summoned the Manchu, Han and Mongolian armies, and it took several days to gather 7 people. Now they are ready to retreat before the fight. Isn't the majesty of the Qing Dynasty completely gone? Those Mongolians will still look up to them?
Of course Dorgon knew this, but he already felt that Haizhou was not easy to attack.

Ding Yi's cannons were so many and fierce that it was really difficult to attack.

Back then, Ningyuan had only a few artillery pieces, and they also had more than [-] soldiers and horses, and they couldn't attack for a long time.

Haizhou's guns have far surpassed Ningyuan's by several times.

But when he decided to fight Haizhou, besides testing Ding Yi's soldiers and strength, he also had another idea.

There is a shortage of food in the country, and he can't order the massacre of Han people like the old slave did back then.

However, if they were ordered to attack the city and were beaten to death by the Ming army, it is not our fault.

That's right, Dorgon and Jierhalang agreed to attack the city with such a mentality.

Either the siege is successful or it fails, just take the opportunity to reduce the population that eats.

"Listen well." Dorgon galloped on horseback, ran in front of the formation, and shouted at the generals: "My Qing Dynasty is all brave warriors. If we can defeat Ningyuan and Jinzhou, we will be able to fight back!" Haizhou."

"Send the order, prepare the whole army to attack the city."

Dorgon gave an order, and the Qing soldiers were ready to attack the city.

Kong Youde's more than 20 Hongyi cannons began to move forward, and a large number of handymen began to dig and fill the soil with sandbags.

They are going to use Ding Yi's old method, first pack a bag of soil, and then pile it up in front to defend against artillery.

Although Ding Yi's cannonballs would explode, they could also be defended by piling up sandbags and fortresses.

Tens of thousands of handymen in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties began to fill the soil frantically.

With previous experience in playing Golden State, Dorgon brought a full 20 sandbags this time, which is enough anyway.

Kong Youde's cannons stopped five miles away, waiting for the people to fill them with soil and pack them into bags.

It took less than a quarter of an hour, and five thousand civilians had already installed it first.

"Up, up, up." Dorgon ordered them to divide into ten batches, with 500 people in each batch stacking sandbags forward.

The farmers ran for about three miles, and when they entered the range of the Hongyi cannon, boom, the cannon on the opposite side fired unceremoniously.

A shell landed in the crowd, first crushed, torn, and then with a loud bang, the peasants fell down in large numbers.

The rest bite the bullet and pile up sandbags.

In this way, under the artillery fire of the Ming army, the Manchu civilians kept piling up, and finally used sandbags to pile up an artillery position around two and a half miles away.

Because the Ming army's cannons would explode, they piled up very high in front of them, a full two meters high. In this case, it would be a bit difficult for the Ming army's shells to fly over the sandbag wall and hit the back.

Then Kong Youde's artillery battalion began to push the artillery forward.

The cannons of the Ming army sounded again, and they were very accurate.

Kong Youde pushed up three cannons in a row and all were hit by the cannons, and now the faces of the people on the Manqing side were not good-looking.

In the past, it was their Hongyi cannons that shot far, and Ding Yi's artillery had to push forward.

Now Ding Yi's cannons can also shoot far, and before their Hongyi cannons came into range, they knocked out all of their cannons.

The key is to play very accurately and faster than them.

Dorgon quickly discovered this problem: "How can the Ming army shoot so fast with the same cannon?"

It took about a minute and a half for the Ming army to fire a cannon, which really shocked them.

Ding Yi's artillerymen are well-trained and agile, of course they are much faster than them.

After Kong Youde lost three cannons in a row, Dorgon decided not to use Ding Yi's method.

Attack directly.

He summoned all the soldiers and horses, the infantry with ladders, and the peasants with sandbags on their backs, ready to fill the moat.

Following his order, nearly ten thousand people rushed forward like a tide, each carrying a sandbag full of soil.

At this time, Xiang Huailai in Haizhou City was surrounded by his generals, and everyone was scrambling to command the trebuchet. It turned out that under the city wall, a large number of soldiers were assembling the trebuchet.

Xiang Huailai was dizzy surrounded by the crowd: "Why are you arguing? To deal with Jiannu, you still use a trebuchet?"

"Rush, rush, rush up." Suddenly someone exclaimed in surprise.

Everyone turned their heads and saw the Qing soldiers coming from all directions, many of them couldn't help laughing.

"There is no need for a trebuchet now." Someone laughed, and when the Qing soldiers reached the city wall, they could just throw petrol bombs.

"General, it seems that there are civilian husbands in front, should we fight?" someone asked Xiang Huailai.

"Nunniang, of course. Don't be polite, give me a hard hit."

So after the Qing soldiers and civilians entered 200 meters, boom, boom, hundreds of cannons were fired from the top of the city, and all the cannons were fired in turn.

Dense shells fell into the crowd.

Then many of them would explode, and the scene exploded again and again, and the peasants fell in pieces.

Fuze shells are definitely the killer weapon of this era, because they can cause extremely strong psychological pressure on people.

The civilian husband collapsed when he rushed to 100 meters, and he couldn't resist it at all.

Those shells rolled for a while when they were shot down, and the ones they touched would either die or be disabled. After finally stopping, they exploded suddenly.

A shell has two damages, which is equal to two shots.

The fleeing peasants rushed back to the Manchu camp, Dorgon immediately ordered to shoot arrows, and ordered them to throw sandbags into the moat before returning.

Suddenly, arrows rained like flying in the air, and the peasants were beaten on both sides, and the chaos became more and more chaotic.

Someone was forced to jump directly into the moat.

The scene was horrible, and the peasants were either killed by cannons, shot by arrows, or jumped into the moat.

The Manqing infantry battalion, who were carrying ladders and preparing to attack, were dumbfounded.

Because after a while, corpses were already scattered all over the battlefield, and more than half of the tens of thousands of civilians were killed or injured.

The Ming army had more than 300 cannons. Even if each cannon could only kill or injure three people, it could kill thousands in one wave.

They ran hundreds of meters to rush up, and then ran hundreds of meters back, and they had to be beaten for at least several rounds.

After the first round of civilians threw all the sandbags, more than half of them were killed or injured and fell into the moat.

When I came back, there were about [-] or so.

Dorgon and the Manchu nobles around him looked very ugly.

If each person throws a sandbag, half of the people will be lost.

If we have to throw away 20 sandbags, wouldn't it be a loss of [-] people?

It's really like Azig said, if you want to attack Ding Yi's city, you can only fill it with human life.

If it were to be changed to before, he had already ordered the withdrawal of troops, but this time there was a strategic purpose of reducing the population.

Dorgon did not hesitate to let the peasants go again.

The Ming army fought again without mercy. Sure enough, as Dorgon thought, less than 2000 people came back in this wave.

This is also because they have fewer people, the lineup is not as dense as before, and there are many fewer casualties.

Under Dorgon's order again, less than 500 people came back in the third wave.

The Manchus went forward and threw three waves of sandbags, which had little effect on the moat, but lost a full 1 people.

The strong artillery fire of the Ming army deeply shocked the Manchu Jiannu.

Everyone looked at the city wall in the distance and remained silent for a long time.

In the Battle of Jinzhou that year, the 300 artillery pieces of the Ming army were not as destructive as the more than [-] artillery pieces in front of them.

If it is in the field, how can they resist?

The Qing Dynasty was in danger, and Dorgon also felt deeply afraid and scared.

In the 18th year of Chongzhen, on July [-], the Manchu Qing attacked Haizhou, losing tens of thousands of people, and returned in a disastrous defeat.

There was a sad look inside and outside Shengjing, and many Mongolian nobles began to doubt the ability of Man Qing.

But for Dorgon, under the current bleak situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, reducing the population by 1 did not have much effect.

On the 25th, Dorgon sent Azige to lead troops to attack Gaizhou, claiming to test the strength of the Ming army in Gaizhou.

As a result, there were also more than 300 artillery pieces in Gaizhou, and the [-] civilians they brought were blown up in a horrible way.

Man Qing borrowed Ding Yi's artillery to wipe out their population and reduce their food crisis.

How happy they were to rob people in the Ming Dynasty before, how helpless they are now.

You must know that more than a year ago, in the 16th year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing entered the customs for the fifth time and robbed Daming of more than 30 people.

Now that there is not enough food, and you want to reduce the population, when will the 1 to [-] be reduced?
Dorgon couldn't continue to lead troops out to fight, and he was always defeated. The Mongols saw it, and they would definitely separate themselves from them.

So after the failure of Haizhou and Gaizhou, the Manchu Qing decided not to control the Han people in Liaoyang, Fushun, Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places, and all the food guarantees for the army and the nobles in Shengjing.

Dorgon also ordered the cities to be strictly guarded and the people to be kept under control. He would rather starve them to death than let them run back to the Ming Dynasty.

For a time, mourning and starvation were everywhere in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Many people couldn't bear it and began to exchange children for food and wives for food.

The tragic events in the Qing Dynasty soon spread to the capital.

After Ding Yi thought twice, he decided to take the Northern Expedition to destroy the Qing Dynasty and save the suffering Han people.

Originally, he planned to pacify Yunnan and conquer Annan before proceeding to the Northern Expedition.

But now that the people in the north are living in the abyss, he can only advance the Northern Expedition to save the people.

While mobilizing troops and horses, he swore in the capital for the Northern Expedition.

On August [-]nd, Ding Yi sacrificed with his officials in the "Huangji Hall" and swore to the Northern Expedition.

He has lived in the capital for more than a year and has completely controlled the capital. This time he finally decided to go out for a while.

For three days, Ding Yi stayed with Lu Daqi and Zhang Shenyan to accompany the prince to stay in the capital, and supervise the country to assist.

Liu Yuan, the governor of Zhili, and He Xiaoche, the general of Baoding, led [-] troops to garrison the capital, and Chen Yang, the admiral of the capital, led [-] troops.

Jia Luchao's five thousand royal guards.

In this way, in the capital, although Ding Yi left, He Xiaoche, Lu Chao, Liu Yuan, Chen Yang and other generals, plus [-] soldiers and horses, were absolutely impenetrable.

You must know that at this time, the capital officials, the nobles of the capital, and the clans don't have a single soldier, not even a family member, so they can't make waves in the capital.

Ma Shiying, Zhang Jinyan, Zhang Xin, and Wang Duo, among the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, accompanied Ding Yi.

Gong Yonggu, the captain of the attached horse, accompanied Luo Yangxing, the former commander of Jinyiwei, and accompanied by King Fu, the royal family in Beijing.

On the fourth day, Ding Yi and his party of thousands of people arrived at Shanhaiguan.

(End of this chapter)