Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 614 Seeking stability but not perfection, within the Liao Great Wall

Geng Zhongming was originally from Gaizhou Wei in Liaodong, but it was not Gaizhou Wei that was granted to him by the Qing court, but Fuzhou Wei and Jinzhou Wei from the former Ming Dynasty.

These two places are on the coast of the Liaodong Peninsula, surrounded by islands. In theory, they can just give full play to the advantages of Geng Zhongming's navy and artillery.

However, Geng Zhongming's seemingly majestic navy and sharp cannons in the past are now a complete joke in front of the warships of the Daming Navy.

Among the thousands of warships, they were either destroyed by a few shots from the Daming Navy during the naval battle, or the entire ship surrendered.

When Zeng Ying led the Ming army soldiers to land at Lushunkou, Geng Zhongming's troops had almost no resistance soldiers.

Not only was Zeng Ying not happy when she learned about this situation, but her thick sword eyebrows frowned.

According to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Department and the Beizhen Fusi, although Geng Zhongming's troops have many sailors, the land army shouldn't be so small.

What's more, Geng Zhongming set up the Pingnan Palace in Fuzhou Acropolis, and he only hit Jinzhou from his side, so it wouldn't make Geng Zhongming give up resistance.

So the people from the Military Intelligence Department stepped up the interrogation of the prisoners.

Useful information was quickly obtained, but before the war Geng Zhongming was prepared to face the worst situation. Now that his navy is gone, most of his remaining soldiers and horses have gone to the north to join the Qing captives.

After all, King Pingnan is still a vassal of the Qing court in name, and it is normal operation if he can't beat him and find his master.

After learning of this situation, Zeng Ying took the Jinzhou Guard and left a town of garrison troops to garrison.

Liu Wenxiu led the navy and the second town of the imperial guards to take the sea route to the west, take the Fuzhou Guard and go down to the islands, and then join him who took the land route to take the Fuzhou Guard.

Because Geng Zhongming really abandoned Fuzhou Guard, Zeng Ying and Liu Wenxiu took it almost without bloodshed.

However, Jinzhouwei and Fuzhouwei suffered from wars in their early years, and because the Qing soldiers did not want to spend their troops to resist the Ming army's attack from the sea, they were abandoned.

Geng Zhongming was feuded here, and he also exploited the small number of local people in order to enrich his military equipment.

Therefore, there are not many people in these two places, and many pass cities and fortresses are filled with soldiers.As soon as Geng Zhongming led the team away, these places were almost deserted and became empty cities.

Occasionally, a few surviving people also hid in the mountains and forests.

For these people, the Ming army may not be more trustworthy than the Qing captives.

What's more, these common people have shaved their hair for many years, and facing the Ming army, they may be very contradictory psychologically.

It is estimated that the Ming army did not come to guerrilla and leave, but really wanted to recover Liaodong, so these people would come into contact with the Ming army.

There are no people in Jinzhou and Fuzhou. For Daming, it actually saves a lot of trouble for the time being - the accompanying officials don't need to delay here, they can continue to go north with Zeng Ying, Liu Wenxiu and others, and go to places where there are people. effect.

Afterwards, Zeng Ying and Liu Wenxiu still marched by sea and land, but arrived at Gaizhouwei in five days.

This is already the territory under the direct control of the Qing Dynasty. The two thought that they would have to fight a "tough battle", but who knew that Gaizhouwei was also abandoned by the Qing Dynasty...
The army rested in Gaizhouwei for a day, and Zeng Ying, Liu Wenxiu and others held a front-line military meeting the next day.

"Now I'm waiting to go down to Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Gaizhou, but I haven't even seen the Qing captives. Should I continue to advance north as planned?" Liu Wenxiu asked a little hesitantly.

"Of course." Zeng Ying replied without hesitation, "Our ultimate goal is to defeat the Qing captives this time. As for recovering the fiefdoms of the puppet vassals of the Qing captives, it is only the lowest goal."

Liu Wenxiu frowned and said, "I'm afraid that the Qing captives will concentrate their forces and ambush us somewhere in front. Although our army is not afraid, if we are caught in an ambush, we will inevitably lose our soldiers and lose our generals."

Zeng Ying is not a reckless man either, hearing the words said: "No matter what arrangements the Qing captives have, we will march according to the plan formulated by the Military Affairs Council.

Our army first went along the coast, took the mouth of the Liaohe River, then went up the Sancha River along the North River, collected Zhubaozhaiguan City near the Great Wall of the Liao Dynasty in the north, and then took down Haizhou City depending on the situation, and then waited to join the North Route Army. "

The plan to defeat the Qing formulated by the Military Affairs Council this time is still very distinctive, that is, it seeks stability and does not seek to do its best in one campaign.

Normally speaking, no matter which route of the north and the south marches smoothly, they should advance bravely. It is best to directly attack Shenyang City and wipe out the main power holders of the Qing court.

This style of play is very passionate, but it is too risky.

It can only be achieved by an elite force, regardless of logistics, and fighting to support war.

The problem is that although the Qing Dynasty is now weak, it is not without soldiers. It is impossible for a small number of elites to take down Shenyang City, but they may be crushed.

Therefore, the Military Affairs Council simply asked the army to focus on stability, and after the two roads from the north and the south converged, they pushed towards Shenyang in a step-by-step manner.

Of course, seeking stability also has a big disadvantage, that is, it gives the Qing Dynasty time to react and respond.

The Qing Dynasty can either send troops from various places to defend the city, or it can choose to take away the population and wealth from Shenyang and other places, and transfer them to the mountains and forests outside the Great Wall of Liao. home field.

More than 200 years ago, when the Ming Dynasty was founded, the remnant Yuan forces were not completely wiped out. Emperor Yuan Shun took the remnants of his power and abandoned the Central Plains to Mobei. The forces that were later differentiated galloped on the eastern Mongolian grasslands, and became the leader of the Ming Dynasty in the northeast. threaten.

In order to resist the threat of the grassland, Daming stationed troops and built cities in the Northeast to strengthen the frontier defense.

Until the Chenghua period, more than 4000 miles of the Liao Great Wall were successively built.

Relying on policies such as farming, iron smelting, and salt cooking between the Great Wall and the sea to supply border military supplies, and setting up many guards and post stations, a relatively strict land and sea defense system in Liaodong was formed.

The Great Wall of Liao Dynasty is connected to the Great Wall of Jizhen in the west, and not only covers the entire Liaoxi Corridor in the east, but also reaches the north of Tielingwei and Liaohaiwei (the north of Changtu in later generations) in the north, and then turns south to the west bank of the mouth of the Yalu River. The Zhenjiang Fort (Jiuliancheng) is considered to be the end.

This large piece of land within the Great Wall of the Liao Dynasty was cultivated by the Ming people for more than 200 years. In terms of farming, the degree of richness is definitely far higher than that of the barren mountains and forests outside the Great Wall of the Liao Dynasty.

The famous battle of Jurchen's rise in Jianzhou in the past, the Battle of Saerhu, took place in Saerhu outside Fushun Pass in the eastern section of the Great Wall of Liao Dynasty.

Therefore, the strategic goal that the Great Ming and the Qing believed to be the most possible and should be achieved this time is actually to restore all the territory within the Great Wall of the Liao Dynasty!
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Shenyang.

The "Imperial Palace" of the Qing Dynasty.

Dorgon is discussing with Daishan and Jierhalang.

I saw Daishan sitting on a chair with a hunched body, coughing from time to time, showing that his body was already quite weak - he was withdrawn from the customs the year before last, and marched thousands of miles all the way, the old Daishan finally fell to the root of his illness.

"At this point, we can't fight or seek peace, so we can only retreat into the woods." Dorgon sighed.

When he became the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Dorgon aged faster. He was only in his 30s, but he also grew a lot of white hair and deep wrinkles on his face.

A few days ago, Pingxi King Wu Sangui and Pingnan King Geng Zhongming successively sent people to ask for help, but he ignored them.

Because he knows very well how big the difference in combat power between the Qing army and the Ming army is now.Although the Ming army was divided into north and south routes, even if the Qing army attacked the route with all its forces, the chances of winning were not great.

It has only been more than a year since the Qing army withdrew from the pass. They lost troops and generals in the pass, and their vitality was severely injured. They did not recover much in such a short period of time.

Since he knew he couldn't fight, he certainly didn't want to defend one city after another.Because if you think about it a little bit, you will know that you will lose everyone, and in the end, you may not even have the ability to retreat into the mountains and forests to protect yourself.

In this case, it is better to preserve strength and retreat directly into the mountains.

Outside the Great Wall of Liao Dynasty, there are dense mountains and forests, and the area around Hetuala is even more complicated and dangerous.Now that Ming is strong and Qing is weak, they can only block the Ming army by relying on the complex terrain of their lair.

Hearing this, Dai Shan was still coughing and didn't say a word.

Ji Erhalang said with a sad face: "It is reasonable to say that returning to Hetuala is indeed the best choice now, but the problem is that many people are afraid that they are unwilling to return to the mountains and forests to live a hard life.

And if we really retreated without receiving such a battle, I am afraid that the hearts of the Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han troops will be scattered, and even the Jurchen ministries will also have different ideas.

If people's hearts are scattered, our Qing Dynasty will really be over. "

Dorgon said helplessly: "King Zheng, why don't I not know the truth of what you said? Why do I want to go back to the mountains and forests to live a hard life? But besides going back to Hetuala, do we have a better choice?"

　Second more.

　　Good night~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)