Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 445 Eight Banners Discussing Politics
"Good question." Dorgon said, "Who has become unmotivated?"

"Who is stopping anyone from making progress? And who is not letting the Qing Dynasty make progress?"

His sharp eyes swept across the nobles, and Dorgon said again word by word: "I'm talking about those idiots who still stick to the old rules and bad habits until today, and are unwilling to make any changes!"

"Old Fourteen, I don't agree with that." Dai Shan finally couldn't hold back.

"The old rules and bad habits you mentioned just now refer to the rules set by the old Khan? For example, the eight banners discuss politics?"

"Why don't we talk about the politics of the Eight Banners? The rules set by the old Khan really can't be changed?" Dorgon snorted and said, "For example, the system of rewards and punishments, the old Khan's rules, if you lose a battle, you must be punished. Rewards can only be obtained after winning battles. This rule was applicable in the past, but now? Is it still applicable?"

"Why is it not applicable now? If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded, and if you have done something wrong, you will be punished. What's wrong?"

Ji Erhalang finally seized the opportunity and began to fight back against Dorgon head-on. He had been waiting for this day for a long time, and he felt that today there was a great chance for Dorgon to fall into a big somersault.

Among other things, at least he should be deprived of his imperial father's title of regent.

"Prince Zheng." Dorgon looked at Jierhalang coldly, and asked, "If you encounter an enemy that is difficult to defeat and you need to make a huge sacrifice, then after you finally defeat this enemy, do you make the sacrifice?" How should this flag be judged? Still follow the old Khan’s rules for punishment? Or modify the old Khan’s rules and give rewards?”

"This..." Jierhalang suddenly felt flustered, as if he had been fooled?
Naturally, Dorgon would not let Jierharang go easily, and then asked: "Prince Zheng, what do you think should be done?"

Seeing that he couldn't avoid it, Jierhalang could only say: "Of course, according to the old Khan's rules, no matter what sacrifices or not, if you can't beat it, you can't beat it, and you deserve to be punished. There is nothing to say about it."

"Since that's the case, please ask Prince Zheng to take down Dagu Port."

Dorgon said: "Right now, the Qing Dynasty has encountered a strong enemy."

"Takukou?" Ji Erhalang said with some guilt, "Isn't this your business?"

Dorgon said: "If I heard you right, Prince Zheng said just now that he came to Dagukou this time to help me relieve Daqing's worries, why are you backing down again?"

"But now, after all, you are the old fourteenth who is attacking Dagukou."

Daishan took the initiative to save Jierhalang and said, "We can't take credit for your work."

"No need to grab it." Dorgon said sarcastically, "I will now give this credit to you."

"Prince Li is right. How can we take the credit of the emperor's father as the regent? It's not good."

Naturally, Jierhalang would not jump into this pit of fire. Although he didn't know what was going on, since even Dorgon could not avoid him, he would not take the initiative to take the job.

Unfortunately, Dorgon refused to let him go easily.

Dorgon said: "Prince Zheng, this is the court's order!"

"Prince Rui, what is the imperial court's order for this? It's clearly your own." Jierhalang had already been cornered and could only fight back, "I request that the Eight Banners discuss and rule."

"Okay, then it will be as you wish." Dorgon sneered, "Then the Eight Banners will discuss politics."

Jierhalang was the first to say: "I Xianglanqi thinks that the battle of Dagukou should be continued by Prince Rui."

Now that the two sides have broken their faces, Jierhalang no longer recognizes Dorgon's father and regent status, but only calls him Prince Rui. Anyway, Dorgon has never recognized his uncle's regent status.

"The two red flags are seconded." Dai Shan followed without hesitation, "It is better not to change the commander in the battle of Dagukou."

Azig went on to say: "I'm going with the white flag and the [-] Niu Lu are also seconding, and the old fourteenth will continue to fight."

Dorgon's complexion collapsed, and he gave Azig a vicious look. This is absolutely impossible to guard against, and family thieves are hard to guard against. After this incident, your title will be taken away, and your flag will be revoked.

Seeing Dorgon's unkind expression, Azig said earnestly, "Old Fourteen, I did this for your own good. You will understand and appreciate me in the future."

Hearing this, Dorgon really wanted to kick Azig in the face.

Jierhalang and Daishan turned their gazes to the banner owner of the Zhenglan Banner: "Gu'er Mahui?"

Gu'er Mahui hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "We are listening to the emperor's father and the regent in the blue flag."

Now it's Jierharang and Daishan's turn to kick Guermahun in the face, didn't they speak well on the way here?Why did you change your mind after arriving at Dagukou?Guermahun, you little man.

The situation has become two red flags, bordered blue flags plus Zhengbai flag [-] Niulu against two white flags lacking [-] Niulu plus Zhenglan Qi. Although Daishan and Jierhalang have the upper hand, the advantage is not great.

At this time, we must look at the two yellow flags, that is, Fulin's choice.

"Your Majesty?" Jierharang and Daishan turned to Fulin.

Although since the beginning of last year, Fulin has become very obedient to Dorgon, and even changed his name to Dorgon Huang Ama, but they are more willing to believe that this is due to the Queen Mother Bumbutai's instruction, not out of Fulin's original intention, so the two of them felt that if Bumbutai was not around, Fulin would definitely be able to make the right choice.

Fulin couldn't help being a little bit moved. If he supports Jierhalang and Daishan, can Dorgon be brought down?

However, the next moment, Fulin resolutely abandoned this idea, not to mention whether he could really bring down Dorgon, even if he did, his situation would be better than it is now ?

Would it really be better for Jierharang and Daishan to treat their mother and child?
You know, both Jierhalang and Daishanke have a lot of descendants.

However, Dorgon did not have a son, only a daughter.

As she got older, Fulin understood E Niang's difficulties more and more.

Before he is an adult, and before he has the ability to protect himself, it is the best choice to be attached to Dorgon's wings, otherwise not only the two yellow flags will not be saved, but also his life will not be saved.

Didn't his imperial brother Hauge just lose the Zhenglan Banner and lose his life?

Thinking of this, Fulin said without hesitation: "I listen to Huang Ama."

"Ah?" Jierhalang and Daishan were stunned when they heard the words.

Such a result has a huge deviation from their expected prospects.

"Prince Zheng." Dorgon's expression turned cold, "The results of the Eight Banners' political discussions have been announced. From now on, I will hand over the Dagu port to you. Don't let the emperor and the Qing Dynasty down."

Jierhalang could only bite the bullet and respond.

This is no choice.

……

At the same time, in the bunker at Dagukou.

Under the dim oil lamps, scholars including Yan Yingyuan, Chen Mingyu, Feng Houdun, and Sun Fanzhi were having a meeting. This was a habit Chongzhen brought to the scholar camp.

When not at war, discuss ideals and beliefs every night before going to bed.

When there is a war, it is changed to discuss and summarize the war.

Sun Fanzhi first reported today's losses: "After a day of fierce fighting, a total of nine new troops were killed, seven were seriously injured, and more than a hundred were slightly injured."

Yes, that's right, this is the only casualty of the new army.

During the day, the Xin Army and the Guan Ning Army were separated by a ditch, and they had a lively ping-pong game, but in fact, the Guan Ning Army's matchlock guns were no threat at all.

One is poor accuracy.

Second, the failure rate is high.

The third is that the lethality is small.

Because these matchlock guns were eliminated by the Eight Banners Han Army.

The matchlock guns of the Eight Banners Han Army were all seized by the Ming Army.

The lethality of the matchlock guns of the Ming army is well known to the world.

How good is the quality of a matchlock gun that needs to be made by craftsmen with their own money?

If there is too much gunpowder loaded, the gun barrel will explode directly, and if the charge is less, the lethality will be just like that of a bird.

The texture of the Lumi gun is better, the bird gun is almost impossible to see, it can't penetrate the iron armor at close range, and it can't even penetrate the cotton armor at a distance of more than thirty steps.

The new army wears cotton armor with iron pieces inside.

So as long as the lead doesn't hit the face directly, basically nothing will happen.

Then the hat-shaped helmets of the new army all have a wide brim, and they will lower their heads after releasing the gun, and the wide brim can protect the face, so the probability of being directly hit on the face by a lead is extremely small.

So after a day of fighting, only nine people were killed and seven were seriously injured.

Sun Fanzhi added: "Instead, more than 500 green camp prisoners were captured, and more than half of them were seriously injured."

Zhu Yanzuo, a student in Zhuozhou who was in charge of the medical camp, took the opportunity to complain: "In order to treat these green camp prisoners of war, we used a lot of medicines in our medical camp."

"Don't worry about medicines." Yan Yingyuan waved his hand and said.

"Just wait for the North Sea to thaw and the navy arrives. You can have as many medicines as you want."

Sun Fanzhi went on to say: "Through the daytime battles, we can find that if the tribulus rope company and night fugengge are used well, they can still play a very good role, but the landmines are the most lethal."

"However, there is also a flaw in landmines, that is, the timing is not easy to control."

"During the daytime battle, we detonated the landmines a little too early."

"It would be more effective if we waited a little later and waited for more green battalion soldiers to enter the trench."

After a pause, he continued, "So I was thinking, can I make a self-igniting mine?"

"Self-igniting mines?" Yan Yingyuan thought thoughtfully, "You mean you don't need people to ignite the mines, as long as the green camp soldiers trip over the mines, they will explode by themselves, right?"

"That's what it means." Sun Fanzhi nodded.

"Write it down." Yan Yingyuan said happily, "Return to Gewu Division and Weapons Division."

"There is nothing else." Sun Fanzhi said, "After all, the green camp only attacked twice."

"Okay, then you go back first." Yan Yingyuan nodded, and then warned, "Be vigilant tonight, if I'm not mistaken, Jianu will definitely launch a night attack."

"Okay." Sun Fanzhi said solemnly, "I will scatter briar ropes and night-time plowing weapons all over the slope protection and in the trenches. In addition, I will deploy ambushes in the trenches. As long as the Jiannu dare to come, they will definitely come." No return."

Yan Yingyuan turned his gaze to Feng Houdun: "Peiqing, you should also be careful in the right battalion."

"Understood." Feng Houdun said solemnly, "Our right battalion will also be more vigilant."

(End of this chapter)