Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 456 The real test
It is a coup to set up a military computer room!
This is somewhat similar to the Tweet Order proposed by Zhufu Yan for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

The main trouble that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty faced at the beginning was that the power of the vassals was too strong and had already threatened the central government, so the father Yan thought of a coup, and proposed that the feudal states of the vassals in various places should be inherited by the eldest son, the second son and the third son. Just dismember the vassal state into three pieces, and after a few generations, it will become a small country, which is not a cause for concern.

Dorgon's establishment of a military computer room is similar to that of Tweeting Order.

Because under the framework of the Eight Banners, only the prince who is the owner of the banner can participate in the political affairs, and the other county kings Baylor and Beizi of each banner have no right to participate in the political discussion.

But the establishment of the military computer room has changed this situation.

Because after the establishment of the military computer room, not only the banner owner, but also the other county kings, Baylor, and Beizi of each banner are the military ministers of the military computer room, and they have the power to discuss politics, and their power is basically the same regardless of the title. For the county kings Bei Le and Bei Zi of each banner, it is undoubtedly a great thing.

Sure enough, as soon as Dorgon said this, the atmosphere in the big tent changed immediately.

Except for a few banner owners such as Luo Luohun and Gulmahui, most of the other county kings, Baylor and Beizi all cheered up for him, which is a great thing!

At this moment, Dorgon gained wide support in the Eight Banners.

I have to say that Dorgon is indeed a good player in politics.

Another great feature of the military computer room is the power of final judgment.

In name, the military computer room is still a collective decision-making, but in fact it is not.

Because there are too many people, the mouth will inevitably be mixed, and it will be difficult to make effective decisions.

At this time, the emperor or regent will become the decisive existence.

This is equivalent to the emperor or the regent enjoying the final judgment.

Now Dorgon really has all the power, and he has done something that Huang Taiji failed to do.

In another time and space, not only Fulin, but even Kang Mazi failed to solve this big problem.

It was not until many years after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne that the political cancer of the Eight Banners was finally eradicated.

"The military aircraft room is officially established from today, so the first military aircraft priority discussed today is who should replace the banner owner of the red flag?"

After finishing speaking, Dorgon winked at Gulmahui again.

Although Gu'er Mahui was depressed, he stood up and said: "I think Baer Chuhui is smart and resolute, and it would be appropriate for him to take over the position of Zhenghong Banner's banner owner?"

Although Baer Chuhun's two brothers and several cousins ​​were dissatisfied, there was nothing they could do about it.

Because the meaning of Gu Er Ma Hun is the meaning of Dorgon, this is to reward Baer Chu Hun.

However, the county kings of all banners, Baylor and Beizi, were all in support. Dorgon's power in setting up a military computer room began to show, and Baer Chuhui successfully inherited Zhenghongqi.

However, the title of Prince Li was inherited by Man Dahai, the only surviving son of Daishan's seven.

"Now let's talk about the second important task of the military aircraft, which is to take back Dagukou..."

As a result, before Dorgon finished speaking, Azig rushed to say again: "Old Fourteen, you, second brother and Jierhalang have all lost the battle, now it's my turn."

Dorgon's face darkened instantly, and he thought, can he not slap him face to face?
Originally, Dorgon had already used Yan Yingyuan's knife to achieve his political intentions, so he was going to let Azig go, but Azige didn't know what to do, so he insisted on hitting the gun himself.

"Okay, Prince Su is very courageous, so let's give it a try."

After a pause, Dorgon went on to say: "However, I said the ugliness first, if I lose, I will be punished, but the punishment will be decided by the ministers in the military computer room after discussion."

"I know." Azig said with a curl of his lips, "But I can't lose."

Dorgon's face became more and more embarrassing, he could see that Azig really thought so.

In fact, Azig really believed that he had become the number one handsome official of the Qing Dynasty, Haoge was dead, Jierharang was sent to Ningguta and armored men as slaves, Luo Luohun and the others were still young and had no leadership skills. With military experience, looking around, only Dorgon and Duoduo can be compared with him.

However, after Dorgon entered the customs, he seldom led troops out.

Duoduo's words are always defeated, and the battle of Xuzhou was even more miserable.

So Azig felt that no matter how he was ranked, he was now the number one handsome official in the Qing Dynasty.

After a pause, Azig said again: "Old Fourteen, but I also have a condition. I have to transfer my 20 Niulu back from Xuzhou. The Green Battalion and the Eight Banners Han Army can't fight tough battles."

"This matter is not negotiable." Dorgon flatly refused.

"However, the 10 Niu Lu from Zhenghongqi can be temporarily transferred to you."

Balchuhun frowned when he heard the words, but he didn't say anything.

After all, he has a short mouth for cannibalism, and he became the banner owner of the Zhenghong Banner only with Dorgon's support. It is not wise to turn against Dorgon before the banner owner's chair is firmly seated.

Seeing that he couldn't transfer his 20 Niulu, Azig was a little unhappy.

At that moment, Azig said again: "Then it's okay to transfer 50 Hongyi cannons and 2 coats of clothing from Beijing, right? If you want to hollow out the slope protection around the Dagukou, you can't do it without [-] coats of clothing."

"Okay, but the 2 coating is less, adjust to 4."

Dorgon's political goals have been achieved, so he doesn't want to waste any more time.

The fighting in the past few days has fully proved that the only way to fight Dagu is the most stupid and stupid way.

This stupid method is to hollow out the slope protection around the Ming army's blunderbuss platform, and then set up a red cannon to directly bombard the blunderbuss platform.

As long as the rammed earth retaining walls and wooden fences of the Ming army's gun platform were exposed to the muzzle of the red cannon, they would be vulnerable to a single blow. It only took a few rounds of shelling to easily destroy the gun platform.

Once the two gun towers on the west and south sides were destroyed, Dagukou would become an isolated village.

Dorgon didn't expect Azig to use this stupid method. It seems that he really underestimated him, so he readily agreed to Azig's request and added an extra 2 coats.

……

A few days passed, and the time came to the end of March.

A warm and humid air swept across the Beihai Bay area last night. When he walked out of the bunker in the morning, Yan Yingyuan could clearly feel the temperature rising, and even felt warmth.

The wind that blows is not as piercing as before.

Looking back at the ice surface of the North Sea in the distance, it is also glistening in the sun, and it is beginning to melt at an accelerated rate.

"Puheng, the weather is finally getting warmer." Chen Mingyu stretched his waist, and said happily, "Look at this posture, it won't be long before the navy will be able to reach Dagukou."

As long as the navy can reach the open sea of ​​Dagukou, Dagukou will be stable.

"Jiannu won't wait for the North Sea to thaw." Yan Yingyuan shook his head and asked again, "By the way, is Jiannu still quiet these days?"

"There has been no movement, only a few thousand real slaves from Zhenghongqi came yesterday."

"Strange, this is really strange, when did Jiannu become so honest?"

While talking, Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu had already climbed the wooden ladder to the watchtower.

He raised his binoculars and saw that there was a slave camp on the west side, south side and southwest side of the gun platform of the Ming army. The distance was about five or six miles, just outside the range of the Hongyi cannon.

There are four zigzag ditches longitudinally distributed in this blank area of ​​five or six miles.

This was dug by the green battalion soldiers before, but at this time it has been filled with sea water and frozen.

Yan Yingyuan's field of vision swept back and forth between the four trenches, and after a while his eyes froze.

"Gongchen, did you see that? There are many longitudinal wet marks between the trenches and on the ground on both sides?"

"Is there?" Chen Mingyu then turned the field of view of the telescope to the four vertical trenches, and then found that there were vertical wet marks, as if water had been poured out on the ground.

"Pu Heng, there are really wet marks, as if they have been watered."

"Gongchen, do you still remember the yellow mud bamboo shoots dug every spring?"

"Of course I remember, the yellow mud bamboo shoots in Jiangyin are the most tender and delicious."

"Then do you still remember how to find yellow mud bamboo shoots that haven't broken the ground?"

"Why don't you remember, it takes a sunny day, and if you go into the mountain early in the morning and see wet marks on the ground, you will find yellow mud bamboo shoots when you dig it..." Speaking of this sudden pause, Chen Mingyu said again, "Wu Heng, what are you talking about?" Are there tunnels under the wet marks?"

"Probably Jiannu is digging tunnels." Yan Yingyuan sneered, "No wonder there hasn't been any movement these days. It turns out that they are secretly digging tunnels. It's really sinister."

If Dorgon hears this, he will scold his mother, are you insidious?

"Gongchen, you go there yourself and order Zuoying and Youying to dig a circle of hidden ditches in addition to the existing trenches. This circle of hidden ditches does not need to be too wide, one step wide is enough, but it must be deep enough. "

"After digging, seawater will be introduced to fill the entire underground ditch."

"In this way, the sea water will pour in as long as the tunnel of Jiannu is dug through the dark ditch."

"Understood, I'll pass the order now." Chen Mingyu rushed down the watchtower excitedly.

Yan Yingyuan put down the binoculars, and there was a hint of worry between his brows.

Judging from Jiannu's reaction in the past few days, it is obvious that he has given up on the brainless attack.

Jiannu's current strategy is either to dig a tunnel and directly use gunpowder to explode it, or to dig a tunnel to extend under the slope protection, and then hollow out the surrounding slope protection from the bottom to clear the shooting range for the Hongyi cannon.

If you want to blow up the blunderbuss platform, you can divert seawater to pour it back to obstruct it.

But if Jiannu just wanted to hollow out the slope protection, he would face a real test.

At that moment, Yan Yingyuan hurried down from the watchtower again, and then summoned the few scholars who stayed at Dagukou.

"Jiannu has changed his tactics, and we must make corresponding adjustments. The first priority right now is to strengthen the strength of the left and right gun platforms and the rammed earth wall at Dagukou."

"Cook all the 1000 stone glutinous rice you brought."

"After being boiled, they are all smashed and mixed with sand, clay and lime slurry to make a compound soil."

"Then build a rammed-earth wall for the left and right blunderbusses with compound soil, and the rammed-earth wall at Dagukou will also be reinforced with compound soil, and the wall surface should be made at a large inclination angle of 45 degrees."

"A big inclination of 45 degrees?" Some scholars questioned.

"With such a large inclination, Jianu can step on the parapet and rush up."

"Don't be afraid of Jiannu rushing up." Yan Yingyuan said, "What you are afraid of is Jiannu's Hongyi cannon! If you don't make a big inclination, even the Sanhe soil with glutinous rice juice will not be able to hold the Hongyi cannon."

This is the lesser of two evils.

……

The next day, the abnormal behavior of the Ming army aroused the vigilance of Jiannu guards.

Dorgon took a few hard-core traitors to the towering well for the first time to find out what happened.

Through the field of vision of the telescope, it can be seen that the Ming army on the Dagukou and the two blunderbuss platforms in front of it are stirring the Sanhe soil, and then use the Sanhe soil to ram and build the retaining wall.

Then, Dorgon and the others discovered that the blunderbuss platform and the retaining wall at Dagukou had a very large inclination.

"It's strange that the inclination of the parapet wall is so steep that warriors of the Eight Banners can step on it and charge up." Ning Wan asked in confusion, "Has there ever been a city wall with such a steep inclination since China's historical records?"

"But there were no red-clothed cannons in ancient times." Hong Chengchou said solemnly, "This is obviously the lesser of two evils. Although the city wall with a steep angle cannot stop the impact of the Manchu warriors, it can withstand the shelling of the red-clothed cannons! "

"It seems that Yan Yingyuan has already seen through our intention." Dorgon's face collapsed.

"It doesn't matter if you see through it." Hou Fangyu said with a smile, "No matter how large the inclination angle of the retaining wall rammed with Sanhe soil is, it can only block the red cannon for a while. As long as the Eight Banners Han army continues to bombard it without hesitation, it will always be able to blast the retaining wall sooner or later. , or take ten thousand steps back, even if the cannons in red can’t break the protective wall, it doesn’t matter, you can just order Baoyi to continue digging the tunnel forward, and directly dig down the Ming army gun platform and even the protective wall of Dagukou! Let's see how the Ming army defends?"

Hearing this, Dorgon breathed a sigh of relief.

The situation is still under control.

……

At the same time, Xu Yingwei, who was far away in Gaizhouwei, was not idle.

It took ten days for Xu Yingwei to renovate the city wall of Gaizhou, and built eight large blunderbuss platforms relying on the city walls, one for each of the four city gates, and one for each of the four turrets.

This forms a two-level defense system. The first level is Gaizhou City, and the second level is the outer eight gun platforms.

There are still gaps between the eight blunderbuss towers. Jiannu can rush directly under the walls of Gaizhou City through the gaps, but if Jiannu really does this, he will face Ming army firepower from all directions, and there is no way to hide. place to hide.

After the entire defense system was formed, Xu Yingwei was obviously relieved, and now he was waiting for Jiannu to fight.

However, Xu Yingwei might be disappointed in the final result, because there will be no more Jiannu to fight Gaizhouwei.

Dorgon has listened to the advice of hardcore traitors such as Hong Chengchou, and is determined to concentrate all his efforts on competing with Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains, so it is impossible to deploy troops to fight Gaizhouwei in a short time.

After waiting for a few more days, it was found that Jiannu still hadn't reached Gaizhouwei, so Xu Yingwei began to send scouts out to reconnaissance. The focus of the reconnaissance was the Liaoxi Corridor and Haizhouwei in the north.

The result of the reconnaissance was that the Liaoxi Corridor was empty.

However, Haizhou Wei has thousands of slaves garrisoned.

Xu Yingwei hesitated a little, what should I do now?
(End of this chapter)