Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

When Kong Youde arrived with the Han army of 2 Eight Banners, he saw that the Ming army had already occupied a section of the canal that was more than five miles long. The gap, and is still launching continuous attacks on the gun platforms on both sides of the gap, trying to widen the gap.

Lian Yong on both sides of the gap is obviously not an opponent of the Ming army.

Therefore, gun towers continued to fall and were seized by the Ming army.

According to the current trend, the gap will expand to at least ten miles before dawn.

"Hong Butang." Kong Youde asked Hong Chengchou, "What should we do now? Shall we enter the gun platforms on both sides of the gap and replace Lian Yong?"

The equipment of the Eight Banners Han Army is much better than that of Lianyong.

Lian Yong was only equipped with a small amount of matchlock guns, but the Eight Banners Han army was equipped with all self-generating firecrackers and tiger squat guns. If Lian Yong was replaced on both sides of the gap, Kong Youde was confident that he would still be able to block the Ming army's offensive , It's just that even if the Ming army's offensive is blocked, it just prevents the gap from expanding.

But even if the gap is not allowed to continue to expand, what is the use?
Because the defense line of the canal has been penetrated, the Ming army can already go straight to the outside of Beijing through the defense line of the canal.

"Forget it." As Kong Youde expected, Hong Chengchou chose to give up, "Unless your Eight Banners Han army can regain the lost hundreds of blunderbuss platforms, otherwise it will not be enough to prevent the Ming army from passing through the canal. In this case, you can hold the gap What's the use of the gun stands on both sides? It doesn't have any real meaning."

Kong Youde remained silent, telling him to hold the gun platform with confidence.

But asking him to lead the army to retake the lost gun platform would have no confidence at all.

The Ming army carried more than a thousand red-clothed cannons, what attack did the Eight Banners Han army use?
"Hou Joining the Army?" Hong Chengchou turned his gaze to Hou Fangyu who followed him.

Hou Fangyu smiled, and said: "Since the defense line of the canal has been breached, let the Ming army go. Hong Butang happened to lead the army to cut off the Ming army's food route."

After a short pause, he said again: "In this way, within half a month, the Ming army will be defeated."

Hearing this, Hong Chengchou felt relieved, and immediately issued an order: "Pass down the order, Lianyong from Zhending, Baoding, and Shuntian Prefectures will immediately withdraw to Beijing, and Lianyong from Hejian Prefecture will immediately gather towards Jinghai County. Lian Yong from Yongping Mansion and Shunde Mansions gathered in the direction of Shanhaiguan and Yanzhou."

Now that the main force of the Ming army had broken through the defense line of the canal and was about to approach Beijing, there was no need for the Qing army to divide its troops to guard the defense lines. Instead, it could concentrate its forces on several strategic points to strengthen defense.

The first strategic point is Beijing City, then Shanhaiguan, and then Dagon Prefecture.

The last is Jinghai County, but it is the Qing army's offensive cluster stationed in Jinghai County.

By this time, the strategy or battlefield situation of the Ming and Qing armies had become very clear.

The Ming army, on the one hand, maintained a high-pressure situation in the direction of Xuzhou and Liaodong with heavy troops, and then concentrated the main force from the mouth of the Weihe River to the land route, and then broke through the defense line of the Qing army's canal from the vicinity of Jinghai. Heart Beijing City, simple and clear.

The strategy of the Ming army has become very clear.

Therefore, the Qing army can also make targeted deployments.

That is to concentrate troops to defend Shanhaiguan, Yanzhou and Beijing.

Then there is to keep a strategic force in Jinghai County, ready to cut off the food road of the Ming army at any time.

As long as the food supply of the Ming army is cut off, the 10,000+ army fighting in Beijing will collapse without a fight. In this way, the Qing army won the war of annihilating the country.

The most rare thing among them is Dorgon's trust.

Without Dorgon's trust, he would be very passive.

But now with Hou Fangyu's endorsement, Hong Chengchou no longer has any worries, and dares to let go of his hands.

In the Songjin War that year, Hong Chengchou suffered a crushing defeat because of the constraints of Chongzhen. This time, without the constraints of Dorgon, Hong Chengchou would definitely win the victory.

Hong Chengchou is still very confident in his martial arts.

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From a high altitude, Chongzhen, Zheng Sen, and Gao Qiqian knew the movements of the Qing army like the palm of their hands.

"Long Live Lord, Jian Nu has withdrawn." Gao Qiqian said, "Temporarily retreated to Jinghai County."

Chongzhen smiled and said: "Hong Chengchou defended the canal defense line originally with the mentality of giving it a try. It's good to be able to defend it, but it doesn't matter if he can't. Anyway, he still stays later. Since he can't defend now , then it is better to simply let us cross the canal, so that he can intercept our army food road."

Zheng Sen said coldly: "Hong Chengchou is wishful thinking."

Gao Qiqian also said: "To be an enemy of Daming, to fight against Lord Long Live, he is seeking his own death."

Chongzhen waved his hand, and immediately ordered the pilot of the flying car to lower the altitude and return to the ground quickly.

Scholars such as Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and Jiang Tian immediately came up to greet Chongzhen.

"My lord, this man's name is Li Yucheng." Xu Yingwei brought a North Korean army to Chongzhen, "he was the first person to break into the Jiannu gun platform, and also the first to kill the Jiannu gun platform."

"Your name is Li Yucheng?" Chongzhen's eyes fell on Li Yucheng.

Li Yucheng was so excited that his face was red, and then he fell to his knees on the ground with a puff.

"The minister of the vassal state Li Yucheng kowtowed to His Majesty the Emperor of Ming, long live long live long live!"

"Get up." Chongzhen Xu raised his hand, motioned Li Yucheng to stand up, and asked with a smile, "Li Yucheng, you have made meritorious deeds for ascending first, what kind of reward do you want?"

Li Yucheng was overjoyed when he heard the words, and asked eagerly: "I heard that the meritorious soldiers who performed outstandingly during the Northern Expedition can be exempted from entering the Imperial Academy to study. I wonder if the ministers of the vassal state have such an honor?"

Chongzhen didn't answer but asked instead: "Who did you learn your Ming Mandarin from?"

Li Yucheng responded quickly: "I learned it from the Ming soldiers when I was stationed in Liaodong."

"You're pretty good at learning." Chongzhen continued to ask, "Then can you write Chinese characters?"

"I also learned a few Chinese characters from scholars in Liaodong." Li Yucheng said, "but not many."

While talking, Li Yucheng wrote the three characters Li Yucheng on the ground with his fingers, and the writing was quite neat.

Chongzhen smiled and asked again: "If I grant you the identity of Huaxia ethnicity now, Li Yucheng, would you be willing?"

"I'm so honored!" Li Yucheng was so excited that his body began to tremble. He is of Huaxia ethnicity, that is to say, he is of Huaxia ethnicity from this moment on?
As for the identity of the Korean ethnic group, there is nothing to miss at all.

"Okay, then from this moment on, you are no longer of Korean ethnicity, but of Chinese ethnicity." Chongzhen said happily, "When the Guozijian recruits students again next year, you can enroll together with other meritorious soldiers."

This Li Yucheng is very talented, and he is brave in battle, so it is worth cultivating one or two.

But there is a prerequisite for this, that is, the identity of the Korean ethnic group must be given up.

After finishing speaking, Chongzhen said to Li Yucheng: "Li Yucheng, go back and tell the other Korean soldiers who participated in the night battle that I can grant them the identity of the Huaxia ethnic group. After the Northern Expedition is over, they can be elected as Beizhi soldiers and enjoy the rights of other soldiers. Equal treatment, of course, if they are not willing to give up their Korean ethnic identity, I will never force them."

"My minister Li Yucheng kowtowed to thank you for your grace." Li Yucheng was so excited that he knelt down and kowtowed three more times.

After knocking, Li Yucheng excitedly went to announce the good news to his compatriots.

In this night battle, a total of 8000 Korean troops participated in the battle, and almost [-] survived.

After listening to Li Yucheng's dictation of the imperial decree, the [-] surviving North Korean soldiers cheered like a tsunami. Obviously, this was great news for them.

Unwilling to give up Korean ethnic identity?nonexistent.

As long as anyone with a normal mind, who doesn't want to be of the Huaxia ethnic group, who doesn't want to be a member of the Ming Dynasty?

Seeing the North Korean army shouting long live there three times, Chongzhen smiled, and said to Gao Qiqian: "Gao Banban, I am planning to issue a decree to the cabinet. From now on, when the Ministry of Households registers household registrations for Ming people, they will all write them as Huaxia." family."

Since the Jiashen national disaster, Chongzhen has hardly intervened in the specific affairs of the cabinet.

But today, Chongzhen made an unprecedented decree to unify the people of Ming Dynasty.

After a pause, he continued: "All the people in our Ming Dynasty, no matter Han, Yi, Miao, Dong or Hakka, are written as Huaxia! Besides, all our Huaxia must speak the official language of Ming Dynasty. To learn Chinese, no matter how remote the mountainous area is, the Ministry of Rites must send an edict to teach the local people Mandarin and Chinese to enlighten the local people.”

Gao Qiqian hurriedly took out a small notebook and carefully wrote down every stroke.

Xu Yingwei, Yan Yingyuan and Jiang Tianyi couldn't understand Chongzhen's feelings.

But they won't object, that is, I believe the cabinet and the Ministry of Household Affairs will also not object.

When the rewards for the North Korean Army came to an end, Xu Yingwei suggested: "Your Majesty, this node is very important to the entire supply line. I suggest that you reserve more troops here, and leave another general to guard this place."

After finishing speaking, Xu Yingwei looked back at Yan Yingyuan again, the matter must be brother.

Yan Yingyuan stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, this place will be guarded by the minister."

"Well, then I'll leave it to you, Boheng." Chongzhen asked again, "How many troops do you want?"

Yan Yingyuan replied without thinking: "It doesn't take much, one brigade is enough."

"Only one infantry brigade is too few." Chongzhen shook his head, "I will leave you two infantry brigades, one mountain artillery brigade, and one field artillery brigade. Make sure that the entire supply line is unimpeded."

"Your Majesty, don't worry." Yan Yingyuan replied, "I will definitely not disgrace my life."

Chongzhen said to Xu Yingwei again: "Youzhen, hurry up and bury the pot to make food, and the army will go on the road immediately after a full meal."

"Yes." Xu Yingwei immediately gave an order to the staff officer behind him, "pass on the order, and all towns and brigades should hurry up and cook food, and send troops to Beijing immediately after a full meal!"

The military order was passed on quickly.

Five infantry towns and one cavalry town began to bury the pot and make food.

Soon, smoke rose from the gun platforms on both sides of the canal.

[There should be another chapter in the afternoon]