Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 632 The Manpower Controversy
"That's right, the red cannons are all pulled out!"

Xie Yuancai said: "Brother Juheng, Jiannu will definitely attack Chenguantun camp again."

"Then let them come." Yan Yingyuan said grimly, "I didn't fear them in the nighttime sneak attack last time, but this time I will be afraid of them in broad daylight, hmph."

Yan Yingyuan really hoped that Jiannu would attack again.

However, Yan Yingyuan's wish came to nothing.

As soon as the voice fell, there was another movement at the city gate.

Immediately behind the green battalion, another group of civilian husbands drove out of the city.

Moreover, these civilian husbands all carried tools such as shovels, picks, dustpans, and even rammers.

"Hey, what is this?" Xie Yuancai was stunned immediately, "What's going on? What does Jiannu want to do?"

Yan Yingyuan was Yan Yingyuan after all, he guessed Jiannu's intention at once, and said in a deep voice, "Understood!"

Xie Yuancai immediately looked back at Yan Yingyuan and asked, "Brother Juheng, what do you understand?"

Yan Yingyuan said: "Brother Xingdou, don't you understand? Jiannu is planning to repair the blunderbuss platform!"

"Of course I know about repairing the blunderbuss platform." Xie Yuancai asked again, "The key is to repair the blunderbuss platform for what?"

After a pause, Xie Yuancai said again: "Is Hong Chengchou worried that there aren't enough blunderbusses outside Jinghai County?"

"No." Yan Yingyuan said, "Hong Chengchou should be planning to start from Jinghai County, build a gun platform all the way south, and finally connect with Qing County in the south."

"Oops, isn't our army's food route cut off again?"

Now Xie Yuancai also came to his senses, and said with a dark face: "This Hong Chengchou has some skills, he actually came up with such a bad move, but we must not let him repair the gun platform."

After a pause, Xie Yuancai said again: "Why don't you call on the cavalry to attack and prevent the slaves from repairing the blunderbuss platform?"

"No." Yan Yingyuan shook his head and said, "Jiannu has already set up his formation, and there are hundreds of Hongyi cannons and Fran machine guns. If the cavalry go to town, they will be covered by Jiannu's guns."

"Then ask His Majesty to bring back the main force."

Xie Yuancai said: "Just in time for a decisive battle with Jiannu."

"No way." Yan Yingyuan said, "As soon as the main force returns, Jiannu will definitely retreat to the city again. At that time, will the main force of our army attack Jinghai County by force, or go north to surround Beijing again?"

"To attack Jinghai County, you need to seize thousands of gun towers on the periphery first. It is better to attack Beijing."

"But what if we go north again, and after the main force leaves, the Jiannu who hid in Jinghai come to repair the blunderbuss platform again? And let the main force come back from Beijing? Toss back and forth?"

Xie Yuancai was speechless for a moment, as if he really couldn't do it.

At this time, Zhu Cijiong, Hu Guozhu, and Xia Wanchun also arrived upon hearing the news.

After learning about the situation, Hu Guozhu said: "Our cavalry town will attack first and try our best to prevent Jiannu from going south to build the blunderbuss platform. Otherwise, once the grain road is cut off, it will be in big trouble."

Xia Wanchun frowned and said: "The key point is that even if the cavalry town attacks, it can't stop it."

Zhu Cijiong also said: "That's right, Jianu has dispatched so many cannons that the cavalry can't get close no matter how fast they run."

Hu Guozhu said solemnly: "If you can't stop it, you must stop it. Even if you wipe out the entire cavalry town, you must not sit back and watch Jiannu build the blunderbuss platform and cut off our army's supply road."

"The question is why all the cavalry should be exhausted?" Yan Yingyuan said disapprovingly.

"Obviously there is a better way to break Jiannu's blunderbuss attack tactics, why do you have to send out cavalry to fight desperately? There is no need for this at all."

"Is there a better way for Yan to remonstrate?" Zhu Cijiong asked.

"Yes." Yan Yingyuan pointed to the front, and then continued, "Isn't Jianu in use?"

"Yan Gejian is saying that we also repair the gun platform?" Zhu Cijiong's eyes lit up all of a sudden.

"That's right, we are also repairing the blunderbuss platform." Yan Yingyuan stretched out his hand and drew a cross in the void, and said, "Jiannu wants to build a vertical chain of blunderbuss platforms to connect Jinghai with Qing County in the south, then we Just build a horizontal chain of blunderbusses to connect the Chenguantun camp with the Tianshuijing stronghold on the coast."

"Look at the Jianu's gun platform chain that cut off our grain road at the end?"

"Or did we repair the blunderbuss chain and cut Jiannu's blunderbuss chain in two?"

After a pause, Yan Yingyuan said again: "We are not afraid of building slaves in field battles, and we are also not afraid of building slaves in building blunderbuss platforms. How many civilians can Jiannu mobilize? Can it be compared with Ming Dynasty?"

……

in Beijing.

The Ming army mobilized tens of thousands of civilians, starting from the Sili Bridge outside Chaoyangmen, and digging blockade trenches in the north and south directions respectively. The trenches are two feet deep and more than six feet wide.

So far, the northern blockade has been extended to Andingmen, and the southern blockade has also been extended to Zuo'anmen, almost enclosing Beijing, one of the three.

This put a lot of pressure on the Eight Banners nobles and Han officials and gentry in Beijing.

Watching the blockade of the Ming army stretching over, but the Qing army was powerless, this feeling of powerlessness and depression was undoubtedly very torturous, so dissatisfaction with Dorgon and Hong Chengchou broke out again.

The dissatisfaction of the Eight Banners nobles headed by Duoduo was mainly directed at Dorgon.

However, the Han officials headed by Sun Zhixie and the Han gentry headed by Zhang Jinyan were more dissatisfied with Hong Chengchou, and they all felt that Hong Chengchou's incompetence caused the current passive situation.

Sun Zhixie and Zhang Jinyan even went to Prince Rui's mansion to complain to Dorgon.

It is said to be a complaint, but it is actually a slander, which is also the basic operation of Han officials.

Officials of the Han nationality have fought each other for thousands of years, and they have developed a good ability to fight against dissidents.

"Your Majesty, this slave has a piece of advice that you can't utter." Sun Zhixie said solemnly.

"Hong Chengchou claims to be a soldier, but his name doesn't match his name. Although he had a small success in suppressing thieves back then, most of them were the work of Ercao, He Renlong and others. Hong Chengchou did not have any merit. It is a plan for the Qing Dynasty. The master needs to be replaced as soon as possible. Hong Chengchou."

Dorgon frowned and didn't speak. He actually looked down on Sun Zhixie in his heart, because this guy had no bones at all. When the Qing soldiers first entered Beijing, and the first day of the court meeting, this Sun Zhixie couldn't wait to shave himself. He wore a rat-tailed hairstyle, and tried to get in with the Manchen class, but was kicked to the ground by Azig.

Sun Zhixie could only go back to Hanchen's shift in disgrace.

As a result, the Hanchens were deliberately close together, and Sun Zhixie couldn't squeeze in and could only stand at the end of the shift. From then on, he became the laughing stock of the courtiers in Beijing, and everyone looked down on him.

But looking down on Sun Zhixie is one thing, how to treat him is another.

Even if it was just to set an example, the Qing Dynasty could not treat Sun Zhixie too harshly.

So Dorgon could only be patient and listen to Sun Zhixie's nonsense in Dongnuange.

But when Sun Zhixie proposed to replace Hong Chengchou with Duoduo, Dorgon finally became angry.

"Sun Zhixie!" Dorgon stared at Sun Zhixie gloomyly, "How much benefit did the Ten Kings promise you?"

"Master, why did you say that?" Sun Zhixie hurriedly knelt down on the ground, "I didn't receive any benefits from the ten kings. I really think about the country and the country of the Qing Dynasty. I ask the master to check it out."

"Then you are teaching me how to do things?" Dorgon's eyes became colder.

"Master is clear, this slave dares to do this." Sun Zhixie's face turned pale.

"Then stop chattering in front of me." Dorgon glanced at Zhang Jinyan, and said again, "Go back, all of you, and take care of your servants after you return to the mansion, and stop talking nonsense."

Sun Zhixie and Zhang Jinyan had a boring discussion and left in embarrassment.

Dorgon's state of mind was more or less affected.

For no other reason, it was because Hong Chengchou suffered another defeat.

In the Battle of Daliuri, one guy reimbursed nearly [-] Mongolian cavalry.

What made Dorgon even more angry was that he also lost 200 camel cannons.

As for the blunderbuss offensive proposed by Hong Chengchou, Dorgon is not optimistic.

One is because repairing the blunderbuss platform is too slow, how long will it take to connect Jinghai and Qingxian?
The second is because the Qing Dynasty could build gun platforms, so why not the Nanming Dynasty?They can also build the blunderbuss platform, won't it become a competition to repair the blunderbuss platform, a competition of manpower and material resources?
Compared with manpower and material resources, how could the Qing Dynasty compare with Nanming?Defeat!

It's just that he didn't make an order to stop Hong Chengchou, he was still lucky.

What if the Ming army had no time to respond, and Hong Chengchou really made it happen?

……

Almost at the same time, Chongzhen also received an urgent delivery from Yan Yingyuan.

After Wang Jiayan, Xu Yingwei and others finished reading the urgent delivery, Chongzhen asked, "What do you think?"

Jiang Tianyi said: "Your Majesty, I think Hu Heng's proposal is very good. If you build a slave to build a blunderbuss platform, we will also build a blunderbuss platform. If Jiannu compares manpower with our Daming, it is courting death."

Zheng Sen echoed: "That's right, even if you consume it, you can consume Jiannu alive."

Xu Yingwei said: "But after the gun platform is completed, troops need to be stationed. At present, 1000 large camps have been built on the more than 13-mile logistics channel from Dengzhou to Beijing. In addition, there are more than 70 small strongholds. There are more than 80 large and small camps in total. There are only seven remaining infantry brigades, which are already stretched."

"If we connect Chenguantun camp and Tianshuijing stronghold into a single line,"

"Then at least 150 gun platforms need to be built over the 210 miles."

Speaking of this meal, he said: "Based on the calculation of one sentry for one gun platform, at least 210 sentries are needed, 70 in total, that is, fourteen infantry battalions, and nearly three infantry brigades are enough."

Chongzhen said in a deep voice: "Then transfer the second town back."

Town 2 also had three infantry brigades remaining outside Peking.

It happened that these three infantry brigades were transferred back to protect the grain road.

Wang Jiayan said again: "Your Majesty, we need to recruit some more peasants from Shandong."

After thinking for a while, Chongzhen said: "Forget it, the people in Shandong are not strong enough. It's spring now, and spring plowing is about to start. It's better not to recruit people from Shandong, but recruit from North Korea."

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the life and death of the people in Shandong still had to be taken care of.

As for the life and death of the Korean people, Chongzhen couldn't care less.

"Immediately send an urgent mail to Dengzhou, let Min Guogong lead the navy to go to the North Korean dignitaries, and also transport the [-] North Korean troops from Liaodong. Maybe it won't be long before they come in handy."

(End of this chapter)