Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 547 The Liaodong War Begins (Second Change)
Regarding the decision of the Ming court, Sun Chengzong proposed a remedial measure, that is, to distribute all the stored items to the soldiers, first abandon this empty city, and all the officers and soldiers withdraw to the two cities of Daoning and Jin.

Now that there are not many people, instead of spending a lot of elite soldiers to guard the empty city, it is better to give up for the time being and preserve our strength.

However, Governor Qiu Hejia was a man who knew the soldiers and had experienced the Ping-Guizhou War. He felt that Sun Chengzong was old and afraid that he would disagree with this strategy, so he still let Zu Dashou and He Kegang continue to guard Dalinghe City.

Empress Jinhuang Taiji sent people to closely monitor the place, and the sense of crisis increased sharply.

He deliberately planned to break through the Ningjin line of defense. What worried him most was that the Ming army would rely on this line of defense to set up castles step by step, march steadily and steadily, and gradually advance eastward.

In this way, even if he made another detour in the future, and the Ming army did not return to Shanhaiguan, but instead advanced to Shenyang, Baylor and the soldiers of the Eight Banners fighting ahead would definitely not feel at ease.

Sitting and watching the Han people open up their territory, build the city walls, repair the armor, and make the Daling River and others successfully built, Huang Taiji felt that he could not sleep.

Huang Taiji himself is a man who is good at using troops, and he can see Sun Chengzong's strategic intentions at a glance, so he wants to make a counter-advancement, not giving the Ming army a chance to build and strengthen the defense line, and quickly destroy it when it is unprepared.

According to the investigation by the spies he sent, the elite of the Ming army was in Dalinghe. If this city was captured, a large number of elite Ming soldiers in Liaodong would be wiped out.

No matter in terms of tactics or strategic intentions, Huang Taiji's strategy is extremely correct.

But the elite soldiers are all in this city, so they are spies who can't find out.

The post-gold spy is not very powerful.

Zu Dashou, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, used to have strong soldiers and horses, but after being transferred by the court many times, there were [-] people in the city.

He sent people out to look for war horses, and other errands, and 200 people went out. At this time, there were still 1 officers and soldiers, more than [-] businessmen, and more than [-] soldiers and civilians in the city. .

If Liang Tingdong did not step down and withdraw tens of thousands of people and food, Dalinghe City's defensive capabilities would not be seriously weakened.

Since Sun Chengzong decided to restore this place, Huang Taiji mobilized the Mongols to reinforce it, and at the same time asked Shanxi merchant Fan Yongdou to send military rations.

Huang Taiji made preparations for war, and heard that the Ming Dynasty had withdrawn a large number of soldiers, so he decided to send troops earlier.

Moreover, he further weakened the power of the Four Great Baylors, Amin was imprisoned, the powers of Dai Shan and Mang Gurtai were further virtualized and weakened, and Huang Taiji's imperial power was further enhanced.

Fan Yongdou had just been entertained by Huang Taiji, and he was enjoying himself when he left the palace, but before he went out, he was invited back by Huang Taiji.

"Khan." Fan Yongdou hurriedly saluted.

"Do you know Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang?"

"heard about it."

Fan Yongdou is from Shanxi, and he knows it well, especially Gao Yingxiang's people control the salt ponds in Zhizhou, so that they cannot gain an absolute monopoly advantage in selling salt to the Mongols.

None of those stinky rebels know how to do business, they only play low-level methods of reducing prices.

"How is Gao Yingxiang's strength?"

Fan Yongdou pondered for a moment: "Back to Dahan, in fact, the hammer bandit He Jinzhao is stronger, he killed the general soldiers of Shanxi Town one after another, and his record is impressive.

But since breaking Taiyuan and capturing King Jin, there has been little action.

With no ambitions, he got a fake jade seal from Lin Danhan and began to enjoy it. He didn't even become the so-called leader of the rebels. "

Huang Taiji hummed, and said solemnly:

"But news came back from the capital that the intruder Gao Yingxiang went to Beijing, hacked and killed wantonly in the imperial city, and then left. No one in the Ming army dared to stop him."

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou subconsciously wanted to refute that this was fake news.

But he felt that the news Huang Taiji received should not be fake news, but he was in Shenyang and had not received the actual situation.

How is it that the hammers from the south to the north are better than the other?

The hammer bandit He Jinchao tortured the King Jin of the Ming Dynasty, and the thief Gao Yingxiang wanted to go to the imperial city to kill the emperor!

Huang Taiji took out another letter: "This is the news that Wang Deng sent someone to send it quickly. The thief Gao Yingxiang did not go south to make peace with the leader of Zijinliang, nor was he successfully encircled by the imperial army. Instead, he ran to Zhangjiakou and released him." After a fire, he also colluded with Lin Danhan."

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou couldn't sit still and set Zhangjiakou on fire.

That is the cornucopia of their Shanxi merchants!

This is definitely a heavy loss, he said quickly: "Khan, there must be nothing wrong with Zhangjiakou!"

Huang Taiji also knew that Shanxi merchants delivered food, ironware and various daily necessities to themselves from Zhangjiakou.

But the importance of the Daling River is even greater, and the Ming army must not be allowed to occupy it there!

Sending troops to destroy the Daling River is the most important thing. You must not go to fight Lin Danhan just because Zhangjiakou has an accident, and the disaster at the door of the house has not been dealt with cleanly.

"The Daling River must be dealt with first." Huang Taiji emphasized, and then said: "After the war is over, we will send troops to Zhangjiakou."

"It's all about Khan."

Fan Yongdou did not dare to disrespect Huang Taiji, he is proficient in Mongolian, Jurchen, and even a little Russian, so he is not afraid to communicate.

"The intruder Gao Yingxiang and Lin Danhan colluded together, which has the shadow of the hammer bandit He Jinzhao."

Huang Taiji sat up from his seat, glanced at the two vacant seats next to him, and felt uncomfortable in his heart. After the battle in Daling River was over, there would only be one seat left on it.

Then he said: "This group of rebels are really incompetent. We entered Beijing and took a large number of people and property, and the national power was greatly enhanced. Thinking about killing the emperor!"

The success of Huang Taiji's thousand-mile raid greatly increased his prestige in Houjin, because Dabeile Daishan and Sanbeile Manggurtai opposed this strategy, and Amin was imprisoned. It's a lot more disciplined than before.

Of course, Fan Yongdou would not say what kind of impact this group of rebels would have in the Central Plains, so he directed the conversation to He Jinzhao:

"Khan, the hammer bandit He Jinzhao is going to solve it, and it may be difficult to solve it with Daming alone."

Fan Yongdou hastily passed a sentence: "The Mongols on the right wing of Mongolia, like the Ordos tribe, all call He Jinzhao the Heavenly Khan. If the Great Khan wants to unify Mongolia, he will not allow it."

"Don't worry, when we attack Lin Danhan, as Lin Danhan's son-in-law, is it possible that he can just sit back and watch?"

Huang Taiji is going to unify Mongolia, and the Mongolian Khan must be lonely. As for a Han rebel who wants to be Khan that day, he must be wiped out all the way.

But now the battle of Dalinghe is imminent, and the destruction by external forces must not be allowed, even if it is the Zhangjiakou Exchange that has been transfusing Houjin's blood.

"Give me an order to leave Shenyang tomorrow and march west to the Daling River, catching them by surprise."

Huang Taiji gave an order to get all the Eight Banners ready, especially the Mongols, to drive them as pioneers, make them pay the price, and give them rewards, so that they can be more loyal to themselves.

"Fan Yongdou, you will go out with me. Now Zhangjiakou is not safe, and it is useless for you to return rashly."

Regarding Huang Taiji's arrangement, Fan Yongdou immediately agreed.

Even though he was worried about the situation in Zhangjiakou, he had to follow Huang Taiji first, because the Shanxi merchants put the treasure here.

Fan Yongdou sighed secretly, but said in his heart: "As for the hammer bandit He Jinzhao, we have to wait until he is killed."

(End of this chapter)