Qianlong: Qing Dynasty?What about my Daqing?

Chapter 176 You Can't Desperate, You Will Exterminate the Clan!

1793 AD.

August of the second year of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Daohua, son of the Great Ming Dynasty, formally paid homage to the Taimiao, and issued a call to arms, announcing that he would lead an army of one million to sweep the north and recover the Liao Dynasty, in order to avenge the hatred of the country and family for more than 100 years.

The next day, he led 1 soldiers of the Emperor's Guards, left Yingtianhuang City, boarded a ship and went east, and inspected the first batch of ten brigades of more than 4 people going to Liaodong in Songjiang Mansion. Wan Duozhong sailed northward by boat, aiming at Lushun Port!
It is naturally impossible for the Ming Dynasty to carry out such a big move in silence.

Don't say anything else.

It will take several days to prepare the military supplies for the 4-odd army to board the ship, and it will take more than ten days to fully prepare for the boarding of the army. In addition, although the Ming Dynasty now has steam ships .

However, due to the limitation of the voyage, sailing ships are still used for this kind of cross-sea expedition.

Sailing is to wait for the time to go to sea, it depends on the weather.

Otherwise, if the army encounters extreme weather such as a typhoon on the road, it will be over.

So when Daming publicly announced that it would sweep the north and restore the Liao Dynasty, when the son of the Ming Dynasty conquered Liaodong himself.

In the Beijing Imperial Palace, Qianlong's Manchu ministers had already started arguing in a chaotic manner.

His face was pale, and he looked thinner and thinner. Emperor Qianlong, who seemed to be blown away by a gust of wind, had a dull headache. What made him even more headache was that the officials wearing flower feathers were arguing.

"The ancestral land of Manchuria must not be abandoned. Immediately send troops out of the army to reinforce Liaodong! Fight the homeland with Niming!"

"No! No! Manchuria is barren, and the army is leaving the customs. Where will the food and grass materials come from?"

"Desirable North Korea!"

"North Korea is a small country with a lot of people and poor people, how can it be able to support the army and supplies? What's more, North Korea is a foreign vassal, and the persecution is too strong. If North Korea is attached to Niming, won't the situation be more difficult?"

"How can Beijing defend the army when it leaves the customs? The bandit army has already approached Zhili!"

He Shen, He Lin, A Gui, Le Bao and other ministers are arguing.

The current situation of the Qing Dynasty is really extremely bad.

The million and eight banners in the city of Beijing are a bit like sitting in a sleepy city.

To the south is an aggressive celestial army.

To the north is the elite of the Ming army who vowed to sweep the north and restore the Liao Dynasty, and to avenge the revenge of the Ming Dynasty.

Under the attack from the north and the south.

The fate of the Qing Dynasty has reached a precarious point.

Now the Qing Dynasty has also reached the time of fate.

Do you want to stick to the Central Plains, or retreat to Shengjing?
Can the Central Plains be held?
Can Shengjing hold on?
If the two places are not guarded, where will the Qing Dynasty go?

Do you want to escape to the grassland?
What do these million and eight banners eat and drink when they arrive on the grassland?
And more than 100 years of pampering.

Can the Eight Banners disciples still endure this hardship?

Perhaps the only good news now is that the bandits blocked Ni Ming's way to the north.

However, the actions of the religious bandits could not get the support of the gentry.

Therefore, the gentry in Zhili and Shandong still support the Qing Dynasty.

And to stop the bandits.

The gentry of the two places can be said to be rich and powerful.

Organize regiments to train with the army.

Especially in Zhili Guangping Mansion and Shunde Mansion, which are adjacent to Henan Province, the local gentry formed villages to protect themselves.

With high walls and hard fortresses, it is not easy for the army of the kingdom of heaven to fight all the way down.

However, there were many soldiers and horses in Zhili in the Qing Dynasty.

Zhili has always been the focus of the Qing army's defense.

After Zhu Ming and Bailianjiao started incidents one after another.

The Qing court strengthened the defense of Zhili. Now the governor of Zhili is the general Agui. There are more than [-] soldiers under the supervision of the Governor-General, and the regular soldiers of the Qing Dynasty.

Besides.

During these times, Agui organized and recruited more than 11 people to practice bravery in Zhili, with a total strength of [-].

But even so, it is still doubtful whether the Qing Dynasty can hold Zhili.

Fortunately, the hearts of the people here in Zhili are not as fluctuating as they are in the south. Most of the local gentry support the Qing Dynasty.

And it wasn't Zhu Ming who came, but the bandits.

If it was Zhu Ming, everyone would still have a place to settle down if they surrendered.

But the religious bandits are a military country with a single hole, and they practice a military land system based on the closure of land and manors.

It is to seize their land and wealth, to support the government soldiers, and to reward military achievements.

How can they surrender?

So this time.

The gentry from all parts of Zhili organized their village bravery one after another, and built fortresses in the localities to fortify the walls and clear the fields.

Cities and cities all over the country have entered a state of full battle, and villages around the world have also begun to dig deep trenches and build high walls.

In addition, the Qing court sent Agui to sit in Zhili, and Agui had 11 soldiers on hand.

It can also uniformly dispatch and command the township bravery in various places.

It is not so easy for the Heavenly Kingdom Army to run rampant in Zhili, where Yongqing is very powerful.

However, if you want to use 11 regular troops and an unknown number of Xiangshen armed forces to fight against the so-called million, the actual number may be no less than 40 or [-] religious bandits.

It is impossible to completely keep them out of Zhili.

And there is another thing that makes people very headache.

That means the transportation is broken.

The Qing Dynasty lost the food in the south.

Grain from the south cannot be shipped in now.

The Qing court had no choice but to let Shandong, Zhili, and Shanxi provinces raise food and grass for military supplies.

The grain requisition quota of Zhili Province alone is 200 million shi!
To know.

Zhili in this era is actually the land of Hebei in history. After thousands of years of reclamation, in this era without chemical fertilizers, the yield of such barren land that has been over-cultivated has been very small.

Large-scale forced grain requisition is afraid of stirring up civil uprisings.

It's even more troublesome.

The autumn harvest has not yet begun.

Hundreds of thousands of religious bandits are already on the border of Zhili. If they enter Zhili, then this year's autumn grain will not be harvested.

Even the food in Shandong may not be harvested as well.

At that time, don't say it is a military supply.

Just in the city of Beijing, what the millions of hard-core crops who don't do production eat can make the Qing court die of headaches.

It seems that there are too many dead ends for the Qing Dynasty now.

The first is the lack of food and starvation.

The second is to be killed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom breaking Beijing City.

The third is to be forced to death by the Ming army entering through the Liaoxi Corridor.

Especially now that there are too many bannermen in Beijing.

Once Beijing is surrounded, the entire Manchurian clan is in danger of being massacred.

Although Qianlong had a headache at this time.

But also know great.

Compared with a strong city, this one million Eight Banners nation is the foundation.

People die, but nothing is left.

But now the Ming army has landed in Liaodong.

Where else can the Qing Dynasty go?
A decisive battle in Beijing?

Can't fight decisively, can't fight desperately.

Qianlong thought to himself.

But one or two of the ministers who are arguing now do not mention the plan to abandon Beijing.

This made Qianlong anxious.

I am not Chongzhen.

What are you one or two afraid of?
It's really worrying.

Do you want me to propose to evacuate Beijing myself?
Do you still want your own posthumous name?
How about passing the position to Yongyan now and let him take the blame?
Standing next to Qianlong and serving carefully, the fifteenth elder brother shivered with a cold back.

At this time Agui came out to speak.

"Your Majesty, now that the Qing Dynasty has come to the end of life and death, the Eight Banners must cheer up. In addition, they are going to fight in Liaodong on the one hand, and on the other hand in the Central Plains. The current strength is not enough, and we must do our best Expand the Eight Banners!"

Agui suggested.

Qianlong nodded and said, "It is indeed a way to expand the Eight Banners!"

He Shen, He Lin and the others looked at each other in blank dismay.

How to expand the Eight Banners?

Looking at the dialogue between the emperor and Agui, it seems that the two have discussed it in private.

It's just a matter of bringing it up publicly.

In this Southern Ming Dynasty, a meeting was held, and the kingdom of heaven carried out the reform of the military service field system.

The Qing Dynasty cannot fall behind.

But of course the Qing Dynasty could not hold a parliament, nor could it engage in any government soldiers.

Instead, it is necessary to carry out a reform of the "Big Eight Banners" plan.

It is to consolidate and strengthen the Eight Banners military system.

On the one hand, it is necessary to mobilize the existing Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, bring all the strong men in the banners into training, and organize a large army.

On the other hand, it is necessary to expand the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and include some local armed forces in Zhili and Shandong into the ranks of the Eight Banners and give them banner status.

Before that, the Qing Dynasty had been weakening the Eight Banners Army. By the end of the Qianlong Dynasty, the number of Han Eight Banners was running low—after all, the Qing Dynasty’s finances could not support so many hardcore crops.

But now the Qing Dynasty has no choice but to expand the Han Eight Banners, otherwise how can the enthusiasm of the Han soldiers be mobilized?
Besides.

It is also necessary to expand one back to the Eight Banners.

It is to go to the northwest to recruit Huihui into the banner.

Trying to pass such a reform in vain.

Restore the military system of the Eight Banners, which unites the army and the people, and restore the era when the Eight Banners cavalry were invincible in the world.

Although this idea is very unrealistic.

But the current Qing Dynasty has no other way.

They must expand their base to fight against Zhu Ming and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

at this meeting.

Qianlong made a plan to expand the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, recruit new Eight Banners, and rectify the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia.

Mobilize the strong men of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia in Beijing to join the army, and the old and weak are also organized into battalions.

Put on an appearance of going all out in the capital.

But some Manchu and Han officials with a keen sense of smell have begun to realize.

Emperor Qianlong was ready to abandon Beijing and leave.

Honestly.

After receiving the news, many nobles in Manchuria breathed a sigh of relief.

If Qianlong really wanted to die in the capital, it would be putting the fate of the entire Manchurian family on the gambling table.

And it looks almost impossible to win.

However, Qianlong didn't want to fight decisively in the capital, and worried about the risk of extermination of the clan. In a battle in the capital, he could only win but not lose. If he lost, he would not only perish the country, but also the clan.

And Qianlong himself can't leave, otherwise the emperor Laozi ran away, and the soldiers below still have the determination to fight to the death?
Since ancient times, there has never been a precedent for a country to be able to hold its own even when the emperor ran away.

Therefore, Qianlong would not leave the capital when he had to.

But it can't be a decisive battle in the capital.

Therefore, the current method is to fight in Henan and Zhili.

If you lose in the Henan-Zhili battlefield, you can still afford to lose-to be exact, you have time to run away.

But after the battle between Henan and Zhili, what should the Ming army in Liaodong do?
This was also something that Qianlong had to deal with.

(End of this chapter)