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Chapter 394 Fully Prepared, The Last Battle Against Dodo

Dorgon was naturally very shocked to receive the sad news that after the fifteenth younger brother led the army to go deep into the south of the Yangtze River, he was surrounded by heavy siege and his life and death were unknown because of his adventurous advance and the destruction of the navy.

He was having breakfast at that time, and he was so shocked that his chopsticks dropped to the floor.

"What? That's impossible. The fifteenth brother is the main force with the three banners, and the Han and Mongolian troops to help in the battle. The soldiers and horses he has on hand account for [-]% of the total force of the imperial court!"

Dorgon couldn't imagine that the Qing Dynasty, who had always been invincible, could have such a large army, surrounded by those cowardly and unarmed southern barbarians, and it was difficult to escape.

At this moment, it was Hong Chengchou, the surrendered minister, who was in charge of assisting Dorgon in advising the military aircraft. Hong Chengchou said worriedly:
"My lord, Kong Youde and Nikan Belle really don't know about Prince Yu's recent situation, but the fact that the Ming army was able to fight against Prince Yu in the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time divide their troops to counterattack Jiangbei, shows how serious the situation is!

Perhaps Prince Yu is indeed brave and invincible. Even without the aid of the navy, his tens of thousands of cavalry can still mess up Jiangnan, but it is also true that he has not been able to break through the Jiang defense to send back news.

It shows that at least the Ming army was very successful in fortifying the walls and clearing the fields. Even if some prefectures and counties were captured by my heavenly soldiers, they could withdraw their warships or burn them down before the city was destroyed. Unable to prepare a warship to cross the north. "

Hong Chengchou's remarks were also trying to think of the best, and they were also putting gold on Duo Duo's face, and by the way, giving Dorgon some steps to go down.As we all know, Dorgon has the best relationship with several of his fellow brothers, and Duduo still has the best relationship.

If it weren't for this, Dorgon would not have handed over the largest conscripted army to Duoduo.

Fortunately, Dorgon also knew the seriousness. He quickly regained his composure and realized that it doesn't matter if he loses face right now. The key is to immediately send troops for reinforcements.

"How many soldiers and horses can be dispatched in Beizhili and Shandong now? Let the soldiers and horses near Zuojin go to Huaiyang immediately. Even if there is no boat to cross the river, at least recover Yangzhou first, and completely crush the Ming army who dared to return to Jiangbei! How much can this be done?" Attract and consume some Ming army troops to buy time for the fifteenth brother to break through.

Then, let all the ministries try to travel south with a small fast boat as soon as possible, and get in touch with the fifteenth brother.He is also the same, even if he can't defeat the Ming army's navy for a while, he can try to send a small boat back to the south of the Yangtze River to make contact. Is it true that the siege is so tight that even a small boat cannot be stolen from the river hundreds of miles away? "

Hong Chengchou promised one by one, wrote down the guiding ideology of the regent, and then slowly refined the plan, and replied:
"Northern Zhili soldiers and horses going south, I'm afraid it will be delayed for a long time. I implore the prince to allow all the ministries to change their defenses, so that the Shandong court's soldiers and horses, including the Han and Mongolian army flags, will all go south to Huainan to reinforce Prince Yu.

Our northern Zhili soldiers and horses will gradually take over the empty defense area after the Shandong soldiers and horses go south. In this way, we can gain more than ten days of preparation and marching time.

The Shandong garrison was originally to clear out the remaining enemies and bandits along the canal and to guard against Liu Zeqing in Denglai.Thinking about the cold winter and the twelfth lunar month, Liu Zeqing is also powerless to make progress. This guy only wants to be a warlord and search for places.It's okay to leave it alone for the time being, if he dares to rush in, he will kill him when the Beizhi army arrives!

In addition, if you are worried about the shortage of soldiers and horses in Shandong, you need to use Prince Wenying's department to relax the offensive against Nanyang and Xiangyang as appropriate, and instead reinforce Huainan, or move to attack Xinyang and Hefei nearby, so as to divide the strength of the Ming army in Jiangbei. "

Dorgon played exactly one by one, and counted the size of the soldiers and horses everywhere, feeling a little cramped in his heart.

He couldn't help asking Hong Chengchou: "If my main force in the Qing Dynasty really suffers some kind of injury, apart from using each banner and each household to supplement the army, I'm afraid I will have to think of other ways to supplement the army. Hong Chengchou Do you have a clever plan, sir?"

Historically, after several years of fighting in the south of the Yangtze River, the Qing army gradually discovered that as the war continued in an all-round way, the Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner alone were not enough.So from the third year of Shunzhi, the green battalion was prepared to distinguish it from the original Han army flag, and to provide a new upward channel for more Han people who wanted to join the army.

Now, because of Duo Duo's early crisis, it was a coincidence that Duo Ergun had to think about this imminent problem in advance.

Many observers in later generations have always mistakenly believed that before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there were only [-] to [-] Manchu main forces. This is actually a misunderstanding——

The reason for the deeply rooted number "25" is mainly derived from the original definition of the Eight Banners: three hundred households are one Niulu, five Niulu are one Jiala, and Wujiala are one Banner, so a banner is [-] Niulu and seven thousand. For five hundred households, each household sends out one man as a standing army. A banner is naturally [-] cavalry, multiplied by eight to get [-].

But in fact, 6 people are just the result of the initial registration of households by the Qi people during the Nuerhachi period, just like any dynasty had to check the population at the beginning to calculate the number of households. What's up.The front-line regular standing army of the Eight Banners, after years of growth, has already broken through the establishment of 1 people per banner.

The civil affairs in the early Qing Dynasty were naturally poor, so Nuerhachi and Huangtaiji had no registered households for quite a long time.In order to reduce the number of soldiers, the Manchu people naturally did not divide households.

Therefore, no matter how large the population becomes, it often lasts until Shunzhi enters the customs. The family that was weaving the Eight Banners decades ago is still the same family. In fact, the parents and even the grandparents died of old age and died in battle. The brothers and even cousins ​​below Still live in one house.

Now Dorgon also knows this situation, and he has been turning a blind eye to it, not wanting to change it hastily.His only requirement for these bannermen, regardless of household, was that "if the principal of a certain household died in battle, or was too old to join the army, he must provide a replacement for military service from other non-principal members of the household."

Therefore, before Duduo's accident this year, there were actually more than 8 regular army cavalry in the Manchu Eight Banners, and there were at least two non-regular "reserves" for each household, that is, about 15 people.

Counting the young and healthy men of the whole family, the regular army and the reserve service, the Manchus can pull out more than 20 soldiers for military service.If the old, weak, sick and disabled are included, the male population of the whole clan can reach more than 40, and women and children are added, and the whole clan of Manchus has about 100 to [-] people.

From this point of view, even if Dodo loses tens of thousands of elite regular troops, Dorgon can still draw people from the reserve to make up for it.But if it happens one or two more times, the Manchu rule will definitely collapse, and Dorgon has to start thinking about the green camp in advance.

But in any case, it is too far away to quench my thirst.

Dorgon was an order issued on the 22nd of the twelfth lunar month, and the Hebei Qing army could not directly use it to go to the south for assistance.The Shandong Qing Army received an order on the 24th and was still preparing to set off, at least at the end of the twelfth lunar month.

The dispatch of the army is no more urgent than the eight hundred miles, and the assembly and march are very slow.Traveling [-] or even [-] miles a day from Shandong to the south, the total distance of [-] miles would take half a month to Yangzhou.

The same is true for Azig. It is estimated that a large number of reinforcements will rush to Yangzhou at least on the tenth day of the first month of next year.There is also a year-end in the middle, which will definitely make countless soldiers complain.

Dodo obviously can't wait that long.

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The story is divided into two parts. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, after Cao Bianjiao cavalry re-crossed the Yangtze River southward and maneuvered in place, after three or four days of rest, they almost returned to at least [-]% of the fighting state in their heyday.

The reinforcement order from Dorgon in the north has just been delivered to the generals of the Qing army in Shandong. On the Jiangyin battlefield, Dorgon is finally about to usher in a full-scale attack by the Ming army.

There is no doubt that in the past ten days, Duoduo was still wandering around Jiangyin, deeply mired in the quagmire.

Zhu Shuren had previously estimated that the Battle of Nanjing cost at least [-]% of the ammunition.Later, the Battle of Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang was not very intense, but it lasted longer, and the meat was once consumed.

The battle of Jiangyin had lasted for half a month, and a lot of materials and energy were spent on destroying the outer triangular fortifications set up by Yan Yingyuan.Just a few blasts, at least thousands of catties of black powder were buried each time, or even more.

Therefore, even if all the gunpowder reserves of the musketeers were transferred to the artillery units in the Duduo army, it was still not enough.Before the 24th of the twelfth lunar month arrived, the gunpowder of the Duoduo Ministry was completely exhausted.

Perhaps Duoduo also had a premonition of the upcoming field battle, but what he thought might be: gunpowder is used to attack fortifications, and it doesn’t matter if there is no gunpowder in the field battle.Since there is only a little bit left, if Jiangyin cannot be conquered, it will be impossible to fight elsewhere in the future.

After the gunpowder was used up, although the artillery shells of the Qing army were almost exhausted, and there was not much waste, the lead bullets, iron sand and other bullets reserved by the musketeers were completely wasted and turned into decorations.

Gunpowder has been embezzled, all muskets have become fire sticks, and small lead bullets can only be thrown away for fun, or look forward to a few "no feather arrow Zhang Qing" type projectile masters in the army.

In addition to the abolished firearms troops, the Qing army's arrows and crossbows were also very depleted. Although the arrows were not exhausted, there were already a large number of second-hand arrows mixed with battlefield recycling——

In these days of the Jiangyin offensive and defensive battle, arrows poured like rain every day, and the reflexes of the Ming army in the city were also sharp. Many grounds outside the city were like reeds. Draw second-hand arrows or even third-hand arrows and shoot back.

The iron cluster parts of these arrows are not easily damaged, and they can be shot even if the ground is muddy.But the feathers at the tail are the fastest to be damaged, which will seriously affect the shooting accuracy, so they can only be used for covering projectiles. If you want to use them for accurate shooting for excellent archers, you will definitely be in trouble.

Those who don't understand this point can completely imagine that even after playing badminton a few times in later generations, they will go for a ride because of the blown hair.

The speed of the arrow flying is many times faster than that of playing badminton, and the loss speed of the feathers is at least equivalent to the square of the flight speed multiple.

And in such an environment where it can be said that the ammunition and food are almost exhausted, Zhu Shuren brought the heads of Yangzhou defender Liu Liangzuo and others. He is also planning to take this pile of heads before the decisive battle and smash Duoduo again. morale.

In the evening of that day, the scouts of the Duduo army in the Jiangyin camp reported to Duduo the latest changes in the Ming army:
"My lord, it was discovered this afternoon that the main force of the Ming army suddenly used some unknown method to cause a civil turmoil in our Danyang County defenders, and then the Ming army took Danyang County!
After that, the Ming army continued to surround Wujin County on three sides without stopping, and continued to march eastward around the county. "

Doduo, who was tortured by three consecutive failed battles, was so depressed that a gambler's light flashed in his eyes: "Zhu Shuren took the wrong medicine? He finally dared to fight Gu Ye?

An extra meal for the whole army tonight!Let the soldiers recharge their batteries!Let the cavalry in the garrison of Wujin County break through and join our army!Seduce the barbarians over here!It would be best if Zhu Shuren was willing to chase after him!Tomorrow, at four o'clock, meals will be made, and the whole army will go out to meet the enemy with enough food! "

(End of this chapter)