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Chapter 459
Zhu Shuren is in Nanjing, and there is a time difference with the front line.So when he received the battle report, in fact, Liu Guoneng and Li Fuming on the front line had already started fighting for almost a month.

Liu Guoneng started to do it in August of this year. The specific method was nothing more than taking advantage of the paralysis period formed by the truce in the previous few years, and those Xuanda profiteers who were secretly controlled by the Ming Dynasty and pretended to sell arms to Mongolia.

Seduce a wave of armed tribes that mainly unite the Qing and anti-Ming in the Harqin and Horqin areas, and then annihilate them on the outskirts of Zhangjiakou and Chengde Pass respectively.

Back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's plot of Mayi was seen through by the Huns Shanyu, mainly because he was too impatient, and the success rate of the deception would be much higher if he did it slowly.

On the other hand, it was also because when Emperor Wu of the Han set up an ambush, the Han army still needed a large number of infantry troops to serve as the main attack. Emperor Wu of the Han had too few cavalry in the early days of the battle against the Hungarians. The main force of Wei Qinghuo Qubing's cavalry was built slowly later. Therefore, as long as the Xiongnu Shanyu saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately retreated, so that the Han army could not catch up at all.

In contrast, today's Ming Dynasty spent many years preparing to chase down the grassland nomads, forming a hundred thousand elite cavalry, and all of them were equipped with at least revolvers.

With this scale and strength, as long as the Mongolian army dared to be greedy for wealth and came within [-] miles of the border, and the Ming cavalry surrounded them with one man and two horses, the Mongols would definitely not be able to escape.

The facts of the final battle also proved this point. Liu Guoneng and Li Fuming each brought [-] elite cavalry, from the preset ambush circle at least a hundred miles away, they quietly left the customs in advance and prepared to go around. The scale is not too conspicuous, so it can be intercepted completely.

After the interception, the Mongols who were intercepted were actually more numerous than any of Liu Guoneng or Li Fuming, but even if the Mongols had an obvious numerical advantage, they could not "concentrate their superior forces to annihilate Liu Guoneng or Li Fuming first." ".

In other words, the [-] cuirassiers of the Ming Dynasty can crush the much larger Mongolian cavalry archers.

There is nothing worth repeating about the two initial conflicts on the border.
It was nothing more than Bumbutai's natal family, Horqin Mongolia, who were wiped out of more than [-] horses outside Chengde.

And the leader of the Karaqin Grassland, the Chahar Mongolia, also suffered a disastrous defeat outside the Zhangjiakou Pass, losing five or six thousand horses, as well as heavy losses in supplies and livestock.

After two minor victories, the Ming army immediately led the main force of the cavalry, without any explanation, to go deep into the grassland, directly attacking the heartland where the two major tribes were stationed.

The generals of the Ming army also knew that the Mongols were good at running and moving, so they had to put all their eggs in one basket when they came up, and they would save everything they attacked. They went straight to the Uharyan area and Yizhou, and pulled out the first-line strongholds of Horqin and Chahar along the north of the Great Wall. .

In addition, on the way to dispatch troops, they also destroyed the stronghold of the Urad tribe on the bank of the Wulanchabu River. Went out.

The Wuhaliang area is the hometown of Duoyan Sanwei in the early Ming Dynasty, roughly equivalent to today's Chifeng area, and Yizhou in the Qing Dynasty is in the northwest of Jinzhou, roughly equivalent to today's Tongliao.

During the whole process, the Urad tribe's combat power was weak, and after thousands of people were wiped out, the whole tribe had to surrender directly.

Horqin and Chahar are relatively powerful, and the centipede is dead but not stiff. After being taken to an important stronghold, the rest of the troops continued to flee northward. There are still [-] to [-] cavalry left in the two, so they can only be transferred to the northeast. Where the water plants are cold and bitter.

The sum of these lands won by the Ming army covered part of the territory outside the customs of Chahar Province in the Qing Dynasty.It is equivalent to occupying the territory west of Jinzhou and north of Yanshan.

From then on, if we want to take advantage of the trend to attack Liaodong, we can divide our forces into two groups to attack from the grassland route north of Yanshan Mountain and the Liaoxi Corridor south of Yanshan Mountain.

It took the Ming army more than a month to capture the above-mentioned areas, which can be described as extremely fast.Basically, it is a "Kou can go, I can go" style of play. As long as the Ming army has one man and two horses with enough weapons and ammunition,
As for the military rations, it is entirely possible to bring only the ten-day rations at the initial stage, and then use the war to support the war, and in turn rob the Mongols' livestock on the grassland, and directly kill the entire army to eat meat.

In addition, the nutritional design of the Ming army must be much better than that of the Mongols. Daming, who controls the south, needs as much tea supply as the army. foot tea.

When they got tired of eating meat, they directly boiled milk tea on the prairie to supplement their vitamins. After more than a month of fighting, the cavalry soldiers of the Ming Army became more muscular and did not gain weight.

As time entered October of the ninth year of Longwu, after the Ming army circled Jinzhou in the direction of the grassland, the Mongolian ministries fled far away.

As soon as the Ming army turned its front, Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui's troops along the Liaoxi Corridor on the south line also attacked again, and Zhang Mingzhen's navy provided logistical supplies along the way, and once again attacked Ningyuan and Jinzhou.

Ningyuan had been abandoned by the Qing army for two or three years, so there was no fighting at all, and the Ming army just directly took over the deserted city.

Jinzhou is the end of the Liaoxi Corridor and the gateway to the hinterland of Liaodong by the Qing army, and it must be guarded by troops.

But when Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui arrived, there were still Ming army cavalry from the Tongliao grassland in the north to attack and assist in the battle, so the Jinzhou Qing army was completely surrounded by the Ming army as soon as it came up.

There were more than 1 Qing troops in Jinzhou. Under the bombardment of the Hongyi heavy artillery brought by Zhang Mingzhen, the city wall collapsed within three days. The Ming army swarmed into the city and killed thousands of people. The rest of the Qing army had to surrender.

This time, the Ming army did not engage in extermination. As long as they were willing to surrender, they were allowed to surrender, because Zhu Shuren had ordered before the war: This time is different from the past. It used to be a battle of weakening, but this time it is a battle of destroying the country.In the battle of weakening, it is necessary to kill the living forces as much as possible, while in the war of destroying the country, allowing surrender can disintegrate the enemy's will to resist.

More importantly, the Ming army did not want to go to Baishan and Heishui for long-term hunting and hunting to hunt down the fleeing fishing and hunting tribes. It still wanted to take advantage of the last few strongholds that the Qing army had to defend to induce them to surrender and cooperate.

But the surrender must be conditional. All the Manchus will be punished as corvee workers. In the future, the sincerity of reformation will be restored to free people.

Anyway, the Han people who are thieves are first required to cut off all their braids, and then they have to be screened. If there are particularly serious crimes of oppressing compatriots or working for tigers when they are false officials, they should also be punished by hard labor or other methods as appropriate. Certainly.

As long as the transformation is thorough and the national identity and cultural identity of China are restored, and the recognition of Ming rule, the Manchus and Mongolians can also give them a path of self-renewal.

This can be regarded as a turn of fortune. Once upon a time, Duoduo wanted to keep his hair short in the south of the Yangtze River. Now, after ten years of struggle, it was finally Daming's turn to cut his hair on the grassland.

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Jinzhou City was breached, and more than 1 Manchu and Han defenders were besieged by Ming Dynasty, which naturally shocked the puppet Qing Dynasty very much.

But they have no capital to fight now. There were only [-] to [-] soldiers left in the whole family. Once Jinzhou City was destroyed, thousands of soldiers died in battle, and some people in and around the city were captured. The population of soldiers fell directly to the warning line of [-].

How could this kind of person counterattack Daming?If they could counterattack, they would not have retreated to farm in the past three years, developed to the northeast, and opened up the Songnen Plain.

Hauge had to convene all the main generals to discuss countermeasures.

"The Ming army broke their promises and started fighting again after three years of truce. How should we fight against the enemy? Jinzhou is now broken. Between the vanguard of the Ming army and Shengjing, there are only two lines of defense left.

The first is Guangning at the mouth of the Liaohe River. Do you think Guangning should be defended by dividing troops?If they don't defend, the Ming army can cross the Liaohe River directly, and there will be no big river to separate it from Shengjing.

As long as the Ming army goes up the banks of the Liaohe River and passes through Haizhou, the second line of defense, they can go straight to the city of Shengjing! "

The generals of the Qing army looked at each other, Yue Le felt that it would be better to stick to Shengjing and not to disperse their forces.

Man Dahai felt that he had to rely on the natural dangers of the Liaohe River and struggle a little longer, because if the Liaohe River could not be defended, Shengjing would be even more unable to defend it. Today's Ming Army artillery is too sharp, and the defensive effect of the old city walls is basically a joke.

On the other hand, Aobai felt that there would be no chance of even defending Shengjing to the death, so it was better to stay useful, completely abandon the Liao River Basin, retreat to the Songnen Plain, and rely on General Ningguta's jurisdiction to maintain the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the future.

In the land of Jilin Province in later generations, Jilin County is still the largest city today. As for the provincial capital of later generations, Changchun, it is basically a rural area now——

After the railway was invented in Changchun, along with the Raksha people and the Wa people indiscriminately repairing the railway in the northeast, a hub connecting the South Manchurian and North Manchurian railways was finally needed, which gave birth to Changchun, a completely new city.

Before the railway appeared, the political core of the Songnen Plain was only Jilin, where General Ningguta was stationed. It took several decades before the name was changed to General Jilin in history, and the government would follow the Manchus to the Northeast. development, and gradually moved to the Mudanjiang area of ​​later generations (there are many old and new Ning ancient pagodas in history, and the places are always changing)
After hearing the remarks of both parties, Hauge was still undecided for a while.

From the perspective of safety, preserving strength is indeed the most important thing. The whole clan has only [-] soldiers at full strength, and [-] old and weak women and children can't afford to be injured.

The population of Liaodong Han people under the Manchu Qing rule was originally more than 100 million. Later, when the Qing Dynasty abandoned Guannei, another 60 people were kidnapped.Later, some were lost. For example, Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other places lost tens of thousands of people each. This time Jinzhou was breached and tens of thousands of people were captured.

But in any case, there were still about 150 million Han Chinese under the Manchu Qing rule.

There are less than 30 Manchus who want to rule 150 million Hans, which is more than one to five ratios. The number of Manchu men is especially small. On the powder keg.

However, if you abandon Guangning, Haizhou, or even Shengjing without a fight, it is really unreasonable. The Qing Dynasty is an empire after all, and it is called emperor. How can you abandon the land of the ancestor Longxing without a fight? The city of Beijing is still hard to accept.

Back in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was able to kill the country. When Beijing was lost, Chongzhen was still martyred. He was famous for his martial arts in the Qing Dynasty. Can he be more cowardly than Daming?

While Hauge was hesitating, he didn't know that there were still some people in the Qing court who were dissatisfied with him, and they also wanted to shirk their responsibilities and keep the court's face.It's just that those people also talked about things in the name of righteousness, and asked him to lead the king's division to attack and resist the enemy west of the Liaohe River.

And Shunzhi Emperor Fulin, who has been on the throne for ten years now, is 16 years old this year. Although his mother was executed, he is almost old enough to be in charge of the government.The truce in the past three years has gradually deepened the gap between Fulin and his eldest brother.

It's just that Shunzhi grew up in the deep palace after all. Even if he had received education in governing the country, it was limited to Wenzhi, and it was only at the theoretical level.If you want to know the soldiers in battle, it is still far behind the big brother Hauge, so Shunzhi's direct control over the army is still not very good so far.

Facing the quarrel between the DPRK and China this time, Shunzhi rarely expressed his opinion.He also didn't dare to have a direct conflict with his eldest brother, and he just used his righteous name to talk about things from the beginning to the end, hoping that Hauge could lead the soldiers of the world and save the country in times of crisis.

Now that Hauge was in power, he was kidnapped by Daode and couldn't come to power, so he had to conspire with his confidants, and finally made a plan, pretending to bite the bullet and send troops to meet him.

He took most of the main force around Shengjing, as well as valuables and excellent equipment, and dragged his way to Guangning.But before Hauge arrived, the Li Dingguo Department of the Ming Army crossed the Liao River, broke through Guangning, and wiped out thousands of Manchu and Han soldiers of the Qing Army in Guangning.

Hauge had no choice but to pretend to retreat to Haizhou, but in fact he did not camp along the banks of the Liaohe River.

The city of Haizhou is not close to the Liaohe River. Generally, if you want to fortify Haizhou to prevent the enemy from going up against the Liaohe River and directly entering Shengjing, you have to camp along the river, forming an angle with the city of Haizhou.

Haoge gave up the main road on the bank of the Liaohe River, which was tantamount to giving the Ming army a gap to bypass Haizhou and go straight to Shengjing.

When Wu Sangui saw it, he felt that this was Hauge's deceit. Maybe he wanted to lure the enemy to go deep and then determine the Ming army's retreat. Therefore, he wanted to attack Haizhou first, remove the dangers on both sides of the road step by step, and finally go straight to Shengjing.

But Li Dingguo dared to take risks, and through his investigation before the war and sorting out the intelligence sources of the local people, he confirmed that Hauge took most of the main force of Shengjing to meet him, so the city of Shengjing must be empty.

Therefore, Li Dingguo relied on the advantage of the Ming army's naval division, and the large ships could control the navigation rights of the Liaohe River.

Li Dingguo brought 3 people with him, and marched north and south with the Ming army who came around the grassland on the northern line and took the upper reaches of the Liaohe River. The cavalry who arrived surrounded all the gates of Shengjing, and then went down to the stronghold to stand firm and wait for reinforcements. It took several days to wait for the infantry artillery to arrive by boat and completely stabilize the siege camp.

Shunzhi was in Shengjing City, and originally wanted to wait and see. If his elder brother couldn't bear it, or if there was news of defeat, then he would run softly and escape to Ninggu Tower.After all, if the emperor is too timid to run away, his prestige will definitely be damaged. Shunzhi is sixteen, and he also has his own ideas.

But I didn't expect Hauge to give up the main road along the Liaohe River and avoid the battle.Shunzhi didn't hear the news of Hauge's defeat, so he wanted to run away after he reacted. Li Dingguo had already cooperated with Hauge to finish the play and directly surrounded Shengjing City.

In a panic, Shunzhi hurriedly sent someone to the eldest brother's Prince Su's mansion to inquire about news, and wanted to take Hauge's wife, concubine and children into the palace to take care of them, so as to force Hauge to return to Shengjing.

But the people sent by Shunzhi turned Prince Su's mansion upside down, only to find that Hauge's wife and son were no longer in Shengjing City, and Hauge had been disguised and brought into the army on the day before the army was sent out.

Those who stayed in Prince Su's mansion were only a few concubines who were regarded as abandoned sons. They were the kind of people who would not make Hauge feel bad when they died. These people were also kept in the dark.

At this point in the matter, Shunzhi certainly knew that he had been sold by his elder brother, but there was nothing he could do.

After Hauge heard that Shengjing was surrounded by Li Dingguo, he directly pretended that His Majesty asked him to preserve his strength, bear the burden of humiliation, and save a kindling for the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, the more than 1 full soldiers and the more than 2 Han and Mongolian soldiers brought out by Hauge did not want to go back and die.So they all expressed their support for Hauge's decision, gave up the rescue and ran away.

As for the family members in Shengjing City, they no longer want them. Anyway, Hauge has made arrangements for farming in the past few years, and asked the soldiers to keep some concubines and young children in Jilin, not all in Shengjing.

Since the defeat in the past few years, the problem of more women and fewer men in the Manchus has become serious. All the widows have been married. On average, a Manchu man can get six or seven women. This is not counting the Han women they occupied. .

So it doesn't matter if the women's families and children in Shengjing are lost, they still have a foreign house on the Songnen Plain.

As soon as Hauge fled with the last spark, the seven or eight thousand soldiers and one hundred thousand Manchu civilians in Shengjing City suffered a complete disaster.

Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui surrounded the city, bombarded with cannons, and attacked the city in a leisurely manner.

(End of this chapter)