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The first half of the tenth year of Longwu was destined to be a golden harvest season in the history of Ming Dynasty.

The confidantes who have been in trouble for decades have been forced to surrender under the opening of Mingmen Qingbaozong.

What surprised Zhu Shuren the most was that although Hauge could not be persuaded by this cowardly brother to surrender, the Horqin Mongolia next door, by chance, was finally given both grace and power by Daming, and directly chose to surrender and surrender as a hostage.
He also expressed his willingness to turn against him and help Daming fight Hauge together.

The reasons for persuading surrender and the steps given by Daming are actually very logical on the surface:

You Horqin Mongols and the Manchus have created a gap, and each of you is trying to survive.It was nothing more than Hauge who killed his father’s concubine, the empress Bumbutai (Xiaozhuang), and Bumbutai is the younger sister of Borzigit Wu Keshan, the current Prince of Horqin, so you and Hauge break.

But now Fulin, the false emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, has surrendered to me, Daming, and even came to call the door in person. Fulin is definitely opposed to Hauge’s killing of his biological mother. Fulin is Wu Keshan’s nephew. Now I will give you a step down. Why don't you surrender and survive?
Borjijit Wu Keshan was informed of his interests by the Ming envoy, and finally expressed that he could help fight Haug in exchange for the Mongolian ministries not being liquidated by the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Horqin's surrender and Qingbaozong's calling were only the final incentives. The real decisive factor was that Liu Guoneng and Huang Degong beat them completely last year.

Not long after Horqin surrendered, maybe two months, the Chahar tribe also surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

So far, the eastern part of Mongolia in later generations, that is, the southern part of Mongolia corresponding to the half of Mongolia north of Shanxi, Hebei, and Liaodong provinces of the Ming Dynasty, has completely surrendered to Ming Dynasty.

These Eastern Mongolian tribes, at that time, had a collective term, that is, Tatar. In addition to Chahar and Horqin, there were Erut and Khalkha tribes composed of Buryats in northern Mobei, and Ordos tribes in southern Monang, Tummet Ministry.

The Buryats are far away in the north of Mobei, and can be distributed all the way to Lake Baikal. Historically, they were gradually annexed by the Raksha people in the following decades. The two strongholds of Cesk and Krasnoyarsk.At present, that place is too far away from Daming, so there is no need to control it for a while, so there is no need to worry.

The Ordos Department in Monan has no strength. In fact, they are the followers of the Chahar Department and the Horqin Department, and are in a semi-vassal state.Since Daming conquered Horqin and Chahar, Ordos was only a little bit coy, and voted with half-push and half-push.

It's just that Mongolia is very big. Even if all the Tatar tribes are killed, the half of Mongolia north of Shanxi and Gansu in the west of Hetao will still be self-reliant until Huijiang.From west to east, there are also the Junggar tribe of Mongolia and the old rival of Ming Dynasty, Oala.

(Note: At this time in history, Oirat has been renamed "Oirat Mongolia" by the Central Plains Dynasty, but that was the name changed by the ruler of the Qing Dynasty. Now the Ming Dynasty is still there, so continue to use the old name of Oirat for it.)
The priority of these two opponents is definitely much lower than hunting down and killing the remnants of Hauge. After Da Ming has dealt with Hauge, he will recuperate for a few years, and it will not be too late to take care of them slowly.Anyway, they have no direct military conflict with Ming Dynasty now, so they are not afraid to wait.

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Horqin Mongolia surrendered in April of the tenth year of Longwu, and the Chahar tribe surrendered in June.

So in July of this year, as the entire territory of Liaodong was basically digested by Da Ming, and the two Mongolian tribes also turned to vote, Da Ming finally made all the preparations for the final decisive battle against the Songnen Plain where Haoge was entrenched.

Hauge has been cultivating Hokkaido cold-resistant rice and Sakhalin rye in the Songnen Plain for three years.Now in two months, it will be the harvest season of the year again. Unfortunately, the grain grown by Hauge this year is destined to be cheaper for Daming, and Daming will not give them a chance to eat new rice.

Before starting the war, I have to talk about how Hauge spent his last year.

Ever since he sold his younger brother Fulin in November of the ninth year of Longwu, and allowed Fulin to be besieged in Shengjing, and he ran away with his main force and confidant generals, he chose Jilin City as his temporary capital for Daqing.

Hauge obviously would not recognize Fulin's surrender, so in the twelfth lunar month of that year, after hearing the news that Fulin had been captured, the remaining 20 military men and nearly [-] women and children of the Qing Dynasty stood up around Jilin. Hauge ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, inheriting his so-called orthodoxy in the Qing Dynasty.

It was the end of the twelfth lunar month when Hauge ascended the throne, and he was not in a hurry to change the year name. It was not until New Year's Day in the tenth year of Longwu in the south that Hauge held a full set of ceremonies in Jilin. Zhaoxing to show his ambition to rejuvenate the Qing Dynasty and restore his homeland.

At the beginning, Zhuge Liang gave Liu Chan the year name Jianxing, and the plan was to revive the Han Dynasty and return to the old capital. This year name was used from Liu Chan's accession to the throne until three years after Zhuge Liang's death.The high-ranking staff of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were masters of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Of course, Hauge would compare himself with this, hoping to revive the Qing Dynasty, so he changed Jian to Zhao, and the rest remained unchanged.

After Gaiyuan ascended the throne, under Hauge’s rule, there were only the last 20 Manchus, including more than 2 adult men, and 60 Han and Mongolian people, with a total population of 80. They farmed in the Songnen Plain and a few other northern settlements.
There are only five or six cities in the territory, and the others are township settlements without city walls at all.

Because all the areas with a certain industrial foundation in the south were lost, Hauge now has no production capacity for gunpowder and cannons at all. At most, he only supports a few craftsmen who still remember the experience and craftsmanship of making pharmaceutical cannons, but they cannot start work.

With this little force left, he could only return to the state of pure cavalry and shooting. Fortunately, cold weapons and armor were still enough.

Under such circumstances, in July of the tenth year of Longwu, Hauge ushered in a full-scale attack by the Ming army.

The Ming army took advantage of the fact that the hottest summer season had just passed, and the weather was getting cooler, but there were still two or three months before it would be cold. This was the best time of the year to deploy troops against the north.

Because there are no rivers and waterways connected, the Ming army did not use infantry to fight this time, and chose all cavalry to fight against Hauge in the field.At most dozens of cavalry cannons will be pulled along with the army, and if necessary, they can bombard the small Jilin County.

Neither Ninggu Pagoda nor the county seat of Jilin is solid at all. It has only been a few years since the city was built. The city walls are made of rammed earth without any additional reinforcement.This is considered very good in the hinterland of the Northeast, and other places may not even have city walls.

The Ming army mobilized a total of 8 cavalry troops, as well as more than 2 Mongolian servants, [-] each from Chahar and Horqin, and thousands from Ordos.

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When Hauge learned that the Ming army was attacking, it only took two or three days to find out the size of the Ming army.

When he learned that the Ming army was all cavalry, he was also shocked. He knew that the more than 2 Manchu men in his hands would definitely not be able to withstand it.

"How could the Southern Barbarians pull up [-] cavalry? This is impossible! During the decisive battle in Neihuang a few years ago, the Ming army also used all its strength to attack, but they only mobilized [-] to [-] cavalry.

When Shengjing was broken last year, the cavalry was only harassment, and only [-] to [-] people were mobilized, and the main force was still fighting with infantry artillery!How did it take such a short time to gather [-] cavalry?There is actually a part of one man and two horses? "

The expansion speed of Ming's military and national power has obviously exceeded Hauge's imagination.

In the end, Ao Bai and other generals who followed him also felt a little bit of despair, and Ao Bai could only bite the bullet and persuade: "Your Majesty! The current crisis may have surpassed that of Taizu's Saarhu battle. Jilin City is low. , the Ming army had heavy artillery, and if they defended the city, the battle of Shengjing would be a lesson for the past.

For the current plan, there is absolutely no chance of relying on my Manchurian [-] disabled soldiers alone. We can only arm all the Han and Mongolian servants, at least add our Manchurian own soldiers, and make up the number of [-] to [-], and then Let's "no matter how many ways come, I will only go all the way", use the Ming army's various ways to attack together, and break one of them before joining forces, so that there is hope for survival! "

It cannot be said that Aobai's suggestion is unreasonable.

It turns out that in order to better encircle and annihilate Hauge, the Ming army also chose to divide their troops and attack from multiple directions, in order to annihilate more Qing soldiers and prevent them from being scattered and hiding in guerrilla forces. White mountains and black waters, in order to fight an enveloping decisive battle on the Songnen Great Plain.

The 3 Ming army was encircled from east to west, north to south, with only 2 to [-] people on each side. Among them, the [-] people on the north road were the weakest. There were only thousands of elite cavalry under the supervision of the Ming army. The leader of the Ming army was Zhu Wenzhen. It was the rebellious Horqin and Chahar Mongols who made a detour from the Horqin Grassland in the northwest.

The East, West and South Routes are relatively stronger, and the West Route Army also outflanks from the direction of the grassland, but intercepts and kills from the junction of Horqin and Chahar Grassland to the east. The leader of the Ming Army is Li Fuming, with about 3 people.

The South Route Army is the strongest, going north directly from Shenyang, there are also 3 people, led by Huang Degong, the number is similar to that of the West Route Army, but the South Route Army also brought the most cavalry artillery. The South Route Army should be responsible for attacking fortified cities steadily and steadily.

In the end, the strength of the Eastern Route Army was similar to that of the Northern Route Army, with a total strength of 2 troops, which was slightly smaller than that of the Northern Route Army. However, because the weapons and equipment were all authentic Ming troops, the actual combat strength should be higher than that of the Mongolian cavalry. The Lord's Northern Route Army is stronger.

The generals of the Eastern Route Army included Wu Sangui and Li Yu. Wu Sangui led [-] Ming troops, and Li Yu also brought [-] Korean soldiers who nominally belonged to the Ming army (Li Yu was the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town in Ming Dynasty, but his blood belonged to North Koreans. All the territory he brought under his command belonged to Daming), and he was responsible for blocking the various passes that retreated from the Songnen Plain to the Changbai Mountains.

The reason for arranging this route is also considering that among the direct troops of the Ming Dynasty, there is a lack of troops who have a better understanding of the geographical situation of the Changbai Mountains and are well versed in mountain warfare in the Changbai Mountains, so they had to borrow some Korean tribesmen to reinforce them.

Of these four routes, the weakest has 2 troops. If Hauge only relies on his own [-] soldiers to fight, even if "you come from as many routes as you want, I will only go all the way", then it will be useless.

He couldn't even beat a quarter of the total strength of the Ming army, let alone a wheel battle.

To put it bluntly, the remaining [-] full soldiers on Hauge's hands can never be compared with the combat power of Nuerhachi Huangtaiji, or even far from the full soldiers when Dorgon entered the customs.

Now the remaining 2 people are made up of veterans who have died over the years, and the reserve force has been recruited again to make up the number. There is no way to guarantee the quality of soldiers. It has reached the point where an adult man has to serve as a soldier.Among them, no more than one-third of the veterans survived,

Another third are old and weak or disabled, and the last third are just adults or have been pampered by hard-core crops and have not actually killed people on the battlefield.

Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Qing army are obviously worse than the cavalry of the Ming army!
Hauge can only hope to expand the size of the army, pull up 5 people, and concentrate 2 of them in the Chongming Army. If they can break through the siege, they can escape with their lives.

As for whether those Han and Mongolian soldiers would fight back like slaves defected in the Battle of Muye, it was beyond his control.

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Hauge hoped to take advantage of the inside line of battle and take an opportunity to defeat the Ming army one by one. Of course, the Ming army knew this risk, so the scouts of the four armies spread far away, and paid great attention to keeping the marching speed of all armies in step, so as not to A certain army arrived on the battlefield too early, giving the enemy too much time lag in vain.

After all, Daming has already experienced the lesson of Saarhu's great defeat decades ago, and learned a lot from a fall, and the emphasis on coordination and pace has been pulled to the point where it cannot be added.

Between the four Ming armies, scouts traveling [-] miles a day would be dispatched to communicate with each other almost every day to confirm their respective positions, the positions of the enemies that had been detected, and re-synchronize.

I only regret that there are no radio stations in this era, otherwise several troops that are more than two hundred miles apart on the way to attack can also communicate instantly and know the real-time position of the friendly troops——

Historically, Western tactics have evolved from the "inside superiority" of the Napoleon era to the "outside superiority" of the Moltke era. The two most important technological breakthroughs relied on are radio and railways. With radio, troops fighting outside can know in real time Where is the friendly army maneuvering? With the railway, we can ensure that we can dispatch and rush there as soon as possible after knowing the location.

Before the emergence of these two technologies, the inside line did have certain advantages, and the outside line could not completely make up for it, and could only alleviate the symptoms by frequent fast-horse communication.

And God's will also seems to be helping Daming, because the battlefield of this battle is far smoother than the battle of Saerhu back then. The plain has entered the edge of Changbai Mountain, so the troops have inconvenient transportation.

In today's Songnen battle, except for Jilin County, which is considered to be on the edge of a relatively dangerous mountainous area, the large areas of Songyuan, Fuyu and other places east of Jilin County are all Songnen Great Plains.

The Great Black Soil Plain in the Northeast is larger than the North China Plain.To fight a large-scale cavalry encirclement and annihilation battle on such a flat plain, the mobility is much easier than that of Sarhu Changbai Mountain.

After Hauge assembled his troops, he initially tried to find a breakthrough from the Horqin Mongolian rebels in the north, but the Horqin cavalry scouts scattered far away. Seeing Hauge's main force approaching, he actually slowed down, and even retreated for a while. It made Hauge unable to catch up with Qiuzhan at all.

Hauge had no choice but to feign a shot, turn around and head east, assuming he was about to penetrate into the Changbai Mountain guerrilla, and break through Li Yu's North Korean soldiers.After Zhu Wenzhen in the north got the news, he urged the thousands of Ming army cavalry under his command, as well as the Horqin Chahar cavalry as servants, to speed up their pursuit and close the distance with the Qing army.

Unexpectedly, Hauge was still telling the truth in the end. When he confirmed that Zhu Wenzhen and the Horqin cavalry were still a hundred miles away from him, he suddenly turned around and killed his carbine, and this time he ran at full speed without hesitating his horsepower.Finally, half a day later, he caught up with Zhu Wenzhen who wanted to turn around again.

However, after these two feints, the basic skills of the Ming army were not in vain, because Zhu Wenzhen and Li Yu bought time for Huang Degong and Li Fuming's approach.As long as Zhu Wenzhen and Haoge are not defeated for a day, Huang Degong and Li Fuming can rush to make dumplings for Haoge.