Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 529 Defeat like a mountain

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The Eight Banners soldiers are too scattered, or too greedy.

The Manchurians in later generations are actually the same. After the new China, they are actually just a nationality with a registered permanent residence. They are completely different from the Mongols. They have lost their own culture, even lost their language, and lost all cultural symbols. Nationality?
At this time, there are small groups of Eight Banners soldiers everywhere in the vast land of China. As Dorgon said, even if they drive out, there are no people left. There are only about 10% of the bannermen in Beijing, and there are only [-] people in Ding Zhuang. , plus the family members are only [-] people. Withdrawing these people, is it possible to abandon the young and strong in Sichuan and the banner soldiers stationed in various places?

It's just that Dorgon has an overall view, but Azig doesn't.

"My lord, let's withdraw. The world can't be defended anymore. There are wars outside the pass and inside the pass. When will it be the end?"

"Where are you going? You can't even go back to Liaodong!"

Facing the persuasion of his subordinates, Azig, who has recently retreated successively, is very troubled.

"Go to Horqin, if you can't retreat to Mobei, can the Ming army still catch up to Mobei?"

Azig's heart was moved by his subordinate's suggestion.

He no longer knows how to fight this battle, and every time there is no confrontation, the opponent will hit with hundreds of shells indiscriminately, and they will form a ball, making you unable to speak.

Azig's army now fights completely differently from the past. The wedge-shaped formation in the past, the outflanking tactics of the two wings are completely ineffective. Today's cavalry fights are very divided, but the cavalry fights scattered, and the opponent is grouped together. Like a hedgehog, you can't take your mouth off.

Horseback riding is not that effective anymore. In the past, when they met the Ming army, after a few rounds of riding and shooting, they collapsed. In fact, they couldn't kill a few people.

But Yang Chao's Ming army is different. They will not retreat even if they are killed. I heard that they dare to retreat.

It would be different if he died in battle. Not to mention the generous pension, temples were built to worship and rewards were published in newspapers.

One by one, these Han people became less afraid of death.

Azig also had cannons, but after a few battles, they were all useless. Dorgon tried his best to cast cannons in Beijing, but he couldn't keep up with the few battles. It was really impossible to fight without cannons.

Wang Pu left Kaifeng and drove him all the way to Luoyang.

"Why don't we go across the river to Shaanxi?"

Azig said that Xi'an still has several thousand Eight Banners troops.

"It's easy to go to Shaanxi, but it's hard to get out."

The men sighed.

"If we don't take advantage of the fact that the Ming army has not conquered Beijing, let's withdraw from the customs. If it is too late, it will be too late."

In fact, Azig has been moved for a long time. As for Dorgon, he can only let him ask for blessings, even though they are brothers.

"Let's go to Shanxi! Exit the customs."

Azig made up his mind that Shanxi was the enclosure of the Eight Banners, and there were also a group of bannermen in Taiyuan and other places.

After receiving the news that Azige had gone to Shanxi, Dorgon sighed deeply, knowing that the defeat was over.

In fact, he should have been defeated two years ago. It was just that during the civil war between the Ming army, he firmly supported Hong Chengchou and successfully induced Sun Kewang to rebel.

At that time, Hong Chengchou said to Sun Kewang who surrounded him outside the city, if the Northern Expedition wins, what does it have to do with your surname Zhu or Yang? What harm?
Hong Chengchou used these two questions to let Sun Kewang annex Jingzhou for more than three months, and finally cross the river to conquer Guizhou.

At that time, it seemed that the Ming army was defeated, but in the end, Dorgon was not able to expand much power. In fact, he was already poor. The perennial wars had already exhausted the potential of this nation.

Where can I find Sun Kewang this time? Now all the troops are deployed by Yang Chao, and there is no gap between united efforts.

"Uncle, let's go, the barbarians have entered the city!"

A seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy walked in, and Dorgon seemed to see Duduo back then in a trance.

The person who came was Duo Duo's son, named Doni. Dorgon had never had a son, so he loved this nephew very much, and let him inherit the title of Prince Yu early on.

"Let's go."

Dorgon nodded. He didn't have the habit of committing suicide when he failed, so although he didn't want to leave, he had already informed the bannermen in the city to prepare. Now that the city is ruined, what are you waiting for?

"Uncle, shall we go back to Liaodong?"

Doni asked, he still has some longing for Liaodong. He entered the customs at the age of eight, and his impression of Liaodong has been blurred.

Dorgon sighed: "Can we go back to Liaodong? Go to Mobei!"

Dorgon's Liaodong was already full of wars at this time. Except for Zhao Kang and Zheng Yongwang who blocked the Eight Banners soldiers in Ningyuan, Sun Changfu had already killed a circle from Congpi Island along the Liaodong Peninsula, bypassing the Niangniang Palace in Sancha River , Then attack north, the target is approaching Liaoyang.

Back then, the Ming army built dozens of fortresses, large and small, but it was a pity that they were all abandoned by the Qing army, otherwise Sun Changfu would have to spend a lot of trouble.

After Dorgon escaped from Beijing, he divided his troops into two groups, letting his clansmen ride horses to Zhangjiakou to leave the customs.

He brought a thousand elite soldiers himself, but instead ran to Shanhaiguan, where he withdrew to attack Ningyuan's army, and then fled north from Duoyanwei's hometown along the city wall to Mobei.

Wang Pu chased Azig into Shanxi, and did not stop until Datong. Looking back, the whole of Shanxi was behind him.

As soon as Dorgon escaped, Li Wuliu entered the Beijing field, and Yang Chao immediately went north after receiving the news.

Beijing recovered.

After the news of Beijing's recovery spread, there was celebration everywhere, and everyone knew that the world would be peaceful.

But the war is far from over.

After the Qing army in Liaodong escaped, Zhao Kangteng took action and swept away several cities in Liaoxi. The strength of the Qing army outside the pass was too weak. There were almost no troops defending the city, and there was no will to resist. It was not that they fled. , is down.

Sweeping all the way to Kaiyuan, all the places where the Ming army lost back then have come back.

Sun Changfu also raided Liaoyang, Anshan and other places in eastern Liaodong.

At this time, the Koreans also resisted, announcing that they would respect the king and fight against the barbarians, and sent troops to follow the retreating Eight Banners soldiers into the northeast.

So far, except for Shaanxi, Hubei, and Sichuan, the border wall has been recovered.

Yang Chao didn't expect it to be so easy. He had prepared for three consecutive years of fighting, but found that it took only three months to basically drive away the main force of the Qing army.

However, the war is far from over. After regaining Shaanxi and other places, they will enter the grassland to fight.

Yang Chao couldn't accept the result of waiting for Man Qing to make a comeback after ten years of subjugation on the grassland.

But if you want to fight on the grassland, logistical supplies are a serious problem, which means you can no longer rely on the canal.

The Northern Expedition went smoothly, but the Southern Expedition encountered problems. The Burmese refused to call Zhu Cihuan out, and Song Kun didn't give them a chance to bargain, so he dragged the Siamese who couldn't wait to attack and killed them.

As a result, the Burmese became so angry that they killed all the emperor and ministers of Longwu.

(End of this chapter)