Emperor Ming Dynasty

Facing this draw, Hauge would not accept it no matter what.

To fight against the entire Central Plains with a corner of the land, win or lose, a draw means failure.

"In today's battle, our army killed and injured more than [-] people, and the gunpowder was exhausted..."

Nikan frowned and sighed.

Hearing this, Hauge said angrily, "It's the worst policy to use firearms against firearms. The court is really messing around."

Nikan remained silent, and could only conclude softly: "This battle is not easy to fight..."

"If it's not easy to fight, you have to fight."

Hauge's face was serious, he turned his head, looked at the smoke in the barracks, lost his mind: "This is a war of subjugation, we must win."

After saying that, he took advantage of the end of the dinner to gather all the cattle to gather in the tent, hundreds of people were mighty and mighty.

"The Qing Dynasty has been established for 35 years, and now it is the time when the country is destroyed. How can we wait for the children of the Eight Banners not to do our best?"

Hauge turned his face away, and directly talked about the morale issue, using the spirit of subjugation to boost morale:
"After the Ming army entered the customs, they must set up prefectures and counties to rule them, promote the so-called kingly education, and roughly divide the land language heroes."

"If that's the case, wouldn't my great ancestor's thirteen sets of armor set up an army for decades? Wouldn't it be a waste of decades for me to wait for the disciples of the Eight Banners? Aren't we serving slaves and handmaids again?"

These words immediately aroused the common hatred of the three armies and eight banners of the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Dynasties.

For these Eight Banners children, from the moment they joined the army, they became masters, possessed a lot of land and money, and completed the class transition.

Even the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty is no exception. They are very satisfied with the current scene.

If this environment is broken, they are extremely unwilling.

In a sense, the Eight Banners system was extremely successful.

It successfully used its interests to break through the barriers of the Mongols, Han people, and Jurchens, thus binding them together and firmly imprisoning them in this country.

This method is more effective and promising than religion, because the interests are eternal and unbreakable.

Even if they know that the Ming army at this time is different from the past, and the huge Ming Dynasty is not as weak and deceitful as before.

But their interests were violated, and they would rather pay the price of their lives to resist.

Of course, if the Ming Dynasty is willing to give better conditions, this kind of interest group will definitely succumb, but unfortunately, this is impossible.

The tumor that once parasitized the entire Ming Dynasty—the clan and vassal kings were all locked in the capital by the emperor. How could the mere Eight Banners be called parasites again?

In other words, the foundation of Zhu Yixi's rule is only the Beijing camp and the submissive scholar-bureaucrats, and this group of people is by no means included.

When Niu Luezhen returned to the camp, he immediately parroted the content, copied the content almost exactly, and preached it in a practical way:
"Ming people are here, robbing women, robbing land, these things are not ours anymore..."

"Children are slaves, wives are slaves, is this something we can tolerate?"

"Only by driving Ming people away can we live a good life..."

This time, the Eight Banners soldiers instantly got rid of the low morale of today, and immediately raised their fighting spirit.

Hauge was quite satisfied with this.

Today we must decide the outcome and completely defeat this group of Ming troops.

Unfortunately, after arriving in the Qing army early in the morning, Chen Yongfu immediately dismissed the idea of ​​a decisive battle and decided to use a war of attrition:

"The North Sea Division crosses the Liaohe River. The enemy can't do anything to me. Food, grass and supplies are constantly turning around day and night. This is our greatest advantage—"

"In addition, the opponent retreated halfway through the match with muskets yesterday. As expected, there must be insufficient gunpowder. How can we be timid when we fight with such swords and guns now?"

"As long as you guard Taipingbao and don't give up, the Qing army will have nothing to do."

"Fight for consumption, I believe Jianu is far inferior to us..."

After explaining, the generals all expressed their understanding.

Chen Yongfu breathed a sigh of relief.

All the generals present here have titles attached to them, so he shouldn't go too far, if they don't understand, this battle cannot be fought.

Chen Yongfu also has his own understanding of the many honors in this battle.

This war of annihilating the country will greatly boost the prestige of the coach, but it will easily arouse the emperor's fear.

And prestige can only affect the middle and lower classes. For the nobles of the middle and upper classes, no matter how high the prestige is, it is nothing but nonsense in the face of interests.

What's more, there are many princes and uncles, and it is easy to share the credit, so that he will not become a target of public criticism.

After unifying his thinking, Chen Yongfu became a tortoise and fought a battle to defend the city, preparing to wear down his energy.

Now, Hauge sat on the wax.

He repeatedly provoked, but was blocked.

However, he was not discouraged.

Compared with the Eight Banners, the Sauron soldiers recruited in recent years are more majestic and domineering, climbing trees and mountains is just a matter of leisure.

The Taiping Fort in front of me just came to serve as the first boarder.

……

At this time, Wu Sangui and others conquered Xueli Fort, Tongyuan Fort, and Caohe Fort one after another. As soon as they reached the fortress of Lianshan Pass, they were stopped by the army led by Jierhalang and forced to retreat.

This time, even with consecutive defeats, the three castles retreated and returned to Phoenix City.

Compared with the Beijing camp under Chen Yongfu, the Beijing camp under Wu Sangui had only three thousand musketeers, and the rest were mostly infantry and two to three thousand cavalry.

Facing the menacing Qing army, Wu Sangui had no choice but to retreat.

Of course, Wu Sangui preached that he was turning forward, retreating to advance, the strategy of arrogant soldiers, etc., and finally stabilized the somewhat slack military spirit.

After returning to Phoenix City, Li Yingren was shocked: "Why did you come back?"

"Encountered an ambush."

Li Chengdong looked unhappy: "We were taken down by Jiannu at Lianchengguan. If it weren't for our cleverness, the army might have confessed."

"Jiannu came too fast, and it's not easy to go all the way. How did they come so fast?"

Wu Sangui sighed and scratched his head, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

"Then what should we do now?" Li Yingren could only helplessly.

"How much food is stored in Phoenix City?"

"The navy continued to run the food and grass of Pidao, but the time was too tight, only about [-] shi."

"We don't have many war horses, enough to feed for a month."

Wu Sangui heaved a sigh of relief, and cheered up: "The navy keeps sending food and grass every day, the soldiers in Phoenix City are full of fine food, and the seventeen fortresses must be full of blood."

"What about Liaoyang? We're going there to join the main force." Li Yingren was in a hurry.

"Let's save ourselves for now."

Li Chengdong spread his hands: "The plan can't keep up with the changes, as long as we defend Phoenix City, at least a lot of Jiannu's troops can be held back."

"That's the only way..."

A few days later, Jierhalang led an army of 130, including [-] cattle from Manchu, Mongolian, and Han, and came in mighty force.

Immediately, he saw the Phoenix Mountain [-]th Fort defense line, which was both offensive and defensive:
"Damn it, such a tight boundary was taken away so easily, it's really damned."

However, facing the reinforced line of defense, Jierhalang was not too surprised.