I want to be emperor

Chapter 519 Huang Taiji's Panic
Unlike the Songjiang Mansion Industrial Base in the south, which was in full swing and a large number of workers were working on construction, the Liaodong Peninsula was a vast expanse of whiteness. Even Fuzhou, the frontline of the confrontation between the two armies, seemed very quiet.

With the road blocked by heavy snow, let alone a large-scale military operation, even the daily supply and transportation of supplies seemed to be very difficult.

In order to supply the tens of thousands of troops stationed on the front line of Fuzhou with horse chews, the Dongyao people recruited a large number of young and strong peasants from the rear to form a huge transportation team, and went all the way south from the hinterland of the Liaodong Peninsula. The snow made it difficult for the carriage to pass quickly, and the severe cold on the road also caused a large number of ordinary young people who lacked warm clothes to freeze to death or frostbite.

But even so, the Dongbang people could not stop the transportation of supplies!

Because at the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula, there are tens of thousands of Chu troops watching!

On the coast of Yanggongbao in the south of Fuzhou and on Changsheng Island in the south, there are more than 2 fully armed and the main force of the Chu army with a huge fleet providing cover.

On the Jinzhou defense line, there are also more than 2 Chu troops stationed here!

These Chu soldiers are here, like two fishbone stuck in the throats of Dongyao people, unable to swallow and spit out, if they are not careful, they will be choked to death alive!
For this reason, the Dongbang people must hoard a large number of troops here to guard against the Chu army in the north!

Otherwise, when the Chu army continues northward to capture Gaizhou, and even continues northward, it will not only threaten Shenyang, but also cut off the Liaoxi Corridor, and put the 10,000+ army in the Liaoxi Corridor in crisis.

Even in the end, the main force of the captives in the Liaoxi Corridor can be successfully withdrawn from the north, but the Liaoxi Corridor will definitely be lost.

Once Liaoxi is lost, Shenyang is not far from being finished.

At that time, the foundation of the Dongcap people will be dug out directly, and they will fall into a place of eternal doom.

Regardless of the large territory that the Dongbang people seem to control, whether it is North Korea or Monan Mongolia, these places just surrender to them. Once the Dongbuo people lose the war with the Chu army, and even lose Liaodong, Then these two places will rebel again in minutes.

After all, they were not Dongbang people, they were just defeated by Dongbang people and forced to surrender.

If the strength of the Dongyao people is gone, then the consequences can be imagined.

The situation faced by the Eastern Captives today is completely different from that of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, they fought against the Ming Dynasty, because they occupied the strategic initiative, especially in the later stage, they were basically in the Eastern Captives’ attack on the Ming army’s defense. Case.

But now... After the opponent was replaced by the Chu army, all this was reversed. Those damn Chu barbarians directly threatened Liaoxi without saying anything, and even dared to send troops to land on the Liaodong Peninsula, which led to such a passive situation.

In this case, the situation is already more dangerous, and the Dongbao people have to grit their teeth and persevere no matter how difficult it is.

It's just that compared to the time when Dongyao worked hard to maintain the two fronts of Liaoxi and Liaodong Peninsula, the Chu army opposite them spent the winter in comfort, and from time to time they sent a small army out to harass and fight.

Especially on the Liaodong Peninsula, in order to continue to increase the pressure on the Dongyao people and force them to pay more attention and invest more forces in Liaodong, Bai Yangrong sent troops to land on the side and rear of the Chu army from time to time, and the enemy went ashore when they were not prepared. Raid one, attack a small castle, burn some food and so on.

If the enemy is on guard, change the place at worst. If the enemy responds quickly and sends troops to kill them, then board the ship and leave.

In November, Bai Yangrong even sent more than 2000 people to Gaizhou by boat, directly landed and captured Lianyun Island to the east of Gaizhou City.

This small island is just opposite Gaizhou City. It is said to be a small island, but in fact it is separated from the shore by a small ditch that is too big for a palm. Given time, it is estimated that it will be filled with mud and connected to the mainland in a short time. .

This means that this place can be easily crossed, especially if there is a naval advantage.

This scared the Dongyao people in Gaizhou City to death. While closing the city gates to prevent the Chu army from continuing to land and attack the city, they urgently dispatched troops from all directions, and then prepared many ships to take back this sight. It seems inconspicuous, but in fact it is Lianyun Island that poses a great threat.

When they managed to mobilize more than 1 troops and urgently produced many small boats to land, they were again raided by the Chu army fleet. Under the intensive shelling, Dongyao's landing was to pile up flesh and blood.

When they paid more than 2000 casualties and finally landed ashore, they found that the Chu army on the island just slipped away and ran away by boat from behind.

Although Lianyun Island was regained, the whole battle was extremely aggrieved.

Changsheng Island in Fuzhou and Lianyun Island in Gaizhou, together with a series of cross-sea landing battles where the Chu army landed from Lushunkou on a large scale before, also made the Dongyao people deeply understand the importance of sea power!
The Great Chu Empire Army, supported by a fleet, can come and go almost freely. In the long coastline controlled by the Dongyao people, if you want to land from there, you can land from there, and after landing, you can directly resupply through ships, and there is no logistical delay. risks of.

And once in danger, you can get on the boat and run away at any time!

The naval superiority of the Chu army was fully demonstrated in a series of landing operations on the Liaodong Peninsula, so that the Dongyao people made up their minds to create a huge fleet to counter the Chu army's fleet. Otherwise, there will never be peace in the sea, and the West Liaoning Corridor is at risk of being cut off at any time.

It's just that the construction of the navy is much more difficult than the army.

The construction of a battleship takes several years at every turn. Although it is okay to urgently speed up the construction for more than half a year or even shorter, the ships built in this way will fall apart within a few years.

The battleships are actually fine. For the sake of war, urgent construction is also normal. A junk ship that won't last for a few years is better than nothing...

But sailors and naval officers are not so easy to train.

The army of the navy is more difficult to train than the artillery and cavalry of the army!

The reason why the Great Chu Empire’s navy was able to quickly grow into the strongest navy in East Asia was not because the Great Chu Empire had mastered any quick-fix method for the navy, but simply because it accepted Zheng Zhilong’s tens of thousands of experienced sailors, including those generals.

With these tens of thousands of sailors, the Great Chu Empire began to use its strong money and manufacturing capabilities to mass-produce a large number of various new warships, and let these warships quickly form combat effectiveness.

At the same time, it can also use the experience of these old sailors and generals in the Zheng Zhilong era to train more sailors.

How should I put it, even if you want to train tens of thousands of recruits to become qualified sailors, you must have a sufficient number of teachers to teach them hand in hand.

In this way, the navy of the Great Chu Empire was able to have combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and directly dominated the East Asian waters as soon as it came up!
But the Dongyao people do not have this condition. Although they have accepted a group of sailors from Shandong before and let them get a group of sailors, the total amount is not much. The most important thing is that this batch of tax revenue has only The remaining two or three were completed, and the others were either killed or wounded or captured by the Chu army...

Many of the naval forces of the Dongyao people were deployed at Lushunkou before, and then the navy of the Great Chu Empire directly blocked the port, and then the army landed and captured the north and south cities.

As a result, the thousands of experienced sailors under Dongyao's hands became the possessions of the Chu army. Except for a few hundred people who died in battle, all the rest became prisoners of the Chu army.

What's more interesting is that because these Dongyao sailors are basically former Ming army sailors, these people are also Han Chinese, and they have no loyalty to Dongyao.

After these captured sailors were reviewed, many ordinary sailors joined the Great Chu Empire Navy, and only those Dongyao people or Han Chinese senior generals who surrendered to Dongyao were directly chopped off.

In other words, the Great Chu Empire Navy fought a landing operation and got thousands of experienced sailors, making a lot of money.

These recruited sailors were subsequently thrown into the recruit training camp to be polished for a few months and brainwashed by the way. Then these thousands of sailors could be assigned to more than a dozen warships of the Chu army.

In this way, it will be even more difficult for the Dongbang people to engage in the navy.

At most, they would build some small sampans that did not require much navigation technology, such as the centipede boats used in modern times, but such small sailors could not hold back the huge fleet of the Great Chu Empire Navy.

The Dongyao people are at an absolute disadvantage at sea for a short period of time, and the navy will not be able to do it for a while, so they can only strengthen coastal defenses and build some forts.

The land is facing great pressure, and the coast is full of holes. This winter of Huang Taiji is busy and full of helplessness.

This year was the most difficult and even helpless year for him.

And all these changes started after Chu Manzi went north
In the past, when he fought against the Ming army, Monan Mongolia, and North Korea, he was full of confidence, and in fact they all went very smoothly. However, since the Chu Manzi killed the Ming Dynasty, he has hoarded heavy troops in Shanhaiguan, Jiliao, and even the entire northern Great Wall defense line. After that, he felt the situation deteriorated rapidly and became more difficult as time passed.

Sometimes, Huang Taiji even regretted it!
I knew that in the past two years, the Ming Dynasty should not have been forced too hard, and even a concession could have been made when necessary, so that the Ming Dynasty could concentrate on dealing with the Chu Manzi.

In this way, the Chu barbarians would not quickly capture the south of the Yangtze River or even the Northern Expedition. With the Ming Dynasty at the forefront, he could accumulate strength for a few more years, such as building hundreds of cannons.

Even at the time of Chu Manzi's Northern Expedition, if he had reacted faster and dispatched troops to the Liaoxi Corridor a month or two earlier, taking Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui back and leading the army into the pass, the current situation would have been very different.

Even if they only captured Shanhaiguan, the situation would be very different!
It's a pity that Huang Taiji at the time didn't know that Chu Manzi was so capable of fighting. The Northern Expedition took only a few months, and before Huang Taiji and the others realized it, they captured Youzhou City like lightning and captured Shanhaiguan!

But when they captured themselves from the east, it took a little longer to concentrate their forces to move westward, and it took too much time to negotiate with Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui.

Slow step by step is slow step by step!
In the end, Huang Taiji could only watch helplessly as Chu Manzi took control of Shanhaiguan!
Even though he had already led his army to a place only twenty miles away from Shanhaiguan, he could only watch helplessly as the Chu army occupied Shanhaiguan first and blocked himself out of the pass!
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However, although Huang Taiji regretted it, he also knew that even if he were to go back to a few years ago now, it would be difficult for him to reverse this situation.

Because they don’t detour through Mongolia to plunder North Zhili, they can’t live on their own. Since they are all plundered, they will naturally create pressure on the Ming Dynasty and contain a large part of the power of the Ming Dynasty, which in turn led to Chu The barbarians rose rapidly.

Secondly, if Youzhou is not broken and Chongzhen is not dead, Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui will not be so straightforward, and they will go to the East Captive without a fight. They have been the emperor of the land in the west of Liaoxi well.
If you want them to surrender, you have to defeat them first!
But this is back to the original point: if Zu Dashou didn't take the initiative to surrender, it would not be easy for Huang Taiji's army to take Jinzhou, let alone take the entire Liaoxi Corridor.

Dongyao was able to successfully control the Liaoxi Corridor, thanks to the Northern Expedition of the Chu Army that killed the Ming Dynasty, which eventually led to the surrender of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui. Otherwise, they are still mixed in the east of Jinzhou.

Therefore, looking at the overall situation, this gave Huang Taiji a sense of destiny!

And this feeling of being destined by history made Huang Taiji feel helpless and even panic!

(End of this chapter)