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Chapter 309 Dorgon Sends Troops

Guihua City, a fortress on the grassland, Li Chaosheng is sitting on the top of the city, holding a teapot made of purple sand in his hand, drinking Chunqian Longjing brought by the caravan from Jiangnan. Good or bad, I just feel that the tea they gave me is soft in the mouth, strong in the aftertaste, and the tea soup is also very beautiful.

So I like to drink it very much.

Moreover, Li Chaosheng prefers to drink the so-called low-grade tea when drinking tea. For example, he likes to drink jasmine tea the most, rather than high-end fermented tea such as Pu'er, Jinjunmei, and Dahongpao.

Without him, I'm not used to drinking.

Li Chaosheng drank tea, watched the sunset slowly set over the city, and couldn't help but recite casually: "The desert is solitary, the long river is full of sunset, it's really beautiful."

As Li Chaosheng was speaking, there was a sound of rushing footsteps on the city wall, and Guzi ran up with Bai Shoumin at this moment, and when he came close to Bai Shoumin, who was panting, Li Chaosheng poured out a pot of new tea and handed it to him. Bai Shoumin said: "Slow down, drink some water and talk slowly."

Bai Shoumin took a sip of water and said, "Xie Xianzun."

Li Chaosheng smiled and looked at Bai Shoumin: "Well, why are you so panicked?"

After hearing this, Bai Shoumin said to Li Chaosheng: "My lord, just received the news from Shengjing's spies that Shengjing's soldiers and horses have changed, especially Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner, which has been mobilized frequently recently, and the city's grain and grass have also stepped up. , I'm afraid we will raise troops."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng put down his teacup and said, "Sure enough, it's Dorgon. I thought it was Hauge. Well, send someone to deliver the news to Mr. Lu."

After hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Yes."

Li Chaosheng got up, Bai Shoumin asked, "Where are you going, the county lord?"

Li Chaosheng said: "Call Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei to the City Lord's Mansion for a meeting."

"Yes."

Bai Shoumin also ran out to inform that Li Chaosheng walked towards the city lord's mansion under the protection of the guards. When he arrived at the city lord's mansion, Li Chaosheng entered the meeting room, and soon Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei rushed over.

At this time, Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei and said: "Received the latest information, this expedition to Guihua City is the Zhengbai Banner of Jianshou Dorgon. The number of expeditions is currently undecided, but it will not be less."

Li Chaohu stared at this and said: "What are you afraid of? Soldiers come to block, water comes to cover, what's the matter, commander, you order it."

Shi Dalei also said at this time: "That's right, Commander, it's not like we haven't fought against the Tatars before. Although their fighting power is good, far surpassing that of the Ming Frontier Army, we are not the bastards of the Daming Frontier Army. Our army is stronger than the Tartars." The sons are stronger and more sophisticated, and we are still on the side of the city, so we have an advantage."

"That's right, Commander, I think we don't need to be afraid at all. Although the enemy is powerful, it's not strong enough to match us. We have new guns and heavy artillery. We don't need to be afraid of him at all. Our strength far surpasses them. "

At this time Li Chaohu said in a loud voice, Li Chaosheng nodded when he heard this, and said: "I have never doubted whether I can defeat the Tartars, but what we are after is not only the victory of the war, but also the pursuit of victory." Winning at the lowest cost, Lantian is small, there are very few people in Lantian, every life is precious, I will never allow more soldiers to die because of our wrong decision-making, this will make me very uncomfortable, It's not what I want either."

Li Chaosheng said here and said: "So we must make a complete decision, so as to guarantee the lives of more soldiers. Although we have many soldiers, no one can give up at will."

Li Chaosheng said this and paused for a moment and said: "Okay, let's go ahead and call the staff of your two divisions to the city lord's mansion for a sand table drill from today onwards. I will ask Bai Shoumin to send the first-hand information to you. Try to figure out as many possible scenarios as possible.”

"Yes."

After hearing this, Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei all saluted. Sand table drills are an important military strategy in Lantian. Before each battle, the staff should try their best to use their strengths on the sand table and carry out various attacks. The two sides act as enemies to each other. , Think of as many dirty tricks, bad tricks, and bad tricks as you can think of, and deduce the situation as bad as possible, and make various emergency plans.

The last time the Tartars attacked the capital, they conducted a sand table drill. At that time, they roughly rehearsed the battle between the Tartars and the Ming army. The only thing that was not counted was that Chongzhen would kill Yuan Chonghuan. Apart from this, there were some small details. Almost all calculations have been made. It can be said that the sand table drill can show the general situation.

At Li Chaosheng's order, all the staff officers of the two divisions gathered in the City Lord's Mansion. Li Chaosheng had asked Ma Tengyun to draw the geographical features near Guihua City.

At this time, on the entire sand table, the surrounding terrain is clear at a glance. The terrain of Guihua City is nothing to say. It is located in the endless prairie. There is reclaimed farmland, avoiding the main gate of Guihua City, so that there is no need to worry about the farmland being destroyed when the army rises.

Except for the farmland, Li Chaosheng looked at it and said: "A cavalry can be ambushed behind this mountain, and a trench can be dug outside the city, so that the soldiers can deal with Jiannu in the trench, and the trench can also effectively defend against artillery shells. Jiannu seized many red-clothed cannons used by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong since the Battle of Sarhu. These heavy cannons were a big threat to the Lantian Army. Although Li Chaosheng's cannons were slightly more advanced than the red-clothed cannons, they were not as advanced as The degree of crushing."

In addition, the Tartars also have firearms, and the Tartar firearms are very sophisticated, even more refined than the firearms in the hands of the frontier soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Don't be fooled by the Tartars. How can there be such a thing, they are actually very powerful firearms.

If it is true as he said, they shoot all over the world with bows and horses, explain to me how they attacked the city with cavalry, Li Chaosheng has never seen such a strange thing in his life.

In fact, the reason why Li Chaosheng hated the Manchus was that apart from the massacre of the Han people by the Manchus, he also hated the Manchus for turning back the wheel of history. What bows and horses win the world, and begins to limit the opening of the people's wisdom.

Why?

They are afraid, they are afraid of the development of firearms among the people, because if the firearms are developed among the people, their rule will be threatened, and their Qing cavalry is scum in front of firearms, so they began to restrict and make the whole society regress, so that they The troops of the Qing Dynasty had enough advantages to maintain their rule.

Their little calculation is that the Han Chinese are not as good as us in horseback riding and archery, but with the development of firearms, they cannot beat firearms on horseback and archery. If the Han people master it, they will be finished.

During the late Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty had already lagged behind some scientific and technological achievements of the western countries, it was not as huge as imagined.

In some respects, Ming was not weaker than the West, and was even stronger than the West. From the end of the Ming Dynasty, China’s national fortune began to decline, and then was overtaken by the West. It was not until the first Opium War that the West began to completely crush it. Pressure Huaxia.

Followed by 100 years of humiliation, all kinds of loss of power and humiliation of the country, all kinds of groveling, the Eight-Power Allied Forces can enter the capital with thousands of people, and the old ladies of Cixi ran away with them, and said to her mother that the west tour, patrol your grandma leg.

So, the sin of the Manchu Qing is not that foreign races ruled the Han people. The biggest sin is that it caused the Chinese people to regress. In the most important two or three hundred years, China was all in a closed state, without a trace of progress, and even retreated. .

Let Huaxia, which has always been the number one in the world, slide into the abyss.

How deep is this abyss? At that time, people who are not human can come to China to reap a fortune. This is simply a shame and a shame. The vast China has a history of 5000 years. When did it suffer such a shame and shame.

Wait, there really was one time, that was the Jin Dynasty ruled by the Sima family, and the Wuhu chaos, which was also a dynasties. The Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were Li Chaosheng's least favorite dynasties, and also the most hated dynasties.

Even the Kublai Khan Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia, which oppressed the Han people very cruelly, he never hated it so much. At least the Yuan Dynasty was cruel, but it led China to a different kind of glory, the glory of the largest territory. Of course, he also said to the Han people, That dynasty is still a nightmare.

Of course, the Tartars before they won the world were still very enlightened. They liked artillery very much. It was not like the legends of later generations. They used cold weapons to fight the world. In fact, they also used firecrackers. The beginning of any dynasty , the people in power are very smart, although we can hate them, but we can't underestimate them.

Li Chaosheng did not underestimate Dorgon, this man who has left a strong mark in history, such a character must be given enough attention.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng proposed trench warfare at this time, using trenches to deal with the artillery and muskets of the Tartars, and proposed shooting from a prone position. Don't underestimate this simple prone shooting.

You must know that in wars from ancient times to the present, all soldiers have never fought in this posture, and this posture has a very good advantage, that is, the center of gravity is low. As long as the center of gravity is low, it is very difficult for you to shoot him. It's not easy, it can even be considered difficult.

This is simple common sense, the target is big when standing up, and the target is small when lying down, so it is not easy to aim, so this is the only way to reduce casualties. Adds 70.00% damage avoidance effect to our side, making the enemy's physical damage invalid.

Of course, it can only avoid physical damage. If the enemy uses gas bombs, the effect of incendiary bombs will be much worse.

Guihua City is nervously conducting a sand table deduction. Li Chaosheng is very satisfied with the deduction on the sand table. He has made complete preparations on his side, and the next step is to see Dorgon's actions.

In May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Dorgon, Prince of Houjin and Shuorui, led 2 horses from Zhengbai Banner and 1 horses from Xiangbai Banner. A total of 3 horses set off from Shengjing, accompanied by his younger brother Yu Prince Duoduo and counselor Fan Wencheng went straight to Guihua City, and it was estimated that the army would reach Guihua City in [-] days.

The news reached Guihua City almost as soon as Dorgon left the city. At this time, Li Chaosheng was watching the sand table exercise between Li Chaohu's division and Shi Dalei's division. At this moment, Gu Zi ran in and said, "Commander, the latest information."

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi in a daze and said, "Say."

Gu Zi said: "I just received the news. Just now, Dorgon led Duoduo and Fan Wencheng to lead 2 horses from Zhengbai Banner and 1 horses from Xiangbai Banner to Guihua City. They are expected to arrive in [-] days."

Li Chaosheng frowned when he heard this, and said, "Okay, what a Dorgon, you're finally here."

Speaking of which, Li Chaosheng said to the staff officers who were deducing: "The information is confirmed, and now we can carry out targeted deduction."

After hearing this, a staff officer immediately said: "Everyone, I want to tell you about the information about the Eight Banners of Manchuria."

"The Eight Banners of Manchuria was first set up in 1601 (the 29th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty) and Nurhaci, the slave chief Nurhachi, first set up four banners, which were yellow, white, red and black. Later, they were changed from black to blue in 1615, and at the same time expanded the colored flags."

"When it was first set up, the Zhenghuang Banner was owned by Nurhachi, the Zhengbai Banner was Nurhachi's eldest son Chu Ying, the Zhenghong Qi was the second son Daishan, and the ZLQ was Nurhachi's younger brother Shuerhaqi."

"Later, after the expansion of the Eight Banners in 1615, the banner owners changed for the first time. Several sons of Nurhachi appeared one after another. Zhengbai Banner Huang Taiji, Xiangbai Banner Azig, that is, Dorgon, Duoduo's first mother and brother."

"After several changes and Huang Taiji's accession to the throne, it was urgent to weaken the power in the hands of other princes, so Dorgon and Duoduo were helped up. Since they are the youngest brothers, their strength is still weak and under control."

"But although Dorgon and Duoduo are young, the strength of the two white flags is not weak. Because Nurhachi liked Dorgon very much at the beginning, he gave Dorgon a lot of old team members. They are full of two white flags, which leads to their strength. Very strong, only weaker than Zhenghuangqi led by Huang Taiji himself, and slightly stronger than XHQ led by Hauge."

After listening to the staff's introduction, Li Chaohu said: "That means they are the second or third among the Eight Banners."

After hearing this, the staff officer nodded and said, "You can say that."

After hearing this, Shi Dalei said: "So, the elites of the Eight Banners are here?"

The staff officer nodded, and Shi Dalei looked at Li Chaohu in deep thought, and Li Chaohu said excitedly at this moment: "Hahaha, the elite is good, I fight the elite, you can't gnaw persimmons at the old lady in war, just pick the soft ones, you want to fight, Let's fight the elite, if we want to fight, we have to scare him."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "My cousin is right, but don't take it lightly. The deduction still needs to be deduced. You will be given ten days to carry out the strategic deduction. After ten days, we will officially start the pre-war deployment. In addition, let's let it go tomorrow." The detained Mongolians went to dig trenches outside the city. It’s not okay to feed them without working every day. In addition, the people in the city should inform them that they should cultivate quickly in these ten days. Soldiers guard them."

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)