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"Twenty thousand soldiers and horses?" Dorgon frowned, "That's too many, I'll give you fifteen thousand at most."

"Fifteen thousand is fine, but everyone must be matched with a horse." Azig said.

This is the little cunning in his rough character.

He had not expected to get 20,000 troops and horses, but 15,000 was enough. If everyone had horses, he could come and go freely. In this way, the seemingly dangerous task of attacking grain roads behind enemy lines is not so dangerous.

Dorgon hesitated.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty now controls almost half of the Mongolian grassland, and the Northeast itself has many good horses, fifteen thousand horses is not a small number. If it is allocated to Azig, the number of horses available to other ministries will inevitably decrease. .

But since the task he assigned to Azig was to attack the enemy's food road, it was unjustifiable not to give him enough horses.

This is very difficult.

Ji'erharang on the side couldn't help but persuade: "Prince Rui, since we have decided to withdraw outside the pass, why do we have to let the British King (Ajige was named the Manchu Dorowuying County Prince in the first year of Chongde, so (referred to as the King of England) went to attack the army's food road?"

Dorgon said: "Could it be that King Zheng (Jilharang was named Prince Heshuo Zheng in the first year of Chongde) thought that this king acted out of selfish motives?

Nowadays, many troops are scattered around Shuntian Prefecture to collect money and food. Even if we immediately issue an order to withdraw outside the customs, I am afraid it will take several days to withdraw all of them.

Since the Wei army moved north from Tianjin, it could reach the capital in three to five days. If we don't attack their food routes and make their logistics unstable, how can we delay their march? "

Dorgon's words actually need to be viewed dialectically.

If he now orders the entire army to withdraw outside the customs, whether each ministry can leave, and how much looted money, food, livestock, and people can be taken away depends on the capabilities of each ministry - in fact, it is no different from a group of bandits entering a village to plunder.

In this case, even if there is a loss, it will not be too big, and even the overall profit will be made.

However, the possibility of loss is very high, and it will look very embarrassed, as if it was scared out of the seclusion by the Yi army, which will also be a big blow to the morale and people of the Qing army.

It would be much easier to let Azig attack the food road of the Wei army, disrupt the rear of the Wei army, and slow down the march of the Wei army. It would be much easier for the Qing troops in the capital and other places in Shuntian Prefecture to withdraw outside the pass in an orderly manner.

It will also look good in appearance.

Therefore, although Jierhalang disapproved of Dorgon's risky decision, he could not refute it for a while.

Moreover, both Dorgon and Azig agreed to this matter, so it was useless for him to object.

As for Abatai, he is a criminal and has a low title, so he is not qualified to express his opinion.

Seeing that Jierharang had nothing to say, Dorgon no longer hesitated about the horses and said, "I will dispatch fifteen thousand horses. In addition, doesn't Seventh Brother want to punish crimes and perform meritorious deeds? So he gave them Brother Twelve will be a deputy general.

You are all famous in our Qing Dynasty for your bravery in rushing into battle. I believe that if you go behind enemy lines, you will be able to defeat the enemy army in fear! "

Azig laughed heartily when he heard this, "Haha, Fourteenth Brother, you finally said something I like to hear."

Abata opened his mouth to speak, but in the end he said nothing.

In fact, he was a little afraid of the Yi army - he was really beaten by the Yi army in the battle of Sangyuan Town and fled in embarrassment, and he still has a shadow in his heart to this day.

But he couldn't say this - the Qing army evolved from border tribes, and they admired martial arts from top to bottom. If he shows fear of the enemy and is timid in fighting, he may never be able to lead an army again for the rest of his life.

In addition, he was somewhat unwilling to accept the defeat in the battle of Sangyuan Town. If he succeeded in attacking the enemy's food route behind enemy lines, he would have taken revenge, and his psychological shadow on the Ei army would disappear.

After making the decision, Dorgon immediately selected troops from the Qing army in and around the capital and gave them to Azig as temporary commander.

He was careful and chose the Monan Mongolian tribesmen cavalry who entered the pass together as his first choice, followed by the Eight Banners Mongolia, the Eight Banners Han Army, and finally the Eight Banners Manchuria.

Of course, the Monan Mongolian tribes who entered the customs together did not completely obey any orders - although the tribes in central and eastern Monan Mongolia are now under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, in fact they still mostly have cooperative relationships.

Therefore, for this kind of seemingly dangerous and unprofitable task, he could only find those Mongolian tribes who were easy to talk to (and easy to bully).

On the contrary, the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han banners in the Eight Banners Army were left at his disposal. At most, he could only complain a few words to Huang Taiji after returning to Shenyang. It is also an unwritten rule in the Qing army that the Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han troops are mostly used for dangerous tasks.

Although today's Eight Banners Manchuria has not yet become a Manchurian soldier, it has already faintly developed the habit of harvesting in the later stages.

The Qing army is now working very efficiently. According to the transfer order issued by Dorgon that day, all the ministries gathered under Azige and set off towards Baoding County...

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After Peng Youyi was ordered to lead six brigades northward as the vanguard force, he marched toward the capital in an orderly manner along the Grand Canal.

The weather was extremely cold and the Grand Canal was frozen, making it impossible to sail. The logistics battalions of various ministries used horse-drawn carriages to pull the baggage along the official road next to the Grand Canal.

In this way, even if the marching speed is fast, it will not be much faster.

After a day's march, they had just passed Yangcun and were approaching Wuqing.

Yangcun is said to be a village, but in fact, because it is located along the Grand Canal, it developed into a large market town in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. It even had a city wall, but it was not high. It was built in the past to prevent thieves and horse bandits.

In later generations, Wuqing City was destroyed due to war, and Yangcun became the new Wuqing County seat.

The gentry and landowners of Yangcun have trained more than a thousand rural warriors, which is more than the county and rural warriors in some remote places. This shows how large the population of Yangcun is.

When they learned that the Shun army had captured the capital and that Chongzhen had committed suicide by hanging himself for his country, the gentry and people in Yangcun did not feel much sadness.

They have never seen Emperor Chongzhen. On the contrary, in recent years, the three salaries have been added one after another, which has added a lot of burden to ordinary people, landlords, and gentry. Foreign and internal bandits have also come in waves, making everyone's life miserable. There were many people who openly criticized the court officials for being incompetent, and secretly criticized Chongzhen for being mediocre.

Therefore, Dashun sent a group of hundreds of soldiers and horses over, and they changed their banners and surrendered.

Later, Li Zicheng abandoned the capital and fled westward, and the Qing captives entered the Pass. They surrendered the Qing captives again.

Now that the Wei army was moving north and the Qing captives were retreating, they naturally surrendered to Wei again.

It's not that there are no loyal people in Yangcun, but such people must be in the minority, and there are few people in power. Naturally, they can't influence which king's flag is replaced on the city wall of Yangcun.

However, for most people in Yangcun, the surrender of Wei was much more pleasant than the surrender of Qing.

Therefore, when Peng Youyi's army passed through Yang Village, the people in the village not only gave the few chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and other livestock to the Yi army, but there were even two young scholars in the village who joined the army to guide the army.

Among them, the older Yang Ding'an is actually in his thirties, and his younger brother Yang Dexiu, who is in his early twenties, is both a member of the Shuntian Prefecture.

The two of them originally wanted to go directly to the general's office in the Eijun army, and the one who served as a low-level staff member was also a minor civilian official in the Eijun army.

It turned out that the Yi army did not recruit people at will, or that the generals of the Yi army had no right to accept people at will. Even if they want to join the army and become ordinary soldiers in Da'ei's standing army, they still have to go through certain procedures.

As students, the two of them naturally had no interest in becoming soldiers.

When the two entered the army, they were not qualified to follow Peng Youyi. Instead, they followed Zhang Xin, the commander of the fifth brigade as the vanguard. They were local folks and friends that Zhang Xin knew.

This was actually a strategy used by the generals of the Yi army to recruit temporary staff. After all, they marched and fought in various places, and sometimes they did need some local people as temporary staff.

As for the establishment of a private staff group, there are military regulations and a similar position of staff officer in the army. No general dares to break the rules nowadays.

Yang Ding'an heard that it was Brigadier Zhang Xin who defeated more than 10,000 slaves in Sangyuan Town, and he admired him quite a lot - Yangcun had many incidents of slaves becoming invaders in the past ten years. Disaster. Even if Jiannu did not come to Yangcun, the business of each family in the market would be greatly affected.

Therefore, Yang Ding'an, Yang Dexiu and other Yangcun people actually hated the Qing captives, and they had only surrendered to the Qing to save their lives.

At this time, Yang Ding'an and Yang Dexiu were following Zhang Xin, leading the horses to walk together.

That’s right, it’s just walking the horse!

The two of them came from a wealthy family in Yangcun, and they were in Hebei. Naturally, they had horses at home, and they also brought horses and servants with them when they joined the army.

As the brigade commander of the standing army, Zhang Xin is naturally equipped with a mount, and it is a good war horse.

However, the three of them were just leading the horse for a walk! (End of chapter)