Saving the Ming Dynasty: I can exchange bodies with Chongzhen

Chapter 114: The invaders can go there, and so can the Ming Dynasty
Not long after Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and the Ji-Liao troops fought with the Tatar troops, they found that they were unable to stop the enemy at all.

The Tatars' field combat capabilities were clearly demonstrated when they faced the Ming army, which had no equipment advantage.

After a brief confrontation, the Tianxiong Army suffered heavy casualties, and the cavalry from Jinzhou and Guanning also suffered heavy casualties.

It has to be said that Lu Xiangsheng was a fierce man. Although he was a scholar, he was also extremely brave.

"kill!"

With a broadsword weighing dozens of pounds in his hand, he led the charge into the Tartar cavalry and killed them.

There were only two thousand old, weak, sick and disabled Tianxiong soldiers left, but at this moment they charged more fiercely than anyone else.

But Dorgon and Dodo were afraid of the power of the artillery and muskets of the three camps, so they continued to flee to the north without any entanglement.

After all, the Qing cavalry marched faster than the Ming cavalry. The Qing army fled on horseback, while the Ming army's artillery and musketeers were still much slower, not to mention Cao Huachun's orders.

After chasing for ten miles, leaving behind a field of corpses of Qing soldiers, they began to return.

Clean up the battlefield.

Huang Degong and Sun Yingyuan cursed at the result as they watched the Tartars fleeing northward.

It’s not that we don’t want to kill, but we have to admit that the Ming Dynasty’s cavalry’s marching speed is lagging behind in this regard.

Moreover, even if the cavalry caught up, without the support of artillery and muskets, whether they could defeat them was another matter.

……

Forty miles north of Tianjin City.

"Report, a large number of soldiers and horses appeared ahead!"

After rushing out for more than thirty miles, Dorgon, with tens of thousands of troops, was just about to reorganize them.

Suddenly a spy came to report that Ming troops appeared ahead, and everyone was shocked.

Dorgon mounted his horse again and tried to break out again. After a fierce battle, he found that the enemy was actually the Qing army.

"Haug?"

When Dorgon saw that the person coming was Hauge, he was stunned.

He had fought side by side with Hauge many times, but Tianfu and the nephew did not establish a life-and-death relationship, and there were even many rifts between them.

Therefore, Dorgon could never have imagined that it was Hauge who came to the pass to rescue him.

"Prince Su, how many troops did you bring with you?"

"Thirty-three thousand people!"

"Are they all descendants of the Eight Banners?"

"That's right!"

"..." Dorgon felt like vomiting blood when he looked at Hauge.

On the one hand, these more than 30,000 people were all Hauge's Eight Banners soldiers or Eight Banners soldiers close to Hauge, and they were now unharmed, while his own Plain White Banner and Duoduo's Bordered White Banner suffered heavy losses.

On the other hand, he was regretful.

With more than 30,000 Eight Banners soldiers as support, if they have these 30,000 Eight Banners soldiers to support them, they can hold out for another hour, or at most one hour. Even if they cannot capture the city of Tianjin, they can still swallow up the troops in Xuanda, Miyun, Jiliao and other places on the northern front of the Ming army.

Destroying 20,000 Ming troops can be considered as saving some face.

But it was too late to say anything now. The troops from Xuanda, Jiliao, Miyun and other places in the north had already joined forces with the three major camps in the capital. In addition, there were troops from Shandong, Baoding and Denglai in the south. Even with Hauge's more than 30,000 troops,

They might not be able to gain any advantage over the Ming army.

"Forget it, let's plunder a bit and leave!" After thinking for a while, Dorgon finally made this decision.

Although the area from Tianjin to the outside of the Great Wall is only a few hundred miles, it is home to hundreds of thousands of people and a large number of livestock.

After a thorough cleanup, the bleeding could be stopped to some extent.

……

Outside Tianjin city, more than 100,000 soldiers gathered.

The generals and deputy generals of each military town gathered in the central military tent of the three major camps.

"Supervisor!"

"Supervisor!"

"..."

Everyone stared at Cao Huachun with burning eyes.

"Sit down, everyone!" Cao Huachun's face was flushed as he looked at the people in front of him. "Everyone present has made contributions to this battle. I will report the true situation to Your Majesty."

"Gulp!" There was a sound of swallowing saliva among the crowd.

Big win!

Although they had heard from the Ming Times that the three camps had defeated the Tartar cavalry, that was only what they heard. Now they had experienced it with their own eyes, and they were the ones who made history. How could they remain calm?
Li Banghua stood up from his seat, cleared his throat and said: "In this battle, we killed more than 19,600 enemies, seized 12,000 horses, and more than 40,000 sets of armor..."

In the siege of Tianjin, nearly 20,000 Tartars were killed or wounded.

Nearly half of them died at the hands of the three major camps, another one-third died in the siege of Tianjin City, and only one-fifth died at the hands of the Tianxiong Army and the Ji-Liao Cavalry.

The troops from Baoding, Shandong and Denglai in the south arrived late and hardly killed many Tartars. Instead, they gave the other side a lot of heads.

Wow~
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the tent suddenly became noisy and chaotic. It could no longer be described as boiling water, but it burned directly. What is this? This is a credit, a huge credit... The Ming Dynasty has not had such a great victory in decades.

Especially the governor of Miyun, Wu Aheng.

His eyes suddenly turned red. "Your Majesty, I am not lying to you! I am not lying to you... This time the Tartars are really hurt."

Nearly 20,000 enemies were killed, plus the more than 15,000 enemies killed by the three major camps before, adding up to 35,000 in total.

It is enough to cause serious damage to the Tartars.

Cao Huachun patted the table and said, "I called you all here to arrange the next battle."

"The next battle?" Everyone looked at Cao Huachun.

besides?

Isn't it a big victory?

Moreover, the Tatars have already retreated northwards. Are we going to chase them?

Cao Huachun said in a resounding voice: "Last year, the Later Jin army broke into the Great Wall from Desheng Fort and Shangfang Fort in the Ming Dynasty and attacked Xuanfu and Datong. In more than 50 days, they captured more than a dozen Ming castles of various sizes, killed and looted countless people, and plundered the capital for a week before returning. It took four consecutive days to get all the people, animals and property they had captured through the Great Wall."

"They even put up a sign in the border town saying 'Thank you Ming Jun for seeing you off'. This is a disgrace to the Ming Dynasty!"

"Tell me, how can we let them leave so easily as they did in the beginning?"

"cannot!"

"cannot!"

"..."

The tent was suddenly in turmoil, and it seemed as if the roof of the tent was about to be blown off.

"Pass the order, continue heading north in two quarters of an hour!"

……

There was no conversation that night, when a ray of lavender light, like a beacon lit at night as a signal of freedom, swept across the tops of the mountains and illuminated the capital.

A letter from Huang Taiji was received in the palace.

"Your Majesty..." Wang Chengen unfolded the letter and placed it in front of the emperor.

Zhu Changgan stretched lazily. He had returned to his own body last night, just as Hongniang was moving with the rebels, so he did not sleep well that night.

What surprised him was that it was actually a manifesto written by Chongzhen to them?
After talking with Chongzhen, they understood the accident. However, the name Chongzhen used was not Zhu Changgan, but Zhu Yonggan, so as not to expose his identity. Moreover, the transfer meant that Hongniangzi and others did not have too much energy to investigate their identities.

However, Chongzhen said that after the manifesto, his identity became freer, no one was blocking him, and the people who had been monitoring him seemed to have disappeared.

It can be said that one foot has already stepped into the power center of the rebel army, and he can cooperate with him better to understand the movements of the rebel army in the future. According to him, she told Zhu Changgan about the situation that Hongniangzi was about to meet with Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion.

Compared with Li Yan, Li Zicheng's target is more valuable.

It must be said that Chongzhen's actions made Zhu Changgan speechless, and he told him, "Don't think about it, leave as soon as possible, don't waste your life there."

……

Zhu Changgan came to his senses and looked at the letter from Huang Taiji to Chongzhen.

"The reason why our two countries went to war is that in the past, your Liaodong and Guangning governors revered your emperor as if he were in heaven, and your ancestors bullied our country, which led to the seven hatreds that caused the war..."

Zhu Changgan skipped some of the nonsense in the beginning and went straight to the key points in the end.

Simply put, it is a letter of peace talks in which Huang Taiji gave the conditions for peace talks.

"The Ming Dynasty gave the Qing Dynasty 10,000 taels of gold and 1 million taels of silver every year. The Ming Dynasty used the Tuling in the middle of Ningyuan Shuangshubao as the boundary, and the Qing Dynasty used Tashan as the boundary. The two sides traded in the Lianshan area. If anyone from either side defected to the other side's territory, they would be repatriated..."

To be honest, if the Ming army had not defeated the Qing army, Huang Taiji's asking price would not have been high.

But Zhu Changgan threw Huang Taiji's letter to the ground with disdain. He already knew Huang Taiji's thoughts and schemes.

Before this, the Qing army had fought 57 battles with the Ming army without a single defeat. They also besieged big cities like the capital, causing incalculable losses to the Ming Dynasty's property and population.

This time, Dorgon sent more troops than ever before, not just for the ten thousand taels of gold and one million taels of silver... He wanted to consume all the fighting troops of the Ming court.

This entry into the Pass was a reflection of his strategy of "cutting but not chopping down" the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty continued to use axes to chop down the big tree of the Ming Dynasty, and each time the chopping was deeper than the last.

Huang Taiji was giving the Ming Dynasty peasant army an opportunity to accumulate strength and consume the Ming Dynasty more severely, so that the Qing Dynasty would have the opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Changgan said angrily: "Come here, pass the order to Cao Huachun, tell him to fight hard for me, don't worry about the loss of ammunition... and show the power of the Ming Dynasty to the fullest."

But before Wang Chengen could respond, he heard a noise outside.

"Good news!"

"Great victory in Tianjin, great victory in Tianjin..."

"The Ming army killed 20,000 enemies, and the Later Jin fled north!"

The victory report reached the capital, and the Jinyiwei who came to report the victory all the way from Chang'an Street had already caused a sensation, with cheers from the people and shock from the court officials.

The whole city was in a frenzy and plunged into a carnival.

The cheers were like thunder, spreading into the palace, causing countless eunuchs and palace maids to stop what they were doing and look outside.

“Hahahaha…” Zhu Changgan couldn’t help but stand up suddenly and laughed loudly: “Great victory!”

"This battle will wipe out the Ming Dynasty's decline. I want to tell the Jiannu and the world clearly that the offensive and defensive situation has changed. From now on, the invaders can come, and our Ming Dynasty can also come. Not only can we go, but we can also be unstoppable."

　Chapter 2 is here! Thanks everyone
　　
　
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