golden scales

"This king personally leads the troops to recover Ningyuan!"

Dorgon went to the palace in military uniform and spoke with great pride, but Wu Bai and others who knew his ability to lead troops were not excited at all.This prince has indeed fought a battle, either he fought and ran, or he was absolutely crushed. Once he fell into a hard fight, he himself would not be able to hold on first.

Not only physically weak, but also psychologically cowardly, unable to support a big battle under tremendous pressure.

To have this psychological quality, not only must see through life and death, accept casualties and mourning, but also a kind of talent.

Dorgon lacked such talent.

If the Ming army had already occupied Ningyuan, counting the time of news exchange, and then the army marched, it would be fifteen days before the Qing army arrived at the city of Ningyuan.At that time, the Ming army must have been prepared long ago, with deep ditch cannons, food that can never be eaten, and soldiers that can never be killed... This is simply the second Tianjin, which is frightening.

If Tianjin can't be defeated, it can be forgotten, but Ningyuan is guarding the throat of the Liaoxi Corridor. If it is not defeated, how will the two white and two red flags go home?The Juyongguan Pass is about to lose its hold. If you follow the blue and yellow four flags to the Xifeng Pass, where will the army be fed?With the little rations of the Mongols, it is not easy to support two yellow and two blue flags.

"Master, there is another way for this slave." Suksaha bowed and said: "Transport the grain stored in Shanhaiguan to Xifengkou, and you can still leave the customs."

Xiao Donglou didn't believe that Donglu could collect more food from the pass, but Wu Bai didn't expect someone to come up with such a bad idea.Grain transshipment is not a simple matter, because a large amount of grain will be consumed during the transportation process.

That aside.Just talk about the rules of the grassland on the grassland: the strong are respected!

Mongols don't care who is emperor.They first surrendered to the Turks, then to the Tang Dynasty, then to the Khitan, and finally to the Jurchen.The standards identified are only these four words: the strong are respected!

After they have mastered the most powerful power, they will send this set of grassland laws to every place they can reach.

As much as they would love to see the whole world as their pasture.

If you march on the territory of the Mongols, but don't ask the Mongols for military supplies, it will definitely make the Mongols aware of the weakness of the Manchus.Then arouse his heart.This seemingly generous behavior is itself cowardly for the Mongols.

——It seems that Suksaha has already been frightened by the Ming army.

Wu Bai said heartily.

Sure enough, although Dorgon is not good at military formations, he still has the title of "Smart King" and has some knowledge in foreign affairs and internal affairs.He didn't care about Suksaha's unreliability, because this just happened to set off his wise decision.But he hates this kind of fear of the Ming army!

Fear is like a plague, it will gradually erode people's fighting spirit, and turn Manchuria from an "invincible" strongman into an advocator who can be manipulated by others.

Those Beijing temples are the source of the plague, and it seems that the plague has now spread to the Hall of Martial Arts.

"This battle is imperative! This king must slaughter those Nikan who dare to set foot in Liaodong!" Dorgon held the hilt of his sword.I want to make myself look more majestic and strong: "Pass down the order. All men with a knife height in each banner. All of them will be included in the army! All the bulls must put on armor and go into battle. Those who are timid, beheaded!"

Dorgon's generals took orders one after another.The sound of drinking made the hall tremble slightly.

Dorgon looked at Daishan and Boluo again, and said: "The two red flags will leave Beijing after Zhushen and Yiergen have retreated to Shanhaiguan. Guard Shanhaiguan and prevent the Ming army from threatening our rear army! After our army captures Ningyuan , and then step by step, stationed troops in Ningyuan, stationed along the river."

Daishan and Boluo had no choice but to go out to take orders, but the generals under their command were unhappy.Since ancient times, charging at the front and dooming at the back are the jobs with the highest death rate.If the Ming army knew that the Manchu and Qing troops were besieging Ningyuan, how could they sit back and watch?The rear army will definitely face a strong attack from the Ming army in order to open the way and rescue the friendly army.

"Decree: dispatch troops to Yongning immediately!"

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Xiao Donglou learned about the origins of the Donglu clan, as well as their combat methods and living habits in the pamphlet issued by the General Staff.In his view, this kind of tribe that integrates soldiers and civilians does not need to be mobilized at all, and can completely rise upon hearing the news.From this, he estimated the result of Donglu's soldiers approaching the city within ten days.

However, Manchuria is actually a nation with a strong learning ability. After dealing with the Ming army for so long, their marching style is very similar to that of the Ming army.There are even people in the court who hope to restore the Manchu titles to the Chinese titles of the old chieftains, and even the military system is imitated from the Lighting Army.

Because the Ming army can fight again now.

Compared with their descendants 300 years later, they are more pragmatic and open.

The cost of learning from the Ming army is the loss of the response ability of primitive tribes, but the advantage is that the combat cycle is prolonged.

At that time, Nuerhachi just didn't get a degree, so he could only bump into Liaodong, and then smashed against Daming in the Liaoxi Corridor.

After Huang Taiji came to power, he realized this, changed the way of fighting, and increased the degree of Sinicization.The Manchus would then be able to make an expedition to Mongolia and fight in a long and unsupplied environment.Although there will be a problem of too long supply line when entering the customs, but it is no longer the old slave era in a small place.

As a result, the Qing army's endurance in siege has also improved a lot. It was even able to besiege the city where the Ming army was stationed for half a year or a year, and implemented the tactics of besieging points to fight for reinforcements, and won the Battle of Songshan.

On March 19, the 26th year of Chongzhen, almost all the men in Manchuria in the banner joined the army, forming a crowd of [-].The army set off from Fengtai to Shanhaiguan.

Because of the leak of the news, this is also a matter of course. The Qing army was attacked by the Ming army on the first night. It was a "hundred tigers running together" under the night. A bucket of ice water was poured over his head.

After that night, the Qing army did not dare to relax their vigilance all the way to Shanhaiguan, seriously delaying the journey.However, the Ming army never made a night attack that fired rockets [-] steps away, making Dorgon scold "I don't know what to say".

Xiao Donglou was very grateful to the First Division for helping to delay the pace of the Qing army, so that the Second Division had enough time to transport food and gunpowder to Ningyuan, build a camp, build a ferry in the camp, and level the road on the east side of the river... But he still hopes The Manchus could come earlier, because the more anxious they came, the more anxious the coach would be and the weaker the soldiers would be.

Especially since the sick man Dorgon was the coach, maybe a quick march could kill him.

Xiao Donglou's expectation is not unreasonable.

Dorgon's health was not good, and he didn't live a good life in Beijing. He was always fainted by the incompetence of the frontline generals.It was rumored that he was lustful, but as the regent of a generation, he didn't even have any heirs of his own. The more he thought about it, the more anxious he became, and when he put it into action, he naturally became "Happy without women" every night.

Those who know me really say that I work hard, and those who don't know me say that I am lustful!

At this time, the ice and snow outside the pass had just melted, and the road was muddy and difficult to walk. Although Donglu had enough coated Aha, how could he think of such trivial matters as road construction?Incidentally, in the original historical script, after the Qing Dynasty took over the world, the Ming Dynasty system and folk customs were destroyed wantonly. The beautiful city that once shocked the missionaries as Paradise Eden was already stinky and the ditches were blocked during Qianlong. Garbage everywhere, straight down to the level of Europe at that time.

It was in this kind of mud that Dorgon barely moved forward, and he suffered from the morning and evening cold, and fell ill not long after leaving the customs.The two red flags responded to the military, so they had to be handed over to his younger brother Duduo and his confidant Wubai for disposal.

Duduo was young and high-spirited. Although he failed to achieve a good record in the Guannei battlefield, it did not prevent him from confidently thinking that once his army arrived, the Ming army would only be defeated.

"I think I have [-] armored soldiers with two white flags. Even if the Ming army relies on the fortified city, the defeat is only a matter of time." Duoduo didn't value Wu Bai.In his opinion, Wu Bai is not a good general for a while, but because of his elder brother Dorgon's respect, he has quite a lot of connections in Zhengbai Banner.

Wu Bai's reputation is indeed not well known, but he can be regarded as a confidant and assistant by Dorgon in the army.In the original historical script, Dorgon relied on him to stabilize the army in the banner after his death.It can be seen that his people are not just "some contacts".

"What the lord said is," Wu Bai said perfunctorily, "It's just that Ningyuan is not a small town. Back then, Xian Khan fought, and the late Emperor also fought, but they couldn't take it down. We should be cautious this time."

Only then did Duoduo restrain his arrogance, and said: "It's true, our army is still a little insufficient in attacking the city."

Wu Bai secretly thought: more than just a slight deficiency?From Xian Khan's thirteen pairs of armored troops to the present, our army's attack on the city is nothing more than opening the door or digging ditches to besiege.If a small city can still build ladders, even if a big city like Ningyuan is attacked with ladders and buildings, it may not be able to capture it.

"What's more, our army still has artillery." Duoduo said proudly again: "This time our army has brought so many cannons of the general in red, how many cannons can Ningyuan City withstand?"

The city defense artillery in Beijing was purchased from the Jiajing period to the Wanli period, and they were all Hongyi artillery weighing a thousand catties.After Dorgon decided to leave Beijing, he dismantled the cannons that Zhu Cihong and Li Zicheng had no time to take away. Among them, he chose five to be taken to Mongolia by the two yellow flags to show off his might, and he transported the remaining fifteen to Shanhaiguan.

This time the army left the Shanhaiguan pass, leaving five more to guard the pass, and the whole army took ten to Ningyuan.I think the artillery at the head of Ningyuan City was not so big at the beginning, and it also helped Yuan Chonghuan defend the city.Now that I have more powerful artillery, there is no reason why it cannot be broken!

On the fourth day of April in the 19th year of Chongzhen, the Tanma of the Qing army finally came into contact with the Tanma of the Ming army.Immediately after getting the news, Tan Ma approached the contact point one after another, looking for the location of the opponent's main force.In just two days, the Second Division of the Ming Army's Guards found the main force of the Qing Army, and found that its number was around [-].

The Qing army also discovered the camp of the Ming army on the coast, which confirmed the statement that the Ming army came across the sea.And because of the cooking smoke on Juehua Island, Duoduo and Wubai judged that the Ming army was also deployed on the island, but the number of soldiers of the Ming army was not yet clear.

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