In the new town of Cowan, it is difficult to find men in groups.
Children in ill-fitting clothes are jumping around. All they need is a shabby military uniform to cover their thin body, and a wooden stick to pretend to be a mount can make a poor child seem rich all over the world.
The strong woman is driving flies away from the cattle under the shade of the tree, holding the columbine for sowing and wiping sweat, and occasionally looking towards the east with worries and expectations in her eyes.
There was faint drum music coming from the distance, but it didn't sound real to people's ears at first, until the cavalrymen waving yellow flags led the dust across the fields, shouting the good news in the fields with their hoarse voices: "Victory, victory! The commander-in-chief is gone."
Raid Lanzhou!"
The whole new city was excited. The old, weak, women and children put down their affairs and ran along the rolling flow of people to the east of the city. There, there were already people holding high the firecrackers they had prepared and setting them off with crackling sounds.
Aixinjueluo Hauge, the eldest son of Hou Jin Tiancong Khan, was sitting in a courtyard holding tsampa in his hands. The crackling of firecrackers and cheers in the distance made him lose consciousness for an instant, as if he had returned to Jianzhou Wei, where Jianzhou was built ten years ago.
State Guard.
This place is so similar to my grandfather’s Hetuala.
Hetuala is a distant term to Hauge and even the entire Hou Jin Dynasty. It was the capital of the Jin Kingdom during the Nurhaci period. The biggest enemy of Jianzhou at that time was the Ula tribe of the Haixi Jurchens and Emperor Wanli who lived in the Forbidden City.
He is still the most powerful person in heaven and earth, at the height of his power.
Hauge is twenty-four years old this year. He first went into battle with his grandfather at the age of fifteen and has been in the army for nine years. After experiencing the difficult situation at the beginning of his father's succession, the Jin Kingdom has become a powerful power that dominates the Northeast and is evenly matched with the Great Emperor. This disappearance
Bi Chang, the Ming Dynasty is still the same Ming Dynasty, but it doesn’t look so scary to the Jin Kingdom.
"Baylor, they said that the Generalissimo returned victoriously. Should I go out to greet him or wait for the summons?"
Turge, the former commander of the Xiangbai Banner and the chief official of the Jin Kingdom, closed the courtyard door and reported in a low voice. He raised his head and glanced at the Xiangbai Banner guards in the courtyard who were wearing mail and pulled off the holster of the Yanyue knife. He frowned and said: "Bring a bow and a sword.
Yes, Mopei's sword."
Hauge sat on a low stool and did not speak. He just quickly finished the tsampa in his hand, drank a sip of cold water, and looked across the courtyard wall to the female wall at the head of the new city in the distance. Then he stood up, put on his waist knife, and said
: "Of course I'm going to greet him. My uncle is a veteran in the army, so I'd like to see how his army is stronger and weaker than ours."
In Hauge's heart, if Liu Chengzong's army could survive against the Ming army, it would have something to gain from winning.
Now his doubt is just where Liu Chengzong is and how long he is.
This determined his attitude when he met with Liu Chengzong. Hauge made two preparations. He heard that Kong Youde led a complete firearms regiment of tens of thousands in the east to request surrender. If Liu Chengzong was not very strong, he also hoped to give it a try.
Collect.
However, if its power is stronger than Kong Youde, it will try to form an alliance and military assistance with it.
Turge's father was Eyidu, the fifth minister of the Jin Kingdom. Eyidu married Nurhachi's daughter Mukush in his later years. After Eyidu's death, Mukush became Turge's wife according to the tradition of step marriage, so Haug was called
His uncle.
However, this kind of title and relationship, no matter how it is called or heard, is just right. When such a relative is needed, it happens to be a relative; when such a relative is not needed, there happens to be no such absolute affinity.
Twelve guards pulled out fourteen war horses, and surrounded Haug and Turg with helmets and armor.
Hauge, who was riding ahead, had eyes full of anticipation: He could finally see the legendary bandit!
As the eldest son of Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji of the Jin Kingdom, Hauge only led a dozen or so cavalry guards to go to the Marshal's Mansion, which was an extremely important step for him.
To put it simply, just a few months ago, Tiancong Khan and Huang Taiji were stunned by the continuous good news in the past few years, and the development of the Khanate fell into an unprecedented temporary confusion.
At the beginning of Huang Taiji's succession to the throne, the Hou Jin Dynasty suffered the sudden death of its late king, the disobedience of nobles and nobles, natural disasters inside and blockade outside, and the threats from the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia and North Korea. There were also a large number of Han Chinese and Jurchen spies in the country, and the whole was on the verge of collapse.
Local separatist tribes.
In today's post-Jin Dynasty, Huang Taiji declared that the Manchus and Han were one, and separated some Han people from the slaves of the Eight Banners, weakening the power of the noble princes and gradually centralizing power; attacking North Korea and forcing them to form a brotherly alliance to open trade; with the changes of Jisi
Loot the population and property to break the blockade, sweep through Monan and open up the old Duoyan Road.
Houjin, which has been facing repression, blockade, famine, threats, and was on the verge of collapse for a long time, suddenly looked back and found that everything he dreamed of during the Nurhaci period was already there.
In such a situation, anyone who hits it on the head will be confused.
Taking a step back, the Jin Kingdom has completed all the needs for survival, and the princes and soldiers will lose their enterprising spirit if they relax even a little; and further, the outcome of the Ming Dynasty has not been decided, and the Ningjin fortress group is difficult to break through. How to keep people alert? p>
Therefore, after Chahar Khan Lin Dan Hu Duntu entered Guihua City, Huang Taiji summoned Prince Baylor and his soldiers to ask: "Who should we prioritize in our battles from now on?"
Hauge, who was on the expedition, responded fluently: "It is useless to attack Ningyuan in Jinzhou because our country's siege methods are well known to others. Moreover, our troops have been unable to attack it. If we order to attack it again, we must be afraid of difficulties."
"Even if Jinzhou is captured, the other seven cities will still need to be attacked. If we capture only one city, the rest will be entrenched. It will take a long time, and our army's morale will be low for a long time."
For this deadlock, Hauge's suggestion is to divide it into three steps.
The first step is to appease and win over North Korea. It is already a younger brother, and further conquests will only lead from younger brother to son, which is of little significance.
Secondly, there is the remnant Chahar Mongolian army. We must act according to the opportunity. If we can annihilate them, we will annihilate them. If we cannot, we will expel them. It is not advisable to expend troops on an expedition.
Finally, there is the main strategy direction in his suggestion, Daming.
Adopting three roads, the Liaodong area avoids head-to-head battles with Jinzhou and Ningyuan; the old and new roads mainly come from Duoyan's hometown and Monan, and use all the national strength to destroy the border walls in Xuanda and Tongzhou, and penetrate deep into Mingdi.
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Regardless of whether they are successful or not, they must station troops in these places for a long time, and try to plunder the people, property, and materials of Xuanda and Tongzhou during the attack, so as to make up for the losses in the war and motivate the soldiers participating in the war.
The most important thing is to occupy the moral commanding heights. Before the attack, an announcement was made to the garrison city that the Jin Kingdom was willing to make peace, but the Ming Kingdom was not willing to make peace. The attack was forced and had no choice but to make the local people blame themselves for their masters, but not the Jin Kingdom.
Hauge's appearance here is because he, on top of his strategy of dedicating his army to Tongzhou and Xuanda, mentioned sending capable people deep into the Ming Dynasty to recruit bandits and make them join Houjin.
Even if they cannot recruit, they still have to garrison Tongzhou and send people to detect the movements of the bandits. Waiting for the Ming Dynasty to divide their divisions to defend, they can leave Ningjin in two directions at night. Tongzhou will take advantage of the situation to advance rapidly and attack Shanhaiguan, making it easier to attack and defend.
Hauge was the first person in Hou Jin to propose joining forces to attack Ming Dynasty.
Huang Taiji was very positive about his suggestion and decisively rejected him.
The plan was a good one, but there was no one in the Later Jin Dynasty who could execute the plan... When Korea was attacked, the great Bail Amin almost became independent; when the army was stationed in Luanzhou, the army almost lost control.
Having learned from this experience, Huang Taiji will inevitably lead the army in person in any fateful battle. What's more, he is trying his best to weaken the power of the princes of the Jin Dynasty, in order to further centralize power, divide the troops to garrison in Tongzhou, Ming Dynasty, and Xuan Da two places. , which is impractical for him.
Without garrison, it is naturally impossible to detect the movement of thieves, but this suggestion is not without merit. In fact, in addition to the lack of a single candidate, the eldest son Hauge's ideas in the suggestion won Huang Taiji's heart.
As soon as the army regained its strength, they robbed the Ming Dynasty and plundered as many people, property and goods as possible; the bastard Ning Jin, who was not in the fortress, fought hard and went around to rob other places, which was very meaningful to the Jin Kingdom.
It's just that the cost of recruiting rogue thieves is extremely high and the operability is extremely low.
There are so many thieves in the Ming Dynasty, this king and that general, even if they want to win over them, the Jin Kingdom, separated by mountains and rivers, can't accurately identify who is who, let alone who to win over and bribe... Not to mention that the Jin Kingdom doesn't know, the Ming Dynasty doesn't know who is either. Who.
Even when Zuo Liangyu was beaten in Wu'an, he didn't know that the person who beat him was named Li Zicheng.
The reason why operability is extremely low, rather than impossible, is that there is a bandit in the world who can be named and easily identified. This person is in the northwest and calls himself the Grand Marshal of Qinghai. His name is Liu Chengzong.
Huang Taiji said: "Since you want to find it, then go and try it."
In the smoke that exploded and dissipated at the official road, the mighty Mongolian brigade spread out in a long snake. The Mongolian soldiers under Xie Erhu almost exchanged their guns for cannons. The horses' buttocks were curled up in armor, and the quivers were filled with forged arrowheads. The faces of the people couldn't help but smile.
Cover yourself up and search for your family members among the women and children greeting you on the street.
Once found, he happily took off the bag containing the military rations, took out the uneaten dried meat and dry food and distributed them to his wife and children.
After a long time, until the Mongolian brigade of tens of thousands of people had completely passed through, Mei Duo, who was surrounded by Western women and children on the roadside, finally relaxed her frown. She just couldn't like the Mongols, even if they were also Mongolians under the general's command. p>
Those messy and noisy Mongolians once snatched away the necklace given to her by the lady in the past. For a long time, she thought it was the only thing that belonged to her in this life.
But soon, when the welcoming team burst into loud cheers and the prisoners passed by pushing carts loaded with money, food and treasures, at the end of the large number of livestock, Mei Duo finally saw the peaceful flag of the world flying high.
The team under the Taiping flag was unusually quiet, far less noisy than the Mongolian soldiers. The former nobles sat astride their horses with their spiral spears, and teams of experienced infantrymen removed their heavy armor and long shields and walked forward with their spears.
; The lean infantrymen were silent and pushed the light chariot loaded with armor and shields forward with their heads bowed.
Mei Duo's eyes searched again and again, her face changed from expectation to doubt, and her heart became more and more anxious. She saw the old and strong General Ah Liu, the young and noble General Gas, and even the tongueless Monk Awang.<
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Finally, she saw Basang riding a horse at the end of the hunting camp, holding a high helmet gun and wearing a red cloth armor. Even though the side of his face was covered by the item, Mei Duo could still lift it from the gun that he could not lift.
She had to straighten her neck to recognize it, that was her General Basang!
In the Jin envoy who was separated from the crowd by the guards of the Marshal's Mansion, Hauge looked steadily at the team of sergeants passing by. His attention was not on the Mongolian soldiers and Spanish soldiers, but on the prisoners pushed back by the Marshal's Mansion.
A chariot loaded with money and food.
This was no surprise to him. In the early years, Hetuala often saw such scenes. Whenever the Jianzhou Army attacked a city and plundered territory, the Eight Banners generals who returned victoriously would be like this. Liu Chengzong's trip was compared to those battles.
The profit is just a little more.
What surprised him was that Liu Chengzong's new city exuded the atmosphere of poverty everywhere, but it could distribute the huge amount of wealth to the nobles and soldiers... The soldiers seemed to think this was not strange, and they were all happy.
Hauge really couldn't understand what they were thinking. Did the Mongols in the northwest just fight for some dry food and dried meat?
At this moment, Turge, who was standing beside him, touched him with his arm: "Baylor, look at that, Liu Chengzong's Han army."
Turg saw a well-formed Han army. The army was divided into three battalions. There were more horses than people, more mules than horses, and they also towed thirteen huge cannons.
He asked the guard at the Marshal's Mansion beside him in Chinese language: "Is that the Grand Marshal's servant?"
The guard at the Marshal's Mansion was stunned for a moment, hesitating whether he should nod or not. In theory, Turg was right, everyone is the servant of the Grand Marshal.
But in terms of organization, it was not like this, so the guard replied: "That is the training camp of the Marshal's Mansion."
"Training camp?"
Turg's eyes were on fire.
When Hauge looked at the Marshal's Mansion from the perspective of economy and development, he felt that they were like the Jin Kingdom ten years ago; while Turg, from the perspective of a military veteran, initially thought that the Marshal's Mansion would be like the Jin Kingdom ten years ago.
They are the same, but I didn’t expect that the military gap between the two is not that big.
In the Kingdom of Jin, there was a formation called Bagala, which was a fine cavalry.
In the early days of the Jin Kingdom, the dilemma faced by Nurhaci was actually similar to that of the Ming Dynasty.
The problem facing the Ming Dynasty is how to organize an army capable of clearing holes in Jianzhou Liting and feed them when the national power is declining.
The problem of the Jin Kingdom is how to organize an elite force that can quickly maneuver to stop the Ming army in Jianzhou and feed them under the background of internal and external difficulties due to lack of money and food.
Bagala is Nurhaci's way of solving this problem. He imitates the servant system to strengthen the noble army under his command, and organizes armored soldiers for the nobles, allowing them to equip their own armored soldiers. In return, some of them will serve as their bodyguards and let them run as they please. p>
This move enabled all Nurgan local kings, petty kings and nobles to arm themselves with elite cavalry. These elite cavalry once accounted for half of the armored soldiers in each banner and became the backbone of Nurhachi's battles.
During Huang Taiji's era, the Jin Kingdom began to carry out strong centralization. The guards dispersed in the hands of various generals were no longer the temporary offensive reserves assembled by Nurhaci on the battlefield in the past, but were organized by Huang Taiji to establish the Bagala Camp.
, transformed from private soldiers to a standing army under the control of the Khan.
But here, it is obvious that centralization of power can be easily accomplished without the complicated means of transforming servants into a standing army.
A bureaucracy with only a simple framework, a poor and backward economy, and a militaristic standing army that maintains a standing army far beyond what they can bear constitute the entire impression Hauge and Turg have of Liu Chengzong.
Aixinjueluo Hauge took off his alms bowl, scratched his stubbled scalp, and complained angrily to Turge in Jianzhou dialect: "These barbarians!"
Turg laughed and asked: "What does Baylor plan to do?"
Hauge took a deep breath, looked at the guards at the Marshal's Mansion who were watching over him, and said to Turge: "Thanks to Father Khan for giving me two letters. My uncle asked him to tell Liu Chengzong that Hauge loves the new country and waits for... Brother Wang to summon him.
