Chongzhen Ming Dynasty: Starting from Meishan Chapter 455 The real test
Setting up a military machine room is a great idea!
This is somewhat similar to the favor order proposed by the master father Yan on behalf of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The main trouble that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty faced at the beginning was that the vassal kings were too powerful and had threatened the central power. So his father Yan came up with a clever idea and proposed that the eldest son, second son and third son of the vassal kings in various places should inherit the feudal kingdoms jointly. This directly
So he dismembered the vassal state into three parts. After a few generations, it became a small country, which is not a big concern.
Dorgon's establishment of a military machine room was similar to that of the Tweeting Order.
Because under the framework of the Eight Banners' political discussion, only the prince who is the leader of the banner can participate in the political discussion. The other princes of each banner, Beile and Beizi, have no right to participate in the political discussion.
But the establishment of the military machine room changed this situation.
Because after the establishment of the military machine room, not only the banner owner, but also the other princes of each banner, Baylor and Beizi are the military machine ministers of the military machine room, and they all have the power to discuss affairs, and their powers are basically the same regardless of their title. This is important for
It is undoubtedly a great blessing for the princes of each banner, Beile and Beizi.
Sure enough, as soon as Dorgon said these words, the atmosphere in the big tent suddenly changed.
Except for a few banner owners such as Luo Luohun and Gurma Huan, most of the other county kings, Beile and Beizi were perked up by it. This is a good thing!
At this moment, Dorgon gained widespread support among the Eight Banners.
I have to say that Dorgon is indeed a good player in politics.
Another great thing about the military machine room is that it has the final say.
In name, the military machine room still makes collective decisions, but in fact it is not.
Because there are many people, it is bound to be confusing, and it is bound to be difficult to make effective decisions.
At this time, the emperor or regent will become the decisive presence.
This is equivalent to the emperor or regent having the final say.
Now Dorgon really had all the power and accomplished what Huang Taiji had not accomplished.
In another time and space, not only Fulin but also Kang Mazi failed to solve this big problem.
It was not until many years after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne that the political cancer of the Eight Banners' political affairs was finally eradicated.
"The military aircraft room has been officially established from today, so the first important military issue discussed today is who should succeed the flag owner of Zhenghong Banner?"
After saying that, Dorgon winked at Gurma Hui again.
Although Gu Ermahun was depressed, he still stood up and said: "I think Balchuhun is smart and perseverant, and it is most suitable for him to take over the position of leader of the Zhenghong Banner?"
Although Balchuhun's two brothers and several cousins were dissatisfied, they could do nothing about it.
Because Gurmahun means what Dorgon means, this is a reward for Balchuhun.
However, Beile and Beizi, princes of various banner counties, all supported him. Dorgon's power in setting up a military machine room began to show, and Balchuhun successfully inherited the Zhenghong Banner.
However, the title of Prince Li was inherited by Man Dahai, the only one of Daishan's seven sons still alive. At the same time, the posthumous title for Daishan was also determined, with the character "marty".
"Now let's talk about the second important military task, which is to recapture Dagukou..."
As a result, before Dorgon finished speaking, Azig rushed to say again: "Old Fourteen, you, second brother and Jierhalang have all been defeated. Now it's my turn."
Dorgon's face instantly turned black and he thought, "Can I not slap him in the face?"
Originally, Dorgon had used Yan Yingyuan's sword to achieve his political intentions and was ready to let Azig go. However, Azig himself did not know whether to live or die and insisted on hitting the muzzle of the gun himself.
"Okay, Prince Su is very brave, so let's give it a try."
After a pause, Dorgon continued: "But I will tell you the ugly story first. If you don't win, you will be punished. However, the punishment will be decided by the ministers in the military machine room after discussion."
"I know." Azig curled his lips and said, "But it's impossible for me to lose."
Dorgon's face became more and more embarrassed, and he could see that Azig really thought so.
In fact, Azig did think that he had become the number one commander of the Qing Dynasty. Hauge was dead, Jierhalang was sent to Ningguta and Armored Man as slaves, and Luo Luohun and the others were still young and had little merit.
In terms of military experience, if you look at it, only Dorgon and Duoduo can compare with him.
However, after Dorgon entered the pass, he rarely led troops on expeditions.
Duduo always lost the battle, and the battle of Xuzhou was even worse.
So Azig felt that no matter how he was ranked, he was now the number one commander in the Qing Dynasty.
After a pause, Azig said again: "Old Fourteen, but I also have a condition. I have to transfer my 20 Niu Lu back from Xuzhou. The Green Camp soldiers and the Eight Banners Han Army cannot fight a tough battle."
"This matter is non-negotiable." Dorgon flatly refused.
"However, those 10 Niu Lu who are in the red flag can be temporarily transferred to you."
Ba Chuhun frowned when he heard this, but didn't say anything.
After all, he has a short tongue. He relied on Dorgon's support to become the flag leader of the Zhenghong Banner. It would not be a wise move to fall out with Dorgon before the flag leader's chair is confirmed.
Azig was a little unhappy when he couldn't find his 20 cow records.
At that moment, Azige said: "Then we can transfer 50 Hongyi cannons and 20,000 coats from Beijing, right? If we want to hollow out the slope protection outside Dagukou, we can't do it without 20,000 coats."
"Okay, but the 20,000 yuan is too little for coating. Adjust it to 40,000 yuan."
Dorgon's political goal has been achieved and he doesn't want to waste any more time.
The battles in the past few days have fully proved that the only way to attack Dakukou is to use the most stupid and stupid method.
This stupid method is to hollow out the slope protection outside the Ming army's gun platform, and then set up red cannons to directly bombard the gun platform.
As long as the rammed earth retaining walls and wooden fences of the Ming army's cannon tower were exposed to the muzzle of the red cannon, they would be vulnerable to a single blow. It only took a few rounds of shelling to easily destroy the gun tower.
Once the two gun platforms on the west and south sides are destroyed, Dagukou will become an isolated village.
Dorgon didn't expect that Azig would use this stupid method. It seemed that he had underestimated him, so he readily agreed to Azig's request and added an additional 20,000 yuan for wrapping.
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A few days passed and the time came to the end of March.
A warm and humid air flow swept through the North Bay area last night. When he walked out of the bunker in the morning, Yan Yingyuan could clearly feel the temperature rising and even felt the warmth.
The wind blowing was not as biting as before.
Looking back at the ice surface of the North Sea in the distance, it is also sparkling under the sun and is beginning to melt at an accelerated rate.
"Jianheng, the weather has finally warmed up." Chen Mingyu stretched out and said happily, "Looking at this situation, it won't be long before the navy reaches Dagokou."
As long as the navy can reach the sea outside Dagukou, Dagukou will be stable.
"Jiannu won't wait for the North Sea to thaw." Yan Yingyuan shook his head and asked, "By the way, is there still no movement in Jiannu these days?"
"There has been no movement. Just yesterday, thousands of real slaves from Zhenghongqi came."
"Strange, this is really strange. When did Jian Nu become so honest?"
While they were talking, Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu had already climbed up the wooden ladder to the watchtower.
Looking through the telescope, I saw a Jiannu camp on the west, south and southwest sides of the Ming army's cannon tower. They were about five or six miles away, just outside the range of the Hongyi cannon.
There are four zigzag trenches distributed vertically in this five or six mile blank area.
This was dug by the Green Camp soldiers before, but now it has been filled with sea water and frozen.
Yan Yingyuan's vision flickered back and forth between the four trenches, and after a moment his eyes focused.
"Gongchen, have you seen? There are many longitudinal wet marks between those trenches and on the ground on both sides?"
"Is there any?" Chen Mingyu then turned the field of view of the telescope to the four longitudinal trenches, and then he really discovered that there were vertical wet marks, as if water was poured out on the ground.
"Kanheng, there are really wet marks on it, as if it has been watered."
"Gongchen, do you still remember the yellow mud bamboo shoots dug every spring?"
"Of course you remember, our yellow mud bamboo shoots in Jiangyin are the most tender and delicious."
"Then do you still remember how to find yellow mud bamboo shoots that have not yet broken through the ground?"
"Why don't you remember that it takes a sunny day and if you go into the mountain early in the morning and see wet marks on the ground, you will definitely find yellow mud bamboo shoots when you dig it..." Speaking of this sudden pause, Chen Mingyu said again, "Jianheng, what are you talking about?
Is there a tunnel under the wet mark?”
"Most of the slaves are digging tunnels." Yan Yingyuan sneered, "No wonder there hasn't been any movement these days. It turns out they are digging tunnels secretly. It's really insidious."
If Dorgon heard this, he would probably scold his mother. Are you insidious?
"Gongchen, please go there yourself and order the left and right battalions to dig another underground trench outside the existing trench. This trench does not need to be too wide. One step is enough, but it must be deep enough.
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"After digging, seawater will be introduced and the entire circle of underground trenches will be filled."
"In this way, as long as the underground trench of Jiannu's tunnel is dug, seawater will pour in."
"Understood, I'll go and deliver the order right away." Chen Ming rushed down the watchtower in excitement.
Yan Yingyuan put down the telescope, and there was a hint of worry between his brows.
Judging from Jiannu's reactions in the past few days, it is obvious that he has given up on the brainless attack.
The current strategy of Jiannu is to either dig a tunnel and blast it directly with gunpowder, or dig a tunnel and extend it under the slope protection, and then hollow out the outer slope protection bit by bit from the bottom to clear the firing range for the Hongyi cannon.
If you want to blow up the gun platform, you can divert sea water to prevent it.
But if the Jian slaves just want to hollow out the slope protection, they will face a real test.
At that moment, Yan Yingyuan hurriedly got off the watchtower, and then gathered the few scholars who had stayed at Dagukou.
"Jiannu has changed his tactics, and we must also make corresponding adjustments. The first priority now is to strengthen the left and right gun platforms and the rammed earth walls at Dagukou."
"I boiled all the 1,000 shi of glutinous rice I brought."
"After cooking, mash it all and mix it with sand, clay and lime slurry to make a triple soil."
"Then use Sanhe soil to build a rammed earth wall for the left and right gun platforms. The rammed earth wall at Dagukou also needs to be re-reinforced with Sanhe soil. The wall must have a large inclination of forty-five degrees."
"A large inclination angle of forty-five degrees?" Some scholars questioned.
"With such a large inclination, Jiannu could rush up by stepping on the protective wall."
"Don't be afraid when Jiannu rushes forward." Yan Yingyuan said, "What you are afraid of is Jiannu's Hongyi cannon! If it is not made at a steep angle, even the Sanhe soil with glutinous rice juice added will not be able to withstand the Hongyi cannon."
It's the lesser of two evils.
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The next day, the Ming army's unusual behavior aroused the vigilance of Jiannu sentries.
Dorgon and a few hardcore traitors immediately went up to the towering well railing to see what was going on.
Through the field of view of the telescope, we can see that the Ming army at the entrance of Dagu and the two gun platforms in front are stirring the Sanhe soil, and then using the Sanhe soil to pound and build the retaining wall.
Then, Dorgon and the others discovered that the cannon platform and the protective wall at Dagukou had a large inclination.
"It's strange, the inclination of the protective wall is so big that even the Eight Banners warriors can step on the wall and rush up." Ning Wanwo said in confusion, "Has there ever been a city wall with such a large inclination in China since its historical records began?"
"But there were no red cannons in ancient times." Hong Chengchou said solemnly, "This is obviously the lesser of two evils. Although the steeply angled city wall cannot stop the impact of the Manchu warriors, it can withstand the bombardment of the red cannons!
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"It seems that Yan Yingyuan has seen through our intentions." Dorgon's face fell.
"It doesn't matter if you see through it." Hou Fangyu said with a smile, "No matter how steep the slope angle of the Sanhe earth retaining wall is, it can only block the red cannon for a while. As long as the Eight Banners and Han troops continue to bombard without hesitation of ammunition, sooner or later they will be able to blast away the retaining wall.
, or take ten thousand steps back, it doesn’t matter even if the red cannon can’t blast through the protective wall, you can directly order Bao Yi to continue digging tunnels, and directly collapse the Ming army’s gun platform and even the protective wall at Dagokou! Here we go.
Let’s see how the Ming army defends it at this time.”
Hearing this, Dorgon breathed a sigh of relief.
The situation is still under control.
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At the same time, Xu Yingwei, who was far away in Gaizhou Guard, was not idle either.
It took Xu Yingwei ten days to repair the city wall of Gaizhou, and built eight large gun towers based on the city wall, one outside each of the four city gates, and another gun tower outside each of the four turrets.
This formed a two-level defense system. The first level was Gaizhou City, and the second level was the eight peripheral gun towers.
There are still gaps between the eight gun towers. Jiannu can rush directly to the wall of Gaizhou City through the gaps. But if Jiannu really does this, he will face Ming army firepower from all directions, and there will be no way to hide.
Place to hide.
When the entire defense system took shape, Xu Yingwei obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and now he was waiting for Jian Nu to attack.
However, the final result may disappoint Xu Yingwei, because there will be no more Jiannu to attack Gaizhou Guards.
Dorgon had listened to the advice of Hong Chengchou and other die-hard traitors, and was determined to concentrate all his efforts on competing with the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains, so it was impossible to send troops to attack Gaizhou Guards in a short time.
After waiting for several more days, he found that no Jian Nu had reached the Gaizhou Guard, so Xu Yingwei began to send out reconnaissance cavalry to conduct reconnaissance, focusing on the Liaoxi Corridor and the Haizhou Guard in the north.
The reconnaissance result was that the Liaoxi Corridor was deserted.
However, the Haizhou Guard had thousands of slave soldiers stationed there.
Xu Yingwei was a little hesitant, what should be done now?