After hearing Hong Chengchou's words, everyone stopped eating and drinking and began to think about military and national affairs.
However, no one had a clue. After thinking for a long time, no one spoke. After a long time, Yang Guozhu said: "The whole country of the Tatars came to attack, and all the civilians who were not good at fighting entered the battle. It looked powerful, but the actual fighting power was not
It looks so scary. As long as we deal with it properly, we still have a chance to fight!"
Everyone nodded when they heard this.
After a while, Li Zhi smiled and said: "I have a plan."
Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and said, "What does Marquis Xingguo teach us?"
Li Zhi said: "The national mobilization of the Tatars is very expensive and not that simple. The Tatars also need to eat and farm. Now all the strong men of the Dongnu have gathered in Yizhou, not to mention the military pay, food and grass, just the Dongnu family.
I don’t know how many barren fields there are.”
"The Tatars are so hysterical that they are like biting mad dogs. They look scary, but in fact they are extremely ill and cannot last long. As long as they are delayed for three or four months, I am afraid that the Eastern slaves will run out of ammunition and food, and order will collapse."
After hearing what Li Zhi said, everyone was silent for a moment.
After thinking about it, everyone felt that what Li Zhi said was very reasonable. The Tatars also need to plow the land to eat food. Now that all the strong men have been recruited to fight, who will plow the fields? How can the Tatars bear no one plowing in the fields for several months? No one plows the fields.
What will you eat in the coming year?
Li Zhi said: "We dug trenches outside Jinzhou City, built low walls, and turned Jinzhou into a big fortress, where we fought with the Tatars. In the recent battles, the Tatar cannons have been almost completely destroyed by us.
What are you using to attack our camp? What are you using to compete with us?"
When everyone heard Li Zhi's words, their eyes lit up.
As for the so-called military conquest, what Li Zhi said were all strategic plans from a high position, every word of which was accurate. Everyone secretly said that Xing Guohou's reputation of being victorious in every battle was not only derived from the strength of his soldiers and horses, but also Li Zhi's strategic calculations.
Compared with other rough and rough soldiers who don't know a single Chinese character.
Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and thought for a while. The more he thought about Li Zhi's strategy, the happier he became, and his face became happy.
The other general soldiers had been worried about having to fight hundreds of thousands of Tatars, fearing that they would be outnumbered. When they heard Li Zhi's strategy, they seemed to see a clear way to win the war, and they were very happy.
Yang Guozhu bowed his hands and said: "The Marquis of Xingguo is so old that he plans for the country. I admire him!"
Cao Bianjiao said: "What Marquis Xingguo said is accurate. I think we should operate according to Marquis Xingguo's words!"
Wang Tingchen, Wang Pu and other generals also nodded and highly appreciated Li Zhi's suggestion. Wang Pu patted the table and said with a smile: "I have seen Huang Taiji jumping around in Yizhou City because he was unable to fight!"
The crowd burst out laughing, laughing to the point of falling back and forth.
After laughing for a while, the soldiers all looked at Hong Chengchou, waiting for him to make the final decision.
Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "The plan to attack the country with troops and rejuvenate the country is indeed a clever one! I will report it to the court tomorrow and delay him for a few months. I will definitely bring down the Tatars!"
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On March 15, in the splendidly decorated Uiju Acropolis garrison, Huang Taiji listened to the reports of various soldiers and horses and couldn't help but cough a few times.
Huang Taiji was very anxious.
After the defeat at Dabishan, Huang Taiji issued a general mobilization order in the Qing Dynasty. He ordered all Manchurian and Mongolian men over the age of sixteen to rush to Yizhou and serve as soldiers.
Huang Taiji's order was to fight the Ming Dynasty. There were more than 200 Niulu in Eight Banners in Manchuria, and each Niulu had 300 households. Based on the average of two or three males per household, this
That's 200,000 people. There are also many tribes in Mongolia. Although the Mongols will have some discounts in carrying out Huang Taiji's orders, it is estimated that 100,000 people will still come out. This is 300,000 people.
Although these newly recruited strong men are not armored men and have low combat prowess, Manchuria is a fishing and hunting nation, and everyone practices martial arts. Mongolia is a nomadic nation, and everyone rides and shoots. These strong men can go into battle and be transported in the rear.
Huang Taiji was able to pull out more than 200,000 troops to fight the Ming army against the enemy.
Such a number is astonishing. This time, Huang Taiji mobilized all the forces that the Qing Dynasty could mobilize to launch a thunderous strike and defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.
In these days, Manchurian soldiers and horses have responded to the call and arrived at Yiju City one after another. The camp outside Yiju City is dozens of miles away, and the amount of food and grass consumed in one day is staggering.
But what Huang Taiji couldn't accept was that after the Ming army discovered that the Qing Dynasty had increased its troops, they actually dug trenches and built walls outside Jinzhou City. They had no intention of seeking war and pretended to defend the walled city and refuse to fight.
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The Ming army wants to bring down the Qing Dynasty!
After more than two months of continuous fighting, almost all the Qing army's artillery had been destroyed by Li Zhi. Nowadays, the Qing army lacks long-range firearms. Facing the Ming army's camp, the Qing army has no choice but to attack with death. Those earthen walls and ditches,
How can we defeat it with human tactics? How many people will die in a hard attack? Not to mention that Li Zhi's more than 100 cannons will continue to bombard the Qing soldiers who are attacking the stronghold.
As soon as the Ming army showed no intention of fighting, Huang Taiji's general mobilization made it difficult for Qihu to dismount.
In the second hall of the Uiju garrison, Huang Taiji summoned the princes and princes of the Eight Banners of Manchuria to discuss matters. The Manchu nobles looked at Huang Taiji who was sitting on the dragon chair with a sad face, and they were helpless.
The leader of the Xianglan Banner, Prince Zheng Jierhalang, said: "Your Majesty, now that the Ming army cannot avoid the war, our nationwide mobilization has somewhat outweighed the gains!"
Jirharang's words aroused the approval of all the nobles, and all the Beile said one after another: "Your Majesty, why don't you withdraw the general mobilization order!"
"Your Majesty, if you fight to the death with the Ming army like this, you are fighting with my Qing Dynasty's flesh and blood!"
"Your Majesty, think twice!"
Huang Taiji frowned and said nothing when he heard the noisy discussions among the Baylors.
Few of these sons and grandsons of dragons have great talents and strategies. If there is any benefit, they will rush forward. If there is no benefit, they will run away in a noisy manner. They always regard themselves as bandits in Liaodong. In the eyes of these Baylor, Ming Dynasty is just a good place for plundering.
.They did not realize at all what it would mean to the Qing Dynasty if they lost the Songjin War.
Huang Taiji looked at Dorgon and asked, "What is Prince Rui's plan?"
Dorgon heard Huang Taiji ask him, stood up, bowed to Huang Taiji and said: "Your Majesty, I think the Ming army's strategy of avoiding war will not last long. The Ming army's 170,000 troops gathered in Jinzhou, which cost a lot of money.
, the Ming Dynasty court was full of short-sighted officials. I heard from Xi Zuo that it was Li Zhi’s strategy to avoid the war. However, even if Li Zhi had foresight, the Ming Dynasty court would not let Li Zhi’s strategy go.
implement."
After hearing Dorgon's words, all the Baylors were stunned.
Taking into account the Ming Dynasty court's temple calculations like Dorgon, Zhongbeile would never be able to think of it.
Huang Taiji sighed when he saw Dorgon being so resourceful. His eldest son, Hauge, was only average, so he couldn't suppress Dorgon anyway.
"What Prince Rui said deeply touched my heart. Let's face off against Li Zhi to see who can lose his composure first!"
