Zhu Shuren was in Nanjing, and there was a time difference between him and the front line. So when he received the battle report, Liu Guoneng and Li Fuming on the front line had actually started taking action for almost a month.
Liu Guoneng started to take action in August of this year. The specific method was nothing more than taking advantage of the paralysis period caused by the truce in the previous years, as well as those Xuan Da profiteers who were secretly controlled by the Ming Dynasty and pretended to sell arms to Mongolia.
Lure out the two main tribal armed forces in the Harqin and Horqin areas that allied with the Qing Dynasty and oppose the Ming Dynasty, and then annihilate them outside Zhangjiakou and Chengde Pass respectively.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Mayi plot was seen through by the Xiongnu Chanyu, mainly because he was too impatient, and the success rate of the trap would be much higher if he took his time.
On the other hand, it was also because when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up an ambush, the Han army still needed a large number of infantry troops to serve as the main attack. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had too few cavalry in the early stages of his campaign against the Huns. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing's main cavalry force was slowly built later, which cost a lot of money.
price, so as long as the Xiongnu Chanyu saw that something was wrong, he would immediately retreat, so that the Han army could not catch up.
In contrast, today's Ming Dynasty spent many years preparing to hunt down the nomads on the grasslands, and assembled a hundred thousand elite cavalry, all of which were equipped with at least revolvers.
With this scale and combat strength, as long as the Mongolian army dares to get close to the border within fifty miles, and the Ming cavalry is outflanked by one man and two horses, the Mongols will never be able to escape.
The final battle situation also proves this point. Liu Guoneng and Li Fuming each brought 10,000 elite cavalry. They quietly left the ambush circle at least a hundred miles away from the two wings in advance to prepare for the retreat. Because the depth was extended, the troops
The scale is not too conspicuous, so it can be easily captured.
After the interception, the intercepted Mongolians were actually more numerous than either Liu Guoneng or Li Fuming. However, even if the Mongols had an obvious numerical advantage, they could not "concentrate superior forces to annihilate Liu Guoneng or Li Fuming first"
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In other words, the Ming Dynasty's 10,000 cuirassier cavalry could crush the much larger Mongolian horse archers.
The two initial conflicts on the border were not worth describing.
It was nothing more than Bumbutai's natal family, Horqin's Mongolian tribe. More than 7,000 horsemen were wiped out outside the entrance of Chengde. Their vitality was severely damaged. The remaining troops fled far away. They also lost a large number of war horses, weapons and livestock used as supplies for the army.
The leader of the Haraqin Grassland, the Chahar Mongolians, were also defeated outside the Zhangjiakou Pass, losing five to six thousand horses, and also suffered heavy losses in materials and livestock.
After the Ming army won two small victories, they immediately led the main cavalry, without any explanation, deep into the grassland, and went straight to the heart of the two tribes' garrison.
The generals of the Ming army also knew that the Mongols were good at running and diverting, so they had to make a desperate move to attack the enemy's key points, attack directly on the Wuharian area and Yizhou, and uproot the Horqin and Chahar strongholds north of the Great Wall.
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In addition, on the way to the dispatch of troops, they also destroyed the Urad tribe's stronghold by the Ulanqab River. The Urad tribe did not provoke the Ming Dynasty this time, but mainly because it blocked the advance route of the Shanxi Ming army, so it was easy for them to do so.
Went out.
The Wuhariang area was the hometown of Duoyan Sanwei in the early Ming Dynasty, which is roughly equivalent to the surrounding area of Chifeng today, while Yizhou in the Qing Dynasty was in the northwest of Jinzhou, which is roughly equivalent to today's Tongliao.
During the whole process, the Urad tribe was out of power and had to surrender directly after thousands of people were wiped out.
Horqin and Chahar were relatively powerful, and the Centipede was dead but not dead. After being taken away from an important stronghold, the rest of the army continued to flee north. The two armies combined still had 10,000 to 20,000 cavalry left, so they could only move further northeast.
A place where water plants are cold and bitter.
The total of these territories captured by the Ming army covered part of the territory outside the Pass of Chahar Province in the Qing Dynasty. It was equivalent to occupying the territory west of Jinzhou and north of Yanshan.
From now on, if we want to take advantage of the trend to attack Liaodong, we can divide our troops into two groups to attack together from the grassland route north of Yanshan and the Liaoxi corridor south of Yanshan.
The Ming army captured the above-mentioned areas in a total of more than a month, which can be said to be extremely fast. Basically, it is a "the enemy can go, I can go" style of play. The Ming army only needs to bring enough weapons and ammunition for one man and two horses.
As for military rations, you can just bring the initial ten-day rations, and then fight to support the war, and in turn, rob the Mongolian livestock on the grassland, and directly kill the entire army for meat.
In addition, the nutritional design of the Ming army must be much better than that of the Mongols. The Ming Dynasty, which controlled the south, required as much tea as possible for the army. Since they had planned to rob livestock to maintain logistics before sending troops this time, they would definitely bring everyone with them.
Enough tea leaves.
When he got tired of eating meat, he would make milk tea on the prairie to supplement his vitamins. After more than a month of fighting, the Ming army's cavalry soldiers became more muscular and less fattening.
As time went into October of the ninth year of Longwu, the Ming army formed a siege on Jinzhou in the direction of the grassland, and the Mongolian tribes fled far away.
The Ming army's frontline changed, and Li Dingguo's and Wu Sangui's troops along the southern line along the Western Liaoning Corridor also attacked again, and Zhang Mingzhen's navy provided logistical supplies along the way, and once again attacked Ningyuan and Jinzhou.
Ningyuan had been abandoned by the Qing army for two or three years, so there was no fighting at all. The Ming army just took over the abandoned city.
Jinzhou is the end of the Liaoxi Corridor and the gateway to the hinterland of Liaodong for the Qing army, so troops must still be left to guard it.
But when Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui arrived, there were Ming cavalry from the north coming from the Tongliao grassland to attack and assist in the battle, so the Jinzhou Qing army was completely surrounded by the Ming army as soon as they came up.
There were more than 10,000 Qing troops in Jinzhou. Under the bombardment of the Hongyi heavy artillery brought by Zhang Mingzhen, the city wall collapsed within three days. The Ming troops swarmed into the city and killed thousands of people. The remaining Qing troops had to surrender.
This time, the Ming army did not engage in extermination. They allowed surrender as long as they were willing to surrender, because Zhu Shuren had given instructions before the war: This time is different from the past. In the past, it was a battle to weaken the country. This time it is a battle to destroy the country. The battle to weaken the country must be done as much as possible.
Killing is effective, and allowing surrender in the war of annihilation can break the enemy's will to resist.
More importantly, the Ming army did not want to go to the White Mountains and Black Waters to fight for a long time to hunt down the fleeing fishing and hunting tribes. They still wanted to take advantage of the Qing army's last few strongholds that they had to defend to induce them to surrender and cooperate.
But the surrender must be conditional. All the Manchus will be punished as corvees, and will be restored to free people later depending on their sincerity in reform.
Han Chinese who are thieves are first required to cut off their pigtails anyway, and then they have to be screened. If there are those who oppressed compatriots when they were false officials or acted as collaborators for particularly serious crimes, they will also be punished with hard labor or other methods as appropriate. Depending on the results of their transformation, they will be punished again.
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As long as the transformation is complete and the national identity, cultural identity with China, and the recognition of the Ming Dynasty's rule are restored, the Manchu and Mongolian people can also find a way to rebuild themselves.
This can be regarded as a turn of events. Once upon a time, Duduo wanted to live in the south of the Yangtze River, but now after ten years of struggle, it is finally the Ming Dynasty's turn to cut braids on the grassland.
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Jinzhou City was captured, and more than 10,000 Manchu and Han defenders were surrounded and annihilated by the Ming Dynasty. This naturally shocked the puppet Qing Dynasty greatly.
But they no longer have the capital to fight. There were only 30,000 to 40,000 male soldiers left in the clan. Once Jinzhou City was destroyed, thousands of Manchu soldiers died in the battle, and some civilians in and around the city were captured. The Manchus in the Qing army
The military population dropped directly to the warning line of 30,000.
How could such a small number of people possibly counterattack the Ming Dynasty? If they could have counterattacked, they would not have retreated from farming in the past three years, developed to the northeast, and opened up the Songnen Plain.
Haug had to summon all the major generals to discuss countermeasures.
"The Ming army betrayed their trust and started fighting again after a three-year truce. How should we, the Qing Dynasty, deal with the enemy? Now Jinzhou has been defeated. There are only two lines of defense left between the vanguard of the Ming army and Shengjing.
The first route is Guangning at the mouth of the Liao River. Do you think Guangning should be divided and defended? If not defended, the Ming army could directly cross the Liao River, and there would be no dangerous river to separate it from Shengjing.
As long as the Ming army goes up both sides of the Liao River and passes through Haizhou, the second line of defense, it can penetrate directly into Shengjing City!"
The generals of the Qing army looked at each other in confusion. Yue Le felt that it was better to defend Shengjing and not disperse the troops anymore.
Mandahai felt that he had to rely on the natural danger of the Liaohe River to struggle a little longer, because if the Liaohe River could not be defended, Shengjing would be even more unable to defend it. Today's Ming army artillery is too sharp, and the defensive effect of the old city wall is basically a joke.
And Ao Bai felt that there was no chance of even defending Shengjing, so he might as well stay useful, completely abandon the Liao River Basin, retreat to the Songnen Plain, and count on General Ning Guta's jurisdiction to maintain Qing rule in the future.
In the Jilin Province of later generations, the largest city is still Jilin County. As for Changchun, the provincial capital of later generations, it is basically a rural area at the moment——
After the invention of the railway in Changchun, as the Rakshasa and Japanese people built railways in the Northeast, they finally needed a hub to connect the railways between South and North Manchuria, which gave birth to the completely new city of Changchun.
Before the advent of the railway, the only political core in the Songnen Plain was Jilin, where General Ningguta was stationed. Historically, it would take several decades for the name to be changed to General Jilin, and the government office would follow the Manchus' control of the Northeast.
The development gradually moved to the Mudanjiang area in later generations (there were many old and new Ninggu pagodas in history, and the place kept changing)
After hearing the remarks from both sides, Hauge was still undecided.
From a safety point of view, preserving strength is indeed the most important thing. The entire clan only has 30,000 soldiers, and there are more than 200,000 old, weak, women and children who cannot afford to be harmed.
The population of Han people in Liaodong under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty originally numbered more than one million. Later, when the Qing Dynasty abandoned the pass, another 600,000 people were plundered. Later, some were lost. For example, Ningyuan, Jinzhou and other places were taken away, and each lost a few people.
With a population of 10,000, Jinzhou was captured again this time and tens of thousands of people were taken captive.
But no matter what, there were still about 1.5 million Han people under the Manchu rule.
Less than 300,000 Manchus wanted to rule 1.5 million Han people, which was already more than a ratio of one to five. The number of Manchu men was particularly small. This situation was already very dangerous, and there was another battle with the Ming army.
A tough battle is like sitting on a powder keg.
However, it would be unreasonable to give up Guangning, Haizhou, or even Shengjing without a fight. The Qing Dynasty was an empire after all, and it was the emperor. How could we give up the land of our ancestors Longxing without a fight? This would be worse than giving up.
The city of Beijing still finds it difficult to accept this.
In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was able to die for a short time. When Beijing was lost, Chongzhen also died for his country. The Qing Dynasty was famous for its martial arts. How could he be more cowardly than the Ming Dynasty?
While Hauge was hesitating, he did not realize that there were some people in the Qing court who were dissatisfied with him and wanted to shirk the blame and preserve the dignity of the court. However, those people also spoke in the name of justice and asked him to lead Wang Shi to attack.
Reject the enemy west of the Liao River.
Emperor Fulin of Shunzhi has been on the throne for ten years now. He is sixteen years old this year. Although his mother was executed, he is almost old enough to rule personally. The truce in the past three years has caused the gap between Fulin and his eldest brother.
Gradually becomes darker.
It's just that Shunzhi grew up in the palace after all. Even if he received education in governing the country, it was limited to civil governance, and it was only at the theoretical level. When it comes to knowing soldiers in battle, it is still far behind his elder brother Hauge, so Shunzhi has direct control over the army.
It's still not great so far.
Facing the quarrel between the DPRK and China this time, Shunzhi rarely expressed his opinions. He did not dare to have a direct conflict with his eldest brother. From the beginning to the end, he just spoke in the name of justice, hoping that Hauge could lead the world's soldiers and save the country from danger.
occasion.
Now that Hauge was in power, he was hijacked by morality and couldn't get out of power, so he had to conspire with his close relatives and finally made a plan, pretending to be brave and sending troops to attack.
He took away most of the main troops around Shengjing, as well as valuables and sophisticated equipment, and dragged his feet to Guangning. But before Hauge arrived, the Ming army Li Dingguo's troops crossed the Liao River and captured Guangning.
In Guangning, they also annihilated thousands of Qing and Manchu soldiers.
Hauge had no choice but to pretend to retreat to Haizhou, but in fact he did not set up camp along the banks of the Liao River.
The city of Haizhou is not close to the Liao River. Generally, if you want to fortify Haizhou to prevent the enemy from going up the Liao River and directly into Shengjing, you have to camp along the river, forming a corner with the city of Haizhou.
Hauge gave up the main road on the bank of the Liao River, which gave the Ming army an opportunity to bypass Haizhou and attack Shengjing directly.
When Wu Sangui saw it, he felt that this was a deception by Hauge, maybe he wanted to lure the enemy deeper and then cut off the Ming army's retreat, so he wanted to attack Haizhou first, eliminate the dangers on both sides step by step, and finally attack Shengjing directly.
But Li Dingguo dared to take risks, and through pre-war reconnaissance and sorting out the intelligence sources of local people, he confirmed that Hauge had taken away most of Shengjing's main troops to attack, so the city of Shengjing must be empty.
So Li Dingguo took advantage of the Ming army's naval advantage, and the large ships could control the navigation rights of the Liao River. Even if the lone army penetrated deep and was cut off, it could ensure that it would retreat through the Liao River waterway without any big risks.
Li Dingguo led 30,000 people, followed the northern route around the grassland, and marched north to south with the Ming army on the upper reaches of the Liao River. After only five or six days of light troops advancing rapidly, they penetrated directly into the city of Shengjing, and started with the first batch.
The cavalry that arrived surrounded all the gates of Shengjing, and then went down to the stronghold to wait for reinforcements. They spent several days waiting for the infantry and artillery to arrive by boat and completely secure the siege camp.
When Shunzhi was in Shengjing City, he originally wanted to wait and see. If his elder brother couldn't bear it or there was news of defeat, he would just run away and escape to Ninggu Pagoda. After all, if the emperor was too cowardly and ran away directly, he would definitely gain prestige.
It will be damaged. Shunzhi is sixteen years old and he has his own ideas.
But unexpectedly, Hauge actually gave up the main road along the Liao River to avoid the battle. Shunzhi did not hear the news of Hauge's defeat, and waited for him to react before he wanted to run away. Li Dingguo had already cooperated with Hauge and finished his play, and directly surrounded Shengjing City.
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In a panic, Shunzhi quickly sent people to his eldest brother's Prince Su's palace to inquire about the news, hoping to take Hauge's wife, concubines, and children into the palace to take good care of them, so as to force Hauge to return to Shengjing to rescue Shengjing.
However, the people sent by Shunzhi turned Prince Su's palace upside down, only to discover that Hauge's wife and legitimate children were no longer in Shengjing City. They had been taken into the army by Hauge in disguise on the day they sent out troops.
The only people left in Prince Su's palace were a few concubines and concubines who were regarded as abandoned children to prop up the facade. They were the kind who would not make Hauge feel distressed even if they died. These people themselves were also kept in the dark.
When things got to this point, Shunzhi certainly knew that he had been betrayed by his eldest brother, but he had nothing to do.
When Hauge heard that Shengjing was besieged by Li Dingguo, he directly issued an edict saying that His Majesty asked him to preserve his strength, bear the humiliation and save a line of fire for the Qing Dynasty. If nothing could be done, he would retreat to Ninggu Pagoda with his main force.
Of course, the more than 10,000 Manchu soldiers and the more than 20,000 Han Mongolian soldiers who were brought out by Hauge did not want to go back and fight to their death. So they all expressed their support for Hauge's decision, gave up the rescue and ran away.
As for the family records in Shengjing City, they no longer want them. Anyway, Hauge has made arrangements for farming in recent years, asking the soldiers to leave some concubines and young sons in Jilin, not all of them in Shengjing.
Since their defeat a few years ago, the problem of more women than men among the Manchus has become very serious. They have married off all the widows. On average, a Manchu man can get six or seven women. This does not include the Han women they have occupied.
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So it doesn't matter if the girls in Shengjing City lose their children, they still have a foreign family on the Songnen Plain.
As soon as Hauge escaped with the last fire, the seven or eight thousand Manchu soldiers and one hundred thousand Manchu civilians in Shengjing City were completely in trouble.
Li Dingguo and Wu Sangui surrounded the city and bombarded it with artillery, so they had time to attack the city.