Chapter 462 Hauge: You can come any way, I will only go all the way
Chapter 462 Hauge: You can come any way, I will only go one way
Author: East Zhejiang Pifu
The first half of the Longwu decade was destined to be a golden harvest season in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
The most trusted enemy for decades was forced to surrender due to the help of the Menqingbao Sect.
What surprised Zhu Shuren the most was that although it was impossible for Hauge to be persuaded to surrender by his cowardly brother, the Horqin Mongolia next door, by chance, was finally favored by the Ming Dynasty and directly chose to surrender and send hostages.
He also expressed his willingness to switch sides and help Daming defeat Hauge together.
The reasons for persuading surrender and the steps given by Ming Dynasty are actually very logical on the surface:
You Horqin Mongolians are estranged from the Manchus and each is seeking survival. It is nothing more than Hauge who killed his father's concubine and raped his wife Bumubutai (Xiaozhuang), and Bumubutai is your current Horqin Prince Borji
Kit, Wu Keshan’s sister, that’s why you broke up with Hauge.
But now Fulin, the pseudo-emperor of the Qing Dynasty, has surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and even came to call the door in person. Fulin must be opposed to Hauge killing his biological mother. Fulin is Wu Keshan's nephew. Now I will give you a step down.
Why don't you surrender quickly and seek survival?
Borzijit Wu Keshan was informed by the Ming envoy that he was interested, and finally said that he could help fight Haug in exchange for the Mongolian ministries not being liquidated by the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, Horqin's surrender and the Qingbao Sect's call were only the final inducements. The real decisive factor was Liu Guoneng and Huang Degong's beating that completely hurt them last year.
Shortly after Horqin surrendered, just two months ago, the Chahar tribe also surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
At this point, the eastern part of Mongolia in later generations, that is, the Monan half of Mongolia corresponding to the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, and Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, was completely surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
These Eastern Mongolian tribes had a general category at that time, that is, Tatar. In addition to Chahar and Horqin, there were also the Erut tribe and the Khalkha tribe composed of the Buryat people in the northern Mongolia, and the Ordos tribe in the south of the Mongolia.
Tumut Department.
The Buryat people are as far away as Mobei and can be distributed as far as Lake Baikal. Historically, they were gradually annexed by the Rakshasa people in the following decades.
The two strongholds of Sesk and Krasnoyarsk are currently too far away from the Ming Dynasty and cannot be managed at the moment, so there is no need to worry.
The Ordos tribe in Monan has little strength. In fact, they are followers of the Chahar tribe and the Horqin tribe, in a semi-vassal state. Since the Ming Dynasty conquered Horqin and Chahar, the Ordos tribe just felt a little coy and gave in half-heartedly.
, also claimed to be a minister and sent hostages, and also accepted a certain degree of dispatch from the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that Mongolia is very big. Even if all the Tatar tribes are killed, the half of Mongolia north of Shaanxi and Gansu in Hetao in the west will still be in a state of independence until they return to Xinjiang. From west to east there are the Mongolian Junggar tribe and the Ming Dynasty.
Old rival Wala.
(Note: At this time in history, Oara had been renamed "Oirat Mongolia" by the Central Plains Dynasty, but that was the name changed by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. Now the Ming Dynasty is still there, so the old Ming name of Oara continues to be used)
The priority of these two opponents must be much lower than completely hunting down the remnants of Hauge. After Ming has dealt with Hauge, it is not too late to rest and recuperate for a few years before slowly taking care of them. Anyway, they have no direct military relationship with Da Ming now.
Conflict, don't be afraid to wait.
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The Horqin Mongolia surrendered in April of the 10th year of Longwu, and the Chahar tribe surrendered in June.
So in July of this year, as the entire territory of Liaodong was basically digested by the Ming Dynasty, and the two Mongolian tribes also switched sides and surrendered, the Ming Dynasty was finally fully prepared to launch a final decisive battle on the Songnen Plain where Haug was entrenched.
It has been three years since Hauge opened up wasteland in the Songnen Plain to plant Hokkaido cold-resistant rice and Sakhalin rye. Now in two months, it will be the harvest season again. Unfortunately, the grain Hauge planted this year will not be harvested again.
Daming is destined to be cheap, and Daming will not give them a chance to eat new rice.
Before the war begins, I have to talk about how Hauge spent his last year.
Since he sold his younger brother Fulin in November of the ninth year of Longwu and allowed Fulin to be besieged in Shengjing, he ran away with his main force and trusted generals, and then chose Jilin City as his temporary capital for the Qing Dynasty.
Hauge obviously would not recognize Fulin's surrender, so in the twelfth lunar month of that year, after hearing the news that Fulin had been captured, the remaining 20,000 men serving in the Manchu army and nearly 200,000 women and children gathered around Jilin.
Hauge ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, inheriting his so-called orthodoxy of the Qing Dynasty.
It was already the late twelfth lunar month when Hauge ascended the throne, and he was not in a hurry to change the reign name. He waited until the New Year's Day of the first lunar month of the 10th year of Longwu in the south. Hauge held a full ceremony in Jilin, granted amnesty to the world, went through the three-day etiquette process, and changed the reign name.
Zhaoxing showed his ambition to revive the Qing Dynasty and restore his homeland.
Zhuge Liang originally gave Liu Chan the title of Jianxing, in order to revive the Han Dynasty and return it to the old capital. This title was used from Liu Chan's accession to the throne until three years after Zhuge Liang's death. The top management of the Manchu Qing Dynasty had experts in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".
Of course, Hauge would also compare himself with this, hoping to revive the Qing Dynasty, so he changed Jian to Zhao, leaving everything else unchanged.
After Gai Yuan came to the throne, under the rule of Hauge, there were only the last 200,000 Manchus, including more than 20,000 adult men, and 600,000 Han and Mongolian people, with a total population of 800,000, settled in the Songnen Plain and a few other northern areas.
Click on farming,
There are only five or six cities within the territory, and the others are rural settlements without city walls at all.
Because all the areas with a certain industrial base in the south were lost, Hauge now has no production capacity for gunpowder and cannons. At most, he only maintains a few craftsmen who still remember the experience and craftsmanship of pharmaceutical cannon casting, but they are unable to start work.
With the few troops he has left, he can only return to the state of pure cavalry shooting. Fortunately, cold weapons and armor are still sufficient.
Under such a situation, in July of the 10th year of Longwu, Hauge ushered in a full-scale attack by the Ming army.
The Ming army took advantage of the fact that the hottest period of summer had just passed and the weather was about to get cooler, but there were still two or three months before it would be too cold. This was the best time of the year to use troops against the north.
Because there were no rivers and waterways connecting them, the Ming army did not use infantry to fight this time. They chose all cavalry to fight Haug in the field. At most, they could bring dozens of cavalry cannons with them, and they could bombard the small Jilin County town if necessary.
Neither Ningguta nor the county seat in Jilin can be said to be solid at all. The city was built just a few years ago. The city wall is made of rammed earth without any additional reinforcement. This is already very good in the hinterland of the Northeast. Other places may not even have city walls.
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The Ming army mobilized a total of 80,000 cavalry troops, as well as more than 20,000 Mongolian servants, 10,000 each from Chahar and Horqin, and several thousand from the Ordos tribe, making up a total of 100,000 troops and headed straight for Jilin.
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Hauge learned that the Ming army was attacking, and it took him only two or three days to find out the size of the Ming army.
When he learned that the Ming army was all cavalry, he was shocked, knowing that he would never be able to withstand it with more than 20,000 Manchu men in his own hands.
"How could the Nanbarbarians mobilize 100,000 cavalry? This is impossible! During the decisive battle in Neihuang a few years ago, the Ming army also mobilized all the strength of the country to attack, but only mobilized 60,000 to 70,000 cavalry.
When they defeated Shengjing last year, the cavalry was just for harassment, with only 30,000 to 40,000 men employed. The main force relied on infantry and artillery to fight! How could it be that after such a short period of time, 100,000 cavalry could be gathered? Some of them were actually one man and two horses.
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The expansion of Ming's military power has obviously exceeded Hauge's imagination.
The generals such as Obai who followed him in the end also felt a bit of despair. Obei could only persuade him: "Your Majesty! The current crisis is probably more than that of Taizu in the Battle of Sarhu. The city of Jilin is low.
, the Ming army also had heavy artillery, and if they were to defend the city, the Battle of Shengjing would serve as a warning.
For the current plan, there is absolutely no chance for us to rely on the 20,000 remnant soldiers of the Manchu people. We can only arm all the Han and Mongolian servants, plus at least our own Manchu soldiers, to make up the number of 40,000 to 50,000, and then
We 'no matter how many ways we come, I only go one way', we use the Ming army to separate and attack together. Only by defeating one of them before joining forces can we have hope of survival!"
It cannot be said that Obai's suggestion is unreasonable.
It turns out that in order to better encircle and annihilate Haug, the Ming army chose to divide their forces and attack from multiple directions. The purpose was to annihilate more Qing soldiers and prevent them from being dispersed and turning into guerrilla forces to hide in.
White mountains and black waters, in order to fight an encircling decisive battle on the Songnen Plain.
One hundred thousand Ming troops were encircled from east to west, north to south, with only 20,000 to 30,000 troops on each side. Among them, the 20,000 troops on the north road were the weakest. There were only several thousand elite cavalry of the Ming army to supervise them. The Ming army general who led the team was Zhu Wenzhen, the main force.
The Horqin and Chahar Mongols who had defected came from the Horqin Grassland in the northwest.
The East, West and South Routes were relatively stronger, and the West Route Army also outflanked them from the direction of the grasslands, but intercepted and killed them eastward from the junction of Horqin and Chahar Grasslands. The Ming Army general who led the team was Li Fuming, and there were about 30,000 people.
The South Route Army is the strongest. There are 30,000 people going directly north from Shenyang. The general who leads the army is Huang Degong. The number is similar to that of the West Route Army. However, the South Route Army also brings the most cavalry artillery. Once it encounters the Qing army defending the city, it will
The Southern Route Army is responsible for attacking the city steadily and steadily.
The strength of the final East Route Army was similar to that of the North Route Army, with a total strength of 20,000, which was slightly less than the North Route Army. However, because the weapons and equipment were all genuine Ming army, the actual combat strength should be greater than the Mongolian surrender cavalry.
The Lord's Northern Route Army is stronger.
The generals of the East Route Army included Wu Sangui and Li Yu. Wu Sangui led 10,000 Ming troops, and Li Yu also led 10,000 Korean soldiers who nominally belonged to the Ming army (Li Yu was the general soldier of Dongjiang Town in the Ming Dynasty, but his blood belonged to
The Koreans (all the territory captured by his troops belonged to the Ming Dynasty) were responsible for blocking the various passes leading to the retreat from the Songnen Plain to the Changbai Mountains.
The reason for arranging this route was also because the direct troops of the Ming Dynasty lacked a better understanding of the geographical situation in the Changbai Mountains and were well versed in mountain warfare in the Changbai Mountains, so they had to borrow some Korean tribesmen to reinforce them.
The weakest of these four groups is only 20,000 people. If Hauge only relies on his 20,000 soldiers to fight, even if he says "You can come with any number of groups, I will only go with one group", there will be no chance.
He couldn't even defeat a quarter of the total strength of the Ming army, let alone a wheel battle.
To put it bluntly, the 20,000 Manchu soldiers that Hauge still has on hand today are definitely not comparable to the combat power of Nuerha Chihuang Taiji, or even far from the Manchu soldiers when Dorgon entered the customs.
The 20,000 people left now are the veterans who have died over and over again, and the reserves have been recruited to make up the numbers. There is no way to guarantee the quality of the soldiers. It has reached the point where every adult man has to serve as a soldier. Among them, veterans of hundreds of battles will not exceed
one third,
Another third are old, physically weak or disabled, and the last third are just adults or have lived a life of hard-core farming but have never actually killed anyone on the battlefield.
Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the Qing army were obviously worse than those of the Ming army's cavalry!
Hauge can only hope to expand the size of his troops, pull up 50,000 people, and concentrate the Chongming Army, including 20,000 people along the way. If he can break through the siege, he can still escape with his life.
As for whether those Han-Mongolian soldiers would fight back on the battlefield, just like the slaves who defected in the Battle of Muye, it was no longer under his control.
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Hauge hoped to take advantage of internal operations and defeat the Ming army at every opportunity. Of course, the Ming army also knew this risk, so the scouts of the four armies were spread far apart, and they paid great attention to keeping the marching speed of each army consistent to avoid
If a certain unit arrives on the battlefield too early, it will give the enemy too much time lag.
After all, the Ming Dynasty had already experienced the lessons of the defeat of Saarhu decades ago. It gained wisdom every time it was learned, and its emphasis on coordination and coordination had reached an unprecedented level.
Between the four Ming armies, scouts traveling three hundred miles a day were dispatched almost every day to communicate with each other, confirm their respective positions, the positions of the enemies that had been detected, and re-synchronize.
I just regret that there are no radio stations in this era, otherwise several troops who are more than two hundred miles apart during the attack can communicate instantly and know the real-time location of friendly forces——
Historically, Western tactics evolved from the "inside advantage" of the Napoleonic era to the "external advantage" of the Moltke era. The two most important technological breakthroughs they relied on were radio and railways. Only with radio can troops fighting on the outside know in real time.
Wherever the friendly forces are moving, only with the railway can we ensure that we can get there as quickly as possible once we know the location.
Before the emergence of these two technologies, insiders did have certain advantages. Outsiders could not completely make up for it and could only rely on frequent Kuaishou communications to alleviate symptoms.
And God's will seems to be helping the Ming Dynasty, because the battlefield of this battle is far flatter than that of the Battle of Saarhu - the Battle of Saarhu took place in the area equivalent to today's Fushun, which has left the Liaohe River around Shenyang.
The plains entered the edge of the Changbai Mountains, so the troops had inconvenient transportation.
As for today's Battle of Songnen, except for Jilin County, which is located on the edge of a relatively dangerous mountainous area, the large areas of Songyuan, Fuyu and other places east of Jilin County are all part of the Songnen Plain.
The black earth plain in the Northeast is larger than the North China Plain. In such a vast plain, large-scale cavalry encirclement and annihilation battles are much easier to maneuver than in the Saarhu Changbai Mountains.
After Haug assembled his troops, he initially tried to find a breakthrough from the Horqin Mongolian rebels in the north. However, the Horqin cavalry scouts spread far away. Seeing Haug's main force approaching, they actually slowed down and even retreated for a time.
It was impossible for Hauge to catch up and fight.
Hauge had no choice but to feint a shot, turn around and head east, pretending to be a guerrilla in the Changbai Mountains, breaking through Li Yu's Korean soldiers. After Zhu Wenzhen in the north got the news, he urged thousands of Ming army cavalry under his command, and
The Horqin Chahar cavalry, serving as servants, accelerated their pursuit and closed the distance with the Qing army.
Unexpectedly, Hauge ended up telling the truth. When he confirmed that Zhu Wenzhen and Horqin's cavalry were still a hundred miles away from him, he suddenly turned around and shot back. This time, he did not hesitate to use his horsepower and attack at full speed. Finally, half a day later,
He caught up with Zhu Wenzhen who wanted to turn around again.
However, after these two feints and pulls, the basic skills of the Ming army were not in vain, because Zhu Wenzhen and Li Yu bought time for Huang Degong and Li Fuming to approach. As long as Zhu Wenzhen and Hao Ge fought for a day without being defeated, Huang Degong and