Chapter 1244: The Manchus want to negotiate peace

Northeast of Youzhou, Liaozhou, Shengjing City.

After some of Temujin's measures in the Hetao came, Shengjing City also began to become turbulent.

With the Yuan and Mongolia requisitioning 100,000 elites to the south, 200,000 new troops were recruited, and slaves were integrated into an army......

Temujin's series of measures led the Manchu Qing Nurhaci to sit still.

In addition to the army of soldiers and slaves, the strength of the regular army alone is as high as 800,000, although there are 200,000 new soldiers, but this is still a number that the entire Manchu Qing Dynasty is in awe.

Yuanmeng's crazy riot army will indeed shake the foundation of the country, but the powerful strength that erupted really shocked Nurhachidu.

The total number of Manchu troops in the country was only 500,000, of which 300,000 were fighting abroad, 100,000 were fighting against Sanhan, 200,000 were fighting in Youzhou, and only 200,000 troops were left in the country.

Nurhachi did not want to shake the foundation of the country in exchange for a crazy army and a short-term increase in strength, but the threat of Yuanmeng made the Manchus unable to ignore it.

Although the Yuanmeng rioters were to compete with Qin and Jin for the Hetao, although they could not threaten the Manchu Qing in the short term, once the Yuanmeng got the Hetao, with the grain and grass of the Hetao to feed the army, the previously shaky national foundation would be re-consolidated, and the overall strength would be even greater than before, and the balance on the grassland would be completely broken.

The Manchus were not afraid of a war with Yuanmeng, but they also had to admit that the overall strength of Yuanmeng was stronger than their own, and if they wanted to continue to maintain a balance with Yuanmeng, the Manchus could only occupy Sanhan or Youzhou.

Huang Taiji attacked the land of Sanhan, and Wanyan Agu conquered Youzhou, both of them achieved great results at the beginning of the war, and opened up nearly a thousand miles of land for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, with Li Yuanhao's alliance with the kings of Sanhan to warm up, and Liu Che and Gongsun Xuanyuan joined forces to confront the princes of Youzhou, the Manchu Qing war in Youzhou and Sanhan reached a stalemate.

The situation on Sanhan's side is not bad, but the situation on Youzhou's side is a little bad.

The surrender of Wu Sangui and other Han generals gave the Manchus an excellent start in Youzhou, but with the succession of Gongsun Xuanyuan, the alliance between Gongsun and Liu Che, and Liu Bei's initiative to help.

Under the joint efforts of Gongsun Xuanyuan, Liu Che, Liu Bei, and the three major princes, Nurhachi and Dolgon were defeated several times, lost their troops, and even retreated to Lulongsai to defend it, which can be described as difficult in Youzhou.

The defeat on the front line also made Nurhachi realize that whether it is Youzhou or Samhan, they still have a very deep heritage, and it is impossible to occupy it in a short period of time.

Nurhachi realized that he underestimated Sanhan and Youzhou, and at the same time overestimated the combat power of the Manchu warriors, and realized his mistake of fighting on two fronts.

With the current strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is not possible to annex Sanhan and Youzhou at the same time, and it will be difficult to digest if it is really swallowed, but it will be supported.

Since Sanhan and Youzhou cannot be won in the short term, it will be a waste of food, grass and troops to continue fighting, which makes Nurhachi have the idea of negotiating a peace truce, and then concentrating on dealing with Yuanmeng.

Nurhachi did not make a decision, but after consulting a group of staff members and two sons on the front line, he finally decided to negotiate peace with Sanhan and Youzhou.

The kings of Sanhan were afraid of Huang Taiji like a tiger, and when they heard that Huang Taiji wanted to negotiate peace, they naturally agreed with joy, and the alliance that Li Yuanhao had painstakingly built was easily resolved by the Manchus again.

The kings of the three Hans are all soft bones except for Li Yuanhao, but none of the princes of Youzhou are soft bones.

After learning that the Manchus wanted to negotiate peace, Gongsun Xuanyuan did not directly refuse, but put forward two demands:

1, hand over Wu Sangui and other traitors;

2. The Manchu Qing withdrew from all the places they occupied.

Gongsun Xuanyuan's request is very clear, if he wants to negotiate peace, he must hand over Wu Sangui, who killed Gongsun Zhan, and the entire Manchu army must withdraw from Youzhou and not repeat it, otherwise he will continue to fight to the death.

Nurhachi thought that if he took the initiative to cease the war, the Han princes would also agree with joy, after all, the Manchu Qing was the most powerful party in Youzhou, and the princes of Youzhou could only rent treasure if they united, but they didn't want Gongsun Xuanyuan not only not to agree to peace, but instead made such an excessive request, which was simply treating the Manchu Qing as a defeated country.

The two requests put forward by Gongsun Xuanyuan were impossible for Nurhachi to agree to.

If Wu Sangui and others are handed over, will there still be Han people who dare to defect to the Manchus in the future?

If you quit Youzhou, wouldn't the Manchu Qing have been busy for so long?

The reason why Nurhachi wants to withdraw his troops is because he will not be able to reap the benefits of continuing to fight, and although he wants to withdraw his troops, he also wants to keep the interests he has received, but Gongsun Xuanyuan's extremely strong attitude is also a headache for Nurhachi.

Gongsun Xuanyuan's road did not work, and Nurhachi sent people to lobby Liu Che, wanting to divide the alliance between the three princes of Youzhou on the grounds that 'once the Manchu Qing Dynasty withdraws from Youzhou, Gongsun Xuanyuan will be the dominant family in Youzhou'.

What Nurhachi didn't expect was that Liu Che's attitude towards foreign races was tougher than that of Gongsun Xuanyuan, and it could even be described as discrimination.

Liu Che not only asked the Manchu Qing to agree to Xuanyuan's two conditions, but also put forward two more, one is that you aliens are garbage, and it is your honor to give me the Han land to be auctioned.

Nurhachi can see that neither Gongsun Xuanyuan nor Liu Che has any sincerity in peace talks, and although he wants to stop the war, it is impossible to sign the defeat clause of losing power and humiliating the country before the defeat is achieved.

The Han did not want to negotiate peace, and the Manchus would not be afraid of war.

In this way, the Manchu Qing's battle in Youzhou continued, but the offensive changed from offensive to defensive.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty recovered the forces of the Emperor Taiji Sanhan, the domestic army was as high as 300,000 elites, but there were disagreements on whether to send troops to Yuanmeng.

One side believes that now there are only 100,000 veterans in Yuan and Mongolia, and 200,000 new soldiers are instinctively vulnerable, so they should take this opportunity to concentrate the whole country and send troops to destroy Yuan and Mongolia in one fell swoop.

The other side believes that although the country of Yuanmeng is empty now, but there are more than 500,000 troops in the Hetao, once the war with Yuanmeng starts at this time, the main army of Yuanmeng will definitely return, and then it will only be cheaper for Qin and Jin, so they should sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait for Yuanmeng and Qin Jin to fight to the death.

After several days of discussion, Nurhachi finally chose to fight and watch the tiger.

First of all, the Manchus also had to take into account the Youzhou battlefield, and they could not concentrate all their strength to deal with the Yuan and Meng.

Secondly, although the country of Yuan and Mongolia is empty, after all, there are still 30 armies, even if 200,000 of them are recruits, they still have the power to protect themselves.

In the end, Nurhachi didn't want to be cheap Qin Hao.

Nurhachi seemed to have made the most correct decision, but in fact he was very wrong, he missed the best opportunity to destroy Yuanmeng with his own hands.