Why did Dolgon take so many people to attack a Datong city, and there were so many princes and beles, did he bring his juniors out to brush up on experience, level up and fight little monsters? Of course not, he didn't worry about putting these princes and Baylors at home, so he simply brought them out together, so as not to make trouble behind his back.

He brought so many princes Baylor out to play, so who did the family arrange, he arranged Tan Tai. Although Tan Tai was nominally defeated in the second southward war, he was transferred back by Dorgon in the name of questioning. Tan Tai led the soldiers and horses of Bagu Mountain to fight well in the second southward attack on the Ming Dynasty, but after all, he was a close confidant of Dolgon, and Dolgon went out on the expedition, and at the same time asked him about his guilt, and asked him to return to Beijing to listen to it, which was done without realizing it.

Of course, it is impossible for the army to conquer the west only Zuo Mengeng and the Han army, and they may also join the Sichuan general army who has retreated from Sichuan to Hanzhong, Gushan Ezhen, Li Guohan, the trilateral governor of Shaanxi, Meng Qiaofang, and Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, who returned from Wuchang. As a result, the number of soldiers and horses besieging the Northwest Rebel Army will increase sharply to more than 400,000.

So looking at Dolgon's troop and horse mobilization this time, the Qing Dynasty's troop layout in the country has changed a lot. In addition to the Xinyi auxiliary uncle Wang Jierharang, who is still in Wuchang to balance the main force of the Ming army, and his new deputy marshal - the grandson of Daishan, who defended Jiujiang, Shuncheng County, Wang Aixin Jueluo. Luckedhun Division. and the crown prince Taibao, who replaced Duoduo to defend Nanjing, the secretary of the military department, the military affairs of the inner court, and the secretary of the university Hong Chengchou, in addition to the three important ministers, almost all the heroes, nobles, and generals of the Qing Dynasty have been transferred to the northwest by Dolgon.

What is Hong Chengchou doing here, if Fan Wencheng can't get Dolgon's trust, then Hong Chengchou's role in Dolgon's era will only be embarrassing.

Hong Chengchou may be a figure in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of Dolgon, he has always been nothing, if Hong Chengchou has to be positioned in Dolgon's heart, I think he will be a rival in love.

Therefore, it is not surprising that after Dolgon's wedding, he casually threw a small light cavalry lieutenant to Hong Chengchou and sent him far away to Jiangnan.

Poor Hong Chengchou, he made plans for the Qing army to enter the customs, and calculated how many vertical and horizontal combinations, but now he is not as good as his subordinates in the pre-Ming Dynasty.

For example, Meng Qiaofang was once his subordinate when he suppressed the Liukou, but what is the family now? He is now a dignified trilateral governor, a third-class Asihani Hafan, that is, a third-class baron. After Hong Chengchou came to Nanjing, he actually received the salary of a security guard and did public security errands, vaguely the authority of the local governor, but he did not have a title, but Meng Qiaofang's title was much higher than Hong Chengchou's.

Hong Chengchou's crown prince and prince and prince, the title of governor of the five southern provinces of military food and salary, was already three years after Dorgon's death.

From Hong Chengchou's arrival in Jiangnan, Tan Tai's return to Beijing, and the encirclement and suppression of the northwest by 400,000 troops, it can be seen which areas are more concerned about the chaos Dolgon.

Dolgon can not care about the failure of Ganzhou or even the defeat of Zijiang, but once Shanxi loses and Datong loses, it is equivalent to inserting a sharp knife next to the heart of the Qing court, which can directly threaten the center of the Qing court.

He can also not care about He Luo will die in Ji'an, or even care about Nikan dying Zijiang, those territories can't be conquered for the time being, so they will stay in the future and attack slowly, but once Datong can't cover it, it's like a courtyard house has been demolished, and there will be no door at home.

Dolgon also knew that the Ming Dynasty's heavens were not overturned by their Eight Banners army at all, and most of the Ming Dynasty's earth-shaking was caused by this group of madmen in the northwest who rebelled at every turn.

Combining the above two points, the fear of the loss of the western gate of the capital and the emergence of a second Li Zicheng is the reason why Dolgon used such a fierce attitude and reaction to deal with the rebel army in Shanxi.

At the same time that Dolgon led the main force of the Qing army to Dada, the Ming army was also quietly marching. In the middle of February of the fourth year of Yongli, Wang Jincai, who had been making peace in the mountainous areas of southwestern Henan for a long time, received another order.

Tianlang wanted him to poke the basket in Henan bigger, and he also had to divide his troops to cross the Yellow River north to feint against Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, and give gesture support to the Shanxi rebels.

Tianlang asked Wang Jincai to do this, not only to show the posture of supporting the rebel army, he also had a practical purpose, that is, to attract the attention of the defenders of Tongguan and disperse the forces of the defenders of Tongguan, which was the real main direction of Tianlang's march this time.

Occupy Tongguan, you can isolate the Central Plains from Guanzhong, after the Yellow River is diverted, Hangu Pass will lose its strategic significance, since Hangu Pass is abandoned, no matter which Central Plains regime wants to pass through Guanzhong in history, the occupation of Tongguan will be the first step.

For example, the Anshi Rebellion caused Li Longji to lose the throne, and Yang Yuhuan's death was not the destruction of Xi'an City, but the loss of Tongguan by Ge Shuhan, and after the loss of Tongguan, Chang'an City could not be defended at all, so Emperor Tang Ming had to flee to Sichuan.

Tongguan is not in his hands, who dares to say that he controls Guanzhong? Let's talk nonsense, Tongguan is not only Tongguan, its significance is equal to the control and initiative of the three provinces, and it is the bull's ear that controls Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan.

This is also the reason why Li Zicheng would rather fight with Sun Chuanting and break the net, and would rather be beaten back to the pre-liberation period by the Ming army again and again, and he must occupy Tongguan after defeat.

It is also the reason why when Duoduo captured Tongguan from Li Zicheng, all the Dashun army immediately chose to abandon Guanzhong and flee to Huguang.

At this time, Tianlang finally began to act, and he ordered Li Jin's loyal battalion to take all 27,000 people to travel up the Han River by boat after being supplemented by 20,000 recruits from the school training battalion; Liu Tichun also led the 10,000 recruits of the school training camp to infiltrate Guanzhong with Li Jin's troops. His main task was to cover and coordinate Li Jin's attack on Tongguan.

The battle plan of the Ming army attacking the northwest was: the whole army was divided into two directions, one was the men and horses of Liu Wenxiu's headquarters in Sichuan, they crossed the Jinniu Road and crossed Bashan, and the first goal was to take Hanzhong, everything was as planned by Tianlang before the drastic change in Shanxi.

Behind Liu Wenxiu is Li Yuanyin's Beijing Guard, which has now changed its name to Huaiyuan Battalion, after Tianlang added 70,000 recruits to his school training camp, Huaiyuan Battalion currently has 93,000 troops, and Li Yuanyin's Huaiyuan Battalion is deployed in Chongqing as the general reserve for the battle for Guanzhong.

Tianlang's handwriting is bigger and bigger, and the silver in his internal carrier treasury has been used by him to expand the armament war, spending money like running water, but the military power is better, and the efforts of a year's expansion and training have finally reached the time for a war against the enemy, and Tianlang has not only increased the offensive in Henan and Fujian, but also the Shaanxi offensive that he values the most, and also attacked with two fists.

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