Hong Chengchou was among the upper echelons of Liao thieves, and he was set to the status of the rivers and lakes as early as when Huang Taiji was alive, oh no, the status of the court. That is, "My Eight Banners are all blind, rushing around." Now that I have a guide, how can I not be happy in my heart? How can you not reward him so that he may serve me? Hong Chengchou is a good guide. Therefore, regardless of Huang Taiji's reign or Dolgon's power, he was very respectful to Hong Chengchou, "Whoever is on the scene of great sacrifices and banquets will be ordered to follow him, and there will be a difference between men and women in the house and farmland, and there will be no shortage of food." ”

Today, Dolgon felt that he was going to use this guide!

Riding Dolgon's chariot and horse, he was escorted by the Baya soldiers and domestic slaves of the Regent's Mansion to the gate of Prince Regent's Mansion, and Hong Chengchou had already made up his mind in his heart. We must pour out all the things we have learned and known in our lives to repay the virtue of these two years.

He has been quietly dormant for more than two years, and when the Ming and Qing dynasties were in peace talks, his identity was embarrassing, and it was naturally difficult to show up; Second, Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Haoge and others fought for power, that is, the princes of all banners were silent, lest they accidentally make a mistake and end up with a broken bones that will never recover. Now that the opportunity to repay the "favor" has finally come, Hong Chengchou naturally refuses to let it go.

In Dolgon's signing room, Hong Chengchou said a little politely, and then ascended to the kang and sat with Dolgon across the kang, and someone sent tobacco, tea, fruit, and snacks, and two bowls of hot ****.

"Please, sir!" Dolgon separated his five fingers, pinched the small silver bowl, and handed a bowl of **** to Hong Chengchou.

This **** is not hot milk or goat's milk, but milk tea. It is made by mixing fresh milk, salt and tea, and the Qing "Food Constitution Hongmi" records: coarse tea leaves fry thick juice. The wood ladle is raised, and the red is the degree. Strain in ghee and ground sesame seeds, add salt or sugar. For things like milk tea, the Qing court, which was dominated by nomadic fishing and hunting peoples, was naturally part of the daily food culture.

"Three Records of Longjiang" contains: "There is a big banquet in Manchuria - every banquet guest. Sitting on the Nankang, the host will send cigarettes first. The second offering of milk tea, called **** tea. According to the "Qing Barnyard Banknote", the Mongolian people in Eastern Mongolia have the habit of drinking milk tea 2-3 times a day. It can be seen that drinking tea is a common living habit of the Manchu and Mongolian people, and it is retained in the court. This can be seen from the perfection of the tribute tea system in the Qing Dynasty, the large number of types of "Palace Entry Orders" in the collection of China's first historical archives, and the collection of Qing palace tea in the Palace Museum.

However, this drink is simply a torment for Hong Chengchou, who is from Fujian and has been the Jiliao Governor and the Secretary of the Military Department. However, in the face of Dorgon's good intentions, he could not help but accept it. I had to pinch my nose and pour this bowl of milk tea down.

"Mr. has led troops in the Ming Kingdom for many years. Whether it is the Ming army or the thieves, they are very familiar, please sir teach me, how to deal with the current situation, for the benefit of the Qing Dynasty? ”

Hong Chengchou thought for a moment, "The slave begs to take a look at the map. ”

After he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he belonged to the Han army with the yellow banner, so he claimed to be a slave in front of Dolgon.

Prince Rui's mansion, who was waiting on the side, accompanied him. At the suggestion of Dolgon, a map of the emperor's territory was taken for Hong Chengchou's reference.

Because of the help of the eight Jin merchants. Di newspapers, newspapers, manuscripts, these information carriers are not uncommon here in the Qing army. Through these, Hong Chengchou, as a person with a heart, can easily grasp the military and political trends in the Guannai with a little collection and sorting, and the strengths and weaknesses of various factions.

"The slave dares to ask the prince. What did you do this time? If it is for the children's jade silk, my Eight Banners soldiers have entered the customs many times, and this way is already very familiar, so there is no need for the slave to say more. If it's for the sake of the country. The minions are a little bit foolish! ”

"The children's jade silk is the opinion of the slaves below, and the gentleman doesn't have to pay attention to them. This king is naturally the people of the country! ”

"Since the prince puts the people of the country first, then the slave might as well say bluntly, in this world, in terms of strength, Nanzhong is the strongest, Li Chuang is second, and Daqing is the weakest. But if we talk about people and people, I am the first in the Qing Dynasty, the second in order, and the weakest in the South. ”

Hong Chengchou dipped some colors with a brush and smeared them on the map, outlining three regions with different colors. Suddenly Dolgon had a sense of clarity. Liaodong and Mongolia are yellow, and naturally the Qing Dynasty, which currently controls the vast area from Liaodong to Qinghai. From Shandong onwards, Fengyang, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, northern Jiangxi, southern Jiangxi, Biyuan, Fujian, Liangguang and other places, one color is red, and the south is fire, which is naturally the jurisdiction of the Southern Guangdong Army.

As for the Dashun army in the west, Hong Chengchou gently sketched a few thin lines in light ink to represent that this is an area where traitors and thieves are entrenched.

"Lord Wang, please take a look. Although the Ming Dynasty still exists today. However, it is already a signboard in Li Shouhan's hands, a puppet in front of the stage manipulated by him. In the future, the prince will enter the customs with his master, and he will inevitably compete with these two for the world. ”

"Needless to say, the strong slave in Nanzhong has a friend with Tashan, and he knows it. However, what the slaves said back then is still there today, although Li Shouhan cut down the rebellion, but the killing will be heavy, and after hearing that he was victorious, he sent officials into the temple to divide the wealth of the powerful and powerful, and showed off his strength in Guangzhou, humiliating the rebels. Therefore, this time it is peaceful, but the soup is not boiling, and if it is long-term with our army, the rebellion will resume. In addition, Li Shouhan was arrogant and arrogant, not only did he not know how to converge, but also fought for hegemony in the Central Plains, and did not close the heart of the gentry, and oppressed people strongly. With such a strong heart, how can Nanzhong have a chance of winning in Shandong? ”

Li Chuang is Li Shouhan's disciple without the name of a master, and he learns Nanzhong everywhere, so Nanzhong is strong, and it has three points, but there are also three points of disadvantages. And its internal Qin Law School is not in harmony with the scholars, and sooner or later there will be civil strife. ”

Speaking of Li Zicheng's department, Hong Chengchou should be the most vocal person in the Ming army and the Qing army. He has been dealing with the peasant army for many years, and has repeatedly beaten Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others to the end of the road, but he can't see that layer, why do Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong exist? Why did Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong flee in embarrassment in front of his horse, and soon after they escaped into the deep mountains and old forests, they were able to regain their strength and appear in front of him? If it weren't for the clans that he fought for in the Ming Dynasty. There are no righteous men and gentlemen who stand in the court and do not pay taxes on money, grain, and taxes, but they are afraid that Li Zicheng is still a Yinchuan post man loyal to the court.

"Sir, I don't know how the combat strength of Li Zicheng's unit compares with the Ming Army and the Southern Army?" Dolgon didn't care much about the contradictions between the scholars and the Nanyue army and Li Zicheng's Dashun army, as a commander, he was more concerned about the combat effectiveness of this army. If the fighting power is strong, then any internal contradictions will be covered up and suppressed.

He fought against the Ming army for many years. In Tashan, he also fought with the Nanyue Army, and every time he thought of the tragedy of the battle that day, he couldn't help but scream in his dreams, and then secretly comforted himself, "The Battle of Tashan has been fought, and I am the winner." ”

"Most of the generals at all levels of Li Zicheng's department are the leaders of the thieves in Shaanxi, who have been in rebellion since the Apocalypse and have more than 10 years of combat experience. They are all people who have survived a hundred battles, and if our Qing soldiers fight against them, they must not be underestimated. Mr. Hong Chengchou first gave Li Zicheng and others a general comment, and then began to carefully analyze the advantages and disadvantages.

However, Hong Chengchou's impression and understanding of Li Zicheng still stayed in Chongzhen for thirteen years! This is a fatal point! Because since then, Hong Chengchou has been transferred from Shaanxi to Liaodong, from dealing with Li Zicheng to fighting against Huang Taiji. Although I can also learn about Li Zicheng's movements and changes from the Di Bao. However, he served as a member of the imperial court. Naturally, I know very well the virtue of court officials in writing reports. Either Li Zicheng is extremely useless, driving hundreds of thousands of hungry people to attack the city at every turn, or Li Zicheng is simply a transformer in Hollywood movies. It depends on whether you want to repay the merits to the court or complain to the court.

"When Chongzhen was eight years old. The slave led the army to pursue and suppress this generation of thieves, and the thieves were hungry before, and when they saw the arrival of the army, they avoided the soldiers and fled. Since the eighth year, it has faced the enemy, ambushed left and right, and repeated succession, so it is difficult to kill. The thief has a good horse, or a straddle of two horses. Officers and soldiers are three steps and seven steps, and it is difficult to chase. ”

"The camp of thieves is roughly in the order of the commander, the chief, the commander, the flag, and the captain. The battle of thieves is the best at ambushing, and it is ambushed left and right, repeatedly, and it is impossible to prevent it. ”

"During the battle, the thieves are five times, the hungry people are outside, the second foot soldier, the second horse army, and the second horse, and the old camp is inside, if the battle breaks its threefold, the horse is fighting to the death. If they are defeated, the thief horse army, the horse, the horse, the old camp immediately escaped, they did not lose their elite, turned to fight elsewhere, and gathered tens of thousands of troops in a moment. ”

"These elite thieves, everyone has a horse, or two or three straddle horses, and the officers and soldiers are no more than three steps and seven horses, and it is extremely difficult to chase. If the pursuit is tight, it is not easy to get food and grass, and all of a sudden, the old thief battalion will be cavalry again, and the officers and soldiers will be defeated every time. ”

Hong Chengchou searched the memories in his mind and described the combat characteristics of this formidable force in the Guannai for Dolgon.

In his opinion, the current Li Zicheng should still be beaten by him and Sun Chuanting in Tongguan Nanyuan, and there are only more than ten rogue leaders around him who fled into Shangluo Mountain in embarrassment. No matter how many soldiers and horses there are, they are just carrying hundreds of thousands of hungry people.

"If it is in the opinion of Mr., how should Li Chuang be in the famous city of Guanneidieke?" There was a clear smack of doubt in Dorgon's words. It's not that he hasn't led troops into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and if the guards are resolute and use their lives, I'm afraid that this group of thieves in Hong Chengchou's mouth will be difficult to overcome.

But the prince didn't know. The thieves make good use of the fine work, or carry the medicine sac Yarrow Cai for the medical divination, or the yellow crown of the stream, or for the beggar's play, to observe the reality of each city, or to starve the people and the army. They traveled to and from the city in the thousands, not knowing whether they were thieves or soldiers. When the thieves attacked the city, they either killed officials and set fire to the city, or opened the city gates to welcome the brigade into the city. When will you see the thieves fight a tough battle? If they encounter the prince's guard that day, they are afraid that the corpses will be all over the field, and they may not be able to break through the city. In Luoyang City that year, Gao Yingxiang besieged more than 100,000 Shaanxi thieves, and he also returned. Why was Li Zicheng able to easily break the city with more than 10,000 newly attached thieves? That's the key! Hungry people and mutineers help each other! ”

Although Dolgon was suspicious of Hong Chengchou's words, he couldn't find a reason for a while. The impression he got from the mouth of the seventh brother Abatai was not much different from it. The thief is good at sports, and can come from afar for days and nights in a row, chasing him to the sky and the earth. However, it is rare to give Abatai's authentic Liao thieves a hard fight.

It's exactly like a pack of wild wolves on the prairie, dotted with the target from afar, once it finds that the target has signs of fatigue and looseness, it immediately pounces on it and bites it fiercely, and then, when the opponent reacts. Immediately set off on his way. If you pursue, you will be in the right hands, and they will lead you in a big circle, waiting for you to relax and fatigue again. If you don't pursue, they will continue to follow you from afar. It's like a dog skin plaster, a maggot on the tarsal bone that lingers.

"The minions heard about it recently. Li Zicheng showed signs of crossing the river and harassing Sanjin. In the humble opinion of the slaves, the Yellow River is dangerous, and it has always been difficult for birds to cross, but I am afraid that Li Zicheng's thieves will shed blood on this section of the Yellow River between Qin and Jin. It was a fluke that regardless of the casualties, he rushed into Shanxi, fortified the city everywhere, and the gentry from all over the country were in order to protect their own wealth, and they were bound to fight desperately. By that time, Suiyang was everywhere. Everyone is Zhang Xun. I want to see how many soldiers and horses Li Zicheng can consume! ”

"Sir, you mean that the thieves can leave him alone and just see how they are consumed in Shanxi?"

"Exactly! The act of the thief is nothing more than clearing the way for the Holy Son of Heaven! Hong Chengchou first praised Dolgon without a trace, and then continued: "From the perspective of a slave, Li Zicheng is a nuisance in Shanxi, and I am afraid that only Li Shouhan will benefit. The more ferocious he disturbed, the more reason Li's Nanyue army would have to go north. This person has already used a paper document of Southeast Mutual Insurance. It encompasses a large area of land between the Huanghuai, Jianghan and Han Rivers. At that time, he sent a brigade of troops north. Wouldn't it be easier to control the claim that the rogues harassed the Holy Driver and coerced Chongzhen's child to Nanjing and become a puppet in his hands? ”

"If it is then, the north of the Yellow River will be the place where my Qing Dynasty and the Liukou will fight!"

As for how to compete with Li Zicheng for the vast plain north of the Yellow River. Hong Chengchou also has some insights. In addition to militarily staring at Li Zicheng's old battalion with elite cavalry, it is also necessary to use the Wuzhen Chaoha cannon of Kong Youde and others to fiercely bombard the city defended by Li Zicheng's troops, and in the field, it is to bombard the array with artillery fire. Psychologically, it puts a lot of pressure on the rogue.

In addition to giving full play to the advantages of the Manchu army militarily, it is also necessary to use the people's hearts and minds to deal with Li Zicheng's rogues! But. The people's hearts that Hong Chengchou is talking about are not those peasants with rough hands and dark faces, nor are they those people who are overwhelmed by heavy taxes and rents and have to go out with their families and become hungry and homeless. He said that he was a scholar and an official gentry who had been reading poetry and books all over the country and had been raised by the imperial court for hundreds of years with preferential exemption rules!

"In the humble opinion of a slave, if you want to enter the customs and attack the Ming, don't attack Shanhaiguan easily, you should make a detour to the mouths of the Great Wall as in the past, ignore the strong troops of Wu Sangui's department, and break into the pass. At the same time, please be strict with the prince, so that all the departments of the Eight Banners do not slaughter the people, do not burn the houses, and do not plunder property; At the same time, the people were recruited to surrender and accept the rebellion, and those who opened the door to surrender were promoted, and the military and civilians did not commit any crimes. In order to win people's hearts and deal with Li Zicheng. The slave dared to assert that if he did so, within a year, all the places in Zhili, Shanxi, and Datong would belong to my Daqing. ”

As for how to abolish the various bad policies implemented by Li Zicheng and Li Huayu in Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places, and restore the old system during the Wanli period, so as to make the people of the world take a little breather, and at the same time, with various slogans and actions such as respecting teachers and respecting Confucius and reading scriptures, we will prove to the scholars of the world that we are authentic Confucian disciples and can only be done by a legitimate government!

All kinds of methods, listening to Dolgon's unbelievable, but it is reasonable.

"The slave dared to say a word in front of the prince today, and the above articles, and then there are the measures of the original official to stay in office, not to blame the past, etc., when the measures such as returning from all over the country have come anyway, the gentry everywhere organized the righteous expulsion of the thieves and the minions of Li Shouhan's subordinates."

"Then, sir, if there is what you just said, what should be done with Zhang Xun, who guards Suiyang? Do you want to slaughter the city to set an example for those who come? Dolgon deliberately asked a question in an attempt to test Hong Chengchou.

"No!" Hong Chengchou resolutely rejected Dorgon's proposal. "The slave heard from the businessman from the south road say that Li Mou was in turmoil in various parts of southern Guangdong, and he said that the so-called first evil must be dealt with and he never asked. This can also be used by my Daqing Dynasty. ”

"If any city resists and resists against the heavenly soldiers, the day of the city will be punished, and the people will still be safe. Those who are the first to advocate internal response will be rewarded exceptionally. This is also a priority. Hong Chengchou dragged a sentence. Lord Wang, do you think, the officials who defend the city know what the result of defending the city is, and who else will defend it? I don't know how many of their subordinates are going to open the gates of the city and act as an inner guard in order to get a reward! ”

"But sir, you don't think about it at all." Dolgon ordered someone to take down the milk tea, and ordered Hong Chengchou to prepare a supper, and someone made tea.

"When I entered the customs this time, I sent all the men over the age of ten and under the age of seventy, and there were only more than 100,000 soldiers and horses. How can you fight against thieves with millions of people at every turn? ”

When Hong Chengchou heard this, he couldn't help laughing. "Is the prince taking a test of slaves? Have you forgotten the story of Tian Ji horse racing? ”

After the perfection of the Eight Banners system, the Qing army fought with the Ming army, and the first wave of pioneers fought in the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the second wave drove the Mongolian tribal soldiers to fight, the third wave drove the Northeast tribesmen to fight, and the fourth wave drove the Mongolian Eight Banners to fight. In the end, the army of the Eight Banners of Manchuria went into battle.

"The combat power of the Eight Banners of the Han Army is a few points stronger than those hungry people anyway, right? Fight the thieves in turn, depleting their morale and combat power. At the critical moment, the fire soldiers that the prince has trained in the past few years can be used to deal with Li Chuang's old camp! As long as the old battalion is annihilated, and the commanders of each battalion are killed or wounded, the thieves are not worried! (To be continued.) )

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