Chapter 1061: Unable to Return to the Sky
On September 8, the Ming army occupied Mosul, and on the 9th, it entered Syria.
On the 11th, they captured Raqqa, and on the 13th and 14th, they captured Aleppo and Damascus, two important Syrian towns, respectively, and occupied almost the entire territory of Syria.
On the 16th, the Ming army marched into Asia Minor, and the front of the army was directed at the city of Ankara, where Manchurian Xindu was located!
Ankara, originally an important town of the Ottoman Empire, is located in the central and eastern part of Asia Minor, and more than 200 kilometers to the west is Constantinople, the imperial capital of the former Ottoman Empire.
The Ming army was very strong, even if part of the Ming army was left to garrison the captured places along the way, and when it entered Asia Minor, there were still 340,000 Ming troops. On the Qing army's side, from the defeat of Murkala, the defeat of Yazd, the defeat of Isfahan, and then the defeat of the decisive battle in Baghdad, almost all the two million Qing troops were buried, and in the end, only 50,000 Manchu Eight Banners and 6,000 Dragon Breakers were able to escort the seriously injured Dolgon back to Ankara City. The rest of the Indian flags, Persian flags, Ottoman flags, etc., were all left in Syria to block the Ming army.
Unfortunately, those Indian flags, Persian flags, Ottoman flags, etc., did not seem to play a role, and the Ming army still occupied Syria so quickly, opening the way north to Asia Minor.
The Manchurian Eight Banners and the Dragon Breaking Army are all rifle armies, but there are only less than 60,000 people, even in Asia Minor, Constantinople, Bulgaria, Romania, etc., they can still make up 70,000 or 80,000 cold-armed infantry.
However, in the face of the Ming army, the cold-weapon infantry is just cannon fodder, and seventy or eighty thousand cold-weapon infantry may not even be able to defeat a thousand Ming troops, what's the use!
"The Qing Dynasty can no longer muster the strength to stop the Ming army! The Qing Dynasty is coming to an end! When Dolgon learned that the Ming army had entered Asia Minor in a big way, aiming for the city of Ankara, he immediately said in despair, and his old eyes were full of tears, as if he had aged a few years in an instant, and became more old and weak.
Dolgon was originally over sixty years old, and his body had begun to grow old and weak, but he had always had the belief in leading the Qing Dynasty to defeat the Ming Dynasty and bloodbathing the shame that the Ming Dynasty had brought to the Qing Dynasty over the years, so he seemed to be very energetic in ordinary times.
It's a pity that from Murkala to Baghdad, four big battles, four defeats! The army of two million collapsed, and the most desperate thing was that the number of Ming troops who were really killed and wounded was even less than 50,000!
The collapse of the Qing Dynasty's 2 million army could not kill or injure 50,000 Ming troops! Now that the Ming army has entered Asia Minor, what else can the Qing Dynasty use to resist the Ming Dynasty, and what strength does it have to resist the Ming Dynasty!
Dorgon is desperate, utterly desperate, and has lost his fighting spirit!
Without the fighting spirit, the faith in his heart collapsed, and he was seriously injured, and Dorgon's old age was completely revealed, like an old man who was dying.
"Ahem---" After Dolgon finished speaking, his heart sank, and he coughed weakly, with blood at the corners of his mouth, and an irregular flush on his face, as if the end was approaching!
"Dolgon!"
"Imperial Father Regent!"
"Regent!"
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The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, the Qing Emperor Fulin, the generals of the Eight Banners, the Manchu nobles, etc., all shouted sadly at Dolgon, and their voices were also full of despair! The Ming army was approaching, the regent was dying, and the regent was lost, and they did not know how to resist the Ming army, so they could only be overwhelmed by boundless despair.
Dolgon is old, he should have died thirty years ago in history, and died in the prime of life, but history has changed, although Dolgon was defeated in the Central Plains and had to move west to the Middle East with the Manchurians, but because of this, he did not leave a secret wound in Han as in history, so that he died young, and he lived for thirty more years!
The Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang is also old, she was Dolgon's childhood sweetheart, but she became the concubine of Huang Taiji, and finally she married Dolgon again, looking at the weak and dying Dolgon, the Empress Dowager of Xiaozhuang was heartbroken and fainted on the side of Dolgon's bed.
"Queen Mother----" Fu Lin shouted, his voice sad.
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The desperation of the Manchurians could not stop the pace of the Ming army, and after the Ming army entered Asia Minor, they quickly captured the important town of Kasai in the southeast of Asia Minor, and opened the road to Ankara at once.
The Ming army advanced strongly, and the momentum was like a bamboo.
Along the way, the remnants of the Eight Banners and the Broken Dragon Army frantically blocked the pace of the Ming army and fought desperately with the Ming army.
This is the last madness of the Manchurians!
They were unwilling to be destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, defeated from the Central Plains, the Qing Dynasty moved westward, with faith, under the leadership of Dolgon, rose from the bottom again, first unified the three steppe khanates in the northeast of the Persian Empire, and then destroyed the Persian Empire, annexed the Mughal Empire, the Arabian Peninsula, and finally attacked the Ottoman Empire, expanding the territory of the Qing Dynasty to a vast territory of more than 14 million square kilometers.
How difficult it is to clear the Qing Dynasty! As long as the Ming Dynasty is defeated, the Manchu ancestral land is recaptured, and even the splendid rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty are occupied, the wishes of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty will be realized.
But today, the Qing Dynasty is still about to perish under the attack of the Ming Dynasty, and the unwillingness and anger in the chest cannot resist the iron cavalry of the Ming Dynasty!
Only madness and unwillingness!
"Eight Banners is invincible! Kill, ----" At a pass leading to Ankara, more than 10,000 people rode horses and rushed to the Ming army that broke through the pass.
Click---
A heavy machine gun was carried to the front for deployment, and the Ming soldiers indifferently pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun.
"Da ----" The heavy machine gun stuck out its tongue one after another, and the powerful firepower strafed the Manchu Eight Banners in front.
In the end, the more than 10,000 Eight Banners were undoubtedly wiped out, and the blood flowed like a river.
This battle is not large-scale, and it can be regarded as the craziest battle of the Manchurians before the Ming army reached Ankara, almost the most fearless Manchu Eight Banners were killed here, and the rest were only less than 20,000 Manchu Eight Banners defending Ankara.
The Ming army was unstoppably approaching the city of Ankara, and the people in the city, from the emperor and nobles, to the ordinary people and soldiers, were desperate and full of powerlessness.
In fact, although the Ming army was about to march under the city of Ankara, the Manchus could still continue to move the capital westward, to Constantinople or Bulgaria and other places, avoiding the Ming army's troops, at least enough to continue to survive for a while.
It's just that despair and powerlessness filled the hearts of the Manchurians, almost completely destroying their fighting spirit, they had already experienced a westward migration, and another capital move from Isfahan to Ankara, and they were no longer willing to continue to move, vowing to live and die with Ankara.
On the 24th, 320,000 Ming troops approached the city of Ankara, and the fall of the Manchu Qing seemed to be imminent.
"Since the end of Wanli, Nurhachi has rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchurians have plundered the border of the Ming Dynasty every year, killed the people of the Ming Dynasty, and ravaged the Central Plains -------------" Under the city of Ankara, Zhu Ci stumbled to point the troops in the generals, and the crimes of the Manchurians were counted.
The Manchus took refuge in the Ming Dynasty as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and it was precisely because of the care of the Ming Dynasty that the Manchus were able to gain a foothold in the Northeast and grow stronger, and were not exterminated by the Mongols such as Warat and Tatar.
The Ming Dynasty did not treat the Manchus badly, but the Manchus plotted to rebel against the Ming Dynasty during the period of Nurhachi's grandfather Wang Gao, and Nurhachi's grandfather was killed for rebelling against the Ming, and then the Ming Dynasty promoted the tribute and punished the Manchus.
And Nurhachi took this way, followed the path of his grandfather, and betrayed the Ming Dynasty again with the Manchurians, and kidnapped and killed the people of the Ming Dynasty, causing an incomparably serious disaster to the Ming Dynasty.
If the Ming Dynasty had not relented and let go of the Manchurians when Nurhachi's grandfather dared to oppose the Ming, then there would have been no continued anti-Ming of Nurhachi, and there would have been no decades of disasters for the Ming Dynasty from the end of Wanli to the end of Chongzhen.
is still the same sentence, the Ming Dynasty has never treated the Manchus badly, and has been given more than 200 years of protection to the Manchus since the Yongle years, and it was the Manchus who betrayed the Ming Dynasty first!
"The Manchu people are not grateful for the kindness of the Ming Dynasty, and have repeatedly betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and they are the mortal enemies of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Ci stumbled and swore to destroy the Manchu Dynasty!
"Attack!"
On September 25, 300,000 Ming troops, under the order of Zhu Cijiao, began to storm Ankara and completely destroy the Manchu Dynasty!----
And in the face of the onslaught of the 300,000 Ming army, the spiritual pillar of the Manchurian people, Dolgon, was dying, but even if Dolgon was not injured at all, he would definitely be powerless to return to the sky, after all, the two million Qing troops were defeated! The strength of the Ming Dynasty is not at all something that the Manchus can resist, and after more than 30 years of exhibition, the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing are no longer on the same order of magnitude.
Not only Dolgon, but Aobai, known as the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, couldn't hold on after the battle of Baghdad, and like Dolgon, he was lying on the bed, his fighting spirit was completely gone, and he was about to die!
Despair! Hopeless! Like the west falling on the west mountain!
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