It's possible for the enemy to do something stupid!

For example, after the Ming army attacked from Juehua Island and went straight to Ningyuan, it sent troops from Beijing thousands of miles away, and tens of thousands of people of the Eight Banners rushed thousands of miles to kill under the city of Ningyuan, and then regardless of the lack of people and horses, they set up a fight with the new army of two or three divisions of the Ming Dynasty...... Didn't Emperor Chongzhen often do such things?

If Chongzhen can be allowed to be the regent of the Qing Dynasty, the Northern Expedition will basically be crushed!

But the problem is that Dolgon, Duoduo, they must be better than Chongzhen!

As long as they don't make stupid mistakes, they will not use heavy troops to fight decisive battles along the coasts of Liaoxi and Liaodong, but will use hundreds or thousands of cavalry to constantly harass and attack, what will the Ming army do when the time comes? Hide in the fortress and not go anywhere?

Therefore, in order to use fortress tactics to level Liao, it is necessary to have a cavalry that can rely on the fortress to engage the Qing cavalry...... It is not possible to rely on the two existing cavalry regiments of the new army.

Wu Xiang understood that Zhu Cihong would definitely ask about the racecourse, so when he saw that his eyes were turned around, he didn't wait for him to ask, so he answered first.

"Your Majesty, Fengyang Horse Farm introduced more than 120 horses from Tianzhu last year." Wu Xiang said, "Among them, there are more than 20 stallions, and the rest are tall and sturdy mares...... It will continue to be introduced this year, and it is estimated that there will be no less than 200 horses. If we can hold out for ten years, Fengyang Horse Farm will be able to provide a large number of good horses for our cavalry! ”

The more than 120 Indian horses introduced by Fengyang Horse Farm have made a bloody investment, and orders have been placed with Dutch and Portuguese merchants more than a year in advance, among which the arrival price of the stallion (excluding tax) is as high as 1,500 taels of silver, and the arrival price of the mare is as high as 800 taels of silver!

More than 120 horses cost the Ming Dynasty more than 100,000 taels just to purchase! If you add in the expenses of the horse farm, the stable, and the horse house, it is even more powerful...... In order to prevent the horses of Fengyang Horse Farm from having an improper relationship with the local horses, the Horse Administration Department of the Ministry of War even spent money to build a hundred-mile-long wall to enclose the entire horse farm!

It's also a shame that the Manchu Dynasty is now loyal and straightforward, so the court's financial income is still passable, otherwise it really can't run this Fengyang Horse Farm.

However, the capacity of shipping in these years is limited, and the horses are not very fond of taking ships, and there will always be some deaths on the road, so the transportation cost is very high, and the number of inputs will not be too much, and after arriving in Daming, they will die again because of the water and soil, and it is really not easy to arrive at Fengyang Racecourse safely!

Moreover, the Folded Horse is also a very expensive boutique horse in India, which is generally only owned by the great nobles, so it is impossible for the Portuguese and Dutch to get too many of them.

Therefore, no matter how much money Zhu Cihong has, it is impossible to buy enough Indian folding horses to form several cavalry regiments...... In the next ten years, it will not be easy to buy an average of 150 or 60 horses per year. Even if one horse does not die within ten years, the total number is fifteen or six hundred. Among them, the mare must be in the majority, and there are always thousand, three or four hundred. Horses are not very fertile animals, relying on these imported mares, the average output of Fengyang Horse Farm in the next ten years will be about 500 horses. However, the folded ear mare born in Fengyang can give birth to foals after three or four years, so the growth rate of the size of the Fengyang horse herd will accelerate in a few years, and it may reach five or six thousand horses in ten years—in the process, it is seen that a batch will be eliminated, so the scale of five or six thousand horses in ten years is quite ideal, and it is enough to support five to ten cavalry regiments of the New Army to carry out frequent combat operations.

Because the Indian Folded Horse is a breed that has been selected and bred for thousands of years, it is a horse breed that has been "stereotyped", not a steppe horse that grows up in a close to natural environment. Therefore, the "good horse rate" of the Folded Ear Horse Farm is very high, if it can produce 5,000 horses per year, among which the high-quality war horses (male geldings) that can be used for combat will not be less than 1,500 horses, and in the next few years, the number will be even more!

"Your Majesty, you can't rush the matter of raising horses!" Wu Xiang said to Zhu Cihong again, "The minister has personally inspected those folded ear horses, they are all very majestic and tall, the shoulder height of the mare is more than five feet, and the shoulder height of the stallion is five feet two inches...... What a rare horse!

If we can raise a large number of them, the cavalry of the East Captives will not be able to defeat us, at least when the opposite side is charged, the folded ear horse has a great advantage!

Although we can't fight a decisive battle with a large force of Eight Banners Horse Team, with the fortress and infantry, we can use a few thousand cavalry to ensure the situation along the coast of Liaodong and Liaoxi and along the Liao River. ”

What Wu Xiang said was actually the method of conquering the steppes of Siberia and Central Asia by the Rakshasa State, with the fortress plus the Cossacks. The fortress was a fortress, and the Don hippos owned by the Cossacks were superior to the steppe horses, and they could run, chase, and charge in cavalry battles, and their individual combat effectiveness was stronger than the steppe tribes of various Mongolian and Turkic races that had degenerated.

Therefore, Central Asia and Siberia were gradually controlled by the Rakshasa Kingdom......

"Ten or twenty years...... Zhu Cihong thought for a while, "It's still a little longer!" How about going up the Weihe River and canal in Tianjin, and going straight to Yanjing? ”

Taking the Tianjin Weihe River and Canal to copy the foundation of the Qing Dynasty has always been Zhu Cihong's belly case. In the past, he didn't have this strength, but now he has more than 200,000 new troops!

If you really want to fight a decisive battle with Dolgon, the odds are there!

"Your Majesty," Huang Binqing, the envoy of the navy, took the question first, "Haisha Island outside the mouth of Dagu is easy to take, but Dongyu has built a coastal defense fort at the mouth of Dagu in the past two years, and has also built a castle on an island called Dongzui Island in the Weihe River in Tianjin...... These two fortresses have learned our sandbag construction method, and the city is not high, and the appearance is also a fortress type. ”

Pretty fast to learn!

Zhu Cihong pondered for a while, "I always have to try it...... What if it succeeds? ”

He thought for a while: "Maybe we can go north to Ningyuan this winter, attract the eastern army to help, and then land at Dagukou after the beginning of spring!"

At the same time, the armies of Shandong and Huaibei were allowed to advance westward...... There is always one way to succeed in the three-way army, right? ”

"And Wu Sangui, the third son of the minister!" Wu Xiang reminded, "Sangui is still interested in Daming!" In the past two years, he has been playing the banner of Daming in Shaanxi, Gansu! If the situation is very good if Wang Shi goes on a northern expedition, he will definitely raise troops to respond. ”

Li Yan also said: "The situation of the king of Shanxi is not bad...... The odds of our three-way march are always six or seven percent, it's worth a try! ”

As he was talking about this, a eunuch's voice came from outside the Xinuan Pavilion: "Emperor, please see the Marquis." ”

"Xuan."

Gongshun Hou Wu Ruzheng is the envoy of the Right Political Secretary, and he hurriedly came to ask for a meeting, of course, he had something important to report.

"Your Majesty, the speaker has made Zu Kefa's recital arrive, and the word "urgent" has been added."

"Take it ......" As soon as Zhu Cihong stretched out his hand, he took the piece handed over by Wu Ruzheng's hands, opened it, and couldn't help laughing, "Dolgon is married!" ”

"Dolgon's marriage?" Wu Xiang was stunned for a moment, "Is his wife dead and continues to string?" ”

"No, his wife is not dead."

"Then how did he get married?" Wu Xiang shook his head, "Concubine? ”

"It's not a concubine," Zhu Cihong smiled, "He has two wives now...... The newly married wife is the Empress Dowager Bumu Butai of Dongyu. ”

"Huh? The queen mother married? ”

"That's nonsense, isn't it?"

"Does this Dorgon understand etiquette?"

Several people in the Xinuan Pavilion looked very surprised, including Li Yan - in fact, he has two wives! One is the original match, the other is the red lady, both ends are big!

Zhu Cihong glanced at them, "In addition to marrying the Queen Mother, Dolgon is still the regent of Huang Ama now...... So Dongor is a serious princess of Pegaku! ”

Wu Xiang's face changed when he heard the news...... Is Tungor Gege going to be a queen?

Zhu Cihong smiled: "Dolgon promised to let Donggu Gege be my imperial concubine, and I also wanted me to build a palace for Donggu in Dengzhou, so that she could live for a few years to adapt to the climate of the southeast, so as not to adapt to the water and soil, and then learn the etiquette of our Ming Dynasty by the way...... It seems that Dorgon is sincere in making peace! Do you think this is an opportunity? ”

"Opportunity? Not the Northern Expedition? Wu Xiang asked.

"How is that possible?" Zhu Cihong sneered, "Gege and Yan Yun, I have to take it in my hands...... Now it's time to take advantage of Dolgon's unpreparedness and come up with a surprise victory! ”