Chapter 53: The Jurchen Attack
For this surprise attack on Xifengkou, the Jurchens intentionally or unintentionally cleared the night of the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Ride as early as half a year ago.
In order not to let the Ming army notice, the Jurchens had to give up their greatest advantage, and the artillery cooperated with the cavalry offensive, and they could only use a hard-hitting way to clear the two most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the Battle of Sarhu ten years ago, the Jurchens' tactics have gradually changed, and they have captured thousands of Dingbian general cannons and Baizi cannons in the two important towns of Liaoyang and Shenyang.
The new tactics of the Jurchens were formally formed, and the blockade tactics of artillery and trenches were established, the tactics of concentrated artillery attack, and the tactics of artillery cavalry.
With the divine power of artillery, coupled with the ferocity of the Jurchen Eight Banners, it has really become an army that the enemy flees from the wind.
The Jurchens were far superior to the Ming army tactically, but they had a great flaw in strategy.
The population of the Ming Dynasty is more than 10,000, and there is an almost infinite supply of soldiers, but the Eight Banners soldiers are one less when they die, and it is difficult to replenish them.
In just half a year, the Eight Banners who killed ten Niu Lu soldiers were equivalent to beating one flag into a half-crippled, and Huang Taiji and Beile Beizi were dripping blood in distress.
The atmosphere that had just boiled up, because of the thought of dying one less Jurchen warrior, suddenly died down again.
Huang Taiji stretched out his fist, hammered the red sandalwood case heavily, and said passionately and generously: "Ladies and gentlemen, think about the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and think of the countless fat oily Zhuangzi fields near the capital of the Ming Dynasty. ”
"There are countless treasures and grains there, and I heard that the straw mats on the soil kang of the rich Zhuangzi are all made of silk."
"As long as we cross the Xifeng Pass and enter Beizhili, it is like a group of hungry wolves on the grassland, and we enter the sheepfold made of gold."
"As long as we transport that endless wealth back to Liaodong, we will be able to establish a powerful Mongolian Eight Banners, a powerful Han Eight Banners."
Huang Taiji stood up suddenly, his face flushed and stretched out five fingers: "Mr. Fan said, the wealth and grain of the countless Zhuangzi are enough for us to build a huge army of up to 500,000 people. ”
The Belle Beyers were immediately suppressed by the grand plan in the mouth of Huang Taiji, and with such a large army, the Jurchen warriors could go home and have children with peace of mind.
At that time, the Jurchen people will have explosive growth, constantly narrowing the strategic gap with the Ming Dynasty.
The Wuhu who destroyed the Central Plains back then added up to only a few million people, and the Jurchen people were no less fierce than the Wuhu, and they could also use artillery.
As long as the Jurchens reach five million, it will be enough to erase the strategic gap.
Thinking of this, where can the Belle bezels still sit still, they all stood up and prepared to fight.
Before they could stand firm, Dolgon, who had long been aware of all this, was the first to stand up with his sword: "Starling, I'll be the pioneer." ”
When marching and fighting, the vanguard always suffered the most losses, but now it was different, and this time they went to the countless Zhuangzi fields in Beizhili.
Grab food, grab money, grab women.
Huang Taiji said that even the straw mats are made of silk, where will the other Belle beys give up this opportunity.
The four Baylors, the four Little Baylors, all stood up and clamored to be pioneers.
Dolgon suddenly drew his sword, pointed at the bellebes who were scrambling in the camp, and sneered: "If you don't accept it, let's go out and fight, and whoever wins will fight the vanguard." ”
These words fell in the camp tent, and all the Belle Bezi looked at the Blue Banner Lord Mang Gurtai, who was the first Jurchen warrior.
In the past, Mang Gurtai, who likes to capture the flag the most, has already jumped out and shouted that he wants to be a pioneer, and today he is quiet like Zhuge Liang who is sitting in Wollongong and quietly waiting for Uncle Liu Huang.
Sit alone in Songxi and calm down.
This is also too abnormal, and when the Belle Beizi saw that the Jurchen Meng Fei suddenly became like this, they all began to suspect that this person was not pretending to be a Han Chinese.
If Mang Gurtai doesn't stand up, Ao Bai can wrestle with Dolgon in the tent, but where is Ao Bai qualified to challenge Huang Taiji's fourteenth brother.
The choice of vanguard naturally fell on Dolgon.
This time, in the battle of crossing the Xifengkou, how many things were robbed were their own, and the more things they robbed, the more powerful the strength of the Mengbaqi and Han Eight Banners established by their own banner.
Unable to be the vanguard, the Belle Beyers began to divide the territory, so as not to fight in those rich villages when the time came.
In order to divide the territory, the Belle Beyers have not yet fought in the rich village, and they have fought in the big tent in advance.
In order to compete for one more Zhuangzi, even the brothers didn't do it, so they pulled out their knives and began to cut each other.
There is no way, who let the Zhuangzi near the capital of the Ming Dynasty, any one of them has more money and grain than a city in Liaodong.
Bellebezi, who turn against each other, abounds.
In order to reconcile the contradictions of the flags, Huang Taiji has been working hard as early as when Ama was still alive, and it took ten years of hard work to completely solve it.
The number of Jurchens was already much smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty, and if it was also like the endless infighting of the Ming Dynasty, it would be a disaster for the Jurchens.
Since Huang Taiji took over as Khan, the greatest achievement is not the capture of Mock Xian, nor the establishment of new artillery tactics, nor the swallowing of the Mongol Chahar and the expansion of thousands of miles.
Rather, it calmed down the contradictions of the flags.
Because of this matter, Huang Taiji, who was self-humble, often called himself the Jurchen Zhuge Wolong in front of Fan Wencheng.
Huang Taiji watched his hard work for ten years come to naught, and the contradictions between the flags were even deeper than before.
Huang Taiji was not only not unhappy at all, but he wished to have a feather fan in his hand and shake it gently.
This is a scene he deliberately created.
This surprise attack on the capital of the Ming Dynasty will undoubtedly snatch a large amount of wealth enough to build a country from those countless Zhuangzi.
The banner owners who have greatly increased their strength, if they still have a good relationship with brothers, friends and brothers, the threat to Huang Taiji, the future emperor of the Qing Dynasty, will be too great.
This trick Huang Taiji still learned from Zhuge Liang, called checks and balances, Zhuge Liang used the Dongzhou Shizi Group and the exiled Beishi to check and balance the most powerful Bashu Shizi Group.
Huang Taiji thought that he had surpassed Zhuge Liang in this regard, because he wanted to make the banners turn against each other and fall into endless internal friction, and only in this way would it be beneficial to his rule.
Anyway, the establishment of a huge Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners is already a certainty, and it doesn't matter if a few more Jurchens from other banners die.