On the twenty-second day of the first month of the first year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, Duoduo, the prince of Yu of the Qing Dynasty, led the main force of the Manchu and Mongolian coalition army and the Han Banner Army, with a total of 290,000 troops to return to Beijing. The regent Dolgon ordered the hundred officials to go out of the city to greet him, and the pomp and circumstance were unprecedented!

After all, after the battle of Shanhaiguan, Duoduo led the main force of the Qing Dynasty to attack Li Zicheng, who had a million soldiers, and won successive battles, and the battle of Shanxi alone destroyed Li Zicheng's army of 500,000, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue, broke through Tongguan, and invaded Shaanxi, the nest of Li Zicheng's regime, although Li Zicheng was not completely wiped out in the end, but Li Zicheng was already a lost dog, so there is nothing to be afraid of. This is the biggest victory since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, so that the Qing Dynasty suddenly owns nearly half of the world.

What's more, Dordor is the younger brother of Dorgon's mother, and Dolgon gave Dolgon the highest honor, which is the icing on the cake for Dolgon himself, but also deters a group of people who support the little emperor Fulin, and since then no one in the Qing Dynasty dared to oppose him Dorgon.

After returning to the city of Beijing, before he had to rest, he went directly to Dorgon's regent's palace.

"Hahahaha! Fifteenth brother, you have worked hard! Dorgon slammed his fist into Dorgon in the chest and laughed.

"Brother Fourteen!" Duoduo smiled and punched back.

The two brothers hugged each other tightly for a few moments before parting.

Dolgon gestured slightly, and the maidservant immediately set up the feast, and Dolgon took Dordor to enjoy it with him.

During the banquet, Duoduo suddenly asked Dolgon: "Brother Fourteen, I have always wondered, Li Zicheng was pursued by me to Henan, at most ten days I can completely destroy him, I can take the whole of Henan in less than a month, and open up another province of land for the Qing Dynasty, but Brother Fourteen is anxious to let me bring the main force of the army back at this time, isn't it a waste of opportunity?" Aren't you afraid that Li Zicheng will resurrect in the future and sweep the world again? Or is there any major arrangement for the fourteenth brother, which is more important than exterminating Li Zicheng now! ”

Dorgon didn't suspect Dorgon, thinking that there must be something deep in Dorgon's move, but he just couldn't figure it out. Dodor was a good hand at war, perhaps a rival to Dorgon, but he knew nothing about politics.

Dolgon drank all the wine in the cup and said: "The fifteenth brother doesn't have to worry, the Han people have a saying, those who win the hearts of the people win the world, I deeply think so, the reason why Li Zicheng has been able to make a comeback many times before, is because he has the hearts of the people in the world, and now he has long lost the hearts of the people, and has become a lost dog, it is impossible to make a comeback, and there is no need to be afraid." The remnants of Jiangnan are the current great enemy of our Qing Dynasty, and we must destroy it as soon as possible, otherwise the more it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to our Qing Dynasty. ”

Although Dolgon knew very well that what Duoduo said was good, if he gave Duoduo another month, Duoduo would definitely be able to completely destroy Li Zicheng and take the whole of Henan, but Dolgon did not want to waste this month's time, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qing Dynasty had been fighting continuously for more than half a year, and the people were sleepy and lacking. In order to go south in the best state and the Ming decisive battle, the army must rest for three or four months, and that time is just when the rainy season comes, when the heavy rain can restrain the newly established Ying Long army of the Ming Dynasty, with the existing strength of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has a chance of winning the decisive battle at least eighty percent.

"Look at what the Ming Emperor Zhu Cihong has done since he ascended the throne in the past year, and now the Ming Dynasty is more terrible and more fearful than the Chongzhen Dynasty." Dorgon handed a folded book to Dordor to look at.

Duoduo originally frowned slightly, but after taking it, he opened it and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more shocked he became, Duoduo didn't know anything about politics, but as a famous general comparable to Dolgon in the Qing Dynasty, Duoduo still had an eye for the situation.

The information collected by Dolgon is very comprehensive, from Zhu Cihong passing through Shandong when he went south to ascend the throne, and killed Liu Zeqing in Shandong to seize the military power of Shandong in one fell swoop, to the battle of Huai'an to destroy Liu Liangzuo, and then ascended the throne less than two months and destroyed Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, with a thunderous momentum, and at the same time uprooted the Donglin Party and completely controlled the military and political power of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Cihong was only resolute and decisive, he would not be able to make Dolgon jealous, but later Zhu Cihong was extremely bold in allocating a huge amount of money, adding five times more money to all officials at one time, and at the same time cracking down on corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and distributing the previous arrears to all the Ming army, which not only alleviated the corruption of the Ming Dynasty, but also gathered the morale of the army.

After Zuo Liangyu's million-strong army rebelled, Yinglong's army seemed to be born like lightning, and in a short period of time, Zuo Liangyu's million-strong army was extinguished at a very small cost, and went north to the Qing Dynasty in Shandong, and at the same time with Zhang Xianzhong in Hubei.

What does this mean, it shows that the current Ming Emperor is not only able to write, but also to martial arts, and in less than a year, the original decaying Ming Dynasty has been full of vitality, and has also established a strong Yinglong army, which has not only made Dolgon jealous, it is simply a little frightened, Dolgon can't wait to immediately lead his troops south to destroy this new remnant Ming in the south of the Yangtze River.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has repeatedly won victories over the Ming Dynasty for decades, many Manchu generals do not take the Ming Dynasty in their eyes, but the Qing Dynasty rulers such as Dolgon, in fact, have always had some awe of the Ming Dynasty in their hearts, and they know very well that the reason why the Qing Dynasty has been able to defeat the Ming Dynasty repeatedly, is because the Ming Dynasty has been established for nearly three hundred years, and is in the decaying stage at the end of a dynasty, such as the end of the Tang Dynasty and the end of the Song Dynasty in history.

"Jiangnan Remnant Ming is developing so fast?" Duoduo frowned.

"Yes, today's Emperor Remnant Ming should not be underestimated, Remnant Ming has such an emperor at the helm, it will inevitably reverse the decay in the future, and become more and more powerful, it is definitely not the blessing of my Great Qing Dynasty, the Great Qing Dynasty cannot afford to wait too long, and it must be extinguished when Remnant Ming is still in the embryonic stage of rebirth." Dolgon's eyes flashed fiercely.

"Brother Fourteen wants to send troops south to fight against Daming in the near future?" Dodor asked.

Dolgon shook his head and said: "No, now is not the time, the soldiers of the Eight Banners have been fighting for more than half a year, and they need to rest, and more importantly, they have to wait for the arrival of the rainy season, only the rainy season can restrain the amazing Ying Long army established by Emperor Remnant Ming." ”

"Bring things in." Dorgon gestured to a eunuch not far away.

After a while, the eunuch brought up a long tray covered with silk cloth.

Dolgon lifted the silk cloth and revealed that it was a flintlock pistol and a few paper shells.

Half a month ago, a soldier of the First Army of the Yinglong Army in Shandong disappeared for no reason, and later Ji Feng sent people to look for it, only to find the body of the soldier of the Yinglong Army who disappeared for no reason in a weed, and all the belongings carried by the soldier of the Yinglong Army disappeared, including the flintlock pistol he carried, which was very strange.

Ji Feng also reported this matter to Zhu Cihong, but did not get a response from Zhu Cihong.

"What is this?" Although Duoduo saw that this was a musket, it was different from the muskets of the Ming army that he had seen before, and he thought that it must be extraordinary to be able to do such a solemn thing as Dorgon, so Duoduo asked this question.

Dolgon aimed at a tea table ten meters away and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!"

A loud bang was heard, and many of the maidservants screamed, squatting on the ground and trembling, while the tea table that was being targeted was smashed into pieces of wood and made a hole nearly the size of a fist.

The "hiss" was so powerful that Dordor was surprised.

"This is the weapon used by the Great Ming Ying Dragon Army, what can the fifteenth brother see?" Dolgon introduced.

"Show me." Shocked, Dodor reached out and took the flintlock pistol from Dolgon's hand, examined it carefully, and picked up the paper shells on the tray and probed them in. A paper shell bullet is a paper tube with one end closed, and the other end is wrapped around a conical buckshot that is exposed.

Duoduo pulled out the exposed lead bullet with all his might, revealing the gunpowder wrapped in the paper tube, and the corner of Duoduo's eyes jumped.

"This musket can be fired without ignition, and the gunpowder and lead bullet are wrapped in a paper tube, and when you use it, you only need to pull out the lead bullet at one end, pour the gunpowder in the paper tube into the firearm, and then press the lead bullet into the barrel, so that you can increase the loading speed several times, which is really a must!" Duoduo complimented with a gloomy face.

Li Zicheng's musket battalion Duoduo has already seen it, and it is definitely the nemesis of the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, and the musket of the Ming Yinglong Army does not even need to ignite, and there are paper barrel bullets to increase the loading speed, there is no doubt that it is many times stronger than Li Zicheng's musket battalion. The musket has always been known for its powerful power, and it pierces the iron armor within tens of meters, which is much sharper than the bow and arrow, but because of the shortcoming of its slow loading speed, it has not been taken into account by the Qing Dynasty soldiers, but now the loading speed has been optimized, coupled with the intensive use of the musket, it is simply specially designed to restrain the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry. Duoduo can become a famous general of the Qing Dynasty, he is not stupid, he doesn't think that he relied on the cannon to exterminate Li Zicheng's musket battalion, he thinks that the Ying Long army of the Ming Dynasty will definitely be wiped out like that, who knows if the Ming Dynasty has any other way to deal with it.

"Knowing yourself and knowing the other side can win all battles! The Ying Long Army of the Ming Dynasty is so equipped, it may be sharp, but we have a lot of countermeasures, the fifteenth brother can use the method of destroying Li Zicheng's musket battalion, and the rainy season after May is an excellent opportunity to suppress the combat effectiveness of the Ying Long Army of the Ming Dynasty, and the decisive battle to destroy the remnants of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangnan will begin in May this year. Dolgon's eyes shivered.

Dolgon is indeed eloquent, or the three generations of people in power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty starting from Nurhachi can be regarded as eloquent, and the Manchu Qing can have today's prestige, but not only by relying on the iron cavalry of the Eight Banners under his command to be fearless of death, but also used a lot of strategies.

"Brother Fourteen, have you ever thought about it" Duoduo said this, and immediately shook his head with a wry smile, and did not continue.

"You just wanted to equip the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty with this kind of weapon?" Dorgon glanced at Dorgon.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied the city of Beijing, it took over the Ming Dynasty in Beijing City, and recruited back a lot of the original craftsmen, which is why the Manchu Qing Dynasty can now forge their own red-clothed cannons, as well as flowering bullets, and at the same time, if the Manchu Qing want to make arquebuses, it is also possible, the Ming flintlock pistol is actually only more flint device than the arquebus in terms of technology, and the Manchu Ministry of Industry Manufacturing Bureau is not impossible to imitate.

"No, just thinking about it, it's impossible." Duoduo shook his head and said: "The combat power of my Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty is based on mounted archery, unless you dismount and fight on foot, it is not much use to assemble such a weapon, and you get off the warhorse."

Dodor didn't say any more, but Dorgon knew exactly what Dodor meant.

"Yes, the fifteenth brother can be clear, my Qing Dynasty Eight Banners is the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, we Manchu people have lived on horseback since childhood, riding archery is our strength, the combat power of the Eight Banners is also based on riding and archery, our weapons are only bows and arrows and steel knives, if the weapons of the Han people are used, then the Eight Banners are no longer the Eight Banners, in the face of countless Han people, we will not have any advantage, the weapons of the Han people must not be developed, otherwise the world will never be my Qing Dynasty." Dolgon's eyes narrowed slightly, and the cold light was revealed, and he became more and more determined to destroy the remnants of Jiangnan as soon as possible.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty had the ability to imitate the flintlock pistol of the Ying Long Army, but Dolgon never thought of really imitating the flintlock pistol and using the Han Banner Army under his command to form a Ying Long Army that was exactly the same as the Ming Dynasty, because in Dolgon's eyes, the Han Banner Army was nominally the army of the Qing Dynasty, but it was also a Han people, and the Han Banner Army could only be the cannon fodder under the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to assist in the siege of the city anyway, and Dolgon would never give the Han people any chance to compare with the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty.

"Now I will have a million male soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, the strength of the Jiangnan remnant Ming head steadily, within half a year to start a decisive battle, the Qing Dynasty can have an eighty percent chance of winning, so four months later when the rainy season comes the decisive battle is imperative, this is a big war related to our Qing Dynasty national fortunes, can not have the slightest slack, in the next four months, the fifteenth brother to help mobilize grain and grass, when the time comes, I will concentrate the troops of the Qing Dynasty, and my three brothers will sweep the Jiangnan remnants together." Dorgon patted Dodor on the shoulder, confident.

Duoduo nodded, thinking of the existing strength of the Great Qing Dynasty, he was also full of confidence. Dolgon is right, the existing strength of the Qing Dynasty is indeed stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming army has produced a Ying Long army, but the other Ming armies are still ordinary armies under the original combat effectiveness, and the combat effectiveness is low.

Over the next few months, Dolgon stepped up training of the newly recruited Han Banner soldiers, mobilized grain and grass, and did his best to prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty in the south.

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