Chapter 8: Cangzhou (Second Update, Asking for Support)
Cangzhou, located on the side of the canal, because of the north of the capital and Tianjin Wei, its location does not seem to be important, but with the stationing of tens of thousands of Qing army main forces, it makes people immediately realize the importance of this place, not only does it have a grain granary, the army does not need to worry about food problems, and its north is connected to the capital, south of Shandong, and pulled in the center of Zhili, whether it is the Ming army attacking Zhili or Shandong, it can calmly transfer troops, without losing the tail, so that whether it is for Zhu Mingzhong in Jiangbei or Li Ziyuan in Shanxi, The Qing army's move to garrison Cangzhou has caused various variables in their actions, and they have to deal with it carefully.
And put forward this suggestion, not the other person is the general Zhuo Butai who returned to the capital from the southwest at the end of last year, Zhuo Butai, who is the general of Zhengnan, can be said to be one of the few generals in the Qing army now, at this time the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no longer been the famous general when he first entered the customs, even Dasu was used for the general of Pingnan, was entrusted with important tasks, as for Zhuo Butai, a rare general who has experienced a hundred battles, it is naturally relied on by Shunzhi, especially in the case of more and more awareness of the unreliability of the Han people, even more so.
Similarly, Zhuo Butai, who has experienced a hundred battles, has an extremely accurate vision, and he can see at a glance the embarrassment of the Great Qing State at this time, whether it is going north to defend the Beijing Division, or being stationed in Dezhou to guard Jiangnan, it will not be able to solve the problem fundamentally, or if he divides his troops, he will inevitably be defeated by each other, which is by no means what he wants to see.
In the end, he chose to garrison Cangzhou, but the reason why he stationed troops here was not to keep the Beijing Division, but for another purpose. But at this time, in the face of this letter sent from Jingshi, Zhuo Butai was so shocked that he was speechless. "Your Majesty, the letter of the third and third elder brothers is that it means that the army can directly attack Tianjin Wei from the sea!"
Zhuo Butai's eyes widened, before, he really hadn't thought about this, not that he hadn't thought about it, but he hadn't thought about it at all, but now that the third elder brother reminded him like this, he immediately thought of how Zheng Chenggong took Jiangning directly from Xiamen, how Li Dingguo crossed the sea to get Guangzhou, if the loyal army crossed the sea to take Tianjin directly, then wouldn't the capital be in danger.
He hurriedly said urgently.
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, I'm afraid, I'm afraid we won't be able to stay in Cangzhou for a long time!" The reason why Zhuo Butai is so anxious is because almost everyone in the DPRK and China now knows that it is no longer possible for the Great Qing Kingdom to stay in the Guannei for a long time, and it is even more inevitable to withdraw outside the Guan, but how to withdraw is a problem.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang set a precedent for unifying the world from the southeast. Such a precedent also affected the entire Qing court, who knew that such as the situation today, they also knew that withdrawal was inevitable. But how to withdraw, how to withdraw, that's what they need to think about.
And what is the lesson of Meng Yuan?
Meng Yuan did escape from the pass back then, but the Ming army then pursued out of the pass, and then, what happened to Meng Yuan? Like a lost dog, it was pursued all the way by the Ming army, and since then, there has been no day to live in peace, and the Mongols, who once seemed to be extremely powerful, have time to recover under the pursuit of the Ming army for decades.
It is precisely because of this that how to avoid the Qing Dynasty from repeating the mistakes of the past has become something that the Qing Dynasty has to consider, and it is precisely because of this that the Shunzhi monarch made another decision - before withdrawing the army, how to seize the Ming army with limited strength, and then inflict heavy losses on it, so as to avoid the pursuit of the Ming army.
"Your Majesty, at the beginning, we wanted to hit Li Thief or Zhu Thief here, so that they could know that the main force of the Qing Dynasty still exists, and if they dare to pursue it outside the pass, the force will greatly damage their strength, plus one of my Qing Dynasty retreats to Manchuria, Zheng Chenggong, Zhu Mingzhong, Li Ziyuan, Li Dingguo and others will control the Great Tomorrow, and they will definitely reproduce the fact that there are many feudal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and they are bound to be reluctant to pursue too much in order to preserve their strength, so that our Qing Dynasty will have time to recuperate."
Sonny said on the side, their original plan, for them who did not want to be like Meng Yuan, in the next few decades, under the pursuit of the Ming army to continue to flee north, with the help of a decisive battle, heavy damage to the Ming army, and then use the internal contradictions of the Han people, to try to preserve their strength and plot the world's selfish intentions, to recover in Manchuria, and to take advantage of the civil strife to go south in the future, this wishful thinking was disrupted.
"But if it is as the third elder brother said in the letter, the Zhu thief directly crossed the sea to take Tianjin, at that time, not only the capital is in danger, but even whether we can get out of the customs, it is still two or two, this miracle of recovering Shenjing, Li Thief will never let go, at that time, I will have to face the main force of Chu and Huai, I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will be in danger, also, please ask the emperor to make plans early!"
Although Sony's words have not yet been thoroughly understood, everyone has already heard the meaning of his words from his words - out of the customs. Immediately get out of the customs, and when you are still in a hurry, quickly evacuate.
Sony's words made Fu Lin's heart tremble slightly, and his face became more and more ugly, originally just a month ago, he had sighed there for the blessing of his ancestors - Zheng Zhilong's escape to the south and the betrayal of the eight imperial merchants certainly made him extremely angry, but looking at the turmoil caused by Zheng Zhilong in the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't help but secretly shout for the blessing of his ancestors.
Only when the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil will the Qing Dynasty have a chance!
But who would have thought, but just a few days, the situation changed so quickly, first Zhu Thief swore in Qinghe to swear the Northern Expedition, and then, a letter from the third elder brother made Fu Lin realize that these Han people are different from the banner people in war, since they can send a naval army to take Jiangnan and a naval army to take Guangzhou, then they can naturally send a naval army to take the Beijing Division, if the Beijing Division takes it for them, these eight banners ...... The families of these hundreds of thousands of troops are all in the capital!
In any case, the capital cannot afford to lose!
"But, even if we withdraw from the pass, what will happen when the time comes, and the Ming thief will use the water division to commit Manchuria? You know, that's what Mao Wenlong did back then, when the time comes, how can we recuperate in peace? ”
This voice reminded everyone to fall silent again, indeed, even if they get out, what can they do? Only in the hands of the Ming army has a water division, when the time comes, they will not still have to be beaten passively, and even the Ming army does not need to mobilize the main force at all, only need to send a partial division all the way, so that they will never be able to live.
That's not a good thing!
Fulin glanced back at the others. It was found that they were mostly silent. It's no wonder that the Qing army, which is good at fighting on land, understands these things, and even if it weren't for Xuan Ye's reminder, I'm afraid they wouldn't know that there would be such a threat at all, even if they had lost Jiangnan and Guangzhou, they still couldn't see the threat from the sea.
"Come to think of it, come to think of it, since the third elder brother mentioned it, there will definitely be a way to solve it......"
Zhuo Butai was also direct, he directly kicked the problem to the emperor, of course, this is also indirectly patting the emperor's ass, after all, the third elder brother is his son.
"Build a fort, train the water!" Fu Lin looked at the minions kneeling in the hall and said these six words slowly, his face was a little proud, Xuan Ye is his son, what these people didn't see, but let an eight-year-old child see it, thinking of this, he was both proud, but a little helpless, could it be that the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were not as good as an eight-year-old child?
"Building forts along the coast, just passively responding, if you want to fundamentally solve the problem, I'm afraid you still have to run a water division, you have to run a water division, just break the water division of the Ming thief, once the Ming thief has no water division to help, naturally can not threaten Manchuria, when the time comes, my Qing Kingdom can naturally rest and recuperate in Manchuria, only wait for the Ming Dynasty to fall into civil strife, and then send troops south......"
Not only can you directly send a large army into the customs, but you can even send sailors like the Ming army to go directly to Jiangnan and seize Jiangnan.
"Your Majesty, if we have a sailor in the Qing Dynasty, we can not only block the thief's sailor from attacking, but even send the sailor directly to the south and plunder the south of the Yangtze River all the way like Emperor Taizong entered the customs......
For Aobai, who had smashed the Great Wall with Huang Taiji, Dolgon and others several times to enter the customs, he naturally remembered how he eroded the north along the canal all the way, and the result of the slaughter of millions of Han people was the erosion of the north, and the plundered hundreds of thousands of animals made the strength of the Qing Kingdom soar.
Just like the Japanese in the early Ming Dynasty!
Thinking of the Japanese in the history books, Ao Bai sneered in his heart, how could the Japanese be compared with the elite soldiers of the Qing Dynasty? When they return to the bitter cold land of Manchuria, it is presumable that the soldiers of the Eight Banners will naturally be able to regain their sharpness and bravery, as it is now......
Thinking of more than ten years of comfort, so that those Eight Banner soldiers have long since lost their bravery, Ao Bai even felt that it was affected by the weakness of the Han people.
When the time comes, if you go south again, you will have to kill all the Han people in the world!
Of course, this Hui Fulin didn't know that this Hui Ao Bai was even imagining there how to kill all the Han people in the world in the future, but Ao Bai's sycophants also made him quite useful. Especially when everyone praised the third elder brother, his face was even more smiling.
Sometimes praising his son is more useful than praising Lao Tzu, and in addition to being used, Fu Lin's heart remembers this son who has never met a few times. Fu Lin, who was originally in a dull mood, also improved his mood, but he also knew that even if he wanted to withdraw from the pass, he was afraid that it would not be so easy. After all, the Han people would not let them evacuate safely outside the Guanwai easily. And it is not only the hundreds of thousands of troops who want to withdraw from the pass, but also the families of these hundreds of thousands of troops, and even hundreds of thousands of coats! If these people are not withdrawn, the Qing Dynasty will talk about recuperation.
And just at this time, I only heard a eunuch hurriedly shouting outside.
"Report to the master, the capital is 800 miles to expedite ......"