Chapter 23: The War in Liaodong Ends

After Zheng Chenggong returned to the Acropolis of Jinzhou, he immediately ordered all departments to shrink.

The Xia army on the Liaodong Peninsula immediately retreated, and although the Qing army pursued it, the various divisions fought several battles after the break, but they didn't know why, so they stopped.

watched them retreat to Jinzhouwei.

Zheng Chenggong counted the men and horses, and more than half of the casualties of each department, at least 40,000 soldiers were lost in Niuzhuang and on the Liao River.

Zheng Chenggong recruited Korean people to build more than ten castles on the line of Jinzhouwei, directly cutting off the Liaodong Peninsula.

And from among the sailors, a lot of artillery was unloaded.

This defense line about ten miles wide, supported by the Jinzhou Guard, and the sea on both sides, the Qing army did not dare to easily offend.

Subsequently, the Tuntian Office was set up on Dalian Island.

All the people of Liaodong who were collected were placed here.

To do long-term holding.

At the same time, Liang Huafeng also withdrew from the army, withdrew from Lianshan Pass, and set up camp on the west bank of the Yalu River. Plan for the long haul.

From the Yalu River to Jinzhouwei, the narrow strip of land east of Qianshan was also occupied by the Xia army.

Zheng Chenggong was very worried that the Qing army would take advantage of the situation to attack.

The defeat of Niuzhuang, the Xia army's soldiers, the loss of weapons is almost incalculable, I don't know how many formations, there is only one shelf left, and it needs to be recruited from the rear to replenish it, and the two battalions that followed Ma Sanbao's resistance were all killed in the formation.

None survived.

The losses were no less than the Battle of the Blue Hoof.

Not to mention artillery.

At least there are more than 100 cannons, hundreds of small cannons, 10,000 or 20,000 guns, and as for the number of cold weapons, needless to say, armor, grain and grass are not in the measurement. and the number of weapons damaged in his own battle, which is enough for the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau to be busy for several months.

In addition to the big defeat, people are even more panicked.

It's not just the soldiers who are uncertain.

Many of the soldiers have already broken their courage.

When he was in Niuzhuang, he was pressed tightly, and it was not revealed, and at this moment, many soldiers were unwilling to continue fighting. After all, with the military service system of the Xia Army, many of these people were ordinary people before. Many people can't afford such a brutal war.

Although the end of the Ming Dynasty was a troubled time.

But on the whole, the people in the north have suffered different injuries than the people in the south.

So a considerable number of soldiers needed to be replaced.

Among the officers, there is also a fluctuation of people's hearts.

It's not that these officers can't afford such casualties.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the selection of Wutang was all selected soldiers with military merits, that is to say, many of these soldiers crawled out of the pile of dead, although the battle of Niuzhuang was miserable, but compared to the big war they fought before, if the battle of Xiangyang, it may not be tragic to anything

Fang goes.

It's just that their hearts are fluctuating, but it is the personnel transfer of the upper generals.

Things have been repeated again and again, Zheng Chenggong's battle in the Bihu Pavilion was very bad, and now the battle of Niuzhuang is even worse. Almost all the officers have always believed that after this battle, Liaodong will inevitably change commanders. It is even necessary to hold the bull village accountable for its defeat.

Ma Sanbao is Zhang Xuan's favorite general, a descendant. In Liaodong, there may not be no intention of supervising the army.

Now that Ma Sanbao has died in battle, shouldn't they give an explanation?

As a result, half of the generals' minds were not on the battle in front of them.

There is a shortage of soldiers, a lack of logistics, and the people's hearts are scattered, in the face of such a situation, even if Zheng Chenggong is full of spirit, what can he do?

Zheng Chenggong thought to himself, if at this time, the Qing army attacked. Although he felt that Jinzhouwei could be called impregnable, the area west of the Yalu River was a little unstable, and it was easy for the Qing army to take it down and cut off the land connection between Jinzhouwei and the Yalu River.

It's just that the Qing army didn't counterattack.

Let Zheng Chenggong figure it out no matter what.

But no matter how I don't understand.

Zheng Chenggong didn't have the heart to think about it anymore.

Just after Zheng Chenggong stabilized Jinzhouwei and the first-line position of the Yalu River, Nanjing summoned Zheng Chenggong to Beijing.

When he went to Nanjing, Zheng Chenggong had no bottom in his heart.

If Zhang Xuan asked Zheng Chenggong to go out of the mountain and preside over the Korean war, Zheng Chenggong was still a little hesitant, but now, he has spent too much effort in the Korean Liaodong war, and he has reached the point where he can't give up, and he will do whatever it takes to keep the power to lead the war in Liaodong, Korea.

Otherwise, he can't get out of this breath.

Zheng Chenggong himself may not have discovered it, but in fact, his peeping heart for the big position has long since slowly dissipated.

On the battlefield, he knew more and more clearly the strength of the Xia army.

Or not only the military strength of the Xia army, but also the strength of the Great Xia court.

Just like the defeat of Niuzhuang, tens of thousands of troops were lost, and I don't know how many weapons were lost, but in just a month or so, all kinds of materials and personnel were transported from Nanjing to Jinzhouwei, which may not be comparable with before the war, but the defense was more than enough.

This kind of soldier's supply capacity, material replenishment ability.

The Zheng family is far from comparable.

Although there are many cannons of the Zhengjia Naval Division, more than 1,000 cannons, more than 100 cannons are lost, and if you want to replenish them, it will take at least half a year, or even longer. The Qing Army's Beijing Artillery Factory is far from being compared with the Guangdong Manufacturing Bureau and the Nanjing Manufacturing Bureau. And the supply of soldiers in the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is even more of a joke.

It is precisely because of this deep realization that even though he has the most powerful naval force in Asia, if he really turns his face against Nanjing. Even if they can gain the upper hand for a while, but if the war continues, the defeat must be the Zheng family.

After Zheng Chenggong came to Nanjing, he first asked Nanjing public opinion

What.

only to find that the situation was not quite the same as he thought.

In his opinion, after the Battle of Biho Pavilion, in the Privy Council, I don't know how many generals looked at the position of the Korean commander. The defeat of Niuzhuang was worse than the battle of Bihu Pavilion, why did no one come forward. On the contrary, there was a hellish silence in the Privy Council.

The heads of the Privy Council have not been home for a long time. Even the degree branch, etc., and the departments that came out of the household department, were busy. The generals of the Nanjing camp and the Jiangbei camp frequently entered Beijing.

This movement seemed a little incomprehensible to him.

If it is said that in order to win the position of the chief general of Liaodong, there is a little bit of too much movement, after all, even if Zheng Chenggong loses the position of the chief general of Liaodong, he will only send a general to Liaodong, where can there be such a big movement, and after the battle of Niuzhuang.

In Nanjing, it seems that apart from some gossip about the battle of Niuzhuang, the officials seem to have collectively lost their voices.

Zheng Chenggong was extremely confused.

When Zheng Chenggong went to see Zhang Xuan, he made a lot of preparations in his heart.

It was just that he sat on the corridor outside the Qianqing Palace, waited for more than an hour, and waited until the time of the lamp to see Zhang Xuan.

At the beginning, Zheng Chenggong thought that Zhang Xuan intended to dry him. It's just that after waiting for a long time, I found out that this is not the case.

While Zheng Chenggong was waiting, he saw the officials of the Privy Council and the Ministry of Households, coming and going in a hurry, as if flowing water, and within this hour, Zhang Xuan saw at least dozens of people.

When I saw Zhang Xuan, I saw that Zhang Xuan's eyes were red and his clothes were a little wrinkled. At first glance, he stayed up late, and even stayed up for a long time, Zheng Chenggong even guessed whether Zhang Xuan didn't close his eyes all night last night.

However, when Zhang Xuan asked about the war in Liaodong, Zheng Chenggong immediately took back his thoughts, and according to the manuscript that had been typed several times a long time ago, he told the cause and effect of the battle of Niuzhuang in 1510, and there was nothing to hide. Because he knew that he couldn't hide it from Zhang Xuan.

After Zhang Xuan heard this, he nodded and said: "Liaodong is the nest of the Eastern Captives, and it is already commendable that Qing can fight like this." ”

Although this sentence had a comforting meaning, Zhang Xuan did not feel that what he was talking was a lie.

No matter what happened in the final battle of Niuzhuang, before that, Zheng Chenggong recovered Kaesong, Pyongyang, and Jinjuwei, and controlled the area beyond the Yalu River and the coastal zone east of Qianshan in his hands, which was a great achievement.

Even in the battle of Niuzhuang, the price paid by the Qing army was not small, not to mention the battle of Niuzhuang, the Qing army and the Xia army fought a bloody battle, killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 battles, and the Qing army suffered a lot of losses. In such a big war, it is impossible for the Eight Banners of the Qing Army not to play, although it is a bit cruel to say.

But Zhang Xuan would rather use 40,000 soldiers for 4,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners for 4,000 battle losses.

Because for Zhang Xuan, only if he is given a little time to recover, he can afford to lose 400,000, but how much can the Qing Army lose in the Eight Banners?

In such a victory in Niuzhuang, the Qing army could not fight ten times.