Chapter 15: The Battle of Niuzhuang

Knowing that the Xia army retreated. Azig would never feel that Zheng Chenggong would stop there. Instead, he knew that Zheng Chenggong had another direction of attack.

As for what place it was, Azig also judged it for a while, but after this battle, he understood one thing more and more, that is, the northerners are good at horses, and the southerners are good at ships, and they don't use their weaknesses to fight for the opponent's strengths.

No, if it is really a narrow road and the two armies face each other, although the Qing army has a headache for the Xia army's tight military formation. But the Xia army didn't feel incomprehensible to the cavalry of the Qing army, and what really made the Qing army feel helpless was the strength of the Xia army's sailors. But it broke the balance between the two sides.

Azig couldn't think of any way to solve such a situation.

He could only pin his hopes on one other person, and that person was Dorgon.

Although he has been parting ways with Dolgon in his heart, there is a fact that he has to admit that the two younger brothers of Dorgon and Dorgon are better than him.

Otherwise, Dolgon would have been the leader of the trio, not him.

It's one thing to be unconvinced, but the reality has to admit it.

Azig let the army slowly withdraw, and then hurried back to Shenyang, intending to join Dolgon. But I didn't want to just come to Liaoyang and find that Dolgon was already in Liaoyang.

It's just that Dolgon's news in Liaoyang, don't say that Xia Jun doesn't know, even Azig doesn't know, he only knew about it when he came to Liaoyang City.

And the whole of Liaoyang was also under martial law, because the Xia army was approaching Lianshan Pass. It is necessary to transfer troops from Liaoyang to support.

Azig saw Dolgon, took off his helmet, put it on the table, and said, "Old Nine, what are you going to do?" ”

Dolgon soothed Azig and said, "Wait." ”

"Wait ----" Azig's voice suddenly became louder, and he didn't know if he was angry with Dolgon, or if he was angry with himself, and said: "This Liaodong was left by Ama to our brothers, and it was ravaged by the Zheng family like this compared to other places?" ”

Dorgon said, "Starling, do you remember falling into a trap when you were a child? A little sweetness must be given for the prey to take the bait. If you want to catch Zheng Laohu, you have to be patient. ”

Azig listened, a little surprised. He also knows his brother well. At the beginning, Huang Taiji commented on Dolgon, smart, but not qualitative, it is the characteristics of smart people, many people are too smart, but they don't have the determination to persevere. When you encounter something, you want to take advantage of it.

But there are many things that cannot be taken lightly.

It's just that today's Dolgon is different from the Dolgon of the past, Dolgon was still a teenager back then, and at this moment Dolgon was also polished out by the wind and rain while taking charge of the Qing Dynasty. especially

In the face of the offensive of the Southern Dynasties, the Qing army fell into disadvantage little by little.

Dorgon could see it clearly, but there was no way about it, this dilemma. But it was a taste that Dorgon had not tasted in his previous life.

Even today's Dolgon is more capable than the Dolgon of history.

In many cases, friend and foe are mutually beneficial.

What kind of person you are, you can know by looking at your opponents.

Dolgon didn't make any mistakes in the face of Zhang Xuan's opponent. In the face of many policies of the Xia Dynasty, they are also catching up. It can be that the stubborn disease planted by the Qing court from the time of the old slave limited him, which is the Eight Banners and the contradiction between the Manchus and the Han.

There was nothing Dolgon could do about such a fundamental problem.

There is almost nothing to be done, after all, people cannot kill themselves. Therefore, if the force of the Eight Banners can suppress all problems, then there will be no problems at all. But now Eight Banners can't suppress all the problems. However, if the Eight Banners are not moved, most of the problems can still be suppressed, but if the Eight Banners are moved, it is estimated that the current situation cannot be maintained.

Faced with this question, Dorgon didn't know how many sleepless nights he had. He has already sharpened his heart.

Therefore, Dorgon's ability is the choice of the world's famous generals. After all, Zheng Chenggong is a little bit of a halfway monk compared to Dolgon, unlike Dolgon, who rode sheep and shot rabbits when he was a child, and when he was a little older, he followed the old slave to fight. Step by step. This kind of precipitation is far better than Zheng Chenggong.

Many times, clever strategies cannot be concealed.

For example, Dolgon's method is very simple, it is clear that it is to lure the enemy deep and lure Zheng Chenggong away from the coastline.

But in many cases, the easiest way is the most effective way.

Occupy Liaodong, occupy the land of Longxing of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and cut off the national fortunes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop. After all, if the Manchus can't even protect the land of Longxing, who believes that the Manchus and Great Xia can go to the end in the competition.

Sometimes it doesn't matter whether one person believes it or not, but 10,000, 100,000 people, millions, tens of millions of people believe it or not, it is a huge force.

With such a bait, Zheng Chenggong naturally couldn't help it.

But Zheng Chenggong did not think that the Qing army had the intention of luring the enemy, but if a general like Zheng Chenggong was very confident.

If you don't even believe in yourself, how can you lead an army?

Therefore, he is confident that with a sailor to take care of the back road, even if the Qing army has millions of iron horses, what can he do? Can't you rush into the Liao River? So when Zheng Chenggong returned to Jinzhou Wei to repair and opened up the direct channel from the south to the Jinzhou Zhongwei Station, in this way, the supply of the army was not only dependent on North Korea.

Immediately, Zheng Chenggong's army went north by boat and entered the Liao River

, but within a day or two, I arrived at Niuzhuang Station.

It would be wrong to say that the Qing army did not attach importance to Niuzhuangyi. There were thousands of men and horses stationed in Niuzhuangyi, but in the face of the tens of thousands of troops of the Xia army, especially the bombardment of dozens of cannons, the Qing army had to abandon Niuzhuangyi, but the Qing army did not retreat too far, just retreated a few miles and set up camp. And Pegasus reported to Azig.

Azig consulted with Dolgon, and Azig led the men and horses of his headquarters who had retreated from Gaizhou Wei to attack immediately, and set up camp not far east of the Liao River.

It seems that this is another remake of the Battle of Golden State Guard.

The Qing army did not dare to approach the Liao River, because there were Xia army's warships in the Liao River. The Hongyi cannon has a range of several miles, and if you get too close, you will be bombarded by the Hongyi cannon, and you can't fight back just by being beaten, which is really demoralizing.

But Zheng Chenggong had no intention of taking the initiative.

But he wholeheartedly strengthened the Niuzhuang Station, as if he wanted to stay in the Niuzhuang Station for a long time.

Azig watched tens of thousands of them start together, a city, a few cities, like spring shoots, one is Niuzhuang City, and the other is Yingkou City at the mouth of the sea. Between Niuzhuang and Yingkou, there are several small cities and beacon towers. It seems to establish a chain along the Liao River that penetrates deep into Liaodong.

Zheng Chenggong also knew that with the climate of Liaodong, in winter, the weather was cold and frozen, maybe the Liaohe River water transportation would not be passable, and then these cities would easily fall into siege, maybe the defenders would be slaughtered, but if you look at it from a higher place.

I know that although there is a lot of investment in fighting in Liaodong, the Qing army has invested more.

Not to mention anything else, just with the climate of Liaodong, when the weather is cold and the ground is freezing, how big the losses in the siege war are, it can be seen from the first battle of Seoul that the Korean soldiers are unbearable, but they can still hold for more than a month, and there are enough troops, food, gunpowder, artillery, to hold for several months, it is not inconceivable.

The most important thing is that the Qing army had to shed blood in these places.

It's like a wound.

Zhang Xuan's overall strategy for the Qing Dynasty, although he did not say it explicitly, Zheng Chenggong was also one of the top leaders of the Xia Army. There is also speculation about this, that is, to hurt the enemy with this.

There are hundreds of thousands of Eight Banners, and the number of Eight Banners also limits the strength of the Green Battalion. Coupled with the withering people's livelihood in the north, Zhang Xuan only needs to work hard to restore the people's livelihood and increase the weight of the Qing army little by little. This kind of contest in national strength, the Qing army will not be able to support it one day.

Then will be the time for the Great Northern Expedition.

It's just that no one knows exactly when this node is.

But the general idea is the same.

Don't say it, if a few cities are exchanged for more than 10,000 elite casualties of the Qing army, Zhang Xuan will not hesitate to decide, especially now that there is North Korea, the source of soldiers. Zheng Chenggong didn't care even more.