Chapter 181: Dolgon's Determination

Messaging in this day and age is problematic. Just when Zhang Xuan was preparing to make a big eastward expedition to Nanjing. Dolgon saw the whole battlefield.

Of course, Dolgon's eyes are not limited to the Jiangnan region. It is a battle line that stretches for tens of thousands of miles between Qing and Xia. When Dolgon came, his face was a little pale, and he sat down on the Taishi's chair, sighing slightly in his heart. This situation made him understand one thing.

That is, from Taizu Taizong to him, if he wants to destroy the Ming Dynasty, the trend of dominating the world will end everywhere.

The fatal flaw of the Qing army was that it was a small clan and a large country. In vain, as long as they have accumulated many years of victory, they will vent their victory. Let everyone in the world know that the Manchu Qing was not invincible. It's hard to dominate the world anymore.

Even in history, after Li Dingguo's two famous kings, the prestige of the Qing court was hit, and there was a wave of anti-Qing upsurge at that time.

Not to mention now.

"The trend of dividing the world has become a trend." Dorgon was a little disappointed, but not too disappointed. After all, the Qing court was able to develop from a small country to the present, from Mobei in the north to Yumen in the west. South to Yunnan and Guizhou, middle to the Yangtze River, east and the sea, oceanic, tens of thousands of miles of a large country, such a situation, is also when they are in Shenyang, just to think, few people can think that one day, they really did it.

Even now, among the Jingshi, there are many princes and nobles who have the idea of accepting it when they see it.

However, any strategy has inertia.

Although the Qing army was apprehensive, when it continued to fight and found that the Southern Dynasty was vulnerable, it would naturally breed ambitions, and now it has encountered a hard bone. But I had another idea.

Dolgon immediately realized that it was time to adjust the strategic direction of the Qing army.

In the past, they had formulated strategies to conquer the world, but now they had to maintain a balance of power with the Southern Dynasties. It would have been better if it could overwhelm the Southern Dynasty, but it basically dispelled the idea of dominating the world, especially the series of lists that Duoduo had reported. Dolgon still pressed and didn't announce it.

The reason is very simple, he doesn't know how to face the cries in the inner city of Beijing.

It's just a cover-up.

Although he also knows that this is not the way. Since the main force of the Eight Banners started its troops, this time it has suffered the most losses. It can be said that it hurts the muscles and bones.

The shaking of the Eight Banners made Dolgon have to think about whether it is possible to rely on the Eight Banners alone to support the situation of the world? The armed forces of the Qing army, the most fundamental is the Eight Banners, and then the Liaodong Army, which is mostly incorporated into the Han Army Banner, and then the periphery, is the Ganshan Army. Most of them were the former Ming surrender army. And then there's it

He is a local miscellaneous army.

"The Eight Banners must retreat from the main battle force." Dolgon secretly said in his heart: "We must organize and train the Han army." That is, the Green Battalion. ”

In fact, the Green Battalion already exists, but it has not yet been put on the national strategy. The so-called green battalion soldiers are the surrendered troops of the Qing army in the middle of the world. With the battalion as a unit, they all use green flags, which are different from the eight flags. I don't know that the Eight Banners have used up all the colors, and they can only use the green flag when they get to the green camp.

It is not known whether there are other insulting connotations.

But at this time, the green camp as a whole is not much valued. In the late Shunzhi period, the Green Battalion received more and more attention, and in the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories, more than 400,000 Green Battalion soldiers were mobilized, and it can be said that the main force to quell the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories was the Green Battalion.

Now this battle has made Dolgon notice this in advance, so that the Green Battalion may land on the battlefield on a large scale in advance. In this way, the Qing army's lack of troops will be alleviated.

In the future, Zhang Xuan will probably face the Manchu court, even if they kill the last green battalion soldiers, they will never give in. And in the bitter cold land of the nine sides, without the support of Jiangnan materials, these border soldiers must have lived a more miserable life.

You must know that a large part of the transportation of millions of stones every year is to support the grain and grass of the nine sides. Although in the late Ming Dynasty, these grains and grasses drifted more and more. But even if it is gone, there is still a little, and now that the Cao Yun is cut off, hundreds of thousands of Manchu families in Beijing still have to be fed.

As a result, there is a huge food deficit in the Northland.

It is the people of the north who suffer.

In order to eat a mouthful of food, it is indispensable for people who want to be soldiers. In this way, the Qing army had a steady stream of soldiers.

Of course, there was still a lot of work to be done in this scenario. For example, to win over the nine-sided generals left by the Ming Dynasty, they also have to share their share politically, as long as they stand with the Manchus and win their support.

Only these hundreds of thousands of green battalion soldiers can be controlled by the Qing court.

Dolgon didn't think it was too difficult, for the simple reason that if you stare into the abyss, the abyss will also stare at you. As far as the old slave itself is concerned, even if he puts gold on his body, he can't wash away the old slave Li Chengliang's background.

That is, they have a great resemblance to the border generals.

Some historians have said that the border army of the Ming Dynasty and the Mongols confronted each other for hundreds of years and influenced each other. A special kind of social community is formed. And the start of the old slave is inseparable from this special social group.

In an instant, Dolgon came up with a large-scale flag raising and dropped all the gates into the Han army flag. Or add a Han concubine to the little emperor in the palace.

What the? You say that Manchu and Han are not allowed to intermarry? Sorry, at least the Qing court is here

There are not so many rules that are broken at the time. And for Dorgon, even if there was such a rule, it could not be abolished.

In addition to this, Dorgon decided to send an envoy to the Southern Dynasty after the war had subsided. Negotiate peace with the Southern Dynasties.

Of course, peace negotiation is only a pretense, and it would be good if it could be negotiated, and the things that Dorgon wanted to do would take years to adjust. It is already impossible to immediately move troops to the south. If you can't negotiate peace, you have to see what kind of person Zhang Xuan is.

Dolgon had a hunch that Zhang Xuan had been his enemy for a long time.

If you add a term to this long time, it will probably be a lifetime. He had attached great importance to Zhang Xuan before, and he would pay more attention to it in the future, and if possible, Dolgon even wanted to figure out how much Zhang Xuan ate every day, how many times he went out, and how many bubbles of urine he sprinkled.

In the turn of the grand strategy, Dolgon's instructions for specific battles were also issued.

He first gave Wu Sangui an order, explained the current situation to Wu Sangui, and once again emphasized Wu Sangui's right to act cheaply. It's almost impossible to crown Wu Sangui as the king of Shu.

Because Dolgon has already felt that the whip on Sichuan is beyond his reach. All the armies in Sichuan are Wu Sangui's old department, so let Wu Sangui toss. As long as Wu Sangui does not fall to the opposite side, as for whether Wu Sangui will fall to the Xia army, Dolgon has no confidence, so he can only comfort him more.

On the whole, Dolgon did not have much hope for Wu Sangui.

And then there was King Zheng Jilharang.

He strictly ordered Zilharang to come to Xiangyang again, no matter what the price was.

This has some meaning of encircling Wei to save Zhao. Strengthen the pressure on the Xia army in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to relieve the pressure on the Qing army downstream.

When he arrived at the most important battlefield in Jiangnan, Dolgon thought about it, and finally issued an order that he was unwilling to give but had to give, that is, to abandon Jiangnan and withdraw the whole army to Jiangbei. Since Dolgon judged that the battle between Xia and Qing would inevitably confront the two powers, the war might be prolonged, and it was very possible that the war would last for more than a hundred years.

Under such circumstances, in this almost certain battle, investing a large number of troops will outweigh the losses.

Duoduo wanted to leave a bridgehead in Jiangnan. But what Dorgon wanted was to keep the elite forces for the future. Between the two, Dorgon's vision and courage were still superior to those of Duo. Duoduo may not be unaware of this, but the decision to abandon the whole of Jiangnan is abandoned. He seems to have decided that something he can't afford.

After all, Jiangnan is too important.

Dolgon's order was rushed from Beijing to Hezhou for 800 miles, and soon reached Duoduo and Azig. It's just that whether this order can be carried out is unknown.