Chapter 40: Huang Taiji's Calculations

Huang Taiji sat on the soft couch and wiped his nose from time to time, this guy may be too lustful, afraid that he can't satisfy the concubines in the harem, so he takes too much supplement, ginseng and deer antler velvet and other hot things eat too much, this time begins to bleed from time to time Nosebleeds, and can't stop, the medical officer can't see what disease he has, in short, this expedition comes, there will be nosebleeds from time to time along the way, and the amount is not small, there is no way to completely stop it, Huang Taiji can only go all the way, wipe all the way, make him annoyed.

After listening to the arguments of the generals in the big tent, Huang Taiji also summed up in his mind, and all kinds of thoughts were circling in his mind, and he gradually had a certain idea.

So after waiting for everyone to discuss for a while, Huang Taiji made up his mind, and sat up right very majestically, this guy is a super fat man, weighing more than 300 pounds now, the whole fat is about the same as a pig, sitting there like a mountain of meat, but it is quite majestic, since he succeeded to the throne, this wrist is really powerful, first took the two yellow flags of Azig and Duoduo and Dolgon, and then began to toss the eight banners of the divisions, and then divided, and together, and later abolished Amin and Mang Gurtai, Huang Taiji launched the rebellion of the three brothers and sisters of Mangde, annexed the Zhenglan Banner, and divided the Zhenglan Banner and the Zhenghuang Banner into two after the mixing of the Zhenglan Banner and the Zhenghuang Banner, which was personally commanded by himself, and also divided a part of the Niu Lu to Haoge Zhuangli, and Haoge's inlaid yellow flag became the Zhenglan Banner, in short, the tossed brothers were all frightened and afraid of him, so he was indeed very majestic at this time.

As soon as everyone saw that Huang Taiji was going to speak, they were all shocked, and Huang Taiji nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, this Shanhaiguan is not very easy to fight, but it is not easy to fight, after all, this pass is not restrained, it is like a fish thorn that makes us like a fish in the throat, so we can't give up Shanhaiguan without fighting!"

But just to fight Shanhaiguan, we have so many troops here, and we can't use it, but we can consider the strategy of dividing the troops, attacking the pass from other places, whether it is to fight the Shanhaiguan here, or if you can't beat it, you only need to attack the pass all the way on both sides, then this pass is not so important!

Now the whole army is placed here to confront the Xingtian Army and the Ming Army guarding the pass, and the daily consumption of grain is innumerable, so it is necessary to divide the troops into the customs to feed the war with food. ”

What Huang Taiji said is not false at all, he mobilized so many soldiers and horses to the south this time, with the current state of their Great Qing Dynasty, supplying so many soldiers and horses to eat horses and chew horses, it will not last long at all, and recently because the Xingtian Army cut off the canal, in addition to choking the neck of the Ming court, it also cut off the supply of goods for the Ming merchants who came and went with them Jiannu, so that these Ming merchants who colluded with them could no longer transport grain to the outside of the customs.

Although Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne, he eased the contradictions between the Han and Jurchens outside the Guan, and restored the agricultural production of Liaodong to a certain extent, but it was far from enough to meet their needs for various materials in the Guan, and the actions of the Xingtian Army undoubtedly threatened their survival, which was another important reason why he was so eager to go south to enter the Guan.

The 200,000 troops are piled up in the area from Shanhaiguan to Qiantunwei, the daily consumption is huge, it is an astronomical amount, others do not consider this matter, he Huang Taiji has to consider this matter, although when they go out, these banner soldiers have to carry some food to meet their needs, but after all, everyone has limited food, he Qing Emperor is responsible for supplying the soldiers to eat and drink, once there is no food, their Qing soldiers and horses will not be able to fight, then the consequences will be very severe, once the time of food shortage, Not to mention knocking on the pass and entering to seize the land of Yanyun, I am afraid that there will be serious problems in maintaining his rule outside the pass.

The Mongols were only temporarily suppressed by him, if they didn't give them food to eat, these Mongolian tribes would not listen to him at all, as for those Han army flags, although the banner owners were very obedient, but the people below them were not necessarily loyal to him Daqing, but now they were forced to follow them to do things, once they saw the weakness of their Daqing, these Han people saw the rise of the Dazhong army, so maybe they would rebel against his Daqing State again, and throw themselves into the Dazhong Dynasty of Xiao Xingtian.

So this time he gathered a large army to go south, it was also a last resort, out of the land of coveting Yanyun, but also to fight for the survival of his Great Qing Kingdom, if he could not take the land of Yanyun within half a year, and defeat the Great Zhong Army, then he was afraid that the whole Qing Kingdom would be hungry, and there would definitely be a great famine in Liaodong, and then his Great Qing Kingdom would be in danger.

So after listening to Huang Taiji's words, these Jiannu chieftains also nodded yes, thinking that Huang Taiji was right, and asked Huang Taiji to have an idea, what to do next.

So Huang Taiji thought about it, then ordered Dolgon and Duoduo to continue to lead the troops to attack Shanhaiguan, in addition to their two flags, but also the Han army in the Han army flag inlaid with the yellow flag, the red flag, and the blue flag of the Han army to be under the command of Dolgon, so that the blue flag Li Shutai, the yellow flag Liu Zhiyuan, the red flag Wu Shoujin and other Han army banner owners obeyed his dispatch, and at the same time ordered the Mongolian eight banners to also belong to him, mobilize many cannons, attack Shanhaiguan, in order to strive for an early victory over Shanhaiguan.

At the same time, he ordered Abatai and Haoge to lead a group of men and horses, with Abatai as the marshal of the right army, and divided their troops to the west along the line of the Ming Great Wall to seek another way to enter the pass, and divided their troops to break through the pass and enter the pass, distracting the attention of the Ming army and the Dazhong army.

Huang Taiji is a very smart person, can even be said to be a far-sighted person, after seeing the appearance of the Shanhaiguan Dazhong Army, he expected that there will be more Dazhong Army will rush to Shanhaiguan in the next step, so once the two sides form a confrontation here, a long-term stalemate is very unfavorable for him in the Qing Dynasty, that Xiao Xingtian has now laid down Huguang, Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Sichuan and other most prosperous regions of the Ming Dynasty, in Yingtianfu Nanjing announced the founding of the country and enthroned the emperor, the establishment of the Dazhong Dynasty, then he went north along the Grand Canal, can be through the Grand Canal to the south of the grain and various material resources to the north in a steady stream, so they have a more solid material foundation, but their Qing Dynasty, but can only rely on the "barren" Liaodong land, to supply their army, a long-term stalemate, in the end only he Qing suffers, so he must enter the customs as soon as possible to rely on looting, to meet the needs of his army.

And Huang Taiji's scheming is very deep, knowing that Shanhaiguan is not easy to fight now, but he still let Dolgon, Duoduo and them go to Shanhaiguan, on the surface, it seems that he is very important and trusting Dolgon, in fact, he is still playing behind the tricks, wanting to let Dolgon and Duoduo consume the strength of the two white flags under their command in Shanhaiguan, one day in the future when he Huang Taiji hiccups, Dolgon and his son Haoge compete for the throne of the Qing Dynasty, so his trick is very yin, Dolgon has to take it, and if he doesn't take it, he has to take it, He Huang Taiji sat in front of the guard, staring behind Dolgon, and Dolgon could only fight to the death at Shanhaiguan.

On the other hand, he ordered Abatai and Hauge to lead troops to break through the pass from other places, obviously he knew that other places were easier to break through than Shanhaiguan, and the credit for entering the customs first would not fall on Dolgon's head, and he let Abatai be the right, and his son Hauge would be supplemented, once he lost, the blame would be on Abatai, and Hauge would not be implicated, but if he had merit, Hauge would be able to share a lot of credit, and it would undoubtedly be of great help to stabilize Haoge's position in the Qing Kingdom in the future.

Huang Taiji can be described as an old treacherous and cunning person, everything has been calculated by him, in short, he has an idea, not only to enter the customs to seize the world, but also to find a way to weaken the strength of the three Dolgon brothers, so that they will not become an obstacle to Hauge's succession in the future.

At the same time, he also has a very sinister intention, that is, for these Han army flags, in fact, Huang Taiji is not very trusting of these Han army flags, those flag owners are okay to say, they have no way back, over the years, they have followed his father wild boar skin and him, slaughtered a lot of Han people, it is impossible to turn back, but who can keep those Han soldiers under their command, there will be no disagreement at all?

Although this war emperor Taiji thinks that he has a great chance, but this kind of thing is sometimes similar to gambling, not necessarily every time they build slaves, they can win, if they fail this time, then the Han people in these Han army banners are a big hidden danger, including those Mongolians, will no longer listen to their Jiannu dispatch, so he has to guard against this in advance, as far as possible to consume these Mongolians and Han soldiers of the Han army banner first, let them charge for Jiannu, if they die, as long as he can win the battle, then he can want as much as he wants, and he can re-replenish these Han army flags at any time, the Mongols side, in his opinion, it is good to be dead, and they are restless in the province! But once they lose, these Han and Mongols will almost die anyway, and if they have different intentions, it will be better to clean them up when the time comes.

So Huang Taiji seemed to be a simple arrangement, but everyone was calculated, all in all, he made all the preparations, on the one hand, he wanted to continue to consolidate his and his son Haoge's position in the Great Qing Kingdom, weaken the strength of the three Dolgon brothers, and on the other hand, he also wanted to take the land of Yanyun into the hands of their Jiannu.