Chapter 240: The Slave Chief's Ghost Fetus
Xiao Tianjian's worries finally became a fact, and when Xiao Tianjian led the army to attack Nanzhili all the way, it can be said that the important people in the entire Qing Kingdom paid attention to the war in the south of the Ming Dynasty.
The rise of Jiannu can be said to be inseparable from the traitors, some Jin merchants and some officials behind them, for their own selfish interests through the Zhangjiakou area, have never stopped exporting various materials to the outside of the customs, and for the sake of small profits, willing to be a Tartar spies, out of a steady stream of materials needed for Jiannu through various ways to transport to the outside of the customs to earn gold and silver, but also a steady stream of various information to the Ming Dynasty to Jiannu, so the Jiannu side never has to worry, will not understand the situation of the Ming Dynasty.
In addition, after the rise of the Xingtianjun in Jinnan, because Xiao Tianjian hated these traitors who colluded with Jiannu, he repeatedly opposed these merchants who colluded with Jianyuan from the beginning, constantly attacked and robbed and robbed their goods, and often attacked and killed the caravans of these merchants, so these businessmen who colluded with Jiannu can be said to have hated Xingtianjun and Xiao Tianjian for a long time, so they stared at the situation of Xingtianjun even more intensively, and constantly transmitted the news of Xingtianjun to their masters outside the gate.
Originally, a few years ago, Jiannu did not pay much attention to the Xingtian Army, and only regarded the Xingtian Army as one of the many rogues within the Ming Dynasty, and did not take the Xingtian Army in his eyes at all, but at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji sent troops to send Prince Rui Dolgon and Yue Tuo to knock on the pass and enter the south, but they never expected that in the land of Jingfu, they encountered the elite and fierce resistance of the Xingtian Army led by Xiao Tianjian.
Whether it is Dolgon and Yue Tuo, they all suffered Xiao Tianjian's big losses in the land of Daming Jingfu, and all the banners that entered the army with the army suffered losses to a greater or lesser extent, and even the red flag under Du Du was even more dangerous for the whole army to be wiped out in the hands of the Xingtian Army, and several Mongolian Eight Banners that went south with the army also suffered heavy losses, and on the whole, the southward loss of nearly 10,000 or 20,000 Jiannu troops was unprecedented, which shocked the Jiannu up and down, and at the same time hated Xiao Tianjian and the Xingtian Army under his command.
That time, if it wasn't for the Ming Dynasty making a wrong decision, in the end, for the sake of face, Zhu Youzhen of Ming Sizong not only did not allow the official army to cooperate with the Xingtian Army to deal with Jiannu, but on the contrary, he also strictly ordered the officials from all over the Jingfu not to provide any materials to the Xingtian Army, and even wanted to take advantage of that opportunity to exterminate Xiao Tianjian and the elite of the Xingtian Army under his command in the land of Jingfu, but in the end, Gao Qiqian and many officials and soldiers who were the executors were too bad, not only could they not exterminate Xiao Tianjian and the elite of the Xingtian Army under his command, On the contrary, under the sharp edge of the Xingtian Army, the defeated and lost the soldiers, and finally not only lost tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, but also caused the Ming Dynasty important minister Lu Xiangsheng to defect to Xiao Tianjian, and even Zhu Youzhen's eunuch Gao Qiqian, who was regarded as his confidant, was also captured by Xiao Tianjian.
And Zuo Liangyu, the southern general of the Ming Dynasty, was also ordered to take advantage of the main elite of the Xingtian Army to go north to fight against the Jiannu Army, and suddenly sent heavy troops to attack Henan controlled by the Xingtian Army at that time, conquered Nanyang Mansion, and created the Nanyang Massacre, Xiao Tianjian was forced to retreat, in order to return to protect the territory of the Xingtian Army, and finally led his troops to evacuate Jingfu and gave up the pursuit of the Jiannu Army, and finally made the Jiannu Army easily enter Shandong, and defeated Jinan Mansion, after a full plunder, withdrew from the Guanwai.
If it weren't for Emperor Ming's stupid move, Dolgon felt scared when he thought about it, and he didn't know if he and Yue Tuo could be pursued by the Xingtian Army and smoothly retreat to Guanwai safely, but later Yue Tuo fell ill in bed not long after returning to Guanwai, and died on the way back to Shengjing not long after.
At the end of the eleventh year and the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the Jiannu army went south to enter the Kou, the Xingtian Army caused great losses to the Jiannu army, and at the same time, their fierce tactics and strong fighting spirit also made the Jiannu shudder when they thought about it, forming a certain shadow psychologically.
At the same time, after that entry into the Kou, some Mongolian tribes that had already bowed down to the Jurchen Tartars also appeared unstable, many Mongolian Tartars from that time into the Kou, saw that among the Ming people, there are still quite strong people, psychologically no longer so afraid of the Jurchen Tartars, so some Mongolian tribes began to waver, and even secretly sent people to the northern Jin Dynasty to hook up with the Xingtian Army.
Even the Korean state, which had already been conquered by them, began to become a little less submissive after learning about the war situation of the Jiannu invasion from various sources.
Therefore, the battle at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, on the surface, the Jiannu army finally succeeded in looting a large number of property, gold and slaves from the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and won an unprecedented victory, but that was only a unilateral matter for the Ming Dynasty.
After the Jiannu army came out of the customs in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji and the various princes and ministers of the Jiannu Dynasty all hated the Xingtian Army, but they were all a little afraid of the Xingtian Army, on the one hand, they wanted to re-suppress the Mongolian tribes that had begun to warp their tails, forcing these Mongolian tribes to submit to them again, and at the same time, they also had to put pressure on the Korean state to force the Korean state to be honest again.
In addition, in the battle against the Xingtian Army, except for the three banners that did not go out to Zhenghuang and Huang, the rest of the banners suffered losses to varying degrees, especially the red flags were even more heavy, and they had to return to the outside of the customs to replenish the people, so that Jiannu could no longer afford to go south to enter the Kou in a short period of time.
Huang Taiji is actually a very smart person, no one can deny this, although that entry into the Kou, to a certain extent, weakened the threat of Dolgon's fierce rival to his throne, which made him very satisfied, but he knew very well that he could not easily move Dolgon, so after Dolgon led the army out of the customs, he was not punished for losing to the Xingtian Army, and Huang Taiji also comforted him with warm words, or stabilized the internal situation of Jiannu.
He soon carried out a large-scale pressure campaign against the Mongol tribes, killing a group of unobedient Mongols in a few months, and re-stabilizing the Mongol tribes.
At the same time, Huang Taiji once again took the initiative to show favor to the Ming Dynasty, expressed his willingness to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty, and swore that in the future, they would always marry the Qin and Jin Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and never attack each other again.
Huang Taiji through the Ming and Qing Dynasty peace talks, it can be said that he made a lot of money, and without much effort, he put Jinzhou, which they repeatedly wanted to occupy but failed to occupy, into his pocket, and at the same time justifiably and the Ming Emperor was on an equal footing, and his emperor status was officially recognized by the Ming Dynasty from the legal theory.
Huang Taiji did this in fact, the reason is very simple, he has already passed the last time he entered the prison, and he can see that the Xingtian Army is likely to become a big enemy of their Jiannu in the future, and he is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty at this time, and he is holding back a large number of Ming elite soldiers in the north, isn't that equivalent to helping the Xingtian Army, a future rival?
So he temporarily formed an alliance with the Ming Dynasty in the form of peace negotiation, and temporarily liberated the elite officers and soldiers in the north of the Ming Dynasty from the threat of their Jiannu army, so that they could be transferred into the pass by Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Sizong to deal with the Xingtian Army, which is the best of both worlds for them Jiannu, he can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, watch the Han people of the Ming Dynasty and the Xingtian Army kill each other, and he can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman.
If the Ming Dynasty can defeat the Xingtian Army through this peace negotiation, it will undoubtedly solve a potential enemy for him, and Xiao Tianjian of the Provincial Xingtian Army will enter the Central Plains in the future and make them enemies of the Qing Dynasty! also psychologically got rid of the fear of Jiannu for the Xingtian Army!
If the Ming official army fails to exterminate the Xingtian Army after entering the customs, then in his opinion, there will definitely be a large-scale war between the Ming official army and the Xingtian army, and the two sides will fight down, even if the Xingtian army wins, it will suffer heavy losses, so that the strength of both the Ming Dynasty and the Xingtian army will be weakened, and if he wants to wave his army into the customs in the future, there will be a lot less trouble.
Moreover, the Ming court transferred a large number of Guanning troops into the Guannei, and the northern convenience was empty, which created very good conditions for him to break through the pass and enter the Kou in the future, and saved him a lot of trouble.
Therefore, Huang Taiji's move can be said to be extremely damaging, but it has to be said that he made a very wise choice to do so, so after reaching a peace agreement with Daming, Huang Taiji strictly ordered all banner owners not to attack Daming for the time being, and fully give Daming some time, so that Daming can transfer the Guanning Army into the customs to deal with the Xingtian Army.
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