Chapter 489. fence-sitter
A blood-colored remnant sun fell brilliantly to the west, the bright red sunlight stained this battlefield red, the conspicuous ground, the corpses, the blood was all covered inside, one by one potholes, as if filled with blood.
For six consecutive days, the Qing army failed to go further, and Kong Youde was like a reckless man, resisting the advance of the Qing army at a distance of 400 meters outside the city. The dug trench was riddled with heavy stone projectiles thrown at a large elevation angle, and the soldiers who went up to dig the trench were killed and wounded, and the blood even coagulated into a blood pit at the bottom of the pit, and the corpses could not be cleaned up even if they were thrown into the ditch.
The Eight Banners Army, which charged hand-to-hand combat, launched a total of eight large-scale attacks in the past six days, each of which was repulsed under the interweaving of artillery fire and bayonets.
There was no room for resistance, and the impression of the comrades who were fiercely stabbed in the chest by several bayonets and screamed miserably before dying was too deeply engraved in my mind.
Watching his troops retreat, riding on the Baolong Horse, Huang Taiji's face under the umbrella of Huang Luo was ugly tight, put away the binoculars, and a red blood stain spread on his white beard, just a few days than the Songjin War more than a hundred days ago, Huang Taiji is more than ten years old, described as withered like an old man who is about to die.
"Your Majesty! Pass on the Imperial Doctor!"
"No need!"
Fan Wencheng was full of anxiety and wanted to shout, but before he finished speaking, Huang Taiji was already slapping.
"It's an old problem, and it's useless for the doctor to come! Isn't there any news on the prairie side? ”
Fan Wencheng's heart is still hanging high, not to mention the battlefield at this time, at this time, the Great Qing Kingdom is all hanging on Huang Taiji alone, just the attitude towards the Han people, the Manchu ministers and Baylor banner owners are not more kind than him, once Huang Taiji has three long and two short, he doesn't know whether the Great Qing Kingdom exists or not, and the status of these Han ministers who are slaves must have plummeted.
Fifteen buckets of water in his heart, seven up and eight down, replied that Fan Wencheng still didn't dare to slack off a little, and replied hurriedly.
"The news just came, eleven days ago, Hu Erhan, the minister of the Imperial Court, had already urged all ministries to meet the alliance and send troops from Naturalization City, and it is estimated that it will be almost to the Liao River this time."
"Good! Good! Good! cough cough cough cough ......"
After three good times in a row, he coughed violently again, which showed that Huang Taiji was excited, and the coughing emperor actually turned over and jumped off the horse, and the panicked Fan Wencheng hurriedly patted him on the back and shouted hurriedly: "Pass the imperial doctor!" Doctor!"
This time he didn't refuse again, while letting him walk back with his support, Huang Taiji covered his nose with a nosebleed, and still ordered in a hurried tone: "Let Zierharang personally go to greet him, as long as he repels the attack of the Dongjiang Army this time, everything he gets in Jilin Ula and Kuanchengzi will all belong to him, and I don't want a penny, and the next time I enter the customs, I will capture six gold, silver, people and animals, and I will be the third in the Qing Dynasty!"
"This ......"
"That's it!"
Seeing that Huang Taiji's attitude was so resolute, Fan Wencheng didn't dare to distinguish anymore, so he could only kowtow heavily.
"Slaves obey!"
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The dignified Qing Dynasty finally fell to the point where it could only count on the Mongols, and Mao Jue had indeed forced Huang Taiji to the point of difficulty. But in other words, Mongolia has indeed been a staunch ally of the Qing state, and at this time, it has enough power to influence the tide of the war.
The dull horse's hooves galloped fiercely on the grassland, although it was no longer the Mongolia that gave birth to Genghis Khan and conquered the world's 200,000 iron horsemen, but it is rare that the tribes that have feuded for hundreds of years are united together, and the people and horses are still very considerable, led by the Tumut Department of the Naturalized City, gathering Inner Khalkha, Karaqin, Zarut, and Ao Han, Naiman, Uzhumuqin, Sunit and other departments under Chahar gathered together as many as 60,000 people, and the troops who acted together were as high as 200,000, If you look at it from the sky, the whole grassland is covered in a layer of gray and a huge white, which is the vast flock of sheep of dozens of tribes.
In the seventh year of Chongzhen, in the name of resisting the tyranny of Lin Dan Khan, Huang Taiji officially intervened in Mongolian affairs, drove Lin Dan Khan out of Monan, and drove him to the Qinghai steppe.
Thinking that Lin Dan Khan showed off his strength to Huang Taiji's father Nurhachi, he once called the lord of 400,000 Mongolians to ask the king of 30,000 people on the waterfront, but in the end, he was defeated and died in a foreign land, and the title of the lord of 400,000 Mongolia was also taken away by Nurhachi's son, which was indeed a great mockery for Lin Dan Khan.
It's just that the reason for the defeat of Lin Dan Khan back then, Huang Taiji still had to face it after seizing this position, that is, after the collapse of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian tribes that were forcibly unified by Genghis Khan fell apart again, and the Ming Dynasty has not produced a strong man like Genghis Khan for more than two hundred years. Only then did they assemble at the urging of the Minister of the Imperial Court, Hu Erhan.
And not all the tribes followed, the most troops were actually the worst beaten by Houjin, and the most tightly controlled Chahar Department, led by Ezhe, the eldest son of Lin Dan Khan, who was released to Chahar last year, sent a total of more than 27,000 troops, followed by 10,000 Tumut, Zalut, Karaqin plus 15,000 or 6,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest were patched together by various small tribes, and at least 40,000 or 50,000 cavalry stayed in the grassland and did not dispatch.
And even if the troops are dispatched, this ragtag army is still full of contradictions and arguments.
"No food!"
The sheep like locusts ate up a piece of grassland, and then stopped on the edge of the Liao River, and the sweat tents in the middle of Naiyan, Jinong, and Taiji seemed to be noisy, and from afar, the roar of Tumut Taiji could be heard, and even those sheep who were full and wanted to doze off were startled.
Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Dinner" is once again perfect in this tent, a group of people according to their status, sitting on both sides of the fire, the nominally highest status of Ezhe, a young man in his twenties but old and forty is sitting at the top but silent, the Chahar Department was strictly compiled by the Emperor Taiji into the Chahar left and right flags, and the Ezhen Zhangjing under it is all pro-Qing, he is just a mud bodhisattva, no real power at all, and he is just a decoration here.
The happiest one is Tumut Taiji Wenbu Chuhuer, the first largest part of southern Liaoning, Korqin went to the Songhua River to challenge the Dongjiang River, and after the group was wiped out, his Tumut Department became the majority of Mongolia, and after all, after experiencing the highlight moment of the Shunyi King, Tumut's internal centripetal force is still relatively strong, and the control of their Emperor Taiji is not too tight.
Moreover, Tumut was defeated and conquered by the Qing army with Lin Dan Khan, and now that the Qing Dynasty and the Dongjiang River are inseparable, he is angry again.
As for the bottom such as Sunit, the leaders of the Inner Khalkha tribes have different looks, each with their own careful thoughts, in the end, Mongolia was still conquered by the Later Jin, in terms of relationship, hundreds of years ago, Mongolia and the Later Jin ancestor Jin Guo still had a hatred of destroying the country! When the Qing army was strong, they naturally bowed their heads to their ears, and now the Qing Kingdom is inseparable from the Dongjiang Mao Marshal, and these grassland nobles began to snake and rat again.
"All the times I entered the customs, Bodarchen Khan and the ministries agreed that the Qing Dynasty would supply grain! This time, the tribes came from afar, but there was no food, did we let the sons of the grassland go hungry and fight against the Ming people? ”
It's really called reality, the ministers of the Imperial Court in the past can be regarded as a fat poor in the Qing Dynasty, and all departments on the grassland have to be filial piety, but since the defeat of the Dongjiang River, the tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry who followed there have been confessed, and the good days of Hu Erhan are gone.
This day was in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen's battle to enter the customs, and after killing Lu Xiangsheng, it became a little better, but in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the battle of Songjin became worse when the situation was tight.
Finally, the Qing army won a complete victory in the Songjin War, expanding hundreds of kilometers in one fell swoop, with a population of more than 800,000 people.
Looking at a round face like a big cake, Tumut Taiji's beard is flying, and the arrogant appearance of spitting stars everywhere, this noble man from the Yellow Flag is a big hatred in his heart, when Huang Taiji was here, he was obedient like a grandson, and he couldn't wait to kneel down and lick their Daqing boots with his mouth, but now they all turn their faces and don't recognize people?
But when it's time to pretend to be a grandson, you still have to pretend to be a grandson, and a round face is full of smiles, and Hu Erhan can't stop shaking his head.
"There's still food! It's just that all of them are in Jilin Wula City, where those Ming dogs have at least enough food for 200,000 people to eat for five or six years, as well as cigarettes, in order to fight! And spirits! This time, the emperor personally led the main force of the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming army has been trapped in Siping City, Liaoyuan Fort, and Jilin Wula City, all of which have been given to all departments, as long as they break through here, everyone can take them home, and the Qing Dynasty will not take a grain of grain!"
Liquor! And cigarettes! These two things made the eyes of many tribes Taiji begin to light up, and there was a greedy look on his face, maybe being Taiji was not all a fool who relied on bloodline inheritance, but Taiji Zaisang of the Sunit Department interjected slowly.
"I'm afraid that there are not only mountains of grain piled up in Jilin Wula City, but also cannons and muskets from the Dongjiang River, right?"
"The Battle of the East River! The 200,000 Qing army did not rush through his Mao Manzi's firearms array, and now that Mao Manzi has put all the grain there, how can he not be heavily guarded? ”
In a word, it's really like an ice bucket challenge, which makes all the greedy Jinong follow.
It is said that there are still nobles with the blood of the golden family who are herding cattle and sheep in the Dongjiang River, going to the mines to dig coal, cigarettes and spirits are good, and it is not certain whether they can bring them back alive.
"And what do you want?"
Wishing Li tempted a lot, these bastards just don't get in the oil and salt, and it has been delayed for the fourth day in the upper reaches of the Liao River, and the emperor urged the fire to go to the house, and this Huerhan was also annoyed, and he angrily slapped the case, pointed sharply at those tribesmen, and scolded angrily.
"The Great Khan's order is here, do you want to disobey the order?"
It's really a wall grass, he was angry, and the Mongolian nobles who were full of complaints were once again collectively impotent, and even the happiest Wenbu Chuhuer, who had just jumped, wilted.
Zaisan couldn't help but look at him with disdain, and then coughed heavily.
"My lord, how about this?"
(End of chapter)