Beijing

After experiencing the failure of the Ming Dynasty and internal turmoil, the Manchu court no longer had the kind of domineering and self-confidence that had just entered the customs.

Originally, the Eight Banners thought that the Ming army was weak and that the destruction of the Ming army was just around the corner, but now no one thinks so anymore.

You must know that among the two armies that went south and were annihilated, there were 40,000 warriors in the Eight Banners alone, and what was the total number of Manchurians? Even the coat is only more than 400,000, and the total number of adult men is more than 100,000, and after the first battle, it is equivalent to the loss of one-third of the men.

Therefore, even though the Han people in Shandong and Hebei rioted repeatedly, the Manchu court was arguing endlessly, and was unwilling to send banner soldiers to suppress it. However, the majesty of the regent Dolgon was greatly reduced with a great defeat, and there were many people in the court who dared to question it in person. So there was no way, Dolgon could only take Hong Chengchou as the governor of the military affairs university, and lead the green battalion soldiers to be responsible for suppressing the rebellion in Shandong......

However, without the backing of the Lord of the Eight Banners, the combat power of the Green Battalion soldiers has also decreased a lot, and Ren is Hong Chengchou has tried his best, but he has been unable to quell the rebellion in Shandong.

You must know that since the defeat of the Ming Dynasty, the call to return to the hometown in the Northeast has been in the dust within the Manchu court, there are many Ming people, and there are ruthless people like Chen Yue, the king of Qi, many Manchus have destroyed the Ming Dynasty and lost confidence.

However, after entering Beijing and seeing the prosperity of the Han region, there are also many people who do not want to lose everything they have now, and do not want to return to the old forests in the northeast to live that kind of life of drinking blood.

Dolgon was especially reluctant, because if he retreated to the northeast, it would mean the complete defeat of the Varmin led by him, and he would no longer be in the position he has today. And the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang also didn't want to, she was an ambitious woman, she thought that her son Shunzhi could rule the world and be a real emperor.

The Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang is a Horqin Mongol, and she personally negotiated with the Mongolian prince, and only then did she transfer 20,000 cavalry from the Mongolian ministries to Beijing and incorporate them into the Mongolian Eight Banners, thus deterring the court that was about to move.

Who knows, Bo Luo and Wu Sangui were storming Tongguan and fighting with the Shun army, but Jiang Jiu, another partial division, suddenly rebelled and quickly captured Taiyuan Mansion.

Shanxi is adjacent to the Yellow River in the west and the Hebei Plain in the east, and has a lofty position in Beijing, which is located at the southern foot of Yanshan. If Jiang Hao is allowed to occupy Shanxi, he can send troops to attack Beijing at any time, but Beijing is still in no danger to defend.

After intense discussions in the Manchu court, it was decided that the Jiang Jiu Rebellion must be put down first.

The regent Dolgon ordered Boluo Wu Sangui to stop attacking Tongguan, lead his troops across Fenglingdu into Shanxi, and attack Jiang Hao from the south. The families of Wu Sangui's soldiers were all in Liaodong, and Dolgon was not worried that he would have a different heart.

However, Dolgon also knew that the west of Tongguan was the world of the Shun army, and if Bolo and Wu Sangui stopped attacking, the Shun army was likely to pursue or try to occupy Henan through Tongguan, so Bolo Wu Sangui could not withdraw if he wanted to.

However, the situation in Shanxi is now urgent, and troops must be sent immediately to calm down. Therefore, Dolgon decided to personally lead his troops to attack, attack Datong through Xuanfu, and quell Jiang Jiu's rebellion.

There are 80,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners in Beijing, of which 20,000 are Mongolian soldiers, more than 20,000 are veterans of the Eight Banners who have experienced years of fighting, and the rest are more than Qiyu. And the Han army banners were sent to suppress the rebellion. Therefore, these 80,000 troops are the last reliance of the Manchurians. Of course, there are still some remaining troops in the northeast, but there are not many of them.

In order to quickly put down Jiang Jiu's rebellion, Dolgon brought out 50,000 of them!

The army of 50,000 people, in the eyes of Dolgon and other Manchus, is already a very large force, in the battle with the Ming Dynasty for more than 20 years, it is the largest battle of the Battle of Sarhu, the Manchu Qing put in only so many troops, so Dolgon is full of confidence in quelling the Jiang Jiu Rebellion.

And the facts have proved that the Ming army is still as bad as ever, with the march of the Eight Banners, the rebels of Xuanfu were easily exterminated, and many people surrendered. In order to break the morale of the enemy army, Dolgon did not blame the rebels who surrendered, and formed an army to be used as cannon fodder for the siege.

On October 16, Dolgon led his troops to surround Datong, and the rebel defender Niu Guangtian would rather die than surrender and defend Datong. Under the coercion of the Eight Banners, the surrendered cannon fodder green battalion launched wave after wave of attacks on Datong, but it was never able to overcome it.

Dozens of red-coated cannons of the Qing army bombarded outside the city day and night, but Datong City, as one of the nine important towns of the Ming Dynasty, had an extraordinary sturdiness of its walls, and it was not easy to break the city easily. In another time and space, Jiang Hao stayed in Datong for nearly half a year.

And now, Niu Guangtian is defending Datong, and the Jiang Jiu brothers have conquered Taiyuan, recruited righteous people to join the army, and the strength has expanded to as many as 100,000.

Based on the Taiyuan Dynasty, Jiang Hao sent troops to attack the city and plunder the land, and the Ming gentry and righteous people in various places also raised their righteousness, except for a few prefectures and counties in Pingyang and Fenzhou, most of the cities in Shanxi returned to the Ming Dynasty.

Jiang Hao personally led 50,000 troops out of Yanmen Pass, fought a fierce battle with the Qing army in Mayi, and retreated to Yanmen Pass after being defeated. Although Jiang Hao did not defeat the Qing army, it also made it impossible for the Qing army to attack Datong defended by Niu Guangtian with all its might. At the same time, the defenders of Zhenqiang Fort and Yulinwei outside the Great Wall also raised troops to respond to the Shanxi uprising, and the generals led troops to reinforce Datong, but they were defeated by the Qing army commanded by Dolgon.

However, although Dolgon defeated Jiang Hao and other reinforcements, he was unable to capture Datong in time, nor was he able to break through Yanmen Pass and enter the Taiyuan Basin, and at this time Shanxi was almost all mobs, and the total number of rebel troops added up to hundreds of thousands, and Shanxi Province was no longer owned by the Manchus.

Just when Dolgon was losing ground in Datong, information suddenly came that Chen Yueqin, the king of Southern Ming Qi, led an army of 300,000 to the north, and its vanguard had already invaded Yanzhou. Dolgon was shocked!

Jiang Hao rebelled, the Ming army went on a northern expedition, and the two sides cooperated closely, and at this time, the Eight Banners were pinned down on the battlefield in Shanxi, and they couldn't get reinforcements in time.

And Shanxi or Shandong, for Beijing, it is like two arms, and losing either of them is like a man's back. And if both provinces are lost, Beijing, which is being attacked from both sides, can no longer defend.

And now, the rebels in Shanxi can't be pacified, and Nanming's army has invaded Shandong, where should they go? At this moment, even Dolgon, the prince of Manchu Qingrui, who was known for his wisdom and bravery, couldn't help but be confused. (https:)

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