Rausa and Sinne did not dare to refute Dorgon's accusations, and the Prince Rui, who was not yet 30 years old, was more politically skilled than his brother Duoduo, and was now a powerful figure in the court, and even the Great Khan praised him.

Now that Dolgon clearly wants to put aside the charge of attacking the Ming army from Duoduo, they can only kneel down and plead to Dolgon: "The minions are indeed guilty, and please punish the master." ”

Dolgon pondered for a while, and then said to the two: "I read that the two of you are also to protect the hearts of the Yaozhou army and people, and there are no obvious mistakes in the process of pursuing the Ming army, I will write down this sin for the time being, and I will talk about it after this battle is over."

Now I will give you two a new mission, when I was in Yaozhou City, I received a military information from Gaizhou, saying that a large force of Ming troops is besieging Xiongyue Town, and you continue to lead the people of your headquarters to go to the outpost to find out the number of this Ming army and the way of fighting..."

After watching Lausa and Shine receive the order to leave, Dorgon turned to look at Duoduo and said in a rather stern tone, "What are you doing?" Even if you offend those uncles and brothers and Han officials in Shenyang on weekdays, you can mess around on this battlefield? ”

Duoduo, who originally seemed to be much more honest, heard the accusation of his mother-brother, and immediately said angrily: "Why am I messing around, how can there be immortals in this war, is it because the firearms of the Ming army on the opposite side are sharper, let's just sit here and wait for the Great Khan's army to arrive?" In that case, I am afraid that the Great Khan will look down on me and blame me. ”

Dolgon smiled angrily and said, "Of course people will die in battle, but it's not like you who forced them to die. If you send a soldier with a white flag, I won't say anything. You let the white flag press the rear formation, but let the other flags and the Han army rush forward to charge the city, do you really think that others will not hate you in their hearts? If someone is forced by you to go to the Great Khan to sue you, do you think you can escape the punishment of the Great Khan? ”

Duoduo paused for a moment, and then replied nonchalantly: "It's a big deal, next time I will only urge those Han soldiers to come forward, the lives of the Han people are not valuable, and the Great Khan will not trouble me because he has died a little Han people." ”

Dolgon had the heart to continue to warn this younger brother that the lives of the Han people were now valuable, after all, these Han people surrendered to the Qing Dynasty to survive, and if they could not see the hope of survival, would they still be willing to submit to the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

But Dorgon thought about it in his heart, and finally did not say these words. After all, his half-brother Azig could hardly be counted on, and the only one who could truly be a reliable help for him was this half-brother.

Although Duoduo has been close to him since he was a child, he is now also the lord of the banner, and talking too much may not be noticed by the other party, but will alienate this half-brother from him.

Although because of the rise of the national strength of the Ming people in recent years, the status of the Ming people doing business in Shenyang has improved. However, the Manchus still have a contemptuous attitude towards the Han people in China, and the idea that the lives of Han people like Duoduo are not worth anything is still very marketable among the Manchus.

Even Dolgon himself, if it weren't for colluding with those Ming people to make money in the stock market, he would never have looked at those Han people squarely.

The attitude of the Dorgon brothers was mainly to cater to the conservative wing of the Manchu people. After all, when Huang Taiji vigorously reformed the Eight Banners and the domestic system, and improved the status of Han people and Han officials to consolidate his power, it was inevitable that the interests of the Eight Banners and nobles were touched.

In another time and space, Huang Taiji continued to enter the customs and plunder the Ming Dynasty to buy off the young Zhuang faction among the Manchus, and used war operations to make the old faction exhausted and unable to fight against it.

However, in this time and space, the Ming Dynasty held the land of the Monan grassland, so that the Manchu troops could not make a detour to attack the Guannai, which naturally made the Manchu conservative forces in Shenyang not weakened much, and the voice advocating the maintenance of the Manchu and Han different systems during the Mandate of Heaven Khan period was not weak.

And the basic plate of these old schools is the first two yellow flags that promoted reforms after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, and the interests suffered the most, and now the two white flags led by the Dorgon brothers.

These two white flag soldiers who first followed Nurhachi to fight the world benefited the most in the process of establishing the country of the Jurchen clan. In Nurhachi's time, the Jurchen nation had not yet broken away from the slave society, and the Han people were just slaves of the Manchus.

For these people, such an era is much more comfortable than the current life. Since Huang Taiji's accession to the throne and the emancipation of the Han Chinese from slavery by vigorously promoting social reforms, Manchu families, who had previously owned a large number of slaves, were now forced to participate in labor on their own.

For the Qing Dynasty, the social reforms promoted by Huang Taiji eased the ethnic contradictions between the Manchus and the Hans, promoted the development of social productive forces, stabilized domestic prices, and strengthened the country's strength and cohesion.

But for these vested interests of the Eight Banners, Huang Taiji's social reforms undoubtedly came at the expense of their interests. And for the soldiers of the two white flags, they not only suffered a loss in material interests, but also a decline in social status.

From the lofty upper three flags to the ordinary lower five flags, the two white flags lost most of their right to speak in the eight banners, and were subject to the original strength of the flag points far inferior to their own, which was obviously difficult to convince these proud generals around the Great Khan.

After the Ming Dynasty changed its policy of blindly exerting tough pressure on the Qing Dynasty, there was such an interesting change in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although the conservatives insisted on maintaining the Manchu and Han policies during the Mandate of Heaven Khan, and advocated respecting the Manchus and suppressing the Han. However, in terms of Ming policy, conservatives are clearly more inclined to keep the peace and settle the internal struggle first.

On the contrary, the reformers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty advocated the equality of the Manchus and the Han at home, but in terms of their policy toward the Ming Dynasty, they actively promoted the war against the Ming Dynasty and tried to transfer the domestic contradictions to foreign wars.

Thinking of the power that Huang Taiji now had in his hands, Dolgon shook his head and said to his younger brother: "From now on, you give me some peace, before the arrival of the Great Khan, we only need to bluff, and we don't have to fill this city with human lives." ”

Dordor's political acumen was obviously not as good as that of his brother, and after hearing Dorgon's decision, he finally asked in some surprise, "Bluff?" Wouldn't that show weakness to these Ming troops, and if this boosted their morale, wouldn't the next battle be even more difficult? Even if the Great Khan brought the red-coated cannons, these Ming troops probably wouldn't give up so easily. ”

Dolgon didn't look at his brother, but just looked at Yingkou City in the distance, and hesitated for a moment before replying: "After the Zhenglan Banner was broken up and merged into the Two Yellow Banners under the pretext of the Great Khan's rebellion, there are now only seven of the Eight Banners left.

Except for the two white flags, all the other flags were under the control of the Great Khan, and even the Great Bel Daishan now pretended to be a shrunken turtle and blindly hid behind Hauge.

If we add the Eight Banners of Mongolia and Han established by the Great Khan over the years, our two white flags are no longer the most powerful force in the Eight Banners. In addition, Azig, who is blinded by lard, does not want to work together with our brothers, but always wants to take away your position as the owner of the white flag, and we can't afford to lose any strength at this time.

If the Ming army in the opposite city is a weak army that will be crushed at a rush, then it will be nothing for us to fight. But seeing that you have fought so hard these days, I am afraid that the soldiers who put on my two white flags will also be a pit that cannot fill people's lives.

In that case, it is better to bluff and wait for the Great Khan himself to come up. If you can make the other banners lose some lives, no one will hold on to your previous charges of attacking the city..."

The arrival of Dolgon's reinforcements was also visible to Li Yan and other Ming generals on the city wall. However, when the Ming army adjusted its deployment and prepared to deal with a major battle, it found that the next Qing attack outside the city had significantly weakened the intensity of the attack, and most of them were mainly bluff feints.

After all, the Ming army could not distinguish at the beginning, whether the Qing army was attacking or feintting, and the number of attacks of the Qing army was too much, but the Ming army was tense at all times, so that the spirit of the Ming soldiers always maintained greater pressure, excessive concentration, and naturally made people feel tired.

Moreover, when Dolgon commanded the Qing troops to storm the city, he no longer asked the troops to be concentrated, but to pass through the battlefield with sparse squads and concentrate at the base of the city wall. Although the howitzers of the Ming army were bent in ballistics, they could not hit the Qing soldiers under the city walls.

With this change, the effectiveness of the Ming artillery was greatly reduced, and it was no longer possible to destroy the morale of the siege troops by concentrating on the Qing army's troops as before.

Of course, the Qing army's active evacuation formation also made their offensive troops insufficient, and they could no longer climb the city wall as easily as before, and engage in fierce hand-to-hand combat with the defenders of the Ming army on the city wall.

After observing the tactics of the Qing army in the past two days, Li Yan quickly changed the deployment of troops defending the city. Originally, he had more than two battalions of army in his hands, as well as three or four hundred armed sailors, and nearly 200 Korean soldiers.

The Koreans were placed in the city by him, responsible for the security of the city and the monitoring of the Manchurians, the armed sailors controlled the dock area, and the army of more than 2 battalions was mainly aimed at the defense of the city wall north of Yingkou.

Previously, Li Yan used 2 companies as reserves, and the others went to the city wall to defend, mainly using the three city gates as the core of defense. However, as the Qing army played the tactics of attacking and harassing, such a defensive arrangement was obviously a bit out of place.

Therefore, after observing the actions of the Qing army for two days, Li Yan simply divided the army into two divisions and rotated day and night to deal with the Qing army's tactics of harassing small groups of men and horses.

However, due to the lack of troops, Li Yan could not deal with the Qing army's move to build a high platform outside the city to observe the city. He sent a force out of the city to tentatively attack the site of the construction of the high platform, but the Qing army's ambush almost cut off the Ming army's passage back to the city, so that Li Yan had to give up the move of sending troops to attack the high platform outside the city.

However, relying on the abundant supplies of the Ming army, Li Yan obtained spare canvas from the navy and requisitioned some cotton cloth in the city, covering the streets near the city wall, thus isolating the Qing army's observation of the key areas of defense in the city, and making the Qing army's high platform lose most of its role.

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