Emperor Ming Fengyunlu

Volume 9 The Great Tribulation

Chapter 4 Turmoil in all directions is critical

Section 5: War Clouds Gather (2)

At the beginning of March of the third year of Chongzhen (the third year of Tiancong of the Manchu Dynasty), Liaodong, Shengjing.

After Huang Taiji defeated Lin Dan Khan, he led an army of 100,000 to stay on the grassland for more than a month, reorganized the Mongolian tribes and tribes, reorganized the Mongolian Eight Banners, and expanded the strength of the Mongolian Eight Banners to 120,000.

At the same time, in order to further control the newly surrendered Mongolian tribes, Huang Taiji also re-demarcated the territory of each ministry and redefined the sphere of influence of each banner; and made a marriage contract for many princes of the Eight Banners, Beile, and prepared to marry Gege of the Mongolian tribes; At the same time, Huang Taiji also selected more than a dozen Gege from the Manchurian Eight Banners, ready to marry the princes and heirs of the Mongolian tribes.

Huang Taiji hoped to use this marriage method to firmly tie the Mongolian tribes to the chariot of the Qing Dynasty, so as to drive more than 100,000 Mongolian troops to charge into battle for the Qing Dynasty and act as cheap cannon fodder.

In fact, Huang Taiji's plan is indeed very useful, through a series of measures, the Mongolian princes and banner owners of the Qing Dynasty have a sense of identity with the new master of the Qing Dynasty above Lin Dan Khan, and the Mongolian tribes have surrendered, and everyone has no heart to resist. Under the edict of Huang Taiji, all the Mongolian tribes obediently accepted the reorganization, and all their possessions were transferred to Shengjing to listen to the Xuan, preparing to go south with the Qing army to conquer the Ming Kingdom.

After Huang Taiji returned to Shengjing, he continued to pay attention to the war on the Korean side, and at the same time began to organize the Han people in Liaodong, which greatly strengthened the control over the vast area east of the Liaohe River, increased the financial revenue of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and accumulated a lot of money and grain for the upcoming war.

At the same time, Huang Taiji also vigorously recruited displaced people from all over Liaodong, and vigorously expanded the strength of the Han Eight Banners, and the strength of the Han Eight Banners expanded to 160,000 in a short period of time, of which the Wuzhen Chaoha Firearms Battalion set up under each banner reached 40,000 people!

Huang Taiji had suffered the loss of Hanwei weapons before, and this time, under the loss of the stable support of the Jin merchants, he still ignored the opposition of his ministers, exhausted his national strength, and relied on the Ming army craftsmen captured in the previous wars, and built a considerable number of high-quality firearms and artillery, preparing to have a firearms war with the Hanwei army.

Seeing that the expansion of the Han army flag had been in full swing, and both the soldiers and equipment were gradually ready, Huang Taiji shifted his attention to the Ming State and sent a large number of detailed supervisors to closely supervise the movements of the Han Wei Army and important events in the Ming Kingdom.

It didn't take long for Huang Taiji to learn that Liu Yunwei, the commander of the Han Wei Army, had led his army back to Guangning City, and with the strong support of the Ming Emperor, he began to gather heavy troops and hoard grain and grass in Guangning City, apparently preparing to go out of the pass and attack Liaodong on a large scale.

In this regard, Huang Taiji was worried in his heart, and the ministers of the court and the central government were also afraid of this. After all, in the previous Liaodong War, the strong combat power and indomitable momentum of the Han Wei Army made the emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the important ministers of the Manchu Dynasty still remember it vividly, and they are still terrified.

"This time, under my painstaking management, I have gathered the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Eight Banners of Mongolia, the Eight Banners of the Han Army, hundreds of thousands of troops, and recently built the elite Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion, I don't believe that the warriors of my Qing Dynasty will still be able to defeat the Han Wei Army, and the shame before the snow is in the present day!"

Huang Taiji continued to cheer himself up in his heart, and continued to start arming day and night. At the same time, Huang Taiji also sent people to send a message to Hauge and Azig, who were fighting in Korea, ordering them to end the war in Korea as soon as possible at all costs. It is necessary to defeat the resistance of the Korean State in the shortest possible time, and according to the meaning of his will, form the Eight Banners of Korea in the Korean State, expand the strength of the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time scavenge the land in all parts of the Korean State like a three-foot search for money, grain, and baggage.

At this time, in order to deal with the Hanwei army that was about to attack, Huang Taiji had already begun to fish with all his might, and was ready to fight a decisive battle with the Hanwei army at any cost! In Huang Taiji's heart, after this battle, either the Han Wei army will be defeated and destroyed, or there will be no need for the Qing Dynasty to exist!

Just when Huang Taiji was constantly accumulating grain and grass and requisitioning the army, a heavy news suddenly came back: "It is reported that the army of thieves in the Shaanxi area of the Ming Kingdom, under the leadership of the thief leader Li Zicheng, has successively defeated the army of the Ming State to conquer and suppress the army, and has now spread to Shanxi and Henan, and there is a posture that has swept the entire northwest. In this regard, the emperor of the Ming State urgently stopped the assembly of the Han Wei army, and in the face of the increasingly severe situation, it is very likely that the Han Wei army will be requisitioned again to quell the chaos. ”

"Haha! God help me to clear up! God help me to clear the sky! ”

Huang Taiji shouted very excitedly, laughing wantonly, as if the Huahua World of the Central Plains was already within reach, as if he had led his army across the Liao River and annihilated 300,000 Hanwei troops.

"Tell me the will! Order the banner owner Haute and the flag owner Azig to destroy the Korean state within one month and form the Korean Eight Banners! I want to move my army south within two months and break through the defense line of the Liaohe River of the Ming Kingdom in one fell swoop! ”

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.

Liu Yunwei also received the news of the comeback of the army of thieves led by Li Zicheng in the northwest at the first time, which was tantamount to a slap in the face for Liu Yunwei, who was ambitious and ready to go to Liaodong, which made Liu Yunwei furious.

"Hong Chengchou! Zhang Zongheng: What are they doing! Tens of thousands of elite troops were unable to exterminate the remnants of the thieves, but instead made Li Zicheng a powerful force again? A bunch of rubbish! ”

Liu Yunwei roared angrily, and the loud sound almost knocked the roof over. At this time, there was a handwritten letter from Emperor Chongzhen on the bookcase in front of Liu Yunwei, and the content of the handwritten book was the order for Liu Yunwei to postpone the expedition.

"If you go outside, you must first settle inside? If you go outside, you must first settle inside! ”

This is exactly what Emperor Chongzhen meant, and it is also the meaning of the ministers of the court, and Liu Yunwei is indeed powerless to refute it, because this sentence is not wrong, but it is embarrassing to put it on the current situation.

"It is right that the outside must be settled first, but hundreds of thousands of troops have been assembled, and the Qing army in Liaodong is also gathering, and it will invade south in the near future, so how can the governor advance west!"

In the lobby, Yuan Mingxuan, Hu Kun, Zhou Tianyi, Lu Ying, Wu Xing, Wen Poyu, and Zhao Shujiao were all there, and everyone's faces were full of gloom.

Yuan Mingxuan sighed and said, "Supervisor, according to the information collected by the Investigation Division, it was originally the trilateral governor Hong Chengchou who had defeated the remnants of Li Zicheng one after another and gained a lot; However, when Hong Chengchou gathered troops in the Carriage Gorge and prepared to completely annihilate Li Zicheng's troops, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, deliberately did not move, so that Li Zicheng seized the opportunity to cooperate with the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong who came to support, and severely damaged Hong Chengchou's department, Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao, the general soldier of Nanshan, fled in embarrassment, Wang Chengen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, and Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Gansu, died on the battlefield, and the 20,000 army was almost wiped out. Subsequently, the two bandit armies joined forces, and raided Zhang Zongheng's Xuan army, more than 10,000 Xuan troops were annihilated, the governor Zhang Zongheng and the general soldier Hu Dawei, the general soldier You Shilu were killed in battle, and the general soldier Zuo Liangyu and the general soldier He Renlong took the opportunity to escape. ”

Listening to Yuan Mingxuan's words, everyone was furious, and Wen Poyu even scolded Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, for bringing disaster to the country and the people, killing tens of thousands of soldiers and several generals.

Liu Yunwei said with a pale face: "Where have Hong Chengchou and the others fled now?" ”

Yuan Mingxuan said: "Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao have been taken back to the capital by Jinyiwei and imprisoned in the heavenly prison by His Majesty's order, while the chief soldier Zuo Liangyu and the chief soldier He Renlong have fled back to their station. His Majesty had no choice but to reprimand the two of them, and each of them was fined 1,000 taels of silver. ”

Zhou Tianyi couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and said with a sigh: "Your Majesty's move is really biased!" In this way, who will really fight for the imperial court in the future? Although Hong Chengchou and Cao Wenzhao were defeated, they were excusable, and they were imprisoned for non-war crimes; And Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong were only fined silver, which is chilling! ”

"Humph!"

Liu Yunwei snorted coldly, and then said: "Now that Your Majesty has asked this governor to send troops to the northwest, what do you think?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent, and everyone understood in their hearts that it was imperative to send troops to the northwest, and Li Zicheng's troops must not be allowed to continue to grow; However, at present, it is also necessary to send troops to Liaodong, otherwise hundreds of thousands of Qing troops will enter Liaoxi in one fell swoop, and then troops will come to Shanhaiguan!

Liu Yunwei and everyone present were at a loss, and they didn't understand why the soldiers of the Hanwei army won all the big battles, but they fell into a dilemma and suffered from the enemy?

After being silent for a long time, Liu Yunwei let out a long sigh, and then said: "Since this is the case, the governor has decided that the army will continue to garrison Guangning City, and Lu Ying, the general soldier of Tongzhou, will temporarily command the whole army and deploy defenses along the west bank of the Liao River; The governor personally led the 30,000 soldiers of the pacesetter battalion west into Shaanxi to meet the army of thieves! ”

As soon as this statement came out, almost all the people spoke out against it.

Lu Ying said loudly: "Supervisor, let the humble lead the army to meet the army of thieves, the comfort of the supervisor maintains hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Hanwei Army, and the thousands of people in the four towns of Jiliao, and must not be easily involved!" ”

Zhou Tianyi said: "Although the army of thieves is unbearable, its strength is very strong, and it is really dangerous for the 30,000 standard battalions to meet the army of thieves!" ”

Yuan Mingxuan and others also tried their best to dissuade them, and they all opposed Liu Yunwei personally leading the army to the northwest.

However, Liu Yunwei had made up his mind, waved his hand to stop everyone's argument, and said: "This governor has made up his mind, you guys guard the Liao River, no matter how many troops the Qing army uses to attack, the soldiers of the army must defend the Liao River to the death!" When the governor returns victoriously, it will be the time for the soldiers of our Hanwei army to counterattack Liaodong! This battle will be the last battle of my Han Wei army against the Qing army, and it will also be the revenge battle of the Ming soldiers against the Yidi Tartar captivity! ”