If it weren't for such an occasion, Huang Taiji would have taken Hauga aside and reprimanded him a long time ago. However, looking at the embarrassed faces of these Baylor generals around him, Huang Taiji knew that these people also had the same doubts as Hauge, and he turned to think about it and explained to Hauge and the others.

"Of course, it is not enough to show the enemy weakness, if the Ming army general on the opposite side is calm, maybe he will not fall for our scheme.

However, the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side were calm, could it be that the people and officials in the Ming Kingdom were also calm? Since the Battle of Quang Ninh, the Ming people have never set foot in the land west of the river. At the beginning, the Ming people retrained the army of Liaoxi and wanted to restore the land west of the river, but they were defeated by a local garrison in our country, which was the defeat of Liuhe.

Today, whether the Ming people took advantage of my unpreparedness or not, Yingkou City was a great victory for the Ming people. Then you might as well think about it, if we send someone to send the news back to the Ming Kingdom first, so that the people of the Ming Kingdom know about this great victory, then this Ming army will become the hero of the Ming Kingdom.

Now that they have become heroes in the eyes of the people, how can they give up the land they have just recovered in a situation where they have an advantage? If they do this, I am afraid that without our hands, the people and officials of the Ming Kingdom will be able to spray them into traitors who have lost their power and humiliated the country.

Therefore, if we want to leave the Ming army on the other side, in addition to the cold weather in Liaodong, we also need the people and officials of the Ming Kingdom..."

Huang Taiji paused slightly, and after considering his words, he spoke again: "Public opinion, according to the new statement of the Ming Kingdom, is the pressure of public opinion. With the help of the pressure of public opinion in the Ming Kingdom, forcing this Ming army to be unable to withdraw in an advantageous situation, this is the whole plan..."

After repelling the Qing army's attack on this day, according to the estimates of Li Yan and other staff officers, the Qing army's artillery lost at least a quarter, and the casualties should not be less than 600, and more than 300 corpses were thrown under the city wall alone.

Sun Chuanting refused the request of Huang Degong and other Ming generals to cut off the heads of these corpses and send them back to the capital to show off their exploits, but asked the Manchus in the city of Deshan, who were originally guarding Yingkou, to collect the corpses, and then asked the Qing army to exchange the corpses of the Ming soldiers who had been left on the road before.

For Sun Chuanting's request, Dolgon naturally couldn't ask for it, on the one hand, he could use it to delay time; On the other hand, he just took the opportunity of exchanging corpses to learn about the situation in the city and pass on the news that needed to be revealed from his side to the camp.

For this reason, he refused the request of the dozens of Manchu people who had come out with Ebu to return the corpses to stay outside the city, and instead asked them to return to Yingkou. Dorgon said to Ebu, "I understand your distress about being forced to surrender to the Ming. However, the current situation does not allow us to make a move to undermine mutual trust between the two sides, and you should relax after you go back, since the Khan King personally led his troops to the battle, these Ming people will naturally not stay for long. I reckon they'll be able to flee back to Kannai before the cold winter arrives, so you'd better go back to the city and take care of your families.

I hope that when you go back, you will tell the Ming army that as long as they are willing to withdraw and do not damage the buildings of Yingkou City, we can still talk about the Ming merchants who were imprisoned in Shenyang. Originally, the Khan had intended to meet you personally and tell you about these things, but the Khan has been unwell since yesterday, so he entrusted me to tell you these things..."

Dolgon didn't believe that all of these Manchus would keep their mouths shut, just as there were heroes and heroes among the Han who refused to give in, and it was not uncommon for people to be greedy for life and afraid of death. If all of these Manchus were loyal,* then they should have died in battle when the Ming army came ashore.

The Ming people sent them to return the corpses of the Qing soldiers, how could these Manchus dare to reveal their desire to return to the city in front of him, wouldn't that confirm the identity of the Manchu traitors who betrayed the Qing Dynasty. With the past character of the Manchu clan, I am afraid that these people will never have to go back to see their families.

But now, when Dolgon sends them back, I am afraid that someone will soon tell those Ming soldiers and report what they have seen and heard in the Qing army camp truthfully, in exchange for the trust of the Ming army, and prevent these Ming troops from leaving like the Manchus, and the Manchus in the city.

Dolgon's guess was good, of course, although he repeatedly told the city to be full of people, telling them not to spread the news of what they had seen in the Qing army camp and the khan's illness. But when these Manchurians who returned the corpses of the Qing army returned to the city, more than half of them secretly went to meet the officers of the Ming army and reported what they had seen and heard.

After the Qing army attacked the city on the first day, because of the heavy casualties caused by low morale, Huang Taiji quarreled with the generals and fainted, and the news of being temporarily unable to see the situation soon reached the ears of the Ming generals. For such news, Sun Chuanting and other Ming army generals were still a little skeptical.

However, with the resumption of the battle after the exchange of corpses between the two sides, the Qing army's offensive for several days was demoralized, and even the city wall of Yingkou was not approached on several occasions, and the attacking troops collapsed under a round of artillery bombardment by the Ming army. This performance of the Qing army finally made the generals of the Ming army begin to believe that there might really be something wrong with the Qing army, otherwise the morale of these Qing soldiers would not be so low.

On the side of the Qing army, Huang Taiji, who changed into the clothes of an ordinary general, only took a few guards to watch the progress of the siege in a corner of the battlefield every day, and not only did not feel angry at the decadent performance of the Qing army, but nodded and praised it again and again, thinking that this was exactly the effect he wanted.

In order to make the Ming army convinced, these attacking Qing troops naturally suffered a lot of casualties, and of course, Huang Taiji would not waste his lives like this. Dolgon collected Han Chinese and Koreans from the left, shaved their heads and changed them into the armor and clothes of the Eight Banners, and then urged them forward with a small group of Eight Banners soldiers, although there were many casualties under the cannons of the Ming army, the Manchus suffered no losses.

And these Han Chinese and Koreans were forced into battle, and their disorder and cowardice in the attack could be used to deceive these Ming troops in the city. While these Han Chinese and Koreans continued to die under the muzzle of artillery, under the personal instruction of Huang Taiji, some Han Chinese continued to flee to Jinzhou, and by the way, the news they heard about the great victory at Yingkou was transmitted to Liaoxi and Guannei.

Under the active planning of Fan Wencheng and other Han officials, the news of the Ming army's defeat of the Qing Khan's personal army at Yingkou was quickly transmitted back to Guannei, and this speed was not even much slower than the news that Sun Chuanting sent back from the sea. The people, literati and doctors in Hebei and Beijing are all in high spirits, and the small people in the streets and alleys all think that the day of recovering the lost land of Liaodong is not far away.

Although this victory aroused the morale of the people, it also inevitably encouraged the blind optimism of some people, and many literati even shouted the slogan of attacking on all fronts and recovering Shenyang in one fell swoop.

The praise received by the Guards was unprecedented, and Sun Chuanting, who led the army, became the reincarnation of Wu Mu in the mouth of street storytellers, and Qi Shaobao was second. As for the civil officials in the court, they were also a little caught off guard by this sudden victory, and they had a lot of thoughts for a while.

The cabinet ministers naturally knew about the Guards attacking Liaodong, but what the General Staff had said before was very clear, that is, to take advantage of Shenyang's unpreparedness to attack Yingkou and attract the Qing army in Shenyang to Liaonan, so that the General Staff could let go of the matter of Gunchuktaiji and Amin collaborating with the enemy.

Therefore, the cabinet ministers did not pay much attention to this, and they only begged that there would be no more defeat in the willow river, and that the current good situation would be ruined. It was also because Sun Chengzong had the precedent of the defeat of Liuhe at the beginning, so this time the cabinet ministers didn't want to share any credit at all. They subconsciously thought that the last time they crossed the river was unsuccessful, and this time they had to cross the sea to attack Yingkou, and I was afraid that the result would not be good.

It was precisely because of this intention that when the Guards successfully captured Yingkou, not many officials went to the emperor to report the good news, and everyone thought that only when the Guards successfully withdrew could the battle be considered a successful end. But who would have thought that this time the army would be so competitive that even the army led by Huang Taiji himself was defeated.

This is not a good news from the army, and the civilian officials have to discount the Ming army's own success. This is the news from the Han people who fled back from Liaodong, and several of them are even small leaders in the Qing Han army banner. Although I don't know why the news of this great victory spread so quickly, the DPRK and the central government are certain that Huang Taiji will be frustrated under Yingkou City.

In this way, the guards who went out to Yingkou made a miraculous achievement. But how can such a credit be monopolized by the military ministers? Although officials such as Sun Chengzong and Sun Chuanting are also part of the civil officials, in the eyes of some officials, they have already stepped into the sequence of military ministers with half a foot, and they cannot completely turn to the civil officials.

In the past, the Ming army was too weak, the Jurchen Eight Banners were too strong, and even Wenchen like Sun Chengzong, who was considered a soldier, still got a defeat in Liuhe after a few years. As for Xiong Tingbi, he lost his life because of military problems in Liaodong, and as a civil servant, he lost his head because of military problems, which was extremely rare in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, after the defeat of Liuhe, except for the middle-level officials who wanted to take a risk, the ruling ministers of the DPRK and China avoided talking about the military issues of Liaodong. Everyone is a top person who emerges from the world's readers, except for a few nerds, there is a smart person who is not a little bit of a master.

Verbally shouting for the restoration of the whole Liao, this is the political correctness of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty can give up a part of the land that is difficult to manage, but it must not be beaten by others to cut the land and seek peace. What's more, Liaodong is not Vietnam, and after losing Vietnam, there are still Liangguang, Fujian, Hunan and other places that shield the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River. And after losing Liaodong, the Jurchen Eight Banners can directly threaten the key points of Gyeonggi.

Therefore, anyone who dares to say anything about discussing with the Manchus and abandoning the land of Liaodong will inevitably be attacked by a group. Of course, everyone is also very clear that not giving up in words does not mean that you really have to take it back in reality. The incompetence of the army in the defeat of Liuhe has frightened these courtiers, and it is already everyone's psychological bottom line to be able to keep the front line of Shanhaiguan, as for the land of Ningjin, everyone thinks that sooner or later it will be lost.

In the face of an army that cannot be fought, even if Qi Nantang is resurrected, there is nothing to be done, so the ruling minister naturally tries his best to avoid being involved in the military affairs of Liaodong. This is also the reason why the emperor established the General Staff, and the civil officials did not resist fiercely. Everyone knows that if the army is not rectified, it will really not work, but even figures like Sun Chengzong have not carried the pit dug for him by the generals in the army, and they will naturally not take on this responsibility.

The emperor's willingness to take responsibility for reorganizing the army was also a matter of unwantedness for civilian officials. It's just that everyone didn't expect that Chongzhen could really do this. The Guards thwarted the Qing army's attack at Yingkou, which made the civilian officials a little unable to sit still.

Since the army of the Ming Dynasty can fight again, everyone naturally wants to intervene and express their opinions on the military affairs of Liaodong, to see if they can get into the eyes of the emperor, so that they can take some credit. The more the people praised this great victory, the more happy the officials danced, and even Qian Qianyi, who had rarely mentioned military affairs, couldn't help but talk about the idea of restoring the whole Liao in front of Chongzhen.