Text Volume 3 The Road to Empire_Chapter 451 Huang Taiji's Forbearance
When Huang Taiji arrived in Shenyang, he was faced with a situation in which Yue Tuo and Zierharang were confronting the Ming army in Beizhen and the area south of it, Azig retreated east of the Liao River in the name of defending Yingkou, and Abatai confronted the Ming army in Jinzhou, while the Mongol tribes attached to the Ming army were sweeping away the Mongol tribes and Han Chinese villages in the Guangning area.
Although among the three kingdoms of Ming, Mongolia, and Later Jin, the Later Jin cavalry was far superior to the other two countries. But what the Houjin cavalry relied on was nothing more than good equipment and armor and strict military discipline. The two armies fought, and the Houjin cavalry naturally did not fear the cavalry of the other two countries, but if it was the turn of the rangers to raid, no one could match the Mongols.
Even if the Jianzhou Jurchens put gold on their faces and said what kind of kinship they had with the Mongols, they would not be able to make the Jurchen cavalry outperform the Mongols who grew up on horseback in this kind of cavalry warfare. Among the Mongolian tribal cavalry, there were also many Mongolian cavalry equipped with armor and compasses provided by the Ming army, and fought under the constraints of the Ming army officers.
When the Jurchen cavalry divided their troops to chase the Mongol tribal soldiers who were plundering in all directions, these well-equipped Mongol cavalry would appear at the right time to encircle and annihilate the weaker pursuers one by one. After suffering several losses, the Jurchen generals did not dare to divide their troops to attack. However, if the Jurchens did not divide their troops, they would not have been able to protect the scattered Mongol tribes and Han Chinese villages in such a wide plain and hills.
clenched your fists, and you missed the target; Open your palm, but you want to be bitten by the other party. This most classic tactic of the nomads, under the dispatch and command of the cavalry officers of the Ming army, was almost perfectly reproduced. In the face of such a combat method, even Yue Tuo had almost nothing to do.
Although he knew that as long as he pressed all the troops around Beizhen and kept forcing and squeezing the range of movement of these Mongolian cavalry, then they could still kill these Mongolian cavalry. But in this case, who will protect the safety of Beizhen? Yue Tuo thought about it, and finally suggested to Huang Taiji.
“… The Ming army won successive victories and forced the landing of the Zhenglan Banner, and the morale was at a high time, while our army, on the other hand, had no will to fight. If we continue to fight against the Ming army now, I am afraid that our army will lose more than win. It is better to avoid one or two first, and move the Mongolian tribes and Han people west of Liaoshui to the east of Liaoshui, and our army will only stick to Beizhen, Montenegro and Liaoshui.
Although the Ming army was arrogant, they never dared to stay away from Yiwu Lu Mountain, and they were afraid that they would lose their way out; Second, after our relocation of tribal villages, it will be difficult for the Ming army to obtain supplies, and they will not dare to penetrate into our country; Thirdly, the west of Liaoshui is close to Shenyang, which is more conducive to our army to send troops to protect it in time..."
For Yue Tuo's book, Huang Taiji was very dissatisfied. He was not dissatisfied with Yue Tuo's proposal, but Yue Tuo's fear of war in his letters. Since the founding of the Later Jin Dynasty, no Later Jin general has ever issued such a pessimistic opinion when the two armies were fighting.
Since the Battle of Salhu, it has always been the Houjin that attacked the surrounding countries, and when did it encounter a situation where it was attacked by others and thought it was invincible. However, Huang Taiji was annoyed and angry, and he also greatly lost Yue Tuo's pass in front of the ministers, but the measures to take people to the east of Liaoshui to avoid being captured and plundered by the Ming people were not delayed at all.
After the defeat in Yizhou, the fall of the Zhenglan Banner, and the Shenyang rebellion, the people in Houjin were already in a panicked situation. No matter how strong Huang Taiji is, he knows at this moment that it is inconvenient to mobilize Shenyang soldiers and horses again to avoid further destruction of the hearts of the people in the country.
Huang Taiji also realized through the detailed intelligence of the Battle of Uiju that the reform of the Ming army was still fruitful. The fighting courage and fighting will shown by the Ming army in this war were far higher than those Ming troops that had been defeated by the Jin Dynasty in the past. And the movement speed and discipline of these Ming troops are like the Qi family army that brought deep memories to the Houjin army.
With such a huge size as Da Ming, it is not unusual to retrain one or two elite soldiers. But if the new army of the Ming Dynasty is the level of the Ming army that participated in the Battle of Yizhou, then it will be too unfortunate for the Houjin. Huang Taiji realized that he needed to re-understand the current Ming Dynasty, and if he continued to blindly fight with the Ming State, then the power of the Later Jin would only be lost in vain on the border of the Ming army and nothing would be gained.
After several days of sleepless thinking, Huang Taiji convened the big and small Baylors, and he proposed three matters to the Baylors to discuss.
The first is to change the name of the clan to Manchuria, and Huang Taiji believes that his own clan is a native of Liaodong who has lived in Manchuria for generations, and is not a Tungusic savage as some ignorant people say. As for the relationship between the clan and the Jurchen clan, there is actually no connection, but some people were afraid that our clan was good at fighting, so they called our clan the Jianzhou Jurchen. But in fact, there is no feud between the tribe and the Mongolian tribes and the Han people, and it is only in recent times that they were oppressed by the Ming State and raised troops to resist. Nowadays, most of the false rumors have spread in Liaodong, so he decided to change the name of his clan to set the record straight, so as to prevent the people of our country from being provoked by outsiders.
The second is that the rise of his own tribe and the establishment of the country are due to the heavenly family, so he decided to change Shenyang to Tianjun Shengjing, and Hetuala to Tianjun Xingjing, so that all ethnic groups in Liaodong and the people of his own country know the reason why our country can be established.
The third is that although the Later Jin Dynasty was established because of the resistance to the oppression of the Ming Kingdom, the Ming Kingdom was not without favor to our people in the past, so the two countries should not have fought against each other. As long as the Ming Kingdom is willing to recognize, Liaodong is the land given by God to our clan, so that the people of our country can live and work in peace and contentment, he is willing to bow to the Ming Emperor and call himself a vassal, such as North Korea and other vassal states, the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, and the chief of the Ming Dynasty.
After Huang Taiji disposed of Mang Gurtai and Amin, the government was actually gradually decided by one of them. At the moment when Mang Gurtai committed suicide and Amin defected, naturally no one was willing to stand up and become a thorn in Huang Taiji's side. So after just a few words of discussion, everyone Baylor spoke out in support of the three propositions put forward by Huang Taiji, and did not dare to raise objections in public as before.
Facing the Baylors in front of him, although Huang Taiji's heart was very satisfied, he was also a little stunned. He knew that there would not be many people who would dare to disobey his orders in person in the future, but there would probably not be many people who would dare to tell the truth in front of him.
Huang Taiji was suddenly a little dazed, not knowing whether such an ending was good or bad. However, he soon returned to normal, and ordered Hesheri Sifu to send an envoy to the front to negotiate peace with the Ming Kingdom. This was a real peace talk, and Huang Taiji had given up the idea of continuing to fight the Ming army in recent years, and planned to stabilize the interior first, so that the people of the Later Jin could recuperate and replenish their vitality. Then re-understand the current situation of the Ming Kingdom, and then wait for the opportunity given by God.
Huang Taiji had great expectations for this peace talks, so he sent a new leader of the Wenguan, if it wasn't for Dahai's death last year, he actually preferred the intelligent and agile Dahai as the representative of the Ming Kingdom. Thinking of Dahai, he couldn't help but think of the Kur Wrap who was detained by the Ming Kingdom, and these rare literary people among the Manchurians seemed to be far away from him, which was really an unpleasant feeling.
By the time Huang Taiji made the decision to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty, Derge had already crossed Shanhaiguan on a horse-drawn train and was about to arrive in Beijing. The ten-day journey greatly alleviated the tension of the Derge class, and also made him realize what this kind of horse-drawn train meant for the logistics of the Ming army.
Although the Derge class has only been in charge of the Blue Banner for a short time, it is no stranger to conquest. In his opinion, the reason why the Houjin army was able to defeat the Ming army repeatedly was not that the Ming soldiers were not brave enough, nor that the command of the Ming army commanders was too stupid. In the final analysis, the logistics of the Ming army were too bad, how could an army that did not have enough to eat be able to actively fight on the battlefield? And although the firearms of the Ming army are powerful, they are inconvenient to carry. Once the * is cast, the Ming army loses the ability to defeat the enemy, and the soldiers who use firearms lack the training in hand-to-hand combat.
This is also the confidence of Derge to hold on to the city at the beginning, he always thought that it was not easy to transfer the * projectiles of the Ming army, so he was always able to wait for Shenyang to send troops to help. But who would have thought that the Ming army would be able to bombard for three days in a row and completely turn the southwest of Yiju City into ruins. When he took this railway, he understood how the Ming army was able to transport ammunition to the city of Yizhou in an endless stream.
In the future, where the railway will be extended, it will mean that the firearms of the Ming army can shoot non-stop. So what did the soldiers of Houjin use to resist the power of steel and *? The artillery of the Ming army could deal with the archers of the Later Jin, and the musketeers of the Ming army could defend their artillery from the army of the Later Jin. With the combination of these two weapons, all old tactics have been declared ineffective, unless Houjin has his own artillery unit.
In his mind, Derge constantly reviewed the methods of the Ming army's tactics, one of which came from his own habits; The second is to ease the tension about the future. He wasn't sure what the Emperor would do to him.
After getting off the train at Chaoyangmen Station, from the people who greeted him, Derge suddenly found two acquaintances, one was Li Yangeng, the eldest son of Li Yongfang, who had recently defected. Although Derge didn't have a good impression of this, but now in such an environment, he could only bow his hand to him.
Li Yangeng, who fled back to Daming, looked very good, and when he saw Derge, he also politely returned the salute and said: "After Yu left Shenyang, I thought it would be difficult to see the old people in Shenyang again. It's a great pleasure to see Debelle today. I don't need to introduce Baylor to this person, right? ”
Although Derge didn't know what was gratifying about his forced surrender, he still twitched the corners of his mouth a few times, and squeezed out a smile in response. However, he looked at the people around Li Yangeng, and his face became much calmer, "Kul pestered Bakshi, I haven't heard from you for a long time, I thought..."
Although Kurtang's face showed a little embarrassment, he quickly calmed down and said, "Your Majesty treats me well, but... It's hard to put into words. I think let's get in the car and catch up again, Your Majesty has already set up your residence in the capital, right next to my residence and Inge..."
Derg saluted the two of them again, and then followed Kur out of the platform and into the four-wheeled carriage waiting on the side of the road. Their actions were nothing more than an inconsequential image to the other passengers on the platform, and they did not attract any onlookers.