Chapter 232: Cannon Fodder
Whether it is the monarch or the people on the Ming side, the mood is not bad now, but the mood of Huang Taiji is very bad now, the Ming and the Qing Dynasty bet on the national fortune, and it is not easy to say whether Ming won or not, but his Qing is lost.
Zhao Kuangyin set up camp only seven or eight miles away from Huang Taiji, but it happened to be on his way to the west, Wu Xiang was very discerning and directly withdrew to Shanhaiguan, not giving Huang Taiji a chance to fight in the field at all, even if he was going to go now, the two roads were not so easy.
Zhao Kuangyin has more than 100,000 people in the number of Hong Chengchou's troops after incorporating them, and there are almost 30,000 elite soldiers, almost invincible under the power bonus of more than 300 cannons, Lu Xiangsheng's 100,000 soldiers are also directly in the south of him, Qin Liangyu and Sun Chuanting, plus the miscellaneous armies from other places are in the east of him, and the entire Ming Dynasty has used more than 300,000 troops to surround Huang Taiji on all sides, which has the meaning of trapping him alive.
This is not the most disturbing thing for him, the 300,000 Ming army may not be trapped to death, but what makes him most uncomfortable is the doubts from the Mongolian-Cuban allies.
The so-called Manchu Qing Dynasty has never been a single Jurchen regime, but a triangular bracket composed of Jurchen, Mongolian-Gu, and Liaodong Han people, and now the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are directly aimed at themselves by Hong Chengchou, Yanjing City has suffered heavy casualties and has not even caught a single hair, and these Meng-Gu allies have also begun to question the leadership of Huang Taiji.
The way the grassland civilization and the agricultural civilization calculate the victory is different, this time the laborers mobilized more than 200,000 troops to come out, and they didn't grab anything and died so many people in vain, which in their eyes is not flat, but a complete loss! Because the war delayed their herding of sheep, if they did not return with them the rich booty, they would probably freeze to death and starve to death by the merciless cold wind this winter. This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the prestige of his Great Khan, who could not bring them victory, and the Great Khan was not needed by them.
"Great Khan, the Mongols are all shouting to go home, they say... Yanjing must not be able to attack it, rather than spending meaninglessly with Daming here, it is better to hurry home and see the women and sheep at home. ”
"Hehe, is that the only Mongol-ancients think so?"
"This... The clansmen also have some similar voices, and everyone knows about Gongsun Zhan, and they can't hold it back. ”
"Alas!! Tell the brethren that if you want to go home, cheer up, the southerners will not let us go home so easily, I am afraid that there will be another bloody battle. ”
After a long time, Huang Taiji said slowly: "There has been no news from Dolgon for a long time, as for home... I don't know if it's still there. As he spoke, even heroes like him, who had always been fierce and fierce, couldn't help but show a little desolation on his face.
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If you pan the perspective to the northeast and go out of the Liaodong region not far from Shanhaiguan, the tragedy of the war is probably not weaker than the bloody Yanjing battlefield, or even surpassed.
The first battle of Dolgon's strong attack on Liaoyang naturally ended in failure without any suspense, under the intensive greeting of the cannons, Zhengbai Qi killed and injured more than 3,000 people in one day, and even Zhao Yun led Bai Mayi to kill them when they retreated in the end, and burst their delicate chrysanthemums, and when Dolgon returned to Shen Yang to count the number of people, it was less than half of when Huang Taiji left.
But fortunately, the effective support of Li Cunxiao and his Flying Tiger Army the next day gave Dolgon some hope.
"General Li, this king has heard about the general's eighteenth cavalry to conquer Chang'an, and he has been fond of the general's spirit for a long time, and I also ask the general to help me break this small city in Liaoyang, so that I can also see the majesty of General Feihu."
"Hahaha, don't kill me, that Huangchao child can be compared with this white horse Yicong, but there was no artillery in Chang'an City hundreds of years ago, the sons and daughters have never seen this thing, and they don't dare to rush up recklessly, or you should make a look, attack me and take a look, so that we can also know the power of this artillery, at least know what it is, do you say yes?"
"You... Do you want my white flag to be cannon fodder for you? ”
"The prince is angry, I don't know what this cannon is, what does this cannon fodder mean? I'm uneducated, I don't understand! ”
"You... You.... The Great Khan asked you to come to the rescue of Shen Yang. ”
Li Cunxiao smiled coldly: "Yes, Lord Wang, I see that this Shen-Yang is very solid, then Gongsun Chan went to Liaoyang by himself to stay, don't worry, if he dares to attack Shenyang, the last general will definitely teach him a hard lesson, how about it?" ”
"Bastard! How can you be reasonable!! Gongsun Zhan relies on Liaoyang, and a radius of 500 miles is his slaughter range, if he does not attack Liaoyang City, will he wait for him to kill all the tribes within a radius of 500 miles and guard an empty Shenyang? ”
"What about this..." Li Cunxiao tilted his head and asked beside him: "Can I have Shatuo people living within a radius of 500 miles?" ”
"Back to the Thirteenth Master, no, the grassland that the Great Khan painted for us is in the west, at the junction of Jurchen and Menggu."
"Oh... The prince can rest assured that there will be a certain general to protect Shen Yang from loss. ”
"You... You, you, you ... You are arrogant! ”
With a bang, Li Cunxiao slapped the entire table and directly scattered it, stood up and looked directly at Dolgon without any retreat: "Lord Wang! I, Li Cunxiao, am not as good as my second brother in the war, and my head can't be compared with my eldest brother, but Lao Tzu, as the commander of the Flying Tiger Army, is not a special mother's husband! Cavalry siege! That is to fill with life, no matter how elite the army is, it is not very useful, and the cannon, whether it is a peasant mud-legged soldier or my flying tiger soldier, as long as it is flesh and blood, one cannon will die!
Lao Tzu's Flying Tiger Ride did not fight this kind of battle before, and it will not fight in the future!! If you have to fight Liaoyang, I can wait for him to run out of shells to try, or let's wait in this Shenyang, in a word, his Gongsun Zan killed your Jurchen children, not my Shatuo people, Lao Tzu has no obligation to use these most elite Shatuo people to fill your Jurchen pit! Understand? ”
"You... You... You talk to this king like that. You.... ”
You have been for a long time, but Dolgon has done it dejectedly, this Li Cunxiao said these words are not listening, but it makes sense, elite soldiers are never used as cannon fodder to consume shells, Zhengbai Flag is not, Flying Tiger Riding is not, Zhengbai Flag can die willingly for the sake of his family, but people Flying Tiger Riding is definitely unwilling.
In the past, the cannon fodder was the Han Eight Banners, and even the Han people who had just been looted and kidnapped, but now... This cannon fodder must be oneself, and it can only be oneself.
"Oh."