The new book "The Rise of Great Powers 1900" seeks collection.

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This time, Yang Chao has an absolute advantage, because at this time and that time, in the past, Yang Chao was restrained by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and lost the other, but now the Manchu Qing Dynasty has also tasted this taste.

After Zhao Kang's cavalry occupied Ningyuan City, they cut off the connection between the pass and Liaoxi, which was unacceptable to the Qing court in any case.

At that time, Yuan Chonghuan, a scholar, was able to repeatedly thwart the personal attacks of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji when he had sufficient materials, and Yang Chao's soldiers were stronger than the Liao army under Yuan Chonghuan back then, and Yang Chao's artillery was more than Yuan Chonghuan's.

The most important thing is that the Guanning army led by Yuan Chonghuan only dared to defend the city, and the soldiers led by Zhao Kang dared to fight against the Qing army's Eight Banners.

In this case, the Qing army did not have any chance to capture Ningyuan, so they had to adopt the method of besieging the city, hoping to make the city run out of food.

It's a pity that there is no shortage of food in Jiangnan, the people in Ningyuan City have already been evacuated, there are only 100,000 cavalry artillery, and Yang Chao gave them one million loads of military rations, which is enough for them to eat for two years.

Obviously, it was impossible for Yang Chao to let the Qing army encircle this place for two years, and in October, after the autumn harvest, Yang Chao's army had already rested and immediately sent troops to attack.

In other directions, Hong Chengchou was in Jingxiang, Kuidong's army was behind them, and after Yang Chao waved the banner of respecting the king, Wen Anzhi actively cooperated, and when Yang Chao promised to go to Burma to meet the Son of Heaven, he had already made a military response. Hong Chengchou had no time to take care of anything else. The defense of Jingxiang is still clumsy. Not to mention harassing Yang Chao.

Although Azig in the direction of Henan continued to put pressure on Kaifeng, but for more than a year, Wang Pu has been accustomed to the sharp spirit of the Eight Banners of Mobei, and has been able to attack and defend each other.

Although Li Wuliu was taken away from Zhao Kang's cavalry, he also had tens of thousands of cavalry in his army. Coupled with a large number of artillery pieces and the most elite bird-gunners, they can still gain the upper hand against the Eight Banners of less than 150,000 soldiers who are directly subordinate to the North of Shangbei.

Yang Chao also rushed to the front line in person, this time he was determined, he didn't plan to defend the army until he completely eliminated this force, no matter how long he fought, he had to finish his work in one battle, and no one could stand it if he delayed it once.

This time has changed from the Northern Expedition two years ago. In terms of personnel, the last time it belonged was unknown. Divided into several factions, this time it is Yang Chao's family, the officers and soldiers are united, they all know that they are serving the King of Daming, and there is no ambiguity in the hearts of the officers and soldiers.

In terms of materials, Yang Chao reserved 20 million taels of military rations, enough for the whole army to eat for two years, and prepared 50 million taels of bonds, which were sold little by little, and the supplies were sufficient.

In terms of manpower, in recent years, at least 500,000 juniors have been trained by military training officers in various localities, who can go to the front line at any time.

Yang Chao felt that Cangzhou, commanded many male troops, Xie Fei's main force of 300,000 people, Sun Changfu and Zheng Yongwang's two armies of 150,000 people, had arrived in Liaodong landing, Zheng Yongwang's troops were stationed on Juehua Island, and Zhao Kang's troops supported each other, Sun Changfu's troops were stationed on Phi Island, so that he could find an opportunity to attack the Liaodong region immediately, and Jiangnan only left 100,000 people along the Yangtze River to defend Hong Chengchou, it can be said that Yang Chao almost came out of the empty country.

Li Wuliu's army marched along the canal in a neat marching formation, and groups of cavalry marched forward for ten miles to warn.

Li Wuliu's bird guns were much lighter than in the past, because everyone had lost weight, and no one had only a bird gun in their hands, a bayonet hanging from their waists, and a small bamboo tube with pre-loaded gunpowder and lead bullets.

The most important thing is that no one is dressed in cloth, now Li Wuliu is not very willing to put on armor for the soldiers, except for the vanguard and a leather armor, the rest of the infantry are all clothed, through a few years of-for-tat, Li Wuliu can already suppress the cavalry of the Qing army, then there is no need to increase the weight of the soldiers, all the weights are carried as much bullets as possible.

At the same time, Wang Pu's army is also moving forward, and his current main forces are almost the same as Li Wuliu, and they are all mainly birds, but his army is much more clumsy, because everyone is still wearing armor, and it is ironclad.

Wang Pu's combat concept is not the same as Li Wuliu, although he is also using bird guns, but he is generally lined up in three rows, squatting in the front row, kneeling in the middle, standing in the back row, as close as possible to the Qing army, three rows together with guns, and then take advantage of the situation to attack, with bayonets to solve the battle, this method is very effective, especially for those who are extremely skilled in riding the Mobei herdsmen.

When these Mobei Eight Banners first came, the Ming army suppressed by a sharp spirit was out of breath, but after long-term contact, it was found that these people had superb riding skills and flexible tactics, but the will to fight at the critical moment was not so strong, if they were not forced to the enemy, they were absolutely unwilling to fight to the end.

Therefore, Wang Pu invented this tactic of volley and charge, and the effect was excellent.

Of course, this is just a way of fighting, the most formal is the artillery battle first, and the artillery battle is followed by the infantry confrontation, and after the infantry phalanx defeats the opponent, it is the cavalry that comes out to clean up the mess.

Ten days after the troops were dispatched, Li Wuliu once again captured Tianjin, continued to march his troops, and moved in the direction of the Xianghe River.

"Let him rest assured to fight Beijing! Remember, keep an eye on the Guangqu Gate! ”

Yang Chao asked people to give Li Wuliu an order.

It's been five years, Yang Chao can finally use the chess pieces buried back then, Diao Erdou and Bian Er have been active in Beijing and Tianjin, one bright and one dark, Diao Erdou's work in collecting intelligence is not outstanding, and the information that is not too good is transmitted back to Jiangnan, and the most useful is often the morale of the people in Beijing.

But Diao Erdou supported Bian Er's work very well, Bian Er walked in Beijing as a figure in the rivers and lakes, made friends with heroes from all walks of life, and with the support of Diao Erdou's huge profits earned through the grain store, Bian Erdou developed thousands of downlines in Beijing, and at the same time developed more in slave owners' estates around the country, and many coats had already quietly taken refuge in him.

Bian Er promised that as long as the Ming army attacked the city of Beijing, he would have a way to open the Guangqu Gate.

Guangqu Gate is the outer city gate, the outer city of Beijing City, is not literally like that, wrapping the inner city, but an independent urban area in the south of the inner city, the outer city is mainly inhabited by the common people, and the inner city is inhabited by the Eight Banners, after the Qing army entered the city, the Ming people in the inner city were driven out.

Therefore, the inner city is actually full of cities, and the outer city is Seoul, but the area of Seoul is half of the city, and later generations of outsiders said that Beijing is a Huhua city, in fact, there is a certain truth, of course, it is biased, in fact, the Han people here are Manchu, Manchu Sinicization, and the nationalities are completely blended.

It's just that at this time, Beijingers may not feel happy about this kind of blending, because their homes have been robbed so much, and many people can only sleep on street corners when they first arrive in the outer city, and that feeling is not something ordinary people can experience.

So there is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in the outer city, and Bian Er was able to attract thousands of people, precisely for this reason.

In addition to the city of Beijing, the vast rural areas, where the Ming army passed, many clothed slaves immediately revolted, the master, the head of the village ran away, they themselves opened the manor to welcome the Ming army, the head of the village did not run, killed the head of the village who took care of them, opened the warehouse labor army, they have been looking forward to the king for a long, long time, but those leaders, many are not particularly miserable, but take the initiative to mix into the various manors, through the way of charging into the manor, the purpose is to lead the uprising at a critical moment, These people are also the downline of Bian Er's development, and they are loyal and righteous people.

A large number of uprisings made the Qing army retreat in the county seat, and when they went out of the city, they were smeared, just like when the Ming army attacked Sun Kewang, it was too unpopular and unpopular.

Similarly, Li Wuliu's team advanced more and more, and a large number of turned over coats pushed carts, carrying military rations, and accompanied them all the way.

A month later, Li Wuliu attacked Xiangshan County, and the cities in the neighboring Wuqing, Baodi and other places had already been taken by the rebels, because after the withdrawal of the heavy troops of the Eight Banners, the green battalion here had no fighting spirit, and many officers were persuaded by the spies to immediately go anyway.

The battles inside and outside the Guan, the uprisings everywhere, the Qing army has long been anxious, and there is no time to take care of anything else.

Dolgon was picking up the lamp in the Qianqing Palace, and his body had been blessed, and he didn't know how long he hadn't ridden a horse.

He was already fifty years old, and he looked much older than usual, with gray hair on his temples and a few traces of blood in his eyes.

A woman of the same age, with an honest and honest face, came over with a bowl of ginseng tea.

"Lord Wang, take a break."

Dolgon looked at this not very beautiful woman, nodded, drank two sips of ginseng tea, put it on the table, and habitually went to turn over the fold again, but saw that a pair of thick hands pressed it.

Only then did Dorgon realize that he had already developed a habit of being idle, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shake his head.

"Queen Mother. What do you think we would be like if we were still outside the border? ”

This woman is the Empress Dowager of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the mother of the Shunzhi Emperor Fulin, and the daughter of the Mongolian Korqin Beyler, Bumu Butai, but she has married Dolgon according to the customs of the Manchu Dynasty, and Dolgon has become the imperial father of Fulin.

Bumu Butai knew Dorgon's mood, she didn't speak, but she sighed in her heart, this season, autumn is high and horses are fat, maybe the men are hunting and playing.

"Do you think we can go back to Kanwai?"

Dorgon asked to himself.

Bumu Butai shook his head slightly, his eyes were already filled with tears, and there was no hope in this situation.

In fact, the ability of nomads to withstand defeat is far lower than that of farming people, the kind of martyrdom of the whole city, is not done by nomads, this is a cultural habit, they see that there is no hope of victory will retreat, but the agricultural civilization has no way to retreat, one has no fixed place, the other is defending the homeland.

"Lord Wang, now that you are out of the customs, you can also go to Mongolia!"

Bumu Butai sighed, at this time, they still have the opportunity to leave the customs from Zhangjiakou and Xuanhua and retreat to the vast Mongolian steppe.

But Dolgon let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "There are all the people, so what about withdrawing?" (To be continued......)