Chapter 400: The First Northeast Campaign 3

To some extent, Huang Taiji and Wang Shuhui are facing the same situation. 【Reading.com】

Wang Shuhui wanted to bring China in the era of feudal agriculture to the stage of modern industrial society. And Huang Taiji wanted to bring the Eight Banners tribe of the post-Jin Jurchen in the era of slave fishing and hunting to the centralized social stage of feudal agricultural society.

Both of them are faced with the problem of pushing backward countries to advanced stages. It's just that one of them is a modern person with a golden finger of time and space, and the other is an ancient person who was born and raised native. If it is really difficult, Wang Shuhui's goal is indeed hugely revolutionary, but as a native of this time and space without any golden fingers, Huang Taiji completely relies on his genius to promote the development of the entire post-Jin Nuzhen.

The post-Jin Jurchen of the wild boar skin era existed as a tribal alliance. Wild boar skin used the so-called "seven hatreds" to provoke ********, and in the name of the overall interests of the nation, the nominal union of the Jurchen nation was indeed realized. But this union is actually unstable. There is still constant intrigue between the tribes and within the tribes, because of their own interests and plans.

Before launching an attack on the Ming Dynasty, the wild boar skin's official title as the commander of the Jianzhou Guard still had some deterrence and appeal within the Jurchens. But after his open rebellion, he could only rely on his own ability to lead the Jurchen Alliance.

However, when the wild boar skin was a godson, he was the leader of the party, and the skills he learned under Li Chengliang's command were also very limited. Therefore, even in the armed struggle of the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Jurchen was on the offensive, but the Ming Dynasty, which had rotted to the roots, was not something that the Later Jin Jurchen tribal alliance under the leadership of the wild boar skin could easily defeat.

This reality led to the fact that after the death of the wild boar skin, when his son Huang Taiji came to power, the entire Houjin Jurchen was very unstable.

Thanks to Huang Taiji's own skills and his own hard work, he used various means to attack and consume the power of opponents inside and outside the family, and promoted the feudalization of the Later Jin Jurchen regime step by step, learning and imitating the Ming Dynasty to establish the central power of the Later Jin Jurchen itself.

At this stage, Huang Taiji gradually discovered that if he wanted to emulate the Ming Dynasty and establish his own feudal dynasty of the Jurchens, he must have the productive forces that can match the feudal dynasty. The sparse population, poor agricultural production conditions, and the unfortunate Xiaoice climate made Huang Taiji realize that with the existing conditions of the Jurchens themselves, there was no way to completely eliminate the backward factors within the Later Jin Jurchen regime and establish a truly centralized feudal dynasty.

It was under these circumstances that Huang Taiji thought of following the example of the Mongols and plundering the population and materials to meet the survival needs of the Jurchen people by beating grass valleys.

However, this method of diverting internal contradictions through external aggression has a very fatal drawback. Just as once the little devils had a military defeat in World War II, the whole country began to have an unstoppable chain reaction of collapse, Huang Taiji found that his prestige, the correctness of the political reform of the Later Jin Jurchen, and the legitimacy of his own rule of the Later Jin Jurchen regime were all kidnapped on the continuous military victories of the Later Jin Jurchen regime in the process of transferring internal contradictions through foreign aggression.

In particular, the legitimacy of the rule of the entire Nurhachi family over all the Jurchens, because of the title of the commander of the Ming Jianzhou Guard on the head of the wild boar skin, because of the wild boar skin and the behavior of the wild boar skin and his father under Li Chengliang, and the black history of them as sons and grandsons and leading the party, led to a serious defeat in the military struggle against the Ming Dynasty under the leadership of Huang Taiji, and the contradictions and struggles within the Jin Jurchen regime that barely embarked on feudalism would erupt. Let the efforts of two generations of the Nurhachi family be wiped out.

Constant military victories and lucrative plundering to sustain people's hearts and minds, originally a forced solution to the feudal evolutionary resources of the Later Jin Jurchens, became the source of the legitimacy of the rule of the Nurhachi family and Huang Taiji himself over all Jurchens.

Such a development was something that Huang Taiji did not expect. As one of the very few people in the Jurchens with political wisdom, Huang Taiji knew the danger of such a situation. But in the same way, things have developed to this point, and Huang Taiji himself has become a part of the general development, and he himself has been kidnapped by this situation.

Fortunately, with a keen eye, he found that the Ming Dynasty was getting weaker, so the current situation still has more advantages than disadvantages, which is conducive to his goals and needs.

It is precisely for this reason that Huang Taiji can use Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Army to consume the forces of the blue flag and the white flag to attack his political opponents, but he himself cannot suffer any defeat in the military struggle. The victory of the conquest of Mongolia, the victory of the conquest and plundering of the Ming Dynasty, only with continuous victories can his rule over the Later Jin Jurchen regime continue to be stable.

To put it more heart-wrenching, Huang Taiji thinks that although his brothers and relatives don't understand what he did, they all think that he is too insidious and arbitrary. But what they don't know is that if someone else sits in their place, it's not Huang Taiji who is arrogant, what Amin, what Daishan, these guys who lick their faces and are smiling around, always thinking that they are great, are actually stupid pig-like characters in politics. If the ruling power of Houjin is handed over to them, it will not take a few days for them to collapse Houjin.

Therefore, Huang Taiji's current situation is that he can use active means to consume the power of the banner owners and attack his political opponents, but he himself will not allow the Later Jin Jurchen as a whole to suffer military defeat.

Therefore, even if he couldn't figure out what the Baath Party in southern Liaoning was, and even if his own spies in the Guannai did not find out where the Baath Party was, the reality forced Huang Taiji to resolutely strike at this military force that caused the loss of two or three thousand Jurchen banner men to Dingkou and the capture of four or five thousand Mongol and Han slaves to the Later Jin Jurchens.

Even when the forces of the Later Jin Jurchen had just completed a major military operation and the overall combat strength had not yet recovered, Huang Taiji had to stand up to the huge pressure of delaying spring plowing and destroying agricultural production, and in mid-April 1630, he once again ordered all the departments of the Eight Banners to draw fresh troops from various Niulu to gather troops and launch a military attack on the Baath Party.

Huang Taiji is really enough to give face to the Fuxing Army. Based on his analysis of the performance of the Revival Army in various skirmishes and reconnaissance battles, he believed that the combat effectiveness of the Revival Army was at least at the level of the elite Ming Army in the Guannai. In his opinion, if the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners is ten, the combat effectiveness level of the ordinary Ming army is also three. The level of the elite Ming army is five at most.

Therefore, under this judgment, Huang Taiji transferred 5,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, supplemented by 10,000 Mongolian bannermen and 10,000 Han slave auxiliaries, a total of 25,000 troops, to participate in the conquest against the Fuxing Army. Space-Time Gate 1619

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Chapter 400 First Northeast Campaign 3