The battle of Shanhaiguan between Dashun and the Manchu Qing Dynasty affected the whole world. The Nanjing Yixing Imperial Court was excited, and Wu Sangui defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, using the name of borrowing the Eastern Soldiers to avenge Emperor Chongzhen and save the society from fire and water, which undoubtedly convinced many people in the Nanjing Imperial Court. Among them is the Yixing Emperor Zhu Cihong.

In the battle of Shanhaiguan, the Dashun army was defeated and lost, losing nearly 40,000 elites, Dolgon led the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, taking advantage of the wind, after a whole day of bloody battles between the Dashun Army and the Wu Army, suddenly killed, the red-clothed cannon of Wuzhen Chaohabu, with the brave cavalry of the Eight Banners, made the Dashun Army just barely support more than two hours before it collapsed. And the losses of the Manchus were almost negligible.

Dashun Lu Guogong He Renlong was killed in the chaos, and the right-wing army he led was temporarily led by the general Li Yan, and fortunately Li Yan stepped forward, so that the Dashun army would not be defeated.

At this time, Yixing Emperor Zhu Cihong's mood was extremely excited and contradictory. The Northern Expedition, which he strongly supported, was opposed by the Nanjing officials and gentry, and there were few supporters. And the news that Wu Sangui and the Qing army defeated Li Zicheng at Shanhaiguan made Zhu Cihong like a treasure.

I have to say that Zhu Cihong's eyes at this time were still focused on Li Zicheng, an enemy who did not share the sky, and did not see the evil consequences of the Qing army's southward movement at all. In his opinion, the main force that defeated Li Zicheng was Wu Sangui, not the Manchu Eight Banners, and he regarded the elimination of Dashun as the first task of the Nanjing court.

In this case, Zhu Cihong couldn't wait to order Sun Chuanting to immediately organize men and horses to attack Henan and Huguang. There is Gao Jie left behind in Henan, and a very good situation has been achieved, while Huguang is a 70,000 elite division with Bai Wang, the general of the Shun army.

Zuo Liangyu of Wuchang, Liu Liangzuo of Shou County, and Huang Degong of Luzhou did not respond. Shi Kefa, the governor of Lufeng, ran between the three towns, but it had no effect. In desperation, Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa had to lead the only 30,000 soldiers and horses out of the Northern Expedition and into Henan.

But after entering Henan, Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa began to struggle, on the one hand. Liu Hongqi, the chief officer of Dashun Henan, and Liu Rukui, the general of the army, raised troops to block the attack, and Bai Wang of Xiangyang also sent troops to cooperate; On the other hand, the supply of the Nanjing court was very small. Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa had to join forces with Gao Jie and Guo Congkuan, and although they did their best to supply the north, the results were lackluster.

A series of news was sent to Jinan, Shandong, but Zhu Ping'an sat firmly in Diaoyutai and did not take action. The Northern Expedition was indeed a bit rushed. The internal forces have not yet completed the integration and unification, so they can't wait to start the northern expedition. It is indeed unwise.

The Three Towns of Jiangnan were currently the main military force supporting the Nanjing Imperial Court. But the three town lords and the Yixing Emperor Zhu Cihong were about to leave. Zhu Cihong vigorously promoted Sun Chuanting and appointed him as the commander of the Northern Expedition, controlling all the people, which is inevitably a bit unworthy of the name.

Zuo Liangyu has 200,000 soldiers and horses, although it is a bit exaggerated, but there are still tens of thousands of soldiers under his command. This person is also willing to contribute to the court, but he is very proud. In his early years, he was unruly under Yang Sichang. Now Zhu Cihong blindly reuses Sun Chuanting, although Zuo Liangyu is a hero of the decision. But he only lost the title of Earl Pingnan, so he was naturally dissatisfied. So stand still.

Not to mention Liu Liangzuo and Huang Degong, both of them are the backbone of Fubaofu Wang. When Emperor Yixing ascended the throne, both of them were uneasy, for fear that the court would punish them, so they didn't dare to act rashly.

In the military aircraft conference hall of the Jinan General Military Office, Yin Shigang summarized the information he had obtained in the past few days. Draw conclusions. The Nanjing Imperial Court's northern expedition this time was bound to end in failure. Sun Chuanting and Shi Kefa went deep alone, and Dashun still had nearly 100,000 people in Henan, Gyeonggi, and Hebei, and it was definitely not easy to overcome it in one fell swoop.

Zhu Ping'an sat in the center. Next to him are Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng, Yin Shigang, and Yang Tinglin, three members of the Military Aircraft Department. The Military Aircraft Department is a newly established institution in Shandong's military and political system. At present, Shandong's military and political authorities are integrated and do not interfere with each other. The internal affairs system is dominated by the new governor of Shandong, Zhao Guangchen, and the military system is respected by the Military Aircraft Department.

The supreme commander of the Military Aircraft Department is Zhu Ping'an himself, and within the Shandong military system, any transfer of troops, horses, and materials must be approved by the Military Aircraft Department, and Zhu Ping'an's signature can only be implemented. This move is also to prevent the generals from becoming bigger and firmly holding the military power in the hands of the core layer.

There are two other newly promoted cabinet members in the Military Aircraft Department, but they are two rookies who have just come to the Shandong Army. They are Zhang Huangyan of Nanjing Hanlin and Zhang Mingzhen of Shipu guerrilla in Taizhou, Zhejiang. These two people are all talents recruited by Zhu Ping'an, and they belong to the depressed type in the Nanjing Imperial Court, and they are both in their twenties, and they are reused when they come to Shandong, so they are naturally inexplicable to Zhu Ping'an.

For these two people, Zhu Ping'an has a completely different view. Born in a literary and martial arts, although Zhang Huangyan, who is a Hanlin, is also familiar with military affairs, he has some hesitation and hesitation in making decisions on the spot, so he is more than enough to use as a staff officer, but he is a little lacking as the commander of an army.

Although Zhang Mingzhen is currently a military general, he is an out-and-out scholar. There are still some traces of Donglin Party members on his body, and he was able to come to Shandong, and Zhang Jizu played a lot of role in it. In his early years, he traveled to Beijing and was invited as a guest by Cao Huachun. traveled to Fengyang, and became friends with Zhang Jizu. His people are brave and heroic, and he is a rare general.

The Military Aircraft Department is a start-up, and there is no rank among the cabinet members, but its importance and authority are self-evident, and there are Zhu Ping'an and Lu Xiangsheng to suppress the formation, so it is also equivalent to the current highest military command organization in Shandong. Therefore, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen, two little-known juniors, were selected, although there were quite a few complaints among the Shandong generals, but no one dared to directly oppose them.

Originally, when the Dashun army attacked Shanhaiguan, there were many generals in the Shandong army, who could secretly attack from the sea and land to the sea off Shanhaiguan. When Wu Sangui, the Qing army, and the Dashun army are fighting to the death and are exhausted, they will suddenly kill, and they will inevitably be able to kill countless and severely damage the three families.

However, Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen raised objections. With the sailors and the land divisions, under the cover of powerful artillery fire, they may indeed be able to gain a lot. However, this battle was meaningless, which was equivalent to the Shandong army running thousands of miles in vain, but it could not get any meaningful results.

There are three reasons: First, once the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the war, Li Zicheng had little chance of winning this battle, the Qing army was mostly cavalry, and the Shandong army was mostly land divisions, the Qing army and Wu Sangui were guarding the Shanhaiguan, and the Shandong army had no good plan except to cover it with artillery fire. However, after the artillery bombardment, it was overwhelming to take Shanhaiguan through Guò. Second, even if Shanhaiguan is taken, there are strong enemies inside and outside the pass, but the Shandong army can only be trapped in a lonely city, consuming money, food and troops in vain; Third, the elite of the Dashun army and the elite of the Manchu Qing Dynasty gathered at Shanhaiguan with a total of 200,000 people, not counting Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses, how many men and horses did the Shandong army need to dispatch to severely damage them. Or do you unite with Dashun and reject the Manchu Eight Banners? Not very realistic! Dashun and Daming currently have the only hatred of destroying the country and destroying the family, and if they join forces with Li Zicheng at this time, I am afraid that they will be criticized by Nanjing.

On the whole, it is really inappropriate to send troops to Shanhaiguan! There is no point!

Zhang Huangyan and Zhang Mingzhen's arguments refuted all the generals who asked to send troops to the north, and also made the two of them famous within the Shandong Army. also made Zhu Ping'an highly respectful of the two of them.

After Sun Chuanting sent troops into Henan, Zhu Ping'an had the opportunity to enter the Gyeonggi area, but in this way, he was bound to fight to the death with Niu Jinxing and Liu Fangliang, who were left behind by the Dashun army. Even if Beijing City is taken, the loss will probably be astronomical. Moreover, this is what the Yixing Emperor Zhu Cihong absolutely did not want to see, just when Sun Chuanting took the oath to set off, he had already sent people to Shandong to deliver the decree, ordering Zhu Ping'an's troops to enter Henan to assist Sun Chuanting, and not to launch an offensive in the Gyeonggi area without authorization.

Since then, Zhu Ping'an has not bothered to be a villain, so he simply does not move, but just sends Yue Jinfeng's troops to enter the north of Henan step by step, and responds to Sun Chuanting's northward confront, and Xu Dingguo's soldiers and horses are facing each other across the river on the Lanfeng line.

In this situation, Zhu Ping'an integrated internal opinions and began to look outside the Guan.

As for the layout outside the Guan, in fact, it began long before Li Dingguo's troops entered Phi Dao and Korea. A large number of secret agents of the Military Intelligence Department, with the cooperation of the intelligence personnel who had participated in the original imperial spy department, entered the Manchu Qing Dynasty to collect intelligence.

Dolgon led the army of the Eight Banners out of the nest and rushed to the Shanhaiguan Pass. One of the regents, Jilharang, stayed in Shengjing, responsible for guarding the lair of the Eight Banners, and gathered nearly 40,000 soldiers and horses in the Yizhou area, but there were only more than 10,000 elites of the Eight Banners, and the rest were the combined forces of the Mongolian tribes and the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of the Han Army.

Concubine Zhuang Da Yu'er and Zi'er Harang and other important ministers who stayed behind were also well aware of the importance of Guanwai to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so they also mobilized the Eight Banners again, and transferred all men over the age of 14 to enlist in the army, and assembled a reserve army of more than 50,000 people in case of emergency.

What Zhu Ping'an wanted to do was to launch a tentative attack on the Manchu territory outside the Guan. Li Dingguo currently has a total of 20,000 troops in Korea, plus more than 30,000 soldiers and horses that North Korea can mobilize, and wants to conquer the reality of Liaodong in one fell swoop. Sending the Shandong army to cross the sea to the east will also make Shandong's strength weak. Therefore, Zhu Ping'an decided to launch a limited-scale campaign outside the Guan, in order to attract the main force of the Eight Banners back to the division, so as to deal with the war in the Guan. (To be continued......) R1071