Chapter 221: The Wind and the Clouds Wash the Donglin in Blood (4)

Wang Zaijin's "confused" strategy of inheriting Xiong Tingbi, and "stupidly" engaging in a new pass in Balipu, the purpose is actually to have this new pass to attract Houjin, so that they can focus their eyes and footsteps on Shanhaiguan and the prosperous Central Plains behind the pass, and then rely on the strength of Jianguan to continuously consume Houjin. But there is a little problem in this wishful thinking, that is, did the Houjin have the determination to travel thousands of miles to the gate to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty?

Nurhachi is a human spirit, unless he is old and confused, it is impossible to bring his tens of thousands of families to the Shanhaiguan Pass, dreaming of breaking through the gate in one fell swoop, but if Houjin obtains the foothold of Balipu Guancheng, the situation may be different.

As long as the ice of the Haihe River melts, then the army outside the Houjin Pass will be finished, and it is entirely possible for the Ming Dynasty to send sailors to block the Daling River, Xiaoling River, and Liao River, and it is not easy to destroy the pontoon bridge reached by several small boats with the huge warships of the Ming Dynasty's naval division? Of course, if the Houjin occupies the "heavy city" but gives up before the ice, it will naturally not be annihilated, but the Houjin will no longer want to threaten the Shanhaiguan Guancheng, and the Ming Dynasty can safely solve the domestic problems and wait for the time to be ripe to wipe out the Houjin in one fell swoop.

Wang Zaijin's strategy inherited Xiong Tingbi's strategy, and it was also a good strategy, at that time, it seemed that this was a top-secret military strategy, which should only be known to Wang Zaijin and Emperor Tianqi, and it was also the direct reason for Emperor Tianqi's consent, and it was the root cause of Sun Chengzong's successive "more than ten sparse" to change the "construction of heavy cities". So it is not difficult to understand why Wang Zaijin refused to compromise for seven days and seven nights.

After Sun Chengzong overthrew Wang Zaijin's design of the heavy pass, he decided on a plan to bring the Ming army into a defensive dead place - to build a defensive line of Ningyuan and Juehua Island. Ningyuan is located 200 miles outside Shanhaiguan, with the sea in the east and the mountain in the west, and the road to Shanhaiguan is only 20 miles wide. Such a narrow corridor-type geographical situation could easily be cut off by the attacking Manchu army, and it became a lonely city with no food and no support.

Putting the Ming army into such a lonely city to defend was in fact putting the army into a place of death. Juehua Island is two small islands in the sea more than 30 miles away from Ningyuan, and the closest distance from the coast is only less than 10 miles. When the weather is cold, this narrow stretch of sea can easily freeze, making it a thoroughfare.

The fiasco of Juehua Island in the Battle of Ningyuan was caused by this improper geographical situation. But Sun Chengzong resolutely pushed the Ming army's defense line to this place, and proposed "...... When Ning Yuan rushed, he and Juehua were horned. The enemy peeped into the city, so that the island pawn out of the three forks, broken the pontoon bridge, around it and crossed it" above the paper.

Think about it, when the day was freezing and frozen, how could the army on Juehua Island implement the plan of "going out of the three forks, breaking the pontoon bridge, and going around it and attacking it"? And Sun Chengzong not only put the army into such a dangerous place, but also regarded Juehua Island as a very important grain camp for the Ming army, and accumulated a large number of military supplies all year round. Such a layout is actually a big gift in a place where the Manchu Qing Dynasty is within reach!

In October of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, Sun Chengzong was impeached and removed from office, and Gao Di succeeded him as the Liaodong Economic Strategy. Gao Di's idea of guarding Liao was inherited from Xiong Tingbi and Wang Zaijin. Therefore, as soon as he took office, he demanded that he withdraw from all the relevant foreign defense areas, clear the wilderness, and starve to death of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, Gao Di's order was resolutely opposed by a group of generals appointed by Sun Chengzong, including Yuan Chonghuan. The great retreat of the Liaodong Army only ended in Ningyuan, and a large amount of grain and grass in Youtun, the granary of the Jinzhou defense line, was left at the forefront by Yuan Chonghuan and others, who were passive and slacking off.

In the first month of the following year, Nurhachi waved his army south, and the "place of death" arranged by Sun Chengzong finally played its true role. As a result, the city was almost lost, all the grain and grass were robbed, and a large number of people were killed, leaving Ningyuan, the lonely city located.

After arranging the dead places of Ningyuan and Juehua Island, Sun Chengzong further pushed the defense line forward and built another defensive dead place 200 miles away from Ningyuan - Jinzhou.

Jinzhou is located at one end of the Guanning Jin Corridor, and the 400-mile distance from Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan is this narrow corridor that is no more than 20 miles wide. From this point of view alone, the terrain of Jinzhou was as bad as Ningyuan, and it was very easy to be cut off from the rear by the assaulting Manchu army.

Not only that, there are many mountains and rivers near Jinzhou, from Jinzhou to Ningyuan, there are many dangerous terrains such as Xiaoling River, Songshan, Xingshan, Tashan and so on, which are very conducive to the deployment of the Manchu army, so as to cut off the connection between the Ming army and the rear. It is this terrible geographical situation that has made all the major wars since the construction of Jinzhou City very unfavorable to the defenders.

There are three typical examples of the Jinzhou War known to Yuan Dahai alone:

First, in the Ningjin War in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Yuan Chonghuan delayed sending reinforcements due to the inconvenient terrain of Jinzhou, and finally let Mangui lead the army to reinforce but only dared to allocate 10,000 people. Compared to the 60,000 troops besieging Jinzhou by Huang Taiji, these troops were not even enough to plug their teeth. Obviously, Yuan Chonghuan made this arrangement knowing that the terrain of Jinzhou was extremely unfavorable for reinforcements (but it was he and Sun Chengzong who originally requested to build a city in Jinzhou for defense).

Second, in the Songjin War in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou's 130,000 troops were stationed in Songshan to rescue Zu Dashou in Jinzhou, and as a result, Huang Taiji was trapped in Songshan and cut off the connection with the rear, which directly led to the chaos of the army and the defeat of the whole army. This responsibility should obviously be borne by Sun Chengzong, who was the first to decide to build a city in Jinzhou.

Third, in the Liaoshen Campaign of the Kuomintang and the Communist Civil War, Jinzhou was surrounded by the four columns, and the 11 divisions of Jinxi and Huludao reinforce Jinzhou, but they were blocked by the four columns in Tashan for 6 days and could not advance, which finally led to the irreparable collapse of the situation in the northeast.

These historical wars in Jinzhou all prove that Jinzhou is indeed a dead place that is not conducive to defense. And Sun Chengzong, who was the first to decide to build a city in Jinzhou, is really debatable whether his decision was wise. Of course, Yuan Dahai never doubted Sun Chengzong's loyalty, and it was one thing to another, and it could not be said that doubting someone's decision-making and then doubting that person's character was obviously unjust.

After carefully listing the detailed process of Sun Chengzong's presiding over the Liao affairs, Yuan Dahai was really surprised, Sun Chengzong was really the only hero who could save the defeat at the end of the so-called Ming Dynasty?

Negating the decisions of Xiong Tingbi and Wang Zaijin, building Ningyuan, Juehua, Jinzhou and other places of death, Sun Chengzong also built Dalinghe City, which is also a desperate place where the Ming army was killed. After Sun Chengzong stepped down, Gao Di, who succeeded Liaodong Jingluo, decisively gave up this piece of chicken ribs, which was actually a wise decision to set things right. However, after the Battle of Ningyuan, Gao Di was impeached and removed from office, and the Liao affairs were taken over by Yuan Chonghuan, who was promoted by Sun Chengzong.

Fortunately, before Yuan Chonghuan's city building work was over, Huang Taiji launched the Battle of Ningjin, and Yuan's army retreated in panic, leaving the empty city of Daling River, which had not yet been built, to the Qing soldiers. But Huang Taiji would not leave his army here to die, and after the end of the Ningjin War, Huang Taiji destroyed the city and left. If this city is really useful and beneficial to the defenders, why would Huang Taiji destroy it? Isn't it good to occupy it and expand its territory for the "Great Qing Dynasty"?

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, when Sun Chengzong was the second governor of Liao, he once again proposed to build the Daling River, and sent Zu Dashou and He Kegang to build the city. Eight months later, the Ming army suffered the famous defeat at the Daling River. Zu Dashou and He Kegang's troops were surrounded by Huang Taiji and cut off food and grass in Dalinghe City, and the Ming army in Jinzhou sent troops to rescue four times in vain.

Especially when it came to the fourth rescue of the Daling River, Sun Chengzong personally served as the front-line commander, and the right commander of the reinforcements was Zu Dashou's brother-in-law Wu Xiang, that is, Wu Sangui's father. However, due to the terrible terrain in Jinzhou and the Daling River, the fourth rescue operation of the Ming army was still a fiasco. At this point, the Daling River completely cut off the hope of relieving the predicament, the grain and grass in the city were cut off, and the defenders fed on people!

In the end, Zu Dashou accepted Huang Taiji's surrender, personally killed He Kegang, who refused to surrender, and became a shameful traitor. On the day of the surrender, Zu Dashou proposed to lead the army to attack Jinzhou, and Huang Taiji immediately agreed. Unexpectedly, the fog was heavy that night, Zu Dashou and the Qing army who attacked Jinzhou together were scattered, and advanced to Jinzhou alone. Since then, the traitor Zu Dashou stayed in Jinzhou, gradually grasped the power of Jinzhou, and put his sons and nephews in the Manchu Qing Dynasty as officials. In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zu Dashou was lowered to the Qing Dynasty for the second time, and finally tore off the mask that had been worn for ten years.

During the period when Sun Chengzong was in charge of Liao affairs, he also vigorously recommended and reused a group of generals who did not know whether they were "heroes" or waste, and most of them became traitors, and it was these people who joined forces to bury the Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Chonghuan, the extremely stupid plan of building Ningyuan and Jinzhou, the two dead places as the defense line of the Ming army, was made by him and Sun Chengzong. In addition, killing Mao Shuai, destroying the Dongjiang River, consuming money and grain, abandoning North Korea, repairing peace negotiations, and releasing enemy soldiers...... He is really a criminal minister of the Ming Dynasty and a hero of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Man Gui, this person was also promoted by Sun Chengzong, he had his share of disobeying Gao Di's order to stick to Ningyuan, and when he rescued Jinzhou in the Battle of Ningjin, he was perfunctory, and the army of 10,000 people died and fled in a panic.

Yu Anxing, during Sun Chengzong's first supervision of Liao, first abolished the governor Yan Mingtai, and then abolished the governor Zhang Fengyi, and finally selected Yu Anxing as the governor of Liaodong. This person did not make outstanding achievements in Liaodong, and in November of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, he was deposed together due to the defeat of Liuhe. In the Chongzhen period, Yu Anxing was reused as the governor of Jiliao, and actually governed Jizhen. Just when Yu Anxing was in office, a large-scale mutiny broke out in Jizhen, and the soldiers made trouble because of unpaid wages. In the second year, Huang Taiji arrived in Beijing from the entrance of Jizhen Town, and broke through the two passes of the Great Wall in the Zunhua section in one day, which was where Yu Anxing mutinied. The defenders of Jizhen are so vulnerable, and the mutiny a year ago is obviously inseparable. It can be seen that Yu Anxing is really incompetent.

Liu Xingzhi, after Yuan Chonghuan beheaded Mao Wenlong, appointed Liu Xingzhi's elder brother Liu Xingqi as the deputy general of the Dongjiang River and led the Dongjiang Right Association. After Sun Chengzong took over, Liu Xingqi was transferred to Ningyuan, and the post of commander of the Dongjiang Right Association was handed over to Liu Xingzhi to take over. In April of the third year of Chongzhen, Liu Xingzhi rebelled on Phi Dao and killed Chen Jisheng, the chief official of the Dongjiang River, and the generals of the Zuo Xie, but Sun Chengzong still tolerated the traitors, sent Zhou Wenyu, Song Xian and others to appease Liu Xingzhi, and handed over the power of the Dongjiang River to this rebel. In August, Liu Xingzhi secretly sent Emperor Taiji to agree to surrender to the Qing Dynasty. In March of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Liu Xingzhi rebelled again on Phi Dao, but this time he blatantly played the banner of surrendering the Qing Dynasty and was ready to be a traitor, but fortunately he was killed by the general Shen Shikui at night, and the rebellion was quelled.

There are too many characters like this, and it can be said that the Liaodong warlord group created by Sun Chengzong eventually became a traitor army and became the vanguard of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Sun Chengzong, are you a great national hero or an incompetent?

Yuan Dahai fell into deep thought, and it was not until his subordinates led Bai Zhongshan, a hundred households of Jinyi Weishan and Haiwei, came to his senses.

Baizhongshan is the hundred households of Jinyiwei stationed in Shanhaiguan, Shanhaiguan is nominally a military town, but in fact it is only a military town in front of the pass, and Yongping Mansion is after the pass, and there are many people and business travelers here.

Yuan Dahai is the commander of Jinyiwei, although he can't directly command Shanhaiwei's Jinyiwei, but this identity plus the name of Dongchang in charge of thousands of households is still enough to make Bai Zhongshan come obediently.

Seeing Bai Zhongshan, Yuan Dahai said straight to the point: "I heard that Inspector Sun will lead 3,000 elite horsemen to Jizhou and Changping to review the defense affairs tomorrow, and Jizhou and Changping are very close to the suburbs of Beijing. ”

"This..."Bai Zhongshan was taken aback, he didn't expect Yuan Dahai to secretly report to the emperor about Inspector Sun's review of the defense.

Seeing him like this, Yuan Dahai said unhappily: "What? Does this require Luo Dudu's nod? ”

"Your Excellency! Subordinates obey orders! ”

Bai Zhongshan is a spirit, as a person of Jinyiwei, he naturally knows the weight of the Dongchang in charge of the punishment of thousands of households in front of him, if he offends him, I am afraid that even Luo Dudu will not be able to save himself.

The reason why he didn't report to Wei Zhongxian secretly, and then Wei reported to Tianqi, was because Yuan Dahai felt that this time it was a black state to tell Sun Chengzong, and it was necessary to dilute the color of party strife, Jinyiwei was the emperor's pro-army, and Luo Sigong, the governor of the capital, had never bought Wei Zhongxian's account, so the people of Jinyiwei reported secretly according to their duties, so that the apocalypse would not be suspicious of Wei Zhongxian.

As long as he let Tianqi know that his teacher was coming with troops before Sun Chengzong himself explained and reviewed the defense, he could make Tianqi suspicious, and then suspect the purpose of Sun Chengzong's move, which would be beneficial to Wei Zhongxian and even himself. As long as the Apocalypse issued an edict not to allow Sun Chengzong to enter Beijing, then no matter whether he wanted to "clear the monarch's side" or had other purposes, he could only be stillborn. As long as the Donglin Party wants to rely on the army to coup d'état, the rest is to sharpen the knife and pull those party members out one by one to bleed.

Major cases, important cases, tragic cases, the first six gentlemen, the last six gentlemen, all of them will become passers-by of Huangquan.

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This chapter has written some more things that should not be written, and there is a suspicion of making up the number of words, which I want to apologize for, in fact, the bones don't want to earn this point or two, but I just feel that it is necessary to write these things, so as to have a comparison with Sun Chengzong who I knew before.

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