Chapter 168: Dongyu retreats
According to the trajectory of history, Dolgon should be on his way back to Liaodong at this moment.
It's just that when Yue Tuo's troops invaded Leiden, the Manchurian leader Ba Lanqi was still on the west bank of the Jiaolai River, and no one knew whether Ba Lanqi had reported to Dolgon.
Therefore, after solving the Yue Tuo Ministry, Li Xingzhi still ordered Wang Zhong to deploy defenses in Daze Mountain, and he led the Green Banner Army and the Iron Man Army to return to Laizhou, with the Jiaolai River and Daze Mountain as a barrier, Li Xingzhi was not afraid of Dolgon's army.
Linqing prefect Yamen, the temporary recourse of the pseudo-Qingrui prince.
Dorgon sat in the lobby and looked coldly at Baranch, who was kneeling in the hall.
"You mean, Yue Tuo was trapped on the east bank of the Jiaolai River by Ming thieves?"
"Prince Rui, please send troops quickly to save General Yangwu!"
Baranch grabbed the ground with his head, crying with tears.
"Save? How can this king be saved? According to the news from Dezhou, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi, have led the Qin army into the defense of Jinggi, and the main force of our army is in Shandong. ”
Dolgon's face was cloudy, this expedition to Ming, although it achieved major results, the Ming Kingdom's Gyeonggi and Shandong were completely disabled, if Yue Tuo was defeated, the loss of the Fang side was not much worse than that of the Ming State, and the Eight Banners were folded by nearly six thousand, if they returned to Shengjing, how could they explain to Hong Tai?
Prince Su Haoge said worriedly: "Fourteenth uncle, General Yangwu is the master of our Manchurian Red Flag Banner, if something really happens, I'm afraid we can't afford it!" ”
Haoge is the eldest son of Hong Tai, the first title of Baylor, after Hong Tai established the Qing Dynasty, he was added as the prince of Heshuosu, and divided the eight Niu Lu of the Zhenglan Banner to which Mang Gurtai belonged to and handed it to Haoge to lead.
In order to strengthen his own strength, Hong Tai even drew Niu Lu from the remaining six flags except for the two yellow flags to enrich Haoge's strength.
In the first year of Chongde, Haoge, who had just been conferred the title of prince for only a few months, had nearly 20 Niu Lu, making it one of the most powerful princes in the Qing Dynasty.
"Prince Su, then in your opinion, what should I do?"
Although Dolgon was dissatisfied with Hauge's growing power, he was under the eaves and had to bow his head, who made Lao Tzu the emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
However, Dolgon was not easy to match, and kicked the ball to Haug immediately.
"Ordered general, this expedition, you are the chief general of our Qing Dynasty, how you say to deal with it, we will deal with it."
The white flag with the white flag Gushan Ezhen Turg was afraid that Hauge would be young and vigorous, and was driven by Dolgon's words, so he grabbed the handle and hurriedly said.
Although he is a subordinate of the White Flag, he is a close confidant of Hong Tai, and serving as the only two ministers of the Yellow Flag also means to spy on Duoduo.
Although Haoge was impulsive, he was not a fool, and hurriedly said: "With the fourteenth uncle here, where does the little nephew dare to assert himself, what do you say?" ”
Dolgon glanced at Turg hatefully, and made his own decisions? How do you do it yourself? Yue Tuo marched lightly, there are only a few days of grain in the army, if you fall into the Ming army, don't think about this battle with your head, you know what the result is, if your brigade arrives, this daylily will be cold early, but if you don't go, how can you bear the consequences of Yue Tuo?
"Prince Rui, Jiaodong is blocked by the Jiaolai River, and there is a Ming army sailor in the river, we just want to save it, and there is no way to cross the river, and we robbed Jinggi and Shandong this time, there are more than 300,000 people in Qingzhuang, and the rest of the gold, silver, grain and grass are countless, if it is delayed in Shandong, as soon as the main force of the Ming army arrives, and the border is blocked, how can so many people and materials be brought out of the customs?"
As a close confidant of Dolgon, Zhengbai Banner is the capital of Rosh naturally wants to stand for the master, of course, what he said is also true, 300,000 people, hundreds of thousands of stone grain, nearly 100,000 head of livestock, nearly a million taels of silver, so many materials with the army, how many miles can you walk in a day, if you are robbed by the Ming army, it will be a loss to your wife and a soldier.
Dolgon's face was grim, and he tapped his hand on the desk, "Hmm......! Yue Tuo didn't listen to people's words, he had to enter Leiden, and fell into the net of Ming thieves, and now the Ming thieves have gathered to help him, hundreds of thousands of troops have arrived in Gyeonggi, and my southern expeditionary army has to retreat to Liaodong first in order to prevent the back road being cut off, as for Yue Tuo's department, it can only listen to personnel, and it should be the mandate of heaven, what do you think? ”
"Uh......!"
Hauge and the others naturally knew what Dolgon meant, and he couldn't carry the black cauldron that broke Yue Tuo alone, since everyone was in the same boat, then everyone had to bear it together.
It's just that Rosh is right, there is no water division on the side, and the Jiaolai River is controlled by the Ming army, so don't fight, as long as you hold the Jiaolai River, who dares to follow Yue Tuo's footsteps and lead the army into Jiaodong.
"What Prince Rui said is that Prince Cheng is arrogant and willful, spinning more than a thousand miles, and the lone army is deep, we can't find any traces of the red flag, in order to prevent the loss of the back road, we have to lead the army to return to Liaodong first."
Tugar continued to speak, and if he did not reach a compromise with Dorgon, who knew if he would let Haug lead his army to rescue the Yuetuo Army, there was no sailor on the side, and if he fell in Leiden again, it would shake the country.
"Tugar is right, Prince Cheng has more than 10,000 troops, even if he is not defeated by the Ming thief, self-protection is not a problem, let's withdraw the army first!"
Dolgon stroked his palms and sighed, Tugar's statement is more appropriate, Yue Tuo is defeated, he does not blame others, he can only blame himself, the lone army is nearly a thousand miles deep, where is this king looking for you.
After deciding to withdraw his troops, Dolgon, who was still in Gyeonggi, first seized the Qingshan Pass, the main road out of the pass, to ensure the rear route of the Qing army.
Of course, the army returned to Liaodong, and Dolgon and Dudu also sent an urgent report to Hong Tai at the same time.
Dolgon: The ministers destroyed the Ming border and entered, the two wings of soldiers and horses, dating in the west of the Tongzhou River, passing Yanjing from the north, and dividing the troops from Zhuozhou into eight roads, one along the mountain, one along the canal, in the middle of the mountains and rivers, the column advanced. The six prefectures within a thousand miles of Yanjing have been ravaged and returned to the Shanxi boundary. Return to Linqingzhou, cross the grain river, break through Jinan Mansion in Shandong, and go to Tianjin Wei in Jinnan. Thirty or forty in Kecheng, six in the city, seventeen defeated enemy formations, captured a population of 157,880, the general Yue Tuo of the general of Zhiyangwu went deep alone, and the division was thousands of miles into Jiaodong.
The right-wing Belle Dudu and other Shuyun: the ministers and others went from the west of Yanjing in the Ming Dynasty to the Shanxi boundary, and the south to Jinan Mansion in Shandong, ravaging its land, Kecheng 19, and descending to 2 cities. Defeated the enemy's sixteen formations, killed two of his governors, and more than 100 officers above the garrison. Three out of 204,420 captured.
At the beginning of March, the Qing army arrived at Qingshankou in turn, although the reinforcements of the Ming army gathered in Gyeonggi, but because the armies were not under the control, and did not dare to go out of the city to engage in the battle, the governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting, wanted to lead the army to pursue, but Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, insisted on not allowing it, and the captured army had to watch the Qing army go away.
Du Du saw that the Ming army was so unbearable, and asked people to set up a wooden sign engraved with the words "all officials are exempt" along the Great Wall to humiliate the Ming army.