Naturalization City, a fortress on the grassland, Li Chaosheng sat at the head of the city, holding a purple sand pot in his hand and drinking the caravan brought from Jiangnan to the Longjing before spring, for tea, Li Chaosheng didn't understand, and he couldn't drink it well, but he felt that the tea they gave himself was soft in the mouth, sweet and strong, and the tea soup was also very beautiful.

That's why I like to drink it.

And Li Chaosheng prefers to drink the so-called non-quality tea, for example, his favorite drink is jasmine tea, rather than fermented tea leaves such as tall Pu'er, Jin Junmei, and Da Hong Pao.

Without him, I can't get used to drinking.

Li Chaosheng drank tea, watched the sunset slowly set over the city, and couldn't help but chant casually: "The desert is lonely, and the sun sets over the long river, which is really a beautiful scenery." ”

Li Chaosheng said, at this time, there was a rush of footsteps on the city wall, Gu Zi ran up with Bai Shoumin at this time, and when he got close, Bai Shoumin was panting, Li Chaosheng saw this, poured a cup of new tea on the side and handed it to Bai Shoumin and said: "Slow down, drink some water and speak slowly." ”

Bai Shoumin took a sip of water at this time and said, "Xie Xianzun." ”

Li Chaosheng smiled and looked at Bai Shoumin: "Well, why are you so alarmed." ”

Bai Shoumin heard this and said to Li Chaosheng: "Lord County, I just received the news from the Shengjing spies, there are changes in the Shengjing soldiers and horses, especially the Zhengbai flag of Dolgon, which has been frequently mobilized recently, and the grain and grass in the city have also stepped up the mobilization, I am afraid that the army will be raised." ”

Li Chaosheng put down the teacup when he heard this: "Sure enough, it's Dolgon, I thought it would be Hauge, well, send someone to send the news to Mr. Lu." ”

Hearing this, Gu Zi said, "Yes." ”

Li Chaosheng got up, and Bai Shoumin said, "Where are you going?" ”

Li Chaosheng said: "Summoning Li Chaohu, Shi Dalei went to the City Lord's Mansion and held a meeting." ”

"Yes."

Bai Shoumin also ran out to inform that Li Chaosheng walked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion under the protection of the guards, and when he arrived at the City Lord's Mansion, Li Chaosheng entered the conference room, and soon Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei arrived.

Li Chaosheng looked at Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei at this time and said: "I received the latest information, this expedition to naturalize the city is the white flag of Jiannu Dolgon, and the number of people on the expedition is currently undecided, but I think it will not be less." ”

Li Chaohu glared at him when he heard this: "What are you afraid of, the soldiers will block it, and the water will cover it, what is this, commander, you give the order." ”

Shi Dalei also said at this time: "Yes, army commander, it's not that we haven't fought with the Tartars, although they have good combat effectiveness, far surpassing the Ming border army, but we are not the waste of the Ming border army, our army is stronger and more sophisticated than the Tartars, and we are still defending the city, and we have more advantages." ”

"That's right, Commander, I don't think we need to be afraid at all, although the enemy is strong, it is not strong enough to compete with us, we have new muskets, new heavy artillery, we don't have to be afraid of him at all, our strength is far superior to them."

Li Chaohu said at this time, Li Chaosheng nodded when he heard this: "I have never doubted whether we can defeat the Tartars, but what we are pursuing is not only victory in the war, but also victory at the smallest cost, Lantian is very small, there are few people in Lantian, every life is precious, I will never allow more soldiers to die because of our decision-making mistakes, this will make me very uncomfortable, and it is not what I want." ”

Li Chaosheng said here: "So we must make complete decisions, so as to ensure the lives of more soldiers, although we have many soldiers, but no one can give up at will." ”

Li Chaosheng paused here and said: "Okay, inform me, from today onwards, call all the staff headquarters of your two divisions to the City Lord's Mansion for a sand table exercise, and I will ask Bai Shoumin to send the first-hand information over, and you must calculate all possible situations as much as possible." ”

"Yes."

Hearing this, Li Chaohu and Shi Dalei all saluted, the sand table drill is an important military strategy in Lantian, every time before the war, the staff officers must try their best to give full play to their strengths on the sand table, carry out all kinds of attacks, the two sides play each other's enemies, think of the yin moves, bad moves, and bad moves that can be thought of as much as possible, and deduce the situation as much as possible to the worst, and do a good job of various emergency plans.

The last time the Tartars attacked the capital, they carried out a sand table exercise, and that time they rehearsed the battle situation between the Tartars and the Ming army, and the only thing that was not calculated was that Chongzhen would kill Yuan Chonghuan, in addition to this, there were some small details, and almost all the others were calculated, so it can be said that the sand table drill can drill out the general situation.

Li Chaosheng gave an order, and the staff officers of the two divisions all gathered in the city lord's mansion, and Li Chaosheng had already asked Ma Tengyun to paint the geography and landforms near the naturalization city.

At this time, the entire sand table, the surrounding terrain is clear at a glance, the terrain of the naturalization city has nothing to say, it is located in the endless steppe, there are hills in the north, but they are all low hills, the rest of the places are meadows, there are reclaimed farmland on the periphery of the naturalization city, avoiding the main gate of the naturalization city, such a role is that the army does not have to worry about the destruction of farmland.

In addition to the farmland, there is no doubt that Li Chaosheng looked at it and said: "A cavalry can be ambushed behind this mountain bag, and a trench can be dug outside the city, so that the soldiers can deal with Jiannu in the trench, and the trench can also effectively defend against artillery shells, Jiannu has captured many red-coated cannons used by the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong since the Battle of Sarhu, these heavy cannons are a big threat to the Lantian army, although Li Chaosheng's cannons are slightly more advanced than the red-coated cannons, but they are not advanced to the extent of crushing." ”

In addition, the Tartars also have firearms, and the Tartar firearms are still very sophisticated, even more refined than the firearms in the hands of the border army of the Ming Dynasty, don't be deceived by the Tartars, they won the world, and then they advertised what bow and horse won the world, how can there be such a thing, they are actually very powerful firearms.

If it is really as he said, they are archers and horses, you can explain to me how they attacked the city, using cavalry to attack the city, Li Chaosheng has never seen such a strange thing in his life.

In fact, the reason why Li Chaosheng hated the Manchus, in addition to the Manchu slaughter of the Han people, hated the Manchus even more for opening the reverse wheel of history, they seized the world, in order to rule the world, they began to fool the people, began to restrict the development of firearms, began to advocate what bow and horse won the world, and began to play with their lives to restrict the opening of the people's wisdom.

Why?

They were afraid, they were afraid that the people would develop firearms, because if the people developed firearms, they would threaten their rule, and their Manchu cavalry would be scum in front of firearms, so they began to restrict, they began to make the whole society start to regress, so that their Manchu troops would have enough advantages to maintain their rule.

Their small calculation is that the Han people who shoot archery on horseback are not as good as us, but with the development of firearms, they can't beat firearms by shooting arrows on horseback, and if the Han people master it, they will be finished.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, although the Ming Dynasty had lagged behind some achievements in science and technology of Western countries, it was not as huge as imagined.

Even in some respects, the Ming Dynasty was not weaker than the West, and even stronger than the West, from the end of the Ming Dynasty this demarcation point, China's national fortunes began to decline, and then were overtaken by Westerners, until the beginning of the First Opium War, the West began to crush China in an all-round way.

followed by a hundred years of humiliation, all kinds of loss of power and humiliation of the country, all kinds of groveling, thousands of people from the Eight-Nation Alliance can enter the capital, Cixi and the old lady ran away with people, and her mother said with a face that she was going to the west, patrolling your grandmother's legs.

Therefore, the sin of the Manchu Qing is not that the alien race ruled the Han people, but the biggest sin is that it made the Chinese people go backwards, and the Chinese were all in a closed state for the most important two or three hundred years, without a trace of advance, and even retreated.

Let Huaxia, which has always been in the first position in the world, slide into the abyss.

How deep is this abyss, so deep that during that time, people and not people can come to China to harvest a sum, this is simply a great shame, when has it been so shameful in China, with a history of 5,000 years.

Wait, there was really one time, that was the Jin Dynasty ruled by the Sima family, Wuhu Chaohua, this is also the dynasty of the dog, the Jin Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are Li Chaosheng's least favorite dynasties, and they are also the most hated dynasties.

Even the Kublai Khan Yuan Dynasty, which oppressed the Han people very cruelly in Mongolia, he never hated it so much, at least although the Yuan Dynasty was cruel, but it led this China to an alternative glory, the greatest glory of the territory, of course, to the Han people, that dynasty is still a nightmare.

Of course, the Tartars who did not get the world are still very enlightened, they are particularly fond of artillery, not as later generations say, they use cold weapons to fight the world, in fact, they also use firearms, the beginning of any dynasty, its rulers are very smart, although we can hate them, but we can't underestimate them.

Li Chaosheng did not underestimate Dolgon, this man who has left a strong mark in history, such a character must be paid enough attention.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng proposed trench warfare at this time, using trenches to deal with Tartar artillery and muskets, and proposed to shoot in a lying position, but don't underestimate this simple lying shooting.

You must know that in the wars from ancient times to the present, all soldiers have never fought in this posture, and this posture has a very good advantage, that is, the center of gravity is low, as long as the center of gravity is low, it is very difficult for you to shoot him, and it can even be regarded as difficult.

This is a simple common sense, people stand with a large target, lying down the target is small, it is not easy to aim, so this is the only way to reduce casualties, if this is like a game with data, this one can shoot on its stomach, at least it can increase the effect of 70% of the damage avoidance on our side, so that the enemy's physical damage is invalid.

Of course, it can only avoid physical damage, and if the enemy uses gas bombs, the effectiveness of incendiary bombs will be much worse.

The Naturalization City side is nervously carrying out the sand table deduction, Li Chaosheng is very satisfied with the deduction on the sand table, his side is fully prepared, and the next thing is to see Dorgon's actions.

In May of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Dolgon, the prince of Houjin and Shuorui, led 20,000 horses with a white flag, 10,000 horses with a white flag, a total of 30,000 horses set off from Shengjing, accompanied by his younger brother Yu Prince Duoduo, and the strategist Fan Wencheng, went straight to the city of naturalization, and it is expected that the army will reach the city of naturalization after 20 days.

This news was delivered to Naturalization City almost at the moment when Dolgon left the city, and at this time, Li Chaosheng was watching the sand table drill conducted by Li Chaohu's division and Shi Dalei's division, when Gu Zi ran in and said, "Commander, the latest information." ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Zi for a moment and said, "Say." ”

Gu Zi said: "I just received the news, just now, Dolgon took Duoduo and Fan Wencheng to jointly lead 20,000 horses with the white flag and 10,000 horses with the white flag to the Naturalization City, which is expected to arrive in 20 days. ”

Li Chaosheng frowned when he heard this: "Okay, what a Dolgon, you are finally here." ”

Saying that, Li Chaosheng said to the staff officers who were deducing: "The intelligence is confirmed, and now it is time to carry out targeted deductions." ”

Hearing this, a staff officer immediately said: "Everyone, I want to talk about the intelligence of the Eight Banners of Manchuria. ”

"The Manchurian Eight Banners Army, initially set up and in 1601 (the twenty-ninth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty), the Jiannu chief Nurhachi was the first to set up four banners, which were yellow, white, red and black, and later changed from black to blue in 1615, and at the same time expanded the colored flag."

"At the time of the initial design, the yellow flag was the main flag of Nurhachi, the white flag was Nurhachi's eldest son Chu Ying, the red flag was the second son of Dai Shan, and ZLQ was Nurhachi's younger brother Shuerhachi."

"Later, after the expansion of the Eight Banners in 1615, the banner owner was changed for the first time, and several sons of Nurhachi appeared one after another, and the white flag Emperor Taiji, inlaid with the white flag Azig, that is, Dolgon, Duoduo's first maternal brother."

"Later, after several changes, coupled with the accession to the throne of Huang Taiji, there was an urgent need to weaken the power in the hands of other princes, so they helped Dorgon and Duoduo up, because they were the youngest brothers, and their strength was still very weak and controlled."

"However, although Dolgon and Duoduo are young, the strength of the two white flags is not weak, because Nurhachi liked Dolgon very much at the beginning, so he gave a lot of old team to Dolgon, they are full of two white flags, resulting in their strength is very strong, only weaker than the Zhenghuang Banner personally led by Huang Taiji, and a little stronger than the XHQ led by Hauge."

After listening to the introduction of the staff officer, Li Chaohu said: "In other words, they are the second and third ranked existences in the Eight Banners." ”

Hearing this, the staff officer nodded and said, "So to speak. ”

Shi Dalei heard this and said, "So, this time it's the elite of the Eight Banners?" ”

The staff officer nodded, Shi Dalei looked at Li Chaohu with a slight groan, Li Chaohu said excitedly at this time: "Hahaha, the elite is good, Lao Tzu is the elite, you can't gnaw persimmons on the old lady in the war, pick the soft pinch, if you want to fight, we will fight the elite, if you want to fight, we will beat him to be afraid." ”

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "What my cousin said is good, but don't take it lightly, the deduction will also be deduced, give you ten days to carry out strategic deduction, ten days later, we will officially start the pre-war arrangement, and tomorrow let the imprisoned Mongols go to dig a trench outside the city, this day is not good to raise without work, and the people in the city inform you that these ten days will be cultivated quickly, and after ten days, everyone will not be allowed to go out of the city, there will be a war, and there will be no soldiers to guard them when they go out of the city." ”

"Yes."

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