The Battle of Shanhaiguan ended in a fiasco in which more than half of the Qing army was annihilated.

After this battle, the Qing army completely lost the possibility of an aggressive counterattack in the remaining months of the entire six years of Longwu, and even in the following years.

Moreover, the far-reaching impact of this battle was not fully exposed at once, and many consequences still need to be slowly manifested in the long time to come.

For example, the Ming and Qing dynasties had been fighting for more than 30 years, when was it not the season when the Qing army reached the season of autumn high horses and fat, and went south to plunder? Treat the people of Daming as an ATM in Liaodong?

However, this battle of Shanhaiguan unexpectedly played a very funny side effect: because the battle took place from August to October, it happened to be the stage of autumn grain storage after the autumn harvest.

Originally, the Qing army launched an operation at this time, but also wanted to enter the customs to grab a handful of autumn grain materials in the area controlled by the Ming army.

In the end, it was the Ming army that attacked Ningyuan and Jinzhou, and then retreated by sea with all the people, money, food and materials, which was equivalent to the Qing army in Ningyuan and Jinzhou Tuntian for a year, and finally the grain that had just been harvested was cut away by the Ming army.

For more than 30 years, only the Ming army's tuntian was cut by the Qing army, and now for the first time, the Qing army's farming field was cut by the Ming army, and it was ready-made. Although the number is small, the impact on the pattern and morale of both sides is very far-reaching.

The Manchu high-level officials looked back afterwards, and they were all full of anger: the Qing Dynasty actually became the party that was robbed by the protection money collected during the autumn harvest! There is no heavenly reason!

In the months following the battle, the Qing army had to shrink in the western Liaoning corridor, reducing its military presence and creating a no-man's-land that neither side dared to want.

Jinzhou City still has to be defended, because this place is already relatively close to the heart of Liaodong, at the end of the Liaoxi Corridor. But Ningyuan, a city that is only in the middle of the West Liaoning Corridor, will never dare to ask for it.

However, even at this point, Zhang Huangyan did not intend to let go of the Manchus, and he arranged two poisonous tricks to weaken the Mongols and the Manchus at the same time.

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Zhang Huangyan's first move was to let the Ming army carry out destructive sneak attacks on other coastal areas of the Liaodong Peninsula, especially the points where the terrain was relatively protruding and it was difficult to quickly reinforce by land from the core occupied areas of the Qing army.

Anyway, the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula is so long, as long as there is emptiness, the Ming army can sneak attack.

The location of the sneak attack doesn't need to be limited to the West Liaoning Corridor! It can also be the west coast of the peninsula, or even the east coast of the peninsula! As long as you don't touch the most concave positions at the bottom of the peninsula, don't be afraid (that is, don't touch the Yingkou of the later generations)

Unless the Qing army completely abandons all coastlines, and from then on the turtle retreats inland! Otherwise, the Ming army can use its naval superiority to attack everywhere!

The first real sneak attack of the Ming army on Liaodong occurred on October 8, the sixth year of Longwu, more than a month after the end of the Battle of Shanhaiguan.

The implementers of this campaign are still mainly Zhang Mingzhen's navy, and the total number of troops mobilized is about 20,000 people, all of whom are navy and artillery, and not many professional land forces have been used.

The location of the Ming army's attack was chosen in Jinzhouwei, the most cutting-edge area of the Liaodong Peninsula, that is, the Dalian and Lushun regions in later generations.

As we all know, Dalian and Lushun are themselves another long, narrow and prominent peninsula at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, that is, "a peninsula on the peninsula".

The junction that connects the hinterland of the Liaodong Peninsula is very narrow, and the terrain of the junction is still mountainous (if there were no mountains, it might not be able to form a peninsula, but would be directly cut off by the Bohai Sea and turned into an island)

Such a terrain would of course be very inconvenient for the Qing army whose core was stationed around Shengjing, reinforcements. After the Ming army launched an attack, the Qing reinforcements might not be able to reach the battlefield for seven or eight days.

If the Ming army lacked heavy artillery, it might be difficult to cross the sea to attack a city that had been firmly garrisoned by the Qing army for decades.

After all, the situation in this place is still very different from Ningyuan and Jinzhou. After all, the defenders of Ningyuan and Jinzhou had quite a lot of Liaodong Han people, as well as the old troops of Wu Sangui and Zu Dashou who were forced to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, so they would naturally be more or less nostalgic for their homeland when the Ming army fought back.

And Jinzhouwei, it is said that several generations of people feel that they are the people of the Qing Dynasty/Later Jin, almost no one was born during the reign of the Ming Dynasty, and they have never been the people of the Ming Dynasty in their lives (unless it is an old man born in the era of Li Chengliang, and it is possible that he has been a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, and the local middle-aged people under the age of forty or fifty have not been ruled by the Ming Dynasty)

So when the Ming army attacked, their will to resist was still okay. It's a pity that the Ming army already has a flexible and mobile heavy artillery, which can also switch between sea and land, and transport thousands of miles over long distances.

The speed of the Ming army's heavy artillery on the sea was definitely faster than that of the Qing army's artillery on land, and each gun was assigned six horses to run with a gun cart.

The Ming army had the absolute advantage of concentrating its forces, and it could easily smash the city, but the Qing army was of course completely unable to resist.

On the ninth day of October, the day after the Ming army landed, the Jinzhou Weihou Station, which was later known as Dalian, was broken by the Ming army.

The Qing army did not have many defenders in Jinzhou, but after all, this was the hinterland of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the population of the Manchu people was still quite large. In the end, more than 2,000 soldiers were killed, and more than 15,000 Manchu and Han people were killed and captured.

The Ming army was also strict in military discipline, making it clear that as long as they were Han people, even if they had been enslaved by the Tatars for many years, they could have revenge. Moreover, the Ming army would not harm the Han Chinese unless there was clear evidence that they were famous traitors.

After some purging, all the remaining local people took refuge in Daming.

Only three days later, on October 12, Jinzhou Weizhong and Qiansuo, which was later known as Lushun, were also breached by the Ming army. Until this moment, the Qing army has not sent reinforcements from the direction of Shengjing.

After taking the entire territory of Jinzhou Wei, this time the Ming army did not intend to give up after being captured like Ning Yuan, but chose to live in a solid manner.

If we go back more than ten years and leave a stronghold across the sea from the hinterland of the Liaodong Peninsula on the opposite shore of Denglai, it is absolutely unthinkable.

But now it is different from the past, the Ming naval force under the rule of Zhu Shuren is more than ten times stronger than that in the Chongzhen period, and it is easy for the Ming to maintain a perennial sea supply line between the tip of the Shandong Peninsula and the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. If the Qing army sailors dare to harass, it is absolutely looking for death.

After more than a month of incompetence and rage, and after two tentative rescues were repulsed, the Shengjing puppet dynasty also gave up Jinzhouwei directly and let the Ming army wreak havoc on the tip of the peninsula.

And the Ming army got such a natural harbor that was famous in later generations, and it was naturally like a tiger with wings for the follow-up supply, scheduling, and response of the Ming Naval Division.

Zhang Huangyan wrote a letter to advise Zhu Shuren to allocate funds to turn the Jinzhouwei fortress into a fortress and to carry out the construction of the port well, so as to completely sweep away the Tartars in the future.

After Zhu Shuren got the report, he also deeply agreed with his cousin's vision, and discussed it symbolically within the Nanjing court, and finally issued an edict in the name of Emperor Longwu-

In the next few years, there will be no need for the six northern provinces to contribute money and grain, just rely on the financial support of the south of the Yangtze River to transport weapons, money and food by sea, and the north only needs to provide some building materials to be responsible for turning the Jinzhouwei fortress into a fortress.

The fortress should be built to build a fortress, and the deep-water port should be repaired, and the port should be repaired. The materials can be shipped by sea anyway, the transportation cost is very low, and the construction cost is completely controllable.

Moreover, after Zhu Shuren looked at the map, he found that the location of Jinzhouwei on the map of the Ming Dynasty did not completely coincide with the Dalian Port in later generations, and Dalian in later generations is still just a fishing village.

So he waved his pen and directly upgraded the local administrative level, and set up the "Dalian Mansion" in Daming Liao Province, which can be regarded as the seat of governance and provincial capital in the local area of Liao Province newly recovered by the Ming Dynasty.

The main reason is that other places in Liaodong are still in the hands of the Tartars, and there is only one place recovered by the Ming Dynasty, of course, it can only be used as a provincial capital.

In the future, Shengjing can be laid, and it is not too late to move the provincial capital of Liaodong to Shenyang, which can be discussed again.

After having the first state-capital city-level foothold on the Liaodong Peninsula, there is another advantage, that is, the Ming Dynasty can finally reset the position of "Liaodong Governor", which has been abandoned for many years.

Before the Ming Dynasty in the Chongzhen period, there has always been a retention of the governor of Liaodong as an official, even if the territory of Liaodong has in fact been lost, it will continue to set up the governor of Liaodong, and set up the station in Shanhaiguan.

Before Wu Sangui switched on and off that year, there were Wang Yongji, the governor of Liaoji, Li Yutian, the governor of Liaodong, and others, who could theoretically restrain Wu Sangui. It's a pity that Wang Yongji and Li Yutian also became second ministers later.

Now, after six or seven years of vacancy, the Ming can finally re-establish the governor of Liaodong. Zhu Shuren also made a selection within the Nanjing Imperial Court, wanting to see if anyone volunteered to go.

Who knows, most of the waste dim sum in the Nanjing court, I heard that there is actually only one Jinzhou Wei in the jurisdiction of the governor of Liaodong, or the army has just been defeated, and it is still isolated overseas surrounded by Tartars, I don't know if it can get reinforcements from the rear in time once the war starts......

In the end, there was not a single civil official who was of sufficient rank and took the initiative to be willing to be a civil official.

Other people of insight who are willing to share the worries of the country are either too high or too low, so they are not suitable - such as Shi Kefa, a loyal person is of course not afraid of risking his life for the country, but he is the head of the cabinet, how can he go to that kind of broken place.

Zhu Shuren squeezed out those timid waste snacks, and finally promoted the young man to be the governor.

At the beginning, he proposed to directly let Zhang Mingzhen concurrently serve as the governor of Liaodong!

But this matter is too contrary to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been divided into civil and military families for two hundred and seventy or eighty years, and the status of the generals is low, how can there be a reason to let the chief soldier and the general be the governor?

Naturally, this proposal was too shocking and was bitterly persuaded by countless cowardly civil officials.

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren didn't plan to promote Zhang Mingzhen and civil official at the beginning, and after throwing stones to ask for directions to scare the old guards, he threw out a second candidate and let Zheng Chenggong be the governor of Liaodong.

Zheng Chenggong also has absolute naval strength, and Zheng Zhilong has been dead for more than three years, Zheng Chenggong's filial piety has also been served, and the strength of the Zheng family is completely controlled by him alone. After Zheng Chenggong became the governor of Liaodong, he was still afraid that the Zheng family's sea power would not do his best?

As soon as this personnel proposal was proposed, many people subconsciously wanted to oppose it at first. And the reason is naturally that Zheng Chenggong's level is a little lower - Zheng Chenggong was already a middle-level official in the household department many years ago, and later accumulated merit and promotion, and now he also has a resume at the level of a waiter, and it is said that if he wants to release the governor, it will be half a level worse at most.

But the main reason for opposing Zheng Chenggong is that he is too young and has too few years of official qualifications. Zheng Chenggong is basically a newcomer who has just stepped into the official career in Chongzhen's last years, and he was only an official at the age of sixteen or seventeen. The rapid promotion is mainly in the six years of Longwu.

A young man who is only twenty-six years old wants him to be the governor of a province, what does this make those who are old-fashioned think?

It's a pity that they have already opposed Zhu Shuren's decision-making once, and most of the opposition potential energy has been consumed, and now it would be too unethical to oppose it one after another.

Moreover, Zhu Shuren gave them the opportunity because they themselves were unwilling to go to Liaodong, which in fact only had one jurisdiction and was extremely dangerous, to be governors. Zhu Shuren wants to push people again, and the ones who are indeed from civilian officials are pushed, so they have no face to object.

In the end, after a game in the imperial court, Zhu Shuren successfully pushed Zheng Chenggong to the position of governor of Liaodong, and let him take office within three months - when the appointment was issued, it was already the end of November of the sixth year of Longwu, after all, the recovery of Dalian Mansion was also a matter of the end of October, and the news of the appointment decision only took a month, which was already very fast.

Therefore, Zheng Chenggong has to ensure that he arrives in Dalian to take office before the end of February next year.

Calculate the time, the Bohai Sea will freeze in the cold winter, set sail north in February, just enough to thaw, and also catch up with the sea road transportation season, and also go north after the New Year in Nanjing, this time rhythm, Zhu Shuren is enough to take care of his little brother.

Knowing that he had finally become a feudal official, and that he had become a governor at a young age of twenty-seven, Zheng Chenggong was naturally grateful.

He felt that the two generations of the Zheng family had struggled so far, and they had finally completely mixed up at the top of the local political arena.

His father Zheng Zhilong has worked hard all his life, because of his bad background, so the highest is the general soldier of Fujian, and he can only be the highest military attache in a province until he dies.

He is only twenty-seven years old, and he has already become the highest civil official in a province, which is definitely a glorious ancestor.

Before leaving, he inevitably asked Zhu Shuren in Nanjing to give gifts and entertain guests, express his gratitude, and took out millions of taels of silver to help him.

Of course, Zhu Shuren didn't care about the little brother's money, he just patted Zheng Chenggong on the shoulder and encouraged him to work hard:

"Your Zheng family's ship is not suitable for sailing in the Yellow Sea, but the ship is not a problem, and the imperial court will make up for you. Sailors and ordnance, you have to serve snacks yourself, the Tartars may not be willing to launch a counterattack.

Lone hopes that Dalian Mansion can also become a meat grinder for the Tartars to continue bleeding in the next few years, and if they don't come to the door, you can also take the initiative to provoke until the Tartars completely abandon all the coastline and the turtles retreat inland, otherwise this matter will not be over. ”

Zheng Chenggong hurriedly said that although everything was handed over to him, he would definitely live up to the kindness of his eldest brother.

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After arranging Zheng Chenggong's hand, Zhu Shuren of course has other supporting means, but the purpose is the same.

Time quietly came to the seventh year of Longwu, and with Zheng Chenggong's smooth inauguration at the end of February, the last force of the Ming Dynasty harassed by sea also completely tore his face with the pseudo-Qing and launched a strategic counterattack.

This force is Li Yu, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, who was ambushed in North Korea by Zhu Shuren before.

It has been a year and a half since Li Yu returned to North Korea, and he originally brought back 4,000 soldiers, but now after expansion, reorganization, and recruitment of local Korean soldiers, it has been expanded to 12,000 people in three battalions. North Korea can still bear this amount of national strength, and it can sell him enough military rations at a parity price significantly lower than the market price.

And in the past year and a half, the situation in North Korea has also undergone new changes. When Lee Yu first returned, the reigning king of Joseon, Yi Yu, finally died of illness last year.

The prince Li Hao also officially ascended the throne, and Li Yu and his father Li Shibai were also reused again, and they coerced the support of Zhu Shuren, and they were already in power in North Korea.

Li Yu, who received the support of all the national strength of North Korea, finally officially tore up the state of peace with the puppet Qing Dynasty and sent troops to further occupy Zhangzi Island at the mouth of the Yalu River - of course, Li Yu was sent to occupy the territory as the commander of Dongjiang Town in the Ming Dynasty, and the territory occupied by the Ming Dynasty was also regarded as the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty, not the territory of the subject country of North Korea, which could not contain a lake. Otherwise, wouldn't it have become North Korea to help the Ming Dynasty fight the pseudo-Qing Dynasty, and finally North Korea itself would be able to expand its territory, this kind of low-level mistake Zhu Shuren would definitely not make.

(Note: The current Zhangzi Island is in the sea east of Dalian, but the Zhangzi Island on the map of the Ming Dynasty is at the mouth of the Yalu River.) That place no longer exists, because of siltation, it has been connected to the main land of Donggang City, and has become part of the harbor breakwater.)

Because the location of Zhangzi Island is closer to Mao Wenlong's Phi Island more than 20 years ago and from the Yalu River Estuary, after Li Yu succeeded, it can be regarded as completely cutting off the shipping from the Yalu River Estuary to the sea. The waterway communication between the eastern and western parts of the territory of the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty was cut off, and it could only be communicated directly by land over the Changbai Mountain.

The steepness of Changbai Mountain is destined to be a great constraint on military dispatch, and there is no need to wait for winter, and the mountain can be closed by heavy snow for at least half of the year. Therefore, after August every year, in February and March of the following year, as long as the heavy snow covers the mountain, the troops in the direction of Shengjing cannot come to reinforce, and the Ming army can arbitrarily clear the land south of the north ridge of Changbai Mountain.

All of a sudden, even the Manchu tribes nested in the Changbai Mountains suffered, as long as they were caught by the Ming army, the soldiers were killed, the women and children were captured, and they were gradually eroded and weakened.

The Ming army had Shanhaiguan Li Dingguo in the west, Zheng Chenggong in Dalian Prefecture in the middle, and Li Yu in Zhangzidao in the east, and the three parties harassed in turn, and the puppet Qing Dynasty finally couldn't hold it out completely in the seventh year of Longwu, and finally completely abandoned all coastal territories, and retreated to at least 50 miles inland according to the different regions, and some areas even asked to retreat more than 100 miles away from the coastline.

This can be regarded as because of the butterfly effect, which forced out the sea relocation order that lasted from the eighteenth year of Shunzhi to the twenty-third year of Kangxi in history.

The only difference is that in history, Kang Mazi chose to do this because he wanted to besiege Zheng Chenggong and prevent Zheng Chenggong from getting trade supplies.

And now it is Shunzhi and Haoge who are blocked and besieged by Zheng Chenggong in turn, and they can't bear the pain of the coastal Manchurians being continuously annihilated and captives bloodletting, and they flee inland.