"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang!

”

The Mongolian Plateau in mid-March is breezy and pleasant, and the sound of riding guns and the constant sound of falling horses forms a pleasant old song.

The Ming and Mongolian armies constantly collided on the grassland at the western foot of the central Haravan Mountains, or rushed to attack.

"Appeal ......"

When a group of Mongolian Tang Cavalry was resolved, the small flag officer of the Ming Army's Tang Cavalry reined in his horse, and then commanded:

"Harvest the first level and report the military situation to the Chinese army!"

"Yes!" When they heard this, they immediately rode their horses and rode south, and after eight hours of running, they finally saw a camp stationed on the vast plain at the western foot of the Haravin Mountains.

A famous pond rider entered the camp with them, and then reported the known information to the thousand households in charge of the pond cavalry, and finally this thousand households passed through the layers of guards and came to the door of the tent in the center of the camp.

"Your Highness! Ahead, the tiger and the rabbit and their soldiers and horses had fled north for 200 miles. ”

"Got it, tell the soldiers to get some rest."

Zhu Youzhen's voice came from inside the tent, and Qianhu also got up and left after making a reply.

However, in the camp tent, Zhu Youzhen stood in front of a simple northeast sand table, and behind him were Man Gui, Saihan, Sun Shoufa, Cao Meng and several others.

Zhu Youzhen measured the distance with his hand, and then said:

"Our army has been out of the jam for more than 1,200 miles, and the supply line is almost here, and there is no need for foot soldiers to go further north."

"Your Highness, eight hundred miles north from here is the Fishing Sea, why don't you just hit the Fishing Sea and build a city in the Fishing Sea?" Cao Meng asked for instructions.

But without Zhu Youzhen opening his mouth, Man Gui said directly:

"With nearly 300,000 people, it is not bad to maintain the army to move north for 1,200 miles, and the target of this battle is the Horqin tribes."

"From here to the Horqin Tribes, you still need to cross the Haravin Mountains and attack them in the middle section, a distance of nearly eight hundred miles."

"Only by stopping or retreating now can we maintain the supply of the four cavalry guards and let the four cavalry guards raid the Horqin tribes."

As soon as Man Gui's words came out, Cao Meng closed his mouth, and Zhu Youzhen also looked at the terrain on the sand table and said casually:

"Along the way, you have seen everything along the way, I am going to build a city in the place where we fought with the tiger and the rabbit, and another city in the northwest of Talahaizi."

"In addition, build a city at the southeast foot of the Harawen Mountain, that is, build three cities, and relocate criminals and their families from the five northern provinces to come and settle in the city."

The three places selected by Zhu Youzhen are Xilinhot, Duolun County, and Chifeng in later generations.

As long as the establishment of prefectures and counties in these three places is successful, then the safety of Beizhili will be guaranteed.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen calculated the time and distance again, and said:

"Today is March 14th, and tomorrow it is estimated that Xiong Tingbi and they will go north."

"Eight hundred miles, according to the sixty miles we march every day in the past few days, it will take at least thirteen days."

"In case Jianyu supports Horqin, Man Gui, you are going to mobilize the cavalry of the four infantry guards to protect the baggage line, and I will take away two hundred five-pound Yanshan General Cannons."

Zhu Youzhen said, and Man Gui and others also responded.

"The four horsemen will rise tomorrow, you guys are ready to prepare."

After that, Zhu Youzhen put away the Huanghuali wooden stick, and Man Gui and others also withdrew from the military tent one after another.

At the same time as they withdrew from the military tent, Zhu Youzhen returned to the main seat and looked at a military information on the main table.

This is the military information sent by Lu Wenzhao, and the military information in this is not about the north, but about the two Huai things in the south.

Lu Wenzhao told everything about how Zhu Youxiao and Wei Zhongxian dealt with Lianghuai, and explained in the letter that they did not know what Yang Huan was doing in Lianghuai.

What Yang Huan did in the Lianghuai salt merchants was different from what Donglin and the Five Communists thought, and it was not Cui Chengxiu and Wei Zhongxian.

Cui Chengxiu's order to Yang Huan was to take care of the salt merchants, and it was Zhu Youzhen himself who really made Yang Huan starve the two Huai salt merchants half to death......

The reason why he didn't let Yang Huan kill the two Huai salt merchants was naturally for the purpose of waste utilization, and at the same time increased the pressure on the five parties from the two merchants of Fujian and Zhejiang salt and tea.

There were more than 30 salt merchants in Lianghuai, involving nearly 6,000 people, and the 6,000 people moved to the old port, but they could reclaim a lot of arable land.

In addition, from the current point of view, the merchants of Fujian and Zhejiang have indeed increased a lot of pressure on the five parties, after all, if they do not save the two Huai salt merchants, maybe when the imperial court moves Fujian and Zhejiang in the future, no one will save them.

They were putting pressure on the Five Party officials in the court, who were forced by the political situation to oppose Wei Zhongxian.

In this way, a gap is created between the two sides, and this gap will slowly expand if it is used properly.

As long as the connection between Fujian and Zhejiang merchants and officials is cut off, it will be much easier to clean up any of them alone.

As far as Yao Zongwen's group still wants to play tricks with him, it is simply self-defeating, but Fang Congzhe ......

Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes, thinking of Fang Congzhe, who was estimated to have returned to the capital, and thought about whether this old thing could return to politics.

But if you think about it carefully, even if he wants to return to politics, it is impossible, the five parties are now in decline, as long as they are suppressed, time will slowly solve them.

With the graduation of many Yanshan students, the collision of the new conservative school and the innovative school will also unfold.

The Ming Dynasty has always had to change, and the absolute monarchy system in the Central Plains Dynasty was only suitable for the feudal era, but could not adapt to the industrial age.

The only way to maintain the monarchy is to change from an absolute monarchy to a monarchical republic and a constitutional monarchy.

This is not to say that the system of absolute monarchy could not be implemented in the industrial age, but that the Ming and Han people and the Central Plains system could not be suitable for absolute monarchy in the industrial age.

Zhu Youzhen knows very well that although his innovation can bring the Ming Dynasty into the industrial age, it will also create a contradiction between the absolute monarchy and the industrial age.

He is not God, and one system cannot be applicable in every age.

At present, when the Central Plains system continues to be the ruler of the Han Chinese, no one can answer what system is more suitable for the Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century.

The system of later generations was determined after the absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, democracy, and republic system in the late Qing Dynasty were staged many times, and it was found that these systems were not feasible, and only then began to move towards a definite system.

But in this era, Zhu Youzhen is destined not to have so much cost of trial and error.

Perhaps if Li Zicheng destroyed the Ming Dynasty in history, and after a stone repelled the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Dashun could give Zhu Youzhen an answer.

But this answer can't appear after all, and can only rely on Zhu Youzhen to figure it out by himself.

The life span of the absolute monarchy system has entered the countdown, if Zhu Youzhen can't figure out what the system after this system is, and use the absolute monarchy system to carry out the industrial age.

Maybe the Zhu family in the future will be like the one on the other side of the ocean, and will be sent to the guillotine.

His only advantage is age, and while he takes care of himself, perhaps he will have fifty or sixty years to think of a suitable system......

"Your Highness!"

Suddenly, when Zhu Youzhen was thinking about how the Ming system should be reformed, Man Gui's voice sounded again.

He walked in from outside the tent, and with a military newspaper in his hand, he said:

"Your Highness, the Karaqin tribes in the north sent people to the south to deliver a message, saying that the Bo Huang gang had run to the Hailaerwei area to be nomadic."

"Running so fast?" Hearing Man Gui's words, Zhu Youzhen stepped forward to take the military report and glanced at it, only to find that Bo Xuan was really able to run.

This military report was sent on March 12, which means that from the first day of March, at most 12 days, Bo Huang ran more than 1,800 miles to the Hulunbuir grassland in later generations.

"Now I know why Emperor Cheng Zuwen was so angry and angry with Arutai back then."

Looking at the military report, Zhu Youzhen teased Zhu Di, after all, according to the appearance of the Mongolians who can run so well, no one can catch up with them.

"Your Highness, are we still marching towards Horqin?" Man Gui asked tentatively, and Zhu Youzhen also nodded:

"Well, continue to march towards Horqin, and at the same time pay attention to the movement of the Tang cavalry, and be careful not to let people attack our army's baggage line."

"We'll leave early tomorrow morning......"

After that, Zhu Youzhen put down the military report, and Man Gui also withdrew from the military tent and began preparations for the march of the four cavalry guards tomorrow......

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"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

On March 17, when Zhu Youzhen had already led the four cavalry guards to the north, the first artillery of the battlefield in northeastern Liaoning was also accompanied by Xiong Tingbi's order.

The gunners of the Ming army were operating in an orderly manner, only to hear the sound of "booming" dense artillery, and one after another stone projectiles flew out and shot towards the outer fortifications outside the moat at the south gate of Yidong River City in front of them.

The huge recoiled gun carriage moved backwards, hundreds of stone bullets rained down like a shower, and the Jin army, which was guarding the stone bridge outside the moat, was crying out under the Ming artillery attack.

"Bang bang bang-"

"Get on your stomach! Get down! ”

In the barracks, stones and timber flew, and many Jin soldiers were directly stoned to death, or fell down while fleeing.

Some of the Jin soldiers were injured by the blasted stones and wood, and let out a painful wail.

"Quick! Spread the ...... of the city"

"Peng Peng Peng!"

In the barracks, a Jia Lae Zhen tried to ask for support, but before he finished speaking, another stone bullet was smashed, which fell next to him and turned into a ricochet and crashed into him, even if the Zhenghongqi Banner Ding on his side raised a shield to protect him, he could not bear the power of the ricochet.

"Ahh

Even though Jiala's body is really strong, it is facing stone bullets after all.

The force of the stone projectile smashed the shield, and the flag was smashed directly into the air, and he fell to the ground along with the general.

"The Ming dog who killed a thousand knives, I will definitely tell you to die a good death!"

Jiala's forehead, who was stunned, was helped up by the other Jin soldiers, and after sobering up, he wiped his face with his sleeve and cursed loudly.

But when he was cursing, the artillery of the Ming army also stopped, and Dai Shan, who was in charge of observing the battlefield at the head of the city, also slowly got up, looking at the tens of thousands of Ming troops on the southern plain outside the city with an ugly face.

In front of the Ming army, hundreds of artillery pieces lined up, and the black muzzle made Dai Shan's scalp tingle, and the two-sided Daxu marked with the words "Sun" and "Xiong" in the Ming army also made him realize who the chief general of the Ming army in Liaodong was.

"Send someone back to Khan Amma, and say that Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan led about 40,000 troops to invade my Dajin Yidonghe City."

"Yes!"

Dai Shan opened his mouth to Gushan Ezhen beside him, and the other party immediately ordered someone to rush the news to the rear.

"What are you doing to eat in Mang Gurtai, haven't you arrived in Quang Ninh after seven days of dispatching troops?!"

Standing at the head of the city, Dai Shan changed his previous calmness and began to scold Mang Gurtai.

From the moment Nurhachi ordered him to take over Yidong River City, Dai Shan knew that guarding Yidong River City was not such an easy errand.

However, if Yidonghe City cannot be defended, then once the Ming army captures this place and takes root here, then it will only be more than 400 miles away from Xingjing City.

Therefore, no matter how much he fought with Mang Gurtai, he still obeyed Nurhachi's orders and came to take over the city.

According to Nurhachi's military order, after Daishan took over the city, Mang Gurtai took the soldiers and horses of the two blue flags, artillery, and all the cattle and sheep in Yidonghe City, and began to bypass the Liao River and go south to Daning Mansion to knock on the pass.

It's just that it's been seven days, and Dai Shan didn't wait for the news of Mang Gurtai's successful knock, but waited for Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan's stone bullets.

Looking at the camp outside the city that was beaten into mud by stone bullets, Dai Shan's face was naturally good and he couldn't see where to go.

If Mang Gurtai didn't succeed in knocking on the level, then he would not be able to defend Yidonghe City alone.

Judging from the artillery power of the Ming army just now, and the number of soldiers and horses on display at present, with less than 7,000 troops in his city, he can hold for ten days at most......

Thinking about it like this, Dai Shan's face became even more ugly, and at the same time, the Ming artillery that had rested for a cup of tea gradually cooled.

"Fixed-shot reloading! The direction remains the same, the distance is two miles and four, and the outer camp of the target is ......"

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

With the command flag of the artillery battalion commander waved, all the artillery of the Ming army was ignited, and then there was a roar in the "snort" fire line burned out.

The rumbling cannon rang out in an endless stream, which made Dai Shan, who was still thinking, immediately squat.

The stone bullets continued to hit the camp outside the city and the southern wall of Yidong River City, and even the squatting Dai Shan and the Jin army could feel the feeling of the city wall shaking.

Gradually, the fortifications on the other side of the moat outside the city began to crumble.

Sheep's horn walls, horse rejections, traps and other fortifications were all destroyed by stone bullets, and Xiong Tingbi, who was sitting on horseback, saw this, when he put down the binoculars in his hand, he ordered:

"Artillery advance a mile and shell the city walls!"

"Yes!" Sun Yingyuan responded, and then commanded the artillery battalion to move forward.

When the hundreds of guns of the artillery battalion advanced a mile, the chambers of the guns had almost cooled.

With the act of clearing the chamber and filling the medicine, they let out a roar of thunder again, and the rain of stone bullets began to continuously hit the walls of the southern city of Yidong River City.

Ten catties of stone bullets flew and directly smashed the women's wall, making Dai Shan, who was not far away, sweat on his forehead.

The Ming army no longer chose to shell the barracks, and he knew very well what this meant.

To put it bluntly, Xiong Tingbi thought that the fortifications on the periphery could no longer stop the Ming army, so he only needed to blast the city wall out of the gap to launch a full-scale attack.

Such a change of tactics made Dai Shan even break the idea of holding on for ten days, and he immediately ordered everyone:

"Go down the city wall first and wait for the Ming army's artillery bombardment to end."

Without his urging, when the military order was issued, the two red banners walked down the city wall one after another, and at the same time, the artillery of the Ming army stopped again.

"It's better to have more artillery, if there are 3,000 ten-pound cannons, I'm afraid that the old man will be able to take Yidong River City in one day."

Looking at the gunner who was clearing the chamber, Xiong Tingbi actually let out such an emotion.

However, if Zhu Youzhen heard this, I am afraid he would be very speechless.

3,000 10-pound cannons are 3,000 12-pounder guns, and at present, all the countries participating in the 30-year war on the other side of the ocean combined, they can't take out so many 12-pounder cannons and put them on land in one go, he dares to think about it.

"Just continue the shelling, when Jianyu can't hold on, he will retreat......" Sun Yingyuan smiled, and Xiong Tingbi also felt that this battle was becoming more and more boring.

It seems that the results of the Battle of Fuliao frightened many Jianjiao, and they no longer dared to face the Ming army head-on as before, and most of the time they were in the city.

This kind of offensive and defensive battle is very boring, which makes Xiong Tingbi, who has been resting for more than three years, feel bored.

After a while, he and Sun Yingyuan did not continue to stay in the front army, but returned to the big tent of the Chinese army, sat in the tent and drank tea.

Time passed little by little, a whole day of shelling, nearly 100,000 stone shells bombarded indiscriminately, and the southern city wall of Yidong River City was bombed miserably.

But fortunately, when it was first built, Manggultai was extremely sturdy, so it did not hurt the walls at all.

But even so, if it goes on like this, it is only a matter of time before the Ming army breaks through Yidonghe City.

Dai Shan, as the main general, could only helplessly send Tang Qi to Xingjing for help, and by the way, he took advantage of the night to repair the city wall.

It's just that as time passes, when the night fades and the day falls, the artillery of the Ming army rang out again, making the Jin army responsible for defending the city look tired.

Everyone squatted at the base of the city wall and rested, they knew that the Ming army would not attack the city without breaking the city wall, so everyone began to be lazy.

Such a situation was seen by Dai Shan, but there was nothing he could do.

The artillery of the Jin army was taken away by Mang Gurtai and not to mention, but even if there was artillery, the range and power were far inferior to the artillery of the Ming army.

Instead of frightening the soldiers, let them rest during the day and repair the walls at night.

It's just that such a shrinkage can't stop the collapse of the defensive line.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

At six o'clock on March 20, with the cold air of the early morning, the walls of Yidonghe City, which had been bombarded for four consecutive days, finally began to collapse.

The collapse of the city wall caused part of the Jin army to be buried alive at the moment, but fortunately, the city was not high, and they wore armor stomachs, so they were not all stoned to death.

"What's going on!"

Contemporary Shan was awakened by the collapse of the city wall, and all he saw was a gap two zhang wide and more than one zhang high.

The surrounding Jin army was constantly repairing the gaps, using sandbags or stones, in short, using all means.

It's just that just as they were about to finish repairing, the Ming army's artillery rang out again.

The sound of "booming" cannons and stone bullets hitting the walls and gaps kept coming.

The debris that filled the gap did not survive a few breaths under the indiscriminate bombardment of stone bullets, and finally began to collapse on a large scale.

The Jin army behind the city wall scattered and fled, and finally waited for the Ming artillery to end, and then they ran back to continue to repair the gap.

Their behavior was naturally seen clearly by Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan, who were clairvoyant, and Sun Yingyuan's thoughts on this were very simple:

"You have to send people to storm the other walls first, attract the attention of the prisoners, reduce the number of people who need to repair the gaps, and then use artillery to make the gaps in one fell swoop."

"It's okay to ......" Xiong Tingbi bowed his head slightly in approval, and Sun Yingyuan also turned his head sideways when he saw this:

"Prepare first!"

"Winter!"

As the military order was issued, as a mixed army of infantry and cavalry, shirtless drummers began to beat drums on a hundred drum carts in the army.

The appearance of the drums made the battalions of the Ming army prepare, and Dai Shan in Yidonghe City heard the sound, and hurriedly ran to the city wall with soldiers and horses, and moved the wolf tooth slap, hot oil and other objects hidden in the city gate tower to the city head road.

When they were ready for everything, Dai Shan ordered people to set up trebuchets and began to wave the gavel as the Ming army continued to approach!

"Bang!"

The mallet smashed on the mechanism, and then the stone the size of a human head was thrown by a simple trebuchet, flew a distance of hundreds of paces, and landed in front of the marching Ming army.

"Calculate the distance, and when the Ming army reaches this line, we will counterattack!"

Dai Shan gave the order loudly, and the Gushan Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen beside him also went to the various ministries to deliver orders.

Under their orders, all the Jin Army trebuchets were ready, and Dai Shan followed suit:

"Mobilize a number of soldiers and horses to support the camp outside the city."

"Yes!"

His military orders were issued one after another, and the gates of Yidong River City were opened, and then thousands of prisoners poured out of the road, trotted over the stone bridge over the moat, and came to the camp on the opposite bank.

Inside this camp were two Niu Lu's soldiers and horses, and when the reinforcements of the five Niu Lu arrived in Yijiala, they had more than 2,000 men.

Although a large number of fortifications were destroyed by the artillery of the Ming army, they still had the confidence to stop the Ming army by relying on shield vehicles.

"Winter! Winter! Winter-"

The dull sound of the drum seemed to hit Jin Jun's chest with every mallet, making it difficult for everyone to breathe.

Sun Yingyuan sent three battalions of troops, and 6,000 of them were armed with rifles, and they approached the camp outside the city of Yidong River step by step.

The Jin army in the camp also used bows and arrows and bird guns to defend, but compared with the number of infantry guns of the Ming army, their proportion of firearms was pitiful.

Time is passing little by little, and the distance between the two armies is slowly shortening.

With the sound of drums, 500 steps, 400 steps, 300 steps......

"Put!"

At the head of the city, some of the Kala-ejin who were ready began to order their trebuchets to throw stone bullets.

For a while, the sound of the mallet smashing down sounded endlessly, and hundreds of stone bullets flew out of the city and smashed towards the Ming army's foot soldiers.

It's just that the Ming army was not unprepared for this, and when the trebuchet attacked, the artillery of the Ming army also began to shoot at each other......