The ground was already sprinkled, and the snow was still falling, falling on the hands and faces.

Nurhachi shook the snow off her body, walked into the house, and took off her hat. Someone behind him took it diligently, and then took the big that the old slave threw back.

Sitting in the middle of the chair, Nurhachi waved his hand and commanded: "Yanguli, sit down too!" ”

"King Shehan." Shumulu Yanguli is also regarded as the "founding father", and he also married Nurhachi's daughter as his wife, and was crowned as a super prince, second only to Baylor.

After pondering for a long time, Nurhachi said slowly: "As far as you can see, the Ming army that occupies half of Jinzhou has stabilized its position and is difficult to break?" ”

Yanguli bowed and said: "I think that it is not the best policy to storm the Ming army, and the Ming army will rely on the advantages of fortifications and firearms, which will cause our army to suffer heavy casualties." ”

Nurhachi nodded, sighed helplessly, and said: "Just like the attack on Quang Ninh City, and Amin's defeat at Fort Arthur, it is indeed impossible to repeat the mistakes of the past!" ”

Yanguli thought for a while and said, "Although the defense of the Ming army is strong, it is still difficult to defeat our army in the field. ”

Nurhachi smiled bitterly and said, "But if they don't fight with our army in the field, what can they do?" ”

Nurhachi was very angry that Daishan's attack was frustrated and he retreated to the Golden Acropolis. The winter offensive was imminent, and the Ming army's occupation of Luda was really a powerful containment.

But he did not rush to punish him, but sent Yanguli and others to check it out. During this period, Nurhachi received the news that the rear area was being attacked and disturbed, and urgently sent the army of Sanbeile Mang Gurtai to lead the army, but it was in vain.

Similarly, the blue flag led by Erbeile Amin had no chance, and Chen Jisheng's headquarters of the Dongjiang Army also retreated ahead of schedule.

After this battle of attack and disturbance from all sides, in addition to being annoyed, Nurhachi also found that the Ming army did not have the ability to confront the Houjin army head-on.

In other words, blockade and siege, as well as containment and attrition, are the strategic purposes of the Ming army.

Although he realized it, it didn't mean that Nurhachi had a way to crack it, but it made him feel a headache.

Very simply, if Houjin wants to "make the people rich and the country rich", he can only plunder from the Ming Dynasty. And this is also the national policy, or strategy, formulated by Nurhachi.

Now it is difficult to rob, mainly because of the strategic contraction of the Ming army, which made the bandit strategy of the Houjin encounter great difficulties.

The blockade and siege, coupled with the constant attacks and harassments, have exacerbated the difficulties in the financial and material supply of Houjin.

Of course, if you want to talk about support, you can definitely do it. No matter how short of food and supplies there is, it is impossible to starve all the people to death. The land will be more or less productive, and fishing and hunting will also be harvested.

But such support, or maintenance, comes at the cost of constant weakening. The Ming Dynasty and the Mongolian tribes are all eyeing each other, waiting for the opportunity to pounce on them.

Therefore, without the wealth of animals and animals, the alliance formed with the Mongol tribes through marriage will also fall apart; can't develop and grow, for Houjin, it's almost sitting still.

Don't look at the repeated victories since the rebellion of the Later Jin Dynasty, but the entire strategic situation is not optimistic. So far, only the Korqin Ministry has been officially allied.

Although Nekhalkha also intermarried with the Houjin and swore an oath, it still paid money to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, Nurhachi demanded that Nekharka sever ties with Chahar, which he also refused.

Not to mention the Chahar Ministry, Lin Dan Khan took the silver of the Ming Dynasty, contemptuously called Nurhachi "the lord of the 30,000 Jurchens on the waterfront", and also seized the Houjin envoy Shuose Ubashi, which can be described as full of hostility.

There is also North Korea, which participated in the blockade of Jin, although it is relatively weak, but to attack and surrender, Nurhachi believes that the timing is not right, and it is not so easy.

First of all, although Korea helped the Ming Dynasty, it did not send troops to directly participate in the war after the Battle of Sarhu (when Lao Nu released 5,000 Korean prisoners).

Now the Later Jin Dynasty is still struggling to deal with the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongol tribes are restless, and attacking Korea is really an extraneous branch, adding enemies to themselves.

The second is that it is easy to defeat the North Korean army, and it is not too difficult to occupy a large part of the Korean land, but it is not easy to surrender, and it is even more difficult to digest.

The most important thing is that the Ming army can sit idly by, which is obviously impossible. At least 20,000 horses should be dispatched, and it will take two or three months to go back and forth, and then there will be a siege on all sides, how to deal with it?

Besides, if you don't fight the Dongjiang Army, which is the biggest threat, you go to fight North Korea, isn't it a matter of priority and priority? From North Korea, where the land is barren and the people are poor and mountainous, in addition to the population, how many supplies can you grab?

Nurhachi doesn't know how many times he has considered and weighed it, and he feels that he will fight the Dongjiang Army first, and then North Korea.

Of course, there is more than one target for the winter offensive, from the original Ningyuan and Juehua, to Yizhou and Tieshan, where the Dongjiang Army is entrenched, plus the current Lushun in southern Liaoning, it is already three choices.

In terms of the targets of looting, the primary targets should be Ning Yuan and Juehua; To be considered from the perspective of removing threats, it is Dongjiang and Lushun.

However, it was not easy to fight the Dongjiang River, at most, it would drive the Dongjiang army from Uiju and Tiesan to the island, and it would not damage their foundation, and it would make a comeback.

Moreover, it is impossible to send troops to garrison it when it is captured in Uiju and Cheolsan, at least it is impossible to defend it for a long time.

Lushun in southern Liaoning, mobilize heavy troops to attack, and should be able to capture it. But according to Amin, Daishan, and Yanguli, the casualties were inevitable or unavoidable.

The key is to reoccupy Lushun at the cost of heavy casualties, and how much practical significance is it? It was originally abandoned, and if you grab it back, you can be stationed for a long time?

Nurhachi stroked his forehead and found that Dongjiang and Lushun were a little like chicken ribs.

If it only occupies territory, it cannot eliminate or severely damage the Ming army, and it cannot fundamentally eliminate the threat of harassment and attack.

In fact, Nurhachi's entanglement and distress, as well as the current situation of Dongyu, are not because of how clever Zhu Youxiao's strategy is, but because of the contest of national strength.

Historically, during the years that Yuan Keli served as Dengfu, he defeated the Houjin army many times, and successively recovered Lushun, Jinzhou, Fuzhou, as well as strategic places such as Wanghai Fort and Hongzui Fort.

History: "The four guards have been emptied, and the slaves of more than 400 miles along the coast have been abandoned and dare not take hold, and the rest are only a thousand captives."

Even Nurhachi had nothing to do about the Great Wall on the sea built by Yuan Keli, so he could only curl up and curl up again for many years.

If Yuan Keli can work for a few more years, if the Ming court continues to support Dongjiang Town with money and food, if it is not for the bottomless pit of the Ningjin defense line......

If these can be realized, not to mention that they can succeed in leveling Liao, at least it will also greatly damage Jiannu's strength.

There is no if in history, but there are Zhu Youxiao, as well as Teacher Yuan, Xiong Da Stinky Mouth, Captain Mao, and loyal and brave generals such as Zhang Pan, He Kegang, Jin Guofeng, and Yang Guozhu.

Therefore, the situation of the Dongyu is more difficult than in history, and Nurhachi is also more troubled, even depressed and angry.

Yanguli wanted to share the worries of the Khan King, and he also thought hard about countermeasures. In his opinion, temporary contraction, or luring the enemy deeper, is the best policy.

The Houjin army has an advantage in the field, so it must win the opportunity to play. And the casualties of attacking the fortified positions were not something that the Houjin army could bear.

"King Khan." Yanguli arched his hand and said: "According to the humble opinion, you can learn the tactics of shrinking the Ming army to lure the enemy deeper, and then inflict a thunderous blow." Iron cavalry galloping and unparalleled in field battles are the leaders of our army, and they will be able to defeat the advancing enemy. ”

Nurhachi pondered for a long time, nodded slightly, and said, "That makes sense. Take retreat as advance, and don't have to be exhausted. ”

After a pause, Nurhachi said in a deep voice: "The Ming army is fierce in firearms, and this king will also treat his people in his own way." Artillery firearms, we also have them. ”

In the successive battles with the Ming army, the Later Jin army did capture a considerable number of artillery muskets. But the artillery is an old-fashioned general cannon, or a Franco, and the fire gun is a bird gun and a three-eyed gun.

It's just that the gap in performance is not very clear to Nurhachi. Not knowing that Ning Yuancheng had the longest-range and most powerful Hongyi cannon, his goal was finally determined.

We all know that the Houjin army is very powerful in cavalry and shooting, and hand-to-hand combat is extremely fierce, but few people know that they used artillery very early.

As early as the attack on Liaoyang, the Later Jin army used artillery (captured). Of course, neither in terms of performance, nor in terms of manufacturing capacity, nor in terms of the quality of artillery, they cannot be compared with the current Ming army.

And this is also due to Zhu Youxiao's vigorous and resolute action, which purchased Hongyi cannons at the fastest speed, hired artillery masters, hired artillery instructors, and trained artillery talents.

It's okay to learn, but you want to go beyond it – hehe, go dream!

If Zhu Yongxiao knew that Nurhachi was going to play with firearms, he would probably be happy to roll on the ground.

I don't know what level of education I have, I don't know what physical chemistry is, I don't know how to throw obliquely, and I still want to play high-tech?

Yanguli would not complain like Zhu Youxiao, and when he heard the king of the Khan say that he wanted to use artillery and muskets, he couldn't help but ask: "The king of Khan wants to expand the Han army to fight with the army?" ”

In December of the first year of the Apocalypse, Nurhachi announced the implementation of the system of "100 people and 100 chiefs" among the Han Chinese. In the second year, "Hedong Nikan" was divided into "4,000 men for each of the Han general officers, 3,000 men for each deputy general, and 2,000 men for each of the generals and guerrillas".

These Han Chinese not only had to pay taxes and conscription, but also had the obligation to serve as soldiers. That is, "twenty people draw one person to join the army", all those who send troops, horses and equipment are shared by these twenty people, this is the Han soldiers in the Houjin army.

These Han soldiers were transferred to the city, along with their wives and children, which means hostages. Their main task was to garrison the city, and the weapons in their hands were also strictly controlled.

According to historical records: "One hundred soldiers are equipped with ten cannons, and eighty are equipped with long cannons; There are a hundred soldiers who will serve privately." It can be seen that the Han soldiers mainly belonged to artillery and were used for the defense of cities.

In response to Yanguli's question, Nurhachi said slowly: "In the past, the Han soldiers did not use it, because they did not use firearms. Since Guangning was frustrated, the Ming army repeatedly fought with firearms to hold on. We have all the weapons, so why not use them to make sure that we are victorious? ”

After a pause, Nurhachi added, "This is what Babel suggested, what do you think?" ”

Yanguli hurriedly bowed down and said: "If our army increases its firearms, it can break the enemy's fortification, so that his army cannot resist our army." ”

Nurhachi nodded and said, "I have ordered some Han soldiers who are skilled in firearms to be trained in artillery and shotgun firearms. ”

"The Khan is wise." Yangguli bowed down and complimented: "It is very appropriate to manage the Han soldiers with Tong's forehead. ”

Nurhachi waved his hand and said, "The current situation is unfavorable, and there is no need to hide it. This winter it is inevitable to launch an offensive to invigorate the people with victory and deter the surrounding areas. ”

Yanguli agreed, and listened to the old Khan's advice, before getting up and retiring, and went on an errand.

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