Chapter Seventy-Seven: Hidden Worries
Huang Taiji's words led everyone's attention in another direction.
Indeed, the emotions of the people before were still focused on the loss of Abatai and Zhenglanqi.
For the real threat of Dalinghe Fort, the feeling is not so profound.
After all, in the eyes of the nobles of Jianzhou, including fortresses like Jinzhou Ningyuan, they had all been captured in the Battle of Guangning before.
A mere Dalinghe Fort does not seem to have any obstacles to the dispatch of troops from Jianzhou.
But Huang Taiji had obviously already considered the pros and cons, and ordered someone to get a huge leather map.
The map stretches from Heilongjiang in the east, to Baicheng in the west, and to Shanhaiguan in the south, and contains most of the current sphere of influence of the Aixin Kingdom.
"Dalinghe Fort, the territory that it can cover is nothing more than the land of Quang Ninh Right Guard."
"But once the Ming army builds this city, it will be able to regain control of the port of Panshanyi."
"There are no sailors in Aixinguo, and the port is useless to us, but it is not the same for the Ming army! With the port, Yuan Butang can transport military materials at a lower price, and more importantly, he can transport manpower! ”
Dolgon asked at the right time, "Great Khan, the Han army around us all said that whenever the border soldiers wanted to return to their hometowns, the Liao governor couldn't stay if they wanted to. Was it so easy for the Ming Dynasty to migrate to the interior? ”
"That's a lot of truth." Huang Taiji's head.
"I heard that Yuan Butang had people from Shandong take a lot of people to build a city wall for him, but this is also because Liaozhen has a greater advantage and can be suppressed. Once the number of people increases, I am afraid that Yuan Butang will not dare to increase manpower. ”
"So, what worries me the most is a different situation." Huang Taiji pointed to Jinzhou, Gaizhou and other places in eastern Liaodong, "After opening up the sea route connection of the inland Panshan Station, the Ming army further contacted the Phidao side and transported the disgruntled Han people in Liaodong through them!" ”
Everyone was terrified, although Phi Dao had been harassed badly before, but its combat effectiveness was too poor, and if they really wanted to harass the Jurchen villages, they often couldn't even do the militia and women who stayed behind. Therefore, Jianzhou does not take them very seriously.
But if it is just for them to land by sea and transport a group of Han people in Liaodong, it is very simple. Phi Dao does have sea supremacy, having previously conquered ports like Fushun.
As long as the wind is released, the Hermes-Epitek, who is pressed under the feet of the Eight Banners every day as a cow and horse, will not fight to the death and will get on the boat.
If there are no Han people farming, then it is useless to love the new country no matter how big the territory is.
Dolgon's eyes froze, "Great Khan, this Phi Island is no longer a disease of moss. In order to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, it is better to invade Korea again, make it a complete Jedi, and then build sea ships to sweep away its entrenched islands one by one, and completely destroy it. ”
The Hubu Shangshu Dege class is a request, "The Great Khan, the so-called non-my race, will be different in unison." It is better to move the Han people settlements near the sea in eastern Liaodong to the hinterland of Liaoyang now, and the coastal areas are completely garrisoned by the Jurchen and Mongolian tribes. ”
Huang Taiji was also quite relieved to see these young people thinking positively. "What you say makes sense, and it's all something I'm ready to do." ”
"It's just that the top priority at the moment is to uproot Dalinghe Fort, so that Yuan Butang can't succeed."
Huang Taiji's body suddenly burst out with a killing intent, "More importantly, it is to let that Yuan Chonghuan lose his teacher and humiliate the country!" ”
"According to my understanding of Da Ming, no matter how much credit you have made before, as long as you make a mistake in front of the emperor, you will have to go to the end, go to prison to ask for the crime, and even pass on the first nine sides."
"This time we will attack the south again, we must completely annihilate the Ming garrison, burn all the cities, and then send Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and plant all this on Yuan Chonghuan's head."
"In this way, there will definitely be someone in the Ming Court who will fiercely attack Yuan Chonghuan, as long as he is attacked, sooner or later we will take all the Liaoxi Corridor and go south to enter the customs!"
The little Baylor heard Huang Taiji's painting, and his eyes were full of ambition and hope. It seems that the day of entering the Central Plains is not far away.
On the other hand, in Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen was reviewing Yuan Chonghuan's recitals.
Inspector Yuan sprinkled with enthusiasm, first of all, he made contributions to He Kegang, Zu Dabi and others around him, and asked Zu Dabi to serve as the chief soldier of Guangning in the future, and He Kegang to serve as the chief soldier of Ningqian.
For Zhang Chun, the commander of the artillery battalion with outstanding performance, he touted the emperor's vision and support, and also expressed him as the commander-in-chief, still commanding the artillery battalion headquarters, and asked him to stay in Liaozhen to support him.
This is also the result of Chongzhen letting Sun Chengzong blow the wind, Yuan Chonghuan is already making arrangements for his future departure from Liaozhen, first letting He Kegang, who succeeded him, guard the more dangerous Ningqian area, and then promote Zu Dabi's official position to appease Zu Dashou, who is more senior.
In this regard, Chongzhen also let Yuan Chonghuan arrange it, but he was also thinking about what kind of official position He Kegang should be awarded in the future, otherwise the three general soldiers would not belong to each other, and it was likely to repeat the chaos in the early days of the change.
The second thing Yuan Chonghuan raised was to explain and state the significance of this operation.
It turned out that the fortress tactics envisioned by Yuan Chonghuan had an extra layer of training meaning than Sun Chengzong's passive defense.
No strong soldiers without battle!
The Ming Dynasty originally had countless guards and millions of strong troops, among which the quality of the troops stationed in the inland was not bad, but later, only the border army could be used, and the guard army was completely useless.
It is precisely because the border troops have the opportunity to conduct actual combat drills and are able to continue to grow in the test of battle.
Originally, after Yuan Chonghuan defended Ningyuan, he often had the opportunity to fight with Jianzhou, so his subordinates grew up quickly.
He also arranged for Zhao Shujiao and others to rotate, so that the entire army in Liaozhen could be trained.
However, after Huang Taiji was frustrated in the Battle of Ningjin, he realized that the city of Ningyuan was strong and difficult to take suddenly, so he also changed his offensive thinking.
Without the baptism of war, the quality of Liaozhen's soldiers also declined rapidly.
In this war, many Liao soldiers no longer dared to fight alone, but only dared to stay in the city or act with a large army.
However, after Zu Dabi took the initiative to invite the battle, his subordinates fought with the Han army and Abatai, and their blood and courage had surpassed the guards of Liaozhen.
The main force carried by Yuan Chonghuan himself also established a little self-confidence in chasing Jianzhou deserters, and he was much stronger than before.
Yuan Chonghuan assured Chongzhen that as long as he could continue to train his troops through this fortress tactic, within five years, he would definitely be able to train the Liaozhen army into a force that could compete fairly with Jianzhou.
After reading Yuan Chonghuan's explanation, Chongzhen also had a better understanding of the huge consumption of Liao Town. The so-called reluctant children can't trap the wolf, if they can really train a field army, it will not be in vain to spend millions of silver every year.
The last thing Yuan Chonghuan said was to ask the imperial court to increase military rations.
Although it was planned to plant rice before, after the water was diverted, Abatai led his troops to either fill in the paddy fields or trample them to a mess, and this year it is destined to have no hope of harvesting.
At present, as long as the imperial court can tide it over, after the harvest next year, at least the Daling River area of Zu Dabi can be self-sufficient.
Chongzhen frowned when he saw this.
Sure enough, in the end, it's all about money.
However, the salt policy reform he promoted before has hit a difficult point at this moment.