Tang Mu is also a clever ghost, and after listening to Li Zhaoji's words, he guessed a rough idea.

One million taels of silver is really a huge amount of money, even if Dashun copied more than 70 million taels in the capital, he would not take it out casually.

From the perspective of Dashun's side, in the face of the request of the Oriental Trading Company, it can be given, but it cannot be given in full.

It's not okay not to give, it's not okay to give people who don't want to sell their lives, it's not okay to give everything, and only a well-fed wolf can be willing to contribute? So it will definitely only be given partially. Li Zhaoji guessed this, so he came up with a way to ask for troops to support, Dashun is fighting hotly in Gyeonggi Zuojin and Manchuria, and there is no sailor itself, so he may send troops, but not too much, as little as two or three thousand, as much as a few thousand, not too much, not too little, and Li Zhaoji deceived this army, of course, he didn't really want to go straight to Longtan, and its role was only one - hostage!

With these thousands of people in hand, Li Zhaoji will be able to ask for the final payment.

"Tang Mu, Wu Sangui will also go there, and there is only one purpose, to ask for money." Li Zhaoji smiled and said to Tang Mu.

Since landing in Liaodong, the head of the Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers has been about 2,400, and among these heads, the highest status is a Manchurian Gushan with a blue flag, and there are no less than 100 people above Niu Lu Zhangjing, according to the agreement with Wu Sangui, the head of an ordinary flag soldier is worth 50 taels, and the higher the status, the higher the natural reward.

After all the miscellaneous calculations, these heads can also be exchanged for 150,000 taels of silver, which is not a small amount of money.

Tang Mu bowed slightly, and after thinking carefully, he said: "Big shopkeeper, when I get to Wu Sangui, I will say that Dashun has given a reward of one million taels of silver, and if we want to continue to march, he Wu Sangui will definitely pay in full, maybe he can ask for more." ”

Li Zhaoji nodded slightly, why did Wu Sangui support the march into Liaodong at the beginning, it was not that he thought that the Qing army had a big victory in Guannei, and Dashun couldn't hold on, what he wanted was for the two families to maintain balance as much as possible, and naturally he would not be willing to see the Eastern Brigade go straight to the heart of the Qing army.

"Well, it's good to say this, but it's a pity, this person only has one head, otherwise let's imagine a way to go to Jiangnan to find that King Lu in prison, and maybe we can exchange some bounties." Li Zhaoji sighed and said, obviously not satisfied.

Tang Mu covered his mouth and snickered, now this dead Qing army has been sold to two families, an ordinary Qing army, its head is worth fifty taels, the armor is worth one hundred and five, the bow is worth one hundred, it is already three hundred taels, not counting the captured weapons, war horses and other things, the trading company has made a lot of money, and I can't imagine that my own big shopkeeper is not satisfied.

Tang Mu also sighed from this, this person who does big things must be greedy and bold.

When Li Zhaoji was at odds with Dashun, the Manchus and Wu Sangui, the Qing army also held a military meeting on the battlefield inside the Guanai because of the defeat in the battle outside the Guan.

Shunyi City, the government office.

Dolgon sat on the main seat, flanked by his two trusted brothers and a few Manchurian high-ranking officials, and in the middle, on several tables of eight immortals raised side by side, a huge map was laid out, which marked the many situations of the battlefield in the pass in black and white, Dolgon's face was displeased, listening to Azig shouting.

Azig was hanging his arm at this time, and the wound on his arm was still oozing blood, obviously, he had not been injured for a long time, but the wound was worth it, because it was that battle that laid the advantage for the Manchu Qing on the battlefield in Guannai.

In May when Li Zhaoji marched into Liaodong, although Dashun fought a draw with the Manchus in the Battle of Yanggezhuang, he lost in the strategic situation and was forced to retreat to the capital and Tongzhou, while the Qing army marched and set up two large camps in Shunyi and Xianghe, that is, in the northeast and southwest of the capital.

At that time, after the previous round of attrition, the strength of both sides had their own losses, the Qing army from 100,000 people, the loss to less than 90,000, and the Shun army from 120,000 to more than 100,000, the loss of the Shun army was greater, and the advantage obtained in the early stage was mostly to win by strategy, the Dashun high-level has understood that the upright and upright is not the opponent of the Qing army, and the Qing army has been frustrated, and the main force has not been damaged.

Especially in the battle of Yanggezhuang, the losses were all the feudal armies of the three kings and one prince and the barbarians who were captured from Heilongjiang last year, and the elite of the Eight Banners were still largely there.

Before the first battle of Yanggezhuang, Li Zicheng transferred troops from all over the country, and in the former Ming army, he only left Tang Tong and Bai Guangen, and the rest were all transferred south, entering southern Hebei, Henan, and Shandong to suppress rebellion or take over the place, and then left 13,000 people in Lu'an, Zhangde, and Zhending on the way to the east, and some soldiers and horses in Datong, Xuanfu and other places were transferred to Jinggi, plus the main force of the center, rear and left three battalions that originally gathered in the capital, forming a main force of 120,000 people against the Qing army.

After the failure to appease Wu Sangui and the Qing army entered the customs, Li Zicheng transferred troops from Huguang and Shaanxi and Gansu, and transferred 15,000 and 10,000 Ming troops from Yuan Zong's first department to surrender the army, and postponed Liu Hongqi, who was from Henan and went south after the Ming army was handed over, and Tian Jianxiu was dispatched from Shaanxi and Gansu to lead 30,000 old troops and Zhu Ming's army, a total of 50,000 people went north.

Li Zicheng's strategy is very clear, I can't beat you with comparable troops, and the number of troops is twice as high as yours, isn't it an opponent?

According to the agreement, Yuan Zongdi's 25,000 men should arrive in mid-May, and reinforcements from Shaanxi should arrive in mid-June, but Yuan Zongdi's troops did not go smoothly from the beginning, first of all, Liu Hongqi's rebellion in Henan was very large, and Yuan Zongdi had to wait for the arrival of the southbound Ming army before daring to set off to the north, so it was half a month late.

But even if it is not half a month later, it is of little significance, because the Qing army arrived first.

The Qing army entered the customs is poured out, 60,000 Manchurian Eight Banners entered the customs 40,000, the Han Army Banner, the Mongolian Eight Banners were dispatched, and the army under the domain also dispatched four-fifths, constituting a 100,000 army, but this does not mean that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no reserve forces, and the history of Wu Sangui surrendered, the Qing army from Shanhaiguan is different, this time the Qing army is through the grassland around Jizhen into the customs, from the beginning of the Outer Domain Mongolia is in a state of mobilization, because the army passed through the Horqin grassland, the first batch of Horqin people entered the customs.

During the Jiashen period, there were about 960 cattle in the Mongolian steppe in southern Mongolia under the rule of the Qing Dynasty, but the Mongolian cattle records were different from the Eight Banners Cattle records, generally only 50 households, so there were about 50,000 Mongolian households for Dolgon's dispatch.

Before and after the battle of Yanggezhuang, more than 10,000 people entered the pass one after another, so that the Qing army exceeded 100,000 again, and after the confrontation between Gyeonggi and the Shun army, Dolgon ordered that the area east of the Great Khing'an Mountains should be changed to three Ding and two, and all the Monan departments west of it were all drawn, so that the strength of the Outer Mongolian army reached about 35,000 people, and this became Dolgon's new force, and quickly helped the Qing army to occupy the advantage.

After the establishment of the Shunyi and Xianghe camps, Dolgon led his army to attack Tongzhou, but did not achieve success, so he changed to a direct attack to a confrontation, and then swept the surrounding area. Dolgon found that because of Dashun's policy of recovering stolen goods and subsidy, the gentry in the Guannai had a strong resistance to Dashun, and the Shun army only achieved a strong wall in the three northern prefectures of Zhili.

Therefore, Dolgon improved the attack on the cities in order to persuade the cities to surrender, listened to the advice of Hong Chengchou and other Han officials, raised the banner of revenge for Emperor Chongzhen, gave the Han gentry a step down, and soon many cities in Zhili surrendered to the Manchu Qing, providing a batch of key materials and manpower for the Qing army in the most difficult time.

But Li Zicheng reacted immediately, and immediately notified the whole country, 'no chase comparison', and won back a lot of people's hearts. As a result, the Manchu Qing's Huairou policy lost space, and it once again turned from appeasement and unity to plundering everywhere.

With the addition of more than 30,000 new troops from the Outer Mongols, Dolgon quickly changed his strategy and sent Azig to the south and Duoduo to the west, sweeping through Zhili all the way and destroying the order that Dashun had just established. Duoduo tried to cut off the connection between the capital and Shanxi and Xuanda.

Although Duoduo did not achieve his strategic goals, he involved most of Dashun's mobile forces, and Azig feigned defeat and retreated after encountering Yuan Zong's troops in the area of Daimyofu, southern Zhili, and set up an ambush in the area of Xingtai, ambushing Dashun's support army from the southern route, causing it to lose more than half.

Fortunately, Yuan Zongdi was also a general above the level, first pretended to order Zhu Ming's army to retreat to Shanxi, and then after the Qing army was attracted to the west, he immediately abandoned all his baggage and fled to Shandong, keeping the 9,000 old troops, but also caused the first fiasco after the Great Shun Eastern Expedition.

Although Azig was injured in this battle, he achieved great results, not only defeated the reinforcements on the southern route, but also incorporated a large number of Zhu Ming's troops in the area of Nanzhili, most of these surrendered troops were the border troops in the area of Jizhen and Xuanfu, and they went south under Li Zicheng's replacement strategy, and the treatment was relatively poor, and they were not trusted, so there were many surrenderers, plus a group of prisoners captured by the Qing army after entering the pass, the number exceeded 30,000, and Dolgon established a banner independently, called the Green Banner soldiers.

As a result, before the arrival of the Shaanxi-Gansu reinforcements, the Qing army had already occupied the advantage of troops, and even if the main force of Shaanxi and Gansu arrived, the strength of the two sides was still roughly equal.

Yuan Zongdi's defeat shook Dashun up and down, and the Qing army even got the news that Li Zicheng intended to abandon Jinggi, give up Zhili, and retreat to Shanxi and Xuanda to hold on, and Dolgon was very satisfied with this, in fact, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs this time, and did not have the intention of chasing the Central Plains, they just wanted to occupy Jiliao and Jinggi, and slowly Tuzhi, Dolgon saw that the goal was about to be achieved, and he was inexplicably excited. But almost at the same time, the news of the crushing defeat of the Qing army in southern Liaoning came.

Both the Great Shun and the Manchu Qing Dynasty underwent strategic changes as a result.

"That idiot of Zilharang, where can he afford the errand of the auxiliary uncle, he has 10,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, and he can't even beat a group of unknown thieves, and he has lost 4,000 people, 4,000 people! Almost a flag of elite loss, how could we experience such a fiasco in the Qing Dynasty, we should be severely punished, severely punished! Azig waved his intact arms and exclaimed loudly.

Dolgon did not organize, and instead of supporting Azig's proposal, he used the reckless man's intimidation to deter the Qing army from behind him.

He knew very well that the strategy of entering the customs was sluggish, the Qing army suffered many casualties, and his prestige had been provoked.

Zilharang failed, but this was avoided, and everyone was demoted to one rank, or they were in charge alone.

Azig was yelling endlessly, just because he wanted to take Zilharang instead.

"Azig, stop yelling." Duoduo reminded at this time: "What can Prince Rui do? Is it possible to order someone to take Zilharang? At this time, the most taboo thing is that Sheng Jing is in trouble, do you want to force him to rebel?

You better know that when Qinghe was defeated, it was not only Ta Zilharang who failed, but also Abatai, as well as those two red flag clans. ”

When Azig heard this, he immediately shut up. Dolgon's expedition this time, in the personnel arrangements moved a lot of thought, usually with him against the various forces, most of the stay in Shengjing, and he took away the elite of the whole country, they will definitely not dare to make trouble, and those who have the courage to make trouble, or reckless, such as Hauge, Aobai, Suppilon these people, he Dolgon with him.

But if you ask Zilharan at this time, the political balance will be broken, as Duoduo said, this failure, the people of Shengjing are responsible, make a bad trouble, they losers unite and make themselves rebellious.

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