Chapter 468: The End

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The rest of the formed units were further reorganized in western Liaoning, and eventually formed a field force of about 74,000 men.

After the Jinzhou fortress was besieged three times, Dolgon launched two successive siege relief operations in August and September, because the 17,000 new men who entered the fortress were all the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and the soldiers and horses of the two white flags were among them, and Dolgon could not afford to lose this army.

The continuous siege relief operations played into the hands of Li Zhaoji, allowing Li Zhaoji to have a decisive battle with the Qing army under the flat terrain of the western Liaoning corridor.

In the third battle, the Qing army dispatched troops to pull the front several times in an attempt to mobilize the Eastern Army, but Li Zhaoji was unmoved, and the casualties on both sides were not large.

In the fourth battle, around the Daling River Fort, more than 70,000 people of the Eastern Army fought a one-day decisive battle with more than 80,000 Qing troops, and ended with the Qing army unable to bear the casualties and retreated to the east bank of the Daling River.

After these two failures, Dolgon was forced to start asking for help, and carried out the final round of mobilization of the foreign vassal Mongols, completely abandoning the dynasty and Xian, and sending the troops of Jilharang to the western Liaoning corridor.

Hoping to gain another advantage over the Eastern Corps, an offensive was launched. At the same time, Dolgon asked Dashun for help, making it clear that if he did not come to help, the Manchus would be defeated and destroyed.

Obviously, Dashun did not want to lose a force involving the Eastern Trading Company, and after receiving the request for help, an army immediately went out of Shanhaiguan to make the Eastern Army suffer from the enemy, but because of the existence of Ningyuan Fortress, the Shun army was not sure to penetrate the Liaoxi Corridor.

However, Li Zhaoji's strategic goal was achieved, and the southern front of the Shun army retreated, giving up the plan to attack the Ming Dynasty in the south, but it would take another three months for the army in the Huguang direction to arrive at Shanhaiguan and launch an attack.

Around the Jinzhou fortress, the two sides fought until the heavy snow fell in November. The fifth battle still took place in Dalinghe Fort, Dolgon forced Shunzhi to personally conquer, brought in the Manchurian, Mongolian and Hanxian 32 banners, the outer Mongolian and feudal armies, the green battalion, and all the people who could pick up spears in the Manchu Qing Dynasty participated in the battle, and carried out a series of attacks and defenses around Dalinghe Fort.

On October 20, the counterattack personally commanded by Li Zhaoji broke the right flank led by Azig, beheaded Azig, broke the Qing army, beheaded and captured more than 60,000 people, and the Qing army immediately retreated, all the way across the Liao River.

The sixth battle was the siege of Jinzhou fortress, under the long-term mortar bombardment, the Jinzhou fortress almost collapsed, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, in the face of reinforcements were repulsed several times, Mandahai chose to surrender, since then, the main force of the Qing army has been lost.

And the Shun army, which came from afar and gathered in Shanhaiguan, did not dare to act rashly when they heard the news. Throughout the winter, Li Zhaoji negotiated with both the Dashun and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Li Zhaoji contacted Dolgon and Shunzhi respectively, and some of the conditions were the same, such as handing over the traitor Liu Li of the Oriental Trading Company, and handing over the traitors Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Qian Qianyi and others.

But some conditions are different, Li Zhaoji asked Dolgon for Shunzhi's head, and Shunzhi asked for Dolgon's head.

He also asked the others for the heads of both Dorgon and Shunji. In the end, on the Chinese New Year's Eve of the eleventh year of Hongguang, with the support of Bolo, Shunzhi took the lead in launching a coup d'état, capturing Duoduo and Dolgon, and if everything went well, the Manchu coup this time would only cause a transfer of power, not a greater loss.

However, what no one expected was that Abatai, who participated in the coup and the coup, launched a coup, and the coup in the coup, the coup, the co

In Abatai's view, since the throne is gone, then in whose hands is the power of the Manchus?

Concealing his two sons, he took control of Shengjing City, intending to wipe out the nobles of the Eight Banners, but was resisted by Bolo, and the forces loyal to Shunzhi and the Abatai Division had a bloody civil war in Shengjing City, which ended with the arrival of the Eastern Legion Guards Division.

In the heavy snow, Bolo escorted Shunzhi and other royal families out of the city and fled to the grasslands, while Abatai sued Li Zhaoji for peace with the heads of the Dorgon brothers.

In this way, the whole of Liaodong fell into the hands of the Oriental Trading Company. Throughout the winter, Li Zhaoji was in the Shengjing area, appeasing the people and stabilizing the place.

The local people, regardless of nationality, were all classified as military households by Li Zhaoji, including 100,000 Han households, 40,000 Xian households, 20,000 Mongolian households, and 30,000 Manchurian households.

Li Zhaoji asked the generals and meritorious ministers to command these 10,000 households, and after the beginning of spring, the first thing was to resume production.

After the beginning of spring, Li Zhaoji, with the support of the naval and land armies, proclaimed himself emperor in Shengjing City, which had been renamed Shenyang.

Different from the confrontation between Dashun and Daming, the two imperial courts unanimously recognized Li Zhaoji's throne and demanded to become a brotherly country.

From the twelfth year of Hiromitsu, the trading company entered the stage of recuperation, cut out many army units, concentrated resources on the navy, and finally in the fifteenth year of Hiromitsu, without declaring war, sent the ironclad fleet into Batavia, sank a large number of ships of the Dutch, and officially declared war on the Dutch.

The British and Portuguese joined one after another, and finally the Netherlands were defeated, ceding colonies including Malacca, Ceylon, Taiwan and other places, retaining the existence of the East.

Dashun also took the opportunity to go south, occupying Jiangnan and Huguang in the fifteenth year of Hongguang, and Zhu Yousong retreated to Guangdong.

However, the victory in the naval battle was very fast, Li Zhaoji immediately reorganized the army, enriched and expanded the three field armies, organized the marines into a field army, and organized the original Manchu army on a large scale, a total of 200,000 troops crossed the border wall in the seventeenth year of Hongguang and went south, seized Tianjin Wei, and landed in Jiaozhou Bay, occupied Qingdao, Shanhaiguan has lost its meaning, Li Zhaoji led the army to a decisive battle with Li Zicheng outside the capital, and won in one fell swoop.

It only took one year to occupy the Central Plains and Jiangnan, and then drove the tiger and devoured the wolf, so that Dashun eliminated the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yousong finally chose to abdicate, and Li Zhaoji replaced him to unify the country.