Chapter 339: Pacifying Liaodong (continued): Conquering Houjin

In the last article, I talked about the face of the aggressive revenge posture of the Ming Dynasty, and the various factions within the "Later Jin", that is, the "Manchu Qing", bargained with each other and compromised with each other in order to pass on the crisis.

"Hand over your army, and only by merging them can you defeat the enemy, otherwise you will all die if you are defeated!" Dolgon glanced at his nephew Shunzhi, who was sitting in a high position but trembling, so he smiled and said, "Dare to ask the emperor, I don't know what your 'old man' thinks?" If that's possible, please issue an edict, right? ”

"Dolgon! You...... Rebellious ministers and thieves, dare to usurp power? What is the crime? Hauge didn't want to see Dolgon and the Duoduo brothers as the main family, so he joined forces with Aobai, Sonny and others to prepare for the attack, so he said: "You want to empty the gloves of the white wolf, and want to kill me?" Hmph, there are no doors! Let's go! ”

As soon as the words fell, it was obvious that another powerful force in the "Qing court" was going to contradict Dolgon, after all, who wanted to stretch their neck over and have their heads cut off? After the death of his elder brother Huang Taiji, his younger brother Dolgon also thought about succeeding his elder brother as emperor, but Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge also wanted to be the emperor, after all, "father to son, family to world" is the practice of all dynasties. As a result, the pair of uncles and nephews immediately started a fierce battle for the "right to inherit the throne".

At the same time, the two yellow flags in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, afraid of losing their status as "three banners", also opposed Dolgon as the emperor, and finally under the opposition of Hauge, as well as the ministers of the two yellow banners such as Ao Bai and Sony, Dolgon failed to become the emperor, but he became the "regent" of Fulin because of his meritorious service in supporting the new emperor.

Later, Dolgon found an opportunity to finally overthrow his cousin Zilharan, who was also the "Regent", which allowed him to take power to himself.

Subsequently, Dolgon began to purge dissidents, such as Hauge and the two Yellow Flag ministers who opposed him, such as Aobai and Sony, all of whom became the focus of Dolgon's repression. Hauge is the "Blue Banner Master" and has a heavy army, so he is a thorn in Dorgon's side and the greatest threat to Dolgon. When Dorgon became "regent", Hauge was accused of slandering himself and belittled him. However, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Haoge restored the original title of "Prince Shuosu" because of his efforts to pacify the Central Plains. In the same year, Haoge pacified the bandits in Manjiadong, Jining, Shandong Province, and established a great meritorious service.

In the third year of Shunzhi (1646), Haoge was appointed by the Qing court as the general of Jingyuan, led his troops to the west, pacified Zhang Xianzhong and other peasant rebels, and helped the Manchu court take the northwest. However, after Hauge's class returned to the court, he was imprisoned by Dolgon on the charge of "concealing the merits of his subordinates and using the sinner's brother", and then, Hauge was killed by Dolgon in prison at the age of forty, and it was not until Dolgon's death that Shunzhi could rehabilitate Hauge.

Compared to Hauge, Sony and Ao Bai have a slightly better ending. The two yellow banners and eight ministers who originally opposed Dolgon, after Dolgon gained power, Bai Yintu, He Luohui, Tan Tai and Leng Seng Ji all fell to Dolgon, and reported that Turai and Turg had spoken ill of Dolgon, causing Turai and Turge to be stripped of their "clan titles" by the Qing court and demoted to commoners. After they lost power, they were no longer a threat to Dolgon, so they were able to let Dolgon go.

Sonny and Aobai are not willing to give in to Dolgon because of their many merits, high prestige, and integrity, and they do not have the handle in their hands, so it is not easy for Dolgon to get rid of them. Dolgon because after the death of Emperor Taiji, Sonny and Aobai, who were two yellow flags at the time, publicly expressed their support for Dolgon's political opponent "Prince Su" Hauge, so that Dolgon, who had considered trying to fight for the throne, finally lost the opportunity, so he held a grudge.

Therefore, after Dolgon became the "regent", he used all kinds of means to suppress these two. Sonny and Ao Bai were suppressed by Dolgon, and suffered several tragic experiences such as demotion and reduction of officials, until the seventh year of the Shunzhi Emperor's succession, Dolgon died of illness, and the Shunzhi Emperor announced the rehabilitation of the victim after the pro-government, so that these two people were able to re-enter the center of Qing Dynasty power. However, for Sony and Aobai, they can finally raise their eyebrows!

After the death of Emperor Taiji that year, Dolgon, who was then the "Prince of Rui", with the strong support of his brothers Azig and Duoduo, planned to take the throne directly against public opinion, and engage in "brother to brother". However, the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, after all, there is only one "throne", and everyone is vying for it, what should I do?

When Dolgon officially launched an attack on the "throne", Hauge, who was then the "Prince of Su", stood up from among the "princes" and said that he also wanted to share this piece of the pie. At the same time, following the "Prince Su" Hauge stood up with the eight ministers of military aircraft who were subordinate to the two yellow flags, including Sonny and Aobai. In order to help Hauge seize the succession to the throne of the Qing Dynasty, the eight ministers surrounded the meeting place where the princes were discussing.

Under such heavy pressure, in the end, it was the "Prince Zheng" Zilharang who came forward and proposed that Huang Taiji's son Fu Lin be the future Manchu emperor, and Dolgon and Hauge were used as the "regents" to help guide Fu Lin in handling the affairs of the imperial court to participate in the state affairs from the side.

By this time, Dorgon and Hauge knew that the "battle for the throne" was hopeless, so they agreed with Zilharang's proposal. However, after this, the thoughtful and scheming Dolgon, after several times of judging the situation, finally found the right time to pull Hauge down completely. Without Hauge's big help, six of the eight ministers who publicly supported Hauge before have switched to their camp.

Only Sonny and Aobai are still holding on to this line of defense, refusing to give in to Dolgon. As a result, during his tenure as "regent", Dolgon used his power and official authority to suppress the two many times, and secretly instructed others to report and denounce Sonny and Aobai for various reasons.

As the person in charge of checking and approving Dolgon, in the many accusations of everyone, the official positions of Sonny and Aobai were demoted again and again, and the titles were cut again and again. In the end, the "Qixinlang" Sony, who was originally in charge of the six departments, was driven back to his hometown Zhaoling under Dolgon's repeated demotions, and went to "retire for the elderly".

Another minister, Ao Bai, was sentenced to death several times by Dorgon's orders, which was later postponed due to changes in the current situation, and then changed to dismissal. Although these are all events that happened in a different time and space, it does not affect the trend of the situation in this time and space due to the escalation of the contradictions between the two sides.

At the same time, the Lantern Festival has not yet passed, and the beginning of spring has come. Relying on the various supplies sent by the imperial court, the defenders of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty finally set off on the road after enjoying the last delicious meal, and drove to the Jurchen camp thousands of miles away. However, the advance of these Ming armies was slow.

The reason is that in this Ming Dynasty army, known as the "army of millions", the number of cavalry is less than 50,000, and the remaining 500,000 are all infantry and civilians who are responsible for escorting grain, grass, ammunition, and armaments. Needless to say, the cavalry is the Liaodi Field Army dominated by the "Guanning Iron Cavalry", while the remaining infantry is complex.

However, the main force of this operation was this mixed infantry force, of which there were more than 100,000 "new troops," all of which were the elite of the "Shenji Battalion" and the "Beijing Army" of the former Gongwei Beijing Division, holding new-style "rifled firearms" in their hands, and walking at the front of the expedition in strict accordance with the "street fighting four-man group" formation.

The remaining 400,000 infantry are still armed with broadswords, bows and arrows, spears, shields, old firearms and other equipment to protect the logistics supply. As for the people, who numbered as many as 500,000 people, they drove horse-drawn carts, mule carts, donkey carts, and even ox carts, braving the bitter cold and freezing to transport supplies to the expeditionary army.

These supplies are mainly based on food, ammunition, clothing, and charcoal, after all, the Liao region is bitterly cold, not only the winter is long, but also the temperature is very low, and if you are not fully prepared for the cold, the combat effectiveness of the entire army will be quickly weakened. But now that there are "new troops" and "cavalry" in front of them, the soldiers seem to be full of confidence in winning the battle, after all, after this period of short training, the 10,000 "multi-eyed beads" urgently sent by the imperial court have been allocated.

"Dare to ask Inspector Yuan, why do we march so slowly? With these 10,000 'multi-eyed beads' and 40,000 'three-eyed guns', it must be even the 100,000 iron horsemen against the Jurchens, right? Yuan Chonghuan's generals were surrounding him at the moment, walking slowly behind the "new army".

"This ...... Hehe, the imperial court wanted to finish its work in one battle, so it deliberately released the news in advance, so that the Jurchen tribes from all over the country could see how my 'Celestial Empire army' crushed the barbarians? Yuan Chonghuan smiled and said, "If you have any questions, please wait and see." We believe that the combat strength of the 'New Army' will be amazing! ”

"Hmph, this is just a group of 'infantry' on donkeys, is it really that powerful? The Overseer couldn't have been misled by their weird-looking guns, right? It doesn't seem to be much different from 'Furlong', but it's all changed to 'Son-Mother Gun'. In addition, there are more lines in the chamber? ”

"Haha, herein lies the problem. When the time comes, we only need to be ready to deal with the encirclement of the enemy army at any time, and we will have to rely on this 'new army' to attack the city and seize the land. ”

In this way, the million-strong army marched all the way forward, without passing through a Ming Dynasty city occupied by the Later Jin, Yuan Chonghuan ordered a group of loud people to persuade the surrender of Cheng, the time is limited, more than half an hour do not open the city gate, directly order the "new army" to bombard the city, after the city is broken, the city will be slaughtered.

Actually, Yuan Chonghuan didn't want to be so cruel, after all, the people in the city were innocent, but Zhu Youxiao sounded in Yuan Chonghuan's mind from time to time through the transmission of his divine sense: "Barbarian, if you want to cultivate immortals and ask for immortality, you have to be ruthless, resolutely slaughter the city, and let me wait until I can devour my soul and collect my corpse." ”

With the steady advance of the Ming Dynasty army, in the process, there were also several waves of Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to charge the Ming Army's forward "New Army" with the help of open terrain, but they were all easily defeated, and it was not the turn of the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" behind to fight, because the power of the "rifled firearms" was too great!

At this time, the entire "Qing court" suddenly felt bad after the news of the defeat of the army. As a result, the two forces of Dolgon and Hauge finally suspended hostility and compromised with each other, and gathered all the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, about 400,000 elite cavalry, 300,000 infantry of various nationalities, a total of 700,000 horses and horses to go to Liaoyang to block the advance of the Ming army. Because once defeated, the "Shengjing" (Shenyang, Liaoning) and "Hetuala" (Fushun Xinbin) behind him will not be able to protect.

However, under the long-range bombardment of new weapons and the process of saturation attacks, all elite cavalry were vulnerable, and all fortified cities were destroyed, and as a result, in less than a month, the territory on which the Jianzhou Jurchens relied to make their fortune was completely swept by the Ming army with brute force, and all the cities were destroyed!

After losing the "Great Qing" to rely on the large and small cities as a reliant, it returned to the nomadic state of "Houjin", but no matter how powerful the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry was, when they launched a confrontation with the "New Army" of the Ming Dynasty, they were always beaten all over the ground by this group of strange-looking infantry, because bows and arrows could not shoot firearms, and war horses could not rush through artillery!

Just when the remnants of the "Houjin" retreated to the mountains and prepared to fight a long-term war with the invading Ming Dynasty army, those tribes who had a feud with the "Jianzhou Jurchens" such as the "Haixi Jurchens" and "Savage Jurchens" who had already been bought by the Ming Dynasty had risen up in groups, as if only by beating the water dogs could they relieve the hatred in their hearts!

At this time, even North Korea, which had been repeatedly invaded by the "Houjin", after seeing such a strong attack force of the "new army" of the suzerain, also sent troops to attack one after another, and joined the remnants of the search and pursuit of the "Houjin".

Yuan Chonghuan Chongchong received a promise from Zhu Youxiao that whoever caught the "Houjin nobles", regardless of men, women and children, as long as they were alive, each young man was worth five taels of silver, each young woman was worth three taels of silver, the children and the elderly were worth two taels of silver each, and the complete corpse of the nobleman was worth one tael of silver.

In this way, in a different time and space, due to the participation of cultivators who cultivated the "side door left way" and "crooked evil way" to participate in the mortal battle, the "Jianzhou Jurchen" was completely strangled in the cradle before the collapse of the Ming Dynasty and became the nourishment for the benefits of all parties in Liaodong, and the one who benefited the most was the Ming Dynasty.

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