Chapter 109: Manchuria, when fighting to the death
Mulima didn't have a bad head and didn't have convulsions.
The deputy Dingxi General Tuhai resolutely opposed the use of the Eight Banners of the Beijing Camp to ascend first, persuaded Mulima to withdraw the military order, and still drove the troops to the Green Battalion to fight first.
The reason is that the terrain of Huanglong Mountain on the opposite side is too dangerous, and the Ming army has set up no less than ten fortifications on the only mountain road to go up, so the Qing army will definitely suffer heavy losses if it is attacked.
If the green battalion is the first to attack, Tuhai will definitely not feel distressed!
It can be that the children of the Eight Banners of Manchuria in Beijing can attack first, and as the deputy commander of the suppression, he, the general of Dingxi, can't agree to it.
The general attitude is that you must be responsible for the children of the Eight Banners, and you must also be responsible for the imperial court!
If the casualties of the Manchurian disciples are too great, even if they win and the two of them return to the dynasty, they will be scolded by every household in the Eight Banners.
"If every battle my Manchukuo children are in the rear, call the Han army Mongolia, and call the green battalion how to look at me!"
Mulima's military order has been handed down, how can it be withdrawn.
From the clairvoyant mirror just now, he also found that the Ming army was well defended and the terrain was not conducive to attacking, but he still resolutely issued a military order for the Eight Banners to attack first.
The reason why this is so is just to let the last battle of the remnants of the Ming army bring out the majesty of the Eight Banners again, and also arouse the bloody nature of the Eight Banners soldiers who are now becoming more and more unbearable.
In the six years since Shunzhi, the Eight Banners of the Ban Brigade have basically not been warned, coupled with the enclosure of land and the division of land and the looting of wealth, the original destitute Eight Banners soldiers are not rich and oily, and they have houses, land, shops and slaves.
Once people have money, property, and start to enjoy, they are definitely not willing to work hard.
What's more, after entering the customs, most of the officers and soldiers of the Eight Banners who fought with Taizu Taizong in the south and north have lost, and now the bannermen of each banner are the new generation who have no longer lost the blood and courage of their fathers and ancestors, and they are afraid to go out from top to bottom.
This made the high-level of the Qing court very worried, worried that if the Manchurian children continued to degenerate like this, in the future, if Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jimao rebelled, the imperial court would have no Eight Banners available.
If this situation really ends, then the Han army and the green battalion will be unreliable.
The Jiangshan Sheji, which was finally snatched from the Han people, will also collapse.
Therefore, even Suke Saha, who did not deal with Aobai, did not object to the dispatch of 10,000 Manchurian disciples to the south.
Before the expedition, Ao Bai even gave his younger brother Mulima a death target.
As long as the casualties remain within 20%, it is a big victory.
That is, Ao Bai is willing to use the blood of 2,000 Manchurian disciples to recreate the majestic Eight Banners Iron Cavalry.
With the support of his brother and the future of Manchuria, Mulima naturally wanted to invest in the Manchurian children in this last battle.
Otherwise, it's really in vain.
Tuhai is not a party member, but also the Yellow Banner Manchuria as the general of Dingxi, Shunzhi period is the central government of the court, even the first emperor said: "Tuhai was originally a white body, I broke the exception of the superior, appointed a product." ”
With such qualifications, even though he is Mulima, the deputy of General Jingxi, he dares to question and refute Mulima in person.
The rest of the Eight Banners generals didn't dare.
Yang Maoxun, the governor of Huguang, who had come from Wuchang a few days earlier to coordinate grain and grass supplies, stood quietly to the side, not participating in the dispute between the two Manchurian generals.
Even if he is against the dictatorship of Aobai.
On the same day, when he and Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, discussed the killing of the three ministers on the pretext of enclosing land, he proposed that the current emperor should be asked to pro-government in three years, following the example of the 14th emperor of the previous emperor, and sent this proposal to the Suo Xiang in Beijing in the form of a secret letter.
If Suo Xiang can come forward to write a letter, then he is 90% sure that the emperor will be able to take back power from the auxiliary ministers in three years.
In this way, there is no need to worry about Aobai continuing to disrupt the government.
He Busuo, the deputy commander of the Red Banner, also opposed the first attack by the Eight Banners, let alone launched a general attack on the Ming army now, but he did not dare to directly confront Mulima like Tuhai, so he said:
"General, although the remnants of the Ming army on the western front broke through the defense line of our army and rushed into this mountain, according to the understanding of the last general, the Maolu Mountains are barren and sparse, and there is an urgent shortage of materials, so if our army continues to be held by the officers and soldiers of the three provinces and the Manchurian sons and soldiers, the Ming army will collapse in half a year at most."
"Sleepy, how sleepy!"
Mu Lima snorted coldly and said that if the siege was useful, Yu Dahai and Mu Shenghui would not have died in battle, and the remnants of the Ming army on the Western Front would not have entered this Maolu Mountain.
Hobusso hurried that he had thought of a remedy.
It is to dig two more trenches with a length of zhang inside and outside the pile defense line, so that the Ming army can not smoothly approach the pile defense line;
Second, even if they break the pile defense line, they will be impassable because of the trench blockage.
However, if you want to dig two more trenches in the short term, you need to levy at least 100,000 people.
This is also the most troublesome thing for the Qing army now.
In the past two years, millions of soldiers have been levied in various provinces to transport military rations and materials, so that the burden on the people is extremely heavy.
Zhang Changgeng went to the Qing court, saying: "The grain and equipment of the army were first transported by water from Xiying and Zhaxi to land transportation, and the carriages and horses were insufficient, so they were mostly transported on the shoulders of their husbands. It takes no less than half a month to go back and forth, but there is not much food to be transported, and there are more than 100,000 tired people in this province alone, and the dead are even more full of cliffs and valleys in extremely dangerous places. ”
In order to solve the supply of grain and grass for the army, the three provinces of Huguang, Shaanxi, and Henan, which are adjacent to Kuidong, were extremely cruel to the local officials to collect grain.
As a result, as soon as the people heard that they were sent to collect grain and stones, and the husbands carried rice with them, the men howled in the way, and the women wept in the room.
Because of the food, the family is hungry, and the food is delivered, and the person does not return.
On the sixth day of the first lunar month, a riot broke out in Huguangzhi, and hundreds of people gathered in Beiguan to rob the yamen and kill the county commander. The turmoil quickly spread to the two prefectures, and Zhang Changgeng, the governor of Huguang, was urgently dispatching troops to suppress it.
Civilian changes in various places were frequent, which had seriously affected the rule of the Qing court.
Therefore, Aobai also hoped that the war on Kuidong's side would end quickly, so as to prevent the civil unrest from expanding out of control.
At the same time, he also hopes that his younger brother Mulima will return to the court as soon as possible to help him suppress his sworn enemy Sukh Saha.
Under all kinds of factors, this is the order of General Jingxi - the Eight Banners attack first!
"My Manchurian soldiers followed Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong to rise between the white mountains and black waters, and conquered the Ming Dynasty and occupied China in just a few years.
Mulima forcibly suppressed Tuhai's opposition as the general of Jingxi, and under his strong demands, the deputy commanders of the banners had to be ordered to prepare for tomorrow's battle.
It was three days earlier than the original second day of February.
Wang Wu's side did not know that the Qing army's general attack time was advanced, but he judged that the Beiting Village he was defending was the main attack direction of the Qing army, and immediately reported the situation to Hu Shuai, Yuan Shuai, and Hao Shuai.
Hu Shuai immediately sent Guo Sheng, the governor of the left capital, to lead 1,500 soldiers from the front battalion to reinforce the stele pavilion.
Yuan Zongdi and Hao Shaoqi also sent 300 officers and soldiers each to help Wang Wu.
Liu Heng, who led people to garrison Longkou Village in the northeast of Beiting Village, also sent a staff general, Wang Guodong, to lead 400 troops and obey Wang Wu's command.
The reinforcement forces from all sides made Wang Wu's mobilization of defenders rise from the original 2,000 to more than 4,200, accounting for one-third of the total number of Ming troops in the entire Maolu Mountain base area.
Hundreds more captives were available.
Since Niu Wancheng revealed that the Qing army was the second general attack in early February, Wang Wu planned to let the soldiers rest for two days, and nourish their spirits and physical strength to fight the Qing army to the death.
Before he thought that the next day, the Qing army defense line on the opposite side would beat drums, and then he saw a group of Qing soldiers walking out of the rear of the defense line and coming towards Huanglong Mountain with murderous spirit.
Look at the flag turned out to be Eight Banners, not the Green Battalion!