Chapter 376

In the eyes of Huang Taiji, Cheng Shijie has never played cards according to common sense, Daming is not without artillery, but whose artillery can blow up a large area? Whose artillery can be like a fire dragon, soaring into the air, whistling, once it falls into the military formation, whether it is a white-armored soldier or an armored war slave, the result is without exception, corpses are all over the field, and blood flows like a river.

What is even more incomprehensible to Huang Taiji is that the fire gun of the Ning Navy is also different from that of the Ming army, and the fire gun has appeared on the battlefield since the Yuan Dynasty, but for two or three hundred years, the real reason why it has not replaced the bow and crossbow is actually very simple, the range of the fire gun is too close, and because there is no rifling, there is no accurate head thirty steps away.

This is also why the British lobster soldiers had to withstand the casualties, rushed to 20 meters in front of the enemy's formation, and began the thin red line tactic, which is what netizens jokingly called the queue shooting.

If the equipment of both sides is almost the same, they are all firearms, they are all in full strength not to fire, desperate and brave, then the problem is not big, but the problem is that the Ming Dynasty is a whole system of battle formations, the distance is three or five miles away from the Hongyi cannon, two or three miles away from the Franc machine artillery, into the range of two or three hundred steps of the tiger squatting cannon, bowl mouth guns, into the range of one hundred and fifty steps into the crossbow arrows, into the one hundred and five steps within the bow and arrows.

In the face of the Ming army, which is a multi-branch army in the far and near world, it is simply impossible to adopt the thin red line tactics, which is why the tactics that Britain can adopt cannot be used in China at all.

The thin red line tactics are actually not too technically difficult, and they are not even as good as the three-stage attack invented at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, what makes Huang Taiji extremely headache is that the overwhelming artillery under Cheng Shijie's command, the endless firearms, there is no way to resist with human life.

But the problem is that the princes and Baylors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty do not have a clear understanding, they think that defeating more than 300,000 Ming Northern Expeditionary Army is considered victory, but Cheng Shijie and his Ning Navy are the sword hanging over the head of the Qing Dynasty.

Huang Taiji actually discovered that every time Cheng Shijie fights, he will carry a large number of carriages, and those carriages are thousands every time, thousands of carriages, naturally to transport materials, he stays in Shengjing and does not go south, he would rather miss the fighter plane, but also wait, in case Cheng Shijie does not agree to Tong Tulai's wooing, then in Shengjing, a place more than 2,000 miles away from Liaodong, fight with Cheng Shijie.

With a supply line of more than 2,000 miles, Cheng Shijie will also have a headache. Just like last year in Lanzhou, the Ning Navy nearly 2,000 men and horses, not far away to help Lanzhou, Huang Taiji specially sent people to Lanzhou to inquire about intelligence, at that time, the Ning Navy in addition to more than a month ago also used firearms, causing a large number of casualties to the Dzungar people, and the back of the firearms ran out, they also relied on flesh and blood to fight with the Dzungar people.

If it weren't for the strong city of Lanzhou, if it weren't for the large force of the Ming army to support Lanzhou, the result of the battle of Lanzhou would really be difficult to say, of course, in this battle, the Ning Navy suffered unprecedented losses, more than 10,000 people were killed, thousands were injured, and the total number of people killed in battle was as many as more than 100 people.

In Huang Taiji's view, Ning Haijun's 100 total level is equivalent to the Niu Lu of the Qing Dynasty, if he loses more than 100 Niu Lu, he will definitely be distressed to death, Cheng Shijie estimates that it is about the same, so far Cheng Shijie has not moved, it is absolutely impossible not to receive the news, the only possibility is that Cheng Shijie is analyzing the gains and losses, whether to join this national war.

Mang Gurtai's son, Prince Cheng Maiheli, roared urgently: "Your Majesty, a boiled duck can also make it fly away!" It can't be left like this, the minions are willing to lead the Zhenglan Banner to go and take the Hot Spring Valley in one fell swoop, and see where they escape! ”

Hauge said: "Yes! Huang Ama, Erchen is willing to lead the yellow flag to the Hot Spring Valley to take the heads of Zhu Youzhen and Lu Xiangsheng! The elite of the Ming army in the Northern Expedition has been killed and wounded, and the Ming army that broke through to the hot spring valley is also sleepy and tired, and there are many injuries and diseases. ”

Without waiting for Haoge to say, I took a step forward and said, "Your Majesty, the slave thinks, don't entangle with the Ming army in the Hot Spring Valley anymore!" ”

Haoge's eyes suddenly widened wider than a cow's egg, and he glared at Ning Wan and shouted: "You mean to stop fighting the Hot Spring Valley and let Zhu Youzhen and Lu Xiangsheng go?" It's hard to push them into a corner, and you want to let them live? Scholar Ning, what are your intentions! ”

Ning Wan I officially said: "Prince Su, it doesn't matter if the slave thinks that Zhu Youzhen'er is dead or dead, the top priority is to take Beijing!" As long as Beijing is taken, the Qing Dynasty can replace the Ming Dynasty, change the dynasty with the help of many people of insight, become the orthodoxy of China, and form the overwhelming trend of Mount Tai for the leaderless Ming court! ”

Fan Wencheng walked out of the queue slowly, and said solemnly: "What Scholar Ning said is extremely true, Zhu Youzhen's life and death have nothing to do with the overall situation, and entering the customs is the most important thing!" After the Guanning army changed banners, the Qing Dynasty gathered 300,000 elites, and captured a large number of muskets, artillery and firearms in this battle. ”

Huang Taiji wanted to say, Cheng Shijie, but the problem is that the words are on his lips, but he doesn't say them, which hurts morale too much.

Fan Wencheng continued: "As long as you have a firm foothold in Beijing and Tianjin, Shandong and Henan are all in the bag, and looking at the world, only Ning Haijun can confront the Qing Dynasty!" However, now that the weather is cold, there is not much time left before the Bohai Sea freezes, once the Bohai Sea freezes...... Your Majesty, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the will of heaven is disgusted, and we want to teach you the splendid rivers and mountains, not at this time, but when! ”

Huang Taiji is still silent, last year, the Bohai Sea was frozen, but the problem is that the Ning Navy used ice boats to send sixty or seventy thousand elite troops to the Central Plains, as well as a large amount of grain, grass and ammunition.

Fan Wencheng looked at Huang Taiji hesitating, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, if you don't accept it, you will suffer from it, if you hesitate any longer, I'm afraid that you will miss the great opportunity!" ”

Huang Taiji said: "How do you say this? ”

Fan Wencheng bowed deeply: "Your Majesty, don't forget, Cheng Shijie is the prince's teacher, at this time, the Ming Dynasty is in chaos inside and outside, and no one remembers it, but they will soon come back to their senses, and set up the prince as the new monarch to command the world, Huguang and Sichuan responded in groups, hundreds of thousands of troops are available overnight, and then the Ning Navy will be the core of the north, and then the Qing Dynasty will be very troublesome!" ”

Huang Taiji was shocked, Fan Wencheng was not alarmist, Da Ming is a notoriously hard bone, the change of Tumubao Yingzong was captured, they immediately set up Yingzong's younger brother as the new monarch, and continued to fight with the tile spur, and finally let the tile spur fold in Beijing and fled in embarrassment.

The 300,000 army was almost wiped out, and Chongzhen's life and death were uncertain, in this case, it seemed natural for the local governors of Huguang and Sichuan to appoint the crown prince as the new monarch! With the financial resources of Huguang and Liaodong, the tenacity and fierceness of the Sichuan army, and the sharpness of the Ning Navy, once they react and swear to the Northern Expedition, it is really hard to say who will kill the deer!

Now he has to race against time, in the new army of Heluo, in Huguang, Sichuan, and even Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places loyal to the Ming Dynasty to take over the whole of North China, and then take the righteousness first! As long as he can take Beijing and the North China Plain, with the strong combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners and the hard work of the literati in the south and north, the Qing Dynasty will be invincible

All the generals knelt on the ground in unison, and said in unison: "I implore Your Majesty to enter the customs quickly!" ”

The banner owners of the Eight Banners and the Eight Banners simply shouted: "Enter the customs!" Entry! Entry! ”

Kneeling down from the court, one voice, one sentence, all of them were about to enter the customs. Huang Taiji, who had always insisted on solving the problem of Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng talking about entering the customs again, finally wavered and nodded heavily.

"Enter!"

At this time, Huang Taiji was afraid of beating the wolf with a hemp stick, he was afraid that he would delay the fighter plane and miss the best time to enter the customs, but in the same way, he was also worried about making a wedding dress for Ning Haijun.

If the Manchu Qing Dynasty enters the customs and captures the capital, the world will definitely be shaken, the Ming Dynasty is not a dynasty that compromises easily, and he Huang Taiji is not the first person to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty, once Cheng Shijie is under the banner of expelling the Qing Dynasty, there will naturally be some people enthusiastically participate.

When Huang Taiji led the army to arrive in front of Longjing Pass, he received news that Cheng Shijie led the Ning Navy to conquer Jinzhou, and the entire Liaoxi Jiuwei Forty-Eight Forts, except for the resistance of Ningyuan City, the other cities almost did not resist.

Huang Taiji put the news he received in front of Fan Wencheng: "Fan Qing, what do you think now?" ”

Fan Wencheng sighed and said, "The problem is troublesome!" ”

"Trouble?"

Fan Wencheng smiled bitterly: "We have always bet that Cheng Shijie has no ambition, but now that we look at it, Cheng Shijie's ambition is not small!" ”

"It's not like his style!"

Fan Wencheng sneered: "It is impossible for people not to have ambitions, and he is no exception. It's only a matter of time before Zhu Ming is finished, as a feudal official with a strong army, how could he not have other ideas? He probably wanted to wait for my Qing Dynasty to capture Beijing, destroy Zhu Ming, and then wave his army north to destroy the Qing Dynasty, and then sit on the country by himself, which can be said to be justified. ”

Huang Taiji was a little confused: "Is this possible?" He doesn't look like that! ”

Fan Wencheng arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, you may be confused by his disguise!" Even if he doesn't have such ambitions, his subordinates can't be without, and when he encounters such changes, even if he doesn't want to be the emperor, his subordinates will repeat the story of the yellow robe! The slave dares to bet his head that what Cheng Shijie is most concerned about now is not Beijing, but how to hold the prince in his hands, or let him evaporate from the world! ”

Huang Taiji sighed and said: "In this way, he is really no different from those Ming generals!" Fan Aiqing, in your opinion, when will Ning Haijun continue to go north? ”

Fan Wencheng said: "After our army captures Beijing!" ”

Fan Wencheng's judgment made Huang Taiji feel a little creepy. If his judgment is correct, then it will mean that all his calculations are within Cheng Shijie's calculations, and he has worked hard to drive Chongzhen to that remote place in Sanshen Mountain, recruit Guan Ning's army, and capture Beijing City, in the end, it is very likely that he is making a wedding dress for Ning Haijun!

This made Huang Taiji a little unbearable, he was always the only one who calculated other people's shares, when did he try to be calculated from beginning to end! He was silent on the surface, but the fist hidden in his sleeve was already clenched.

Huang Taiji said slowly: "Fan Aiqing is really my Chen Ping and Zhang Liang, if you don't have your insight into the opportunity, I am afraid that I will not know that I will make a wedding dress for others with all my efforts, and finally end up with a dead body and a ruined country!" The layout of the Naning Navy is extremely ingenious, and they have grasped the key points in all aspects, and I know that this is their trap, so I can only jump into it...... According to Fan Aiqing, how should I deal with it? ”

Fan Wencheng said in a deep voice: "It's not difficult to break Cheng Shijie's game, just take Beijing!" ”

Huang Taiji was stunned: "Didn't you say that the day the Qing Dynasty took Beijing, that is, when the Ning Navy waved its army north, why did you still want me to take Beijing?" ”

"Your Majesty, it is extremely risky to capture Beijing, but the benefits are also great! Beijing is not only the national gate of the Ming Dynasty, but also the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and by taking it, the Qing Dynasty can gain great benefits both militarily and politically! Not to mention anything else, the money and grain accumulated by the families of countless nobles in Beijing alone are as much as hundreds of millions, with this money, what can not be done? ”

Fan Wencheng smiled faintly: "After taking Beijing, the Qing Dynasty took Beijing, Tianjin and Tang as the advance base, backed by the mountains and seas, and covered by mountains and seas on the flanks. ”

Huang Taiji nodded slightly. The significance of Beijing is not only as simple as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, its gains and losses directly determine the belonging of the Great Plain of North China! The land of Youyan is known as the "backbone of North China", if you lose the land of Youyan, the central dynasty will not be able to straighten the backbone, and Beijing is the most important section of this backbone, if it is lost, the backbone will be broken!

The Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State fought for more than 100 years, and has been in a dilemma of being passively beaten, the most important reason is that it is impossible to recapture Beijing, which was called Yanjing at that time, and it is impossible to drive the Khitans back to the northeast if they can't recapture Yanjing.

If the Qing army can take Beijing, nearly 100,000 Qing troops plus more than 100,000 Guan Ning troops, and hundreds of thousands of cavalry, no matter how strong the Ning Navy is, in the face of such a terrifying cavalry group on the Great Plains, I am afraid that it can only shout that it has the intention to kill the enemy, and it is powerless to return to the sky, right?

"Moreover, there are a large number of guns and artillery bureaus, gunpowder bureaus, and staff bureaus in the capital, which can continuously produce artillery and muskets, and we have sufficient firearms in the Qing Dynasty.

Fan Wencheng continued: "Moreover, Beijing is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and the capture of Beijing means that the Ming Dynasty has perished, and the Qing Dynasty has replaced the Ming Dynasty, which is the name!" With this title, coupled with the propaganda of the Ming Wenchen who returned to Shun, the people of Shandong and Jiangnan responded to it, even if Cheng Shijie supported the Northern Expedition of the new monarch, the general trend was in my Qing Dynasty, and he would not be able to take any advantage! If the emperor reuses some literati who have a grudge against him, and publicizes his dirty deeds of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight and watching the Qing Dynasty destroy the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that before the Northern Expedition, he will already be regarded by thousands of people, and everyone will betray and leave! Not everyone is qualified to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight! ”

Huang Taiji clapped his hands and said continuously: "Okay!" Aiqing's words made me pause! It seems that the key to breaking the game is in Beijing! ”

Fan Wencheng said: "The emperor is shengming! Those who win Beijing win the world, Cheng Shijie is smart and will give the opportunity to heaven, this is God bless the Qing Dynasty! ”

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Just when Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng were discussing going north as soon as possible and seizing the capital, Cheng Shijie was actually not far from Beijing, just outside the Shanhai Pass, which was more than 600 miles. At that time, Gao Di, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, led more than 10,000 customs troops, not only did not let Cheng Shijie let go, but used the city to fire artillery shells at Cheng Shijie's headquarters.

Cheng Shijie mobilized the Ning Navy to attack Shanhaiguan, but the artillery of the Ning Navy was deflated for the first time.

The artillery and rocket artillery of the Ning Navy belong to the category of howitzers, and the ability to attack fortified positions is actually not as good as solid shells, and the attack is frustrated, Cheng Shijie is also thinking about a question, whether to save Emperor Chongzhen first, or save Beijing first, in fact, Cheng Shijie did not sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight as analyzed by Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng, no matter what, Cheng Shijie could not give up the capital of the Ming Dynasty to Huang Taiji.

Seeing that the Ning Navy's attack at Shanhaiguan was frustrated, the Ning Navy, with the help of its navy, divided its troops into two routes, attacking Funing Port and landing in Tianjin at the same time.

Ning Navy under the banner of King Qin, Tianjin Dagu Fort and Funing Port did not resist, Ning Navy directly successfully landed, Cheng Shijie did not mobilize the troops of Liaodong this time, but mobilized Wu Songkou and the defenders, the generals of the army were Wu Sheng, the general of Wu Songkou, and Chen Dayong, the general of the army.

Chen Dayong led his troops to Tianjin, and immediately did not hide it, directly surrounded the Tianjin Sanwei, disarmed the Tianjin Wei, and reorganized the Tianjin Sanwei, and sent a part of the old, weak, sick and disabled to Dayuan Tuntian, where the young and strong and the volunteers were trained on the spot by the Ning Navy, and at the same time, Cheng Shijie awarded Chen Dayong's department, the seventh and ninth brigades of the Ning Navy.

Wu Sheng led Wusongkou to land in Funing, and also took Funingwei to open the knife, like Tianjin Wei, the old, weak, sick and disabled and their families were actually sent to Dayuan Tuntian, as for the young and strong, they were combined with Wusongkou and Chongming Ning Navy to form the Eighth Brigade of the Ning Navy.

After Cheng Shijie received information that Wu Sheng occupied Funingwei, he bypassed Shanhaiguan and returned to Funing by sea.

Wang Chengen watched Cheng Shijie join forces with the Eighth Brigade of the Ning Navy, and directly waved his troops westward, preparing to attack Yongping Mansion, he was shocked: "Lord Wang, don't you care about Long Live Lord?" ”

Cheng Shijie sighed and said, "Princess, do you think that even if this king kills Sanshen Mountain at any cost now, long live the Lord now?" ”

Wang Chengen was silent. He has wasted more than 20 days, even if Cheng Shijie led the cavalry over and arrived at Sanshen Mountain, I am afraid that it will be more than a month, and they didn't even have half a month's food at that time, so they didn't need to build slaves to fight, but they were all starved to death, not to mention, the Ming Northern Expeditionary Army wore summer clothes, and only a small number of soldiers had cotton clothes.

Wang Chengen's tears flowed: "Emperor Sui, the slave and maid are incompetent, the slave and maid should die, the slave and maid will accompany you ......"

As he spoke, Wang Chengen took the dagger and stabbed it towards the heart.

Wang Chengen's appearance did not hesitate at all, and his face was resolute.

Cheng Shijie raised his hand and said, "Stop!" ”

Li Dingguo, who was beside Cheng Shijie, whipped off the dagger in Wang Chengen's hand.

"Don't rush to death yet!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Even if the Lord is unlucky, isn't there still a prince?" Is the prince willing to let the prince be lonely? ”

(End of chapter)