The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 569

In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), Li Yongfang of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was assassinated to death, which further stimulated Huang Taiji. Let's take a look at Daming's detailed works.

As a result, the loss of personnel was heavy, and Ding Yi beat them again in Yizhou. At this time, their domestic food prices rose and the people's lives were difficult. Huang Taiji finally decided to attack North Korea according to the original plan to rob food and supplies. population.

In history, it was very simple for him to fight against North Korea. He would gather troops immediately after thinking about it.

But this time there was an annoying Ding Mouse, so Huang Taiji decided to make a good arrangement.

First of all, Huang Taiji sent Dorgon to lead troops to reoccupy Yizhou to ensure that their route of advance and retreat would not be cut off by the Ming army.

This time Huang Taiji issued a death order. If Ding Yi attacks again, he can only defend. Whoever dares to go out to fight will be killed without mercy.

Dorgon brought [-] civilians along with the army, frantically building the Yizhou defense line, and digging holes and building bunkers in the same way. In just two months, the business was impregnable.

While letting Dorgon re-operate the Yizhou defense line, he sent people in the country to the Mongolian League, checked the household registration, compiled cattle records, and dispatched Mongolian soldiers from foreign vassals to go out.

At the same time, North Korea also seemed to feel the hostility of the Qing Dynasty towards them. The last time the Manchu Qing captured Yizhou and sent Oboi to garrison it, but was defeated by Ding Yi. After Ding Yi left, North Korea did not send troops to reoccupy it, which basically meant giving up. this place.

Sure enough, as North Korea expected, Qing soldiers took over again not long after.

Moreover, news came from the Qing Dynasty, asking them to surrender, or they would attack.

North Korea received the news. On the one hand, it urgently asked Ding Yi of the Ming Dynasty for help. The country also divided into the main combat faction represented by Kim Sang-heon and Hong Yihan, and the main peace faction represented by Jin Liu and Cui Mingji.
Among them, the former accounted for the vast majority, and they were mainly admonishing officials from Taiwan, while the latter were mainly the heroes of Renzu Lizhen, and the two factions were arguing endlessly.

At first, Li Ji leaned towards the main combat faction. Later, under Cui Mingji's repeated persuasion, he tended to "keep peace". According to Cui Mingji's suggestion, he sent translators to the Qing Dynasty to communicate and ease bilateral relations, in an attempt to maintain the state of "brotherly country".

At the same time, according to Jin Shangxian's intention, he sent someone to Phi Island to inform Ding Yi that the Qing Dynasty seemed to be attacking us because you attacked their Yizhou. help us.

In October, the letters of credence brought by North Korea’s translators to the Qing Dynasty, Park In-beom, etc., were rejected by Huang Taiji. Huang Taiji then issued an ultimatum to North Korea, demanding that princes and ministers be sent to the Qing Dynasty before November 25 to make a final peace agreement, otherwise it would be "massive". East grab".

Li Yu said painfully about this: "If you want to prepare for defense, the situation is like this; if you want to be a strategy for confinement, celebrities and seniors will not be able to do it. It's just a thief, so what will happen?" The army invaded, and faced the pressure of public opinion from the denunciation faction (the so-called "famous scholars").

In the end, Li Zhen withstood the pressure of the rebuke of the peace faction in the court and sent the translator Pu Lanying to the Qing Dynasty, but on the way Pu Lanying went north, the Battle of Bingzi broke out.

This time, because of Ding Yi's attack on Yizhou and the assassination of Li Yongfang, Huang Taiji rebuilt the Yizhou defense line, which was about two months late.

In the original history, Huang Taiji dispatched troops on December 1637st, but this time it was delayed until the beginning of February [-] in the following year (the tenth year of Chongzhen).

On February 1637nd, the tenth year of Chongzhen ([-]), Huang Taiji ordered Bei Le Yuetuo of the Ministry of War to summon all the officials in the Dugong Hall and announced that he would personally conquer North Korea to punish him for the crime of "defeating the alliance and rebelling against fate".

He asked that each cow record choose 15 cavalry, 10 infantry, 7 guards, and a total of 32 armors. The Han army under the command of Angbang Zhangjing Shi Tingzhu has 1 arrows for each armor, 50 armors, and each has 12 spear. Pole, 1 cows, a pair of ladders, a pair of cards for playing cards, various equipment and horses, and half a month's rations, gathered on the fifth day.

On February [-]th, Huang Taiji offered sacrifices to Tiandi and Taimiao, "reporting the reasons for conquering North Korea", listing North Korea's "helping the Ming to invade" during the Battle of Sarhu, and luring Liao people after the Battle of Liaoshen", After the battle of Dingmao, "repeatedly defeated the oath" and other crimes

Even when Ding Yi attacked Uiju, he claimed that North Korea was helping him.

After several major crimes were prosecuted, the whole Qing Dynasty was filled with righteous indignation.

On February [-]th, soldiers and horses from the Outer Kingdom of Mongolia (mainly the Horqin tribe) rushed to Shengjing to meet up and participate in the crusade against North Korea.Huang Taiji arranged for Prince Zheng Jierhalang to stay in Shengjing, King Azige of Wuying County to stay in Niuzhuang, Anping Beldudu to stay in Haizhou, and Dorgon to guard Yizhou to guard against Ding Yi of the Ming army. , can not attack, who dares to take the initiative to attack the Ming army like Oboi, no matter the victory or defeat, he will be killed immediately.

At the same time, [-] Mongolian troops from the Horqin Department were ordered to travel between Yizhou and Haicheng to guard against the Ming army.

The next day, the oath of the Huang Taiji Sacrificial Hall officially set off.
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When Ding Yi returned to Phi Island, it was already mid-November, and the North Korean envoys had been here for half a month, waiting at Ding Yi's house every day, very anxious.

Ding Yi received the letter of emergency from North Korea, and then he remembered that in the original history, Huang Taiji attacked North Korea at about this time, because they were short of food in the country.

Ding Yi called an envoy to comfort him: "Don't worry, I, Ding Yi, keep my word. Go back and tell your king that Phi Island will send troops immediately."

The envoy was overjoyed.

In recent years, Ding Yi fought successive battles with Houjin in Liaodong and Liaonan, and he was invincible. After Ding Yi's invisible propaganda, Ding Yi's name was even louder in North Korea than Ming Emperor Chongzhen.

The envoy was very excited to receive Ding Yi's promise. He thanked Ding Yi again and again, and said that they would supply the food and grass needed by the Ming army.

Then he asked Ding Yi how he planned to fight?
Ding Yi thought for a while, he was helping North Korea, but he couldn't fight the Qing soldiers desperately.

He had just hit Yizhou, and Huang Taiji was trying to make trouble for himself, so he wanted to avoid the limelight.

In case Huang Taiji was beaten again, Chongzhen would have to catch his breath.

Li Zicheng is not strong there now, Ding Yi counts on the Ming Dynasty to perish, and has to rely on Huang Taiji.

The peasant army in history also relied entirely on Huang Taiji. Every time he was beaten half to death or about to be wiped out by the Ming army, Huang Taiji would enter the customs and immediately gasped for breath.

But Ding Yi's current territory and population are still too small.

Only after a few years of good management, the big players will develop, and after the population exceeds one million, they can almost form a group.

"I will transport the soldiers and horses to Jianghua Island by sailors. You let your king defend Seoul to the death. At that time, our soldiers and horses will come ashore from behind and attack the back camp of the Qing soldiers, breaking them in one fell swoop."

The envoy kept this in mind and hurried back to North Korea.

After Ding Yi and other envoys left, they summoned the generals to discuss the matter of sending troops to North Korea.

Some people think that sending troops in such a cold weather is not good for the Dongjiang firearms soldiers, especially in North Korea where there are more heavy snow days. Most of Ding Yi is still using Lumi guns, and he is afraid that it will affect the firing.

But Ding Yi and the generals explained that North Korea must be saved and must be helped.

Not to mention the signing of the covenant between the two parties, North Korea transports a large amount of logs, grain and rice to Dongshan every year, and buys Dongjiang bird guns, gunpowder, iron cannons, etc., all of which must be rescued.

Once it is breached by the Qing soldiers, Dongjiang will lose all support from North Korea.

Ruan Wenlong immediately reported to everyone that in the transaction with North Korea last year alone, he got 33 silver taels, 30 shi of grain and rice, and [-] pieces of various logs suitable for building large ships.

So North Korea must never give up.

In this way, the top and bottom quickly reached an agreement to send troops to North Korea.

Although it is decided to send troops, how many troops to send and to what extent are all people to discuss carefully.

Hitting harder is not conducive to Ding Yi's plan, and beating lightly is not worthwhile.

After some discussion between Ding Yi and the generals, it was finally decided to send [-] troops.

Chen Shishi had 21 battalions, three divisions and nine bureaus, Xiao Yongqiu's 7th battalion, three divisions and nine bureaus, He Xiaoche's 35th battalion, nine bureaus, and another three bureaus were drawn from Lushun Ma Yue's Department, and Xu Wei's department drew six bureaus (returned to Ma jump command),
The whole army has a total of about 4400 troops, more than 5000 spear and shield soldiers, 1600 artillerymen, and 1000 Yuan Youcai cavalry.

The accompanying generals will be Chen Youyou, Xiao Yongqiu, He Xiaoche, Ma Yue and Yuan Youcai.

This time to prevent heavy snow, Ding Yi mobilized more than 1000 flintlock guns from the entire army and concentrated them in the He Xiaoche Department.

At the same time, Lushun is also working overtime to expand the firearms factory and strive to expand production capacity next year.

After agreeing to send troops, Ding Yi recalled the original history while dispatching troops and preparing supplies.

He really can't remember when the war was fought in the original history, and how many soldiers and horses the Qing soldiers sent out, but after thinking about it, it seems that Huang Taiji sent out thirty to forty thousand soldiers and horses at most.

With his current [-] soldiers and horses, defensive battles are no problem. Field battles can also be fought, but try to avoid them to prevent heavy casualties.

In late November, Li Zhongyi asked Ding Yi to go to Changsheng Island.

Because in the past few years, as Ding Yi's territory has grown and the population has increased, the original Pig Island Craftsmanship Bureau is no longer enough.

In order to speed up the manufacture of flintlock guns, Li Zhongyi had to build a larger steelmaking furnace.

Ding Yi's flintlock guns use all steel, which requires a lot of iron materials, larger and more iron furnaces, and more people.

This is why he has been equipped very slowly since the flintlock gun was made.

For example.

The iron ore they transported from Japan and other places first refines the iron material, and then smelts it into wrought iron five or six times, and then puts the pig iron and wrought iron in a crucible to smelt them using the Suzhou steel method.

At that time, the steelmaking technology of the Ming Dynasty was considered to be the world's leading. It was not until the 18th century that European countries invented the method of smelting pig iron and wrought iron in a crucible.

Because Ding Yi uses a lot of steel, he needs to smelt pig iron five or six times into wrought iron, and then make steel.

His previous iron stove was far from keeping up with demand.

He has at least five stoves, and sometimes the pig iron is six times cooked, and everyone waits for the wrought iron to be used, and the craftsmen can have nothing to do for a few days.

Later, with more people, more iron materials, and more steel used, Ding Yi and Li Zhongyi found that the furnace was not enough.

In order to expand the production of flintlock guns, Ding Yi ordered to build more furnaces, preferring furnaces and others to wait for materials, rather than letting craftsmen wait for steel and iron.

So in the past two years, they started to build a large furnace on Changsheng Island.

This large furnace, called Dajian Furnace, was also the largest official furnace in the Ming Dynasty, and each furnace could smelt [-] jin of iron.

In order to improve efficiency, hundreds of workers are in charge of each furnace. There are firemen, iron ore diggers, collectors, charcoal burners, people who use mules and horses to transport materials, and people who transport ships up and down. There is a complete set of operation system, equipped with the right amount of workers, and the efficiency is greatly improved.

(End of this chapter)