The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 711 Preparations for Sweeping the World

In history, after Hong Chengchou came to the Qing Dynasty, he was abandoned by Huang Taiji, which was tantamount to house arrest. He was not reused until Dorgon came to power.

When persuading Dorgon to enter the customs: "Our soldiers are strong, and the rogues can be eliminated in one battle. Now it is advisable to send an official to announce the king's decree, indicating that this trip is specially scheduled to destroy the thieves. I will not slaughter the people or burn the houses. I will not forgive you." The meaning of wealth."

Hong Chengchou was really right. Both Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were defeated by the Qing soldiers. The peasant army had never fought against them in the early stage. They really didn't adapt to their tactics. Only later did they gradually adapt.

Not long after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, Ergun dispatched Hong Chengchou to supervise the military affairs in the south of the Yangtze River, replacing Prince Yu Duoduo, who did all kinds of crimes.After Hong Chengchou arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, in addition to recruiting Zheng Zhilong and other centrists, he treated his former colleagues and the rebels who fought against the Qing Dynasty as painful killers. Zhu Yishi, Ruian Wang Zhu Yifang, Jinhua Wang Zhu Youchan, Gaoan Wang Zhu Changqi, Ruichang Wang Zhu Yigui, etc. were all killed. They were merciless and devoted themselves to serving their master.

Of course, he may never have the chance to do so again in the present history.

But because Haizhou, Gaizhou, and Hetuala were destroyed, Huang Taiji also obviously felt the pressure from Ming Ding Yi.

In the past, Ding Yi had to guard against whether he would attack Ding Yi every day, but now he had to guard against Ding Yi and whether he would attack him.

Huang Taiji thought about it again and again, thinking of what Li Yongfang said before, to deal with Han people, you have to use Han people.

In June, Huang Taiji summoned Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou to ask how to deal with Ding Yi's plan.

It's funny to say that Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou, two famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, haven't seen another famous general Ding Yi until now.

Both of them had only heard of Ding Yi's record, but in the Ming Dynasty, everyone would subconsciously think that this record was exaggerated, after all, they themselves did the same.

But now, after hearing what Huang Taiji said, I realized that Ding Yi had fought earth-shakingly in Liaodong in the past ten years, and Huang Taiji had a splitting headache. Now he even lost Gaizhou and Haizhou.

The faces of the two of them changed drastically when they heard this, and they couldn't believe it.

Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou even looked at each other a few times, their expressions seemed to say, if we knew that Ding Yi was so good at fighting, if we mobilized his troops to participate in Songjin, maybe we don't have to surrender?
But now it is useless to think about these things, and they are all down.

Huang Taiji said at this time that Gaizhou and Haizhou were lost, and the living space of my Qing Dynasty was further compressed. Now only Liaoyang and Shengjing can be regarded as big cities, and Jinzhou and Yizhou, which have just been reinforced and repaired by them, can also be regarded as one and a half.

The key point is that from Yizhou to Liaoyang, there used to be a lot of hoarding fields. In the past few years, there was a shortage of food in the Qing Dynasty, and farming was ineffective. More than half of the food was smuggled by Shanxi merchants. In the past, there were Koreans who provided food. No confession, so don't look at the same victory in the Songjin War as in history, the current Huang Taiji and the Qing Dynasty are much more difficult than in the original history.

Not only is there not enough food, but even the grain fields around Liaoyang and Yizhou are under the attack of Ding Yi's soldiers.

They will be even more short of food in the future.

At the same time, after this war, their population also decreased significantly.

They got 6 to [-] surrendered soldiers in the Songjin Battle, but they lost Gaizhou and Haizhou, plus all Dunbao, Niumaozhai, Hetuala and other lost land, and the population of Manchu Qing decreased by more than [-] at once.

Once in and out, thirty or forty thousand was lost.

The key point is that the [-] to [-] soldiers and horses need to eat food, and the [-] to [-] soldiers who are short can all farm and harvest food, which is even bigger.

In private, Huang Taiji described the current Qing Dynasty as being at stake.

This is also the reason why he insisted on negotiating peace with the Ming Kingdom against all opinions.

After hearing what Huang Taiji said, Hong Chengchou was silent for a moment, looked at Zu Dashou, and said slowly: "From what the Holy Majesty said, this Ding Yi doesn't seem to be in a hurry to attack us. Selfish?"

"Raise the enemy's self-respect?" Zu Dashou said without hesitation. Ding Yi didn't want to destroy Huang Taiji at all. According to Huang Taiji, Man Qing seems to be unable to defeat Ding Yi now.

"His heart can be punished." Hong Chengchou was the first to be furious, he was like a traitor, his expression was a little excited, his face flushed, he didn't know whether he hated Ding Yi for not sending troops to save himself, or hated Ding Yi for supporting the enemy.

Zu Dashou and Huang Taiji looked at him strangely, Hong Chengchou realized that he was no longer a Ming minister, but a Qing minister.

He smiled awkwardly, and hurriedly said: "According to the sage's words, can I have a showdown with Ding Yi?"

Huang Taiji thought for a while: "It's not impossible to fight. If I mobilize more than [-] soldiers from the whole country and crush them with thunderous momentum, I will definitely be able to fight Ding Yi."

"However, if you fight like this, even if you win, it's meaningless."

At this time, Huang Taiji was quite confident in himself, and felt that as long as he brought more than [-] yuan, he could still fight Ding Yi.

Of course, he was referring to a field situation, not preparing to attack a fortified city.

"If I surround Gaizhou with the whole country, Ding Yi will definitely come to rescue, and I can force him to fight with me in the field."

"However, no matter what the outcome is, I will definitely lose my vitality."

Huang Jitai believed that if one hundred thousand soldiers and horses fought with Ding Yi in the field, even if they won the battle, at least half of the elite of the Eight Banners would die.

Out of [-] soldiers and horses, [-] of them can survive.

He wanted to let Ding Yi know about his idea. Ding Yi made a big mouthful. Now I will give you one hand. If you hit you with [-] and [-], you will be completely wiped out. Do you believe it?

After listening to Huang Taiji's words, Hong Zu knew that Huang Taiji didn't want to fight Ding Yi to the death, but they couldn't be aggressive by Ding Yi and pushed forward step by step.

This time we hit Haizhou, and the next time we hit Liaoyang, we will be closer.

Hong Chengchou had a thought: "Now we only have to make peace, make peace with Daming first, and while making peace, take Ningyuan and occupy all the land outside the pass."

"Having a place outside the customs is equivalent to exchanging space for space. The main energy of our Qing Dynasty has been shifted to the pine brocade."

"This side is better defensive than Haizhou Gaizhou."

The Ming army has operated in Songjin for many years, and everywhere in Dunbao, Jinzhou, Yizhou, Ningyuan, etc., it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The key is that it is closer to Guannei, the land is more fertile, and the climate is slightly better.

"Successful peace talks can force the Ming court to issue orders to Ding Yi so that he dare not move."

"Ding Yi's wolf ambition, Chongzhen would not know, I believe that Ding Yi would not dare to risk the disgrace of the world, and openly defy the imperial court's will."

As long as Ding Yi does not fight Liaoyang, they can rest and recover slowly.

But their recovery is small. As long as the Manchus do not fight against the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen can relax. He will definitely deal with disobedient military leaders like Ding Yi, and finally achieve the goal of letting the Han people deal with the Han people, and let the Chongzhen government deal with Ding Yi. .

And they can sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, waiting for the opportunity.

After hearing this, Huang Taiji took it for granted. His original idea was to use Chongzhen's hand to deal with Ding Yi.

Ding Yi is now powerful, but he is still a courtier of the Ming Dynasty. Unless he openly rebelled, he would definitely not dare to mess around.

As long as the Manchu Qing stopped putting pressure on Chongzhen, Chongzhen might be able to relax.

At this time, Huang Taiji already regretted launching the Songjin Battle, but if he didn't launch it, he didn't know that Ding Yi could attack the fortified city.

Now that we have just won a victory, we have to make peace, and there are indeed loud voices of opposition in the country.

But these people are short-sighted, and they can see the current crisis of the Qing Dynasty there.

Now the Qing Dynasty needs to join forces with the Ming Dynasty to deal with Ding Yi together, otherwise it will be destroyed by Ding Yi sooner or later.

After chatting with Hong Chengchou, Huang Taiji became more determined to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty. (In the original history, there was no Ding Yi. After Huang Taiji defeated the Songjin War, he also sent envoys to negotiate peace with the Ming court, because he did not want to enter the customs at that time, and the domestic food shortage was not small.)
His idea is very good, and he also wants to give Chongzhen a little relief.

However, most of all the good things in the world are counterproductive.

In the late April of the 15th year of Chongzhen (1642), Bao Chengxian came to the capital of Daming in disguise and met with Chen Xinjia, Shangshu of the Ministry of War.

He thought about it for a long time in the mansion, and finally decided to go to see Emperor Chongzhen.
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When the Manchu and Ming dynasties were negotiating peace, Ding Yi had already decided to increase his troops in Lushun.

With this increase in troops, he is already preparing for the unification of the whole country.

At the meeting that day, Ding Yi asked someone to make a sand table in the middle of the hall, and hung a huge map of Ming Dynasty on the wall. He said without hesitation: "Jianu has already been disabled by us."

"We have received news from our secret work in Shengjing that in the past few years, the slaves have lost their harvest every year, and most of their food has been smuggled by profiteers in the Ming Dynasty. They lost at least 50 mu of land in one battle."

"And the grain fields around Liaoyang are all under our troops."

"If I'm not mistaken, Huang Taiji will definitely negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty. If there is no peace negotiation, the population in his country will not be able to support him, unless he is like the old slave and kills."

When Nurhachi was short of food, he simply "killed" the Han people first, so as to reduce the number of people who ate food.

These savages didn't think hard about how to grow the fields, but they tried to find a way to solve the problem of people eating food, as well as livestock.

"The 50 mu of land in our hands is a lot of money." Mao Xin murmured first in the field.

There was a lot of laughter all around, the same fields, the barbarians like Jiannu, would not know how to plant them, but they would be able to plant them in Master Ding's hands.

"Building slaves is nothing to fear. As long as we are willing, we can raise [-] troops at any time to wipe them out in one fell swoop." Ding Yi said proudly.

Now he is very confident that only [-] troops are needed to sweep the Qing Dynasty.

Because at this time, the Manchu Jiannu had a full force of about 4 troops. Among them, the Eight Banners Jurchens were defeated by Ding Yi many times. Now they have a maximum of [-] people, and the other [-] are the Han and Mongolian troops, which are completely vulnerable.

Everyone nodded one after another, and some people were already crying with excitement.

Back then, he was forced to flee his hometown by Jiannu, but he never thought he would have today.

But these people have been with Ding Yi for many years, and they are no longer the hot-blooded youths of the past. Five years ago, someone must have shouted loudly, hit Shengjing, and kill the dog tartars.

But now everyone is looking at Ding Yi, quietly waiting for him to speak.

"Let me tell you another piece of good news. From the capture of Luzon the year before last to the complete pacification of the local area at the end of last year, Xu Erxian escorted a total of 700 million silver from the local area."

"Hiss" the scene gasped, and everyone couldn't help but marvel again, it turns out that fighting is really so profitable.

(End of this chapter)