Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Because during the reign of Chongzhen, the size of the navy's bird boat became larger, and the eight sculls on both sides of the ship were cancelled, leaving only two large sculls at the stern.

Therefore, when going up the Yellow River, even with the wind, the speed cannot be fast.

The navy has also specially measured that under the condition of Shuo Shui but the wind is down, the bird boat can travel about 8 miles within half an hour at the fastest [speed about [-] knots].

This speed is already the extreme speed.

If there is no wind, the speed will be very slow just by shaking the scull.

In this way, the navy warship will be exposed to the muzzle of the Jiannu Hongyi cannon for a long time.

Immediately, Chongzhen ordered Zheng Sen: "Zheng Sen, didn't you prepare the navy's three-color lantern? Hurry up and send a signal to the navy to retreat to a safe distance and stop breaking in."

Zheng Sen hurriedly took the other two scholars to hang up the three-color lanterns.

Seeing the three-color lantern hanging from the Ninth Peak, the navy warship immediately turned around and retreated.

But it takes time to turn around, and the threat of Jiannu Hongyi cannons still cannot be escaped for a while, so the cannons are still rumbling and blazing on the river, and warships will be hit by cannons from time to time.

The navy of the Ming army really suffered a lot this time.

Let alone the loss of ten ships.

……

Doduo was also awakened by the sound of the cannon, and hurriedly put on his clothes and got up.

Soon, generals with white flags such as He Luohui and Wa Xing'a arrived one after another.

Wa Xing'a was seriously injured in the battle of Yunlong Mountain, and he will be recuperating for several months. His injury is finally healed, and he has been shouting for revenge for the past few days, threatening to rush to Yunlong Mountain again.

Duoduo naturally ignored him, why revenge?

This king suffered such a big loss in Shanyang and didn't want to take revenge.

Duoduo finally understood that the Ming army defended the city fiercely.

Soon, Shi Tu came to report: "Master, the navy of the Ming army has arrived."

"Has the navy of the Ming army arrived?" Duoduo asked with a concentrated expression, "How is it? Did you stop them?"

"Master, don't worry." Shi Tu said with a smile, "Just now, the servant went to the river to see, the fort we built is very strong, and Minggou's navy warship can't do anything to us at all. The cannon just now In the battle, our forts and red cannons were unscathed, but Minggou's naval warships were sunk by us, and then retreated in disgrace."

"Okay!" Duoduo said happily, "It seems that Hong Chengchou's method is still effective, even if there is the Yellow River, even if Minggou has the advantage of the navy and warships, he still cannot enter the encirclement, and even a grain of grain cannot be sent in. "

While speaking, Dongfang showed his fish belly, and then galloped over on a fast horse.

"Report..." Still far away, the messenger on horseback roared loudly, "The army of the emperor's father and regent has arrived fifteen miles away, and Prince Yu is going to meet him immediately!"

In the end it was his brother, Dorgon only asked Duo Duo to pick him up alone.

The rest of the county kings like Luo Luohun, Luck Dehui, and Guermahui didn't have this chance.

"Did the fourteenth brother actually march overnight?" Duoduo's expression became concentrated, and he immediately shouted, "O Wa Xing, Ba Yala, who has ordered the white flag inlaid with it, will follow me to protect the frame."

"Hey!" Va Xing'a suddenly agreed.

Soon, Duoduo came out of the camp with Bayala inlaid with a white flag.

At this time, the sky was gradually brightening, and it could be clearly seen that outside the big camp bordered with white flags, short green shoots had grown in the field, which were newly planted spring wheat.

By the way, Jiannu is almost out of food.

The freshly planted spring wheat must not be able to provide the army rations for the slaves.

So for the next three to four months, we will have to rely on supply from Beijing.

[Note: The growth period of spring wheat is about 100 days, sown in May and harvested in September]

Dorgon took thirty Niulu Jiuqian Banner soldiers from the Bordered Yellow Banner, plus [-] newly recruited Han troops, and escorted [-] shi of military rations all the way south along the canal, and took the waterway to the territory of Yanzhou Prefecture.

However, after entering the Taizhuang Gate fifteen miles north of Xia Town, Dorgon decisively ordered the navy to return, and then sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Baoyi to push rooster carts and wheelbarrows around Xia Town to the south overnight.

……

Looking at the endless torch queues of Jiannu, especially the hundreds of thousands of rooster carts and wheelbarrows pushed by the army, the commanders-in-chief of the ten towns under Huang Degong's command were all eager to try, and they all clamored to take advantage of the night. Initiate a sneak attack to snatch the military rations of Jiannu, and even if they can't get it, they will burn the food.

To be honest, Huang Shi'an, Tian Xiong and other general soldiers are a little bit drifting.

In the great victory in Xiazhen last year, they defeated the Xianghuang Banner, which was said to be the most powerful among the Eight Banners of Jiannu, so they didn't take Jiannu seriously.

But Huang Degong's mind is still very clear.

Although he won a big victory in Xiazhen last year, it was just Jiannu's sideways approach, and his victory at that time had a lot to do with Jiannu's underestimation of the enemy. If Jiannu hadn't underestimated the enemy, he would definitely not have won.

And it was still a defensive battle. If it was a field battle, the Ming army would basically be no different from sending them to death.

Besides, before Jiannu went south, Chongzhen had also specifically told him to just keep the town of Xia and not to worry about other things, and it was strictly forbidden to send troops without his will.

At that moment, Huang Degong said in a deep voice: "Pass down my general's order, and those who dare to fight without authorization will be decisive!"

Huang Degong's generals quickly spread throughout the army, and the commander-in-chief of the ten towns under his command could only give up his thoughts.

At this time, Yang Ponu, who had been promoted to general manager, suddenly said: "Master Hou, I remember that the Holy Majesty said that the total number of slaves was only a few hundred thousand soldiers? There are already more than [-] soldiers outside Xuzhou city, why? Now there are so many Jian slaves here again? This queue is endless at a glance, at least there must be hundreds of thousands of people, right?"

"At least one hundred and fifty thousand!" Huang Degong made an accurate estimate.

Then he said: "However, these are not real slaves of Jiannu, they are all dressed in clothes with the army."

Yang Ponu said: "Master Hou, it can't be that they are all in uniform with the army, right? There must be real slaves, right? Calculated by half, how many real slaves were transferred back and forth? Wouldn't the city of Beijing be empty?"

"What do you mean?" Huang Degong suddenly turned his head and stared at Yang Ponu.

"Uh, ah?" Huang Degong reacted so loudly, but Yang Ponu was taken aback, and hurriedly said, "It's not interesting, Lord Hou, I just want to say that Jiannu is really brave, and he is not afraid of us sneaking into his lair .”

Yang Ponu really said it casually, but Huang Degong couldn't calm down anymore after hearing it.

Yes, if Jiannu really poured out all the soldiers of the country to besiege Xuzhou and confront the Holy One, wouldn't Beijing be empty?What if at this time he led the Ten Towns Frontier Army to go north in the starry night?
Thinking of this, Huang Degong couldn't calm down anymore.

At that moment Huang Degong said to Yang Ponu: "Yang Ponu, do you dare to go to Xuzhou?"

"Why don't you dare?" Yang Ponu said, "Don't look at Jiannu's encirclement of Xuzhou City, there are still Yebubu and Fu Lujun lurking within fifty miles around, but if you want to enter Xuzhou City, it's a piece of cake. dish."

"Okay!" Huang Degong waved and said, "Come here."

Huang Degong whispered a few words into Yang Ponu's ear.

Yang Ponu bowed immediately and said, "Take the order!"

Then turned around and walked away quickly.

……

In fact, this is really Dorgon's trick to lure the enemy.

In order to lure the Ming army to attack, Dorgon even transferred the flag Ding of the inlaid yellow flag.

Of course, if the Ming army really came out, they would find out that the coated servants pushing the rooster cart and the wheelbarrow were not the real coated servants, but the bannermen with yellow flags in disguise.

Seeing that the Ming army was unmoved, Dorgon sighed: "It's a pity, the Ming army refused to come out."

"Master, this is actually the expected result." Hong Chengchou comforted Dorgon, "The Ming army has completely lost the courage to fight in the field since the Songshan War, and it has not yet recovered, but it is also because the Ming army lacks the courage to fight in the field. , Our Qing soldiers were able to concentrate their forces to surround Xuzhou City, otherwise, once the Ming army in Shandong, Xiazhen, Pizhou, and even Huai'an Prefecture went north, Beizhi and even Beijing would face a huge threat, and it would be troublesome."

"So, it's best to get rid of the Ming army in Xiazhen first. Keeping the Ming army along the way is a threat after all."

Dorgon frowned and said: "Besides, if Xia Town is not captured, the canal will not be opened, and the navy's tank boats can only go to Taizhuang Gate, and then they will only be transported by rooster carts and wheelbarrows. There is no problem with the army coat, but the next time the food is transported, there will be no army coat, and then we will have to make another trip.”

This time going south, Dorgon also brought over [-] wrapped clothes.

The [-] coats were specially made for farming in Xuzhou and Guide Prefecture.

In order to win the Xuzhou War, Dorgon really went all out. Not only did almost all the troops of the Qing court be transferred to the Xuzhou battlefield, but almost all of the more than [-] coats were transferred to Xuzhou.

This is really pouring the power of the whole country, and it is to fight the Ming Dynasty to the death.

From this point, it can also be seen that Jiannu's national strength is actually really weak.

Fifty years have passed since the old slave raised his troops, but when Jiannu encountered a decisive battle, he still had to pour out the whole country's soldiers to have a chance of winning.

This is the case with the Salhu War.

The same is true for the Songjin War.

The Shanhaiguan War is still the same.

It was still the same when it arrived in Xuzhou.

That is to say, the fighting power of the Eight Banners soldiers, or the cavalry and shooting are strong enough, otherwise, Jiannu is such a weak national power, I don’t know how many times it has been wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

"Master, it's actually not a big deal."

Ning Wan said to me: "The Ming army in Shandong, Xiazhen, Pizhou, and Huai'an did not have the courage to go north. It has been so many years, and the world knows what kind of coward the Ming army is. As for letting the slaves run more errands, that's all. It should be, for my Qing Dynasty, it is nothing to run a few miles, and I am willing to die if I run away."

"You are the only one who can talk." Dorgon smiled and turned his gaze to the side of the road.

I saw patches of cultivated land on both sides of the road. It was obviously cultivated last year, but it is still deserted now.

"Master, look quickly, the fields here have been re-ploughed." Fan Wencheng said, "The harvest will be guaranteed in this way, otherwise this year's rations will be really tight."

The land is like this, and the yield will be high only if it has been cultivated frequently and turned into mature land.

After many years of abandonment, suddenly Er returned to farming, which was similar to the raw land, and the yield was not high. In addition, the cultivation technology of Jiannu was backward compared with that of the Ming Dynasty, so the yield was even lower.

Dorgon was worried that the harvest in the fields would be too low.

But now it seems that there is no need to worry.

At least five buckets of harvest per mu is still guaranteed, and one million and fifty thousand shi of grain will be obtained if three million mu are planted.

"It should be that the Ming army has settled the fields last year." Dorgon hummed lightly, and then said with a smile, "In this case, don't we still have to thank the Ming army?"

While several people were talking, Ba Yala reported that the ten kings came to escort them with Ba Yala with a white flag.

"Old Fifteen is here." Dorgon said with a straight face, "Don't plead for him later, this time I have to talk to him well, he is still so careless even in his thirties .”

"Hey." The three of Hong Chengchou slammed on their horses together.

But in his heart, he thought to himself, the nine kings really prefer the ten kings.

In contrast, Fashun, the Prince of England, returned without success, and was stripped of his title of prince and demoted to the rank of county king.

This time the ten kings suffered such a big defeat in Shanyang, and the Eight Banners Manchuria alone lost nearly [-] people, but the tone of the nine kings didn't seem too angry, and a carelessness was enough to explain the problem.

Soon, Duoduo arrived with hundreds of Bala soldiers with white flags.

Dorgon scolded Duo Duo bloody all over his head and face.

The three of Hong Chengchou knew that Dorgon and Duoduo had something to say, so they left with an excuse.

When there was no one else around but the two brothers left, Dorgon said: "Old fifteen, your title of prince must be lost, and you will be reduced to the title of county king, and you will be fined five hundred taels of silver."

"Besides that, Xiangbai Banner will also be confiscated with ten records."

Speaking of this meal, Dorgon said again: "Don't blame Brother Fourteen for being cruel."

Duoduo sighed, and said, "Brother Fourteen, it would be nice to keep the county king, and that's me. If someone else lost so many banners under Shanyang City, Brother Fourteen, you're afraid that it will be right and wrong." His skin is not good."

After a pause, Duoduo asked again: "Who are the ten cattle captured from our banner given to?"

"Who else? It can only be the Zhenghong flag and the Xianglan flag." Dorgon said, "Without the support of Daishan and Jierhalang, let alone keep the title of the county king, you might even be deprived of the flag. .”

Duoduo shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Brother Fourteen, I have caused you trouble again."

"It's good to know." Dorgon snorted softly, and asked again, "How did the Shanyang battle happen?"

"Brother Fourteen, don't ask any more." Dodo said with a wry smile, "I still feel like I'm lost in the lake, I always feel like I haven't fought seriously, but nearly ten thousand of Qi Dingjia's coated slaves have died. people."

Dorgon said: "That Yan Yingyuan is really as powerful as you say?"

"It's really that powerful." Doduo nodded solemnly and said, "I joined the army at the age of thirteen, and I have been fighting for more than twenty years. I have never met such a monstrous person. I don't know How does his brain grow, you can never imagine what methods this guy will use to deal with you."

Dorgon said: "There are such people in the world."

Duoduo said again: "Brother Fourteen, I have something to remind you."