The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 233 Design
"Ming King Qin's army is coming from all over the country. The first Ming army from Shaanxi to arrive has more than 5000 soldiers."

"Governor Xuanda of the Ming Dynasty Lu Xiangsheng gathered troops from North Zhili to follow our army all the way. In Hejian Mansion to the east, there are tens of thousands of Liao troops led by the Ming Dynasty Supervisor Gao Qiqian."

Dorgon's eyes swept across the generals in the tent, and finally stopped for half a breath on Yue Tuo.

Yue Tuo still had the same indifferent expression as before, as if everything he just said had nothing to do with him.

The relationship between Yue Tuo and Huang Taiji is quite close, and the relationship with him can only be said to be average.

Yue Tuo is Daishan's eldest son, and his biological mother is Daishan's descendant Fujin Li Jiashi.

However, due to the early death of Li Jiashi, Daishan and his successor Fujin Yehenala clan were very mean to Yuetuo and his younger brother Shuotuo.

Later, it was precisely because of this incident that Daishan offended Nurhachi, and Daishan was even abolished as the successor.

Yue Tuo was later sent by Nurhaci to be brought up under the knee of Huang Taiji's biological mother, Meng Gu Zhezhe.

Yue Tuo and Huang Taiji grew up together, so they have a close relationship.

Although a few years ago, Yue Tuo was deprived of the position of Baylor for the crime of disrespect, reduced to Beizi, and fined 5000 taels of silver.

But Huang Taiji regained his Baylor position after beating Yuetuo, and Yuetuo became more stable after this incident.

With the success of the Ming Dynasty and the prestige of conquering the Mongolian tribes, Huang Taiji's power is now expanding.

Yue Tuo has also become the actual banner owner of the Zhenghong Banner, controlling the affairs of the Zhenghong Banner. This time, he was even named General Yangwu in charge of the right-wing army.

Dorgon withdrew his gaze. Before leaving, Huang Taiji probably had some instructions for Yue Tuo.

Since entering the customs, Yue Tuo never once competed with him for the command of the army.

Thinking of this, Dorgon's expression involuntarily became gloomy. Huang Taiji has now controlled most of the Eight Banners.

Those Mongolian tribes, as well as those Han people who surrendered, are now gathered by Huang Taiji's side.

Huangtaiji set up the Mongolian Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner, which divided a lot of power from the Manchurian Eight Banners, and also divided a lot of military strength.

The distance between him and Huang Taiji is constantly widening.

Although Huang Taiji still abides by the policy of the eight kings to discuss politics handed down by the old Khan, but with Daishan's retirement, in fact, Huang Taiji is now almost able to completely act arbitrarily.

The grievances and grievances between him and Huang Taiji cannot be clarified in a moment.

Although for such a long time, he has been keeping a low profile and helping Huang Taiji do a lot of dirty work.

Dai Shan's retirement, Yue Tuo's relegation, and now Huang Taiji's power is all due to him.

But it's useless to have credit, Dorgon is very clear about Huang Taiji's character.

In front of power, even brothers are of no use.

The three major Baylor, Azig, and Yuetuo, these people are lessons from the past.

All the obstacles standing in front of that monstrous power cannot escape the fate of being swept away.

Dorgon knew very well that Huang Taiji had already set his sights on the two white flags under his and his brother Duoduo's command.

Now the Six Banners of the Eight Banners have been controlled by Huang Taiji, and the original rules of the Eight Kings' governance have long been in vain.

Now Huang Taiji is actually waiting for him to make a mistake in the north, waiting for him to fail, but he has nothing to do now.

Dorgon's heart was depressed, Huang Taiji held him up high, it seemed that he had a good reputation, and he seemed to be famous.

But all this is just what it seems...

Huang Taiji was just waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to take over the two white flags as a matter of course...

"The soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty are on the side. Although it is easy for our army to break through Shandong, but after returning with a lot of money, we will have to divide our troops to defend. I am afraid that it will be difficult for the whole army to return."

Dorgon forcibly suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart, his voice was very low.

The Ming army in Liaodong is still the same as before, but the army in other parts of the Ming country is undergoing changes.

Lu Xiangsheng's soldiers and horses in Xuanfu and Datong are much stronger than when they entered last time.

Not just in terms of armament, but also in morale.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, they destroyed the customs and entered the fortress for the first time. The soldiers and horses of Xuanfu and Datong towns did not dare to go out of the city to fight against them.
They divided into three routes from Dushikou on the border of the Ming Dynasty, and they will meet in Yanqing Prefecture, Gyeonggi Province, as if there is no one in the land.

Raid all over Kinai, attack castles, conquer twelve cities, 56 battles, big and small, all victorious!
17 people and animals were plundered, and they returned out of Lengshuikou.

At that time, the main force of the Ming army only dared to follow them from a distance, and did not dare to fight them at all.

And this time when they re-entered, the situation at the beginning was the same as before, the battalion soldiers in Jizhou Town were still vulnerable and invincible.

It's just that when they went all the way south and approached Changping, they began to encounter frequent harassment from the Ming army, which made Dorgon have to order the troops to gather, and did not dare to divide the troops easily.

Then under the city of Beijing, the three organized attacks were all frustrated. In the final battle at Xizhimen in Beijing, the Ming army even broke through the right-wing formation with red flags.

Xianghongqi folded a Niulu Ezhen, causing thousands of casualties, and the more than ten artillery pieces he deployed on the right wing as support also became the spoils of war for the Ming army.

After the battle in Qingdu, thousands of people were lost. Counting the previous battles in Shunyi, all the banners suffered losses and complaints.

This time in Zhending, Chasuka was even more defeated. Zhenglan Banner suffered heavy casualties, and the morale of the army also dropped.

Dorgon looked sideways at Wu Lai, who was sitting on the right seat. When Chasuka withdrew, he let the Mongolian cavalry accompanying him in the battle serve as the army and regarded them as cannon fodder. It's not pretty at this time.

However, these dissatisfaction were not enough to cause dissension. Only three of Gushan Erzhen in the Eight Banners of Mongolia were Mongols, and the other five were all Manchurians.

Although Wu Lai is now Gushan Ezhen of Zhenglan Banner of Mongolia, his own banner identity is still Xianghuang Banner, and he is a member of Huangtaiji.

Dorgon didn't rush to speak, but turned his eyes to Yue Tuo who was sitting beside him again, and asked.

"The situation is quite critical now. I wonder if General Yangwu has a plan to deal with it?"

When Dorgon asked the question, Yue Tuo was holding a cup of tea and drinking it slowly.

Hearing the question, Yue Tuo didn't answer first, but took a sip of tea first, then put down the teacup in his hand unhurriedly, and then spoke slowly.

"I agree with the opinion of the general who was ordered. The Ming army is now more and more daring to fight, which is not a good thing for me..."

"...If the Ming army's threat is not resolved, our army will be full of plundered goods, and I am afraid it will be difficult to transport them out of the customs."

"I was ordered by the general to find an opportunity to destroy one of the three Ming armies first?"

As for Dorgon's thoughts, Yue Tuo never knew about it. Naturally, he would not follow Dorgon's words to really come up with a strategy, but said some dispensable nonsense, and then threw the problem back. Gave it to Dorgon.

Huang Taiji's arrangement, Yue Tuo is naturally clear, this kind of moment is to let Dorgon make up his mind.

All the blame for losing can be attributed to Dorgon, but the credit for winning is divided equally, why not do it?
But in the current situation, naturally there is no possibility of losing.

Although the Ming army is much more daring to fight than a few years ago, so what if it dared to fight, the Ming country has decayed from the foundation, and it cannot be saved by one or two strong troops.

Dorgon narrowed his eyes slightly, and Yue Tuo said a lot of nonsense. Although he could continue to practice Tai Chi and throw the question back, but in the end, he would definitely not be able to ask any desired answer.

"Today in Northern Zhili, there are three established Ming armies."

Dorgon didn't talk nonsense with Yue Tuo anymore, and directly showed the courage of the leader of an army.

"One is the Liaodong Army led by Ming Dynasty Supervisor Gao Qiqian, the other is the Xuanda Army led by Ming Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng, and finally the Shaanxi Army led by Ming Dynasty Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting."

"I don't know the military strategy at a high level, and most of the troops under my command are frontier troops in Liaodong, so there is nothing to worry about."

The current situation is actually very clear. They and the Liaodong Army are old rivals. They know everything and are not afraid at all.

Moreover, they fought in Beizhili, not Liaodong, and the Liaodong army didn't have much fighting spirit at all.

If they attack the castle in Liaodong, the Liaodong army will really fight them desperately.

"In fact, the only ones that are dangerous to us are the Shaanxi and Xuanda armies."

Dorgon looked around at the generals in the tent, and said slowly.

"The Shaanxi army is King Qin's army, and its troops are mainly composed of soldiers from Hanzhong Town, Yansui Town, and Lintao Town in the northwestern border towns of the Ming Dynasty. After King Qin's mission this time, most of them will return to the northwest again."

"However, the Datong soldiers and Xuanfu soldiers under Lu Xiangsheng's command are on the southern border of our Qing Dynasty, and they get along with our Qing Dynasty day and night."

Dorgon raised his right hand, tapped the armrest of the seat lightly, and said.

"Lu Xiangsheng has a martial arts reputation. Since he became the governor of Xuanda in the first year of Chongde, the Ming army in the two towns of Xuanda has become stronger and stronger."

The Qing court placed a lot of secret works in the museum. Datong and Xuanfu have the Qing court's eyeliner in many places. In addition to these channels, those merchants who sneaked across the side wall to trade with the Qing court also brought a lot of news to them. the Qing court.

It can be said that the town soldiers in Xuanfu and Datong towns have changed under their noses, and Dorgon is naturally aware of this.

The threat that Lu Xiangsheng can bring in the future is greater than that of Sun Chuanting.

Moreover, the intelligence report indicated that the forward of the Shaanxi Army stationed in Zhending had already moved northward, and it should be preparing to go northward to Baoning Prefecture.

Lu Xiangsheng led Xuan Dajun all the way south and arrived at Zhending.

For some rules and regulations of the Ming court, Dorgon even knows better than ordinary Ming officials.

King Qin’s army in the Ming Dynasty had very little autonomy. Their emperor ordered them to go wherever they went.

Sun Chuanting went north to Baoning Mansion, mostly because he received the order to enter Baoning.

If they want to eat the Shaanxi army under Sun Chuanting's command, then they need to go north to Baoning again and go back.

And if they attack Sun Chuanting, then Lu Xiangsheng, who is really determined in the southwest at this time, will never sit idly by and will definitely come to help. At that time, the enemies they will face will not only be the 5000 people under Sun Chuanting's command, but also Facing the Xuan Dajun led by Lu Xiangsheng.

If you are at a disadvantage in the battle, the Liaodong Army in the east at this moment will never let go of this good opportunity to snatch military merit.

and so……

The best choice is to target Lu Xiangsheng who is currently stationed in Zhending.

Without the emperor's will, Sun Chuanting, who had already gone north at this time, could not go south to help, and Gao Qiqian, who was stationed in the east at this time, would probably just watch from the sidelines...

Some time ago, news came from Baoning Mansion that Lu Xiangsheng's army had been out of food for three days, and there was a mutiny within a short time. This incident caused a lot of trouble in Baoning.

Dorgon actually knows some inside information about what is happening inside the Ming court now, and he naturally knows that Lu Xiangsheng is being rejected in the Ming court now.

Lu Xiangsheng was a staunch main fighter in the Ming court, chasing them all the way from Beijing to Baoning, and fought several battles with them.

But now the powerful ministers of the Ming court prefer to negotiate a peace, and all signs show that the Ming court is unwilling to break out a war with them, and just wants to drive them out of the pass.

If this person is not removed, in a few years time, Xuanfu, Datong and other towns will definitely take on a new look. By then, if they want to go south again, they may not find another chance.

Dorgon raised his head and looked at the generals and school who bowed their heads and obeyed orders.

Many ideas between him and Huang Taiji are the same, but there is one thing that is different.

Huang Taiji wanted to negotiate peace with the Ming court so that he could free up his hands to rectify those Mongolian tribes that had not surrendered.

Huang Taiji is old, the person is old, and the heart is also old. Although Huang Taiji is only 47 years old now, Huang Taiji's body has been getting worse and worse over the years.

Although Huang Taiji tried his best to hide it, all of this was still seen by Dorgon.

With the deteriorating condition of his body, the former Huang Taiji, who had lofty ambitions, also began to slowly disappear.

Most of Huang Taiji's eyes and energy are now on the grassland. It seems that he only wants to be the co-lord of the tribes in the grassland, not in the south, in the Central Plains, to be the emperor of the world...

Ming country is so big that it takes several months to go from south to north.

It was so big that even if more than [-] elite soldiers were lost in the battle of Sarhu, there are still a large number of elite soldiers.

It is so big that even if there are internal and external troubles, the court is decaying, and natural disasters have lasted for more than ten years, it still has not collapsed.

It has even shown signs of recovery until now.

If the Ming Dynasty prospers, it will make a large-scale northern expedition.

Throughout the millennium, as long as the Han people in the south became prosperous, the first thing they did was almost always the Northern Expedition.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty stood on the hills and ruins of Mengyuan. They fought all the way to the Yuerhai, Liting and sweeping holes until the Yuanting was completely disintegrated.

The former Mongol Empire spanned tens of thousands of miles.

They rode their horses and whipped and conquered all the lands they could see, and defeated all the enemies they saw.

Until their Khan died under the Diaoyu City, the Mongol Empire stopped its frenzied expansion, and thus split.

Although the Ming Dynasty eliminated the Yuan Court, it was unable to eliminate the Mongolian tribes scattered all over the world.

The war between Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, and they were already familiar with each other. There were a lot of Mongols in the Ming army, and there were also a large number of Han people in the Mongol tribes.

For a long time, a delicate balance has been maintained between Mongolia and Ming.

The Jurchen is a variable that breaks this balance.

Ming country can tolerate the existence of Mongolia, but Ming country will never tolerate the growth of Jurchen.

Although nearly a hundred years have passed since Chenghua Liting, Dorgon has not forgotten it.

There is deep-seated hatred hidden deep in the eyes of those Ming people. Once the Ming country is revived, it won't be long before those Ming people living in the south will pick up their weapons, put on their armor and call for the restoration of the soil and the Northern Expedition.

Launch another battle of Liting, which is a thousand times bloodier than Chenghua's.

(End of this chapter)