Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1162 Pull Uncle

Wang Yan's pressure in the south restrained most of the Qing army's strength, which allowed Dorgon to use less than 12 troops to counter the rebellion, while Jiang Xiang's Datong soldiers had [-] after expansion. In addition to the tens of thousands of rebels rising from various places, the soldiers and horses used by the Qing army to quell the rebellion did not occupy much advantage.

If the Ming army in the south did not participate in this battle, although Jiang Xiang's rebellion against the Qing was raging, the Qing army could still suppress it slowly.

Because in terms of the quality of the army, the Manchu Qing was much stronger than the anti-Qing rebels.

Historically, Jiang Xiang rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army spent nearly a year suppressing the anti-Qing forces in Shanxi by virtue of its superiority in military strength and combat power.

At that time, the Yongli court did not cooperate with Jiang Xiang, but it is different now. The Ming army has entered the front line, and they will go north when the time is right. They will not give Dorgon and the Qing court a year to slow down. Slowly deal with Jiang Xiang.

The Qing government understood the Ming Dynasty's combat rules. In order to avoid falling into the severe cold in the north, Wang Yan must launch a spring offensive to support Jiang Xiang after the beginning of spring next year. In terms of time, the Qing army only has four months at most Come to extinguish Jiang Xiang's rebellion.

Compared with history, the strength of the Qing army was reduced, and the time was shortened by more than half. It can be said that the difficulty for the Qing army to extinguish the rebellion has more than tripled.

In the north of Shanxi, Jiang Youguang guarded the city of Xuanhua tightly. The 3 people in Nikan could not eat big cities like Xuanhua and Datong. The Qing army could only pull out the rebellious small towns and fortresses in Xuanda territory one by one, clean up the surrounding areas, and then deal with them Xuanhua and Datong are two cities.

Only in this way, the Qing army undoubtedly wasted time when attacking forts and small counties.

Xuanda, as an important town on the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty, was often plundered by the Mongols. The people here are not as tough as the people in the Central Plains who don’t know soldiers. Almost all of them have received certain training. Adult men can wield swords and bows. The Qing army divided its troops to fight. But it was extremely difficult to chew.

Nikan found that these frontier fortresses were not easy to deal with. The Qing army could not defeat them if they went too little.

Angry Nikan, for the rebellious city, adopted a cruel strategy of massacring the whole city, using cruel means and bloody killings to create terror, trying to force the people of Shaoxuan Da to submit.

But the effect was not obvious. For a whole month, the Qing army only broke through more than 20 piers.

Although the Qing army slaughtered Wanquan Zuowei and tens of thousands of people were slaughtered, compared with the entire Xuanda and the hundreds of piers along the Great Wall, the Qing army's behavior seemed a little weak.

When Nikan in northern Shanxi fell into a quagmire and the counter-insurgency was slow, the war in central Jin also entered a stalemate.

After Lou Qin led the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners from Beijing to the south, they gathered in the Hebei Green Camp, first broke the siege of Baoding, and then regained Zhending.

At first, the Qing army progressed relatively smoothly, but after Jiang Xiang returned to Shanxi, the army guarded the Jingjing, Guguan, and Niangziguan lines, and blocked Lou Qin to the east of Taihang.

Niangzi Pass is known as the Ninth Pass of the Great Wall. It is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Although Lou Qin attacked very urgently, he was still unable to break through. The battle in Jinzhong entered a stalemate.

The only place where the Qing army made rapid progress was the Jinnan battlefield. Kong Youde led 3 people from Huaiqing Mansion in Henan to the north, broke through the Tianjing Pass at the end of September, and defeated the rebel leader Wei Shijun in Jincheng on October [-], captured the city, slaughtered Jincheng, and tens of thousands Soldiers and civilians were killed.

In order to deter the common people in Shanxi and prevent them from following Jiang Xiang against the Qing Dynasty, or secretly helping the rebels, the Qing troops from the north and the south adopted the same strategy, which was to deter the Han people by massacres.

Dorgon wanted to use killing to make the Han people submit and fear, just like when he first entered the customs, he would kill all the brave ones, and the rest would be easy to rule.

On October [-]th, three days after Kong Youde’s massacre in Jincheng, the army marched north without stopping. Wei Shijun voluntarily gave up Kaiping and went north to Huguan to meet Jiang Xiang’s general Gaoding. The Qing army did not let Gaoping go, and the Qing army who entered the city slaughtered the city again .

After that, Kong Youde continued to go north and threatened Huguan from the south. Gao Ding had to abandon Huguan and retreat into Lu'an Mansion. After Kong Youde joined forces with Wakda who attacked Huguan, [-] Qing troops surrounded Lu'an.

In the south of Shanxi, because Dorgon transferred the elite Qing army directly from Henan, and the anti-Qing rebel army, the real elite soldiers are Gao Ding's five thousand Datong soldiers, and the rest are rebels who swarmed up, so in the comparison of forces It is much weaker than the Qing army, but the pace of the Qing army on the southern front also temporarily stops at Lu'an.

The massacre of the Qing army caused the rebels to form a group. Gao Ding and Wei Shixun gathered [-] volunteers in Lu'an and temporarily blocked [-] Qing troops to the south.

In the three battlefields, it can be said that the Qing army is on the offensive, and the advantage of the Qing army in southern Shanxi is the most obvious. However, this situation obviously cannot make Dorgon feel at ease, and the progress of the Qing army is still too slow.

Seeing that it was the end of October, and the Shanxi rebels still had no obvious signs of defeat, the Qing court became anxious.

Since the Qing army entered the customs, Dorgon has been sitting in Beijing. This is the same as Wang Yan sitting in Nanjing and not daring to move. He is worried that once he leaves the political center, the capital will change.

This time, Dorgon couldn't control so much. After Nikan invaded Xuanda and the threat to the northwest of Beijing was lifted, he ignored his physical discomfort and rushed to Zhending with an illness. He remotely commanded the Qing army in the middle road and stormed Niangziguan , broke into Shanxi as soon as possible, and recovered Taiyuan.

The Ming army in the south is like a sword hanging from the sky. Dorgon must solve the Shanxi rebellion before the sword falls, regardless of casualties, otherwise the Qing Dynasty will come to an end.

In September, after Nikan withdrew from Seoul, within half a month, the Ming army and the Korean army invaded Seoul, killed the Joseon king supported by the Qing government, announced the restoration of the country, and gradually regained control of the Eight Kingdoms of Korea.

Dorgon could foresee that as long as North Korea sorted out domestic affairs, the Ming Dynasty would unite with North Korea to invade Liaodong and threaten Liaoyang.

The spies of the Qing army in Nanming also sent reports. The canal from Yangzhou to Huai'an was full of large ships transporting supplies and mobilized soldiers.

If the Qing army does not quickly extinguish the rebellion in Shanxi, once the Ming Dynasty is ready, Dorgon has already thought of three offensive routes for Wang Yan.

All the way, the army set out from Huai'an, and after capturing Xuzhou, they collected Shandong, all the way out of Nanyang, collected Heluo, and all the way attacked Shengjing from North Korea.

These three ways are difficult to deal with by themselves. If Jiang Xiang is added to support them, the Qing Dynasty will undoubtedly lose.

Dorgon understood this, so he was in a hurry, but even if he was so anxious to learn, it would not help, because with the power of the Qing Dynasty, it was absolutely impossible to pacify Shanxi in a short time.

Now Dorgon can only do his best to put down the rebellion, while praying that Fan Wencheng can persuade Hauge to give his uncle a hand.

(End of this chapter)