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Chapter 443 All are mobilizing, Liaoshen decisive battle

In fact, Nurhachi is still sober in judging the situation.

The Ming army became stronger and stronger, from leaning against the city to defending to take the initiative to attack.Even without counting the sharpness of weapons and equipment, Nurhachi was shocked by such morale and spirit.

Of course, Nurhachi has not yet reached the point of despair.However, in the face of the siege of the Ming army on all sides, there was no way to reverse the situation.

There is a shortage of manpower, shortage of supplies, and money is still available, but they cannot be bought.Even if the Ming army just besieged and did not attack, Houjin would not last long in such a situation.

As the Ming army's desire to attack became stronger and the buffer zone between the two sides disappeared, Hou Jin's hope of obtaining supplies by quickly attacking Mongolian tribes or North Korea also fell through.

Shrinking the defense zone was originally a helpless move, but now it has become a tortoise. The space for maneuvering is getting smaller and smaller, but the situation is getting worse and worse.

The reason is not difficult to find, the isolation, lack of supplies, and lack of troops are these three points.

And the original hope to take advantage of the Ming army's deep penetration and defeat each one was obviously shattered by reality.The Ming army did attack in separate directions, but its strength was quite strong, which can be called a corps.

Wanting to defeat or eat tens of thousands of well-equipped and powerful Ming troops, Nurhachi weighed the pros and cons and believed that it would be difficult to succeed without concentrating the Eight Banners.

Even against the weaker Dongjiang Town, without the strength of the Six Banners, the chances of winning are not great.

But the current situation is not as good as during the Battle of Sarhu, when there was only Jianzhou. Although the Ming army attacked from different directions, the later Jin army was dispatched with all their strength, so there was no need to worry about the safety of the base area.

Now Liaoshen is within the attacking range of the Ming army, and both the west of Liaoshui and the waterway pose a threat to Liaoshen, making it necessary for the Hou Jin army to stay on defense.

What if you quit Liaoshen and return to your hometown Jianzhou?
It's not that Nurhachi didn't think about it, but it meant failure, a heavy blow to the morale of the army and the people.The hearts of the people are scattered, can they still compete with the Ming court in the future?

You know, even the Jurchens are not monolithic.Nurhachi is the Jurchen ministries that were unified after years of conquests.

The unified Jurchen ministries can be united, one is to be deterred by the military force of the Jianzhou Jurchen, and the other is to gain benefits by following Nurhachi in fighting the Ming Kingdom.

To put it bluntly, Houjin is a consortium of bandit groups, including many Mongolians.

If there is no benefit, who will follow you? This is the simplest and most obvious truth. How could Nurhachi not understand it.

But there is no benefit now, the loss of soldiers and generals, the lack of supplies, who can't see it?

That's why Nurhachi had to mobilize and piece together a team that could defeat a certain Ming army.As long as the situation of siege on all sides is broken, the situation will change.

At that time, the number of Jurchens should be around 50 million. Xiong Tingbi once said in his memorandum that "today's slaves are changed to yuan, and [-] troops are planned."

The Eight Banners is originally an organization that combines military and production functions. According to the system of the Eight Banners, "the children of the Eight Banners should serve as soldiers." Unless there are special circumstances, they are all obliged to perform military service.

Moreover, the Jurchens are almost all slave owners, and they each have domestic slaves, which can also be counted as military power. "For example, there are four or five slaves in a soldier's family, and they all fight to go together, just for the purpose of looting property."

Therefore, it should be accurate to set the total force of Houjin after mobilization at around [-].But after several years of successive defeats and attrition, there are only about [-] to [-] truly brave fighters.

In other words, the Eight Banners are still the backbone of Houjin, and there are as many as there are in each banner, and the average is about [-].

In contrast to the Ming army, the establishment of the Mixed Association has reached more than 8000.Supplemented with sharp firearms, if you fight Yiqi alone, you can't say you will win.Even if he was defeated, it was enough to break a few of Jiannu's teeth.

And Liaoxi, Liaonan, Liaodong, plus Dengzhen, Jinzhen, Jingying flying cavalry, and naturalized flying cavalry, the total strength of the Ming army is no less than a dozen mixed associations, which is almost twice the elite of the Eight Banners.

As for the miscellaneous cards mobilized by Hou Jin, that is, some Mongols and domestic slaves, their fighting will is weak, and they are not opponents of the Ming army in terms of combat effectiveness.

Nurhachi is also clear about this.But now there is no way, it has reached the critical point of life and death, and must be mobilized for a turnaround.

Feeling depressed, Nurhachi flipped through the collected information casually.Some of this information came from inquiring, and some were deliberately disseminated by Ming spies.

"After Ping-Liao, soldiers who retired could get [-] mu of land, free of tax for five years; Liao people of [-] mu, free of tax for one year; Liao people who participated in pre-support work such as transportation, were given [-] mu of land, free of tax for two years... ..."

Seeing this piece of information, Nurhachi couldn't help but gasped.Mobilization, the Ming Dynasty is also mobilizing, and the conditions offered will definitely be tempted by ordinary people.

The so-called Liao people even included the entire area ruled by the Ming army and the area ruled by the Hou Jin army. With such favorable conditions, would the Liao people still hope that the Hou Jin army would win?

Not only using land to buy people's hearts, but also rewarding the Jurchens, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was really willing to spend all his money!

Nurhachi frowned, as if he saw the defeated Jurchens being chased and killed by vicious people with hoes and sticks in the land of Liaodong.

The Liao people in the ruling area are already restless. Even the Han army will take advantage of the defeat and fight back, right?

Nurhaci believes that when the end of the road comes, not only the Han people, but even the unified Jurchen ministries will fall apart.

It is not surprising that Yehenala, Hadabu, Huifabu...flew separately when the disaster was imminent.

"Father Khan." Daishan said suddenly, interrupting Nurhachi's thoughts, "The war is imminent, should we move the old and weak women and children out of Liaoshen first?"

"No." Nurhachi's eyes flashed, and he denied without thinking, "If this arrangement is made, the soldiers who have not fought will lose their minds. They are supposed to be put to death and survived. How can we reserve a way out? If our army loses miserably, the old and weak, women and children will move away." No matter where you go, it’s just a temporary peace.”

Dai Shan thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Father Khan is very right, I am confused."

Nurhachi murmured and said, "I intend to concentrate my forces and launch a sudden attack on the enemy army in southern Liaoning. What do you think?"

Dai Shan didn't think much about it, and said: "My child also thinks the same way. Although the enemy army in southern Liao is strong, Liao and Shen have to defend, and the serious trouble that reaches the heart must be eliminated."

The words are very clear. If Liaoshen does not give up, the old and weak, women and children will not move, and if they do not defeat the Liaonan Ming army, the threat is too great.

Moreover, the Ming army in southern Liaoning resisted the key point of the Houjin ruled area, that is, the heart.If it is not eliminated, it will be difficult to use troops in other directions.

Nurhachi narrowed his eyes and finally made up his mind.The decisive battle between Liaoshen and Shenyang was not fought in Liaoshen. Haizhou Weicheng is a suitable battlefield.

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(End of this chapter)