Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 273
On March [-]th, the first year of Tang Jianguo, Tang Ning led a huge fleet of more than [-] ships and [-] troops into Liaodong Bay and arrived at the port of Liaohe River.

Immediately, Tangning personally led [-] troops to land, and then headed north.

The remaining 1 troops consisted of [-] Wu Sangui Guanning Army as the main body, with [-] new troops attached, and [-] white-armed soldiers turned around and went south.

Why not land behind Shanhaiguan first, instead of landing 4 people at the Liaohe port, and then let another 2 people go south?

The reason is simple, in order to surprise.

Tang Ning had two main goals for this trip, one was Shanhaiguan, and the other was of course the so-called Longxing Land by the Qing court, accompanying the capital Shengjing.

Compared with Shanhaiguan, Shengjing's status is naturally more important.

If Wu Sangui was allowed to land behind Shanhaiguan before launching an attack, the main force led by Tangning would definitely still be at sea.

Shanhaiguan was attacked first, and the Qing army would probably immediately notify the Shengjing defenders to prepare for defense, as well as the Qing army's various strongholds along the way, which would inevitably cause a lot of trouble.

What's more, the defense of Shanhaiguan is mainly to defend against the enemy from the north to the south. If an attack is launched from behind, even if it is not a surprise attack, it will not cause much trouble.

Therefore, before setting off, the staff believed that the time difference was very important if they wanted to capture Shengjing by surprise, so that the Qing army had no time to react.

First landed from Liaohe, then captured Gaizhou Wei, then went north to capture Haizhou Wei and Dongning Wei, and approached the original Shenyang Wei, which is today's Shengjing.

If everything went well, by the time Wu Sangui launched his attack on Shanhaiguan, the main force of Tangning's troops might have reached the city of Shengjing.

Because after the Qing court entered the customs, in order to wipe out Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, the remnants of the Ming Dynasty and other resistance forces as soon as possible, they took away all the main forces of the Eight Banners.

The reason why Dorgon dared to do this was because the surrounding forces had already been subdued by the Eight Banners Army. There was no threat, and by retaining [-] to [-] troops to garrison some important guards, Liaodong could be kept safe.

Even if there were any emergencies, it would be too late to send troops from the capital to the north for support, because no one could defeat the Eight Banners Army in Liaodong in a short period of time.

At the time of entering the customs, no one had even heard of the name of the new army, so no one would have thought that after two years, there would suddenly be such an army leading such a huge fleet northward.

Even when the reputation of the new army gradually rose later, no one thought about it.

Because the expedition to Liaodong could not be accomplished with 2 people. At that time, Tang Ning had only 2 elites at his disposal.

With such a small number of people, how could Tangning dare to travel thousands of miles north, not afraid that someone would take her back?So at that time, Tangning only focused on land attack.

However, after Tang Ning led the army northward from Fujian, the situation changed too quickly. First they defeated the Azig army, and then successively recovered Wu Sangui, Ming Andali, and most of the Chuang army.

They even borrowed white soldiers and wolf soldiers who were good at fighting.

But even so, no one thought that Tangning's goal of gathering these elites was Liaodong.

Almost everyone believed that Tang Ning was probably planning to land from Shandong and encircle Duduo, Mandahai, Jierhalang and other departments.

Another possibility is to land in Beizhili and directly threaten the capital, but the possibility is much smaller than the previous situation.

After all, the defense of the capital is too strict, and it is very difficult to capture the heavily defended capital with tens of thousands of troops.

At the beginning, the first emperor led [-] elite troops to bypass Jinzhou and Ningyuan and break into the pass in three ways, approaching the capital, but failed to capture the capital in the end.

And how could the Ming army defending the city at that time be compared with today's Qing elite?
Right now, the new army is only taking the initiative in some battlefields. As long as Tangning is not stupid, she will not take such a big risk. Once she fails, the consequences will be very serious.

Maybe some people might have the thought of whether Tangning will go north to Liaodong, but even if there is such a thought, it will pass immediately.

The reason is very simple. For Da Qing, matters inside the customs are the top priority. It is impossible for Da Qing to send a small number of troops to Liaodong one step ahead of time just because Tang Ning has the possibility to go to Liaodong.

If the troops were withdrawn and Tangning's goal was to outflank or directly approach the capital, it would be bad.

But the fact is that Tangning's goal was to go to Liaodong from the very beginning. It was not to destroy the Qing army's vitality, but to capture its Longxing land and shake the morale of the entire Eight Banners army.

Once Shengjing is captured and Liaodong is controlled, the new army will have a greater advantage in many aspects.

Of course, after all, the most fundamental reason is that the strength of the navy of the Qing army is too different from that of the new army.

The new army ran to the sea, and the landlubbed Qing army had nothing to do, so there was no way to track the new army.

In order to achieve a better raid effect, Tangning was extravagant to use German artillery when attacking the strongholds of Gaizhouwei, Haizhouwei, and Zizaizhou.

Due to conditions, these strongholds have no moats, no urns, and the walls are not high.

The 88mm anti-aircraft guns can knock down the city wall with a few shots, and then the wolf soldiers will quickly attack from the gap.

None of the several larger strongholds along the way had more than a thousand regular troops. However, the resistance of the Qing army was surprisingly fierce.

There is no other reason. The Jurchens grew up in the white mountains and black waters since they were young. Most of them are good soldiers with weapons.

Therefore, when seeing the city being attacked by tens of thousands of people, many Jurchen people in the city also volunteered to take up arms to resist.

Jurchen's rapid rise is not without reason.

The fierce resistance of the enemy caused a lot of trouble for the new army.

But Tangning didn't have much time to waste on these small strongholds. After breaking into the city, he quickly dispatched a real new army to fight the enemy.

In the new army brought by Tangning, each battalion had a platoon of soldiers equipped with German weapons. During the street fighting, the weapons played a greater role.

Under the superior strength of the new army, even if the Qing army resisted fiercely, they could only be suppressed unwillingly.

Then, Tangning left behind a small number of troops to firmly occupy the guard post, and then led the main force to continue northward.

It took [-] days to attack all the way from Gaizhouwei to the city of Shengjing, which was twice as long as expected.

According to the news from the scouts, five days ago, Wu Sangui's troops finally captured Shanhaiguan, where only a few thousand people were stationed, and Shanhaiguan officially fell into the hands of the new army.

Tang Ning did not order Wu Sangui to draw out troops to support them. Regardless of whether the reinforcements of the Qing army went north through Shanhaiguan or not, Shanhaiguan played a very important role.

Really wait for the reinforcements of the Qing army to appear in Liaodong, and it will not be too late for Wu Sangui to draw out troops to support them.

At this time, Tang Ning's troops were less than 3 people. Apart from the battle damage, the rest were placed in guard posts occupied along the way to ensure the safety of the rear.

But even so, the strength of Tangning's troops was four times that of the Qing army in Shengjing City.

However, Tangning did not dare to underestimate Shengjing, which only had [-] to [-] soldiers. It is not impossible for all the residents in the city to be soldiers.

Moreover, as Shengjing was the accompanying capital of the Qing court, the defense measures in various aspects were naturally not comparable to those guards along the way.

From the observed enemy situation, it can be seen that the defenders of Shengjing probably knew that the new army was coming a few days ago. some preparation.

The original raid plan of the new army did not achieve the expected effect.

However, the arrow was on the string and had to be fired.

War is imminent.

(End of this chapter)