Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 528 Strategic Advantage
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This time Yang Chao had an absolute advantage, because at one time and another, Yang Chao was restrained by Man Qing in the past, but now Man Qing has also tasted this feeling.

After Zhao Kang's cavalry occupied Ningyuan City, they cut off the connection between the pass and the west of Liaoning. This was unacceptable to the Qing court anyway. The small town was completely surrounded, but it was impossible to attack it for a while.

Back then, Yuan Chonghuan, a scholar, was able to thwart Nurhachi and Huang Taiji's personal attacks many times when he had sufficient supplies. Yang Chao's soldiers were stronger than Yuan Chonghuan's Liao army, and Yang Chao had more cannons than Yuan Chonghuan's.

Most importantly, Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning Army only dared to defend the city, while Zhao Kang's soldiers dared to fight against the Qing Army's Eight Banners.

Under such circumstances, the Qing army had no chance of capturing Ningyuan, so they had to resort to besieging the city, hoping to make the city run out of food.

It's a pity that there is no shortage of food in the south of the Yangtze River. The people in Ningyuan City have been evacuated long ago, and there are only 100 cavalry artillery. Yang Chao gave them [-] million dans of military food, enough for them to eat for two years.

Obviously, it was impossible for Yang Chao to let the Qing army besiege here for two years. In October, after the autumn harvest, Yang Chao's army had already rested and immediately sent troops to attack.

In other directions, Hong Chengchou was in Jingxiang, and the Kuidong Army was behind them. After Yang Chao held the banner of respecting the king and fighting the barbarians, Wen Anzhi actively cooperated. When Yang Chao promised to go to Burma to meet the emperor, he had already made a military plan. In response, Hong Chengchou had no time to look after him, and his troops were weak in defending Jingxiang, let alone harassing Yang Chao.

Although Azig in the Henan direction continued to put pressure on Kaifeng, Wang Pu had gotten used to the vigor of the Mobei Eight Banners for more than a year, and he was able to attack and defend each other. A large number of Ge's subordinates were transferred outside the customs again, and Wang Pu had absolute confidence to suppress Azige.

Although Li Wuliu was taken away from Zhao Kang's cavalry, he also had tens of thousands of cavalry in his army, plus a large number of artillery, and the most elite bird gunners. Can prevail.

Yang Chao also rushed to the front line himself. This time he had made up his mind. He didn't plan to defend the army until he completely wiped out this force.

This time has changed from the Northern Expedition two years ago. In terms of personnel, the last time the affiliation was unknown and they were divided into several factions. This time it was Yang Chao’s family. is not clear.

In terms of supplies, Yang Chao has reserved 2000 million dans of military rations, enough to feed the entire army for two years, prepared 5000 million taels of bonds, and sold them out bit by bit. The supplies are sufficient.

In terms of manpower, in the past few years, military trainers from all over the country have trained at least 50 juniors, who can go to the front line at any time.

Yang Chao felt that in Cangzhou, he commanded many men's troops, Xie Fei's main force totaled 30 people, and Sun Changfu and Zheng Yongwang's 15 troops had already landed in Liaodong. Let him find an opportunity to attack the Liaodong area immediately. Jiangnan only left Lu Mo 10 people along the Yangtze River to defend Hong Chengchou. It can be said that Yang Chao almost left the country.

Li Wuliu's army marched along the canal in an orderly formation, and teams of cavalry marched ten li ahead for warning.

Li Wuliu's blunderbuss hands are much lighter than before, because everyone has lost weight, and no one has only a blunderbuss in his hand, a bayonet hanging from his waist, and a small bamboo tube with preloaded gunpowder and lead bullets.

The most important thing is that no one is dressed in civilian clothes. Now Li Wuliu is not willing to put armor on the soldiers. Except for the vanguard who also wears leather armor, the rest of the infantry are all in civilian clothes. After several years of tit-for-tat, Li Wuliu has already If the cavalry and shooting of the Qing army can be suppressed, then there is no need to add weight to the soldiers, and all the loads should carry as many bullets as possible.

At the same time, Wang Pu's army is also moving forward. His current main force is almost the same as Li Wuliu's, and they are mainly bird gunners, but his army is much more clumsy, because it is still everyone. Wear armor, and it's iron armor.

Wang Pu's combat philosophy is not the same as Li Wuliu's. Although he is also using bird gunners, he usually lines up in three rows, squatting in the front row, kneeling in the middle, and standing in the back row, as close as possible to the Qing Dynasty. At the rear of the army, the three platoons fired guns together, and then took advantage of the situation to attack and use bayonets to resolve the battle. This method was very effective, especially for those Mobei herdsmen who were extremely skilled in riding.

When these Mobei Eight Banners first came, the suppressed Ming army was breathless, but after long-term contact, they found that these people had superb riding skills and flexible tactics, but their will to fight was not so strong at critical moments. When it comes to the mortal enemy, they are absolutely unwilling to fight to the end.

So Wang Pu invented this tactic of volley and charge, and the effect was excellent.

Of course, this is just one way of fighting. The most formal way is artillery battle first. After the artillery battle, the infantry confronts each other. After the infantry phalanx defeats the opponent, the cavalry comes out to clean up the mess.

Ten days after sending out troops, Li Wuliu captured Tianjin again, continued to advance, and moved in the direction of Xianghe.

"Let him rest assured to attack Beijing! Remember, keep an eye on Guangqumen!"

Yang Chao sent someone to pass orders to Li Wuliu.

Five years later, Yang Chao can finally make use of the pawns that he buried in the past. Diao Erdou and Bian Er have been active in Beijing and Tianjin, one in the dark and the other in the dark. The most useful information is often the morale of the people in Beijing.

But Diao Erdou supported Bian Er's work very well. Bian Er traveled around Beijing as a figure in the world, and made friends with heroes from all walks of life. With the support of Diao Erdou's huge profits from grain stores, Bian Erguang developed in Beijing Qian went offline, and at the same time developed more in the slave owner's manors in various places, and many coats had already quietly joined him.

Bian Er promised that as long as the Ming army attacked the city of Beijing, he would have a way to open Guangqumen.

Guangqumen is the gate of the outer city. The outer city of Beijing does not enclose the inner city as it literally means, but an independent urban area south of the inner city. The outer city is mainly populated by ordinary people, while the inner city People from the Eight Banners lived there. After the Qing army entered the city, they drove out all the Ming people in the inner city.

Therefore, the inner city is actually full of the city, while the outer city is Seoul, but the area of ​​Seoul is only half of the full city. Later generations of outsiders say that Beijing is a Huhua city. In fact, there is some truth in it. It's a bit biased, in fact, the Han people here are Manchurianized, the Manchurians are Sinicized, and the ethnic groups are completely blended.

It’s just that the Beijingers at this time may not feel happy about this kind of integration, because their homes have been robbed so often. When many people first arrived in the outer city, they could only sleep on the corner of the street. That feeling is not something ordinary people can experience. Get it.

So there was an undercurrent of dissatisfaction in the outer city, and it was precisely because of this that Bian Er was able to win over a thousand people.

In addition to Beijing, in the vast rural areas, where the Ming army passed by, many coated slaves immediately revolted. If the master and the head of the village ran away, they opened the manor by themselves to welcome the Ming army. They have been looking forward to Master Wang for a long time, but many of the leaders are not particularly miserable, but actively mixed into various manors, and entered the manors by investing money. Just to lead the uprising at the critical moment, these people are also the downline of Bian Er's development, and they are loyal people.

Due to the large number of uprisings, the Qing army could only hide in the county seat, and when they left the city, they were discredited, just like when the Ming army attacked Sun Kewang, it was too unpopular.

Similarly, Li Wuliu's team grew more and more as it advanced, and a large number of overturned Baoyi pushed trolleys, carrying military rations, and followed them all the way.

A month later, Li Wuliu attacked Xiangshan County, and the nearby cities of Wuqing and Baodi were taken by the rebels long ago, because after the Eight Banners' heavy troops withdrew, the green battalion here had no fighting spirit, and many officers were spying on them. Immediately after my persuasion.

The battles inside and outside the pass, and the uprisings everywhere, the Qing army has long been battered and has no time to care about them.

Dorgon was lighting up the lamp in the Qianqing Palace, and his already fat body had not ridden a horse for an unknown period of time.

Already 50 years old, he looked much older than ordinary people, with gray hair on his temples and blood in his eyes.

A woman of similar age, with an honest and honest face, came over with a bowl of ginseng tea.

"My lord, take a break."

Dorgon looked at this not-so-beautiful woman, nodded, drank two sips of ginseng tea, and put it by the table, and went to flip through the memorial again out of habit, but saw that the memorial was pressed down by a pair of thick hands.

Only then did Dorgon realize that he had developed a habit of being restless, and he couldn't help shaking his head with a wry smile.

"Queen, what do you think we would look like if we were still outside the customs?"

This woman is the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty, the mother of Shunzhi Emperor Fulin, Bumbutai, the daughter of Horqin Baylor in Mongolia, but she has married Dorgon according to the customs of the Qing Dynasty, and Dorgon has become a blessing. Lin's royal father.

Bumbutai knew Dorgon's mood, she didn't speak, but she sighed in her heart, this season, the autumn is high and the horse is fat, maybe the men are hunting and playing.

"Do you think we can go back outside the pass?"

Dorgon asked to himself.

Bumbutai shook his head lightly, tears were already in his eyes, there was no hope in this situation.

In fact, the nomadic people's ability to bear failure is much lower than that of the farming people. The kind of thing that the whole city dies for the country cannot be done by the nomads. This is a cultural habit. They will retreat when they see the hopelessness of victory. Civilizations can't retreat. One is homeless, and the other is defending its homeland.

"My lord, you can still go to Mongolia if you leave the customs now!"

Bumbutai sighed, at this time they still have the opportunity to leave the customs from Zhangjiakou and Xuanhua, and retreat to the vast Mongolian prairie.

But Dorgon sighed, and said with a wry smile: "The people are gone, so what if we withdraw?"

(End of this chapter)