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In the marshal's mansion, he roughly counted the casualties of today's battle, and the casualty figures reported by the battalions made his heart almost drip blood.

Among the troops engaged in the battle with the Earthquake Mountain Battalion alone, there were more than 2,000 casualties. Counting the losses in the battle with Niu Chenghu and others, today's day, the Guanning army lost nearly 4,000 people!

Although it is said that there are a large number of Liao people who can be supplemented to keep the formation of the army complete. But will combat effectiveness and military discipline be able to return to the previous level?

In addition to the immediate casualties of these people, what is even more fatal is the loss of the North Wing City.

The officers and soldiers of Wu who were originally stationed in the northern wing of the city were not originally descendants of Wu Sangui's department. Facing the bloody flesh and blood flying on the battlefield of Shihe, he was already so frightened that his legs and stomach cramped, and his urine was spilled in his pants. Under the tentative attack of a partial division sent by Liu Zongmin, this army did not hesitate to raise the white flag, open the city gate, and surrender from below the garrison.

The loss of the North Wing City undoubtedly gave a hammer to the defense chain of Shanhaiguan and broke a link. Wu Sangui had to adjust the artillery on the head of Shanhaiguan City to defend the northern wing of the city. At the same time, troops were dispatched to monitor the castle.

"Tell me about this battle?!"

Wu Sangui felt that the Shanhaiguan battlefield at this time was ten thousand times more dangerous than the original Tashan battlefield.

"Marshal, there is a new military intelligence sent outside the customs!" Wu Sangui's cronie guerrilla Guo Yunlong muttered a few words in Fang Guangchen's ear, and Fang Guangchen's expression immediately changed greatly, and he nervously reported the latest military discovery to Wu Sangui.

"What's the matter? Say! ”

The sentry cavalry of the Wu army, in the afternoon, found that in the area of the nine gates of Funing County, there was a brigade of the Dashun army, and at the same time, a brigade of Qing soldiers and horses also appeared on the front line of the Jiang Numiao.

What's even worse is that the two armies that appeared behind them, their respective forwards made a small contact in the direction of Jiang Numiao, and after losing more than 100 men and horses each, they stopped advancing.

"The Liao thieves began to camp in the north of the Jiang Nu Temple, and the thieves were on the front line of the nine gates, relying on the nine gates, loess ridges, three passes, nameless mouths, Xiaohekou, Dongjiakou and other passes, digging ditches and completing trenches, and it seems that there is a situation of defending against danger! The city is brightly lit, and the people are swarming with ants, as if they are carrying heavy artillery! ”

If the nine gates are lost, then the thieves can completely follow the walls of the Great Wall and kill them from the nine gates known as the first pass of Jingdong to Shanhaiguan. The Guanning army was about to face an attack from the Dashun army from three directions. At the same time, Jiang Numiao is also stationed in more than 100,000 Qing soldiers who are currently unclear about their old enemies.

Perhaps, when the day dawns, it will be the last moment of Guan Ningjun.

This thought flashed pathetically in Wu Sangui's mind.

In the red tile store, Liu Zongmin also roared like thunder.

The daytime fighting brought huge casualties to the Dashun army.

Niu Chenghu's troops lost more than 2,000 people in the battle with the Wu army. The Zhenshan battalion lost more than 1,000 people in the queue with Wu's firearms. Although it is said that it has achieved a temporary advantage on the battlefield, and a lot of armor and firearms weapons have been captured when cleaning the Shihe battlefield, it is also felt that the gains outweigh the losses.

"Tell me, how should this battle be fought tomorrow?"

Liu Zongmin questioned the few generals in front of him, because his movements were a little bigger, he pulled the wound on his leg, making him involuntarily take a breath of cold air. This was during the day, when he was out of character, and when he led his own soldiers to suppress the position of the Zhenshan camp, a stray arrow was left on his right leg. Although even though the wound was treated with a life-saving kit, disinfected with spirits, and applied hemostatic gold sore medicine to bandage the wound, there were bursts of pain at this time.

The casualties of more than 4,000 elite soldiers can only cause almost the same casualties to the other side in the field battle, if it were not for the unexpected harvest of the North Wing City, Liu Zongmin would have been able to characterize today's battle as a defeat. Losses and gains were grossly disproportionate.

"If the fight continues like this, Wu Sangui's kid claims to have 100,000 horses, and our Dashun also plans to use 100,000 horses to exchange this Guancheng with him?"

"Master Liu," Zhang Nai is a few years older than Luo Hu, and his qualifications in the camp are much stronger than Luo Hu. Now Li Guo, nicknamed a tiger, is not here, he is the most suitable person to persuade him.

"Our purpose is not to take this Shanhaiguan hard, our purpose is not to cover the emperor in Yongping, Tianjin, and Tongzhou? Fang Caiquan's general Li Guo also sent someone to send military information, and in the evening, they had already fought a small battle with the Liaodong Tartars. Both sides have their losses. ”

Li Guo's intention was to take advantage of the geographical advantages of the Nine Gates to pose a threat to Wu Sangui in the Guancheng and the Liaodong rebels outside the Guancheng, and build fortresses and trenches to garrison, so that Liu Zongmin and Zhang Nai and others could retreat to Yongping with confidence and boldness.

"Little Nai, how many small cannons do you have in your camp now? All dial Li Guo! Let him set up more artillery positions on the hill and the city wall, and entertain the soldiers and horses of the Liao thieves and Wu thieves! ”

"As soon as I got out of Shanhaiguan, my tears didn't dry. As soon as I entered Shanhaiguan, two tears rippled. ”

This folk song was sung by those who went to the east from Hebei, Shandong. Going out of the customs and making a living is also a life of nine deaths. You have to struggle in the mountains, forests and grass, and fight against bandits and beasts in the cold weather. Naturally, both eyes were full of tears. Enter the customs, go home. Thinking that he could still go home alive, he was also left with unstoppable tears in his eyes.

Therefore, the same geographical environment, according to the mood of people when they pass by, is naturally a completely different scene.

There is an arched mountain range four or five miles east of Shanhaiguan, if the stick mallet type, there are five or six zhang high, the slope is wide and flat, and it is three or four miles long. This mountain ridge has repeatedly appeared in the chronicles and poems of the times, it is Huanxi Mountain, and at the same time there is also a name: Sorrow Mountain. Those who enter the customs, Wangshan Customs is close at hand, and their hearts are happy, and they are called Huanxiling. Those who leave the customs are sad in their hearts, and they don't know when they will return to their hometown, which is called Sorrowful Ridge.

When Hong Chengchou was very competent as an excellent leader of the way to explain to Dolgon why this mountain range has two names, Dolgon waved his hand: "Passing on the will of the king, this mountain will only have one name in the future." ”

It was a small episode that happened when Dolgon's marching brigade saw the mountain in the distance.

From the geographical environment, the gentle slope curve of Huanxi Ridge, there is Mengjiang Temple under the ridge, and there is an official road to pass, which has been connected to the gate, and Weiyuan Fort is on the ridge. The castle is not big, the circumference is only seventy steps, the south is the city gate, the city height is three zhang, the lower is based on the boulder, and there is a platform to stomp from the four corners.

This fort is commonly known as the whimpering city, also known as Weiyuantai, is an outpost city outside the Shanhaiguan City, and there is a general leader in the city in peacetime. At this time, it had become the temporary seat of the regent.

The guards of the castle have changed from the Ming soldiers wearing folded scarves and red fat jackets to the Kabush soldiers with bright helmets and iron armor, and the same elite Bayala soldiers stationed outside the city. In and out of the castle, there are people from the core high-level of the Qing Dynasty, such as the Gushan Ezhen of the Eight Banners of the Meng, Han and Han Banners, the Chengzheng of the Six Ministries, the Qixinlang, and the bachelors of the Inner Three Academies.

Even the high-ranking ancestors of the Liaodong family, the ancestors of the ancestral family, the prince of Korqin and Shuotu, the prince of Badali, the prince of Heshuo Zhuo Liketu, Wu Keshan, the prince of Dorobaturu County, the prince of Joseon, the king of Dorozasaktu County, and the king of Dorozasaktu County, Butaqi, and others could only respectfully wait in the castle for the regent to convene the meeting after dinner.

Fan Wencheng and Hong Chengchou, under the service of their respective house slaves, returned from inspecting the battlefield outside the city and went straight to the location of the former general office where Dolgon was stationed. The two of them have a special status, and Dolgon has already made it clear that whenever Mr. Hong and Mr. Fan come to see the regent of Ben, there is no need to pass it on or report it. This honor and trust made the eyes of all the princes and Baylors red with jealousy.

Hong Chengchou, who had just walked into the yard, was choked by the pungent charcoal fire and mutton and tears were about to flow out. He is a native of Fujian, and his diet is mainly light and sweet, and he has always been grateful for the Manchurian diet from the nomadic fishing and hunting people. From the bottom of his heart, he felt that this diet was too rough, that is, slightly better than Ru Mao's blood drinking.

Sure enough, in the main hall, the two brothers Dorgon and Dodor were sitting around the brazier, occasionally cutting meat from the fat sheep beside him, which was very clean, and roasting it with long chopsticks on a grid made of copper wire.

The smell of meat came from here.

"Two gentlemen are here! Have a seat! Come on, take the dishes and chopsticks, and set the seasoning! ”

Dolgon affectionately invited the two gentlemen to sit down and enjoy the delicacy together. Fan Wencheng is better, but Hong Chengchou is a little embarrassed. He frowned: "Lord Qiyu, the minister has a bad stomach and has some stomach." This kind of thing, restraint does not move. ”

"You're really bookish!" Dolgon smiled, but he didn't say what Hong Chengchou really thought in his heart: "I don't know about this deliciousness!" ”

Duoduo, the prince of Heshuo Yu, had a different attitude: "Regent, Mr. Hong is a southerner, and he is a scholar. Naturally, I don't like this kind of food very much. However, this roast mutton is the best thing in the army at the moment! In the slave barracks, those minions are wrapping sorghum rice dumplings in cabbage leaves! He glanced at Hong Chengchou, and with a flick of his neck, he put a piece of roasted squeaky fat mutton into his mouth. After chewing a few times, he swallowed it, and saw a wave of nausea in Hong Chengchou's chest and abdomen.

"Mr. Hong, Prince Yu has always been like this, don't mind. What about the strikers? ”

After taking the bowl of tea handed by Dolgon's side, Hong Chengchou was not so embarrassed after sitting down. "The regent, the minister and the scholar Fan went to Prince Zheng's blue flag camp, and the thieves fought well. Compared with the minister, when he fought with him, he was impressed. ”

"It's nature! If it is really such a rabble, how can the pioneers under this king also lose dozens of people? If it is really as those literati of the Ming Kingdom said, why are many famous ministers and generals of the Ming Kingdom folded in the hands of these thieves they say? Even the capital of the Ming Kingdom was taken by Li Zicheng? ”

Although Dordor did not play according to the rules, he was not confused, on the contrary, he saw many things clearly. That is, these peasant armies known as thieves, from the seventeenth year of Chongzhen to the Kangxi period, the last anti-Qing army on the mainland was Li Laiheng's department on Maolu Mountain. When the ammunition and food were exhausted, the whole family set themselves on fire. If these people are called thieves, then what should the officials and gentry who eat the money and food handed over by the people, take the money and money of the court, and enjoy all kinds of privileged treatment?

They should definitely be expelled from the ranks of "people". (What they do is basically the same as the Song person who is very enthusiastic at the moment.) It's even ten thousand times worse than that Song someone. Song someone is just a proprietor, these people are a country, a dynasty. The money rat tail that countless people spurn is actually caused by them. And not the so-called peasant army that did not dare to surrender to the Qing army because of the fear of their own guilt. You must know that after the Qing army entered the customs, all kinds of surrenders and rebellions were recruited, but there was no bottom line. ）

"Prince Yu said it very well. If it weren't for Li Chuang's rampantness, the regent would not have personally led more than 100,000 troops to come. If it weren't for the sake of competing for the hearts and minds of the people in the world, the regent would not strictly enforce military discipline, and all banners and departments would not be allowed to loot. If it weren't for the fact that the grain was not able to be used by the enemy, and the cultivation and harvest in the area from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan in the past few years, the prince's subordinates would not have eaten sorghum rice dumplings and had to rob them. ”

Hong Chengchou said a few words, praised Dolgon, and also knocked Duoduo by the way.

When he set out from Shengjing, Dolgon, under the advice of Hong Chengchou, issued a stern military order to the various departments of the Eight Banners: "Tell the generals of the banners that my Qing soldiers have entered the Great Wall several times in the past ten years, and penetrated deep into southern Hebei and Shandong, all of which are like entering a no-man's land. In the past, our Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty were two enemy countries, so every time my Qing soldiers went south, broke through the walled cities, captured men and women, and plundered cattle and property, it was legal. This time, our soldiers entered the Guannai, and all places along the way were the land of our Qing Dynasty, and the people were our Qing people, so it was strictly forbidden to harass the people, and not a single grass or tree was allowed to be moved. Officials in all localities, big and small, who are willing to surrender, shall continue to serve as before; If you break the law in the future, you will never be tolerant. ”

This is also taking into account that after passing through Jinzhou, most of the land along the way is the private property of the generals and officers of the Guanning Army, and many of them are inextricably linked with the current Eight Banners generals. For example, the ancestral family in Liaodong is a model of two-sided betting, and the ancestral family has a nephew and uncle with Wu Sangui.

Anyway, there are related households everywhere, and it's not easy to rob them, so Dolgon simply let them go, strict military discipline, and no looting. Therefore, there was Duoduo's complaint, and the soldiers and horses of the whole flag could not even guarantee the supply of rice balls.

Duoduo just rolled his eyes and spit out the chewing mutton on the ground with hatred: "It's clear that there is good fat meat along the way, but you don't let the sons and daughters send troops to release the horses!" Just open a few granges, which are full of grain and rice, beef and mutton! ”

Duoduo's words are true, in the past two years, the generals of the Guanning army have used a large number of iron farm tools in their respective granges, coupled with the rare war gaps, the granges in the western Liaoning Corridor are full of grain and rice, and there are flocks of chickens and ducks.

Dolgon pretended not to hear Duoduo's complaints, and just said to Hong Chengchou: "In the spring of the tenth year of Tiancong, Taizong changed the name of the country Houjin to the Great Qing Dynasty, and changed the name of the year to Chongde, and was supported by the subjects of the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han ethnic groups and the Korean vassal states. At that time, Master Hong was still the governor of the Ming Dynasty, busy with thieves in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and knew very little about Liaodong affairs. From Taizu's entrepreneurship to Taizong's succession to the throne of Khan, our dynasty prospered, not only unified the various departments of Manchuria, but also went north beyond Heilongjiang, appeased the state of the dog and the deer, and moved a part of the people there to the Liao River valley to engage in farming, and those who did not want to move remained in the original place to live by fishing and hunting. When the Great Grandfather revolted, Manchuria was divided into many small tribes, and each walled city was a country, which lived on nomadism. After Taizu raised his army, he fought against the Ming soldiers on the one hand, and fought against the Manchurian tribes on the other. When Taizong inherited the throne, he fought many battles and pacified the Mongolian tribes, in addition to the Manchurian Eight Banners established in the time of Taizu, the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia were established. Therefore, Taizong wanted to change the name of the country to the Qing Dynasty, change the name of the year to Chongde, ascend to the position of the Son of Heaven, and aspire to enter the Central Plains and establish a unified country in China with Manchu, Han and Mongolian ethnic groups. Taizong worked hard for 17 years, made great achievements, and shone for thousands of years, but unfortunately he had this grand plan and was not successful, and died without illness on the night of the ninth day of June last year. We inherited his legacy, and only then did we decide to send troops into the customs, swear to destroy the thieves, and save the people of Li from fire and water. Now, Shanhaiguan is in front of him, how can he ignore the last wishes of Emperor Taizu Taizong for the sake of small profits? ”

Duoduo is the most convincing second brother on weekdays, and now the second brother is the head of the entire Qing Dynasty, so he can't go against the second brother's will at this time. And, if none of the three brothers can work together, what will outsiders think?

At that moment, he just pricked up his ears to listen to Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng's words to Dolgon.

"Lord Wang, now, my Daqing soldiers and horses, Li Chuang's Dashun soldiers and horses, and Wu Sangui's Guanning army have all engaged each other within a radius of 100 miles. At this time, it was the time when the three families of friend and foe were not very clear. Our Qing soldiers and horses and the Guanning army have been fighting each other for many years, so they are naturally afraid of each other. At this moment, the Dashun soldiers and horses fought with the Guanning soldiers and horses, and they were naturally enemies. ”

"So, this king is the Bian Zhuang of the thorny tiger!" Dolgon smiled on his face, quite proud of the strategic position of the Qing army at this time.

"The prince is wise. However, as discussed by the slave and Mr. Hong, at this time, it is the time when the art of war says that the enemy is clear, the friend is undecided, and the friend is attracted to kill the enemy. ”

"Exactly. As the minister saw, at this time, he should send someone to Shanhaiguan to explain to Wu Sangui that my soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty entered the customs in order to avenge Emperor Chongzhen! (To be continued.) )