Chapter 89 (1) Gathering Troops at the Shanhai Pass
Of course, the news of Tongzhou's victory not only spread quickly among the people, but also the generals of the Dazhong Army got the news the fastest, at this time, Li Xin, Lu Xiangsheng and others, who were leading thousands of Dazhong Army soldiers to sit in Yongping Mansion to dispatch the soldiers and horses of the Left Route Army and the Middle Route Army, also received the news that Xiao Tianjian sent someone to deliver it to them two days later.
After hearing the news of such a great victory, the military and civilians in Yongping Mansion immediately burst into flames, and they all celebrated loudly with their hands in celebration.
This news came, so that Li Xin and Lu Xiangsheng both breathed a long sigh of relief, during this time Li Xin's pressure was also very great, the battle situation in Shanhaiguan was not bad, Luo Li led the troops to Shanhaiguan, and severely defeated the Jiannu army led by Dolgon, not only blocked their craziest attack, but also took the opportunity to fight the Jiannu defeat, the loss of the general, so that the Jiannu forward army led by Dolgon basically temporarily lost the ability to threaten Shanhaiguan, but it is a pity that Yan Chongxi, the general, was seriously injured in this battle, was sent to Yongping Mansion for treatment, no matter what, they weren't too worried about the battle situation in Shanhaiguan.
Although as soon as Li Xin arrived in Yongping Mansion, he sent Wang Chengping and Diao Zheng to lead the troops to the west to block the Jiannu Right Wing Army from breaking through the passes in the west, but they were slower after all, although they later learned that Zhou Yuji was desperately blocking the Jiannu Right Wing Army from breaking through the Xifeng Pass at Xifeng Pass, but Zhou Yuji was killed in the Xifeng Pass.
And within a few days, they got the news that the right-wing army of Jiannu led by Abatai had broken through the pass from the area of Huangyakou Pass, and the tide poured into the pass and rushed straight to the capital.
This situation makes Li Xin, Lu Xiangsheng and others worried, at the moment, Diao Zheng's troops must be too late to stop the Jiannu army, and a Diao Zheng's troops may not be able to solve Abatai's troops, even if they can defeat Abatai's troops, with the mobility of the Jiannu army, if Abatai and Haoge don't confront Diao Zheng head-on, Diao Zheng can only run behind Abatai's ass, and the Jiannu army led by Abatai is like a devil who opens the box and releases it, wanting to take them back again, It's already a very difficult thing.
The rest can only count on Wang Chengping's cavalry brigade, but Wang Chengping's cavalry strength is six or seven thousand people, although the combat effectiveness is very strong, and the mobility is also very strong, but it is not easy to eat this road Jiannu right wing army, not to mention that the most elite cavalry of the Great Chinese Army is in the hands of Wang Chengping, if these cavalry once they defeat Abatai's department, no matter what the result is, Wang Chengping's cavalry will lose a lot, which is not what Li Xin wants to see.
Li Xin's most fearful thing is that after Abatai and Haoge led the troops into the pass, they plundered in the pass, and at the same time cut off the rear transportation line of the Dazhong army, but did not fight head-on with the Dazhong army and horses, in that case, the situation of the Dazhong army would be very dangerous, there were hundreds of thousands of Jiannu troops outside the Shanhai Pass in front, and there was the army of Abatai's department cruising in the pass, and the Dazhong army could not concentrate on fighting with the Jiannu army, and they had to be careful of being bitten by Abatai's troops in the back.
For this reason, Li Xin and Lu Xiangsheng were very troubled, and Li Xin sent an order to Wang Chengping, telling him to bite Abatai's subordinates even if they took risks, at least not to let them pose too much threat to the logistics line of the Great Chinese Army.
But just when they were a little anxious about this, Xiao Tianjian sent someone to Yongping Mansion to inform them that Xiao Tianjian had personally led the right army of the Dazhong Army, and fought a surprise attack on Abatai, the right wing army of Jiannu, in the area of Tongzhou, and under the first battle, the Jiannu army of 30,000 or 40,000 people was defeated and lost, coupled with Wang Chengping's interception in Shunyi, almost all the right wing army of Jiannu was annihilated near the capital.
At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also supervised the division on the battlefield in the south of Tongzhou City, and beheaded the slave chief Abatai on the spot, but it was a pity that Haoge escaped and ascended to heaven, and he didn't know where to run at this time! But even if Haoge escapes back to the outside of the pass, it has nothing to do with the overall situation, the thirty or forty thousand Jiannu troops they brought into the pass, basically the most they can run back is three digits, which is undoubtedly an unprecedented super defeat for Jiannu, which is really enough for Jiannu to drink a pot.
So after Li Xin and Lu Xiangsheng received the news, they immediately went out of Yongping City to meet Xiao Tianjian's direction, and picked up Xiao Tianjian in Luanzhou, south of Yongping.
The monarch and the ministers were naturally very happy to see each other, and Li Xin immediately made a detailed report to Xiao Tianjian on the recent war situation in the Shanhaiguan area.
Xiao Tianjian was also very happy after hearing this, and praised the generals again and again, as for Lu Xiangsheng, Xiao Tianjian naturally praised him, which made Lu Xiangsheng quite happy.
Immediately, Xiao Tianjian and Li Xin, Lu Xiangsheng and others arrived at Yongping Mansion, and at the same time, Wang Chengping led the main cavalry under his command, and at this time also retreated to Yongping Mansion after completing the liquidation of the rest of Haoge.
At this time, the three-way army of the Dazhong Army has completed the assembly in Yongping Mansion, so that the strength of the Dazhong Army in this area has reached an unprecedented 60,000 people, completely stabilizing the defense of the first line of Shanhaiguan, and there is no longer a chance that the Shanhaiguan area will be broken through by Jiannu!
At the same time that Xiao Tianjian led his troops to Yongping Mansion and the generals of all the troops converged and advanced towards Shanhaiguan, in the camp of Qiantun Wei Jiannu, more than 80 miles north of Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji was like an ant on a hot pot, angry like a dog could not cross the river, this nosebleed was one after another, if he was not a big fat man, born with a lot of blood, he would have died of nosebleeds if he didn't get it right.
After launching the most fierce attack on Shanhaiguan in mid-May, Dolgon not only failed to conquer the Shanhaiguan defense line in one fell swoop, but suffered heavy losses under the fierce resistance of the defenders of the Dazhong Army and the old Ming army under Wu Xiang, and fought an equally huge defeat.
The news of Dolgon's defeat again at Shanhaiguan soon reached the ears of Huang Taiji, who was stationed in the area of Qiantunwei, and after hearing the news, Huang Taiji was angry that his nose bleeded for a long time, and he wanted to arrest Dolgon immediately and chop him up.
He Xingda Qing Dynasty almost all the soldiers and horses went south, originally planned to seize the Dazhong Army, first control the land of Yanyun, but the result was so unsmooth, Hong Chengchou and Zu Dashou and other Ming army commanders and generals, first in Ningyuan City to the death did not surrender, but in Ningyuan City dragged their Jiannu army for nearly a month, although in the end they defeated Ningyuan City, and successfully annihilated tens of thousands of Ningyuan defenders, and also took the opportunity to besiege the city to destroy the twenty or thirty thousand Ming troops who rushed to Ningyuan City, and achieved a great victory.
However, behind this victory, they lost a month's precious time in vain, so that the Dazhong army arrived at Shanhaiguan in batches before them, forced down Wu Xiang, the guard of Shanhaiguan, and stabilized the Shanhaiguan defense line.
Originally, if Dolgon was more angry, at this time to break through the Shanhai Pass, then for their Qing army, it is not hopeless to take the land of Yanyun, the right route army and the middle route army of the Great Middle Army have not yet arrived at Shanhaiguan, with the strength of the left route army of the Great Middle Army, it is impossible to block their hundreds of thousands of Qing troops from entering the pass after the Shanhai Pass is broken, and they may also be relatively easy to use the advantage of troops to eat a part of the left route army of the Great Chinese Army first, which greatly weakens the strength of the Great Middle Army.
But no matter how good he was calculated, Dolgon, a fool, did not succeed in breaking through Shanhaiguan as he expected, but was blocked outside Shanhaiguan, defeated repeatedly, not to mention the loss of soldiers, and consumed a large number of materials for their Qing army.
In order to complete the goal of seizing the land of Yanyun, although Huang Taiji adjusted the deployment after the troops arrived at the front guard, and sent Abatai and his son Haoge to divide 40,000 troops to detour to the west, and find another way to break through, but the number of troops and horses led by Abatai and Haoge is limited, even if they enter the pass, they will not be able to take the land of Yanyun with their troops alone.
The current situation Huang Taiji is very clear, once the Great Chinese Army takes one step ahead of the Ming Dynasty and controls the land of Yanyun, then if they want to enter the Qing Army in the future, I am afraid it will not be easy, Huang Taiji knows very well that although he has established the Great Qing State outside the Guan, and successfully controlled the entire Liaodong and even the Mongolian tribes and North Korea, but with their population, national strength and the Great China that will control the Central Plains in the future, they are still at an absolute disadvantage.
The richness of the Central Plains is something they dare not imagine, although Huang Taiji does not know what the Xiaoice River era is, but he also knows that for so many years, Guanwai has become more and more bitter every year, and his father wild boar skin after raising troops outside Guanwai, the production damage outside Guanwai is extremely serious, because of his father's wild boar skin's hatred for the Han people, when he was alive, he massacred the Han people outside Guanwai, so that the Han people outside Guanwai were either massacred, or abandoned their homes and fled into Guannei, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of Liaodong outside Guan, It almost made the situation of a hundred miles of red land outside the pass.
Although later, after he took over the throne, he adopted the Huairou policy, which alleviated this contradiction, and also reduced the killing of the Han people, and repeatedly sent troops into the pass to captivate and plunder the Han people in the pass as slaves, replenished the population outside the pass and recovered, and implemented some policies of leniency to the Han people, stabilized their rule of Jiannu, and restored some agricultural economy in the eastern Liaodong area, but he also knew that this was not a fundamental solution at all.
This is also one of the reasons why Huang Taiji succeeded to the throne and established the Great Qing Dynasty, repeatedly sent troops into the customs to plunder, Huang Taiji repeatedly sent troops into the customs, the main purpose in addition to relying on the looting of gold silk to meet their needs, the more important purpose is to plunder the population, to the outside of the customs for them to build a slave envoy, to restore the population outside the customs, he Huang Taiji knows better than anyone how big the land is, if no one cultivates, it is all for nothing, close to their Jurchen population, want to compete with the Han people, it is simply impossible, Although they said that with the courage of their Jianzhou sons, the Ming army that had fought over the years had lost thousands of miles, but he also knew that once the Ming Dynasty fell and was replaced by a capable Dazhong Dynasty, their good days outside the customs would be over.
The information recovered from all sides shows that Xiao Tianjian, the newly enthroned emperor of Dazhong, seems to be extremely hostile to their Jiannu, once he controls the land of Yanyun, this person will definitely take extremely harsh measures to cut off the contact and trade channels inside and outside the Guan, in that case, in fact, there is no need for the Dazhong Dynasty to fight hard, just this method of cutting off trade can force their Great Qing Kingdom into a desperate situation.
This is also an important reason why he Emperor Taiji is now raising the power of the whole country of the Great Qing Dynasty and sending troops from the whole country of the Great Qing Dynasty to break through the pass and seize the land of Yanyun.
(Thanks to the Wzwayj brothers for their tip!) )