Chapter 192: Recovering Jinzhou
Stationed in Jinzhou is the Jiannunu chieftain Dolgon, Duoduo, Azig three brothers, since the last Shanhaiguan defeat, Dolgon and Duoduo and their three brothers were placed in Jinzhou, the forefront of the confrontation with the Great Middle Korea, Dolgon knew that Huang Taiji made it impossible for their three brothers to return to Shengjing, to compete with him for power.
Once the Dazhong army goes out to attack them Jiannu, then their three brothers and the soldiers of the two white flags under their command will be the first to become cannon fodder, but for Dorgon, he can't help but obey Huang Taiji's holy edict.
After all, after the battle of Shanhaiguan, their two white flags also suffered considerable losses, but the two yellow flags controlled by Huang Taiji basically remained sound, even if the three brothers wanted to seize power, their strength was not Huang Taiji's opponent now, so even if they were dissatisfied with Huang Taiji, they could only be stationed in the Jinzhou area.
But in the past two years, they have also secretly co-opted a lot of generals of the Eight Banners, because of the fiasco of the last Battle of Shanhaiguan, so these people began to have dissatisfaction and distrust of Huang Taiji, so seeing that Huang Taiji's control over the Eight Banners is getting lower and lower, so Dolgon began to secretly confront Huang Taiji, and proposed to make Huang Taiji responsible for the last defeat at Shanhaiguan, and asked Huang Taiji to abdicate and give up the throne to be succeeded by Dolgon.
In this way, if the contradiction between their brothers was only a secret thing in the past, then since last year, their contradictions have become public, and Huang Taiji twice ordered Dolgon and Duoduo to return to Shengjing to discuss matters, wanting to take the opportunity to trap Dolgon and Duoduo brothers, and even simply kill and pull them down, but Dolgon and Duoduo both shirked and refused to return to Shengjing under various pretexts, which led to the immediate division of Jiannu into two factions, that is, someone supported Dolgon and asked Huang Taiji to step down. also strongly supported the emperor Taiji and reprimanded Dorgon for rebellion.
However, the strength of the two sides is about the same, and neither of them dares to use force against the other easily, so that in the past year, the dispute between them has turned into a war of scolding in the air.
The internal strife in Jiannu also led to the fact that they began to alienate themselves from the Mongol tribes and no longer obey their greetings, and even the Korean state, which had been subdued by them, announced that it would no longer be a vassal to them and refused to pay tribute to them, and they did not dare to easily send troops to suppress the Mongol tribes and the Korean state.
Although Huang Taiji and Dolgon both knew very well that this was the Great and Chinese Dynasty provoking it, with the current situation, they should first put aside the contradictions between them and work together to suppress the Mongol tribes and the Korean State first, but in the end, because of selfishness, no one dared to lower their posture, because the struggle between them could only end with the cost of one party's life, so although they knew that this was to bring them into the abyss, they still did it.
Even after they learned the news that the Dazhong Dynasty had quelled the Yongli Rebellion in the middle of last year and recovered the southern provinces, they all realized that the Dazhong Dynasty would definitely turn around and deal with them in the next step, but they still failed to compromise with each other, and for the sake of their interests in the future, both sides each came up with a way to give in to the Dazhong Dynasty and get the support of the Dazhong Dynasty to solve the other party's problems.
But I didn't think that Dazhong and the DPRK were too despicable, and they actually spread the conditions for them to secretly send people to negotiate peace with the Dazhong Dynasty, and as a result, whether it was Huang Taiji or Dorgon, they hated each other very much, and it was even more difficult to get off the throne.
However, although they shouted fiercely, they still didn't dare to make a move against each other, because they knew very well that if they fought first now, then Xiao Tianjian of the Great Middle Dynasty would probably laugh off his big teeth, so although they were very angry, they didn't really fight in the end.
They soon got the news that the Great and Medium Dynasties had begun to move troops to the north, and began to transport supplies from the southern provinces to the northern parts of the country in large quantities, so they all realized that the Great and Medium Powers were about to take action against them.
During this time, Huang Taiji and Dolgon temporarily put aside their personal grievances, and also began to hoard supplies and dispatch troops to prepare for battle.
But now, after the defeat of Shanhaiguan three years ago, their strength has long ceased to be the grand occasion of the year, and only a small number of people still listen to their greetings from the Mongolian tribes that were originally attached to them, and most of the tribes of the Mongolian Eight Banners, although they are not openly opposed to them, but they greet them in violation of the yang and yin, and secretly trade with the Great Middle Kingdom.
Moreover, after the Dazhong Dynasty hunted and killed a large number of Ming merchants who originally traded with them, they also completely cut off their access to the resources in the Guan, especially tea, salt, iron and cloth, and it was almost impossible to enter Liaodong in the past three years, not to mention the grain they urgently needed. These people will be immediately hunted down with thunder, and their entire clan will be inhabited.
This means make the days of Jiannu outside the customs in the past three years are not as good as day by day, their Liaodong deer antlers, ginseng, skins can not be sold, are a large number of hoarding, and grain and tea are increasingly scarce, last year is a drought outside the Guan, coupled with the Han slaves also continue to escape, so that a large number of land in Liaodong is abandoned, Jiannu finally tasted what is called sad.
They also had the intention to send troops into the pass to loot as before, capture the Han people back as slaves, and loot grain, gold and silver, but now they also know that the Dazhong Army is not as easy to bully as the Ming Army back then, since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Dazhong Army immediately strengthened the defense of the passes in various places, and a large Chinese army of men and horses stationed in the Ningyuan area, staring at them, they made a slight move, these Dazhong troops immediately reacted, forcing them back.
In addition, the Great Middle Dynasty deliberately co-opted the Mongolian tribes to open a mutual market to attract the Mongols to betray them and build slaves, Huang Taiji and Dolgon wanted to gather the soldiers and horses of the Mongolian Eight Banners several times, and cooperate with them to enter the pass from Xuanda to plunder, but the Mongols refused to obey for various reasons, and also secretly reported the news to the Great Middle Dynasty, so that the army of the Great Middle Dynasty was prepared in advance, and as a result, the Jiannu could no longer follow the example before, shopping in the customs and looting.
Under the elimination of the other's strengths, the Great Chinese Dynasty in the Guannai is advancing rapidly, the strength is getting stronger and stronger, a large Chinese army in the north of the Guannai set up, organized and trained into a group of elite soldiers, to last year, Jiannu has found that the strength of the large Chinese army in the north, has reached the strength of their northward troops, and then want to enter the pass to plunder, it is even more impossible.
Since the second half of last year, the Dazhong Army has continued to increase troops in Ningyuan, but has continued to send troops into their control areas to attack and harass.
Moreover, these large Chinese troops are extremely fierce, as long as they infiltrate the control area of their Jiannu, they will simply follow the example they did when they dealt with the Ming Dynasty, implement the three-light policy, kill, burn, and rob all the light, as long as they see someone with pigtails with money rat tails, they don't ask if they are full of people, and directly cut off their heads, even some Han people, they have not escaped their butcher knives.
Unless when they appeared, these Han people took the initiative to immediately cut off their money rat tails, so as to save their lives, but these Han people must also immediately retreat to Ningyuan with them, so that the Han people in the area south of the Daling River almost escaped, and almost all the farmland and land were abandoned, which made it even more difficult to build slaves.
No matter who the people in this world are, it is easy to enter luxury from thrift, but it is difficult to enter simplicity from luxury, many years before the Jiannu through the continuous robbery of the Han people out of the customs as slaves, these post-Jin Jurchen Tartars have lived a life like a lord, all day long by squeezing the Han slaves to live their pampered life, after the defeat at Shanhaiguan, the situation outside the customs began to take a sharp turn, a large number of Han people began to defect, or were slaughtered by the Jiannu, so that their Han slaves were greatly reduced, so these Jiannu were the masters of the good days are over, If they want to return to the same days of self-cultivation as before, and now let them live back to the hard days before, they are a little unable to hold on, and they complain very much.
Over the years, the Great China Dynasty has continued to spread news among the Han people outside the Guan, encouraging those Han people to flee back to the Guannei, and has put a heavy reward on the Han people outside the Guan, encouraging the Han people outside the Guanxi to kill their masters, as long as they go back with their master's head, they can get a heavy reward and land.
Some Han Bao Yi slaves began to accept this kind of propaganda, and there were many cases outside the Guan, where the Bao Yi slaves suddenly rose up and killed their masters, and killed their entire families, cut off their heads and carried them away, which also intensified the hatred and distrust of the Han people among the Later Jin Jurchen Tartars, and a small number of Han troops who had fled back to Guanwai with Jiannu were also disbanded after returning and reorganized into the banners and became slaves.
There were even some Jiannu Tartars who began to massacre the Han people outside the Guanwai, which made the contradictions between the Tartars and the Han people outside the Guanxi even more intense.
When the thirteenth day of April came, Dolgon, Duoduo and other Jiannu stationed in the Jinzhou area were horrified to find that their good days had finally come to an end.
Under the personal leadership of Luo Li, 30,000 armed to the teeth of the Dazhong army flocked out of Ningyuan City, straight to Jinzhou, under the attack of these Dazhong army, in just two days, the southern Jinzhou Xingshan, Songshan and other cities were quickly broken by the Dazhong army, more than 2,000 Jiannu and their clansmen who stayed in these two cities were almost all slaughtered by the Dazhong army, and even the three-year-old child was not left alive.
Dolgon knew that the final battle of the Dazhong army against their Jiannu had finally arrived, so he immediately gathered all the slave troops in the Jinzhou area and prepared to engage the Dazhong army.
However, the morale of the current Jiannu army is very low, and after Dolgon sent Duoduo to lead the army out of the city and meet the Dazhong army, after the battle, Duoduo was defeated and fled back to Jinzhou City.
On April 18, the Great Chinese Army surrounded the southeast, west, and west sides of Jinzhou City, and Dolgon climbed the tower to look out of the city, and his head buzzed and fainted.
I saw that the big Chinese army outside the city waved the flag, covering the sky and the sun, one by one the big and medium military armor is distinct, the morale is like a rainbow, what makes him feel more afraid is that the big Chinese army brought hundreds of Hongyi cannons, placed outside the city, a solid siege ladder and a variety of trench bridge cars, cave houses, crash cars and other siege equipment are placed outside the city like a wall.
Originally, Dolgon still wanted to rely on the walls of Jinzhou City and hold on here for a while, but after seeing the equipment and momentum of the large army outside the city, Dolgon's confidence collapsed at once.
He was really scared by the Dazhong Army, as early as at the end of Chongzhen's eleventh year, he was ruthlessly repaired by the Xingtian Army at that time, and then three years ago he was defeated by the Dazhong Army in Shanhaiguan, and now the equipment of the Dazhong Army is much stronger than at the beginning, and the firepower output capacity is much more than before.
On the contrary, Jiannu's side, after the defeat of the last Shanhaiguan battle, the strength has been weakened very greatly, and after two years of internal friction, there have been many internal problems, although it has been rested for two years, but the strength has not only not increased, but the combat effectiveness has been worse.
Under this situation, the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu army is now no longer able to compete with the Dazhong army, and Dolgon just wants to rely on Jinzhou City under his feet now, so he wants to block the Dazhong army, not to mention that he has no confidence, even all the Tartars under his command are shocked and weak.
The people of the Dazhong army did not talk to them, and after sending people to the city to persuade them to surrender to no avail, they immediately began to attack the city, hundreds of heavy artillery fired almost at the same time, and the walls of Jinzhou City were immediately hit with earth and stones.
What kind of conspiracy, art of war, and tactics are useless at this time, and the Great Chinese Army launched the battle of Liaodong this time, and the whole thing is to use the method of reducing ten meetings with one force, relying on their firepower superiority, to fight a completely asymmetrical war.
As a result, Dolgon, the so-called famous general of the Qing Dynasty, became a complete rabbit under the fire of the Great Chinese Army, and did not hold out for just a day, so Dolgon ordered to abandon Jinzhou City, broke through with men and horses from the north of the city, and fled to Dalinghe Fort.
Jinzhou was recovered by the Dazhong Army in less than ten days after the start of the war, and the city of Jinzhou, which had been lost in the hands of Jiannu for several years, returned to the hands of the Han people again.