Chapter 692: Breaking the Balance
At noon on the day when Ilden and others rushed to Gaizhou to report the situation, Dolgon issued an order in the city of Gaizhou, ordering the gathering of the army with the white flag to assemble and stand by.
The positive white flag is the same as the inlaid white flag, because the two brothers are jealous of Huang Taiji, they are different from the two yellow flags and the two red flags in the Eight Banners of Jianyu, which are rapidly expanding with the support of Huang Taiji, and they are all the compilation of twenty Niu Lu.
It's not that the Dorgon brothers don't want to expand their own Niu Lu, it's that there is not much population in the coastal areas of southern Liaoning and the areas north of Jinzhou on the Liaodong Peninsula.
When Liu Xingzuo was still Liu Aita, because he was betrayed by his subordinates, it was said that he secretly contacted Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai, and plotted to go south to Denglai.
At the same time, the population of the Liaodong Peninsula, especially south of Jinzhou, was ordered by Nuer Hachi to move inward, on the one hand, to weaken the power of the Liu brothers, and at the same time to cut off the connection between these Han Chinese people and the Ming army that retreated to the island.
It was in the process of banning the sea and moving inward that a large number of Han people who were unwilling to move inward and unwilling to become the Jurchen Zhuangtun clothed slaves were slaughtered.
Except for the people who fled to the sea and depended on the army of Dongjiang Town or Denglai Town to survive, the others either became the clothed slaves of the Jurchen Eight Banners or were killed.
For more than 200 years after the Ming Dynasty marched into the northeast to expel the Mongol Yuan, the Han people were encouraged to immigrate to the Liaodong Peninsula to form the four guards of Jinzhou, Fuzhou, Gaizhou and Haizhou.
Later, with Liu Xingzuo's return to the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Han people in Liaodong who depended on the Liu brothers for survival immediately fled to the island, and under the escort of Dongjiang Town, they have now moved to Pyongyang and Wonsan.
Therefore, by the time the army of the two white flags once again pacified the places of Fuzhou and Gaizhou north of Jinzhou, although the Liaodong Peninsula was not small, there was little population left.
The two white flags reaped a great deal of wealth and land from massacres and looting, but not much useful population.
After Dolgon and Duoduo moved a large number of bannermen of the two white flags from Zhuangtun in Liaoyang, Shenyang, Fushun and other places to the land of Gaizhou and Fuzhou, they set up new Zhuangtun through the allocation of land, so that more adult bannermen could open accounts separately.
In this way, the two of them skillfully increased the number of cattle under their command by one-third, from fifteen cattle records before they were stationed in the south to twenty cattle records.
It's just that this increase rate is, of course, not as much as the Savage Jurchen and Beishan Jurchen Niulu compiled by Huang Taiji's first northern levy.
On the evening of the second day when Dolgon ordered the Zhengbaiqi army to assemble in Gaizhou City, the 20 Niulu bannermen of the Zhengbai Banner, including the four Niulu Zhengbai Banner guards, were all assembled in place.
Early in the morning of the 30th of October, Dolgon left behind Kakturi, the chief minister of the Zhengbai Banner, and the assistant minister, Heshuo Eju, Kang Guoli, to each lead four Niulu to guard Gaizhou and Haizhou, while he himself personally led 3,600 men of the 12 Niulu of the Zhengbai Banner to the south to avenge Duoduo, accompanied by Yildan and Samushka, and Gushan of the Zhengbai Banner, Ezhen Belle Saharan, Meler Ezhen Tan Tai, and Yingerdai and others.
At the same time, Dolgon also sent people back to Shenyang City, to report the changes on the Liaodong Peninsula to Daishan, who stayed in Shenyang, the capital of the Dajin Kingdom, and asked Daishan to send part of the Red Banner army to Haizhou and Gaizhou for reinforcements, in case the Ming army sailors in Denglai Town or Liaodong Town repeated their old tricks and attacked the hinterland of Liaoshen from the sea, cutting off the back road of Dolgon.
Correspondingly, although the strength of the Jurchen Eight Banners was still weak, but the high status of Dolgon, also sent people to Zhenjiang Fort to report the situation to the Blue Banner Lord Zierharang, who personally sat on the front line defense of Zhenjiang Bao.
Dolgon asked Zilharang to send an army south to help him contain the Ming army that was attacking from the left side of Dongjiang Town in the area of Hongzuibao.
With these affairs arranged, Dolgon led the army of the White Banner to the south from Gaizhou.
Dorgon was young, but he was known for his wisdom and intelligence.
However, this time, although Dolgon made arrangements for all aspects of his thoughts, he did not expect that the blue flag lord Belezirharang, Gushan Ezhen Belesot, and Valkhabeleb Zhantai, who were stationed on the front line of the Yalu River, were facing another crisis at the same time, and they soon had no time to take care of the changes in the middle of the eastern part of the Liaodong.
On the night of the same day that Dolgon sent people to defeat Duoduo's soldiers and Fuzhou City fell into the hands of the Ming army that suddenly went north, and sent it to the hands of the blue banner lord Jierharang and Gushan Ezhen Shuotuo stationed in Zhenjiang Fort, Jierharang and Shuotuo, who were about to send people to lead the army south, received an urgent report of 100,000 urgent military intelligence from Buzhantai and Buqidai and others:
"A large number of Ming army sailor fleets suddenly appeared at the mouth of the Douman River! Qingxing, Wencheng, and Douman have been broken one after another, and Odori City and Varka City are in danger! ”
The area of the Doumanjiang River basin is the rear of the naturalized Jurchen Mongol surrender of the Varkha Department of Beyleb Zhantai.
This Varkha Beyleb Zhantai is not a Jurchen, and he is not the same person as the Ulanara Buzhantai, one of the four Jurchen Hulun tribes in Haixi at that time.
Because after he led the people to annex, he was moved by Nuer Hachi to the former land of the Wulanala clan of the four tribes of the Haixi Jurchen Hulun, that is, the tributary area of the upper reaches of the Songhua River, so the Wuliangha Mongolian tribe led by him replaced the Ula tribe of the Haixi Jurchen Wulanala clan.
And this part of the Uliangha people also entered the Jurchen Later Jin Kingdom and became the Varkha people, or according to the name of the place, they were called the Ulabe people.
However, most of the semi-Jurchenized tribes of the Mongol Buzhantai were not real Jurchens.
Most of them originally belonged to the Mongols of the Uliangha tribe, because they had betrayed the Mongol Great Khan of the Chahar tribe earlier, defected to the Jianzhou Jurchens of Nuer Hachi earlier, and followed Nuer Hachi to attack other Mongol tribes and Jurchen tribes, so they also got the greatest benefits.
When Nuer Hachi unified the Jurchen tribes in Jianzhou, and successively eliminated or incorporated the Jurchen tribes in Haixi, he handed over the land in the upper reaches of the Yalu River and the Douman River to the Wuliangha Sanwei Mongol surrendered people and horses under the command of Buzhantai.
First, it was because the Urat Mongols led by Buzhantai at that time, who originally belonged to the Uliangha Sanwei, betrayed Lin Dan Khan, and suffered a lot of losses in the war between the Jurchens and Lin Dan Khan and the Chahar tribes, and they could not gain a foothold in the Eastern Mongolian steppe.
The second reason is that after Buzhantai offended Lin Dan Khan, he could only rely on Nuer Hachi, who was more at ease with him and let him be stationed on the old land of the Haixi Jurchen from the headquarters of the Jurchen in Jianzhou, which was conducive to Nuer Hachi's control of the old land of the Haixi Jurchen tribes.
In this way, Buzhantai, a semi-Jurchenized Uliangha Mongol, quickly became an important figure in guarding the backyard of the Dajin Kingdom.
After the so-called great victory in Dongjiang Town in September of the first year of Chongzhen, when Huangtai Jibu defended the Liaodong Peninsula and the defense line of the Yalu River and the Tumen River, he stationed Buzhantai in Otori, south of the Douman River, to prevent the Ming soldiers and soldiers of the General Military Office on the front road of Dongjiang Town from going north, and also to prevent those Liaodong Han people recruited by Dongjiang Town from continuing to go north to enclose the land.
And this Odori City, that is, the city of Hoeryeong in Hamgyong Province, North Korea.
Buzhantai led more than 7,000 troops to be stationed in the city of Odori, and the effect was very obvious.
Although the Ming court ceded the land of Pyongan Province and Hamgyong Province from Korea, the northern part of Hamgyong Province was occupied by Bu Zhantai and his army.
Although the large area north of Gyeongseong in Hamgyong Province to the mouth of the Tumen River was recognized by the small Korean court as nominally belonging to the military and civilian cantonments of Donggang Town, such nominal things cannot be done.
Unless Dongjiang Town sends a large army to the north, it will drive away as many as 25 Niu Lu's troops in front and behind Buzhantai and his semi-Jurchenized Wulabu.
However, after winning the great victory of Dongjiang Town in the autumn and winter of the first year of Chongzhen, Mao Wenlong, Marquis of Andong and Liu Xingzuo, the Bo of Pingyang, were busy dividing up, and that time Dongjiang Town was busy consolidating its territory with the support of the Ming Emperor to obtain the fruits of victory from the Koreans.
Moreover, both of them were worried about the trouble, so neither of them was willing to take the initiative to go north to provoke Buzhantai and then provoke the Jurchens.
In this way, Bu Zhantai led a miscellaneous army of 7,500 men from 25 Niu Lu under his command, and has been entrenched in the area north of Hamgyong Province and south of the Doman River, occupying the four cities that were ceded to Daming by Korea, namely Jingcheng, Huining, Gyeongheung, Wenseong, and Doman, which is almost equivalent to occupying the northern half of Hamgyong Province.
Although the two sides often clashed over the crossing of the border by some people, horses and livestock, neither of them provoked major disputes and basically maintained a relatively stable state.
The reason for this is that in addition to the fact that Anton Hou Mao Wenlong needs time to consolidate his control over the territory under the jurisdiction of Andong Town, there is another factor.
That is the west bank of the Yalu River, from the Zhenjiang Fort at the mouth of the Yalu River upstream, along the line stationed the main force of the blue flag of the army of forty Niulu.
After the battle of Dongjiang Town, there were still forty-eight Niu Lu in the blue flag to which Amin belonged.
After Amin was imprisoned, except for the eight left to Amin's sons as hereditary cows, the remaining forty were all taken to the Yalu River by Jilharang according to Huang Taiji's orders.
Huang Taiji did this, firstly, so that Zierharang had sufficient troops to defend the front road of Dongjiang Town.
Second, it is also to move the blue flag far away, in case Amin, who is imprisoned by the high wall, will make any more moths.
However, the garrison of the army along the Yalu River with the blue flag put a lot of pressure on Mao Chenglu, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town and the guard of Anton Town, and Shang Kexi, the deputy general of the forward.
The two sides have been facing off like this, and neither wants to be the first to break the balance.
However, on the last day of October in the second year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty and the third year of Jin Tiancong, when the slave chief Huang Taiji led the main army of the Eight Banners of Jianyu to crisscross the hinterland of Datong, the balance that had been carefully maintained by the hostile sides in the northeast rear of the Jin State after the Jianyu was also broken!