478 heavy Jinzhou, light Liaodong, Liu Chong wants to cover the state

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January 4, 14th year of Chongzhen, location, Yizhou Tartar Army camp.

Huang Taiji is here again, and this is already his second arrival.

As early as May last year, he had come to Yizhou once and appointed Dolgon as the commander-in-chief of the Jinzhou front.

Huang Taiji besieged Jinzhou this time in order to besiege the city and send reinforcements, and did not storm Jinzhou, forcing the Ming court to send troops to rush to the rescue outside the pass.

I have to say that Huang Taiji's strategy is extremely wise, but Dolgon is not the same as Huang Taiji thinks this time, or Dolgon probably wants to drag Huang Taiji back.

As a result, Dorgon did not properly carry out Huang Taiji's orders.

After Huang Taiji arrived in Yiju this time, he immediately dismissed Dolgon from his post as commander-in-chief of the front and reappointed Prince Zheng Zilharang as the commander-in-chief of the front.

At this time, because Li Zixiao sent Liu Chong to stir up the situation on the Liaodong Peninsula, Huang Taiji had to gather a group of generals to discuss this issue.

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you say, how should the situation in Liaodong be handled?"

Huang Taiji's eyes swept over the faces of the many Tartar princes in the big tent, with a cold face, and asked in a deep voice.

At this time, with the arrival of Huang Taiji, important Tartar generals such as Dolgon, Duoduo, and Zilharang in Yizhou also knew the situation in Liaodong at this time.

"It's this Li Zixiao again, this person is simply our Qing Dynasty's henchman, the imperial brother, the courtier's brother asked to lead an army to Jinzhou, and this Ming army will definitely be exterminated."

The first to speak was Duoduo, and when talking about Li Zixiao, Duoduo simply gritted his teeth, eager to swallow Li Zixiao alive.

Last time, Duoduo was captured by Li Zixiao, forcing them to pay a heavy price, and even forced Dolgon to give up the capture of Jinan.

What's more, Duoduo was captured by Li Zixiao, which became the biggest stain on his life, making him a disgrace among the many princes of the Tartars.

Because, since the wild boar Pinurhachi raised his army with thirteen remnants, dozens of years have passed, and there is no history of a prince of Tartar being captured by the Ming army.

When Duoduo came back this time, Huang Taiji even deprived him of the title of Prince Yu, and re-demoted him to the king of Doluo County, and even became a laughing stock in private.

This time, Huang Taiji appointed Prince Zheng Zierharang to be in charge of the siege of Jinzhou with him, which he also fought for.

Duoduo just wanted to prove himself through his exploits and wash away this stain.

This time, as soon as Duoduo heard the news that Huang Taiji said that Li Zixiao sent people to land in Lushun, and even captured Jinzhou and captured Yongning, Duoduo, who was eager for revenge, immediately led his army to kill him.

"What do you think?" Huang Taiji looked at the angry Duoduo and asked again at the others.

"Father, my son-in-law thinks that the fifteenth uncle's words are inappropriate." Then, Haug stood up, looked at Dord, and said calmly.

Huang Taiji saw his eldest son speak, with a slight smile on his face, and asked, "Hao'er, tell me your opinion." ”

"Yes."

Haoge was also very happy to see that Huang Taiji attached importance to his words, and continued: "Father Emperor Zicheng began to besiege Jinzhou last year and built Yizhou City, in order to solve the nails of Jinzhou and Songshan.

At this time, our siege has achieved initial results, according to the people we arranged around Zu Dashou to report, Zu Dashou has successively asked the Ming court for help.

And there is also news from the Ming Dynasty that the Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty has ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, to lead the army to aid Jinzhou.

Once Hong Chengchou led the Ming army to Jinzhou, his father's goal was achieved, and then we had to find a way to eat the elite of the Ming army in one bite.

If we can defeat this Ming army, we will not only be able to capture Songjin, but also greatly damage the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, and we will have a better chance to enter the customs at that time.

This battle is very important, and it is even related to whether our Qing Dynasty can enter the Central Plains and dominate the world, so there is absolutely no room for error.

Moreover, in this battle, Hong Chengchou's subordinates gathered the elite of the Ming border army, and the combat power should not be underestimated.

At this time, even if Li Zixiao defeated Lushun and Jinzhou, he was just a clown jumping off the beam after all, and he couldn't become a climate.

Wait for us to defeat Hong Chengchou and defeat Jinzhou, and then turn our heads to easily defeat this Li Zixiao, you must know that Liaodong is our territory, but they are separated by the sea.

At this time, the most important thing is still here in Jinzhou, we have gathered 100,000 troops here one after another, and at this time, it is not wise for the fifteenth uncle to divide a group of my Qing elite and go to the Liaodong Peninsula to deal with Li Zixiao. ”

As he spoke, Haoge cautiously looked at Huang Taiji's expression, but unfortunately Huang Taiji just listened quietly, without joy or sorrow, but nodded slightly, which made Haoge ecstatic.

However, Hauge didn't notice at all that Duoduo's face was blue.

However, even if Hauge noticed, most of the time he wouldn't care, anyway, Hauge's relationship with the two uncles, Dorgon and Dord, has never been very harmonious.

If he can get the appreciation of his father, Huang Taiji, what if he offends Duoduo.

To tell the truth, this time Haoge also touched the pulse of Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji in order to plan Jinzhou, but it took a lot of effort to come up with this strategy.

Even, at this time, their strategy has been carried out for so long, and they have mobilized an army of 100,000, which is basically more than two-thirds of the Tartars at this time.

As Hauge said, nothing is as important as winning the Battle of Jinzhou at this time, even if the entire Liaodong Peninsula is occupied by Li Zixiao, it doesn't matter.

As long as they defeat Hong Chengchou and defeat the main force of the Ming army, they will be able to recover the Liaodong Peninsula in minutes and drive Li Zixiao's men and horses into the sea.

In short, Hauge means a word, at this time, everything is based on Jinzhou, defeat Hong Chengchou first, and then say, everything else is not important.

"Haoge, what do you say, it means that Li Zixiao's men and horses are allowed to wreak havoc on the Liaodong Peninsula.

In case they come all the way to the north, and we start a war with Hong Chengchou at that time, aren't you afraid that Li Zixiao will sneak attack us from the flank? ”

At this point, Dorgon stood up and confronted Hauge, making it clear that he was speaking for Dord.

Hearing Dolgon's question, Hauge smiled more confidently and said, "I didn't say that I would let it go, I just said that everything is based on Jinzhou now."

As for the Liaodong Peninsula, according to Geng Zhongming's statement sent by Gaizhou, Li Zixiao's landing of only four or five thousand people, does Uncle Fourteen think that this bit of men and horses can really swallow Liaodong?

Even if Li Zixiao wants to flank us, we can send Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi and them, to lead the Han army with one or two banners to deal with Li Zixiao.

We must not use the elite of our Eight Banners, we don't want Geng Zhongming and them to be able to defeat Li Zixiao, we only need them to hold the line of Gaizhou and block Li Zixiao's men and horses from continuing to go north.

Fight for us for a period of time, and wait until Hong Chengchou is defeated, which of the two sides is more important, I don't believe that Uncle Fourteen can't see it, or rather, Uncle Fourteen clearly sees it, but he deliberately doesn't say it. ”

"Humph! Your fourteenth uncle is not as smart as you, and he really didn't see it. ”

Dorgon snorted coldly, said in an unkind tone, and sat down.

But Dolgon knew that Hauge was right, and he thought so in his heart, at this time, Jinzhou was heavy, and Liaodong was light.

That's why he sat down and didn't argue anymore.

"What do you think, Zilharang?" Huang Taiji ignored the argument between Hauge and Dolgon, looked at Zilharang on the side again, and asked in a harmonious voice.

"Emperor Qiqi, what the king of Haoge County said, is also what Weichen thinks, my elite of the Eight Banners must not divide troops at this time, but the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty have been established for a while, and they should be used at this time.

Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi are also a little talented, and it should not be a problem for them to lead their troops to block the Ming army of five or six thousand people in Liaodong. ”

Sure enough, Zilharang also agreed with Hauge's statement, and even the other Tartar generals in the big tent also talked in low voices, most of them agreed with Hauge's statement.

"Since this is the case, then listen to Hao'er, and order Shang Kexi to lead 10,000 Han troops to immediately go to Gaizhou to join Geng Zhongming, guard Gaizhou, and find an opportunity to recapture Yongning and Fuzhou.

Tell Shang Kexi that before we defeat the main force of Hong Chengchou's Ming army, he will never allow the Ming army on the Liaodong Peninsula to take a step beyond Gaizhou, otherwise military law will be engaged. ”

In the end, Huang Taiji really approved Hauge's proposal and gave an order.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Zilharang shouted respectfully.

"In addition, we have to be tight here, the Mongolian flags that have not yet led the troops to arrive, and several other Han army flags.

I will give them another five days, and if they are not all assembled and executed within five days, they will be put to death, and there will be no mercy, and it will be time to close the net. ”

In this time and space, the situation in Songjin at this time is far more severe than the original time and space, and the time when Hong Chengchou and Tatar completed the assembly of troops is also earlier than in history.

Under normal circumstances, it should be March of several years.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao, led Wang Pu, Yang Guozhu, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Cao Bianjiao, Ma Ke, Wang Tingchen, and Wu Sangui, a total of eight general soldiers.

and more than 200 Ming officials below the deputy general, 130,000 horsemen, rushed to the aid of Jinzhou to relieve the siege.

At this time, Hong Chengchou had already left Shanghai Customs two days ago and was stationed in Ningyuan, three months earlier than in history.

On the one hand, it is because Jinzhou Zu Dashou is more eager to ask for help, and on the other hand, it is also because of Li Zixiao.

It is precisely because of the first two times that Li Zixiao successively shocked Chongzhen with millions of taels of silver,

Hong Chengchou was scheming and did not dare to advance, so he stationed the army in Ningyuan to spy on the situation in Jinzhou.

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On the other side, in the area of Fuzhou and Yongning, Liu Chong spent several days and finally emptied the area of Yongning and Fuzhou.

This was several days faster than he expected, mainly because of the correctness of Liu Chong's policy, which distributed grain and cotton clothes first, and won the trust of the people in Yongning and Fuzhou.

Subsequently, Liu Zhong promised that each of them would be able to get enough grain for the winter after arriving in Jinzhou, and that land would be distributed to them after the beginning of spring.

Even if there is not enough land in the Golden State, the White Dragon Army will provide them with jobs.

It is precisely because of this that the people of the two places did not rebel too much, and the people took the initiative to cooperate, saving Liu Chong a lot of time.

In this way, Liu Chong's subordinates reborn the idea of going north to attack Gaizhou.

In Liu Chong's original plan, Gaizhou in the north was the end point of their northward sweep.

However, Liu Chong still stabilized halfway, and chose to eat Yongning and Fuzhou first, and after moving all the people here, he would see if he could cover the state according to the situation.

But at this time, the smooth relocation of the people saved them a lot of time, and according to their intelligence, the Tartar reinforcements still did not arrive in Gaizhou.

"General, let's go north and take Gaizhou!" Liu Chong's subordinate generals took the initiative to propose.

Gaizhou is more than 200 miles away from Fuzhou, and Gaizhou, like Yongning, is an important city of Tatars on the Liaodong Peninsula, and it is even said that the location of Gaizhou is more important than Yongning.

Because, Gaizhou is very close to the mouth of the Liaohe River, and it is only more than 200 miles away from Jinzhou, facing each other across the sea.

Now that the Tartars are gathering troops and horses to besiege Jinzhou, if Liu Chong really goes to attack Gaizhou this time, it will be an act of touching the tiger's buttocks.

Regardless of whether Liu Chongda did not defeat Gaizhou in the end, it was enough to cause Huang Taiji to panic.

Otherwise, he regarded Gaizhou as the last line of defense against Li Zixiao, and he could do without the entire Liaodong Peninsula, but he would never allow Li Zixiao's men and horses to cross Gaizhou.

Liu Chong was also a little moved in his heart at this time, if he could defeat Gaizhou, it would definitely be a shock to the Tartars, forcing them to divide their troops to Gaizhou, which could be regarded as a little help to the Ming army in the Songjin area.

If he didn't fight Gaizhou, Liu Chong had another choice at this time, which was to continue to move south from Fuzhou and capture places such as Beixunkou and Nanxunkou.

It's just that these two places are far from Gaizhou compared to Gaizhou.

"General, according to the information we just received, Geng Zhongming fled to Gaizhou with the remnants of the army, and several days have passed, and the Tartar reinforcements have not yet arrived.

This is our chance, if we miss it, there will be no next time, let's go, even if we can't beat it, it's a big deal for us to retreat. ”

Liu Chong is a very thoughtful person, once he has his own judgment in his heart, he will not be easily influenced by others, and at this time he actually wants to fight Gaizhou in his heart.

Because in his expectation, before the Tartar reinforcements arrived, this might be the last chance for him to take the initiative to attack.

Next, he will focus on defense, and he doesn't want to give up this opportunity, he wants to defeat Gaizhou, so that the name of his 'Zhenliao' legion will be completely spread to the ears of the Tartars.

"Bring me the map." Liu Zhong shouted at his adjutant.

"Yes." The adjutant was also excited, he knew that Liu Chong had made a decision.

A more detailed map of Liaodong was rolled out, which was obtained from the imperial court by the Intelligence Bureau in order to make great efforts, and the information on the mountains, rivers, cities, fortresses, etc., was very accurate.

This is the map of Liaodong drawn by the Ming Dynasty in the early years, when Liaodong was still under the reign of the Ming Dynasty, and it has only been more than ten years and can still be used.

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