562 Huang Taiji, who vomited blood, migrated to Phi Island

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At the end of June of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, this short period of half a month was an exciting and unforgettable day for Huang Taiji.

He commanded an army of 110,000 Tartars and fought a decisive battle with the main force of Hong Chengchou's Ming army in the Songjin area.

But who knows, only ten days after the start of the war, he saw the hope of defeating the Ming army, that is, Azig led a group of Tartar cavalry and burned the grain and grass that Hong Chengchou had hoarded on Beacon Mountain.

In this way, the Ming army is bound to be unable to fight this battle, and at this time, Huang Taiji also decisively seized the battle.

He did not hesitate to drag his sick body and personally led a team of elite Tartar cavalry to attack, cutting off the retreat of the Ming army, and since then this battle has entered the moment of Tartar sweeping.

Until the Ming army was defeated like a mountain, hundreds of thousands of troops were scattered into countless shares, and those who were chased and killed by the Tartars along the way, trampled on each other and died, countless.

In the end, less than one-third of the Ming army successfully escaped, while the remaining other Ming soldiers fled into Songshan, Xingshan, Ningyuan and other cities.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou led the remnants of less than 10,000 people and was forced to retreat into Songshan City.

Because the way south was cut off by the Tartars, they could not escape, but could only flee to the nearest pine mountain.

At this time, Matsuyama was the target of the Tartars' key attack, and it was completely a lonely city.

Huang Taiji felt a little incredible, this battle was won so smoothly, it was really something that Huang Taiji had not thought of before the war.

And then, they only need to besiege a few cities, such as Songshan and Jinzhou, and slowly consume them with Hong Chengchou, and sooner or later consume the Ming army.

After all, the remnants of the Ming army who retreated to the cities of Songshan did not carry any grain and grass, and they only needed to delay for a while, and they would run out of food.

It can be said that it is only a matter of time before the Tartars are far from completely destroying the Ming army.

Therefore, although Emperor Taiji was plagued by illness in the past two days, he was in a very good mood, and he no longer commanded the Tartars to fight.

Instead, he left the rest of the battle under the command of Zilharang, and stayed in the Tartar camp to recuperate and wait for good news.

It's just that a few days later, a group of people from Shengjing City sent a secret letter to Huang Taiji.

Poof!

As a result, after reading the secret letter sent by Sheng Jingcheng, the joy on Huang Taiji's face disappeared instantly, and an angry appearance appeared, and he spat out a mouthful of blood violently.

"Li Zixiao, I won't kill you, and I won't be a man." Huang Taiji looked up to the sky and roared angrily, and then passed out.

It's a pity that at this time, Huang Taiji's coma could no longer affect the battle between the Tartars and the Ming army on the Songjin front.

Moreover, the guards around Huang Taiji also blocked the news that Huang Taiji was in a coma and vomited blood.

The reason why Huang Taiji was so angry was because he had fully learned at this time what Li Zixiao had done in Shengjing City a few days ago.

In addition, Huang Taiji himself was seriously ill at this time, so that he was so angry that he fainted.

Half a day later, Huang Taiji woke up quietly.

After waking up, Huang Taiji immediately ordered that all the battles on the Songjin front line be under the full command of Jierharang.

"Order, let Dolgon lead 10,000 cavalry and immediately rush to Zhenjiang to exterminate Li Zixiao."

Huang Taiji's face was pale at this time, but his eyes flashed with a fierce light, and he was full of hatred for Li Zixiao, eager to kill him immediately.

At this time, since the main force of Hong Chengchou's Ming army has been defeated by them, there is no need for so many Tartars for the rest of the siege to end the battle.

Huang Taiji was finally able to free up his men and horses to deal with Li Zixiao.

"You go down and make arrangements, and tomorrow I will return to Shengjing." In the end, Huang Taiji blushed and commanded the guards behind him.

Huang Taiji himself was ready to return to Shengjing City, in fact, even if he didn't receive Sheng Jing's secret letter, he wouldn't be able to stay here for long.

Before the war with Hong Chengchou, Huang Taiji was already sick, and after this battle, Huang Taiji even led the army to fight with illness, making him seriously ill at this time.

Originally, he planned to do it for a few days, then return to Shengjing City to recuperate, and leave all the front-line battles to Zilharang and Dolgon.

As a result, the secret letter that Sony sent him from Shengjing City today directly made him angry and had to return to Shengjing ahead of schedule.

Huang Taiji never imagined that Li Zixiao would dare to be bold and lead a mere 2,000 men and horses to kill them in Shengjing.

What's even more fucking is that Da Yu'er actually made Li Zixiao a prisoner in a daze, which is simply slapping him in the face, and hitting him in the face is equivalent to slapping all Tartars in the face!

This is simply a shame, how can Huang Taiji not be angry!

On the second day, Huang Taiji led his own guards back to Shengjing City.

At the same time, Dolgon also led 10,000 Tartar elite cavalry drawn from the Songjin front line on the second day and rushed to Zhenjiang to prepare to deal with Li Zixiao.

At this time, it was already the beginning of July, and Li Zixiao had already led the army and withdrew from Qingtaiyu to Zhenjiang Fort.

Not only did he and Luo Chao all withdraw back, but even Zhou Dazhu's department in the direction of Dadian in the north and Zhao Zilong's department in the west also withdrew one after another.

At the same time, the three-way people completed this task of sweeping, destroying and relocating the population.

They not only burned all the Tartar cities they captured along the way, destroyed a large area of fertile land outside the city, killed all the Tartar men, and brought back all the women and children.

More importantly, they moved to Zhenjiang Fort with a total population of 170,000 people, which was the result of their capture of more than ten Tartar castles and the relocation of dozens of villages.

After all, at this time, outside the Guan, the land is vast and sparsely populated, especially on the Zhenjiang side, the population is even less, far less than the population in the west and near Shengjing City.

Therefore, Li Zixiao's migration of population this time cannot be compared, every time the Tartars enter the customs, they loot four or five hundred thousand people at every turn.

After all, at this time, the population in Daming has exceeded 100 million, and Henan and Shandong are already densely populated areas, and the population of any county is estimated to be able to catch up with the population of a big city in Tartar.

With the migration of as many as 170,000 people by Li Zixiao, there was no human being within a few dozen miles west of the Yalu River.

It seemed to have become a no-man's land, and when Huang Taiji returned, he had to rebuild the cities here, move in a new population, and reorganize the land.

Otherwise, in the future, the Tartars will not receive any money and grain taxes in this land.

Even if the Tartars want to restore here, it will be impossible to do it in a few years, anyway, in the next few years, the Tartars will not want to receive a grain from this land.

The relocation of the people has been going on since Li Zixiao landed in Zhenjiang.

When Li Zixiao led the army to fight with the Tartars on the front line, Lu Yuan and Dong Zhuang were in Zhenjiang Fort, and successively received the people sent back by Luo Chao, Zhao Zilong and Zhou Dazhu.

Then, Lu Yuan will use their naval fleet to transport these people to Tamna Island in batches, and the transportation task has never stopped.

Lu Yuan's naval fleet not only transported the people, but also transported the gold, silver, jewelry, and food that the White Dragon Army had collected from the Tartar cities during this time.

Although, most of the grain, livestock, and a lot of silver they had captured, Li Zixiao distributed them to the people as a supplement to their migration.

But even so, the White Dragon Army still saved an astonishing fortune after looting more than a dozen castles in the Tartars.

After all, this time Li Zixiao asked his subordinates to do it, but the plundering policy of digging three feet into the ground and plucking the feathers of geese is over, as long as it is the wealth of the Tartars, don't let go of a penny.

This time, they seized too much and the people carried too much.

For a whole month, Lu Yuan's two naval fleets took turns to transport, day and night, and only transported no more than 70,000 people to Tamna Island.

When Li Zixiao returned to Zhenjiang Fort with the last batch of White Dragon soldiers, horses and people, there were still 100,000 people gathered outside Zhenjiang City.

It is very troublesome to transport these 100,000 people from Zhenjiang Fort to Tamna Island, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to complete without a month.

Fortunately, Lu Yuan's naval fleet had just received dozens of sand boats built and delivered to them by the Qingjiang Shipyard a week ago, which greatly enhanced the transportation capacity of the naval fleet.

"It's impossible for a month, it's too long, since the overall situation of the Songjin war has been decided, Huang Taiji can free up people to deal with us.

If my prediction is correct, in a few days, Huang Taiji will definitely assign a Tartar cavalry to Zhenjiang to deal with us.

Therefore, we must evacuate all the 100,000 people, already ours, from Zhenjiang before this Tartar team arrives. ”

Li Zixiao's face was also grim at this time, his eyes were solemn, he glanced at Luo Chao, Lu Yuan, Zhou Dazhu and other generals of the White Dragon Army around him, and said.

"General, this is simply impossible, in a few days, it is impossible for us to transport away the 100,000 people here, as well as more than 20,000 of our men and horses, as well as a lot of baggage and other materials.

You know, in the past month, we have been moving people day and night, and we have only transported less than 80,000 people to Tamna Island. ”

After listening to Li Zixiao's words, Lu Yuan looked bitter and shook his head vigorously and said.

"Indeed, in a few days, it is somewhat impossible to transport away our more than 20,000 troops and 100,000 people." Luo Chao on the side also frowned and said.

"General, if you don't let me bring a group of men and horses to the west, if there are really Tartar reinforcements coming, I will be responsible for blocking them for a while to buy time for you."

Zhou Dazhu said.

"Nope." As soon as Zhou Dazhu finished speaking, Li Zixiao didn't think much about it, so he directly vetoed it.

"If Huang Taiji sends someone to deal with us this time, it will be impossible to make a small fight like before.

If Huang Taiji sends troops this time, it will only have to be tens of thousands of horses, and he will also choose a Tartar general to lead and try to annihilate us in one fell swoop.

In this case, whoever you send to take up the task of blocking is basically sent to death.

Especially in the field, we are mostly foot soldiers, even if we have a lot of musketeers, it is still difficult to defeat the Tartar cavalry, after all, in the field battlefield, the initiative is generally under the control of the cavalry.

'The Tartars are less than 10,000, and the 10,000 are invincible', although this sentence is a bit arrogant, but it is not much worse.

At this time, if you encounter a Tartar with ten thousand elite horsemen in the wild, it will be a nightmare at all, unless you have enough troops in your hands, you can't get rid of them at all.

Even if they are afraid of our flintlock pistols, they can still find a way to consume us alive and drag us to death.

Moreover, we are not inside the customs now, but outside the customs, and if time drags on, it will be tantamount to chronic suicide for us, which is not advisable. ”

Li Zixiao analyzed carefully, and after hearing this, the generals of the White Dragon Army next to him couldn't help but nod and agree with Li Zixiao's statement.

Especially Luo Chao, this time he has a deep understanding that it is indeed too difficult to deal with the Tartar Spirit Rider in the wild.

This time, Luo Chao was in Phoenix City, and asked the Tartar cavalry to teach him a good lesson.

At this time, the Tartar cavalry, who already knew that the White Dragon Army had sharp weapons, had given up the practice of frontal impact and adopted more flexible and effective tactics to deal with the White Dragon Army.

In this case, Li Zixiao's strategy of dividing troops to block the Tartar reinforcements and gaining time for migration is absolutely undesirable.

"What then?" Zhou Dazhu couldn't think of a way, looked at everyone, and asked helplessly.

At this time, Zhao Zilong thought about it, stood up, and said to Li Zixiao and everyone: "General, in fact, we have all fallen into a misunderstanding.

Originally, according to the general's previous plan, all these people were to be relocated to Tamna Island, and we did the same a month ago.

Also, don't forget, it took about two days for us to transport a group of people from Zhenjiang to Tamna, so we only sent away less than 80,000 people a month.

However, if we do not send these people to Tamna Island first, but to the nearest Phi Island, it will only take two hours.

And Phi Dao is an island, and it is much more convenient to defend the Tartars than we are in Zhenjiang, plus we have a naval fleet, even if the Tartar cavalry comes.

Only our naval fleet bombarded them with artillery, and the Tartar bows and arrows did not pose any threat to our naval fleet.

Therefore, my proposal is very simple, in the next few days, we will first transport our men and horses, as well as the 100,000 people here, to Phi Island.

At that time, even if the Tartar cavalry really came, they would not be able to cross the sea, and it would not be so easy to kill them on Phi Island.

Then, slowly, we will move the people gathered on Phi Island to Tamna Island.

Anyway, at this time, we have seized a lot of grain in our hands, and there are only 100,000 people on Phi Island, so we can feed for a long time, and we don't have to worry about not having enough food.

If all goes well, we will only need two or three days to complete the relocation of all the soldiers and people to Phi Island. ”

In fact, Zhao Zilong's words, only halfway through speaking, Li Zixiao's eyes lit up and he understood what Zhao Zilong meant.

And soon, the other generals of the White Dragon Army around also whispered, all praising this method for being good!

"Haha, okay, Zilong said it well, this method is feasible." Li Zixiao laughed and said.

(End of chapter)