Throughout April, Zheng Jinhong was busy arranging troops, thinking about deploying an army of 200,000 and being able to unify his efforts when attacking the city of Shenyang, which is not so simple, as for why the emperor would give a month to deploy, in Zheng Jinhong's view, it still has the meaning of consuming the grain and grass of the Eight Banners Army and suppressing the morale of the Eight Banners Army.

Of course, deterrence is more important, you must know that under the blow of the Ming army, the Eight Banners Army is already panicked, in the process of Zheng Jinhong's deployment of the army, there was no attack on the Eight Banners Army, even if it was a small-scale sneak attack, it can be seen that the morale of the Eight Banners Army is extremely low.

As for the consumption is also obvious, Shenyang is already the only city occupied by the Qing Dynasty, nearly 100,000 Eight Banner Army and hundreds of thousands of Manchus live in Shenyang City, the consumption must be huge, a little longer, the Qing Kingdom will definitely be difficult to maintain.

Zheng Jinhong is deployed with full confidence and pride, once upon a time, the Ming army has a strong fear of gold, in the face of the Eight Banners Army, they did not dare to face the battle at all, running faster than a rabbit, in less than ten years, all this is reversed, when the Ming Army faces the Eight Banners Army, it has a strong self-confidence, even if it is out of disadvantage, it will not be afraid at all, I believe that it will be able to defeat the Eight Banners Army, and to be able to do all this, it is completely the wisdom and ability of the emperor.

The capture of Shenyang meant the complete destruction of the Eight Banners Army and the complete destruction of the Qing Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, the fighting spirit of the soldiers is high, and they are even more eager to devote themselves to the battle.

Of course, Zheng Jinhong is fully sober-minded, and he also knows that the upcoming battle will be extremely cruel, the battle of Fengzhen. and the battle to exterminate the Blue Banner of the Eight Banners, leaving Zheng Jinhong not only with an indelible memory, but also with the idea that he must not underestimate the enemy, even if he occupies an absolute advantage, he must deal with the Eight Banners Army with the best state and the sharpest attack.

Shenyang is the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and it was five years after the Apocalypse. That is, in 1625, Nurhachi moved the capital of Houjin here and renamed Shenyang Shengjing, but this title has not been recognized by the Ming Dynasty, and Huang Taiji created the Great Qing Kingdom in Shenyang, so that the Great Qing Kingdom went to the peak.

After the construction of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, the defense system of Shenyang City was extremely strong, and Huang Taiji built the imperial palace in Shenyang, and compared with the Ming capital, Shenyang was divided into the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is dominated by the imperial palace, and all the people who live in the inner city are Manchu nobles. Of course, Shenyang cannot be compared with the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but it is also the largest city in the Qing Dynasty.

In terms of attacking cities and pulling out villages, the Eight Banners Army has never been particularly good at it, and Nurhachi and Huang Taiji have suffered losses in this regard, so they are also very careful in the construction of the city.

As the capital of the Qing Dynasty, Shenyang's city walls are nine meters high. It is one meter higher than the city wall of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which is the height specially built by Huang Taiji. The purpose is to overwhelm the Ming capital, and the moat outside Shenyang is as wide as 50 meters, which is only two meters narrower than the tube river outside the Forbidden City.

When Huang Taiji raised the height and built the city wall, it did not cost much silver taels, and these projects were all built by the Han people, and they were all completed by the Han people who plundered the Eight Banners Army from the Guannei. The moat above the city wall and outside the city has the blood, sweat and even life of the Han people.

The establishment of the Great Qing Dynasty was not long, Chongzhen was established in the ninth year, and in the fifth year of Ruiyuan, a total of thirteen years. Counting the time when Nurhachi moved the capital to Shenyang, it is a total of 23 years, that is to say, the time before and after the Qing Dynasty set the capital of Shenyang is a total of 23 years.

However, in the past 20 years, the changes in Shenyang are huge, the swarming Manchurians, countless looted wealth, are concentrated in Shenyang, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji pay more attention to the construction of the city, so that Shenyang in just more than ten years, become the largest city in the Qing Dynasty, but also become the richest and most solid city in the Qing Dynasty.

However, no matter how the construction, compared with the capital of Shenyang and the Ming Dynasty, there is still a huge gap, its geographical location is outside the customs, whether it is in terms of population, or commerce, there is a big gap, these gaps are only by virtue of the efforts of Huang Taiji, it is impossible to make much progress, and the Manchurians do not pay attention to commerce and trade at all, their main means of obtaining wealth, that is, robbery, they will rarely strive to create wealth, even farming matters, the vast majority of the Manchurians will not.

This limited the development of Shenyang.

In the final analysis, the wealth of Shenyang is actually the wealth of the Manchus, here is the world of the Manchus, the status of the Mongols is second only to the Manchus, as for the Han and Koreans, etc., the lucky ones can become the slaves of the Manchus, and the unlucky ones can't even be slaves, so it can be said that there is no status at all.

Shenyang's prosperity does not depend on its own development, not on the prosperity of commerce and trade, still less on the prosperity of agriculture, but on a large amount of wealth from plunder, which is destined to be the development of Shenyang is not benign, once it encounters the blow of the outside world, this prosperous and prosperous scene will be difficult to maintain.

Today's Shenyang has fallen into a full-scale depression, the reason is very simple, the Qing Dynasty has been closed by the Ming Dynasty for several years, Shenyang can not absorb more wealth, and it is natural that it can not create wealth, and gradually fall into a depression.

After the Eight Banners Army fully retreated to Shenyang, although there were obviously more people inside and outside the city, the scene of depression still existed, and the spirit of most of the people did not seem to be very good, especially those who were full of people.

People who are a little more sober-minded know that it is a matter of time before the Ming army captures the city of Shenyang, the Han people have encountered the **** of the Manchurians for so many years, once the Ming army captures the city, how can the Manchus in the city have a way to live, and the Ming army will not kill the Manchus in the city.

Of course, tracing back to history, when the Ming Dynasty was established, the Jurchens had no status, and Nurhachi rebelled because his father was unjustly killed by the Ming army.

When is the time for retribution, from this aspect, Nurhachi and Huang Taiji are not exempt from vulgarity.

The garrison of the Eighth Banner Army was mainly distributed on the north and south sides of Shenyang, and the defense in the east-west direction was slightly weaker.

The most courageous white flag among the eight flags is stationed in the south, guarding the south gate, which is also the largest city gate in Shenyang, the most important city gate, and the white flag and the red flag are stationed in the north, sticking to the north gate.

The blue flag is stationed in the east of Shenyang, guarding the east gate, and the red flag is stationed in the west of Shenyang, guarding the west gate.

The yellow flag is stationed outside the palace and guards the inner city, and the yellow flag is stationed in the outer city and guards the city of Shenyang.

As the commander-in-chief, Dolgon set up the headquarters in his own mansion, he still has a good mind in this regard, and rejected the suggestion to set the headquarters in the main hall, you must know that the main hall is the place where the emperor deals with political affairs, if he Dolgon is in the palace to handle all matters, where will the emperor be placed.

Dolgon's mansion has become the center of the entire Shenyang, the Manchurian people like to gather wealth and carry wealth all the time, but it helped Dolgon, the grain and grass gathered in Shenyang is enough, when the Eight Banners Army retreated to Shenyang, Dolgon carried out a large-scale cleanup, and the grain and grass in Shenyang City can last for at least a year or so.

Of course, this was Dolgon's algorithm, he only calculated how much grain and grass each person in Shenyang needed to consume per day, and his eyes were fixed on the Manchus, and some Han and Koreans did not necessarily count.

When necessary, Dorgon would confiscate the wealth owned by the Manchu nobles, and if the Qing Dynasty no longer existed, it would be impossible for the Manchu nobles to keep their wealth.

In order to ensure the smooth flow of command, Dolgon issued the strictest orders after obtaining the emperor's consent, whether it was the prince of the Great Qing Kingdom, the prince of the county, Baylor, Beizi or the banner master of the Eight Banners, if he did not obey the battle orders issued by Dolgon, or other orders, Dolgon had the right to dispose of anyone, that is, including Daishan and Zilharang and others, Dolgon could directly dispose of them.

This guaranteed Dolgon's absolute power.

In the entire Shenyang City, the only place where Dolgon will not interfere is in the palace, in fact, there is no need for Dolgon to interfere in the palace, and there are many concubines in the imperial taiji, except for a few strong ones, the rest are panicked, and it is difficult to take care of themselves, where will they care about what happens outside.

The most sober of the concubines was Concubine Zhuang, the emperor's mother, but Concubine Zhuang was very clever and never asked Dolgon what decisions he had made and why, but she expressed absolute support for Dolgon.

The emperor is a lot more sophisticated, and at the age of twelve, he can sit still, even if it is not simple.

The Manchu nobles all understood that in fact, at this time, Dolgon was the actual emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, and if Dolgon was willing, he could even abolish the Shunzhi Emperor and become the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom himself, and if Dolgon did this, the Manchu nobles would not object, on the contrary, many Manchu nobles would express their support.

Absolute power also means responsibility.

Shenyang is in danger, the Qing Kingdom is in danger, everyone looks at Dolgon to see if Dolgon can turn the tide and whether he can really save the Qing Dynasty.

The vast majority of the Manchus believed that Dolgon could save the Qing Dynasty, just as they believed that the Qing Kingdom could rule the Central Plains, and their brave and ruthless character gave them an innate self-confidence, even if they hit the southern wall, they would not bow their heads.

Under such circumstances, Dolgon's position was secured, even more stable than that of Huang Taiji, which allowed Dolgon to concentrate on arranging the defense of Shenyang. (To be continued.) )