Chapter 113: The Bitter Emperor Taiji
After thinking about this, so Huang Taiji hated Dolgon was too stupid, stupid to the point of Cheng dù, but this is easy to say, but it is probably not easy to do, in other words, with 100,000 troops into the customs, tossing for half a year, with people and horses straight into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty for 2,000 miles, with great effort to break through dozens of towns.
It was not easy to capture so many people and goods, and if he lost it, he would lose it, I am afraid that even he would not be able to make up his mind, and Dolgon must have been affected by the generals below, even if he was willing to give up these people and goods, I am afraid that those Mongolian tribes would not be reluctant, including the generals of the banners.
Therefore, although Huang Taiji can understand it, if he really makes such a determination and order to break the wrist of a strong man at that time, I am afraid it will be very difficult.
Moreover, he also realized the strength of the Yu family army, which used a tactic that they were completely unfamiliar with and some weapons that they were completely unfamiliar with, and achieved an overwhelming advantage on the field battlefield and obtained an unrivaled combat power.
This kind of Yu family army is almost invincible, not to mention the soldiers and horses under the command of Dolgon at that time, even if the elite of the three banners under him is added together, I am afraid that they may not be the opponents of the Yu family army.
This time, they were in trouble with Houjin, and this Yu Xiaotian was rumored to be the head of the Seawolf Group in Fujian, who was still doing business with them, Huang Taiji began to wonder why Yu Xiaotian was embarrassed with their Houjin, and suddenly attacked them.
But after careful consideration, it was found that this time they Houjin Army acted as an excellent stepping stone for Yu Xiaotian, Yu Xiaotian made full use of the hatred of the Ming Dynasty and the people for their Jiannu, first defeated their Jiannu army, won the hearts and minds of the people, and then turned against the Ming court, so as not to attract the unanimous accusations of the Ming Dynasty and others.
So their Houjin was used to death by Yu Xiaotian this time, and after Huang Taiji wanted to understand this, he trembled with anger and scolded Yu Xiaotian for being insidious.
Sure enough, not long after he learned the news of the destruction of his army entering the pass, he heard news from the pass, saying that the Ming court sent troops to start fighting with the Yu family army within a few days after the defeat of their Houjin army.
But to everyone's surprise, Yu Xiaotian was not defeated because he had just fought a fierce battle with their Houjin army, but on the contrary, he defeated the two Ming officials and armies, and also beheaded Wu Xiang, the general of Guanning.
Then Yu Xiaotian played the banner on the side of the Qing monarch, and wanted to enter the Ming Jingshi with great fanfare.
This confirmed all Huang Taiji's conjectures, and confirmed that Yu Xiaotian led his troops north this time, and indeed used their Houjin and used them as stepping stones, Huang Taiji sighed, guessing that this time I am afraid that even the Ming court will be in trouble, and it is not good that Yu Xiaotian will change the banner of the Ming Dynasty this time, and the dynasty usurped the throne successfully.
But no matter how accurate his guess is, now they Jiannu are facing big trouble, after learning the news, it turned out that Huang Taiji, who was still in the Guanjin area, was still eyeing the Guanjin area, and there was a big fight against the Guanjin area, after crying, he didn't even fart, and Lima led his troops back to Shengjing Shenyang, because he knew that they were in big trouble this time.
From now on, it's not the time for them to look for trouble everywhere, but someone will come to them for trouble at any time, especially the Mongolian tribes, I guess this time don't want them to continue to be a dog leg for Houjin.
There is also Chao Xian, it is estimated that after learning this news, he will definitely not become as calm and deferential as before, but will find a way to go back to their former master, Da Ming.
Therefore, Huang Taiji decided to strike first, and after returning to Shengjing, he immediately sent troops to enter the Chaoxian first, forced the Chaoxian king to give them a batch of grain, forced the Chaoxian king to give them more than 100,000 taels of silver, and almost hanged the Chaoxian king, and then plundered the western states of Chaoxian, robbing tens of thousands of Chaoxian, and brought back to Liaodong.
As for the Mongolian tribes, Huang Taiji was not idle, and sent people to the Mongolian tribes to contact and instigate the relationship between them, so that the Mongolian tribes themselves fought dog-eat-dog first, and they couldn't attack them for a while.
In addition, Huang Taiji also learned the news from the Guannei, Yu Xiaotian unexpectedly invaded the Ming Jingshi, and finally controlled the Ming Dynasty's government, put the Ming Emperor's Chongzhen Emperor under house arrest in the palace, and bloodied the Ming court officialdom, arrested and exiled a large number of Ming court officials, successfully ascended to the throne, and became the Ming Dynasty's prison state.
This is a little different from Huang Taiji's initial expectations, originally he thought that after Yu Xiaotian entered Beijing, he might seek to usurp the throne and subvert the Ming Dynasty from scratch, but now it seems that Yu Xiaotian is more vicious than he originally expected.
Yu Xiaotian is still holding back, but to use a soft knife to completely dismember the Ming Dynasty, and then slowly eat the Ming Dynasty step by step, he now wants to use the name of Emperor Chongzhen to clean the inside of the Ming Dynasty first, and gradually control all parts of the Ming Dynasty in his hands, and when he completely calms down the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that it is Yu Xiaotian to kick Chongzhen away, and it is time to announce that he will ascend to the world.
Although Huang Taiji is very smart and sees the little Jiujiu in Yu Xiaotian's stomach thoroughly, but now no matter how smart he is, he can't recover the current predicament.
So Huang Taiji also quickly lowered his posture, repaired the book many times and sent people to Guannei, and voted for Yu Xiaotian, claiming that they were willing to serve the Guannei court from now on, and were willing to act as a vassal state of the Guannei court, and pay tribute to the Guannei court, and never seek rebellion.
Huang Taiji only mentioned that he was willing to be the vassal king of the Guannei court, but he never mentioned the Ming court, just to show favor to Yu Xiaotian, and tell Yu Xiaotian that he didn't care if Yu Xiaotian was the emperor in the future, even if Yu Xiaotian became the emperor, he was willing to give Yu Xiaotian a tribute, not just for the Ming court.
But he sent people into the customs many times to submit letters to Yu Xiaotian, but they were all like a stone sinking into the sea, and he did not get any reply, and Yu Xiaotian completely ignored his suggestions, as if he had not heard his demands at all.
Gradually, Huang Taiji realized that things were probably very troublesome, and he sped more about Xiaotian, and later spent a lot of money to find out the news, and found a thing that made him feel extremely terrifying, that is, it was rumored that Yu Xiaotian hated most in his life was that they built slaves, and it seemed that he was born with a strong sense of hostility towards their Jiannu, and he had repeatedly said in front of people that he would also destroy their Jiannu, and called them Jiannu the biggest enemy in China, and it was not enough to eliminate future troubles.
In this way, Huang Taiji knew why he repeatedly submitted letters to Yu Xiaotian, lowered his posture and expressed his willingness to bow down to his subordinates, but he did not get any response from the other party.
In addition, through some channels, he also found out that the group of pirates who now occupy Fort Arthur is actually behind Yu Xiaotian's forces, but a nail laid by Yu Xiaotian.
When Huang Taiji heard the news, he was immediately furious, and ordered to hunt down and kill those Fujianese who were doing business with them in Liaodong, and also mobilized heavy troops to attack Fort Arthur, and completely uprooted this nail from Liaodong to prevent future troubles.
But when the people sent to arrest people came back, he realized that in fact, those Fujian people who did business with them had already slipped away in advance, and in their merchants, the people who stayed were basically hired local people from Liaodong, and they had nothing to do with them at all.
As for the soldiers and horses sent to attack Fort Arthur, not to mention, Fort Arthur has long been managed into a fortified fortress by sea wolves over the years, the city wall has been heightened and strengthened a lot, and many artillery forts have been built, and the original city wall has been rebuilt, and it has been built into a strangely shaped angular fortress, with no dead ends in almost all directions.
In addition, in Fort Arthur, stationed about 800 Yujia army sailors, equipped with dozens of cannons of various types, in Port Arthur, there are three permanent medium gunboats, each gunboat, is also equipped with more than 20 guns of various types, basically more than half are 24-pound heavy guns, one can patrol the sea around Arthur Port, to prevent Jiannu from sneaking attack from the sea by boat, and the other can help Fort Arthur guard.
As a result, the Jiannu army sent to attack Fort Arthur was sad, and after the soldiers and horses of the 5,000 blue banners were sent, they were beaten into a pot of porridge in one day, and even the commander Azig who was sent to lead the troops to attack the city was directly crushed by the cannon outside the fort, and only a pile of rotten meat was cleaned up, and the head was only half pulled, and he couldn't die anymore.
5,000 Qing soldiers were killed and wounded on the spot, nearly 2,000 people were wounded, more than half of the losses were lost, and the rest were attacked by the sailors in the fort out of the city.
Huang Taiji once again comprehended the power of the Yu family army, and hurriedly issued an order, gathering all the skilled craftsmen of the entire Qing Dynasty, hurriedly casting the Hongyi cannon, and finding a way to build the bird gun used by the Ming army, so as to use it to compete with the Yu family army next.
Tong Guò this time the Qing army was defeated in the pass, Huang Taiji realized that but with their previous kind of cavalry, bows and arrows, as well as knives and guns, it was no longer enough to confront the new army under Yu Xiaotian's command, the opponent's firearms were sharp, which was beyond his knowledge of firearms, if he wanted to compete with them, then he could only use firearms to restrain the firearms of the Yu army, otherwise they would not have the capital to compete with the Yu army at all.
At this time, Jiannu Tong guò even entered the customs and plundered, and among the people who were taken back to the outside of the pass, there were many craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, and among these craftsmen, there were naturally some people who knew how to cast cannons, and some people who knew how to build bird guns.
For the Hongyi cannon, some people have seen how to cast, for the shape of the Hongyi cannon and the casting method has an understanding, although Yu Xiaotian prevented Kong Youde from defecting to Jiannu, but they still tried their best to obtain the casting technology of the Hongyi cannon, of course, they are not very proficient, the casting of the Hongyi cannon is simple, clumsy, but on the whole, it is still the Hongyi cannon, and the power should not be underestimated, but the quality is really a little worrying.