In the city of Nanjing, the clouds are treacherous, and the dark tide is surging; On the battlefield in Henan, it fell into a short period of calm.

Originally, because of Xu Yifan's sneak attack, Duoduo was furious, and wanted to attack Zhangde Mansion again, take Zhangde Mansion and Weihui Mansion in one fell swoop, and at least drive the Tianwei army across the Yellow River, so that he could get out of the evil spirit in his chest, but after all, Duoduo still didn't do this, and had to stop in the Daimyo's Mansion.

The reason is very simple, in the battle of the Daimyo's Mansion, Duoduo finally saw the strong combat power of the Tianwei Army, and more than half of the casualties of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, especially the casualties of the main elite cavalry were too serious, and they were already seriously injured; As for the two white flags and the two blue flags, because of several battles, the casualties were not few, at least more than 10,000 elites of the Eight Banners withdrew from the battle, such a large-scale battle attrition, so that the main elite under Duoduo was too badly damaged, although there was Liu Zeqing's supplement to the strength of Shandong Town, but after all, Liu Zeqing's Shandong soldiers' combat power was too inferior, not to mention that compared with the elite of the Eight Banners, even compared with the Guanning Iron Cavalry, it was not at the same level, and the combat power of the Qing army inevitably declined.

If you want to storm Zhangde Mansion and Weihui Mansion, or even cross the Yellow River by force, even if the defense of these three places is not as good as that of the Daimyo's Mansion, but the strong Tianwei Army will still bring huge casualties to the Qing army, just by virtue of the current strength of the Qing army, especially the strength of the Eight Banners, it is absolutely impossible to withstand continuous casualties!

Duoduo was in a rage, naturally he couldn't think about these things, but, only a moment later, Duoduo calmed down, Guan Ning's iron cavalry was greatly injured, and the casualties of the elite cavalry of his four banners were not small, and now he still has to continue fighting? Do you really want to fight with the Tianwei Army to burn a jade stone? Even if the Guanning Iron Cavalry is all dead, it is not terrible, anyway, it is not Manchurian, but his Eight Banners elite cannot afford to lose, there is a big war in the future, a city that is stronger than the Daimyo's Mansion, Daming is not nothing, Kaifeng Mansion, Luoyang Mansion, Fengyang Mansion, Xuzhou, Yangzhou Mansion, and even Nanjing City, one is stronger than the other, really wait until the time to win Nanjing City, the Eight Banners elite are only afraid that they will die, so what will their brothers use to rule the splendid rivers and mountains of the Ming Dynasty?

"Lord Wang, with all due respect, if we want to continue the attack, we must no longer use the elite strength to fight the Tianwei Army, the Tianwei Army is the main defense, we are the main attack, we are at a disadvantage, these hundred battles elite casualties, we will have one less, but it is not so quickly replenished, the casualties are too huge, not to mention ruling the entire Ming Dynasty, even if it is to rule the Gyeonggi area, it will be difficult......"

Wu Sangui smiled bitterly.

Duoduo nodded, his face gloomy, and said fiercely: "Lord Wu, what do you mean?" ”

Wu Sangui said in a deep voice: "Yichen's meaning, naturally is to recruit troops and horses, expand the Han army, with the elite of the Eight Banners as the backbone, with the Han army as the basic force, expand the military strength, and the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, the main force of the siege in the future will inevitably make the infantry, our infantry strength is too small, we must expand the infantry strength as soon as possible, so as to be in a favorable position in the siege battle!" ”

Duoduo hesitated, "Expand the army? It's just that, once the infantry is the main force, the speed of our attack will drop significantly, giving the Tianwei army and even the Ming a chance to breathe, and the future attack will be more difficult; Second, recruiting soldiers and buying horses is easy to say, and it can really be done, but there are many difficulties, what about military salaries? Where does the pay come from? What about weapons? ”

Wu Sangui replied: "Lord, even if it is difficult, we must expand the army, expand the Han army, think about it, the entire Ming Dynasty, the territory of tens of thousands of miles, if only relying on the more than 100,000 troops of the Eight Banners, it is definitely not enough to rule this river and mountain, do you know the strength of the Ming Dynasty at its peak?" The entire Ming Dynasty has more than one million troops! Not to mention anything else, the south seven north sixty-three provinces, plus the south and north of the Zhili, this is fifteen provinces, in addition to the normal garrison, but also need to garrison, the northwest of the Huibu, due north of Mongolia, the southwest of the Miaobu, all need to force pressure, not to mention the problem of fighting down and defending, even if you want to capture the whole world, that does not know how many soldiers will be killed, when Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang killed Zhang Shicheng, suppressed Chen Youliang, and chased Meng Yuan in the north, how many soldiers were killed or wounded? I'm afraid there will be no less than five or six hundred thousand! Lord Wang, the minister dared to ask, how many 100,000 people can you come up with in Manchuria? “

Duoduo's face turned dark, how many hundred thousand people? Damn, I can't even take out two! The Manchurians, even counting all the old and weak women and children, will definitely not exceed one million, and as for the strong people who can be drawn out, take one out of five, and they are afraid that they will die, that is, if they have a strength of 200,000 people, they will take out several hundred thousand people, isn't that a slap in the face?

However, Wu Sangui's words did point to the most critical place, the Manchurians were underpopulated and insufficient, and if they wanted to capture the entire Ming Dynasty and rule the entire Ming Dynasty, they must rely on the Han army, and without enough Han troops, it would be absolutely impossible to complete the rule of tens of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains.

Duoduo gritted his teeth and asked, "But, even if we want to expand the Han army, we must be able to come up with enough generals, right?" ”

Wu Sangui shook his head and said in a deep voice: "Lord Wang, it's very simple, in fact, among the eight banners of the Han army, there are not a few talented people who command the army, Zu Dashou, Zu Kuan's father and son; Tong Yangxing, Gao Di, Shang Kexi, Geng Zhongming, Geng Jingzhong father and son; Shen Zhixiang, Zhang Dayou, Bao Chengxian, Ma Guangyuan, Cai Shiying, Sun Degong, Wang Shixuan, etc., are all good generals, and even Liu Zeqing is not a straw bag, so many generals, even if each person expands the Han army by 10,000, there must be more than 100,000 Han troops, right? Moreover, the prince can draw some generals from the elite of the Eight Banners to directly lead the Han army, if the Qing Dynasty can now have 300,000 Han troops, then the fall of the Ming Dynasty is simply easy, as for military salaries, that's not a thing, we occupy the Central Plains, are you still afraid that you won't be able to raise military salaries? ”

Duoduo was relieved, and said in a deep voice: "What Lord Wu said is good, but this matter is very important, and it is not something that this king can decide, so this king will send someone to the court and ask the regent to decide, compared to the regent, he will make a choice!" ”

Duoduo believes that with his own ability, there is no reason why the fourteenth brother can't see it, maybe the fourteenth brother has already begun to make deployments, and maybe if he can really sit on 100,000 Han army infantry, then not to mention Zhangde Mansion and Weihui Mansion, even if he takes Fengyang and Nanjing, it is not a problem!

Dorgon was right, and that was the question that Dorgon was thinking about today!

(End of chapter)