Chapter 241 The Ghost Fetus of the Slave Chief 2

Chongzhen also really transferred a large number of Liaodong Army and Guanning Army into Guannei to deal with Xing Tianjun according to the design of Huang Taiji. However, what discouraged Huang Taiji was that these Ming officers and soldiers were really too weak. After all kinds of people entered the customs, they did not defeat Xing Tianjun as he expected, but they did not It can fundamentally weaken the strength of Xing Tianjun. On the contrary, after several soldiers went south, they disintegrated under the front of Xing Tianjun. First, Wang Pu was defeated. Then at the end of March, Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Ma Ke and other departments led by Sun Chuanting were defeated in Yanggu County. Sun Chuanting was captured by Xiao Tianjian, and Wu Sangui died in the chaotic army. In the middle, Bai Guangen was forced to surrender Xing Tianjun by Marco, and Marco was later cut off his head by Fu Zonglong.

Chongzhen struggled to organize the last fight, so he completely failed in front of Xiao Tianjian and his Xing Tianjun. Instead of recovering the defeat, he lost the last large number of soldiers and horses available in his hand. Many of them surrendered to the Xing Tianjun afterwards. On the contrary, it has contributed to the strength of Xing Tianjun, and also made the original idea of Huang Taiji's setting not fundamentally realized. At most, it greatly weakened the strength of the Ming Dynasty inside and outside Shanhaiguan.

The failure of the Ming Dynasty not only discouraged Zhu Youjian, but also disappointed the Huang Taiji slave chiefs who had been watching the civil war outside the customs. After Sun Chuanding's defeat, Jiannu was basically sure that the Ming Dynasty was over! The next step is that Xing Tianjun's unification of the Central Plains is only a matter of time.

As a result, Jiannu suddenly had a sense of crisis, and he had to speed up the next step and make sufficient preparations for the enemy in advance.

In fact, in the 12th year of Chongzhen, Dorgun and Yue Tuo returned to the customs. After Huang Taiji learned about the strength of the Xingtian Army, he began to make preparations for the next step to deal with the Xing Tianjun. During the 12 years of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji issued an order to expand the original two flags of the Han army into the Eight Banners, and since then completely formed the Eight Banners of Manchuria. The eight flag systems such as the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Army also advanced the establishment of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty by more than a year.

After making the decision to establish the Han Eight Banners, a large number of Liaodong Han people and a large number of Han people who were taken to Guanwai Jiannu's control area and a large number of Han troops who surrendered to Jiannu were incorporated into the Han Eight Banners, and 20 people were drawn into the Han Eight Banners Army, which were led by Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde and other traitors who defected to Jiannu. .

Moreover, Huang Taiji accepted Dorgun's suggestion and issued a decree to search for Han craftsmen in various iron-producing places outside the customs. On the one hand, he used these Han craftsmen to increase the strength of casting artillery and creating bird guns, and re-picked the firearms such as fire guns, bird guns, three-eyed guns and other firearms of the original captured Daming officials. Come out and distribute it to the Han army, and order these flag owners of the Han army to increase their training of the Han army under their command, intending to repay them in their own way.

Therefore, since the end of the 12th year of Chongzhen, the Han army has been training the use of firearms in the whole Guanwai Jiannu control area, especially in Shengjing (Shenyang) and Liaoyang and other places. There are many iron furnaces. A large number of craftsmen are casting cannons and making birds and other firearms day after night, and there are also many workshops, specially Making gunpowder. After this year, Jiannu has armed tens of thousands of Han troops. These Han troops also imitated the tactics and system of the Xingtian Army. Basically, they are mainly marchers. Nearly half of the soldiers in the army use firearms, which really look a bit like the tactics of the Xingtian Army.

After Xing Tianjun defeated the officers and soldiers under Sun Chuanting in Yanggu County, the news quickly spread outside the customs. At that time, Huang Taiji and a group of slaves and chiefs expected that Xing Tianjun would probably go north to attack the land of Jingfu and Shandong after defeating the Liaodong Army, the most Finally attacked the Ming capital and seized the world, so he immediately began to mobilize troops to gather around Jinzhou in April of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen. They were ready to go south together once the Xingtian army went north to beat the water dog for Daming, strive to be in front of the Xingtian Army, conquer the Shanhaiguan area, hit the Daming Jingshi, and seize the north. The capital.

The idea of Huang Taiji and his slave chiefs is actually very simple. They want to follow the situation of the Liao and Northern Song dynasties. Before the establishment of Xing Tianjun, they first occupy the land of Yanyun and form a condescending situation overlooking the Central Plains, laying the foundation for the enemy and Xing Tianjun to seize the Central Plains in the future.

Anyone who knows a little about history knows that when the Northern Song Dynasty was established, the State of Liao was actually very powerful, and decades before the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty. In order to become emperor and obtain the strong support of Liao, Shi Jingxuan ceded the sixteen states of Yanyun to Liao. At the end of the end of more than a hundred years, he wanted to take back the sixteenth of Yanyun. The state failed to succeed, and it was repeatedly defeated against the Liao Kingdom. Even when the Liao Kingdom was about to be destroyed, it could not defeat the remaining Liao army to control the land of Yanyun.

Therefore, Huang Taiji and his slave chiefs also believe that as long as they control the land of Yanyun in advance, even if Xiao Tianjian and his Xing Tianjun will establish the country in the future, they can only face such a fait accompli, and it will be difficult to regain the land of Yan Yun from their Qing Dynasty.

However, Huang Taiji's mobilization of the slave army immediately attracted the attention of Hong Chengchou, the current governor of Ji Liao. At present, Hong Chengchou is still very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and he does not believe that Huang Taiji will make sincere peace with the Ming Dynasty at all, so when he made peace in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, he strongly opposed it, but It was because when he knew that the wood had become a boat, and Hong Chengchou was unable to return to the sky. He could only withdraw from Jinzhou City by order, lead his troops to withdraw to Ningyuan, and moved a large number of Han people from the original Jinzhou to Ningyuan area. Chen Bing was on guarding and strictly prevented Jiannu from taking the opportunity to go south again.

In the past year, although the imperial court has transferred a large number of officers and troops from outside the customs and entered the customs, which made the army under the control of Hong Chengchou much worse than before, Hong Chengchou still made great efforts to enhance the military strength of Liaodong. At the same time, he asked the emperor Zhu Youjian to change the previous situation of long and put the power to him alone. Hand, unified regulation and control of the armies in Liaodong. Although the troop strength has declined seriously, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers left under his command has been improved to a certain extent.

As soon as the Jiannu army had a strange movement, Hong Chengchou found out in advance, so he immediately mobilized the soldiers and horses in Liaodong to reinforce the area of Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan. This time, both sides made relatively full preparations for war.

Jiannu has drawn out more than 100,000 troops of the Eight Banners of Manchu, Mongolia and Han. First, they gathered in the area of Jinzhou and were ready to attack south, while Hong Chengchou mobilized 50,000 troops to be stationed in Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, making a posture of stagion.

It took more than two months for the two sides to prepare before the war. Just as the war was about to break out, Huang Taiji found that he and his men had misjudged the action of the Xing Tianjun. After the defeat of the Ming army in Yanggu County, the Xing Tianjun did not attack Jingfu and Shandong to the north as they expected. After controlling most of the territory of Shanxi, he began to divide his troops to put the direction of the main attack in the area of Nanzhili.

So Huang Taiji immediately judged that the next step of the Xing Tianjun must be to fight Nan Zhili. After controlling Nan Zhili and a large area of Jiangnan, he may attack northward. So he is fighting Ningyuan now. Obviously, he is a little too impatient. After all, the Han Baqi has not been newly built. The combat effectiveness is not very strong, and a lot of equipment is not yet in place. He is still allowed to prepare for a period of time in time. So after careful consideration, he discussed with his advisers, thinking that Ning Yuan will enter the customs immediately. It's better to wait for a while to prepare more fully. After all, Hong Chengchou's subordinates. There are still 60,000 to 70,000 officers and soldiers who can be mobilized. These officers and soldiers are still fighting hard. If they want to take the land of Yanyun, they must fight hard. It's better to wait and see the limelight and find a better opportunity.

The result was that in June of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Jinzhou, Ningyuan and other places, which were already full of war, suddenly the slave army began to retreat and returned to their territory, so that the war suddenly dissipated invisibly. As a result, Hong Chengchou and many Liaodong soldiers were busy for a long time, and It consumed a lot of money and food.

This time, the withdrawal of Huang Taiji's troops is also quite a wise move. Although the officers and soldiers who entered the customs in the first half of the 13th year of Chongzhen lost a great loss in the battle against the Xing Tianjun in the customs, the officers and soldiers left in the north still have considerable combat effectiveness. At this time, the officers and soldiers did not have a serious shortage of food and salaries. The left-behind officers and soldiers still have considerable strength to make full use of their terrain advantages to fight against them. If Huang Taiji launches an offensive in May and June to attack Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan, it is really not an easy task.

However, after a few months, the situation began to change dramatically. Xiao Tianjian led Xing Tianjun to capture Nanjing City in October, and then quickly captured Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Suzhou, Songjiang Prefecture and other places, completely cutting off Nan Zhili's supply of financial food to the Beijing Normal University in the north, making Daming The government's finances and grain reserves suddenly experienced serious deficits, and grain prices in Beijing also skyrocketed, not to mention the officers and soldiers guarding Guanning.

After entering October, the officers and soldiers in the north began to cut off the supplement of food and salaries. There began to be a serious food shortage in the army and localities. The food produced locally was not enough to feed so many people and the army. By the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Xiao Tianjian was working hard in Nanjing. When he was preparing to ascend the throne, there began to be a serious food shortage in the whole area of Guanning.

At this time, Guan Ning's army could no longer get the military's military service, and even the problem of being full stomach began to appear. In order to make the soldiers full, some military generals did not hesitate to start to plunder the people, so that the situation in the Guanning area immediately fell into chaos.