Chapter 197 Winter Truce

The whole battle of Liaodong lasted until the end of October, and the first year's combat phase was completed, in the two-way battle for half a year from April to October.

Under the leadership of Luo Li and with the cooperation of a large number of Mongolian cavalry, the Left Route Army successfully recovered a large area of land west of the Liao River and the Sancha River, and almost slaughtered all the Jiannu in this area. After learning about the brutal \ policy of the Dazhong Army's treatment of them, they abandoned their occupation time and The land, which was not too long, fled back to Liaoyang, Haizhou and other places to take refuge, and a large number of Han slaves who were originally abducted by Jiannu took the opportunity to escape from their masters one after another, and even took advantage of the opportunity to attack and kill their masters, and took the heads of Jiannu to the Dazhong Army.

After the right-wing army broke through Jinzhou City, which was called solid by Jiannu at the end of July, under the leadership of Li Xin and Diao Zheng, they advanced from south to north to the hinterland of Liaodong, and pulled the North Korean servant army all the way to launch a continuous attack on Liaodong from east to west.

Although neither of them could attack Shengjing, where Jiannu, before the road was closed by the heavy snow in October, Xiao Tianjian was quite satisfied with the result of this year's offensive. The whole Liaodong Peninsula basically fell back into the hands of the Han people in the past six months, and a large number of Jiannu, who were enslaves on the Liaodong Peninsula, were killed. Or they fled back to the hinterland of Liaodong, which greatly reduced the control area of Jiannu and was compressed into the hinterland of Liaodong. Whether by land or sea, they were completely cut off from the opportunity to trade with the outside by the Dazhong army, which also made them completely not get the possibility of North Korean food.

In this year, North Korea performed quite actively. In addition to requisitioning tens of thousands of people to assist the Dazhong army to launch a war against the slaves, it also mobilized soldiers and horses from the Dazhong army to fight against the Jian slaves, and also mobilized a large amount of grain and materials to support the actions of the Dazhong army, which made the Dazhong Dynasty avoid a lot of food supplies to the right army. The logistics is troublesome.

Over the years, Jiannu has bullied all the surrounding ethnic groups in Liaodong. Now, after returning to Liaodong with the big and medium-sized army, the surrounding tribes here have also seen the weakness and predicament of Jiannu.

When Jiannu was strong, he suppressed these tribes with great military advantages and did not dare to resist, but at this time, Jiannu sadly found that they were enemies on all sides. Many tribes that used to be very obedient to them actually abandoned their identity of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and fled to their control and returned to the mountains. Looking at the limelight, some people began to fight against Jiannu. What bullied was that Jiannu could not vacate his hands to deal with them now.

After a whole year of war, Jiannu's pocket, which was not rich, was even more stricken to the extreme. Unlike the previous Jiannu's war, this time Jiannu belongs to the completely defeated party. They can no longer enjoy any war dividends, and it is no longer possible to obtain slaves for their service through war.

For them, this summer is like a nightmare. No bullshit agriculture can be harvested. In addition to losing a large area of controlled land, even the land they did not lose, because of the restlessness of Han slaves and the transfer of a large number of flag soldiers to fight, the year of Jiannu The grain harvest is very poor.

When the first heavy snow in October began to fall, there was news that food prices had soared in Shengjing.

Once upon a time, food outside the customs was also very scarce. Jiannu plundered the grain property of the Chinese people through the continuous use of troops, but bought food from the mainland through the gold and silver goods obtained.

Many unscrupulous businessmen, especially Jin merchants, hoarded grain in Guannei under the high profit **, and then transshipped it to sell it to Jiannu. Through this means, Jiannu reduced the price of grain outside the customs to a level, which was impossible to imagine.

On the contrary, due to the climate, the famine continued, and the grain was transported out of the customs by a large number of traitors and merchants, resulting in the outbreak of peasant armies in Guannei, especially in Shaanxi.

But today's year is the fourth year of Tianyuan. If it is calculated according to the old historical trajectory, it is the winter of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. For Jiannu, they can no longer obtain food by this means.

History is so ironic. According to the historical development process of the old time and space, this year is also the time for the slaves to enter the customs. The Qing army entered the customs and embarked on the process of conquering the whole Central Plains.

However, after the appearance of Xiao Tianjian, the historical process has changed dramatically. Under the urging of the Dazhong Army, the Ming Dynasty collapsed more than three years in advance. The Qing army did not capture the land of Yanyun as expected. Instead, it was defeated by the Dazhong Army in the Shanhaiguan area and was retracted back to Liaodong. .

After three years, according to Xiao Tianjian's original oath, the Dazhong Army began the battle against Liaodong Jiannu. Although it was one year later than Xiao Tianjian's two years as expected at the beginning, it finally came.

Jiannu finally tasted the bitterness of the losers. When this winter came, he began to go to their end.

But what is strange is that Huang Taiji has been sick since a few years ago. He persisted until this time, and did not suddenly burp in August of this year as in history.

However, in October, Huang Taiji finally finished his glorious and pathetic life. In the midst of the songs on all sides, on the tenth night of October, he died in the Qing Palace in Shengjing.

In the past six months, in the face of the attack of the Dazhong army, Dorcong and Huang Taiji temporarily gave up the infighting for power and concentrated on preventing the attack of the Dazhong army against their slaves.

However, in the face of continuous defeats, when he entered October, Huang Taiji still felt that he could not hold on, because Hauge disappeared after Chongzhen's 14th year of entry, and it was impossible to succeed to the throne. Therefore, before his death, he issued a decree to pass the throne to his living eldest son, that is, his fourth son, Ai Xinjue Luo Yebu. Shu, let him inherit the throne and continue to rule his so-called Qing Dynasty.

History has completely changed its trajectory. Because of various great changes, Emperor Shunzhi was not able to inherit the throne, and it is no longer possible for Emperor Shunzhi to appear in history.

After the death of Ye Bushu, the fourth son of Huang Taiji, ascended the throne in Shengjing. On that day, he changed his name to Shunde and became the second emperor of Jiannu, known as the emperor of Shunde.

Because of the consecutive defeat in a row, Dorcon fled back to the area of Liaoyang. He did not dare to enter Shengjing, so he did not dare to participate in the competition for the throne. However, as soon as Huang Taiji died, he still favored his power among the joint slaves. When he entered the capital, he thought that the emperor Taiji was in the name of mourning and meeting the new emperor, he forced He forced the newly succeeded Emperor of Shunde to admit his position in Jiannu and appointed him as a regent to unify the dispatch of soldiers and horses to resist the "invasion" of the Dazhong army.

However, no matter how much they toss, this winter is destined to be a difficult winter for Jiannu. The serious food shortage of Jiannu led to a large number of Jiannu and their slaves to starve to death after the winter.

A large number of slaves had to rebel in order to survive, or find a way to escape, forcing Dorcon to send troops everywhere throughout the day to suppress this rebellious chaos.

Because of the lack of food, it also led to the stagnation of Jiannu's mining. A large number of miners either rebelled to grab grain, starved to death, or fled into the deep mountains and old forests, and the craftsmen could not start work, which made Jiannu's life even more sad.

They could have relied on craftsmen in Shengjing and Liaoyang to build weapons for them to supplement their military supplies, but at this time, they could no longer maintain it.

Although after the winter, the large and medium-sized troops stopped their offensive actions and turned to shrink their troops into on-site defense, their actions had broken the backbone of Jiannu, and the rest relied on the severe cold in Liaodong to make a final blow to Jiannu.

Although maintaining this year's conquest of Liaodong is also very difficult for the Greater China and the DPRK. After all, the Greater China DPRK has now pact down the southern provinces and obtained more resources to support this protracted war. In terms of materials, hundreds of large ships continue to provide support to the troops in Liaodong, so their situation is better than I don't know how many times Jiannu is better. At least it is no problem for the troops in Liaodong to be able to eat enough after winter.

Before the arrival of the severe cold, the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of War united to mobilise coastal military and civilian ships, delivered a large number of grain to Liaodong, and transferred them to various places to hoard for the wintering of the army. Moreover, the Northern Expedition also used the generals of the north as much as possible. After the winter, a large number of people were not adapted to the north. The soldiers in the cold weather retreated to the area of Shandong for rest, so there was basically no excessive frostbite in one winter, and the non-war sever was not as serious as originally expected.

Especially during the early war, the Dazhong army obtained a huge amount of leather sheets of Jiannu. After the winter, the army used these leather sheets to make a large number of leather clothes to provide for the soldiers to keep out the cold. At the same time, they built thick barracks on the spot for the soldiers of the Dazhong army to keep out the cold, and drove the prisoners to cut firewood for the Dazhong army. Salary, supply soldiers will be used for heating, and even straw has been cleaned up, and it has been brought into various camps and cities to supply the military for heating.

Therefore, with full preparation for the war, this winter makes it easier for the Dazhong army to spend, which does not affect the combat effectiveness of the Dazhong army.

Especially after the announcement of the ban on the sea, the fishing industry along the coast has developed very rapidly in the past two years. People all over the coast have built their own fishing boats to go to sea for fishing, and also provided a large number of seafood for the military. These catches have been marinated and transported in large quantities to Liaodong for military lieutenants to eat, reducing the number of The consumption of livestock meat also provides valuable protein and fat intake for military generals, ensuring the military's overwintering use.