Chapter 455 The Return of the World II
The smoke dissipated, and in the early hours of the morning, there was a bustle of people in the direction of Dongzhimen, dogs and horses mingling, Huang Taiji and the Eight Banners nobles were all there, their eyes full of reluctance.
"Has Haug come back?"
"Your Majesty, King Su's troops left after midnight, and we are counting on the time to return."
"What's going on with Dorgon?"
"No news yet."
Huang Taiji looked at the sky and waved: "Let's go..."
The number of Eight Banners and Manchu and Mongolian family members is no less than 500,000. These are just family members. The total strength of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry and the Han Eight Banners is 150,000, which is a huge number.
The operation started in the early morning. It was impossible for the Ming army to pay attention to such a huge noise. But what puzzled the Eight Banners was that there were tens of thousands of Ming troops forming a formation not more than ten miles away from Dongzhimen. Waiting, but these Ming troops seemed to be a farewell team and did not take any action at all.
After receiving the news, Chen Cao stood up from the arms of the two women. After he was fully dressed, he and a group of generals were watching not far away. After standing for nearly half an hour, he said: "It seems that Huang Taiji is still smart. Man, who’s coming?”
Zhao Xin said: "Ning Wanme and Fan Wencheng."
"Both of these two people are Han people from Liaodong. They took refuge with the Jianzhou Tatars in their early years. Now I heard that Huang Taiji relied on him as his right-hand man."
After hearing this, Chen Cao said: "This method of walking is estimated to be completed before noon tomorrow, and we can enter Beijing without any bloodshed;
Renxin, you will lead the General Staff Headquarters and the Yang Lian brothers to take over the capital tomorrow and stabilize the public order. I will personally go to Shanhaiguan to resolve the old grievances between Ming Dynasty and Jianzhou. "
"Your Majesty," a galloping horse came over: "Your Majesty, there is news in the city that the leader of the troops fighting the Shence Army in the west of Beijing is named Dorgon, and there is also his brother Duduo."
"It turns out that these two brothers are quite interesting. Zhao Xin, along with Daishan, tried his best to persuade these two men and their men to surrender."
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At dawn, Huang Taiji's vanguard cavalry had passed Jizhou. Surrounded by a group of Eight Banners nobles, Huang Taiji pulled the reins of the war horse: "Where is this?"
"Your Majesty, we can reach Zuotunwei territory in Xingzhou in another fifty miles."
After Ning Wan, I rode my horse to Huang Taiji and said: "Your Majesty, it is not a problem for the large group of people in front of us to arrive in Fengrun County before noon, but the family members of the Eight Banners in the rear group have just arrived in Jizhou, and there are still many baggage that are still heading to Jizhou. On the way."
"Hauge..."
"Father..."
Huang Taiji looked at Hauge and said: "We Eight Banners disciples must not give up our families, otherwise we will lose the opportunity to make a comeback. Twenty thousand people are divided into two groups with yellow flags. You return to Jizhou immediately and take your family members north to the Malanyu Pass and return to the outside of the Pass. Mr. Fan. ..”
Fan Wencheng held up his hand and Huang Taiji said: "You follow King Su, Hauge. If you have any questions on the way, please ask Mr. Fan."
"Take orders..."
Huang Taiji once again looked back at the endless cavalry team behind him and said: "Let's set off..."
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"Long live my emperor, long live long live..."
"Long live my emperor, long live long live..."
"Long live my emperor, long live long live..."
After saying long live for three times, Chen Cao, supported by elite soldiers and generals, entered Beijing from Dongzhimen, where slaves had escaped. Thinking that the last time he was in Beijing was in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, he couldn't help but sigh.
At this moment, Chen Cao couldn't care less about showing off his power in the city of Beijing. Pursuing the slaves according to the advance plan was the focus, so he left Li Yan in a stable place in the capital according to the plan, and then led his troops to begin a rapid march north.
In addition to the fact that Dorgon and the Duduo brothers were not completely persuaded to surrender, the fighting around Beijing has not yet ended.
"If You Shiwei's men arrive, tell him to go to Shanhaiguan immediately to intercept the Jiannu Tatars, no matter what he does..."
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Shanhaiguan is the most powerful pass in the world. After Chongzhen hanged himself, the general guarding the pass, Zhao Ledjiao, and the Daling forward general Zuo Fu guarded the pass at the same time. However, it was eventually captured by the Tatars. The general guarding the pass, Zhao Ledjiao, committed suicide, and the general Zuo Fu guarded the pass. He was seriously injured and captured, and used to coerce the guards to surrender.
Zuo Fu has been imprisoned in a prison in Guan Nei since he recovered from his injury.
Shanhaiguan is strategically located. After Huang Taiji took control of Shanhaiguan, he ordered his nephew Nikan to guard Shanhaiguan and deployed a group of other nobles from the Eight Banners.
Nikan was sorting out the reports from the capital in the past few days. He deeply felt the crisis of Manchuria's existential status in the Central Plains during the failed battle with the Ming army. Not long after, a Gesheha ran into the general military office in a panic. The lobby interrupted Nikan who was deep in thought.
"Master, something bad is going on. There are a large number of defeated troops outside the pass. They all fled from Shengjing."
Nikan was shocked and turned pale. He quickly got up and followed Goshiha's lead to Beiguan City. When he stood on the top of the city, he saw a steady stream of defeated soldiers coming from the east of Liaodong.
"Beizi, the situation is unknown. I dare not let these people enter the city."
Ilden, who got the news earlier, saw this situation and strictly ordered not to put in a single pawn until the situation was clear.
Nikan frowned: "Open the door and let some people into the city to find out the details..."
Not long after, two generals dressed as Niu Lu and wearing white flags were brought to the top of the city. They knelt down in front of Nikan with a plop. The first general kowtowed in Manchu and cried: "My lord, disaster has happened, disaster has happened to Shengjing." lost..."
One of the Goshi slapped the Niu Lu over and scolded: "Beizi Nikan, the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan Pass, is in front of me. What nonsense are you talking about? How could Shengjing lose it?"
Ilden turned to the other Niulu and asked, "Tell me, where are General Shengjing and Shuotu now?"
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Another Niu Lu cried loudly: "Beizi, the Ming army landed at Lushun and raided all our strongholds along the way. By the time the news reached Shengjing, the Ming army's forward troops had already arrived twenty miles away from Shengjing. The vanguard of the army was not Mingren, and they all said words we couldn't understand. Not to mention those people were short in stature, but they fought harder than us. After hearing the news, General Heshuotu led 3,000 Shengjing left cavalry out of the city to meet the enemy. , the cavalry battle in the distance was suppressed by the Ming army's firearms, and when the infantry rushed up, it was a one-sided massacre..."
This general is talking about the Yingzhou Army that has been requisitioned. The deputy commander is Hirata Zhaoyi, whose Chinese name is Zhao Jiadi, and their military political commissar is also the actual commander, who is the then imperial censor Gao Hongtu. .
After the Manchu cavalry, which has always claimed to be the best in cavalry combat, was suppressed by muskets, the Yingzhou army rushed up and started fighting fiercely. Even when Zhejiang was fighting against the Japanese, ten people had to form a mandarin duck formation to kill the enemy. Under such circumstances, the Manchus, who were also short in stature, were no match for the Japanese.
After only the first round, they were overwhelmed by the Yingzhou Army. General Shengjing and Shuotu were killed on the spot. Under the joint command of Weng Linzhi and Cao Bianjiao, the two armies captured Shengjing in just two days. It was renamed Guangning City again.
According to Chen Cao's request back then, Liu Xingzuo, who assisted in the landing, took only one division of his headquarters and continued deep into Shenyang. His purpose was Chen Cao's arrangement back then, to go to Hetuala to dig Nurhachi's ancestral grave.
Of course, Huang Taiji, who was thousands of miles away, didn't know this.
What followed was a one-sided battle. After the Qing army entered the pass, except for a battalion of 3,000 troops each in Shengjing and Shenyang, the various towns and forts owned by the Ming army in the past had no more than a hundred soldiers at most, and only ten as few as People, some big cities did not even have troops stationed there, and were only managed by surrendered Han military flags.
So when the Yingzhou army reached Guangning and garrisoned in front of Guangning, no one in Liaodong even went to Shanhaiguan to report the news.
After listening to the story, Nikan was shocked. He had never experienced a war since Manchuria entered the customs. When he plundered Shandong, he fought smoothly without any resistance.
Seeing Nikan who was silent, Ilden held up his hands and said: "Beizi, Guangning's former garrison is only fifty miles away from Shanhaiguan. If the Ming army's infantry arrives, it will be tonight at the earliest. The wall is deep enough for defense. This way we have enough time to spread the news to the capital before evening, Shanhaiguan can hold on for more than a month, and it will be more than enough for reinforcements to arrive."
Nikan nodded after a long time, and then said: "It makes sense. Immediately gather the defeated troops and send a messenger to the capital to ask for help. Ilden, you take the Han army flag and the green battalion soldiers to the city to assist in the defense. The left wing battalion separates two teams and immediately The city, the sentinel cavalry team immediately went out to find out the strength of the Ming army, and their actions..."
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"Where is this?"
"Your Majesty, not far ahead is Funing Guard, which is still sixty miles away from Shanhaiguan."
"The whole army speeds up and strives to enter the pass before dark."
"His Majesty..."
"Your Majesty, a messenger has arrived from Shanhaiguan."
The soldiers begging for reinforcements met the cavalry of the forward battalion halfway. They thought that people far away in the capital had already known the news of the Ming army's arrival outside the pass, so after seeing Huang Taiji, they dismounted and said, "Long live my emperor, Your Majesty!" Do you know the news? So you are here in person?"
Huang Taiji didn't know what was going on. Ning Wan and I sensed something was wrong, and shouted in a hurry and asked: "How dare you, your Majesty just evacuated from the capital, what news is it?"
The messenger raised his head and said in panic: "Your Majesty, at around Chen time, soldiers who had retreated from Shengjing came one after another outside the pass. The Ming army landed at Lushun and captured Shengjing. He Shuotu, who stayed behind in Shengjing, died in the battle. According to the The defeated troops reported that the forward troops of the Ming army had arrived in Guangning to garrison, less than 60 miles away from Shanhaiguan."
Huang Taiji glanced at Ning Wanwo, and suddenly felt the world spinning, his eyes darkened, and he fell off his horse.
After Ning Wan, I hurriedly ordered the Goshiha Guards to protect Huang Taiji and enter the city first, and then directed the subsequent generals to go to the Great Wall passes such as Jialingkou and other places to prepare for all possible means to protect the place of exit, so as not to be dumped by the Ming army. At this moment, Ning Wanwo looked at the troops who were starting to panic, and felt lonely in my heart. I carefully planned the three-way retreat, but at this moment, all of them were destroyed by the Ming army.
