Looking up at the flying snow in the sky and the black mountains and white water in the distance, Dorgon was very upset. The pressure from Shengjing made him breathless, and here the Ming court was also pressing forward step by step, pointing its sword at Jinzhou, but... Inadvertently, it helped him dilute a lot of pressure from Shengjing.
However, it is pressure after all, and now the government is planning to pull him down. If he cannot use external force to resolve it this time, the consequences will be disastrous! But how can external forces be easy to borrow? If you are not careful, you will be involved!
You must know that his current strength is far less than what it was a year ago. Not to mention the loss of troops in that big defeat, morale has also slumped to an unprecedented low. What is even more frustrating is the serious shortage of military equipment, war horses, and food and grass.
The Manchus were a nomadic people, and their food and grass reserves had always been their shortcoming. In previous years, they relied entirely on plundering, and the plundering outside the customs was not enough. In recent years, they have gained more channels after taking over North Korea, but last year's disastrous defeat made him come back. Before liberation, it would be impossible to plunder, but there was no food to be transferred from the country, so the only other channel left was to ask North Korea for it!
North Korea is also poor, but it dares not refuse to provide.
After all, Koukou Sosou finally brought the food and grass, so that Dorgon's troops would not starve to death this winter, but at this time he was surprised to find that Ning Yuancheng had changed its coach!
It turned out to be Zu Dashou!
When he heard the news, he was really confused, and then he felt mixed emotions in his heart.
There is no doubt that Zu Dashou is a strong general, and can even be said to be the nemesis of the Manchus. When he was guarding Jinzhou, he caused the Manchus to lose their soldiers and hit their heads with blood. Now the situation has changed, and the offense and defense have swapped!
Although Dorgon didn't know why the Ming court re-employed Zu Dashou at this time, he knew that Zu Dashou had bad intentions. This place in Jinzhou was an irreparable pain in his heart. When he was defending the city, he could kill people and eat meat. This time he came to attack the city... …
This winter must be very cold and difficult!
"Prince" Just at this moment, an old man crouched up to the top of the city and walked slowly. It was none other than Fan Wencheng, who was known as the head of the Manchu civil servants and the greatest traitor of the Ming Dynasty in the eyes of the people!
Because he is not only the seventeenth generation grandson of Fan Zhongyan, but his great-grandfather was also the Minister of War in the Jiajing Dynasty, and his grandfather was also the commander of the Shenyang Guard. But with such an origin, he wanted to be a lackey of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and dedicated his life to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. It's not an exaggeration to call him a traitor after he died.
And if the Manchus were kind to him, it would be fine to repay him, but people thought he was a bitch slave. Duduo even took his wife and beat him violently. This guy was actually loyal to the Manchus and offered suggestions. All I can say is that he is a bone. Too cheap.
The mean old man was only fifty at this time, but he was much older than his actual age. After all, his life was not that comfortable. Although Emperor Shunzhi and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty respected him very much in history, he was considered to be the best at this time. He had just emerged and had just been put into important positions. Not long ago, he was the slave of Shuotuo, Daishan's second son. Shuotuo was executed by Jierhalang and his father Daishan because he wanted to make Dorgon the emperor. All his slaves were implicated. Coincidentally, just before the incident, Fan Wencheng had just been transferred to the Xianghuangqi and escaped. However, the incident of Dodo robbing his wife happened immediately. Dodo was killed afterwards, although he was not painful. He was punished, but it became a fact that Fan Wencheng's wife was occupied, and the relationship between the two was also forged, but Fan Wencheng also began to make his official debut.
The merit of his debut was to formulate the basic guidelines and policies for the Qing Dynasty to seize the Central Plains. It was his suggestion to enter the pass and seize the Central Plains during Li Zicheng's Eastern Expedition last year.
Then... Dorgon was defeated miserably!
But Dorgon did not place the blame on him. After all, the principles and policies were correct, but he simply underestimated the enemy strategically and was fooled by careless tactics!
Instead, Fan Wencheng finally came to the forefront and became Dorgon's think tank, advising him.
Dorgon, who was looking at the distant mountains, turned around when he heard the sound. Fan Wencheng came to him tremblingly, "Your Majesty, over there in North Korea..."
"What?" Dorgon raised his eyebrows, anger already on his face.
"The third batch of grain and grass has not arrived for a long time. It is said that the harvest is not good and there is no more grain left!" Fan Wencheng sighed.
Dorgon snorted coldly: "It's not that his harvest was bad, but that it was too late to clean up!"
"It's time to hit him." Fan Wencheng sighed: "But how to hit him is a tricky thing. If you don't have enough force, you won't be able to remember it. If you use too much force, it will make the rabbit anxious!"
"How can he dare to bite me when he is in a hurry!" Dorgon snorted, and Fan Wencheng quickly advised him, "Now and then, North Korea may not dare to bite people, but the possibility of stealing them cannot be ruled out. Now We need to know how to measure the situation, if we are not careful, the situation will be even more unfavorable for us!"
These words made Dorgon calm down. Korea was originally a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. In the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji had strategic goals such as isolating Mao Wenlong's forces and sent his cousin Amin, one of the four Baylors. Leading 30,000 elites to attack North Korea, they slaughtered Pyongyang with overwhelming force, forcing the King of North Korea to surrender and sign the Jiangdu Treaty. The two sides became brothers and allies. At that time, Amin wanted to take the opportunity to occupy North Korea and become the King of North Korea, but Huang Taiji refused!
Ten years later, Huang Taiji discovered that the old relationship between Korea and the Ming Dynasty had rekindled and secretly communicated with each other. In anger, he led a personal expedition and led 100,000 troops to kill again. This time, he directly broke through the capital of Seoul. The king of Korea came out of the city to surrender. This time They are no longer brotherly states, but have signed an alliance between monarch and ministers, and North Korea recognizes Houjin as its suzerain state!
This time, the price paid by North Korea was quite high. Rivers of blood flowed wherever the Qing army passed. Dozens of princesses, princes, ministers and other family members were captured. After the peace talks, half a million people were robbed and taken away as slaves, including Two princes as hostages!
In the years that followed, North Korea became Hou Jin's cash machine material warehouse. If he needed food, gold, silver, men, or horses, he would give him anything he wanted! From then on, he also became the accomplice of Hou Jin in dealing with the Ming court. For example, during the Songjin War, almost all the food and grass supplies for the Qing army came from North Korea, and there were also two Japanese Japs from North Korea on the battlefield!
After so many years of serving Hou Houjin obediently, North Korea suddenly began to neglect after a disastrous defeat. How could this not make Dorgon angry, but he also knew the reason for North Korea's neglect, that is, seeing He suffered a defeat and saw that Ming Ting was now hardened again. More importantly, he had almost no capital to control North Korea.
There were two princes in North Korea who were held hostage in the army by him, but they were lost in the rebellion last year. He still doesn't know whether they are dead or alive.
As for why he was held hostage in the army, it was naturally to make those Japs obedient.
Did North Korea already know that the two princes were missing?
And he also knew that the soldiers and horses he had at hand were already overwhelmed to deal with internal and external troubles, and he had no time or ability to deal with them, so he was brave?
Or are they colluding with Ming Ting again?
"If you don't fight for three days, go to the house and uncover the tiles." Dorgon snorted and looked at Fan Wencheng: "What do you mean?"
"If he doesn't deliver it, we'll send someone to collect it. We'll take the opportunity to do some beatings and find out if they're hooking up with Ming Ting again." Fan Wencheng thought for a moment and let out a long breath: "It's going to snow soon." Well, we don’t need so many people here, and many people are going crazy after being bored in the city for a year. Why not let them go out and fight in the wild! You don’t need too many soldiers and horses, a thousand is enough.”
"That's very good!" Dorgon laughed and said, "It's exactly what I want."
