In the lobby of the Anding Protectorate in Shenyang, there are all civil and military officials of the Protectorate system wearing black gauze hats and Panpai uniforms. Although these civil and military officials are wearing Ming Dynasty uniforms, they are still from the Qing Dynasty, and they are not the stinky and fussy Qing Dynasty later. They are the generation of vulgar warriors who founded the industry, and will not deliberately put their thoughts into practice. They were covered up tightly, so now everyone is frowning and sighing.
Because these loyal loyalists of the Qing Dynasty who have the Qing Dynasty in their hearts have just received good news - the Qing Dynasty has been restored!
The restoration of the Qing Dynasty is of course good news for them... The 200,000 Ming Dynasty troops stationed in Tianjin now have a place to go, and they will not threaten Shanhaiguan for the time being.
And their master Duduo could also take the opportunity to make a splash and send troops to North Korea to make a big profit, making up for the deficit caused by sending troops to Guannei last year.
As for the city of Beijing...it can always be defended within a year!
Moreover, after the attack on Beijing, the Ming army would definitely have to rest for a few months. It would be the ninth or tenth year of Hongxing's reign to attack the outside world again.
By then, Duduo's side should be able to regain some strength... It can't be beaten with a fight, but it can be delayed to seek peace. As long as it lasts for a long time, it can always achieve a good result.
In fact, when the Tianming Khan was in trouble, he never thought about unifying the world. If he could be crowned a king and extort some annual rewards from the Ming Dynasty, he would be satisfied.
Therefore, the remnants of the Qing Dynasty who followed Duduo out of the customs are now trying to live a small life on one side of the separatist regime. No one is willing to enter Shanhaiguan again to kill people.
But the problem is that Prince Duduo said yesterday that he would discuss the establishment of the Western Expeditionary Army with everyone today!
Expedition to the West!
If you remember correctly, Beijing is in the west...
Is this the method used by the Liao Kingdom to defeat Song Taizong?
But Song Taizong did not have mule soldiers with black guns, foreign horse soldiers with long spears, nor 48-pound siege cannons, nor did he have the Sanyang Navy (Beiyang, Dongyang, Nanyang)!
Moreover, the number of people in the heart of Khitan back then was much greater than that of Old Manchuria outside the Pass today!
Now there are only 20,000 old Manchu men left outside the customs. Even if we win two or three battles, let alone defeat, we will be able to explain everything.
If there were no old Manchu elites...what the city of Beijing looks like now would be what the city of Shenyang would look like in the future!
The news brought by the Eight Banners disciples who had recently fled from Beijing was that things were very bad in Beijing now. Princes were everywhere, and there were as many princes as dogs... Even a hereditary general was embarrassed to say so! If the people in this lobby went to Beijing, except for a few people with royal titles, everyone else would look a lot shorter than them.
Moreover, most of these princes and princes in Beijing are traitors, and they were all forced to be granted the title by Emperor Shunzhi... This is not the restoration of the Qing Dynasty, it is simply the restoration of the Han Dynasty who Xiandi Emperor in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
"The prince is here!"
While all the loyal loyalists of the Qing Dynasty were sighing, Duduo, dressed in the python robe of a Ming Dynasty prince, came. Nikan and Yue Le looked at each other, and Yue Le said: "Everyone is standing still, let's follow the etiquette of the Ming Dynasty."
A group of civil servants and generals rushed back to their seats with a buzzing sound. After a while of commotion, they finally arranged their shifts. As soon as Duduo came out, everyone knelt down, kowtowed, and said hello in Chinese.
Duduo smiled faintly at the generals under his command and glanced at them one by one. Then he slowly sat down on the throne and said, "Everyone, please come to the palace! I have called everyone to come to the palace today, if for no other reason than to discuss the formation of the Western Expeditionary Army. It has been almost a year since we returned from the pass. Have you almost rested? After the spring broadcast is completed this year, will you be able to order episodes again? "
After hearing Duduo's words, everyone's expressions dropped.
Most of Duduo's armies are a combination of soldiers and farmers, which looks good at first glance. It saves money and can avoid excessive corruption in the army. But fighting and farming will eventually conflict... How much will fighting and training delay farming?
If we always win battles and capture a lot of money, or if we send out troops only for a short period of time, everyone can still bear it.
But once they suffered heavy losses and a long war, the peasants and soldiers could no longer bear it. People died and farming work was delayed. If they could no longer get enough subsidies from the country or lords, they would have no energy to fight.
Now that the Qing Dynasty had just been restored, the prince wanted to recruit troops, and he also said that he would form a Western Expeditionary Army. It was clear that he wanted to go to Beijing to support the Qing Emperor!
The area around Beijing has been robbed several times, and the land is almost completely empty. There will be little profit in winning the battle, and Shi Kefa and Yan Yingyuan's 200,000-strong army will not be defeated so easily.
Even if he defeated 200,000 Ming troops, how much would he deserve?
Seeing that all the generals under his command had droopy faces, Duduo also knew what these people were thinking and laughed: "What? Are you afraid of the Zhu family's soldiers and horses?"
"Your Majesty," Nikan took over the topic with a sad look on his face, "To tell you the truth, the people down there are really scared!
And the slaves are afraid too! There isn't much left in Old Manchuria, so if we give it a try, only 20,000 can really go into battle. And the Han people are not good at cavalry. They are all old farmers who farm the land. Every household has so much land to cultivate, so how can they have kung fu training? No matter whether they fight hand to hand or shoot guns, they are no match for the Ming army, let alone horseback riding! If there is no support from Old Manchuria, we will be finished..."
The new troops of the Ming Army are all "997" professional soldiers. They are in the camp at all times and do two and three drills a day. As long as they are trained closely, their combat effectiveness will definitely be better than that of the old farmers in Duduo!
Moreover, the number of peasant soldiers in Duduo is not large enough. The total population outside the customs is now less than 3 million. The number of strong men that can be drawn is 150,000 to 60,000, which is the limit. There have been tens of thousands of casualties before, but now the total number is 11,120,000. Including the Old Manchus, the Sauron people, the Barhu people, and several Mongolian tribesmen who were attached to Duduo, there were only 150,000 to 60,000 people, which was not as large as Shi Kefa or Yan Yingyuan.
Moreover, the Ming army was not limited to Tianjin. On the Tumochuan side there were the armies of King Dai and the Ordos tribe, and on the Shanxi side there were armies led by Wu Guoyong and the King of Tang.
Adding all the armies together, there would be 350,000 instead of 400,000! With Duduo's little capital, let alone losing, how many times can you win even if you win?
"Hahaha!" Duduo looked at his subordinates with fear on their faces, and suddenly laughed loudly, "Do you think I am stupid? I will really lead my army into the pass to fight against the Ming army? Our son outside the pass How much is it? How can it be possible to fight like this?"
Nikan said in confusion: "My lord, did you just say that you wanted to form a Western Expeditionary Army?"
"You are so honest Nikan," Duduo smiled, "Isn't the Western Expedition Army just a name? If you call it the Western Expedition Army, it must go to the west? Then if you want to name it the Ever-Victorious Army, then it must be right. Did you win the battle?"
Nikan suddenly realized, "Your Majesty, where are our Western Expeditions going?"
Duduo smiled and said: "Sound in the west and attack in the east! Of course the Western Expeditionary Army will go east!"
"To the east is...North Korea?"
Duduo nodded: "Yes! Just go to North Korea! Although North Korea is weak, we don't have to fight hard when we can fight skillfully. Since the king returned eastward, North Korea has cut off contact with us, and is also preparing for Japanese aggression. In order to conduct large-scale military training, it is obvious that he wants to catch me by surprise...I will give him a way to retaliate now! I will gather troops in the name of the Western Expedition and raid the northern border of North Korea. At the same time, He then ordered Ao Bai to command the navy, disguised as Japanese pirates, and landed in Jiulongpu to attack the back route of Korea.
If the north and south of Korea are attacked at the same time, they will definitely panic and the country will be destroyed in a few months. And the Ming Dynasty's heavenly soldiers were restrained by our Qing emperor, and they had no time to visit eastward for a year or two. By the time they free up their hands, I will already be the king of Korea!
Everyone, what do you think of this method? Are you no longer afraid of attacking North Korea? "
The atmosphere below immediately exploded. All the worries on the faces of a group of Manchu generals were wiped away, and they started talking happily.
"Of course we are not afraid of attacking North Korea! Your Majesty is wise!"
"Your Majesty is so brilliant! He is so brilliant!"
"Conquer North Korea, and at least we will have a situation like Goguryeo...Now we won't be afraid of the Ming Dynasty!"
