Hauge's escape was actually part of Huang Taiji's plan. Baylor, the banner owner of the Great Jin Kingdom with a yellow flag, was not scared away by the mother-and-son soldiers of Wu Liangha and Zhu Cixuan who were heading north.
In fact, he had no idea that the stupid and bold mother and son had rushed to the north of Dashawo with 10,000 troops.
In his Ama Huang Taiji's plan, the real target of the Jin Kingdom's troop dispatch was North Korea!
It’s not about grabbing a handful, but taking them all and owning them for a long time in the future!
Although Huang Taiji still wants to challenge Zhu You for the position of the Mongolian Khan, "eating" is always the most important thing.
Even a three-year-old like Zhu Cixi knew this. How could Huang Taiji, such an old man, not know that eating was the most important thing?
In order to eat, especially to feed the Eight Banners men and slaves in the heart of the Jin Kingdom, Huang Taiji had to recruit more herdsmen and serfs to work as coolies.
The country of Dajin had its way out, and its success depended on killing people. For farming and herding, it mainly relied on serfs and herdsmen.
The Jin Kingdom had a mere one to two million people (including the Mongols under the alliance banner) to support so many Eight Banners officers and servants. The exploitation was of course very heavy, and there was no system to reward farming and herding. Therefore, serfs and herdsmen had little motivation, and they had little capital to invest. Of course, labor productivity could not be improved.
Under such circumstances, the living and production conditions of serfs and herdsmen were extremely poor. Of course, there was no way to meet the growing food needs of the Eight Banners men... And the Eight Banners men only focused on plundering food and did not No matter whether the serfs or herdsmen live or die, they are basically killing the goose to obtain the eggs.
Therefore, when there is a famine in the Kingdom of Jin, a large number of serfs and herdsmen will starve to death, and they are the producers of grain and other food!
The consequence of a large number of producers always starving to death is, of course, that productivity cannot be improved or even continues to decline...and the way to make up for it, of course, is to grab more producers!
In history, people entered the Later Jin Dynasty (Qing Dynasty) five times and entered the dynasty twice. In addition to robbing property, they also wanted to rob people. Herdsmen and serfs were almost "consumables" in Dajin, and they were gone soon after they were robbed. , had no choice but to grab it again!
Now that people from the Ming Dynasty cannot be snatched away, North Korea is of course the only place where people can be snatched away.
Therefore, Huang Taiji's deployment this time revolves around entering North Korea!
Ningyuan, Jinfu, Yanshan and Daning are not Huang Taiji's goals. Even becoming the Great Khan of Mongolia is not his top priority... The world is huge, and eating is the biggest thing!
The Eight Banners soldiers' attack on Ningyuan and Jinfu before the autumn harvest was fierce, but it was all a false move. The total number of troops sent by both groups was less than 5,000, so after one attack, it was just a bluff.
At the same time, the 15,000-strong army led by Dorgon, Azig, and Duduo, with the two white flag soldiers as the main force, had already crossed the border near Yiju in the Kingdom of Korea on September 18, the fifth year of Tiancong. The Yalu River!
After crossing the river, Nikan led the elite troops of the Two White Flags and took advantage of the North Korean defenders' failure to react in time to launch a surprise attack and capture the capital city of Uiju.
In this raid to seize the castle, the Houjin Army also captured Im Kyung-yeop, the Uiju Prefect of North Korea, alive. Moreover, he also learned an astonishing news from the mouth of this North Korean official who was so frightened by the sudden killing of Manchurian soldiers that he almost lost his wits!
It turns out that the Koreans here in Uiju Prefecture knew half a month ago that the Dajin Heavenly Soldiers were coming to kill and set fire to fight!
Sitting in the shabby Yizhou government office hall, Dorgon asked confusedly the party leading the way in entering the DPRK. Jiang Xuan, the son of the Jin Korean Marshal Jiang Hongli who surrendered after the Battle of Sarhu, said: "What is a reverse fight?" ?Is this Korean or Chinese?"
Jiang Xuan joined the Kingdom of Jin with his father Jiang Hongli. In the first year of Tiancong's reign, he served as a leader with Amin, so he gained Huang Taiji's trust. This time he became the official of North Korea, and all the captured North Korean officials and civilians were managed by him. Im Gyeongye, the governor of Uiju in North Korea, was unwilling to die after being defeated and surrounded, so he fell into the hands of Jiang Xuan, who interrogated and detained him.
"Returning to Mr. Beile, this word is Chinese," Jiang Xuan said. "It means robbing and digging graves..."
"What? Robbing tombs and digging up graves?" Dorgon was stunned for a moment, "Who wants to rob and dig up graves?"
"Of course it's you, Lord Baylor..."
Dorgon's eyes widened: "Nonsense, why did Ben Beile become a tomb robber?"
"If you don't call me a tomb robber..." Jiang Yuan said with a flattering smile, "How can you call me a thief when Lord Baylor digs a grave? That's called touching gold with Lord Baylor!"
"Master Baylor..." Dorgon remembered, "The captain who touched the gold in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms?"
"Yes, yes... this Lin Qingye said that he received an edict from the King of North Korea a month and a half ago," Jiang Xuan explained, "that you, Lord Mojin Baylor of the Kingdom of Jin, are going to lead troops to invade North Korea. Not only do they want to kill people and set fires, they also want to rob and dig up the ancestral graves of the two families, so Yizhou Prefecture should be more careful..."
Dorgon snorted: "That's all nonsense!" He paused, "That's not right. How could Lin Qingye be wary? Nikan took Yizhou Prefecture without any effort."
Jiang Xuan smiled and said: "He is on guard...the tombs of the aristocratic families in Yizhou Prefecture have been moved to the mountains and are not allowed to be dug."
Dorgon is really dumbfounded. The governor of Yiju, North Korea, is so good at doing things!
But who in the end slandered him for that fight?
"Did Lin Qingye say who slandered Ben Beile for fighting?" Dorgon was very angry, with a scary look on his face. The reason why he was angry was not only because he was slandered as a gold-touching Baylor, but also because North Korea actually knew that he was coming more than a month in advance!
Fortunately, the governor of Yiju, Lin Qingye, was a fool, otherwise the battle of Yiju would not have been so easy!
"I said it, I said it..." Jiang Yuan said immediately, "Lin Qingye said that Li Xin, the Southern Dynasty's military aid to Korea, told the King of Korea that Lord Baylor wanted to go to Korea to fight."
"Li Xin is preparing troops to support the Southern Dynasty?" Dorgon frowned. The little emperor of the Southern Dynasty was really not easy to deal with. He actually saw through the Khan's plan to attack the east from the west!
Dorgon asked again: "How many soldiers and horses does Li Xin have in his hands?"
Jiang Xuan said: "According to Lin Qingye's account, Li Xin, the military aid to Korea, brought 5,000 elite troops to Korea and is now stationed on Ganghwa Island."
"5,000 elite soldiers, Jianghua Island..." Dorgon frowned, already aware that something was wrong.
This battle to enter the DPRK may become a protracted battle!
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The begging team marched among the vast mountains. From the time they crossed the Qinling Mountains, the begging soldiers marched into Shu without stopping. The best way to enter Sichuan is the Chencang Road, which is the best way to enter Sichuan. It starts from Xi'an Prefecture, passes through Fengxiang Prefecture, exits Dashan Pass and crosses the Qinling Mountains, and then goes to the mountains between Hanzhong Prefecture and Gongchang Prefecture. Travel south.
In the early Ming Dynasty, this road still had a long and steep plank road, which was not easy to walk. However, after more than 200 years of continuous construction in the Ming Dynasty, the stone path has replaced the wooden plank path, so it is not difficult to walk.
But just because it’s not difficult doesn’t mean it’s easy. If the elite soldiers of the Zhangqian Army enter Sichuan, they can travel dozens of miles a day by walking on these roads. If they want to march more than a hundred miles in a hurry, it will be no problem (the Zhangqian Army is an armored army and carries a relatively heavy load, so walking speed cannot Compared with the unarmored light infantry of later generations). However, Zhu Youjian's begging soldiers were accompanied by their families. There were 200,000 of them, 70 to 80 percent of them were old, weak, women and children. They could not walk fast and consumed a lot of food. Going south from Dashan Pass, the four to five hundred miles of Qi Road dragged on for twenty-five days... This was the result of Zhu Youjian personally leading the soldiers in front of the tent to "escort" them back and forth.
It was not until September 22nd, the fourth year of Chongzhen, that the vanguard of the begging troops passed Yangping Pass.
The Land of Abundance is finally in sight, but I don’t know if the gentry and wealthy merchants in Sichuan have prepared enough rice, grain, and money... Looking at the mountains on both sides of the road, Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty was still a little uneasy. After all, This is my first time begging! I don’t know if I can get enough?
