The war between the Ming army and the slave thieves in Ningjin lasted for several months, and finally ended with the capture of Jinzhou.
The defenders of Jinzhou City fought back many attacks by the slave thieves until all the food and grass in the city were exhausted, and even the war horses were reduced to rations. There were less than a thousand defenders left, most of whom were injured, and the common people were even dead. how much is left.
After breaking through Jinzhou City, Huang Taiji's first order was not to seal the sword after entering the city.
The army of slave thieves was held back by Jinzhou City for too long. In the end, it only stayed under Ningyuan City for more than half a month. Because the food and grass consumption was too large, and there was no corresponding benefit from breaking Jinzhou City, they finally had to choose to retreat and return to Sheng Beijing.
When retreating from Jinzhou City, the angry Huang Taiji ordered people to burn down the entire Jinzhou City.
Jinzhou City left behind a piece of ruins and charred soil.
Ningjin's defense line once again stood up.
When the news of the victory came back to the capital, the Central Committee of the Ming Dynasty was still debating whether to withdraw troops from the Ningjin defense line. But as the news came back, the debate between the DPRK and the Central Committee on whether to abandon Ningjin disappeared and they began to study it again. The question of how to award a reward.
Before Saarhu, in a situation like this where you were just defending, the court would not give you any big reward, just a few verbal greetings, and at most you would be rewarded with a bullfighting uniform.
But as more and more cities in Liaodong were captured by slave thieves, Yuan Chonghuan finally defended Ningyuan, and the court began to reward him heavily.
Yuan Chonghuan took this opportunity to become governor of Jiliao.
The mentality of the imperial court has also changed from the fact that victory is considered to be a great defeat of the army of slaves and thieves. Now, as long as the city can be kept intact, it is already a great victory.
For rewards, it is not only necessary to be promoted, but also to pay a large amount of silver.
However, the Ming Dynasty was already riddled with holes. It had always demolished the east wall to repair the west wall, and could not find any money to reward the officers and soldiers of Liaodong.
I asked the Ministry of Household Affairs for help, but the Ministry of Household Affairs spread their hands and said they had no money.
If they want to increase taxes, almost all of the northern part of the Ming Dynasty will fall into the hands of the Tiger Banner, and the taxes in the south are not so easy to collect. Most of the northern Zhili lands in front of them are the land of the nobles and gentry of the Ming Dynasty, and there are very few fields belonging to the common people.
In desperation, Chongzhen had to take out another five thousand taels of silver from his internal funds and send it to Liaodong to be used as a reward for Ming officers and soldiers.
It's not that he doesn't want to take out more money, it's actually the internal money left by Emperor Tianqi. He has almost used it in the past few years, and there is no money left at all.
Five thousand taels of silver was already the maximum amount he could come up with.
However, what Chongzhen didn't know was that after the five thousand taels of silver were taken out of the internal funds, the money was gone without even leaving the capital.
Of course, no one would tell Chongzhen about this.
Chongzhen thought that the five thousand taels of silver he had taken out had been sent to Liaodong, and he imagined that the Ming officers and soldiers in Liaodong would be grateful to him after receiving the money.
In the past few months when the Ming Army and Huang Taiji were fighting at the Ningjin Defense Line, the integration of several theaters in the Tiger Banner was coming to an end, and each theater had successively formed combat effectiveness.
Even in the second theater, which is the most integrated, the newly established combat division is fully equipped and has passed joint training, ready to launch an attack on the Ming army at any time.
The biggest advantage of the army infantry is that it can be formed quickly. There are no units like archers and cavalry that require experience. In the remaining few months, a group of new soldiers who are good at using fire blunderbuss can be formed. As long as they experience a few battles, the new soldiers will be ready. Became a veteran.
The Ming Dynasty did not take the changes in the Tiger Character Flag too seriously, and even Chongzhen did not know that the Tiger Character Flag had undergone military reorganization.
But Huang Taiji was different. He had suffered losses at the hands of the Tiger Flag, and he was very concerned about any changes in the Tiger Flag, and he had to figure it out.
Some big gold spies who were stationed in the Ming Dynasty collected some information about the Tiger Flag through various channels and sent it to Shengjing.
By sorting out and guessing the news, Huang Taiji figured out that the Tiger Character Banner was reorganizing the army, and his first thought was that the Tiger Character Banner was likely to make big moves after the army reorganization was completed.
Guessing that Huzi Banner was reorganizing while Dajin and Ming were waging war, he regretted launching an attack on Ming's Ningjin defense line.
It would have been nice to have captured the Ningjin Defense Line, but they only captured Jinzhou City, and could not keep troops to garrison, so they had to abandon the defense in the end. As a result, Dajin did not gain much benefit from this battle, but instead lost his wife and troops.
Coupled with Mang Gurtai's battle in Jinzhou, Daikin had lost two consecutive wars, which put Daikin, which was already in a bad situation, into even more trouble.
After returning to Shengjing, Huang Taiji did not hold Mang Gurtai accountable for his failure in Jinzhou, but punished Mang Gurtai for disobeying orders.
Mang Gurtai was immediately fined and confiscated ten niulu.
If Mang Gurtai had not been supported by too many golden princes and nobles, he would have directly imprisoned Mang Gurtai this time and deprived him of his identity as the leader of the Zhenglan Banner.
On the surface, it is a battle between Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai. In fact, it is already a power struggle between the princes and nobles of Dajin and Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji wanted to be like the emperor of the Ming Dynasty and attribute power to the emperor. He was unwilling to be like the previous tribes who had to discuss everything together.
If the power of Dajin could not be concentrated in one body, Huang Taiji was worried that it would be impossible for him to leave his throne to his son after his death.
Just like the previous Khan, even if he established a successor, he would not be able to ascend to the throne in the end.
"Master, Jierhalang is here." Obai came in to announce.
Huang Taiji hesitated for a moment and then said: "Bring him in!"
"Ji'er Harang greets the Great Khan." After Ji'er Harang entered the room, he stepped forward to salute Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji put down a folded book in his hand, looked at Jierhalang, and said, "If it's about Tong Yangxing, don't talk about it. With so many Han troops defecting before the battle, someone must be responsible for it."
The first thing Huang Taiji did when he returned to Shengjing was to arrest Tong Yangxing, deprive Tong Yangxing of his title, and fined half of the Tong family's property to compensate for the Eight Banners soldiers who died in Jinzhou.
"Great Khan, Tong Yangxing was unjustly accused. If Wu Beile hadn't forced him too hard, it would have been impossible for those Han troops to defect. In the final analysis, the problem lies with Wu Beile." Jierhalang excused Tong Yangxing.
Huang Taiji's face sank and he said: "Ben Khan has said that someone must be responsible for this matter."
"Can't someone else be responsible?" Jilharang said.
Huang Taiji said coldly: "Who do you want to hold responsible? Should you take the responsibility, or should I take the responsibility? This matter must be explained to others."
"We can let Wu Beile take responsibility. He was the one who started the matter, so he should be responsible to the end." Jilhalang carried out Mang Gurtai.
In the battle of Jinzhou, the reason why their big gold suffered so much damage was, in his opinion, because of Mang Gurtai's arrogance and recklessness. Otherwise, even if they could not take Jinzhou City, the army would not suffer much losses, let alone There will be no defection of the Han army.
(End of chapter)
