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Yang Yuan looked at the map in front of him and hesitated.
He said: "Shanhaiguan should be the place Huang Taiji wants to get most, but it is also the most difficult place to attack. Without the help of spies inside, it will be difficult to attack. Therefore, Huang Taiji will not take Shanhaiguan's idea, so he is most likely to send troops. The direction is Fuzhou and Jinzhou."
His eyes fell on the Liaodong Peninsula.
"Well, what you said is not impossible." Liu Heng nodded.
Yang Yuan then said: "We have been operating in the Liaodong Peninsula for a long time. Huang Taiji wants to win Fuzhou and Jinzhou. I'm afraid it won't be that easy. The biggest possibility is that he will lose his troops and generals, but he failed to win Fuzhou and Jinzhou. Golden State.”
"Well, you're right." Liu Heng said, "Huang Taiji fought with us several times in the Liaodong Peninsula, and suffered losses every time. Moreover, even if he captured Fuzhou and Jinzhou, it would not affect our relationship with the Qing Dynasty. The war situation is not of much use unless they also capture Port Arthur and expel all the troops of the Tiger Banner in the Liaodong Peninsula."
"This is impossible." Yang Yuan said, "Hong Taiji and his Qing Dynasty do not have the naval advantage. Lushun is completely useless to them. It is a pity to abandon it if it is tasteless."
Liu Heng looked towards the left side of the map and said at the same time: "If I were Huang Taiji, then I would take a detour through the grassland."
On the Liaodong Peninsula, the forces of the Tiger Banner and the Qing Dynasty were intertwined. However, the Tiger Banner and the Qing Dynasty were not directly adjacent to each other on the grasslands, and were separated by many Mongolian tribes.
The power of the Tiger Banner on the grassland is mainly in the west, dominated by 30,000 households on the right side of Mongolia, while many of the tribes in the east are neutral tribes or tribes that favor a certain side.
Although most Mongolians like Horqin no longer have the threat of the Chahar tribe, because they are geographically close to the Qing Dynasty and have been in alliance with the Qing Dynasty for many years, their political attitudes are more biased towards the Qing Dynasty while maintaining a certain degree of independence.
The five Khalkha tribes and some small tribes also expressed their surrender to the Qing Dynasty because they were conquered by the Qing Dynasty, but they were not willing to offend the Tiger Flag too much.
There are many similar tribes, especially the tribes in Mobei. Almost all of them have a neutral attitude. They sit on the mountain between the Tiger Character Banner and the Qing Dynasty and watch the fight between the tigers and do not vote for either side.
"It's not a short detour from the grassland. The logistics line is so long. We are not the Ming Dynasty. Huang Taiji is not afraid of suffering losses in our hands again." Yang Yuan said while looking at the map in front of him.
Hearing this, Liu Heng said: "If he can capture Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji's first choice will definitely be to attack Shanhaiguan, but he is not sure about capturing Shanhaiguan, so he will not be so stubborn that he will hit his head in front of Shanhaiguan. Broken blood flow.”
"Then we can also attack the city." Yang Yuan said, "The detour to the grassland is not only a long way, but even if they capture one or two cities, they will not be able to defend it."
After hearing this, Liu Heng shook his head slightly and said: "We have deployed heavy troops and naval forces on the Liaodong Peninsula. It is almost impossible for Huang Taiji to capture the Liaodong Peninsula. But it is different on the grassland. They only need Just grab a handful and leave. There is no need to defend the city. If it were me, I would also choose to take a detour to the grassland. As long as it succeeds, the benefits will be the greatest, and it will also make us suffer, reversing their long-standing ineffectiveness in fighting the Tiger Flag. situation, it will be of great benefit to improve morale.”
"How can Huang Taiji be sure that he will succeed if he walks through the grassland? After all, last time, they lost their troops on the grassland. If it weren't for the incompetence of the Ming Dynasty, they might not be able to return to Liaodong intact." Yang Yuan is not optimistic about the Qing Dynasty coming through the grassland. The possibility of violating the tiger-character flag.
In his opinion, the risk of losing troops and generals by taking a detour through the grassland was too great.
Liu Heng said: "In order to relieve the internal pressure, Huang Taiji had no choice but to take action against us, and the detour around the grassland seemed very dangerous, but don't forget that Huang Taiji succeeded once with Ming Dynasty, so he is very likely to take this kind of luck Again."
"With such a long front line, once the battle is lost, it will be difficult to retreat. Our Tiger Flag is not as easy to deal with as the Ming Dynasty." Yang Yuan still felt that Huang Taiji would not detour through the grassland to attack the Tiger Flag.
Liu Hengdao: "You are making things too complicated. If I were Huang Taiji and wanted to attack the Tiger Flag through the grassland, the most important thing is to conceal my whereabouts. And I don't need to enter Jizhen through the border. It is completely possible to penetrate directly into Qingcheng from the grassland. As long as we grab a handful in Qingcheng, the profit will be much greater than entering Ji Town to capture the city, and the danger is not that great."
The area between Qingcheng and Banshengdi is a trading place for Tiger Flag on the grassland.
Many ministries and Han caravans on the grassland would come here to conduct trade. After all, safety was guaranteed, and Han caravans dared to leave the border and come to the grassland.
Moreover, it is not only tribes from Monan that come and go for transactions here, but also tribes from Mobei, and even tribes from further afield will also come here.
"Probably not! The Foreign Intelligence Bureau has not received any news from Liaodong." Yang Yuan was a little unsure.
If Qingcheng were to be overtaken by Huang Taiji, Tiger Flag would suffer great losses.
This kind of loss is not only the goods, but also the trust in safety. Once they are robbed, many people may not dare to come to Qingcheng again in a short time.
Liu Heng turned around and asked, "How is the cleanup of spies going?"
"Huang Hong is handling this matter." Yang Yuan said, "A lot of spies have been caught from various places, most of them are spies planted by the Ming Dynasty. There are fewer spies from Liaodong, but they still account for one-third of the total number. About one.”
Liu Heng said: "Huang Taiji knew that he sent people to plant spies within our sphere of influence. How could he not guess that we also planted spies under his nose?"
"My lord, you mean that the personnel we deployed have been exposed?" Yang Yuan's expression changed.
Many years ago, the Tiger Flag had deployed spies to Liaodong, but in the end there were not many of them left, because the status of the Han people in Liaodong was low, even worse than cattle and sheep. Many spies died in Liaodong, and only some of them were able to establish a firm foothold in the end. .
Now that Liaodong no longer has the power of the Ming Dynasty, it is even more difficult for the Tiger Character Banner to deploy spies to the Qing Dynasty. Fortunately, with the fall of Ningyuan and other cities, a group of secret spies from the Tiger Character Banner were also included in the Qing Dynasty. This power has allowed the Foreign Intelligence Agency to successfully insert a group of secret spies.
Liu Hengdao: "Don't worry, our people in Liaodong may not be exposed, but Huang Taiji will definitely take precautions in this regard. Therefore, if Huang Taiji is going to the grassland this time, he will definitely use various means to prevent the news of sending troops from leaking. The Foreign Intelligence Bureau is in Liaodong." The secret spies may not be able to discover it immediately and pass the news back."
(End of chapter)
