Great time travel

Chapter 149, The Aftermath Strategy of Liaodong Theater
On July [-], the sixth year of Chongzhen, Jinzhou
After a short but not very intense battle, the core fortress city of the Great Ming Liaoxi Defense Line changed its owner again.

——Like other cities in Liao, after the Qing soldiers entered the pass, the defense force of Jinzhou City also became very empty.After all, this city is stuck between the Liaodong homeland of the Jurchen Eight Banners and the newly conquered territory of the Central Plains, and it is the only way from Beijing to Shengjing.No matter which angle you look at, Huang Taiji will not allow the Liaoxi Guanning Army headed by the Zu family and the Wu family to continue to control this throat after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

Otherwise, as long as the Guan Ning army raises its flag to make trouble, the Eight Banners soldiers on the battlefield inside the pass will have nowhere to go.

If the Jurchen Eight Banners can squeeze out extra troops, I believe they will definitely deploy a heavy army group in Jinzhou, just in case.

Helplessly, Huang Taiji's most reliable Eight Banners elite soldiers, a total of 6 to [-] soldiers, are too few to be devoted to the Central Plains battlefield. How can they be wasted in the Jinzhou area where there is no war?Therefore, the stretched Qing court had no choice but to do the opposite, ordering all the Guanning troops to enter the pass, and not to stay in Jinzhou, in case they suddenly raised troops to occupy the Liaoxi Corridor to cause chaos one day and cut off the rear of the Jurchen Eight Banners. road.

The generals of the Guan Ning Army also readily agreed to this. After the great progress in the Central Plains Raiders, they successively took all the generals, officers and soldiers who had followed closely to the south.After all, the northern land is currently bitterly cold, famines continue, and the livelihood of the people is extremely difficult. For them, the colorful world in the southern Central Plains is obviously more attractive.Next, as the Guanning army gradually gained a foothold in the Central Plains, in order to ease the suspicion of the Qing court, the Liaoxi generals also consciously sold off the farms in Jinzhou and Ningyuan one after another, and then moved their clansmen into the Central Plains to assist them. They consolidate new territories.

——In this era of paying attention to clans, most of the superiors subconsciously believe that their relatives are more at ease when using them.

The 21-year-old former guerrilla general of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Sangui, the son of the Zhou Dynasty prince of the Qing Dynasty, was captured when he came to Jinzhou to organize the inward migration of the Yuanfang clan.

Due to some organizational and coordination problems, the allied forces did not launch their attack on Jinzhou until nearly half a day after the battle in Shengjing had erupted. However, due to the distance, the Jinzhou government did not receive any warning information—— The flying pigeons in the novel are just legends after all. In reality, no dynasty dared to use such "advanced" means of communication on a large scale.As for the Beacon Tower... Until a year ago, Shengjing and Jinzhou belonged to two countries, and then both became the rear of the Qing Empire away from the flames of war. How could it be possible to maintain such a high level of reconnaissance?

When hundreds of soldiers of the Funing Army appeared directly in Jinzhou City through the [Random Gate], this former important border town of the Ming Dynasty had almost no troops to resist, and it was much more empty than Shengjing and Liaoyang— ——In order to show sincerity to the Qing court, and to show no nostalgia for the old nest of Jinzhou, the Guan Ning army retreated from western Liaoning extremely thoroughly. The so-called "Guan Ning iron cavalry" did not even leave a single soldier behind.And the Qing court only stationed more than 20 Manchu uncles in the city, and they were also mainly old, weak, sick and disabled, and the strong men who could really fight all went to the Central Plains to make a fortune.

As a result, after easily killing a few eyeless yamen servants and a few coat slaves, the [-] Funing Army led by Chief of Staff Jin Qiude took over the entire city almost without bloodshed. , The whole process only killed less than twenty people.Only at the post station in Jinzhou City, the small raiding force of the Funing Army encountered fierce resistance from the highly vigilant General Wu Sangui and his personal guards.But this was of no use. When Wu Sangui, the leader, was entangled with fishing nets and knocked down, the remaining Wu family soldiers had no choice but to drop their weapons and surrender.

In fact, until he was knocked to the ground and became a prisoner, Wu Sangui still hadn't figured out what happened—because there are still quite a few Funing Army officers and soldiers who haven't changed their clothes yet and still wear The robes of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and the rebellious Guan Ning Army has not yet changed into the uniforms of the Eight Banners soldiers, so Wu Sangui and others have had a great misunderstanding, thinking that this is a common mutiny in the late Ming Dynasty or rebellion.

It wasn't until Jin Qiude, He Dingyuan and other generals of the Funing Army who were originally from Liaodong came to inspect the prisoners triumphantly that Wu Sangui was stunned to learn the truth of the attack, and suddenly felt as if his head was "buzzing" , all common sense and concepts collapsed in an instant.

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In the warehouse in the backyard of the Jinzhou General Army Yamen, Wu Sangui, who was still somewhat bruised and swollen, was reading a wet-ink proclamation with dull eyes:

"...According to the order of the Chinese League Headquarters and the East Asian Republic of the Chinese League, our East Asian theater of the Chinese League will immediately send troops to suppress the Jurchen bandits. This time, our troops have gathered powerful troops from all over the world to save the common people from the sea of ​​suffering. Eat pots of pulp to meet the king's teacher, don't act like a mantis with arms. The death of the Jurchens and bandits is approaching. Since the captive leader Huang Taiji has surrendered, the only way to go is to surrender. Otherwise, when the soldiers arrive, everything will be unpredictable. It is true, and I hope value.

Huang Shi, Commander-in-Chief of the East Asia Theater Command of the Chinese Alliance”

Looking at this domineering statement, which treats the Jurchen cavalry as nothing, young Wu Sangui's mind was full of thoughts for a while.

If other generals had written such wild words, he would have slapped them long ago: How could the Eight Banners warriors be so easy to deal with?
But if it was Huangshi... Wu Sangui had to admit that this guy is really qualified to slaughter Liaodong Jiannu as cattle and sheep!
I remember that in the battle of Liaodong during the reign of Tianqi, from Huang Taiji to Mang Gurtai, all were defeated by Huangshi. Huangshi was beaten and hanged in various positions over and over again.Whether it is a field battle, an ambush, or a city attack and defense, the Eight Banners soldiers failed or failed in front of the Huangshi flag.Even Huang Taiji and Yuan Chonghuan's plan to divorce was single-handedly resolved by Huang Shi. For this reason, the old wild boar Pi Nurhachi lost his life in Huang Shi's hands!
When Wu Sangui was still young, he also grew up listening to Huangshi's legendary battle history.And when the Battle of Dalinghe broke out the year before last, his father Wu Xiang also sighed in private, thinking that if Huangshi was still in Liaodong, Jiannu would never be so rampant!

Unexpectedly, although Huangshi is no longer a pillar of the Ming Dynasty, he still leads the army back to Liaodong, the place where it started...

In the last years of the apocalypse, when Huangshi was transferred to Fujian, the Liaoxi general celebrated and drove away a competitor. Every great victory Huangshi won in Dongjiang Town reflected the corruption and incompetence of the Guanning Army from the side. The Guan Ning army, who did not dare to fight Jiannu, gritted their teeth with hatred; but they were also worried that Jiannu would be in a difficult situation because of this: Sure enough, in just a few short years, the Eight Banners braided soldiers have already entered Beijing!
——Although it was the Guan Ning Army who took the initiative to turn against them, moved out of the way, and led the Eight Banners soldiers into Shanhaiguan, which made the city of Beijing change its owner...

Just when Wu Sangui was in a daze, his servant came over with a few things and cursed, "...Master! The Funing Army is really deceiving you! Even though you recognize who you are, you actually gave it back to me!" Let's eat coarse grains that even dogs like this don't want to eat!"

"...Hey, what can I do? Today, people make swords and I eat fish! Uncle Huang Shi didn't have any friendship with my father. When Mao Wenlong was still there, Liaoxi and Dongjiang still had many old enmities. I have chopped off the young master, so it is already considered good luck!"

Wu Sangui put down the proclamation in his hand, and said indifferently.The situation of being reduced to a prisoner now, not only did not make this young hero give up on himself, but made him more pragmatic and good-tempered, "...do you still want them to treat me like a guest?"

"...Then, people from the Funing Army said that General Huangshi had entered Shengjing, do you think it's true?" The boy continued to ask while handing the "prison food" he received to Wu Sangui, "... ...That is the hometown of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty, how could it be so indiscriminate?"

"...This...it's hard to say! After all, it is the Huangshi Huang Gongbao who swept the invincible opponents in Liaodong in the past!" Wu Sangui sighed and shook his head, "...Speaking of it, how did Jinzhou City be lost? I’m at a loss! Right now, the southeast and northwest of Jinzhou City have long been the territory of the Qing Dynasty. Could it be that this group of Funing soldiers fell from the sky? Even if they came from the sea, they wouldn’t enter without any movement Are you in the city? Could it be that there are their internal agents in the city... eh? This dry food is actually square and so hard? Why is it like a brick?"

"...Young master, those Funing soldiers really call this thing grain bricks..."

——It’s a pity that the troops pulled up by the travelers from all walks of life in this time and space have not learned much from the tradition of the People’s Liberation Army’s preferential treatment of prisoners of war. Fraternity.Its prisoner-of-war policy is basically similar to that of modern Western armies.Probably it is not a last resort, they will not kill prisoners casually, and try to make the prisoners eat as much as possible when the supplies are sufficient, that's all.

Therefore, the meals provided by the Funing Army to the prisoners of war were compressed military biscuits commonly made by various crossing groups.Specifically, high-yield crops such as corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are steamed and dried, then ground into powder, then mixed with a small amount of condiments and dried vegetable leaves, and finally pressed into bricks by machinery .Although this thing has the advantages of small size and long shelf life, the taste is really unflattering.Even worse than those vacuum-packed compressed biscuits sold in supermarkets in the modern world.

Generally speaking, people who get this kind of compressed biscuits have to use a pot to add water to cook the biscuits into a paste, so that they can barely swallow them, and those who are more sophisticated will add some vegetables and game collected on the spot.However, the soldiers of the Funing Army who were in charge of guarding the prisoners obviously had no intention of cooking for the prisoners of war, and the prisoners who had nothing could not cook small stoves themselves, so Wu Sangui and his confidantes and long-term followers could only do it from the backyard well. Try another way to eat compressed biscuits: dry eating.

I have to admit that for General Wu Sangui, who was pampered since childhood, this was really an extremely painful experience.

Just when he showed a bitter and hatred expression on his face, he wished to use the chopsticks to poke the "grain brick" in his mouth directly into his stomach along his throat.Li Yunrui, who has been with Huangshi's intelligence director since the days of Tianqi, is extremely horrified by his sexual orientation, and is famous for raping a mares with a gun, but quietly appeared in front of him, so frightened that Wu Sangui choked and coughed repeatedly It took a while to catch my breath.

After Wu Sangui finished coughing, Li Yunrui said slowly, "...Little General Wu, pack up quickly and get ready to go!"

"...What? Go on the road?!" This word with double meanings immediately made Wu Sangui's eyes widen again.

And Li Yunrui continued to admire his distorted expression for a while, full of viciousness, before explaining unhurriedly, "...don't think too much, it's General Huang who wants to see you for something! Hurry up and get on board the boat Come with us to Shengjing, uh, no, go to Shenyang!"

"...Going to Shengjing?! You have really brought down the Jurchens' lair?!"

"...Then there is still a fake? The whole of Liaodong is now ours! General Xiao Wu, wash up and change clothes, then come with me. Don't worry, it is a good thing for you to go to Shenyang, I will not lie to you. General Huang wants I want to discuss a business with your family..."

So, Wu Sangui dubiously followed Li Yunrui out of the city to the seaside, boarded a small steamer, first traveled eastward along the coastline, then went up the Liaohe River, all the way to Shenyang.What he saw and heard along the way, especially the piles of heads with braids hanging on the trees in the countryside, made Wu Sangui finally have to admit that in just a few days, the huge Liaodong has changed. Owner!
Then, in the Dazheng Hall of the Shengjing Imperial Palace, Wu Sangui was received by General Huangshi, and had a secret meeting for two full hours.

Half a month later, in the Wu family's mansion in Beijing, the figure of young master Wu Sangui quietly appeared...

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On the other hand, after hearing the news of the instant change of hands of their homeland in Liaodong, the Manchurians in Shanhaiguan were naturally incredulous at first, and then extremely furious.

However, before the Manchurian soldiers determined to avenge themselves gathered from all over North China, they were thrown into disarray by yet another bad news.

—— Marshal Chen Xin, who is in the Jiaodong Peninsula, after nearly a year of dormancy, also launched his troops in Dengzhou Town at this time, and launched an overwhelming campaign against the Qing army entrenched in Qingzhou and Jinan Onslaught!