Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 1025 Liaodong Sunset
I don’t know if it’s a Feng Shui problem. For more than 2000 years, most of the regimes that have established their capitals in Nanjing love to die: the Eastern Jin Dynasty was the first regime to establish a capital in Nanjing, and this regime is simply the patriarch of the death world. , so dead that all capable ministers wished to personally lead troops into Nanjing———Jiankang at that time——to destroy the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the Sima family!Liu Song, who usurped the Jin Dynasty and became self-reliant, also had no limit to death. The founding monarch Liu Yu was still a wise king, but his son Liu Yilong was far behind.Then there was Nanliang, who created the Hou Jing Rebellion for a Xiao Yuanming, and turned a densely populated and economically developed Jiangnan into an idyllic barren and deserted place; "Ting Hua" refers to this regime.Then until the small imperial court of the Southern Ming Dynasty, it finally reached the highest level of death: across the Yangtze River is the hundreds of thousands of tiger and wolf divisions of the Qing army, who may fight over at any time, and there are still internal struggles here, wantonly rejecting dissidents, even for their own sake. The fact that 10,000+ troops were able to flatten their own military town and other unimaginable things, really stunned the Qing army!Looking through the history, it is not difficult to see that the city of Nanjing is really not suitable to be a capital city. Building a capital here will definitely cause big problems.

Because Yang Menglong, a bastard, made a horizontal move, the horror scene of hundreds of thousands of Qing troops sweeping in from the north had no chance to be staged, but this did not prevent the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty from showing off its arrogance and limitlessness in front of the world, and The show is much more powerful than in history!Although they were also very funny and unscrupulous in history, they still knew to unite the anti-Qing forces, and now...they are still united, purely for the sake of internal fighting.In just a few months, they did all the stupid things they could:
Due to the strict food blockade imposed by the Heluo Group and the Shandong Group on Jiangnan, the entire Jiangnan has fallen into a food shortage. Not to mention the poor, even small officials are almost unable to eat.If Yang Menglong faced this situation, he would definitely order all the grain to be confiscated into the official warehouse and distributed uniformly, and all cotton fields would be shoveled out to replant fast-growing and high-yield things like cabbage, soybeans, and radishes. By the way, he would organize manpower efforts When fishing for aquatic products, let’s stuff our stomachs first, but it’s a pity that the gang of Donglin Party’s deadliest guys saw not a crisis, but a great opportunity!At this critical juncture, those who have food are desperately covering the warehouses to drive up the price of food, and the price of food has been skyrocketed.In order to raise military rations, the small court in Nanjing had to take those rich peasants who still had some food and forcibly confiscated the food in their hands, not to mention ordinary people, you deserve food too?This approach directly offended the vast majority of rich peasants and poor people;

The credit for supporting the new king has always been taken by a small number of people. They use this credit to rise to the top and wantonly suppress those with different political views. The oppressed are not angry, and in a fit of anger, they also support the new king in their own territory———You If you don't take me to play, I will close the door and play by myself!The direct consequence of this approach is that there are as many emperors in the south of the Yangtze River as there are dogs. If there are no thirty, there will be twenty. There are constant conflicts and frictions between emperors and emperors.
Although they have been completely defeated in the confrontation at various levels such as military, economic, and political, the Jiangnan Jinshen Group still feels good about itself—it doesn’t matter if it is defeated, as long as it can take advantage of the verbal and moral advantages, everything will be fine up!The worse the situation is, the more frantically they criticize the New Deal, attack the Longwu court, and point at the noses of Yang Menglong and Zhu Yujian with a high-ranking posture and spray non-stop. The sense of superiority makes farmers, workers, and businessmen People, soldiers and other classes are disgusting enough!These bastards have the same meaning inside and out: how do you guys who run cheap businesses know how to govern the country?Don't be kidding, just get out and let us come, we were born to hold the authority of this country, we were born to be superior!This attitude itself is very problematic, so that people who can understand their articles yell: "What the hell, don't look at what they have done to Jiangnan!" , the minister who wanted to intercede for them could only smile wryly and shake his head. These guys are really powerful. They dare to point the nose of the whole world when they are dying. It's so deadly!
When the news came that the new army of Heluo captured Shanhaiguan one day, those guys who were already completely crazy seemed to have been hit hard with a stick, and they finally calmed down a little.The imperial army can capture Shanhaiguan in one day, but it is not like playing with Nanjing!They finally united and reached a consensus: to strengthen the line of defense, the line of defense must be strengthened!
But how to fortify the line of defense?

I don't understand, I don't understand at all, because the Nanjing small imperial court has everything, but there are no generals who know how to fight and have actual combat experience!
In desperation, the cabinet had no choice but to post an imperial list to recruit talented people, promising high officials and generous salaries, hoping that those talents with both civil and military skills would come and join them.When the news reached Jiangbei, Qi Hu almost laughed out loud.This trick was very effective 1000 years ago. Whenever there was a crisis, the imperial court posted the imperial list to recruit talents, and there would always be capable people who stepped forward to take down the imperial list, shoulder the burden, and save the common people in the world. Many of these people were civilians. He is unknown, but he has amazing talents, and he can hold up even when the sky falls. For example, Xie Ai in the Southern and Northern Dynasties was originally just a small general judge, but after being recommended by his superiors, he transformed into a commander. An invincible Confucian general with an army of tens of thousands.However, this was because there were a large number of aristocratic families at that time, and the children of the aristocratic families received very strict education from an early age. They had to learn everything from martial arts, military art, literature, astronomy, and geography. Under such a background, there is nothing surprising about someone stepping up to create a miracle at a critical moment.The problem is that the aristocratic families have long since ceased to exist. After hundreds of years of emphasizing civility over martial arts, there are very few people who are willing to practice martial arts, and those who are willing to learn the art of war are even more pitiful. Now you want to get military talents by posting on the imperial list?Don't recruit a cheater like Guo Jing like the Northern Song Dynasty!
"Old man, let's send troops!" Li Xu suggested, "Those bastards are not vulnerable at all. They can do nothing but mess things up. We really don't need to waste time with them. Tens of thousands of troops go south, as long as one Just hit them and make them raise the white flag!"

Qi Hu shook his head with a smile: "No, wait a little longer."

Li Xu was a little dissatisfied: "Still waiting? The time is ripe!"

Qi Hu said: "No, the time is not mature enough, they haven't wiped out the last bit of their reputation among the people! What we have to do now is to wait for them to wipe out the little bit of fame accumulated by the scholar-official class over the past thousand years. , Prestige is all lost, and then clean them up!"

Li Xu sighed helplessly and didn't speak any more.The entry of the Qing army has a great relationship with the Jiangnan Jinshen Group. His father died in the war against the Qing army. He hated the Jiangnan Jinshen Group to the bone. He desperately hopes to send troops to conquer Jiangnan as soon as possible and kill those Jiangnan Jinshen Groups. to the treetops!But Qi Hu—or the court obviously has a longer-term plan, and has been holding back. On the other hand, there is a fleet from Wuhan going down the river, sealing off the waterway for smuggling grain to the south of the Yangtze River, and tens of thousands of troops stay in the south of the Yangtze River to watch Watching Jiangnan's gang of grandchildren die, it's really... so boring!

The Jiangnan Jinshen Group continued to kill, while Qi Hu's troops continued to watch the show, everyone should do what they want, and no one is in the way.In the Northeast, the new army of Heluo captured Shanhaiguan and went out of the customs with a long song. They pulled out points all the way along the coast and approached Jinzhou.The prestige of their one-day sinking into Shanhaiguan has scared the remnants of the Guanning Army. In addition, anyone with a little vision knows that the Qing court is completely finished, so the fortresses along the way are basically waiting for the wind to fall. Those who refused to surrender also fled early, and those who could muster up the courage to resist were very few.The two armies Lei Shisheng and Qian Yu were also progressing smoothly. They set out from Chengde and marched across the grasslands to the west of Liaoning. His resistance seemed extremely weak and was easily crushed.The sound of rumbling guns in the hinterland of western Liaoning is also one of the reasons why the tens of thousands of Guanning Army, which clearly possessed dangerous mountains and seas and indestructible fortresses, were about to collapse at the first touch. They stopped advancing, and secondly, if they didn't run back, they would be cut off by the Tianxiong Army!

It is polite to describe the situation of the battle in western Liaoning as overwhelming, because their opponents were as unstoppable as if they had eaten crotons, so the battle scenes are a bit lacking.

As for the Liaodong Peninsula, the resistance encountered by the Ming army was much more intense.Bannermen in the Liaodong Peninsula all know what happened to the Ming army last winter. Let this Ming army go to Shenyang, I am afraid that there will be no more people like bannermen in the world!Every village and every stockade is fighting desperately. Almost all the men who can hold a knife are organized to fight the Ming army. .The resistance is extremely tenacious, and the Ming army's revenge is also extremely bloody. The anger of revenge has made the Ming army lose their minds. It's okay if there is no resistance.Tens of thousands of troops moved slowly and resolutely towards Shenyang. Behind them were countless corpses hanging from trees, villages billowing in thick smoke, and desperate cries of women, children, and orphans... The entire Liaodong Peninsula became living hell!

Lu Xiangsheng did not stop this atrocity, nor did he forget what the Ming army encountered last winter. Now the Ming army is just doing what the Qing army did to them.However, there is no rule without rules, and he issued a death order: no rape of women, no killing of children, anyone who violates the order will be executed immediately!

Women and children are his bottom line, whoever dares to cross this bottom line, don't blame him for turning his face!

The Ming army knew very well the character of the future marshal, so while they retaliated to the fullest, they also carefully controlled their proportions, for fear of hitting the muzzle of the gun.Everyone knows that after this battle is over, they will have all their hardships and rewards, and the labor of capturing Shenping and destroying the Qing court will be enough for them for several lifetimes. What a wonderful future it will be?At this juncture, if you offend Lu Xiangsheng, not only will you not be rewarded, but you will also lose your own life. Isn't it worthwhile?
Under the fierce attack of the Ming army, the Qing army in the Liaodong Peninsula kept retreating. They had tried their best, but they could not stop their opponents from advancing, even if they were delayed for a while. Their equipment, tactics, strength, and morale were poor. Too far!The consequences of the annihilation of the 10,000+ elite army of the Eight Banners have been fully exposed. After losing more than [-]% of the elite soldiers and generals, the Eight Banners Army, which was once so powerful that the whole of East Asia trembled, has completely become a fragile egg shell. Knock it and it will break.They can't organize effective resistance, let alone make a powerful counterattack, they can only retreat, retreat again and again!

However, after more than 20 days, the retreating Qing army stopped.

They have nowhere to go, Shenyang is behind them!

The Ming armies from all walks of life also stopped. The ultimate goal of this conquest is in sight. No one can stop them from taking back this city that has been fallen for decades!
(End of this chapter)