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

Chapter 881 Stop Attacking
Huang Taiji stationed his horse behind the ice wall, watching the battlefield with cold eyes.

He was very satisfied with the current situation. The way forward was blocked and the retreat was cut off. Guan Ningjun stabbed him hard in the back. The successive blows plunged the Ming army into extreme chaos. Until now, they are still doing their own thing.Behind the Ming army, pillars of smoke rose higher and higher. Who knows how much ordnance and supplies were burned in the raging flames. These ordnance and supplies were all mobilized from the Gyeonggi area!From Beijing to Tianjin to Panjin, thousands of miles away, the cost of transferring so much ordnance materials can be imagined. However, now these material transfer stations have turned into a sea of ​​fire in front of the roaring Manchurian cavalry, and every column of smoke rises. This means that the hope of the Ming army's survival has been deprived, and the destruction of every material transfer station means that the noose around the neck of the Ming army has tightened a few points.

There is no suspense in this war.

The Denglai New Army, Dongjiang Army, and Changping Army were all emptied, and the mobile forces of the Tianxiong Army were also emptied. The entire Hebei and Shandong were emptied. As long as this Ming army is wiped out, and then send troops into the customs, we must win Beijing is easy!After taking down the entire Northern Zhili and then recruiting and accepting the rebels, the relevant Ning army will set an example, mobilizing a million troops is easy!The Tianxiong Army is doomed to be ruined in the Hetao Plain. As long as the Guanning Army is destroyed again, the Ming Dynasty will be completely destroyed, and I will become the founding monarch of the Qing Dynasty. I will replace the Ming Dynasty and build an unprecedentedly powerful empire. Can't stand me!Once Yang Lu is gone, who else can stop my rolling cavalry of the Qing Dynasty!

What surprised him a little was that although there was chaos and panic, the Ming army did not let out a thousand miles like before. On the contrary, they desperately organized resistance amidst the roar of their respective generals. The Laixin Army, Tianxiong Army, and even the squadrons from Shandong and Henan were all fighting to the death, one after the other, with their flesh and blood bearing the impact of the Iron Banner of Manchuria, they killed all their bones!However, this is also reasonable. Since the second year of the Chongzhen War, the Ming Empire has been reckless. While investing huge resources in training the new army, it also selected elite troops from the few capable troops in Beizhili. Learning the model of the new army for training has yielded results in a few years. Now in front of him are more than half of the capable warriors of the entire Ming Dynasty. If they can easily eat them, it will be abnormal.

Dai Shan was by Huang Taiji's side, watching the battle with him, and seeing how brave the Ming army was, he couldn't help but shook his head, and said, "Most of the Ming's elite are here... Those civil officials are really ruthless, in order to suppress the generals, He didn't hesitate to bury all the elite soldiers and generals that this country has accumulated over the years!"

Huang Taiji sneered: "The selfishness of these civil servants can be heard from three hundred miles away. I can see that they don't have a country at all in their eyes. As long as they respect Confucius and Confucianism, as long as they treat scholar-bureaucrats preferentially, they don't care about changing dynasties at all! As long as they can To ensure their interests, they will accept a dog as their emperor!"

Dai Shan said: "The selfishness of these civil servants is really frightening... Your Majesty, if the Qing Dynasty wants to continue its national destiny and prosper, it must not use such selfish and short-sighted people!"

Huang Taiji was stunned, and his sneer turned into a wry smile: "I don't want to use them either, it's just that... if you don't use them, no one can use them... There are really too few talents like Yang Menglong and Lu Xiangsheng! Alas, if How great would it be if God could give me Yang Menglong? I would like to share the world with him!"

When these words came from an emperor's mouth, the courtiers must feel uncomfortable, but with Dai Shan as the leader, none of the civil and military ministers around Huang Taiji was unconvinced.Yang Menglong does have such ability. Seeing how he managed Huguang to prosper in a very short period of time, you can see that any country he puts him in can turn that country into a powerful country, and it is not a short-lived power, but a future generation. strong.The most wonderful thing is that he is very interested in expanding the territory, but not interested in usurping the throne and self-reliance. As long as you give him a little trust, you can get a lot of rewards. If such a talent can be used for himself, I believe many emperors are willing to work with him A total of the world.It's a pity that there is only one such talent, and he is probably already dead. If the Manchu Qing wants to replace Daming, they have to endure the nausea and use those civil servants who are very likely to do the same in the future to ruin the Qing Dynasty!

In fairness, the Qing Dynasty in history has learned many lessons from the demise of the Ming Dynasty.After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, although the literati and bureaucrats were still used, they did not treat the gentry blindly like the Ming Dynasty. Instead, they treated them equally. The people rested and recuperated.It is abominable for the Lord of the Eight Banners to run a horse and enclose land, but in the early and middle Qing Dynasty, the burden on the common people was indeed not as heavy as that in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.At the same time, the Qing Dynasty also learned the lesson of the guard system of the Ming Dynasty, which turned soldiers into serfs, and threw this terrible system into the garbage dump. The Eight Banners Army and the Green Camp have maintained strong combat effectiveness for more than 100 years after the founding of the country.As for where so-and-so unearthed the firearms of the Ming Dynasty more than 100 years ago, which are more advanced than those used by the Qing army now, that is just a joke. As early as the Battle of Songshan, the number of guns and artillery of the Qing army reached that of the Ming army. It is ten times as high as that, and its quality is a hundred times stronger than that of the garbage in the hands of the Ming army that either exploded or made a sound.During the Battle of Songshan, when the Qing army attacked the city, they concentrated dozens of heavy artillery pieces and blasted the city wall down, and then the infantry rushed in, and the Ming army defending the city was finished.The most typical example is that on the 84th of Jiangyin, Liu Liangzuo fought Yan Yingyuan in Jiangyin for 83 days, but he was still unable to attack. When the heavy artillery troops under the command of Pu Luo arrived, the bombardment continued overnight, and the city wall of Jiangyin was blasted to a width of 30. The big gap of rice was poured in by the Qing army like a flood, and Jiangyin was broken in a day.Although at that time Jiangyin had already run out of energy and was unsustainable, but without heavy artillery, it would have been impossible for the Qing army to break through the city so quickly.It is not difficult to see from these battles that since the Battle of Songshan, the Qing army had an overwhelming advantage over the Ming army in terms of firearms, let alone more than 100 years later, when the Qing army had generally equipped flintlock guns. The proportion of equipment reached [-]%.It is precisely by virtue of the high degree of firearms that the Qing army pacified San Francisco, pacified the big and small Jinchuan, conquered Junggar, conquered Nepal, and beat up Burma, and its combat effectiveness has always maintained a high level.

The Qing Dynasty also learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty’s vassal kings from destroying the country, and made great efforts in the management of the clan’s children, strictly limiting the number and treatment of the vassal kings, and did not treat them like pigs. Those who can serve the country will serve the country , Those who cannot serve the country will be automatically cut down after three generations, which greatly reduces the burden on the country.It is not difficult to see that the Qing Dynasty has indeed seriously summed up the lessons of the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and made great efforts to reform in terms of taxation, military system, and feudal vassal, and achieved good results.However, they have not been able to break out of this circle. The 2000-year-old root of Chinese literati has always been there. Strong monarchs like Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong can still be suppressed. With the departure of these talented and bold monarchs, they have been suppressed for more than 100 years. The Wenchen Group immediately exploded, and the Qing Dynasty's national situation took a sharp turn for the worse.

It is precisely because they are bound by such a small and large circle that they cannot escape at all, so all Huang Taiji lamented, "If we don't use them, there will be no one to use."Although we have seen too many unappetizing performances by the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty will still have to hold their noses and use them in the future. Without them, even Shanhaiguan cannot pass!
Knowing that the flies are disgusting, he still wants to pick them up and eat them one by one. This is probably Huang Taiji's current mood.

Boom boom boom!

A series of violent roars interrupted Huang Taiji's contemplation, and the front of the three hollow infantry phalanxes of the Tianxiong Army instantly turned into a boiling crater. The front-loading smoothbore guns fired at the same time, and the grape shells were as dense as rain and fog.Although relying on the technology and equipment provided by the Heluo New Army, the Tianxiong Army has established an extremely powerful artillery unit, but the 36mm howitzer is too heavy, and the lightning cannon cannot be fired flat. The infantry needs a lighter weapon when fighting against the cavalry. , Cannons that can instantly deal devastating blows to enemy cavalry who rush to a distance of tens of meters, so after repeated research, they created this steel artillery.Since steel is used, it can withstand higher chamber pressure and the tube wall can be made thinner. Therefore, this front-mounted smoothbore gun is much lighter and more deadly than a bronze gun of the same caliber.This kind of artillery is specialized in launching grape bullets, using gun cotton as propellant. Go in, ignite and fire. The rate of fire is very fast. One cannon can fire more than 85 steel balls. The three infantry brigades deployed at the forefront are each equipped with twelve such cannons. 800 cannons fired at the same time, roaring. The Qing army's cavalry's front line was full of pieces of meat, and the blood mist filled the air. The soldiers who rushed to the front were even torn to pieces, and their positions were beaten into chaos!Immediately afterwards, there was another burst of gunshots, and every infantry facing the enemy in the hollow phalanx fired in three rows. In the rain of bullets, people turned on their backs, and the Manchu warriors who were skilled in bows and horses fell down like cutting wheat.Although the corpses of officers and soldiers of the Tianxiong Army lay in front of each hollow phalanx, these seemingly weak phalanxes were unbreakable.

Huang Taiji's eyelids twitched and he asked, "How many times?"

It was Mang Gurtai who answered him: "It's the sixth time... the Xiongjun is really hard to deal with this day!"

Huang Taiji smiled wryly: "If it's not difficult, it won't be called Tianxiong Army...Hasn't Wu Sangui won Zhu Youjian's fight?"

Everyone raised their binoculars and looked towards Jijia, only to see Wu Sangui and his Yi Ding Tu cavalry scattered in formation, fleeing in a panic, with hundreds of Ming cavalry behind them wielding sabers and riding spears. Can't give up.The mouth corners of the generals of the Qing army twitched slightly. Yi Ding Tuqi is the number one elite of the Wu family. Each of them is a son of the Wu family. They have practiced martial arts hard since childhood. They can be called soldiers of the Wu family. If you pass it by, you can rarely take advantage of it.However, now even Huang Taiji is very optimistic about this team, and the elite who entrusted them with the task of beheading has been chased out by the Ming army like a duck, announcing that the beheading operation has completely failed!

What a goddamn Chihuahua!

Mang Gurtai yelled angrily: "What did Wu Sangui do? Thousands of people were beaten to the ground by hundreds of people!? Just like him, he still has the face to call himself the number one general of the Guanning Army!?"

Huang Taiji was also a little depressed. He wanted to defeat the Ming army in one go, but he didn't expect the Ming army to be so tenacious and insisted on holding on. It seemed that it was impossible to eat up the [-] troops in a short time.He sighed and said: "Stop attacking, let the snowstorm and hunger wipe out the Ming army for us!"

Fighting now, the Qing army is actually a little bit unable to fight, the casualties are too scary!Hearing that they were receiving an amnesty, they quickly sounded the call to withdraw troops.

The Qing army receded like an ebb tide.

The Ming army stared at a pair of blood-red eyes and stood among the piles of corpses, panting violently. It took a long time to realize that the Qing army had retreated, and burst into cheers!They blocked the first wave of attacks that were like earth-shattering!
They cheered a little earlier, and more terrible disasters are yet to come.

(End of this chapter)