Chapter 228 Pull out the nail in Liaocheng

When Dorgon was frowning, a slave suddenly came in and reported, "Master, Mr. Fan and Mr. Ning are looking for a meeting outside the hall."

"Oh?" Dorgon was about to send someone to find these two hardcore traitors, and he said happily, "Please invite them in."

The slaves took the order and soon led Fan Wencheng and Ningwan to me. Two hard-core traitors knelt on one knee and beat Dorgon, saying flatteringly: "I'm going to see my master."

Dorgon Sudou said, "Two gentlemen, please get up."

After Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, I got up, Dorgon said again: "Is there anything important to have two gentlemen entering the palace late at night?"

Fan Wencheng said: "The slave does have something to discuss with his master."

"Oh?" Dorgon said, "Sir, please say."

Fan Wencheng said: "Can you delay the matter of shaving your hair and changing your clothes?"

Dorgon's brow frowned in an instant. He could obey Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, but he didn't want to listen to Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan. As Dorgon deepened his understanding of Han culture, he gradually came to a conclusion: the final failure of foreign races such as the Jin Dynasty and Mongolia to enter the Central Plains was because they were completely assimilated by the Han people!

Dorgon did not want the Qing Dynasty to repeat the mistakes of the Great Jin Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, so the Manchus could not assimilate the Han people, but also had to assimilate the Han people in turn. Forcing the Han people to shave their hair and change their clothes was a very important measure!

In Dorgon's opinion, the Han people attach great importance to their bodies and hair. Once they force the Han people to shave their hair styles in the Qing Dynasty and then force them to put on the Manchu jackets and robes, then these Han people will submit psychologically to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. After three generations, they will forget that they are Han people.

Seeing Dorgon remained silent, Fan Wencheng carefully explained: "Master, shortly after my Qing army entered the pass, the bandits in Shaanxi have not been completely destroyed. The remnants of Ming forces in Shanxi, Datong, Xuanfu, Shandong and other places have not completely returned. The most important thing is that the former Ming prince Zhu Cilang has ascended the throne in Nanjing and the remnants of Ming forces in the five northern provinces will turn to the Southern Ming at any time. At such a moment, the slave thought it was unwise to force the shave his hair and change his clothes..."

Dorgon raised his hand suddenly, and Fan Wencheng's words stopped abruptly.

"Mr. Fan, Mr. Ning." Dorgon said with a gloomy face, "Don't discuss the matter of shaving your hair and changing your clothes. Within three days, officials and people in Beijing must forcibly shaved their hair and change their clothes."

Ning Wan, I said anxiously: "Master, forcibly removing hair and changing clothes may arouse civil rebellion..."

"Then send an army to suppress it!" Dorgon said with a grim voice, "In a word, keep your head but not your hair, keep your hair but not your hair!"

Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan, I was relatively silent. Although they felt that it was not the time to shave their hair and change their clothes, since Dorgon had made up his mind, they had nothing to say.

"Report..." A Goshha entered the hall with a sweat on his head and knelt down and reported, "Master, Shandong urgently reported!"

"Shandong?" Dorgon's face darkened and he said loudly, "Speak!"

Goshha gasped and said, "Tong Tulai urgently reported that at least 50,000 troops of the Southern Ming Dynasty headed north from Guide Prefecture, Henan, and the 5,000 elite troops of the vanguard have approached Puzhou, less than two hundred miles away from Liaocheng!"

"What! The Southern Ming army?" Dorgon's face changed drastically when he heard this, and he shouted, "Send an order to ask the Jinan defenders to immediately reinforce Liaocheng, and then ask Boluo from Daming Mansion to lead his army to rescue Liaocheng!"

"twitter!"

Goshha took the order and left.

Ning Wan said with a serious expression: "Master, there are only two thousand Han army, eight banners and five thousand Ming surrendered troops in Jinan. Beileye (Boluo) of Daming Mansion also has only five thousand Korean Eight Banners, five thousand Mongolian Eight Banners, and two thousand Zhenghong Banners. They have to guard against the bandits in Henan and rescue Liaocheng. This force is too thin, and reinforcements must be sent as soon as possible."

Fan Wencheng said: "I think the most urgent task is to find out who is the leader of the Southern Ming army? If only Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie and others come, it is not worth worrying. If Wang Pu comes, the problem will be serious!"

Dorgon stood up suddenly, paced back and forth in the hall with his hands on his back.

If the leading general of the Southern Ming army was really Wang Pu, the problem would be really serious!

This time, Dorgon almost moved all his troops. All 60,000 Jiannu's Eight Banners were dispatched, all 20,000 Han army, and all 20,000 Korean Eight Banners were dispatched. In addition, 60,000 Mongolian Eight Banners were recruited. At first glance, there seemed to be a lot of troops, and all of them were added to 160,000 troops. However, it would be too thin to use this amount of troops to conquer the Central Plains.

Fortunately, Wu Sangui's Guanning Army and various former Ming surrendered troops acted as front pawns of the Qing Dynasty. They fought fiercely with the bandits for several months. Most of the casualties were the Guanning Army and the former Ming surrendered troops. The Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty did not suffer much casualties.

Now, Wu Sangui's 80,000 Guanning Army (with many surrendered troops from the Ming Dynasty) are cooperating with Duoduo's 100,000 Jiannu Army to fight fiercely with the bandits at Mengmen Pass.

The situation in Shaanxi is still unclear. Although the bandits have become frightened birds, they still have a large number of troops in Guanzhong. Moreover, as the front lines shrink, their military strength advantage is becoming more and more obvious.

Now the thief and Jiannu are fighting for the longer one. If the thief cannot hold on, they will be defeated and lose the final foundation of Guanzhong. If the thief cannot hold on for the first time, the rapid offensive that lasted for two months will disappear and disintegrate. Once the thief is relieved, it will be difficult to ascend to the sky if he wants to seek Guanzhong!

Therefore, Dorgon would never transfer Duoduo and Wu Sangui's army back to Beijing unless it was absolutely necessary.

Wu Sangui and Duoduo's army could not move, and Dorgon only had 60,000 Eight Banners soldiers and 20,000 former Ming surrendered troops. The 20,000 former Ming surrendered troops were all mobs, and their combat effectiveness was negligible. Among the remaining 60,000 Eight Banners soldiers, 20,000 Jiannu Eight Banners, 10,000 Korean Eight Banners and 30,000 Mongolian Eight Banners.

It takes at least 20,000 people to stay in Beijing, which means that Dorgon can mobilize up to 40,000 troops to support Shandong.

If the Southern Ming army attacking Shandong was just the troops of Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Gao Jie and others, there were only 40,000 Eight Banners soldiers enough to deal with them, but if it was Wang Pu's army, the situation would be completely different! Jiannu had suffered a great loss in Datong, and Dorgon still clearly remembered the cruel scene outside the East Gate of Datong: more than 40,000 casualties were killed in one day!

Last August, after Jiannu returned to the exterior of the pass, Dorgon and Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, analyzed the Battle of Datong. The three of them concluded that if it was a tough battle, the price to pay would be too high to conquer Datong, which was stationed by Wang Pu Wuqian Musketee!

If it is a field battle, at least 5,000 Mongolian cavalry need to be mobilized to continue harassment from all directions, then Tong Yangxing's artillery team will be mobilized to bombard it, and finally use the 5,000 Eight Banners cavalry to fight to the decisive battle. Only in this way can we be fully confident of annihilation of Wang Pu's five thousand musket team.

It was precisely because of the horror of the musket team that Dorgon formed thirty Niulu musket teams at any cost.

Unfortunately, these thirty Niulu's musket teams and Tong Yangxing's artillery teams were sent to Dorgon to fight against the bandits in the Duoduo army.

After a while, Dorgon stopped and asked Fan Wencheng: "Mr. Wencheng, do you think the leader of the Southern Ming army may be Wang Pu?"

"I think everything should be better, but I should make the worst plan!" Fan Wencheng said, "If the commander of the Southern Ming army was Wang Pu, but we were not fully prepared, once Wang Pu's army attacked the city of Beijing, the consequences would be unimaginable."

"Yes." Ning Wan, I also expressed my grave expression, "If Wang Pu's army is allowed to attack the city of Beijing, Tang Tong, Wang Chengyin, and Jiang Xiang will turn against each other again. At that time, our Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty will be surrounded by the Southern Ming army!"

Dorgon said: "How should we deal with it according to the opinions of the two gentlemen?"

Fan Wencheng said: "Puzhou is still a thousand miles away from Beijing. It would be too late for the master to recall Prince Yu's army at this time!"

Dorgon frowned and said, "What if Prince Yu's army is recalled, and the Shaanxi bandits take advantage of the situation to counterattack Shanxi?"

Fan Wencheng said: "You can let King Pingxi Wu Sangui guard Shanxi."

"Ah..." Dorgon sighed and said helplessly, "Since that's the case, then we will recall Prince Yu's army. However, we must raise the food and grass needed by the army before this."

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, I looked at each other and asked in a low voice: "Master means..."

A trace of ferociousness flashed across Dorgon's face and said in a deep voice: "To the people of Zhili north... collect grain!"

Caozhou, Wang Puxingyuan.

A huge map of the northern five provinces of the Ming Dynasty was hung on the wall in the north of the roof. The map was filled with colorful small flags representing various forces. Liu Qingyan's intelligence organization finally began to play its due role, summarizing a large amount of information presented from the halls of various places, and basically figured out the division of forces in the northern five provinces.

Liu Qingyan pointed to the map and explained to Wang Pu and Liu Rushi: "Marty, Rushi girl, now the forces in the five northern provinces are mainly as follows: Jiang Xiang is in Datong, Wang Chengyin is in Xuanfu, Tang Tong is in Yanqing Prefecture, and Baoan Prefecture. Although the generals of these three towns have surrendered to Jiannu, their attitudes are ambiguous, and Jiannu is also strictly guarding against them."

"Oh?" Wang Pu looked happy when he heard this, "This is good news."

Liu Qingyan continued: "In addition, the bandits have retreated to Shaanxi, and the Hongniang in Henan has completely separated from the bandits and relied on their own. Jiannu has occupied most of the three provinces of Shanxi, Shandong and Northern Zhili. In addition, Wu Sangui's Guanning army is fighting fiercely with Li Zicheng's bandits at the junction of Shanxi and Shaanxi."

Wang Pu said: "How many Jiannu are left behind in Beijing?"

Liu Qingyan said affirmatively: "All the troops will be added one, and at most, there will be no more than 80,000 people."

Wang Pu said again: "How are these 80,000 people distributed?"

Liu Qingyan said: "These 80,000 people are mainly stationed in Changping, Shunyi, Tongzhou and other places outside Beijing. They are obviously guarding against Jiang Xiang, Wang Chengyin and Tang Tong. In addition, there are about 20,000 Jiannu stations in Daming Prefecture. It is obviously to guard against the weak Jiannu in Henan, Jinan and Liaocheng, and the sum of them is only about 10,000."

"There are less than 10,000 people?" Wang Pu pondered for a moment and said in a voice. "Feige sent a letter to the Shanxi Hall, asking them to closely monitor the movements of Jiannu in Shanxi. Once Jiannu showed signs of returning to the army, Feige immediately returned it."

"yes."

Liu Qingyan gave Wang Pu a charming look.

Wang Pu asked Liu Rushi again, "Where is Shi Lang's navy now?"

Liu Rushi said: "From the itinerary, it should be almost time to reach Jining."

After Shi Lang led the navy fleet to transport 40,000 strong Jiangbei to the Yanziji Camp in Nanjing, he immediately advanced north along the canal day and night. Now he has almost caught up with Wang Pu's army.

"Well, okay." Wang Pu nodded happily, "Shi Lang is not bad. The navy's marching speed is very fast. I immediately sent a command to Scarface to seize Puzhou before dark, and the rest of the battalions accelerated the marching speed. Tomorrow morning, I will have breakfast with all the soldiers in Puzhou."

"Marty." Liu Rushi suddenly suggested, "The little woman thought that General Scarface's vanguard should be allowed to bypass Puzhou and raid Liaocheng overnight!"

Wang Pu's heart was thrilled and asked in a deep voice: "Why?"
Chapter completed!