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Chapter 409 Yue Tuo's Plan

Dorgon's personal bodyguard Xiketeng said: "Beller, the dead soldiers of the Mongolian barbarians are indeed very powerful. They are not only fierce but also afraid of death, but also wear thick armor. If they are cavalry, both men and horses are wearing armor; camel soldiers are also men and camels are wearing armor, and bows and arrows cannot be hurt at all."

Yue Tuo said: "Uncle Fourteen, let's check who those people are. Our army will not attack for the time being, and will rely on the naturalized city as a support."

"How can so many of us get into the small town of Naihua?" Dorgon asked.

"There is no need to enter the city. The gunners of the Wuzhen Chao Ha Camp and the Eight Banners of Manchuria can attack the enemy with a high altitude; the remaining troops will build fortifications outside the city and cannot easily fight."

"Okay, that's all for the time being," Dorgon nodded, "I didn't expect that my Qing Dynasty soldiers were invincible. It has been twenty-years since my father Khan's thirteen armor raised, and the war in the wild has always been invincible, but today I have to be a turtle huddled in the city to defend."

"Uncle Fourteen, I can't say that. This is an advance and retreat. Now that the Mongolian coalition forces are in great power, our army should avoid its edge for the time being. The Mongolian coalition forces are not in harmony, and if time is delayed, it will be beneficial to our army."

"What if the Mongolian barbarians did not retreat for a long time? We are going to waste time with them?"

"No, if the Mongolian barbarians do not retreat for a long time, then we will retreat! The Mongol alliance is extremely loose. As long as our army retreats, their internal conflicts will intensify and they will inevitably kill each other!"

"Retreat?" Dorgon snorted coldly, "Ten thousand troops set out from Liaodong, came here from thousands of miles away, and returned in vain?"

"Of course we can't return without success!" Yue Tuo smiled and pointed to the guide, "The Mongolian barbarians are under great pressure here, so we won't fight with them. We can go to the south, enter the Ming Dynasty again, and seize the population and supplies to return to Liaodong."

"I'm afraid there is nothing to rob the area of ​​Xuanda?" Dorgon said in confusion. Now, the Shanxi merchants in Zhangjiakou, who have lost power, have run away. The Shanxi merchants in Huaian, Yangzhou have not returned to Shanxi for several years. Shaanxi was hit by disaster. The bandits entered Shanxi and ransacked them. The officers and soldiers suppressed them and looted them. A few years ago, the Jin army invaded and looted them again. Now Shanxi can be said to be so poor that the people have gnawed all the barks. How can there be anything to rob?

Yue Tuo said: "Uncle Fourteenth, population is the most important thing. Why did the emperor repeatedly rob and rob the Ming Dynasty? It is still second to get food and property. The most important thing is population. As long as there are people, what cannot be produced?"

Dorgon drank and left the left and right, leaving only Yue Tuo.

Yue Tuo opened the map and gestured on the map, "Fourth Uncle, our army can enter the Ming Dynasty from Zhangjiakou, robbed the eastward all the way to Da'ankou. I will stay in Zhangjiakou to guard it to prevent the Mongolian barbarians from following and chasing. After a month, my nephew will withdraw his troops and return to Liaodong."

Dorgon was overjoyed: "When will our army attack Zhangjiakou?"

"No hurry. If we send troops to Zhangjiakou at this time, the Mongolian coalition will inevitably follow us and pursue us. We will first set up defenses outside Guihua City. When the time is right, we will break south. The Eight Banners Iron Cavalry and the Han Eight Banners will go first, and my nephew personally led the Korqin Eight Banners to cut off the rear."

"Okay, then everything depends on yours."

The Qing army retreated to Guihua City, and the artillery team of Wuzhenchao and the archers of the Manchu Eight Banners retreated into the city. Naturally, Dorgon and Yuetuo also retreated to the city with their personal guards. The rest of the Qing army were stationed outside the city, and they supported the natural walls. A circle of wooden fences were drawn outside the city. A trench was dug in front, and tens of thousands of troops and Baoyi Aha were stationed behind the wooden fences. Dorgon also sent an order: "You can't stand it! If anyone goes out without authorization, behead you!"

When the Mongolian coalition arrived at the city of Guihua, the Qing army was huddled in the city, and no matter how Ling Erzhe called out, the Qing army did not come out to fight.

Ezhe ordered a strong attack, but the Mongolians who were not good at attacking the toughest did not even find the city wall. They left hundreds of corpses outside the wooden fence of the Qing army and retreated.

At this time, the self-destruction of the God Warrior's camel soldier was no longer useful and he could not get close to the wooden fence at all. The cannons and guns on the top of the city came over, and the God Warrior was blown up halfway.

The Tumotes, who were eager to retake Huihua City, also launched several rounds of attacks, but were shot back by the Qing army's artillery, muskets and bows, leaving more than 200 bodies. When one of the Tumotes attacked, he found that the Qing generals stationed in the direction of their attack were Subude! Subude, who had already surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, did not show mercy to his former comrades, but ordered fierce fire with muskets, cannons and bows, causing the attacking Tumotes to fall to the ground one after another.

"Subud! You are a traitor at both ends of the rat!" Omubu cursed in anger, "It was all you who threw away Ben Khan's naturalized city! That's not all, you even killed our fellow Tumot! Are you determined to be a dog for the Jurchens?"

Li Guodong advised: "Don't scold the Khan, it's not easy for Subud to stick to the small town of Guihua for a month. Since he surrendered to Jiannu, he can't put you in? He has to make the Jurchens feel at ease with him in order to keep his head."

"Hmph! Those who are greedy and afraid of death!" Omubu left a sentence and left.

The Mongols' ability to attack was too poor, and Li Guodong's troops were too small, so he naturally could not attack the city, so the two sides confronted under the city of Guihua.

Yuetuo was not in a hurry at all. The Qing army brought enough food. There was a small Heihe River outside the city of Guihua. It was also under the control of the Qing army. It had both food and water. The Qing army calmly arranged defenses, piled up sandbags, poured them on water, and froze them into ice, and the dirt city outside of Guihua became indestructible. In fact, this was also Yuetuo's plan to confuse the Mongols. He made a long-term defense, but in fact he was ready to break south and then rush to Zhangjiakou for a long distance.

"Kong Youde, it's still gratifying!" Yue Tuo came to the central army tent of Monk Kong Youde.

"Master!" The two of them quickly stood up and saluted.

"Do you two know the snowmobile made by Ming Jiang Li Guodong?" Yue Tuo asked.

"I know, I can send you Rufei on the snow." Kong Youde replied.

"Can you copy it?"

"Slaves, let those ahas give it a try."

Monk Kong Youde Kexi ordered the Ahas to change their baggage vehicles into sled cars. In fact, the principle of the sled cars is very simple, and anyone who has seen it understands it. After more than ten days of intense transformation, thousands of baggage Ahas removed the wheels of the baggage vehicles, then demolished the houses from the city of Guihua, removed the wooden beams, and dashed them into pillars and wooden boards, then nailed the pillars to the bottom of the car, and then nailed the wooden boards to the pillars.

The first imitation sled car was completed, and Yuetuo ordered Kong Youde to test it.

A light-weight Folang machine cannon was placed on the car, three Wuzhenchao Ha soldiers got on the car, and five Ahas got on the car. Then, the sled car with two war horses slowly accelerated on the snow, and the speed was quickly increased to the highest level. Several Qing cavalrymen were curious and rode their horses to chase the sled car, but found that they could not catch up with them no matter what.

"This car is extremely fast, even a war horse is difficult to catch up!" Yue Tuo sighed.

Kong Youde pointed to the traces on the snow and explained to Yuetuo: "Master, look at the horse hoof prints of the snowmobile. It is very shallow on the snow. The horses are not carrying weights on the body, so it is much easier to run. Look at the skateboards of the snowmobile and the traces of the snowmobile, which are also very shallow. The load of the horses in this way is actually much lighter than that of the cavalry, so the speed is faster than that of the cavalry."
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