Abatai rode on the horse and was dizzy. He originally wanted to stay in Shengjing, but because Dorgon's front line was unfavorable, Jirgalang forced him to come over.

This time Jiergalang asked him to supervise the Manchu and Mongolian army on the southern route, because in the eighth year of Chongde and the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Abatai was ordered to enter the pass from Huangyakou, break the city 88, surrender to the city 6, capture 360,000 yuan, obtain 2,200 yuan gold and 2.2 million taels of silver, swept across North China, half of Shandong, and captured and killed the Minglu King Zhu Yishou.

With such outstanding achievements, and being familiar with North China and Shandong geography, Abatai is naturally the most suitable commander of the Southern Army.

However, Jirgalang ignored Abatai's physical condition. Abatai, who is fifty-five, is not old, but since he entered the pass, he has been having problems with the local environment and the country has declined day by day, and now riding a horse has become a problem, let alone leading troops to fight.

Fortunately, his two sons, Bo, Tou and Boluo, have grown up, and are in their thirties as the generals. With these two as his central army, Suo Hai and Tulai are both powerful generals of Lao Yu's battle formation, and he doesn't need to worry about ordinary affairs. Even the young Ebilong had fought the Battle of Songjin with the late emperor, and he was still quite reliable in doing things.

"Ama, do you want to stop ahead?" Boro looked at his father with some anxiety: "Or will your son find you a carriage?"

Abatai squeezed out the word "chuan" between his eyebrows, waved his hand, and said, "What do you think of leading troops outside in a carriage?"

"Ama, you're tired," Boro said.

"Hey, where is this?" Abatai shook his head and said, "I don't know if I don't go there in person. Even if we have settled Shandong, that is, a small place in the Ming Dynasty."

Boluo was a new generation of pillar generals in Manchuria. Dorgon admired him quite a lot and he was very close to Dorgon. However, now that Dorgon has lost power, it is natural for him to go to war with his father.

What's more, he secretly turned to Jirgalang.

After hearing what my father said, Boluo hesitated and said, "The population of the Ming Dynasty was too large. We can't control so many people, so we still have to let the Han people take care of them. In the future, these Han people bite us back, and it may be difficult for them to quit the customs."

Abatai shook his head: "You don't understand the Han people. They have a saying that if you have milk, you are a mother. As long as you can live, you won't care who is the master. What's scary is that we are full of hearts..."

"I feel unhappy..." Boluo was slightly guilty, wondering whether his father took the opportunity to beat him to bet on both sides.

"The thirteen pairs of armor in the first khan started their business and swept through all tribes. How did our tribes work together? When the late emperor was in the late emperor, they broke the rules and insisted on learning the Han system. What was the result? All the flags had their own little thoughts. Dorgon took all his belongings and smashed them in the pass. It was the moment of survival of the whole tribe, but the two yellow flags and the two white flags would still have internal conflicts."

Boluo was speechless. When Baoding was past yesterday, Tianbao Governor Suksaha refused to supply food and grass well, and he was scathing. Fortunately, Abatai's power is still there, otherwise he really wouldn't know how he would be bullied.

"Ama, we have passed the Tianbao line, and the Ming army's defense line is ahead. Should we concentrate our troops?" Boluo seemed to ask for advice, but in fact he was suggesting.

After the Battle of Sarhu, both the Ming army and the Qing army knew the danger of division of troops and did not dare to divide the troops at any time. Zhu Cilang believed that the territory was narrow and there were no mountains and hills, so he wanted to divide the troops and attack together, but the result was disappointing.

However, if more than 100,000 troops advance, if they follow one after another and follow one route, the test of national strength is the strength. During the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming army movement was like this, because there was enough food and grass supply for prefectures along the way. However, in the early years of Chongzhen, the prefectures and counties in the Jifu area could not even pay for the food and grass of the King's Army, which eventually led to the defeated soldiers joining the uprising of the refugees, greatly enhancing the combat effectiveness of the bandits.

In more than ten years, Ji Fu was repeatedly swept into the pass by the Qing army, and he could not recover his vitality. This time, the Qing Dynasty also suffered. No marching route could support the food and grass cost of more than 100,000 people, and could only be forced to divide the troops. Hejian and Tianjin were divided into three routes.

At this moment, the horses in front of us had already hit the village fortress that the Ming army was deployed, which meant that the battle was about to begin. The small villages along the way were empty, and it was obvious that the Ming army was timely strengthening the walls and clearing the fields, leaving no available manpower or materials for the Qing army.

"The Khan and the Emperor use troops, they must first detect the enemy's deployment, bribe the enemy's guards, and place them in the inner circle, so that they can win every battle." Abatai did not directly respond to his son's words, but just sighed: "It is really not a good sign to launch a large army without knowing the depth of the enemy."

"The guards here are divided into three, all of whom are newly emerging generals of the Ming Dynasty." Boluo said: "I heard that the one who beats the Xiao flag is the most difficult to deal with. He also has a battalion of soldiers wearing the double-winged flying tiger flag, and his martial arts are even more brave than Zhushen's warriors."

"Just this little news?" Abatai suddenly coughed violently. He stopped for a long time and took a breath and said, "Go to find Hong Chengchou. He has been the supervisor of the Ming Dynasty for twelve years. I know a little, let's see what he says."

Boro nodded and left.

Hong Chengchou quickly came over on a horse, and did not become proud of his identity as a governor.

In fact, no matter how high the Han people are, they still have to be shorter when facing the Manchu powerful people.

"Prince," Hong Chengchou and Abatai walked side by side, "The Ming army is in front of him."

"That's right, so I want to discuss with Governor Hong how to play." Abatai said: "The Governor was prominent in the Ming Dynasty. Have you ever known the news about the three guards here?"

Since the last time when Hong Chengchou was defeated by Bahana and Shi Tingzhu, he has paid attention to the guards here. According to principles, he commanded three or four thousand troops and was so good at fighting. Even if he was not the General of the Seal, he should be the general and the deputy general. No matter how bad he was, he would have to be a general. But these three people were like jumping out of the cracks of stones, without any past experience.

He used some of his disciples who were still in the Ming Dynasty to inquire, but he also did not get any useful information. He only learned that Niu Chenghu and Zuo Guangxian were under Tanning's command, and he felt even more incredible. Niu and Zuo were both famous generals and were ranked as general. How could the person who could be above them be an unknown little pawn?

Hong Chengchou shook his head: "The younger waves of the Yangtze River push forward the older waves, and I can no longer recognize these young soldiers."

Abatai nodded and said, "The Ming army's old trick is only the fortress, but it's nearly 600 miles from the mountain to the sea. I don't know where to start."

Manchuria had poor attack ability, and the common methods were to dig cities, attack strongly, and use the three types. During Huang Taiji's reign, trenches and sieges were developed to siege the city and attack the aid. It was not until Kong Youde brought the red cannon that the Qing army had the ability to attack the city and siege.

"The horse exploration I sent is rewarded with. There are many villages and military forts here. People often patrol and sweep the horses, obviously they are on high alert." Hong Chengchou's brows could not be relaxed: "I'm afraid I'd have to patronize and find a place to start."

"Since there are three towns that guard this place for 600 miles, the joints between each town must be the weakest, so you can start from there." Abatai said: "I think it will cost a lot of money to build a military fort. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to build it all the way to Nanjing. As long as this layer of defense is broken, you will naturally be able to pull the defenders out and fight."

This is also the tactical habit of the Manchus. First, break the defense a little bit, and then pierce it like an awl, forcing the Ming army to give up the defense line and go out to fight in the field. Relying on its strong troops and horses, the Ming army is definitely not its opponent.

Of course, more often, as long as one Ming army retreats, other friendly forces will flee one after another and have no will to fight.

During the Wanli period, the civil officials and military generals of the Ming Dynasty were surprised that the Koreans were about to collapse in front of the weak Japanese army. How could they think that the Ming army had fallen to this level thirty years later?

What's even more tragic is that the Ming army was not because the soldiers were incompetent, but because the generals were unwilling to fight at all.

Just like in the Battle of Songjin, Zu Dashou was determined to defend Jinzhou, and he defended for two years but failed to succeed in the Qing army. Especially in the 14th year of Chongzhen, Wu Bashi, the commander of Jinzhou East Pass, surrendered, and the outer city of Jinzhou fell. The remaining food in the city was less than a month, and in the end, he even relied on eating the corpse to hold on.

In the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, more than 90% of the Ming army commanders were cowardly avoiding the war, which resulted in a major defeat.
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