Chapter 221: Land and Sea Encirclement Network
"Shit..."
The mount under his crotch was slamming in a low voice. When Amin heard this, he was also very upset.
He looked at the empty Xinzhou City, holding the reins in one hand, letting the horse's hooves step on the street market, making sounds, pressing his anger, and sneered:
"This Dorgon is nothing more than a ten-year-old child. He also wanted to take the Zhengbai Banner to make contributions, but he was intercepted by several horse bandits."
"Hoshuo Beile, the slave has long said that Lao Khan values Dorgon, but he is nothing more than aging and watching the joy of the children."
After Hu Erhan said that, he smiled flatteringly.
"Huerhan, Khan values you very much." Amin said this, and kept silent in a meaningful manner and looked at the slightly dark Jurchen in front of him.
Huerhan and Tong Jia were one of the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty in later generations. They were a native of the Zhengbai Banner of Manchuria. They lived in Yaer Ancient Village for generations and followed his father to Jianzhou.
At the beginning, because of his bravery and courage to fight, he was adopted by Nurhaci as his adopted son, and was given the title of Jueluo family and had a white flag inlaid.
In the 47th year of Wanli, he participated in the Battle of Sarhu, and quickly defeated the Ming army with his superior forces and opened the second route of Kaiyuan. He then set up an ambush and surrounded Liu Jing's troops with the Later Jin Dynasty's Beile, and wiped out all the troops.
In the 48th year of Wanli, less than half a year after Emperor Tianqi succeeded to the throne, he led the Bianbai Banner to conquer Shenyang from Amin, and offered plans to set up an ambush outside the city, seducing Shenyang general He Shixian to attack.
Later, He Shixian really vowed to attack in Shenyang and fell into a siege. Although he retreated in time, he was still caught up by Huerhan in person with the Inlaid White Flag.
In this battle, He Shixian was killed in battle and Shenyang fell for the first time. Therefore, Nurhaci was the first-class position in Huerhan.
It was precisely because of the fall of Shenyang that the civil and military officials of the court were shocked to realize the ambitions of the barbarians in Liaodong. Since then, whenever the Liao incident happened, Emperor Tianqi would make arbitrary decisions and firmly support Xiong Tingbi.
Hu Erhan smiled quickly:
"What is the value of what is important is nothing more than your respect for Heshuo Beile."
Amin turned his head and laughed:
"The old guy values you, how could it be my face?"
"You think, you can conquer the Ula tribe and defeat He Shixian in Shenyang. No time did the slaves follow Heshuo Beile and you will join the army."
As he said that, Hu Erhan found that the mount was moving forward, Amin tightened the reins tightly, slowed down his speed, and said, "Look at Yinu, Lao Han does not value me, but Heshuobeile, you!"
Amin made this series of flattery a little fluttered, laughed and said casually:
"Dorgon will sooner or later arrive at the Zhengbai Banner. At that time, you have to bring the boys of the two white banners to give this fledgling calf a sweet taste."
"Let's see, Heshuo Beile. If Dorgon dares to come, the servant will definitely treat him well."
Hu Erhan laughed, but his smile made people feel a little scared no matter how he looked at it.
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Almost the same time Dorgon arrived in Xinzhou, Mao Wenlong received a messenger sent by Liu Xingzuo and learned that more than 100,000 people in Xinzhou were hiking into the deep mountains and forests and rushing to Pi Island.
Although Dongjiang has not yet reached a well-off level, it is no longer the time for people to starve to death in the past. At least, food and clothing can be maintained almost the same.
This depends on the efforts of the governor Yuan Keli of Denglai and the imperial navy in Tianjin to help.
Although the Jianzhou cavalry was invincible in the wilderness, they could not see any of their flags on the vast sea.
From Dongjiang to Penglai, it extends to Penghu, and there are merchant ships and warships from the Ming Dynasty everywhere.
After a simple discussion, Mao Wenlong gave up his concerns and quickly summoned various departments of the Dongjiang Army, divided them into several teams, and went to support the people who had retreated from Xinzhou and the Han army anyway.
The Dongjiang Army was worried about the safety of the people, and in less than two days, they passed through layers of mountains and forests and came to the area of Prince River.
At this time, news suddenly came that it was a battle in Xinzhou, and Liu Xingzuo and Li Yangeng were in battle and defeated the three thousand Zhengbai Banners under Dorgon's troops. Mao Wenlong was relieved.
Dorgon personally led his troops for the first time, unlike in history, this time he was defeated like a mountain.
Three thousand elite cavalrymen of Zhengbai Banner were intercepted by more than 10,000 Han troops one after another. Although they had outstanding achievements, they were relatively small after all, and the results were not enough to be expanded.
After Li Yangeng and Liu Xingzuo met, Dorgon knew that he was unable to advance again, so he had to retreat temporarily and wait for Amin's support army.
In this way, Li Yangeng, Liu Xingzuo and the people of Xinzhou were given time to evacuate.
The Dongjiang Army marched overnight and was exhausted from the horses. In addition, the people of Xinzhou had already left the tiger's mouth, so they repaired the area around the Prince River.
After careful consideration, Mao Wenlong set up the commander's tent on the Gushan Fort ruins in the lower reaches of the Prince River.
At this moment, he was wearing a armor with a fish scale and a waist-length armor, with a tiger skin covering his armor, with a cold expression. He stood at the top of the city and looked around.
Everything you see is full of ruins.
"Father-in-Law, I have been to Gushan Fort. It was five years ago. There were more than 30 Liao people living here for generations, but now..."
Mao Chenglu said, sadness in his eyes.
Mao Wenlong nodded quietly and asked:
"Have the soldiers' horses all drunk?"
"We are drinking water in batches. After drinking water, we have to pour some water and take it away for horses to drink at any time on the road." Mao Chenglu said, silent for a moment, and then said:
"There are nearly 200,000 people, father and commander, the island has just improved. When these people are brought to the island, the brothers are afraid that they will tighten their belts again to live."
"If you don't answer, are you just watching them being massacred by the Tartars?" Mao Wenlong had no choice. He sighed and said:
"I had to send someone to Denglai and ask Futai to send some military rations to Pidao."
Mao Chenglu was a little troubled:
"Didn't the letter to Futai say that the last tens of thousands of stones were already used by the military pay paid by the court to buy grain from customers. I'm afraid it's not easy to raise grain!"
Starting from the first year of Tianqi, the imperial court established the Dujian Mansion. The Zuo Bingjian Wang Tiqian went to Pidao to learn about the real situation. Then he returned to the capital and reported to God.
Since then, Zhu Youxiao has a legitimate reason to support Dongjiang and has sent two soldiers to stay on Pi Island all year round to report on the island's situation at any time.
At the beginning of the second year of Tianqi, Zhu Youxiao specially ordered Yuan Ke to be the governor of Denglai, and ordered the two prefectures of Denglai and the Tianjin Navy to receive all the needs of the Dongjiang Army.
Zhu Youxiao ignored the "Ningjin Line of Defense" mentioned by Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chengzong, but instead transported more and more materials to Dongjiang.
Obviously, the emperor's intention was to take advantage of the Ming Dynasty's advantages on the sea to connect Tianjin, Denglai, Pi Island and surrounding islands one after another, and to siege the Later Jin from water and land.
In the past, swords, guns, armor, muskets, and cannons were all unattainable desires by the Dongjiang Army. Now, they all have them.
At this time, the Dongjiang Army with Mao Wenlong out of the island to meet Liu Xingzuo and Li Yangeng had a main force of more than 20,000 people, equipped with more than 1,000 newest bird guns and twenty-two tiger pier cannons.
As for swords and guns, they were all the latest standard equipment transported from Denglai and Tianjin. These standard equipment, unlike the previous "Guards and Instruments" and were made by newly established factories in the local area by the imperial military weapons department.
The factory is currently only built in Tianjin and Penglai, and is coordinated by the Beijing Military Equipment Department.
The Military Weapons Department was headed by Bi Maokang and Bi Maoliang, and the Holy Roman Empire missionary of the Imperial Heaven Supervision, Johnson Chan, led a group of missionaries to specialize in researching firearms.
Every three months, the Military Weapons Department will receive a funding assistance from the emperor's treasury. In addition, the factories in Penglai and Tianjin also need to help the local Ming army replace weapons and armor, which can be said to be quite expensive.
Chapter completed!