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504 The Battle of the Country

Although Dorgon, or Jianlu, even in the past, thought that it would be a good thing if he could catch or kill the Emperor of Ming. However, in the past, Jianlu had never realized that the most critical figure in the sudden power of Ming Dynasty was actually Emperor Chongzhen.

With this understanding, the degree of attention will be different.

If Dorgon had thought that he could only keep the Emperor of Ming in Liaodong before losing 20,000 people in the Qing Dynasty, he might have hesitated; if it were the ones who lost half of the Qing Dynasty, he would probably not be able to do so, and he would have thought it was not worth it. Even without the example of Emperor Yingzong of Ming, he would have thought it was not worth it, because that would have been a damaging force for the Qing Dynasty.

However, at this time, Dorgon realized that if Emperor Chongzhen was eliminated, the situation where the Ming Dynasty had just turned up would stop. Without the wise and powerful emperor, only relying on the young emperor who was still young, the Ming Dynasty would probably be in a party-to-party dispute with the court again, and it is likely to be in the same virtue as before.

In this way, even if the Qing Dynasty lost half of its troops, Dorgon would think it would be cost-effective if it was damaged. Otherwise, with the current style of the Ming emperor, the future of the Qing Dynasty would be really desperate!

This means that the dilemma of the Qing Dynasty was actually not the shortage of food and grass, but the emergence of a wise and powerful emperor in the Ming Dynasty!

The problem of food and grass shortage in the Qing Dynasty was solved, but as long as Emperor Chongzhen was present, the Qing Dynasty would inevitably fall into more trouble. However, if Emperor Chongzhen was solved, even if the food and grass shortage was now, it would be impossible to eat grass. After the winter, the future of the Qing Dynasty would be bright. Without the wise and powerful emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty would have a way to deal with the monarch, minister, border generals of the Ming Dynasty.

Dorgon told Bumubutai this point, and immediately, Bumubutai immediately agreed and affirmed: "Uncle Regent is right. Only by hitting a snake seven inches can you kill the snake. That's right, that's it!"

She actually had a deep understanding of this.

Before, there was actually a conflict of interest between her and Hai Lanzhu. Hai Lanzhu's rise and her son threatened her. At first, she wanted to deal with Hai Lanzhu, but she got half the result with twice the effort and even encountered danger. Later, she changed her mind and killed Huang Taiji, which was to kill Seven Inches of Snake, which gave her the current status of Queen Mother.

At this time, they reached a consensus, and Dorgon decided to carry out a national mobilization, and to fight a war with the Emperor of Ming and keep the Emperor of Ming in Liaodong.

When fighting, money and food are the first.

Dorgon then issued an order, except for the grain fields on the Liaohe Plain, all other grain fields were harvested in advance, and all male men over 15 to under 50 were recruited to send troops to Haizhou. Of course, this would take time, so he issued another decree, asking Duoduo, Yuetuo and Haoge to try their best to deal with the Emperor of Ming, to hold the Emperor of Ming, and wait for him to lead the national military force to carry out a final battle once he arrived.

Suddenly, war machines started to move in full swing on the land of Liaodong. There were men from Jianlu everywhere, carrying bows, arrows, swords and guns, and their own coats to meet. Before the wheat was golden, they were all harvested and then sent to the army as military rations.

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On the Liaohe Plain, Kong Youde was very worried when he thought the autumn harvest was approaching.

The Liaohe Plain is far away in the hinterland of Liaodong. If the Ming army can come to support him, Shengjing would probably have been defeated. But is this possible?

Of course, there is another way, which is to come from the grassland. However, the grassland is vast. Even if it can come, it is impossible not to alarm the Jianlu people if it wants to help the more than 20,000 Ming people here? In this way, if the Jianlu cavalry pursues, there will be no place to hide. This shows that this is also an unrealistic thing. So, how would the Ming emperor come to help so many people?

He couldn't think of a way, so sometimes, Kong Youde even judged the gentleman with the heart of a villain, wondering if he would lead them to burn all the food and give Jianlu a fatal blow. However, Ming Dynasty did not come to pick him up and refused to admit his account?

Is this possible? Will there be any?

Kong Youde believed that if it were the Ming officials in his understanding, they might be able to do it. However, over the years, the style of the Ming emperor has changed a lot. At least based on the fact that he heard about it over the years, he should be able to keep his word.

Thinking of these things, Kong Youde was very confused and helpless, and even wanted to ask Chen Shaozong for a clear question, otherwise, he would be too worried.

However, after Chen Shaozong came out, he disappeared again. Even though Kong Youde deliberately inspected the fields many times, he did not find any trace of Chen Shaozong again.

While disappointed, Kong Youde was even more in trouble. He did not expect that as the autumn harvest approached, Ajige actually led his troops to the Liaohe Plain. Although the troops were not large, this was beyond his expectations. And he was sure that this was definitely beyond the expectations of the Governor of the Baoding of the Ming Dynasty or the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, although it is still possible to burn grain fields, it is unlikely that he would have taken more than 20,000 people from the Ming Dynasty to escape, even if he was his own family!

The severity of the situation made Kong Youde restless for a few days, finally hurried back to Tieling to discuss with his confidant Guan Yongan. He didn't care and wanted to send Kong Yongan to contact him.

But he didn't expect that when Kong Yongan came to see him, he looked happy. After confirming that there was no one inside and outside the study, he happily said to him with a sad face: "Master, good news!"

"What good news?" Kong Youde was immediately excited when he heard this and asked quickly.

Kong Yongan approached him and whispered: "The reason why Ajige led the army has been found out. It was the imperial royal army that launched a war, so according to the previous agreement, began to divert Jianlu's attention..."

Before he finished speaking, Kong Youde showed disappointment and sighed and interrupted his speech, "What's the use? Is Jianlu's attention diverted? All Ajiges have been sent over, what should we do?"

"Master, don't be anxious!" Kong Yongan didn't care when he heard this, and continued to whisper with a joyful expression, "The latest news just now, saying that the emperor is also leading the army to attack Haizhou. Dorgon issued an order to mobilize troops across the country, and all males over fifteen to under fifty will go on the expedition. Not only will Jianlu from Tieling leave, but even Ajige also will lead the army back. It is estimated that Shengjing's decree will also come to the prince's side soon, and there will be relevant news!"

When Kong Youde heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "So much noise? It really attracted Jianlu's attention!"

As soon as he said this, he suddenly became stunned again. After a while, he came to his senses and asked nervously: "How many troops the emperor has brought to attack Haizhou, will it be dangerous?"

"It is said that it is more than 50,000 infantry and cavalry!" Kong Yongan heard Kong Youde's question, and immediately he was worried, "Will this matter be too much? Although Jianlu's attention has been diverted, Jianlu has all mobilized them, and there must be 100,000 soldiers. Is it important for the emperor?"

"This..." Kong Youde was anxious when he heard this, and couldn't help but unable to sit still. He stood up and frowned and said, "Why didn't the emperor lead more troops when he was expeditioning Liaodong? If the emperor was trapped here in order to attract the attention of Jianlu, wouldn't I, Kong Youde, become the sinner of our Han people?"

Before, he was worried that the Ming Dynasty would attract the attention of Jianlu and could not escape; but at this time, he was worried that the Ming Emperor would be too attracted, and that it would be in danger.

After all, he led troops to fight for wars all year round. Although he had seen the elite of the Ming army, Jianlu's army was not bad. He still fought on the local area for 100,000 to 50,000. He did not think that the Ming emperor's chance of winning would be high.

When I was anxious, I suddenly heard a shouting from outside: "Prince, Prince, the imperial court has arrived!"

After hearing this, Kong Youde had to let go of his worries and go to answer the order first.

He ran back and forth between Tieling and Liaohe Plain, so he received the order a little late.

This decree was what Kong Yong'an found out, saying that Ajige was going to lead his troops back, and that all the Liaohe Plain would be handed over to Kong Youde, so that Kong Youde must do a good job in the autumn harvest of food, and must not make any mistakes!

On the surface, Kong Youde naturally made continuous promises. However, when the imperial envoy left, he was frowning again.

After clarifying this situation, I was more worried than before. How to respond is a question, and the most important thing is whether the Emperor of Ming Dynasty can retreat safely, which is another question!

Thinking of these, Kong Youde is worried!

However, Emperor Chongzhen himself was not anxious about Dorgon's fight across the country. On the contrary, the reason why he slowed down on Haizhou was not to attract more Jianlu army!

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen did not think that he could defeat more than 100,000 Jianlu army in one go, but with the gold finger of the eavesdropping system, there was no problem to retreat. Now Jianlu uses the whole country's troops to fight, which would be equivalent to using all the food and supplies left by Jianlu in this battle. In addition, Kong Youde's side burned the food that Jianlu relied on for winter. It can be said that Jianlu could starve to death without paying the blood of the Ming soldiers. If Jianlu fought again next year, it is estimated that Jianlu might not be enough to worry about it.

So he passed a secret order to Lu Xiangsheng, informed him of the situation, and asked him to prepare for defense, so as to prevent Jianlu from dividing his troops to attack Gaizhou under the advantage of military strength.

As for Yaozhou Post, Emperor Chongzhen did not leave any troops, so Jianlu would take them away if he wanted to take them away.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen learned from the Class A eavesdropping seeds on Dorgon's body, about the general situation of mobilization of the Jianlu in various places, and from the Class A eavesdropping seeds on Ajige's body, he knew that he had led his troops to arrive in Shengjing immediately, so he released two carrier pigeons, which were for Wu Sangui's troops.

After doing this, Emperor Chongzhen turned his attention to the Haizhou war in front of him.

Before, the plan was to encircle three quotas and one quota, but the Jianlu of Haizhou did not escape. Instead, because he could contact the Jianlu of Anshan Yibao, he learned the news that reinforcements were about to arrive, and his morale became even higher.

The first army to come to aid was naturally Yue Tuo's troops in Liaoyang. Duoduo was overjoyed when he heard the messenger's report: "Okay, this time, I must keep the dog emperor of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong!"

After saying that, he immediately said to the messenger: "The Dog Emperor of Ming Kingdom is now in the city of Haizhou. The army of nearly 50,000 is bound to be limited, and the rear needs to be continuously transported. Unfortunately, my king is now short of military strength and cannot seize the way out. Therefore, to your master, he can send 3,000 cavalry troops first, bypass Haizhou, sneak attack Yaozhou Post, and seize its food and grass. If it doesn't work, it will be destroyed. Remember!"

Duoduo always thought that the Ming army captured Yaozhou Post and occupied it there, just to use Yaozhou Post as a transit station for the army's food and grass supplies. After all, Yaozhou Post is just between Haizhou and Gaizhou, and it happens to be a one-day journey for Mingguo vehicles to transport supplies. In other words, Mingguo vehicles to transport food and grass supplies, starting from Gaizhou, you can spend the night in Yaozhou, and you will arrive in Haizhou the next day, which is the most suitable place to hoard grain and grass.

Therefore, he gave Yue Tuo such a suggestion, feeling that the Ming army is now all in Haizhou, and there is absolutely no heavy army guarding the Yaozhouyi side. There should be no problem with the three thousand cavalry attacking unexpectedly. In this regard, he has observed the movements of the Ming army outside the city in the past few days, which can also prove that the Ming army's forces have basically arrived in Haizhou.

However, he didn't know that Emperor Chongzhen knew his ideas clearly. However, one thing is more regrettable that he had not eavesdropped on Yuetuo's side, so he could not know how Yuetuo did it.

But it doesn't matter. Emperor Chongzhen was not a military blind man. Since he knew this possibility, he immediately convened a military discussion, took this situation as an idea, and began to discuss the possibility of Yuetuo.

When the generals of the Ming Dynasty heard this, they all felt that since the emperor raised this possibility, it was absolutely possible. So they started discussing it one after another.

In the past few days, the wilderness of Haizhou is the world of Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming army has already understood and reported the terrain of this area at night, and has made a sand table in the Haizhou area.

These generals discussed the sand table for a while and presented the conclusion to the emperor. They lurked outside the Anshan Post Fort at night and did not take them back to observe the movements of Jianlu. If Jianlu really sent cavalry to attack Yaozhou Post by detour, they would send troops to deal with the sneak attack cavalry. Anyway, Jianlu had to take a detour, and after getting the situation here, it would not be too late to set off. Even the ambush location was decided, which was the place where Duoduo chose to ambush before, because that place was the main road leading to Yaozhou Post by Haizhou, and it was also a suitable place for ambush.
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