Chapter 362 The fourth entry
While Li Xiao was preparing for the bank in full swing, the news of the Tang army's peace talks with the Ming court finally came back to the Qing court in Shengjing.
After hearing the news from Fan Wencheng who was kneeling under the ground, Huang Taiji on the dragon throne had a gloomy face.
Standing next to him, Dorgon, Dai Shan, Haoge and other relatives of the royal family members were all ugly and complex.
"Your Majesty reported to the emperor that Li Xiao had already fought with the Ming court in Xuanfu Town, and the two sides had already broken up against each other. However, for some reason, some time ago, Li Xiao and the Ming court had reconciled again. Such a change made me sigh. "Fan Wencheng, who was kneeling on the ground, looked depressed.
"So, has our plan to make Li Xiao and Ming court fight each other completely failed?" Huang Taiji took a breath like a toothache. He slanted a little at Fan Wencheng, who was kneeling on the ground, and said coldly: "Sir Fan, it seems that it is not easy for me to get the benefits of this fisherman in the Qing Dynasty."
After hearing Huang Taiji's cold words, Fan Wencheng blushed. He remembered the scene when he proposed this plan to Huang Taiji that day, and felt even more ashamed and restless.
"Hmph, Fan Wencheng's plan, I felt that it was inappropriate that day. Then Li Xiao is such a cunning and treacherous person. How could he not understand the principle of the fisherman fighting against cranes and clams? Now, the Ming court is becoming more and more willing to take Li Xiao, and this guy can even let go of his hands and feet against us." Haoge said hatefully, gritting his teeth and gritting his teeth.
Huang Taiji on the dragon throne, after hearing Haoge's words, he sighed softly.
To be honest, Fan Wencheng proposed a plan to create rumors that day, which made the court and Li Xiao rift each other and cause internal struggles. Huang Taiji had great hope for this plan. However, he did not expect that this good plan, which seemed to be sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, had just been launched and declared failure, which really surprised Huang Taiji.
Now, in addition to being promoted to Duke of Tang, Li Xiao has gained unprecedented freedom. His rule is similar to an independent kingdom.
It seems that he has taken such painstaking efforts and made plans, but not only did he not defeat Li Xiao, but he only helped this hateful guy.
This is a killer Li Xiao!
Thinking of this, Huang Taiji lashed the armrest of the dragon chaise in anger.
"Your Majesty, if Li Xiao's power grows further and cannot be curbed, then this person will eventually become a fatal disaster for our Qing Dynasty." Dai Shan added worriedly next to him.
"Ama! The kid begs Kanda to order the kid to lead 20,000 elite troops across the strait, completely remove the castle built by Li Xiao on Sakhalin Island, and eliminate all the hateful Tang troops under his command!" Haoge said loudly with a fierce look on his face.
"I am also talking about what Prince Su said." Dai Shan added a hurried sentence from the side.
After hearing the words of Haoge and Dai Shan, Huang Taiji still had a gloomy face and didn't say anything. He felt vaguely in his heart that it was not so easy to destroy Li Xiao.
At this moment, a chuckle came from Haoge.
Hearing this teasing chuckling, Haoge turned his head angrily, but saw Prince Rui Dorgon, with a faint sneer on his handsome and cold face.
"Dorgon, why are you laughing at?!"
Haoge looked at this hateful opponent who had been fighting with him openly and secretly.
Dorgon curled his smile, glanced at him coldly, and said lightly: "Haoge, I am just laughing at you for going to Sakhalin Island, which is just for nothing."
"Bastard! What did you say?!" Haoge became furious, and blue veins on his forehead burst out: "Last year's defeat was because our army did not understand the enemy's situation and underestimated the enemy. This year, I led 20,000 elite troops to eliminate all the thousands of Tang soldiers stationed in the garrison and the rebellious damn natives! What's your intention? How dare you curse me like this!"
Unexpectedly, after hearing Haoge's angry words, Dorgon snorted coldly and said, "Prince Su, do you think that the Tang army can successfully capture Sakhalin Island is really only the credit of those few thousand soldiers? Wrong, a big mistake!"
"What do you mean?!"
"Haoge, what I want to tell you is that the Tang army can successfully capture Sakhalin Island and build a fort here. The biggest contribution is not the land troops, but its powerful navy!"
Dorgon took a deep breath and continued, "If Li Xiao was not such a powerful navy, how could he travel thousands of miles from Shandong to transport a large number of troops and supplies to this Sakhalin Island to build a city and take root. It is precisely because Li Xiao has such a powerful navy that it is the key to his ability to cross the sea and occupy the island thousands of miles!"
Dorgon's cold words made Haoge's face flutter, but he heard Huang Taiji nodding slightly on the dragon throne.
"Dorgon, keep talking." The voice on the dragon throne came slowly.
"Your Majesty, I am bluntly saying that if our army wants to go to Sakhalin Island again now, then when the sea has already melted, we will have to rely on the temporary collection of various small boats to cross the strait many times. In this way, I dare to assert that Li Xiao's navy must have been waiting for the strait to be at the strait, and we will die. I am afraid that our army's 20,000 elite soldiers, even if we haven't seen the opposite island of Ku, they will be sunk by the Tang army's navy and buried in the belly of the fish."
After Dorgon finished speaking, he couldn't help but sigh.
Haoge still looked angry but had no words to refute, while Daishan, who was standing beside him, was silent.
"Your Majesty, I think what Prince Rui said is indeed reasonable. If our army is angry, it is very likely that we can't even pass the strait and will die." Fan Wencheng, who had already stood up, whispered to Huang Taiji.
A long sigh came from the dragon throne.
"Oh, as you say that, then Li Xiao, isn't I going to do anything about him now?" Huang Taiji's big cake smiled bitterly.
"Your Majesty, in the opinion of my brother, Li Xiao has become a big shot now. For such a rampant and rebellious person, he can only gather all his strength from the Qing Dynasty to enter the pass again, and use the power of the Qing Dynasty to attack this person's old nest in Shandong with the power of the Qing Dynasty's land battle to offset the strength of Li Xiao's navy. Only then can he completely eliminate this hateful guy and eliminate future troubles for the Qing Dynasty forever." Dorgon bowed his hands with his eyes sharply.
Dorgon's words made Huang Taiji's eyes lit up.
Yes, since the Qing Dynasty's navy is not Li Xiao's opponent, why not play to his strengths and avoid his weaknesses, and use the extraordinary combat power of the Eight Banners Warriors to enter the pass and attack Li Xiao directly and pull out his Shandong lair. This is a very good method and method.
"Your Majesty, I also agree with Prince Rui's opinion." Fan Wencheng interrupted loudly: "Now our army has been replenishing its strength since the war in Korea the previous year, and has been in full swing for more than two years. It is said that long-term support for soldiers will make people lazy. Our Eight Banners Warriors, as well as the soldiers of the Mongolian and Han dynasties, have long been eager to enter the pass again and plunder the Ming court, thus building great achievements for the country, and gaining wealth for themselves."
After Fan Wencheng finished speaking, Dai Shan and Hao Ge were both interested and agreed.
In Huang Taiji's eyes, a sharp and fierce light flashed by.
"Very good, everyone's opinions are in line with my heart. This time I enter the pass again is also my wish!" Huang Taiji stood up and ordered: "Transfer my orders to use Prince Rui Dorgon as the general of the order, Prince Cheng Yuetou as the general of Yangwu, and commanded 100,000 elite troops of Manchu, Mongolian and Han, and invaded the Ming Dynasty. Among them, Dorgon commanded the left-wing soldiers, Prince Su Haoge, Rao Yu Beile Abatai, and Yue Tui commanded the right-wing soldiers, and Beile Dudu and Beizi Nikan, and then gathered all the troops, horses, food and grass, and chose the day to go out to fight!"
"Yeah, the servant follows the order!"
On May 18, the 12th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army gathered 100,000 troops, with Dorgon as the main general and Yue Tuo as the deputy general, claiming to be 200,000 troops and horses, and came to attack the Ming Dynasty in a mighty manner.
The fourth entry of the Qing army into the pass was delayed by more than half a year than the real history of entry. However, its military scale was basically the same as that of the generals, and even the Qing army's entry into the pass, as well as the position of the Qing army in history.
The 100,000 Qing troops were divided into two wings and entered from the walls of Qianziling and Qingshan Pass respectively. The Governor of Miyun Wu Aheng responded hastily and was defeated and killed. General Lu Zongwen was killed in battle. Deputy General Ding Zhixiang was defeated and fled. The eunuch of the garrison, Zheng Xizhao, fled. The Qing army then advanced straight into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, causing a great shock to the Ming court.
In order to support the Qing army's attack into the pass, Huang Taiji himself personally led a large army of 60,000, with Prince Yu Duoduo and Prince Zheng Jiergalang as deputy generals, and advanced to Jinzhou and Ningyuan areas to force Zu Dashou Zu Dale Wu Xiang and other Ming troops in Liaodong could only defend western Liaoning and dare not enter the pass and aid.
When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news that the Qing army had entered the pass again, he was shocked and immediately ordered martial law in the capital. He also urgently summoned the Governor of Xuanda Lu Xiangsheng, the General of Datong Wang Pu, and the General of Shanxi Hu Dawei and the General of Shanxi, and rushed to the capital to defend the capital.
Afterwards, the emperor personally gave Lu Xiangsheng Shangfang sword, rewarded hundreds of imperial horses and five hundred iron whips, and ordered him to come to Beijing at night to govern the world to serve the king and the army.
Of course, the emperor would never forget that in the Ming Dynasty, the most warlike Duke of Tang Li Xiao and the Tang army were the soldiers. After receiving the news, Emperor Chongzhen immediately sent people to Li Xiao from Dengzhou to seek emergency assistance in a 800-mile-rush Tangbao method.
While the imperial court's sender was still on the way, Li Xiao had already sent a message through the safety department staff Fei Ge, and obtained accurate news that the Qing army had entered the pass again.
Li Xiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, but he didn't expect that it had been nearly seven years since he traveled to the Ming Dynasty, and the overall direction of this historical trend had not changed significantly. It seems that it is so difficult to change the real history.
However, after carefully analyzing the current situation, Li Xiao immediately discovered a valuable opportunity.
That is, a great opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the estuary of Heilongjiang.
He ordered that while the Qing army was fully invading Ming, the country's central government was empty and the troops were in short supply, he ordered the battalion commander Wu Zhuang to seize the time and mobilize troops to cross the Tatar Strait westward. Then, at the fastest speed, at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, in the Nikolayevsk region of Russia, in the place called Miaojie Fort in the Qing Dynasty, a brand new castle, which was the same size as Kuye North Fort.
When Li Xiao thought of taking advantage of this opportunity to firmly hold the Chinese territory occupied by the Rakshasa people in later generations, he felt full of excitement.
Nikolayevsk, whose full name is Nikolayevsk on the Amur River, is a port city located at the mouth of Heilongjiang River and an important Far East naval port in Russia today.
This vast area at the mouth of Heilongjiang River is China's inherent territory since ancient times and has been China's traditional territory since the Tang Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, this place belonged to the Liaoyang Province, and the Marshal's Office of the East was set up in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang. During the Ming Dynasty, the headquarters of the Northeast administrative agency Nuergandus was located on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River in this city. The Ming government also built Yongning Temple here and erected a Yongning Temple Monument. During the Qing Dynasty, this place was the jurisdiction of the Jilin General of the Qing Dynasty in China, and was officially named Miaojie in Manchu, also known as Miaotun.
It is a pity that the incompetent late Qing government was unable to preserve this precious territory passed down by its ancestors. This plump and rich land was eventually occupied by the insatiable polar bear.
In August 1850, Russia invaded the Miaojie area and renamed it Nikolayevsk under the name of Tsar Nicholas I.
In November 1860, the Qing government formally cedeed more than 1 million square kilometers of territory, including Miaojie, to Russia. The city is now affiliated to Nikolayevsky County, the Khabarovsk Krai region, the Russian Far Eastern Federal District, and is also the administrative center of Nikolayevsky County.
This modern history, which is heart-wrenching and blood-wrenching, is a deep shame engraved into Li Xiao’s soul.
Therefore, taking advantage of the Qing army's full efforts to enter the pass and without any intention of looking north, Li Xiao ordered Wu Zhuang, the battalion commander of Zhendongying, to seize the time and opportunity to build a castle here and settle forever, thus injecting a deep nail into the weak areas of the Qing army's borders.
This castle was named Miaojie Fort, and Li Xiao hopes to use this method to cleanse up the great shame of real history.
In fact, Li Xiao has been preparing this plan to build a city at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, so all kinds of building materials have been prepared in Kuye North Fort. It was only when the Qing army was unable to look north, and immediately began to implement it.
Of course, this is only Li Xiao's first step in seizing the entire outer Manchurian state. In the future, Li Xiao will seize the opportunity to build the castles such as Xiang Boli and Vladivostok one by one.
Li Xiao planned to use such erosion to make the entire outer Manchuria and the entire East and West Siberia permanently become his own territory and the land of China that the Tang army will always defend.
Regarding the arrangement of domestic troops, Li Xiao ordered that because the Qing army attacked very quickly, it was too late to transfer troops and horses from other places, so the troops and horses of the former Xizhang did not have to return, and they could still stay on the spot to suppress the bandits.
Most of the Pingnan Camp stationed in Taiwan remained in place, and some troops were drawn to go north to replace the troops of Zhendongying, which was expanding westward, and stationed in the areas of Jeju and Satsuma.
Li Xiao just pulled out the troops of Camp B from Xingzhong Town and went to Tielong City, Shan County to garrison, and used the troops of Camp A and Camp B of Xingzhong Town to fully guard Dengzhou, Shandong.
As for Dingbei Camp, after Li Xiao received the rescue letter from the court, he immediately sent a letter from Fei Ge, ordering Liu Wenxiu, deputy battalion commander of Dingbei Camp, to lead the general soldiers and horses of the generals of A, B, and the rampant scepter, Xuanhu heavy cavalry and Feiyaozi light cavalry to enter the capital.
On the Jintang City on Xuanfu North Road, only the general Bing of Dingbei Camp, the Manzhou cavalry post, and most of the auxiliary troops were stationed.
At this point, all Li Xiao's troops were arranged. What he is most concerned about now is that the Qing army that entered the pass this time will continue to attack various prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty as in history, just like history?
Chapter completed!