Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 209 The first bloody battle with Dodo

"Although the Ming army is nothing to worry about, you Han people have a good saying: if there are too many ants, they will bite the elephant to death."

Before Doduo could continue, Kong Youde continued his words and said, "The Ming army seems to be large, but in fact it is not even twice as large as ours. At most, it is tens of thousands more than ours. What's the use? Come out with three thousand elite cavalry, and one charge can kill them all."

Kong Youde's words are by no means bragging. Mite Qing is best at elite cavalry, and this heavy soldier commanded by Duoduo is the most elite of the Qing army. The Han army banner has the frontier army cavalry in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Mongolian Eight Banners have grassland soldiers. The bravest rider in the world.

Wanting to use these troops to defeat the strong men of the Ming army was easier than eating and drinking water. Kong Youde even felt that those strong men of the Ming army hadn't even seen the faces of the Qing army's cavalry, and they would be frightened just by hearing the sound. If you don't fight, you will collapse.

"The Ming army is indeed weak, but have you ever thought about what Li Zicheng will do when we fight the Ming army?"

Duoduo's words aroused Kong Youde's deep thinking. They all knew that the Ming army was trash and sheep, but Li Zicheng's Chuangjun was not.

Although Li Zicheng was defeated all the way, he fought all the way from Shanhaiguan to Tongguan, and Li Zicheng also made the Qing army pay the blood price. Otherwise, why would the Qing army clung to him, and would have gone south to beat Zhu Cihong long ago.

"He is a hero of the generation. He started from a small post station, passed through mountains of corpses and seas of blood, flashes of swords, step by step, and got to where he is today. He proclaimed himself emperor and established the system, and he also became addicted to being an emperor."

Li Zicheng's life is indeed legendary, but it is a pity that he was not the one who ruled the Central Plains in the end, but even so, it is not an exaggeration to call him a hero. Compared with the princes and grandsons in the Ming court, the Qing court's A prince and noble, he really has a lot of skills.

Even, if there is no Qing army, he will become the second Zhu Yuanzhang, from the humblest status to the most noble person in the world, admired by all people, and his name has been passed down from generation to generation by the Chinese people.

"When the Ming army is fighting us, he will definitely not stand idly by. At that time, he will definitely lead the army to attack us in person. At that time, we will attack from front to back. The Tongguan battlefield is narrow and we cannot move around. Then it will be our end." Duo sighed.

"Then why don't we stay behind closed doors in the camp, no matter how provocative the Ming army is, even if we refuse to fight, and don't give Li Zicheng a chance, what do you think?" Kong Youde suggested.

In fact, this is not a solution, what can be done by closing the door, you can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime, the Ming army and the Chuang army are staring at each other, if the Qing army does not fight in the wilderness, the Ming army and the Chuang army may not be able to attack from both sides. Storm the fort.

After all, the two of them have a very large number of soldiers. There may be 20 soldiers in battle alone, and there may be more than 80 million even including auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands. No matter how deep the trench is, it can be filled with human lives. No matter how high the fortress is, it can be leveled with human life.

"That's not good either. If we stick to the camp, we just sit there and wait to die. When the Ming army and the Chuang army don't come to attack, we will die of thirst and starvation ourselves."

Duoduo immediately rejected Kong Youde's suggestion. This method is too stupid. If there is no other choice, Duduo may still use it. But now that the initiative has not been lost, why is he willing to stay in the camp without the courage?

Although Duduo is young, he has fought more than 100 battles, big and small, and now he is a prince and a general leading an army.

If he was scared as soon as the Ming army came over, and he huddled in the camp and refused to come out, what kind of general would he be, wouldn't it make people laugh at him generously.

"Then what should we do?" Kong Youde was at a loss for ideas, and couldn't think of how to deal with the main force of the Ming army now.

"Yes." Duduo had a flash of inspiration and thought of an idea.

"The big army can't be sent out, otherwise Li Zicheng will definitely attack back and forth. We can only send a small group of troops, so as not to attract Li Zicheng's attention." In order to avoid falling into the state of front and back attack, Duoduo took great pains.

"But the Ming army has hundreds of thousands of people, how many should we send? Thousands, tens of thousands, can we stop them, I'm afraid they will drown us in a wave of arrows." Kong Youde said.

"It is enough to send a few thousand people. I don't want them to keep the Ming army out of the Tongguan battlefield. I just need to send a few thousand people to defeat the Ming army's vanguard and let the Ming army mess up." Duoduo said to Kong Youde .

"In this way, the initiative on the battlefield is in our hands, and the Ming army will also be afraid of attacking us because of our strong combat power. In this way, we can temporarily form a stalemate with the Ming army and the Chuang army. .”

"And this kind of situation is the most beneficial for us. Our Daqing and Jierhalang's heavy troops are in Yan'an Prefecture in northern Shaanxi, and they will go south in a few days. Even if Jierhalang is blocked, we can still go from here. Outside the pass, the savage Jurchen, Sauron's Eight Banners soldiers, and Mongolian cavalry were dispatched to help."

Duoduo's wishful thinking is very good. If the situation is as he expected, the Ming army and the Chuang army will undoubtedly be defeated. It's a pity that man's calculation is not as good as heaven's calculation. No matter how he calculates, he can't imagine that the young emperor Zhu Cihong will come here in person Lead an army against him.

"Then who are we going to send?" Kong Youde asked.

"Let Wu Sangui go, his Guanning iron cavalry knows better than us how to fight the Ming army, and they are also very mobile." Duoduo decided to let Wu Sangui go.

Wu Sangui is now the Prince of Pingxi of Chi Qing, with a high status, but on the road of Chi Qing entering the Central Plains, he still has to charge forward and obey Chi Qing's orders.

It wasn't until the death of Dorgon and Duoduo, a group of Huang Taiji brothers, and even Fulin's generation was almost old, that it was Wu Sangui's turn to dominate the world and not pay attention to the imperial court in the capital. inside.

As for now, it's still very early. When Doduo asked him to go, he couldn't be earlier, let alone later.

In the eastern part of the Tongguan battlefield, there are some hills near the Yellow River. Wu Sangui led [-] Guanning iron cavalry, and [-] veterans brought from Shanhaiguan to ambush here.

There are many mountains in western Henan, only the two sides of the Yellow River are very flat, which is conducive to the march of the brigade. There is no doubt that this is the only way for the main force of the Ming army to go west.

As long as you stay here, you will definitely be able to wait until the Ming army appears.

It's just a pity that he didn't wait for Shi Kefa and Zhang Yong's vanguard, but instead waited for Zhu Cihong first.

Zhu Cihong brought his imperial guards and standard guards, less than 1 people, and found the official road after crossing the Yellow River. He was going to go to the Tongguan battlefield one step ahead of Zhang Yong and the others.

(End of this chapter)