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As soon as he shouted like this, Dorgon immediately came back to his senses. As expected of a famous figure in the late Ming Dynasty, he immediately returned to normal, but his face was still stern, and he immediately began to give orders.

At this time, he no longer cared about the food in the fields, and immediately began to mobilize troops. While once again sending people to find the defenders who had escaped from Incheon to inquire about the situation, he also sent a large number of detective horses to the direction of Incheon to investigate the Ming army. trend.

The people in the hall, whether they were Manchu Qing leaders or North Korean officials, did not bother to persuade Dorgon to ascend the throne and become emperor. Those who received the order immediately took action, while those who did not receive the order said goodbye in a hurry.

Suddenly, the entire Seoul became noisy because of the news that the Ming army had landed in Inchon. Groups of soldiers were coming and going on the streets, with the sound of weapons and armor clashing, the sound of rapid footsteps, etc. , compiled into an intense piece of music.

Among them, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were all busy, and their only thoughts were on how to fight against the coming Ming army. But North Korean officials have more thoughts.

King Gwanghae of North Korea returned to his palace. As soon as he entered the palace door, he sat down on the ground without thinking about his image at all, and then stared at the ground blankly, motionless.

His beloved concubine saw it and rushed over to ask about the situation. Guanghaijun's appearance frightened her a little: "Your Highness, Your Highness, but that person was rude to Your Highness again?"

The person she was talking about was Duduo, but she didn't dare to say it clearly, so she could only use him instead.

It's no wonder she guessed like this. Duduo had insulted them many times before. She was really afraid of people who looked like crazy people.

After she asked, Guang Haijun suddenly hugged her and started crying.

When his beloved concubine saw this, she couldn't help being frightened. She patted him quickly and tried to comfort him. At the same time, she said: "I still have some money over there. Why don't you ask someone to deliver a message to His Highness..."

The His Highness she spoke of did not refer to Lord Guanghai, but to Dorgon. Relatively speaking, Dorgon is relatively rational. Although they can still feel that in Dorgon's eyes, they are actually nothing, but at least Dorgon can still maintain superficial respect for them.

In the past, they often did this when they encountered Dodo's insults. However, this time, Guanghaijun was still crying, with tears streaming down his face, which made her a little confused.

Just when she was wondering if Dorgon had insulted Lord Guanghai this time, she saw Lord Guanghai slowly pushing her away, with a lot of tears and runny nose on his old face, and he said a little desperately: "It's over... It’s all over, they will definitely not let me go... they will definitely not let me go..."

His beloved concubine felt something was wrong and couldn't help but wonder: "Your Highness, who will not let you go?"

Seeing Guang Haijun's pitiful appearance, she was really a little confused, who was it that scared Guang Haijun into this state? Even when he was insulted by Duduo in every possible way, he never saw Lord Guanghai so frightened!

"The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty will not let me go! Yes, I will definitely not let me go!" Guanghai Jun replied nervously, "The Ming army is coming, and they can reach Seoul tomorrow. It's over, it's all over... "

Upon hearing this, his beloved concubine was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

Guanghaijun knew that Duduo would only insult him at most, but would not harm his life. But with what Gwanghae Jun did, if he fell into the hands of the Ming army, his life would indeed be at risk. Now Guanghaijun, who only thinks about surviving, is the most afraid of death. No wonder he is so scared!

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh slightly in her heart: If I had known this today, why bother in the first place! The Ming Dynasty was a celestial dynasty, many times better than the barbarians of Liaodong. Although they regained the throne, how long could they live happily with the Manchus as their masters?

One thing is that she actually misunderstood Gwanghae-kun. If Mr. Guanghai had known in advance that there would be such an ending, he would definitely not have been in two boats back then, and finally surrendered to the Qing Dynasty completely. At that time, he saw the disastrous defeat of the Ming army in Saarhu and the step-by-step retreat of the Ming army in Liaodong, and he already believed that the Manchus were invincible. But who would have thought that after thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi, now the Qing Dynasty has been dead, and the Ming Army’s King Division has landed in Inchon, and can attack Seoul in the blink of an eye!

Just like Lord Guanghai, many of his nominal ministers were afraid and regretted it. At this time, no one among them would think that the Ming army that destroyed the Qing Dynasty in Liaodong would be defeated by Dorgon. These North Korean puppet officials are all worried about their upcoming fate.

At this time, there are not many people who are still thinking about hugging Dorgon's thigh. Everyone has their own plans, trying to save their lives and their own glory and wealth! Various ways to deal with the immediate crisis, regardless of moral integrity, were thought of one by one and implemented.

However, the next situation made it a bit unclear to everyone. Even Dorgon was a little confused.

After it was further confirmed that the Ming army that landed at Inchon was the new Ming army, and that the number was at least tens of thousands, Dorgon was really frightened. He doesn't think he can stop the new Ming army with the troops he currently has. Because he knew that the strength of the new army was also reflected in its firearms and artillery. Although there are cannons on the city walls of Seoul, compared with the Hongyi cannons, they are far inferior in terms of power and range. If we defend the city and there are no reinforcements from outside, it will be a matter of time before Seoul is breached.

Therefore, Dorgon immediately began to prepare to move eastward. At least the people and troops of the Qing Dynasty must move eastward. Fortunately, I had some backup plans before and prepared a boat. If something went wrong, I would board the boat and escape to Japan.

Thinking of this, Dorgon couldn't help but secretly rejoice. If Hauge hadn't suddenly changed his mind and returned some ships, he really wouldn't have been able to evacuate to Japan this time.

However, if something unexpected happens now, if you evacuate to the Japanese country in a hurry, you will not be able to gather the troops scattered in various places, and your own strength will be greatly reduced! If you go to Japan like this, you will probably be suppressed by Hauge!

Thinking of this, Dorgon also had a headache. If we can defeat the Ming army, everything will be fine. But now since they can't defeat the Ming army, they have no choice but to withdraw.

But Incheon is only a short distance away from Seoul. The Ming army can reach Seoul in the blink of an eye. If they want to withdraw, they must do so as soon as possible. In this way, although you can escape with your life, but...

Thinking of this, Dorgon couldn't help but sigh again. In desperation, he had no choice but to withdraw before the Ming army besieged the city!

While urgently preparing to evacuate, with a little hope, I followed the movements of the Incheon Ming Army.

In Incheon, after the Ming army landed ashore, they began to build a camp. They adopted a defensive posture and did not immediately start an attack. This situation, as the Manchus came to Dorgon to report, was simply unbelievable to him.

As the saying goes, soldiers are valuable and quick. If you were a general of the Ming Dynasty, you would definitely attack Seoul as soon as possible before your opponent had time to gather troops. Dorgon thought in his mind that he even suspected that Tan Ma had been deceived by the Ming army's illusion, so he sent Tan Ma one after another to continue to investigate.

As a result, the military information fed back was always the same. The first thing the Ming army did after landing was not to attack immediately, but to build a camp, which seemed to be adopting a defensive posture.

"It seems from the past that although Cao Bianjiao, the commander-in-chief of the new army of the Ming Dynasty, is young, he is not stupid. He should be passionate and passionate!" Dorgon couldn't figure it out. The man said lustfully, "Is there something in this? conspiracy?"

But if there was any conspiracy, Dorgon couldn't figure it out. Would it be better not to just knock down Seoul?

"Brother, what the heck, since we won't attack immediately, let's take this opportunity to gather troops to defend first, and at the same time let people collect the food quickly!" Duduo didn't think so much, he was much simpler-minded, unlike Duoduo Ergon also doubted this and that.

When he said this, he immediately reminded Dorgon, yes, no matter what conspiracy the Ming army was doing, the business was to gather troops and collect food first. With this thought, he immediately began to implement the order. However, he didn't understand what the Ming army was doing, and he still felt a little confused in his heart.

Seeing Dorgon like this, Azig put forward his own idea: "Could it be that the Ming army regarded Inchon as an Anshan posthouse and had been gathering for a long time, waiting for us to be paralyzed and suddenly attack us? Liaoyang was lost so quickly. , just because they didn’t know that the Ming army would suddenly attack!”

This conjecture seems to be reasonable. But Dorgon thought about it carefully and shook his head. Incheon and Anshan Yibao are fundamentally different. The most important thing is that the situations in Liaoyang and Seoul are fundamentally different. There is no need to copy cats and tigers at all. The best way to deal with Seoul is actually to attack Seoul as soon as we land.

Not long after they speculated on the Ming army's motives, a detective finally reported the possible reasons. It means that the army must have been sitting on the ship for too long, and all the people and horses were sick, so they had to adopt a defensive system first.

Upon hearing this, Dorgon was overjoyed. If that were the case, that would be great. For this reason, he immediately called a North Korean general who was familiar with maritime affairs. After some inquiries, he got the answer that this was possible.

In this way, he felt relieved a lot. Although he still dared not take the initiative to attack Incheon, he had no scruples in doing other things. Such as sending orders to assemble the army, such as immediately grabbing food.

However, he did not expect that Wu Daji, who was in charge of grain harvesting, immediately reported the news about Seoul through the chat group.

In Incheon, after Cao Bianjiao, the commander of the new army, heard the news, he couldn't help but said to Feng Dehua: "This Dorgon is really pushing his limits. All he needs to do is give him a chance to gather troops. He actually dares to grab food!"

After hearing this, Feng Dehua nodded and said with a smile: "We have actually anticipated this situation. Let's send troops!"

The new army that landed in Incheon was indeed in the same situation as the Manchu Dynasty's Tanma saw. Many soldiers and war horses were uncomfortable due to sitting on sea ships for a long time. After all, although the Xinjun had taken sea ships before, they had time to spare, so they could rest and recuperate on the islands along the way. But this time, we were taking a boat from the Yalu River, and there was little opportunity to dock for rest. We were in a hurry and traveled day and night until we landed in Incheon.

But the actual situation is not as bad as Dorgon imagined. If it were not to achieve the strategic goal, or to drive as many Manchus as possible from Korea to the Japanese country, the new army could completely rely on physically capable soldiers to attack Seoul. . With the elite of the new army, at least half of them can still fight. Under strict military discipline, even half as many people are possible.

But in the end, the New Army did not do this. Instead, they exaggerated the impact of long-distance shipping, or in order to ensure victory in the war, they took conservative measures: defend and rest first before attacking.

This point has made historians of later generations quite critical. They believe that no one is perfect, and even the famous general Cao Bianjiao sometimes fights stupid battles. As everyone knows, Cao Bianjiao was actually complaining: "It's all because the Manchu remnants are too weak. If the Manchu remnants in Japan could compete with the Tokugawa shogunate, we wouldn't have to work so hard to do these things in Korea!"

Even if the Manchu soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were indeed able to fight, there were tens of thousands of people in the Japanese country, and it was impossible to conquer the Japanese country with this. Japan is not a small country. It can have an army of more than 100,000 in a single war. Considering the strength of the entire country, it is not a problem to muster millions. Moreover, this was the early days of the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Although the force was not as strong as it was at the beginning, the foundation was still there.

If it were not for the rebellion of Toyotomi Kunimatsu and the Catholic rebellion in the Japanese country, the Tokugawa shogunate would have killed them long ago with just the thousands of Manchu Qing troops in the Japanese country. It was also because of this prediction that Emperor Chongzhen made great efforts to drive as many of the Manchu remnants in Korea to the Japanese country as possible, so that the strength of the various forces in the Japanese country could be balanced.

Of course, only a limited number of people knew about this strategy of driving away wolves and devouring tigers. For example, only Cao Bianjiao and Feng Dehua in the New Army knew about it. Therefore, many officers and soldiers of the New Army were puzzled by the idea of ​​going on the defensive after landing. However, they could only hold it in after their initial requests for battle were rejected.

However, when the general's order was passed and Ye Busuang could be dispatched on a large scale, the new army's Ye Busuang immediately rushed out of Incheon. With their advantages in morale, military discipline, equipment and physical fitness, they immediately drove Jianlu Tanma back. to Seoul. The figures of the Ming army, which did not stop at night, began to appear around Seoul.

At this time, Dorgon had only one choice, fight the scouts, but he couldn't fight. In order to drive the Ming army away from harvesting at night and achieve the goal of harvesting grain, the army must be dispatched. However, this will definitely affect the grain harvest. However, the gathering of troops from various places does not affect it. After all, the assembled troops marching on the road are not afraid of harassment at night.

In addition, he also noticed something. The arrival of the Ming army had a great impact on the Koreans. Above the court, many North Korean officials refused to come due to illness; privately, they communicated with each other enthusiastically; the North Korean soldiers began to become passive and neglectful. The North Koreans who were sent out to harvest food at the beginning were all ink...

Dorgon didn't sleep much for two days in a row. After comprehensively considering the current situation, he suddenly made a decision through gritted teeth.

Thanks to Feng Zingying for the tip!