Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Oh, sir, don't worry." The servant moved a large table and moved it to the plank of the cellar, then looked at the door, turned around and went to the west gate.

There is no need to attack the west gate, someone has already opened it.People in Shandong harbor hatred for the Tartars. The Jinan massacre and the Denglai Incident caused hundreds of thousands of people in Shandong to suffer. Who would have a good impression of such a bandit regime?

Li Yan has been operating in Shandong for almost a year, and the whole Shandong is basically no different from a sieve. If it weren't for the fact that Shandong is too close to the city, Li Yan wouldn't have to think about fighting sports.

"Where is the county magistrate hiding?" Li Nian swaggered into the city on a horse, without looking out of place at all.

"It's in the cellar. I'll take you there." The county magistrate's servant hurried forward and skillfully guided Lu Zhongjun to walk towards that alley.

Everything is agreed, as long as the county magistrate is caught, he can get a reward of 100 taels of silver, and he will be arranged to go south directly.There is land in the south, which can be rented directly from the imperial court.With such a good thing, who cares about the reward of two taels of silver.

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In the capital, Dorgon has been suffering from dizziness recently. Although the imperial doctor said that he had a headache, everyone in the know knows that the regent made the situation in Shandong urgent.

"Tell me, what's going on in Shandong?" Dorgon flicked his hands, pressed his temples, and grinned hoarsely.

This time, it was Houjin's internal core meeting, without foreign ministers.Including Azig, Duoduo, Haoge, etc. all returned to the capital.

"I led the troops there, and Li Yan ran away. I chased him, and he went into the mountain, and I went into the mountain again, and he returned to Tai'an. What should I do?" Hauge has long since lost his former bravery. , he himself was three years older than uncle Dorgon, but now he looked even older.

There are no surrendered soldiers in Shandong who have surrendered on a large scale. To attack Li Yan, they can only mobilize troops from the capital.Even if Tai'an was captured and Li Yan's main force was not wiped out, the Hou Jin army would still have to chase in circles.As soon as the main force left, Li Yan came back again.

The most important thing is that Houjin's army has been restrained in Henan, and there is no way to add troops to Shandong.The troops attacking Shandong were all dispatched from the capital, and the capital itself needed troops to defend, so Dorgon seemed stretched.

Originally, Hou Jin was good at risky military operations in history, and he liked to use small things to make big gains. Later, when he encountered Jiangbei's army in Huaisi and surrendered without a fight, Hou Jin suddenly had the capital to seize Jiangnan.

But now it is different. Hou Jin's adventure failed, they have lost the capital to capture Jiangnan, and the forces of both sides have reached a balance in general.In some areas, such as Shandong, Daming even has a slight advantage.

The strength of the two sides is rising and falling, forming a confrontation between you and me.

"Kill! Massacre the city, I don't believe it, he can return to a dead city?" Dorgon's eyes were fierce, very sinister.

"No. The north has just settled down, and the population is too small. If we massacre the city in the north, there will probably be no one left." Da Yu'er was startled and objected.

After Houjin occupied the north, it implemented a series of policies to calm the people, which were somewhat effective.If the city is slaughtered at this time, I am afraid that all the previous efforts will be in vain.Especially the impact on the areas around the capital is too bad.

"Then what do you say? This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either."

"Let me see, should we send Mr. Hong out?" Da Yuer suggested cautiously, staring at the door.

"Can you rest assured?" Duoduo first raised an objection. Since Hong Chengchou surrendered, Hou Jin has always used him as a high-ranking officer and dared not appoint real power.

"I'm afraid he is the only one who is familiar with the twists and turns of the Han family." Dorgon himself agreed first.

"Well, just to be on the safe side, let's invite him to talk to him first, and see if his solution works." Azig didn't trust the Han people, and felt in his heart that they couldn't solve the problems, what could the Han people do?

"Go, invite Hong Chengchou here."

"twitter!"

Hong Chengchou has been holding back his energy at home recently, he sees the situation better than everyone in the capital, so why not be reused.

Hearing Dorgon's summoning, Hong Chengchou hesitated, he didn't really want to go.After these two years of probing, Hou Jin was very clear about his defenses. Even though he had done a lot for Hou Jin, he was still not trusted.

He has a way, but Hong Chengchou is afraid that no one will be able to do it.Since no one can do it successfully, he doesn't want to say much.

"Mr. Hong, please sit down." Dorgon was very polite today, and his attitude changed from the arrogance after entering the customs to the pretentiousness of a corporal who was outside the customs.

"I invited you here today to hear your views on the current situation. We are all willing to listen to your teachings."

Hong Chengchou was taken aback, he hadn't heard this kind of tone for a long time.Dorgon used this tone when Wu Sangui asked Houjin for reinforcements. Since then, what Hong Chengchou heard the most was Dorgon's arrogance towards him.

Glancing at Da Yuer, Da Yuer's beautiful eyes seemed to be that of an ignorant girl, with a deep thirst for knowledge.It is also like a girl who is in love at the beginning, worshiping the lover in her heart.

Hong Chengchou's heart skipped a beat, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss. He couldn't hold back his heartbeats one after another, forgot his grievances, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the action of showing himself.

Chapter 2: Countermeasures

"I would like to report to the Queen Mother, the Regent, and the princes: when my Kingdom of Jin first entered the pass last year, there were only 20 soldiers; Go west and conquer the whole of Shaanxi.

At that time, there were more than [-] troops.These are all elite soldiers!However, the remnant soldiers of the false Ming Dynasty gathered in Jiangbei, claiming to be more than [-], but they were just a group of old, weak, sick and disabled. "

"Stop talking about these nonsense, and focus on the key points." Hauge didn't like Hong Chengchou, and Hong Chengchou's strategy was an important reason for his failure in the event of seizing the throne.

"I think that after Chongzhen crossed to the south, he made great efforts to govern and quickly integrated the towns in the north of the Yangtze River, but his combatable soldiers would not exceed 30."

Hong Chengchou's calculation is basically correct.At present, apart from the team unexpectedly pulled up by Shandong, the Nanjing side actually has about [-] troops.Of course, this does not include the newly received Chuangbu.

"In terms of combat power, there has been no fundamental change in the strengths and weaknesses of the two sides. Hypocrisy is still on the defensive."

"I'm afraid Mr. Hong doesn't know yet, right? Li Zicheng is dead, and his troops have been appeased by Zhu Youjian." Azig's subordinates still sent the latest front-line battle reports.

"No, this still hasn't changed the overall situation. On the whole, my Dajin still has the upper hand. I think: if the hypocrites want to have an offensive and defensive transition against my Dajin, it takes a million troops."

Hong Chengchou stretched out a slap confidently, and even turned it up and down.

Everyone in the hall was shocked and started whispering.In fact, no one else in the room thought about it.This is to think about the problem from the perspective of Nanjing. The princes of the Later Jin Dynasty did not have the habit of thinking about things this way.

Hong Chengchou is different, he knows Daming too well, and now he is also very familiar with Houjin, so of course he will imagine it for both sides at home.Just like playing chess alone, Hong Chengchou deduced in his heart how the two sides need to defeat each other.

"According to Mr., can the hypocrisy gather an army of one million?" Dorgon seemed to see hope all of a sudden, an army of one million, what a terrifying number.

The millions of troops here are not casually drawn stragglers, they have to be formally trained soldiers.

"It's absolutely impossible. Even if the hypocritical finances can support it, it will take five years at the earliest." Hong Chengchou shook his head confidently.

"Why?" Duoduo was very curious. He suffered a defeat in Fengyang and saw the mobilization ability of Nanjing with his own eyes. He invested more than 20 troops in the small Fengyang at once.

"Because the soldiers who fight in the offensive war need time to train." Hong Chengchou simply replied to Duoduo, and Duduo blushed a little, because he had been attacking in the Fengyang battle, and Zhu Youjian had been defending.The difference is that Zhu Youjian turned the fixed city into a moving car castle.

For defense, ordinary soldiers can train for a year and a half.It's nothing more than holding on to your position and waiting for the enemy to attack.But if you are fighting in a regular field battle, soldiers need to have an active offensive thinking, and the role of officers is very important in this.

Yan Yingyuan can use Jiangyin's young and strong to defend Jiangyin City, but if you take these people out of the city to fight in the field, or to attack the city, I'm afraid it's not enough to fill your teeth.

In five years, Zhu Youjian can form an army of one million, and will this army have the ability to make the Northern Expedition?Obviously not.The Hou Jin that Daming was facing was not an ordinary warlord army, but the most elite fighters in the world.

"Then since they are unable to attack, let's just concentrate our forces and go south." Duoduo's eyes lit up, as if he saw the hope of avenging his shame.

"I'm afraid not." Hong Chengchou shook his head and pointed to the map hung by Dorgon, "Because of Shandong Li Yan."

When everyone heard Li Yan, their faces turned dark immediately. This was the most troublesome thing for them at the moment.

"Do all the lords still think that Li Yan is a traitor who made himself king?" Hong Chengchou looked down on the people in the room. He had already seen through Li Yan's essence, but it was a pity that Dorgon didn't listen to his suggestion.

"Then what is he?" Hauge objected.

"He is a poisonous thorn that Zhu Youjian pierced into my Dajin, and also a pawn that Zhu Youjian used to delay my Dajin's southward move. In other words, Li Yan is Zhu Youjian's most trusted confidant general."