Update time: 2012-10-20

The entire Liaodong battle lasted until the end of October, and the first year of combat was completed, during the two battles of the six-month period from April to October.

Under Luo Li's leadership and the cooperation of a large number of Mongolian cavalry, the Left Army successfully recaptured a large area of ​​land west of the Liaohe River and Sancha River, almost slaughtering all the Jiannu in this area. After learning about the brutal policies of the Dazhong Army to treat them, a large number of Jiannu Tatars abandoned these lands that they had not occupied for too long and fled back to Liaoyang and Haizhou for refuge. The large number of Han slaves who were originally captured by Jiannu took the opportunity to escape their masters, and even took advantage of the opportunity to attack their Jiannu's master, and took the lead of Jiannu to join the Dazhong Army to compete with them.

After the right army captured the Jinzhou City, which was known as impregnable by Jiannu at the end of July, under the leadership of Li Xin and Diao Zheng, they attacked from south to north towards the hinterland of Liaodong, and pulled the Korean minion army and launched continuous attacks on Liaodong from east to west.

Although neither of the two men could attack Shengjing, Jiannu's Shengjing before the heavy snow was blocked in October, the result of the offensive this year still satisfied Xiao Tianjian. The entire Liaodong Peninsula basically fell back to the hands of the Han people in the past six months. A large number of Jiannu entrenched on the Liaodong Peninsula were either killed or fled back to the hinterland of Liaodong, which greatly reduced the area of ​​Jiannu's control and compressed into the hinterland of Liaodong. Whether by land or sea, they were completely cut off by the Central Army's opportunity to trade with the outside world, and they completely did not have the possibility of obtaining North Korean food.

During this year, the North Korean country performed quite positively. In addition to recruiting tens of thousands of civilians to assist the Dazhong Army in launching a war against Jiannu, it also mobilized troops and servants to fight against Jiannu, and even mobilized a large amount of food and fodder to support the Dazhong Army's actions, which saved Dazhong and North Korea a lot of logistical troubles in the supply of food and fodder on the right.

Over the years, Jiannu has bullied all the surrounding tribes in Liaodong. Now, with the Dazhong Army returning to Liaodong with all the singing and fighting, the surrounding tribes here have also seen Jiannu's weakness and dilemma.

When Jiannu was strong, he suppressed these tribes with his huge military advantage and did not dare to resist. However, at this moment, Jiannu found sadly that they were surrounded by enemies. Many tribes that were originally very respectful to them actually abandoned their identity as the Eight Banners of Manchuria and fled their control. They returned to the mountains everywhere to watch the limelight. Some people even started to fight against Jiannu, and bullied that Jiannu could not free up his hands to deal with them.

After a whole year of war, Jiannu's pocket, which was originally not rich, was extremely deflated. Unlike the previous war, Jiannu was a completely defeated party this time. They could no longer enjoy any war bonuses, and could no longer obtain slaves for their service through war.

This summer was like a nightmare for them, and there was almost no harvest of nonsense agriculture. In addition to the loss of large areas of controlled land, even the land they did not lose was due to the restlessness of Han slaves and the large number of flag soldiers being transferred to fight, which made the Jiannu's grain harvest this year very poor.

When the first heavy snow began to fall in October, news of a surge in grain prices spread in Shengjing.

Once upon a time, there was also a very scarce food outside the pass. Jiannu continued to use troops to plunder the grain and property of the Han people outside the pass, but instead purchased food from the mainland through the gold and silver goods they obtained.

Many unscrupulous merchants of the Ming Dynasty, especially Shanxi merchants, were mainly tempted by high profits, and then transported them outside the pass to Jiannu for sale. Through this method, Jiannu calmed down the price of grain outside the pass and dropped to a level that even inside the pass would not dare to imagine.

On the contrary, due to the climate, there were constant famines in the pass, and the grain was transported out of the pass by traitors and merchants, causing a large outbreak of peasant soldiers in the pass, especially in Shaanxi.

But this year was the fourth year of Tianyuan. If calculated according to the old historical trajectory, then in the winter of the 17th year of Chongzhen, for Jiannu, they could no longer obtain food through this method.

History is so ironic. If we look at the historical development process of the old time and space, this year was exactly the time when Jiannu entered the pass. The Qing army formed a large army and entered the pass and embarked on the process of conquering the entire Central Plains.

However, after Xiao Tianjian's appearance, the historical process underwent earth-shaking changes. Under the urging of the Dazhong Army, the Ming Dynasty collapsed more than three years in advance. The Qing army was unable to seize the land of Yanyun as it wished. Instead, it was defeated by the Dazhong Army in Shanhaiguan and retracted back to Liaodong.

Three years later, the Dazhong Army, in accordance with Xiao Tianjian's original oath, marched outside the pass and began the conquest of Jiannu from Liaodong. Although it was one year later than the two years that Xiao Tianjian had expected, it still came.

Jiannu finally tasted the difficulties of the losers, and when the winter of this year came, they began to reach their end.

But what is strange is that Huang Taiji, this guy, has been sick a few years ago and has persisted until this time, and has not suddenly become burping in August of this year as in history.

However, in October, Huang Taiji, the guy, finally finished his glorious and tragic life. He died in the evening of the tenth day of October in the Qing Palace in Shengjing on the evening of the tenth day of October.

In the past six months, facing the attack of the Dazhong Army, Dorgon and Huang Taiji temporarily gave up the internal struggle for power and concentrated their efforts to prevent the Dazhong Army from attacking them against Jiannu.

However, in the face of successive losses, when he entered October, Huang Taiji still felt that he could no longer hold on, because Haoge lost his troops after entering the pass in the 14th year of Chongzhen and was no longer able to succeed him. So before his death, he issued an order to pass the throne to his living eldest son, his fourth son Aisin Gioro Yebushu, allowing him to inherit the throne and continue to rule what he called the Qing Dynasty.

History has completely changed its trajectory. Due to various great changes, Emperor Shunzhi was unable to inherit the throne, and Emperor Shunzhi could never appear in history.

After Huang Taiji's fourth son Ye Bushu succeeded to the throne in Shengjing and ascended the throne and became the emperor on the same day. He changed the reign to Shunde on the same day and became the second emperor of Jiannu, known in history as Emperor Shunde.

Because of his consecutive defeats, Dorgon fled back to the Liaoyang area and did not dare to enter Shengjing to meet the throne, so he did not dare to participate in the battle for the throne. However, when Huang Taiji died, he still united with the forces in Jiannu. He went to Beijing to think that Huang Taiji was attending the funeral and meeting the new emperor, and forced the Shunde Emperor who had just succeeded to the throne to recognize his position in Jiannu and grant him the regent minister to unify the dispatch of troops to resist the "invasion" of the Dazhong Army.

But no matter how they struggled, this winter was destined to be a difficult winter for Jiannu. The severe shortage of Jiannu caused a large number of Jiannu and their slaves to starve to death after the beginning of winter.

In order to survive, a large number of Baoyi slaves from Jiannu had to rebel, either find a way to escape, forcing Dorgon to send troops everywhere to suppress this rebellion chaos all day long.

Due to the lack of food, Jiannu's mining stagnation was also caused. A large number of miners either rebeled and robbed grain, starved to death, or fled into the mountains and forests, and the craftsmen were unable to start work, which made Jiannu's life even more difficult.

They could have relied on craftsmen in Shengjing and Liaoyang to build weapons for them to supplement military supplies, but at this time, they could no longer maintain it.

Although after the beginning of winter, the Dazhong Army stopped its offensive actions and instead shrank its forces and turned into on-site defense, their actions had already broken down the backbone of Jiannu, and the rest was to rely on the severe cold of Liaodong to launch a final blow to Jiannu.

Although the Liaodong expedition and war this year was also very difficult for the Great China and North Korea. After all, Great China and North Korea have now pacified the southern provinces and obtained more resources to support this protracted war. In terms of materials, hundreds of large ships have continuously provided supplies to the Liaodong army, so their situation is many times better than that of Jiannu. At least it is no problem to let the Liaodong army eat enough after the winter.

Before the severe cold came, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of War jointly mobilized coastal military and civilian ships to transport a large amount of food and fodder to Liaodong, and transported them to various places to hoard them for wintering. Moreover, this Northern Expedition also used soldiers from the north as much as possible. After the winter began, a large number of soldiers who were not very suitable for the severe cold climate in the north were withdrawn to Shandong for rest. Therefore, there was basically no excessive freezing death and frostbite in one winter, and non-war reductions were not as serious as originally expected.

Especially during the early war, the Dazhong Army obtained a huge amount of skin bags accumulated by Jiannu. After the winter began, the troops used these skin bags to make a large number of leather jackets to help the soldiers keep warm. At the same time, they built thick camps on the spot for the soldiers to keep warm, and drove the prisoners to chop firewood and accumulate firewood for the Dazhong Army to keep warm. They even implemented a strong wall and clearing the fields of straw, transported them to various camps and cities to provide military heating.

Therefore, with full war preparations, this winter allowed the Dazhong Army to spend more easily, and did not affect the Dazhong Army's combat effectiveness.

Especially after the Great China-North Korea announced the opening of the sea ban, the fishery in the coastal areas developed very rapidly in the past two years. Coastal people from all over the country built their own fishing boats to fish in the sea, and also provided a large amount of seafood to the military. These catches were pickled and transported to Liaodong for food for soldiers in the army, reducing the consumption of livestock and meat. At the same time, they provided valuable protein and fat intake for military soldiers and ensuring the military's overwintering use.
Chapter completed!