The idea of Ao Bai was very vicious.He farmed land outside the city to feed all the Han people of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and organized them according to the form of the Manchu army.When the Manchus retreated to Guanwai, they drove all the Han Chinese north of the Yellow River to Guanwai in order to continue to exploit them and let these poor people feed them.They made use of the dozens of acropolis left behind when the former Ming Dynasty blocked them.These acropolises were distributed from the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to the front of Shanhaiguan.For each acropolis, the Manchus left part of the army and part of the Han Chinese.The Han Chinese went out to farm outside the city, and the Manchu army was responsible for monitoring the Han Chinese to prevent them from escaping.Fan Wencheng's administration was still relatively lenient towards the Han people, building houses for Han families to live in, distributing food to their wives and children, and except for sending troops to prevent them from running back to Guannai, the rest were the same as the Manchus.Ao Bai didn't do that anymore.In his heart, Han people are Han people, and he will not be of the same heart as Manchu people in this life.He registered all the Han Chinese in the Acropolis, militarized the strong labor force, drove the wives, children, and children of these labor workers into the Acropolis, and no longer allowed these people to live separately.The labor force was organized into an army, and camps were set up outside the city to live, and in peacetime they cultivated the land to produce food under the supervision of Manchurian soldiers, and when they were fighting, they took up arms and were soldiers.If these men fled or defected to Wang Shuo's army, the Manchurian guards killed all their wives and children in the acropolis.In order for their wives and children to survive, these Han people had to farm to feed the Manchurians, and they did not dare not fight against Wang Shuo's army when they were fighting.After learning that Wang Shuo was anxious to deploy troops outside the pass, Ao Bai forced these Han people to work hard to strengthen the walls of the acropolis, so that these walls could resist the bombardment of the opponent's artillery.Although after continuous efforts, the Manchu army was also equipped with muskets, but these muskets were far inferior to the muskets made by Wang Shuo in terms of manufacturing raw materials and manufacturing accuracy, and the range and shooting accuracy could not be compared at all.Besides, so far, they haven't built a cannon like Wang Shuo, and they still can't fight with others at the same level.Therefore, Ao Bai did not plan to fight Wang Shuo at all.As long as Wang Shuo's army was discovered, he would immediately let the soldiers and Han laborers outside the city enter the acropolis, imitate the model of Jierharang guarding Beijing, fill the city gate hole with loess, and not kill the last person, Wang Shuo's army did not want to step into the Acropolis One Step War period, Ao Bai ordered the most loyal Manchu commanders of each Acropolis to lead the troops, gather the wives and children of the Han people together to take care of them, and spread firewood and grass doused with fire oil around them.Once the city is broken, the commander will set fire to the surrounding firewood and grass and burn all these old and weak women and children to death, so if the Han Chinese labor force wants to save the lives of their wives and children, they must desperately defend the city and prevent Wang Shuo's army from attacking.In order to prevent Wang Shuo from letting a hot air balloon burn the grain, as he did when he was defending Beijing, Ao Bai also ordered the acropolis to dig the grain into cellars and store it, so that he would not be afraid of the enemy's fire.Looking at the Manchu defense map that Luo Yangxing's secret agent got back, Wang Shuo also had a headache after knowing these vicious tricks of Ao Bai.Judging from the map, just from Shanhaiguan to Guangningwei, there were more than a dozen guards in the Qianming Dynasty, and if these guards became fortified cities, not to mention the casualties of soldiers, just breaking through these guards, I don't know how many shells would be consumed.Ning Yuanwei is only the first David Institute, from Ningyuan to Guangning, and then from Guangning to Shenyang, there are dozens of large and small health offices, you say this Daming, ah, it's really a bastard.Build so many strong guards, you are guarding it, this is good, it is so cheap Manchu The key is that he paid a huge sacrifice to break through these guards, and it is estimated that the people outside the pass will all die, so what kind of strength is there Wang Shuo had to order the two armies not to attack for the time being, leaving Wang Ping to watch the house, he and Li Yan, Song Xiance, and Li Dingguo personally rushed to the front line of Shanhaiguan to find a way to break the defense of Aobai.The first Manchu Acropolis bordering Shanhaiguan was the former Guangning Zhongqian of the former Ming Dynasty.This was originally just a small garrison in the former Ming Dynasty, but now it was doubled and thickened by the Manchu Qing Dynasty to double the height of the surrounding earthen city walls, and more than a dozen scattered artillery pieces were erected on the city, which looked from a distance, easy to defend and difficult to attack.Just such a guard, from Guangning Zhongqian to Ningyuanwei, is two guards and three houses, which are Guangning Zhongqian, Guangning Qiantunwei, Guangning Zhonghou, Ningyuan Zhongright, and Ningyuanwei.It's still small, and Wei is almost like a real city.Only a few dozen miles out of the pass, you have to break through these two guards, three and five fortified cities, it is too difficult for four people to stand on the top of the mountain, holding binoculars to observe, while comparing the map laid under their feet.There was really nothing to see, and the four of them sat on the top of the hill, looking at the map in silence.The losses of the assault are too great, and it is certainly not the way.But in the face of such a defense, if you don't attack, there is no way at all.Wang Shuo's gaze stared at the map, and gradually left the Guangning Zhongqian Station, moving west to north.Don't go to the Shanhaiguan, attack from the middle of the flank, spare the front of the center, Ben Weng and the west of Liancheng are also heavy checkpoints, that is equivalent to going deep behind the enemy and being surrounded by the enemy.The troops do not have a rear, and the losses will be greater.At this time, Li Dingguo spoke.He said: "Let the navy transfer troops to the north of Korea to land, and then cross the Changbai Mountain, directly attack the Manchu Qing Dynasty's old nest Hetuala, cross Sarhu from the northwest, and take Shenyang directly, shaking the Qing army's will to defend" This is too whimsical, Wang Shuo shook his head.From the upper reaches of the Yalu River in North Korea to Hetuala, the distance in a straight line is not less than 1,000 miles.After a long journey, how to ensure that the artillery, food, weapons and ammunition could not pass.There are too many people to send them, and they can't guarantee the supply, and if they send too little, it won't be a way to send food to the Manchu Qing Sure enough, Song Xiance and Li Yan don't support Li Dingguo's method.Li Dingguo insisted: "The upper reaches of the Yalu River to Hetuala, which are sparsely populated.The advance of our army has good secrecy and is not easy to be discovered by the enemy.Moreover, Hetuara was the rear of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the enemy could not have imagined that our army would appear there in any case, and the defense would inevitably be lax, which created conditions for the success of our army's sneak attack.Once the nest falls, the Manchus will inevitably panic and will send troops to fight to the death.Then, its front-line forces will be withdrawn to reinforce the rear, creating conditions for our frontal attack. ”Song Xiance muttered: "The method is definitely a good way, but now that it is autumn, when our army crosses the sea and lands and rushes to Changbai Mountain, I am afraid that it will be cold there."
The severe cold weather in the northeast is something that our soldiers cannot resist.Moreover, under the freezing weather, it will be more difficult to replenish, and there is basically no hope of success. ”Wang Shuo stared at the map and asked Song Xiance: "Even if we take Hetuala, can we break the Manchu Qing Dynasty's fortified city?"