While the battle at Qihua Gate in Beijing was in full swing, Dorgon received another shocking news.
Wu Sangui, who went to Tianjin Youwei to eliminate Chongzhen's troubles, was already dead.
He was killed by the Ming army on the spot, and most of the Guan Ning army was surrendered on the spot.
Dorgon was so anxious that he quickly called Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Hong Chengchou and others to discuss the matter.
As soon as Fan Wencheng heard this, he knelt down in front of Dorgon and slapped his mouth: "I deserve to die.
I didn't expect such a result.
This is my fault."
Dorgon frowned and said, "Don't make useless things.
Just tell us what we should do now."
"This time my Qing Dynasty entered the Pass and took control of China, it was all based on the fact that the Ming Emperor was dead, the Ming Dynasty had no heirs, and the Guan Ning Army was at my disposal.
But now Chongzhen is not dead, and the Ming Dynasty is not destroyed. , Wu Sangui is dead, Guan Ning's army surrendered and rebelled, and even the capital of Beijing was defeated.
These all show that our Qing Dynasty has not reached the destiny, so we really have to retreat temporarily."
Before Fan Wencheng finished speaking, he was kicked to the ground by Dorgon.
Dorgon shouted: "What did you say, you damn Nikan slave?
Now you want me to withdraw my troops.
You are a slave and don't know how expensive Chai Mi is.
Do you know how much manpower and financial resources it cost to mobilize the entire Eight Banners for this expedition?"
Material resources.
Do you know how many of our Eight Banners elites died this time?”
Hong Chengchou, Ning Wan and I looked at each other and advised Dorgon: "Master, calm down, what the bachelor said makes sense.
This has nothing to do with Ning Jun.
Zhu Youjian is still alive.
We really can't rely on these hundreds of thousands of flags."
Armor soldiers are sweeping across the world, and we even have to guard against the newly attached green battalions."
Dorgon raised his hand to stop their words.
He said with red eyes: "Isn't it just the matter of Zhu Youjian and Guan Ning's army?
I will solve these two matters together.
Send my military order to mobilize the Eight Banners troops around the capital and march towards Tianjin to advance the westward A The banners of Jige and Duoduo were also recalled and ordered them to stop pursuing Li Zicheng. " Several brave horsemen riding the Eight Banners appeared in the wilderness between Tianjin Wei and Tianjin Youwei.
Their whereabouts had long been discovered by Guards scouts holding telescopes and notified Xia Hua.
Two hours later, more than ten thousand Eight Banners cavalry in the vanguard rolled in, rolling through the wilderness to the west of Tianjin Youwei.
Soon they gathered in the wilderness near Star City.
Dorgon was afraid that Zhu Youjian would escape, so he sent a cavalry team ahead to block the city.
Dorgon didn't know that this move was unnecessary.
If Xia Hua really wanted to take Zhu Youjian away, the blockade of the cavalry on land alone would not be able to trap them.
But Xia Hua had no such idea at all.
Zhu Youjian also became nervous after knowing that the Qing army and the Tatars came to besiege the city.
Went to the top of the city to observe the enemy's situation with Xia Hua.
When he saw the black mass of enemy Tartar cavalry, his expression changed drastically.
Worriedly, he asked Xia Hua: "Uncle Gui Yi, now that quite a few elite soldiers in your city have been mobilized, can this city be defended?"
Xia Hua replied confidently: "Your Majesty, please rest assured that the city is safe.
Not only the Star City, but also the Abacus City of the Tianjin Guards and the Acropolis of the Tianjin Left and Right Guards cannot be captured.
If these Tartars can all gather under the city and kill the moths, It's better to attack with force like putting out a fire, I don't have to do other troublesome things, I will definitely wipe them out."
Zhu Youjian nodded, but he was still a little worried and said: "Your elite soldiers can defend the city and the Tartars cannot defeat it.
I know this for sure.
But if the Tartars dig ditches, build fortifications, and mobilize ships How about a blockade or a long-lasting siege?”
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"Your Majesty, please rest assured that the Tartars cannot besiege us, and more importantly, they cannot stay here for long.
We will see the results in the next few days."
Seeing Xia Hua's vow, Zhu Youjian felt relieved.
Returning to the basement bunker that Xia Hua arranged for him, he patiently waited for the outcome of the battle with the queen and his two daughters.
When Dorgon's 28,000 infantrymen also arrived at Star City, the siege began.
The Eight Banners Army had a total of forty cannons weighing more than 1,000 kilograms for siege.
Half of them were destroyed under the city walls of Beijing, and the other half were allocated to Azig's Western Expeditionary Army.
So now he has no cannons to use and can only attack by force.
After giving the order, the Eight Banners armored soldiers surged towards Star City like a tide.
About a thousand Guards riflemen left behind in Star City relied on the bastion to launch continuous fire on the Qing army.
The result is obvious.
In the hail of bullets, in just two minutes, the tens of thousands of charging Eight Banners soldiers lost more than 4,000 people.
This casualty ratio is enough to deplete the morale of any army.
What's more, the Eight Banners, a primitive tribal armed group with slavery as its structure and the common interests of slave owners as its glue.
This kind of organization is all too familiar to Xia Hua.
It is the primitive form of the tribal patriarchal slavery regime that existed thousands of years ago in the early Shang and Zhou dynasties, where ministers and slaves, public and private could not be clearly distinguished.
Some Tatar tribes in the nomadic areas of Eurasia and even some barbarian areas in the southwest also have similar social organizational structures.
It's just that it doesn't have as good a strategic position and necessary horses as the former, so it's difficult to grow bigger.
The Eight Banners is a primitive and backward, simple but strict and effective organizational structure under certain conditions.
Taking advantage of the equipment and technology imported by high-level civilizations, and encountering the opportunity of the failure of the state machinery caused by the flaws in the Confucian governance structure, it was possible to achieve success by taking advantage of the weakness.
Forty percent of the casualties were caused within two minutes, which was unprecedented in the history of the Eight Banners.
It wasn't that Dorgon refused to give the order to stop the attack, but that he simply didn't have time to give it.
There is no need for him to issue the order now.
Including elites like the white-armored soldiers of Baya, no Eight Banners soldiers dared to charge forward.
The defeated flag soldier's face was covered with the plasma and brains of his companions, and he squatted on the ground gasping for breath in shock.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, Dorgon felt like his heart was cut by a knife.
For a regime like the Later Jin Manqing Dynasty, his main wealth was not land, or even livestock and horses, but the dead people who were both slave owners and slaves from Zhengshen Bannermen to Gushan Ezhen.
The source of wealth mainly depends on them.
If you conquer the world in the future, you will have to rely on them as the core group to maintain your rule.
The Confucian civil servant group of the Han people has been proven by history to be used only as a coating tool.
Soon, news came of the siege of Abacus City and the Qing troops in Youweicheng.
They suffered heavy losses, but made no progress.
The Qing soldiers without artillery were still helpless against the fortified city.
The right guard stationed by the Guan Ning Army did not take the Eight Banners seriously.
This kind of adhering to a fortified city is their strength, not to mention that Xia Hua issued early flintlock handguns to Guan Ning's cavalry.
"Withdraw, Master."
"There's really no way to fight.
Oh, I beg you."
Each flag was on the mountain, Jia La, and the Niulu people begged Dorgon
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