At the Council of Ministers, Dorgon proposed two things, both of which he thought needed to be done as soon as possible.The Qing army has rested for more than a year, and now that the soldiers are well fed, it is indeed time to move their muscles.On the Tongzhou school grounds, the Manchurian nobles had seen the firearms of the Dutch, but when Dolgon claimed that he would select the Eight Banners of the Three Banners and equip them with new firearms, the Manchurian nobles were still hesitant.The Manchurian aristocracy regarded mounted archery and heavy foot fighting as the pride of the Manchus, looked down on the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and often made fun of the Ming people for not being brave enough.Now let them give up riding and shooting, and use the firearms they once ridiculed and sneered at, all the princes and banner owners are embarrassed, and they really don't want to admit that the Manchurian riding and shooting is useless, which is tantamount to denying themselves, so what sense of superiority do they still have in the face of the Han people?
At the meeting of the ministers of the parliamentary king, many Manchurian nobles discussed for a long time, but they were unwilling to equip new firearms, and finally discussed and decided that the Han Banner Army, which was originally equipped with a large number of firearms, should be equipped with new firearms.Although the Manchus reached an agreement with the Dutch, the equipment was not immediately built.Dolgon immediately set the Han army under the command of Li Yongfang's son Bayan, and first equipped the 2,000 flintlock pistols and 30 bronze cannons that the Dutch would deliver, and then equipped the Han Banner Army one by one after the Ministry of Engineering made new firearms.In the previous battle, the Han Army's Zhenglan Banner was almost wiped out, and now it is a newly replenished bannerman, which is just used for experiments.After deciding on the matter of equipping them with new firearms, the next step was to discuss the recapture of Jingzhou, to which the Manchurian nobles had no objection.After the Longwu court moved to Changsha, it immediately conquered Jingzhou, an important town in Huguang, which was intolerable to the Manchus.If the Ming army was allowed to occupy Jingzhou, it would boost the arrogance of the Ming army, and second, it would threaten Wuchang and make the Qing army go on the defensive in Huguang.Since the Huguang Ming army has won Jingzhou and occupies the whole of Chu, it will inevitably map Xiangyang in the north and seek Wuchang in the east, which the Manchu Qing cannot tolerate.Previously, the Qing court because of the defeat of Fujian, Duoduo died in the south of the Yangtze River, and had no intention of fighting, now more than a year has passed, the Eight Banners have been repaired and supplemented, the control of the green camp has also been strengthened, the soldiers and horses have been reorganized, and they can fight a battle to restore the morale of the Qing warriors.Dolgon formulated a strategy for attacking the capitals of the three provinces, ordered Wu Sangui, who was guarding Sichuan, to send an army of 50,000, down the river, to attack Yiling, and threaten the west of Jingzhou from the upstream, and ordered Haoge to lead an army of 100,000, gather troops in Xiangyang, and threaten the north of Jingzhou, and then ordered Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming to gather 100,000 Qing troops in Huguang to threaten the east of Jingzhou, and then added a will to enter Jiangxi, so that Le Kedehun divided his army into 50,000, and Chen soldiers threatened Changsha in Pingxiang County on the border of Hunan and Hubei.The three provinces were encircled and suppressed, strictly speaking, the four provincial capitals attacked Hunan, and Dolgon planned to use 300,000 troops to move back to a city for the Manchus.At the beginning of the Qing army's entry into the customs, there were 180,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners, and nearly one million soldiers of the Green Battalion were recovered.After a few years, the Qing army suffered a lot of losses, and now after the Eight Banners are replenished, they are still not full, only 160,000 people, and the green battalion soldiers are only more than 600,000, and the Qing army's strength has decreased a lot.However, the Qing army decreased, mainly because of the lack of green battalion soldiers, in recent years, Manchuria has suffered great losses, and population growth has not kept up with the loss of flag soldiers, which makes it necessary for the Qing court to change its strategy and reuse the green battalion soldiers.But what kind of goods are the green battalion soldiers, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also knows very well in their hearts that just by attacking and destroying the Hongguang Imperial Court, the four towns in Jiangbei will quickly recruit four or five hundred thousand people.Most of these soldiers and horses were unusable, so Dolgon cleaned up the Green Battalion, dismissed the old and weak, recruited the young and strong, and gained 600,000 soldiers.Although the number of people is now small, the combat power of the green battalion has increased, and after the dismissal of the old and weak, the Manchu finances have also been thrown off a burden.The Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied most of China, and its manpower and material resources surpassed that of the Longwu Imperial Court, and the Qing Dynasty cultivated for more than a year, and its advantages in size were immediately apparent.Because of this year's cultivation, Dolgon sorted out the Manchu army and taxes, which gave him the confidence to start a big war again.This was not only to suppress the arrogance of the Longwu court, but also to stabilize his position in the Manchu court.The strategy was established, and the Manchu court began to operate around the decision of the Council of Ministers, and the mobilization of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, the transportation of money and grain, could not hide from the eyes of the Ming Dynasty.In 1650, in April of the sixth year of Longwu, the Qing army mobilized a large number of materials, which was known by the Ming army.The first battle of Jingzhou greatly boosted the morale of the Ming army, so that the Ming army, which had been escorted and beaten by the Qing army, gradually regained some self-confidence.When the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, a stone battle, the Shun army was able to fight head-on with Wu Sangui and the Eight Banners, which showed that the strength of the Shun army was still there, but they followed Li Zicheng all the way to break and flee, and even suffered defeats, and gradually gave birth to fear, only to lose again and again and completely lose self-confidence.After the Shun army defected to the Ming Dynasty, they fought against the Qing army, and they also lost more than they won, but after a few tough battles, coupled with the victory of the Ming army in Zhejiang, they gradually recovered some confidence.This time, the Shun system conquered Jingzhou, which greatly reduced the fear of the Shun Ming army, and began to have some confidence.On April 28, after the Qingming Festival, the weather gradually warmed up, and on the school field, the Ming soldiers squatted in the camp to eat lunch after sweating like rain.The soldiers chatted while eating, and the only topic they talked about was Jingzhou and firearms.At this time, the soldier guarding the door was gossiping about gossip, but a hundred household officials suddenly stood up with a knife.When the surrounding comrades saw it, they got up one after another, each holding their weapons, and looked outside the camp, and saw a cavalry galloping on the official road from Jingzhou to Xiangyang."
It's your own people!"
At first, he couldn't see clearly, but the officer squinted and observed for a moment, and then suddenly spoke.At this time, the cavalry galloped to the front of the camp gate, and the war horse did not stop, so he flew off the horse and saluted with his fists: "Loyal battalion, scout Zhou Bin, the chief flag of the first division, report to the commander on the urgent military situation!"
”At that moment, there were soldiers rushing into the camp and going to report, and after a while, Li Laiheng, who was in charge of inspecting the camp, was surrounded by the guards and soldiers, separated the crowd and came over, and the soldiers shouted while walking: "Get out of the way!"
”Li Laiheng came to the scout, looked at the sturdy man in front of him, with a tired face, and asked, "Zhou Bin, my father ordered you to inquire about the situation in Xiangyang, why did you come back?"
”After the Ming army occupied Jingzhou, Jingzhou was isolated in the north of the river, and the Ming army wanted to gain a firm foothold in Jingzhou, so it was necessary to take Yiling in the west, control and choke out the Sichuan danger, and then go north to seize Xiangyang and block the enemy in Henan, so as to stand firmly in the middle of Chu, so as to seek Wuchang.Therefore, soon after occupying Jingzhou, Li Guo, the loyal tiger marquis, began to send scouts to peep into Xiangyang's reality and prepare to collect Xiangyang.The scout immediately said urgently: "Major General, I went to Xiangyang to investigate, and found that the Qinggou brigade was gathering in Xiangyang, and the Qinggou seemed to be concentrating on Jingzhou. ”(Thank you for your support, ask for a monthly pass, recommend, subscribe) ()