Chapter 161 Digging trenches together

The fact that the North Korean navy brought the savage Jurchens to pay tribute brought the savage Jurchens completely into the Ming Dynasty's sight.

At the same time, the former North Korean navy admiral Lin Qingye was discovered by Emperor Longwu.

Everyone knows that they can make a fuss about the savage Jurchens and the Korean navy.

However, many strategies are not a temporary success, and they are definitely not something that can be done in a short time.

So in the end, Zhu Yujian decided to send an envoy to the Savage Jurchen tribe and grant him the rank of general, plus some rewards.

But before sending the envoy, he had to confirm the extent to which the North Korean navy who sent these savage Jurchens to the Ming Dynasty were close to the Ming Dynasty.

After all, sending envoys across the sea to the savage Jurchen tribe would have to pass through Korean waters or even land.

And this is the task.

Naturally, it fell to Lin Qingye, the current commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty Navy.

However, it is also because of this.

After a winter, Dashun's army had got rid of the plague, and because they had kidnapped craftsmen, palace servants, and the children of Emperor Chongzhen from the capital, and sent one of them back to the south as a sign of goodwill, their political power in Shaanxi and Gansu areas also tended to be stable.

It recovered from the chaos and resumed production.

After capturing the towns north of Yulin and the surrounding towns, but being unable to capture Yulin for a long time, the Qing army led by Obai also took out trenches along the northern Shaanxi route, together with Prince Zheng Jierhalang and Wu Sangui.

That is in August.

He just thought about how to get more manpower.

Some even carried a kind of firearm made of wood, rushed close to light it, and fired the iron sand, which was so lethal that the Dashun army had to bury their heads when they saw the Qing army carrying wood rushing close.

Go down and don't dare to continue shooting with muskets and crossbows.

Shanxi area.

So this time, Li Guo didn't stop once he dug. He dug out seven lines of defense north of Puzhou! And they were interlocking! According to Li Guo's idea, these trenches were like small fortresses.

Connect with each other!

After that, the Qing army's offensive was delayed in Puzhou!

Then the Qing army continued to advance.

This gave the Dashun Army, which was mostly on the defensive, a firepower advantage in the early stages!

The battle between the Dashun Army and the Qing Army was recorded by Jin Yiwei and sent to Nanjing for Zhu Yujian's possession.

In this defensive battle, in addition to the main generals, Yuan Zongdi, Liu Tichun, Hao Yaoqi and other Dashun generals continued to harass the Qing army, making the Qing army's offensive more difficult. By August, the Qing army had switched from offense to defense.

Of course, the main reason why Nanming did not attack Dashun this year was not Zhu Youjian's "last words", but the obsession of Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian.

The war in the Central Plains has fallen into a quagmire, and every place has fallen into a stalemate.

So the first trench only lasted for more than ten days before it was broken.

Zheng Yigong retreated to Yan'an, and then began to dig trenches like the Qing army.

At that time, he raised troops to serve the king because the slaves threatened the capital, and was then captured by Chongzhen and imprisoned in prison.

Fifteen days later, Yulin was defeated.

Li Guo retreated all the way to Puzhou in the southernmost part of Shanxi, which was only about three hundred miles away from Tongguan. Here, he continued to dig trenches, and once he dug, he never stopped again.

Therefore, under trench tactics, the Qing Dynasty and Dashun, which also had the majority of surrendered soldiers from the Ming army, suffered the same setbacks in front of the trenches.

The Dashun Army at this time was different from the Dashun Army in front of Shanhaiguan.

There was no other way. Zheng Yigong and others, who were across the river from Li Guo at this time, had already heard about the great achievements of trenches, so they naturally began to dig trenches north of Yan'an.

But! I saw Li Shishi who had exited Taiyuan City again.

Moreover, because the Southern Ming Dynasty had not taken action against Dashun in the past few months, Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang in the Ming Dynasty, privately sent a letter to Li Guo expressing his intention to be close and appeasement, but Li Guo tore it apart in front of the Dashun army and his generals.

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The Dashun army made it clear that preparations for a counterattack would begin only after the autumn harvest was completely completed.

It is said that it is not moving and the movement is smooth, but it is actually moving troops.

Dig a trench!

Like no one can!

Zhu Youjian didn't know what it would mean for Ming, Qing and Dashun forces, which had relatively high firearm equipment rates and had heavy artillery, after taking out the trenches.

A single earthen trench withstood the Qing army for ten days. The two armies fought over this earthen trench. If it weren't for the Qing army's artillery and the armored slaves who carried wooden firearms and launched suicide attacks, it would be hard to say who the trench belonged to.

Li Guo also stood behind the trench.

However, the Qing army had more troops, so it rushed into the trenches many times, and each time it required Dashun troops to fight hand-to-hand in the trenches.

Can the deadlock in Sichuan be solved using this method?

When he saw the record of a Qing army general named Ao Bai leading his troops to attack the trench where Zheng Yigong was commanding, "He bravely braved the target and led the troops into the trench, winning consecutive battles. However, the trench was narrow and the rebel army

Dozens of people resisted with spears, and the captives had to retreat.

It only took twenty days for the Qing army to capture Taiyuan City, and the Qing army was still digging trenches for five days.

Because the Qing army dug several trenches during the siege, the Dashun artillery bombardment could not injure the Qing troops in the trenches, but the Qing army's artillery was able to kill and injure the Dashun troops.

I can't help it, it's so useful.

In the end, Li Guo was helpless. After guarding strictly for seventeen days, he led his troops to fight in the streets with the Qing army and held for three days before retreating with the people in the city and his army.

With dozens of days of observation and intelligence, and having personally experienced the resistance of trenches to artillery fire on the other side, Li Guo had already begun arranging to dig trenches in the rear when resisting the Qing army in Taiyuan City.

Although he did not have the idea of ​​uniting with Dashun to destroy the Qing Dynasty, he had the same idea as Li Zicheng, preparing to switch from defense to attack after the autumn harvest! Recapture the Shuntian Mansion of the Ming Dynasty in one battle!

So nominally Zhu Yujian definitely wanted to attack the thief, but the first target of hatred was already fixed on Jian Nu.

But this formation of trenches also attracted his special attention.

After that, many times of charging into the formation were quite effective, but in the end they could not break the needle of the trench, so that when they retreated, they actually cried, "I really shouldn't have used such a cheap trick!"

Even the trenches completely eliminated the Qing's artillery advantage.

In August, Lin Qingye, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty Navy, arrived in Nanjing.

Now he is on the throne because the Dashun army forced Chongzhen to death.

And the final result proved that trenches are really effective.

And next to it is Shaanxi.

After Ruhou and Left Governor Liu Zongmin led his troops to help, the Dashun army even began to push back for dozens of miles until the Qing army also began to dig trenches.

Gao Yigong, Baron of Linqu in Dashun, guarded Yulin for two months, making it difficult for Qing troops to advance.

After the Qing army entered Shanxi, Li Guo, the Marquis of Dashun Bo County, led his troops to fight with the Qing army led by Duduo, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming.

Zhu Yujian's smile was so full that he couldn't hide it.

Nowadays, Zhengheiqi is just like the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The entire military-tribal alliance is extremely efficient and has extremely strong absorptive capabilities.

And news came from the outgoing raiding party.

Because of the unremitting pursuit of the Qing army, they had to increase their marching speed by killing prisoners, and the Qing army had followed them to approach the original Ming Dynasty Mulijwei (Nenjiang) and was close to the territory of the wild Jurchens in the North.

Therefore, Zhu Youjian had to mobilize his troops and planned to meet the general of the opposite Qing army.

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