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Text Chapter 198: Huang Taiji comes out of seclusion

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    In a night attack, Hou Jin only left behind more than 60 red-armored guards, but more than 80 white soldiers killed and wounded more than 500 water camp soldiers.  Half of the Gaishui Camp soldiers died on the battlefield. Although nearly 300 wounded soldiers were not killed in battle, they were probably in danger given the medical standards of this era.

    Huang Taiji succeeded in the attack and went directly to the northwest without any nostalgia.  The entire Gaishui camp was on high alert for a whole night, but was not attacked again.

    Based on the principle of caution, Gaishui Camp was suddenly hit hard and strengthened its defense facilities.  As soon as it dawned, Qin Mingtao asked the soldiers to go to the hill three miles away to chop wood and build fortifications.  After working for a long time repairing the destroyed ones and making new ones, the three-story barrier outside the camp was erected again.

    Not only did the horse stand up, but in one day, the pit where the horse was trapped was dug twice as wide and as deep by the auxiliary soldiers.  Several flag generals from Zhao De even led their soldiers into battle. The organizers were busy for most of the day, digging a trench around the wall of the village.  In the afternoon, the excavated soil was used to heighten and thicken the village wall.

    By the time it got dark, the entire camp that had been damaged had been repaired and reinforced. The camp was cleaned up and normal order was restored.

    There are no more tents in Gaishui Camp. They were all burned down last night.  Fortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to rain these days, so it's not a big problem to just sleep on the floor.  There is a circle of wood chips surrounding the middle school field to block the view, and a piece of cloth is pulled on top, which is the general headquarters.  Qin Mingtao was talking to Li Chengzong who was reporting on the camp's repair work, but saw Li Jinxi walking in quickly.

    "Your Highness, please give me a detailed report. Huang Taiji led the Golden Four Banners out of Xifengkou at dawn. All the towns and castles originally occupied were abandoned, and only more than 400 people were left at Xifengkou to stop the pursuers."

    After hearing this, Li Chengzong lowered his head in frustration, flopped down on the chair behind him and cursed, "It's been a few months. The thirty old-fashioned cannons we sold him are probably all scrapped. How dare he fight with the Vietnamese?"  More and more King Qin's troops are coming to fight? Besides, it's getting hotter day by day. How can the Tatars stand it? This Huang Taiji is slipperier than a weasel.

    Hearing the news, Qin Mingtao shook his head and sighed helplessly.  This thief chief was really cunning, and the mobility of the cavalry was used to the extreme in his hands.  Zu Dashou, Cao Wenzhao, and Wang Chengen were all forced to death by him.  Gaishuiying was a little careless, and he suffered a loss at his hands. I am afraid that even the weasel is not so cunning.

    ??This time when Huang Taiji entered the Pass, he made a lot of money. Not to mention how much food and materials were snatched, the population alone was robbed of hundreds of thousands.

    Although the strength of the Jurchens was damaged when four to five thousand bannermen lives were lost in the pass.  However, it was supplemented by the population and materials of the people who entered the customs and plundered this time.  The bandit group of Houjin will be able to recover in a few years.  Huang Taiji even survived the political crisis by changing the water camp.  The political enemy Mang Gurtai was completely destroyed.

    This time the people of the four banners entered the pass and returned with a great victory from the Huangtaiji banner.  Hardly many people died.  However, Mang Gurtai, who liked to make his own decisions, lost almost all of his Zhenglan Banner at the expense of his troops.  Compare this.  It seems that Huang Taiji's position has been stabilized.  And as the plundered Han people became Jurchens.  Gradually integrated into Houjin.  Huang Taiji's position will become more and more stable.

    Last time we were in Daling River.  Qin Mingtao won too easily.  Can't help but have some ambition to control the general trend of the world.  He even felt that he could achieve success in Liaodong even without the support of the Nanhai Kingdom.  But there was a night attack last night.  But it dampened Qin Mingtao's ambition in half.  He is not an opponent of Tian Zong Yingcai, but he is a character like Huang Taiji.  It is really impossible to fight without absolute strength and strategy.

    Li Jinxi looked at Qin Mingtao's face.  He also said, "Wu Sangui ran fast in tough battles in the beginning. Now he is even faster in grabbing credit. With more horses and troops under his command, Huang Taiji got out of the gate with his front foot. He 'recovered' the Santun Camp with his back foot. It is said that he is going to Xixi.  Go to the peak entrance. I'm afraid that if the last few Tatar guards withdraw, they will be the first to 'recapture' the Great Wall again."

    Qin Mingtao pursed his lips.  I looked at the sand table.  Gaishui camp is located only eighty miles away from Santun camp.  Put it this way.  The Ming army had already penetrated into the prefecture and counties that Hou Jin had abandoned.  We are in a position where we can threaten this side.

    "Where are the other Qin Wang Mingjun?"

    Li Jinxi looked at the sand table and said,

    "Lu Xiangsheng and more than 30,000 Tianjin Guard troops are in Yutian in the south. It is estimated that the next step is to drive to Kaiping Zhongtun Guard. Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, behind Wu Sangui, led more than 20,000 Qinwang troops from various places to regain Jizhou, and the surrounding area  There are also some King Qin troops arriving one after another, but we can¡¯t detect them clearly. Currently, we know that the more threatening ones are the more than 2,000 Denglai Firearms Battalion brought by Geng Zhongming, which are still in Dagu.¡±

    "Zhang Zongheng and his group can only travel three to forty miles in a day. They are far away and pose no threat to us. In fact, Wu Sangui's Jinzhou Town soldiers and horses have been disabled long ago and cannot fight at all. He is  Run faster and don¡¯t dare to provoke us no matter what. Really useful"The threat is still from Lu Xiangsheng's group. After he takes Kaiping, I wonder if he will go north to attack us."  "

    Li Jinxi smiled lightly and said,

    "There is another Ming army, Kong Youde's tribe, who left Funing County a few days ago on Chongzhen's order, fought fiercely with the Tatars for a day, and recovered Yongping Prefecture. Haha. I heard that Kong Youde

    After the Tatar heads were reported for their war exploits, Zhou Yanru Xu Guangqi was very impressed.

    Now that Huang Taiji has withdrawn like this, the Ming Dynasty will definitely not recognize our contribution. Kong Youde's King Qin has fulfilled his mission.  "

    Li Jinxi smiled and said, "Your Highness, no matter what, we drove the Tatars out during this expedition! Now Huang Taiji is pressing down on the city of Beijing like a sharp sword. Let's see if those civil servants still dare not to take Kong Youde seriously.  "

    Now that Guan Ning¡¯s army has been completely destroyed, and the border troops in several towns near the capital have all been maimed by Huang Taiji, the Ming Dynasty¡¯s northeastern defense line is considered complete.  The only fighting force left in Jinzhou is Kong Youde's tribe. The little emperor is sitting in Beijing guarding the ancestral foundation. For the sake of his own life and the world, he has to endure Kong Youde's petty actions under the red flag of the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

    No matter how hard he dares to offend the ministers, he still has to be responsible for his own life and the world.  In addition, Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant, and Xu Guangqi, the elder of the pavilion, supported Kong Youde. After a while, Kong Youde's Qiangang Town was estimated to have no problems.

    Qin Mingtao thought for a while, and then Li Chengzong asked, "How many refugees are gathered in Funing County now?"

    Li Chengzong replied, "There are more and more refugees in Funing County, and refugees from all over eastern Gyeonggi Province have gathered here. It's scary. A messenger came to the camp in the morning and said that there were already 160,000 to 70,000 people. Now all food depends on  Kong Youde helped, and Kong Youde sent messengers every day to complain about poverty, saying that the auxiliary commander Qian who we stayed there asked him for food every day, and his army's year's stockpile of food was almost finished."

    Li Chengzong looked at Qin Mingtao and said, "Our fleet can only transport seven or eight thousand people at a time. Your Highness, we are afraid that these hundreds of thousands of refugees will not be transported. The longer it takes, the more troublesome it will be."

    Qin Mingtao looked at the sand table in silence and did not answer his subordinate's words.  Zhao De rode over from the east of the camp and jumped off his horse at the entrance of the headquarters. He said to Qin Mingtao, "Father, the names and identities of the dead and wounded soldiers have been sorted out, and the military merit secretary has also compiled the statistics of the military merits. The Tatars  His head was also cut off and sent to Kong Youde."

    It¡¯s not of much use. Sending the Tatar heads from Kong Youde can always make the civil servants in the court feel more at ease.  Qin Mingtao nodded and said, "Now that the people of Nanhai have become rich, our pension should also be increased to eighty taels. All the soldiers who died in the battle this time will be promoted to one rank, and the eldest son will inherit them."

    Having extorted millions from Chongzhen, Gaishuiying is rich now, and Qin Mingtao is generous with his money.  Upgrading to one level of title is also very powerful. A private household can be promoted to a commission officer, and a commission officer can be promoted to an expert.  This pension is considered very heavy.

    The closer you are to the grassroots, the more difficult it is to lead troops. When Zhao De heard the heavy reward offered by his adoptive father, he couldn't help but feel relieved for the morale of Gaishui Camp.  Qin Mingtao saw this and sighed and said, "Immediately send someone back to Tea River Island to notify the fleet to sail to Funing County. The whole camp will be dispatched early tomorrow morning and we will return to Funing."

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    The retreat was a bit boring. In this expedition to the capital, Qin Mingtao brought out 4,100 soldiers and 3,000 auxiliary troops.  After experiencing the two battles of Yongping and Qian'an, 1,100 soldiers and 400 to 500 auxiliary soldiers were sacrificed.  For a force that has not experienced many wars, such a battle loss ratio is already quite high.

    At the end of sultry May, the Gaishui camp, which had shrunk in numbers, led the extra horses and retreated listlessly in the wilderness, gradually approaching Funing County, not far from the seaside pier.

    Although we are fighting for the Nanhai Kingdom, although the military pay is very generous, and although Dong Wang has been winning, casualties are the most terrifying enemy of the army after all. The morale of this army is not as good as before.  Qin Mingtao, who was riding in the middle army, sighed and understood that he needed to spend a lot of time to rebuild the fighting will of this army.

    Still one or two miles away from the county seat, Qin Mingtao saw the mighty army of refugees.  Hungry people gathered everywhere in the wilderness, lining up in front of the porridge sheds to get porridge to relieve their hunger.  Seeing the main army of the Nanhai Kingdom approaching from the front, the hungry people quickly made way for a passage area and looked around curiously with their weak eyes.

    Zhao De glanced at these refugees, as if he saw himself exiled in Lingao County as a boy.  Zhao De took a breath and said to Qin Mingtao, "Father, how are you now? I won't be able to finish it for a while, what should I do?"

    Qin Mingtao nodded and did not answer this question.  Before entering the city, the auxiliary soldiers left behind had already opened the west gate of Funing County, a reinforced concrete structure.  Qin Mingtao looked around the city and saw a group of breastplate musketeers standing on the tower.  Qin Mingtao remembered that he left only a few hundred auxiliary soldiers and no musketeers. He couldn't help squinting and asked Zhao De,

    "What is that? Why are there musketeers in the city?"

    Zhao De obviously had better eyesight. He raised his hand and took a look. He was stunned for a while, then turned around awkwardly and said, "Father, it's King Nan who is here."

    Chang Wenguang¡¯s eyes lit up when he heard this, and he raised his hand to take a look.  Sure enough, he saw the huge flag fluttering in the wind, planted next to the Qin flag.  Chang Wenguang suddenly felt that his whole body was full of strength, and he raised his arms excitedly and shouted, "Young men! King Nan is here! King Nan's fleet is here!", there was no musketeer soldier left, he couldn't help but squinted his eyes and asked Zhao De,

    "What is that? Why are there musketeers in the city?"

    Zhao De obviously had better eyesight. He raised his hand and took a look. He was stunned for a while, then turned around awkwardly and said, "Father, it's King Nan who is here."

    Chang Wenguang¡¯s eyes lit up when he heard this, and he raised his hand to take a look.  Sure enough, he saw the huge flag fluttering in the wind, planted next to the Qin flag.  Chang Wenguang suddenly felt that his whole body was full of strength, and he raised his arms excitedly and shouted, "Young men! King Nan is here! King Nan's fleet is here!"
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