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    Chapter 526: Ming Dynasty¡¯s Military Arrangement (First Update)

    At the end of Huayuan 1853, Huang Taiji and more than 60,000 people he led were completely annihilated more than 50 miles northwest of Daning.  Huang Taiji, Abatai, Babutai and many other senior Jurchens died in the battle.

    At this point, the Jurchen regime only had more than 40,000 Manggurtai people who fled to the northwest. They took advantage of the fact that the Mongols were also in chaos, looted all the way, fled thousands of miles, and reached the area west of Yili.  .

    In the past few years, the hundreds of people led by Dorgon, under the coercion of the Chinese Empire's army, gathered the savage Jurchen tribe and migrated to the northwest region, and have also entered the Lake Baikal region.  Since then, the Jurchens have completely lost their qualifications to pose a threat to the Central Plains.

    The military operations of the Chinese Empire did not stop because of this. Hundreds of thousands of cavalry troops quickly launched attacks on the Mongolian tribes. Within the next three months, they successively destroyed the Han tribe, the Khalkha tribe, and the Chahar tribe, making  Mongolia as a whole retreated more than 1,500 miles to the west.

    If it was just like this, the Mongols could still endure it, but within these three months, the Chinese Empire sent cavalry troops northward to attack various Mongolian ministries without stopping. All the captured Mongolians were taken to North Korea to fill the gap.  Because of the manpower vacancy created after the North Koreans left.

    This is a catastrophe that the people of the northern grasslands have never encountered before. Wherever the Chinese Empire went, human habitation completely disappeared.  As a result, large-scale Mongolian tribes were no longer seen in the eastern grassland areas, completely eliminating the threat of the Ming Dynasty from the north.

    But it was precisely because of this military action by the Chinese Empire that Central Asia and Northwest Asia, where millions of Mongols poured in, caused huge turmoil there.

    Five or six countries in Central Asia that believe in Islam were destroyed by the Mongols. Even the newly established Russian Romanov dynasty was in turmoil under the impact of the Mongols.  Large swaths of territory were plunged into chaos, even the Kiev region where it originated.

    The westward migration of the Mongols shocked Europeans, and many countries cried out that another Yellow Peril was coming.  But later news reached Europe that they knew that the Mongols migrated westward only after being defeated by the Chinese Empire.

    All of these are not what Emperor Chongzhen can pay attention to. What he has a headache now is that after the Chinese Empire occupied the Duoyan tribe, it deployed 300,000 troops on the long border from Juyongguan and Shanhaiguan. At the same time, in northern Fujian, 20  Tens of thousands of troops marched across the Zhejiang border, causing panic throughout South Zhili.

    This is not the worst thing. What worries Chongzhen the most is Yang Guo's speculation: the Chinese Empire may rely on its powerful navy to land in Tianjin and attack the capital at an extremely fast speed.  Such speculation made the entire Ming Dynasty court panic.

    Such speculation is very likely to happen, and if he were Chongzhen, he would also take such action.

    "Your Majesty, I suggest that Yang Guo's army be recruited to retreat to the capital!"

    While the court was arguing over how to deal with this aggressive attack by the Chinese Empire, Zhou Yanru, the cabinet scholar, suddenly stood up and said a few words that silenced the entire hall.

    Recruiting Yang Guo's army to return to the capital would mean giving up the defense of Shanxi and Shaanxi, which would allow the Chinese Empire's army to take a detour and march straight in.

    "Your Majesty, you must not do this! Yang Guo's army is now guarding the Great Wall. Once they withdraw, the area west of Shanxi will be handed over to the Xiao thief!"

    As soon as Zhou Yanru finished speaking, Wen Tiren, who had no dealings with Zhou Yanru, immediately stood up to object.  This has become a habit of Wen Tiren.

    "Your Majesty, we see that Xiao's army is spread all over the Great Wall, and their artillery is sharp and they are very good at attacking the city. The current strength in the north of the capital is simply not enough to defend against the attack of Xiao's army.

    The old minister suggested withdrawing Yang Guo's army to defend the capital, using superior force to keep the Xiao thief army out of the capital, and at the same time cooperating with the Shenji Battalion of the capital to prevent Xiao thief from landing in Tianjin.  So that it cannot pose a huge threat to the capital.

    At the same time, he ordered the armies of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces to defend themselves freely, constantly blocking the Xiao thief army, slowing down its speed, consuming its food and grass, and looking for opportunities to annihilate its troops by taking advantage of the terrain.  The resistance of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Ming Dynasty made it difficult for the army of Xiao thieves to move forward!  "

    Zhou Yanru¡¯s statement does have some insight. He gave up the Chen Bing border to prevent being defeated by the Chinese Empire in one battle.  At the same time, space is used in exchange for time for resistance, and ubiquitous resistance is used to offset the equipment advantages of the Chinese Imperial Army.

    "Furthermore, as soon as Yang Guo's army withdraws, the Shaanxi bandits will inevitably rekindle. They know nothing about the Xiao thieves' army, so they will definitely attack in groups. Even if they fall silent afterwards, the Xiao thieves' army will not trust them and will divide their forces to suppress them. This  It¡¯s equivalent to my court not wasting a penny.One grain can feed an army of hundreds of thousands.  Please ask the emperor to judge¡±

    Seeing Zhou Yanru talking eloquently in the hall today, and what he said was well-founded, Wen Tiren felt very uncomfortable.

    But Zhou Yanru¡¯s suggestion was in line with Chongzhen¡¯s wishes.  Relying on the Great Wall to defend the Chinese Empire's army has been proven to be impossible, and Yang Guo's guess also made Chongzhen feel troubled.

    It is impossible for Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to mobilize a large army.  The area from Shanhaiguan to Beijing is an endless plain. Once Shanhaiguan is withdrawn, there will be no obstruction for the hundreds of thousands of troops, and they can march straight in.

    And Sun Chuanting could not move either. The pressure on him from the 200,000-strong Chinese Empire army was already very great.  Moreover, southern Zhili, Zhejiang and other places were important sources of tax revenue for the Ming Dynasty. Once they were lost, the Ming Dynasty would be half paralyzed.

    After much deliberation, only the counter-rebellion army led by Yang Guo who was in the Shanxi and Shaanxi areas could still be mobilized.

    "Wu Aiqing, do you think if Thief Xiao comes ashore from Tianjin, can the Capital Shenji Battalion be able to stop him?"

    Chongzhen suddenly turned to Wu Rongtang, who was in charge of the training of the Shenji Camp, and asked.

    "It is feasible to return to the emperor in ten days, but if the army of Xiao thieves disembarking from Tianjin exceeds 100,000, the capital will not be protected within ten days."

    Wu Rongtang reluctantly expressed his estimate. In fact, this was an estimate that he deliberately added a lot of water to.  Because he knows that if the army in the capital can resist regardless of life and death, then let alone ten days, even twenty days will be enough. But the problem is that he really does not have that confidence in these veteran soldiers in the capital. When the time comes, they will be able to escape without looking at the wind.  Thank God.

    Hearing what Wu Rongtang said, Chongzhen¡¯s face immediately darkened.  He didn't expect that the new army he spent a lot of money to form might not be able to stop it even for ten days.  I was extremely disappointed.

    But now no one can blame him, because he knows that Wu Rongtang really tried his best.

    "Call Yang Guo and his troops to return to the capital quickly, and order officials from Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces to organize people from all over the country to form their own rebel armies to fight against the Xiao thieves!"

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