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  Chapter 542 539 [Tianjin can’t fight]

  Zuo Xiaocheng went to Liaodong once and gave Dorgon a gift on behalf of his lover.

  However, no one in the Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to see him. The traitors there were already involved, and they were always on guard against the new traitors who came to power.

  There was no good development in Liaodong, Zuo Xiaocheng immediately returned to the Chahar Department.

  Although he slept with the wife of the leader of Chahar, he really did not suffer from hostility. The main reason is that Zuo Xiaocheng is good at making friends and can get food from Zhangjiakou. Although there is not much food, it still makes the nobles of the Chahar Department very happy.

  By the way, the wool from the Chahar Department was also purchased by Zuo Xiaocheng, and thrown to Cao Fengji for trafficking to the south.

  Cao Fengji brought back salt and tea, and asked Zuo Xiaocheng to sell some to the Chahar Ministry.

  He came and went twice, Zuo Xiaocheng was especially respected, and he worshiped everywhere in the Chahar Department. In this battle, I also took the initiative to invite Ying to go south with the troops.

   Dai Qin was taken aback, looked around, and said in a low voice, "Do you have a way?"

  Zuo Xiaocheng said: "Yes, I am a brother of the family, and I am a minister in the Datong court. The minister is a very big official and can see the emperor at any time."

  Dai Qin doubted: "If the Qing Dynasty wins, Dorgon will take revenge on our Chahar Department."

   "The Manchus couldn't win the war," Zuo Xiaocheng asked, "Do you know how many soldiers there are in the Datong court?"

   "I don't know." Dai Qin shook his head.

Zuo Xiaocheng said: "The Datong Army has seventeen divisions, and each division has 10,000 people. There are also other independent battalions, independent brigades, independent regiments, and garrison teams, which add up to 200,000 people. These 200,000 soldiers , no farming, no grazing, just drills and wars. They have to drill every day, and only rest three or five days a month."

   Dai Qin was dumbfounded, there were 200,000 soldiers, and they were still soldiers who only cared about fighting and training.

  Zuo Xiaocheng also said: "In addition to these 200,000 soldiers, the Datong court also had peasant soldiers. The soldiers who farmed and fought also numbered in the millions."

   Dai Qin swallowed, he couldn't imagine what a million army looks like.

  Zuo Xiaocheng continued: "Don't look at the Datong army here, it is not as large as the Manchus and Dashuns. But there are Datong troops fighting in Henan and Liaodong, and now I am afraid they are all fighting Dorgon and Li Zicheng's lair."

   Dai Qin was silent, weighing gains and losses.

Zuo Xiaocheng fanned the flames and said: "The Chahar tribe is the tribe of the Mongolian Khan. Although the Mongolian Khan is dead, how could the Manchu not guard against it? Have the Manchus been suppressing Chahar all these years? Before Did the Mongolian tribes that belonged to Chahar also follow the Manchus to suppress Chahar? Whether it is the Manchus or the Mongolian tribes, who would like to see the Chahar tribe become stronger again? Does the Hal Department still have a bright future?"

   These words really moved Dai Qin.

   Among all the Mongolian tribes in the Outer Domain, the Chahar tribe is the most difficult. The Manchus were on guard, and so were the other Mongolian tribes, for fear that the Chahar tribe would revive one day.

Zuo Xiaocheng is still nagging: "In these years, how many warriors of Chahar have died in battle? The pasture is grazing!"

  Suddenly, Dai Qin gritted his teeth and said: "Xiaocheng, I answer, I listen to you, the Chahar Department can't go on like this!"

   The reason why Zuo Xiaocheng said the surrender was so smooth is because what Zuo Xiaocheng said was the truth.

  Historically, even if the Manchu Qing unified China, the Chahar tribe was eventually forced to rebel, and the handling of the counter-insurgency was extremely severe.

  At that time, all the nobles of Chahar were convicted, and the leader of Chahar was beheaded. The tribes were dispersed and immigrated to other places to graze. It also stipulates that the Chahar Banner is not included in the Forty-Nine Banners of Mongolia, officials cannot be hereditary, and affairs cannot be taken care of by themselves. Then, Mongolian herdsmen such as Balhu and Buryat were moved in and mixed with the Chahar tribe. Then force the Chahar tribe who moved westward to farm, changing from nomadic to farming.

  The most powerful tribe in Mongolia was completely dismembered by the Qing Dynasty.

Daiqin wanted to call all his subordinates to lecture, but Zuo Xiaocheng stopped him and said: "There are too many people with mixed eyes, so as not to leak the news. It's not that I don't trust the Chahar warriors, but it is inevitable that some people will say the wrong thing. Just tell a few trustworthy people Leader, at the critical moment of the battle, deal a fatal blow to Man Qing!"

"it is good!"

  Daiqin recruited a few nobles with troops, followed Zuo Xiaocheng's speech, and made these Chahar nobles outraged on the spot.

  They have been dissatisfied for a long time, like wooden barrels filled with gunpowder, they will explode if they are teased.

  So these nobles whispered to their cronies again.

  By the time they returned to the camp in Tianjin, more than half of the Chahar cavalry already knew that they were going to defect.

   Zuo Xiaocheng, a spy, is not strict in his work.

   But it’s harmless. Although the Manchus arranged eyeliners in Chahar, they are now staying in the prairie. Those who came out to fight were all hard-working wage earners, fighting for the Manchu Qing.

  …

  Tianjin City Wall, twelve meters high.

   And unlike when Zhao Han went south, the north and south city walls collapsed, and the local officials led the people to repair them long ago.

  The Weihe River is to the north, and the Haihe River is to the east. There are no bridges on the river because boats need to be transported in water. First, it is too troublesome to fill up the Haihe River and Weihe River. Second, after filling the outside, there is still a moat inside. Moreover, the entire process of filling the river was within the attack range of the city defense artillery, which was an almost impossible task.

  Li Zicheng and Hauge resolutely gave up attacking the city from the east and north.

  After assigning the battlefield, Li Zicheng attacked the west wall, and Haoge attacked the east wall.

   For several days in a row, the river was filled with negative soil.

  The artillery of the attacking side is more like cheering for the people. Because they wanted to besiege the city and fight for aid, they had no real plan to capture Tianjin, so they had to save some artillery and ammunition—the city wall was too high and too thick to collapse in ten days and half a month.

  The real battle broke out first in Sanjiadiandian!

During the Jiajing period, due to the continuous construction of canal dams, Yongding River, Daqing River, Juma River, Huangcha River, Wangjiatuo River, Jue River, Yueshen River, Liu Daokou River... a lot of rivers poured into the Triangle Lake one after another, forming A large lake with a radius of tens of miles.

   Also because of the regulation of water transport, Sanjiaodian Lake gradually dried up in the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

   Now, it is the first battleground.

  Whether it was Li Zicheng or Hauge, the ships collected or built along the way were all thrown into Triangle Lake to fight against the Datong Navy.

   Both sides are small boats, and it is really easy for big ships to run aground.

  Although the Triangle Lake has a large area, the water depth is less than three meters, and some places are even less than one meter.

  Gu Jianshan, as the commander of the Datong Navy, has not fought for a long time, and the fleet is basically helping to transport supplies. This is probably his last inland water battle. After the battle, he will either become an admiral or arrest water bandits in the Yangtze River.

  However, the Yangtze River has long been free of water bandits. It is the result of Gu Jianshan's idleness and boredom.

   "Fire!"

  Flares, similar to fireworks, rose into the air among the reeds, and countless small boats rushed out upon hearing the sound.

  Jiajiadian Lake is just ten miles northwest of Tianjin City. The Datong Navy has practiced for two years and has long been familiar with the terrain here. However, the soldiers of Dashun and Qing Dynasty seemed to be in a maze, and they didn't even know where the boat was heading.

   Shallow lakes, lush aquatic plants, reeds and other aquatic plants protruding out of the water are everywhere!

  It is more beneficial to the Datong Navy because Li Zicheng's soldiers come from the northwest, and Haoge's soldiers come from the northeast. A bunch of landlubbers are now fighting water battles, and those who can swim will temporarily turn into sailors.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  The small boat of the Datong Navy disappeared, quickly surrounded and wiped out the enemy, and immediately hid in the reeds after capturing the boat.

  The whole fighting process was like beating a child.

   Before the moat in Tianjin was filled, the soldiers of Li Zicheng and Dorgon were completely driven out of Triangle Lake.

"Your Majesty, we can't camp here anymore," said adopted son Zhang Nai, "We are all from the Northwest. How can we beat the Southerners in a water battle? Once the triangle lake is lost, the puppet reinforcements can go directly by boat." Come here, pass Sanjiaodian and arrive ten miles northwest of Tianjin. Behind our camp, there are dozens of miles of water, and puppet troops may come to sneak attack at any time."

   Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and other Dashun generals stayed in Shanxi to guard against the Datong Army in Henan.

  Liu Zongmin is in the north of Baoding, moving with the camera.

   Zhang Nai was the number one general who followed Li Zicheng, commanding all of Li Zicheng's cavalry.

   "It's hard to ride a tiger!"

   Li Zicheng was extremely depressed. His subordinates would go to Tianjin, but at that time there was a severe drought in the north, and the Sanjiao Lake was completely dried up into a bathtub.

  Although he said in detail that there is a big lake near Tianjin, how could Li Zicheng think that it is a big lake with a radius of tens of miles.

  If I had known this earlier, I would still fight Tianjin!

  There are rivers in the north, rivers in the east, and lakes in the northwest, and everything is unfavorable to the attacker.

After thinking about it, Li Zicheng ordered: "Move the whole army to Dingzigu, burn the reeds on the east bank of Sanjiaodian Lake, and cut off the ones that can't be burned. Build a fort on the bank, and let the sentry guard at all times. If there is an enemy situation, Fire now!"

  Hauge was stunned when he received the news from Li Zicheng.

  Brother, you are on the north side of the canal, and I am on the south side of the canal. We agreed to attack the city together, and support each other when encountering puppet reinforcements. You didn't say a word and withdrew to Dingzigu, what the **** am I doing here? The Puppet Reinforcement Army really came, and I, a Manchurian warrior, would have to be made dumplings!

  But Li Zicheng didn't dare to stay, the Triangle Lake has been occupied by the Datong Army. As long as there are enough ships, the 10,000 Datong Army can appear behind Li Zicheng anytime and anywhere in a small boat under the cover of reeds.

   "Move to the east!" Hauge had no choice but to withdraw.

  Haug not only wants to withdraw to the east of the city, but even directly to the east of Liaodong. What the **** kind of fight is this?

  The west and south sides of Tianjin are reserved, so where is the siege? Reinforcements and food and grass can be continuously transported into Tianjin through the canal.

  And Li Zicheng withdrew to the north, Hauge withdrew to the east, and they were the two most difficult walls to attack. Weihe River and Haihe River are enough for them to fill in slowly, and then fill in the moat after filling.

  Zhang Tieniu stood on the tower, looked at the transferred enemy troops with binoculars, and laughed suddenly: "This is just kidding me."

  (end of this chapter)