The academicians of the Third Academy of Internal Medicine under Huang Taiji were certainly not useless. After listening to Huang Taiji's rhetoric, they quickly realized the truth behind it.

Although Jierhalang did not say clearly who was the mastermind behind the capture of Zhenjiang Fort, the conclusion was as obvious as the lice on a bald man's head.

Without the strong participation of the Jinhai Zhenming Army, how could the two troops of the Chao people dare to cause chaos inside and outside Zhenjiang Fort?

Even if they really took advantage of the situation, or went crazy and tried to get lucky, but without the strong participation of the Jinhai Zhenming Army, they would never be able to capture Zhenjiang Fort in one fell swoop.

Not only Huang Taiji knew the performance of the imperial soldiers and horses on the battlefield, but also the civil servants of the three inner courtyards around Huang Taiji.

Whether it's bombarding the city with heavy artillery or blowing down the city walls, including muskets that can be fired without match ropes and thunderbolts that can throw explosions and are powerful, etc., aren't these things and these methods of fighting the Ming army in Jinhae Town?

Unique?

Therefore, on the morning of September 21, when Huang Taiji expressed his intention to go on a personal expedition, although his fellow academicians from the Third Academy of Internal Medicine were very surprised at first, it didn't take long for them to agree with Huang Taiji's idea.

Therefore, Huang Taiji, with the help of these people to check and fill in the gaps, formed several more decrees by noon that day.

The first order was given to the two yellow flags. Huang Taiji asked the two yellow flags to mobilize their main troops and horses within ten days. Each Jia La Niu Lu prepared saddles, horses, food and equipment, and accompanied Huang Taiji's imperial commander to personally conquer Zhenjiang Fort.

Another decree was issued to the Two White Banners. Huangtai Ji ordered Prince Dorgon of Rui County and Prince Azige of Wuying County to be responsible for the defense of the southern Liaoning coast and ensure the safety of their southern Liaoning flanks.

There was another decree, which was given to the two red flags and the Zhenglan Banner. Huang Taiji ordered the flag owners of the two red flags, the minister in charge and Gushan Ezhen to guard the western front, and at the same time, he ordered them to cooperate with the soldiers and horses of the Zhenglan Banner to stay in Shengjing.

On September 21st, after Huang Taiji met with the academicians of the Third Academy of Nei's Academy in Phoenix Tower, he made these decrees and sent them out of Shengjing City without stopping around noon that afternoon.

As for the Princes and Belles of various banners in Shengjing City, when they suddenly received the order that afternoon, they were in an uproar and their hearts were filled with excitement.

Of course, the fluctuation of people's hearts in Shengjing City is only temporary.

Although Huang Taiji has been ill for a long time and rarely appears outside the palace, his prestige has not lost much. It can even be said that he still has the authority to issue orders and prohibitions among the Eight Banners.

Especially among the two yellow flags and the blue flag that Huang Taiji himself has always led, no one has ever dared to question any of his decisions.

With the support of the two yellow flags and the so-called upper three flags of the Zhenglan Banner, the soldiers and horses of other banners inside and outside Shengjing City naturally did not dare to say anything.

Furthermore, every autumn and winter, they send out troops to fight, either against the Mongols, the Southern Dynasties, the Li Dynasty east of the Yalu River, or against the Jurchen tribes in the north. This is their practice since the Nuerhaci era.

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Now that it is autumn and winter again, sending troops to fight is in line with this practice.

It's just that this time they sent troops to the east to encircle and annihilate the Ming Dynasty coalition forces that had captured Zhenjiang Fort, some of them felt a little strange.

——What happened to the Qing Dynasty? Why did it start fighting the enemy on its own land?

——When did the Qing Dynasty reach this point, when the Southern Dynasty army and the North Koreans in Jinhai Town joined forces to threaten the old village in the rear, which was originally the safest?

With these doubts buried in their hearts, the Eight Banners powerful forces inside and outside Shengjing City began the recruitment and inspection of flag men, armored men, soldiers, war horses, food and equipment the day after receiving Huang Taiji's personal expedition order.

A military system like the Eight Banners that integrated farming and warfare had its comparative advantages in this era.

This advantage is that all the people are soldiers. The Eight Banners soldiers are civilians in peacetime and soldiers in wartime. Soldiers and civilians are one. In principle, there are as many soldiers as there are young and strong men.

Correspondingly, when they went on an expedition, they largely provided their own food, weapons, and horses. Huang Taiji's small court and the Eight Banners dignitaries hardly borne or only had to bear a small amount of the cost of sending troops.

This is also the reason why all the Eight Banners dignitaries in this era are so warlike.

Because for every war they initiate, the cost of sending troops they need to pay is very low, and once they win the war, their gains are often huge.

At this point, the Ming Dynasty's army was very different from the Qing Dynasty's army.

In the Ming Dynasty, the court bore almost all the costs of the war. The soldiers' salaries, weapons, food and clothing, and uniforms were all provided by the court, and they paid special attention to the fact that food and grass were sent before the soldiers and horses were used.

In the Ming Dynasty, to plan or launch a war, it often required various preparations half a year, a year or even several years in advance.

If the war is won, it's easier to say that the financial cost paid cannot be recovered. At least the court will look good and its prestige can be established, which is considered a gain.

But once the war is lost, it will be the result of losing all the money. Not only will the upfront costs paid not be recovered at all, but even the dignity that the court wants will not be maintained.

Therefore, during the Chongzhen period, everyone in the Ming Dynasty, except for a few individuals, no matter they were civil servants or military generals, did not want to fight.

In this regard, compared with the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty at that time, the Ming army during the Chongzhen period indeed had an atmosphere of apocalyptic decline.

One side is timid and timid, while the other side is ambitious and extremely warlike.

The huge differences between the two sides can be clearly reflected in each other's military systems.

Of course, war preparation is a very complicated matter after all. Even under the Qing Dynasty Eight Banners system, which has a certain comparative advantage in this era, it will take a certain amount of time to complete the preparations for a large-scale war.

Starting from the day after Huang Taiji made up his mind to lead the imperial expedition in person, the preparations for the two yellow flags in Shengjing City lasted for ten days before they were completed.

At noon on the second day of October, Huang Taiji, wearing a black sable warm hat and a black sable fur cloak, rode in a shoulder-drawn sedan carried by 16 bagaras with yellow flags, and personally led the civil and military ministers of Shengjing out of the palace.

Dongmen swore an oath to fight.

On this day, Huang Taiji himself appeared in front of the public and tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers for the first time in a year.

Although Huang Taiji did not go to the ground in the presence of many Bagala environmental guards, and did not personally recite the memorial document for the oath to go to war, Huang Taiji's public appearance still won the tsunami-like cheers of the tens of thousands of yellow flag soldiers present.

In order to support this personal expedition, Huang Taiji recruited most of the bannermen of the two yellow banners, the armored men and the Han army of the two yellow banners, as well as some of the heavy artillery of the Han army of the two red banners and the Zhenglan banner.

All together, they gathered together more than 50,000 troops, 42 heavy artillery pieces that could be carried on the Eastern Expedition, and a large amount of ammunition captured and accumulated over the years.

Among them, there are seventy-three Manchu, Mongolian, Han, and Manchu Niulu who enlisted in the Zhenghuang Banner, totaling 21,900 bannermen in armor.

There were seventy-one Manchu, Mongolian, Han and Manchu soldiers who joined the Xianghuang Banner, totaling 21,300 Banners and armored men.

The Niu Lu of the Han Army under the Two Red Banners and the few remaining Niu Lu of the Han Army's heavy artillery under the Zhenglan Banner recruited a total of thirty-one men, totaling 9,300 people.

These more than 50,000 people were almost all the young soldiers and horses Huang Taiji could recruit from inside and outside Shengjing City.

Of course, this does not mean that Huang Taiji cannot recruit more troops, but that he can use these troops under the premise of ensuring the safety of Shengjing City.

The Two Yellow Banners and the Zhenglan Banner, which Huang Taiji personally owned, have always been the most powerful among the Eight Banners.

Especially the Two Yellow Banners, there are many Niulu under their command. Even after the brutal Songshan offensive and defensive battle in the 12th year of Chongzhen, there are still 89 Niulu in Zhenghuang Banner and 80 in Xianghuang Banner.

Four Niu Lu.

Even if we don't count the Zhenglan Banner, just the number of Niulu of the Two Yellow Banners led by Huang Taiji is already the strongest among the Eight Banners.

If we also count the dozens of Niulu in Zhenglan Banner, and the number of Niulu under the command of the Three Shun Kings in the Eight Banners Han Army and the Han Army Gushan Ezhen who obeyed Huang Taiji, the number of Niulu that Huang Taiji can mobilize

, far more than half of the entire Eight Banners' total military strength.

In this regard, Huang Taiji's control over the Qing Dynasty was still strong.

This is also the fundamental reason why Dorgon finally did not dare to take action when Huang Taiji fainted in the army last year and when Huang Taiji became seriously ill at the beginning of this year.

It's not that Dorgon doesn't want to replace Huang Taiji, but the strength of the Dorgon brothers doesn't allow him to take such a risk.

Once the two yellow flags are loyal to Huang Taiji, it is impossible to win with only the two white flags of Dorgon and Azig.

Of course, Huang Taiji himself is also very cautious.

Although the Shangsan Banners he owned were the most powerful force among the Eight Banners, he was still cautious about leading his army to leave Shengjing City this time.

Not only did he leave the Zhenglan Banner to obey orders in Shengjing City, but he also did not take away all the troops that the two Yellow Banners could mobilize. Instead, he left sixteen Niulu of the Zhenghuang Banner and thirteen Niulu of the Xianghuang Banner.

, and asked them to stay in Shengjing with Zhenglan Banner.

After all, he couldn't leave such an important place as Shengjing City completely. He had to retain enough reliable people before he could leave with peace of mind.

In this way, under various calculations, on the second day of October in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, that is, at noon on the second day of October in the fifth year of Chongde in the Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji led a large number of civil and military ministers to take the oath outside the Dadong Gate of Shengjing.

Gone mightily to the east.

At the same time, Prince Dorgon of Duolorui County, who had long heard the news of the loss of Zhenjiang Fort, finally made up his mind to lead the main force to withdraw from the rebuilt Xiongyue City and return to the north to build the city.

Went to the state capital.

Correspondingly, Lu Pinqi and others, who had been wandering by boat near the coasts of Gaizhou and Xiongyue with the Jinhai North Road troops, also decisively ended their wandering at sea after hearing that Dorgon had led his army to withdraw to Gaizhou City.

On the fourth day of October, Lu Pinqi and Zhong Lingxian led the land division back to Fuzhou City, while Hu Changhai and Gao Chengyou led the naval division back to Changxing Island and Beixukou garrison.

At this time, the news that Yuan Jin brought back from Zhenjiang Fort had spread throughout the cities under the jurisdiction of Jinhai Town.
Chapter completed!