Zuo Xiaocheng went to Liaodong once to send gifts to Dorgon on behalf of his lover.
However, no one in the Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to see him. The traitors there were already in trouble, and they were always on guard against new traitors coming to power.
There was no good development in Liaodong, so Zuo Xiaocheng immediately returned to Chahar.
Although he slept with the wife of the Chahar leader, he really did not suffer any hostility. The main reason was that Zuo Xiaocheng was good at making friends and could get food from Zhangjiakou. Although there was not much food, it still made the nobles of the Chahar tribe very happy.
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By the way, the wool of the Chahar tribe was also purchased by Zuo Xiaocheng and given to Cao Fengji for trafficking to the south.
Cao Fengji transported salt and tea back and asked Zuo Xiaocheng to sell some to the Chahar tribe.
After going back and forth, Zuo Xiaocheng was particularly respected, and he was worshiped everywhere in the Chahar tribe. During this war, he also volunteered to join the army and went south with the army.
Dai Qin was startled, looked around, and whispered: "Do you have a way?"
Zuo Xiaocheng said: "Yes, one of my clan brothers is a minister in the Datong court. The minister is a very high official, and he will meet the emperor when he follows him."
Dai Qin doubted: "If the Qing Dynasty wins, Dorgon will take revenge on our Chahar tribe."
"The Manchus cannot win," 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, each with 10,000 troops. There are also other independent battalions, independent brigades, independent regiments, and garrison teams, totaling 200,000 people. These 200,000 soldiers
, no need to farm, no need to graze, just drill and fight. They have to drill every day and only rest three or five days a month."
Dai Qin was stunned. There were 200,000 soldiers, and they were still only engaged in fighting and training.
Zuo Xiaocheng added: "In addition to these 200,000 soldiers, the Datong court also has peasant soldiers. There are millions of soldiers who are engaged in farming and fighting."
Dai Qin swallowed, he couldn't imagine what an army of one million would look like.
Zuo Xiaocheng continued: "Although the Datong Army here is not as numerous as the Qing Dynasty and Dashun. But there are Datong Army fighting in Henan and Liaodong. Now I am afraid they are all fighting against Dorgon and Li Zicheng's lair."
Dai Qin said nothing and was weighing the gains and losses.
Zuo Xiaocheng fanned the flames and said: "The Chahar tribe is the tribe of the Mongol Khan. Although the Mongol Khan is dead, how could the Manchus and Qing Dynasties not be on guard? Have the Manchus and Qing Dynasties been suppressing Chahar in these years? In the past
Did the Mongolian tribes who surrendered to Chahar also follow the Manchus in suppressing Chahar? Whether it was the Manchus or the Mongolian tribes, who among them wanted to see the Chahar tribe become stronger again? If they did not surrender to the Datong court, if things went on like this, Chahar would be
Does the Hal Division still have a chance to succeed?"
These words really moved Dai Qin.
Among all the Mongolian tribes in the outer vassals, the Chahar tribe is the most difficult. The Manchus and Qing Dynasties are on guard, and other Mongolian tribes are also on guard, for fear that the Chahar tribe will one day revive.
Zuo Xiaocheng was still nagging: "How many of Chahar's warriors have died in battle over the years? How many of Chahar's pastures have been occupied? In ten, twenty, or thirty years, there will be no descendants of Chahar."
The pasture is grazing!”
Suddenly, Dai Qin gritted his teeth and said, "Xiaocheng, I answer, I listen to you, the Chahar tribe cannot continue like this!"
The surrender went so smoothly because Zuo Xiaocheng told the truth.
Historically, even though the Manchus unified China, the Chahar tribe was eventually forced to rebel, and was dealt with extremely harshly after the rebellion was suppressed.
At that time, all the Chahar nobles were convicted, and the Chahar leader was beheaded. The tribes were dispersed and immigrated to other places to graze. It was also stipulated that the Chahar Banner was not included in the Forty-Nine Mongolian Banners, and officials were not allowed to be hereditary
, unable to take care of their own affairs. Then, they moved Barhu, Buryat and other Mongolian herdsmen to mix with the Chahar tribe. They then forced the Chahar tribe to move westward to farm, changing from nomadic herding to farming.
The most powerful tribe in Mongolia was completely dismembered by the Qing Dynasty.
Dai Qin wanted to call all his subordinates to lecture him, but Zuo Xiaocheng stopped him and said: "There are many people with mixed eyes, so avoid leaks. It's not that I don't trust the Chahar warriors, but it is inevitable that someone will say the wrong thing. Just tell a few trustworthy people."
Leader, at the critical moment of the war, give the Manchus a fatal blow!"
"good!"
Dai Qin summoned several nobles who led troops, followed Zuo Xiaocheng's words, and made the Chahar nobles filled with indignation on the spot.
They have been dissatisfied for a long time, like barrels filled with gunpowder that will explode if someone stirs them.
So these nobles secretly told their cronies.
By the time they returned to their camp in Tianjin, more than half of the Chahar cavalry already knew that they were going to defect.
Zuo Xiaocheng, the spy, was not strict in his work.
But it doesn't matter. Although the Manchu and Qing dynasties have deployed spies in Chahar, they are all staying in the prairie now. Those who come out to fight are all hard-working wage earners, fighting for the Manchu and Qing dynasties.
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Tianjin City Wall is twelve meters high.
And unlike when Zhao Han went south, both the north and south city walls collapsed and had long been repaired by the local officials and the people.
To the north is the Wei River and to the east is the Hai River. Due to the need to transport boats, there are no bridges on the river. First, it is too troublesome to fill in the Hai River. The Wei River is too troublesome. Second, after filling in the outside, there is still a moat inside. Let’s talk about the whole process of filling the river.
, are all within the attack range of the city defense artillery, making it an almost impossible task.
Li Zicheng and Hauge decisively gave up attacking the city from the east and north.
After allocating the battlefield, Li Zicheng attacked the west wall and Hauge attacked the east wall.
For several days, they were carrying soil to fill the river.
The attacker's artillery was more like cheering for the civilians. Because they wanted to besiege the city for reinforcements, and had no real intention to capture Tianjin, they had to save their artillery and ammunition. The city wall was too high and too thick, and it could not be destroyed in ten days and a half.
The real battle breaks out first in Triangle Lake!
During the Jiajing period, due to the continuous construction of canal dams, Yongding River, Daqing River, Juma River, Huangcha River, Wangjiatuo River, Juhe River, Yueshen River, Liudaokou River...a lot of rivers poured into the Triangle Lake.
A large lake with a radius of tens of miles is formed.
Also due to the regulation of water transportation, the Triangle Lake gradually dried up in the mid-Qing Dynasty.
Now, it has become the first battlefield.
Whether it was Li Zicheng or Hauge, the ships collected or built along the way were thrown into the Triangle Lake to fight against the Datong Navy.
Both sides are small boats, and it is really easy for a big boat to run aground.
Although the Sanjiang Lake is very large, the water depth is less than three meters, and even less than one meter in some places.
As the commander of the Datong Navy, Gu Jianshan has not fought in a war for a long time. The fleet is basically helping to transport supplies. This is probably his last inland water battle. After the battle, he will either become a naval general or capture water bandits in the Yangtze River.
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However, there have been no water bandits in the Yangtze River for a long time. It was all the result of Gujian Mountain being idle and bored, so they sailed out to suppress the bandits when they had nothing to do.
"Fire!"
Signals resembling fireworks rose into the sky among the reeds, and countless small boats rushed out upon hearing the sound.
Triangle Lake is just ten miles northwest of Tianjin City. The Datong Navy has been familiar with the terrain here for two years of training. However, the soldiers of Dashun and Manchu Qing Dynasty seemed to be in a maze and did not even know where the ship was heading.
Shallow lakes are lush with aquatic plants, and aquatic plants such as reeds are everywhere sticking out of the water!
What is more beneficial to the Datong navy is that Li Zicheng's soldiers come from the northwest and Hauge's soldiers come from the northeast. A bunch of landlubber armies are now fighting water wars, and those who can swim are temporarily converted into naval forces.
"Bang bang bang!"
The Datong Navy's small boat appeared like a ghost, quickly surrounded and annihilated the enemy, and immediately hid in the reeds after seizing the boat.
The whole fighting process was like beating a child.
Before Tianjin's moat had been filled in, Li Zicheng and Dorgon's soldiers were completely driven out of the Triangle Lake.
"Your Majesty, we can't camp here," Zhang Nai, the adopted son, advised. "We are all from the northwest. How can we defeat the southerners in a water fight? Once the Sanjiang Lake is lost, the puppet reinforcements can directly take the boat.
Come here and arrive ten miles northwest of Tianjin via Triangle Dian. Behind our camp and dozens of miles of water, there may be a sneak attack by puppet comrades at any time."
Li Guo, Tian Jianxiu and other Dashun generals stayed in Shanxi to guard against the Datong Army in Henan.
Liu Zongmin was in the north of Baoding, moving his camera.
Zhang Nai was the number one general who followed Li Zicheng and commanded all of Li Zicheng's cavalry.
"It's hard to get off the tiger!"
Li Zicheng was extremely depressed. His troops were coming to Tianjin, but there was a severe drought in the north and the Triangle Lake completely dried up and turned into a bathtub.
Although it was said in detail that there was a large lake near Tianjin, Li Zicheng never imagined that it was actually a large lake with a radius of dozens of miles.
If I had known this, I would have beaten Tianjin to death!
There is a river to the north, a river to the east, and a lake to the northwest. Everywhere is disadvantageous to the attacker.
After thinking about it, Li Zicheng ordered: "Move the entire army to Dingzigu and burn the reeds on the east bank of the Triangle Lake. Burn those that can be burned and cut off those that cannot be burned. Build a fort on the bank and keep sentries on alert at all times. If there is any enemy,
Fire immediately!"
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 have agreed to attack the city together and support each other when encountering reinforcements from the puppet comrades. You said nothing and retreated to Dinggu. I am still here to do it.
What? If the puppet reinforcements really come, I, the Manchu warrior, will be made a dumpling!
But Li Zicheng didn't dare to stay. The Triangle Lake had been occupied by the Datong Army. As long as there were enough ships, ten thousand Datong Army could sit in small boats and use the cover of reeds to appear behind Li Zicheng anytime and anywhere.
"Move to the east!" Hauge could only retreat.
Hauge not only wants to withdraw to the east of the city, he even wants to withdraw directly to Liaodong. What the hell kind of war is this?
If the west and south sides of Tianjin are set aside, where can we still count the siege? Reinforcements and grain can be continuously transported into Tianjin through the canal.
Li Zicheng withdrew to the north, and Hauge withdrew to the west. These were the two most difficult walls to attack. The Wei River and the Hai River were enough for them to slowly fill in, and then they would fill in the moat.
Zhang Tieniu stood on the tower, looked at the moving enemy troops with a telescope, and suddenly burst out laughing: "You are just kidding me."
