Although the three Southern Ming courts in the south are forming alliances, they are still far from truly forming a combat power that poses a threat to the Nanjing government. (_《》) Therefore, there is no need to worry too much about the South at present, just strengthen prevention.
Of course, Shang Yi also asked Akishiji to make trouble in the south, and try to cause as much trouble as possible for the three Southern Ming courts, so that the Southern Ming Alliance will always be in a loose state.
And now the Nanjing government's main energy is still on the battlefield in the Central Plains in the north.
At this time, the Central Plains War had been going on for almost two months. The Chinese army had won the battles of Xuzhou and southern Henan, and had captured Daming Prefecture and Zhangde Prefecture, annihilated, captured, and surrendered Qing army about two of them.
About 170,000. It can be said that winning the Central Plains War was a matter of nailing the nail on the board, but it was just the final victory. Although the two countries of Japan and Korea entered the Chinese battlefield at this time, it was impossible to change this result.
Now, the Qing army plus the Japanese army still has about 380,000 troops on the Central Plains battlefield, which is roughly divided into three parts. One is the Dorgon's army that guards Kaifeng Prefecture, with about 170,000 troops;
One is the Qing and Japanese coalition forces, with a total force of about 160,000, which is gathering in the area north of Daming Prefecture and Zhangde Prefecture. Another part is the Boluo division stationed in Hejian Prefecture, with a total force of about 50,000, which is currently
Attack Shandong.
At present, the distribution of the Chinese army's troops is that in Daming Prefecture, the front line of Zhangde Prefecture is the fourth, fifth and tenth army of the Shandong Military Region, with a total force of about 93,000. The four brigades of the Ninth Army are stationed in Shandong.
The troops are about 28,000.
After the battle in southern Henan, the first, 11, 15, 18th Army of the Huainan Military Region, the sixth, 13th Army of the Huguang Military Region, and the seventh and 20th Army of the Nanjing Military Region, passed the battle in southern Henan.
After that, the total force is currently around 180,000. The vanguard has entered the Kaifeng Prefecture area. However, if the entire army enters the Kaifeng Prefecture, it will take about ten days of rest and preparation period.
In addition, a military force can be drawn from the Huguang Military Region and the Nanjing Military Region to enter the Central Plains battlefield to participate in the war, and the Navy can also draw about 20,000 marine troops. Therefore, the total reserve force is between 60,000 and 70,000.
Overall, although the Qing army had slightly more troops, the quality, morale and assembly of both sides were very different. If this was a football game, then in the first half, the Chinese army had already achieved 2 to 0.
Leading the lead, and having the advantage in all aspects.
Shang Yi recruited members of the United Front Work Department for a meeting. After two days of discussion and discussion, he finally formulated a combat plan for the next stage:
The United Front Work Department believes that the Central Plains Battle has entered the second half of the stage and will mainly be divided into two battlefields, northern Henan and Kaifeng. The task of the Chinese army is to expand the results of the Central Plains War as much as possible, and strive to eliminate the Qing Dynasty, which is about 100,000 to 200,000.
In this way, the ultimate goal of annihilation of the main force of the Qing army on the battlefield in the Central Plains.
First of all, in the battlefield in northern Henan, the situation where the Chinese army on the front line of Zhangde Prefecture on Daming Prefecture was attacked by the Qing army from north to south, so it could do its best to deal with the Qing Dynasty coalition forces in the north. Although the number of enemy troops was greater than that of the Chinese army.
However, the number of firearms is not large, and the quality and quality of the army are much worse than that of the Qing army on the Central Plains battlefield. The Qing army is already a second-line unit, and the Korean army cannot be at the forefront in this era. The only thing worth noting is that
This soldier does not say how strong the Japanese army is, but he is really desperate when fighting.
But the Korean army was a newcomer after all, and was not familiar with the terrain, environment, and language, and the coalition forces had their own ulterior motives, so it was not difficult to deal with. As long as the Chinese army strictly guarded a few important roads, and after the coalition forces were hit, they would concentrate their troops after the coalition's attack was frustrated. It is not difficult to defeat the enemy after fighting a few annihilation battles.
Therefore, the focus of the second half of the Central Plains Battle is on the Kaifeng battlefield.
The United Front Work Department first ordered the southern Henan Battle Command to be changed to the Kaifeng Battle Command, with the members unchanged. The location of the command is currently located in Runing Prefecture. After the Kaifeng Battle begins, it can be considered in the Xuzhou area. In the early stage, one or two armies could be sent into Kaifeng Prefecture to put pressure on the Qing army. The large group of troops would rest for seven to ten days, and then fully enter Kaifeng Prefecture to fight. The number of troops lost in the southern Henan battle, It can be supplemented from the surrendered Qing soldiers.
In the past, Shang Yi was very cautious about absorbing surrendered troops, because no matter whether it was the Ming army or the Qing army, there were many bad habits regardless of combat effectiveness. Shang Yi was willing to surrendered troops and would bring these bad styles to the Chinese army. The surrendered soldiers must undergo about three to six months of training and can only become formal Chinese soldiers after being tested.
But this competition was in the past when the Chinese army had not been formed for a long time, lacked military concepts, and had a relatively small number of people. Now the Chinese army has been formed for seven or eight years, and the total strength has reached 600,000. , and formed its own set of military spirit, military discipline, military rules, sense of honor and political philosophy. Therefore, Shang Yi is not worried that the Chinese army will become infected with bad style because it absorbed a few old troops. On the contrary, at this time There is absolutely enough power to directly transform the old army in the army.
Of course, Shang Yi remembers that in another time and space, this kind of image was not uncommon for soldiers who were fighting the enemy to the death yesterday, and after being captured for only a few hours , they will rush up to their past companions with a huge reduction in "snatching the gun and not killing them". The captured soldiers in the last battle will become combat heroes in the next battle, and even become platoon commanders and company commanders.
This is certainly because our army has a good way of mobilizing and transforming prisoners, but it is also based on huge advantages. In fact, at the beginning of the Chinese civil war, there were not many enemy troops transformed, but with the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, After the mutual exchange, more enemy troops were directly transformed gradually. In the late stage of the civil war, the entire army was directly transformed into our army. After all, our army's victory was already The scriptures are the general trend.
The current situation is quite similar to that era. The Chinese army has established a huge advantage on the battlefield. Therefore, most of the surrendered Qing soldiers, including the captured Qing soldiers, want to join the Chinese army because everyone can see that Come out and follow the Chinese army, there is more promising future. Of course, there are also Chinese soldiers who surrendered before and appear to tell them that in the Chinese army, superiors will never beat and scold subordinates for no reason, nor will they deduct food and pay harshly, and they will be rewarded with merits and rewards. Punishment will never be deliberately suppressed, and in the Nanjing government, soldiers are a very glorious profession. As a result, some soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han army and the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia all have this idea.
Of course, Shang Yi also reminded all troops to pay attention that after absorbing the surrendered soldiers and captives, first of all, they should treat their living conditions the same as other soldiers. They should not look at each other because they are surrendered soldiers. Secondly, they must strengthen ideological and political education and help them.
They changed their bad habits in the past and once they discovered them, they would stop them immediately. Those who should be dealt with according to military discipline will never be ruthless. In short, they should be both kind and powerful. However, the targets they recruit are still limited to the Green Camp Han, and the Manchus and Mongolians.
The Qing army of the Eight Banners is not considered yet.
Finally, the United Front Work Department made a decision to transfer the 21st Army of the Nanjing Army into the Central Plains battlefield and stationed in Xuzhou as the support force on the two battlefields.
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In October, the Central Plains have entered autumn. This is the harvest season, because the various grain crops sown in spring have grown and matured at this time, but at the same time it is also the season of declining, because the cold winter is not far away.
Now Dorgon in Kaifeng City has felt the coldness of winter in advance.
After learning that the Qing Dynasty coalition forces had entered the battlefield in northern Henan, Dorgon's mood improved a lot. If Ajige's troops could hold on for about ten days, the Central Plains battlefield might have a turnaround.
After the Qing army fought together to defeat the Chinese army, and recovered the Daming Mansion, Dorgon still planned to send troops to rescue Ajige. Bijing Ajige was a brother and was connected by blood.
Moreover, Dorgon also believed that with Ajige's troops and assembly and a county town as a garrison, he could fully hold on. However, Dorgon sent two groups of personnel in a row to send Ajige and told him
Persist for a while, as long as you have time, you will go to rescue him. Unfortunately, the Chinese army surrounded Ajige too closely and returned in vain twice. This letter was never sent.
arrive.
However, after the news that Ajige's tribe was annihilated by the Chinese army reached Kaifeng, Dorgon's mood suddenly became very bad, not just because of Ajige's death, but because of this, he learned that Ajige was surrounded.
At that time, Dorgon had already been prepared for this. But the annihilation of the Ajige tribe means that the 200,000 Chinese army on the battlefield in southern Henan could be completely withdrawn, and the next one of the Chinese army
No need to ask about the goal, it is Kaifeng.
Therefore, the Qing army's plan to attack Daming Prefecture from both sides and reopen the road to return to the north was completely lost. The situation that had improved and Dorgon saw hope again, was just a flash in the pan. Now it's just a sudden change.
It became very miserable again.
Dorgon was also very tired. Now he was watching that the Qing and Japanese coalition forces had launched an attack on the Daming Mansion. If he marched from behind the Daming Mansion at this time, he would be sure to win, but the news he just received,
The Chinese army in southern Henan has divided into two groups and entered Kaifeng Prefecture. It is about to attack him. In this case, can he still carry a large army to attack Daming Prefecture? If Ajige
I can hold on for ten more days, even if I hold on for five more days, I have enough time to fight from the southern line to the northern line. Even if I can't win, I can still win more than 100,000 Qing troops in Kaifeng now.
Take it back to the north. But now I have to deal with the Chinese army that is invading in front of me.
Duogun thought for a long time, but felt his headache splitting. Suddenly, he started to cough violently. From the coughing saliva, a bright red blood line appeared. As people were about to come to serve him, Dorgon put it on.
He waved his hand and immediately ordered the recruitment of major officials to discuss how to deal with the Chinese army's attack.