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

Historically, even when the Manchu Qing unified China, the Chahar tribe was finally forced to rebel, and the rebellion was dealt with extremely severely.

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 Mongolian 49 Banners, 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 full of righteous indignation 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.

When 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 Man Qing has set up eyeliner in Chahar, but now they are all staying in the prairie.Those who came out to fight were all hard-working wage earners, fighting for the Manchu Qing.

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Tianjin City Wall, 12 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.

To the north is the Wei River, and to the east is the Hai River. 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 Haoge resolutely gave up attacking the city from the east and north.

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

For several days, 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 in Sanjiadiandian first!

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. A large lake with a radius of tens of miles is formed.

It was also because of the improvement of water transportation that Sanjiaodian Lake gradually dried up in the middle of Qing Dynasty.

Now, it has become the first battleground.

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

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

Although the Triangle Lake has a large area, the water depth is less than three meters, and in some places it is 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, there have been no water bandits on the Yangtze River for a long time. It was the result of Gu Jianshan's idleness and boredom, so he sailed out to suppress the bandits when he had nothing to do.

"Fire!"

Signal flares, similar to 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 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!

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 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 appeared and disappeared, quickly surrounded and wiped out the enemy army, and immediately hid in the reeds after capturing the boat.

The whole fighting process was like beating a child.

Before Tianjin's moat was filled, Li Zicheng and Dorgon's soldiers 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 get off a tiger!"

Li Zicheng was very depressed. His troops 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 have imagined that his mother is a big lake with a radius of tens of miles.

If I had known this earlier, I would have beaten Tianjin!

There are rivers in the north, rivers in the east, and lakes in the northwest, and everything is not good for 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 immediately!"

On Hauge's side, when he received the news from Li Zicheng, he was completely dumbfounded.

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 we will support each other when we encounter puppet reinforcements.You didn't say a word and withdrew to Dingzigu, what the hell 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 had already been occupied by the Datong Army.As long as there are enough ships, the [-] Datong Army can appear behind Li Zicheng anytime and anywhere in a small boat under the cover of reeds.

"Move to the east!" Hauge could only withdraw.

Hauge not only wants to withdraw to the east of the city, but even directly to the east of Liaodong. What the hell 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.

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

Standing on the tower, Zhang Tieniu looked at the transferred enemy army with binoculars, and immediately laughed loudly: "This is just kidding me."

Chapter 540 [Army Confrontation]

In order to avoid refueling tactics and being besieged by the enemy to fight for reinforcements, the army led by Fei Ruhe did not arrive in Tianjin until a full month later.

During this period, he has been gathering troops in Bazhou.

The four divisions of Fei Ruhe, Huang Shun, Wan Sitong, and Li Dingguo joined forces, plus some peasant and soldier troops, and there were 5 people capable of fighting.There are also a large number of civilians and boats, which come here continuously from the Huitong River and the Grand Canal.

The Huitong River in the late Ming Dynasty had to flow into the Triangle Lake first, and then connect with the Grand Canal.

In addition to the civilian husbands, more than [-] people camped between the Triangle Lake and the Grand Canal, where Li Zicheng camped before.

There is the Triangle Lake in the north, the Grand Canal in the south, and the small river connecting the Delta Lake and the Grand Canal in the east.

If Li Zicheng and Hauge wanted to fight over, they would have to attack from Sanjiaodian Lake or the Grand Canal. Crossing the small river to the east would be the easiest way to attack.

The war is completely deadlocked!

Due to the terrain, whoever attacks will suffer.Li Zicheng and Hauge could only keep filling the river with soil and bombarding the city wall.Moreover, before the Weihe River and the Haihe River were filled, they had to shell from the outside. The distance was too far, and whether they could hit the city wall depended on God's will.

"Your Majesty, we can't continue fighting like this," Dashun General Dang Shousu said. "The military rations of the Puppet Tong can be easily transported from the south along the Grand Canal. We don't have much food in Hebei, and the military rations have to be transported from Shanxi." Come on. If we keep stalemate for a few months, we will run out of food."

Zhang Nai said: "Your Majesty, why don't you lead the cavalry secretly and go around Bazhou and Baoding County (northwest of Wen'an). If all the puppet troops in Hebei go out together, Bazhou must be empty!"

Yuan Zongdi said: "No matter how empty Bazhou is, there are still thousands of defenders. How can your cavalry be defeated?"

Zhang Nai said: "If Bazhou can't be defeated, we will attack Yuanjiakou between Bazhou and Baoding County. It is extremely important. If you occupy Yuanjiakou, you can cut off the connection between Bazhou, Baoding and Tianjin."

Yuanjiakou was originally called Jiakou Village, which was built by Chai Rong to resist the Khitan.

Yang Yanlang, the inspector of the Song Dynasty, sent the school Wei Yuangui to garrison Jiakou Village, and built hidden piles in the water to train soldiers. Jiakou Village was renamed Yuanjiakou after that.

In the story of Yang Jiajiang, Xiyingpan, where Yang Liulang stationed troops, is not far to the west of Yuanjiakou.

As long as the brain is not confused, how can it be possible not to send troops to garrison this kind of battleground?

Li Zicheng shook his head and said, "Yuankou Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the waterway is convenient. It is not far or near. It is probably a place where the puppet army hoards food and grass. If you take cavalry to attack, even if you can take Bazhou, you will not be able to take Yuanjiakou." .”

"To win in danger, you have to try." Zhang Nai said.

Li Zicheng had no other solution, so he had to say: "If you want to go, you can take two thousand horses. If you have too many horses, you will easily expose your whereabouts. If you can capture Yuankou Pass and burn all the food there, you will have won half of the battle." .”

Afraid of being discovered by the Datong navy in Sanjiaodian, Zhang Nai led two thousand cavalry and retreated to the vicinity of Yangcun before heading west across the Fenghe River.

Zhang Nai replenished food and grass in Dong'an County, and then crossed the Hun River to Yongqing.

Yongqing also belonged to Li Zicheng's territory. After a little supply, he went south to Xin'an Town.He planned to cross the Huitong River quietly at night, and then rushed to Yuanjiakou by surprise.

"Woooooo!!!"

Not far from Xin'an Town, Zhang Nai's face turned ugly. He collided with the Datong Dragoons, and the Dragoons directly blew their warning horns.

"Eat it!"

Zhang Nai gave an order and rushed forward with the Dashun cavalry.He has two thousand cavalry under his command, but the dragoons in front of him only have a few dozen cavalry.

Those dragoons turned around and ran, unwilling to meet the enemy at all, and blowing their horns while running.

After chasing two miles to the south, the number of dragoons suddenly increased.

But Fei Ruhe left a dragoon here in order to protect the army rations, and would send out every day to investigate the enemy's situation.

The general who commanded the cavalry was Jiang Yu, who surrendered first to Li Zicheng and then to Dorgon.During the Battle of Henan, he took his family cavalry and voluntarily surrendered to the Datong Army. In order to cover the Datong Army, he forced Wu Sangui's cavalry to charge, and even his own brother was killed on the spot.

Today, Jiang Guan is already the commander of the cavalry regiment, shouldering the heavy responsibility of protecting the army rations.

Zhang Nai blew his signal to signal the whole army to stop the pursuit.

However, Jiang Yu took the initiative to ride forward and shouted with a smile: "Which old man is on the other side? Why don't you submit to my Datong court?"

The distance is too far, Zhang Nai can't hear clearly.

At this moment, these Datong dragoons only gathered more than 800 cavalry, but they actively approached 2000 Dashun cavalry.

"Withdraw from Yongqing!"

Zhang Nai obviously had the advantage in troops, but he directly ordered to retreat.

Because the Datong Dragoons kept blowing their horns, who knew how many were nearby.

After the two sides chased and fled, Zhang Nai retreated into Yongqing City smoothly, and Jiang Yan had to rest and go back to Bazhou.

There is still a confrontation in Tianjin.

Zhang Nai returned to the Dingzigu camp, and said with a gloomy expression, "Your Majesty, the boy has not completed the military order. Just after passing through Xin'an Town, he encountered false cavalrymen. Bazhou and Yuanjiakou must be heavily guarded."

"It makes sense, it's none of your business," Li Zicheng frowned, "I received Liu Zongbin's report in the morning, and he led people to attack Xin'an and failed. The Puppet Tong's Hebei defense line is very particular. A few days ago, some scholars said, The front line of defense is the Great Wall of Water in the Song Dynasty."

"Water Great Wall?" Zhang Nai heard it for the first time.

Li Zicheng nodded and said, "It's the Water Great Wall, which is used to defend the Khitan."

The so-called Great Wall of Water is to dig river embankments and divert river water to connect Hebei swamps into a line.They also set up hidden stakes in the water to block the passage of ships, preventing the Khitan army from going south.

When the Manchu Qing withdrew to Liaodong, Zhao Han did not send cavalry to attack and seize Beijing because Beijing was not easy to defend.

Today, the Hebei direction of the Datong Army roughly coincides with the Water Great Wall in the Northern Song Dynasty.It's just that some terrain has changed, swamps have become farmland, rivers and lakes, and some rivers have fully formed.

Basically, it is to garrison troops at critical positions along the rivers.

If Li Zicheng wanted the army to go south, he had to fight hard one by one, and he had to pay a price for wherever he went.Or, like now, join forces with the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties to annihilate the main force of the Datong Army!

The confrontation continued for a month and a half, Li Zicheng made various temptations, even pretended to be defeated, but Fei Ruhe did not order to pursue him.

Why do you want to chase?

In Fei Ruhe's eyes, the situation on the battlefield was very clear.

The enemy has many soldiers, but your own soldiers are few.But the enemy's food road is longer and has to be transported from Shanxi and Liaodong.And I am backed by two big rivers, and I can use ships to transport military rations at any time, and the consumption on the way of transporting rations is far less than that of the enemy.

Then consume it slowly, whoever's military rations can't hold up will definitely show his flaws first.

Anyway, I have a lake in the north, a canal in the south, and a small river in the east.If the enemy wants to die, he crosses the river and fights. How comfortable it is to hit halfway every time.

"Captain, there is a change in the Tartars!"

Fei Ruhe said: "Raise the hot air balloon and observe the enemy's situation."

A hot air balloon slowly lifted into the sky, pulled by a rope, and floated over the battlefield.

Each hot air balloon can last up to 25 minutes.Several hot air balloons come in rotation, one is about to fall, and the other will rise, as long as the fuel is enough, it can last a whole day.

"It's that kind of ascending ball again. I don't know how it flew up." Hauge rode his horse and looked up at the sky in front of him.

After so many days of confrontation, the hot air balloon has been launched many times.