Chapter 377 The Secret of Dorgon Brothers, Full of Complaints
"Brother, let's go together and wipe out the Ye family in Fuqing?"
Wan'er's eyes lit up when she heard this, and she nodded her head quickly, agreeing, "We should have done this a long time ago!"
"The leader of the Donglin Party, Ye Xianggao, has been against us all along, constantly making things difficult for our Fuxing Army. It would be best to get rid of them first."
"Sister Wei Jinfan told me several times that the intelligence personnel she arranged in the northern capital have used spirit pigeons to send reports many times, saying that the Donglin Party has been writing letters to the court for the past few months, requesting that we must do our utmost to encircle and suppress our Fuxing Army, and they have reached a consensus."
"If it weren't for the Tartar invasion this time, they would have made a perfect plan and mobilized all the troops to try to wipe out our Fuxing Army in one go."
"Ye Xianggao must be one of the masterminds. The Ye family and our Fuxing Army have already forged an irreconcilable feud that cannot be resolved."
"Brother, let's prepare today and lead a large fleet south tomorrow morning."
Seeing that Li Dingguo nodded in agreement with what she said, Wan'er cheered and jumped off the top-quality treasure ship that had just been seized, to mobilize troops and form a large fleet to sail south as soon as possible.
She knew clearly what Li Dingguo's intention was in leading a large fleet southward, which was naturally to transport a large amount of spoils of war.
Otherwise, if the two of them went south with four top-level spirit birds, they could completely destroy the Fuqing Ye family's nest in one fell swoop, just like the previous long-distance attack on the Jiexiu Fan family.
For Wan'er, a money-grubber, destroying the Ye family of Ye Xianggao, the leader of the Donglin Party, and then packing up their property and supplies and taking them away, this operation is simply too exciting.
After Wan'er left, Liang Liping, Wei Ying, Xiao Shitou, He Lijing and other core military and political leaders immediately returned to the meeting hall of the City Lord's Mansion on Lingshan Island to discuss with Li Dingguo the next plan to capture the Jiaozhou area.
Today's Jiaozhou has been in a state of disarray because it was swept by the Later Jin Tartar army. All the organized government troops, including the Lingshan Guard, have been destroyed by the Tartar.
For the soldiers of the Restoration Army, it was as easy as taking something out of a bag and there was no difficulty in capturing it.
Since the Ye family in Fuqing is far away from Lingshan Island, even if the large fleet is sailing at full speed, it will take at least two months for a round trip. Li Dingguo must make arrangements for some things in advance so as not to delay the precious time for the expansion of the Fuxing Army.
After waiting for the Later Jin Tartar army to leave the country, the Fuxing Army's new round of expansion plan will be carried out simultaneously in the east and west.
The military's established plan is to completely capture the Qin, Qi and Lu regions and hold them firmly within the next three years.
Only if the Fuxing Army replaced the Ming Dynasty before the Later Jin Tartars officially entered the pass, could the vitality of the Han ethnic group be preserved to the greatest extent and the fortune of the Chinese nation not be greatly damaged.
After all, the main enemies of the Fuxing Army in the future will not only be Huang Taiji's Later Jin clan, but also the various ethnic groups of white Hu people in this world.
After discussing for two hours, everyone decided on some recent development plans and then went their separate ways to get busy.
This time, Li Dingguo decided to lead a large fleet heading south, which would consist of three top-quality large fleets and nine top-quality treasure ships.
The accompanying soldiers were only a battalion of 10,000 people, which was not a large number.
With Li Dingguo and Wan'er's current level of cultivation, and with the help of the two golden eagles, Dajin and Dameng, they could capture the Ye family's lair in Fuqing without the need for the accompanying soldiers to take action.
These ten thousand soldiers and generals accompanying the expedition were only responsible for steering the treasure ship and transporting the spoils.
After arriving at Dongying Bay in Fuzhou Prefecture, he and Wan'er will take the lead and ride two large golden eagles directly to Fuqing City, not far from the bay, to launch a surprise attack on the Ye family in Fuqing, replicating the pattern of the battle to annihilate the Fan family in Jiexiu.
It was not that Li Dingguo did not want to use this large fleet's long-distance raid to train his troops, but he was worried that the enemy would escape in advance after learning the news.
With such concerns, it is necessary for Wan'er and I to adopt a surprise attack tactic.
Only in this way can the enemy not be prepared, thus greatly increasing the difficulty of this long-distance raid.
If the enemy is prepared, they will most likely arrange for some core members of the tribe to escape first, making the operation a failure and failing to achieve the desired results.
Don't underestimate the speed of information transmission by the Fuqing Ye family. Once they learn that a large unfamiliar fleet is heading towards Fuqing City, it is very likely that Li Dingguo's plan will be exposed, thus causing failure.
There is a river from Dongying Bay on the eastern coast of Fuzhou directly to Fuqing City, making water and land transportation very convenient.
The only thing to worry about is the Zhendong City at the mouth of the Fuqing River. Will the garrison come out to stop their own large fleet?
Most of the Ming Dynasty's coastal citadels have been abandoned. Even if the soldiers of the Zhendong Citadel wanted to come and stop them, they would be doomed to quickly collapse and flee under several rounds of concentrated fire from their own large fleet.
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Juyongguan, an important pass of the Ming Dynasty, had now fallen into the hands of the brothers Dorgon and Dodo.
Dorgon and Duoduo, who had captured Juyongguan, were sitting opposite each other in the meeting hall of the city lord's mansion.
Not only was there no joy on the two men's faces, but their faces were livid.
They never expected that in order to attack Shuntian Prefecture of the Ming Dynasty as quickly as possible, the two brothers led an army of 600,000 from Wanquandusi to detour through Juyongguan. After successfully capturing this huge pass, they would be blocked by Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou who led their troops to Zhenbiancheng and Changpingcheng in time.
Among them, the Tianxiong Army and the Datong Army led by Lu Xiangsheng entered Zhenbian City and blocked the Tatars' invasion route to the south.
Hong Chengchou led his army into Changping City first, but then the army moved westward and occupied the fortress pass of Longhutai, firmly blocking the Tartar army's eastward advance.
Their way forward was blocked by two armies of the Ming Dynasty, one in the south and one in the east. The two sides then launched several exploratory attacks, but the results surprised the brothers Dorgon and Dodo!
The 600,000 soldiers under our two white flags were actually evenly matched with these two armies!
As the core generals of the Later Jin clan, they were of course very well aware of the reputations of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng.
The brothers Dorgon and Dodo, who originally thought that the enemy was nothing special, finally understood after a stalemate with the enemy that although the Ming Dynasty was in decline, it still had two powerful armies that could fight them head-on without any clear winner.
Especially under Hong Chengchou's careful planning, the several tens of thousands of troops that Dorgon sent out to raid the valleys in all directions were ambushed and killed, which made Dorgon even more furious.
There is a river to the east of Juyongguan that can accommodate large fleets, but in other directions, there are no rivers that can accommodate large treasure ships.
After the waterways and land routes in the east were blocked by the Ming army, the various food and supplies provided by the Shanxi merchants could no longer be transported by water.
Although the Juyongguan Pass is huge, it is already in a semi-abandoned state. The food and supplies stored there are not enough to sustain the consumption of 600,000 Tartar soldiers for half a month.
As for asking those Shanxi merchants to transport large amounts of food and supplies by land, it is simply unrealistic.
Whether it is Lu Xiangsheng or Hong Chengchou, their military talents are not ordinary.
Relying on their large numbers, they had long since dispatched teams of tens of thousands of people to control the main transportation routes within hundreds of miles around Juyongguan, blocking the trade routes leading to Juyongguan from all directions.
In order to win the battle, Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou decided not to allow those unscrupulous merchants to transport food and supplies to the Tartars, even if it meant offending some of the bureaucratic groups behind them.
If they offended those bureaucratic groups, at most they would be bullied and tripped up in the future. If they could not stop the Tartar army from approaching the capital this time, they would lose their heads!
Choose the lesser of two options. As long as you are not stupid, you will know how to make the choice.
What worried the brothers Dorgon and Dodo the most was not only the unfavorable situation their army was currently in, but also the fact that they had just received a letter from Huang Taiji via a spiritual pigeon.
"Second brother, isn't Huang Taiji really useless?"
Duoduo's face was full of shock, and he complained, "He was a level six warrior, leading a million troops westward, with Aobai, Turg, Yangguli and other brave generals under him, and the large fleets of those big Shanxi merchants cooperating in the operation, but he was defeated miserably by Li Dingguo!"
"You know, the number of troops Li Dingguo dispatched would not exceed 600,000!"
"Although our army is far inferior to the Fuxing Army in terms of navy, can the Yellow River, a mere river, really stop our soldiers from forming a military formation and marching across the river?"
"Huang Taiji sent a message saying that he has gathered the remaining defeated troops outside the Great Wall. There are only about 180,000 of them!"
"We lost more than 800,000 soldiers in this battle, which is really a huge loss."
"Even if the Mongolian soldiers and those Han army slaves accounted for 70% of the personnel losses, it would be enough to seriously damage the vitality of our Later Jin clan."
"Huang Taiji led his army to fight a decisive battle with Li Dingguo, but he was defeated and fled in less than half a day after the direct battle began, and he also lost all his firearms battalions and food supplies!"
"This is a huge shame and humiliation. It is unacceptable!"
Duoduo, who had just turned 20, was in the prime of his youth. He was shocked by the terrible news and lost his composure. His face flushed, and he said to Dorgon, "If Huang Taiji had not broken through to the sixth level, I would have made him give up the throne immediately!"
"How can such an incompetent person be the Khan of our Later Jin clan?"
"I've said it before, second brother, you are the most suitable candidate to be the Khan!"
"If it was our two white flag armies that marched westward, we would never have been defeated by Li Dingguo in one battle. An army of one million actually lost more than 800,000 soldiers!"
"It's a pity that Huang Taiji still has the nerve to say that we should wait for him to arrive at Juyongguan with the remaining 180,000 soldiers, and then attack the Ming army together. We should try our best to make up for the huge losses caused by the previous battle by plundering the money, materials and young and strong people in the Ming territory!"
Duoduo became more and more angry as he spoke, and finally he started to curse, "What's the point of him coming here with those 180,000 defeated soldiers?"
"Does he think that he can lead the soldiers to defeat the million-strong coalition army of Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou with his early sixth-level cultivation?"
"We have fought several direct battles with the armies led by Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou, but we didn't gain any advantage at all!"
"Especially Lu Xiangsheng, who has actually broken through to the sixth level. Even if Huang Taiji takes action personally, it is impossible to defeat him in a head-on battle. It might be another miserable defeat!"
It’s no wonder that Dodo was so furious. In fact, there was a reason for it.
Neither he nor Dorgon had expected that the famous Lu Xiangsheng had actually broken through to the early stage of level six.
Moreover, Lu Xiangsheng subdued two level five peak green-feathered peacocks from somewhere, and was able to use his air advantage to monitor his own actions and gain the upper hand everywhere.
This is also the main reason why their Eastern Army is now trapped in Juyongguan.
He and his brother Dorgon had a fortuitous encounter while hunting in the wild the year before last, and obtained a pair of top-grade innate artifacts, the Sun and Moon Essence Wheels, and an acquired top-grade spiritual root, the Blood Jade Grape.
Dorgon recognized the Sun Essence Wheel as his master, and Duoduo recognized the Moon Essence Wheel as his master. With the help of the thirty-six bunches of grapes produced by the Blood Jade Grape Tree, a top-grade acquired spiritual root that ripens once every thirty years, the two brothers have made rapid progress in their cultivation over the past two years and have quietly broken through to the peak level of level five.
When they were fighting against Lu Xiangsheng before, they both felt an extremely dangerous aura from each other, so they did not reveal that the two brothers had their own natal divine weapons.
The two of them are not stupid. Before their own cultivation catches up with Huang Taiji, they will certainly not reveal the secret that they possess innate divine artifacts.
Unless you are in danger of falling and are forced to do so.
Otherwise, not to mention that Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou would desperately target him and try to kill his two brothers to seize the treasure, even Huang Taiji would be difficult to overcome.
Even though Huang Taiji now puts the overall situation first and allows the two brothers to grow up.
Once the secret of possessing their own innate divine weapon was revealed, Huang Taiji would definitely find an excuse to kill the two brothers without any hesitation.
In the face of treasures like the innate divine weapon, the brotherhood among most people is a huge joke.
At least this guy Huang Taiji will never care about the so-called brotherhood.
"This Huang Taiji, humph!"
Dorgon's face turned pale. After listening to his brother's complaints and curses, he snorted coldly.
In fact, his affair with Dayuer could not be hidden from Huang Taiji.
However, the Later Jin clan or the Mongolian Tartars did not care much about this aspect.
After all, this situation is too common among the tribes on the grassland and is not surprising.
But no matter what, how can secretly having an affair compare to having Dayuer legitimately?
Tudor is right.
If Huang Taiji had not broken through to the sixth level, Dorgon would definitely find ways to drive Huang Taiji off the throne this time.
It was difficult for Huang Taiji to suppress the consequences of this disastrous defeat.
No prairie warrior is willing to follow a loser.
The brothers Dorgon and Dodo are becoming more and more annoyed the more they think about it.
With a large enemy army blocking their way in front and no way to move forward, they originally wanted to lead their troops to evacuate Juyongguan, but now they received a military order from Huang Taiji using a spiritual pigeon, and they had to continue to be trapped in this huge city.
Huang Taiji's military order stated that in seven days, he would lead the remaining two yellow flags and 180,000 soldiers of the Zhenglan Flag to Juyongguan to join the two white flag armies of the brothers Dorgon and Dodo.
This requires that 600,000 soldiers of the two white flags stay in Juyongguan City for seven days.
God knows what tactical conspiracy the insidious and cunning Hong Chengchou will use during these seven days?
Compared with Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, who had 230,000 personal guards under his command, was undoubtedly much more terrifying.
(End of this chapter)
