"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, it's not good. The Southern Dynasty really spent money this time and built a city on Juehua Island! They built a big city, right at the waist of Juehua Island, with a circumference of two thousand paces, at least

We can garrison tens of thousands of troops."

Late at night, in the Palace of Wenhua in the Forbidden City in Beijing, Fan Wencheng, a bachelor of the Internal Secretariat, who was a bit disgraced after riding for two days in a row, was reporting to Dorgon in a hoarse voice.

"Two thousand steps? How is it possible?" Dorgon was stunned, "Fan Wencheng, did you hear it from hearsay? How could it be two thousand steps? What do they want to do? Why do they want to build such a big city?"

The ancients' step refers to the distance between two legs taking one step each, which is almost one and a half meters. Two thousand steps is three thousand meters. A castle with a circumference of three thousand meters is not small, and the area of ​​​​the city exceeds half a square kilometer. This

It is not a city, but a military fortress. There are no residential areas, commercial areas, etc. inside. The half square kilometer used purely for military garrison and grain storage is 500,000 square meters!

How many soldiers can be stationed in a castle with a building area of ​​500,000 square meters? How much food can be stored? It must be tens of thousands, right? Dorgun thought: tens of thousands of troops are stationed on Juehua Island, must be to attack Liaodong

Ah! Is this little Nanman prince planning to enter Shanhaiguan from the Northeast?

"You can't be wrong!" Fan Wencheng said, "The slaves sent their henchmen to pretend to be businessmen and went to the island. They found that the waist of Juehua Island was surrounded by a city wall. The city wall was built from the south bank of the island to the north bank!"

"Is it really that big?" Dorgon frowned, "How many people will it take to work on it?"

"Oh, the city wall is not built high, and it does not use bricks and stones. It is not built with rammed earth. Instead, it is piled up with sacks filled with earth."

This is the most common way for later armies to build field fortifications, and it is the most effective method that has been tested in two world wars and is still used until the 21st century. The anti-artillery and bulletproof effect is of course very good. Even the artillery of later generations has

Can it be carried, let alone the Hongyi cannon of this era?

In addition to the ability to withstand the test of defense, there are two advantages to using sandbags to build a fort. First, it is easy to construct. The amount of work required to pile sandbags is much lower than that of rammed earth, let alone building it with bricks and stones. So Yu Daren and Zhang Huangyan

It only takes more than a thousand officers and soldiers and two to three thousand civilians to build a general appearance in a short period of time.

Second, it is easy to repair. The trapezoidal city wall built with sandbags is very stable in structure, and it is almost impossible to use Hongyi cannons to cause large-scale collapse. Even if there is some collapse and damage, just use sandbags to fill it.

It takes no effort at all.

"How many sacks are needed to fill the soil with sacks?" This was the first time Dorgon heard of someone building a city wall in this way. "And is it reliable?"

"I don't know," Fan Wencheng shook his head, "It's not as good as masonry and rammed earth, right?"

Thinking about it, it is indeed inferior. Sandbags are loose and loose, how can they be compared with hard masonry and rammed earth?

Fan Wencheng frowned, "Your Majesty, the city built by the Confederate Army on Juehua Island was not for defense, but for stationing troops to attack! If they built a small fort with bricks and stones, the slaves would not be worried. But now they are

I built a city with a circumference of 3,000 paces with sacks filled with earth. I am afraid, I am afraid that I will attack Liao in a large scale!"

Dorgon nodded lightly and said in a low voice: "It makes sense. Use sacks to build a short city of three thousand steps. It is large and difficult to defend. It can be broken without using red barbarian cannons. Apart from stationing troops and food, what is the use of it?"

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As he spoke, his brows furrowed tightly, as if he was weighing things over and over again.

"Your Majesty," Fan Wencheng looked at Dorgon, "I think that Liaodong and Liaoxi are the land of Longxing in our Qing Dynasty. If anything goes wrong, the people's hearts will be affected."

"What's wrong with people's hearts?" Dorgon turned around and glared at Fan Wencheng, "Liaodong and western Liaoning are thousands of miles apart. The southerners have countless large ships, so they can't go anywhere. Do we still have to fortify everything? Can we defend ourselves?"

Fan Wencheng was stunned by Dorgon and was speechless for a moment.

Dorgon stood up and walked around the Wenhua Palace. After walking about ten steps, he suddenly stopped and said to Fan Wencheng: "Fan Wencheng, this king will give you another order to move Liaoxi to the sea."

All the people within thirty miles will be moved away, all villages will be burned, and all the green crops in the fields will be eaten by cattle and sheep!"

"Your Majesty, what are you?" Fan Wencheng looked at Dorgon in surprise.

Dorgon said coldly: "It is impossible for our seven-inch troops to guard the coasts of western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning. Our Manchurian heavenly troops must be concentrated in one place to attack the southern invaders. If we divide our troops and guard them, they will be defeated individually, so in

The only way to clear the wilderness along the western and eastern Liaoning coasts is to build a strong wall and clear the wilderness. Fortunately, we are in Liaodong and there are not many people in western Liaoning. Let alone thirty miles, even a hundred miles of strong walls and clear wilderness is no problem!

With these 30 to 100 miles of wilderness, we only need to deploy thousands of Eight Banner troops in Liaodong and West Liaoning, and we will be foolproof."

Although Dorgon's solution is ugly, it is indeed effective! A buffer zone can be created by clearing the wilderness with strong walls along the coast. A small landing force cannot cross this hundred miles ashore. There are no residents in this hundreds of miles of wilderness, but scout cavalry can be deployed.

.If Zhu Cixiang's new army formed a formation and fought, they might be able to compete with the powerful Eight Banners army, but if they had to wait and see at night, they would be no match for them!

Moreover, Liaodong and Liaoxi are still the home ground of the Eight Banners. After the small landing force lands ashore, they will be surrounded by the Eight Banners' scout cavalry. Even if their eyes are darkened, how can they dare to advance a hundred miles? At most, they will just wander around the shore.

However, the large Ming army was relatively slow to land and move ashore. It would take at least several days to complete the landing and break through the buffer zone. At that time, Dorgon was deployed in Liaodong, and the elite troops in western Liaoning were already ready!

Relying on thousands of real Manchus may not be enough to repel tens of thousands or even more Ming troops, but it can also delay time and wait for the army to arrive from Beijing. It can also attack the Ming army's logistics line and force them to retreat to the shore.

"Your Majesty is wise!" Fan Wencheng complimented Dorgon, showing that he admired his master Liaodong from the bottom of his heart. Thinking about the situation in western Liaoning gave him a headache, but he did not expect that Dorgon would gently resolve it.

At this moment, the sound of rapid footsteps came from outside Wenhua Hall. The man had already started shouting before he came in: "Brother Fourteen, what happened? You called me here in the middle of the night."

The person who came turned out to be Duduo, who was called back to Beijing by Dorgon for an interview. He had been on the front line for so long, and his wife and concubines at home were already screaming, so he was very tired these two days, and he was busy until midnight.

I went to sleep, but as soon as I closed my eyes, someone came to the palace.

When Fan Wencheng saw Duduo coming, he quickly knelt down and saluted, "Slave Fan Wencheng greets the master."

"Oh, Xian Dou, why are you here?" Duduo waved his hand and asked Fan Wencheng to stand up. He himself sat down with a golden sword on the embroidery pier moved by the chamberlain.

Dorgon said: "The southern soldiers captured Juehua Island from the sea and built a big city with a distance of 2,000 steps. It seems that they will station heavy troops on Juehua Island, and they should launch a large-scale invasion next!"

"What? A large-scale invasion of Liaoxi Fourteenth Brother, do you want me to go to Shengjing to be the general manager?"

"No," Dorgon shook his head, "We can't let the Southern Dynasty lead them to invade Liaoxi and Liaodong. If we follow them, we will be fooled. We have to take the initiative!"

"Yes!" Duduo nodded, "Where?"

"Qufu!"

"Qufu?" Duduo blurted out, "Are you really going to dig the grave of Saint Kong?"

Dorgon glared at his younger brother: "What nonsense are you talking about? It was Zhu Cixun who slandered us! Why did you follow suit?"

"Why go to Qufu if you don't dig graves?"

"Surround it!" Dorgon said with a smile, "Surround Qufu, and then attract Southern soldiers from all over Shandong to come to rescue. Just like when we attacked Jinzhou, the Southern Dynasty deployed heavy troops in Shandong, and many of them were still guarding dangerous positions.
Chapter completed!