Liu Chengzong planned to send troops to Monan. sleep
He sent someone to send Fang Zhenghua down to rest, and immediately gave an order to Yu Linqi, ordering He Huchen and Yang Qi to enter the palace to discuss matters.
Both of them were former general military officers, and Liu Chengzong wanted to know what they knew about Hou Jin.
This time, even Yang Qi, who was usually most willing to offer advice, remained silent and did not dare to say what he knew about Hou Jin's army.
They have stayed in the Marshal's Mansion alone for two or three years, and they have been fighting the rebellion in the northwest for even longer. After such a long period of changes, Hou Jin has already undergone earth-shaking changes. Not to mention anything else, those front lines alone have given Jin The Han generals who lead the country's troops are enough to prove this point.
Yang Qi didn't dare to speak, let alone others.
Although among the three chief military officers, Liu Chengzong liked the most brave and capable He Huchen, but in fact He Huchen had the least qualifications as a chief military officer. He was a large general similar to Cao Wenzhao, and the official position closest to Hou Jin was in Tianjin. Guerrilla attacks along the coast, but otherwise kept going northwest.
In this matter, Yang Qi was really the most qualified. In the fifth year of Tianqi, due to Gao Di's suggestion, he was promoted from the post of commander-in-chief of Yansui Town to the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan Nankou. At the end of that year, he was officially registered as the original official. Guarding the mountains and seas and managing Liaodong, Li Bei was his subordinate back then. sleep
Yang Qi was very smart. He was suddenly summoned to discuss matters, and the question was about the Jin Kingdom. Then he contacted the imperial court and sent an angel to deliver a message. This made him think about it and asked Liu Chengzong: "Commander, the imperial court wants me to wait for the dispatch of troops." Golden State?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head when he heard this, and then felt it was a bit funny. He casually turned out his summary of the situation outside the border stated by Fang Zhenghua on the public case, and asked Yu Linqi to hand it to Yang Qi, saying, "See for yourself."
Yang Qi took a deep breath when he saw the summary made by Liu Chengzong, then he clasped his fists in apology and asked Yu Linqi to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone. In a few strokes, he sketched out a sketch of the nine-sided situation, asking Liu Shizi to His eyes lit up.
Although the sketch is quite abstract, it is really fast and easy to draw.
Then he took a pen and drew a virtual circle around Xuanda, Yansui, Ningxia and Monan outside the four towns, and said to Liu Chengzong and He Huchen: "Commander, General He, there are currently 400,000 troops gathered here."
Liu Chengzong glared, you are really not surprising with your words and will never stop fighting. Just Houjin and Khalkha Mongolia, how can there be an army of 400,000 people? Even if you add the border troops of the four towns of Ming Dynasty, you can't make it... Thinking of this, he came back to his senses , if you add the border troops from the four towns, it’s pretty much the same.
After Yang Qi finished speaking, he clasped his fists at Liu Chengzong with excitement on his face and said, "Commander, on this occasion, it is a God-given opportunity for the Marshal's Mansion to attack Liangzhou from the north. Our army can advance all the way to Zhongwei, Guyuan, Pingliang, and Baoji." One line, take all the land in Longxi." Mian
Liu Chengzong nodded. This was the established strategy of the Marshal's Office, but what he wanted to ask now was not this: "Does General Yang know why the Kingdom of Jin mobilized so many troops?"
Yang Qi said matter-of-factly: "They are here to rob. In this season, they will leave in the spring and return in the autumn. They cannot stay in Monan for a long time."
"Why is this?"
"Commander, there are Liaohe River and Liaoze in Liaodong, which are like natural dangers. They are only frozen every winter, so soldiers and horses can go there. Therefore, the Liao Dynasty happened in winter and spring. Their army was outside. I estimate that at this time, Shen in Dongjiang Town The master has already planned to send troops from Pi Island to destroy the nest."
Liu Chengzong raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "So, before the cold weather comes, the Jin army will definitely return to Shenyang?"
Hearing Liu Chengzong use words like "certainly", Yang Qi hesitated a little, but quickly analyzed: "The Donglu sent out troops to declare great power. Although the number of soldiers was 120,000, they surrendered to the generals."
"Their army came in force, suddenly gathered outside the border, and broke through the wall in a day. The troops in the border towns were unable to react in time, which allowed them to succeed for a while, but when the border troops recovered, they could not stand ."sleep
After Yang Qi finished speaking, he confirmed: "In winter, even if the entire army does not withdraw, the main force will definitely return to Shenyang."
Liu Chengzong laughed when he heard this. The reason he laughed was not Yang Qi's judgment, but the general trend he said, but there was still something tacitly understood by the soldiers.
If the officers and soldiers have sufficient supplies and training, then of course they will have strong fighting power at any time, and they should fight to the death when encountering the enemy. However, the Ming army is now showing signs of
This is not the case.
When the Jin army breaks through the wall and enters, the frontier army will not burst out with strong combat effectiveness for the first time. Only when the Jin army breaks through the city and plunders the countryside will the frontier army use 100% of their combat effectiveness to pursue them like gods descending from the earth.
He led troops into Shanxi. At that time, the Ming army had no desire to fight against him who was empty-handed. However, Gao Yingxiang, who carried a large amount of baggage after the robbery, was obviously treated differently.
This is money laundering. The officers and soldiers robbed a place and got a thousand taels of silver, and they risked being punished. But the thieves robbed a thousand taels of silver and ran away for a while. No one knows which village or town the money came from. Yes, if the officers and soldiers kill them again, the money will be called war profits.
In addition, Yang Qi also has a blind spot in thinking. sleep
Liu Chengzong said: "Do you think the Donglu marched into Monan to rob Xuanda?"
At this time, not only Yang Qi was stunned, but also He Huchen who was listening on the side was stunned. They didn't understand what Liu Chengzong meant. If it wasn't to rob Xuanda, what else could it be for.
It’s not like you’re going to the Gobi grassland to escape the heat, right?
Yang Qi thought for a while before confirming: "He will definitely rob Xuanda, and he will definitely not fight with Xuanda's army."
Liu Chengzong did not comment on this. He raised his hand and pointed at his chest. He took a deep breath. After a long time, he stood up and walked around the koan for a while before saying, "His target is me."
Yang Qi's analysis is from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty. Outside the Central Plains, everything is wild and full of barbarism and cruelty. The nomadic people can't even make an iron pot. They regard it as a treasure if they accidentally grab one, and they wear everything they wear. Wearing ill-fitting clothes, every tribe is on the verge of collapse and self-destruction every moment.
But in fact, the general trend of the world has changed. It was fifty years ago that Anda Khan paid tribute in Fengzhoutan. In the past fifty years, the Ming Dynasty had trade with King Shunyi in Hohhot and trade with Jurchens in Jianzhou. sleep
The Khalkha where the Three Khans of Mobei lived may still maintain a relatively primitive Mongolian flavor, but in addition, at this time, the Oirat in the northwest, the Mobei tribes, the Jianzhou Jin Kingdom, and the northern Ming Dynasty all live in these Local people can almost communicate with each other.
People traded with each other in trade, Mongolian nobles played guzheng in the cities they built, and Han landlords rode horses and shot arrows in the suburbs. Although people's lifestyles and eating habits still have their own characteristics, they are not completely different from the past.
Pure farming and pure nomadism have become historical symbols that are about to disappear in these places.
Mongolia is not Xifan, Xifan is not Han people, Han people are not Jurchens, and Jurchens are not Mongolia, but the distance between people on this land is closer than ever before.
Faced with the confusion of Yang Qi and others, Liu Chengzong explained: "Today, there are four sides in the world, the Ming Dynasty, the Hou Jin Dynasty, and the Mobei Province. The foundation is population, and each has its own concept of population from different sources."
Liu Chengzong said: "The Ming Dynasty is dominated by the most traditional Han people; the Mobei is dominated by the most traditional Mongolian people; the Later Jin Dynasty was a mixture of the Jurchens, Han people, and Mongols, and they were collectively called Manchuria... Marshal What is a mansion?"
He Huchen thought for a moment and asked, "Hans, Mongols, Xifans?" Mian
The Marshal's Mansion is an outsider in Qinghai, and has not yet created a common identity. It is called the Marshal's Mansion to the Han people, and to the Mongols it is Duntaurus. However, in the direction of Uzang where Xifan is located, it is known as Huoluochi. The three brothers ruled mainly indirectly.
But the general direction has been determined. With Liu Chengzong's analysis, Yang Qi realized the previous problem and said: "The commander-in-chief means that the Central Plains is not the only place in the world. This time Hou Jin sent troops to Monan to plunder Xuanda." It’s just raising military resources, and its purpose is to conquer Monan Mongolia?”
Liu Chengzong nodded: "It's both, but I think the main reason for raising troops and mobilizing people is to show Monan Mongolia's presence."
"In other words, the commander-in-chief is going to send troops to Monan."
Yang Qi had no doubts this time because Liu Chengzong had already made it very clear.
Before that, Liu Chengzong said that Huang Taiji's target was him, and Yang Qi only felt that the generalissimo was suffering from persecution paranoia.
But when Liu Shizi made it clear that the Central Plains were not the only place in the world, and that Huang Taiji's goal was Monan Mongolia, it became much easier to understand. sleep
The tribes in Monan have long been defeated by the war. Now, not to mention being displaced, they have their own places to go. The warriors of the various tribes who can fight followed Lin Danhan to the Marshal's Mansion with a tenacious temperament; those who are loyal to the feudal lord mostly followed the nobles in the Hou Jin Dynasty. That's it; those with traditional ideas will go to the Chechen tribe in Khalkha; those with strong bodies will most likely be barbarians on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty; those with no abilities should farm land for the Dunjun inside and outside the Great Wall.
There were still some stragglers who gathered in the territory of Wanhubu in Ordos. The nobles there were originally the territory of Tumote. Anda Khan's father, the old man, was very fertile and gave birth to twenty-one sons; Ordos Wanhubu The Ministry is the territory of the eldest son Ji Nanggun Bilik.
After Gunbilik's death, tens of thousands of households in Ordos returned to Tumut, which gradually became weaker and weaker, and is now divided into hundreds of tribes that do not belong to each other.
Under the influence of the Khan's court, this was the most chaotic era for Monan Mongolian thought. To what extent was the chaos? Let's put it this way, at this time, Monan was in charge of its own affairs, and there was no longer a ruler in the traditional Mongolian sense. The person closest to the traditional Mongolian ruler was Liu Chengzong.
Although Liu Chengzong's username was off by a few digits, it was correct to have the password for everything in the Khan's court, including the heirs.
The next person down is Mobei Shuolei, who only has a username that doesn't even count. Not only does he have no password, but his keyboard is missing several keys and he can't type completely.
Further down, there is Huang Taiji, a strong man with a keyboard and the qualification to enter a username and password, but without a username and password. He holds a system disk named Manzhou and is ready to reinstall the system. sleep
Further back in the row is Emperor Chongzhen, system? The host hardware and even the monitor will be replaced for you.
In the final analysis, there is no legitimacy of rule in this world, it all relies on fists, but on the other hand, legitimacy of rule is a civilized term for fists.
The list of people who support Liu Chengzong and call him Khan is a concrete proof of how big his fist is.
If those people were not tribal leaders, then others would think Liu Chengzong was a peach picker; conversely, the same problem faced Jin Tiancong Khan. The orthodox heir to the Mongolian Khan's court was Liu Chengzong. How could Huang Taiji prove that the Mongols supported him?
Prove it with an army of 120,000 soldiers marching to Monan.
It doesn't matter how many of this army are elites, and how many of them lead horses and carry food. Anyway, after the defeat of Lin Dan Khan, Monan's social order has collapsed. No nobleman from Mongolia in Monan has the ability to fight against the Jin Kingdom.
Liu Chengzong could guess Huang Taiji's thoughts. He only needed a proof that he would be killed no matter how far away he was. sleep
If I come this year, you can only surrender; if I leave, it is your choice to rebel or not. But if you guess whether I can come again next year, if you guess wrong, your life will be lost.
Liu Chengzong couldn't let him prove it.
The general trend of the world has long been clear. Climate change means that the same population needs more land to survive. The best land in the world is in the Central Plains, which also has the largest population. The problems in the Central Plains can be solved through a revolution and half the people die, but for the population For the Jurchens, who are relatively small in number, if a part of them dies, they will die and the whole family will be destroyed.
The conflict between Ming and Jin cannot be reconciled.
The Ming Dynasty is hard to come back from. Liu Chengzong now has two paths in front of him, but there is only one answer. Is it to sit back and watch the Jurchens pull Mongolia to get rid of the Han people; or is it the Han people to pull Mongolia to get rid of the Jurchens.
The so-called Manchuria is just a lie. The existence of Khalkha and Oirat is the backing for the wealth and carelessness of the Mongolian nobles of the Jin Kingdom. The existence of the Ming Dynasty is the basis for the high importance of the Jin Kingdom's Han generals.
"Monan is a battleground for us. I can't let all the Mongols turn to the Jin Kingdom. It is imperative to send troops, but the commander's office is now unable to mobilize a comparable army to Guihua City." Mian.
Liu Chengzong raised his hand and tapped twice on the public case, and shook his head in distress. The problem before him was not the war, but the supplies behind the war.
The Battle of Gansu almost depleted the livestock in the Tuen Mu camps, and they relied on natural reproduction. Within three to five years, several Tuen Mu camps could not recover, and the Marshal's Office did not have the resources to provide for an expeditionary war of the same scale as the Battle of Gansu. .
It is also impossible for him to use the power of the empty country to provide a battle in Monan where the short-term benefits are not that big. The more important troops still have to be invested in Longxi. Longxi's huge population and barren land are the main factors.
The Marshal's Mansion is currently able to collect the greatest potential in one battle.
Facing Liu Chengzong's sad face, Yang Qi felt like a fire was burning in his heart. He had spent so long in the Marshal's Mansion, waiting for an opportunity, and now this opportunity came.
He clasped his fists and asked, "In that case, which general will the commander send to fight in this battle?"
The reason why Liu Chengzong asked the three of them to come over was because he wanted them to lead troops into battle. Since the three general military officers demoted him, his position has been very embarrassing. After all, his raising of troops was a rebellion. Not letting the three of them lead troops was a mistake. Raise and eat for free.
And letting three people lead troops to attack the old master, not to mention whether the three people are willing, trustworthy, and will defect, Liu Chengzong knows very well that he will look down on them because of this. This is why he has always left the three chief military officers alone. reasons for reuse. sleep
This time it was different. What they were going to fight was Houjin, the enemy of the Ming Dynasty. Their opponents were those generals who had surrendered to Hulu. It was a perfect opportunity to fight.
Liu Chengzong asked seriously: "The number of soldiers I can dispatch to the northeast is limited, and it is difficult to send the baggage to Monan. This troop dispatch is extremely dangerous. Does General Yang have the idea of leading troops to fight?"
The fire in Yang Qi's heart was still there, but he was forced to calm down because of the small number of soldiers and the lack of food and grass. He swallowed his saliva and asked: "Commander, if you send troops from a humble position, I hope you will agree to one request and let General He be my deputy general." .”
Yang Qi always likes to involve He Huchen in everything he does. He Huchen dislikes him to death every time. But this time, He Huchen didn't dislike it as much as in the past. He just nodded calmly, clasped his fists and asked, "Can the commander give us a few thousand men?" "
Liu Chengzong was calculating this problem in his mind, and said slowly while calculating: "The five battalions of Chahar, Yongshebu, Khalkha, Heshuote, and Junggar have each dispatched a thousand cavalry. This is the regular army; I will send it from Dunta Orus's ear mobilized a team of two thousand cavalry, all led by Chahar nobles, who were familiar with both the people and the land, and served as the vanguard.
"The Xifan Brigade will mobilize a thousand noble cavalry to serve as the central army. In addition, there will be Han troops."
"From Lintao brigade Shixiang, Zhang Yunqi, and Li Chongde's troops, we will draw one thousand flag troops each; then we will draw five hundred each from the three battalions of Li Wanqing, Luo Rucai, and Yang Chengzu, and we will also draw one thousand from Zhuanglangweicheng's Bai Wenxuan troops, and equip them with ten thousand war horses and mules. A thousand heads - they are good at collecting food and grass." Mian.
After talking about the strength of the troops, Liu Chengzong closed his eyes and muttered carefully, saying: "Food and grass, dry food for thirty-six days, and twenty thousand-jin cannons. You can't take away more of them. There are no more heavy troops. Guihua City is close to the border." Wall, you need to take care of the supplies yourself, and also allocate 36,000 taels of silver and 3,000 pieces of seven kilograms of cashmere hoods. I can only give you so much."
Yang Qi, who was on the opposite side, let out a long breath, then looked at He Huchen, grinning almost to his ears. He thought that the commander-in-chief had always said that there were only a few soldiers. They all thought that if they could give two people four thousand troops, their fever would be high. Xiang, let them go deep into uninhabited territory. It does take a lot of courage to fight and lead troops.
Who knew that Liu Chengzong's army consisted of 8,000 barbarians, 5,500 soldiers, nearly 20,000 horses and mules, 36,000 taels of silver and cashmere blouses worth 20,000 taels of silver.
I can only give so much, Yang Qi thought to himself, I have never fought such a rich battle!
Yang Qi directly clasped his fists excitedly and said: "Commander, if the two of us don't seize the Guihua City in Fengzhoutan, General He will bring his head. No, let General He bring his humble position to see the Marshal. !」
Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said: "There is no joke in the army, and there is no need to raise your head to see them. Not to mention that these armies are not enough to confront the Jin Kingdom, even if they are to deter the Mobei Khalkha Army, they may not be enough. What are you going to do?"
"You are humble and incompetent. You cannot compete with him." Mian
Yang Qi nodded in agreement, then smiled slyly and said: "I know he is there, but he doesn't know I am there. When we arrived in Ordos, most of the Eastern captives had already invaded the border wall and plundered them. The Liao River was frozen in October and November, and their divisions We must be eager to return to Shenyang, invite attacks from all over, plunder enough supplies, and transfer the troops under the commander-in-chief to humble subordinates to ensure that before the Donglu come back next time, everyone in Monan will be surnamed Liu."
