After Fan Wencai threw a small bag of copper coins to Zhang Xiaoqi, he went straight to the Khan's Palace - he was going to report important intelligence in the customs to Huang Taiji.
Looking at his big bald head, you can tell that he has been to Guan Nei in the past few months. It turned out that after completing the task of escorting Lao Baoyi out of Shenyang, Fan Wencai received a new task personally sent by his brother Fan Wencheng before he returned to the city. He entered the customs to contact Fan Yongdou and others.
As a result, when they arrived in Beijing, they learned that Fan Yongdou, Wang Dengku, and Jin Liangyu had messed up and were arrested by Dongchang's policemen on charges of collaborating and treason. They were probably in danger.
Fan Wencai was really scared out of his wits. If he had arrived ten days and a half earlier, he would probably have been arrested and taken to Dongchang together with Fan Yongdou!
Although he was frightened, Fan Wencai still did not forget the mission assigned to him by his master - to find out the latest trends of the Ming army.
In fact, it is not difficult to find out the movements of the Ming army. You don’t need to get into any high-level positions, you just need to take a walk outside Beijing to find out. Before the soldiers and horses move, food and grass go first! Since last winter, convoys transporting grain can be seen from time to time on the official road from Tongzhou northwest to Xuanfu.
Moreover, the fact that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was stationed in the Xuan Mansion was not kept secret. Almost everyone inside and outside Beijing knew it.
The young emperor was stationed in Xuanfu, and he also transported grain to Xuanfu on a large scale... As long as you are not stupid, you can guess what the Ming army wants to do?
After guessing the general intention of the Ming army, Fan Wencai went deep into the tiger's den again and continued to dress up as a monk to explore Xuanfu Town.
In the Xuan Mansion, Fan Wencai found out even more terrifying news without much effort - the Hutu Dun Khan of the Han Dynasty, who had the false reputation of being the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, led a large number of his tribesmen to nomadic eastward as soon as spring began. In early February, we had already reached the Bashang grassland outside the Xuanfu wall and north of Daqing Mountain.
Zhu Youjian arrived at Xuanfu, and Hutu Dunhan arrived at Bashang. The two of them are now relatives and allies. They don't seem to be going to war, so they must join forces to fight others.
And who is that “other”? It doesn’t take any spying to know that it must be the Kingdom of Jin!
After finding out that the Ming Dynasty and Beiyuan were going to join forces to attack the Jin Kingdom, Fan Wencai didn't dare to be negligent. He dressed up as a lama monk overnight and went out to the Xuanfu border wall on the pretext of going to the Han tribe to beg for alms (the Xuanfu border wall was very dark). It is too long to defend at all, and the outside of the border wall has become Ming Dynasty's territory, so it is very lax). Then he bought two horses from the nomadic Mongols outside the border wall (people from Orduo in Ulliangha Wanhu) and ran all the way east for more than ten days before finally entering Shenyang City.
"Great Khan, although this slave has not uncovered any secrets, he is fully confident that the young emperor of the Southern Dynasty and Lin Dan Batur, who joined the Han tribe, will soon join forces to send troops to the east, and the target should be the Mameng Mountain area... ..”
The Palace of the Great Khan, inside the Chongzheng Hall. Fan Wencai, who had just returned to Shenyang, without even bothering to wipe his face, was lying on the floor, reporting to Huang Taiji, Daishan, Azige, Dorgon, Abatai, Yuetuo, Hauge and others. I discovered it within the customs.
It has to be said that now in the Great Jin Kingdom, at least in the Eight Banners of the Great Jin Kingdom, everyone, whether it is the high-ranking Lord Baylor or the lowest-level servant, is holding back a fierce desire to earn military merit.
This is probably the power of taking advantage of everything, right? Even Zhu Youjian's servant in front of the tent is not so cruel now.
In today's Great Jin Kingdom, if you want to rise or maintain your status, you have to rely on military merit. Apart from military merit, there is no other way to go. This is called making a hole!
It is precisely because of this system that one can only rely on military merit to get ahead, the Eight Banners of Dajin are extremely warlike. Now that they heard that Ming Dynasty and Beiyuan were going to join forces to send troops, all the leaders of the Eight Banners in Chongzheng Hall showed excitement. color.
Huang Taiji also had a happy face. He waved his hand and sent Fan Wencai out of the hall. Then he looked around and said with a smile: "Sanbeile who is stationed in Mameng Mountain these days also sent people to report. It is to find out whether the Southern Army and the Han Dynasty have been invaded." There are signs of joining forces to attack. Now that Fan Wencai has also reported this matter, it seems there is no mistake!"
He smiled coldly: "Although Zhu Youjian has the courage of Lu Bu, he is still too young and energetic, and not calm enough! His internal affairs have not been sorted out, and the new army has not been trained, so he is in a hurry to send troops to Yanshan And he colluded with the useless Tiger Rabbit Dun Khan. It seems that this Battle of Yanshan will be a good opportunity for our Dajin Heavenly Soldiers to severely inflict heavy losses on the Southern Dynasties and Mongolia to invade the Han Dynasty!"
"Great Khan," Dabeile said on behalf of Shan, "this battle of re-entering Yanshan is a bit like the Battle of Guandu in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Zhu Youjian is Yuan Shao who supports the four states of Qing, Ji, You, and Bing. Khan, your situation is a bit like that of Prime Minister Cao... Great Khan, your army is excellent, and your advantage lies in quick victory. Zhu You's inspection of food and supplies is extensive, and your advantage lies in long-term victory."
After all, Daishan was a military strategist who was familiar with the Three Kingdoms, and he could see the biggest crisis of Houjin at a glance!
Huang Taiji nodded: "What Da Beile said is absolutely true. All of our Eight Banners soldiers are good at fighting and brave. It is a little short of attacking the strong city of the Southern Dynasty in the mouth... It is not that it cannot be defeated, but that it cannot be defeated." It's worth dying so many people. But if we want to move the battlefield to Yanshan, I'm not afraid of a fight to the death with the Southern Dynasty and the Han tribe!
Now I'm afraid that the Southern Dynasty and the Han tribe will slowly consume us because of their sufficient food... Do you have any good strategies? "
Upon hearing this, several Baylor masters couldn't help but frown. To "break Yuan Shao", Xu You must lead the way to rob Wuchao Granary! But who is Xu You leading the way over the little emperor?
"Great Khan," after a while, it was "Smart Belle" Dorgon who was the first to speak. "How many troops do you plan to send this time? How long can the food on hand last us?"
"The combined forces of Zhu Youjian and Lindan Batur must be quite powerful." Huang Taiji frowned and said, "If we send too few troops, it will not be enough to defeat them. If we send too many troops... We are afraid that the army will consume too much food. Moreover, Mameng Mountain is a bit far away from Shenyang, seven or eight hundred miles away. We don’t have many civilians who can transport food, so we can only rely on carrying it with the army and collecting supplies along the way... .You really can’t fight for a long time!”
Huang Taiji's current situation is not like Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu at all, because Guandu is not far from Xuchang. Moreover, in the Battle of Guandu, the Yuan and Cao armies only faced off in the Guandu area for three months! Cao Cao's army was able to delay for so long, which shows that it is not particularly short of food.
Because the farming in Mameng Mountain has not been successful, Huang Taiji now has no capital to lead an army to confront Zhu Youjian in Mameng Mountain for three months... If it really takes that long, the Kingdom of Jin will almost die!
Therefore, the struggle between the Jin Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty for the Yanshan Mountains was almost the same as Zhuge Liang's six expeditions to the Qishan Mountains... Everything else was fine, but lack of food was the biggest problem!
Dorgon said: "Great Khan, there is a saying in the art of war: surround an enemy ten times, attack it five times, divide it twice, and defeat the enemy... Although the force of our Eight Banners is strong, due to the lack of food, , it is difficult to concentrate on Yanshan. Therefore, the actual combat power is at most twice that of the enemy. If you want to win quickly, you can only use twice as much."
After all, he is a smart Baylor. Others can watch "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and it will be good. He can also talk about "Sun Tzu's Art of War"... No wonder Huang Taiji will be the regent for him after he dies!
Huang Taiji asked: "If the talent is doubled, then it will be divided into two parts?"
"This..." Dorgon thought for a moment and already had an idea, "Great Khan, although the little emperor of the Southern Dynasty is young, he is cunning and not easily deceived. And Hutu Dun, who inserted himself into the Han Dynasty, Khan is stupider and easier to deceive... Moreover, what Hutu Dun Khan cares about cannot be the mountains, forests and valleys of Yanshan. The grasslands on both sides of the Liaohe and Huanghe rivers in the north are the territory of the Mongols, and they are also the territory of the Han Dynasty. The foundation. We should have a way to lure Hutu Dunhan to the grassland, and then it will be easy to destroy Lindan Batur.
Once Lin Dan Batur is eliminated, Zhu Youjian will be unable to fight alone, and it will not be difficult to repel him. "
