Chongzhen looked unhappy.
Although he was unwilling to give up the Ningjin Defense Line, it was because the Ningjin Defense Line cost the Ming Dynasty a lot of money and food, and he was unwilling to bear the responsibility of losing territory, so he did not support giving up the Ningjin Defense Line.
But at the same time, he hoped to mobilize soldiers and horses from Liaodong into Shandong to quell the rebellion.
Almost all of Ming's elite soldiers and horses were in Liaodong. He believed that as long as a sufficient number of soldiers and horses were mobilized from Liaodong into Shandong, even if Shandong's tiger-character flag soldiers and horses could not be driven away for a while, Shandong's stability could be guaranteed without worrying about tigers. Zi Qi has the ability to go north from Shandong.
He wants both, but is unwilling to pay for them.
Amid a quarrel among a group of ministers, he went down to court.
The debate continued until the next court, but no useful results were produced.
Chongzhen's procrastination made it impossible to give up Ning Jin, but Gao Di asked for money and food, but the Ministry of Revenue insisted that he couldn't get it, and he had very little internal money left.
In the end, because the problem of money and food could not be solved, the memorial requested by Gaudi was temporarily shelved.
All the ministers in the court came out of the hall one after another.
The first assistant Li Biao and the second assistant Cheng Jiming walked in the front, followed by Zhou Yanru and others, followed by six ministers and ministers, and several nobles who came to the court were also walking among them.
"You should not persuade His Majesty to abandon the Ningjin Defense Line." Li Biao said to Cheng Jiming, who was walking with him.
Hearing this, Cheng Jiming said: "Didn't the chief assistant see it? The threat of tiger thieves has exceeded that of slave thieves. If the Shandong issue is not resolved, the capital will be in danger."
"You can think of other ways to solve the problem in Shandong, and you can even mobilize some troops from Liaodong, but you can't give up the Ningjin line of defense. I don't believe you can't think of what's going on here." Li Biao reminded.
Cheng Jiming frowned when he heard this and couldn't help asking: "What do you mean?"
For a moment, I didn't understand what Li Biao meant.
Li Biao looked at Cheng Jiming, but he didn't expect that the other party really didn't understand, so he reminded him in a low voice: "Jiangmen is often very united."
Those who can enter the cabinet and become cabinet elders are all people who have experienced beatings in the court, and no one is a fool.
When Cheng Jiming heard Li Biao mention Jiangmen, he immediately took a breath.
At this time, he also thought of combining Jiangmen's interests in Liaodong.
He recalled his performance in Chao Shang just now and felt a cold sweat in his heart.
When did you insist on giving up the Ningjin defense line?
He remembered that when Chongzhen said that Li Biao was old and had bad ears, he said some mindless words in order to please Chongzhen and wanted to replace Li Biao.
Li Biao on the side saw that Cheng Jiming had figured it out on his own, raised his hand and patted Cheng Jiming's upper arm, and walked forward quickly.
He was no longer worried about whether Cheng Jiming would still insist on persuading Chongzhen to abandon the Ningjin defense line.
As long as Cheng Jiming is not stupid enough, he will no longer support Chongzhen in abandoning the Ningjin defense line. Otherwise, those Liaodong generals who have enriched themselves through the Liaodong war for many years will find a way to deal with Cheng Jiming, just like Wang Zaijin.
The war in Liaodong did not stop because of the failure of the Ming Central Committee to negotiate.
Huang Taiji came with the determination to win the Ningjin Defense Line this time. Even if he had to pay some casualties for it, he would still win the Ningjin Defense Line.
Under Huang Taiji's strong pressure, the army of slave thieves desperately attacked the Ningjin defense line, causing some of the forts on the Ningjin defense line to be uprooted one by one.
The slave thieves are best at defeating the Ming army's reinforcements.
Therefore, when encountering a fortress that is difficult to capture for a while, we will attack tentatively, then surround it, and let one or two people in the fort go outside to seek reinforcements, waiting for reinforcements from the Ming Army.
However, as several supporting armies of the Ming army suffered losses, no more reinforcements came to rescue them. As for Gao Di in Shanhaiguan, even the people who had escaped from the Ningjin defense line did not dare to enter Shanhaiguan.
Regardless of whether they were soldiers or civilians, Gao Di had one idea: not to let anyone enter Shanhaiguan.
Although Huang Taiji had demolished many military forts of the Ming Dynasty, they were all small forts. It was difficult to break through those forts garrisoned by thousands of people, especially when the garrison in the fort was determined to die. While guarding the fort.
Here in the Ningjin Defense Line, there is more than one fort with thousands of defenders, and there are also a lot of defenders in Ningyuan and Jinzhou City, so it is not that easy to break through.
The Ming army stationed at the Ningjin Defense Line was determined to die, and Huang Taiji was also determined to capture the Ningjin Defense Line. For him and Daikin, they could not intimidate Shanhaiguan without breaking the Ningjin Defense Line.
One insisted on defending, while the other was unwilling to retreat.
Huang Taiji could only lead his troops to slowly attack the various cities and forts along the Ningjin defense line.
Especially when facing Jinzhou City, Huang Taiji saw that apart from losing troops and generals in several attacks, there was nothing he could do about Jinzhou City. He simply stopped attacking and just surrounded Jinzhou City, forcing the defenders inside to open the city gates and surrender.
If you want to trap the defenders in the city and let the soldiers and civilians in the city eat up all the grain reserves, you can't do it in a day or two. It requires a long-term siege.
One month, two months, until all the food in the city is used up.
The stalemate between the Ming Dynasty and the slave thieves in Liaodong gave the Tiger Character Banner more time to develop.
The first and second theaters on the Tiger Banner grassland soon began to integrate, but due to the small number of soldiers and horses in the first theater, the first integration ended.
The second war zone took a little longer because there were more teams to integrate, but they were all regular combat soldiers and heavy baggage troops, so there was not much trouble.
Only the third theater is left, because it needs to form two combat divisions and recruit troops. It is also the most troublesome and slowest in the whole.
Fortunately, Tiger Banner has always had a peasant-soldier system. Without damaging local production and stability, some peasants and soldiers can be directly transferred from various places to join the newly established combat division.
Trained peasant soldiers can quickly form combat effectiveness without the need to start with a little bit of training from new recruits.
The backbone of the newly established combat division was drawn from various teams, and a large part of them came from the first and third theaters.
The war between the Ming army and the slave thieves in Liaodong gave Huzi Banner some time to fight in the war zone.
Chen Xunping in the Second War Zone not only had to pay attention to the problems of the two newly established combat divisions, but also sorted out the Ming navy navy left by Denglai.
The ships of the Ming Navy were far from being comparable to Tiger Flag's own ships. There were still many ships that were dilapidated and needed to be repaired before they could go to sea.
But in the face of slave thieves with almost no navy available, these ships left by the Ming Navy can still easily deal with slave thieves at sea.
Chen Xunping is the busiest person nowadays.
Among the three war zones, his is the only war zone that not only has to deal with the war division, but also solves the problems of the navy. After all, the navy of the Tiger Flag in Liaodong has now returned to his war zone.
(End of chapter)
