There was also a lot of things happening on this day. Just after we had discussed continuing to send troops, another informal order to send troops came.
Why is it called informal? Because it was an imperial edict from Zhu Yijun urging Gao Pragmatic to report on the situation in Annan, but why asking about the situation in Annan was linked to the "order to dispatch troops" was because Zhu Yijun quoted a poem by his grandfather, Emperor Sejong Jiajing, in this imperial edict.
The poem goes like this:
The general marching to the south is brave and brave, with a Qishui Yanfei saber across his waist.
The wind blows, the mountains and rivers move, the lightning flashes and the flags rise high at the sun and the moon.
There is a species of unicorn in the sky, but how can the ants in the cave escape?
On the day when the imperial edict comes back in peace, I will take off my shirt with my husband.
The name of this poem is called "Send Mao Bowen". It was written to Mao Bowen, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition, when Jiajing was preparing to send troops to kill Mo Dengyong. Although the Battle of Annan did not really start after that, Mo Dengyong was afraid of surrendering after all. , so Mao Bowen returned with success, and this poem became an eternal legend.
This poem is simple and straightforward, and its literary level is of course average, but its significance is very important, especially the last sentence, "On the day when the imperial edict comes back in peace, I will take off my shirt with my husband." It was talked about by many people in later generations.
Zhu Yijun also seems to like this sentence very much. After Gao pragmatic won the top prize in six poems, the poem he gave to Gao pragmatically, "I have been the true leader for two hundred years, I wrote the poem and wrote the elixir" seems to be the same as this sentence They have different approaches but similar effects.
But this time, he directly sent the "original version". This meaning is very obvious. He needs a highly pragmatic "peace and wait for the return of the imperial edict" - in other words, to arrive in Annan as soon as possible and come back. I have been waiting for it. I’ll reward you.
And since Zheng Song is pretending to surrender, and if he wants to wait for the imperial edict in peace, of course he can only fight quickly.
Early the next morning, Gao pragmatically took the stage and ordered the generals to lead the army on the expedition. Although more than 40,000 men from Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan were separated during this trip south, their strength was still extremely strong because of the surrender of Zheng's army.
There are nearly 5,000 high-ranking and pragmatic servants, more than 40,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers, 30,000 troops of the Mo family, and 30,000 troops of the Zheng family. They still maintain an army of more than 100,000.
For Annan, 100,000 regular troops were undoubtedly an overwhelming army—unless you believe that the Annan people really had an army of seven million when they resisted the Ming Dynasty.
This is really a magical number, because at that time the population of Annan was only about half of the "seven million army". After one or two hundred years, Annan's population is estimated to be only about 5 million.
Well, these seven million "Mars soldiers" may have been created by using plug-ins.
But Gao Pragmatic's army of 100,000 people is actually more than 100,000 people. He didn't even play the trick that all Chinese dynasties like to play - the so-called.
According to past habits, the army of one hundred thousand was called three hundred thousand or four hundred thousand. In fact, it is not a big problem. It is not impossible to even call it five hundred thousand.
But Gao Pangshi did not have this hobby. While sending troops, he sent Li and Zheng Jiangchen to the south to announce the edict. He simply said that he had "sent 150,000 troops to the south", which was not an exaggeration at all - Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan still had some weapons in their hands. Forty thousand soldiers, plus the fleet, 150,000 is much more.
Ruan Huang's reaction is still unknown, but Zheng Song's reaction is very interesting.
Gao Pragmatic's main force arrived at Jingjia Mansion two days later and found that all the officials here had fled and the troops had already withdrawn. Jingjia Mansion had actually become an "undefended city", and Zheng Song had honestly fulfilled his duties in The attitude in the surrender was to prevent the people from suffering - so the people did not evacuate.
Gao pragmatic did not express his opinion on this and camped outside the city as usual. He only sent people to appease the people in the city and selected a few surrender ministers from the Later Li Dynasty to temporarily manage the affairs of the city to prevent some ghosts and snake gods from running out to fish in troubled waters.
You must know that ruining public security will also affect the reputation of his high security station. After all, from now on, this is the "Liberation Area".
After walking south for three days, we arrived at Yanzhou Prefecture, which was a Zhili prefecture under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty's Jiaozhi Chengxuan Envoy Department. It encompassed three counties: Furui County, Qionglin County, and Chaqing County. Later Li Dynasty No changes were made to this, and it was still called Yanzhou.
During the Ming Dynasty, there was a Yanzhou Guard Office for Thousand Households here, as well as two inspection departments, the Qinhaimen Inspection Department and the Yangbianshe Inspection Department. What changes occurred later is not very clear. According to Ruan Youliao, "there were rarely more than two thousand troops stationed here" in peacetime.
But now there are not even two thousand. Like Jingjia Mansion, it is an undefended city, and the order in the city is maintained by "elderly squires". After hearing this, Gao Pangshi snorted lightly, and followed the practice of Jingjia Mansion and sent the Zheng family's ministers to manage the security in the city.
In Jingjia Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, although Gao Pragmatic handed over the security aspect to Zheng's ministers, he also sent garrison troops: each mansion sent 500 Jiading hùwèituán and 1,500 Mo's ministers, a total of Four thousand soldiers and horses were divided and went out.
He actually considered sending only the Jiangjun troops to these two places, but he was afraid that without the "Great Tomorrow Soldiers" to suppress them, it would be difficult to ensure the military discipline of the Jiangjun troops - the Mo family and the Zheng family have a blood feud, who knows if they will mess up. .
As for sending the Zheng family to surrender and garrison, forget it. If not, the retreat will be returned directly to Zheng Song. If the Zheng family surrenders the army and can use it with peace of mind, it must at least wait until the Zheng family is destroyed.
As for now, if Mo's surrender to the army is second-class treatment, Zheng's surrender will have to settle for third-class treatment.
Treating everyone equally and so on, Gao Pragmatic has no interest in doing it - everyone is treated equally, who is willing to work hard to climb up? Who is willing to go out of his way to show loyalty to him?
Not to mention that we can't treat everyone equally, Gao Pragmatic is even considering dividing it into several more levels, such as first-class, second-class, third-class or even fourth-class groups, with different treatment differences, so that the people below can be honest and content. , strive for the top.
What a familiar routine, but it’s just not available yet.
After leaving Yanzhou, Gao Qingshi rested for a day outside the city to make sure everything was normal at the rear before continuing south.
It's only two or three days' journey from Yanzhou to Yingdu.
Little did he know that he was walking in a leisurely manner, which made Zheng Song Zaiying anxious.
Different from being pragmatic and striving for stability in everything, Mo Yulin and Ruan Juan's style of using troops this time can be described in one word: urgent!
Along the way, Mo Yulin planned to conquer the four prefectures of Qingdu, Kuizhou, Tralin and Yuma, and then turn eastward to join forces with Gao Pragmatic. The distance was longer than Gao Pragmatic's journey from Thanh Hoa to Yingdu. Although he set off a little earlier, it stands to reason that there were more places to hit and the distance was long, but in fact the time was still very tight.
However, Mo Yulin became ruthless this time and urged to speed up the advance of troops. As a result, when Gao Pragmatic was still one day away from arriving in Yingdu, Mo Yulin had already arrived in Yingdu wàiwéi.
Of course, there is also a factor in this, that is, there is still no garrison resistance in these four prefectures.
Of course, Mo Yulin fed back the news to Gao Pragmatic, but Gao Pragmatic was indifferent. In his opinion, this was all Zheng Song's trick, just to make him feel careless.
But Zheng Song may not know that when it comes to things like fighting, it is possible for Gao Pingshi to be too careful and miss an opportunity, but it is harder to be careless. Because of Gao Jingshi's young age, Zheng Song imagined Gao Jingshi as a complacent and arrogant young man. This was obviously a miscalculation. Although normally speaking, given Gao Jingshi's "success" over the years, he should be arrogant. It's normal.
There is no one in the world who can always predict the enemy's plans first. Most of the clever calculations are actually nothing more than calculating the opponent's possible mentality and response plan based on the opponent's identity, experience, level, etc.
In highly pragmatic terms, these are just like doing math problems. It is never a bad thing to make a few more assumptions first. Guo Pu said that he was "excessive calculations", which was nothing more than making too many assumptions.
On March 14, Gao Pingshi's army arrived twenty miles north of Yingdu Prefecture. Zheng Song breathed a sigh of relief in the city, stood up suddenly, with a fierce look in his eyes, and commanded solemnly: "Send the order: Operation 'Xingtian' has begun."
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There is a kindergarten parent meeting today, which is slightly delayed...but I still need to continue asking for subscriptions and various tickets~
