Ma Fang's words are simply in line with Gao Pragmatic's wishes. Defensive warfare is certainly the best choice for infantry against cavalry, but most of the time, defensive warfare means that the opponent always has the initiative in the war. They can come and leave when they want. Even if the attack is unfavorable, they can still do it in time. Exit stop loss.
There is a saying that only a thousand days can make a thief, how can a thousand days prevent a thief? If you guard against thieves for a thousand days, you will eventually lose something.
Although he was highly pragmatic and fought two beautiful battles to "pacify the south and pacify the north", the victory in these two battles was actually more about the political and economic aspects, not necessarily his command on the battlefield.
If he was really that powerful, he would not need the two sharp blades of Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling to act as vanguards in Annan. Instead, he would have been sitting in front of the Chinese army to suppress the formation. At the same time, he had used political means to subdue the Mo family and the Ruan family several times in a row, and only Treating the Zheng family as an enemy that must be killed - wouldn't it be more powerful to directly send troops to sweep all the way?
If he was really that powerful, he wouldn't need to find ways to combine Han Naji's strength, Zhongjin Hatun's name, and Totok Chatai Ky's ability before sending troops in Monan - he would directly mobilize Xuanda, Ji Liao, etc. If the town officials and troops go to win this battle, wouldn't it make them more famous all over the world?
If he led the Ming army to victory in the two battles between Annan and North, I'm afraid he might be knighted by the civil servants now, right? After all, these are the two biggest victories in foreign wars since the founding of the Ming Dynasty and the Jingnan period. Is it reasonable not to give him a title?
But the problem is, he can't do it!
He asked himself, in terms of commanding operations, he really didn't have the ability of Qi Jiguang. He could be overwhelming when attacking, and he could be as solid as a rock when defending. Therefore, this method of guarding against thieves for a thousand days was probably not very good. suit myself.
Moreover, war is not a child's play, especially in military-controlled areas like Liaodong. There is no formal civilian administrative organization at the grassroots level of society, and it is usually managed by a group of guard officers.
There is no doubt that the job of this group of people is to guard the border, and they are amateurs in administrative management. Once faced with a war, they must focus on their own jobs, so the grassroots administration will obviously be in a state of neglect.
This doesn't work! In this case, wouldn't his pragmatic plan to build southern Liaoning be kicked off by Tumen and Huahua as soon as it started?
Previously, Gao Pragmatic felt that Tumen had chosen a good time to come this time, which was also an important reason.
In addition, Gao Pragmatic had another very important reason, which prompted him to fight back Tumen and Chaohua quickly and decisively. Moreover, he could not simply force them back. He had to do what Ma Fang said. , I want to beat Tumen and Chaohua into pain and fear!
The reason lies in Li Chengliang.
At first, when Gao pragmatic heard that Tumen and Chaohua 20,000 cavalry were heading south, the first thing that came to his mind was Li Chengliang - this guy was so lucky. Not only did he go to fight Gule Village, but he also happened to spread the news. Already in the mountains.
The fact that Li Chengliang went to attack Gule Village did indeed happen before Tumen and Chaohua went south. This can basically rule out the suspicion of him having an affair with Mongolia. However, the affair can be ruled out, but the tacit understanding cannot necessarily be ruled out.
It stands to reason that a decisive battle like the Monan War had just been fought this year. Not only did Tumen, the loser, suffer heavy losses and needed urgent repairs, but could it be that Daming, the winner, was really made of iron and had no adverse effects at all?
Nonsense!
Putting aside everything else, just looking at the list of rewards from the Ministry of Revenue, he almost gave up the job. Wasn't this a clear sign that he was in trouble? If the Ministry of Revenue has a full treasury and is as wealthy as the American imperialists during World War II, why would they have been wrangling with the cabinet and the Ministry of War for more than a month before announcing the specific reward?
If everyone from top to bottom had not known that it was impossible for the imperial court to default on its debts in the face of such a great victory, and it had taken so long to come up with the reward, Xuanda, Ji Liao and other places that participated in sending troops would have had to cause several mutinies!
It can be seen that not only the Tu people need to recuperate, but the Ming Dynasty also needs to recuperate. This almost became an important basis for the Xin School to reject Gao Pragmatic's appointment in Liaodong.
Therefore, it was a little weird that Li Chengliang sent troops to Gule Village, and when he arrived in Liaoyang, he only prepared for less than a month and went directly into the mountains, which was even weirder.
Are Liaoyang's material reserves so rich? Or does Li Chengliang think that a broken Jianzhou Jurchen is not his enemy at all, but one of the five scum that can be easily captured?
Although the Jianzhou Jurchens are not yet in charge of Nurhachi, they won’t be able to fight against the five scum, right? If it were true that a group of people had the foundation to fight against the five scum, wouldn’t Nurhachi in the original history have incredible abilities?
Gao Pragmatic can admit that Nurhaci is indeed an outstanding leader among the Jurchens, but judging from Nurhaci's later performance, at least the word "defying heaven" does not belong to him. Instead of saying that Nurhachi is against the will of heaven, Gao Pragmatic would rather admit that his father is more of a defiance of the heavens.
Fortunately, his baby doesn't exist yet. If I remember correctly, he won't be born until ten years later, so it's not a threat.
So, the most reasonable judgment now is that Li Chengliang was indeed planning to attack Gule Village originally. However, after Li Rugui's incident, due to some uncertain reasons, Li Chengliang abruptly advanced the time of dispatching troops.
As for why it was brought forward, there shouldn't be much doubt about it. It was simply that Li Chengliang wanted to create an "alibi" for himself.
But after Li Chengliang did this, his next plan was not easy to judge.
According to common sense, by doing this he wanted to "sell" Liaonan. To a large extent, he should be killing someone with a borrowed knife - the one he killed was naturally Gao Pragmatism.
But Gao Pragmatic felt that there was another possibility: Li Chengliang might not really dare to let him, Gao, die in Liaodong.
This idea seems a little unreasonable at first glance, because since Li Chengliang dared to sell Liaodong, he must have a backer at the central level.
Since it's going to be sold, let's just sell it completely. After Liaonan is beaten to a pulp and proves that Gao Pragmatic is a so-called famous commander in name only, Ning Yuanbo will return to the army to clean up the mess.
At that time, whether it was the court or the emperor, even if they did not want to admit it in their hearts, they could only pinch their noses and say that Li Chengliang was indispensable to Liaodong. In that case, his status would be as stable as Mount Tai.
However, Li Chengliang in history was very cautious in his work as an official. He saw very clearly who he could offend and who he could not offend.
And during his time in Zhenliao, who was the person who he really did not dare to offend from the beginning to the end? It may even be a bit unbelievable to say-this man is called Gao Huai, and he is a guard eunuch.
Gaohuai was originally the Supervisor of Shangshan, and he was ordered to mine and collect taxes in Liaodong from the 24th year of Wanli. After this person arrived in Liaodong, his minion Liao Guotai violently abused the people and he falsely accused dozens of people. He falsely impeached Ma Lin, then the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and deducted monthly rations from the sergeants, which caused an uproar among the garrison troops in the former garrison, Jinzhou, Songshan and other places. He fled back to Beijing and falsely accused Wang Bangcai, his colleague, and Li Huoyang, the general. , triggering unrest in Liaodong.
Although Li Chengliang was out of office at that time, he had been serving as Gao Huai's accomplice when he was supervising Liao Dynasty, and did not curb his behavior at all (except for a few people such as the commander-in-chief Ma Lin, almost all other important generals in Liaodong were Li Chengliang's old subordinates) , Qin'er, Gan'er), there are only two reasons: one is to defeat Ma Lin and let Liaodong return to the hands of the Li family; the other is that Gao Huai cannot afford to offend - this person is a confidant of Emperor Wanli.
Therefore, Li Chengliang knew very well who should not be offended - the emperor's cronies were far more unacceptable than civil servants.
As a civil servant, he only needed to respect him face to face, and the rest was nothing more than giving money, gifts, and taking care of things; but that was not the case with the emperor's cronies. These people could influence the emperor's view of him, Li Chengliang, at any time.
The reason why military generals are afraid of civilian officials is that the later the period, the greater the emperor's checks and balances from civilian officials. Once military generals conflict with civilian officials, the emperor will most likely choose to give face to the civilian officials and suppress the military generals.
But in the final analysis, what military commanders fear is actually the emperor, and civilian officials actually use imperial power to suppress military commanders.
The reason why imperial power is checked and balanced by civilian officials is because civilian officials control public opinion. For the sake of posthumous reputation, the emperor has to show more respect to civilian officials. However, the emperor does not necessarily need to have such respect for generals. When it comes to hiring people, I will not be inferior to you. You can't affect my reputation, so I can do whatever I want.
However, if ordinary civil servants were dissatisfied with Li Chengliang and wanted to get rid of him, they could not find a solution directly from the emperor. They had to find many truths and reasons to support their arguments and persuade the emperor to believe in Li Chengliang. It is not applicable, and these principles and reasons must be theoretically tenable, which is very difficult.
But the situation is different for the cronies around the emperor, such as the eunuchs. They only need to think a little bit, and they can easily create a direct impression on the emperor in a few sentences, for example: Li Chengliang is unfaithful.
When the civil servants said that Li Chengliang was unfaithful, they needed to produce a lot of evidence to prove that they were not lying; when the eunuchs said that Li Chengliang was unfaithful, he only needed to give a few small examples. It didn't even matter whether these examples were real or not. The emperor listened. It may leave a thorn in the heart, and the more you look at Li Chengliang, the more he feels disloyal. If there is any slight disqualification, it will be associated with disloyalty.
There's no need to play anymore.
As a close confidant of Zhu Yijun, Gao Huai, who served as the eunuch guarding Liaodong, had such influence. As a close confidant of the emperor and a classmate of ten years, Gao Shidu, wouldn't Li Chengliang worry about Gao Pragmatic having such influence?
Obviously he will definitely be worried, and it can even be seen from the emperor's recent promotions and generous gifts to Gao Jingjing that Gao Jingjing's status in the emperor's mind is extremely special.
If Gao Pangshi died in Liaonan, even if Li Chengliang could prove that he was good at fighting, he would be deeply resented by the emperor.
Most civil servants who are resented by the emperor may not necessarily die, just like those officials or cabinet elders who offended the emperor. Especially the cabinet elders. Sometimes the opinions they put forward made the emperor start to curse in his heart, and they even praised "love" in front of face. "You are loyal to the country, and you are truly a role model for courtiers." The most they could do was find ways to give him a sore thumb, and when he went to court to defend himself and resign, he pretended to be unable to retain him and sent him home.
But the generals are different. The emperor versus the generals, life and death are all in one thought!
Gao pragmatism believed that Li Chengliang definitely understood this truth, so he was very likely to suddenly come back when Liaonan was most dangerous and "save" his life, Gao, at the critical moment.
With this incident, can Gao Pragmatic, a civil servant with an excellent reputation, continue to suppress Li? Obviously not, because this is contrary to the way of being a man and the way of a gentleman - a drop of kindness should be repaid by a spring. Not only do you not repay kindness, but you also repay kindness with hatred. How dare you continue to hang out? It would be strange if the scholarly gentlemen didn’t scold you until your head is bloody!
Gao Pragmatic naturally refused to let this happen, so not only could he not give Li Chengliang a chance to save his life, he couldn't even give him a chance to help!
He must defeat the Tumen and Huahua coalition alone, quickly or even completely before Li Chengliang can react!
"What the Governor said is absolutely true." Gao Pragmatic's face darkened and he said coldly: "Tumen, my defeated general, the dead soul under the knife; Chaohua, a mere chieftain and a clown. These two thieves are nothing to me. How can I allow them to be arrogant when there are two dry bones in the grave?
This battle comes at the right time. I will make this generation never dare to look south again from now on! "
This is so domineering!
Ma Fang, a fierce general who once strongly advocated "using cavalry to defeat cavalry" against Mongolia, felt his blood welling up when he heard this. He suddenly slapped his thigh: "The military constitution said it well! Although I am old, I still ask myself whether I can use the sword. I dare to fight in this battle." Ask Bing Xian to take the old man as the vanguard and go to the north of Liaohe River to kill him seven times in and seven out, and he will live up to the man in this life!"
Ma Dong originally thought that his father was too impulsive. He was already in his sixties, so why did he still ask for orders to be a pioneer? But when he heard his father's last words, he suddenly felt extremely ashamed and his face turned red!
My father is scolding me!
The eyes of this man from Weizhou turned red all of a sudden. He stood up suddenly, took a step forward and knelt down in front of Gao Pangshi, and kowtowed so hard that the floor made a "bang" sound.
Gao Pangshi was taken aback and was about to stand up to help him up when he heard Ma Dong loudly say in an angry tone that he could not imagine at ordinary times: "Bingxian, although Dong is incompetent, he also knows that there are some contents in The Analects of Confucius. Zai: Zi Xia asked about filial piety. Confucius said: Color is difficult. When something happens, the disciple will do his duty.
Now the Yan family has passed Jiazi, and Dong is his son. He is in the prime of his life. How can he dare to follow the Yan family since he has something to do? There is no need for Jia Yan to come to this battle, Dong should be the vanguard! However, if there is a hint of fear of the enemy and he acts vacillating, he should not bother to blame the military constitution, but should put his head in front of the military constitution to uphold the military law! "
Then he kowtowed again with a bang, and his tone was unusually awe-inspiring: "Ma Dong, the right-hand general who will be guarding Haigai, please ask for military orders. With Dong as the vanguard, we will destroy the enemy invaders. I hope the military constitution will be completed!"
Gao Pingshi had gradually come to his senses at this time. He glanced at Ma Fang quietly and saw that Ma Fang was giving a rare smile of relief to his eldest son.
When Ma Fang saw Gao Jingshi looking at him, he also looked at Gao Jingshi, and nodded slightly.
Gao pragmatic laughed, stood up, took a step forward, held Ma Dong's shoulders, patted him hard, and said loudly: "Okay, he is indeed the 'famous General Wanli Ma, the white-haired and loyal man is known all over the world' Malanxi The son of 'Master Ma' is truly a hero, loyal and brave!"
Gao Pingshi paused, stood up straight, and shouted solemnly: "General Ma Dong, the right commander of the branch guard Hai Gai, listen to the order!"
Ma Dong's blood surged. He was still kneeling on his knees, but he straightened his body and clasped his fists hard: "The end is here!"
"You don't need to be the vanguard in this battle..."
Ma Fang and Ma Dong were both stunned. Ma Dong was so anxious that he wanted to speak quickly, but Gao Pingshi reached out and stopped him.
Then I heard Gao pragmatically say solemnly: "This military constitution appoints you as the commander-in-chief of the Central Army, to command the troops and horses in southern Liaoning, to destroy the enemy invaders for me, and to spread the power of tomorrow on the border... Do you dare to accept this order?"
"Why don't you dare!" Ma Dong clasped his fists fiercely: "General, take the order! Dong Zong will die a hundred times, and he will live up to the trust of the military constitution!"
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