"Open the side provocation lightly. Once this end is opened, there may never be peace in the future!"
"Governor Zhang, you were transferred from Xuanda. If the Northeast is turned into the same mess as the Northwest, the world may be uneasy. Wouldn't it be that Pei Chengzu died? He accidentally made the rebel chief Gao pay for it. It's Lihong's head!" Wang Nian still refused to let go.
Why is Wang Nian so persistent? Even if he sees that the governor wants to go there in person, he still tries his best to stop him?
It was completely different from the Ming Dynasty's war in the southeast that saw another victory when they opened their eyes. The Ming Dynasty's battle with the Tatars in the northwest was really tragic and they lost miserably.
In June of the 29th year of Jiajing, I invaded Datong, and the commander-in-chief Zhang Da and the deputy commander-in-chief Lin Chun were killed in battle.
In February of the 32nd year of Jiajing, I invaded the Xuanfu, and the deputy commander-in-chief Guo Du died in battle. In September, I invaded Guangwu, and the governor Zhao Shichun was defeated. Chief Li Lai, staff general Feng En and others were killed in the battle.
In June of the 33rd year of Jiajing's reign, I invaded Datong, and the commander-in-chief Yue Mao died in battle.
In October of the 45th year of Jiajing's reign, Guyuan was invaded, and the chief military officer Guo Jiang was defeated and died. In the leap tenth month, Datong was invaded, and General Cui Shirong died in battle.
This is only the general and deputy generals, not counting generals, guerrillas, and defensive preparations. After fighting in the northwest for so many years, Anda Khan was finally canonized as King of Shunyi on the condition that Anda Khan paid tribute.
Only when you can't win can you pay tribute. If you can win the battle and sweep the holes and plow the court, will you still pay tribute?
In the northeast, three generals were killed one after another, Yin Shangzhi, Yang Zhao, and Wang Zhidao. At this time, the Ming Dynasty started a war in the northeast. If the battle ended like that in the northwest, it would be an eternal sinner.
Wang Nian's thoughts were not his alone. Even the patrol censors Yang Zhao, Zhang Duo, and the deputy commander-in-chief also had the same thoughts. What should we fight? What would happen if we won? The thieves are in the deep mountains and old forests. After being driven away, they will regain their strength within a year and come to harass the border again. If they lose and are not killed in battle, they will be dragged to the capital to be convicted and even beheaded.
"Things are not what they used to be." Zhang Xueyan waved his robe and said, "Today is very different from the past. If you don't dare to fight, just wait here. If anything bad happens with Zhang Duo and Yang Zhao, the censors, we will have to do it." You look good."
Even in Liaodong, there were many people who opposed border provocations. The patrol censors Zhang Duo and Yang Zhao all had this idea, and they would not fight if they could.
It doesn't matter if you don't want to fight, just stay in your lair and wait until the army returns home. If you don't want to fight, but you still want to cause trouble, destroy the food road, and use the trap to spread the news, then you can't blame him for being rude.
Before the battle, the governor Zhang Xueyan took back Wang Nian's power as the grain doctor and then went to the school grounds. There were a total of three thousand people who went to Gule Village for suppression.
There are 72,000 officers and soldiers in Liaodong Town, and the main function of these 72,000 people is to fill in the lines. Once there are police and beacon smoke on the border, the 3,000 elite soldiers entrenched in their hometown will go to fight and defend. This is how Zhang Xueyan arrived in Liaodong. Later, please encourage people to strengthen the army, recruit people and move around, manage armored battles, market war horses, believe in rewards and punishments, depose cowardly generals, and strengthen elite soldiers.
These elite soldiers are all guest soldiers, and they are paid one tael, five cents, and three cents of silver a month, and eighteen taels of silver a year. They are all guest soldiers recruited from Gyeonggi, Shandong, and Liaodong. Similarly, most of the military pay from the imperial court is given. A small number of these guest soldiers were embezzled by Li Chengliang and others, and the soldiers on the border were still mainly in military camps.
These guest soldiers have also become servants, the servants of the Li family. This is inevitable.
The year before last, Li Chengliang built the Gushan Fort in Zhangqiha Dian, and moved the five Dianshan forts to Kuandian, Changdian, Shuangdun, Changlingsan and other places. They are all located in the sacred land, which is close to the throat. The fields in these places are all fertile fields with high-quality black soil. The Northern Army is completely self-sufficient in farming. They have no money, but they have enough to eat.
Li Chengliang's deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Zhao Wanzui, and Wang Nian, Yang Zhao, and Zhang Duo all had the same idea. They started provocations lightly. For many things, one can only decide the beginning, and no one can decide the ending.
Therefore, Li Chengliang did not take Zhao Wancheng with him in this battle.
Li Chengliang didn't say much. He stood in the school grounds and opened the boxes. Inside were silver ingots, shining with silver.
Li Chengliang waited until all the boxes were opened, looked around for a week, and then said loudly: "If we win, it's all yours! If we lose, our heads will stay outside the customs!"
"Before the expedition, one person had two taels of silver. After beating the other person, he had five taels of silver. He captured Lai Lihong and received five thousand taels of silver! He captured Wang Gao and received ten thousand taels of silver!"
"The battlefield is a battlefield, fight for merit and head, and kill without mercy!"
Li Chengliang dared to be so arrogant in Liaodong, and was even suspected of supporting his own troops and supporting the bandits. These guest soldiers who were like servants were his confidence.
His actions have been criticized by the inspectors, governors, and doctors all the time. Li Chengliang either took advantage of the wasted money or paid it as a reward, and they couldn't get a cent of it.
Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, said nothing and allowed Li Chengliang to do what he did.
Not everyone in the world is like Qi Jiguang, who can lead his troops like that. Li Chengliang always pays attention to heavy rewards and punishments when he leads his troops in war. He will not hesitate to reward him if he wins, but if he loses, everyone will be punished. Three thousand people, This is the reason why the Haixi Jurchen King's Platform, the Uliangha Sanbu Chahan Khan, and the Jianzhou Nüzhi King Gao gnashed their teeth with hatred, but did not dare to break out.
On the Liaodong side, the Beilu and Haixi Jianzhou Jiannu could not defeat Li Chengliang.
The situation in Liaodong is exactly the same as that in the northwest. The powerful people here and the various captive chiefs are colluding with each other. If the Ming Dynasty's original method of fighting the Northern Army was followed, all the soldiers would be killed. As soon as the left foot left the military camp, wherever the right foot went, the captive chiefs Just know it.
Li Chengliang is definitely not a good person. Someone dares to leak his whereabouts. He only knows one thing, killing. He governs the army with four words: soldiers, punishment, food, and rewards. This kind of military management is extremely effective in combat, but if the war is not If it goes smoothly, there will be big trouble.
Li Chengliang was convinced and envious of Qi Jiguang's military management. Qi Jiguang's military management was based on royal principles and was extremely bright. Especially after the emperor granted him a title and gave him strong support, Qi Jiguang became even more upright. He had more than ten thousand elite soldiers in the Beijing camp. The important thing is to work together as one, and the generals and soldiers eat from the same kitchen. Qi Jiguang had that condition.
Liaodong does not have such conditions.
The group of people under him are all professional killing machines, or to put it more bluntly, they are desperadoes. The court has to rack its brains to arrange these desperadoes.
Li Chengliang stopped talking nonsense, picked up his tooth flag, picked up a bowl of wine, drank it all in one gulp, put the bowl aside, and said loudly: "Kill the thief!"
"Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Kill the thief!"
Li Chengliang got on his horse and set off towards Fushun Pass with 3,000 people. When he left Fushun Pass, he was a slave.
When it started to snow lightly in the sky, Qi Jiguang also set out in Yiyishi. He marched from Lijiabao in Yiyishi to Jinzhou in two days and two nights. This section of the road totaled 300 miles, and he marched 150 miles in one day and night. Two days of urgent march.
Liang Menglong, the Assistant Director of Military Affairs, would take the baggage behind and rush to Jinzhou in ten days. After Liang Menglong arrived, Qi Jiguang would lead three thousand soldiers and march to Shenyang again to take charge of Li Chengliang's previous defense area. This time was completely late. .
The remaining 7,000 troops were on guard against Chahan Khan from the third division of Ulliangha and besieged Jinzhou. Chahan Khan always asked for royal titles but failed, venting his frustrations and nagging all day long. Dong Hu went to Beigukou and Xifengkou to ask for pay. It is also to test the reality of Jizhen. If Jizhen does not have strong soldiers, he will repeat the old story of Anda Khan and stop plundering the capital and intimidating the court to make the king.
After Qi Jiguang leaves Yiyishi Lijiabao, Liu Yingjie will lead his troops to Yiyishi as a reserve team, ready to intervene on the battlefield at any time to support Qi Jiguang and other troops.
The little emperor was always a little strange about this extravagant method of warfare. If the Ming Dynasty had continued to fight like this, how could the northwest be in such a bad state? Anda Khan was beaten to the west a long time ago.
This method of warfare was formed after Qi Jiguang trained troops in Ji Town. The capital is the most important town in the world, and there are no strong soldiers in Jizhou. This type of strategy with two groups of strong troops as reserves is simply impossible to achieve.
Qi Jiguang marched to Jinzhou in a hurry. When Liang Menglong, the commander of the army, arrived, he started marching again. Just one day after leaving, a military report came from the front line. Li Chengliang had won and returned to Fushun Pass in triumph.
When Qi Jiguang arrived in Shenyang, Li Chengliang went out of the city to meet Qi Jiguang's reinforcements.
This is not the first time that Nan Qi and Bei Li have met. They had already met in the fifth year of Longqing when the two forced Chahan Khan to retreat.
"What a heroic soldier." Li Chengliang looked at the endless line of three thousand sharp soldiers behind Qi Jiguang and admired him sincerely. If his three thousand guest soldiers were half the size of these three thousand sharp soldiers, let alone Wang Gao, they would be ten. Eight of them could be crushed by him.
Qi Jiguang dismounted and asked, "How is the battle going?"
Li Chengliang took a deep breath and said: "Leave Fushun Pass and attack Gule Village. Then the troops divided into three groups and went to Jiefan Village, Maldun Village, and Lihong Village. They attacked one after another, besieged Jianzhou Guard, and defeated the chieftain Gao. Unbeatable, I took my two bodyguards and ran away without a trace. I chased him for three days and captured him in the mountains and forests. Deputy General Cao Yan captured Lai Lihong alive and killed more than 2,230 thieves. , captured more than 4,400 people and nearly 10,000 livestock."
When Qi Jiguang heard that Wang Gao and Lai Lihong had been captured, he said with great emotion: "Then didn't I come here in vain?"
Wang Gao almost escaped. Li Chengliang had been waiting for the snow, waiting for the opportunity to capture Wang Gao. If he was urged to attack on a day when it didn't snow, he was afraid that he would not be able to catch him. But this time the court He was so patient that he waited until it snowed heavily. Could he still let Wang Gao run away?
Li Chengliang said with a gloomy face: "We are all generals, and you also know that sometimes, winning is not necessarily a good thing, but not winning is a good thing. If you cover up, you will not be rewarded. Sin will not be forgiven, alas.”
When Qi Jiguang thought of the little emperor swearing, he shook his head and said, "Not anymore."
Harshly criticizing military generals for their merits and deeds, which is why this method of using swords and pens to defeat people and do bad things, will not happen in a short period of time, during the time when Zhang Juzheng is in the country.
Li Chengliang was also overjoyed when he heard this. He smiled and said: "Really? The DPRK and the Central Government are indeed different. I just said that this time in the war, there is no energy anywhere. I always feel that something is missing."
"Shackles?" Qi Jiguang thought for a while and said.
Li Chengliang laughed loudly and said with a big smile: "It's a little restrained, so I'm not strong enough. Oops."
Li Chengliang smiled, his face changed several times because of the wound, and he felt a little painful.
"Injured?" Qi Jiguang said in surprise.
Li Chengliang waved his hand and said: "When I captured Wang Gao, I was slightly injured in order to capture that bitch alive. I chased him for three days without eating, but I still captured him."
Li Chengliang didn't tell the truth. When he captured Wang Gao alive, Wang Gao actually had little strength. Li Chengliang also deliberately let off steam and beat him up, deliberately causing minor injuries. If the civil servants continued to impeach him, he would open his mouth lightly. If you want to provoke him, he will use this injury to talk about it, which is to express his feelings.
Military generals also have their own way of survival.
At this time, Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, did not fully want to build Liaodong into a vassal town like the Jin Party. He respected the invaders and relaxed his guard against favoring the enemy. Firstly, the conditions were insufficient. Secondly, Li Chengliang at this time had not yet seen the hearts of the literati. sinister.
In the original timeline, in the second year of Wanli, the fifth year of Wanli, and the eleventh year of Wanli, Li Chengliang successively killed Wang Gao, Tuman Chahan Khan Dazhang, Wang Gaozi's son Atai, and Jiannu. In the first eleven years, we were very serious and extremely efficient, mostly focused on annihilation.
Li Chengliang did not want to be the tyrant from the beginning. All this had to wait until Zhang Juzheng died, Zhang Juzheng was liquidated, Zhang Xueyan and Li Chengliang were included in the Zhang Party, and were impeached as Zhang Juzheng's party members. Only then did Li Chengliang become the leader of Liaodong. The General Bing and his sons successively took control of the power in Liaodong and became the emperor of Tu, and the co-owners of Beilu, Haixi Nüzhi and Jianzhou Nüzhi.
"Dad, are you okay?" Li Rusong was waiting beside him and hurriedly stepped forward, asking anxiously.
Li Chengliang's expression suddenly changed, and he immediately shouted angrily: "What occasion?! Call me Mr. Li!"
"General Li!" Li Rusong's face turned red. The father and son hadn't seen each other for more than a year, and his father still didn't give him any face.
Li Chengliang looked at Li Rusong who was really angry, and then cursed: "You are too arrogant. When you arrive in the capital, you dare to look down on Da Sima? When Da Sima was fighting against the Japanese pirates in Taizhou, you were still lying on the kang , You look stupid and happy when you piss yourself, you dare to yell at Da Sima, who do you think you are!"
"I have to be polite when I meet the Grand Sima. If someone accepts a greeting card from our family, we all have to kowtow! What a bastard!"
"Da Sima is open-minded and won't argue with you or me. Otherwise, neither of us, father and son, will be able to live without anything."
Li Chengliang was very angry at Li Rusong for provoking Tan Lun on the school grounds. Who could he offend? In the court hall, Da Sima said in a few words that the achievements that his father and son had worked hard for in their lives were all equal to zero.
"I was wrong. Grand Sima has already taught me a lesson, so don't reprimand General Li." Li Rusong's face turned even redder, and he was just provocative. He was beaten by a civil servant until he couldn't stand up. Li Rusong's rampant energy was completely suppressed. Dismissed.
Fortunately, Tan Lun had an open-minded nature and was very skilled in martial arts. He usually avenged a grudge on the spot and chopped Li Rusong directly on the school ground to settle the grudge. Otherwise, Li Chengliang would not know how to maintain this relationship.
There are people outside the world, and there is a sky outside the world. Be cautious in everything.
"Commander Qi, please come quickly." Li Chengliang took Qi Jiguang into the city. He first checked the important prisoners of war, including Lai Lihong, Wang Gao, Naiertu and other prisoners. Then he checked the harvest and learned the details. During the battle, Li Chengliang took Qi Jiguang to the Dragon King Temple to fulfill his vow.
Only then did Qi Jiguang know that Li Chengliang had even set up his cannon in front of the Dragon King Temple in order to ask for snow. If there was no snow, he would bombard the Dragon King Temple.
Fortunately, it started to snow soon. Li Chengliang made a lot of sacrifices and entertained the Lord Long. Face was given to each other. Prince Long gave face, and Li Chengliang naturally had to give face.
A total of twenty-one of Li Chengliang's guest soldiers were killed and sixty-seven were wounded.
The next day, Qi Jiguang led a thousand people out of Fushun Pass and inspected the details of the camps. Qi Jiguang walked very slowly. He also hoped that some people who were not short-sighted would jump out and experience the thousands of people. As a result, along the way, except for Birds and beasts did not let him train soldiers without being wise.
Qi Jiguang returned to Shenyang and planned to teach.
The battle process can be seen from the casualties. It was a completely one-sided situation. Even Wang Gao was captured. It was a complete annihilation battle.
"Back to Beijing, maybe we can catch up with the Chinese New Year." Qi Jiguang inspected the army again. This time, although there was no military merit in the long-distance training, he pulled the Beijing camp out for a solid training, which was very important to the Beijing camp. , also a huge growth.
"Why did Qi Shuai measure my size?" Li Chengliang finally asked the question in his heart. Qi Jiguang measured his size.
Qi Jiguang said with a smile: "Your Majesty gave me and Li Rusong a pair of iron armor. Let's talk to Your Majesty when we return to the court. He also gave General Li a set. Yu Shuai and Chen Lin also have them."
Li Chengliang said dullly: "That's really it. Thank God."
Iron Hunjia Li Chengliang knows what it is, Qi Jiguang has one, and Li Rusong has one too.
"General Li, I'm leaving then." Li Rusong did not want to stay in Liao Town and wanted to go back to Beijing with him.
"Go, go, what do you mean by the appearance of women and children? Good men are everywhere!" Li Chengliang waved his hand impatiently, signaling Li Rusong to get out of here.
Qi Jiguang set off with three thousand troops and headed towards Jinzhou. Li Chengliang kept watching Qi Jiguang leave with three thousand soldiers. He couldn't see his figure, so he looked a little lonely. Among his sons, Li Rusong was the most promising. Although on the surface, he chases people away impatiently, in fact, he is quite proud of this son. If he is capable, he is really capable, and if he is crazy, he is really crazy.
When he came back this time, Li Rusong's arrogance had been restrained, and he had become a general. It was obvious that Qi Jiguang was also focusing on training Li Rusong.
"Okay, that's great." Li Chengliang hummed a ditty and entered the pass. He won the battle. Isn't it a good thing?
The good news reached the capital, and the full pay, rewards, and pensions promised by the emperor were all sent to Shenyang. In addition, the governor Zhang Xueyan was appointed as the Minister of War, and Li Chengliang was awarded the title of Ning Yuanbo based on his merit. If you perform meritorious service, you will be awarded a world certificate and retire with the country.
"No, no, is it true, Your Majesty?" Li Chengliang looked at the pile of rewards and felt a little stupid. Everything was done. The emperor thought that the imperial court had suffered a huge loss and would not reissue the full salary or show any favor. Li Chengliang can also understand.
This is all a tacit plan. Li Chengliang has long been prepared to succeed without being impeached.
Silver, he really gave it to the little emperor.
His Majesty the Emperor also specially granted Liujue. Like Qi Jiguang, everyone is now a count.
Li Chengliang was so happy that the little emperor was young and not stingy at all. With this big wave of his hand, the whole Liaodong felt like it was Chinese New Year.
Zhang Xueyan looked at so many rewards and whispered: "Give the sergeants some Chinese New Year silver, one tael per person, seventy-two thousand silver. The patrol censors are all looking at you, afraid they are waiting to find your fault." .”
Li Chengliang waved his hand and said: "One person and two taels, everyone has a good year! The guest soldiers are paid. I'd like to bother Zhang Shilang and send someone to keep an eye on them. If the extra money is given, it will be sent to the hands of thieves."
"Your Majesty is generous, we can't be stingy, right?"
Li Chengliang fought this battle and was given 6,000 taels of silver before the war. With a wave of his hand, each of the Liaodong soldiers received 2 taels, which was 140,000 taels of silver. The court gave them 180,000 taels of silver after the full amount was spent, and more than half of it was spent. .
But Li Chengliang couldn't hold back his happiness, and the government changed. In the first year, the military generals were given a little power. Now they are not tied to the war, and they can receive rewards after the battle. This is the same beautiful thing as winning the battle.
Qi Jiguang rushed back to the capital three days before the new year, because it was a leap year in December, so he just returned to his hometown in two months.
The royal family had already started to sleep, and Qi Jiguang entered the palace on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month to report the war in Liaodong in detail again.
"General Li was in the Liao Dynasty. The barbarians were afraid of his reputation and relied on him to protect the border. They also condoned the plundering of his soldiers." Qi Jiguang looked at Li Chengliang's pacification of Gule Village from two angles. The attack was a real attack. We won, but in the case of Liaodong, winning alone is not enough.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "Without political victory, the bandits will come again after a short period of cleanup. When China is weak, they will take the opportunity to cause chaos, and there will be no peace again and again."
"But General Li has done the best he can, even getting injured in order to catch Gao, the rebel chieftain."
"Is there any sign of Li Chengliang's feudal status in Liaodong?"
Zhu Yijun asked straightforwardly and clearly.
"The capital camp is strong, and Li Chengliang will never dare to establish a feudal town in his life." Qi Jiguang said quite calmly: "When he saw the power of our military in the capital camp, he did not dare to despise the imperial court. Whether he wants to establish a feudal town or not is not up to him."
Qi Jiguang said this calmly and domineeringly. Since he dared to drag the Beijing camp to Shenyang, he wanted to show it to Li Chengliang, who was weighing whether he should fight hard and gain a title or become a local emperor and be quelled by rebellion.
"Qi Shuai hit the nail on the head." Zhu Yijun changed the subject and said: "Qi Shuai is not in the capital, and some people will bully me and my husband."
"Who!" Qi Jiguang's aura changed when he heard this and became cold and stern.
Zhu Yijun told Fu Yingzhen's story in detail, and then continued: "Fu Yingzhen has been requesting to become an official, but I refused, so he went to kowtow in front of the Huangji Gate. In the end, I had no choice but to agree to him and let him go." He has returned to his hometown after taking up his official duties."
"It's an advantage for him. Killing him will actually help him. Treating him poorly shows that I am careless. This guy has figured it out from the beginning. As long as I don't kill him, he can escape unscathed."
"In order to gain fame for a while, these officials of science and education would rather resist the imperial edict than dare to slander the popular opinion; they would rather violate the laws and disciplines of the public family than dare to violate the private entrustment. Mr. Their looks are so vividly drawn.”
After Qi Jiguang finished listening, he always felt that something was wrong. He said doubtfully: "Why do you think what your Majesty said seems, maybe, maybe, your Majesty is reprimanding and bullying the officials? Didn't your Majesty win?"
Qi Jiguang heard all the causes and consequences. No matter how it sounded, it sounded like His Majesty was bullying people, not that Fu Yingzhen was bullying the little emperor.
"Really?" Zhu Yijun frowned. He had already described himself as pitiful, but in the end he looked more like a bully?
Qi Jiguang said uncertainly: "Isn't it?"
"Maybe." Zhu Yijun also said with some uncertainty.
"But sir, you reminded me that the methods of these scientific officials, or Qingyi people, are really abominable." Zhu Yijun said about Zhang Juzheng's instructions.
If you look at the Jiajing period, the first twenty years, all the actions of the Emperor Jiajing can be regarded as a model of a wise king. He was strict with officials, strict with officials, lenient with the people, rectified the imperial code, reduced taxes and levies, and checked the land occupied by powerful officials. Returning the land to the people and so on, but in the 21st year of Jiajing, the Renyin Palace changed and the assassination of the emperor occurred, and the country took a sharp turn.
If we only look at the first fifteen years of Wanli, the Wanli Emperor can be called a wise man. There is even a saying that the Wanli Zhongxing saw a huge increase in national income, the return of land to the land, unprecedented prosperity of the commodity economy, the emergence of scientific greats, high-spirited and lively social customs, and Being able to solve the problem of national defense and border troubles can be said to be safe at home and abroad, and Yinfu at home. However, disappointment followed disappointment, and finally despair, the Wanli Emperor failed.
These courtiers were so vicious that they even used the trick of moisturizing things silently, and they were so cruel to a child.
"It's always been like this." Qi Jiguang heard what Zhang Juzheng said and felt the same way, but he didn't say much. With Zhang Juzheng in charge of the affairs of the court, the customs would not immediately become bad in a short period of time.
Zhu Yijun also shook his head when he heard this and said: "Isn't it true? The court officials have been reporting in recent days that Liang Menglong and Zhao Mengyou are quarreling again."
I'm going out to do errands today, maybe there will be some tonight, maybe not. Please give me a monthly ticket, wow! ! ! ! !
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