At Mao o'clock the next day, the wind and rain in Gule City had stopped. Because it is built on the top of a mountain, there is no worry about waterlogging. Except for the muddy roads, Gule City is no different from yesterday.
But in the commander's residence, Wang Gao's face was still covered with dark clouds, and his nose was flaring under his red eyes, indicating that thunder was about to strike.
Kneeling on the ground in front of the hall were his eldest son Atai and the three generals responsible for guarding the city and patrolling the night. Except for Atai, the backs of these generals were dripping with blood and they had already received a round of whipping.
After being suppressed in silence for a while, Wang Gao finally jumped up and hit Atai with the whip in his hand.
Atai knew that Mafa was venting his dissatisfaction with him, but he was indeed deceived by Chamberlain with gifts and relaxed his vigilance. There was nothing to argue with, so he shrugged and was beaten without struggling.
Wang Gao vented for a while, and most of his anger was gone. He sat down, took a sip of tea, and asked, "How did that little bitch escape?"
Atai knelt down and replied: "From the reports this morning, it can be inferred that Chamberlain and three... little bitches first killed the gatekeeper Tarado at his son's house in the middle of the night and escaped. Then on the road Encountering a night patrol, Chamberlain launched a surprise attack and killed a team of five people - Chamberlain was also injured and had a little finger chopped off."
When Wang Gao heard that the death of the five-man team was only caused by Chamberlain's finger, he became furious again and smashed the tea cup to the ground, breaking it into pieces.
When Atai saw it, he thought that those were all fine porcelain, and Mafa was a waste of money.
Wang Gao asked: "Chamberlain has three heads and six arms? Can he kill five of my people in an instant?" Atai replied: "Two of them were killed while peeing on the street corner. They should have encountered Chamberlain hiding there. My son shot him in the morning Asked, someone among the remaining three people shouted, but because of the heavy rain, no one came out to check."
After hearing this, Wang Gao stared at the general in charge of night patrol with a sinister look, and his hand with the whip trembled slightly. The general's teeth chattered and he lowered his head and said nothing.
Atai continued: "They later fled to the city wall. They didn't know what they used to hook onto the battlements, and climbed up the wall. While hiding on the city wall, they killed two more soldiers patrolling the wall, and then came from outside. The wall dropped."
Wang Gao calmed down and asked: "Where can they run on this rainy day? Have you sent anyone to chase them?"
Atai smiled bitterly and said: "This Buren is very cunning. Yesterday he brought two strong horses and put them in the stables on the other side of the pier. Last night he killed Ma Qige and four soldiers who were watching the pier - they were all killed. Kill on the kang."
"He took his own horse, um, and a good horse from the stable, and swam across the river. If the three horses had been replaced, they would not be able to catch up now. - This thief is still alive The horse feed was mixed with poison, and a number of horses in the stable were poisoned to death."
Wang Gao was so angry after hearing this. With trembling lips, he asked, "How many horses have been poisoned?"
Atai raised his head slightly to look at his father's expression, and saw that his face was flushed and his eyes were fierce, and his heart pounded.
He lowered his head and whispered: "Because it rained yesterday, many families put their horses in the stables. More than 20 horses were poisoned to death, and a dozen horses that survived were also crippled."
After hearing this, Wang Gao seemed to be too angry by Chamberlain's operation. He suddenly calmed down and asked Atai in a deep voice: "What else is there to lose? Tell us together."
Atai said: "He opened the bags where the salt and tea leaves were stored on the dock and left them open - the son didn't know if poison was mixed in them. The tea leaves were probably still usable after being washed and dried. He didn't dare to eat the salt. There’s no way to wash it either.”
Wang Gao: "...,..."
On the third day, Liu Shou, director of the Military Intelligence Division of the Jizhou Bureau, received a secret message from Chamberlain through intelligence channels. In a secret letter, Chamberlain explained what he had done in Gule City. After apologizing, he also informed Liu Shouyou that he and his third sister would no longer return to the army. From then on, they would never see each other again.
Although Chamberlain promised not to tell a third person the inside story of the Jinyiwei Intelligence Agency, Liu Shouyou's head was still exploding. A total of two spies from the Jizhou Bureau who had won the third-class White Jade Plum Blossom Medal ran away together. This was definitely Jin Yiwei's biggest scandal in the second year of Wanli.
The seriousness of the incident was such that no one dared to hide it. After Liu Shouyou calmed down, he could only report it to everyone and plead guilty. At the same time, he sent an intelligence agent to urgently notify Jiliao Governor Liu Yingjie and Commander-in-Chief Li Chengliang, asking them to decide whether to advance military operations based on the latest developments.
After receiving the report, the Jinyiwei headquarters did not dare to conceal it and immediately reported it to Zhu Yijun. Zhu Yijun wanted to read the Jizhou Bureau's report and Chamberlain's secret letter, and could only smile bitterly.
He knew that although he would be a cadre in later generations, he would have a dark eye on the working procedures, confidentiality regulations, and handling of defectors on the intelligence front, and he would take it for granted that something would go wrong.
The escape of Chamberlain and Sanjieer fully exposed the management chaos within Jinyiwei and the lack of personnel control and other means and systems. Especially because Chamberlain joined the Jinyiwei earlier, his personnel file has not been updated for more than ten years - judging from the fact that he ran away, there is probably no place to find his family now.
Although such a person is capable, it is an insult to war, the highest means of political struggle, to put the important military responsibility on his shoulders.
Zhu Yijun gave a long instruction in the report of the Jizhou Bureau, asking all Jinyiwei to take this case as a lesson, draw inferences from one example, criticize their crude means of controlling personnel by using only harsh family laws, and ordered them to come up with improvement measures.
Zhu Yijun requested that the management of intelligence personnel should pay equal attention to incentives and control. Internal regulations should be formulated and rewards and punishments should be divided into more detailed levels; all personnel should be repeatedly instilled with discipline and confidentiality rules to make them It forms a subconscious mind and does not dare to violate the red line.
Personnel files must be updated and reviewed every year, so as to better understand the mental state of personnel when dispatched to undertake major tasks. Not only must they look at their ability, but also their loyalty must be ensured; the most important thing is to strengthen national and national education so that all Jinyiwei officers and soldiers understand what they are doing. What exactly is the responsibility?
Zhu Yijun was not very worried about the consequences of the incident. Wang Gao is already a lost dog with a broken back, and he will be killed quickly by the thunder blowing through his hole. Just as Liu Yingjie and Li Chengliang judged in the memorial, as long as Gule City is captured, other Jurchen tribes can eat up the remaining forces of Wang Gao.
On the contrary, we need to use our brains to deal with the Jurchen's follow-up. It is obviously inappropriate to still adopt the strategy of restraining the army after a great victory.
Regarding the investigation of Jin Yiwei's responsibility for Chamberlain's escape, Zhu Yijun did not get angry. After all, it was a problem of the system and mechanism, not people. Therefore, everyone from Wang Tong to Liu Yingjie and other related people will take the blame and seek merit, and their original positions will remain unchanged - Dongchang will be abolished before the end of the year, and then these people will have to be rearranged.
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Chamberlain, this little butterfly, flapping his wings led to the adjustment of the entire military operation in Liaodong. On August 15, when the Donglu people thought that the soldiers and civilians of Liaodong were harvesting grain and celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Chengliang led all 30,000 cavalrymen in Liaodong to come out and surrounded Longtoushan like a sudden drop of magic troops.
The cavalry dismounted and changed into infantry. They attacked Gule City from the bottom of the mountain and reached the bottom of the city the next day.
In the third year of Wanli in the original time and space, Li Chengliang led 60,000 horsemen to besiege the city and could not capture it for a long time. In the end, Wang Gao's men betrayed him and finally broke the city.
In the second year of Wanli in this time and space, Zhu Yijun had repeatedly discussed his next step in governing Liaodong with Zhang Juzheng, Liu Yingjie, Qi Jiguang and others. This battle resolutely implemented the fundamental principle that war is a continuation of politics, and the purpose of war is to achieve political goals. purpose.
Under the guidance of this war thought, Li Chengliang's tribe did not make any move to recruit surrender. After surrounding Gule City, the craftsmen accompanying the army began to build simple catapults.
The Royal Horse Supervisor Zhang Jing sent capable personnel to bring the kerosene mixture that Zhu Yijun had instructed the inner government to research and produce according to local oil refining methods last year - the technical limit is the mixture, and it cannot be separated even further - to Gule There are forty barrels under the city, totaling one thousand catties.
On August 18, Li Chengliang's troops used a trebuchet to throw clay pots filled with kerosene into the city, and then set off rockets. This move turned Gule City into a huge torch, which burned for four days and three nights. The sky-high flames illuminated the entire Liaodong.
After the war, an inventory found that only 30 people in Gule City, including Wang Gao, survived hiding in the well. Zhu Yijun basically fulfilled the third sister's wish to "cut off the roots and die" of Wang Gao's family.
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After Chamberlain escaped with his third sister, Wang Gao expected that the Queen of Liaodong would attack the city in the autumn. In order to spread the risk, he sent his two sons out. As the heir, the eldest son Atai sought asylum and alliance with Wang Tai, the leader of the Haixi Jurchen Hada tribe; the second son followed his sister-in-law to the Juechang'an tribe and stayed there in the name of visiting relatives. In Jianzhou left guard.
As soon as the fire was extinguished, Jue Chang'an, the leader of Jianzhou's left guard, poisoned his granddaughter to death, killing one and two, and sent her body to Liaoyang. Wang Gao's second son, who was only sixteen years old, was sent to the capital. General Wang Tai, the leader of the Haixi Jurchen tribe, ran to his house and kidnapped Atai, and sent them to the capital together with the heads of thirty personal soldiers.
After the three members of the Wang family, father and son, were sacrificed to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Wang Gao was not beheaded in the capital as he was in the original time and space. Instead, they were sent to Fushun, where the imperial court would meet with various Jurchen tribes. These three would have another use then.
Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, finally realized his wish to be ennobled. He was rewarded by the earl for his role in destroying Wang Gao. The person who was rewarded together with him was Qi Jiguang, the deputy mountain chief of Nanyuan Martial Arts. He was awarded the count for his contribution to fighting against the Japanese and defeating Dong Kuli in Jizhen.
