"Commander, there has been a major change in the enemy's situation. Jianlu is going to run away!" In the lobby of Pidao General Military Mansion, Ye Bushou, who came back, reported excitedly, "Jianlu is going to run away!"
Li Laiheng, who was on the throne, was a little surprised when he heard this, but then he understood what was going on. He immediately turned to Li Guo and Gao Yigong and said with a smile: "It must be the Duke who defeated the Jinzhou Jianlu army again." , and even captured alive Prince Heshuo Zheng, who scared Jianlu!"
A few days ago, the clipper sent by Zhang Mingwei had already conveyed the news. At the same time, he ordered the Dongjiang Army to choose the opportunity and give Jianlu a heavy blow on the eastern front and continue to attack and weaken Jianlu.
In addition, Emperor Chongzhen's previous rewards have also arrived. The biggest reward is for Li Guo. He has also been awarded the title of Pyongyang Bo. It can be said that it is a double happiness.
Hearing what he said, Li Guo immediately laughed and even said with a rare joke: "That must be the case, they are afraid of our navy! It's a pity that Lao Zheng is not here, otherwise he would say that there is water next to it." , don’t ask if the navy is stable, haha!”
"Hurry, we have to seize this opportunity and deal with the Jianlu captives again!" Gao Yigong heard this and quickly urged, "After they retreat to the interior, it will be difficult for us to attack!"
Li Laiheng and Li Guo had both been awarded titles. He saw it and was anxious in his heart. He wanted to make great achievements and get a title no matter what!
Hearing what he said, Li Laiheng also nodded, and immediately asked Ye Busuo, who was standing there with a giggle, "Please tell me more about the specific situation!"
So, Ye Bushou carefully reported what he saw.
Roughly speaking, in fact, the Jianlu along the coast had received Shengjing's order and began to pack up their things and return to the inland.
However, this cannot be done with just one sentence, and it cannot be done just by saying it. The crops in the fields need to be picked up, and the pots and pans at home need to be picked up. In short, this requires time.
After the Ming army landed ashore without stopping at night, they caught the lone Jianlu and found out these things after interrogation.
In fact, Jianlu also did this kind of thing after taking control of the Central Plains, which was to move the people inward and ban them from going to sea.
At that time, what they had to deal with were the original people of the Ming Dynasty, so they moved as soon as they were told to move, which would give them so much time to clean up the pots and pans. If they were grinding and chirping, they would have killed countless people with the swords and guns in their hands, and they would definitely not hesitate.
But right now, this one is one of their own. Even the Jianlu in many places were related to the Jianlu in the army, so naturally they could not deal with the Han people as ferociously as they did. It is natural to want to reduce the losses caused by in-migration.
After listening to Ye Buzuo's report, Li Laiheng felt that there was still a lot of time, so he asked Ye Buzuo to continue, and then began to discuss with Li Guo and others, and even sent someone to call the navy commander Zheng Hongkui to come over, and together Discuss things. Let’s see how during this internal relocation of the Jianlu people, the Xingguo bus came over on their behalf and gave the Jianlu people a hard blow on the eastern front.
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Zhenjiang Fort has not received any instructions to move inward. But people here naturally know about the inward relocation of other coastal areas.
Of course, although the news of Jinzhou's defeat was understated, this side also knew about it.
Maybe ordinary Jianlu just listened to this news. However, as Hong Chengchou, he came up with a lot of ideas at once.
The Battle of Jinzhou was definitely not as simple as the news said. It was just a defeat. Maybe like the Battle of Ningyuan, it was a huge defeat that the Qing Dynasty could not bear. Because of this, the Qing Dynasty made the decision to give up its plan to acquire important places such as Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou.
You know, giving up these places means giving up all the grain fields inland. The Qing Dynasty would never give up these grain fields unless it was absolutely necessary.
Just relying on this, Hong Chengchou dared to assert that the Battle of Jinzhou must have caused heavy losses to the Qing Dynasty.
Coming to this conclusion, he couldn't help but feel very melancholy: Why did the imperial court become more powerful after he was defeated and surrendered?
Of course, if he had to choose again, he would still choose to surrender. If not for other reasons, because if you don't surrender, you will be killed like Cao Bianjiao and Liaodong Governor Qiu Minyang, and then there will be nothing.
At this time, Hong Chengchou was only worried about Jianlu's future. If Jianlu was defeated, he knew in his heart that he would probably die, and his reputation would be damaged.
Unless the Qing Dynasty conquers the world, he can still be said to be a hero who understands current affairs. As a founding hero, he will be famous for generations!
However, judging from the current situation, this hope is becoming increasingly slim.
Hong Chengchou thought about the moment when he surrendered, and he knew very clearly in his heart: The Ming Dynasty was hopeless!
All the main forces were lost in the Battle of Songjin. As far as the imperial court was concerned, the bandits inside the pass could no longer be suppressed, and the Qing Dynasty outside the pass was invincible. The Ming Dynasty is not far away!
If he made suggestions for the Qing Dynasty, with the strength of the Qing Dynasty and the wisdom and prowess of the Qing Emperor, he would be able to conquer the Central Plains by winning over people's hearts.
This was what he was thinking when he first surrendered!
Then, the development of the situation really made him feel a bit weird!
First, I heard that the imperial court had evacuated all the soldiers and civilians outside Shanhaiguan into Shanhaiguan, and even Ningyuan had given up!
At that time, Hong Chengchou was a little surprised. Such a move would probably cause a fuss in the court. Anyone who dares to mention giving up outside the customs will be scolded to death by those censors and officials! However, things actually happened.
After that, unprecedentedly, the Ming cavalry took advantage of the main force of the Qing Dynasty to detour through the Mongolian grassland and raided the hinterland of Liaodong. The troops even reached Liaoyang. This was something that had never happened before, forcing the main force of the Qing Dynasty to return. .
If this was just an accident, then the subsequent reconstruction of the Dongjiang Army made Hong Chengchou immediately realize that this was the imperial court's conscious adjustment of its strategy towards the Liao Dynasty. The most important thing is that when it is implemented step by step, there is no restriction from the court to hold it back. This is really strange!
Although Hong Chengchou had heard about Duke Xingguo at this time, he was a little disapproving at first. No matter how powerful this Xing Guo Gong is, how does it compare with the original nine thousand years old?
At that time, all parts of the country, as long as they were ruled by the Ming Dynasty, built shrines to Nine Thousand Years Old. With such great power, it is impossible to unify the power of the court and turn things around.
Not to mention, the current situation within the pass is far worse than it was during the Tianqi years.
Hong Chengchou had full confidence in the situation after the Battle of Songjin. Even Taizu's rebirth would not be able to turn the tide!
But who knew that the subsequent situation would make him dumbfounded in the same way.
In the Battle of Ningyuan, the Ming army destroyed more than 30,000 Qing troops in a very short period of time. The Ming Dynasty had never had such a great victory, and the Qing Dynasty had never had such a great defeat! That battle really shocked so many people!
Compared with this, the annihilation of the Great Qing Navy was actually not that shocking.
However, although these things were not shocking enough, they happened one after another, including the fall of Seoul in North Korea and the defeat of 5,000 Qing troops. All these things indicate that the situation between the Qing and the Ming has substantially changed Changed.
As far as Hong Chengchou himself feels, the Qing Dynasty is still the Qing Dynasty before, and its strength has not weakened. But if such things happen one after another, the result can only be one: the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger!
This is what makes Hong Chengchou puzzled.
How many nights did he toss and turn, unable to sleep, because he couldn't figure out what kind of changes had taken place in the Ming Dynasty to make the situation become better day by day from the unsolvable situation? The most important thing is that this change has only occurred in just a few years!
Of course Hong Chengchou knew that since Duke Xingguo was a powerful official, all this could only have something to do with him.
This person, whom I had never seen before, suddenly appeared, and he turned out to be a man of extraordinary talent! Unless he combines the talents of Zhang Liang, Xiao He, and the talents of Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenix, how could all this happen?
Thinking about this, to be honest, Hong Chengchou felt very bitter in his heart. Such a person, why not him!
He was also a little unconvinced about this.
Just on the Qing Dynasty, the regent and the others were unable to deal with the Dongjiang Army, so they asked him for advice in desperation. He thought hard about a clever strategy, thinking that he could annihilate the Dongjiang Army in one fell swoop and change the Qing Dynasty's predicament.
Unexpectedly, the Dongjiang Army was born in the year of the Rabbit. They would run away at the slightest sign of trouble, so that they escaped the disaster and made his plan useless.
Afterwards, the Ming cavalry raided the grasslands and retaliated against the Mongolian tribes. To a certain extent, it was also Hong Chengchou's strategy that caused harm. However, the regent did not pursue it.
This made Hong Chengchou feel relieved, and at the same time, he hoped that he could come up with another brilliant idea to change everything in front of him.
However, before he could think of anything, Jinzhou was defeated and the Qing Dynasty coastal areas were about to give up. This made him further realize how difficult the situation in the Qing Dynasty was!
Suddenly, a thought came to his mind. Could it be that he was a disaster star and the forces he belonged to would become weaker and weaker?
well……
After sighing, he was of course unwilling to give up. After thinking hard for a few days, he reminded the guard of Zhenjiang Fort and asked him to tell Shengjing to beware of the Dongjiang Army taking advantage of the chaos to cause sabotage!
As a result, before the news was sent to Shengjing and there was no reply, news came from Kuai Ma, saying that the Dongjiang Army was dispatched in large numbers, landing in Jinzhou, Fuzhou and other places from the sea, sweeping across the wilderness with cavalry, and engaging in hit-and-run attacks. Withdrawing from the sea, the Qing cavalry who were pursuing after hearing the news had no choice.
At this time, the news from Shengjing also came back, and according to Hong Chengchou's suggestion, they stepped up their evacuation from the coast and dispatched heavy troops from the interior to escort them, so as not to give the Dongjiang Army a chance to destroy it.
The cavalry troops from Zhenjiang Fort were also mobilized to protect the inward movement of Jinzhou.
