I saw another cavalry troop galloping in from the direction of Yaozhou Post. They dispersed near the outside of Gaizhou City to join the Jianlu Tanma who were originally scattered outside the city.
When Lu Xiangsheng saw this, he couldn't help but frown, and thought to himself: Could it be that the war at Yaozhouyi had reached a critical moment, and the slave chief was afraid that reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty would arrive and catch him off guard, so he sent additional patrols to monitor the surrounding area. The troops there?
If this is the case, it means that the Jianlu must have the advantage over Yaozhou Station. Otherwise, the slave chief would not have any extra troops to send out.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly became nervous. The safety of the Holy Emperor was the most important matter in the Ming Dynasty. Although he believed that with the emperor's ability to command troops, everything should be fine, but he couldn't stand the scene that happened in front of him!
Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but wander around Gaizhou City, feeling a little unsure of his decision.
According to his true feelings, since the war at Yaozhou Station has reached a critical moment and the Ming Dynasty is still at a disadvantage, then he, Lu Xiangsheng, should use all his troops in Gaizhou. Even if Gaizhou does not defend, he should go to reinforce Yaozhou Station in the war!
However, before leaving, Emperor Chongzhen gave a strict order to Lu Xiangsheng to guard Gaizhou and there was no need to worry about Yaozhouyi. If you send troops privately, you will be disobeying the order.
Emperor Chongzhen was the emperor he respected the most, and Lu Xiangsheng would never be able to do anything like disobedience. However, if you really follow the order, should you just watch and wait for the Yaozhouyi War to decide the winner? If the Ming Dynasty really loses, when the winner is decided, it will be the beginning of a catastrophe!
Another reason that made Lu Xiangsheng hesitate was that he did not have a cavalry army in his hands. Those left behind to guard Gaizhou City were all infantry. If you want to rush to Yaozhou Station, which is 60 miles away, under the harassment of the Jianlu cavalry, it will definitely take more than two days. If there is an obstruction by the Jianlu, it will take even more days. Whether Gaizhou's reinforcements will be useful is still unknown!
Lu Xiangsheng was wandering, his steps getting faster and faster, and two thoughts were fighting with each other in his mind.
Suddenly, he stood up and turned to look outside the city. With determination in his eyes, he shouted sternly: "Come here, pass on my military order..."
His personal guards were originally paying attention to his abnormal behavior, so as soon as he opened his mouth, some of his personal guards immediately stepped forward and clasped their fists in anticipation.
But after waiting for a while, Lu Xiangsheng still didn't speak. I was a little curious, so I looked up and saw the governor looking outside the city with a look of astonishment.
As a result, the guards also turned to look outside the city. Suddenly, he was also stunned.
I saw far outside the city, the Jianlu who had just passed by, after joining the Jianlu patrol horses over there, talking and laughing with each other, and seemed to be in harmony. However, suddenly, they started fighting with each other again.
Lu Xiangsheng's eyesight has always been good, but after looking at it for a while, he understood. It was the Jianlu Tanma who were later attacked suddenly, and there were so many of them, that they cut down most of the Jianlu Tanma to the ground. The Jianlu Tanma who survived were immediately besieged and had no way of escaping.
"Why are we fighting?" Lu Xiangsheng reached out and subconsciously stroked his long beard, frowning and saying to himself.
His personal guard heard this and came to his senses, and excitedly guessed: "Could it be that those people are our Ming soldiers pretending to be soldiers?"
"No!" When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he immediately shook his head and categorically rejected, "I can see clearly that those are the Tatars, not our Ming Dynasty soldiers!"
That's strange. Why did Jianlu suddenly start fighting among himself?
When they were wondering what was going on, they heard the sound of hurried footsteps, but it was the officer on duty on the other side who came to report that he had discovered an internal fight among the prisoners outside the city and started a fight himself.
When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was surprised again. He quickly asked about the situation, and finally found that the situation was the same as what he saw here. They were all later Jianlu, who suddenly attacked the original Jianlu Tanma.
If Jianlu was just a sudden internal fight in one place, it might be caused by a sudden violent conflict among themselves. This is possible. However, now that the same situation exists in other places, it is definitely not a coincidence, but that there is definitely something wrong with the later Jianlu. Maybe he was ordered to kill the original Jianlu Tanma.
However, this doesn’t seem to make sense!
Just when Lu Xiangsheng was wondering, he heard one of his subordinates report: "Sir, a prisoner is coming!"
As soon as he heard this, he looked up and saw a prisoner in the direction of the fight. He did not carry any swords, guns, bows and arrows. He even hung his helmet on his horse and was driving his horse over with both hands raised. Obviously, there is something to say.
So, Lu Xiangsheng ordered not to fire arrows and shoot, and then looked at the Jianqi curiously, wondering what this man wanted to say?
I saw this Jianlu getting closer and closer, and I could see clearly that he still had a head hanging on his waist, with blood dripping all the way. Needless to say, these heads should be those of those who built prisons and scouted horses.
The man didn't stop until he reached the edge of the moat. Then he looked up at the city and shouted loudly in Ming Mandarin with an accent: "Brothers, colleagues, we are here to annihilate the Jurchens on the orders of the Ming Emperor. We are injured." Brothers, can you send someone to rescue me?"
Upon hearing this, the city suddenly became extremely quiet: On the orders of the Ming Emperor, came to annihilate the Jurchens?
Lu Xiangsheng was just stunned for a moment, then came to his senses immediately and shouted loudly: "I am the governor of Baoding. If my guess is correct, you are from the eastern Mongolian tribe, and you are not among the troops led by the emperor." wait."
Hearing this, the Ming army officers and soldiers on the city came to their senses and nodded one after another. They did not recognize the Jianlu outside the city. Even if he was pretending, he should have just had a haircut and had a money rat tail, but looking at that forehead, it didn’t look like he had just had his hair cut!
Thinking like this, some soldiers of the Ming Army wanted to shout loudly to expose the fact that this man wanted to trick his colleagues in Gaizhou into leaving the city.
But at this moment, he saw the man patting himself on the forehead, seeming to come back to his senses, and then shouted to the top of the city: "Master Governor? The battle at Yaozhouyi is over, the Jurchens have all fled, and the rest of our tribes All of them surrendered. But the emperor has decreed that those of us who surrendered must have the heads of Jurchens in order to become real soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, we will become military slaves and we can become real soldiers after three years. Soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!"
At this point, in order to show that his words were credible, he took off the hanging head, raised it high and said loudly: "Look, the villain has captured a Jurchen head, and the villain is already a real soldier of the Ming Dynasty! "
His words made Gaizhou City quiet for a while.
Although what this man said might be a lie, the head in his hand was real. They saw it with their own eyes, so there was no way it could be fake. In this way, you can also say the other way around, what this person said is the truth.
After understanding this, fanatical cheers suddenly sounded from the top of the city.
"The Ming Dynasty will be victorious!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
"..."
Lu Xiangsheng also smiled. It seemed that his worries were in vain. Think about it, the emperor is wise and powerful, and every time he fights, he is invincible. Since the emperor is sure that the war will be successful before leaving, why should he be so worried? Don't he have any confidence in the emperor?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel ashamed!
In Lu Xiangsheng's view, not only were there heads as evidence, but also a series of unreasonable things that he just saw, all had reasonable explanations, including the arrangement of these demoted soldiers, which was also consistent with Lu Xiangsheng's understanding of Emperor Chongzhen. Therefore, He had just confirmed that the man outside the city was telling the truth.
So, he waved his hand and ordered his personal guards to carry the injured into the city for treatment. At the same time, he also called the man outside the city to come in. He had something to ask in person.
"The war in Yaozhouyi was very tragic, wasn't it?" Lu Xiangsheng's first question asked what he was most concerned about, "I wonder how the emperor is doing, and what are the casualties of our army?"
"..." His first question left the man speechless.
Tragic? Ming army casualties? What is this and what?
Seeing that he didn't speak, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but feel nervous. His expression, which had been relaxed just now, suddenly became serious, and he quickly asked: "Why, there are heavy casualties? Is the emperor okay?"
Hearing this, the man came back to his senses and couldn't help but have a dumbfounded expression on his face, looking at the misunderstanding.
However, the man in front of him was the Governor of Baoding in the Ming Dynasty. He did not dare to neglect. He quickly collected his thoughts and immediately reported seriously: "Go back to the Governor, for the Ming army... our army, there is not much fighting at all, and for Jian For the captives, the casualties were indeed heavy, and now the only ones who have escaped are the Jurchens..."
The more he listened, the stranger it became, and Lu Xiangsheng became confused. This war is equivalent to the decisive battle between Ming Dynasty and Jianlu. No matter what, there must be a fierce war, right? However, this man said that there was not much fighting at all, and Jianlu suffered heavy casualties. Could it be that the emperor spread the beans and formed an army, so the officers and soldiers just watched the show and did not fight much?
As soon as this idea came up, Lu Xiangsheng drove it away. As a last resort, he asked the man to tell the whole story in detail.
This person's knowledge was limited, so he told what happened from his perspective. Orally speaking, it is inevitable that there will be some discrepancies with the facts, and some places are exaggerated a lot. However, in front of Lu Xiangsheng, he was able to see a little bit. Based on the analysis of the situation he had mastered, he roughly understood how the emperor defeated Jianlu.
Once he understood this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but admire him. He was sure that the emperor's several battles, including this one, would become classic battles and be mentioned by future generations.
Let me ask, in the past, when we used less to fight more, could we have such a great victory with such a loss ratio?
It is said that the military general Qi Jiguang of this dynasty had the lowest battle loss ratio in all dynasties. However, now that the current emperor has shown his talent in leading troops in war, the position with the lowest battle loss ratio must be filled by the emperor! The idea of killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to oneself simply does not exist with the Emperor.
Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but feel very ashamed when he remembered that he had won the battle of Pyongyang! In that battle, he crippled the Dongjiang Army. Thanks to the emperor's reinforcements and pay, it took him more than a year to recover some of his strength.
Lu Xiangsheng thought about this, turned his head and looked outside the city, and suddenly felt that the sky and this place had become friendly. From now on, this place will return to the Ming Dynasty again!
The emperor's strategy of removing fuel from the cauldron was very successful, and Jianlu's granary was cut off in one fell swoop. Even if many Jianlu people escape, this winter will definitely be a disaster for them!
Next, we should not use troops anymore, just wait for the spring to bloom next year. Lu Xiangsheng is confident about this.
Sure enough, in the evening, Emperor Chongzhen's decree was conveyed to Gaizhou, asking him to prepare, settle down the soldiers, and wipe out the remaining Liaodong Jianqiu, and wait until the next year. In addition, Emperor Chongzhen also asked him to inform the navy to prepare to transport troops back to the capital.
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At this time, in Yaozhouyi, Emperor Chongzhen was using up his brain cells even more than during the war.
In ancient wars, the most feared thing was an expedition, which did not mean that the soldiers were tired, but that the supplies of food and grass were difficult. With the traffic at this time, the food transported to the destination is probably not as much as consumed on the road. Shipping is better, but it also consumes a lot of food, and you also have to worry about shipwrecks, etc.
Therefore, in ancient times, a million-strong army was simply nonsense. There was simply no such high logistics capability to ensure the supply of food and grass materials for a million-strong army.
Moreover, every time I look at ancient wars, the loss of food supply is often the most fatal. Far away, for example, the Battle of Wuchao in the Battle of Guandu was the decisive battle. In the Songjin War in original history, the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou was ultimately defeated by Jianlu because the food route was cut off.
If it weren't for the limitations of the food and grass issue, Emperor Chongzhen would of course be willing to "pursue the remaining brave men to chase the poor bandits", and he would be able to recover all of Liaodong in one battle. However, food is limited. If the front continues to advance, the consumption of food and grass will be even greater. However, Liaodong, an originally barren place, was hit by his previous strategy. It was almost impossible to even see wild vegetables, and there was no way to replenish them on the spot.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen could only return to Beijing with his troops first.
The Hussars battalion sent to pursue Jianlu had already reported back, saying that Jianlu had burned Haizhou and retreated directly to Anshan Posthouse.
Emperor Chongzhen already knew this news by eavesdropping on the seed feedback. Therefore, he was not surprised and responded quickly. He continued to leave about 5,000 hussars battalion to garrison in Liaodong. Under Lu Xiangsheng's command, all other troops returned to Beijing.
"Ah, it's just a pity that a Class-A eavesdropping seed was lost." When leaving Yaozhou Station, Emperor Chongzhen sighed with emotion, "This Azige is such a waste!"
However, fortunately, every time a battle is won, the system will send eavesdropping seeds. Therefore, he just sighed with emotion, and his thoughts quickly turned to the capital. If Xue Guoguan, the first assistant, had problems, he had to go back and solve them himself.
