Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 771 The Battle of Liaozuo (7)

Hun River.

"Old Zhou Ge, what do you think of the Liaozuo battle?"

Wen Tiren was not in a good mood, and looked at the silent Zhou Yanru, "Since His Majesty's royal driver was stationed in Liaozuo, the elite divisions of the various ministries who went out to battle opened the way with artillery, gradually reducing the scope of Jianlu's combat.

For more than a month, although some wars broke out, His Majesty did not launch an offensive for a long time. Although the losses of the elite ministries under his command were small, the money and food that could be consumed were countless.

According to this kind of attack, even if our army can drive Jianlu out of Liaozuo, the tolerable consumption of money and food is simply not what the court can afford. "

"This is what Honsuke is most worried about."

Zhou Yanru frowned, and lifted the sleeves of his robe, "Even if the grain is delivered to the front line, His Majesty will purchase grain from all over the Ming Dynasty in the way of government supervision and private management.

But the money spent is still huge.

According to the summary of Yujia's Chinese army, since Yujia's personal conquest until now, the expenditure just for military rations has reached as many as several million taels.

This does not include the consumption of other military supplies.

If everything is included, there will be an expenditure of nearly ten million taels. If this battle continues like this, the court may not be able to sustain it sooner or later. "

Whether it's Wen Tiren or Zhou Yanru, this group of civil servants who accompany them, although they say they have certain powers, but when it comes to matters at the military level, they don't have any powers, they only have the so-called right to make suggestions.

Even if it is the right to make suggestions, Emperor Chongzhen would not listen most of the time.

After all, for Emperor Chongzhen, the staff system he had previously created was very complete. Many things were accompanied by the staff system, which clarified various planning and deployment. The role of Emperor Chongzhen was to make decisions. Around this core, Clarify the deployment of the various ministries involved in the battle.

"In the past ten days or so, the battle situation on Liaozuo side was fairly clear, but the battle situation in Liaoxi, which is farther away, has become more and more intense."

Wen Tiren continued: "The Jianlu elite headed by Dorgon, engulfed Horqin, Chahar, Neikalkha and other Mongolian tribes, launched several fierce attacks on western Liaoning.

Even though Zhou Yuji led the various tribes in western Liaoning to resist this alien division, and Dorgon's subordinates suffered heavy losses, but the money and food consumed in western Liaoning were also extremely large.

Especially the firearms, artillery, etc. installed by various ministries, the military industry under the rule of Western Liaoning has fully supplied the needs of various ministries in Western Liaoning, and no longer sends them to the left front of Liaoning. "

"What worries me the most is not the Liaozuo front, nor the situation in the Liaoxi battle."

Zhou Yanru sighed softly, and looked at Wen Tiren, "Mr. Wen Ge, you should have learned something about it. Affected by the front-line war, the cabinet, including the governors of the North, have taken severe measures to forcibly stable situation.

For example, in Henan, Sun Chuanting experimented with sharing the income from the farmer to the mu, and now he has also begun to try it in Henan, where the officials and gentry in Shaanxi are integrated into one to pay food and errands.

This has caused great dissatisfaction among the people in Henan.

Judging from these trends, if the battle situation on the Liaozuo front cannot come to an end as soon as possible, the country will be threatened and changed internally. "

None of the group of officials who can be officials in the court is stupid. On the contrary, they are all very smart. As time goes by, the civil officials who followed Emperor Chongzhen on the expedition gradually figured out the truth.

That is, today's emperor's personal conquest, what he wants to promote is not simply to suppress the rebellion and build captives, but more to transfer part of the contradictions through war, so that the reformers who stay in the court and the local area can use this as an excuse to make a better The implementation and expansion of the scope of the reform.

This is the most terrifying.

Part of the conflict was transferred through the war, and the conflict was eased with actual benefits. Food, spirits, etc. needed for the front line were all managed by the government and the private sector, so that some groups could earn benefits, and then exchanged for their support for the New Deal.

This is Yang Conspiracy!
An upright conspiracy.

As long as Da Ming can hold the initiative in the battle situation on the left front of Liao Zuo, so as not to suffer a disastrous defeat on the front line, then this delicate balance can continue to operate.

……

Yujia Zhongjun.

"Based on this, the consumption of our army on the front line in this battle is actually not too much." Emperor Chongzhen leaned on the handsome chair, looked at Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin who had been summoned, and showed a smile.

"In exchange for the benefits from North Korea, the Xishan Mint has accelerated the casting of new coins. These two items alone have allowed the court to obtain millions of taels of silver out of thin air.

Affected by the consumption needs of the Liaozuo front, western Liaoning, southern Liaoning, Tianjin, Denglai and other places, affiliated industries operating around the military industry, have begun intensive preparations for the construction of new workshops.

Ok.

After this battle, the national treasury and internal funds may bear a lot of burdens, but there have been major changes in the local area, which has laid a solid foundation for future tax law reforms such as commercial tax, mining tax, customs duty, and taxation tax. "

Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin showed complicated expressions.

Just now they have been talking about military matters, but the emperor mentioned it, which made the two of them wonder what to say for a while.

"You two gentlemen, do you feel that I have put the cart before the horse?"

Seeing the two of them like this, Emperor Chongzhen put down the memorial in his hand and stood up, "I feel that even though our army has advanced tens of miles in the Liaozuo battle until now, the country has suffered too much loss. If it continues, will it collapse sooner or later?"

"I dare not wait."

The two bowed to each other immediately.

"Hehe, it's nothing if I have such an idea."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and waved his hands, then walked towards the war sand table, picked up the baton, and continued: "You two gentlemen know that just a few days ago, the Yongwei Battalion led by Zhou Yuji had crossed the front line of defense in western Liaoning and killed them in a roundabout way. Going to the territory of Neikalkha? The more than [-] Guanning iron cavalry under Mangui's command have left the territory of Shanhaiguan and headed towards the territory of Chahar and Horqin?"

what? !

Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin, who heard this, looked shocked and looked at Emperor Chongzhen in disbelief.

According to their previous knowledge, whether it is the battlefield in western Liaoning or Shanhaiguan, the troops stationed there are mainly based on defending the line of defense, which is what Emperor Chongzhen has been emphasizing.

But why is there such a turning point now?

"The war against the Jianlu, I would like to call it the shameful battle of Ming Dynasty, and a battle requires many battles."

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "From the very beginning, I never thought of confining the campaign to Liaozuo, which would be a waste of Ming's national power and advantages.

The reason why I didn't say this before is because some strategic plans need to be implemented more resolutely, and I don't want to encounter any impact.

In war, what is fought is national strength, and what is fought is money and food!

This is something everyone knows.

The reason why I was on the Liaozuo front line before, using such a way of consuming money and food, gradually pushed forward, and at the same time coerced the Liaodong rebels to push forward, was to firmly attract the attention of Jianlu. "

"Your Majesty, have you thought about it?"

Wang Zaijin said: "The Yongwei camp led by Zhou Yuji, and the Guanning iron cavalry under the jurisdiction of Shanhaiguan, such a large-scale killing and rushing to Chahar, Neikalkha, Horqin and other Mongolia, once the Jianlu army who invaded western Liaoning knows , then they will definitely abandon Liaoxi, and then besiege them, if we say..."

"Qing family, have you forgotten about He Kegang?"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled slightly and said, "The battle in western Liaoning was never a marionette war, but I gave them corresponding powers.

How to fight the battle, they make adjustments according to the situation.

I have only one sentence for the battle situation in western Liaoning, consume the foreign coalition forces that invaded western Liaoning, as long as the foreign coalition forces led by Dorgon dare to withdraw from Chahar, Neikalkha and other departments, in an attempt to encircle and suppress the Yongwei camp, Guan Ning Tieqi, the elite troops stationed in western Liaoning, will launch an offensive accordingly. "

From the disastrous defeat in the Battle of Saerhu in the late Wanli Dynasty to the second year of Chongzhen, the Ming army has been suffering various disastrous defeats and defeats. The most fundamental point is that the generals who lead the battle do not have the corresponding initiative. .

Some civilian officials who don't understand the military commanded and mixed indiscriminately, causing the fleeting fighters to be wasted for nothing, which led to tragic things.

But the current Ming army, at least under the rule of the northern provinces, is already different.

In this shameful battle of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Chongzhen wanted a lot, not only to suppress the rebellion and build captives, he wanted to set a standard framework for the Ming army, and he wanted the broken spine to grow back again. Under the rule of the northern provinces, affected by the Liaozuo front-line war, they entered a mode of rapid development.

If this is not the case, Emperor Chongzhen would never conquest himself!
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, the high-ranking Jianlu people gathered in Liaozuo will surely know the changes in Liaoxi." Sun Chengzong thought for a while, looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said.

"Hehe...The variables they need to know are not limited to Liaoxi."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and raised his baton, pointing to Yahuguan and Kuandian Forts, "During the stalemate in the Liaozuo battle, the Pinglu army and Tang Wang army were not idle either.

Affected by some factors in the past, the Yujia Central Army did not receive their military report, but it was also a few days ago that the urgent report from the Pinglu Army had already besieged Hetuala.

Counting the time, Hetuala at this time should have been captured by the Pinglu Army and the Tang Wang Army. This is the shortcoming of the Jianlu Eight Banners hiding in the dark, and the core combat power under their command is too small. "

"!!!"

Sun Chengzong and Wang Zaijin were shocked again. Hetuala, the former lair of Jianlu, was besieged by the Pinglu Army and Tang Wangjun?

"If His Majesty's speculation is correct."

Wang Zaijin couldn't hide his shock, and he was a little emotional, "If Hetuala is captured by the imperial court, then the Pinglu Army and Tang Wang Army can go all the way westward, along the Suzi River Valley, all the way to Maldun Village, Gule Village, and Jiefan City. press on.

If the high-level officials of Jianlu knew about this kind of news, the morale of the Jianlu Eight Banners would definitely drop, and the situation surrounding the Liaozuo battlefield would become clearer. "

"Now it's up to Jianlu."

The corners of Emperor Chongzhen's lips were slightly raised, and he said arrogantly: "As long as there is a change in the Jian captives, then the Shenji Battalion led by Cao Wenzhao and the Liao Army led by Huang Degong can take advantage of the situation to launch an offensive.

Wars depend on generals who are good at fighting.

I have repeatedly emphasized this from the very beginning. If the Ming army wants to avenge its shame and grow its backbone again, it must pay attention to army building.

Governing the world is the job of civil servants.

Marching and fighting are the affairs of generals.

If these two things are mixed together, it will cause tragedies in the past, and from this moment on, Daming must make corresponding adjustments! "

Emperor Chongzhen poured in a huge amount of money for the imperial conquest, he wanted to achieve many political goals, and he wanted to achieve many strategic plans.

If what he thought could be realized one by one, let alone spending nearly ten million taels, even if he invested 2000 million taels, it would be a sure-fire deal.

"Your Majesty, have you overlooked something?"

Sun Chengzong looked a little hesitant, looked at Emperor Chongzhen and said.

"The Qing family wants to talk about Li Zicheng?"

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes were determined, "If Li Zicheng didn't want to be overthrown by Ming Dynasty, then he wouldn't have any other ideas. Liaodong is the Liaodong of Ming Dynasty.

This is a fact that no one can change.

What's more, even if Li Zicheng had evil intentions and wanted to plot against me, then the Ming Yulin Army under my command is also not a vegetarian! "

The imperial conquest has continued until now, and the elite troops stationed on the left front of Liaodong have shown their formidable strength. This is not only a deterrent to Jianlu, but also a deterrent to the rebels in Liaodong.

Emperor Chongzhen believed that Li Zicheng was a smart man. If he dared to do anything to disturb the progress of Ming Dynasty at this time, then what awaited Li Zicheng would be a strong and resolute blow. This is the sadness of being subordinate to Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)