Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 130 Deploying troops to aid Liaoning
"Fortunately, I did as I said..."

On March [-]th, when Jin Yiwei reported the situation of Shenyang City back to the capital by means of pigeons, the capital also quickly passed the information to the Yanshan Camp.

At this moment, the Yanshan camp is very empty. Since the border defense of Jizhen has been taken over, Man Gui is in Shanhaiguan in Yongping, and Sun Yingyuan is in Tongzhou, not far from the capital.

The [-]th Guards Army and the [-]th Battalion of Shangzhi, except for the water army that is not organized, the other [-] guards and the [-]th Battalion are stationed at the pass gap in Yanbian of the Great Wall and some important places in Shuntian Prefecture.

Currently in the Yanshan Camp, there are only Jinwu Guards, Shence Guards and Baotao Guards.

This made the Xinyanshan camp, which could have accommodated [-] troops for training, very empty, and the trainees became Zhu Youjian himself, plus the assistance of the commanders of the three guards.

Although it is assistance, after more than half a year of study and some experience from previous lives, the ideas put forward by Zhu Youjian are often adopted and applied immediately.

The commanders of the three guards were just assistants to help Zhu Youjian train his troops, and Zhu Youjian led his troops to inspect nearby places where the fields were being divided from time to time.

Right now, he has just returned from Gonghua City in the south, and the people in Gonghua City have all been allocated fields according to his policy, and everyone is working hard.

After he asked Wang Chengen to distribute the cattle equally to the tenants under his command, he returned to the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

As soon as he arrived at Yumajian, he got information from Shenyang.

In terms of intelligence, it is basically the same as Zhu Youjian's idea. Even the fact that Nurhachi would drive the people into Shenyang and consume Shenyang's food and fodder, Zhu Youjian thought of it early.

This tactic was not uncommon in ancient warfare, nor should it be surprising.

It's just that he thought Qin Bangping would ignore it, but he was still wrong in his judgment.

From the beginning of the Song Dynasty, it was too popular for civil officials to impeach military generals, and it was even more so in the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Youjian supported Qin Bangping's becoming the general soldier of Shenyang. The officials in the court were not happy at all. They impeached him for a long time, but Zhu Youxiao withstood the pressure.

Qin Bangping should be able to guess these things.

He had no choice but to accept the people into the city for three reasons.

First, if the people are not allowed to enter the city and the officials are impeached, then the impeachment will inevitably be traced back to Zhu Youjian's recommendation of him as the general soldier of Shenyang.

Despite Zhu Youjian's guarantee, Qin Bangping was still unwilling to put more pressure on Zhu Youjian.

Second, the people in Liaodong originally did not trust the Ming court because of Gaohuai's chaos in Liao. Once Shenyang refused to save the people and the news spread in Liaodong, I am afraid that the Liao people would really surrender one after another.

Because in this matter, Nurhachi did not send Jianlu to hold the people hostage to attack the city, but drove the people to the edge of Shenyang and left them alone.

This is different from when the Mongols attacked the Southern Song Dynasty and drove the people to attack the city.

If even in this situation, Qin Bangping did not open the city gate to save the people, what would the Liao people think?
Third, when things spread, the most important thing was the opinion of the Liaodong generals in western and southern Liaoning.

Qin Bangping and Qi Jin, who were already displeased with the two southern generals in Liaoshen, would impeach them one after another if they knew about this.

Behind them are [-] Liao soldiers. This, coupled with the impeachment of the officials, is the pressure that Zhu Youjian needs to face.

Therefore, Qin Bangping had no choice but to accept the people, and this incident also showed Nurhachi's means of attacking his heart.

"More than [-] people should be able to survive until July..."

After thinking about the seriousness of the relationship and the cause and effect of things, Zhu Youjian could only sigh.

Although there are [-] more people, Shenyang has enough food to last until July.

Right now, as long as Shenyang sticks to it, at most four months later, the Sixteenth Guards Army and the Twelfth Battalion in the form of veterans leading new recruits will initially be able to form combat power.

Maybe they can't fight against the Houjin Eight Banners in the wilderness head-on, but at least they won't be as unfavorable as the guards and battalions, and they will flee immediately.

But what needs to be worried now is whether Nurhachi will repeat the same tricks and continue to attack the stone fort and drive the people to consume Shenyang's food.

If this is the case, then I need to change my original plan to keep Liaodong.

"Your Highness, what is a siege?"

While Zhu Youjian was thinking about something, Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youjian's previous handwriting, and couldn't help asking curiously.

Regarding this point, Zhu Youjian is also happy to explain:

"Siege points to fight for reinforcements, surround the enemy's city, use the enemy in the city as bait, and attract enemy troops from other places to reinforce the city."

"Afterwards, in the process of attracting, one's own army's advantages are gradually brought into play, and high-mobility mobile warfare is used to destroy other enemy troops that are reinforced, and achieve the method of annihilating the reinforcements and reducing the total number of enemy troops in an area."

"The center of gravity of the siege is the reinforcement, so the focus of the deployment of troops is the strength of the reinforcement, and the siege is the auxiliary force."

"But if the siege is not strong enough, the enemy's main force will not reinforce, and the reinforcements will not be useful. Therefore, sometimes it is easy to confuse the siege with the siege."

"Because the two are very close, it's just that the siege and reinforcements have to achieve two goals, both to capture the city and annihilate the reinforcements, while the siege and reinforcements have only one purpose, which is to eliminate the number of enemy troops as much as possible."

"However, this method can only be done by soldiers and horses with elite cavalry in their hands."

Speaking of this, Zhu Youjian also pondered for a few seconds, and then said:

"Right now, our Ming Dynasty has very few elite cavalry, and the number in the whole country is only [-] to [-], so we rarely use this method."

"In contrast, Nurhaci, although most of the soldiers and horses in his hands are heavy infantry, but because of the support of the barbarians, there are enough horses, and infantry can also be used to complete this method."

"Then Your Highness means that Nurhachi is trying to annihilate my soldiers in the Liaodong of the Ming Dynasty?" Although Wang Chengen was not very flexible, Shengzai Zhu Youjian explained clearly enough.

"Almost..." Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, then got up and walked to the window, frowning slightly.

It is not difficult to decipher the tactic of besieging and attacking aid, and the way to decipher this tactic has been explained very clearly by great men in later generations.

The tactic of siege and aid is to mobilize the opponent's army, that is to say, to mobilize the opponent's army from other battlefields to fight on the battlefield preset by oneself.

Then the key to breaking the siege and aid is not to be mobilized by it, or even to mobilize the opponent in turn. In the ancient Thirty-Six Strategies, "surround Wei and save Zhao" is a routine to break the siege and aid.

In martial arts, this is called saving the enemy after attacking, and the method of later generations is "you hit yours, I will hit mine"

You can surround my city, and I can surround yours. You can mobilize me, and I can mobilize you.

If both sides are not mobilized, then the result is a exchange of pieces in the game of chess, and the armies of both sides compete for damage to the other side.

As for the success of the siege of the city, and even repeated successes, it is often related to the fact that the teams who came to the aid came in batches at different times.

For example, in the Battle of Sarhu, there was a serious problem with the coordination of the four troops, which gave Nurhachi a perfect time difference.

Therefore, the key to cracking the siege and reinforcements is to concentrate one's own strength and avoid adopting tactics of adding fuel, so that the opponent cannot easily eat the reinforcements, and naturally the siege and reinforcements can be cracked.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, because such cooperation is difficult even in modern times, let alone now.

Therefore, if he wants to break the game, he can only use the strategy of besieging Wei and saving Zhao, and the place Nurhachi must save is Hetuala.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian turned around, walked to the desk, and took out the map of Northeast China that he ordered the craftsmen to make.

As the map unfolded, a map that was very close to the Northeast of later generations appeared in front of Zhu Youjian.

The outline of this map was drawn by him based on his own memory. Not only that, he also drew the two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, as well as Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, North Asia, West Asia and South Asia, and even other continents.

Although he couldn't remember the names and locations of places in this era, he could mark the location based on Jin Yiwei's information.

Although 100% accuracy cannot be guaranteed, an 80% accuracy rate is possible.

Therefore, when the map unfolded, Hetuala, hidden in the remaining veins of Changbai Mountain, appeared in front of his eyes.

If this city hidden in the deep mountains and old forests is threatened by external forces and reaches a level that it cannot resist, then the old slave will inevitably withdraw his troops.

However, the troops in Guangning, Shenyang, and Liaoyang in the east cannot be moved, otherwise the balance of the three parties will be broken.

But if you don't choose this place, but choose other places, then the Kuandian Fort north of Zhenjiang Fort in the easternmost part of Liaodong will become a breakthrough.

From Kuandian to Hetuala, although the whole journey is a small road, and it is impossible for a large group of people, the distance is only less than three hundred miles.

If the army marches fifty miles a day, it can reach the southern part of Hetuala in six days.

From Tianjin to Zhenjiang by sea boat, even if no food and grass are prepared, it will take at least five days to arrive.

But this is a little risky in that it needs to cross the Bohai Sea, instead of walking along the coast like Qi Yuanfu and the others.

If it is along the coast, it will take at least twelve days to arrive.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, because this time plus the distance from Zhenjiang to Kuandian, and then the distance from Kuandian to Hetuala, it would take at least [-] days.

Moreover, to perform this task, a certain degree of cooperation is required, that is, the ability to retreat in an orderly manner at the corps level!

The number of people is over ten thousand and boundless. If the cooperation is not good and the ministries do not trust each other, then the retreat may turn into a massacre.

With such an order and ability, Zhu Youjian can only think of the Seven Guards and One Battalion who have just undergone Goose Step training and have been working for more than half a year.

But now that the Seven Guards and One Battalion have been dismantled, if they are reassembled, it may take a lot of time.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian clenched his fists tightly, but after a few seconds, he had a flash of inspiration.

"I don't really need to fight Hetuala, I just need to let the old slave know that I am going to fight Hetuala!"

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian has a solution.

He looked up at Wang Cheng'en and said, "Tell Sun Yingyuan and Man Gui to transfer Tengxiangwei, Yingyangwei, Shenwuwei, and Wuxiangwei to Tianjin, and then transfer Jinwuwei and Shencewei from Yanshan Camp to Tianjin."

"Finally, transfer the Xiaoqiwei in the capital to Tianjin."

"Send me to the emperor for me again, and ask for [-] shi of food to go to Tianjin. On the fifteenth day of next month, we will depart from Tianjin and go to Zhenjiang by sea."

"Also, please ask Yuan Keli, the governor of Shandong, to transfer the warship of the Lai Navy to Tianjin Wei, and transport the seven guards Ma across the sea to Zhenjiang on the first day of May."

"All new armor from the armor factory will be transferred to Tianjin first for those who have not changed their armor from the Seven Guards."

"Your Highness... are you going to send troops across the sea to Zhenjiang to aid Liao?" Wang Chengen was not a fool, so he could hear Zhu Youjian's thoughts.

"Ok!"

Zhu Youjian nodded, and then said: "Order Sun Yingyuan to command the seven guards and horses, go north from Zhenjiang to Kuandian, and then go north to attack Hetuala."

Seven guards and horses, nearly [-] people, if one-half of the auxiliary soldiers are added, it will be [-] people.

[-] people are threatening Hetuala, this is simply trying to dig out the roots of the old slave!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Wang Chengen: "Why are you still standing there? Go and inform!"

"This... but this... Your Highness..." Wang Chengen stammered:
"These seven guards and horses add up to more than [-] old soldiers, and the other [-] people are all new soldiers who have been in the army for less than a month."

"I'm not asking them to go now..." Zhu Youjian frowned and said, "We only set off in May, and there is still a month and a half left. Besides...forget it, I won't harm them anyway, just tell Sun Yingyuan to lead the troops to Liaodong." .”

"As for Brother Huang, I will give him a handwritten letter, and he will know after reading it."

"The maidservant takes orders..." Seeing that Zhu Youjian couldn't be persuaded, Wang Chengen could only do things honestly.

But after he left, Zhu Youjian smiled slightly, hummed a little song, and wrote the handwriting himself.

When the ink in his handwriting dried, Jin Yiwei sent his handwriting to the capital, and delivered it to Zhu Youxiao before dusk.

"This kid..."

In front of the imperial case, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly and looked at the handwriting, then raised his head and said:

"Zhongxian, drafted the imperial decree, ordered Sun Yingyuan to be the commander-in-chief of Tianjin, and commanded Tengxiang Guard, Yingyang Guard, Shenwu Guard, Wu Xiang Guard, Jinwu Guard, Shence Guard, and Xiaoqi Guard to go to Tianjin."

"Then transfer a sufficient number of cloth face armors, hoods, weapons, mandarin duck jackets, and cloth shoes from the Ministry of Industry and armor factories to Tianjin."

"Taicang dispatched [-] taels of silver, [-] shi rice, [-] catties of vinegar, [-] catties of salt, and [-] catties of pickles to Tianjin and handed them over to Sun Yingyuan."

"The Taipu Temple dispatched six thousand horses, and three thousand army horses were handed over to Sun Yingyuan."

"Finally, the Denglai Navy was transferred to help transport the food, and it was ordered to arrive in Tianjin on the tenth day of April and depart on the fifteenth day."

Wei Zhongxian just wanted to agree to Zhu You's imperial decree, but Wang An said:

"Long live, I'm afraid the household department and the military department will not agree..."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao frowned slightly, while Wang An said:

"Right now, the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of War are preparing to dispatch the general soldiers of the Xuan Mansion..."

"Reject!" Zhu Youxiao frowned and scolded:
"I have my own considerations, and the Xuanfu's aid to Liao has been put on hold for the time being!"

"Just draft it according to my will. If the cabinet and the six divisions reject it, the central decree will be issued directly to Sun Yingyuan, and [-] taels of silver will be transferred from internal funds to him!"

Ever since he found out that he has military power and cronies, Zhu Youxiao's back has become harder and harder.

He dared to do things that his great-grandfather, imperial grandfather, and father did not dare to do, and dared to issue imperial edicts that they did not dare to issue.

"The maidservant takes orders..." Hearing Zhu Youxiao's tough words, Wang An obediently bowed and retreated, probably to draft an imperial decree.

However, as Wang An said, when the imperial decree was sent to the cabinet, Liu Yixiu, the current cabinet assistant, was taken aback for a moment, and then softly shouted: "Nonsense!"

"what happened?"

Hearing Liu Yixiu's words, another cabinet minister, Shi Jikai, looked at him.

"Long Live actually wants to transfer the Seven Guards of Xiaoqi who have just trained for a month to station in Tianjin. This posture seems to be to aid Liao!"

"Aid Liao?" Hearing these words, Cui Jingrong, Minister of War under the hall, raised his head, not daring to say anything:

"Tiao Xiao rides the Seven Guards? Which Seven Guards? Is it the old team who formed the Seven Guards and One Battalion, or..."

"It's the new Seven Guards, the number of old soldiers is only [-], and the new soldiers are more than [-]!" Liu Yixiu was very angry, and even thought in his heart that the emperor probably took the war as a joke.

Fortunately, Yang Lian is in charge of the official department today. After hearing the words, he explained to Zhu Youxiao:

"Long live's will on border affairs is usually applied by the Fifth Highness after consideration, and this time should be no exception."

"Liu Gechen, please take a look. Is there a time to go to Liaodong written in the imperial decree?"

"Huh?" Hearing Yang Lian's words, Liu Yixiu frowned and looked down at the imperial decree, and then saw the time for grain transportation on April [-]th and the mobilization of soldiers and horses on May [-]st.

"Although we were given an extra month and a half to assist Liao on the first day of May, this amount of time..." Liu Yixiu still hesitated.

"Liu Gechen, don't worry, His Highness the Fifth Highness has always known soldiers, and will not shoot for no reason." Yang Lian used Zhu You's words to prevaricate Liu Yixiu.

Although he didn't know what Zhu Youjian was up to, judging from Zhu Youxiao's military training and previous control of the battle situation, he couldn't be analyzed as an eleven-year-old boy.

Zhu Youjian must have his own considerations, and Yang Lian chose to believe him.

"Alas..." Hearing Yang Lian's words, Liu Yixiu sighed, and could only draw a pen to criticize the red.

The cabinet agreed in this way, and the military department did not dare to reject it.

The reason is very simple. Sun Ruyou and Fang Congzhe have returned to their hometowns, and the five parties of Qi, Chu, Zhejiang, and Xuankun are no longer powerful.

Before Ye Xianggao rushed to the capital to serve as the chief assistant, they had no choice but to behave with their tails between their legs.

Therefore, in the eyes of Zhu Youxiao, Wang An, and even Zhu Youjian, an imperial decree that would not be passed was passed in such a muddle-headed manner, and it was sent to Sun Yingyuan.

"This court situation, I am getting more and more incomprehensible..."

Looking at the imperial decree in his hand, Sun Yingyuan smacked his lips a few times, and then he couldn't help feeling guilty.

He has never commanded a battle of tens of thousands of people. Even if he trains the Seven Guards and the First Battalion again, he will train with Man Gui. Now he is alone, and he must not mess up...

Taking a deep breath, Sun Yingyuan used the imperial edict to mobilize the cavalry guards, went to Taicang and the Ministry of Industry, Armor Factory, and Taipu Temple, and transported all the materials in the edict back to the cavalry guards camp outside the city.

The next day, he began to recruit civilian husbands and went to Liaodong as auxiliary soldiers.

However, when the peasants heard that they were going to Liaodong, they shook their heads like rattles.

There was no way, Sun Yingyuan could only set his target to the north, recruited more than [-] auxiliary soldiers in Qinghedian and Hongqiao, and then embarked on the road to Tianjin.

Not only him, but the soldiers and horses of the other six guards also began to go south and east, all targeting Tianjin.

At the same time, a civil servant who had been in Shandong for three months also received a transfer order from the Ministry of War.

At this moment, he was sitting in the governor's yamen of Jinan Mansion, holding the dispatch order from the Ministry of War in his hand, his brows were tightly furrowed, and his expression was not good-looking.

To be honest, he is not outstanding in appearance. If he wants to single out one point, he can only say that he looks thin and has a bit of a clean official appearance.

However, if people know him well, they won't say that he looks like an upright official, but will say that he himself is an upright official, and he is still a capable minister!
Yuan Keli, who was very famous during the Wanli, Tianqi, and Chongzhen years, was born in Suizhou, Guide Prefecture, Henan.

His father was in a difficult life, but he tried his best to teach Yuan Keli to get a good name and serve the country loyally.

In the seventeenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Yuan Keli, who was [-] years old at the time, passed the Jinshi examination with the great ambition to change the atmosphere of the world, and two years later he was appointed as the promotion official of Suzhou Prefecture in Nanzhili.

At this time, Yuan Keli, who is in his thirties, is full of blood, and the newborn calf is not afraid of tigers.

At that time, Suzhou was the hometown of Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, the chief assistants of the current dynasty. The background was not so complicated, and all the officials who came here were walking on thin ice.

Yuan Keli's teacher, Lu Shusheng, is very aware of the complexity of Jiangnan's officialdom, so he is very worried about Yuan Keli's future, and reminds him not to offend the civil servants in Jiangnan.

As a result, Yuan Keli was not afraid of power, and he didn't care about the identity of the other party when handling the case. Even if the other party had a relationship with Shen Shihang, he would still handle the case.

This kind of behavior made Yuan Keli famous, but his ability is more than that.

However, everything changed after he impeached Shen Yiguan. He was dismissed, and the ministers of the DPRK and China complained about Yuan Keli's grievances for more than ten years.

He was not going to be an official anymore, but the Liao incident recurred, and Zhu Youxiao gave him the official position of governor of Shandong, so he took up the post and made great achievements in three months.

First of all, the Confucian government invaded the people's fields. After he found out about this matter, Yuan Keli immediately asked someone to take down the person in charge of the Confucian government's occupation of the people's fields. After he was imprisoned, the people's fields were returned to the people.

Later, he discovered that the water conservancy projects in Shandong had not been repaired for many years, and there were still many people without land who had nothing to do all day long.

Therefore, he took out the [-] taels of silver left in Shandong and spent [-] taels to start building water conservancy projects.

For the remaining [-] taels, he first checked the soldiers and horses of the three battalions of Jimo, Dengzhou, and Wendeng, and then recruited new soldiers to replenish them, and quickly restored the third battalion to a strength of [-].

After that, he spent a lot of money to establish the Denglai Navy according to the instructions of the imperial decree when Zhu Youxiao appointed him as an official, and let people start building ships.

These things are all things that he started to do in the first month of the first year of Tianqi, and now, the Denglai Navy has launched four lucky boats with [-] materials.

No, the lucky boat was only built, and the sailors hadn't been on board the boat for a few days, and the imperial decree came down.

"Governor, this...really going to transfer the ship to Tianjin?"

Standing next to Yuan Keli, one of his staff members asked cautiously.

However, Yuan Keli closed the imperial decree and said:
"Since it's Long Live to dispatch troops, I'll follow suit. I just hope that the seven guards and horses can make meritorious service in Liaodong, instead of sending armor to the old slave."

Yuan Keli's words were equivalent to saying in a disguised form that he did not believe that the Seven Guards, who had only been retrained for a month and a half, would be able to fight.

If it was the pawns of Zhu Youjian's Seven Guards and One Battalion before, Yuan Keli might take a high look.

After all, he also learned about the immovable demeanor of the seven guards and one battalion from other Donglin civil servants.

But as far as the moment is concerned, even if the departure is only on the first day of May, the total time will only add up to three months.

After training for three months, what can the recruits do after arriving in Liaodong?

Yuan Keli shook his head, he was very puzzled by Wansui's actions, and even more puzzled whether this order was issued under the instigation of the Fifth Highness of the current dynasty.

"For this imperial decree, if His Highness the Fifth Highness instigates Long Live to issue the decree, then His Highness Fifth Highness's reputation as a soldier may be ruined."

The staff shook their heads regretfully, and said something that both they, Sun Yingyuan and others were curious about.

Without him, the order this time is really the same as giving away the head.

Compared with Zhu Youjian's previous attack on Jiangnan and the establishment of the Yumajian South Field, or his judgment on the situation in Liaodong, Zhu Youjian's abolition of the Forty-eight Guards and Six Institutes is very different from this order. .

It was as if Han Xin, the soldier fairy, had made a lot of tricks, but was suddenly defeated by an unknown young general, which shocked people's eyes.

Thinking of this, Yuan Ke stood up, sighed and said:
"I just hope that this Liao incident can be passed safely. As long as Shenyang sticks to it until winter, the old slave can only retreat."

"At that time, even if the Fifth Highness buried these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, at least Liaodong can be preserved, and Daming can still suppress the old slave."

After finishing speaking, Yuan Keli sighed and returned to the backyard of the Governor's Mansion.

There is more than one person who behaves like him, and it is staged in more than one place...

　Today is two updates of [-] words, and there is another update at one o'clock.

　　
　
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