Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 568 The stalemate
Chongzhen said again: "But fortunately, even if the slaves change their ways and adopt the strategy of 'strengthening the stronghold and fighting indifferently', it will not have too much adverse effect at the moment. The biggest harm will be when the army goes north in the future. At that time, our Ming army will pay a heavy price for every step forward."

Chongzhen seemed to have foreseen the tragic scene of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood.

Of course, this is not completely impossible to avoid. If there is a way to lure the main force of building slaves to fight the Ming army, this extreme situation can be avoided, but Chongzhen feels that Dorgon is not dead, and this possibility is unlikely.

Because Dorgon is still a brain, the probability of getting hotheaded is not high.

In view of this, Chongzhen believed that Daming had to prepare for the worst, so that the enemy would be lenient.

Zhu Cihong said: "Father, how about taking Xu Youzhen's advice and recruiting North Korean servants to serve as cannon fodder?"

"This strategy is worth trying. After all, Datang has done this before, and the effect is not bad." Chongzhen nodded, and then said, "However, this strategy has advantages and disadvantages, and the disadvantages are not small."

"Father is worried that the North Koreans will rebel? They will fall to Jiannu again?"

"What I worry about for my father is not this, but that the North Korean servant army may be reborn from nirvana. In the process of serving as cannon fodder for Ming Dynasty, the more they fight, the more they become stronger, until one day they become a confidant's trouble."

"Father is worried that the North Korean servant army will become the Khitan army of the Tang Dynasty?"

"What should I do?" Zhu Cihong also lost his mind.

"His Royal Highness King Ding, this really frustrates me."

"Female workers?" Zhu Cihong was taken aback when he heard the words, "Father, Daming doesn't seem to be short of female workers?"

"Certainly not." Xu Yingwei said, "Jiannu can rely on each city to build guntai groups."

Zhu Cijiong didn't make any request to Park Dongxi and Kim Jaewoo until he was full of Mingjiu.

Immediately, he should say: "My son obeys the order."

"Hey, there is no prince at the wine table, only drinking friends."

After seeing off Pu Dongxi and Jin Zaiyu, Xia Wanchun asked with a smile: "Prince Ding, do you have a crush on Pu Dongxi and the others?"

"This is inappropriate." Jiang Tian said, "If you can't march north along the canal, the cost will increase five times or even ten times, and can you avoid Jiannu's blunderbuss group without fighting along the canal? Probably not."

Zhu Cijiong is the prince of Ming Dynasty.

Hearing these words, Zhu Cihong also reacted instantly.

"However, I think they are quite loyal to Li, and I am afraid it will be difficult to instigate rebellion."

Seeing Zhu Cijiong raising the wine jar, Park Dong-hee and Kim Jae-woo hurriedly knelt and sat up, looking terrified. They were flattered by Zhu Cijiong's extra-standard courtesy.

"Rotate friendly troops?" Jiang Tian said, "Brother Zhen, what's going on?"

But what they didn't expect was that Zhu Cijiong was really just looking for them to drink.

"Understood." Zhu Cihong suddenly said, "It is also necessary for the current Liaodong, right?"

"How do you come here?" Jiang Tianyi asked, "It's the first time we've come to Liaodong with us, can we come here on ice?"

The Khitan army that followed An Lushan's rebellion was only the cannon fodder of the Tang army at the beginning.

"Drinking buddies?" Park Dong-hee and Kim Jae-yu looked at each other in blank dismay, how dare they act like this?

"When it's within the range of the tiger squat gun, it's over."

Because this distance has already entered the range of the tiger squatting cannon, even at night, it would take a lot of money to build a blunderbuss platform against the rain of bullets from the tiger squatting cannon of the Ming army, and Jiannu was obviously unwilling to pay this price.

As a result, the situation fell into a stalemate, and the two armies began to scold each other three or four hundred steps apart.

After a short pause, he added: "Also, we can send more female workers."

However, with the disintegration of the military system of the Tang Dynasty, such as the Khitan Army, Xi Army, and Koryo Army became the main force of the Tang Dynasty.

Because the scenes Xu Yingwei depicted made them feel heavy.

His status is more noble than that of the king of Joseon.

Chongzhen took the opportunity to teach: "So you must remember, there is no such thing in this world that has only advantages but no disadvantages. Everything has pros and cons, pros and cons. It is up to you to weigh the pros and cons, for example, do you need to recruit North Korean servants?"

Jiang Tianyi and Lu Xiangtong paused at the same time when they heard the words.

At this time, Jiannu had already repaired the blunderbuss platform to less than [-] steps away from the defense line of the Ming army's blunderbuss platform, which meant that the distance between the army and Jiannu's blunderbuss platform was only three or four hundred steps, and the voices on the opposite side could almost be heard.

"Haha." Zhu Cijiong laughed loudly when he heard the words, "I really can't hide anything from Brother Duan."

After reading the imperial edict, Xu Yingwei said, "It's the Holy Majesty who has the foresight."

……

While wiping his gun, Lu Xiang asked, "Brother Zhen, what did your Majesty say?"

After a pause, he pointed to the Jiannu blunderbuss platform opposite and said, "Isn't this just like what the Holy One said, Jiannu didn't make any movement after building the blunderbuss platform to our army's defense line three hundred paces, so at most it's just Forming a confrontation, I was worried about the danger of Dagukou before, but now it seems that I am worrying too much, ha ha."

"But when our army goes to the north in the future, the situation will probably be very different."

We are just ministers of the vassal state, how dare we be the drinking buddies of the prince of the suzerain state?
Park Dong-hee and Kim Jae-woo always felt that Zhu Cijiong wanted them to do something difficult, so they were hanging in their hearts from the beginning to the end, because the more courteous Zhu Cijiong treated them, the more difficult it was. .

"Compared to worrying that the Korean army will become the Khitan army of the Tang Dynasty, my father is actually more worried that the Ming army will become arrogant. A person who becomes arrogant is just useless. If an army becomes arrogant and habitual young soldiers Young master Bing, the country will perish, and the ancestral foundation cannot be guarded by cages, birds, cockfights and lackeys."

"Also, the advancement of the hollow phalanx on the ice needs to be practiced."

Xu Yingwei said with a smile: "The Holy Majesty has foreseen the confrontation between Dagukou and Gaizhou Guards, so he wants to take this opportunity to transfer more new troops to Gaizhou and Dagukou."

"How is it?" Zhu Cijiong asked with a smile, "Do you think Gu's plan will work?"

Lu Xiangtong said: "If this is the case, don't fight north along the canal."

But after reaching this distance, Jiannu could no longer build the gun platform.

Zhu Cijiong is inviting Park Dongxi and Kim Jaewoo to drink.

"That's true." Jiang Tianyi said, "Under the premise that our army has already repaired the fortifications of the blunderbuss platform, even if Jiannu is imitating others, there is a limit to the advancement of building the blunderbuss platform."

"Yes." Chongzhen nodded, and said again, "Immediately send Jiong'er an urgent message to ask him to recruit the Korean rebels who participated in the rebellion to go to Gaizhouwei to listen to them, and blacksmiths and other craftsmen also need to send them to Nanjing as soon as possible."

Xu Yingwei said: "The Holy Majesty said that the harm of Jiannu's change of course is not in the present, but in the future Northern Expedition."

Zhu Cijiong hummed lightly and said: "If we want to accomplish the few things that the father entrusted, I'm afraid we can't do it without the help of the Koreans. The abilities of Park Dongxi and Kim Jae-woo are not bad, at least they can be regarded as outstanding among the Koreans. And more importantly, they admire Daming."

After a short pause, he continued: "In the short term, it is absolutely necessary, but in the long run, especially after the confidant trouble of Jiannu is solved, driving the North Korean slave army on a large scale will do more harm than good, but it must be divided Under certain circumstances, if you encounter a tough battle that requires a lot of sacrifices, you can actually drive the servant army to act as cannon fodder."

Lu Xiangtong and Jiang Tian agreed together.

"Otherwise, there is nothing that one drink can't solve. If one drink doesn't work, then two." Zhu Cijiong said with a smile, "I don't believe that if I ask the two of them for drinks again and again, Li Hui will not be suspicious."

"What do you know, if you say you are missing for your father, then you must be missing." Chongzhen said angrily, "Don't forget to tell your third brother to choose a woman between the ages of 13 and 30, unmarried or married. , Isn’t North Korea poor? Daming will not sit idly by, and will definitely give their craftsmen and female workers generous treatment.”

"It should be so." Lu Xiangtong deeply agreed with this, "Only a handful of the 27 new soldiers have actually been on the battlefield. We should take this opportunity to let other new soldiers see the battlefield."

Xu Yingwei said quietly: "At that time, there will be countless clusters of blunderbuss platforms along the Grand Canal. If our army wants to push them one by one, I don't know how many people will be sacrificed."

At this time in Seoul, in the barracks of the Ming army.

"That's why we need to be prepared." Xu Yingwei nodded and said, "Once Jiannu sends cavalry to intercept, we will send out infantry brigades to meet them immediately. During this time, we should hurry up and practice the line array on the ice."

Five days later, Chongzhen's decree reached Gaizhouwei.

……

"Wonderful." Xia Wanchun praised, "It turns out that Wang Cun's plan was determined."

"It can be done." Xia Wanchun said with a smile, "Ding Wang invited Pu Jin and the two to drink. After returning home, Li Ding would interrogate Li Ding and told Li once or twice that Ding Wang didn't say anything. Li might not be suspicious, but if three times , Four, or even five or six times, and still say that, Li can't think of doubts."

However, no matter the Jiannu or the Ming army, they just shouted and remained motionless.

"This..." Lu Xiangtong's thick eyebrows suddenly twisted into the word Chuan. This matter is really difficult. You can't avoid the Grand Canal, and avoid all the cities, right?In this case, do we still need the logistics supply line?
"But fortunately, the Ming Dynasty will not go to the Northern Expedition for at least two years." Xu Yingwei waved his hand and said, "We still have enough time to think about countermeasures. As for now, we should make preparations as soon as possible. With the arrival of a rotating friendly army, we can return to Nanjing only after the rotating friendly army and scholars arrive in Gaizhou."

After a pause, Zhu Cijiong said again: "However, the matter of the [-] rebels must be dealt with quickly."

"Understood." Xia Wanchun said with a straight face, "Just wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and we will do it immediately."

By the way, one more thing, the infantry brigade and artillery battalion that originally reinforced Gaizhouwei have been changed to land in Incheon, and are rushing to Seoul day and night to join Zhu Cijiong.

[The plot is being prepared, and the next one is the biggest climax of the book, don't rush]

(End of this chapter)