Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1014 Support is in place (Ask for a monthly ticket at the end of the month)

The fight between Ming and Qing finally broke out, which made He Jinzhao heave a sigh of relief.

The previous arrangements finally paid off, and Wu Guojun didn't move for nothing.

The most important thing was the money Chongzhen gave to the hammer bandits, and He Jinzhao didn't spend it in vain.

Sun Chuanting mostly used it to run relationships, allowing officials of the Ming court to smoothly transport rice beans and other materials to Liaodong.

After Hong Chengchou left the customs, he should be able to fight Huang Taiji for a longer period of time with food storage.

Nowadays, most areas in the north are short of food, not to mention there are still a large number of locusts raging.

He Jinzhao reckoned that in the end, it would be the unsustainable logistics of Daming that would lead to the final defeat.

With the passage of time, more and more battle situations were sent to He Jinzhao's hands to facilitate his judgment.

When Dorgon, Hauge, Abatai and others led the Qing soldiers to harvest the crops in the west of Jinzhou City, the Ming horse infantry dispatched from the northwest of the city, "fired both guns and artillery", and the Qing soldiers fought with the guards, divided into three teams to attack, Ming The army was defeated and returned to the city.

In the middle of the night, five hundred horse infantrymen from Jinzhou of the Ming Dynasty attacked the Xianglan Banner Camp of the Qing soldiers.

Some of the cavalry and all the guards of the Qing Dynasty went to Xingshan to attack the Ming soldiers, and chased them to the trenches to hide and kill them.

Jinzhou Ming soldiers dispatched thousands of people, Dorgon and Haoge led the army to fight, and chased to the city.

Du Du led his army to lie down on Ningyuan Road, and encountered Ming soldiers escorting grain from the pass to Jinzhou. He killed 390 soldiers of the Ming escort and captured many camels, horses, cattle and donkeys.

Du Du and others led the guards and some cavalry to Jinzhou. When they met Ming soldiers who went out of the city to mow grass, they chased and beheaded 86 people and got many horses, cattle and donkeys.

The Qing army sent a small group of troops to the mouth of the Daling River, captured two boats, and killed 35 people.

Ming soldiers attacked Yizhou at night, injuring hundreds of Manchu and Han soldiers and civilians.

Dorgon led all his troops to attack Songshan, and halfway reported that Songshan Ming cavalry came out. He immediately led his army to Songshan and defeated the Ming soldiers.

The Qing soldiers wanted to return, and the Songshan Ming soldiers dispatched horse and infantry soldiers to return to the division to fight back.

The Ming soldiers attacked again, and the Qing soldiers hit it hard again.

Duoduo led 500 guards and cavalry to set up an ambush at Xisanger village in Jinzhou by night.

The next day, he found four Ming cavalrymen and ordered them to chase after them. The Ming ambushes came out in unison. Duoduo rushed to meet them, chased them to Tashan, and beheaded 86 Ming soldiers.

Duoduo himself also led his soldiers to lay down in Jinzhou at night, and the Ming soldiers also ambushed nearby. When they found the Qing soldiers, they retreated quickly, and the Qing soldiers chased and killed more than [-] people.

When the Qing soldiers learned that the Ming soldiers were transporting grain between Xingshan and Tashan Mountains by night, they rushed there immediately, chasing and beheading more than 50 Ming soldiers, taking [-] prisoners, and more than a hundred cattle and donkeys.

The scale of the battle between the two sides was not large, with thousands of people in the most, and more than a thousand or hundreds of people in the few. Both sides had a lot of casualties.

All kinds of small frictions continue, you ambush me, I ambush you, you sneak attack me, I sneak attack you.

After Hong Chengchou killed people and established his prestige, coupled with the supply of food and grass, small-scale battles between the Guanning army and the Qing soldiers were extremely frequent.

In addition to the real battle reports, there are also some pond reports sent to the imperial court.

According to Liu Mengde, the guard officer of Dasheng and other forts, the Qing soldiers and their family members were all farming outside the city of Yizhou, and their elite soldiers and bandits were camping in the south of the city.

According to Dashoutang, the ancestor of Jinzhou's general army, the sentry found about [-] horse-riding bandits in the northwest of Jinzhou, traveling southwest.

On the same day, at Fan Hulu Mountain, I saw four or five hundred Tatar bandits riding westward from the side wall of Si'erbao.

The Xingshan sentry arrived at Wulang Hatai, Waixiaolinghe, and saw more than [-] Qing soldiers marching from east to west.

Wu Sanguitang, the commander-in-chief of the regiment, reported that there were more than [-] bandits riding in bright helmets and armor, as far as Xingshan.

(He wanted to swallow a small group of Qing troops, but he was surrounded by Jierhalang and was almost rushed to his death. At that time, the enemy army of about a thousand people expanded to more than 1 Qing troops.)
Seeing this, He Jinzhao wanted to laugh.

After all, the Tang newspaper of the Ming Dynasty official army said that our army launched a large-scale military operation and won consecutive battles against the Tartars.

But in fact, how can there be any large-scale actions?
"My lord, you are looking at these memorials." Zhang Fuzhen picked up the documents sent to the imperial court in Liaodong.

Xinputaitai Ding Wang Xianming received two statements from Wang Zhian and Wang Si, two civilians who defected to the Ming Dynasty:

They saw with their own eyes that [-] troops were sent from Shenyang, led by Ergushan to Yizhou. The number of cattle records was unknown. Each cattle record contained three carts, and each cart carried two stones of rice.

It is also said that the houses in Yizhou have been built, the city has been repaired, and the "tartars" and carpenters who worked there have all gone home.

According to Xu Shougang, a soldier defending half of the pier, he received reports from two Han Chinese who escaped from the Qing army:

There are more than 25 elite soldiers of "Tartars" who come to Yizhou with [-] Hongyi cannons.

"Huang Taiji started to release smoke bombs to confuse people."

It's not that He Jinzhao looked down on these common people. It's not normal for them to know the number of Tartars so clearly and how many meters each cart carries.

In fact, Huang Taiji fed rice into the mouths of the Ming army, scaring the Ming army into increasing troops and consuming their food and grass.

Zhang Fuzhen didn't bother to comment on this customary means of repaying victory.

Even Hong Chengchou wanted to help Wu Sangui conceal the news of the defeat. I don't know what agreement they reached.

But Chongzhen was very happy to receive the good news of Wu Sanguo.

Wu Sangui, a rising star in Liaodong, made him extremely happy.

It is true that they are fathers and sons, and each generation is stronger than the previous generation.

Good news came from the Liaodong battlefield. After Jingliaohou Wu Guojun marched to Huguang, he also got off to a good start.

Yang Sichang, who was already seriously ill and waiting to die, miraculously healed his body at this time, and met Wu Guojun in person.

After all, with Zuo Liangyu's hole card in check, he can continue to send Zuo Liangyu to attack in the future.

Wu Guojun didn't care, he just sat aside with a smile on his face.

If it wasn't for his own marshal asking him to come, he wouldn't be bothered to go to Huguang to help Yang Sichang.

This trash, who used to be plausible when he was in the court, how did he go to the place to encircle and suppress the bandits, and he didn't succeed even once?
Such a person who is trusted by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty but has no skills is really a good helper for "my own master".

But now what the commander-in-chief asks is to let him drive Zhang Xianzhong to Jiangxi, Fujian and other places to disturb the foundation of the gentry, but he can't even do this well.

Of course, Wu Guojun at this time was still praising Yang Sichang, and he was quite trusted by His Majesty.

I hope that the two of us will cooperate with each other and kill the bandits as soon as possible.

Yang Sichang had already heard about this titan in front of him, and he was well aware of His Majesty's trust in him.

Otherwise, when Hong Chengchou led the troops out of the pass, the generals who resisted the hammer bandits would not easily go to Huguang and other places to reinforce him.

Even if a secret agreement was reached between His Majesty and the hammer bandit He Jinzhao, what should be guarded against must be guarded against.

As the "actual planner" of Wu Guojun's reinforcement army, Ji Gui sat aside and held his beard in silence.

He was watching the generals present, and he had a lot of disdain for Yang Sichang, but he was quite afraid of Wu Guojun.

After all, Wu Guojun is their role model.

Who wouldn't want to get a title and be favored by the emperor?

After the interview with Yang Sichang was over, Zuo Liangyu invited Wu Guojun to have dinner.

After all, both of them have played under Lu Xiangsheng's command, and both have achieved good results.

"If you want me to say, Master Yang can't be compared with Master Lu at all." Zuo Liangyu didn't give Yang Sichang any face:

"As far as I know, the reason why Governor Lu died in battle is all the responsibility of the Minister of the Ministry of War at that time."

Wu Guojun quite agrees. After all, Lu Xiangsheng is quite capable of inspiring soldiers, and gathering people's hearts in various fields, so that Chongzhen and Yang Sichang will be beaten to death.

If he hadn't relied on Marshal He to get to the present step by step, he must have been among the "36 people" who were beheaded.

Seeing Wu Guojun nod his head, Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed, but he poured out bitterness again and again.

He originally thought that Yang Sichang had some skills in him, but who would have thought that he really didn't have any skills in commanding.

After experiencing Xiong Wencan's random command, he suffered heavy losses. He thought that Yang Sichang would be able to lead him up the ladder step by step like Lu Xiangsheng, not to mention becoming a marquis like Wu Guojun, but being an earl is about the same, right?
After all, Yang Sichang was deeply favored by the emperor, and he also obeyed Yang Sichang's orders from the beginning.

As a result, Yang Sichang immediately showed his original shape. He didn't have any experience in judging the enemy's situation and commanding, and he couldn't listen to other people's advice.

Zuo Liangyu became so cruel that he refused to listen to his orders, and Zhang Xianzhong fled in embarrassment after beating him, almost dying.

If Xu Yixian hadn't given Zhang Xianzhong an idea, Zuo Liangyu would have captured Zhang Xianzhong.

But this time it was against Yang Sichang's order to win the big victory. Even if Zhang Xianzhong was captured, would he be able to repay him?
Fortunately, Zuo Liangyu felt lucky and let Zhang Xianzhong go.

In this way, the emperor placed this great achievement on Yang Sichang's head.

Ji Gui felt that Zuo Liangyu was an old soldier, unwilling to be commanded by a waste like Yang Sichang.

Instead, they could give him a hand, beat Zhang Xianzhong, and drive Li Zicheng away.

Anyway, they are all here, let's hug the grass and beat the rabbit.

Wu Guojun received Ji Gui's gaze, raised his glass and said:

"You and my brothers are all warriors, and we want to rely on the swords and guns in our hands to make meritorious deeds, but the superiors are all civilian officials and have no military knowledge.

When the time comes, it will be you and me who will fight with our lives. If we lose the battle, it will be our responsibility, and if we win the battle, it will be all their credit.

If I, Wu Guojun, were not lucky, I would have been thrown into jail by those supervisors or dragged to Caishikou to take the blame. "

Zuo Liangyu agrees with what he said.

That's why he has long seen through the way of Daming's survival in the workplace. As long as he is strong, as Daming's strength declines, the emperor will have to coax me.

Even if it is Yang Sichang, what is it?
Seeing that he and Wu Guojun had reached a united front, Zuo Liangyu drank again and again.

"Jingliaohou, what you said made my heart go." Zuo Liangyu wiped the wine stains on his beard and said:
"After the battle of Guanyinyan, I also waited for Yang Dushi's reinforcements due to lack of troops, but after he learned that I disobeyed his command and won the battle, in order to prevent me from expanding the results of the battle, he took a long time to lead his troops to support. Although I have been besieging Zhang Xianzhong for a while."

However, Ji Gui could hear the meaning of Zuo Liangyu's words. It was not because he deliberately fired the cannon that he couldn't catch Zhang Xianzhong, but as the lord said, "just put it on the spot".

Even the imperial court couldn't say anything to blame.

Anyway, I won the battle, it was the supervisor who didn't lead the troops to support in time.

All responsibility lies with "Yang Sichang".

"In the future, if there is a war, you and I will fight together." Wu Guojun also knew the reason for Zuo Liangyu's banquet: "As for Governor Yang, let him recuperate in the rear, and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away."

"Good good."

Zuo Liangyu was overjoyed, Wu Guojun was the first person in the Chongzhen Dynasty who could be enshrined for meritorious service.

With his combat strength, Zuo Liangyu felt more at ease.

The two sides tried to persuade them to drink again and again, until they both got a little drunk, and each retreated.

Zuo Liangyu gave Wu Guojun a small box as a meeting gift, not too much, some gold and jewels.

Even Ji Gui got a few pieces of jewels, and the two rode on horses.

"Military division." Wu Guojun completely lost the trace of drunkenness: "Zuo Liangyu is still worth wooing."

"No no no." Ji Gui shook his head and said:
"He is useful. A soldier with bad military discipline like him is the result of being hacked into the team of the hammer bandits. Why don't you make trouble for the commander-in-chief."

Wu Guojun nodded to show that he understood, Zuo Liangyu's military discipline was corrupted, it was really worse than what rogues did, he had seen it before when he worked with him.

If this kind of soldier is placed in the hammer bandit team, he will be punished lightly if he is sent to the black coal mine for mining.

"First collect one or two pieces of information about Xianzhong, and then find an opportunity to beat him and drive him to Jiangxi and other places."

"clear."

Wu Guojun had great respect for the military advisor sent by Marshal He, besides, the person who could be trusted by Marshal He as his confidant must have the means, at least many times stronger than Yang Sichang.

When Wu Guojun was sent away, Zuo Menggeng helped his father to sit in the room.

Zuo Liangyu applied a hot towel to his face to stay awake: "Wu Guojun came here this time to destroy Zhang Xianzhong, we have to cooperate well."

"Father, is it possible to kill Zhang Xianzhong this time?"

"No hurries."

Zuo Liangyu was not in a hurry to come to a conclusion, although he had a happy conversation with Wu Guojun and reached an agreement.

But he has always been the emperor's confidant and favorite general, which is quite different from a "black material" general like himself.

In case all the rogues of Zhang and Li were wiped out, the emperor would not say that he would give himself a title.

But let yourself fight each other with the hammer bandits and the Qing army.

Zuo Liangyu felt that his family background was by no means a match for those two forces, and he could only be forced to follow the path of "a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty".

But the loyal minister of Ming Dynasty did not end well.

The safest ending Zuo Liangyu can think of is to rely on the strength of his men to separate one side.

Wu Guojun wants to make meritorious deeds, and he also wants to make meritorious deeds. Let's see the opportunities in the future.

Yang Sichang didn't sleep that night either, because the supervisor Wanji reported the news that Zuo Liangyu had invited Wu Guojun to a banquet.

"Zuo Liangyu definitely wants to win over Marquis Jingliao." Yang Sichang squeezed his beard and said, "But Marquis Jingliao was personally sent by His Majesty to help you and me, how can we collude with Zuo Liangyu and his ilk?"

Wan Wanji also nodded, but he didn't dare to speak too harshly: "If the supervisor has a disagreement with Jingliaohou in the future, do you want to listen to him?"

These words instantly silenced Yang Sichang!
(End of this chapter)