Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1019 Hong Chengchou Scholar Ear

One thing will always be complicated by people's choices.

Especially those who are pessimistic about the situation are more likely to go to extremes, or bear too much pressure, which breeds impetuous and aggressive emotions.

When Chen Xinjia took up the post of minister of the Ministry of War, he was also very ambitious, and wanted to assist the emperor in revitalizing Daming.

However, the situation is getting more and more complicated now, and it is definitely not something he can change immediately.

Zhang Ruoqi, who was sent out, hadn't returned yet. He went home and thought hard, and Chen Xinjia, who was about to solve the problem, had a flash of inspiration.

He couldn't wait for the results of the discussion between Zhang Ruolin and Hong Chengchou to come back, so he proposed a quick decision to the emperor, advocated the initiative to attack, and gave the plan of the Ming Dynasty's four-way army.

Go out of Tashan all the way, go to Dasheng Fort (northwest of Jinzhou today), and attack the northwest of the enemy camp.

All the way out of Xingshan, copy Jinchang Fort (in the north of Jinzhou), and attack the north of the enemy camp.

All the way out of Songshan, cross the Xiaoling River, and attack its east.

All the way as a soldier, out of Songshan, attacking its south.

That is to adopt the tactics of siege from all sides to attack the Qing army besieging Jinzhou in order to solve the siege of Jinzhou.

On the contrary, it fits one or two points with the strategy presented by Tang Tong.

Chongzhen was not very good at this kind of military planning.

But he always felt that the strategy proposed by Chen Xinjia was somewhat familiar.

I didn't remember for a while, where is the familiar place.

But Chongzhen also trusted Hong Chengchou, and did not make a decision easily, but let him make his own decision in Liaodong.

After receiving the strategy planned by Chen Xinjia, Hong Chengchou almost jumped up and scolded Chen Xinjia, even though he had cultivated his superficial skills well, for letting himself die.

He absolutely could not agree to this style of play.

Chongzhen didn't think of it, but Hong Chengchou could think of it immediately.

When Yang Gao commanded the battle of Sarhu, he divided his troops into four groups and attacked from all sides. As a result, he was defeated one by one by Nurhachi, and was finally imprisoned and sentenced to death.

In Hong Chengchou's view, Chen Xinjia didn't want Ming to win at all, but to make Ming lose all its military power in Liaodong.

So many reinforcements and Guan Ning were all lost here, Hong Chengchou believed that it was all over for Ming Dynasty.

Just relying on the three melons and two dates under Wu Guojun, Marquis of Jingliao, he didn't believe that Wu Guojun would stick to the last moment for the Ming emperor, and he might take Chongzhen's head to surrender to congratulate Jinzhao in exchange for a future.

Hong Chengchou just thought about this kind of thing in his heart and didn't say it.

After all, Marquis Jingliao is the unparalleled general in His Majesty's heart, just like Yang Sichang, whoever dares to seriously hurt them with words, Chongzhen will personally end up arguing for the two of them.

Hong Chengchou can also clearly distinguish the abilities of such a few people under his command.

Wu Sangui, Bai Guangen, Ma Ke, and Tang Tong are the only teams that can fight under his command, and more than half of the rest have to cooperate with each other.

Especially those like Bai Guangen who surrendered halfway and wanted to cleanse themselves, and wanted to prove that they were no worse than the original soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, so they worked very hard in battle.

Now Chen Xinjia, Minister of the Ministry of War, asks Hong Chengchou to divide the soldiers who dare to fight into four groups. Isn't this nonsense?
The elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were at a disadvantage against the elite soldiers of the Qing army, and if they were scattered, they would suffer even more.

It is absolutely impossible to be outnumbered.

Therefore, Hong Chengchou advocated fighting and defending.

The specific plan is to stick to Songshan and Xingshan for a long time, and transfer food and pay.

Jinzhou's defense is solid and difficult to break through.

The longer the delay, the more detrimental it is to the Qing army and North Korea, which assisted it in fighting.

After autumn, the enemy will inevitably find it difficult to provide relief, and then wait for an opportunity to fight again.

In short, it is to defend first and then fight, and fight when the enemy is tired.

There is some truth to this assumption.

Although the Ming Dynasty declined, its national strength was far stronger than that of the Qing Dynasty.

In the long run, the Qing Dynasty will be difficult to maintain.

The emperor still trusted Hong Chengchou and asked Hong Chengchou to do it.

However, Chen Xinjia insisted on his point of view.

It is difficult for the front-line supervisor and the Minister of the Ministry of War to reach a consistent point of view.

On the one hand, Hong Chengchou is a man who knows how to fight and is on the front line, so he knows how to deal with it.

But what Chen Xinjia considered was that the troops were stationed for a long time and lacked food and pay. The emperor ordered a reward of 1 taels of silver, and he had to buckle it and make it up.

If Hong Chengchou fought in Liaodong for a long time, Daming would not be able to fight at all, and he would fight quickly if he could.

But Chen Xinjia didn't think about it. In fact, the Qing army couldn't bear such a long delay.

But in the end, the longer the time drags on, the winner may be neither the Qing army nor the Ming army, but the hammer bandits.

The doctor Zhang Ruoqi saw that the Ming army and the Qing army had a small victory in the confrontation, so he secretly told the emperor that the siege of Jinzhou could be broken immediately.

Chen Xinjia wrote to Hong Chengchou asking him to attack immediately, and the emperor also agreed to march immediately.

However, Hong Chengchou refused to accept the orders of his generals abroad and refused to make a quick decision.

During the three-month period from May to July, the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty repeatedly advanced, and the Qing army also fought hard to stop them.

The two sides continued to fight between Song and Xing.

But generally speaking, the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty were full of vigor, quite effective, and had small victories.

Even the Koreans, who wanted to be dogs to Ming Dynasty but had to be dogs to the Qing army in the face of reality, have been paying attention to the war between the two sides.

After their personal observations, the Qing people surrounded Jinzhou and fought several times with the Han soldiers, but the Han soldiers were still strong, so the prince sent someone to the "King Khan" to ask for reinforcements.

Moreover, North Korea also sent information back to its own country. The Qing people and the Han soldiers were in a stalemate.

When North Korea's high-level officials got the news, they were extremely excited and couldn't help but drink a few more drinks.

After all, being Daming's dog is what they are most willing to do!

Listening to Shuo Tuo's Chinese, Tang Tong still had some accent: "Is what you just said true?"

"What did I lie to you for?" Shuo Tuo pointed to his own face and said:

"If I wasn't afraid that my face would be too familiar, I would have followed you here to wait for the result."

Tang Tong felt that the general's thinking was a little strange.

In the past three months of fighting, the Ming army has always been in the upper hand, and the Qing army is at a disadvantage. Why did he think that Hong Chengchou would lose?

"If you still don't understand, just read this letter and burn it after reading it."

Shuotuo took out the secret letter and asked Tang Tong to read it carefully.

He Jinzhao's personal letter to him is similar to what Shuo Tuo said to him.

If Hong Chengchou is defeated, you will surrender to the Qing army and wait for future uprisings.

The commander-in-chief has too few sources of news about Liaodong.

There are also spies who have been placed in Liaodong in recent years, but most of them can spy on things on paper.

Even Shuo Tuo moved some of his own confidantes, but most of them were lower-level military officers, and there were almost no sources of news from the high-level Qing Dynasty.

Huang Taiji threw spies into the Hammer bandits' territory, and some of them settled down, but the information they inquired was mostly useless, and it was not easy to pass it on.

He Jinzhao also threw spies into Huang Taiji's territory, and what he inquired about was mostly miscellaneous news.

Tang Tong skipped all of these, and carefully read Marshal He's analysis of the Liaodong War.

Although Hong Chengchou was a capable person, the officials of the Ming court were not strong enough to fully follow Hong Chengchou's suggestions.

In the end, there is a high probability that Hong Chengchou will fight with his back, and he will fall into Huang Taiji's trap.

Seeing this, Tang Tongbian was a little discouraged. After all, the death of Lu Xiangsheng and his like probably proved that what the commander-in-chief said was correct.

This kind of thing is very common in the Ming Dynasty. Our soldiers are fighting bloody battles with the enemy in the front, but those who hold the right to speak in the imperial court will always hold you back.

Shuo Tuo also learned more about Daming's depravity, and he was very glad that he wanted to join Daming back then, but ended up defecting to the Hammer bandits by the way.

Otherwise, if he followed Hong Chengchou back to Liaodong, he might not be able to escape again.

Compared with the joy of the rest of the Ming army generals, Tang Tong felt a lot more sad.

After all, I don't want to shave my head!

"Of course, it is best for the Ming army to win." Shuo Tuo smiled again: "Actually, the commander hopes that the Ming army can win, so that Huang Taiji will be severely injured and his strength will become weaker and weaker." .”

Tang Tong also understood, who can guarantee that before the war, which side will definitely lose?
If you just say you will win or lose, then don't fight. Who knows what will happen on the battlefield?
The Marshal arranged this way just in case.

But the report of the Liaodong Governor's Memorial is extremely exciting.

"Jinwei has not been resolved in March, but it has been 20 years since it failed to kill the rebellious slaves for a long time.

Therefore, in the past few months, he has been encouraged by many parties, first to make his spirit, first to strengthen his courage, and now he has won several times.

The voice of the army has been revived, and there is hope for a rescue. At present, we can only wait for the opportunity. "

Chongzhen was very satisfied with this, and Hong Chengchou was extremely reliable when he made a move.

The Ming army seemed to be victorious, but Huang Taiji in Shenyang couldn't sit still.

From the perspective of the Qing court, the war in Jinzhou had come to an urgent end, and the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty were pressing on, and the Qing army was already at a disadvantage.

Faced with such a situation, Huang Taiji made a decision against his ancestors and called all the civil servants and generals.

He said that you are not to blame for the defeat in the battle, but also my father!
Nurhachi?

Blame the first emperor, who dares to take over!

Because Huang Taiji is dreaming in the palace again!
This time, he didn't dream of the palace of Daming of North Korea, but his old father!
Huang Taiji said that every time he dreamed of his father, he would lose the war, which is very unlucky, so you don't blame you for the defeat of the Qing Dynasty.

Although it is relatively common in the Qing Dynasty to see fathers being kind, sons filial, brothers and brothers being respectful, is this something that can be said on the stage?

In order to relieve the psychological pressure of the people under him, Huang Taiji can be said to "whip the corpse" Nurhachi directly.

In short, all responsibility lies with Nurhachi!
It has nothing to do with you.

I will not hold you accountable for losing the war.

When the emperor of the Qing Dynasty dreamed of the first emperor, the Han army worked hard to strengthen the real stone Yanzhu on the front of Gushan, to share the worries of the master, and wrote a letter to take Jinzhou and break the strategy of the reinforcements.

"Jinzhou is the first town on the left side of the Liao Dynasty, where bees and ants gather, and they are at odds with us in the Qing Dynasty.

The emperor sent troops to besiege, dug heavy trenches and built high fortifications, which were replaced in turn, and the defense was tight. He vowed to destroy the traitor.

It can sweep the Central Plains, and it is the emperor's magic trick.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty relied on the longevity of his ancestors as a guarantee, so he was under such siege that he sent troops day and night to rescue him.

In August and September, when the weather was cool and cool, I thought that the Ming army would fight our Qing Dynasty with all its strength. "

"Those who are besieging the city at this time do not need to be replaced or withdrawn. They will still select the soldiers to be replaced, and select the strong and strong ones to divide the banners and garrison fields, and garrison horses and horses. Once there are police, they will sneak in at night.

Each battalion detects the truth, as if the enemy is stationed in a camp, my Qing soldiers are surrounded on all sides, attacking with red cannons, even if the Ming army has a million people, it can be as powerful as my forty artillery positions.

(Forty Hongyi cannons are still crushing for the Ming army)

When the enemy camp moved slightly, our army rushed in, bypassed Jinzhou City, and went straight to Songshan, Xingshan and other places. I expected that the enemy soldiers would not be able to stop them.

There are moats around the city of Kuang Songxing, how could the Ming army rush into the city once it was defeated!
Even if firearms are installed in the city, but the enemy and the enemy are mixed on the battlefield, fearing that they will mistake their own soldiers, the Ming army will not dare to use them.

Our army gallops across and across, and they will flee in pieces. After such a large-scale attack, the enemy soldiers are terrified, and Jinzhou has lost its support since then, and cannot stick to it.

If the sky is concerned, if Jinzhou is broken, the eight cities outside the pass will be shaken by the wind, how can you know that when I won Shenyang, Liaoyang would be destroyed!"

Shi Yanzhu had a high opinion of the Ming army.

Even if there were Ming troops outside the city, they dared to fire cannons to drive them away in order not to be broken by the Qing army or for their own lives.

What own people?

Only those in the city are their own people!

What Lao Tzu beat is obviously a dog tartar outside the city, and it is by no means a robe.

Except for the elimination of King Sanshun, Shi Yanzhu was the number one official under Huang Taiji.

He himself has quite a military strategy and has won the trust of Huang Taiji.

"Our Qing soldiers and horses defeated the reinforcements in Jinzhou for a while, and the situation of reinforcements in Liao was broken.

Once the game is broken, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to make another move in one or two years, and my emperor has no worries about going west.

What's more, it took only six or seven days for Ming reinforcements to bring food from Ningyuan to Songshan. "

"If you lose your front a little, you will definitely retreat quickly, or if you hesitate for a few days, you will also go away on the pretext of asking for food.

When our army returned, we added troops to ambush Takahashi, chose a narrow place, dug trenches and intercepted them, and still sent Jinzhou's strong troops to follow.

With such an attack back and forth, the Ming army was running out of supplies, and had nowhere to advance or retreat. How could you know that the reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty were not from the Qing Dynasty? "

Huang Taiji looked at Shi Yanzhu's memorabilia and nodded repeatedly. His analysis and assumptions were quite correct.

But he got the news from the spies that the emperor and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were determined to win this battle, and the rice beans shipped from Tianjin were extremely sufficient.

Huang Taiji didn't think that the Ming army would be trapped by food and grass.

Moreover, this incident was strange from the inside to the outside. He always felt that He Jinzhao was playing tricks behind the scenes, but he just suffered from the lack of evidence.

In other words, Huang Taiji didn't need any evidence, he believed in his inner judgment.

"My Great Qing surrounded us on all sides with soldiers and horses. At night, we dug trenches and defended, and during the day, we attacked with artillery. He wanted to fight and had no way out, and wanted to retreat without a way out.

Within one or two months, the Ming army had its own troubles.

I can just sit and wait for the enemy to die, why bother to risk the arrows and stones myself, and be willing to fall into the danger of the sword!"

Shi Yanzhu continued to elaborate on his philosophy: "Hong Chengchou, a scholar!
He was entrusted with the important task of the imperial court, the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, and he could not shirk.

The officers and soldiers who aided the general town of Liao everywhere were no more than the old desperadoes.

Who doesn't know that I, the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, and Baylor broke through Shandong, captured King De, marched to Changping, beheaded all the generals, won every battle, and won every attack.

Today they were ordered to aid Jinzhou out of necessity.

Although they were bluffing in Songshan, they were actually being persecuted by the Ming Dynasty. They were not people with outstanding talents and eager to go to righteousness.

If the ancestor's general army is lost, all the general soldiers under Hong Chengchou's command have nothing to rely on.

Even if he escapes and returns, it's just that Xishi will be punished.

Kuang Daming's luck is gradually declining, droughts, floods and insect disasters, all kinds of occurrences, thieves and rebels gather everywhere.

Li Zicheng, a bandit in the Central Plains, Zhang Xianzhong in Huguang, and He Jinchao, a more powerful hammer bandit in the Northwest, are all enough to contain the Ming court and benefit the Qing Dynasty. "

(End of this chapter)