Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 1030 Can't Let Him Win

The battle in the capital could not stop Li Zicheng's offensive, nor could it stop the war in Liaodong.

Similarly, Chongzhen's random command will not restore the decline of Ming Dynasty, it is better not to command.

Chen Xinjia is working hard to keep his position as Minister of the Ministry of War.

Because of Yang Sichang's degree of favor and trust, even Zhou Yanru, the chief assistant of the dynasty, could not compare.

Although the hope is slim, he doesn't want to give up.

He Jinzhao received a letter from Wu Guojun and learned about the situation in the capital.

Regarding Chongzhen's ignorance of government affairs, Zhang Fuzhen and others are also very different.

After all, this is not like his style.

Why did Wu Guojun's few words make Chongzhen give up his daily diligence?
Once this habit is formed, not everyone can accept it.

Just like a retired old man, you have to get used to it for a while.

"My lord, Chongzhen is not normal." Zhang Fuzhen pinched his beard and thought, "He doesn't seem like a person who can listen to persuasion."

"Who knows? But Wu Guojun did a good job." He Jinzhao couldn't help but praise:

"The longer Hong Chengchou can persist in Songshan, the more the national strength of the Qing court will be consumed and the strength will decline faster.

Huang Taiji wanted to regain his vitality, so he couldn't slow it down in three to five years. Maybe at that time he died suddenly from high blood pressure, and there was no chance to slow down at all. "

He Jinzhao has a lot of experience in this kind of "recovery".

The disaster in one or two years cannot be slowed down in one or two years.

During the reign of Chongzhen, there was a severe drought, and no force could resist it.

Fortunately, there is no plague yet, and He Jinzhao actively nips it in the bud.

Otherwise, the situation in the Shanshan area would really be worse.

Without seven or eight years, it is impossible for the Hammer Bandits to slow down.

If there are still people alive in this land, they must have a particularly strong resistance.

Ordinary people need to survive years of droughts, occasional plagues, occasional bandit disasters, military disasters, recurring droughts, frost disasters, insect plagues, plagues, and so on.

I don't know how many people can survive.

Zhang Fuzhen also agrees with Wu Guojun's operation.

With his current strength to influence the operations of the Ming Emperor, it is really great.

Even as long as Zhu Youjian doesn't meddle indiscriminately, maybe Hong Chengchou can win in Liaodong.

"I have an idea." He Jinzhao took two steps:

"In fact, we can ask Wu Guojun to give Yang Sichang an idea. Since Huang Taiji has coaxed Zhu Youjian into entering the fortress, why not send Chen Xinjia to the Qing court to negotiate a peace, so as to confuse Huang Taiji's operations."

Zhang Fuzhen pinched his beard and couldn't help being surprised: "My lord, my lord, Daming negotiated peace with us and the Qing army, so who is he going to fight?"

"I don't care who he hits, as long as he confuses Huang Taiji."

He Jinzhao didn't think that Huang Taiji gave him a thousand catties of ginseng, a portrait of his daughter whom he suspected, some mink fur, and so on, so he had to accept sitting on the mountain and watching the tigers fight.

To be a referee is to be biased!

I have to make trouble and step on his feet hard!

What a normal operation to help Daming do the Qing Dynasty!
What if Huang Taiji borrowed the donkey from the slope and agreed to negotiate peace with Daming, and was attacked by Hong Chengchou again.

That would be interesting.

Ming and Qing fires merged, Huang Taiji died suddenly, how pleasant it sounds!
He Jinzhao didn't want Huang Taiji to win a big victory outside the pass.

Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties (Later Jin), they fought for the first time in [-] until they entered the customs in [-].

In less than 30 years, there have been more than a hundred battles between the two sides.

The Qing Dynasty only paid attention to two wars.

One is Saarhu, and the other is Songjin.

These two wars were strategic decisive battles outside the customs for the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which had immeasurable and far-reaching significance for the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty.

Only two or three years after the Battle of Sarhu, Nurhachi conquered Liaodong, took Shenyang, Wang Yekai, and Emperor Yeding, laying a foundation for entering Guanzhong in the future.

23 years after this battle, the battle of Songjin broke out between the two sides.

The Qing army won four important towns outside the pass in one fell swoop, breaking the stalemate that had lingered in western Liaoning for more than ten years.

Two years later, 10 elite cavalry of the Qing army rushed into the pass.

Nothing more than Mr. Zhang boasted: "Taizu fought and Wang Jikai, Taizong fought and the emperor's career was established!"

It is no exaggeration to say that these two major battles were two milestones in the development history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they truly reflected the two turning points in the history of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

It is self-evident that the decisive battle between Sarhu and Songshan is related to the fate of the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty.

Likewise, they were fateful life-and-death struggles for the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty.

From a military point of view, these two major battles can be regarded as a model of fighting wits and fighting strength.

History often has striking similarities.

Just like A Fang Gong Fu, Qin people have no time to mourn themselves, but later generations mourn;

The only lessons humanity has learned from history is that it has learned no lessons from history.

Both battles were due to the Ming court's failure to urge the war, and the recklessness led to the complete failure of the Ming army.

Before the Battle of Saerhu, Hou Jin captured Fushun and Qinghe, and the Ming Dynasty gathered large troops to conquer them.

If we are well-prepared, do not rush into a quick battle, and adopt a strategy of steady advancement, we will not fail so quickly and so miserably.

But the situation was just the opposite. The cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty hurriedly dispatched troops and generals, and then hurriedly ordered them to leave the customs, so as to make a quick battle and a quick decision.

As soon as Yang Gao was ordered, they issued red flags frequently in the name of "the teacher has been short of pay for a long time", and urged him to enter the army every day, and tried their best to supervise the battle.

Chen Xinjia also learned it well!

Later Jin Nurhachi and Huang Taiji both liked quick-decision battles in mobile warfare and campaign attacks.

This is due to their country's backward economy and insufficient financial resources to support the protracted stalemate of the army.

Another reason is that the specialty of the Qing soldiers was the impact of flying cavalry, with arrows as the main weapon.

It was not until Huang Taiji embraced new technology (artillery) on a large scale.

Speed ​​warfare and mobile warfare can best play its advantages.

Therefore, the decision-makers of the Ming Dynasty tried their best to make a quick decision, which was in the arms of the Qing Dynasty, and created objective conditions for them to defeat the Ming army.

When Xiong Tingbi briefly explored Liaodong, he painfully summed up the lessons of the failures of Fu, Qing and Sarhu:
"Let the arrows urge Zhang Shuai (Zhang Chengyin, who died in battle near Fushun) to die, and immediately urge the three divisions to die. How dare I repeat the same mistakes!"

Unexpectedly, 23 years later, the Ming Dynasty "followed the same path" again, causing the entire army to be wiped out in the Songxing area.

To use soldiers to fight wars, one must have all the troops, two must have sufficient wages, and the third must "wait for the opportunity", that is, seize the opportunity.

Having all three is the basic condition for victory.

At the beginning of Hong Chengchou's army aid to Jin, he cooperated with Zu Dashou and adopted the "persistent strategy" of taking defense as war to hold back the Qing army, making them unable to fight and unable to stop.

When the food and pay are insufficient and the soldiers slack off the officials, they may not fail to succeed if they give them a heavy blow.

At least it is certain that the Ming army will not fail so quickly and so miserably.

From the very beginning, Hong Chengchou wanted to fight for a long time.

He also reminded Chongzhen and the Ministry of War that it is very dangerous to concentrate a large army in one place, and it is difficult to transfer. The supply exceeds the demand.

However, these opinions of Hong Chengchou were not adopted. Chen Xinjia, Zhang Ruoqi, Ma Shaoyu, etc. repeatedly repeated the old saying of "teachers and elders lack money", regardless of subjective and objective conditions, they urged Hong and others to fight quickly.

They also said that Tong Chongzhen ordered "to enter the army immediately", and no delay is allowed.

Hong Chengchou had no choice but to lead 6 horses to Songshan first, and his follow-up troops also rushed to Songshan. How could the food and horse feed needed by the 13 army be transported to Songshan quickly?
Hong Chengchou only prepared food for three days, which forced him to fight the Qing soldiers quickly to decide the outcome, which was full of emotion for "destroying the food for the court".

If He Jinzhao hadn't secretly sent people to help him transport food and grass, and arranged for people, Hong Chengchou would have become Huang Taiji's prisoner long ago.

The countermeasures that Chen Xinjia came up with were not much different from the ideas that the military department of the Sarhu court came up with, so it could be said that they were copying their homework.

He even copied the homework of the scumbags, trying to surpass the top students.

Huang Taiji and his counselors saw the Achilles' heel of the Ming army, and adopted the policy of besieging the food supply road and avoiding a decisive battle, which hit the vital point of the Ming army at once.

The Ming army was besieged, cut off the food supply, and immediately lost their morale and had no fighting spirit.

Even the generals were terrified by the lack of food, forcing them to rush back to Ningyuan to eat.

The Qing army, waiting in full battle, seized the opportunity to intercept and kill, and overnight, more than [-] troops were killed in pieces, resulting in the same disastrous defeat as Sarhu.

The failure of the two fierce battles of the Ming Dynasty made serious mistakes of adventurism and underestimating the enemy.

From this perspective, it is not surprising that the mighty Ming army was defeated.

After all, Nurhachi was also a member of the Ming army.

In the later period, most of the fully paid Ming troops served under Huang Taiji's command.

Yang Gao divided his forces to attack from four directions, and Hong Chengchou joined forces in a decisive battle at Songshan. The result was the same.

In fact, their common mistake was to put the Ming army in a lonely position, so it was easy to be wiped out by the opponent.

Yang Gao divided the whole army into four groups in an attempt to encircle Hetuala.

Each road is carried out independently, not connected to each other, and the distance is relatively far. For example, Ma Lin from Kaiyuan Road, and South Road Liu Ting from Qinghe, and the distance between them is four to five hundred miles.

Once a road is in trouble, the other roads cannot help.That's exactly what happened.

When Jun Song was surrounded and annihilated in Sarhu, the other groups didn't know it at all. After the news reached Yang Gao, it was too late to release it to other groups.

After Nurhachi wiped out the two Ming roads one after another and scared away the one army, Liu Ting from Junan Road didn't know anything about it, and continued to go deeper.

This clearly shows that the military division is weak and each army is in a lonely and dangerous situation.

With the keen eyesight of a military strategist, Nurhachi saw through this fatal weakness of the Ming army at a glance.

He adopted the policy of "according to several roads, I will go all the way", concentrated superior forces to deal with one of them, and then defeated them one by one, winning the victory of this major battle related to the survival of Hou Jin.

The biggest disadvantage of Hong Chengchou's "joint forces" is that the unification of 13 people is also "injected into a lonely and dangerous place, and there is no response from the beginning to the end."

Huang Taiji observed the formation of the Ming army, so he quickly made a decision to join the Qing army to cut off reinforcements according to the danger, dig long trenches, cut off food roads, and put the Ming soldiers in a desperate situation.

Because more than [-] troops set up a camp around Songshan City, it focused on the Songshan brocade, always planning to break the siege of Jinzhou, but ignored its connection with the rear Xingshan, Tashan and other cities, and a big loophole appeared.

This provided convenient conditions for Huang Taiji to cut off the food road and besiege the reinforcements.

Especially in the face of the enemy, Hong Chengchou didn't think about how to break through the formation, and wanted to retreat and pay, which was a big mistake.

When the troops retreated, they could not deal with the aftermath, and the situation was dwarfed. This is another mistake.

The Qing soldiers tried their best to cover up and kill them. The important ministers and veteran generals of the Ming Dynasty chose a hundred thousand soldiers and cavalry, and they were completely wiped out.

When Hong Chengchou fought against the peasant army in the Central Plains, he always chased the peasant army.

He has almost no experience in organizing large numbers of people to escape.

And Wang Pu is also a private person, he is unwilling to easily hand over the trick of saving his life and strength to others, in order to prevent the disciples from starving to death from the master.

The two major defeats of the Ming army certainly had the above-mentioned various military factors and mistakes.

Fundamentally speaking, they were all defeated by the internal corruption, political darkness and corruption of the ruling group of the Ming Dynasty.

Two campaigns are given the fullest exposure.

When Yang Gao was ordered to go out to march eastward, it was the time when the eunuch party was monopolizing power and the factional struggle in the imperial court was becoming increasingly fierce.

When Yang Gao went to the expedition, there were eunuchs accompanying the army to supervise him, and the generals could not exercise their power over themselves.

The factional struggles in the imperial court spread to the army, and all factions intervened in the army, each with its own party, unable to form a centralized and unified command.

Xiong Tingbi was a famous military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty. He was stationed in Liaodong for a long time and made many achievements. However, he still couldn't resist the interference and destruction of party struggles. Even he himself was forced to resign and return to his hometown.

The affairs of the battlefield cannot be decided by the generals on the battlefield, and they are completely subject to the ignorant discussions and decisions of the emperor and courtiers in Jiuzhong.

The continuous failure of Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Sarhu and subsequent battles all stemmed from this.

This situation became more serious before the decisive battle in Matsuyama.

As soon as Chongzhen ascended the throne, he eradicated the eunuch party, which could have brought about a political reform, a sound government and a harmonious people, and the crisis-ridden situation caused by the Tianqi dynasty should have improved.

But as Hong Chengchou said, there were many civil servants, there were disputes between Taiwan and Taiwan, and the government continued to be chaotic.

In the Ming Dynasty, the nine towns ruled the mansion, the civil servants were the generals, and the emperor himself was the guardian.

The system of military ministers as generals has been practiced in the past dynasties.

The Ming Dynasty carried out reforms, and all generals and generals were appointed as civil servants.

In fact, preventing the power of military officials also avoids the frequent occurrence of armed rebellion or the danger of using military power to interfere in politics.

This played an important role in consolidating the centralization of power, maintaining the continuous stability of the situation, and maintaining the absolute authority of the emperor.

Historical experience proves that when a system has been implemented for a long time, new disadvantages often arise.

After the last years of Wanli, the Ming Dynasty became "weak in military and strong in culture", with numerous problems.

All national military and political plans are determined by civil servants, and generals who are in frontier defense are supervised by civil servants.

They could not decide on the combat strategy according to the actual situation, so there was a confusion of different orders and powers.

Therefore, He Jinzhao sat in the position of the rebel, and naturally hoped that the Ming and Qing Dynasties would consume as much energy as possible, and the longer the time dragged on, the better.

But when he thought of Chongzhen obeying Wu Guojun's remarks and ignoring government affairs, the seemingly abnormal operation also revealed normal.

After all, he is indifferent to others, jealous, suspicious, and has a changeable mind.

Today, if this person makes sense, he will implement it, and tomorrow, if he hears that person’s reasoning, he will change it.

Who knows how long it will last?

(End of this chapter)