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Chapter 305 The Dilemma of Emerging Gold

The low morale and fluctuating hearts are all caused by the defeat and heavy casualties.

Now that the cause is obvious, the solution is also obvious.Get up wherever you fall.Wherever you fail, you will find your way back there.

Huang Taiji has such a simple way of thinking, correct is correct, but the reality does not allow it.At least in a short period of time, it is impossible to take an approach.

This is not to say that Nurhachi is depressed and does not want to make progress because of his failure. He wants revenge more than anyone else, and wants to win a big battle more than anyone else.

But war cannot be decided with a slap on the butt, and it can be acted immediately.

The defeat in the Battle of Ningyuan was the end, but the consequences were by no means as simple as heavy casualties.

Since the defeat of Guangning, Houjin has not looted much material.After a year of support, it was launched again and returned empty-handed, and it also consumed the insufficient stockpiles of food and grass supplies.

The soldiers and horses did not move, but the food and grass went first.The army of the later Jin Dynasty could not get rid of this military strategy when fighting wars.

As for supporting war with war, it has become an impossible fantasy since the Ming army implemented a strategic contraction and relocated the Liao people to all abandoned land.

Huang Taiji thought for a while, his brows frowned into a knot, and he sighed heavily, "It will take at least a month or two to rest and recuperate. When the spring warms and the ice disappears, will I be able to start it? I'm afraid I will be exhausted and busy dealing with the Ming army." Harassment attacks."

On this point, Huang Taiji was not wrong.The combat power of the Ming army is steadily improving, and with the advantage of the navy, without the frozen coast, it is predictable that the intensity of the harassment will be greater than last year.

What worried Huang Taiji even more was not a few failures, but a tactical defeat.The strategic decline is what he feels most powerless to deal with, and he thinks it will be the most fatal to Hou Jin.

According to the development strategy of Hou Jin, it is to advance westward and gradually drive the Ming army out of Liaodong.

The beginning stage can be said to be very smooth, winning one after another, Fushun, Anshan, and Liaoshen made all-out attacks, pushing the Ming army to the west of the Liaohe River.

However, starting from the defeat of Guangning last year, the strategic adjustment of the Ming army made Houjin gradually fall into a predicament.

With Xiong Tingbi sitting in the west of Liaoning, Ning Yuan and Jue Hua became indestructible nails, blocking Hou Jinxi's advance with an unbreakable defense.

In the vast coastal areas of southern Liaoning and eastern Liaoning, Yuan Keli implemented a sea defense that was advancing step by step, which made Hou Jin exhausted.

And the establishment of Dongjiang Town planted a nail behind Houjin that made people sleepless and sleepless.

Huang Taiji had to admit that the current Houjin was like a trapped beast.But the cage was still shrinking, making him feel more and more tight.

Zhu Youxiao sneered at what a great talent, what a vision, what a foresight.Whether it is the old slave or Huang Taiji, it is just luck, and more importantly, the monarchs and ministers in the late Ming Dynasty were too bad.

As long as Xiong Tingbi is reused, as long as Yuan Keli is reused, Houjin will be wiped out.Of course, Zhu Youxiao's intervention made this process faster and more powerful.

Luo Xiujin didn't say anything, but in her heart she boasted that she was resourceful.Of course, Huang Taiji also has considerable conceit and intelligence.

But in the face of absolute strength, all wisdom and strategies are useless.Regarding the current disadvantage and the increasingly difficult situation, both of them have nothing to do.

I believe that the old slave felt the same way. He had a big head bump in Ningyuan, which also shattered his fantasy of going west and breaking through the cage.

"Someone is going to visit Father Khan." Huang Taiji felt that he still had to fight for it, even if it was just a show of force against the Ming army in Dongjiang or Luda, it could restore some morale and check the Ming army's flaws by the way.

Luo Xiujin hurriedly reminded: "Lord Baylor's words should not be hasty, King Khan's mood at this time—"

Huang Taiji waved his hand, strode out, and then the voice sounded, "If I save it, I won't make Father Khan angry."

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The dilemma faced by Hou Jin was more serious than Huang Taiji had imagined.

Especially for the five tribes of Neikaleka under the pressure of Lindan Khan's "Annei" and "Reformation", the subsequent disastrous defeat of the Jin Dynasty prevented most of the Mongolian tribes from submitting in history.

At this time, not only Neikha, but also the Chahar tribe directly managed by Lin Danhan, and the secret envoys sent by the Ming Dynasty also felt the improvement in treatment.

Although Guangning won, the Ming army immediately gave up a large area of ​​land and retreated strategically to Ningyuan.This aroused the dissatisfaction of the Chahar Department, as well as the panic and contempt of the Neikalka Department.

Because Guangning was the place where the Chahar Department and the Ming Dynasty agreed to receive rewards and conduct border trade, the Ming army abandoned its defense and shrunk, which had a great impact on the Chahar Department.

Although the Ming court designated the location of the Xifengkou border trade, Lin Danhan felt that the power would move westward and the trade would have to pass through the territory of the Harashen tribe. Even though he was the Mongolian Khan in name, he still found it inconvenient.

Therefore, when the envoys sent by the Ming court brought silver to Chahanhaote, Lin Danhan claimed that he was sick, and he put aside the edicts brought by the envoys of the Ming Dynasty on the pretext that he did not have anyone who could understand Chinese characters.

At the same time, Lin Danhan instructed his uncle, Mao Da, to tell the Ming envoy, "I want to raise my own troops to kill slaves, but the power is in my hands, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to do it arbitrarily", in order to raise the price.

In addition, Lin Danhan also said that he would take back Guangning for the Ming court, and offered a price of 40 taels.

What a neuropathy!

At that time, Zhu Youxiao rolled his eyes after receiving the reward. With Lin Danhan's brain, it's no wonder that he played a good hand of cards so badly that many betrayed relatives died in Qinghai.

Can't you see such an obvious strategic contraction?Guangning took the initiative to abandon the defense, okay? Now it is an empty city, why do you pretend to be a big garlic and take it back for us?

Although Zhu Youxiao patiently sent another envoy and tactfully rejected Lin Danhan's suggestion, he has already transferred more diplomatic efforts to the five ministries of Neikalka.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, the Five Divisions of Nekhka are quite interesting, and they can be supported to directly attack Houjin's forces.

When Nurhachi attacked Tieling, an important town in eastern Liaodong, and the Ming army had few major generals, and the situation was in jeopardy, the Neikalkha Alliance sent Zai Sai to lead an army of [-] to help Tieling.

Unfortunately, the Ming army did not persist until the arrival of the support army, and Tieling fell.

Afterwards, Nurhachi led the Houjin Army, which was full of morale and waiting for work, to face Zaisai's reinforcements head-on.The Mongolian army was defeated, and even the commander Zaisai and his two sons were captured.

At that time, Zhuoli Ketu, the leader of Neikaka, was very old, and the main affairs of the alliance were managed by the young and vigorous Zai Sai, who was already the actual leader and a candidate for the future leader.

The capture of Zai Sai not only frightened and overwhelmed the five tribes of Neikhachi, but also made Nurhachi a rare commodity to live in. With Zai Sai as a hostage, the five tribes of Neikhachi had to send envoys to seek peace and meet with Nurhachi. Alliance.

Originally, this kind of coerced "to make an alliance" was just an expedient measure, but Lin Danhan was furious about it.

Not only did he regard the five ministries of Neikhalkha as the target of "Annei", but he also angered Sirhunaktaiji, the minister in charge of [-] left-wing households, and suspected that he had secretly connected with Nurhachi.

And Zhu Youxiao made the fight for Neikarka a diplomatic priority, because he saw the embarrassment of Neikalkha being caught between Lin Danhan and Hou Jin.

If Lin Danhan's "Annei" action forces the Five Departments of Neikalkha into desperation, Zhu Youxiao is willing to give them a way out to prevent them from investing in Houjin and strengthening Houjin's strength for nothing.

However, diplomatic efforts had no effect at the time, because the situation was complicated and it was difficult to make a decision.

However, after Jin suffered another disastrous defeat in Ningyuan, Lin Danhan's "Annei" operation also began to escalate, and finally the five ministries of Neikalkha made a decision in favor of the Ming court.

When the memorial was sent to the capital in a hurry and reviewed by Zhu You, he couldn't help but excitedly took a picture of the table and praised: "Very good, very good."

Xiong Tingbi reported in the memorial: Labashhib, Sonomu, and Manggotaiji from the five tribes of Nekhka plan to lead [-] households to join him, and he has ordered Mangui to lead Mongolian naturalized cavalry to go out. To Jinzhou, Dalinghe, and to Yixian County, ready to meet.

Unite all forces that can be united, and fight against Houjin with all your strength.While it may be temporary, it's a good start.

Zhu Youxiao picked up the pen and wrote a reply to Xiong Tingbi.

Obviously, accepting the Mongolians who came to vote will definitely make Lin Danhan feel unhappy, even resentful.But in the long run, if Lin Danhan is allowed to go crazy and ignore it, the only one who can get cheap is Houjin.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao wanted to find a reason to maintain the alliance with Lin Danhan as much as possible, and use all his energy to deal with Houjin.

The inclusion of naturalization should be regarded as an unsatisfactory excuse.If it's just taking in, wouldn't it be obvious that he stood on the opposite side of Lin Dan Khan in the struggle within Mongolia?
Zhu Youxiao will also send envoys to the Chahar Department to persuade Lin Danhan not to start an internal struggle at this time, which will affect the covenant to jointly attack Houjin.

In fact, this is just doing the best of human beings.Zhu Youxiao didn't think that Lin Danhan would listen to persuasion and stop the unification of Mongolia.

The reason is very simple. Of course, it is also from the perspective of Lin Danhan. The war between the Ming Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty provided a very good external environment for Lin Danhan to unify Mongolia.

Because since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the complete elimination of the Mongolian regime has been a constant goal.Although it has been on the defensive since Yongle, the military pressure of the Ming army is still a huge obstacle to the rise of Mongolia.

It's all right now, the Ming army was restrained by Houjin most of its energy, and it also relaxed the division and disintegration of the Mongolian tribes.Not only relaxed the division and disintegration of the Mongolian tribes, but also won Lin Dan Khan to fight against Houjin.

Coupled with the economic power gained from the mutual market and rewards, Lin Danhan feels that the timing is good, and there are channels to obtain materials, so it is not so unexpected.

But in fact, Lin Danhan obviously overestimated his IQ and strength.The opportunity is good, but it is for those who are prepared and capable, not for this idiot.

Let's take a look, as the nominal khan of all Mongolia, Lindan Batu relies on the strength of the Eight Chahar Battalions: Haoqit, Naiman, Keshigten, Ujumqin, Sunit, Ao Han, Alakjot and Lord Xiti.

The total population of the Chahar tribe is about [-], and it is indeed the strongest among the Mongolian tribes.

The idea of ​​unifying Mongolia is not a problem if you fight against the outside world first, and this is what Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan did.

But Lin Danhan only saw the surface, only learned the superficial, but ignored the most important and powerful move of his ancestors.

Genghis Khan was able to rise because he broke the Mongolian aristocracy's loose aggregation system and invented the "ten thousand households" system.

Only when the restrictions of each tribe are broken, and the generals appointed by Genghis Khan personally lead each household, can the military orders be unified and the orders banned.

Similar to this, there is also the "Meng'an Mouk" system invented by Wanyan Aguda, the ancestor of Jurchen.Nurhachi learned it, and used the Eight Banners system to completely unite the Jurchens.

As for Lindan Batur, he neither learned the wisdom of his ancestors nor the strengths of his enemies.The Eight Chahar Battalions that he can directly command are completely divided and ruled, and the leaders of each battalion have complete control over their own tribes.

How about "annei", even his own Chahar tribe didn't "anne" well, so he wanted to unify other Mongolian tribes, and he didn't know where Lindanbatur got his confidence?
Zhu Youxiao didn't even bother to complain about this ambitious and talented "Khan".You don't look at the time when you are tossing around, it's all about adding strength to Houjin and affecting my five-year plan to flatten Liao, okay?

After the gold is gone, I will deal with you, you tiger rabbit.

Zhu Youxiao felt ruthless, and wrote while thinking, and finally finished writing his reply to Xiong Tingbi.

Seeing the emperor's sealing box, Wang Tiqian dared to step forward and speak: "My lord, we are performing cannons outside the city today. Look at the time, it's time to drive out of the palace."

Zhu Youxiao squinted at the Western clock, knowing that it was already late.However, we are the emperor, so it doesn't matter if we are a little late.

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The practice field in the suburbs of Beijing is already surrounded by soldiers and heavily guarded.

Sun Yuanhua and the others had already placed several new-style cannons, and the gunners of martial arts were measuring distances, adjusting them, and talking about the latest weird-looking cannon.

This cannon is very simple, like a water tank, with a thick wooden board underneath; there are two round cannonballs beside it, and there is an iron ring on the cannonball, I don’t know what it is used for.

"This is a cannon?" Fatty Zhao walked around the "water tank" twice, and said with a smile, "The caliber is big enough. If this cannonball goes down, people will be smashed into meatloaf."

Because the angle of the artillery has been adjusted by Sun Yuanhua and others.

With such a large elevation angle, Fatty Zhao and other students have learned the principles of ballistics, and know that when they are shot like this, basically there will be no bounce, just hit the ground with a "bang", or hit someone's head by chance.

"If you can't hit it, you will be shocked." Zhang Junneng chuckled, bent down in front of the cannonball, and wanted to lift the ring with his hands, but Sun Yuanhua sternly stopped him.

Sun Yuanhua led people to drive these gunners away and stay away from this strange gun.Others don't know, but he has tried it. This gun is quite good, but it is also more dangerous.

After waiting for not too long, the emperor's car drove into the school grounds and stopped in front of the pre-set stage.The emperor got out of the car amidst the crowd's kneeling and worshiping chanting, and went up to the stage to ascend his seat.

"Long live." Sun Chengzong came to the stage, bowed and played: "All preparations have been made, should we start the exercise now?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded with a smile, and said: "Let's start! Master Sun is by my side, explaining a thing or two." As he spoke, he ordered the palace servants to bring a stool for Sun Chengzong, took out the binoculars, and made a lookout Observational preparation.

(End of this chapter)