Chapter 185: Cheng Guogong's Decision

The decision was made in advance.

Almost on the second day of the withdrawal, the vanguard of the army had arrived.

Before the third day, Chengguo Gong had already arrived.

Although the infantry army dragged to the back, it was still in the difficult trek. After all, the baggage required by hundreds of thousands of people has already been transported to the front line. So the march was relatively slow, and it was several days after the fall.

And Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, who led the Chinese army, was caught off guard when he wanted to fight the tile spurs, so he came lightly and even walked in front of the 3,000 battalions and came to Datong City.

It's a pity that at this time, the Tile Spur army has retreated on a large scale.

He just grabbed a tail.

After crossing Datong and pursuing for dozens of miles, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, also withdrew his troops.

After all, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, although he looks down on the tile spurs, he also understands that the army comes in multiple ways, and there is only one blow, one blow, two and decline, and three and exhaustion.

The army has accelerated its advance when it comes out of Bauhinia Pass, and he is already in decline when he travels lightly to the north in the south of Datong.

The army is still full of morale, though.

After all, the other party fled, and the army almost bloodlessly forced back the tile spur, and the contempt of the whole army for the tile spur will only become more serious, but although the morale is available.

But morale is not proportional to physical exertion and energy exertion.

In Cheng Guogong's view, the morale of the soldiers today is a void.

So he didn't dare to chase anymore, after all, the routine of the Mongols luring the army to pursue and then setting up an ambush was well understood by one person.

He wanted to repair in Datong first, and wait for the next team.

At this time, Cheng Guogong was not idle, he first reported to the Beijing Division, but it was to report the battle of Yang Hong Datong City. He didn't add fuel to it, but he gave a lot of credit to Wu Jin's department.

Even to this battle.

There is no other reason.

Yang Hong is Jane's character in the emperor's heart, and he really robbed Yang Hong of the credit, which didn't end well, but it was so much the same, and the Jingying couldn't share it at all, not to mention what Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, thought, that is, the soldiers in the Beijing camp were a little unconvinced.

And Wu Jin is the only general of the Beijing camp who participated in this battle, so he naturally has to raise it well.

As for the situation in Datong, it was also reported to Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo.

For a while, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, had a shocking feeling.

It can be said that the south of Datong is miserable enough, but north of Datong has become a white land and no man's land. There are three piles of corpses of more than 10,000 people alone.

As for the corpses scattered in the village, I don't know how many there are.

It is really the heaviest loss after the defeat of Daming Qiufu, the soldiers did not lose much, but the casualties of the people were definitely more than 100,000, and they could not even be counted.

From Emperor Taizong

At the beginning of the emperor, three generations recuperated, recovered the vitality around Datong, and returned to the Hongwu period all of a sudden.

In the early years of Hongwu, the wars between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia were frequent, and the Mongols repeatedly went south, and Emperor Taizu moved the population and department between Xuanda to the area of Beijing.

After Taizong ascended the throne, he used military households to emigrate back.

Decades of operation have only what it looks like today, and the prosperity of the Datong border has also strongly supported Datong Town, the first town on the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty. Datong Town is much better than the equally important Xuanfu Town.

None of that is anymore.

Plague of soldiers, plague of soldiers.

Although in ancient times there were natural disasters such as floods, droughts, locusts, floods, hail, sea tides, hurricanes, etc., the most lethal and destructive power was the military disaster.

No one is better at killing people than human beings themselves.

After Cheng Guogong took a closer look, his heart was half cold.

Such a big loss, such a tragic and inhumane military disaster, it is impossible to hide it, the current emperor is not a mediocre master, and he may not be able to do it in other aspects, but his ears and eyes are all over the world.

Although Jinyiwei is almost invisible in the government after Wang Zhen, it seems that Daming does not have this part at all. But people who are really at the pinnacle of power can see the daily intelligence summary handed by Jinyiwei to the cabinet, and even the cabinet sometimes encounters something, and can also send a document for Jinyiwei to assist.

It's just assistance, thinking that the cabinet can't control the head of Jinyiwei. Generally speaking, to deal with the requirements of the cabinet, Jinyiwei is to check the intelligence database, and if it has nothing to do with some secrets of Jinyiwei, it will be summarized and handed over to the cabinet.

If you don't, you don't.

I won't investigate anything for the sake of the cabinet's order, unless the cabinet asks Zhu Qizhen to give an order.

The cabinet did not ask Zhu Qizhen to give an order once. Because generally big cases will ask Jinyiwei to handle the case together. In many big cases, Jin Yiwei seems to be a member of the Criminal Department or Dali Temple, and never speaks.

Because what Jinyiwei wants to investigate is never the truth. They are just the eyes and ears of His Majesty, even if the case is wrong, Jinyiwei will not overturn the case, but will only report it to Zhu Qizhen.

The ordinary officials below all thought that Jinyiwei had completely lost ground after Wang Zhen. But I didn't know that Jinyiwei had made concessions in many functions and was just concentrating on one eye.

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong knew very well that he couldn't find out how many such eyes there were on the nine sides. Even he has it in the mansion of Chengguo.

Therefore, such a major event is impossible to cover up.

Someone has to be in charge?

So who's responsible?

Cheng Guogong Zhu Yong thought about it, but he could only be himself.

Yang Hong has fought a few battles with the tile spur, the killing and wounding are equal, the victory and defeat are offset, it can be said that the merits and demerits are offset, after all, the troops in Yang Hong's hands are insufficient, and in the face of the tile spur in the heyday, it is also understandable to retreat to protect Datong.

Not to mention that Yang Hong has been on the emperor's line for a long time, since

I can also fight.

Yang Hong will never be primarily responsible.

The only person who can bear this great responsibility is Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo.

There are many reasons?

Who is the consul in war? It is Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo. The official didn't think that he wasn't at the border at the time.

And how grand Zhu Qizhen's courtesy to Chengguo Gong is, then how much criticism Zhu Yong has endured for Chengguo Gong. Now, Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, accepted the courtesy of Emperor Taizu to Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan. In the face of the enemy, he handed over such an answer.

The Manchu civil and military forces will not be satisfied.

Therefore, this battle must be fought, and it must not be finished. He's got to win with a brilliant win. to cover up these losses. He was able to retreat peacefully.

This is also another thought of Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Yong actually figured out one thing between the gaps in the march. This battle was the most glorious moment of his Zhu Yong's life, and it was also his last big battle.

If he really crippled the tile spur this time, and he couldn't recover after throwing the tile spur for decades, the grassland would fall into the previous chaos again.

The great merit is no less than Zhang Fu's annihilation of Annan.

Now, if he stops fighting now, then the trouble will definitely become long-lasting. In the future, it will probably be continuous. Even if he dies, it will add a stain to the Chengguo Mansion, and the descendants will probably suffer.

In public and private, even if he adheres to Cheng Guogong's innermost thoughts, it is impossible for him to let the tile spur leave so freely.

And let the tile spur leave like this, not only Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, was unhappy in his heart, but even the whole army would not be reconciled. There are all kinds of ideas in the army, but there are no retreats.

In the heart of Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, when Lao Tzu followed Emperor Taizong to fight his grandfather, he himself estimated that he was not born yet. At this moment, how can you let this little cub show off his might on the border of the Ming Dynasty.

I really thought that the Ming Dynasty would not kill people, or I thought that all the people in the Northern Expedition were dead.

Moreover, Zhu Qizhen was too well prepared for this battle, so abundant that Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, had no worries about the soldiers below. Abundant enough to go up to Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, to the most ordinary pawn, before sending troops, they have all received rewards.

Everyone wants to make a contribution, how can they want to retreat?

Zhu Qizhen repaired in Datong for a day, and immediately beat the drum of gathering generals at the Yamen of Shanxi Dusi, and gathered all the generals in the army in the lobby.

For a time, hundreds of thousands of major generals of the army were listed among them, and the stars were gathered, and the princes were everywhere, and even among the border troops of Datong, only Yang Hong was qualified to be among them, and he still sat down, and there was a chair in the corner.

The "rumbling" drum suddenly stopped, and for a while the sound of the armor was sonorous, and a general shouted loudly: "The general of the conquest, the commander-in-chief Xuanda, the three thousand battalions, the five military battalions and the general officers of the guards of the Beijing camp, the Duke of Chengguo, Zhu Gong, have arrived." ”