Chapter 70: A Plan of Suspense

It's like giving up Hami before, and now if you give up Nu'er Gandusi. The imperial court is outside the border walls, but there is no vassal.

Although the Ming Dynasty carried out a strategic contraction in Renzong Xuanzong.

However, this strategic contraction is not a direct abandonment.

Let's put it this way, although the Ming Dynasty gave up Kaiping, Daning, and the Liuguan of the Nuer Gandu Division, but in general, these places are still Daming.

Especially Nuer Gandusi, you say that they are bound by the Ming economy, or they are attracted by the soft power of the Ming Dynasty, but on the surface, between the Ming Dynasty and the tile spurs, they are all on the side of the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, Zhu Qizhen would not have attacked Wuliangha, and sent Cao Yi out of the customs to integrate the Jurchen tribes.

Even thanks to Cao Yi's organization, the Jurchen tribes were able to hold on to Mulan Hewei for so long.

Now, if you say you give up, you give up. What was the political prestige of the Ming Dynasty over the vassals? In the future, when playing with the tile spur, who will be used by the Ming Dynasty?

Although Zhu Qizhen couldn't look down on the various tribes outside the side wall, if these tribes were annexed one by one, it would not be what Zhu Qizhen wanted.

Yang Pu said: "The minister thought that he should send a messenger to the front of the two armies to announce the will of the imperial court and let the two soldiers on both sides stop fighting." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened. The first thought was that such a stupid method was actually what Yang Pu said, but then after thinking about it, he suddenly understood that this was a delaying plan.

The problem now was that the Jurchen tribes appealed to the imperial court for help, and the imperial court rejected the proposal for a decisive battle between the large army and the Watts. But the Ming court could not help but express something.

Send an envoy to announce the holy decree, plus a false and wrongful serpent. It will take more than two months.

Although the war in this era is fought very slowly, generally speaking, unless nothing is like Ye Liuzong, it will take more than half a year, or even a year, to prepare for a big war, and to prepare for a decisive battle and collect the troops. But it didn't really take long to really spend on the decisive battle.

Not to mention anything else, now Uliangha has been fighting with the Jurchen tribes for nearly a month, and then counting the time of envoys, this battle must be fought for three or four months.

A siege is not impossible to carry out for three or four months. But there were few such battles on the steppe. Because such a war is a test of each other's logistical capabilities.

Obviously, even if it is a tile spur, he lacks the logistical maintenance ability of the army outside for nearly half a year.

Therefore, the most likely thing is that the imperial court salutes first and then the soldiers, and before this soldier arrives, the battle of Mulan Hewei will have a result.

When the time comes, the imperial court will not be burdened with moral condemnation.

It can be said that it is not that the court does not save it, but that it is too late.

At first glance, Zhu Qizhen felt that this method seemed very good, but after thinking about it carefully, Zhu Qizhen only felt a strong sense of irony

Pole.

Zhu Qizhen sneered and said, "Who do I care? Deception? ”

This kind of little trick, I really think that no discerning person can see it, it is just self-deception.

Yang Pu immediately saluted and said, "The old minister is incompetent, please punish Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Qizhen sighed and said, "What is the sin of sir. In fact, he also understands that the two of them are not on the same beat at all.

It's not that Yang Pu is stupid to come up with this solution.

It is necessary to consider the political ecology of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qizhen was worried that giving up the Jurchen would have an adverse impact on the future showdown between Daming and Wa Spur, but what was Yang Pu worried about?

Yang Pu was worried that the news of abandoning Jurchen would spread and cause turmoil in the government and the opposition.

It's an analogy.

As the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, the Ming Dynasty has always despised and even contempt for the outside world. It's like the Jurchen tribes, but are they all Jurchens? No, but the court didn't know which civil official found it convenient to call them, so all the tribes in the Northeast were Jurchens.

What Haixi Jurchen, Jianzhou Jurchen, Savage Jurchen, even the tribes north of the Great Khing'an Mountains are also called Beishan Jurchen.

Judging from Yang Pu's political experience, the abandonment of the Jurchen ministries is most likely to cause turmoil, but it is many ministers in the DPRK and China.

In Zhu Qizhen's view, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty are actually very contradictory. The civil officials at the upper level did not want Zhu Qizhen to fight, especially a big battle, like the war in the Taizong period. And most civil officials could not accept the court's foreign compromises.

One of the criticisms on Yang Pu's body. It's to give up Hami.

Yang Pu, who seemed to be extremely stupid from the outside, deceived himself and others, not for the Jurchen tribe at all, but to calm the public opinion of the imperial court.

It's really not used to deceive others, but to deceive yourself.

Most civil officials do not have the ability to analyze strategically, they will only look at the process, the court salutes first and then the soldiers, in line with the way of the sages, and they have not been destroyed before they have sent troops, although it is a pity, but the main owner is gone, is it because of a battle with the tile thorn?

Seeing this, Zhang Fu said: "Your Majesty, the minister has a plan that may save Mulan Hewei." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "British princess, please speak? ”

Zhang Fu said: "The decisive battle between the imperial court and the tile spur is unrealistic, and it does not prevent the imperial court from sending a soldier and horse to reinforce the Mulan River guard, the Mulan River is the city wall, the minister has seen it from the archives of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, although it is the old city of the Jin and Yuan periods, it has been dilapidated, and it is not more than one zhang and five feet high, but for Wuliangha and the tile spur, it is still a natural danger, and His Majesty can send a general to garrison the city with five thousand soldiers." Send ships from the Asu River into the Heilongjiang River, and then from the Heilongjiang River to the Mulan River Guard, as long as this logistics is unblocked, only 5,000 soldiers can be defended, Mulan River Guard. ”

"It's just that it takes a good general who is both wise and brave."

Zhu Qizhen listened

, four words immediately flashed in my heart: "Hanging the plan." ”

Really, it's too dangerous.

First of all, in order to avoid the cavalry advantage of Uliangha and Waspur, Zhang Fu creatively opened up a water logistics line. But this water logistics line is too long.

Domestically, it is from Jiangnan to North Korea, then from North Korea to Haixi, from Haixi to Asu River, and then from Asu River to Heilongjiang.

Although most of them are transported by sea and water. The cost may not be Shanxi to the border, seven stones can only get one stone, but Zhu Qizhen knows when he thinks about it, and the consumption is quite large.

This is one of them, logistical difficulties.

5,000 soldiers against an army of more than 100,000 tiles.

Although Zhu Qizhen also knew that the various departments of the grassland had long forgotten the ability of the Yuan army to attack the city, the elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, even if it was a small county town, were enough for the tile spurs to attack. But also think about it, after all, this is a war with fewer enemies, and if you want to win, you can only drag this war until winter, and use the cold of winter to make the tile spurs retreat.

But no matter how confident Zhu Qizhen is, he doesn't think this is an easy thing to do.

As long as you think about it, you will know that there are too many problems in it, and it is by no means possible for a good general. This is the second one, the tactical difficulty.

But the implementation is not implemented.

Zhu Qizhen has to consider it from another aspect.

The strategic benefits are so tempting.

As long as you stick to Mulan Hewei, it is equivalent to rebuilding Nuer Gandusi. As long as Da Ming is still in Mulan Hewei, then the Jurchen tribe of Nuer Gandusi will not betray Da Ming.

Even another battlefield was opened in the northeast.

This battlefield is more likely to be the Ming Dynasty producing grain and grass, and the Jurchens are bloody and fleshy, dragging the tile thorns here.

As long as the tile thorn does not pull out this nail for a day, then he will not go south for a day.

It provided time for Zhu Qizhen to integrate the country, after all, it took time to pacify the rebellion of Ye Liuzong, deal with this year's floods, and so on.

Someone may be asking.

How long can you persist in this way? After a long time, Mulan Hewei must not be able to persevere. The 5,000 soldiers are likely to be wiped out.

For the Ming Dynasty, the loss of 100,000 cavalry was an unbearable loss, but the loss of 5,000 foot soldiers was even elite. It's also a trivial thing.

If you can use these 5,000 soldiers, you can buy a few years for the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Qizhen will definitely agree without hesitation.

So Zhu Qizhen thought for a moment and said, "Who is up to this heavy task?" ”

Zhang Fu said: "Without further ado, after a long time, things will change, and you can only be selected nearby, and the minister thinks that Jiao Li, the head of Haixi, can take on this important task." It is the fastest only departure from Haixi, otherwise it will be late, and everything will be late. ”

Zhu Qizhen took a deep breath and said, "Okay, just Jiao Li." ”