Chapter 32 Crossing the Yalu River

Li Yao received Han Huiming's letter and stood stunned for a long time.

I only felt physically and mentally exhausted, and suddenly remembered Li Taibai's words, "The sunset is still shining, and the Han family mausoleum." "It's a perfect fit, his current state of mind.

What can he do at this moment?

The battle on the front line of the Yalu River is very difficult, with more than 200,000 troops on both sides, cross-bowed and lying on horses, and within three or five days, there will be a big battle of more than 10,000 people.

Cao Yi tried to cross the river again and again, but was thwarted by Li Yao again and again.

Li Yao's way of using troops is also undoubtedly revealed, and he doesn't dare to say anything peerless, but it is definitely within the qualified range, so the two sides fought wits and courage, plotted openly and conspiracy, and were beaten by Cao Yi several times in a precarious situation, but the situation was still saved.

But Li Jin is very self-aware.

All his victories were based on geographical advantages, and the retreat of the army to abandon the Yalu River was the beginning of a disaster.

An inevitable defeat.

But if he didn't withdraw, the Ming army would continue to enter Korea from Ganghwa Island, so what was the point of what he was doing here.

The northern part of Korea is relatively barren. Without food supplies in the rear, how could Li Jin afford to raise this army of more than 100,000.

If you retreat, you will die, and if you don't retreat, you will die.

But retreat, there is still a glimmer of life, stick to Seoul, and wait for the changes in the world.

For example, the tile spur went south again, and then played the battle of Yemaoerzhuang.

The Ming army will withdraw.

Although everyone knows that this is a small probability event. But this is already Li Jin's last hope.

Even so, Li Yao still blocked the news, and the retreat plan was also going on secretly. The retreat of more than 100,000 troops is also a very big problem.

And it can't be hidden from Cao Yi.

So almost when Li Yao took his headquarters and retreated to Pyongyang first. Cao Yi knew it immediately.

The results of the battle of Ganghwa Island had already reached Cao Yi, who immediately affirmed that Li Yao was going to withdraw his troops. With this preconceived view, no matter how much Li Yao concealed it, it would be useless.

In May of the eighteenth year of Orthodoxy, just when the wheat was ripe in the north, the Korean War, which had just begun less than three months ago, made a breakthrough.

Cao Yi broke through the Yalu River.

The cavalry drove straight in, encircling the Korean rear army within one or two hundred miles of the east bank of the Yalu River. There are about 60,000 in total, and Li Yao survives with his tail broken. Crossed the Cheongcheon River.

After that, the Ming army marched as if it were marching, and the entire Anping Road surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

Cao Yi didn't care about these things at all, and handed them over to the judge Wang Yue.

This time, Wang Yue was appointed as the judge of the Eastern Army, in charge of all military law, and when there were insufficient Chinese officers in the army, the pacification, suppression, and grain and grass transportation in the rear were all taken over by Wang Yue.

This is also Zhu Qizhen's idea, in the future in the Ming army, the judge will be a large number of people in the future, when going out, there will be a general and a judge officer, in charge of a series of military law affairs.

Form a military supervision system based on judges.

Wang Yue was also exceptionally appointed, who made the army have few scholars.

However, Wang Yue also put forward his own point of view, that is, after entering North Korea, Dangqiu did not commit any offense and blocked the people. Zhu Qizhen's intentions may be a mystery to outsiders, but Zhu Qizhen is unabashed about the Eastern Army.

Therefore, everyone knows that this North Korea will be the territory of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Naturally, military discipline should be taken seriously.

It's just that the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty is already a chronic disease.

The military discipline during the Taizu period was not bad, and the reason why Emperor Taizu won the world was actually because Emperor Taizu was the best military discipline among the rebels from all walks of life at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. But after the Jingjing, the military discipline of the Ming Dynasty was not very good, but it was because in the early stage of the Jingjing, Emperor Taizong was extremely difficult, and he did a lot of things that made civil officials ashamed of his honor. The upward and downward effects, the following are natural.

At that time, it was also an extraordinary time, and it was just an extraordinary way to solve an extraordinary problem.

But after a start, it's not easy to end below.

Not to mention, with the collapse of the guard system, it is extremely difficult to supply the soldiers, and they have no food and clothing, so they can only rob them.

The same is true today.

After crossing the Yalu River, the military discipline of the Beijing camp was maintained very well, because the Beijing camp paid twelve taels of silver every year, and the military camp still had food and drink.

And the military discipline of the Liaodong Army is not good.

One is habit, and the other is poor.

But Wang Yue, there is no sand in his eyes, after entering Anzhou, he cut off the heads of thirteen generals in one go, which made Cao Yi furious, and in the fierce battle on the banks of the Yalu River, he did not kill so many generals.

Cao Yi and Wang Yue had a big quarrel and broke up unhappily.

Wang Yue also had to change his methods, first reward the army with a large amount of seized materials, and then reiterate military law, which passed this turmoil.

Of course, the two of them went to their own books and went straight to the king, which was inevitable.

Zhu Qizhen was overjoyed after seeing the two of them's documents.

Such a decisive victory was achieved in less than three months, and although the Korean war will not end for a while, on the whole, the overall situation has been decided.

You can even be defeated by food.

For example, Wang Yue rewarded the whole army this time, and he washed the land of Anzhou, plus a large number of materials left behind by the North Korean army.

Even so, it has greatly reduced Zhu Qizhen's financial burden.

Without him, since the beginning of spring today, there has been a great drought.

This time the drought is not only

It only affects Hebei, but south to Jiangxi, north to Hebei, and west to Shanxi, and it rains very little. Hebei is a little better.

After all, Hebei's water conservancy coverage area is second only to Jiangnan.

Even under the drought, although Hebei's grain output has decreased, there is still a harvest, and today's summer tax can still be completed. But Jiangxi is different.

In the midst of the twists and turns of Jiangxi Governor Han Yong, Zhu Qizhen saw the cruel situation of Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, with three years of drought as the center.

Jiangxi is the land of Emperor Taizu's Longxing, densely populated, the people are rich, the first two years of the drought, although there are some difficulties, but on the whole, it is still able to survive, relief population, between hundreds of thousands, to more than 300,000.

However, the first two major droughts have exhausted Jiangxi's vitality, and this time the number of people affected by the drought is more than one million.

With a population of one million and 300,000 households, it is already one-sixth of Jiangxi's population, and between one-fifth and one-fifth.

Multiplying anything by one million is a big problem, and this year, Zhu Qizhen is facing two million-level disaster relief, the Jiangnan snow disaster, and the Jiangxi drought.

Moreover, apart from these two places, the rest of the place is not without disasters, but only dwarfed by them.

Therefore, large-scale tax exemption and disaster relief have become a fact.

Zhu Qizhen allocated funds to the lower levels, and on the other hand, asked for relief as much as possible.

In his opinion, the so-called disasters are half because of natural disasters and half because of imperfect water conservancy infrastructure.

How north before is also spring drought and summer flood.

And today, have times changed? No, but no matter what kind of disaster, the people of Hebei can always eat a bite of food, and there has been no disaster relief for Hebei for ten years.

Except that the Yellow River rushed to the Daimyo's mansion, there is nothing to do.

At most, some food and grass are free.

Zhu Qizhen has two major infrastructure projects to do in his heart, one is to repair the water conservancy project all over the world, Zhu Qizhen does not use the calculation of the department, Zhu Qizhen is sure that this is the amount of money and grain consumption, at the level of 100 million taels. In addition, it is also a big deal to repair the road all over the world, and how much money it is, it doesn't count.

These two things aside, the current financial crisis alone has made him feel breathless.

As the war progressed, five million taels of silver and one million stone of grain were rapidly consumed, and the treasury was also rapidly consumed during disaster relief.

Taicang Silver Warehouse, the silver deposit in the inner carrier warehouse has decreased rapidly, and it is Jingcang, because of the supplement of Hebei grain, it is not so ugly. But it's still a lot less than in previous years

Hitting the Yalu River, at least financially, is a great piece of good news for Zhu Qizhen.

As for the contradiction between Cao Yi and Wang Yue, Zhu Qizhen knew it well and never cared, to some extent, this was something that would inevitably happen.

Both are smart people.