Chapter 166: Radical General (2-in-1)
Ma Fang's words are simply too much in line with Gao Pragmatic's mind. Defensive warfare is certainly the best combat choice for infantry against cavalry, but defensive warfare in most of the time, it means that the opponent always has the initiative in the war, and can come and go whenever he wants, even if the attack is unfavorable, he can withdraw and stop loss in time.
There is a way that only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves? A thousand days of anti-thief, there will be a mistake.
Although he was pragmatic and fought two beautiful battles in "Annan and Dingbei," the victory in these two battles was actually more due to political and economic victories, not necessarily because of how good his command was.
If it was really that powerful, he would not need the two sharp blades of Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling to act as the vanguard in Annan, and he would have been sitting upright in the middle of the army, and at the same time, he had also used political means to subdue Mo and Ruan several times in a row, and only regarded the Zheng family as the enemy who must be punished - directly sending troops to sweep all the way, wouldn't it be more powerful to Megatron Tiannan?
If it was really that powerful, he wouldn't need to find a way to combine the strength of Hannaji, the name of Zhongjin Hatun and the ability of Totochataiji to send troops in Monan - wouldn't it be even more famous to directly mobilize Xuanda, Jiliao and other town officials and troops to win this battle?
If there were two battles in the south and the north, he would have led the Ming army to victory, but I am afraid that he may be knighted by civilian officials now, right? After all, this is the biggest victory of the Ming Dynasty in two foreign wars since the founding of the country and the Jingjing, so it is reasonable not to give a knighthood?
But the problem is, he can't do it!
He asked himself, in terms of commanding operations alone, he really doesn't have the ability of Qi Jiguang, saying that attacking can destroy the withering and decaying attack, and saying that defending can be as stable as a rock and solid as gold, so this thousand-day anti-thief style of play is probably not very suitable for him.
Moreover, war is not a child's play, especially in a military area like Liaodong, where there is no formal civilian administration at the grassroots level of society, and it is all managed by a group of guards on weekdays.
There is no doubt that the main duty of this group of people is to guard the border, and they themselves are laymen in administrative management, and once they are faced with war, they are bound to concentrate their energies on their own posts, and then the grassroots administration is obviously directly in a state of abandonment.
What a line! In this case, wouldn't his highly pragmatic plan to build southern Liaoning be interrupted by Tumen and Fried Flowers just after he started?
Gao Pragmatic felt that it was a good time for the Tumen to come this time, which was also an important reason.
In addition, there is another very important reason for Gao Pragmatism, which prompts him to quickly and decisively beat the Tumen and the fried flowers back, and he can't simply force them back, he must be like Ma Fang said, to beat the Tumen and the fried flowers painfully and fearfully!
The reason for this lies in Li Chengliang.
At the beginning, when Gao Pragmatic heard that Tumen and Fried Flower 20,000 Iron Riders were going south, the first thing that came to mind was Li Chengliang - this guy was very coincidental, not only did he go to fight Gule Village, but also happened to spread the news that he had entered the mountain.
Li Chengliang went to fight Gulezhai This incident did happen before Tumen and Fried Flowers went south, which can basically rule out the suspicion that he fornicated with Mongolia, but the fornication can be ruled out, but the tacit understanding can not necessarily be ruled out.
It stands to reason that this year, there has just been such a decisive battle as the Battle of Monan, not only the defeated Tumen has suffered heavy losses and urgently needs to be repaired, but is the winner of the Ming Dynasty really an iron body, and there is no adverse effect in all aspects?
Talk nonsense!
Don't mention anything else, just look at the list of rewards before the household department, and almost even the hall officials are picky, isn't this clear that there is trouble? If the Ministry of Household Affairs had a full treasury and had the same wealth as the US imperialism during World War II, why would they have been arguing with the Cabinet and the Ministry of War for more than a month before announcing the specific rewards?
If it weren't for the fact that everyone knew from top to bottom that it was impossible for the imperial court to repay the debts in the face of such a big victory, it took so long to come up with a reward, and Xuanda, Jiliao and other places involved in sending troops would have to make a few mutinies!
It can be seen that not only the Tu people want to recuperate, but the Ming Dynasty also wants to recuperate, which even almost became an important basis for the Xin School to reject Gao Shi's foreign appointment to Liaodong.
Therefore, Li Chengliang's dispatch of troops to Gule Village was a little weird in itself, and when he arrived in Liaoyang, he went directly into the mountain after only preparing for less than a month, which was even more weird.
Is Liaoyang's material reserves so abundant? Or does Li Chengliang feel that a broken Jianzhou Jurchen is not his enemy at all, and belongs to the five scum of the war who can be captured by hand?
Although the Jianzhou Jurchen is not Nurhachi's master now, how can it not be a scumbag, right? If it is really the foundation of a group of war scumbags, then wouldn't Nurhachi in the original history have the ability to defy the sky?
Gao Pragmatic can recognize that Nurhachi is indeed an outstanding leader among the Jurchens, but judging from Nurhachi's later performance, at least the word "against the sky" does not belong to him. Rather than saying that Nurhachi is against the sky, Gao Pragmatic would rather admit that his eighth child is more against the sky.
Fortunately, the eighth child in his family does not exist now, and if I remember correctly, he should be born in ten years, so it is not a threat.
Then, the most reasonable judgment now is that Li Chengliang was indeed going to fight Gule Village, but since Li Rugui's incident, for some uncertain reasons, Li Chengliang forcibly advanced the time of sending troops.
As for why it was advanced, there should not be much doubt about this, it is nothing more than that Li Chengliang wants to create an "alibi" for himself.
But after Li Chengliang did this, his next plan is not easy to judge.
According to common sense, he is "selling" southern Liaoning by doing this, and to a large extent, he should be killing people with a knife - killing is naturally highly pragmatic.
But Gao Pragmatic felt that there was another possibility: Li Chengliang might not really dare to let Gao die in Liaodong.
This idea seems a little unreasonable at first glance, because since Li Chengliang dares to sell Liaodong, he must have a backer at the central level.
Then since he wants to sell it, he will simply sell it thoroughly, and when Liaonan is beaten to pieces, it proves that he is a so-called famous marshal with a false name, and he Ning Yuanbo will return to the division to clean up the mess.
At that time, whether it was the imperial court or the emperor, even if he didn't want to admit it in his heart, he could only pinch his nose and say that he Li Chengliang was indispensable for Liaodong, in that case, his position would be as solid as Mount Tai.
However, Li Chengliang in history was very cautious in being an official, and he saw very clearly who could and who could not be offended.
And during his time in Zhenliao, who did not dare to offend from beginning to end? It may even be a little unbelievable to say that this person's name is Gao Huai, and he is a town guard eunuch.
Gao Huai was originally a supervisor of Shangshan, and was ordered to open mines and levy taxes in Liaodong in the twenty-fourth year of Wanli. After this person arrived in Liaodong, his minion Liao Guotai abused the people and changed dramatically, and he falsely arrested dozens of people. He falsely impeached Ma Lin, then the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and deducted the monthly rations of the sergeants, so that the garrisons in Qiantunwei, Jinzhou, Songshan and other places made an uproar, and he fled back to Beijing, and falsely accused Wang Bangcai, a fellow governor, and Li Shouyang, a staff general, which provoked chaos in Liaodong.
Although Li Chengliang was in the wilderness at that time, he had been acting as Gao Huai's accomplice during Gao Huai's imprisonment of Liao, and his behavior was not curbed at all (except for a few people in Liaodong, such as Ma Lin, the chief soldier, almost all other important generals were Li Chengliang's old subordinates, relatives, and cadres), and the reasons were nothing more than two reasons: one was to destroy Ma Lin and let Liaodong return to the hands of the Li family; The second is that Gao Huai can't afford to offend - this person is Emperor Wanli's confidant.
Therefore, Li Chengliang knows very well who cannot be offended - the cronies around the emperor are far more inoffensive than civil officials.
civil official, he only needs to respect his face, and the rest is nothing more than giving money and gifts, and making sure that he is in place; But the cronies around the emperor can't, these people are the ones who can influence the emperor's opinion of him Li Chengliang at any time.
The reason why the generals are afraid of the civil officials is that the later the emperor, the greater the checks and balances of the emperor, so that once the military generals clash with the civil officials, the emperor will most likely choose to give the civilian officials face and suppress the generals.
But in the final analysis, the generals are actually afraid of the emperor, and the civil officials are actually suppressing the generals by using the imperial power.
The reason why the imperial power is checked and balanced by the civil officials is because the civil officials control public opinion, and the emperor has to show more respect for the civil officials for the sake of his posthumous name, but the emperor may not need to have such respect for the military generals - in terms of employing people, I am not inferior to you, and you can't affect my reputation, so I naturally do whatever I want.
However, if ordinary civil officials are dissatisfied with Li Chengliang and want to get rid of him, they can't find a way to get rid of him directly, they must find many reasons and reasons to support their arguments, so as to convince the emperor that Li Chengliang is not available, and these reasons and reasons must be justified from the reason, which is very difficult.
But the cronies around the emperor are different, such as the eunuchs, they only need to think of a little way, they can easily create a direct impression on the emperor in a few words, such as: Li Chengliang is disloyal.
The civil officials said that Li Chengliang was disloyal, and they needed to come up with a lot of evidence to prove that they were not lying nonsense; The eunuch said that Li Chengliang was disloyal, he only needed to give a few small examples, and it didn't even matter if these examples were real or not, the emperor might leave a thorn in his heart when he heard it, and then the more he looked at Li Chengliang, the more he felt disloyal, but whenever there was a little disqualification, he would associate it with disloyalty.
There's no play.
Gao Huai, who came as a confidant of Zhu Yijun to be the eunuch of Liaodong Town, has such influence, so as a cronie of the emperor's cronies and a senior attendant of his classmates for ten years, will Li Chengliang not worry that Gao Chengliang has such an influence?
Obviously, he will definitely be worried, and even from the emperor's recent rewards and generous gifts to Gao Pragmatic, it can be seen that Gao Pragmatic's status in the emperor's mind is extremely special.
Let Gao pragmatic die in southern Liaoning, even if Li Chengliang can prove that he is good at fighting, he will be deeply resented by the emperor.
Civil officials are resented by the emperor, most of them may not die, just like those who offend the emperor or the elders, especially the elders, sometimes the opinions put forward make the emperor start to scold his mother in his heart, and he has to praise "Aiqing is loyal to the country, and he is really a model for courtiers", at most he can only try to find a sore foot for him, and when he pleads and resigns, he pretends to be unable to keep it and sends him home.
But the generals are different, the emperor to the generals, it is all between life and death!
Gao Pragmatic believes that Li Chengliang must understand this truth, so it is very likely that he will suddenly come back when southern Liaoning is in the most dangerous situation, and "save" his life at the last moment.
With this kind of matter, Gao Pragmatic, a civil official, a civil official with an excellent reputation, can he continue to suppress him? Obviously not, because this is contrary to the way of being a man and the way of a gentleman - the grace of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring, not only do you not repay the favor, but you will also take revenge, and you are embarrassed to continue to mix? It's no wonder that the gentlemen don't scold you for being bloody!
Gao Pragmatic naturally refused to let this happen, so not only could he not let Li Chengliang have a chance to save his life, but he couldn't even give him a chance to help!
He had to take advantage of Li Chengliang's failure to react at all, and defeat the Tumen and Fried Flower Coalition forces alone, quickly and even completely!
"What the Governor said is very true." Gao Shishi's face sank, and he said coldly: "Tumen, my subordinates are defeated, and the soul of the sword; Fried flowers, the chief of a mere one, a clown jumping beam. These two thieves are to me, but there are two dry bones in the grave, how can I allow them to be presumptuous?
This battle has come at the right time, and I will tell this generation to dare not look south from now on! ”
That's a domineering thing to say!
Ma Fang, a fierce general who once advocated "riding by horse" against Mongolia, heard his blood surging and suddenly slapped his thigh: "Bingxian said it well!" Although the old man is old, he can still use the knife when he asks himself, and he dares to ask the military to take the old man as the vanguard in this battle, and go to the north of the Liao River to kill him seven in and seven out, and live up to the man in this life! ”
Ma Dong originally thought that his father was too impulsive, he was in his sixties, why did he ask for a pioneer at every turn? But when he heard his father's last words, he was suddenly extremely ashamed, and his face turned red!
Father is scolding me!
This Ulzhou man's eyes turned red all of a sudden, he got up suddenly, took a step forward and knelt down in front of Gao Shishi, kowtowed hard, and knocked the floor "bang".
Gao Shizheng was taken aback, and was about to get up to help him up, but he heard Ma Dong say loudly in an angry tone that he couldn't usually imagine at all: "Bingxian, although Dong is incompetent and incompetent, he also knows that the "Analects" contains: Zixia asks filial piety. Zi said: It's hard to be sexual. If there is something, the disciple will obey it.
Today's family is strict in the year, and Dong is his son, in the prime of life, there is something to do, how dare he be strict after the family? This battle does not need to be strictly preserved, and Dong Zi should be the pioneer! But there is a trace of fear of the enemy and wavering, and he does not ask the military constitution, and Dong should serve himself as a soldier constitution, and use the military law to correct it! ”
Then he kowtowed again, and his tone was extremely awe-inspiring: "Ma Dong, the right general of the Haigai, please give the military military order, take Dong as the vanguard, destroy the enemy, and hope that the military constitution will be fulfilled!" ”
Gao Pragmatic had gradually reacted at this time, quietly glanced at Ma Fang, and saw that Ma Fang was showing a rare smile of relief to his eldest son.
Ma Fang saw that Gao Pragmatic looked at him, and also looked at Gao Pragmatic, and bowed his head slightly.
Gao Pragmatic laughed, got up and took a step forward, grabbed Ma Dong's shoulders hard, patted him hard, and said loudly: "Okay, it is worthy of being the son of Ma Lanxi's 'Ma Taishi' who is 'famous General Wanlima, and the white-haired Dan is heard all over the world', and he is really a hero, loyal and brave!" ”
Gao pragmatic paused, stood up straight, and shouted solemnly: "Ma Dong, the right staff general guarding Haigai, listens to the order!" ”
Ma Dong's blood surged, his knees were still kneeling at this time, but his body was straight and straight, and he clenched his fists hard: "The end will be!" ”
"You don't need to be a pioneer in this battle......"
Ma Fang and Ma Dong were both stunned, Ma Dong was so anxious that he hurriedly wanted to speak, but who knew that Gao Pragmatic stretched out his hand and stopped him.
Then I heard Gao Shi Shi say awe-inspiringly: "This soldier Xian takes you as the chief general of the Chinese army, and leads the soldiers and horses of southern Liaoning, destroys the enemy for me, and raises the power of tomorrow on the border of the Saibian...... Do you dare to take this fate? ”
"Why don't you dare!" Ma Dong clenched his fists fiercely: "The last general will take the order!" Even if you die, you will live up to the trust of the military constitution! ”
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