Chapter 43 Xiazhaozhou

Shi Heng's situation is not good.

First of all, this is far beyond the capabilities of the Ming supply line.

Even if grain is transported here from Haixi, it will take quite some time.

If it weren't for the battle of Xingkai Lake, which captured a lot of supplies, Shi Heng would have to run out of cooking now.

Now, many of the following departments bring their own dry food, and now they don't need Shi Heng's supply, but these tribes came to join the Ming army, not to selflessly dedicate themselves to the Ming Dynasty, but more to benefit.

Whether it is invisible benefits or bright gold and silver goods, there must always be one, otherwise do you really think that the slaves are all loyal ministers and filial sons of the Ming Dynasty?

If it takes a long time, these tribes will still have to ask for dry food from home, and if they are sorry, they will withdraw from their army.

This is quite realistic.

Generally, the generals are in Shi Heng, no, even if Yang Hong and Guo Deng are in the position of Shi Heng, it is estimated that they will convene various ministries to meet the alliance, and then seal the officials and make wishes, and then retire from the army, and go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers.

Consolidate it, the influence of the Ming Dynasty is just that.

But Shi Heng was bent on pulling out Zhaozhou.

Once Zhaozhou is unplugged. The influence of the tile spur in the northeast can be swept away, and the Nuer Gandusi will once again become the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

The strategic importance is very significant.

But the problem is that even if Zhaozhou is taken. The Ming army may not be able to hold it.

Without him, Zhaozhou is in the west of present-day Harbin, nearly a thousand miles away from Haixi, and hundreds of miles away from Liaodong Town, and these hundreds of miles are a land of flat rivers.

Once the Tile Thorn counterattacked, the army had no way to support it.

But this point is not what Shi Heng wants to consider, what Shi Heng wants to consider is that God does not take it, but suffers from it.

Shi Heng hit too easily, so he naturally beat it with an ancient brain.

As for the defeat, Shi Heng did not think about failure, he thought about it carefully, and now the army is already the local Jurchen tribe as the main force, and Shi Heng only has more than 10,000 cavalry.

Even if he was defeated, Shi Heng had to retreat with his own cavalry.

Don't think that only the tile thorn knows what the dead Taoist friend is and the poor Taoist is not immortal. Shi Heng will too.

The big countries go to war, and the real bad luck is the small tribes caught in the middle.

Now the slave cadres are withering more than they were back then, and a large number of strong men have died in the battle. The blood of Da Ming and the tile thorn has not yet been drained, and the blood of the slaves and Jurchen tribes is about to be drained.

This is not necessarily a good thing for Daming.

The local tribes of Nuergan weakened.

It will be much simpler for the Ming army to be established in Nuergan in the future.

It's just that Shi Heng has this heart, but the Jurchen tribes may not have this heart.

Shi Heng, use all his wrists, both soft and hard,

For the tribes east of Changbai Mountain and Xiaoxing'an Mountains, Shi Heng told them that as long as they hurt the tile spurs, they could guarantee that the tile spur army would not cross the Changbai Mountain and the line of the small Xing'an Mountains again.

To the tribes along the Songhua River, Shi Heng was not polite when he spoke. He took this matter as a standard to test whether the various departments were loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and all the tribes that did not follow the army to attack Zhaozhou were enemies, so he gave up attacking Zhaozhou and found this tribe to exterminate them.

Although the various departments occupy a large proportion of the whole army, to be specific, they are scattered.

In the end, Shi Heng finally pinched all the departments, and the army marched west along the Songhua River, directly to Zhaozhou.

And the battle of Zhaozhou, but the fight was not fierce, and even did not fight at all, Boyan Timur withdrew from Zhaozhou, there are two reasons, the first Boyan Timur troops were defeated all the way down, the loss was not small, even Boyan Timur himself, angry and anxious, actually sick.

After all, the second tile spur is a grassland people, and they rarely have the idea of sticking to the city, although the northeast of Zhaozhou is the seat of the so-called Liaoyang province of the tile spur. But in reality, it is just one of the garrisons of the Tile Spur army in the northeast, and it has no value in itself.

Seeing that the Ming army wanted it, he gave it.

At this moment, Boyan Timur has reported the news to Yexian, and also spread the news to Mobei, recruiting all the departments of Mobei, once the Ming army still looks at the pursuit and continues to pursue, Boyan Timur will let Shi Heng repeat the mistakes of Maoerzhuang.

It's just this news that made Ye Xian thunderous.

Shi Heng fought vigorously in Haixi. And Yang Hong and Guo Denghe fought very dullly.

The two sides did not play any elaborate battles at all. It's all offensive and defensive warfare. Chase battle. Yang Hong ordered all the troops to garrison, and he led tens of thousands of cavalry, and the pursuit was also the first, as long as the stagnation also advanced the speed, the infantry soldiers would come quickly, and the troops would be annihilated in the east of the Liao River.

It's just that who is it first? If he could be caught by the tail so easily, he wouldn't have been the first.

It was also successfully contained, with 100,000 people in Beijing, 60,000 defenders in Liaodong Town, and hundreds of thousands of militia members from all over the country. But when it was the turn to harvest, there was nothing to gain.

In other words, the only little gain cannot offset the consumption of the army.

In particular, when the news came that the overall situation in Korea was decided, the soldiers and horses in Liaodong Town in Korea will be retreating from land and water one after another, and the number of soldiers in Liaodong Town will reach as many as 22.

The situation of the first is only more dangerous.

also had the intention of retiring from the army.

It's just that he never expected that Haixi's side would lose so badly. In an instant, there was an idea, that is, the area of Nu'er Gandusi had nothing to do with Dayuan from now on.

Coupled with the current situation, there is no other way but to retreat.

Yang Hong didn't know that Haixi had won a big victory, after all, the news came from Haixi

Liaodong, over the mountains and mountains, is not much faster than the news from the north.

Of course, when Yang Hong knew about the battle of Jiajingou, he was ready to retreat. When Yang Hong knew that when the battle of Xingkai Lake was west, he had already retreated across the Liao River.

When Yang Hong knew that Shi Heng had attacked Zhaozhou, he had already rushed north.

Yang Hong secretly scolded in his heart: "Shi Heng is simply bold. ”

also retreated as soon as the main force retreated, and the small town of Zhaozhou could last for a long time. Yang Hong has always attached importance to the overall situation, and while reporting to the Beijing Division, he led 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry from various departments, plus the Beijing camp foot soldiers, and came out of 30,000 Wei Zhaozhou.

Although the march of the army is not fast, but the combination of foot and horse, the daily rapid march, about forty or fifty miles, less than ten days will definitely reach the city of Zhaozhou.

And it may be faster first, but calculate the time, and leave the time for the siege first, about three to five days. As long as Shi Heng can hold on for three to five days, his small life will be saved.

If you can't, then you can't blame Yang Hong. It's just that Shi Heng was strangled to death.

Just when Yang Hong was hurrying behind him, he had already joined forces with Boyan Timur.

"I've seen big brother." Boyan Timur's face was gloomy, his movements were a little difficult, and his body looked much thinner. was supported by two attendants, and he had to bow down first.

As soon as I saw him like this, the resentment in my heart suddenly weakened a lot. He also said first: "Why bother. As he spoke, he held Boyan Timur up.

Boyan Timur said: "Brother Chen, I am really ashamed to spoil the great Khan, please punish the eldest brother." ”

also said first: "Who hasn't lost a battle, Shi Heng is a difficult one to deal with, I have suffered losses in the hands of Shi Heng, what are you doing, you know what is wrong, and you will find it back in the future." Don't take it personally. ”

He also said this first, but he also knew that the loss of the reputation of the Watts in this battle was almost comparable to the Battle of Montenegro.

The battle of Montenegro pressed the countdown to the civil strife in Vaspur, and this defeat will also wipe out years of efforts in the northeast at once.

The national strength of the tile spur cannot sustain several such defeats.

But first of all, he couldn't bear the loss of Boyan Timur. After all, the previous actions have offended too many people, and these important positions can only be placed in the hands of relatives.

Among the younger brothers, Boyan Timur is the most promising, once Boyan Timur is punished, I am afraid that no one can bear this burden.

It's true that he is a general, but he can't fight the world by himself first.

Therefore, the defeat of Boyan Timur can only be appeased at first, and at most there will be some punishment that is not light or severe, which is determined by the political structure of the Tile Thorn. Boyan Timur was not responsible for this defeat at all.