Chapter 225: Announcing the Great War Bureau

At the time of the Great War, all kinds of information were flying all over the sky, true, false, false, false, direct, indirect, in short, if every general had to believe every bit of information he had obtained, he would not be able to make any judgment at all, because he would find that according to the information he had obtained, everything was wrong.

The intelligence itself is very contradictory.

If Cheng Guogong hadn't believed the intelligence of Xuanfu and Hetao, he would not have been defeated so badly.

Therefore, Cao Yi did not say that he did not believe in this information. But even if you believe it, you must prevent Wuliangha from killing a horse pistol, after all, the so-called victory of the Liaohe River is impossible to compare with the defeat of Maoerzhuang.

The various departments of the Uliangha Jurchens can kill a horse gun at any time.

Therefore, it is really possible to deploy troops to support Xuanda, but it must be determined in Cao Yi and the tacit understanding between the two sides must be reached.

It's going to take time.

There's no rush, though.

At this moment, Xuanda doesn't seem to need too much time.

Because Meng Ying completed his mission, let Ye Xian fall into the mud.

After appeasing the various departments and dividing the weapons and armor left over by the Ming army, he reaffirmed the military order and went south again.

This time, the tile spur went straight to Tianchengwei. I probably think that Datong City is strong, and Yang Hong is a difficult one. So avoid Datong, as for Tianchengwei, it is between Xuanfu and Datong.

And Meng Ying has already ordered Yang Hong to guard Datong, Guo Deng to guard Xuanfu, Fang Jin to guard Bauhinia Pass, Zhu Qian to guard Juyong Pass, and all parts of the pass are not mentioned. As for the acropolis, the prefectures and counties are guarded by people, more than 10,000, and less thousands, but they are all locals, and the land of Xuanda is already a fierce people. The slaughter of the Tile Thorns provoked even more resistance, and in every city, it was fully controlled, and the women and children were behind, and the young and strong climbed the city.

Sometimes, whether a soldier is a soldier or not, a man is obliged to handle the knife anyway.

This also proves a problem.

That is, the combat power of the Nine Frontiers is stronger than that of other guards, not necessarily that the situation of the Nine Guards is better than that of other guards, it is better to say that the people of the Ming Dynasty insist on resisting foreign humiliation.

Under such circumstances, it is a fool's dream that the various departments of the Tile Spurs want to take a certain place lightly.

Moreover, a considerable part of the money that Zhu Qizhen spent on Xuanda was turned into food and hidden in the treasury of each city, and I dare not say that each city can support more than three years, but it is no problem to support the people of the whole city to eat for a few months.

It's just that no matter how much is said, the Ming army still suffered great losses.

As for the small cities below, such as small castles that can only accommodate dozens of people, beacon towers, and hundreds of households, and thousands of households, they are the ones who have suffered the greatest losses.

For no other reason, there are too few people in these small towns. Even if the Ming army adapts to defending the city, but in the face of such a small city, after a few people die, they are not even satisfied with the city, what can they do?

Not to mention, another important reason is the shortage.

The problem of shortages has always been a big problem in the Ming army.

In the past, when the Ming army was on the offensive, they all drew elite attacks from all over the country, so they couldn't see any problems.

But not anymore. The tile spur was free to choose the direction of the attack, and the Ming army suddenly collapsed the strength of the army, such as Datong, Xuanfu, and even small county towns, and the Acropolis.

Although there is a shortage, it can be filled with young and strong households, after all, after the city is broken, no one can live, everyone understands this, and the people have to be willing to do the work of soldiers in the name of strong men.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen has also seen such things in the imperial court's recitals, for example, Shaanxi wants to hire Orion for the use of the border army.

It's just that in Datong, this has become a regular rule and an unspoken rule. So I'm used to it, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Even so, many small places, even if they want to find enough strong men, are not well recruited. Therefore, they are faced with the old, weak, sick and disabled who are not even satisfied with the city.

There are also many hereditary hundreds of households, and seeing that the situation is not good, they left their stations and fled to the big city.

The rest of the situation is naturally conceivable.

This is still a place protected by the city. Not to mention those places that are not protected by the city.

In ancient times, most of the people lived outside the city, and even because of military reasons, the Xuanda area was densely populated with large and small castles.

But even so, there is a fundamental fact that no city can accommodate the entire population of the local countryside.

So there are a lot of people who are stranded.

Even after the defeat of Maoerzhuang, the main force of the tile spur was stagnant for about half a month to solve internal problems, but this half a month was not enough for all the people to escape.

Especially the place south of Datong. 、

Although, Meng Ying has already ordered the Shanxi Metropolitan Division to strictly guard the Yanmen Pass and other checkpoints, not to let the tile thorns break into Shanxi, and accept the people of Xuanda to take refuge in Shanxi.

But what can be done in this era of administrative capacity and administrative efficiency?

After the Tumubao Rebellion in history, the raids of the tile spurs from the Xuanda area continued until the second year. I don't know how many people were killed, and I don't know how many people became slaves to the Tartars.

However, in the face of such a situation, Meng Ying did not do nothing.

And Meng Ying took the main force, that is, 130,000 steps.

Among them were 50,000 cavalry, 70,000 foot soldiers, and a lot of baggage. did not hide in the city, but now stuck between Xuanfu and Datong, and chased the main force of the tile spurs. Some of the 50,000 cavalry were drawn from Xuanda and Da, and most of the rest were soldiers who came back from the defeat of Maoerzhuang.

It should be mentioned here that although Yang Hong only received more than 30,000 cavalry to enter the customs, during this period of time, cavalry returned one after another, but when Chengguo Gong withdrew from Jining Haizi, the people who were separated from the brigade were as few as a few dozens, a few, and as many as more than a thousand.

Counted together bits and pieces, there are also more than 10,000 rides. As for whether there are any soldiers who are afraid of sin and dare not come back, I don't know.

Generally speaking, there are 100,000 lost divisions in the battle of Maoerzhuang, and the remaining cavalry is about 50,000, but these people are chaotic and lack of major generals.

For a while, there can be no more wars.

Therefore, General Meng Ying transferred half of the cavalry of the border army and half of the cavalry of the Beijing camp, after all, Xuanfu and Da were mainly defending the city at the same time, so these cavalry had time to recuperate.

It stands to reason that after a defeat, these remnants of the army are defeated, and it is better not to immediately throw them into the battlefield.

But in the case of a shortage of cavalry, there is no way but to choose some that can be used, and if they can't, let them recuperate in the city first.

The cavalry is like this, and the foot soldiers are like this, Meng Ying can be said to be the best of the best, and those who remain in Meng Ying's army are all first-class elites, and he can not be said to be the same as the troops he led in Yunnan.

The task of Meng Ying's main force under his command is very clear, that is, to contain the main force of the tile spur, compress the space for the main force of the tile spur to move freely, and reduce the damage of the tile spur to Xuanda to the greatest extent.

So, when the tile spurs stormed Tianchengwei.

Meng Ying brought a large army to rescue Tianchengwei.

Although Tianchengwei was in a hurry, he wrote a letter for help, saying that the pioneer of the tile spur people landed in the city, and bombarded it with artillery, and there were many siege equipment, and the ants were attached to the siege city.

Tianchengwei has been sent elite soldiers to fight again and again, and most of what Chengwei left behind today are garrison soldiers, which are not at all combative, not only the shortage of soldiers, but also the shortage of weapons.

Where did the weapons come from before large-scale smuggling? Just think about it. The military department is not so easy to fool, even before the war, Zhu Qizhen had additions.

However, if you only look at the list of the number of weapons in Tianchengwei, it is not a full number, but an overnumber, and it is estimated that it is at least more than 30% overnumbered. This is the standard set by Zhu Qi.

Zhu Qizhen was relieved.

It's just that Zhu Qizhen underestimated the courage of the people below, and Wang Zhen folded into the original smuggling case, and almost all of the eunuchs who guarded the town and Datong were cleaned up.

Only the army was not purged, but it was resisted by Cheng Guogong, and Cheng Guogong himself also disposed of many people.

However, the disposer of Chengguo Gong is completely different from the disposer of Zhu Qizhen.