Chapter Forty-Four: The Tile Thorns Retreat

He also pressed Boyan Timur on the seat and said, "You have a good rest." I'll leave these things to me, and you'll have a chance to take revenge in the future. ”

Most of Boyan Timur's illness was heart disease, and when he heard this, he immediately asked, "Brother, what are we going to do next?" ”

He was silent for a while and said, "Retreat." ”

Boyan Timur was taken aback and said, "Retire? ”

also said first: "Under the long battle, all the departments are tired, and the three guards of Wuliangha have already had different intentions, in this case, if we fight with the Southern Dynasty again, we will become the name of Wuliangha." ”

Boyan Timur said: "Brother Chen, do you know that you can't take Zhaozhou before leaving?" ”

Zhaozhou is already Boyan Timur's heart disease.

Zhaozhou was the starting point before the Great War, but now it has been lost to the enemy. Boyan couldn't swallow this breath.

also said first: "Yang Hong's army is behind, I can attack Zhaozhou for only three days, with the ability of the Ming army to defend the city, can I capture it in three days?" ”

Boyan Timur was silent for a while.

The ability of the Ming army to defend the city, Boyan Timur also knows, although Zhaozhou is a dilapidated small city, but many cities that can't be captured by tile thorns are very big?

It's a matter of ability.

also said first: "Don't worry, if you don't attack now, it doesn't mean that you won't attack in the future, after you go back, take a good rest, and make a comeback next year." ”

Boyan Timur seemed to have his bones pulled out at once, and said, "Brother Chen understands. ”

Although Boyan Timur understood, the Jurchen tribes did not.

When the first army arrived near Zhaozhou. The Jurchen tribes were terrified, and tens of thousands of Jurchen tribes withdrew. For a time, there were only 30,000 soldiers in Zhaozhou City, and one-third of them were Shi Heng's subordinates. Most of the remaining 20,000 were soldiers who surrendered to the Ming army in the Battle of Xingkai Lake.

Shi Heng has been reinforcing the walls of Zhaozhou.

After all, in Shi Heng's opinion, the city wall of Zhaozhou can't be seen at all.

For the Mongols, they rarely have the idea of defending the city, let alone maintaining some facilities to defend the city, and many things have to be rebuilt and repaired.

Even so, Shi Heng was a little apprehensive in his heart.

There are more than 100,000 troops in the Tile Thorn Army, and most of them are the Tile Thorn Headquarters.

Shi Heng has dealt with the tile spur so much, how can he not know that the people and horses of the tile spur headquarters are extremely difficult, almost no less than the elite of the Ming army.

With so many people besieging the dilapidated city of Zhaozhou, Shi Heng had no bottom in his heart.

So he decided to set up a village outside Zhaozhou City, forming a corner with Zhaozhou City and cooperating with each other. This is because Zhaozhou City is too small, and 30,000 soldiers may not be able to fit it, and secondly, if it really happens, it is impossible

For this reason, it is not very convenient to escape in the city of Zhaozhou.

After all, if the Ming army is in the city, the Jurchen tribes are camped outside the city, not to mention whether the Jurchen tribes can hold the camp, just saying that the Jurchen tribes probably feel that the Ming army treats them as cannon fodder. I'm afraid it's going to be unstable.

It's just that Shi Heng's actions didn't come in handy.

For two days later, the tile spur retreated, and went westward and returned to Mobei.

Two days later, most of the people led by Yang Hong arrived.

For a while, the two parties met, and there is no need to elaborate on the smiles.

Yang Hong was naturally very envious of Shi Heng's series of achievements, but he didn't know what to do about the hot potato in front of him? What hot potato?

Nothing else, it is Zhaozhou?

Guard, I'm afraid I can't keep it, don't keep it. It would be a pity to give up this strategic location. If we talk about guarding, there is another question, who will be sent?

It's a life-and-death task.

After all, the location of Mulan Hewei is still in the east of Zhaozhou, and in the end, the imperial court was still unable to rescue. If you change Zhaozhou, will you definitely be able to rescue it?

It's all a problem.

Yang Hong and Shi Heng discussed this matter for a long time.

Shi Heng sighed: "Speaking of which, Zhaozhou is a little too westward, and it would be much better if it could be one or two hundred miles to the east." ”

If there is a city in the north of Changbai Mountain, it can be sealed, and the passage for the tile spur army to enter Haixi, so that the Haixi area can become the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.

With Haixi money and grain to support the war against Mobei, this strategic concept may be realized.

After all, this idea, Zhu Qizhen has more or less leaked it to the outside for so many years, and the soldiers below may not know it, but the five governors of the Five Armies Governor's Mansion all understand it.

Yang Hong thought about it. Gritted his teeth and said: "This Zhaozhou City must be defended, even if it is to contain the Tile Spur troops, it must be defended, as long as the Zhaozhou City is there, and the Tile Thorn does not pull out this nail, he is determined to attack Haixi, and it is impossible to go south to Liaodong at will." Although Zhaozhou is dangerous, Liaodong and Haixi are safe. ”

"That's what it means today."

Yang Hong did not get Zhu Qizhen's direct will, and it was impossible for them to wait, after all, hundreds of thousands of troops were outside, and they consumed too much money and food. Therefore, the days when the army stayed in Zhaozhou were simply counting the days.

It is not possible to make a decision after asking for instructions.

But Yang Hong's statement is not groundless.

If you think about it, with Zhu Qizhen's desire to rejoice in great achievements and expand the territory, how can he allow the abandonment of the territory that has already been reached?

Shi Heng said: "Then the general who defends the city? ”

Yang Hong's face was like frost, and he said: "I don't believe it, among the hundreds of thousands of troops, there are not a few

The daring to die. The order went down and asked the people below to recommend themselves as the defenders of Zhaozhou. ”

If there is no one, Yang Hong will have to use coercive means.

As soon as Yang Hong's order was passed down, someone immediately recommended himself, it was none other than Zhu Yi.

Although Zhang Fu is no longer there, many people have forgotten that among the Ming army, there is also a Chengguo Gong. But Zhu Yi did not forget.

The battle of Maoerzhuang completely changed Zhu Yi's life. If you follow Zhu Yi's original life trajectory, it is nothing more than inheriting the title, becoming a close minister of the emperor, and leading troops to fight several times in his life, but there are no big results.

But now Zhu Yi has become a battalion officer in the Beijing army.

Of course, this has the shadow of Chengguo Gong, but there is also Zhu Yi's own efforts, and he has already made military exploits in guarding Juyong Pass before. Just like Zhang Fu's evaluation of Zhu Yi.

Zhu Yi quickly felt her limits.

He may not be able to compare with his father in his life, and he may not be able to beat a large number of rising stars in the army. After all, the way of cultivating generals has changed, and what is really beneficial is actually those low-level generals in the Ming Dynasty, such as those whose ancestral hereditary official positions are not high, but there are still some people with family backgrounds.

Yang Hong, Shi Heng, Fan Guang, etc., these people are all from such backgrounds.

Zhu Yi felt that she couldn't compete with them.

So he kept in mind what Zhang Fu said to him, and when he encountered this incident at this moment, he immediately felt in his heart that his opportunity had come.

Yang Hong was also out of sight, he never thought that Zhu Yi, the son-in-law, would have such courage.

Yang Hong, Guo Deng, and Shi Heng summoned Zhu Yi, and Shi Heng said: "Nuergan can only send you supplies after the heavy snow covers the mountains for several months every year, that is, after April every year, and around October every year, it is almost cut off from the rear. ”

"And if the tile thorn comes to attack, it will take ten days and half a month at the earliest, and if anything happens, it will take even several months, half a year, or even a year to come?"

"Are you really sure you want to stay here?"

Zhu Yi said: "The last general, no matter what, is also the national honorary, he does not dare to insult the court, and he does not dare to guarantee that he will be able to defend it, but it is just to eat a day's food of the court, be loyal to the court for a day, and let the last one guard Zhaozhou in the future, it is nothing more than two results, one is to hold it." The second is that the last general died. ”

Yang Hong sighed and said, "It's enough to have this heart." ”

So Zhu Yi was appointed as the garrison of Zhaozhou, commanding 5,000 people in the headquarters, and controlling the nearby Jurchen tribes, which could transfer soldiers and horses from various Jurchen tribes, and even temporarily levy taxes.

He also left a large amount of grain and grass, and also discussed that after a month or two, a large amount of grain and grass would be replenished here, which must be enough for five thousand people to feed for three years. There are also a large number of firearms and the like, not to mention repairing the city.

Yang Hong and others are bent on making this place into an iron walnut, so that the tile thorn can see it and can't swallow it.