Chapter 2 fabricates military information
The wind and snow were still howling, but after returning to the camp, Ye Fu did not go back to the camp tent to rest, but went straight to the juniper camp.
Although Ye Fu did not have many people under him, he was a scout in charge of intelligence after all, and he was a general who was qualified to contact Juniper's level.
Juniper, before coming to Liaodong, a tiger general who guarded Shaanxi, repelled many enemies who committed border crimes, and fought very bravely, this time he was arranged by his superior Yang Hao as the general of the Western Route Army, leading 30,000 troops.
But the first to be destroyed in this battle of Salhu was the Western Route Army.
Indeed, although Juniper also has some military talent, his personality is too straightforward and impatient, and he is too contemptuous of Jin Jun.
This time, Juniper was transferred to Liaodong and held the main force in his hands, Juniper was bent on making meritorious contributions, and had been speeding up the march, and was the first to fight with the Jin army.
But in the end, the lone Western Route Army was completely annihilated by Nurhachi in Sarhu.
As for Juniper himself, the fate was also extremely tragic, after being shot by the Jin army, the body was chopped into pulp, and it can be said that there are no bones left.
This is also the reason why Ye Fu is anxious to see Juniper, if Juniper continues to go deep alone, he Ye Fu will also end up with the horse leather shroud.
"Who?!"
As soon as he walked to a distance of ten meters away from the tent, Ye Fu was stopped by Juniper's personal guards.
"My subordinates have important military information to submit, please inform General Du" Ye Fu said with a blank face.
"You wait here for a moment while I inform the general."
Hearing this, the pro-soldier immediately turned around and entered the camp tent, and reappeared in front of Ye Fu after a few breaths.
"Ye Baihu, the general let you in."
Unlike those individual tents, Juniper's tents are very spacious and have been built with a lot of effort, about the size of several rooms.
Charcoal burned in the corner of the tent to dispel the cold of the snow and ice, and in the center was a rectangular table with a large sand table.
This sand table is obviously made with a lot of effort, there are forests, plains, hills, etc., which is very vivid, similar to the modern model of selling a house.
Standing directly in front of the sand table was a man with a tall and powerful figure, a stubble beard, and a man in armor.
The man's expression was indifferent, his two eyebrows were raised high, and although his beard was stubble, the sharp light flashing in his eyes gave people an invisible sense of oppression.
Obviously, in terms of aura alone, this juniper is not as useless as the history books say, but has some real skills.
Around the huge sand table, there were several other people standing, these people were all high-ranking officials and generals, after Ye Fu entered the camp account, he glanced at Ye Fu lightly, and then stopped paying attention.
"General, the last general feels that our Ming army has come from afar, and the weather is cold, and there are many baggage, so there is no need to urgently find Tartars to start a war, we should take care of the armament first, rest for half a month first, consolidate the city defense, find out the reality of the enemy situation before starting, otherwise there is a danger of ambush."
Next to Juniper, a man with a white and bearded face spoke.
This person looks gentle and elegant, but Ye Fu knows that this person is the right-hand man under Juniper, the brave and courageous military advisor Zhao Menglin.
As a top student in the Department of History, before coming to meet Juniper, Ye Fu had already sketched out the important figures of the Ming Dynasty that he had learned before.
"Rest? Hmph, this time to conquer the gold bandits, His Majesty's order is to fight quickly, and there must be no delay, so you still have to rest for half a month? ”
A middle-aged man dressed in the inner court of the Ming Palace and with a shrill voice spoke.
This time the stakes were very high, Emperor Wanli sent a lot of supervisors to supervise the battle, and the man who spoke was Zhang Quan, the eunuch of the Western Route Army.
Although the prison army has no military power, it represents the will of the Son of Heaven, and its status is a few points higher than Juniper in some respects.
"Dashuai, it is not suitable to fight in the cold winter, frostbite is cold, and this golden bandit dares to blatantly use troops against my Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that I have been prepared for a long time, rashly~~~"
Zhao Menglin spoke again, but before he finished speaking, he was forcibly interrupted by Zhang Quan.
"General Zhao, you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, do you know how many silver taels it costs for more than 100,000 people to eat and drink Lazar a day?"
"Moreover, the cold winter weather only freezes our Ming army, and the war horses of the Jin army will not be frozen."
Indeed, the Ming Dynasty had just gone through three major expeditions, and the treasury was empty at the moment, and this time more than 100,000 troops raised troops in Liaodong, which also put extremely heavy financial pressure on the Ming Dynasty.
As the main leader of the army, Zhao Menglin also knew that what Zhang Quan said was the truth, and since the supervising army had already explained what he said, Zhao Menglin stopped talking about it.
The atmosphere suddenly fell silent, and everyone was waiting for coach Juniper to make a decision.
Although the emperor meant to do it to Jin earlier, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the real decision is still in Juniper's hands
"As the so-called one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion, we came from afar, if we delay without fighting, I am afraid that it will affect morale, this battle should not be delayed!"
On the one hand, it was the pressure from the court, and on the other hand, it was the judgment of the situation, and Juniper finally made a decision.
This is living history.
As a Ye Fu who traveled from the afterlife and knew the ending for a long time, he couldn't help but sigh a little when he saw this scene.
But then, Ye Fu restrained his thinking, took a step forward, and said loudly.
"General, my subordinates have important military information."
Everyone in the camp looked at Ye Fu, and found that it was a scout who came out of nowhere who spoke, and they couldn't help but look displeased.
Juniper, who was about to make specific combat arrangements, was unexpectedly interrupted from thinking, and he also stared at Ye Fu with a slight frown.
"Well, Ye Baihu, what military intelligence report do you have?"
Juniper directly called out Ye Fu's name, obviously still having some impression of Ye Fu.
"Returning to the marshal, I led the battalion to reconnoiter this time, and found traces of the Jurchen Jin army in Salhu!"
Ye Fu didn't speak, and as soon as he opened his mouth, everyone present was shocked.
"The enemy army is in Sarhu?"
Everyone in the tent was taken aback, what Ye Fu said was completely unexpected by everyone present.
Under the pressure of the army, everyone thought that the Tartars should be trapped in the capital, but they never expected that Nurhachi would dare to abandon the lonely city and go out of the city directly to face the battle.
"Yes, my subordinates led people to patrol the field and lost a few whistles, and my subordinates estimated that there should be enemy troops lurking in Salhu."
"Haha, it's good that the old slave came, and we just happened to make a contribution here."
Juniper was stunned for a moment, then stroked his beard and said with a smile.
Zhang Quan, the supervisor on the side, said: "Marshal, since we know the movements of the Tartar army, we should speed up the march, pacify the gold bandits as soon as possible, and share the worries of His Majesty the Emperor." ”
Juniper nodded and said: "The prison army is reasonable, the Tartar actually has the guts to want to eat my juniper, then I will let them see how sharp my juniper's broadsword is." ”
When the accident happened, Juniper was also a little annoyed, and Tartar's move made it clear that he didn't take him seriously.
The generals in the camp also talked one by one, some were lamenting Nurhachi's courage, and some were worried that marching in such weather conditions would not be conducive to the rest of the war.
It's just that no one thought that the so-called Tartar military situation was made up by Ye Fu according to the history books.
Ye Fu saw that everyone did not have the slightest suspicion, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Handsome and slow, now the heavy snow is blocking the road, and it is inconvenient for the army to move forward, since the enemy army wants to ambush in Sarhu, there must be a perfect strategy, while our army is dispatched, we might as well send messengers to contact the other three armies, and everyone will meet together in Salhu to encircle and annihilate the enemy army." ”
Juniper was stunned again, looked Ye Fu up and down, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that a small hundred households would also have such insight, so it's okay, so let's do it, since you don't collect hundreds of households at night, you will organize people and horses to notify the rest of the three armies separately to annihilate the Tatar chieftains in Sarhu." ”