Chapter 440: Reversing Black and White

Although it is the four major Baylor discussions, but the first time to ascend the throne of the Emperor Taiji still showed the extraordinary courage of a generation of heroes, he tried his best to ignore the public opinion on the death of Nurhachi secret, led the Houjin army to pursue the victory, captured Kaiyuan, Tieling, fled to Kaiyuan Marin finally failed to escape the fate of the death in battle, and originally in the battle of Salhu due to slow action did not fight with Houjin and did not damage Li Rubai South Road Ming army on the way to withdraw to Tieling heard the news of the Houjin army chasing, unexpectedly defeated before the battle, trampled on each other, killed and injured more than 1,000 people. Li Rubai led the remnants to flee to Shenyang, and the Korean army that followed Li Rubai saw that the Ming army was vulnerable in front of the Houjin army, and the whole army surrendered under the leadership of Marshal Jiang Hongli. And Ming had saved Er's troubles, so he repaid his kindness and came to the ear", and also said that he would form a friendly alliance with North Korea.

Then Huang Taiji led the army to attack the Yehe tribe, and the chieftains of the Yehe tribe, Jintaiji and Buyangu, were killed, and the rest of the troops surrendered! At this time, Huang Taiji announced the death of Nurhachi, the whole army was wrapped in plains, and attacked Mingjing in a mourning posture under the banner of avenging Nurhachi's blood hatred, Yang Hao was frightened by Houjin's aggressive offensive, and actually shrank his troops in the name of Gongwei Shenyang at this time, resulting in the loss of Guangning (now Jinzhou Beizhen) Town, so far except for Shenyang and Liaoyang, most of Liaodong fell into the control of Houjin!

Not only that, in order to make up for the loss of the population that was plundered by Guo Zhiyuan, Huang Taiji also ordered the Houjin army to capture the Liao people in the occupied area and move inward, plundering a total of more than 40,000 people, more than 20,000 horses and livestock, and the Ming Dynasty lost even more population and land than after the defeat of the Battle of Salhu in the original historical time and space!

When the news reached the capital, the whole dynasty was shocked, and Emperor Wanli wept bitterly, how could he not figure out why the Ming army, which obviously had an absolute advantage in troops, was defeated so badly? ! Even ordinary people can't believe that this news is true, but the profiteers in the capital believe it, and the reaction is quite fast, and on the day the news reaches the capital, the price of rice in the capital rises sharply!

And Yang Hao, the Liaodong Jingluo, in order to shirk the blame, actually reversed black and white and wanted to put the blame on Guo Zhiyuan, who copied the Houjin back road, and said that it was Guo Zhiyuan who sent troops privately and disrupted the deployment of the Ming army, which led to the defeat of the Ming army, and he also used the relationship established in Korea when he led the Ming army into Korea to help Korea fight the Japanese invading army, and asked North Korea to write to the Ming court, saying that Guo Zhiyuan was flying and domineering when he detoured to Korea, and he asked for a card, which seriously hurt the friendship between North Korea and China and North Korea!

After trying to attack Shenyang and finding that Shenyang was well defended, he finally stopped the pace of the attack, and took the initiative to repair the book to the Ming court saying that he was willing to make peace with the Ming Dynasty, but the precondition was that the Ming Dynasty court handed over Guo Zhiyuan, or Guo Zhiyuan was punished!

This just gave the Donglin party, who has always been hostile to Guo Zhiyuan, an excuse to vent, and wantonly impeached Guo Zhiyuan, saying that Guo Zhiyuan did not respect the will of the imperial court and sent troops without permission and other complicity in rebellion, and destroyed the friendly relations between North Korea and the Ming Dynasty, and even disrupted the deployment of the Ming army in Liaodong, which was the culprit of the defeat of the Ming army! Not killing is not enough to outrage the people!

At this time, thanks to Liu Wei standing up and speaking up, Liu Wei was killed in the battle of Salhu in the original historical time and space, and now because Guo Zhiyuan copied the back road of Houjin to save his life, he was very puzzled by the fact that the Jin army suddenly withdrew his troops under the advantage of the day, and afterwards after learning that Guo Zhiyuan copied the back road of the Houjin army, he suddenly realized that his life was actually saved by Guo Zhiyuan!

Therefore, after knowing that Yang Hao reversed black and white and put the responsibility for the defeat of the Ming army on Guo Zhiyuan's head, he was very angry, and also gave the court a twist, in which he reported the real experience of the Battle of Sarhu to the court in detail, and bluntly said that Guo Zhiyuan was not only not the culprit of the defeat of the Ming army, but made a great contribution! He even suggested that the imperial court let Guo Zhiyuan succeed Yang Hao as the Liaodong Economic Strategy, launch a counterattack against the Houjin, and regain the lost land.

Although Liu Wei's official position is not high, his qualifications are very old, and he basically participated in the "Three Great Expeditions of Wanli", and he is quite prestigious in the army, so he still has some effect when he stands up and speaks, at least the voice of impeaching Guo Zhiyuan in the court is no longer one-sided.

In fact, even if Liu Wei doesn't stand up, a real discerning person only needs to know a little about the battle of Salhu to know that it was Yang Hao who is reversing black and white, Guo Zhiyuan went to copy the back road of Houjin, which will only disrupt the deployment of the Houjin army, how can it disrupt the deployment of the Ming army?

And Nurhachi's death also verifies all this, although Houjin said very vaguely about the cause of Nurhachi's death, only saying that he died because of overwork in the battle with the Ming army, but fools want to get it, Nurhachi has always been in good health, and personally led the Houjin army to win the battle of Sarhu, it is said that he must be in a happy mood after winning the battle, why did he die suddenly? It was clearly Guo Zhiyuan who hit the sore spot of the Houjin army, and he Nurhachi to death!

It's just that these clear-eyed people are not good at standing up to help Guo Zhiyuan speak, the imperial court dispatched nearly 200,000 troops but was defeated by the Houjin army, you Guo Zhiyuan took 20,000 people from Dongfan to make a detour to North Korea, but Nurha was so angry that he vomited blood and died (they didn't know that Guo Zhiyuan also defeated Mang Gurtai's 10,000 Houjin cavalry), where did this make the face of the imperial court go? Affirming your Guo Zhiyuan's military exploits, isn't it equivalent to admitting the incompetence of the imperial court?

In fact, Emperor Wanli was not confused, and he also knew that Guo Zhiyuan was not the culprit of the defeat of the Ming army, and knew that Guo Zhiyuan had actually made great contributions, so he was not confused by Yang Hao's reversal of black and white, and directly detained Yang Hao and sent him back to the capital to punish the crime. So in the end, Xiong Tingbi (a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty) was asked to replace Yang Hao and go to Liaodong.

However, if Liu Wei doesn't stand up to help Guo Zhiyuan speak up, Emperor Wanli can still pretend to be confused, and even suppress Guo Zhiyuan, at least it is a fact that Guo Zhiyuan does not respect his will and sends troops privately, and it is also a fact that he wants to destroy the friendly relations between the Ming Dynasty and North Korea in North Korea, but now that Liu Wei has told the fact that Guo Zhiyuan has made great contributions, it is not easy for Emperor Wanli to pretend to be confused.