Chapter Forty-Six: Rescuing the Tiger Dun Rabbit
"What Li Ge Lao said is extreme, I want the tiger squatting rabbit hungry captive, from the forty years of Wanli to the forty-third year of Wanli, he has repeatedly violated the border wall of my Ming Dynasty and plundered the property of the people of my Ming Dynasty.
As soon as Li Guopu finished speaking, Guo Yunhou spoke out in support.
Guo Yunhou recently entered the Ministry of Rites, and half of his feet have already entered the cabinet, and he is a little floating.
"Is that what everyone else meant?"
Zhu Youzhen's tone was not good, his eyes swept over everyone with some coldness, and all the ministers were silent for a while.
"Alas, don't you look like this, the enlarged meeting of the Imperial Front is supposed to brainstorm and discuss the country, whether it is right or wrong, I will not blame."
Zhu Youzhen felt that it was not good to be too fierce, in case what people said was right, he breathed a sigh of relief, but everyone was silent.
As an old fritter in the agency, Zhu Youzhen knows that the silence of his subordinates is sometimes opposition.
"The minister has a word."
Seeing that the ministers did not speak, Zhu Youzhen was about to express his opinion, but was preempted by Yuan Keli, the secretary of the Ministry of War.
"I think that the disaster of the tiger and the rabbit should be saved."
The words startled a thousand waves, and the ministers, who were silent just now, buzzed at this time.
The imperial history standing on the side suddenly came to life at this time, and he took out a small notebook from his sleeve and began to memorize.
"Don't make any noise, listen to Yuan Butang."
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand a little unhappily.
"Back to Your Majesty, colleagues, although the tiger squatting rabbit and my Ming Dynasty are feuding, but at this time and that time, the eastern captives are powerful, and they are the common enemy of me and the tiger squatting rabbits, if the eastern captives destroy the tiger and the rabbits, then they will unify the Mongolian tribes in the south and east of the desert, which is not good for my Ming Dynasty."
"Moreover, if there is a tiger squatting rabbit, Donglu does not dare to attack my Ningyuan line, if there is no containment, my Ningyuan line pressure is deep."
When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he secretly promised in his heart that this Yuan Keli's strategic vision is really not covered, and he really has the wisdom to know people.
"In addition, Weichen received a note from Yang Hao, the governor of Liaodong, today, and is about to present it to His Majesty."
As he spoke, Yuan Keli took out a note from his sleeve and held it on his head respectfully.
"Read!"
Zhu Youzhen did not take the note, because he had already seen the content of the note through Jinyiwei's spies in Liaodong.
"Yes!"
When Yuan Keli heard this, he opened the recital and read it aloud.
"Yang Hao, the governor of Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, respectfully invites Sheng'an, and looks at my emperor 。。。。。。。"
"Pick up the key points, and you, write a notebook in the future, the pile of nonsense at the beginning can be avoided, there is something to say, and a bunch of ozone vines are a waste of my effort."
Zhu You listened to two sentences and interrupted stiffly.
Yuan Keli was stunned for a moment when he heard this, wiped his sweat, and then read.
"The minister heard that recently, the Jurchen little slave chieftain led an army of 60,000 to the west into the tiger and rabbit department, and its rear must be empty, this is a good opportunity for my Ming Dynasty to recover the land, and the minister is willing to lead 30,000 elite soldiers to recover Guangning in one fell swoop."
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and as soon as Yuan Keli finished reading, the humming sound of the Qianqing Palace started again, ignoring the reprimand of the imperial history next to him.
Between the quarrels, the ministers were soon divided into two factions.
The military representatives headed by Yuan Keli and Sun Chengzong advocated that, according to Yang Hao's words, they should send troops to copy the back road of Huang Taiji, so that they could restore the land and rescue the tiger and the rabbit.
The conservatives, led by Li Guopu and Guo Yunhou, advocated sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and then making a decision when both prisoners were defeated.
Zhu Youzhen looked at the somewhat noisy enlarged meeting of the imperial front, and his thoughts drifted to the second year of Chongzhen in history.
In October of that year, after Huang Taiji unified southern Mongolia, his strength increased greatly, and he personally led 100,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops to the south through Mongolia.
As a result, hundreds of thousands of Ming people were killed, hundreds of thousands of Ming people were plundered, the entire hinterland of Gyeonggi was looted, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced.
This human tragedy that happened in the second year of Chongzhen is known as the change of his own life.
Thinking of the tragedy of the change in history, and thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty who were brutalized, Zhu Youzhen burst into muscles, slapped the paperweight on the table, and blurted out.
"Hit!"
The Qianqing Palace was immediately silent.
Then Li Guopu wanted to go out of class to persuade him, but before he could speak, he was scolded back by Zhu Youzhen.
"This battle must be fought, the ministers have to say again, this battle can be fought well for my Ming people to avoid a disaster, if this battle is not fought, or even bad, you and I are the sinners of the Ming people."
"Elder Li Ge, are you going to be a sinner for the people of the Ming Dynasty?"
Seeing that Zhu Youzhen was angry, Li Guopu had no choice but to dare not even say anything, and retreated.
"The three elders of the cabinet Huang, Han, and Sun, and the three Shangshu of the six soldiers, workers, and households, you and others will stay, and pass on the Jinyi Guard to command Luo Sigong, and the rest of the people will return to the office."
Since it was decided that this battle would be fought, Zhu Youzhen left military professionals to plan the details of the battle.
And other non-professionals are also helping out in this way, so it is better to get rid of the trouble.
After the rest of the people left, Zhu Youzhen ordered Wang Chengen to take the map and discuss the details of the battle with the ministers.
But Zhu Youzhen then discovered a problem, his thoughts were not the same as Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli.
Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli supported Yang Hao's plan to send troops to Quang Ninh.
But Zhu Youzhen doesn't think so.
Liaodong is the land of the three wars of the Ming Dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty and the Mongols, and after many years of war, the population is sparse and all industries are withered, and the recovery is useless and the cost is wasted.
And with the current combat effectiveness of the Ming army, even if the land is restored, it will not be able to hold it.
Therefore, Zhu Youzhen's strategy for Houjin is not to rush to restore the land outside the customs, but to kill and injure Houjin's vital force.
In the land of the Houjin projectile, the people are poor and the country is scarce, killing one person will be one less, and destroying one city will be one less city.
In this way, in a few years, the Houjin can be dragged down.
"Two Aiqing, I think that my Ming army does not yet have the strength to confront the Houjin Eight Banners head-on, and this time the troops are focused on leading Houjin to withdraw from the Hudun Rabbit Department, as for the matter of recovering the land, it may not be in a hurry at this time."
The emperor didn't even ask for restoration? Wouldn't that expedition be a loss-making deal?
Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli looked at each other, Han Yi, Bi Ziyan and Xu Guangqi were also puzzled, but Huang Li was extremely unhurried, looking like an old god.
In fact, it is not that Huang Liji knows Zhu Youzhen's plans, but that he has been with Zhu Youzhen for a long time, and he knows too well that this emperor does not play cards according to common sense.
Therefore, no matter what decision Zhu Youzhen makes, Huang Liji will always have an expression of 'Oh, I see, Your Majesty is really a god'.
Of course, this is also the reason why Zhu Youzhen insisted on letting Huang Liji be the first assistant, there is one person who is by his side all day long, and it feels really good.
Seeing that everyone had doubts, Zhu Youzhen talked in detail about his battle strategy against Houjin, and focused on the matter of recovering the land, as long as the Jurchen Eight Banners were killed, then Liaodong would naturally recover.
After Zhu Youzhen finished speaking, everyone was like Huang Liji.
'Oh, I see, Your Majesty is a man of God. ’
After everyone agreed, the route of the march was then formulated.
This time to rescue Hudun Rabbit, the Ming army will attack in three ways.
One of them is the Dongjiang Department, commanded by Mao Wenlong, out of the Yalu River, attacking Yizhou, Kuandian, and until Lianshan Pass.
The second is a section of Liaoxi, commanded by Mangui, out of the big and small Ling River, directly to Guangning, and cut off the back road of the emperor's Taiji.
The first three are the Guanning Iron Cavalry in Western Liaoning, commanded by Zu Dashou, out of the Big and Small Ling River, and directly to Liaoyang.
In the three ways, Mao Wenlong and the Mangui Department combined strong attacks and feints, and they could attack and attack, and if they couldn't attack, they would besiege them, and they would go when they encountered a strong enemy.
In addition, Zhu Youzhen's strategy for his two roads was to destroy all the available things along the way, gather his people, and bring them back to the Ming Dynasty.
The Guanning Iron Cavalry of Zu Dashou was only for the momentum of a feint, taking the characteristics of its strong mobility ability, and directly attacking the old capital of Liaoyang, just for political influence, forcing Huang Taiji to withdraw his troops.
According to Zhu Youzhen's understanding of this period of history, coupled with the corroboration of the Houjin intelligence provided by Luo Sigong, Zhu Youzhen concluded that there were not many Houjin troops left behind, and there was no need to worry that the Houjin army would go out of the city to pursue, so outside the Houjin Jiancheng, the Ming army had a lot to do.
In fact, for Zhu Youzhen's strategy of dispatching troops this time, a more vivid metaphor is to take advantage of the absence of the master's family to raise heavy troops to sweep other people's homes.
As a result, Zhu Youzhen gave this troop dispatch a very vivid code name.
Hit the grass valley!