Outside the east gate, the elderly Sun Chengzong sat on the main seat with the support of Yuan Chonghuan, and a big battle last night almost made Sun Chengzong physically and mentally exhausted.

"All the generals are seated."

Sun Chengzong's voice was a little low, and his haggard face made people feel a little distressed. Although Sun Chengzong looked exhausted, the generals present were dancing one by one.

No way, yesterday's big victory, it's hard to find. Beheaded more than 3,000 real Jiannu at once, sweeping away the decadence since the Battle of Saarhu in one fell swoop.

"Teacher, this is a disciple who inadvertently got a century-old wild ginseng in Liaodong, and specially ordered someone to cook it to replenish his body with the teacher."

Yuan Chonghuan saw a bowl of ginseng soup brought by the subordinate he ordered outside the big tent, hurriedly walked out of the big tent, took the bowl in his hand, and came to Sun Chengzong.

"The elements have a heart".

The haggard Sun Chengzong raised his head to see that Yuan Chonghuan had also unceremoniously knotted Yuan Chonghuan's ginseng soup, and took a sip gently, not afraid that Yuan Chonghuan would put some condiments in the bowl.

As for the other generals, they are also ignorant of this, everyone knows that now Sun Chengzong is a popular man in the eyes of the emperor, and Yuan Chonghuan is a disciple of Sun Chengzong, why can't the disciple be filial to the master?

Sun Chengzong, who had drunk the ginseng soup, suddenly felt that his body was exhausted and swept away, and his face began to be rosy.

"By the way, element, you ask the soldiers to cook some more ginseng soup and give it to Zhao Zongbing and Zhang Zongbing."

Yuan Chonghuan said respectfully, "Teacher, the disciple has already asked the soldiers to send it over."

Sun Chengzong nodded and turned his head to look at everyone.

"I have already delivered the report of last night's battle to the cabinet, I believe that Your Majesty and the cabinet courtiers have seen the performance of your generals yesterday, I will not do anything more here, I believe that Your Majesty and the cabinet will deal with it impartially, and the rewards of your generals will inevitably be delivered after the war."

Sun Chengzong has been in the court for I don't know how many years, and he has presided over the military in the army, so he naturally knows what the generals here think about serving the country loyally and the country is just a matter of being on the surface, everyone wants to get some benefits, even if he didn't think so when he was young.

The generals present suddenly showed smiling faces one by one, and they were working hard to the death, so I want a group of high-ranking officials and concubines. No matter how much there is, there is no silver for nothing.

"Yesterday's battle, although our army was a great victory, but its own casualties were not, and even General Zhao was seriously injured, I hope that all the generals can work together to go to the national disaster."

Sun Chengzong pondered for a moment and turned the topic to the current priorities.

The hearts of the generals also sank, although yesterday was indeed a big victory, but the casualties were several times more than the other party, this is indeed a smile and generosity if it is placed elsewhere. For a while, the generals were ashamed, and they lowered their heads one by one.

Especially some people who belong to the Liaodong Army, their hearts are a little dull, you must know that Zhao Shujiao is the Liaodong Army, everyone is the same robe, seeing that his brother is seriously injured, he is about to drive the crane to the west, how can he be calm.

"But I believe that Huang Taiji has already given birth to the intention of retiring at this time."

Seeing that everyone had no fighting spirit one by one because of his own words, Sun Chengzong also turned his words and praised everyone directly.

"Retirement"?

Wu Xiang and the others were a little puzzled for a while, although they took advantage of the surprise attack this time, they only killed and injured more than 3,000 Jiannu, plus a battle a few days ago, the casualties were only more than 5,000 people. Now there are at least thirty or forty thousand available people under Huang Taiji, plus more than 10,000 people under Amin stationed in Dunhua, that adds up to more than 50,000 people, and Jiannu sent more than 60,000 troops, and now the casualties are only over 16, whether it is a little too confident to withdraw the troops.

Yuan Chonghuan, as a disciple of Sun Chengzong, must naturally be relatively close, seeing Wu Xiang and the others one by one, they were puzzled, but they didn't dare to come forward to ask, they could only go to the front and think about everyone's thoughts.

In later generations, there was a saying called war, which is the continuation of politics. If Sun Chengzong knew, he would definitely tell everyone. It's just that this sentence will have to wait for a few hundred more years, but the truth is the same.

"Although you are all generals on the leading side, you must know that war is not the final result, and you must consider the overall situation.

Taking this time as a case, more than 5,000 casualties are indeed insignificant for Huang Taiji. However, why did Huang Taiji send troops to my Ming Dynasty in winter, is it because the people of Houjin have no food to eat, and the war horses have no grass to fear. Now that Huang Taiji has already achieved his goal, in fact, he could have retreated a long time ago, but in order to stabilize his position, he sent troops to surround my Jingshi. ………”

Sun Chengzong didn't care whether his generals could understand it or not, but he still gave all his opinions. As for whether you can understand or not, that's not something for you to consider.

Sun Chengzong did this, in fact, he also had a mind in his heart. Now that Da Ming can be the commander, he really doesn't see it.

The person in command must have a higher vision than ordinary rao, and he must consider the interests of the whole country. Victory or defeat in a war does not matter, and perhaps sometimes defeat on the battlefield does more good than bad for the whole country.

Think about the former Song Dynasty, which had to pay tribute to Liaojin and Jin every year, it was indeed a shame to look at it on the surface. But if you calculate it fundamentally, if the former Song Dynasty wanted to wage war against Liaojin, the cost of a war would be worth many years of tribute, and most importantly, it might not be able to defeat the enemy. In this way, it is better for you to fight the enemy hard steel or spend money to eliminate the disaster.

Everyone lowered their heads one by one to think about Sun Chengzong's words, but after thinking about it for a while, they still didn't understand the meaning of the words. Of course, not everyone is like this, but Lu Xiangsheng, who was standing at the end, was thinking.

Sun Chengzong naturally looked at the performance of the lieutenant general, especially when he saw that Lu Xiangsheng seemed to have an epiphany, so he felt a little comforted. At the same time, I also feel that my vision is indeed unique, and I believe that if I teach more, I should be able to take advantage of a big thing.

"Teacher, what should we do? Let it retreat"?

Although Yuan Chonghuan didn't understand it very well, he also knew that Jiannu was internally unstable, constantly fighting for power and profit, and Liaodong was attacked, so Huang Taiji had the intention of retiring from the army.

"This is not true, although Huang Taiji is willing to retreat, but he will not go back like this, he will definitely fight with us again before retreating. And this battle has to be a victory, at least to make them look better on the surface."

Sun Chengzong stroked his gray beard and said very confidently.

"My lord, if we mobilize the whole country's troops, will we be able to intercept Huang Taiji's retreat?"

Wu Xiang thought of a big plan, that is, to mobilize the whole country to besiege Huang Taiji, even if it was hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded. Once all the tens of thousands of Huang Taiji's troops in the pass are eaten, then the Jiannu outside the pass will not be worried at all.

"The Jiannu are all cavalry, once they want to retreat, how can our army catch up with them."

Sun Chengzong smiled and shook his head, in fact, he still has a sentence, that is, if the whole country mobilizes troops, the treasury will not be able to take out so many silver taels to arrange them, and when the time comes, it may not be possible to build slaves but cause a mutiny.