Volume 8 Chapter 11 Is it a merit or a demerit
Yang Sichang, a member of the Ming army camp outside the city of Zhuozhou, a scholar of the cabinet and a secretary of the military department, was convening the generals to discuss the plan to deal with Jiannu in the marshal tent.
He played a little trick so that the generals had to "willingly" act as bait, in fact, everyone knew in their hearts that he was trying to gag some people's mouths, so that some people had no reason to accuse him of deliberately framing him.
There are many such things in the Ming army, like when the Sarhu War was at odds, the commander Yang Hao was at odds with Liu Ling, the general soldier of Liaoyang, so he sent Liu Ling to go deep from the East Road, intending to kill Liu Ling, but Liu Ling was killed by him, and the Ming army also suffered an unprecedented defeat in Sarhu.
This kind of thing, as a leading general, you can't refuse, because if you refuse, the commander can arrest you in the name of fear of the enemy's cowardice, fear of the enemy's cowardice, if you don't do it, you will be beheaded, rather than being cut down by your own people, it is better to go to the enemy to fight for a way to survive, so the general will choose to lead the troops to take risks.
At this time, Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Soldier Department of the Cabinet University, made it clear that he would not get along with Zhang Bin, the second assistant of the cabinet, and it was obvious who would be unlucky.
Sure enough, Yang Sichang saw that everyone was "willingly" going to act as a bait, and immediately said loudly: "Everyone knows that the Jiannu cavalry is very fierce, and the number of people who act as bait cannot be too many, and it must be able to withstand the attack of Jiannu, otherwise, Jiannu can see at a glance that it is a plan, and he will not be a plan at all." Now among our more than 200,000 troops, the only ones who can shoulder this heavy task are the Tianxiong Army under Governor Lu Xiangsheng and the Qi Family Army under General Qi Yuangong Qi. So....... “
Speaking of this, he deliberately paused, swept towards Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong with a little smugness, and then shouted: "Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong listen to orders." “
Although Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong were a little helpless, they could only go out of the queue at the order, and stood there waiting for the dispatch of this cabinet lord.
Yang Sichang ordered without hesitation: "Order the two of you to lead the Tianxiong Army and the Qi Family Army to set off an hour in advance, and rush to the direction of Laishui and Xincheng respectively, and make a situation of outflanking Jiannu. ”
The 20,000 foot soldiers were divided into two roads, and they set off an hour earlier to surround the 100,000 cavalry, didn't you let people go to find and fight!
Of course, this bait is meant to be hunted, and if you don't look for it, it's not called a bait.
The generals couldn't help but look at Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong in unison, with regret, worry, and even schadenfreude in their eyes.
Jiannu is a hundred thousand cavalry, and these two people only have 10,000 feet under their hands, 10,000 against 100,000, can they withstand it?
Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong were very calm, they bowed their hands in unison and obeyed, and there was no dissatisfaction on their faces.
They all have confidence in their subordinates, although it is impossible to overthrow the 100,000 Jiannu cavalry with 10,000 men, but it is still no problem for an hour or two, and Yang Sichang will not die or not save it.
They all thought wrong, Yang Sichang really planned to die and not save him, he just wanted to kill these two guys, although he could only kill one at a time, there would be a chance next time.
He definitely can't cut these two guys with his own hands, and no matter how much Chongzhen trusts him, he won't let him cut down the two meritorious generals for no reason.
There is no big problem in killing these two guys by Jiannu's hands, and when the time comes, he can find all kinds of excuses to fool Chongzhen, such as the detective was cleaned up by Jiannu, and he didn't receive a report in time or something.
Anyway, there are no immortals in the war, as long as he finally drives Jiannu away, he is still sure of this.
However, he also miscalculated a lot of things.
For example, the generals in the army of more than 200,000 people, not only Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong are from Zhang Bin's line, but the three brothers Ma Xianglin, the general soldier of Sichuan, Qin Gongming, the general soldier of Henan, and Qin Yiming, the general soldier of Huguang, are all Zhang Bin's people, but Qin Liangyu did not reveal to the outside that she has joined Zhang Bin's family.
These three brothers have 90,000 horses under their command, including the elite of the Sichuan army's white pole soldiers, if they don't talk about the 100,000 Manchurian cavalry that can overthrow Huang Taiji, it will be no problem to force Huang Taiji away and rescue Lu Xiangsheng or Qi Yuangong.
Also, Huang Taiji will not follow Yang Sichang's thoughts, play any tricks, what jokes, he is here to rob, not to find someone to fight hard.
Tianxiong Jun and Qi Jiajun are not bait in his eyes, but fish hooks, one bite down, will pierce his mouth, he knows this quite well, when he learned that Tianxiong Army and Qi Jiajun were outflanked from both sides, there was only one thought in his heart, that is, to run quickly!
He had already heard of the majesty of the Tianxiong Army, and the fierceness of the Qi Family's army made him even more jealous.
He still remembers the bloody battle of the Hunhe River vividly, at that time he led five thousand elite cavalry to kill tens of thousands of Ming troops, but thousands of Qi family troops and Sichuan army white pole soldiers fought with tens of thousands of Eight Banners elite for a day, that battle, they suffered the biggest loss since the war with the Ming army, the Eight Banners elite casualties were tens of thousands, and even the leading generals were killed in the battle, and the water of the Hunhe River was killed!
The defeat of Chongzhen in three years made him have a new understanding of the horror of the Qi family's army, the Qi family's army is the nemesis of the Houjin Iron Cavalry, for which he even specially trained 60,000 heavy armored infantry, the problem this time he brought all the cavalry, the heavy infantry all stayed in Liaoyang and Shenyang, if the cavalry was used to attack the Qi army's car formation, he estimated that he would overturn the 10,000 Qi army, at least 30,000 fine cavalry!
He didn't know the strength of the Tianxiong Army very well, but all kinds of rumors told him that this was an elite division comparable to the Qi Family Army and the Sichuan Army, that is to say, if he attacked the Tianxiong Army and the Qi Family Army, it was very likely that he would lose 60,000 elite cavalry!
He didn't come to attack the city, but to plunder, if he came to attack the city and plunder, then there was no way, no matter how big the loss was, he had to take it, because people entered the city more powerfully, and it was naturally the best to destroy them in the wild, and now, he didn't come to attack the city, but also went to the Tianxiong army and the Qi family army to the death, there was something wrong!
Moreover, this time is different from the past, in the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army has been killed by them, and no one dares to run over to help the Qi family army and the Sichuan army white pole soldiers, but it is difficult to say at this time, he does not know the other Ming troops, the Sichuan army white pole soldiers will definitely run over to support, he got a reliable secret report, there are 30,000 Sichuan army white pole soldiers in the Ming army that came back this time!
He didn't know the relationship between Ma Xianglin and Zhang Bin, but he knew the bravery of the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army, Ma Xianglin was the fierce general who broke out of the encirclement in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, and he was blinded in one eye in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River.
He knew very well that it was impossible for him to annihilate the Tianxiong Army and the Qi Family Army in a short period of time, if he was entangled by the Tianxiong Army or the Qi Family Army, it was very likely that he would be surrounded and beaten by the Ming Army swarming behind.
Yang Sichang didn't know that Huang Taiji would admit it, he opened the crab formation, and threw out the two big pincers of Tianxiong Army and Qi Jiajun called bait, in fact, he wanted to trap Lu Xiangsheng and Qi Yuangong to death, but unfortunately, Huang Taiji didn't pay attention to these two "bait" at all, Tianxiong Army and Qi Jiajun ran away before they surrounded him, running faster than rabbits.
Yang Sichang was so depressed, when he led the army to Dingxing, Huang Taiji had already led the army to Rongcheng in the southeast, and the distance between him and the Jiannu cavalry was still about fifty miles.
Huang Taiji didn't just finish the looting, so he left.
When he saw the looted villages and towns, he couldn't help but be angry, this Jiannu was too cruel, all the people who didn't come and run were killed by them, and the death of those women who were a little bit of beauty was even more miserable.
These brutes, chase me, chase them and kill them!
At this time, he was really angry, in his heart, he was the kind of good official who served the country and the people, and now he saw that the people were so badly ruined by Jiannu, how could he not be angry, he just opened the crab formation and chased all the way over, vowing to catch up with the Jiannu cavalry and avenge the people.
It's a pity that two legs can't run four legs after all, and if Huang Taiji doesn't want to fight him, he can only eat ashes behind his buttocks.
Huang Taiji really didn't come to fight with the Ming army this time, he didn't even bring a tiger squat cannon, although that thing can be tied to a horse, after all, it is an iron lump, he can't run wild on his own horse, and he has to be taken care of, and when he crosses the mountain and river, it is even more troublesome, which seriously affects the overall speed of the cavalry, so he simply didn't bring it.
At this time, the Ming army caught up, and he also changed his strategy, they no longer robbed people, only grabbed food and property, as for the common people, men, women and children did not let go, as long as they saw it, they were all killed!
Yang Sichang was so angry with him that he smoked, but he had no choice but to lead the army to chase after him desperately, desperately chasing, in vain.
Huang Taiji seemed to be playing Yang Sichang, who could run far away, but he didn't run, so he kept a distance of more than 50 miles from the Ming army and plundered all the way.
Yang Sichang was taken by him like this, and he went around in Baoding Mansion for nearly half a month, and Huang Taiji almost robbed Baoding Mansion, but Yang Sichang could only see people's horseshoe prints, and he couldn't even touch the horse's tail.
At this time, if Zhang Bin led the army, he would definitely not chase like this, clear the wilderness, block its way back, and use the terrain to set up ambushes everywhere, these are the best ways to deal with the Jiannu cavalry, what is the use of chasing behind people's butts.
Yang Sichang was dizzy, he only knew that he blindly chased after him, and the legs of more than 200,000 troops were about to run, but he still didn't catch up with others.
At this time, Huang Taiji is going to turn around and raid a wave, and maybe he can defeat the more than 200,000 troops in one fell swoop, because they are all tired and cramping, and they don't have the strength to fight with others.
However, Huang Taiji did not look back, he didn't even rob it, but directly led the army around in a circle, and went north from Dingxing, crossed Zhuozhou, crossed Xianghe, crossed Jizhou, crossed Zunhua, ran farther and farther, and the shadow of running was gone!
What's going on, doesn't he want to rob it?
It's not that he doesn't want to rob it, the main thing is that he can't move it, everyone has hundreds of pounds of food and property on their backs, and if they grab the horses again, they won't be able to run, if the horses are tired and paralyzed, and they are caught up by the Ming army, it will be a big trouble, so he simply ran back.
There was no fierce battle in Jiannu this time, not even a battle, the Ming army did not even lose a single soldier, it seems that it did not suffer any loss, but in fact, it was a big loss, because Shuntian, Yongping, Baoding three prefectures in addition to various cities, other places were almost looted, the former quite prosperous Gyeonggi area is simply a wilderness thousands of miles at this time, uninhabited!
Yang Sichang wanted to use Jiannu's hand to cut off Zhang Bin's two arms at first, but he was tricked by Huang Taiji, and he chased all the way for nearly half a month without even getting Jiannu's hair, and Jiannu finally ran away, but he was a little confused.
This, whether it is a merit or a fault, he doesn't know how to tell Chongzhen.