Chapter 269: The Beginning
It's not that Ye Xun doesn't want to get involved in North Korea's affairs, but now he has more than enough heart and less strength.
As for the new firearms mentioned by Ye Xun, they are just slightly improved firearms such as mines and grenades, of course, these things are not given away for free, as long as Park Dingji determines the demand, the price can be negotiated slowly.
In addition, cold weapons such as bows and crossbows, knives and guns can be given away for free, and it is not good to eat if they are too ugly, after all, they have received a lot of silver from others before, and sometimes Ye Xun's face is also very thin.
At the same time, Ye Xun also put forward a very constructive proposal to Park Dingji, that is, to form a Korean people's guerrilla force to go deep into the rear of the Jurchens to carry out all kinds of sabotage and troublemaking, and the Shenyang side was responsible for providing intelligence support and weapons.
It's not the first time that Park Dingji has dealt with Ye Xun, and he knows that although Ye Xun is cunning and treacherous, what he said still counts.
However, what Ye Xun said, Park Dingji couldn't be the master, he had to report to Guanghaijun first.
If there is such a force to make trouble behind the Jurchens, it will inevitably reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield in Korea.
But why can't this kind of thing be done by the Ming army? You must know that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is much stronger than that of the North Korean army.
The Ming army is stronger than the North Korean army, but now with the combat effectiveness of Ye Xun's men and horses becoming more and more elite, coupled with the blockade of the grassland, there is no need to carry out this kind of small attack like a small fight.
It turned out that the elite soldiers of guerrilla warfare in the Ming army have now been promoted to officers and assigned to various battalions, becoming the backbone of the most basic level of the Liaodong army.
In addition, now is not the time to intensify the conflict with the Jurchens, and excessive participation will only lead to the fulfillment of North Korea, so this kind of thing must not be done.
Sent away Park Dingji, Ye Xun was not idle, the armies have arrived in Fushun one after another, according to the previous plan, the army will be trained here, and then reorganized.
It is related to the future situation of Liaodong, and it is also related to the future of each general, and the commanders of each battalion are very concerned, as the supreme commander of Liaodong, Ye Xun must also be present in person.
However, after experiencing the defeat of Kuandian in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Ye Xun's thinking also changed.
There are not many soldiers, and the main purpose of the training in Fushun is to train the troops, so there is no need to mobilize all the troops there.
In the case of practicing how to attack fortifications, the army should also pay attention to the army's long-range attack, as well as logistics support and other subjects.
With this idea, Ye Xun ordered each general to gather only 3,000 men and horses in the Fushun camp, and carry out targeted training with the subjects mentioned above.
According to Ye Xun's words, he wants an all-round army, and all generals must break the traditional war mode and build an all-round and efficient team in training close to actual combat.
The remaining troops will remain in the Shenyang battalion, with Cao Wenzhao, who has returned from injury, as the chief instructor, and 200 soldiers from the Kangzi battalion to serve as temporary instructors of each army to conduct a thorough retraining of the whole army.
At the same time as the large-scale military training, there was also a large-scale conscription, and all strong men from Liaodong who were under the age of 30 and over 18 years old and had a clean family background could sign up to join the army.
In the conscription order, it is not specifically indicated that you have to be Han, which means that no matter whether you are Mongol or Jurchen, as long as you meet the conditions, you can join the Liaodong Army.
Ye Xun's killing order issued by Xiong Tingbi last year was not canceled, but it was only for Jianzhou Jurchen, Jurchen is just a general term, Ye Hebu is still Jurchen, is it not the same as Jianzhou?
What Ye Xun wants is people, as long as he can classify these people under his command, he will slowly sinicize them.
Everyone knows that the treatment of the Liaodong Army is the best, and now Liaodong is the god-like Ye Gonggong in charge, and after becoming a soldier, there is no worry at all.
Therefore, as soon as the conscription order came out, the conscription points in the cities of Liaodong were overcrowded in a very short period of time, not to mention the Han Chinese, and the Mongols also signed up, there were Yehebu who fled back from Jianzhou, and even military households who fled from the Guannei Guard.
In other places, these escaped military households still dare to show their heads, but it is different in Liaodong, because Ye Xun will not only not pursue their past, but will even give them fields, so that they can stay in Liaodong with peace of mind, but there is one thing, if they dare to run away again, then the family can only follow the prisoners of war to open a mine.
It is precisely because of this preferential treatment policy that the military households who were oppressed by the officers and could not survive have fled to Liaodong one after another.
Shanhaiguan was blocked by the imperial army, it doesn't matter, the Liaodong Army has officials who are specially responsible for picking up and dropping off these military households, as long as they are contacted, they can swagger through Shanhaiguan without worrying about being caught.
Liu Qu figured it out, he was the closest to Ye Xun, the court could fool him, but Ye Xun could never be offended, and another advantage of this was to leave a way back for himself and minimize the possibility of encountering danger.
With Ye Xun's orders coming out one after another, the land of Liaodong, which was still in the bitter cold, began a large-scale military training in full swing.
Of course, such a large-scale action can't hide from Huang Taiji, looking at this report, Huang Taiji can't help but feel a sense of powerlessness, Ye Xun does these things, he also wants to do, but the strength of Jianzhou is there, trapped by congenital conditions, Jianzhou's soft power cannot be compared with the Ming Dynasty at all.
There is another way, which is to take advantage of Ye Xun's untrained soldiers to carry out a fatal blow to the Ming army in Liaodong.
But before this idea was formed in his mind, he was vetoed by Huang Taiji himself, what my father didn't do, can I just do it myself?
And after the riot on the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, Huang Taiji had clearly felt that some banner lords were not as in awe of him as before.
In this case, if you rashly start a war with Ye Xun, the possibility of success is very small, not to mention that if you lose again, Jianzhou is afraid that it will not be far from falling apart.
Therefore, if Jianzhou wants to develop, it has to find another way, and this path is of course North Korea, which not only has the population resources that Jianzhou is in short supply, but also the maritime trade can make up for the shortage of materials brought about by the blockade of the land by Ye Xun.
Huang Taiji thought far-reachingly, and he believed that the bannermen would also be very interested in the use of troops in Korea.
Cheng Yu's upcoming visit has already been reported to Huang Taiji.
As Ye Xun's closest person, Huang Taiji had already noticed this person, but there was not much that could be investigated, and he only felt that this person should have been a hermit or something like that before.
What Huang Taiji couldn't understand was why Ye Xun would send his most powerful subordinates to him during such a sensitive period.
Negotiation, peace, or war?
Huang Taiji thought of everything, but he didn't think that Ye Xun would jointly build the road with him.
In this era, people's thinking has been fixed in a model, although Huang Taiji is a genius, but the future war dominated by artillery has jumped out of his understanding, and if he wants to accept this mode of war, he can only wait until he has personally tried the taste of artillery...