331 A visit to Dongjiang Town
The arrogance can best describe the situation of the tens of thousands of Jurchen troops who slowly retreated at this time.
exposed their true purpose, in the face of the approaching Ming army of tens of thousands of troops, this Jurchen army did not panic at all, and they even sent a cavalry army of more than 2,000 people to shuttle back and forth in front of Wu Sangui and their army, wantonly provoking.
People dare to do this, naturally they have a strong confidence, maybe the strength of the other Han army and the Korean vassal army is not strong enough, but just the 10,000 cavalry of the Jurchens in the Chinese army is enough to dispel Wu Sangui and their army's various thoughts.
Watching the Jurchens gradually disappear in front of him, Wu Sangui felt sad and annoyed, but helpless.
The lack of a sufficient number of cavalry in the Ming army has always been the most heart-wrenching thing in the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong border pass as the most important defense place of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money to form a Guanning iron cavalry, but with the status of Wu Sangui at that time, it was not yet the face to be able to command.
As long as there are 10,000 Jurchen knights, Wu Sangui and they will not dare to act rashly, otherwise they will likely be chiseled through the front by these 10,000 cavalry, and finally end up in a rout.
"Near, what are we going to do next?"
The generals below were also dumbfounded, everyone was still frightened before coming, following this young commander to take a huge risk, along the way the string in everyone's brain was extremely tight, if there was really a wind and grass, everyone was afraid that everyone would have all kinds of preparations, but they never thought that the enemy who thought it was a powerful enemy would end up being a limited existence that was only stronger than their own team.
After all, their Ningjin defense line was more than 100,000 troops, but in the end they were treated as monkeys by the Jurchens, and they also distracted their energy, allowing the Jurchen iron cavalry to bypass the Liaodong defense line and enter the inner belly of Liaoliao to force the Beijing division.
Among them, the officers and officials of Liaodong could not escape the blame, and the soldiers of Ningjin, who faced the suspicious army of the Jurchens, had to bear the primary responsibility: if it were not for their own incompetence and failure to investigate the true inside story of the Jurchens' large-scale march, the imperial court and the governor of Liaoliao would not have hurriedly dispatched troops everywhere to deal with the possible attack of this Jurchen army, and then made the Jurchens' tricks succeed, and almost effortlessly crossed the border pass and entered the interior of the Ming Dynasty.
"First go and send someone to report to General Yang Guozhu of Jinzhou and seek their opinion, relying on the strength of our army alone, I'm afraid we can't do anything to the Jurchens!"
Compared with the shock and surprise of others, Wu Sangui is actually prepared in his heart, he has been dealing with the Jurchens for a long time, and this time the Jurchens' abnormal movements have made Wu Sangui have long doubted his arrangement.
"Whoa!"
The reason why the Jurchens did not send a strong army to invade the Ming border pass as in previous years was actually because after Dongjiang Town was regained control by the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, they did not listen to the attack on the land north of Liaodong in the Qing Dynasty, so that they had to send additional men to garrison the coastal area, weakening their original army strength.
As the saying goes, there are only a thousand days to be a thief, but there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days, and the Hongtang Department of Dongjiang Town now seems to have only 20,000 or 30,000 troops, but its destructive power to the Qing Dynasty also makes the Qing Dynasty have to take out part of its not rich family background to prevent the Dongjiang Town army.
Moreover, compared to when Mao Wenlong was in Dongjiang Town, everyone was more tacitly peaceful with each other, after the reconstruction of Dongjiang Town, the Hongtang army that took over Dongjiang Town was still gratifying, and Xiang Shenggao and other generals had maintained a positive and enterprising attitude, perhaps its overall strength was not as strong as Mao Wenlong, but the damage it brought to the Qing Dynasty was more than that.
Relying on the background of the Hongtang fleet recklessly entering and leaving the waters around Liaodong without an opponent, Dongjiang Town is still gratifying, but they have been constantly sending teams with a number of tens to hundreds of people to land along the long coastal line to fight, and each landing location is different, making the Jurchens unable to guard against it.
Perhaps a sneak attack is not much of a loss caused by the Jurchen tribe, but on the whole, the cost of dozens of Hongtang army attacks in a month is also a real headache for the bureaucratic generals below the emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, today's Qing Dynasty wants to invade the border passes of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, and it is no longer as careless as in previous years.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the Qing Dynasty has not yet thought of invading the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, and the Ming Dynasty has really entered the expansion of attacking cities and seizing land.
If the people of the Qing Dynasty are really determined to fight for land and territory, then I am afraid that Dongjiang Town will return to the peak of Mao Wenlong, and it will be difficult for Huang Taiji, the master of great talent, to have any scruples.
"General, my subordinates caught a spy in the field, and he said that he had something important to ask to see the general!"
Suddenly, the scout who had just returned from outside the camp brought Wu Sangui a piece of news.
"Want to see me?"
Wu Sangui was a little puzzled, but soon made a decision: "Bring people up!" ”
"The subordinate Dongjiang Town, Shang Kexi, the deputy chief soldier, has the general Yu San, and he has seen the general!"
The person who came looked ordinary, dressed as an ordinary person and matched with his ordinary appearance, no one would think that he was any threat in the wild.
"Oh? Since Dongjiang Town is still under the command of General Soldier, what is the reason why you are here to find Ben General? ”
Dongjiang Town and his own system is not the same, one is under the rule of the governor of Shandong, and the other is under the command of the governor of Liao, although Wu Sangui has heard of the deeds of the general army of Dongjiang Town, but the two sides rarely intersect, I really can't think of anything that the other party will find him.
"My subordinates were ordered by the general soldiers of my family to come to discuss with the general."
Although the person who came looked ordinary, in the face of the young general soldier Wu Sangui, his performance was extremely calm.
"Discuss things? But this official can't think of it, what is there to discuss between you and me? ”
Wu Sangui was puzzled, but Ye did not refuse, but only showed an inquiring look.
"The chief soldier of my family wants to join forces with the general to deal with this Jurchen thief who has entered the border of the Kou!"
The young Dongjiang Town slowly counted the words, but he told him the meaning of this time.
(End of chapter)