Chapter 580: Separate Moves

"The merchants of the world are all working hard, but the money they earn is not spent by themselves, all of them are looted by the government, and they have to pay some silver taels, they wear coarse linen clothes on the bodies of those who buy and sell cotton, and the families who buy and sell salt cannot eat salty things, and the farmers who work in the fields work hard for a year, but they cannot feed their families, they can only live like livestock, and they cannot complain, otherwise they will lose their heads immediately."

"The people will not be in arrears in the country's taxes, but why are there tax supervisors to exploit them, and the cabinet ministers are loyal to the country, why are they rashly put them in prison for punishment."

"The soldiers and civilians of Huazhou are unbearable to be oppressed by corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and they have to leave their hometowns and live overseas, but seeing that my Chinese brothers and sisters are still in dire straits, looking at each other across the sea, my heart hurts very much, and now my Huawang has raised a righteous soldier to cut down the guilty......"

-- Ancient Books Literature Publishing House, "Popularization of Historical Documents", 185907 issue

Li Gufeng read the text with a pale face, relative to the rout of eight thousand soldiers and horses, this text shocked him even more, the other party clearly said that he was going to enter the customs to fight for the world, and the position of the general soldier of Liaozhen was also one of the top of the military attache system in the Ming Dynasty, well-informed, he was also very puzzled in his heart, and although the current situation in the world is a little incomprehensible, it is not at all to be overturned and destroyed.

Whether it is the dynasty that established the country, it was to take advantage of the catastrophe of the previous dynasty, the domestic chaos, the peasants rose up, the careerists also took action, and the foreigners looked at the weakness of the Central Plains and took advantage of the weakness to enter, all kinds of reasons, resulting in the country being unable to support, and re-establishing a new national dynasty after the world war.

Since the Shang and Zhou dynasties in China, almost all of them have been this routine, with dynasties rising, prospering, defending, decaying, and stabilizing for decades and hundreds of years, and then a big chaos, a big killing, and a new stability.

But at this time, the Ming Dynasty, although the two parties of the DPRK and China attacked endlessly, and the emperor launched several coups, but the real situation below seems to be no worse than in the Zhengde period, and it is better in many aspects, at least the money is abundant, and the gentry are rich, I am afraid that it is the first in all dynasties.

Moreover, the so-called military system is corrupt, the people's livelihood is suffering, which year and month is not the case, and there is no great chaos, occasionally the White Lotus Sect, Mahu miners and the like gather to conspire, but they are also suppressed by the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and the Tartars disappeared without a trace on the grassland.

I heard that there are just some pirates making trouble there along the coast, and now they are quiet, and they all look like a good thing, in fact, the Jiajing period is already good, when the Tumubao changes, the emperor was robbed, and the world is not smooth and inherited.

These days, the spies in Liaozhen are coming out, but the northern army of Huazhou, which began to gather soldiers and horses in Tielingwei, does not care about the other party's inspection at all, as long as it is not too unscrupulous reconnaissance, they generally don't care, of course, Huazhou's special and Ming military system and methods are not understood by outsiders.

But this information let Li Gufeng know that the other party was not a rabble composed of hungry people and chaotic people, but a formal army, perhaps a formal country.

The current Liaozhen center, on the one hand, is to send 600 miles to send military reports to the Beijing Division, on the other hand, it is to mobilize troops and horses, at this time in Liaodong Liaobei and the grassland bordering the place, there is no Mongolian threat and pressure, and Huazhou in order to keep it secret and hide that day, all the areas near the defense belt of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in the grassland are avoided as much as possible, even if they want to march to attack, there are several days away.

It was also for this reason that Liaozhen began to mobilize troops and horses, preparing to gather forces to defeat the Huazhou Northern Army of Tielingwei and pacify it in one fell swoop.

Li Gufeng was actually still a little undecided, because he didn't know whether the soldiers and horses he had gathered could fight a decisive battle with the other party, the power of the Huazhou Northern Army was very mysterious, and the defeat of the 7,000 people of Tielingwei was actually greedy for small profits, and was ambushed by the other party, and the two guards and horses sent out just now were not their own powerful soldiers, but they were just nearby transfers, and they wanted to hinder the time for the other party to go south.

But this so-called Huazhou's soldiers and horses are completely out of the rules, there is a way to be a soldier and a god of speed, but they are not in a hurry, there is a way to be a matter of secrecy and defeat, but they have no precautions against the spies in Liaozhen, although Li Gufeng knows a lot through intelligence, but if you think about it carefully, in fact, you don't know anything, what is the combat effectiveness of the other party, what is the next move, are unknown.

Li Gufeng has now moved from Liaoyang to Shenyang, where he began to dispatch troops and horses, although the other party's reality is not known, but his own defense must be done well.

The eight thousand Liao soldiers of the two guards were defeated by the other party, although Li Gufeng was distressed about this strength, but he couldn't care about it, the commander of the two guards was guerrilla, nowhere to be found, some people said that they died in the chaos, and they didn't bother to care. Who would have thought that a few days after receiving the war report, this guerrilla would actually come back.

The defeat of the army is already a big crime, and the guerrillas also know this, and they were beaten and fled that day, and they also wanted to flee to the Guannei to die, but thinking about the small family in Shenyang, they couldn't make such a determination.

Stayed on the road for a few days, but did not expect that the Huazhou Northern Army did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, although it was quickly defeated that day, but because there was no pursuit, so the casualties were not large, this guerrilla on the road was delayed for a few days, actually gathered eighty percent of the soldiers and horses, this is an unexpected joy.

If there are not many casualties, go back and spend money on exercise, that will be from a rout to a small defeat, and then the punishment will change from losing your head to being beaten with a stick, or directly a penalty of silver, and losing a level of official position.

This guerrilla is full of twelve points, on the road to continue to collect the defeated soldiers, the Liaozhen soldiers are all local Ding Zhuang, there is no place to go, they are all going home, halfway to see someone to collect soldiers and horses, naturally is to return to their respective systems, if people who do not know how to look at this defeated army, can not see the appearance of any defeated soldiers.

It was really guessed by the guerrilla, more than 1,000 people were lost, and the soldiers and horses of the two guards were basically still there, which in itself was an unexpected surprise, and there were various reasons for the generals of the defeated army, but this kind of actually collected most of the defeated troops again, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has merit.

However, the result of most of these soldiers and horses coming back made Li Gufeng think of more things, these troops are not considered strong soldiers, the other party can only fight them and disperse, but they can't achieve greater results, and they can't pursue, and they don't pay attention to what soldiers are expensive and fast, so there is some mystery that can't be done.

Defeat but can't cause too much damage, this result is generally similar to the cause of the rioters and mobs, is it that although the northern army of Huazhou has more armor and banners, and has some documents, but the army of the mob is still in its bones, combined with what it has done since the appearance of Huazhou, the more I think about it, the more this truth is, Li Gufeng began to have some activities in his heart, whether he took the initiative to fight to fight.

"King, why don't you go straight to Shenyang, my Huazhou Northern Army is fighting bravely, no one can stop the road ahead, but at this time, it is stationed in Tielingwei, only defending and not attacking, watching the soldiers and horses of Liao Town slowly gather together, Liao Town can fight no less than 100,000 soldiers, nearly 10,000 horse teams, it really takes a lot of effort to fight."

In a fortress ten miles north of Tielingwei, which has been changed into the commander's tent of the Huazhou Northern Army, in the temporarily rebuilt conference hall, the generals and officials in the Huazhou North Mansion are among them, Liu Shisan stood at the bottom and said the above words with some complaints.

Strange to say, when Liu Shisan was ambitious in the past, he always spoke to Jiang Feng respectfully, at this time, he was thinking about fighting in his heart, and when he was loyal to Jiang Feng and had no selfish thoughts, he had no scruples when he spoke, it was very casual, he thought that after he led the Huazhou Northern Army to take Tielingwei, he would first control the news, and then lead the troops straight down to Shenyang Liaoyang to catch them off guard.

But he didn't expect that Jiang Feng didn't care about the speed of the soldiers at all, but asked him to complete the construction of the Tieling Guard, and wait for the army to be stationed before making a conclusion.

Today, Jiang Feng, Liu Twelve, Zhang Liang and others all came, and they were discussing within the tent, Liu Thirteen felt a little resentful in his heart, and couldn't help but show it.

His attitude was expected by Jiang Feng and Liu Twelve, the two of them smiled and glanced at each other, Jiang Feng raised his voice and said:

"If you go south quickly, are you sure that you will completely annihilate the soldiers and horses of Liao Town?"

Liu Shisan was stunned for a moment, and after a little groaning, he replied simply:

"No, there are few soldiers in the north of Huazhou, and it can be won quickly, but it cannot be annihilated!"

Jiang Feng smiled and nodded, Liu Shisan's character of saying something made him quite like, and he asked again here:

"The Huazhou Northern Army has a total of 45,000 people, and it can win against 90,000 soldiers and horses in Shangliao Town?"

Liu Shisan's face was a little unable to keep up with Jiang Feng's train of thought at this time, he thought about it there, and came to a conclusion with certainty:

"My Huazhou firearms are excellent, strong soldiers are fierce, and the Liaozhen soldiers will inevitably win, and it is not difficult to annihilate them all."

Jiang Feng stood up when he heard this, and said loudly there:

"It's not difficult to win, if you advance all the way, with my Huazhou military might, even if you hit the city of Beijing, it is not difficult, but Liaozhen is only defeated, and it still needs to be garrisoned and maintained, Huazhou has few soldiers, and it can't be involved, it can only be the overall situation in one fell swoop, in Liaozhen, you have to completely clean up the soldiers and horses here, otherwise the army will enter the customs, and we will clean up the tattered situation in the scourge place, if the defeated troops enter the customs, and the soldiers and horses of the Beijing division Tianjin merge, it will be even more troublesome!!"