Chapter 604: News Reached Jingshi

After the battle report of the fall of Tielingwei in Liaozhen reached the imperial court, the imperial court shook up and down, and the fall of the southeast Japanese and even the so-called Zhangzhou City was only a small problem in the eyes of the emperor and cabinet ministers, and the reason why it was not solved was that the imperial court did not seriously deal with it.

But Tieling fell, the enemy broke into the side wall, this is a big event that shook the world, the enemy from the north entered the fortifications, always reminiscent of the Turks, Mengyuan and Jurchens in the past.

Xu Yan, the governor of Jiliao, quickly rushed to Liaozhen, and Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, asked the soldiers of Jizhen to assist in the defense of Guangning, and at the same time, the governor of the Beijing camp and the governor of Denghua began to gather the men and horses of the twelve regiments and battalions in the city, and at the same time sent an order to Zhou Lin, the commander of the mighty battalion, to mobilize the mighty battalion soldiers in the three northern provinces to go north.

The rebellion of the White Lotus Sect in the three northern provinces has already been suppressed, and the rest is that there are some small riots in the countryside, and the local guards can also suppress it. The military department even ordered the documents to let the mighty battalion gather in Tongzhou, go north as soon as possible, and arrange it in the area of Jixian County.

Jizhen, Xuanhua, and Baoding's soldiers and horses were mobilized, deployed in Luanzhou, Emperor Jiajing was somewhat fortunate in his heart at this time, and he had trained 60,000 mighty battalions of soldiers and horses, otherwise he didn't know how to take that army to meet in the face of the chaotic people coming from the north.

From the emperor to the important ministers, no one has yet thought that Liaozhen's soldiers and horses will fail, and Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, is actually quite skilled in transmitting official documents, and the news of the fall of Tieling to Jingshi only shows that this is a small failure, as long as it is the action of the Liaozhen army, it can be successful.

In fact, the expedited fast horse of Liaozhen transmission was already prepared, and the war reports were sent to Beijing after the war, and the literati of their own shogunate took the pen of flowers and wrote articles full of flowers, saying that the army of Liaozhen was marching north, and one by one the victories were captured.

These non-existent encounters with the Huazhou Army were all based on the great victory of the Liaozhen Army, anyway, these are all small victories, as long as it is the final victory, everything will be fine.

Liaozhen has never lacked a horse team, this expedited fast horse transmission efficiency is extremely high, in the eyes of the emperor and the ministers, are extremely happy, thinking that this victory is not within reach, and even the minister said that since the situation outside the customs is so good, then the soldiers and horses of Jingying, the mighty camp, Jizhen and Xuanhua, and Baoding, or do not move, so it is not worth the cost of grain, grass and silver.

Then after the battle of Fan Hesuo, the transmission of this good news came to an abrupt end, the distance between Liaozhen and the capital was very far, and it was suddenly cut off for a few days, and the imperial court did not feel that there was anything wrong, but ten days later, there was still no news, and some people felt that something was wrong.

On the one hand, Emperor Jiajing repeatedly mentioned the victory of Liaozhen in the court, whether he believed it or not, he always had to make a confident appearance among his subjects in the world, but the soldiers and horses below were speeded up in the transfer, and the eunuchs of the supervising army and the envoys of the military department were all sent down, and all they did was to urge.

The emperor still had some luck in his heart, and felt that the mob outside the gate was just some disgruntled peasants, and at most there were foreign participation, so that the soldiers and horses like the grass platform team were not the opponents of the Liaozhen army at all, maybe the news of the victory had not yet come, and there was something wrong on the way to the transmission.

At this time, the emperor made a wrong judgment and ordered the three sides of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Jizhen Xuanhua to be prepared to guard against the invasion of the enemy on the grassland, and not to be exploited.

At the same time, Jinyiwei's scouts began to rush towards the outside of the pass, since the news could not be transmitted, it was better to investigate it earlier, at this time, Emperor Jiajing was scolding those Wenchen of the Eastern Party in his heart, Jinyiwei's huge intelligence agency, the emperor's eyes and ears, they made it into the current situation, if you want to know the news of the place, you can only rely on the local self-report.

If you want to know and send someone from the Beijing division to ask, it is extremely inconvenient, the first news that the spies of the Beijing division got was that the army of Liaozhen was destroyed, and only the remaining main generals and his subordinates fled to the city of Shenyang, and the second news was almost the Beijing division that arrived on the front and back feet, saying that it was Li Gufeng, the general soldier of Liaozhen, who surrendered the city.

Liaoyang and Shenyang were occupied, which is equivalent to the fall of the whole territory of Liaozhen, now it is necessary to determine whether Guangning is still in the hands of the Ming army, if this is also lost, it is necessary to consider the defense of the Beijing Division, Guangning guards the road to Liaozhen into the customs, is the last gateway, in fact, the so-called first pass in the world, Shanhaiguan, in the military status is far less than Guangning, Guangning is lost, Shanhaiguan can not be held at all.

That is to say, the enemy army can go all the way down to the Beijing division from outside the pass, in November of the 22nd year of Jiajing, the document of the general stationed in Guangning City arrived in the Beijing division, this document is a rare good news recently, Guangning is still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Then, those residents who voluntarily left Huazhou to control Liaozhen arrived in Guangning, where the guards of Guangning arranged for secretaries and officials to investigate all what they saw and heard in Huazhou, and copied them into a book, which was also sent to Beijing by fast horses, and the so-called Huazhou was too strange to the entire Ming Dynasty.

Until these documents arrived in Jingshi, they always thought that the mysterious army of Liaozhen was nothing more than the Jiajing Emperor and his ministers, who were exiles outside the Guan, and they knew that this was the army of Huazhou.

In Emperor Jiajing's concept, the so-called Huazhou is just a pirate force occupying Korea, but he did not think that the force that he judged to be a rebellion of the exiles is also Huazhou, Guanwai and Korea are separated, the two forces are not too threatening, but the two places are connected together.

If you look at the map, suddenly there is a force equivalent to the size of four provinces outside the Ming Dynasty, Guanwai, Liaozhen, and North Korea are connected together, and it is also a huge force, and what is even more alarming is that this force is not a nomadic barbarian, but an agricultural civilization.

The nomadic barbarian combat effectiveness may be strong, coming and going like the wind, but after all, there is no foundation, the equipment is backward, and the Ming army that has fought with the cavalry of Mengyuan for almost two hundred years is not stage frightened, and also has rich experience, basically, the Ming army in the face of the invasion of the Mengyuan cavalry, in essence, is regarded as facing horse bandits and rogues, the Ming Dynasty faces the horse bandits and rogues with the strength of the country, whether it is in strength or psychology, there are naturally many advantages.

However, what appeared in front of the Ming army was a state-like force that looked complete and formal, and the country was also mainly agricultural, which showed that the Huazhou army had its own solid base area, and had greater mobilization and logistical support capabilities than the nomads.

Those who returned to the Ming Dynasty from Liaozhen, no matter how they slandered Huazhou's policy, the regularity of Huazhou's civil affairs and army could not be denied, the more they understood, the more surprised the Ming court was that it turned out to be ignorant, it turned out that there was such a force around them, and they had been watching the Ming Dynasty, after the news spread on a small scale, both the emperor and the ministers below felt the chill behind them.

It's ridiculous that these people are still fighting for power and profit in Daming, but they didn't expect that there were tigers and wolves watching not far away for a long time, and at this time, they suddenly exerted their strength, and they had already bitten off a piece of meat from Daming.

In December, although the news of the defeat of Liaozhen was not officially announced, it was already rumored in the market, everyone was talking about how Huazhou was, and the imperial court did not track down any news leaks.

The so-called secrecy measures have always been like a sieve, and any news in the court will soon spread everywhere, and everyone is too lazy to care.

However, the news spread this time is not the same as what those who returned to Guannai from Liaozhen, but it is very systematic about all aspects of Huazhou, and the entire territory of North Korea is the land of Huazhou at this time, and the Huazhou army marched thousands of miles to the north, showing the prestige of our Chinese Han people, and also established Dingbei City.

These news sound like legendary comments, and it is the story of the Han people everywhere, the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven are idle and bored every day, and their favorite is these stories, these years, although the Ming Dynasty has never suffered any losses outside, but such a Xuanhe achievement is also rare, although this Huazhou is like an enemy country, and they do not know their details, but these things sound, they are also boiling with enthusiasm, and their hearts are inexplicably a lot more goodwill.

As for those merchant landlords, what they saw was something else, the original news was that Huazhou was those homeless people who were in turmoil, and the homeless people were in turmoil for these solid families, and the merchant landlords were the most damaging, and everyone was wary of Huazhou, but the rumors among the Beijing teachers said that among Huazhou, the big businessmen and big farm owners were all given such and such preferential treatment, and they all had their own political status, and they could be officials and participate in politics.

And the tax is reasonable, never increase the tax for no reason, deduct and exploit, these statements, let these years make some money, but by the tax inspectors and tax officials are very miserable, hearing that there is such a political institution outside the territory, there are some ideas in the heart, the degree of fascination is not reached, but they are also secretly thinking, if Huazhou is here, I can not make more money.

When Jinyiwei and Dongchang found out that the news was not quite right, it was already impossible to trace the source, and everyone thought that it was said by those "loyal subjects" who had returned from the occupied area, but when the news came out, it was a few days earlier than those people......