Chapter 311: Psychological Warfare
"The governor of Liaodong of the Ming army is not an idle person, although he is young, but the city government is deep and ruthless, he knows that he can't beat our Dajin outside the city, so he will not save the Ming army in Sancha'er Fort to avoid being defeated by our army."
Seeing that Huang Taiji was confused, Nurhachi groaned for a while and then said with a serious expression, "Therefore, you Chen Bing outside Sancha'er Fort will not let him be touched, and in the end, the bamboo basket will be empty, and the expected goal cannot be achieved." ”
"Please make it clear to my father." Huang Taiji was stunned for a moment, thinking that Nurhachi's words were reasonable, and then bowed down to ask for advice.
Regarding Nurhachi's evaluation of Li Hongyu, Huang Taiji thought it was true, and at first he also despised the young Li Hongyu, but the battle of Tieling made him look down on Li Hongyu with admiration.
Except for the Battle of Tieling, Li Hongyu dared to risk the lives of the 50,000 Ming troops in Yaque Pass and let them attack Hetuala, the capital of Houjin, which has proved that he is different from other Ming generals in Liaodong, and other Ming generals will never dare to attack Hetuala in Liaodong shortly after the defeat of Salhu.
Therefore, it is quite appropriate to describe Li Hongyu with the deep and ruthless heart of the city, Li Hongyu is accurate, and Houjin did not dare to fight hard with the Ming army to let the Ming army attack at Yaque Pass.
After learning the lessons of the last Salhu battle, although the Yaque Guan Ming Army, which had been reorganized by Li Hongyu, was not the opponent of the Houjin Army, it was bound to cause a lot of casualties to it, which was something that Nurhachi tried his best to avoid.
Huang Taiji once thought that if he was reversed from Li Hongyu's position, he would never dare to let the Ming army in Yaque Pass go to Hetuara to die, after all, it was an army of 50,000, and once he lost, he would really be unable to bear the consequences.
In fact, not only Huang Taiji, but also the change in Nurhachi's name for Li Hongyu can show that Li Hongyu has become Nurhachi's opponent, and he no longer nicknames Li Hongyu as "Doll Governor".
The reason is very simple, if Li Hongyu is the "doll governor", then Nurhachi, who was forced by Li Hongyu to move the capital, is not even as good as a "doll"?
"Since he doesn't like Sancha'er Fort, then let's change places." Since Nurhachi sent Huang Taiji to Tieling to preside over the overall situation, he naturally had already thought of countermeasures, sneered and said to Huang Taiji, "Fushun is an important town controlled by the Ming army, let's aim at Fushun, then it is naturally impossible for him to ignore it." ”
"Erchen understands that his father Khan wants to force him to send someone to negotiate with Erchen to resolve this incident and successfully complete the prisoner exchange." Huang Taiji suddenly realized that Fushun was dozens of miles south of Sancha'er Fort, and it was an important military town of the Ming army, and Li Hongyu definitely did not want to be captured by the Houjin army, which would have an impact on the war situation in Liaodong.
"Ben Khan hopes that he can send someone to negotiate, but as the governor of Liaodong, he should not be the first to bow his head."
Nurhachi's brows furrowed slightly, and he looked at Huang Taiji with a serious expression and said, "If Ben Khan is not mistaken, he has two choices, one is to ignore the trapped Fushun, and the other is to send troops into Sancha'er Fort to deter our army. ”
"He doesn't want to be smoothed?" Huang Taiji is a little confused now, Fushun is a military town, which is not comparable to Sancha'er Fort.
"Attacking Fushun, we will lose a lot of troops, not to mention, but also divide troops to garrison, with our current strength of Dajin, it is difficult to send troops to Fushun, although Fushun is good, but now it is undoubtedly chicken ribs for us."
A wry smile flashed at the corner of Nurhachi's mouth, the strength of the Houjin army is limited, and now it is just right to defend Kaiyuan and Tieling, if there is another Fushun, then there will be a shortage of troops, I am afraid this is exactly the scene that Li Hongyu wants to see.
"Father Khan, if he really ignores Fushun's life and death, what should his sons do?"
Huang Taiji's face suddenly darkened when he heard this, and he asked with a cold expression, if he and Dai Shan won the battle of Tieling, the strength of Houjin would be enough to support the occupation of Fushun, the so-called wrong step, the impact of the Battle of Tieling on Houjin is gradually becoming prominent.
"The officials of the Ming Dynasty love face the most, our top priority is to rescue the captured flag soldiers, if things really come to this point, you will take the initiative to send someone to contact him, the exchange of prisoners is also very important to them, Ben Khan believes that he doesn't want to mess up this matter."
Nurhachi sneered, and said to Huang Taiji in a cold tone, "Remember, history will only remember the winner, and a temporary concession is to win a better tomorrow, which is what Ben Khan learned in the Li family back then, and he was deeply touched by Ben Khan." ”
"Father Khan, please rest assured, the retainer will definitely calm this conflict and make the prisoner exchange go smoothly." Huang Taiji finally figured out Nurhachi's mind at this time, and solemnly bowed to Nurhachi, before that, he didn't expect that something that seemed quite simple would be so complicated.
Nurhachi bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his mood seemed a little complicated, having such a difficult opponent as Li Hongyu was really a headache for him, but at the same time he also felt a trace of inexplicable excitement, as a soldier, he naturally wanted to defeat such a strong opponent on the battlefield.
After Huang Taiji and Amin led the army to Tieling, Mang Gurtai, who was originally guarding Tieling, set off for Kaiyuan, and Nurhachi was worried that Mang Gurtai would cause some trouble, so he transferred him.
After only one day of rest in Tieling, Huang Taiji led Du Du to lead the army to Fushun, and Amin stayed to guard Tieling.
The guards of Fushun Pass hurriedly sent people to Li Hongyu of Shenyang City for help, because Fushun Pass was conquered by the Houjin army last year, the people in the city were either killed or taken captive, so now there are only 3,000 garrisons in the city and have not moved in the people, once the Houjin army attacked the city, they could not support it for too long.
This move of the Houjin army immediately made the situation in Liaodong, which had already tended to ease, become tense again, and if it were not for Li Hongyu sitting in Shenyang, Xiong Tingbi would definitely rush to Shenyang to command.
Li Hongyu had previously unexpectedly recovered Sancha'er Fort, which surprised Xiong Tingbi, so that the gap in the Liaodong defense line he had set up could be blocked, and Houjin was trapped in Kaiyuan and Tieling so that they could not go south.
In fact, Li Hongyu did not agree with this simple defense, and actually gave the Houjin army room to rest and recuperate, and handed over the initiative of the war to the Houjin.
The soldiers of the Cheng and Jin army are very fierce, but its biggest weakness is that the population base is too small, if the Ming army can continue to send troops to consume the strength of the Houjin on the premise of holding the city of Liaodong, then the Houjin will be dragged down sooner or later.
But this is easy to say, if it is too difficult to do, although the Ming Dynasty is strong, it can belong to the "rich in the people", the people are rich but the financial situation is stretched, the financial affairs of the imperial court can not support the war in Liaodong at all, and there is not enough financial resources to protect Xiong Tingbi's Liaodong defense line is a mirror, and Li Hongyu can not effectively limit the expansion of the Houjin.
Li Hongyu had already guessed that Nurhachi would send troops to Fushun, the reason was very simple, the Houjin army had been fighting with Daming since last year, so now it needs to recuperate, and Nurhachi definitely doesn't want to start a war because of the ownership of the small Sancha'er Fort.
However, Nurhachi will not sit idly by and watch the Ming army recapture Sancha'er Fort, at least in terms of momentum, it cannot be compared with the Ming army, otherwise it will not be able to explain to the officials of Houjin, so that it will affect morale, so he will definitely take military action to demonstrate.
In the final analysis, the national strength of the Later Jin is too weak compared to the Ming Dynasty, which means that Nurhachi cannot fight the Ming army all the time, otherwise even if it does not collapse internally, it will be defeated without a fight because it cannot replenish its troops.
It was precisely because of this that Nurhachi vigorously plundered the people of the Ming Dynasty and married into the Mongol tribes.
Now that Lin Dan Khan sent troops to assist the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Tieling, Nurhachi naturally would not fight hard with the Ming army, and the person who benefited from this would undoubtedly be Lin Dan Khan.
Compared with the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi is more wary of Lin Dan Khan, at least the Ming Dynasty does not look down on the territory of Houjin, and Lin Dan Khan will swallow Houjin, so his first target is Lin Dan Khan, how can he fight with Daming to lose both.
It is precisely because he knows Nurhachi's current situation that Li Hongyu adopts an aggressive posture to attack instead of defending, on the surface it seems that he wants to fight a war of attrition with Nurhachi, but in fact, it is to stabilize the war situation in Liaodong, so that Nurhachi is afraid and does not dare to act rashly.
And the reason why Nurhachi was tricked, in addition to the fact that the Houjin national strength could not compete with the Ming Dynasty, was also related to Li Hongyu's defeat of Dai Shan and Huang Taiji in the battle of Tieling, which made him realize that Li Hongyu was not an easy opponent to deal with, so he became cautious when facing Li Hongyu.
In fact, Li Hongyu likes to fight fiercely with Nurhachi, which will inevitably weaken the power of Houjin, so that Houjin can no longer invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the situation in Liaodong can be stable for several years, and he can be regarded as doing his best for the people of Liaodong and the Ming Dynasty.
Before Xiong Tingbi came, Li Hongyu might have another big battle, anyway, if he loses, Houjin will not get any benefit, at most he will lose some troops, Houjin has a limited population and does not have the conditions to occupy too many cities at present, and there will be many casualties when attacking the city, which is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty from the overall point of view.
However, since Xiong Tingbi has taken office and he is about to leave Liaodong, then he will not steal Xiong Tingbi's limelight, Mu Xiu understands the truth that Lin Feng will destroy him, and there is no need to behave too openly now.
Therefore, Li Hongyu chose the second option that Nurhachi guessed, sending 20,000 troops from Shenyang City to reinforce Sanchaerbao, which was what Nurhachi wanted to see the most.
In this way, the Ming army and the Houjin army formed a confrontation situation, and Huang Taiji could take the opportunity to send someone to find Li Hongyu to resolve the crisis by exchanging prisoners, so that both sides would have face on their faces.
As for the belief of some people in later generations that the defeat of Sarhu caused the Ming Dynasty to lose Liaodong, this view is quite inappropriate, and it is undoubtedly based on the conclusion made by history.
In fact, after the Battle of Salhu, the battle situation in Liaodong was still in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, although the Houjin won the battle, due to the lack of troops, after capturing Kaiyuan and Tieling, they were no longer able to attack other cities, and they did not have the strength to defend those cities that were defeated.
It was not until the emergence of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty a few years later that the situation of the Houjin Army's insufficient troops was alleviated at this time.
At that time, Salhu's defeat was just a defeat of the Ming army, which made the Houjin get rid of the fate of extinction, and the initiative was still in the hands of the Ming army.
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