Chapter 106: Liaodong Defense Line
After Zhang Gong got the will, he immediately arranged for the little eunuch to go to the imperial dining room to prepare meals, the meal of the palace has always been very light, and the emperor took the lead in saving, and the officials at all levels of the Beijing division did not dare to be extravagant, and the wind of diligence and thrift was also diffused around the Beijing division, and the people knew that the emperor ate meat once every three days under the momentum of the Jinyi Guard, so the people of the Beijing division were rumored that Zhu Youzhen was the most diligent and thrifty emperor in the two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, of course, this is also the result that Zhu Youzhen wants. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
After eating, Zhu Youzhen went to Kunning Palace, and after talking to Zhou Yufeng, they slept together.
The moon in the sky is far away, and in Liaodong, such a bright moon can only increase the chill.
At the end of the establishment of the Liaodong defense line and the end of Shenzong, the Ming Dynasty spent huge energy and grain and silver, and scraped together an army of 150,000, known as 500,000 to the outside world, and launched the Battle of Sarhu, which changed the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty.
However, this war related to the fortunes of the country was lost, and it was Yang Hao, who was the commander of the military department at the time, and everyone was saying that the war was lost, and most of the responsibility was on him, but their ideas were a little one-sided.
First of all, the battle of Salhu was not treated correctly by the imperial court, at that time, Liaodong could not gather the 150,000 military horses at all, the generals ate a huge amount of money, the supervision system of the imperial court, put all the thoughts on the infighting, did not understand this situation at all, until there was a war, only to find that it was insufficient, in desperation, they could only mobilize military horses from the mainland, but they made another mistake, but they did not know that the military horses went to war, the grain and grass came first, they had enough huge army, but did not prepare enough food and grass for the army, And when the military horses of Liaodong gathered enough 150,000, Yang Hao had not yet made an analysis, he was urged by the imperial court to go to war, a quick battle, at this time the Liaodong military horses, not only the soldiers at the bottom, even if they are senior generals, are mostly unfamiliar, let alone able to cooperate with the battle, at that time the Houjin is not as prestigious as the current Houjin, and Yang Ho under the supervision of the court, sitting in Shenyang, dividing troops to ask for gold, and the generals who received the order, in order to preserve their strength, the front army and the rear army are far apart, and the rescue is not timely, It caused the fate of each of the Houjin breaks, of course, if the battle of Salhu is Yang Hao's responsibility, it can be regarded as wronging Yang Hao, first of all, it is a strategy to divide the troops, at that time it is not more dangerous than now, if hundreds of thousands of troops march together, it is more dangerous, so whether it is the general leading the troops, it is not possible not to divide the troops, and the generals who lead the troops must also bear great responsibility for the failure of the war. Li Rubai started from the abolition of his nationality and was afraid to do things, and in Zhu Youzhen's previous life, it was rumored in the historical circles that it should be the central system of the Ming Court that paid for the defeat, and they committed several war taboos, one of which was that the war reserves were not enough, the bitter cold of Liaodong, cotton clothes, charcoal, grain and grass were in short supply, and second, he was not virtuous, Yang Hao was a civilian official, although he had led troops in North Korea in the early years, but he had hardly won any battles, and handed over the war related to the country's social affairs to such a scholar general, the crime was even greater than Yang Hao, third, Constantly urging Yang Hao to go to war, Yang Hao's original plan was to start a war in March to ask for gold, but the imperial court did not allow it, and launched this war in the most bitter cold period. The time and place are not favorable, if you are undefeated, there is no heavenly reason.
After the battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty switched from strategic offensive to strategic defense, on the contrary, Houjin changed from defense to offense, that is, because of the failure of this war, the Ming army in Liaodong was defeated repeatedly, and successively fell Shenyang, Liaoyang, and Guangning important towns, the Ming army retreated to Liaoxi, and the imperial court also began to build the defense line in Liaodong.
The so-called Liaodong defense line is established in this context, and the Liaodong defense line is also known as the Ningyuan defense line, the founder of this defense line is the Liaodong Jinglu Sun Chengzong at this time, the scale of the defense line is very large, backed by Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan is the backbone, Jinzhou is the vanguard, which is mixed with many joint defense strongholds, and the Liaodong defense line is divided into north and south ends, the southern section is the Guanning defense line, about 100 kilometers long, from Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan, the northern section is the Ningjin defense line, from Ningyuan through Lianshan, Tashan, Songshan, Jinzhou, to the Daling River, about 100 kilometers long.
Sun Chengzong's Jingluo Mansion is in the city of Jinzhou, at this time Jinzhou in Sun Chengzong's arrangement and mobilization, as if it became a large military camp, there are sergeants patrolling in the city from time to time, on the city wall, there are thousands of soldiers who keep vigil, and the people and horses of Jinzhou City have also changed from 54,000 people at the beginning of the seventh year of the Apocalypse to 80,000 people at this time, these soldiers are not as good as the army in the interior, most of them have experienced the Ningyuan War, so it can also be said that it is the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, and is jokingly called the Liaodong Army by the people.
Since Sun Chengzong arrived in Jinzhou to take up his post, thinking of Zhu Youzhen's trust and entrustment, he never dared to relax his vigilance.
As soon as Sun Chengzong arrived in Jinzhou, he gathered many former generals, contacted them and made a redeployment, he put most of the elite of Liaodong in Jinzhou City, which was to make Jinzhou City a veritable vanguard, and it could also shelter Phi Dao and North Korea in the region, so that Houjin had some scruples.
In fact, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan's army management plan is different, Yuan Chonghuan since the Battle of Ningyuan, he began to withdraw the army, and seek victory in stability, it is also Yuan Chonghuan's plan, which led to the capture of North Korea by Houjin soldiers and horses, and the Liaodong defense line has also become a veritable Maginot defense line, of course, it cannot be said that Yuan Chonghuan's layout is useless, his arrangement and design, so that the Liaodong defense line is impregnable, Huang Taiji, Dolgon and others have not asked for any benefits here, of course, his mobility has been completely lost, And the imperial court also paid a heavy price, Sun Chengzong's idea is far from Yuan Chonghuan's, what he thinks is to advance step by step, step by step, the two methods, there is a world of difference, and it is precisely because of this that after Sun Chengzong went to Liaodong and proposed to redeploy, this Yuan Chonghuan was quite uncomfortable, but Sun Chengzong is also his teacher, it is not good to refute it in person, but Zhu Youzhen knows that this situation will not last long, if Yuan Chonghuan is left in Liaodong, the contradiction between the two of them will break out sooner or later, so for the imperial court, For Liaodong, it is not a good thing to plan, so Yuan Chonghuan was transferred to the Beijing Division, in order to separate two people with different political views.
And in the middle of the night, a sergeant rode a fast horse, arrived at the city of Jinzhou, and shouted loudly at the city wall: "I am Zhang Huangji, who went to Mongolia to negotiate. ”
When the soldiers in the city heard that it was Zhang Huangji's personal soldiers who went to Mongolia to negotiate, they didn't dare to be careless, and immediately opened the city gate and let the soldier enter the city, of course, this is also Sun Chengzong's instructions, otherwise who would dare to open the city gate late at night.
After the soldier entered the city, one of the soldiers in the city took the soldier and went to Jingluofu, both of them on horseback, but they did not go very quickly.
The soldier in Jinzhou City talked a little more and asked the soldier who had returned from Mongolia: "This time I went to Mongolia, can things go well?" ”
The soldier who returned from Mongolia glanced at the soldier and said, "Lord Zhang, what a hero, Mongolia has agreed to form an alliance with our Ming Dynasty to fight against Jin. ”
"Really, if that's the case, then Houjin will definitely not dare to invade our Daming again."
"I don't dare to say this so much, although we can sign an alliance, but the Mongols abide by it or not, we don't know, we soldiers still can't let our guard down." The soldier returning from Mongolia hit the soldier.
"Having said that, it's better than facing Houjin independently."
In fact, when Zhu Youzhen approved the matter of resisting gold with Mongolia, North Korea, and the tripartite alliance, this matter spread in Liaodong, and the people had expectations in their hearts, and the sergeants were alive in their hearts, which is not to say that the Liaodong army and horses are afraid of war, but they don't know that fighting is to die, on the battlefield, the sword has no eyes, and on the battlefield, who can walk down is unknown, this is human nature, even a saint can not frankly say that he is not afraid of death.
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