963 Unsatisfactory (3rd Shift)
Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen quit the chat group, took out the previous design plan and started to browse and revise it again, and was busy until the evening, when he re-revised the draft, and threw it to the eunuch on duty, and after copying it again, he planned to hold a meeting tomorrow to formally discuss it.
After finishing this, Emperor Chongzhen went to the chat group again to see the information. Unexpectedly, I received multiple messages from Hai Lanzhu at once.
"Your Majesty, my brother chased and killed Tong Yangxing, and in the afternoon, he met the elite of Jianyu, the one led by Haoge. My brother was defeated, 1,500 horsemen, and only escaped back to 300 horsemen. My brother ...... My brother was chased and killed by Aobai! ”
"We have traces of Jianyu to the east, west and south, and we have been fleeing north now."
“……”
Emperor Chongzhen was taken aback, but he didn't expect that his vague worry before would become a reality. The Horqin army was overtaken, Wu Keshan was killed, and Hai Lanzhu led the remnants of the army to flee.
He hurriedly asked, "Where are you now?" ”
Emperor Chongzhen's question was directly conveyed to Hai Lanzhu, who was already evening, Hai Lanzhu lay on his horse, galloping wildly, and replied anxiously: "I don't know, anyway, I have been fleeing north, only in this way can I get rid of the encirclement and interception of Jianyu." ”
This strategy should be right, Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and comforted: "It is impossible for Jianyu to chase for a long time, and after getting rid of Jianyu's pursuit, come back in a circle." Go back and tell me the route, and I'll send a cavalry to pick you up. In addition, I will also make the army on the side of Anshan Post Fort a little more active and attract the attention of Jianyu. ”
Hai Lanzhu listened, and it could only be like this. It's also a shame that the children of the grassland have a stronger ability to bear this kind of thing. Each of them is very good at riding, but they are desperately trying to escape, and I believe that it is impossible for Jianyu to catch up. Now that he is on the run for his life, he has no chance to grieve.
One thing, Emperor Chongzhen is still quite strange, thinking that with the riding skills of Wu Keshan's cavalry, how can he be caught up by Haoge's cavalry?
Forget it, I don't want to think about this first, the ending is decided. Bu and over there, I'm afraid I have to be appeased. He is estimated to be about to arrive at Ning Jin now, and Sun Chengzong's side has to be notified. Hai Lanzhu's side also pays more attention.
Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these things in his heart, so he began to get busy again.
The next day, in the Wenhua Palace, the courtiers who came by order continued to gather, including all the eunuchs of the celebrant and the eunuchs, the auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, the six Shangshu, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and even the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies. Except for the first assistant Wen Tiren and the eunuch Cao Huachun, who had the bottom in their hearts, everyone else didn't know what the emperor was going to discuss, so they couldn't help but turn their heads to look around, or whisper.
This kind of court discussion that is not in control makes many courtiers a little unaccustomed. In addition to the founding Taizu and Chengzu, generally speaking, the emperor in the deep palace relies on the ministers to obtain information, and then makes a deal with it or not, and the ministers also know what kind of meeting to hold and so on.
What they didn't expect was that Emperor Chongzhen was also from the deep palace, and he didn't have much experience, and in the first two years, there were really no accidents, what to do, how to deal with it, etc., the courtiers were very clear. Moreover, the handling of court affairs is often the emperor's decision on the surface, but the real result is actually a struggle between the courtiers, or a consultation, or a compromise, etc., to guide the emperor to make the decision they want.
But since Jianyu invaded the land of Gyeonggi, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to have changed a person, and he had the style of becoming an ancestor, and the affairs of the court were no longer in the hands of the ministers, but reflected the will of the emperor. It may be difficult for foreign ministers to feel the difference, but the high-ranking officials in the center feel it deeply.
They were thinking about it, and with a shout of "The emperor has arrived", the Wenhua Hall suddenly fell silent, and all the courtiers greeted the holy car together.
Emperor Chongzhen sat on the throne, and after the ministers finished the salute, he announced the good news with a smile: "On the Liaodong side, I just laid down the Anshan Post Fort, feinted to attack Liaoyang, mobilized the Jianyu and poured the country's troops to toss for some days, and the food was further exhausted. On the Liaodong side, Jianyu will not pose a threat to Daming at least in the short term! ”
Only a few of the courtiers knew about this news. Therefore, when Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, many courtiers felt a little incredible, and the Jianyu, who had tried their best to deal with it but still made the Ming army suffer defeats again and again, now suffered another major setback without alarming the imperial court?
Suddenly, they suddenly discovered that since the Jianyu invaded the land of Gyeonggi, the problem of Jianyu in Liaodong no longer seemed to be something that the imperial court had to wait for and go all out to solve. Unconsciously, one victory after another was won, and the situation in Liaodong was getting better and better day by day, and there was no longer the same drag on Guannei and other places in the Ming Dynasty as before.
Thinking so, under the leadership of Wen Tiren and Cao Huachun, they congratulated the emperor together.
However, Emperor Chongzhen changed his words, and at the same time, the smile on his face was gone, and he said to these courtiers below: "The guard army created by the founding of the Ming Dynasty has long been unusable. As early as the Jiajing period, the army with combat power was all obtained from recruitment. Ministers, what do you think of my Ming Guard? ”
In the past, when the Japanese invaders made trouble during the Jiajing period, dozens or hundreds of people could hit the city of Nanjing, but the Weisuo army was helpless, which can be seen. These courtiers in the Wenhua Hall couldn't deny this.
In fact, the rot of the Weisuo army forced the imperial court to start the recruitment system during the orthodox years. This conscription system is called the battalion sentry system.
"At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of waste were waiting to be rebuilt, and the strength of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty could not be ignored, so Taizu created this guard system, so that the army could be self-sufficient, reduce the burden of the people to supply military supplies, and maintain enough troops to protect the country." Emperor Chongzhen obviously did his homework in advance, so he talked eloquently in the Wenhua Palace, "However, the military soldiers in Tuntian are the norm, and they are bound to be undertrained and have low combat effectiveness. Although the current Guards Army is mainly responsible for garrisoning, policing, training recruits and tuntian, this is no longer the norm for the army! I thought ......"
When Emperor Chongzhen said this, he glanced at his courtiers majestically, and then said solemnly: "The military system of the guard is time to change!" ”