Chapter 170: North and South

Zhang Han was holding a piece of paper in his hand, and he looked at it over and over, and the expression on his face was really colorful.

If in later generations, this piece of paper in his hand is a precious historical document, and it will cost at least eight figures to sell it, it will definitely be enough to qualify for the Carls-De's spring auction.

The expressions on the faces of Chang Wei, Liang Xing, Li Zhiye, Wang Yikui, Li Laibin and others around him are also very rich.

This thing was untied from the sound of the Ming army sentry in Fushun Guan on the 24th, and the armored soldiers of the border garrison did not dare to slack off, and quickly sent it to Hetuala, and after repeated confirmation by the three Jurchen scholars of Kurtang, Erdene and Xifu, it was finally determined that this letter was indeed written by Yang Hao's staff, and it was indeed stamped with the supervisor's guard, and it was determined that it was the letter written by the supervisor Yang Hao to Nurhachi.

Yang Hao put up a full shelf of the superintendent in the letter, and reprimanded Nuer Hachi very much, these are not surprising, even if there is a war, it does not prevent the use of this psychological warfare method first, the most surprising thing for Zhang Han is that it is really as recorded in history, Yang Ho told Nuer Hachi the route and time of his own march in this letter, although the time is March 15, but since there is a letter, the fool also knows that the Ming army is coming.

The most bizarre thing is that the four-way attack was changed to an eight-way attack, and then the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were blown into 490,000.

Of course, no one in the Jurchens believed this number, and if the Ming Dynasty really had the ability to transfer more than 400,000 soldiers, Nurhachi would not say any nonsense like "no matter how many ways he comes, I will only go all the way", and it is serious to run to the Tunguska Ice Field. At this time, the Ming army is not after the middle of Chongzhen, there is no military discipline and Wang law, the generals want to run away, now even if the general army escapes, you have to weigh the consequences, the end of demotion and beheading is waiting, Wanli has been in power for more than 40 years, the Ming army's system of controlling military force with literature is still intact, Liaozhen has not really become a feudal town, and other military towns are even more impossible, if there are really 490,000 Ming troops who can fight in the field, even if the pig comes as a supervisor, it will definitely win.

Of course, Nuerhachi is also strange, why the Ming army did not transfer more soldiers and horses to come, including Zhang Han in later generations, the Ming army has been using refueling tactics to fight Houjin, Salhu lost a number of brave generals and sixty or seventy thousand people, including Ye He and Chao, Xian was beaten cold, after a short time Ye He was finished, one less firm ally, and then it was another transfer of troops, and more than 100,000 people, stationed in Shenyang and Liaoyang, and then swept away by Houjin, and the death was still the elite with combat experience and brave generals like He Shixian, and then down was the battle of Guangning, and transferred about 100,000 people, of which the number of border troops with combat experience was insufficient, and the result was swept away, and was robbed by Houjin in Liaoxi, and then the Ming army fell into the defensive, and when Hong Chengchou led the troops to save Jinzhou in the battle of Ningjin, the result was more than 100,000 people, and it was the last elite of the border army of the Ming army, including the most loyal and daring Qin army, and then swept away again......

Now Zhang Han has vaguely understood, it's not that the Ming Dynasty doesn't want to gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight, if the battle of Salhu is to underestimate Houjin, going back can only show that with the current logistics and national finances of the Ming Dynasty, it can only mobilize so many soldiers at a time, even if it is about 100,000 people, it is a burden that the treasury cannot bear...... I have to say that the intelligence of the Houjin is very good, Yang Hao has asked for a postponement of the dispatch of troops many times, and the Ming court has urged the use of troops many times, these things are clearly known by the Houjin side, and more than 100,000 people can't afford it, how can the Ming army really mobilize 490,000 troops to Liaodong?

As for the hundreds of thousands of troops sent out during the reign of Ming Taizu and Chengzu, that is already a myth for a long time......

Yang Hao's letter is almost a myth in Zhang Han's eyes, and he wrote to his opponent before sending troops, and then told the opponent that I was coming to fight, no matter how Yang Hao thought about it, it was an out-and-out idiot in Zhang Han's eyes.

"Brother Han, no wonder people say that meat eaters are despicable, I know why now." Chang Wei didn't know how mature he was half a year ago, and in the months of this winter, Zhang Han took him with him, either reading books or talking about things, Chang Wei's progress can be described as a thousand miles a day.

Liang Xing and others also made a lot of progress, whether it was arithmetic, geometry, drawing, or military science, miscellaneous studies, or Mongolian language and Jianzhou Jurchen dialect were all learned very quickly...... Even if a pig is placed in a language environment like Hetuala, it can be learned, not to mention that Liang Xing and the others were originally the top people picked out by Zhang Han, and now they learn to speak Jurchen dialect, even if they listen to it in person, they will not have the slightest flaw, and there is no difference between them and the native Jianzhou Jurchens.

The more you learn, the more you see.

In the past few months, the Jurchen side and the Ming side have gone from espionage to outpost warfare to mobilization before the war, various actions, and various methods of the Jurchen against the Ming and Mongolia, all of which have opened the eyes of these people.

It can be said that even the current group of general soldiers of the Ming Dynasty may not be able to understand the Jurchens, Mongolia, and the Ming Dynasty himself as thoroughly as the group of people in front of them.

"Yang Hao, this old boy is really stupid."

"He probably wants to be a soldier and never get tired of cheating, this is stupid to read."

"Even if it's a liar, you can say it so clearly, a fool can see that he is about to send troops, can people not strengthen their vigilance?"

"In the words of our proprietor, strategy and tactics should be looked at separately, but from the perspective of strategy alone, our Inspector Yang can be regarded as a lard."

"It's a mess!" Li Zhiye spoke in Nanyin, and said angrily: "Qi Shuai has never used an arrow to shoot his plan to the Japanese slaves, knowing that although he is a dignified division of the northern captives, looking forward to the northern captives to fight, but he has also done enough work beforehand, trained the troops, and paid real money, when Qi Shuai was in Jizhen, how much did the beacon tower and the hollow enemy platform be repaired?" There are also car formations, car battalions, firearms, artillery, you have done enough kung fu, no matter how much you come, you are not afraid, that is called dignified, to bully people, now this is good, you are a mess, counting on a letter to scare other people's elite soldiers, old slaves who have fought for decades, really bad brains! ”

Zhang Han looked at Li Zhiye and said with a smile: "Wang Changfu is also from Zhejiang soldiers, right?" ”

"Yes." Li Zhiye nodded and said: "There is a bit of trouble here, Changfu's father went out with the army in the twentieth year of Wanli, Xian, and was also one of the people who followed Vice General Luo to the city first, and then the Northern Army grabbed merit, Changfu's father cut down a few people from the Northern Army without anger for a while, and then he didn't dare to show his head when he hid in the army, and then Deputy Luo transferred them to the Shenji Battalion, Changfu's father also died, Changfu did not collect it that night in Jizhen, and was discovered by the enemy of the year, he could only be a deserter, our Southern Army was born in Jizhen It became more and more difficult, and then Changfu came out of me, I also took advantage of the situation to vote for the proprietor. ”

"I see." Zhang Han nodded, and he had a good idea of Wang Changfu's origin.

Li Zhiye said that the famous southern army and the northern army fought for merit in the past during the Renchen War, when attacking Pyongyang, Konishi Yukichang had more than 30,000 people, all of whom were elite Japanese troops, and relied on the city to defend, you can imagine how difficult it was to attack, the Ming army only had the advantage of artillery, and the cavalry of the northern army was also very powerful, but people were defending the city, you can't always take the cavalry to climb the city, the southern army at that time was brought out by Qi Jiguang, and he was very clever in addition to being brave, and there were many tactics. The chest was hit by the Japanese army's firearms, the blood flowed like an infusion, and he was still supervising the battle at the head of the city. More than 600 elite soldiers of the Southern Army followed one after another, and finally captured the city, but later the generals of the Northern Army came up to fight for merit, and the first merit of ascending the city did not fall on Luo Shangzhi's head, but was robbed by the generals of the Northern Army, Luo Shangzhi fought a bloody battle, and only got a reward of 20 taels of silver.

This incident can be regarded as too dirty for the Northern Army, and it is also the beginning of the later Liaozhen Soldiers and Horses Specialized Pit allies, which can be said to have set a very bad precedent, and the encounter of Wang Changfu's father and son is just a small wave in the tide of history.

"The Northern Army is actually a mess of filth......" Li Zhiye said at the beginning, but there was no taboo, mainly at this time, everyone understood that Zhang Han was not only interested in business, but also began to have a strong concern about military affairs, and even Zhang Han would manage his own armed forces just like he ran and Yusheng, and many people at this level vaguely thought of it.

Troubled times are coming, everyone has to protect themselves, not to mention a strong person like Zhang Han who has ambitions, skills and ability?

"The proprietor," a dart master walked in and reported, "There is a lot of movement outside, and the Jurchens seem to be mobilizing." ”

"Do you want to hit the East Road first?"

Zhang Han also felt strange, after the 27th, the news came, the east road had discovered the movement of a large number of Ming troops, the result is that Nurhachi explained that the army is deliberately luring the main force of the Eight Banners to the east road, he decided to send 500 troops to the Abu Darigang area to set up defenses, with blocking the road and a small group of people and horses to harass the way to delay the Ming army's march, it is expected that although the Kuandian Road is the first to send troops, as long as the delay is successful, maybe it will be the last to rush to the battlefield.

Today is the last day of February, the atmosphere in Hetuara has become very tense, there are bannermen in armor patrolling everywhere, and when they encounter people who are idle, they will be scolded and stopped, Zhang Han and others can gather together to talk, mainly because the security outside is too strict, and Zhang Han's identity is not convenient to walk at will.

All the people got up and walked out together.

Tan Tai's house is actually not big, it is just a tiled house, and there is a fire pit, but the advantage is that he lives on the edge of the inner city, Hetuara was originally built on higher ground, and the further he goes, the higher the terrain, and when everyone walks out of the door, they find that the entire wooden city is almost alive in the blink of an eye.