As the saying goes, hard work pays off, and one day in August, Wanli finally compared to the tools he wanted. At noon that day, the emperor was stunned and flipped through the recitals, and was thinking about reading the last two books, so he would take a nap, and when he saw the recital, he immediately became refreshed.

It was a copy of the book that the family department gave to the light in the matter. This person has always been low-key and never intervenes in partisan disputes in officialdom, but when it comes to police violations, he can fulfill his duties and give generous advice, and he is known for his loyalty. A few months ago, he was ordered to inspect the affairs of Tuntian in Liaodong and went out of Shanhaiguan, stayed outside the customs for more than two months, and after returning he handed over the errand, and wrote this recital in his personal name, exposing a "big scandal of killing and descending!"

The incident occurred at the time of the emperor's wedding, but it didn't hurt to start from seven years ago, when the imperial court ended the use of troops in the Hetao area and shifted the focus of the strategy to Jiliao.

Everyone in the world knows that in the 12 years that Shen Ge Lao has been in the cabinet, the most commendable thing is to make good use of the generals, peace and calm frontiers. Needless to say, his exploits in recovering the Hetao and pacifying the southwest are more valuable than his selection of generals and the reorganization of military equipment.

Shen Mo himself also recognized that he had made the deepest efforts in military reform, and through vigorously promoting the all-round reform of the military system, he had done his best to grow the armament for more than ten years, so that the Ming Dynasty's thousand-mile frontier defense, drawing corner companies and battalions, gradually had a tiger army that could fight well......

What is more striking than those silent institutional reforms is his selection of border commanders and military arrangements. In this long era of post-cold weapons, the personal ability of generals is still the decisive factor in the combat effectiveness of the army. With a competent commander, there will be generals who are not afraid of death. With a competent general, there will be a heroic teacher who is not afraid of death. Because whether the generals at the front are well selected or not is the key to whether the border defense is peaceful or not.

Silence was lucky, at that time, there were stars in all directions: Qi Jiguang, Ma Fang, Li Chengliang,

Yu Dayou, Tan Lun, Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi, Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Liu Xian, etc., are all talents who can be masters on their own, and they are really a grand occasion that has only been seen in the past 200 years.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and with the increasingly powerful power of the palace as the backing, he can freely insert the national defense plan. Li Rongzheng has been in power for many years, and he has a very objective assessment of the whole situation... Although the shoe target has changed from strong to weak, the characteristics of the nomadic people determine that the Ming army, which is dominated by infantry, is in a passive situation after all.

The complete elimination of the shoe captives will not be achieved in any way. What is more realistic is to pull one by one and fight one by one, he saw that the ancients were not monolithic inside, and each department was at the right time, and they also attacked and killed each other, which can be completely divided and controlled, and his strategy is "east and west,."

Xihuai is the Huairou of Tumut and Ordos, and these ancient princes have basically been cleaned up. The court rewarded them with princes and opened the market to solve the problem of food for their people. Bingge is not good for anyone, they are naturally willing to pay tribute for a long time, and they have made a fortune through the wool trade, clinging to the back of Daming's ass, and they can't get rid of it.

But it is impossible to expect to raise the wolf all at once, not to mention that "if it is not my race, its heart will be different, and the matter cannot be understood by silence, so even if they plead for tribute like the Tumo 11 and the compatriots of Hetao, they will never agree." There is only one word to look at them, and that is "hit,!"

The reason is very simple, if you agree to the request of "Dongyu", the east and west departments of the shoe target may both despise the tribute at the same time, but neither of them can be pulled. Therefore, the two major forces of the shoe target, adopting a countermeasure that is completely incompatible with hot and cold, can ensure that they have resentment against each other, and they will never be together... With the "Eastern System, the contrast between the West, that part is more precious and peaceful.

With "Xihuai, lying in the north of Jiliao, echoing with the Ming Dynasty", the eastern system, that part of the country did not dare to kill easily.

The candidates for the implementation of the "Eastern System" strategy, Shen Mo originally selected Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang. Qi Jiguang stabilized the defense and cared for Gyeonggi from harassment. As a shock army, Ma Fang penetrated deep into Liaodong, used cavalry to suppress cavalry, eliminated the living forces of Tuban and Duoyan, and drove them as far away as possible.

However, Ma Wangye is old after all, and he has reached the age of resting in peace, and his life experience is a big system, and he has been strongly contradicted by the Liaodong Generals, and he can't explain it at all. Therefore, after frequent consideration, it is better to let Ma Fang stay in Xuanfu, while supporting the elderly, and on the other hand, deterring the Western Prisoners. The replacement can only be Li Chengliang, who was born in Liaodong and shined in the Futao Campaign, but because of his greed for merit, his subordinates were almost completely annihilated......

Qi Jiguang has never disappointed, and after he took office, he began to train troops while building a hollow enemy platform. He said in his note to the imperial court that the border defense of Jizhen stretches for 2,000 miles, and as long as there is a gap in one place, the entire Great Wall is abandoned, repaired every year, and collapsed every year, which is pure waste. He suggested that it would be best to build a five-zhang high, hollow, three-story inner fortified enemy platform across the wall, with armor, equipment, grain and grass inside. Soldiers can keep watch in the interior, or they can quickly assemble into a field army.

His initiative, finally won the support of the imperial court, lasted three years, from Juyong Pass to Shanhaiguan, a total of 1,200 such enemy platforms were built, so that the original soft belly of the Ming Dynasty Jizhou, became an iron barrier. In the past, I replied to the matter of entering Kokyunggi, and it will never happen again.

The north was firmly guarded for a while, and the enemy could not enter, so they could only turn to Liaodong. Liaodong is the inherent territory of the Ming Dynasty, as the left arm of Yanjing, bordering on three sides, blocking the sea on one side, and Shanhaiguan is limited inside and outside, its strategic position is very important. And because it was frequently harassed by the ancient men and the Jurchens, the Han family was sparsely populated, and the population was concentrated in the garrison, and most of them were military families.

This kind of setting up according to local conditions has indeed played a positive role for a long time, and more than 100,000 horses once relied on tuntian and did not need to be supported by the mainland. However, the good times did not last long, and the shortcomings of the military tun also broke out here, and because it was located outside the customs, it was even more lawless. A large number of tuntian fields were embezzled by hereditary military generals' families, and the soldiers and civilians of the guard were reduced to serfs and had no choice but to flee in large numbers. As a result, the fields are barren, the tuntian fields are exhausted, the sources of income are exhausted, and the armaments are gradually abandoned, so that the ancients can come and go freely, and completely lose the barrier function of the pass.

The choice of this place as a battlefield naturally takes a fancy to its own military area, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the destruction of people's livelihood is also because of the vast and sparsely populated area, and it is necessary to use cavalry to fight.

The reason why Shen Mo didn't use him at the beginning was not because he was worried that he was incompetent, but because he was worried about his uncontrolled misdeeds outside the gate, and he was even more worried that the military general group in Liaodong would be even more unable to enter and not lose his tail. But if you want to succeed in Liaodong, you can only use Liao people. There is no way around it.

Without Li Chengliang, the Liaodong military generals colluded into a group to wander outside the rule of the imperial court.

It's better to let one of your own people be the leader, at least you can control it, as for the consequences, let's wait until Liaodong is leveled first, and the real mortal enemy of the Ming Dynasty will be removed.

Regarding the weakness of Li Chengliang's character, silence can be said to be tireless, and he often writes to persuade him. He frequently urged him not to be blind to military discipline, to think only of meritorious service, let alone to indiscriminately kill innocent people, and to intensify national contradictions. It is rare for Shoufu to be so patient and guide a side general, how can Li Chengliang be unwilling to serve his life?

After taking office as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, in the face of more than 200,000 horses and horses of Tuban and Duoyan, he sat in Liaoyang, was not afraid to actively repair fortifications, selected generals, recruited athletes, and stabilized the situation. But defending has never been his first choice, after gaining a firm foothold, Li Chengliang soon turned to defense, in Longqing five years, flanked the barbarian Yu Zhuoshan, beheaded more than 1,000 levels, and made the first contribution to the conquest of Liaodong.

In the Wanli period, his battle to break the enemy was even more invincible. In the first year of Wanli, Duoyan and Tuman converged with 20,000 cavalry, swept Yongping and Shenyang in the south, and Li Chengliang led the firearms battalion to meet and destroy more than 1,000 enemies. Then, he led the army to take advantage of the night to go out of the fortress and run for more than 200 miles, directly smashing the camp of the enemy army to split the mountain camp, and beheading a thousand levels, which was a great victory for the mountain splitting camp.

Similar to this kind of flanking attack, rushing attack, and beheading hundreds to more than a thousand victories, from the first year of Wanli to the third year, there are not counted. The smoke and dust are billowing on the Liaodong Plain, the Ming military flag is heading, and the shoes are invincible, so they can only avoid it from afar. In the past, the Ming army was beaten to hide in the castle and did not dare to bow its head, but it was like a world away.

Sometimes it is not good to be too brave, and it took only three years to drive away the shoes, which certainly made Li Chengliang famous, but the war exploits were not good, how to reward his subordinates without war merits? If you want to bully the ancients, you can only order the army to attack from a distance, but the loss is too great, and the gains often outweigh the losses. And because of the existence of the imperial history of the supervising army, it has become unrealistic for Li Chengliang to want to kill civilians indiscriminately.

Killing civilians without permission is a crime that has been popular in the Ming army for a hundred years, and when it comes to Li Chengliang, it is even more unscrupulous. After the end of the war, the soldiers killed the border civilians in batches, cut off their heads, and re-formed whips according to the ancient custom of the meng, posing as enemy leaders. The personnel of the military department talk about the number of heads, and do not ask anything else. As early as the reign of Yan Song, the unauthorized killing of border soldiers was a great harm to the border people. Shen Lian, the silent teacher, once sang a poem with deep sorrow: "Cutting life and offering prophecy has never been seen in ancient times, and the solution to the Tao has been achieved and ten thousand bones have withered." In order to curb this ugly phenomenon, Shen silently ordered the superintendent of the army to be responsible for the battle report.

False reporting or killing of civilians for meritorious service will be severely punished. Contrary to the gentle methods of the civilian officials, the silent rule of the army was very strict, and after killing a few guys who were taken as a deaf ear, the overseers finally glared and monitored every battle of the army. Killing civilians and risking merit is finally no longer common...............

Therefore, in the past year or so, Li Chengliang has almost no major military exploits, although he has made frequent attacks, but he has beheaded only one or two hundred people each time, and at most two or three hundred people, which is really nothing to be excited about for the court, emperor and people who have been accustomed to Li Dashuai's invincible battles.

However, before the emperor's wedding, the good news came from Liaodong in an urgent manner for 600 miles: it was said that Zhang Xueyan, the governor of Liaodong, and Li Chengliang, the general soldier, had found out the information, and the shoe captives wanted to take advantage of the Ming army to celebrate the emperor's wedding and when the defense was lax, they attacked and looted cattle and sheep remotely. The two men then made a plan and lured the enemy into a roundabout way. In the end, in Changding Fort, the invading captives were surrounded and killed, and they won a complete victory, and they won more than 2,000 captives from the captive chieftain below, which was a great victory that had not been seen in several years, not only the national prestige was shaken, but also the atmosphere of celebration was pushed.

At that time, as soon as the good news arrived in Beijing, Wanli was very happy, and immediately thanked the suburban temple, thanked the heaven and earth and the ancestors for protecting the station, and at the same time told the cabinet to appreciate the ointment. The Empress Dowager Cisheng also gave a decree to the cabinet, saying: "The silent visit of the ancestors of heaven and earth is the celebration of the country. This kind of royal generosity and sharing benefits to everyone, all the scholars naturally responded positively.

However, for the sake of prudence, Shen Mo did not do it immediately, but compared it to An Daoren, the Liaodong Inspector, and saw his description that on that day, the brigade of men and horses, with cattle and sheep, rushed towards the chasm, and kept saying that it was surrender. Although the shoe target man is usually very sincere, he only has a lot more eyes on the battlefield and a lot of tricks. Therefore, the Ming army judged that this must be a fraudulent surrender. The one who is responsible for the guard of Changding Fort is Li Chengliang's son Li Rusong, this guy can fight better than his old man, but he is also more eager for quick success.

After seeing it, Li Rusong took the lead, led his soldiers, and killed him like a storm, killing like chopping vegetables, and soon he was a fierce enemy.

With the experience of leading troops for many years, I intuitively feel that there is something strange in this, but because although it is difficult for the emperor to self-determine in terms of government affairs, he can fully exercise the power of favor.

In order to prevent the cabinet from snatching this favor, the emperor made a holy decree first, and he quickly sent Wei Chao, the eunuch on duty in the Qianqing Palace, to go to the front line in Liaodong on his behalf to reward the three armies for their meritorious deeds. Li Chenglianglujue, the first level of the general army, ordered Zhang Xueyan to serve as the governor of Liaodong, Li Rusong was promoted to the commander of the fourth grade, and even the princes of the court and the central government were rewarded for the emperor's wedding, and the great victory of Liaodong. It's really a celebration for the whole world, and everyone is happy.

However, now, in the matter of this person named Guangmao, he actually revealed that the battle of Changding Fort was not committed by the captives at all. The truth is that a tribe of the target, because it annoyed the ferocious Duoyan Division, because it was afraid that the Duoyan Division would come to exterminate it, so it took nearly 3,000 people, old and young, to the Ming Frontier to beg for protection. Li Rusong was young and inexperienced, he saw so many people rushing to the pass with mules and horses, and mistakenly thought that the chieftain was leading the crowd to attack, so he took advantage of the enemy's riding from afar, tired and unstable, and opened the door to cover the past. The crowd of beggars was caught off guard and fled in all directions.

As soon as the two sides took over, Li Rusong felt that something was wrong, but this dynasty was based on the head of the bounty, and the soldiers under his command were eager to make meritorious contributions, and they killed people one by one when they showed their butcher knives, and in less than half an hour, more than 2,000 men, women, and children died in this way: after Li Chengliang knew about it, he thought that since the matter had reached this realm, instead of killing innocents indiscriminately and punishing his son, it was better to report his mistakes to the imperial court.

Guangmao said that this is the truth of the so-called "victory of Changdingbao......

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