74 stratagems

"Your Majesty inherits the kindness of the four seas, and the martial arts are great and the divine fortune is added, and you are waiting for your death, which is the merit of the stars to assist the Heavenly Monarch, and now return to the heavenly court...... On the high platform, those Taoist priests in yellow robes kept the money rat tail hairstyle that they heard was a Jurchen custom, and kept muttering auspicious words, and finally ended this long prayer ceremony with a loud shout.......

Then, he picked up the yellow rune paper with his sword, and used the so-called Taoist method to make the paper charm burn in the shaking, and finally threw it on the tablets that had been drenched with gasoline. With a bang, a huge flame rose into the air, which startled the absent-minded Emperor of the Jin Kingdom, Ye Hehaolian.

The wooden plaques that were twisted and incinerated in the flames stared at Ye He Haolian like a pair of eyes, making him involuntarily take a small half step back when he just came back to his senses. It was this small half step, Ye Hehao almost stepped on the palm of Ye Hehaolan, who was kneeling on the ground behind him.

"Haolan! Hao Lan! Ye He Haolian looked away from the dancing flames, and then he turned around, supported Ye He Haolan who was kneeling behind him with his hand, and asked softly, "Is the person sent to the Ming Dynasty to negotiate confirmed?" Let him go quickly! ”

In fact, in the heart of Ye Hehaolian, the emperor of the Jin State, he never had the intention of fighting a full-scale war with the Ming Empire, and he never even thought that he would take the initiative to attack, until the Japanese and the Ceylon State (including Australia, which are the big powers, I would like to emphasize here) found him, and he saw the hope of fighting a local war, and then taking the opportunity to achieve permanent peace with the Ming Empire.

In the strategic goal of the Jin State, the entire northeast was controlled, and then the narrow plain of Jinzhou was held, and the Ming Empire was in a stalemate for several years, and then bowed down to obtain some benefits...... It's the core content. Jin Guo knew that it was impossible for him to defeat the Ming Empire, unless there was any more chaos within the Ming Empire.

However, with the support of Japan and Ceylon, coupled with the power of the Later Jin, as well as the corruption of the northern border generals of the Ming Empire, a series of advantages, the Jin Emperor Yehe Haolian and the Prime Minister Yehe Haolan saw the hope of defeating the Ming Empire. Coupled with the fact that the Japanese Empire also wanted to take risks, trying to defeat the Ming Empire and gain the status of a regional power, the war was secretly planned.

The combination of these factors made Jin Guo make up his mind and started this battle of national fortune. As a result, the war, which was originally going well, was rewritten by tens of thousands of new troops and a general named Wang Jue in the end, dragging a war that should have been resolved quickly into a situation of confrontation and attrition.

Although the Ming Empire was unwilling to confront the attrition, the Jin State could not bear the situation of confronting attrition. Once the war is protracted, the Ming Empire may be dragged even weaker, but the Jin State will definitely be the first to collapse and become a historical term.

So when he knew that the end of the war was far away, Ye Hehaolian couldn't sit still, and he hoped that the Jin State could achieve peace with the Ming Empire through peace talks. Of course, everyone knows that this is just wishful thinking on his part, after all, once the war begins, the end is not a matter for one side to decide alone.

"Your Majesty! We have an alliance with Japan, and there is also a secret agreement between Japan and Ceylon, so wouldn't it be even more sad if we rashly sent an envoy to sue for peace at this time, and Japan and Ceylon would be held accountable? "Yehhoran has always regarded himself as the number one adviser of the Jin Kingdom, and he does have two brushes.

Jin Guo's ability to manage a large area of land in the northeast is directly related to Yehehaolan's conscientiousness. Of course, Yehholan's greatest achievement was to help the Jin State and Japanese Ceylon form an anti-Ming alliance, and they were supporting each other openly and secretly, involving the vast maritime power of the Ming Empire.

The South China Sea Naval Division of the Ming Empire has always been on guard against the equally powerful Ceylon fleet; Ceylon, as a trade link between South America and Japan and the Jin Kingdom, also provided various materials to these places, and completed the trade of various food and weapons under the blockade of the Ming Empire.

The most intolerable thing for the Ming Empire was that the dockyard in Ceylon was still built by the Ming Empire; Most of the people in Ceylon are Han Chinese who immigrated to the past. These people who were supposed to be close to the Ming Empire, because of greed and power struggles, betrayed the Ming Empire just as the United States betrayed Britain.

Because of the fear of being held accountable and wanting to have more power, Ceylon was more defensive of the Ming Empire than European countries such as Britain and Germany, and it supported Japan's independence and Jin behind its back, and has always taken disturbing the Ming Empire and preventing the Ming Empire from going south as its strategic goal to implement.

Ge Tianzhang's "Book of Inviting the Sailors of the South Seas" is aimed at Ceylon, a-stirring stick in the southeast of the Ming Empire. And this battle of Mukden is obviously also a counterattack by Ceylon against the Ming Dynasty, as far as the current situation is concerned, it is really hard to say to what extent this war will go.

"On the Japanese side, you go and fight for it yourself, after all, the navy of the Ming Empire has not been severely damaged, it is the responsibility of their Japanese Empire, isn't it?" Hearing his subordinates mention the issue of Japan's attitude, Yehe Haolian said sarcastically: "The Battle of Dawa is the follow-up to the defeat of the Japanese Navy, shouldn't they bear some responsibility?" ”

It's not about responsibility or irresponsibility...... If this can really be held accountable, the time when the Japanese slaughtered in Panjin was used to go north, and Linghai was also defeated, right? Seeing his emperor say this, Yehe Haolan thought helplessly. However, he didn't have the courage to directly confront Ye Hehaolian, so he could only bow his head and whisper: "Your Majesty, the Japanese will not make peace with the Ming Empire now...... And we should also insist on it. ”

"Why?" Ye Hehao asked with a frown.

"Now that our envoys are sent out, the Ming Empire thinks that we are cowardly, and when the Ming Empire hits its head on the Liaohe defense line and breaks the bloodstream, we will send envoys again, and it will be a matter of course." Yehhoran replied with a smile.

Then he suddenly remembered a more subtle note, and opened his mouth to advise: "It is better to inform the Japanese allies, and then really send envoys to create a false impression for the ministers of the Ming Dynasty, which is also a good way......

After hearing this suggestion, Ye Hehao Lian nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Very good! That's it! Even if it's just a few days of delay, it's good! My Liaohe defense line, the Ming army has to fill it with 1 million lives! ”