Chapter 685: Turning the Tiger Away from the Mountain (Second Shift)
Wen Yongbo's name is Gu Chen, he is the confidant and favorite general of Weiguo Gong Lu Zhongqian, and he is also a rare member of the Ming Army Confucian general.
Under the recommendation of Lu Zhongqian, Gu Chen followed the British Duke Zhang Fu to Jiaozhi twice to quell the rebellion, and made great military achievements, so he was made an earl by Emperor Yongle.
Because Gu Chen has always been low-key, and he is the backbone of Lu Zhongqian's family, Li Yuntian did not have much contact with him in the capital.
After the rebellion of the King of Han, Gu Chen went to Shanxi with Lu Zhongqian, and later the King of Han surrendered to Lu Zhongqian and committed suicide.
Li Yuntian never expected that a person who had been dead for nearly six years suddenly popped out again and unexpectedly became a person from Arutai, which really shocked him.
"Did he mention the reason for joining Arutai?" After experiencing the initial shock, Li Yuntian quickly came back to his senses and asked Zhao Yong quietly, he really couldn't imagine why Gu Chen would play for Arutai, and he always felt that Gu Chen's fake death back then was not simple.
Zhao Yong shook his head when he heard this, Gu Chen left after persuading him to surrender, and he didn't talk about other things at all, in fact, he also wanted to know why Gu Chen betrayed Da Ming and did things for Arutai.
"Xingpinghou, you have suffered a lot these days and should have been quietly recuperating, but my Ming Dynasty is short of major generals in Liaodong, and you just have a place to help Benhou attack Yinzhou City and make contributions to my Ming Dynasty."
Since the war in Liaodong had already made Li Yuntian busy, seeing that he couldn't get any useful news from Zhao Yong, he put Gu Chen's matter aside first, and said to Zhao Yong with a smile.
According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, generals like Zhao Yong and Yang Wei who defeated the army will be severely punished by the imperial court, but Li Yuntian is the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and Zhang Hao, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong and the Duke of Yiguo, is trapped in Liaoyang City, so the military affairs outside Liaoyang City are actually in charge of Li Yuntian.
The factors for the defeat of Emperor Xuande's northern expedition were very complicated, and Li Yuntian did not want to hold Zhao Yong and Yang Wei and others responsible for the defeat, after all, it was time to unite against foreign enemies, so he gave Zhao Yong and Yang Wei and others a chance to make meritorious contributions.
Although Zhao Yong and Yang Wei and others lost the battle, they were the most capable generals of the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they would not have been accompanied by Xuande to go on the expedition, Li Yuntian needed these fierce generals to charge into battle and also needed them to take charge of the military power of the Ming army in Liaodong.
In the final analysis, Li Yuntian was the commander of the Xiaowu Army, and the Xiaowu Army and the Ming Dynasty's guard troops adopted two completely different military systems, although he was able to reorganize the soldiers of the Jurchen tribes and recruit the soldiers of the Korean State, but it was not good to interfere too much in the military affairs of the Ming Army in Liaodong, so as not to cause the dissatisfaction of the Ming Xungui group afterwards.
Therefore, Li Yuntian wanted to hand over the military power of the Liaodong Ming Army to Zhao Yong and Yang Wei, the generals of the Ming Army, and let them lead the Liaodong Ming Army to fight side by side with the Xiaowu Army and share the war achievements equally.
There is a good saying, Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, Li Yuntian knows very well that if the Xiaowu Army is outstanding in the Liaodong battlefield, it will definitely make the Ming nobles lose face and offend many Ming nobles, so he adopted the strategy of evenly wetting the rain and dew to coordinate the entanglement of interests with the Ming nobles.
"The great grace is not grateful, the kindness of the Marquis of Zhenwu is remembered by the Marquis of Zhenwu!" Zhao Yong was stunned at first when he heard this, and then his face was happy, and he hurriedly bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, and said in an excited tone, if he can make military achievements on the battlefield of Liaodong, then he can offset his previous defeat.
It is worth mentioning that Zhao Yong had learned about the situation of the Ming army in Kaiyuan City from Gu Liyu yesterday, and was shocked by Li Yuntian's gathering of 70,000 troops in Kaiyuan City.
With Li Yuntian's military attainments, there is a chance that he can defeat the Mongol army in Liaodong with this 120,000 army, which means that Zhao Yong can also get a lot of credit from it.
What is particularly important is that if the Ming Dynasty is defeated in Shanxi Xingdu Division and Wanquan Capital Division, then the heavy responsibility of fighting against the Arutai army will fall on the Liaodong Ming army under the command of Li Yuntian, and Zhao Yong and others can just duel with Arutai in a dignified manner to avenge the previous defeat and capture.
Zhao Yong didn't realize that although he and Li Yuntian were both marquis of the Ming Dynasty, and his qualifications were far deeper than Li Yuntian's, he unconsciously took Li Yuntian as the first to look at him.
"Xie Zhenwuhou's grace of recreation!" Yang Wei and other generals naturally knew Li Yuntian's intentions, and they all bowed down to Li Yuntian excitedly to thank him, Li Yuntian's move undoubtedly made them "reincarnate as a human being".
Due to the urgency of the military situation, Li Yuntian exchanged a few words with Zhao Yong and Yang Wei and began to arrange the attack on Yinzhou City.
According to the previous plan, the Ming army immediately moved north after encircling and annihilating the Northern Yuan reinforcements at Qingfengkou, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Mongol army in Yinzhou City to attack the city and start street battles, avoiding fighting with the Mongol soldiers outside the city, and limiting the Mongol cavalry to the greatest extent.
In order to launch a surprise attack on the Mongol army in Yinzhou City, Li Yuntian prepared to blow up the walls of Yinzhou City with explosives at night.
After the military meeting, the Ming army resting in Qingfeng Valley was divided into two, Gu Liyu commanded more than 10,000 Liaodong Ming troops to settle wounded soldiers in Qingfeng Valley and take care of prisoners of war and baggage, Li Yuntian led nearly 50,000 troops to Yinzhou City.
The Ming army won a great victory in the battle of Qingfeng Valley, more than 500 people were killed, more than 2,000 people were wounded, and the damage to the Ming army was basically the Mongolian army that rose up to resist, and the soldiers of the servant army surrendered in the face of the general attack of the Ming army almost without resistance.
"This official document is extremely important, and it must be delivered to Yinzhou City safely!" Before leaving Qingfeng Valley, Li Yuntian handed an official document to Chaganbala and instructed with a stern expression.
This official document was an official letter from Li Yuntian to the Mansu in the name of Chahe, in which he told the Mansu that the accompanying servant army was marching slowly because of the fear of war, and that there were many conflicts with the Mongolian officials in charge of supervising the army along the way, and that he had recently beaten the Mongolian officials who built the army under the pretext that the food was too poor.
Although Chahe had already killed the servant soldiers who took the lead in making trouble over the food, the servant army was unstable and was worried that it would cause a bigger incident, so he asked the soldiers of the Huiluo Department of Yinzhou City to come to meet the servant army and deter it by force, so as to ensure that the servant army arrived in Yinzhou City smoothly.
The reason why Li Yuntian wanted to transfer the people of the Huiluo tribe was because he had promised Nuomin's mother Gegentana to Zhongxing Dayanbu, and because the Huiluo tribe had annexed the Dayan tribe, most of the soldiers of the Huiluo tribe in Yinzhou City were from the Dayan tribe, and in his opinion, these people from the Dayan tribe were the foundation of the Zhongxing of the Dayan tribe.
"Rest assured, my lordship, I will complete the task." Chaganbala knew that it was related to the revitalization of the Dayan Ministry, so he solemnly took the official document, bowed his hand to Li Yuntian, turned on his horse, and led several soldiers of the Dayan Department to leave.
Li Yuntian looked intently at Chaganbala's back, the Huiluo tribe had 8,000 people in Yinzhou City, of which 5,000 were the clansmen of the original Dayan tribe, if the Huiluo tribe could be taken, the resistance of the Ming army when attacking Yinzhou City would be much smaller.
On the morning of the next day, Li Yuntian led a large army to a town called Heiling, 40 miles away from Yinzhou City, because the Mongolian cavalry led by Halbara was walking in front of the marching army, so the residents of the town thought that it was the Mongolian soldiers, and they all stood on the side of the street with frightened eyes.
However, when the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army arrested several Mongolian officials in the town who were appointed by the Barbarian Su and were usually powerful, the people were surprised to know that it was the Ming army, and many people couldn't hold back the excitement in their hearts and cried with joy, and then rushed forward to beat those Mongolian officials.
When the soldiers of the Xiaowu army managed to separate the angry crowd, the Mongol officials had already died of anger, which shows that they did a lot of evil in the town, so it aroused great public anger.
In addition to the Mongolian officials, the traitors who had taken refuge in the Northern Yuan Dynasty in the town were also arrested, and the two traitors who committed the most heinous crimes and assisted the Mongolian officials in harming the people were killed in the chaos, and the rest of them escaped with their lives, one by one they were so frightened that their faces were bloodless, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing and begging for mercy.
After arriving in Heiling Town, Li Yuntian ordered the army to rest in Heiling Town and quietly wait for the arrival of the Huiluo tribe.
In terms of distance, Chaganbala arrived at Yinzhou City last night at the latest, and if there were no accidents, the people of the Huiluo tribe would set off from Yinzhou City this morning.
In the afternoon, when Li Yuntian and Zhao Yong and others were discussing the details of the attack on Yinzhou City, a sergeant of the Xiaowu Army came to report that the men and horses of the Huiluo Department were already less than two miles away from Heiling Town, with a total of 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 foot soldiers.
"Your guests are here, we have to welcome them." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, and said meaningfully to Zhao Yong and the others that he had prepared a "big meal" and was waiting for the people from the Huiluo Department to sit at the table.
Zhao Yong and the others laughed one after another, their smiles were full of lightness, the Ming army had already set up a pocket formation in Heiling Town, and once the people of the Huiluo Department stepped in, there was no possibility of escaping.
When the men and horses of the Huiluo tribe came to the entrance of Heiling Town, Harbara greeted them under the banner of Chaha, and invited the leader of the Huiluo tribe, Balu and others, into the town, and the soldiers of the Huiluo tribe were arranged to be stationed in front of a hillside outside the town.
Balu thought that Chahe was still some distance away from Yinzhou City, but he didn't expect to meet him in Heiling Town, although he felt a little surprised in his heart, he didn't think much about it, and was led into the largest mansion in the town by Harbara.
In the reception hall, Cha He sat on the top seat with an expressionless face, and Li Yuntian, Zhao Yong and others sat on both sides of the hall, watching Balu and the others come in quietly.
"Chahe, your kid's courage is getting smaller and smaller, and he can't even deal with those slaves, in my opinion, whoever dares to make trouble will cut off their heads, so they are still honest!"
Balu was a stout middle-aged man, he didn't notice anything unusual in the reception hall, and after entering the door, he smiled and said to Chahe, secretly mocking him for being cowardly, and in Baru's opinion, those servant armies were no different from slaves.
How could Cha He not be able to hear the sarcasm in Balu's words, but where did he have the heart to argue with Balu at this time, the corners of his eyebrows twitched and then looked at Balu helplessly, could it be that Balu, a fool, really thought that he couldn't control those servant armies?
"Baru, do you remember me?" At this moment, Halbara, who was leading the way, turned around and looked at Balu with a grim expression, his eyes full of angry flames, and his father Arslen had died at the hands of Baru's sword.