Chapter 498: A Mess

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After the first battle of Gu'an, more than 30,000 Jiannu troops drove directly to the city of Zhuozhou, and they showed off their might in Zhuozhou.

The reason why this is so is because Gu'an Zhuozhou is the place where the Ming Dynasty was defeated twice in the last time, and Azig came here to tell the Ming government and the opposition that the elite soldiers of the Dajin State have returned.

Azig didn't want to capture Zhuozhou, the problem was that Zhuozhou was also considered a strong city in Gyeonggi, and he and Dolgon estimated that they would lose thousands of Han troops if they captured Zhuozhou.

Although the first battle of Gu'an wiped out the Ming Denglai reinforcements, the Han army flag also lost more than 2,000 men and horses, plus the thousands of Han troops lost in Lushun, and the newly established Han army flag suffered heavy losses.

Nikan is cannon fodder, but if the cannon fodder is scared away, the Jurchen masters will have to be cannon fodder, so they can't completely chill the heart of the Han military banner.

Therefore, under the persuasion of Dolgon, Azig gave up the idea of attacking Zhuozhou.

There is also an episode here, when Azig wanted to use Zhang Keda's head to shock the defenders of Zhuozhou, he was told by the trembling guards that the head was missing.

This made Azig thunderous, it was unimaginable, how could it be, he realized that there was a Ming State in the camp, and it was likely to be ambushed in the Han army flag, otherwise it would not be possible to explain all this, Jiannu's armor and auxiliary soldiers would definitely not be able to do this, then the most likely is the Han army flag, but how to check the Han army flag of more than 10,000 people, have they all cut off their heads.

Azig could only admit it with a sigh of relief, and he ordered Shi Tingzhu, Shang Kexi, and Zu Kefa of the Han Army Banner to find this fine work for him.

The news of the annihilation of the 5,000 Denglai Army in Guan quickly spread throughout Gyeonggi. Immediately, the Ming troops stationed near Gyeonggi mourned.

A few years ago, it was the Denglai army that defeated Jiannu twice in Gu'an Zhuozhou. Slash Tabai. Now the Denglai army is completely wiped out in the old place of Gu'an, which shows the ferocity of Jiannu.

As for whether the Denglai Army is the top combat power of the Ming Army, you can disagree, you can have a good competition with Jiannu, compare it, and see if you can defeat the Jiannu Iron Cavalry, I'm afraid you don't dare.

As long as you can defeat Jiannu, you don't care how much water you have. can be regarded as the top combat power of the Ming army.

Although the Denglai army caused great losses to Jiannu, it was finally wiped out, and who would dare to fight to the death with Jiannu in the other soldiers.

Nearly 10,000 reinforcements from Xuanda and other places were at a standstill with the Abatai Department in the area of Beijing, and even saw Abatai conquering the city, but there was no way, and he really had no ability to fight in the field.

Liang Tingdong, who was the secretary of the military department in the early years, and now the governor of Xuanda, would rather cut himself than fight a decisive battle with Jiannu.

Another group of Ming troops, under the command of Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the current military department, and the eunuchs of the overseers, also revolved around Jiannu, but did not fight. In fact, it was not a problem for Abatai Azig to defeat them, but the Ming was to lose the national strength of the Ming State, not to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army.

Therefore, the Jiannu army did not have an excellent opportunity not to attack the Ming army in a big way, and these overly cautious Ming army commanders would not give Jiannu a chance to besiege. is a guard, watching the Jiannu army rob and can't rob it. Finally, he sent the Jiannu army out of Gyeonggi and returned north to Liaodong.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty could do nothing but sit in the capital and worry about the city, but after Jiannu left, he left him millions of refugees, dozens of ruins, and tens of thousands of casualties among soldiers.

Emperor Chongzhen simply endured his grief and anger, wiped his ass for what Jiannu had done, and had to think about when Jiannu would do this again.

As for whether it will come, at this time, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty know that Jiannu will definitely come back, only once in two or three years, or once in four or five years like last time.

Chongzhen posthumously awarded Zhang Keda as the governor of Nanjing, the prince and the prince, and the prince of Yinzi, which must be praised, otherwise there will be generals who work hard for the Zhu family in the future, not only to praise, but also to reward heavily.

Zhang Keda's eldest son was also recruited into Nanjing Yulinwei and passed on the name of the Zhang family in Nanjing.

A number of generals who died in battle were also commended.

And Chongzhen also discharged the Jinyi Guard to immediately arrest Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, and Liang Chengdong, the governor of Xuanda, who avoided the war, but unfortunately the two knew that they would die, so in order not to implicate their families, they both chose to commit suicide by taking rhubarb.

In fact, they died a little unjustly, because they knew that the field battle would never be the opponent of Jiannu, they could only avoid the war to preserve their strength, if they were defeated and lost, then the family would also have to be implicated, the male would be on the border, and the female would be sent to the Jiaofang Division, it would be better to avoid the war and cut themselves, and the court would not be held accountable, at least there was no loss of the army, how could the Son of Heaven give some face.

Their guess was extremely accurate, Chongzhen only issued an edict to reprimand, and did not continue to investigate their family's responsibility, and the two finally completed the important task of protecting the family.

The injustice of their death is not unjust, it is really a mess.

If it is said that the Gyeonggi Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty is a mess, the de facto Gyeonggi Musashi Kingdom, Ueno Kingdom, Shimono Kingdom, and Hitachi Kingdom are chicken feathers.

Nearly 20,000 reinforcements from Hitachi Prefecture were defeated by thousands of Ming troops, and almost all the troops were wiped out, and the reinforcements from the north were cut off.

And the reinforcements from the west are definitely not light, and they also encounter the constant onslaught of the broken army.

Tokugawa Yoshi, the lord of the Owari Domain, received orders from the Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu directly and immediately began to gather Standing and Ashigaru.

As one of the 500,000 stone high feudal clans and the three imperial families, the Owari Domain had a standing reserve of 10,000 people, and the reason why there were so many standing ones was because the Owari Domain had a lot of lords, and the Owari Domain was an important pawn for the shogunate to monitor Mino, Shinano, Omi, Mikawa, and Toe.

But as a smart man, Tokugawa Yoshinao did not expand his power because of his esteemed status.

He was one of the few feudal lords in the Great Domain who did not have a cavalry, just to show the Shogun that the Owari Domain had no two hearts.

Because of this, Tokugawa Yoshinao was trusted by the shoguns of the shogunate, and he could even go to Edo once every two years, and the Ming army attacked Edo Castle, and he was in his own domain.

It took only five or six days to prepare for the Owari Domain, but the Owari Domain, as the main force in controlling the central and eastern domains, had to wait for the assembly of the feudal domains.

Especially if the Kaga clan and other major feudal clans joined, the military strength would naturally increase, and the rescue of Edo would be more confident.

Tokugawa Yoshinao led a standing army of 5,000 men from the Owari Domain to Matsushiro Castle, the town town of the Matsushiro Domain in Shinano Province, where Tokugawa Yoshinao's various feudal clans gathered.

When Yoshinao arrived at Matsushiro Castle, he was warmly welcomed by Sanada Nobuyuki, the lord of the Matsushiro domain, who was the ninth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the uncle of the current Tokugawa Iemitsu Shogun.

In front of Tokugawa Yoshinao, he also made a guarantee and sent out 1,000 of the only 1,500 standing reserves to show his loyalty.

Tokugawa Yoshinao refused the repeated persuasion of the flattering Nobuyuki, and did not enter Matsushiro Castle, but chose to set up a camp outside the castle to wait, he did not want to approach the same foreign daimyo, as one of the three imperial families, he was neither necessary nor willing to befriend the daimyo, otherwise he would be in trouble, and he must know that the master of war sent by the shogun was in his army.

In the following days, 6,000 soldiers from the Fukui domain of the Takada domain arrived first, and the two lords were Matsudaira Mitsuyuki, the grandson of Ieyasu, and Matsudaira Tadamasa, Matsudaira Mitsuyuki's uncle.

The Kaga clan also sent 6,000 feudal soldiers to Matsushiro Castle, and more than half of them were standing on the sidelines to show their loyalty to the Tokugawa family.

Of course, the fiefdoms of the Amagasaki Domain, the Ohno Domain, the Kurume Domain, the Oki Domain, the Tatebayashi Domain, the Maebashi Domain, the Akashi Domain, the Ueda Domain, and the Manbashi Domain, all of which were in the early tens of thousands to early 100,000 were basically three or four hundred ashigaru, which also made up four thousand ashigaru.

As for the dozens of ashigaru sent by the small feudal clans such as the Murakami Domain, the Takashima Domain, the Takato Domain, the Kawagoe Domain, the Kurokawa Domain, and the Sanneyama Domain, they also made up a thousand Ashigaru.

The total number of troops from each domain gathered at Matsushiro Castle reached more than 24,000, which was also a significant force.

Of course, the total number of riding equipment here is less than 1,000, and it is said that the riding equipment is high-looking, but in fact, it is the scouts and other families that come together, and the real riding equipment can not afford to raise, and the Owari Domain, Kaga Domain, Fukui Domain, and other large domains do not dare to raise it out of self-preservation.

Therefore, the army is majestic, but unfortunately it is a lame, and the 300 cavalry of the Owari Domain turned out to be the largest force, and it can be said that the combat power of the cavalry is almost zero, which also makes Tokugawa Yoshinao extremely uneasy, because according to the battle report, the cavalry of the Ming army is extremely strong.

The 20,000 defeats of the shogunate were defeated by the Ming cavalry, so how to choose the route of the march is a science, and it is best to give up the place where the Ming cavalry fights.

There were not many options in this way, so Tokugawa Yoshinao decided to choose Kai, which was more mountainous, to enter Musashi Province.

In fact, he also had a kind of consideration, whether he could wait for the main forces of the Kansai feudal lords led by the Kii domain to arrive, and then gather into an army of 50,000 or 60,000 to march together, so that the possibility of reaching Edo directly increased greatly, but Edo kept coming messengers to urge, considering that Edo's rice grain would definitely not hold out to the arrival of the army.

In the end, Tokugawa Yoshinao could only decide that more than 20,000 people would pass through the Kai Mountains to Musashi Province, and then arrive in Edo, in his opinion, Kai, and Musashi, the lower terrain would appear in Musashi, after all, if the reinforcements arrived in Edo, the purpose of the Ming army to besiege Edo would be frustrated.

Therefore, before the reinforcements arrived in Edo, the Ming army would inevitably come and snipe, otherwise it would be too late.

Tokugawa Yoshinao didn't think that the combat strength of this ragtag army under his control could be compared to the shogunate standing in Yokohama, but in order to besiege Edo, the Ming army would not attack his support army, which means that he had to face a maximum of 10,000 Ming troops, or even only a few thousand reinforcements, which gave him the confidence to win, otherwise, Tokugawa Yoshinao really did not have the confidence to break through the 20,000 cavalry of the Ming army to reach Edo.

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