Chapter 100: A Deadly Event
Yes......
Zhu Jian, who was enjoying himself, suddenly let out a miserable scream, which frightened Tian Guifei, who was helping him rub his shoulders and beat his back, and hurriedly bent down to plead guilty, "Emperor...... Emperor...... Forgiveness ......"
In order to please the emperor, she has seriously learned all kinds of flattery techniques to please the Son of Heaven, although this technical work of rubbing shoulders and backs is not to be said to be master-level, but it is not too bad, and the strength is just right, so that the emperor is so comfortable that he hums with his eyes closed, but somehow, where does it hurt the emperor? Anyway, she was scared to death.
"Aifei, it's none of your business, I suddenly remembered something important, I'm sorry, it scared you...... Come. ”
Zhu Jian helped the frightened Tian Guifei up, patted her seductive buttocks to comfort and apologize, but suddenly the things he remembered were too important and fatal, and he had no leisure to comfort the greatly frightened Tian Guifei, and immediately ordered Gao Qiqian to call Wang Chengen, the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, Lei Yin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Zhang Weiliang, the deputy commander of the East Factory, Li Jingbai, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Lu Hongniang, the commander of the Phoenix Legion, Cao Bianjiao, the commander of the wolf battalion, and Li Xin, the commander of the Shenji battalion, immediately called.
Gao Qiqian didn't dare to delay at all, and hurriedly sent the eunuch to call someone, these masters are all the emperor's trusted henchmen, and they are usually so busy that they don't see a shadow, and they all come at once, it must be a big deal.
There is indeed a big thing, Zhu Jian also remembered it suddenly, and then patted his forehead again and again and scolded his mother, if he was busy, he could only blame himself for being busy and fainting, and forgot about this fateful big thing, he is now making amends, but I don't know if it's too late?
When Lu Hongniang and the others hurriedly entered the palace and came to the imperial study, Zhu Jian was pouting his buttocks, lying on a large map and watching.
"You say, these days, isn't Liaodong too calm?"
A clueless sentence, Mo Ming's wonderful words made Lu Hongniang and the others stunned, what's wrong with the emperor today? Cao Bianjiao was the only one who was not stunned, on the contrary, his eyes lit up, the emperor wanted the wolf camp to move?
The wolf battalion is a new army, training is important, the soldiers carry out all kinds of high-intensity training seriously every day, one day can withstand the training intensity of the general garrison for ten days, the soldiers are making rapid progress, as the commander of the wolf battalion, Cao Bianjiao thinks that the soldiers under his command are OK, and now what is needed is to test the training results with actual combat.
Cao Bianjiao is a pure general, the fate of the military general is the battlefield, but also to seize the battlefield merits, the stage of glory and glory, he is eager to fight, eager to make meritorious contributions, the old uncle Cao Wenzhao led the Guangping army to kill the Quartet in Shaanxi, repeatedly made military exploits, has been promoted to the general officer, in charge of an army, so that his eyes are hot, but the emperor has always thought that the training of the three battalions is not enough, not sent to the battlefield, and now, the opportunity has finally come.
He dared to say that except for Li Xin's Shenji Battalion and the Phoenix Legion of the Red Concubine, there is no army in the world that can be compared with his wolf battalion, his biggest reliance is that the wolf battalion is equipped with the best weapons of the Ming Dynasty and has received various modern military theoretical training.
"Is the emperor saying that the situation in Liaodong has changed?"
Among the crowd, Li Xin reacted the fastest, he was only stunned for a few seconds before he caught the meaning of the emperor's words, has the situation in Liaodong changed?
Although he was promoted, he was implicated by his father before and never entered the office, but in his bones he still regarded himself as a civil official.
The habit of the literati, although Li Xin is busy training the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion every day, but he pays attention to the situation in the world and the changes in the court, Liaodong has Hong Chengchou, who is scheming and steady, and has the strong support of the Son of Heaven, although he dare not say that the military supplies such as food and weapons are sufficient, but they are much better than in previous years, although the Jin army has repeatedly violated the border, but they have been repelled by the Hong Governor, and the nine sides are solid, but the emperor suddenly summoned everyone, and asked such an inexplicable and wonderful word, indicating that Liaodong should have an accident.
"No, Inspector Hong is very steady, but ...... Or, if you change your perspective and regard yourself as the golden lord Huang Taiji, who is ambitious and wants to enter the Central Plains, what will you think if you can't break the border pass for a long time? ”
Zhu Jian squeaked vaguely, he couldn't explain the reason for the uncertain prophet to everyone, he was speechless for a while, but fortunately, he was in a hurry, and immediately thought of a solution, asking everyone to change their perspective, regard themselves as Huang Taiji, and look at the current situation from Huang Taiji's perspective.
This is a bit of a curse, in other words, the general minister was so frightened that he knelt down and pleaded guilty, but fortunately, Li Xin, Cao Bianjiao and others were already familiar with Zhu Jian's style of acting, but they didn't feel that there was anything wrong, and quickly substituted themselves into the role of the gold lord Huang Taiji, and then stared at the military map in front of him and pondered, and the atmosphere in the imperial study instantly became a little weird.
Li Xin stared at the military map and pondered for a long time, pointing to the two cities of Ningjin, the two major towns have high walls and thick walls, and there is a large amount of grain and grass in the store, even if it is besieged by the Jin army, as long as the generals who defend the city do not make major military mistakes, it is basically not a problem to defend it for a year and a half, not to mention that Hong Chengchou is old and calculating, known for his stability, with him sitting in Liaodong for a day, it is impossible for Huang Taiji to break through.
Ningyuan, Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan area of the Jin army insurmountable barrier, Huang Taiji is stupid to launch a strong attack at any cost, don't forget, the Jin Empire has a small population base, lack of materials, can not afford to play a war of attrition,
There is no way to break through in the western part of Liaoning, Huang Taiji must have moved his eyes eastward, all the way to the north of Zunhua, the important town of the Ming Dynasty, the Horqin grassland, as long as the last Great Khan of the Mongol Empire Lin Dan Khan is defeated, it is equivalent to clearing the northern obstacles, and you can safely knock on the northern gateway of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, the fierce-eyed Huang Taiji did this, Lin Dan Khan is also brave and good at fighting, quite strategic, but the Mongolian tribes are full of contradictions, each with a ghost, it is difficult to resist the elite of the Eight Banners, Lin Dan Khan can only ask for help from the Ming Dynasty, hoping that Lianming will resist Jin, but Chongzhen and the civil officials of the Donglin Party do not take it seriously at all, and sit back and watch Lin Dan Khan be destroyed by Huang Taiji, until the Jin army iron cavalry broke through and woke up, but it was too late.
Zhu Jian's time and space, he was also entangled for a long time, before he had no choice but to refuse the request of the Lin Dan Khan Alliance, of course he knew that the enemy's enemy is the great truth of the ally, from the strategic situation, it should indeed be allied with Mongolia to resist Jin, but this Ming has won weak to the point of dying, the armament is deserted, the combat effectiveness is low, and the iron cavalry of the Jin army to fight the field war is completely to send people to the head of the battle, all kinds of huge military expenses not to mention, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is so empty that there is not a single mouse, plus the drought in the country, the disaster is everywhere, Shaanxi is in turmoil, etc., all made Zhu Jian anxious.
Is it the alliance with Lin Dan Khan to fight against gold, the finances have been dragged down, and the situation is getting worse day by day? Or do you concentrate your limited financial resources on training and strengthening the army? He struggled with this issue for a long time, and in the end, it was Song Xiance's words that made him make up his mind.
It is better to rely on oneself to ask for others, this is what the dog-headed military advisor Song Xiance said, Song Xiance's analysis is generally similar to him, with the current combat power of the Ming army, in the vast prairie and the invincible Jin army in the field to fight a field battle, purely to find death, rather than losing troops and losing generals, wasting a lot of money and food and other large military materials in vain, it is better to gamble, concentrate the limited money and food on the training of the new army, and then concentrate all the elite main forces of the Ming Empire and the Jin army to fight the victory, even if you can't kill the emperor Taiji, you can at least cripple the Eight Banners Army, Daming will be given precious respite to recuperate.
Of course, there are prerequisites for this, the situation in Liaodong must be stabilized, the people's army must be cleared and wiped out, and there must be no internal chaos, Zhu Jian struggled for a long time, and finally adopted Song Xiance's strategic proposal, that is, Wan rejected the request of the Lin Dan Khan Alliance to resist Jin.
Although Zhu Jian rejected Lin Dan Khan's request to send troops, he still gave Lin Dan Khan some small help, such as opening up border trade, selling grain and iron ore and other important military supplies, he still hoped in his bones that Lin Dan Khan could hold on for a while and buy him more time.
But the hope is full, but the reality is too skinny, Lin Dan Khan didn't last long and was defeated, and the Jin army no longer had any worries, and he could rest assured that he would invade the Ming Dynasty.