Chapter 153: Playing the Game of Attrition
"What?"
When Xu Heng, Sun Chuanting and Sun Chengzong's recitals were successively delivered to the Beijing division and presented to Zhu Jian, Zhu Jian jumped up and greeted all the officers and soldiers stationed by the Yellow River.
After carefully reading the recital, he gradually calmed down and passed it on to the members of the royal advisory group, and the people's army finally entered Shanxi, and the people of Shanxi were probably also suffering like Shaanxi, and what he could do was to mobilize troops from all walks of life into Shanxi to quell the chaos, mobilize grain and grass from the south, and make preparations to appease the displaced people.
Fortunately, the people's army did not enter Shanxi, but divided into parts, scattered into Shanxi, thinking of things also had to take some time to gather manpower and prepare, which gave him a little time to prepare, Sun Chuanting had a keen sense of smell and reacted quickly, and had led his headquarters to assemble on the side of the Yellow River, and had notified Sun Chengzong, Lu Xiangsheng, Qin Liangyu and others to prepare for the expedition, what was missing was just his holy order.
"The emperor doesn't have to worry too much, Lord Sun has already warned him, I believe that the officials in Shanxi have taken some precautions, if there is still a mistake, they deserve to die."
The dog-headed military advisor Song Xiance comforted him, Sun Chuanting had already warned him, if there was still a mistake, it could only be said that it was the will of heaven, and Shanxi was destined to be broken. Of course, if you look at this matter from another angle, it's another matter, the loss of the city and the loss of land is the negligence of those officials to play their duties, it should be clicked, the emperor, aren't you a headache for the Donglin Party all day long? Just take this opportunity to cut down some people, get rid of a group of people, and weaken the power of the Donglin Party a little.
Besides, didn't your emperor grit your teeth a few days ago and want to destroy the eight families in Shanxi? This is also an opportunity, the foundation of the eight families is in Shanxi, let's drive the tiger and devour the wolf, even if we can't destroy the eight families, it will definitely make them hurt their muscles and bones, and they will be able to fish in troubled waters, hehehehehe.
Zhu Jian glared at him, wanting to reprimand him for not having a sense of the overall situation, but when the words came to his mouth, they just turned into a helpless sigh, the matter has come to this, let's put the overall situation aside, if Shanxi is really stirred into a pot of porridge by the people's army, it is really a serious dereliction of duty by local officials, if you don't chop off a few heads to vent and warn, you should be a young bully, right? Do you know what Long Wei is? What is the wrath of the Son of Heaven?
Under the escort of the forbidden army, a wave of angels galloped out of the capital, rushed to Shaanxi, Sichuan, Shanxi and other places, rushed to Shanxi angels to spread the holy decree of the Son of Heaven, officials everywhere increased vigilance, strict vigilance, and made emergency preparations, Shaanxi governor Sun Chengzong was ordered to lead the western government army to be stationed in the area of the Yellow River, blockade the main ferries, block the people's army flowing everywhere, and at the same time make war preparations throughout the territory to prevent accidents.
Qin Liangyu, the chief military officer of Sichuan Shizhu, Sun Chuanting, the chief military officer of Yan'an Prefecture, and Lu Xiangsheng, the right political officer and chief military officer of the Daimyo Mansion, were ordered to lead the men and horses of their headquarters into Shanxi to prepare for quelling the chaos.
In the big winter, the cold wind was biting, a thick layer of snow had accumulated on the ground, and the transportation was very inconvenient, which was a huge test for logistics, considering these problems, Zhu Jian did not ask Qin Liangyu, Lu Xiangsheng and others to rush desperately, enter Shanxi within a time limit, and it did not matter how many days were slow, the important thing was to ensure the safety of logistics and transportation, and at the same time ordered the military department to supply all armies with enough cotton clothes, cotton clothes, cotton shoes and other cold-proof materials, and appointed officials of the imperial party department, Jinyiwei and Dongchang to strictly supervise.
He said in the court that it was already very hard for soldiers to fight in winter, and whoever dared to stretch out his black hand to be greedy and fill his pockets, no matter how big an official was, I would chop off his head and raid his home.
This murderous warning made the hearts of the hundred officials feel slightly cold, and they remembered that although the Son of Heaven was young, he was quite angry, and from the time he overthrew the eunuch Wei Zhongxian to the present, he had chopped off the heads of many ministers and raided many people's homes.
The preparations that should be made have been done as much as possible, and then they can only passively wait for the civilian army that fled into Shanxi to make a move, which is also a helpless thing, after all, no one knows where they are hiding.
Different from the undercurrent of Shanxi, Liaodong is calm, the river crab has to smell the slightest smell of war, backward science and technology, low productivity, and the era of extreme scarcity of materials, if there is no 100% certainty, the stupid fork will start a war in winter, even if Huang Taiji is ambitious, he can't enter the Central Plains immediately, but he doesn't dare to start a war in this cold season, honestly shrink in the palace to warm up, and enjoy the beauty and wine.
Liaodong is very calm, but the Horqin prairie is not calm at all, Yue Tuo and the patriarchs of the tribes who sit in the prairie really don't want to toss, they just want to sleep well, but the damn wolf thieves and Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion are coldly rushing out somewhere to toss around, learning them to burn and loot, and then or hide, or retract back into the pass, and wait for you to relax your vigilance and rush out to make trouble, a few rounds of tossing, the tired elite bannermen and the grassland tribes have lost their temper.
It doesn't matter if it's just a simple raid, and I don't know when the attacking Phoenix Legion has become very ferocious, burning, killing and looting, killing all the cattle and sheep that can't be taken away, and then putting on a fire, even burning the tent or something, and the young and strong women and children are taken away as sexual mouths, leaving only the crippled and unable to work, only the people who can only consume food or the old people who are too old to engage in productive labor, which is a real big injury to the Kanwai clan whose population base is already small. Maybe this was influenced by the wolf thieves who killed a thousand knives, right?
The real inside story is Zhu Jian's various long-term failures, Lu Hongniang, Cao Bianjiao, Li Xin and others have been brainwashed, plus they went to the front line in person, and witnessed the tragic situation of the border people being robbed and burned by the Jin army, all of them were angry, so they used the family heirloom skills of Gusu Murong, and returned the other way to the other, what you do to me, I will do to you, play to fight and fight to consume, see who can't hold on.
Huang Taiji really couldn't afford to play this kind of game of hard consumption, Yue Tuo was overwhelmed, lost a lot of people and horses and a large number of cattle and sheep and other important materials, had to ask Huang Taiji again, Huang Taiji sent his powerful henchman and military Fan Wencheng to assist, trying to deal with the wolf thieves who killed a thousand knives and Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Army.
Some people also suspect that the wolf thieves are played by the Phoenix Legion, but some scouts found that the wolf thieves and the Phoenix Legion met unexpectedly, and the wolf thieves were beaten to death and wounded by the Phoenix Legion with a dense row of guns, and fled in panic.
After Fan Wencheng arrived in the Horqin Prairie, the first thing he discussed with Yue Tuo was to set a plan to deal with the Phoenix Legion after destroying the wolf thief group first, Lu Hongniang's Phoenix Legion was too fierce and difficult to deal with, even if they were surrounded, it would be difficult to annihilate them, and the price paid was so great that it was painful, this kind of annihilation war was very loss-making, and he could only slowly find a way.
Although the wolf thieves come and go like the wind, they are elusive, but after all, there are few people and weak strength, although I don't know how they got the thunder (the official name of the grenade), but they lack muskets, and their weapons are basically bows, arrows, knives and guns, which are relatively easy to fight, but they are not in a hurry, so they can only slowly open their nets and dig pits.
The repeated attacks of the wolf thief group and the Phoenix Legion have made Yue Tuo anxious, and now the most important thing is that Fan Wencheng entered the pass to inquire about information, but there was no news as soon as he left, which made him worry terribly.