Yizhou is a fortified city on the Liaodong defense line, what are Cao Yi and Li Da going to eat, this kind of fortress can be captured first?"

Shen Yichen rarely got angry and asked Wu Rong, you must know that Yizhou is not an ordinary military acropolis, it was set up as early as the Jin Dynasty, and it is one of the few dual-use cities in the entire Liaodong Prefecture.

More importantly, Yizhou City is just stuck at the tail of the Liaoxi Corridor, echoing the Shanhaiguan from end to end, and dividing the two extremely important military fortresses in Liaodong, Ningyuan City and Guangning City.

If the city of Uiju cannot be taken in a short period of time, it means that the land supply channel to Quang Ninh city will be cut off. To use the map of the Chinese rooster in later generations as a metaphor, that is, the neck of the chicken was cut off, and the entire Northeast chicken head position became an isolated enclave, which was definitely a dangerous situation in the past!

Seeing Shen Yichen getting angry, Wu Rong's nervous forehead sweat beads were pouring out, he felt that the power on Shen Yichen's body was several times stronger than Cao Yi, the chief soldier of Liaodong, even if the two sides were childhood friends, they were a little chilling in their hearts.

"Big ...... Back to Shen Ge Lao, the crown prince Meng Ke was recruiting the old troops in the Modong Mongolian region, and in order to prevent him from receiving the news and leading his troops to ambush first, the boss led 10,000 Liaodong cavalry to follow the guard, resulting in a shortage of drivers and horses in Liaodong."

"In addition, after the fall of the Tatar Army, the three Jurchen tribes, which had been under the control and suppression, were ready to move, and with the support of the Heavenly Sage Khan, they recently invaded the borders in Jianzhou, Shenyang and other places, and General Cao could only lead the soldiers and horses to assist in the defense."

"The continuous deployment of troops and horses has led to the emptiness of the hinterland of the Liaodong Dusi, and I thought that Zhu Dudu would lead his troops to Shanhaiguan early, and Shen Ge Lao's galloping soldiers and horses would soon arrive in Liaodong. As a result, he also cultivated the plank road in the dark, and his main direction of attack was not Xuanda at all, but Yizhou, and he was unable to resist when he was caught off guard."

Wu Rong was extremely aggrieved and said what happened, and even the title of the eldest brother in the past was subconsciously changed to an official position.

Indeed, according to the plan discussed between Shen Yichen and Jin Lian, under normal circumstances, troops and horses were transferred, and at the end of March and early April, with the departure of the Southern Expeditionary Army from Beijing, he had to immediately lead the Northern Expeditionary Army to arrive at the Liaodong Capital Division to complete the encirclement of Wuliang Ha Sanwei.

As a result, the change of seizing the door interrupted all the deployments, adhering to the strategy of Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu's "Outside must first be secured", even Zhu Yi's Department, which had arrived at Shanhaiguan, actually quietly returned to the vicinity of Beijing overnight to wait for the opportunity, who could care about the situation in Liaodong?

After listening to Wu Rong's explanation, Shen Yichen took a deep breath to suppress the anger in his heart, he knew that the fault was not on the Liaodong Army.

After all, Mongolia is a world enemy that has been fighting against the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years, coupled with the hidden danger Jurchen Tribe that is rising in the north, the strategic focus of the Ming Dynasty has not shifted from Beijing to the grassland, relying on tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Liaodong Prefecture, in vain attempt to deter the Quartet.

"How many soldiers and horses and people did Uiju City have?"

"There are 5,000 people in Yizhou, and 30,000 people in Liaodong."

Hearing this number, Shen Yichen's face became more and more gloomy, during the Battle of Tumubao, he had been in Wanquan Zuowei Cang, and he had witnessed with his own eyes what kind of fate would happen to the frontier towns after they were captured.

It is definitely a hellish scene on earth, there is not one in the army and civilians, even if they are lucky enough to survive, they will be taken to the grassland as slaves and maids, and the subsequent experience may be worse than death.

"Wu Rong!"

Shen Yichen signed up, scared Wu Rong for a moment, and then hurriedly hugged his fists and said, "Humble duty!"

"Hurry up and send an order to Li Da, and let him lead the Liaodong cavalry to return to Guangning City immediately with Mengke. This cabinet department is to let him use the signboard of the crown prince Mengke, not let him serve as the cowardly army of the Mongol Great Khan, to defend the resurgence of the Tatar Ministry!"

As soon as he said this, Shen Yichen felt that his anger could not be suppressed, and he asked the crown prince to go to Liaodong to collect the old department, in order to fight for the legal system of the Mongol Khan first.

As a result, who would have thought that Li Da was so solid-eyed, and led his troops out of the country to escort Meng Ke to Modong Mongolia to recruit the old department, no wonder he was in the outer courtyard of Ying Tianchengguo's mansion back then, this kid has been reading for more than ten years, and it is really difficult for him to play a conspiracy!

"Yes, obedience!"

In the face of Shen Yichen's military order, Wu Rong didn't dare to say a word and left, and the battlefield was about the speed of a soldier.

"Canghuotou, you go to Juyong Pass to inform Zhu Yi, the right governor, and explain the situation that Yizhou was captured first. Let him abandon the plan of flanking the three guards of Wuliangha, and lead his troops to march hastily to the Dagu Haiphong Pass and arrive at Quang Ninh City by boat, and take over the authority of Cao Yi, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong."

"Wang Neng, you take your official warrant and go to Dagukou, hand it over to Feng Zheng, the commander of the Fujian Metropolitan Command, and ask him to change the original deployment to Guangning City and land directly on the coast of Ningyuan City."

One after another, Shen Yichen's cronies around him said that Ning Yuanwei's high-ranking officers were simply dumbfounded, this is equivalent to completely changing the plan made before the war, you must know that it is taboo to change the order on the battlefield every day!

In other words, if the general civilian commander does this, I am afraid that Ning Yuanwei's commander will risk the risk of confrontation to admonish, after all, the real marching formation is completely different from the case in the military book, and the consequence of talking about the army on paper is that one general is incompetent and exhausting the three armies.

But Shen Yichen is different from ordinary civilian officials supervising the army, he has been in charge of military affairs for a long time, and his battlefield experience is not inferior to that of many military generals, and he will never make such a low-level mistake as changing the order of the dynasty and changing it every day.

But the problem is that after this operation, all the soldiers and horses have been mobilized to the Liaodong Capital Division, which has nothing to do with the three guards of Wuliang Ha, what does Shen Ge Lao want to do?

couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart, and as the commander of Ning Yuanwei, he was responsible for the casualties of his subordinates. Commander Wei made Liang Qiuhong get up from his seat, and respectfully hugged his fist towards Shen Yichen and asked, "The last general is stupid and has a problem to understand, please ask Shen Ge Lao to solve his doubts."

"Liang Weisi can speak freely."

Compared with the attitude towards Wu Rong, in the face of Liang Qiuhong's inquiry, Shen Yichen's attitude was friendly for a long time.

The reason is that the two sides are not familiar with each other, and too strong deterrence will suppress the sharp edge of the generals, so that they dare not say much, and the result of evolution is that they will be like breaking their backbones in front of civilian officials, and they will completely lose their right to speak.

Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu relied on the power of the civilian clique to ascend to power, even if Yu Qian and Shen Yichen were in charge of the military department and often contacted martial arts, they were still essentially different from military generals, and the two sides were not all the way after all.

With the suppression of the old nobles, the center of the imperial court let Yu Qian deprive the governors of the five armies of the power to take charge of military affairs, and the local implementation of the governor and town guard system, coupled with the strong newcomers of Shen Yichen's cabinet, there has been a trend of civil dignity and military inferiority.

The more this stage of change, the more Shen Yichen must pay attention to the respect for the generals, if even he is accustomed to self-esteem and can't tolerate the questioning of local generals, then the civil official group in the center of the imperial court will still look at the border generals with a straight eye?

Shen Yichen returned the salute like this, and Liang Qiuhong was a little flattered by the friendly attitude of the two of them before, and hurriedly bowed his waist and said: "Zhu Dudu's soldiers and horses stationed in the Beijing camp in Juyong Pass are to encircle the Wuliangha Sanwei from the west wing, and now that Shen Ge Lao has transferred him to Guangning City, where the capital division is stationed further north, how can he conquer the Wuliangha Sanwei?"

Facing Liang Qiuhong's inquiry, Shen Yichen replied with a smile, "Who said that the Cabinet Department is going to recruit the Wuliang Ha Sanwei now?"

Forehead......

After hearing this, Liang Qiuhong stood in place, unable to say a word for a long time.

The announcement and deployment of the imperial court have been issued to the commanders of the guards at all levels, can the official documents stamped with the big seal of the military department still be forged?

Looking at the stunned appearance of the officers at Ning Yuanwei's command, Shen Yichen put away the smile on his face and said in a cold tone: "Capture the thief and capture the king first, and the target of this cabinet department is the Yizhou Warat Department!"

Tiansheng Khan also used a move to attack the west first, and captured Yizhou City with lightning speed, which was indeed extremely beautiful. In normal history, cutting off the passage of the Liaoxi Corridor can be said to have seized an absolute strategic advantage, so that the Ming Dynasty's soldiers and horses could not advance or retreat, and the plan to continue to conquer Wuliang Ha Sanwei was likely to be aborted.

But it's a pity that Ye Xian, who has been crisscrossing the grasslands all his life, can't understand the changes in the Age of Discovery. Shen Yichen, who controls the fleet of the Daming treasure ships, does not need to be connected through the Western Liaoning Corridor at all, he can land and land anywhere in Liaodong Bay, and concentrate superior forces to crush the Mongolian soldiers and horses!

This situation is very similar to the end of the Qing Dynasty, when there were clearly millions of green battalions of eight banners, but they were helpless in the face of foreigners who could land everywhere in the sea and border. In addition to the backwardness of the system and weapons, in fact, many local wars do not have much advantage in terms of troops, and they are simply powerful and have nowhere to go, and the other side will not fight a war of attrition with you at all.

Since he also wanted to be this up-and-coming bird first, Shen Yichen simply let Wuliangha Sanwei go aside and concentrated his superior forces to attack Yizhou City. Zhu Yi led 30,000 elite soldiers of the Beijing battalion, 40,000 elite troops of Feng Zheng's Northern Expeditionary Army, and Guangning City, where the capital of the Liaodong Army was stationed, it should not be a problem to transfer 20,000 or 30,000 people.

In other words, under the circumstances that he had not expected at all, Shen Yichen was able to gather 100,000 soldiers and horses in an instant and encircle Yizhou City from the left and right wings.

originally cut off the nails of the Liaoxi Corridor, and the offensive and defensive momentum was transformed into a turtle in the urn. In addition, occupying Yizhou City first is equivalent to giving up the cavalry field warfare that the Mongols are best at, and fighting the city attack and defense with the Ming army, even if it is because he thinks his life is too long!

After listening to Shen Yichen's strategic deployment, Bian He had been following for a long time after all, and had seen the use of using sea ships to dispatch troops, so he showed an expression of amazement on his face.

It can only be said that Shen Yichen is worthy of being the son of Chengguo Gong and has inherited the bloodline of a military general. What is even more admirable is that the proprietor's understanding of the water master is far beyond that of the civil and military officials of the imperial court, and the disadvantage situation has been reversed by him into an advantage.

Compared with Bian He, the expression on the face of Ning Yuanwei's command was more of a dazed, they had been marked with an ideological steel seal for so many years in the Ming Dynasty, and they didn't have any conscious thoughts about all kinds of springboard landing battles.

But this can't be blamed on them, after all, Shen Yichen's strategic thinking does not belong to this era at all, and with the support of the next fleet, it is even more powerful, which can be called a dimensionality reduction blow.

"Then attacking Yiju City with all our might, will the Wuliang Ha Sanwei take the opportunity to sneak attack, causing us to suffer from the enemy on our backs?"

Liang Qiuhong is a veteran after all, and he can't digest Shen Yichen's application of large-scale shipping for the time being, but he is still aware of the flaws in this strategy. For example, if all the soldiers and horses are concentrated in the siege of Yizhou City, it is equivalent to ignoring the three guards of Wuliangha, and the other party will honestly watch from the wall.

"No matter how loud a dog barks, it can't become a pack of wolves."

Shen Yichen continued contemptuously: "Liang Weisi, haven't you Ning Yuanwei fought with Wuliang Ha Sanwei, when did Daming Huben put them in his eyes, and dared to grin his teeth and some of the troops of the Pavilion to meet him, I am afraid that they will not come!"

"In addition, the commander of the loyal Guogong Shiheng was in the nine sides, and when he left Beijing in the cabinet department, he had already gone to the Xuanda defense line with Yang Hong, the Marquis of Changping. Since he has already exposed his main Liaodong target, how can the Ming border army be a group of kings nested in turtle shells?"

"Kou can go, I can go too!"

When he said this, Shen Yichen could be described as full of pride, and he didn't feel the elegance of the literati at all, let alone the negative state that Yizhou City was captured by the Tartars and was in a strategic disadvantage.

It's not that Shen Yichen looks down on Wuliang Ha Sanwei, the left and right sides have been grass for a long time, and it seems that they are extremely sleek and take advantage of both sides, but in fact, it is a devastating blow to the brave and good warriors of the soldiers of the headquarters, and they can't cultivate the decisiveness of martial arts and death at all.

It's like Zhu Yong, the prince of Chengguo in the ninth year of orthodoxy, led his troops to conscript, and the three guards of Wuliang Ha were simply defeated with one blow, and all kinds of evasions could not be answered. Later, in the battle of Tumubao, the battle of the Jingshi Guard, and the battle of Liaodong, the three guards of Wuliang Ha also played the temperament of the dog's legs, and they all wanted to follow behind the Wara Department to pick up leaks.

To describe it in the terms of later generations, a proper imperial army or servant army demeanor is not worthy of being divided into three parts of the Mongolian world with Warat and Tatar!

In addition, Shi Heng's bravery Shen Yichen can be said to have witnessed with his own eyes, character and ability are two unrelated things, no matter how narrow-minded and arrogant Shi Heng is, it can't change the essence of this guy being a fierce general.

Shi Heng had just been promoted to the Duke of Zhongguo, and he was eager to prove himself in front of Emperor Jingtai Zhu Qiyu. Now that he found that Yexian's main offensive direction was not in Xuanda at all, and without defensive pressure, Shen Yichen believed that with his character, he would definitely take the initiative to seek combat achievements.

Since he was already at the court meeting, Shi Heng took the initiative to show it

I really want to get a piece of the "war exploits", so Shen Yichen doesn't mind letting the other party pinch it first, which is equivalent to helping him alleviate his worries.

"What Shen Ge taught the old man is that the last general will be ashamed!"

Liang Qiuhong blushed in the face of Shen Yichen's words, as a military general, he was not as brave as a civil servant like Shen Ge Lao. Wuliang Ha Sanwei as a perennial training object with his defeated generals, Ning Yuanwei has fought with them many times, when did he be timid?

It seems that the rise of the Warat tribe and the entry of the Heavenly Sage Khan did inadvertently give birth to a trace of timidity and weakness, and there was no confidence to regard the Mongol Tatars as pigs and sheep to be slaughtered in the early years.

At the same time, it also made Liang Qiuhong realize that the rumors from the outside world are true, and Shen Ge Lao really lives up to the reputation of "going out and going into the phase"!

(End of chapter)