Chapter 10 Questioning

How many Jinyi guards are there, how can they draw such a detailed map?

Feng Sheng couldn't figure it out.

However, he didn't have to figure it out. After he was ready to go back, he wrote to Zhu Yuanzhang and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to give him a map.

Feng Sheng said: "Lord He, you have done a good job, if the magistrates everywhere are doing as well as you." I don't have to worry about it. ”

He Xi said: "The national prince praises falsely. This is what the lower officials should do. ”

Feng Sheng said; "You've prepared so much. Then I ask you, when is the best time to enter? ”

He Xi pondered for a moment and said; "May, early summer, to be exact."

Feng Sheng frowned slightly and said; "Why?"

He Xi said: "First, spring in the Northeast came late, and second, after the ice and snow melted in spring, the land became extremely muddy. At least north of Liaodong, it is like this for hundreds of miles. It is extremely difficult to transport baggage. Therefore, Xia Guan thought that he would at least wait for this period of time. ”

Feng Sheng muttered secretly: "I really didn't expect this. ”

Feng Sheng had mostly considered sending troops from the grassland, that is, Daning. This road is mostly grassland. It is considered the border area between the Northeast Plain and the grassland, and on the whole, it is still relatively arid. On the Northeast Plain, that kind of situation is not easy to occur.

Therefore, Feng Sheng did not consider the mud after the snow melted in early spring.

Feng Sheng still knows a lot about the situation of the Tartars.

For Da Ming, winter is very sad. For the Tartars at higher latitudes, the winter will only be harder. If the winter of the Ming Dynasty can only freeze people to death, the winter of Mongolia is the winter of almost all the elderly can not live.

So the period of time when winter has just passed is when the tartars are at their weakest.

Both the men and the horses were in a state of extreme weakness.

And this weakness will get better little by little as the days warm.

Therefore, if it is delayed for one day, the weather will be warmer for one day, the enemy will be stronger for one day, and the price of war will be more.

Of course, Feng Sheng has reached his current status, and he will succeed in ten thousand bones. For the sake of victory, tens of thousands of heads were thrown in, and for Feng Sheng, he didn't even blink an eye. However, at the time of the temple count. Feng Sheng still hopes that some casualties can be reduced. Just reduce some casualties.

Feng Sheng said: "If you want to march from Liaodong? Is there any way to get a little earlier? ”

He Xi heard the sound of the strings and knew the elegant meaning. Immediately understood what Feng Sheng meant, he pondered for a while and said; "It's not that there's no way. It's just that this method has some difficulties. ”

Feng Sheng said; "What way."

He Xi said: "Then at the end of February, the beginning of March. ”

Feng Sheng said: "At this time, for Zhaozhou, it's still winter, right?" ”

He Xi said: "Guogong is wise. Exactly. The thaw in Zhaozhou is in mid-March, while here in Liaodong is about to thaw in February. Precisely because the land has not yet thawed. Almost hard as iron. Even some rivers can become roads. As long as you prepare dry food, it will only take a few days to go from Zhenbeiguan to Zhaozhou. And the army can also take advantage of the fact that the land is not thawed and send a batch of baggage first. Then every half a month, or a month, it is not too late to send the second batch. ”

"Of course, if you win, it's also excellent to fight and feed the war."

"And at this time, although there is no thaw yet, the climate has warmed up. At least not like now, the wind is like a knife. Non-combat attrition, there won't be too much. ”

"Of course, that's what my family says. Guogong, listen to it in vain. Don't take it personally. ”

Although He Xi was very excited, he also knew that he had a few catties and taels. In front of ordinary people, he can point fingers at military affairs. But in front of Feng Sheng, a veteran of a hundred battles, he didn't dare to talk nonsense. Lest you lose face.

Feng Sheng said, "No. Your opinion is good. Do you have a lot of things to do in Liaodong? ”

He Xi pointed to the file on the side and said; "How can it not be much. There are too many things going on in Liaodong. It's too busy at all. ”

In fact, this is a question of He Xi's management style.

He Xi's governor yamen, as the decision-making center, directly connected to the capital division. Thousands of households under the capital division all acted in accordance with military law. He Xi sent many people down as supervisors and technical guidance, and this management model turned Liaodong into a large military camp at the same time, it was also very efficient.

But efficient at the same time. It has greatly increased He Xi's workload.

He Xi almost set up Ye Wang, directly docking with more than a dozen health offices below and dozens of independent thousand-household offices. As well as some important locations of the post station and the hundred forts. Even if He Xi had two major strategists and dozens of Guozijian students, he was too busy to get around.

Today's management model and organizational model are somewhat similar to modern organizational models, but there is a huge gap. However, there are many similarities with the classical military empires of the Qin and Han dynasties, the Qin State has millions of people, and can almost build nearly a million troops, and it is estimated that there is a similar organizational model, controlling everyone layer by layer. Every strong man.

He Xi also knows that this model cannot last long. However, after the Northern Expedition has been fought first, it is not too late to make adjustments.

After all, if the war is won, the pressure on Liaodong will be reduced a lot.

He Xi has much more room for reform.

Feng Sheng pondered for a moment and said, "No, no matter how busy you are, let me go." Come back to Peking with me. ”

He Xi said; "Why?"

Feng Sheng said: "Participate in this pre-war meeting of the Northern Expedition. Feng Sheng paused slightly and said, "I need what you just said." ”

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Half a month later, in the city of Beiping.

Today's Beiping City is not the north-capital of later generations, and the north-capital of later generations was built in the Yongle period. Today's Beiping City is actually the capital of Yuan.

After the Ming Dynasty conquered the capital of Yuan, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Da to carry out some transformations of the capital of Yuan, just to vent his royal anger. But just listen to it, this transformation is not large-scale. After all, at the beginning of the founding of the country, not to mention the lack of manpower and material resources, the Tartars were in Monan at that time. and even in and out of the city of Beiping.

There aren't that many manpower and material resources to do these things.

Even if it is on the city wall, the palace of the Yuan Dynasty, and other places have made some feng shui arrangements. It's like, legend has it that Qin Shi Huang opened the Qinhuai River and vented the royal anger of Jinling. Zhu Yuanzhang made a similar arrangement, but it was not as big as Qin Shi Huang's.

Later, Zhu Dijing was difficult to raise troops and was trapped in Beiping City, and the southern army just couldn't get in, of course, because the defenders were resolute, but also because this Beiping City was originally a capital, and the city wall did not change much.

But for the same reason.

When Zhu Di built the north-capital, he did not repair and expand on the basis of the Yuan capital, but used the north city wall of the Yuan capital as the south city wall of the north-capital, and moved the north-capital to the north, increasing the huge amount of work.

It is estimated that he is also worried that Zhu Yuanzhang has done something before, and he can really hinder the royal spirit of the north-capital.

Today's Beiping City is a military city.

More than 100,000 troops were stationed inside and outside the city of Beiping, which was only part of the main force of this Northern Expedition. Some of the other ministries are already in Daning. There are some other places that are poised to go. And no matter where, most of the generals came to the city of Beiping.

But because of the boss, Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, ordered the generals to gather, and the generals who heard the order rushed to Beiping one after another.

He Xi is also among them.

At this moment, He Xi was nervous and tired.

All the way from Shenyang to Beiping, but I was tired.

They first went south from Shenyang to Port Arthur, as mentioned above, Port Arthur is an ice-free port and can naturally navigate. From Lushun to Tanggu. Although Tanggu, that is, the port of Tianjin in later generations, sometimes froze, the degree of icing is not comparable with the coast of eastern Liaodong.

Barely able to get ashore.

After going ashore, he hurried up and arrived in the city of Beiping.

Didn't have time to rest. The blood on the thighs was frozen, layer upon layer. Riding a horse and whipping, it looks so chic, but who rides who knows, He Xi misses his little electric donkey, the car, and even the tractor in the village countless times.

Either way, it's much better than riding a horse.

No matter how tired he was, he became nervous when he thought about what he had to face. He gave up everything in Liaodong and came here. It's because of what Feng Sheng told him.