Chapter 1324 Ning Yuan
"Set up?" Li Mingli was shocked, a little surprised, and couldn't help asking.
"It's the Tao Department." The small officer of the Ming army shouted: "The Tao Department has more than 100,000 people called Huoji to take it to Yiguo. Huo Luochi and Elinchen were arrested. Hetao Qianli belonged to our Han family again."
The Ming army officer looked at Li Mingli again and said, "You must have been a soldier from Liao Town. If you were forced to be captured, you would advise you to find a way to leave early. The Jurchens will not be able to jump around for a few days, and Hutchison will come sooner or later."
The Ming army said and retreated, and both sides fought unintentionally. It was almost evening, and the Jurchens on the side issued an order, and Li Mingli and others stopped the war horses and watched the Ming army retreat slowly and disappear into the twilight.
At this time, Li Mingli turned to look at Tabunang and saw the Mongol hunching his head down. The sky was dim and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Li Mingli was so happy that he didn't know what to say. Hutchison was getting better and better in the grassland, and he became more and more aggressive. After the trap was played, he probably fought to the east.
Maybe the dawn is really near!
Li Mingli's heart was thumping with joy. Looking at Zhao Gui, the middle-aged man had an unrestrained look of joy in his eyes. He then woke up and coughed gently.
Zhao Gui quickly lowered his head, afraid that someone would see something.
The news of Hutchison is like a bright lightning that passes through the dark heart.
Seeing the bad appearance of the Ming army in western Liaoning, almost no one could believe the court.
With the power of the court, spending millions of taels a year is already the limit, but what kind of bad soldiers are they trained and what kind of generals are in charge?
They fled without fighting and abandoned the fortress. They used to dare not fight in the field, but now they dare not fight at all, and they dare not even defend.
What hope can such an army give people, and what hope can such an imperial court give to the Liao people?
Fortunately, there is Hutchison and Lord Zhang’s merchant army!
Li Mingliqiang held back his excitement and pretended to comfort Tabu'sang and said, "This news is probably fake. They were beaten to pieces. They used this news to make themselves look bad."
"No," Tabun raised his head and said expressionlessly: "This matter is probably true. I believe that if the Hutchison and the Shang regiment army can come out, their troops will definitely be able to do this."
Li Mingli was not good enough to say anything, and he felt a little sympathetic to Tabu Nang for a moment.
Like himself, this Mongolian was an exile who had lost his own ethnic group and land. The difference was that Li Mingli had hope of remembering the memory, while Tabunang could only be destined to continue on the hopeless road.
"Brother, let's go."
The horn to order the rendezvous had sounded. Li Mingli knew that he could not delay it. Seeing that Tabu Nang was still a little depressed, he quickly said, "The Tabu Nang has nothing to do with your Tumot headquarters, so don't feel uncomfortable for them."
"I'm feeling uncomfortable for the Mongolians..." Tabunang said halfway, and saw a few Jurchen soldiers with fleshy faces looking at them with fierce eyes, and swallowed back half of the words they said.
The group returned to their Niulu in a depressed mood. The dusk was getting darker and someone was raising a torch in front of them. The Jurchens were talking to each other in a cheerful tone. They didn't know what the Ming army had just said, and they didn't care. This time they all gained a lot of benefits. Many flag guards got armor and weapons. The Jurchens had a gap of 30% of the armor, which means that there were about 30% of the war soldiers without serious armor, and about 20% of the war horses. This time, when they attacked western Liaoning, these two gaps were almost filled. Many flag guards got a lot of things, and everyone was very happy.
Now people are talking about conquering Ningyuan, and there are more military funds there. What everyone is most eager to get more food now is to get more food. The food shortage since last year not only affected the Han people and the robbers, but also had a great impact on ordinary Jurchens. Everyone is hungry. These Jurchen soldiers are treated better and can only ensure that they are full. The family often goes hungry, and the flag director and their family are even more in distress. In the years of war, a considerable number of male soldiers have died in battle, and their clans are also at risk of starvation.
In the continuous war of San Ding, the one-sided war that can support the Jurchens is such a one-sided war that can rob frantically.
It doesn’t require hard work and can get rich rewards, which makes everyone very happy.
When Li Mingli and others returned to their Niulu, it was dark and everyone was so cold that they were cold. However, there was no hot water or hot food, and no one even paid attention to them. Bashku, who led the team, ignored them when they saw them returning to Niulu. Li Mingli and his friends quickly ate some cold and hard food, drank a little cold water, and then wrapped themselves in their bedding to hide in the wind. When it was dawn tomorrow, they would continue their journey again.
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The city of Ningyuan has become a sea of joy.
This kind of joy is of course the joy of the Jurchens, and has nothing to do with the Ming army guarding the city and the people in the city.
In more than ten days, the situation in western Liaoning collapsed to such an extent, which may not be imagined by many people, but it is not difficult for Yuan Chonghuan to imagine.
The reason is quite simple. First, it is the chaos in the military and political system after Sun Chengzong left. Gao Di lacks prestige and acts relatively seriously. For the Liaoxi generals who have been comfortable under Sun Chengzong for several years, Gao Di's appearance is definitely a very inconvenient and unpleasant thing.
They had neither the mind nor the need to cater to such a newly appointed strategy. Without Nuerhaci's attack, these generals would have been slowly divided by Gao Di. After all, the Ming Dynasty was still quite strict in the control of military generals at this time. The Liaoxi generals were only potential power and potential strength, unlike the Chongzhen period if they had already been independent.
The Jurchens' attack gave the generals a great opportunity. A large number of generals fled without fighting, and even made it clear that they were deliberately afraid of the enemy and were afraid of the enemy.
Under the pressure, Gao Di could only shrink his defense line significantly. Originally, Gao Di also saw the reality and reality of western Liaoning. Sun Chengzong's 130,000 troops only looked majestic, but in fact they were paper-stuffed tigers, and they revealed their true colors as soon as they were pierced.
Originally, Gao Di had already planned to slowly withdraw the generals in front, making the outside weak and the inside strong. Nuerhaci's sudden intervention interrupted the process, which also caused extremely heavy losses to the western part of Liao.
With the rash moves of the new strategy and the selfish desires of the generals, Nuerhaci chose another suitable attack time, and everything became a mess, and the good situation was almost ruined.
Yuan Chonghuan, who was standing on the archery tower in the south gate of Ningyuan, had no regrets and hatred. Anyway, the broken ones could be rebuilt. The Ming Dynasty's billions of people still provide millions of military pay a year.
The key point is that Gao Di made a mistake in this move and would cause chaos in the morale of the military without mastering the location. This strategy is of course an unqualified candidate. Gao Di will definitely be resigned after this battle, which is no suspense.
At this time, Yuan Chonghuan certainly could not withdraw to the closure at Gao Di's request, so he flatly refused Gao Di's request and beat the lawsuit to the imperial court.
The news can no longer be conveyed now. The Eight Banners Cavalry are surrounded by them, which have been blocked quite strictly. However, Yuan Chonghuan was sure that the emperor must support him and stand on his own side.
After this battle, Yuan Chonghuan will soar into the sky, and his rise will be unstoppable.
The Liaodong governor dare not think about it for the time being, but Yuan Chonghuan is bound to win the position of governor of Liaodong.
Looking down from the city, there were Jurchens logging everywhere, and there were crowds of people pushing large carts and gathering like ants. A large number of ox carts, sledges, and small carts. Most of these vehicles were empty, with only a small amount of food and grass carrying the Jurchen army.
Yuan Chonghuan knew that most of the Jurchens brought their own food, and then went to Liaoxi to find ways to plunder the grain. The public transport only brought a small amount of food and grass to replenish the food for the war horses and elite white armor and vests, so that these soldiers could devote their energy to fighting.
Of course, more vehicles were used for looting. Yuan Chonghuan knew that there were endless streams of small cars going back to Liaodong these days, and more new cars followed, and the entire western Liaoning was almost emptied by the Jurchens.
Everyone wants everything, furniture, stoves, farm tools, old clothes and robes, of course, more of food and animal husbandry, as well as the weapons, chariots, cannons, and armor of the Ming army.
Everything was scraped three feet from the ground, nothing was found, whether it was a living person or a dead person.
"These poor guys." Man Gui stood by Yuan Chonghuan, looking at the carts that were happily pushing over, and couldn't help but curse.
Zu Dashou, who was covered in armor, stood beside Man Gui. On the other side were generals such as Zuo Fu. There are now more than 20,000 soldiers in the entire city, most of whom were subordinates of the Zu family and Man Gui. These two people also started their careers in Ningyuan. However, one was Ningyuan's hereditary general who had already had quite strong strength, and the other was an alien strong dragon. Man Gui also achieved good development in the short term with the support of Yuan Chonghuan. However, Yuan's support was only a small part, and more of it came from Sun Chengzong's support.
After Sun Chengzong left, Man Gui felt that the resources in his hands had decreased a lot. Of course, he was very dissatisfied with Gao Di and was not particularly respectful to Yuan Chonghuan. However, the conflict is still only at a shallow level, and both sides are now thinking about making achievements.
What Yuan Chonghuan wanted was the governor of Liaodong, and what Man Gui wanted was the general of Liao Town!
But Man Gui has an opponent, Zu Dashou is not good enough. The points lost in Guangning battle have not been made up until now. Zu Dashou is still the deputy general. This is because he made contributions to the 13th Mountain battle two years ago and has brought back many points. Originally, Zu Dashou should have been just a general at this time, and he was the general of the title during the Chongzhen period. When Yuan Chonghuan died, Man Gui died, and Zhao Rujiao died. All these strong men who stood in front of Zu Dashou died. Zu Dashou officially took office. The court was not afraid of the strength of the Zu family in western Liaoning, but no one was available by then!
At this time, people found a horse riding towards the city gate, riding alone, but heading straight to the city gate without hesitation.
"Don't shoot arrows." The enemy cavalry shouted from afar: "Old Khan has a book for Mr. Yuan, Ning Qiandao!"
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It's the end of the month, everyone will continue to support it.
I went to read poetry. Recently, I like to read Du's poems. I am so gloomy and broad. Tonight I plan to read the songs of the huts broken by the autumn wind, which are good poems.
Chapter completed!