Chapter 26: The Restoration of Liaodong
Huang Taiji was defeated and fled, and the Mongolian soldiers in Shengjing were frightened and fled in all directions. A great battle ended in a hurry. The Ming army won a great victory and captured the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty in one fell swoop. The full recovery of Liaodong was just around the corner.
Zhu Cijing was not dizzy by the joy of victory. What he was most concerned about was the casualties of the Ming soldiers. The statistics were soon presented. The Tianxiong Army, Qin Army, Dongjiang Army and the First Corps of the Imperial Guard were all fine. The number of casualties was less than 10%, but there were only a lot of injuries. The Guanning Army was in trouble. The number of casualties reached more than 58,000, and the rest were basically seriously injured, and less than 10% could move!
The Guanning Army suffered such heavy casualties, and Zhu Cijing was not even in a mood to eat breakfast. He hurriedly drank a few sips of porridge and took Sun Chengzong and his entourage to the Guanning Army camp.
At this time, the Guanning Army camp was full of wounded soldiers, with painful moans everywhere. Even the soldiers standing guard and patrol patrol were covered with blood-seeking white cloth all over their bodies. The more Zhu Cijiu felt, the heavier heavier he was. They were all brave soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. What could he do for them?
He was thinking, but Cao Wenzhao, under the support of Cao Bianjiao, came up with several generals. Seeing that Cao Wenzhao and others were about to kneel down and salute, he quickly raised his hand and said, "All the generals are exempted from the gift."
Cao Wenzhao hurriedly bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
Zhu Cijing sighed, "I want to thank you. If you hadn't fought to repel the main force of Jiannu, this battle would have been not so easy."
Cao Wenzhao was flattered and moved and said, "Emperor, this is the duty of the empress, and he should not be praised in this way."
Zhu Cijing said firmly: "What should I do if I deserve it? If I have meritorious people, I must reward them. Let's talk about these things later. Let's take me to see the seriously injured soldiers first."
Cao Wenzhao was stunned when he heard this. He didn't know where he took the emperor. He was basically seriously injured, and those with minor injuries were on guard and patrol. He thought about it and simply took Zhu Cijiong to the nearest military tents.
Cao Bianjiao gently lifted the door curtain of the military tent in front of him, and a strong smell of Chinese medicine mixed with blood and sweat came towards him. Zhu Cijiu resisted his disgust and pretended to be nothing. He walked into the door curtain. He saw that only four or five people were lying in the military tent of ten people, which was quite spacious, but the people lying on him were more terrifying. He was basically covered with white cloth, and blood was leaking out everywhere, and he was lying there and moaning in a daze.
Even after looking at several camps, they were basically like this. Zhu Cijing couldn't help but frown and turned to ask Cao Wenzhao, "Why don't there be someone to take care of? What if they want to drink water and eat?"
Cao Wenzhao replied with a embarrassed look on his face: "This, I am not a man, I have to patrol if I can move."
Zhu Cijing thought for a while and shook his head, "This is not possible. The weather is so hot and the military tent is so stuffy, it will be suffocating. I sent an order to ask the First Corps of the Imperial Guards to come over, carry them all to the city, find some shaded yards to settle them, and leave 40,000 people to take care of them."
A general of the Jinyiwei in the team behind him left, and Cao Wenzhao bowed in emotion and said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you."
Zhu Cijing waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Take me to see the fallen soldiers."
Cao Wenzhao hesitated for a moment when he heard this, but finally gritted his teeth and took Zhu Cijiong to the right side of the camp. After walking for about a quarter of an hour, he came outside the camp.
I saw rows of corpses on the wide plain outside the camp, afraid that it was not a few miles wide, and extended forward for nearly a mile, giving people the feeling of being unable to see the head at all.
Looking at the rows of incomplete corpses in front of him, Zhu Cijiu was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He felt his nose sore and tears couldn't stop it.
Everyone was silent for a while. Sun Chengzong came to his senses first. He wiped the tears from his face and reminded softly: "Master, the weather is too hot. I'm afraid it won't work if I always put it like this. You must be buried as soon as possible."
Zhu Cijiu glanced at him dazedly and then looked at Cao Wenzhao. He really didn't know what to say. The serious wounded people in the camp could not move, so how could they bury the bodies?
Sure enough, when Cao Wenzhao saw the emperor looking at him, he immediately looked embarrassed and said hesitantly: "Emperor, this, this, the Guanning Army can move less than a thousand people now. General Qin helped us clean up this battlefield. There are countless horse corpses and Jiannu's corpses in the distance. We can't clean them up. If we have to bury so many soldiers, I am afraid, I am afraid... "
When Zhu Cijing heard the word "gang", he immediately had an idea. He looked back at the endless camp and decisively issued an order: "Issue, Guanning Army, Tianxiong Army and the First Corps of the Imperial Guards will move into the city immediately, and the Qin Army and the Dongjiang Army will move to the city wall to set up camp. Mu Lanshan of the camp will not be demolished. In the afternoon, let the Qin Army and the Dongjiang Army come to bury the fallen soldiers. Each soldier must be buried separately, and write down their names, and then make a tombstone for them. In the future, the camp will be changed to the Liaodong Martyrs Cemetery. After the war is over, let their relatives have a place to pay tribute."
Everyone was moved when they heard this and couldn't help but praise the emperor's wisdom. Zhu Cijiu was immune to these things. When everyone stopped, he asked with concern: "Where is General Zhao?"
Cao Wenzhao quickly replied: "Bian Jiao has moved him back to the camp."
Zhu Cijing nodded after hearing this and said, "Well, there is nothing else for other soldiers to do to be quick and easy, but General Zhao must have a grand funeral, so let's bury him in the center of the tomb."
Everyone responded respectfully, and Zhu Cijing didn't stop for much. After returning to the imperial tent to handle some trivial matters, he moved into Shengjing City with the army.
After this battle, Liaodong can be said to have been settled, and only two small cities, Tielingwei and Liaohaiwei, have not yet been recovered. Zhu Cijing is not in a hurry. After this battle, the army must rest and recuperate, and the wounded will take time to recover, and the battlefield must be cleaned. In such a hot day, if you are not careful, it will cause a plague, and the trouble will be great at that time.
The army was resting and Zhu Cijing was not idle either. First of all, he had to deal with the rewards and pensions. The soldiers were fighting bloody battles for the Ming Dynasty. If the rewards and pensions were delayed, it would have a great impact on morale. Therefore, Zhu Cijing never delayed for a moment. As soon as the military merits of each legion were reported, he immediately sent a quick horse to notify the capital and immediately sent silver. As for the pensions of the fallen soldiers, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue handled it immediately. The pensions must be distributed to the families of the fallen soldiers within a month.
Also, Zhu Cijing felt that it was awkward to call Shengjing, so he simply issued an order to directly rename Shengjing to Guanning to commemorate the soldiers who died in the Guanning Army and at the same time commend the Guanning Army's heroic performance in this war.
After the rewards and pensions, the next step is to supplement the damage to the war. The Ming Dynasty was not enough to defeat Liaodong. Zhu Cijiu's ambitions have been hooked up. In the future, the territory will be expanded and overseas colonized, and fighting will naturally be indispensable. Therefore, if the damage to the war, the army must be supplemented in time.
As for the issue of military source, Zhu Cijiu didn't have to worry about it. There were countless troops in Liaodong, Shandong and Beizhili. As long as the salary was paid, there was no problem of not being able to recruit people. Moreover, the Tianxiong Army, Guanning Army and the Imperial Guards' First Corps were all first-class corps of the Ming Dynasty. The food and salary and treatment were several times higher than ordinary troops. The Qin Army and the Dongjiang Army were also second-class corps of the Ming Dynasty. If this situation continues, it will probably not take long to be promoted to the first-class corps. Such good treatment, the local garrison stations naturally rushed to supplement the war losses for these corpses.
When Zhu Cijing saw that so many garrisons were going to flee here, how could it be? This was my elite corps, and it was not easy to enter. In the end, he simply sent generals from various garrisons to select local garrisons in person. One general was responsible for another garrison, and it did not delay much. In less than a month, the war was replenished.
In the end, this publicity naturally also needs to be followed. Zhu Cijiu called Chen Yutai to come and asked him to write an article "Guanning Iron Cavalry", which mainly tells the Guanning Legion's heroic performance in this Liaodong War. He also specifically instructed Chen Yutai to brag appropriately. The general meaning is, aren't you Jiannu awesome? As a result, all the elites gathered together and even a second-class legion of the Ming Dynasty could not do anything. When the imperial guards arrived, they were immediately defeated and fled. It can be seen how powerful the Ming army is, and Jiannu would brag!
When Chen Yutai heard this, he rolled his eyes. It was you who bragged, but you even said that others would brag! Of course, no matter how much Zhu Cijiu brags, he has to write it as awesome. Who said that he is the emperor?
After a month of rest, Zhu Cijing finally couldn't sit still. He summoned the heads of the legions and Sun Chengzong to discuss the next combat plan.
First of all, it is the question of whether to attack Jianzhou or not. After all, the Later Jin Dynasty developed from Jianzhou. If they just let it go, they might be when they will rush to Liaodong to cause trouble again.
Regarding this issue, everyone is naturally beating the generals of each legion. The so-called elimination of evil is all done. Jiannu has no human nature. He has been rampant in Liaodong for so many years and has almost harmed the common people in Liaodong. Naturally, he has to destroy them to relieve the hatred in his heart.
However, Duke Sun Chengzong of Zhenguo did not agree to attack Jianzhou immediately. His reasons were very good. The damage caused by Jiannu in this Liaodong battle was not very large. Most of the Mongolian soldiers that the Ming army annihilated were servants. The real Jurchen soldiers were actually not eliminated. Conservatively, it is estimated that Huang Taiji would have at least 100,000 troops under him. Moreover, the terrain near Jianzhou was very complicated, with deep mountains and dense forests everywhere. Unfamiliar people would get lost when they walked in. Hundreds of thousands of troops drove in. Not to mention the difficulty of moving forward, it is very likely that the main force of Jiannu could not be found at all. At that time, they would be defeated by Jiannu one by one, and the tragedy of Sarhu's defeat was repeated.
Therefore, he suggested that the fortress be advanced step by step, and to build the fortress to Jianzhou City to see what other tricks Huang Taiji could do!
Zhu Cijiu hesitated and adopted Sun Chengzong's suggestion. Although this took time and money, it was quite safe. The Ming Dynasty did not lack time and money now. If the enemy was underestimated and he finally defeated the war, it would be more than worth the loss. So I could just build a bunker directly.
Since the fortress has been decided to advance, the attack on Jianzhou is not within the scope of consideration for this Liaodong War. The rest is to recover the two cities, Tielingwei and Liaohaiwei.
These two cities are not big cities, even worse than Jinzhou Guards and Fuzhou Guards. Zhu Cijing was too lazy to mobilize troops to attack them personally, and directly asked each of the Qin army and the Dongjiang Army to take charge of one. Tianxiong Army also followed the past to help prevent Huang Taiji from making any trouble. As for the Guanning Army and the First Corps of the Imperial Guards, they stayed in Guanning City to prevent Huang Taiji from counterattacking.
What Zhu Cijiu did not expect was that the next afternoon, Sun Chuanting sent someone to report that the Tieling Guards fled when they saw the wind; the next night, Mao Wenlong sent someone to report that the Liaohai Guards abandoned the city and fled!
Zhu Cijing was shocked. Has Liaodong recovered all of them? How much pain, how much shame... The Later Jin Dynasty actually had a chance to escape!
In fact, it is not surprising that there are so many defenders in Tieling Guards and Liaohai Guards. The reason why they don’t leave is that they just rely on the mentality of luck and hope that the Ming army will capture Shengjing and will not fight northward. Now that the Ming army has come, they will naturally run away and not run to wait for death!
Just when Zhu Cijiu was stunned, something that surprised him even more happened: the long-lost voice of the beauty of the system actually appeared in his mind again!
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