Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1350
Gao Yimin did mention it, not only did he mention the issue of sending troops to recover Xicheng as soon as possible, but he also told Cao Yu that Ye He planned to send Gao Wushi a princess.

In fact, this kind of thing can't be hidden. As long as Ye He's tribute team sets out, whoever is in the team must report their identities, how could Cao Yu not know?Rather than being discovered by then, it is better to tell him directly.

Ye He's actions were not completely out of Cao Yu's expectation, but Cao Yu was somewhat surprised by the matter of "sending Ge Ge".It is understandable for Ye He to do so, but Cao Yu has some doubts about Gao Wushi's willingness to accept this kindness.

To be honest, if someone Cao had a beautiful girl of the right age, he would be willing to let her be Gao Yushi's concubine, but it's a pity that Cao Dashuai has only had a son after working hard for most of his life, and he doesn't have a "little cotton jacket". can give up.As for the question of whether it would be embarrassing for the daughter of a famous general to be a concubine, Cao Yan would only roll his eyes.

If he asked his daughter to be a concubine for a fellow military general who belonged to the same general, he would naturally refuse to kill him, but what kind of family is Gao Situ, how could it be humiliating for his daughter to be his concubine?He, Dashuai Cao, wrote letters to Gao Yushi himself, and he had to call him "En Tang" and call himself "Cao, the little lackey of Mu En's sect".

Why is it strange that Ye He is willing to do things that he is happy with?
But Cao Yu always felt that it was really doubtful whether Gao Situ would accept Ye He's "service" in this way because Gao Situ cherished his wings so much.However, this has nothing to do with someone Cao, and he will not stop Ye He because of this.

Regardless of whether Ye He's investment is successful or not, even if they are successful, they are still Jurchens. Judging from Gao Situ's past performance, he will not regard Ye He more than his direct generals in the Ming army because of this.

And from Cao Yu's personal point of view, it is not impossible to support Ye He. After all, the Beiguan controlled by Ye He and the Nanguan controlled by Hada are the top priorities of Liaodong Border City. Daming supports the two of them. Either one is feasible and most efficient.

On the contrary, if we want to support Jianzhou, we have to develop Fushun Pass, but although Fushun Pass is okay, its location is still not as good as Nanbei Pass.At least, if Fushun Pass was the center of trade, the wild Jurchen goods would have to take a long way to go south, and it would be even more difficult for the left-wing Mongolian ministries to take care of it.

Only Kaiyuan-North-North Pass is the intersection connecting the three parties, and it is also the most suitable as a trade center.

A suitable trade center is good for the entire Liaodong, and it is also profitable for the generals of the aristocratic families who have a lot of trade privileges.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty supported the Hada tribe in Nanguan, but the Hada tribe had begun to show a clear trend of decline in the late Wanhan period. Now, with the death of Wanhan, this decline has not only not improved, but has become more serious.

The division of the three families into the Hada became the three divisions of Hada. Daming originally didn't intend to intervene, because he felt that it would be beneficial for Hada's leader to be weaker, at least it would be easier to control.However, Daming didn't want Hada's internal friction to be so severe that it could not form an advantage over other surrounding ministries.

You must know that when it can't form an advantage over the surrounding ministries, it can't suppress the ministries on behalf of Da Ming. Once something happens, Da Ming has to personally solve it.

That being the case, what do I want you to do?

Hawks and dogs can't hunt, so I raise you just to look good?

Therefore, judging from Meng Gebulu's recent performance, he is not worthy of being a dog for Da Ming. Now Da Ming must choose a new hunting dog. With the support of the company, there must be such ability.

Judging from the current situation, both Yehe and Jianzhou can be options.Yehe's overall strength is stronger, while Nurhachi's troops seem to have stronger combat effectiveness.

As for being "obedient"... Cao Yu felt that they were just half-baked. They were all barbarians who were fearful of power but not virtuous.

The beating of Ye He was Gao Wushi who sent Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi to the west; the beating of Nurhachi was lighter for the time being, and Gao Wushi just sent him away from Fushun Pass with a letter.

Of course, it’s not that Gao Wushi hated Ye He so much, but that Hada was unstable at that time, Ye He intended to annex Hada, and he might have such strength, but this is something Daming can’t tolerate—the North and South Passes are so important , How can I let your family cover the sky with one hand?So Qing Jia Niu and Yang Ji Niu were sacrificed to the flag.

But Nurhachi is slightly different. Firstly, Gao Yushi had no skills to separate himself at the time; As for killing them quickly; in the end, it was because once Nurhachi was wiped out, Yehe's family would once again become dominant.

Not everyone can do a good job of balance, just like Prussia can only dance on three eggs when Bismarck was in office. There are so many Jurchens in Liaodong, but there are actually only three that are really strong: Hada, Yehe, and Jianzhou.

There is only one common feature of these three houses, that is, they are adjacent to Mingjing, and each has a Guanshi.Therefore, in terms of general means of balance, the key point is to maintain the balance among the three of them, allowing them to be strong and weak, but absolutely not allowing one of them to dominate.

As for the other Jurchen ministries, most of the time they remained independent, and sometimes they would obediently obey a certain powerful chieftain. Da Ming paid a little attention to this, but generally speaking, he didn't pay special attention to it.

Compared with Nurhachi, Yehe Erbeile, at least for now, has not shown any particularly great ambitions. If they are willing to be efficient and pragmatic, Cao Yu feels that it is not impossible to make them the number one Jurchen.After all, Beiguan is located in an important location. Apart from Kaiyuan Horse Market needing them, they can also become Ming's fence and resist Tumen's expansion—just like this time.

In this case, it makes sense to send troops a little earlier to help them regain the West City.

So Cao Yu sent people to inform Nalinbulu and Buzhai, explaining that the army had been resting in the east city for two days, and would set off on the third day to help Yehe recover the west city.

Of course, Cao Yu did not intend to let the Ming army take over such things as recovering the west city. He asked Ye He to send troops at the same time as him, and save part of the defense force to prevent the east city from being accidentally attacked by the Tumen and throwing away their lair. All must be thrown into the battle to recover the western city.

Bu Zhai naturally had no objection to this. It is not clear whether Nalin Bulu had any other ideas, but he agreed after thinking about it for a while. How much strength to defend the city.

Cao Yu himself asked the military clerk to draft a memorial that night. In addition to reporting the victory to scare off the Tumen and rescue Dongcheng, the main thing was that Ye He asked for tribute on his own initiative.

Naturally, he fully agrees with this approach. Although Daming has basically been losing money for all the tributes, supplementary tributes, and tributes so far (the value of rewards is always higher), but this time Ye He’s tributes have some benefits. The obvious meaning of surrender, the adults in the court have always liked this tone, and he believed that this proposal would not be rejected.

Ye He's work efficiency was also unprecedentedly high this time. Even if the court's reply was quick, it would probably take ten days and a half a month. Head south.

They planned to stop and wait for the court's reply when they arrived in Liaoyang or only in Shenyang, and then take a boat south to Yingkou New Port while the Liaohe and Hunhe rivers were not completely frozen.If the river has been frozen, go south by land. In short, instead of going to Shanhaiguan, go to Tianjin by sea.

In the early years, the Ming Dynasty did not allow this kind of "changing roads". Later, because too many nobles and even civil servants in Tianjin Port participated in it, this rule gradually became empty words.Except for those landlubbers who dare not go to sea on a boat, many people will choose to take the sea route as long as it is convenient.

Both Shenyang and Liaoyang are covered by high-level pragmatic forces, but there is an "outsider" in Liaoyang, Governor Li Song, and Ye He's side now vaguely knows this, so they prefer to stay and wait in Shenyang.

But this has nothing to do with Cao Yu. He set off with the army at the appointed time and went west to recover the west city.Accompanying them were 4000 cavalry from Buzhai and [-] two hundred cavalry from Nalin Bulu, and all the infantry under the two men stayed in Dongcheng to watch the house.

It can also be seen that Ye He's original strength is indeed not weak. In the current situation, the cavalry of their two Baylor's troops combined still has about [-] troops.

The [-] people can be regarded as a moderate leader in Mongolia, but it is naturally stronger in the fragmented Jurchen.What's more, Ye He's [-] cavalry are not their entire strength. They also have infantry no less than cavalry, and even cavalry is not their complete family property.

As I said before, the characteristic of Ye He's trade is that he will do a lot of resale. In Huifa, Wula, the tribes of Changbai Mountain, and the tribes of the wild Jurchen, there are Yehe's caravans who regularly receive goods.Obviously, these caravans can't rely on two legs to travel so far to make acquisitions. They always need some ox carts and carriages, and at the same time they need to be protected by their own cavalry.

These people and horses are usually scattered, but if Ye He had prepared early, they could still gather together.This is also the reason why Gao Wushi judged that Ye He could gather nearly [-] cavalry at most when he killed Qing Jiani and Yang Jipi.

But having said that, Ye He puts more emphasis on business and trade, and his cavalry team is often used as a transport team, which also leads to their lack of professionalism in combat. In the original history, Ye He was hanged and beaten by Nurhachi in the later period. I am afraid there is also a reason for this.After all, in Yehe's wars where he was defeated and lost, in terms of military strength alone, Nurhachi was actually at a disadvantage for most of them.

The [-] Ming army, [-] Yehe cavalry, and nearly [-] troops marched westward. Tumen's elite Mongolian scouts naturally discovered the traces early on.However, according to the scout report from Ye He, Tumen did not take much action, but "closed the city and put on a dead end."

Upon hearing the news, Cao Yan snorted coldly: "Closed the city to the death? This commander thinks he really wants to 'die' and guard the west city."

Zhang Wanbang laughed even more, glanced at Ma Chengxun, and said, "Chan Rong, you just added a batch of new guns under your command a few days ago, I remember that there are now seventy or eighty No. [-] guns in total, right? "

Ma Chengxun is one of Ma's family generals, one of Gao Pragmatic's confidantes, and he is also responsible for guarding an important place like Kaiyuan.However, he quickly waved his hand at Zhang Wanbang's joke, and said, "There are more than 70 cannons, but you also know that the No. [-] cannon is not for attacking the city. We also need to bring a batch of larger ones, such as the No. [-] cannon, but we didn’t bring them this time.”

In the territory of the Jurchens, the roads were not built well, and it should not even be considered a road at all. It can only be said that "there are more people walking, and it becomes a road".With this kind of road conditions, being able to carry so many No. [-] guns is already achieved by the convenience of the new gun carriage. If you bring heavy artillery, who knows how many miles you can walk in a day.

Zhang Wanbang shook his head after hearing this: "That's not the case. I have carefully looked at Yehe's East City this time. If the defense level of the West City is similar to that of the East City, then there is no need to use the No. [-] cannon at all. As long as the No. [-] cannon can be used intensively, It can definitely be blasted away... it's just a matter of time."

Who knows that Ma Chengxun still disagrees, and shook his head: "You only mentioned one aspect of firepower, and there is another point that you didn't think about: the No. The city gate or the city wall was bombed until it finally collapsed, but how many shells would be needed in this way?
Cannonballs don't matter, as long as they can be picked up, they can be used repeatedly several times (if they are used too much, they may deform and damage the cannon), but what about gunpowder?The gunpowder we brought this time is not a lot. If we insist on using the No. [-] gun, we have to order Kaiyuan to send supplies. "

Sure enough, Zhang Wanbang became distressed when he heard it, and couldn't help but glanced at Nalinbulu and Buzhai, and said angrily: "You are always idle, don't you know how to repair the road?"

The two Baylors did not dare to contradict this young general who was rumored to be a highly pragmatic and beloved general, so they could only smile bitterly.But they didn't take this seriously in their hearts: our road is enough for business, what's the use of repairing it better?If you need more spacious and tidy roads, then you Mingjun family, I have repaired it so that when you see me unhappy, come and beat me?

Seeing this, Cao Yu waved his hand to stop Zhang Wanbang's complaints, and everyone continued to discuss ways to attack the city.Qi Jinzheng came up with an idea, thinking that since the west city had been blasted open by Burihatu before, the construction capabilities of Tumen's department might not be able to repair it during this period of time, or even if it was repaired, it would not be able to reach the original level. In terms of strength, it is better for us to follow the gourd and try to find a way to blast that gap and make a breakthrough.

Cao Yu also felt that there was some truth, and was about to speak, but Gao Yimin, who hadn't said anything, suddenly said: "Zongrong, generals, I think Tumen's 'closing the city to the death' is a bit abnormal...I'm afraid there is a fraud in this matter."
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