Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1362
After thinking about it, Cao Yu still felt that this matter was not easy to handle.He hesitated for a while, and first planned to secretly report to Gao Situ. He only offered suggestions and let Gao Situ make his own decision.After thinking about it later, I felt that such words seemed a bit ineffective. After a little hesitation, Cao Yu sent someone to invite Gao Yimin over.

Gao Yimin was Gao Yushi's "staff" sent to him. According to Cao Yu's own understanding, it probably wouldn't be a big problem to be a military supervisor. Naturally, he was Gao Situ's confidant, and it didn't matter if he said something important.

So he showed these three letters and two criminal evidences to Gao Yimin.After reading it, Gao Yimin's face was also a little gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "I said that Yehexi City was lost strangely, and there was indeed a problem. It is true that Brihatu was in the northwest at that time, but he did not bring any What kind of people, how did you get the gunpowder from the northwest to Mobei and then back to Chahar? It turns out that he didn't bring the gunpowder back from the northwest, but he obtained it in Liaodong on the spot... a good way."

Whether Gao Yimin is a "military staff member", when he saw the news, the first thing he thought of was military-related matters.He flicked the letter, and said again: "Brihatu originally planned to buy another five thousand catties, maybe he planned to repeat the old trick and blow up Yehe Dongcheng, who knows that this 'Master' refused to..."

When Cao Yu heard that he said the word "refused", his tone was different, and he slightly raised his eyebrows, meaning: "What's the inside story?"

Gao Yimin saw what he meant, and said with a smile: "That master is very shrewd. He knows that even if Burhatu can bring back some gunpowder from the northwest, the amount will not be too large. He offered three thousand catties to let Bu Rihatu Rihatu blew up the west city, and this matter can be covered up. But if Brihatu had more gunpowder, even the east city would be blown up together... Zongrong, tell me, how can the court not Suspicious?"

Cao Yu suddenly understood, nodded and said: "Yes, it makes sense, and it also shows that the master knows the power of gunpowder very well, and can accurately judge how much gunpowder can do how many things."

"Zong Rong is wise." Gao Yimin praised, and continued: "At the same time, it may also show that this master has a very clear judgment on the situation in Liaodong, and even in his heart, the above situations are within his controllable range Within. In other words, he thinks it doesn’t matter if he loses a Yehexi..."

Cao Yu was startled, and asked suspiciously: "You mean...he has calculated these things. Even if the west city is lost, in his opinion, the situation can still be controlled. Unless Ye Helian loses the east city, otherwise Can he even sit on the Diaoyutai?"

Gao Yimin was silent for a few breaths, and snorted softly: "I'm afraid he doesn't panic if he loses Dongcheng, but he may think that after losing Dongcheng, things may become complicated at the court level, and what will happen in the end?" , He didn't have any confidence in his heart, so he deliberately controlled the situation and let the Mongols stop outside the East City."

Speaking of which, Gao Yimin has no doubts about the identity of this "Master".

Although Li Song was the governor of Liaodong, he certainly did not dare to indulge the Mongols in this way, because he was the first person responsible for the border situation in Liaodong.At the same time, he himself is just a civil servant with no foundation or lineage in the Liaodong military circle. In the past, he relied on Li Chengliang to slowly accumulate merit in Ningqian, so that he can't be so powerful when he becomes Futai today. Self-confidence can easily save the situation.

Can watch Ye He lose the west city without moving, even knowing that Brihatu bought gunpowder definitely not for the purpose of setting off fireworks, but dare to sell thousands of catties like this, besides Li Chengliang, there are other people. who?

Only Li Chengliang has such strength and self-confidence, because from his standpoint, it doesn't matter even if Cao Yu's entire army is wiped out this time.

It's a big deal for him to go out in person. At this time, Li Jiajun's Liaodong cavalry has not gone downhill obviously, and he still has more than [-] Liaodong guards in his hands. What's the point of recovering a mere Yehe?
Li Chengliang himself is from Tieling in northern Liaoning. He knows the geographical environment of Yehe very well. It is a place that is very suitable for him and not suitable for the Mongols to fight.

If there are such things as satellite images in this era, they will know more clearly that the second city of Yehe is actually a form in which the west city is located in the southwest and the east city is located in the northeast. Very narrow canyon.

The northwest and southeast of the canyon are forest-covered mountains, and the southeast is not dependent on Mongolia, so let's not mention it for now.

The width of the mountain range in the northwest of the canyon is about [-] miles. It is only [-] miles northwest from Yehexi City that you have crossed the mountains and entered the plains of Siping City, Jilin Province.

what does that mean?It means that the suitable combat area for the Mongols is only to the west of this mountain range, that is, near the urban area of ​​Siping City in later generations, and then to the east into the core area of ​​Yehe. Regardless of the western city or the eastern city, they are actually not suitable for cavalry combat.

Ye Heben entered Manchuria from Mongolia. The reason why he chose to build the city at the location of the east and west cities was also considering the terrain factor.The area near Siping in later generations was also the territory of Yehe, but they built the east and west cities to the east of the mountains. The reason was to guard against Mongolia.

The reason why its territory includes a large plain grassland to the west of the mountains is that Yehe is famous in Manchuria for his cavalry, and they need grassland as a pasture area.

It is very clear to say that, Li Chengliang has both elite cavalry and a large number of infantry.If there is a situation where Cao Yu is defeated and he has to go out in person, then the infantry can slowly go to Yehe to recover the besieged city, and the cavalry can cut off the Mongols' retreat.

At this time, the Mongols will have to make a choice—in fact, according to the habits of the Mongols, they have no choice at all. They must evacuate the east and west cities and return to the plains.

In this way, if Li Chengliang used Liaodong iron cavalry to ambush on the plain east of the mountains in advance, and when the Mongols came out of the mountains, they would immediately launch a fierce attack, so the Mongols would definitely suffer a big loss, and Li Chengliang could make a big contribution.

Of course, his style of play is different from Cao Yu’s here. In terms of effect, it may be better than Cao Yu’s this time, but you must know that Gao Wushi only gave Cao Yu 2 people to do this. The assumption here is after Cao Yu's defeat.

If Cao Yu had already been defeated, Li Chengliang certainly had enough reasons to mobilize more troops, so the style of play would be different, and at that time, Gao Pragmatic would not be able to reasonably limit the deployment of troops.As for whether this will cause the Ming army's preparations for Chahar to be delayed again... Anyway, Li Chengliang will definitely not care.

The cunning rabbit dies, the running dog cooks.Gao Wushi and Zhu Yijun are all focused on destroying Chahar, but Li Chengliang doesn't think so. If Chahar is finished, he, Li Chengliang, may not need to worry too much when he is old, but the high-ranking Ming army is popular with generals. Enough credit, what about the sons?What about the grandchildren?

Right now the imperial court still needs to use them to do things, and their military generals are far inferior to civil officials. If the imperial court has no opponents left in the future, military generals can still be human in front of civil officials?I'm afraid he has to become a talking dog, which is not what Li Chengliang would like to see.

So no matter from which angle you look at it, the clue of "who is this master" clearly points to Li Chengliang.If it weren't for Li Chengliang's knowledge of Gao Wu's power in the court, he might have sold the five thousand catties of gunpowder that Brihatu proposed for the second time without hesitation.

Cao Yu and Gao Yimin analyzed the situation clearly, and Cao Zongrong slapped the table angrily: "Li Yincheng has fallen to this point by raising the enemy's self-respect and allowing the enemy to plunder the border!"

The intention of Cao Yu's scolding was not very pure, but he didn't know that the "degenerate" was actually not wrong. Li Chengliang has really fallen now, and is no longer the Liaodong in the past ten years. God of War, he has been corrupted.

If it weren't for the high pragmatism in this world, Li Chengliang would be defeated in three years from next year—that is, from the 16th year of Wanli to the 19th year of Wanli. , Ning Yuan Bo Anyang.

And even if there are more high-level pragmatists now, because Li Chengliang's troops are proud of their military achievements, they don't recognize the high-level pragmatism, and they are still stagnant in terms of their military system and tactical thinking.Only Jinghua's military industry system is of some use to him, at least he has also bought a lot of new guns and artillery, so the level of depravity of the Li family army is still much lighter than in history.

In the original history, after Li Chengliang was dismissed as commander-in-chief of Liaodong for the first time, the post of Liaodong General Soldier changed eight people in ten years.And even when Li Rusong was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, since he was at war with Japan in North Korea, it was inevitable that he did not pay enough attention to the defense of the town.

However, when Li Rusong was in office and alive (he was accidentally sacrificed in a "Qingqi smashing nest" against Mongolia shortly after returning from North Korea), the morale of the Li family army was still boosted a lot, and it was somewhat restored. Unfortunately, with Li Rusong's Death, this anger was quickly vented.

From this point of view, Li Chengliang's current "sit firmly on the Diaoyutai" is actually unaware of the depravity of himself and the Li family cavalry.The only good news is probably that Cao Yu was not defeated, and even won quite simply-at least from the perspective of Ming Dynasty, the battle of Yehehe must have been won by the Ming army. After all, the Mongols were repelled head-on, so they gave up Yehexi City, which has already been acquired.

Gao Yimin looked at the angry Cao Yu, and estimated in his heart how much of his anger was real and how much was fake.But Gao Yimin was just thinking about it, and it was not difficult to guess what Cao Yu was thinking.

Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, has been working since the Longqing period until now, and it has been 18 years including this year.This is really too long, especially since he, the chief soldier, has not moved his nest for 18 years, which is extremely rare.

Other chief soldiers, such as the three towns in the west of Xuanda Shanxi, and perhaps the Yansui towns can also be counted. The positions of these chief soldiers are rotated every now and then, so as not to leave the commander-in-chief to one person for a long time and become too big to lose.

But Li Chengliang's side is very miraculous. There has been no change in nearly 20 years. If the military affairs in Liaodong hadn't been disturbed by Gao Wushi, it would have been a stagnant pool long ago.

Under such a situation, it is perfectly normal for Cao Yu to have thoughts about the position of Liaodong Commander-in-Chief. Even if he didn't expect Li Chengliang to fall all at once, he would at least hope that Li Chengliang would transfer out and give him the position of Liaodong Commander-in-Chief Cao. Try it out.

Gao Yimin didn't intend to point out this idea, so he changed the topic and asked: "What kind of help does Zong Rong think that his subordinates can help with this matter? If so, please tell Zong Rong clearly."

Seeing that Gao Yimin refused to take up his criticism of Li Chengliang, he also knew in his heart that Gao Yimin must not have dared to say anything before Gao Situ expressed his opinion, so he couldn't be offended, so he had to change the topic back, saying: "Tong Weixun is here If someone is in Uncle Ning Yuan’s residence, it’s not easy for me to investigate him, but if I impeach Uncle Ning Yuan directly, I’m not a speech officer, and I have no right to gossip about things, this evidence is indispensable..."

Gao Yimin nodded, and said, "Jinghua can do one or two things for you."

Cao Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Then how can he admit that Uncle Ning Yuan is the person behind him?"

Cao Yu knew that Jinghua had its own intelligence system. He also knew that this system belonged to the Ministry of Internal Affairs within Jinghua.

The relationship between Gao Yushi and Li Chengliang is not good for a day or two. It is reasonable for Heiding to have someone in Li Chengliang's house. Tong Weixun's identity must not be difficult, the difficulty is to let this Tong Weixun plead guilty earlier.

But now Cao Yu doesn't care, Hei Ding has Hei Ding's means, as long as this matter doesn't let him worry about it.

"Okay, thank you Brother Gao!" Cao Yu immediately thanked him, and then asked: "Then I will put this matter aside for now, and wait for Hei Ding to find out?"

Gao Yimin agreed, and Cao Yu said again: "What about Nurhachi? His younger brother Shuerhaqi is in our army. If the evidence of the crime is convincing, it is okay to kill Jiqi."

Gao Yimin hurriedly stopped him and said, "Shu Erhaqi can't be killed, but the commander-in-chief can ask him to question him. The evidence of this matter is conclusive, and Shuerhaqi himself is not good at words, so he must be left speechless by the commander-in-chief's questioning." , and then the commander-in-chief can scold him, it is best to make him dissatisfied with Nurhachi..."

Speaking of this level, Cao Yu certainly understood what Gao Yimin meant—this was very consistent with Daming's attitude towards the Jurchens in Liaodong: pull the second child, beat the boss, and never let anyone stand out.

Although the second child is not as good as the boss, it is usually not too far behind, and with Daming's support, it is even more different, and it is very likely that he can wrestle with the boss.

Cao Yu understood, and said with a smile: "Okay, brother Gao, I'll call him over and scold him in a while."

Gao Yimin also smiled and said: "Zong Rong might as well tell him that Nurhachi has done such a thing, but still sent him to our army. I am afraid he is trying to kill someone with a knife."

Cao Yu was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "Brother, I'll say that later."
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