Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1428 Turning the Tide (Part [-])
Gao Yushi's new mansion has not yet been completed, and he still lives in the Baiyulou in the northwest suburbs of the capital. According to the route, the Xuanwu Gate in the north is the closest to the palace. Go through the Donghua Gate to enter the palace.

Donghua Gate is the closest to the Wenhua Palace, and the cabinet is not far from it. This is one of the reasons why Zhu Yijun often meets his ministers or holds meetings in the Wenhua Palace.However, high pragmatism is often a special case, and Zhu Yijun also likes to let him go directly to the East and West Nuan Pavilion in the Qing Palace.

Gao Wushi also figured out the rules himself. If Zhu Yijun came to him mainly for personal matters, he would probably be asked to go to Dongnuang Pavilion, and if it was mainly for business matters, he would usually be asked to go to Xinuang Pavilion.

Since he was asked to go to Xinuange for an audience today, it seems that it is probably official business.It was just the beginning of the new year, and there were a lot of official matters, but there was no need to think too much about it today, Zhu Yijun definitely wanted to ask about Li Chengliang.

Sure enough, as soon as Gao Yushi arrived at Xinuange, Zhu Yijun waved at Chen Ju, and habitually sent everyone away, leaving Gao Yushi alone.

At this time, the two of them, the monarch and his ministers, are usually relatively unruly. Zhu Yijun greeted Gao Yushi to sit down as if he were an old classmate, and then asked directly, "Did you expect Li Chengliang's defeat before?"

Gao Wushi's expression turned strange, and he asked back: "Your Majesty thinks that the minister sits and watches Uncle Ning Yuan's defeat?"

"That's not true, I'm just curious, don't you always predict things like a god?"

Gao Wushi said helplessly: "The so-called predicting things like a god is just a reasonable calculation according to the normal situation, but Uncle Ning Yuan's defeat is really an accident, and I am not a god, how could this be expected?"

"You mean you didn't expect him to fall into Nurhachi's plan to surrender?" Zhu Yijun asked.

Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and replied: "Not only that. Firstly, I didn't expect that Nurhachi would be so risky in his army, with a slanted sword, and he would be so decisive against Uncle Ning Yuan; With such a lack of vigilance, there will be such a low-level mistake."

"Low-level mistake..." Zhu Yijun muttered something, paused, let out a breath, and frowned, "Do you think Li Chengliang is really old?"

Gao Wushi didn't think about how to answer for a while, and was planning to think about the words, but Zhu Yijun didn't seem to intend to wait for him to answer, but continued: "I asked him to beat Nurhachi, not just to scare him. After all, he opened up such a big four-pronged attack, but in the end he planned to accept Nurhachi's surrender after a small battle... Do you think he understands what I mean?"

If Gao Wushi wanted to frame Li Chengliang, as long as he said that Li Chengliang understood it but deliberately pretended not to understand it and acted on his own, Zhu Yijun would definitely be furious.

But Gao Wushi didn't intend to do this, so he pretended to ask, shook his head and said: "Perhaps Ning Yuanbo did make some mistakes in judgment, thinking that after pulling such a big posture, Nurhachi will know that what he has done has gone too far. will be honest.”

"Hmph, you're smart." Zhu Yijun snorted, and frowned again: "But I don't understand one thing. Li Chengliang used to care about these military achievements. It stands to reason that this time is also a good opportunity. Why would he be satisfied with intimidation and not Didn't you go to Li Court to sweep the holes?"

Gao Wushi pondered and said, "Perhaps Uncle Ning Yuan wants to preserve his strength and save it for the future battle against Chahar."

"Oh?" Zhu Yijun couldn't help thinking when he heard the words, and after a while he said slowly: "It's not impossible, but... hmph, then his determination to win is too strong."

Gao Wushi was startled: "What is the explanation of the emperor's words?"

"You really don't understand?" Zhu Yijun said with some surprise: "If you fight Chahar, towns such as Xuanda, Jiliao, Changping, Baoding, and even the Imperial Guards of the Beijing Camp, and even Tumote may send troops. You can control the situation if you go to command the troops, and I can rest assured of the others?"

Although the outside world had speculated like this before, after all, this was the first time that Zhu Yijun made it clear that he was the candidate for the command of the Chahar Battle. Therefore, he had no choice but to say: "I am ashamed and dare not be the leader."

"You are ashamed, so I have no choice but to conscript myself, haha." Zhu Yijun smiled and shook his head.Of course, it is impossible for Yujia to conquest personally. There was Yingzong before, and Wuzong later. The example is there. Don’t mention such things as Yujia’s personal conquest, otherwise the court will definitely fry the pot directly.

Yingzong made a civil engineering change that year, completely ruined the good Beijing camp, and killed Zhang Fu, the No.1 general of the dynasty, who once beat Annan to the bum; Wuzong didn't suffer any defeats, even He also achieved some victories, but he was strongly resisted by civil servants because of various deviant behaviors, and he has already become synonymous with a faint king.

Zhu Yijun didn't want to risk the risk of failure in the personal conquest to do such a thankless job, nor did he want to become a foolish king after winning the battle, so naturally he would not consider the imperial conquest.

What's more, in his consciousness, he wants to work together with the high-practical monarchs and ministers to leave an eternal reputation. The specific method is that he sits in the capital and makes wise decisions, and the high-practical ones implement them.According to this line of thinking, fighting a war is a high-level and pragmatic task. Why would an emperor rush to do it?
Besides, he felt that taking this job by himself would not be better than Gao Yushi, so there was no need to superfluously.

The so-called monarch, minister and minister, this is also the embodiment of the monarch and minister.

But when he said this, Gao Yushi had to say something: "The Lord is worried about the humiliation of the minister. The emperor is really ashamed to say this."

"You're almost done." Zhu Yijun smiled and waved his hands: "I don't have any worries, I just want to ask if you can stop being humble all the time. Let's talk about the decisive battle in Chahar, from Mr. Gao to you, the whole thing It's all planned by your uncle and nephew, and you are the leading civil servant of our Ming Dynasty. If I don't leave this matter to you, who else can I leave it to? If it is really handed over to someone else, do you think the outer court will be noisy? You are against Yingtian, so why do you need to be humble?"

Gao Wushi smiled wryly and said, "Minister... Thank you, Your Majesty, for your trustworthiness."

Zhu Yijun shook his head, and said again: "Since we are talking about commanding troops, let's say it again, Li Chengliang made such a big mistake this time, eight thousand elites almost died overnight, and the outer court seems to be very noisy... You know the situation best, how do you think it is appropriate to deal with it?"

Gao Wushi pondered and said: "Uncle Ning Yuan's defeat is really surprising, and the loss is indeed not small, but this battle is not over after all... In fact, I feel that the emperor does not necessarily have to deal with it now."

"Oh?" Zhu Yijun was a little surprised: "Isn't Li Chengliang's army the main force in this campaign against Nurhachi? He's already defeated, so can this battle continue?"

Gao Wushi said: "It is still possible to fight. Cao Yan still has 6000 men on hand, all of whom are fresh troops, and the progress is going smoothly; although Ma Chengxun was injured and was delayed for a few days, he originally marched too fast, but now instead The battle line has been leveled, and the loss of the Ministry itself is negligible, which is 3000; plus the [-] people from Yang Yuan's side, and the possible reinforcements of Dong E's Ministry..."

"Forget about Dong E's troops, how many soldiers can they send out, three hundred or five hundred? Just don't hold Yang Yuan back." Zhu Yijun calculated: "Six thousand, three thousand, three thousand, there are still ten thousand left." [-]. How many soldiers does Nurhachi have? At the beginning, it was about seven or eight thousand, right?"

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "According to the information before the war, it is estimated to be around this number."

Zhu Yijun let out a "hmm" and said: "In the battle when he ambushed Ma Chengxun, although he injured Ma Chengxun with an arrow from the back and delayed the speed of Ma Chengxun's march, in terms of losses, it was Ma Chengxun who Xun's losses were even lighter, and the battle report said that Nurhachi lost more than a thousand people..."

Gao Wushi interrupted at this time: "Your Majesty, the wounded cannot all be counted as losses. Some minor injuries can be recovered quickly and returned to the war."

"Oh, then how many people do you think Nurhachi can actually lose?" Zhu Yijun was admonishing in this regard, and immediately accepted the highly pragmatic statement.

But Gao Wushi was very cautious, and just said: "I have never been to the battlefield in person, so I can't estimate it accurately, but according to past experience, he will probably lose about 600 to [-] people."

"Okay, let's count as five hundred." Zhu Yijun said: "He has a maximum of eight thousand troops, and lost five hundred on the North Road. Although he succeeded in attacking Li Chengliang that night in Hetuala, I don't think it is possible that there were no casualties. ...Is it possible to have five hundred? Then there are only seven thousand left..."

Gao Wu said honestly: Although Li Chengliang's performance that night was terrible, it was just like Cao Cao's time in Wancheng. It seemed miserable and involved Dian Wei, but in fact it was more of a miserable scene.In fact, Zhang Xiu's loss was not light, so when Cao Cao moved his mind to Wancheng again, Jia Xu still persuaded Zhang Xiu to surrender directly.

Thinking of the Three Kingdoms and Cao Cao, Gao Yushi suddenly thought about it, and thought of Sun Tzu's Art of War.

There are many legends about "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in later generations, such as the compulsory course of the West Point Military Academy in the United States, and the American soldiers in the Gulf War had a copy.Those who have really read Sun Tzu's Art of War know that these legends are suspected of being fabricated without refuting rumors.

Sun Tzu's Art of War talks more about the idea of ​​"winning without fighting" and "winning first and then fighting". It cannot be a combat manual for ordinary soldiers, let alone a strange strategy that ordinary people understand.What Sun Tzu emphasizes most is overwhelming superiority, and he will never advocate that those who use troops later use risky methods to win victory.

But very helplessly, only a few "golden sentences" in "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is widely circulated.Because the ancient texts are difficult to understand for many modern people, and the level of translation is uneven, there are actually not many people who have read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" in its entirety, and those who can understand the profound meaning in it are even rarer.

In "Ancient China", the one who has the most thorough understanding of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" is probably Cao Cao, apart from Sun Tzu himself, in Gao Yushi's opinion.Compared with other characters who have also annotated "Sun Tzu's Art of War", Cao Cao is the one who really leads troops to fight, and has an immersive experience on the battlefield.And as an actual ruler, he also has intuitive experience of the consumption of war.However, it is a pity that Cao Cao's annotations to "Sun Tzu's Art of War" are also relatively simple and concise, and they are also "obscure in ancient language", which is difficult for ordinary readers of later generations to understand, and is only suitable as an important reference for scholars.

What kind of military thinking can be digested and absorbed by ordinary people?I'm afraid it can be counted as a "Romance of the Three Kingdoms".If it is said that Cao Cao established Wei State militarily by relying on "Sun Tzu's Art of War", then it can be said that Nurhachi and Huang Taiji destroyed the Ming Dynasty by relying on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" written by Ming people.It is said that when Nurhachi was studying Chinese in Li Chengliangjun Middle School, his favorite book was "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

As a foreigner, in the process of learning Chinese, it is easier to accept novels with more popular tone and words, especially novels with a lot of military strategy, which is completely understandable.Nurhachi asked his nephews to read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" familiarly, and learn the art of war from it.In actual combat, the tricks in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" are often used.Even for the advantages and disadvantages of his nephew commanding the war, he had to find the basis in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

After Nurhaci's death, Huang Taiji, who liked to learn the strategy of the Han people more than him, succeeded to the throne. He immediately translated "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" into Manchu, and required all ministers of civil and military affairs to learn it, making this book an official strategy classic.For example, Huang Taiji imitated Liu Bei's Taoyuan trio, comparing himself (Later Jin) to Liu Bei, and comparing the Horqin tribe of Mongolia to Guanzhang.As for the surrendered generals of the Ming Dynasty, the story of Cao Cao's win over Guan Yu was imitated, and various preferential treatments were given.

In the hands of Nurhachi, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is basically a pure military classic.In the period of Huang Taiji, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" even became a complete strategy book.Now Huang Taiji might not appear at all, but Nurhachi is still the same Nurhachi. It is indeed normal for him to follow the strategy of Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to deal with Li Chengliang.

So Gao Wushi followed Zhu Yijun's words and said: "With Uncle Ning Yuan's defeat, the rest of the three-way army will inevitably be more cautious. Now the encirclement of the three-way army is getting smaller and smaller, and Nurhachi's room for maneuvering is greatly restricted. It was already very difficult to ambush Ma Chengxun before and take advantage of the inside line of the battlefield to fight first and then fight all the way.

In this way, Nurhachi will either desperately fight one of them, or he can only stick to Hetuala.But the strategy of the decisive battle is easy to crack. As long as the three armies know each other well, Nurhachi will soon face reinforcements from the other two routes when he fights with any route. This will lead to a battle of wheels, and failure is inevitable.As for the strategy of defending Hetuala, we have analyzed it earlier. It is a self-defeating strategy. Under the artillery fire of our heavenly soldiers, any so-called strong city of the Jurchen is vulnerable, so it is impossible to succeed. "

Zhu Yijun nodded again and again, but finally asked seriously: "So, are you sure that even if Li Chengliang loses to Jingzhou in front of him, Nurhachi will undoubtedly lose?"

"Yes." Gao Wushi nodded, and said seriously, "I suspect... Nurhachi may have to learn Zhang Xiu and Jia Xu again."

Zhu Yijun was startled, then frowned: "You mean he's going to surrender again?"
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PS: I’m leaving my hometown tomorrow afternoon. I’m not sure if there will be traffic jams or something. I expect to make up the statistics and make up all kinds of thanks for the delays during the Chinese New Year the day after tomorrow. Let’s make a four-way bow today, thank you for your support.

(End of this chapter)