Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1738 Aid Korea to Fight Japanese ([-]) Proposal to Enter Korea

Zhu Yijun noticed that Gao Wushi mentioned the use of troops not because of Song Liangzuo's use of troops, but because of Liu Ting's use of troops. He couldn't help but feel moved, and tentatively asked, "Is Liu Ting responsible for the peace of Bozhou?"

This sentence seems straightforward, but in fact there is a bit of ambiguity.That is, according to the tradition, Song Liangzuo, as "the governor of Sichuan and other places and the admiral of military affairs", is a veritable "Fujun". Among the provinces that sent troops to pacify Bozhou, Sichuan was the leader, so Song Liangzuo should be a veritable commander-in-chief , Why is Gao Pragmatic's statement not led by him, but by Liu Ting?

Zhu Yijun is clear about the relationship between Liu Ting and Gao Yushi. This includes the fact that Liu Xin, as the secretary-general of the Jinghua Secretariat, has lived in Shangshu Gaofu for a long time—oh, it should be called Nanning Houfu after today.

Zhu Yijun was not very concerned about the relationship between Gao Yushi and Liu Xin, even if his sister, Princess Yongning, had a relationship with Gao Yushi... but as an emperor, he would not care about such things.As the emperor, what he cared about was actually the internal interest relationship between the "leader of the Practical School" and the "important generals of the Southern Army".

Liu Ting and even his father Liu Xian have been among the sects of the Practical School for many years, or more precisely, "Gao's sect". They can be regarded as Gao Yu's number one general in the southern army, so Gao Yushi is willing to reuse Liu Ting's incident itself is not surprising.What the emperor didn't understand was, could it be that Liu Ting's status in Gao Wushi's mind was even higher than that of Song Liangzuo, who was also an important member of the Real School?

Of course Gao Wushi could hear the emperor's question, but his answer came very quickly: "Liu Ting is in charge of the military strategy, and Song Shouzhong (Song Liangzuo, courtesy name Shouzhong) is in charge of the political and economic strategy, which is just what the minister and the emperor discussed, including Propaganda infiltration, economic blockade, etc.—Your Majesty, these matters are extremely important and can only be handled by Song Shouzhong, while Liu Ting can only fight, but he can't do these things."

"That guy" is usually a kind of impolite expression, but Gao Wuyu used another meaning in the emperor's dialogue, intending not to deny his close relationship with Liu Ting, whether he was pretending to be frank or genuine. If you are frank, it depends on how the emperor understands it.

Zhu Yijun's reaction was indeed within Gao Yushi's expectations, and he immediately expressed his understanding, saying: "So that's the case. You're right, Liu Ting has never been involved in these political affairs, and it's not within his authority. It’s up to the governor to do it himself.”

After the emperor finished speaking, he pondered for a while, and then asked again: "Are they strong enough now? To be honest, the failure of the previous two campaigns made me doubt the ability of the Southern Army."

Well, the Southern Army, the overall strength is definitely not as good as the Northern Army. After all, most of the Northern Army is a frontier army. It has been in war or on the verge of war for almost 200 years, and its training is far better than that of the Southern Army.

The previous highlight moment of the Southern Army, or a relatively sufficient moment, was probably the time when the Japanese pirates invaded the most.Famous generals such as Yu Dayou, Qi Jiguang, and Liu Xian all played their prestige during this period, and at the same time trained several elite soldiers.

However, although these elite soldiers of the Southern Army can fight, they are not large in scale because of their Ding army attributes.For example, Qi Jiguang's Qi family army was maintained at around [-] to [-] for a long time, and it did not increase slightly until Jizhen was transferred to the north;
The strength of Yu's army fluctuates slightly, the main reason is that its composition is not as clear as that of Qi's army, it is not specialized in land warfare, but a force with both water and land, but it is generally believed that at most it is only a few thousand;
On the contrary, the Liu family army had the largest number of people. Only the famous Jiangwo Yiding had more than [-] people in the last period before Liu Xian resigned, and the whole army had about seven or eight thousand people.

However, it is precisely because the Liu family army has a large total force, and Liu Xian is a general who made his fortune purely by fighting, without the support of senior officials and nobles in Nanjing, so Liu family army has been accused of poor military discipline for a long time.At that time, the Liu family's army would rob almost every battle, and often concealed the seizures. It was not until they joined Gao Gong and Gao Pragmatism that they gradually improved.

Apart from these three elite soldiers, it doesn't mean that there is no other army that can fight.It’s just that generally speaking, the remaining troops that can fight either have fewer troops, mostly only “a thousand” or even “hundreds”, or they are not Han soldiers at all—such as Guangxi wolf soldiers, Guizhou, and Xiangxi Miao soldiers.

In addition, Yunnan chieftains also have elite soldiers, but due to the more complicated internal and external conditions in Yunnan, the chieftain soldiers and horses are relatively seldom transferred from abroad.

Calculated in this way, if the chieftain soldiers are not counted in the Southern Army, there are no more than 20 to [-] elite soldiers who can really fight and have names.This is too bad. One must know that the Northern Army at the same time had [-] elite soldiers in the direct line of the Li Family Army alone, and the number of generals far exceeded that of the Southern Army.If all the towns on the nine borders were added together, and all generals, large and small, were counted, then the Northern Army might have around [-] elite servants alone.

Under such circumstances, coupled with the disastrous defeats of the Southern Army's previous two raids, it was not surprising that the Emperor suspected that the Southern Army was too weak.

Gao Wushi thought for a while, and said: "It stands to reason that the strength of the several armies should be enough now, not to mention that the strategy this time is different from the previous two, and they don't plan to go hand in hand.

In this encirclement and suppression campaign, the task of the remaining routes is to stick to the main roads, advance slowly, and focus on stability and control; the main force is only Liu Ting's headquarters. After the military expansion, it may still be at a disadvantage.

However, most of Liu Ting’s tribes are elite soldiers of hundreds of battles, about half of them are Han soldiers, and the other half come from two sources, one part is the famous Yiding who descended from Japan, and the other part is the Yiding from southern Xinjiang. Generally speaking, they are relatively fierce Not afraid of death..."

"Wait a minute." Zhu Yijun stretched out his hand to stop it, and interrupted and asked: "I understand that the barbarians who descended from Japan are not afraid of death, but the barbarians in southern Xinjiang are not so good, right? I think you beat Annan back then. Liu Ting, Deng Zilong and Mrs. Zun fought against Burma, Siam and other countries during the Burma War, they were almost as powerful as a bamboo, which shows that the soldiers in southern Xinjiang are not very capable of fighting."

"Whether a soldier can fight or not sometimes depends on who leads and how he leads." Gao Wushi smiled and said: "Take Myanmar as an example. The Yunnan frontier army and chieftain soldiers were almost beaten by him.

But in the Mangyingli period, the combat effectiveness of the Burmese army declined significantly. Not only was it defeated by our elite counterattacks, but even the Yunnan frontier army and chieftain soldiers were defeated. "

"You mean, the fighting power of these soldiers from Southern Xinjiang has been greatly improved when they are in the hands of Liu Ting?" Zhu Yijun was a little curious, and asked, "I know that Qi Jiguang is good at training soldiers, but I haven't heard that Liu Ting is also good at training soldiers." , hasn't he always been known as a titan?"

Gao Wushi laughed dumbly, and said: "Your Majesty, the bravery of a titan is only due to his personality, not the limitation of his ability. Whether it's Liu Chen or his father Liu Xian, if he only had bravery, his subordinates would not be as prosperous as they are today.

But having said that, there is still a big gap between Liu Ting's ability to govern the army and Qi Shuai's.His troops are gained by bravery and lost by lenient. If you want to compare them, they are probably similar to Li Jiajun. "

Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard the words, thought for a while, nodded and said: "I understand after you make such a comparison. Presumably Liu Ting and Li Rusong should be very similar in temperament, they are both the kind of guys who only want to win the battlefield, right? ?”

Gao Wushi laughed, and said: "I think the emperor's guess should be close to ten."

"No wonder you like to use him, this kind of general is really easy to use." Zhu Yijun was very satisfied and made up his mind, saying: "Then this matter is decided like this, you go back and explain to Da Sima." Gao Be pragmatic.

Zhu Yijun took the initiative to clink glasses with Gao Wushi again, took a sip each, and then talked about the North Korean issue again: "The third question, North Korea. You seem to mean... don't worry about it?"

Gao Wushi said: "It's not that we are not in a hurry, but that we have just finished fighting Mongolia, and now the troops of various ministries have not yet completed their withdrawal, and the next deployment has not yet been in place, and there is no rush, which will only cause trouble or hidden dangers. Therefore, I think it is only for the time being. You can stabilize your position first, and then make plans and move after the deployment is in place and the preparations are complete."

"However, before you return to Beijing, the imperial court has ordered Liaodong to send two elite soldiers to North Korea!" Zhu Yijun opened his eyes wide and said, "According to what you said, isn't there going to be a problem?"

"Two elite soldiers?" Gao Wushi frowned and asked, "When the imperial edict was received, Liaodong seemed to be very empty. Counting the time, Xiao Ruxun's troops may have just returned to the town, and they may not even have fully returned. Zhen, where can we find two elite soldiers to help North Korea? Also, how many are the two elite soldiers mentioned by the emperor?"

"Uh, this... the imperial court also knew the situation at that time, so they didn't say how many troops to send, but actually let Jian Da and Gu Yangqian decide what to do."

Jian Da and Gu Yangqian are the governor of Jiliao and the governor of Liaodong.The governor of Fengjiang can "handle it on his own" for related border affairs, which is very common in Daming.Not to mention the governor, Gao Yushi dared to "see it by himself" when he was a patrol censor back then.

But at this moment, Gao Wushi knew something bad when he heard it.It seems that history may really have some inertia. Maybe this wave of aid to North Korea will be the same as the original history, sending a wave of heads to the other party as soon as the war starts.

The Japanese army sent 30 troops, and more than 5000 have already entered the dynasty, while the Ming army only entered the dynasty for the first time with [-] people, and Zu Chengxun, the leader of the army, believed that he had always fought against Mongolia and Jurchen, and the combat effectiveness of his soldiers far exceeded The Japanese army, cleaning up the Japanese pirates is just like playing.

In addition, North Korean officials lied to him that the Japanese army in Pyongyang had very few troops in order to get Daemyung Soldiers into battle as soon as possible. Therefore, he underestimated the enemy and attacked Pyongyang with 5000 troops. As expected, he was defeated.

Gao Wushi pondered for a moment, and said: "Xiao Ruxun is famous for being good at guarding. Presumably Jian and Gu Ergong are unlikely to order him to enter the court, but will use it to guard the border between me and North Korea and deter the Jurchen tribes. In this way, the soldiers entering the court may Most of them will still use the soldiers of Liaoxi.

However, Li Rusong from the west of Liao had to go back to the town thousands of miles away, so he had to take a rest before fighting again, so the number of soldiers and horses that could be sent to aid would not be too many, and the number of ministers was probably only a few thousand.

The Japanese soldiers entered the DPRK in a large scale. The previous news was that Seoul had been lost, and the minister feared that Pyongyang might have been lost as well.Then, after the Liaodong Army entered North Korea, what North Korea most urgently needs their help is probably to regain Pyongyang.

Pyongyang is an important city in northern North Korea, and its status is comparable to mine in Nanjing. No matter who the generals I join are bound to strive for this great victory.However, precisely because of Pyongyang's important status, the Japanese soldiers will definitely garrison with heavy troops.In this way, there will be a big war in Pyongyang. "

Gao Yushi's deep frown made Zhu Yijun a little nervous, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked unsurely: "You mean our army... may be disadvantaged in this battle?"

Gao Wushi did not answer this question immediately, but instead asked: "By the way, the emperor, it is now around the time of the autumn harvest, and the local area in Liaodong must be busy collecting grain to supplement the consumption of the previous war against the Yuan Dynasty. It must be difficult to dispatch enough money immediately. How is the supply of the 'two elite' in North Korea arranged?"

Zhu Yijun was clear about this matter, and said with a smile: "Our army entered the DPRK to help it fight against the Japanese pirates. Of course, the armor is prepared by ourselves, but the food and other matters must be borne by the DPRK. Li Yan also understood the reason, and he took the initiative to express that the issue of food and payment is borne by the DPRK. There is no need to worry too much about the court’s solution.”

Don't worry about farts!What I'm worried about is "the problem of food and payment will be resolved by the Korean court"!
The Korean court, do you dare to trust this court?There is no lower limit to the degree of corruption and incompetence of the imperial court!The result of their solution must be that the Ming army entered the court carelessly, was dumbfounded when they saw the supplies, and then fought hungry, believe it or not?
After hearing Gao Wushi's complaints and warnings, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but panicked, and said at a loss: "It can't be so bad, can it? North Korea has been peaceful for a hundred years, so there should be some savings. And if, as you said, our army enters this time The aid is only a few thousand at most, can't they even supply the food and wages for this amount of troops?"

Gao Wushi sighed: "It seems to be the case, but if the Korean court is really capable, how could they be easily defeated and lost a thousand miles when they were equal in strength to the Japanese army that attacked the dynasty?
Your Majesty, this is definitely not just a lack of army, it must be caused by internal chaos.It is also because of this that when our army sends troops to aid North Korea, we must not expect the North Koreans to be able to help us. We can only rely on ourselves for everything, even including all kinds of Japanese army intelligence. We must not trust the North Koreans too easily .

After thinking about it, the North Koreans could barely help, and the only thing left was to provide information about mountains, rivers and terrain. "

Zhu Yijun was stunned and speechless, and after a while he added weakly: "Well, North Korea is incompetent, but I remember that their navy general named Li Hechen performed very well, and he has defeated the Japanese pirate navy several times in a row."

"I have heard about these news, but...hehe." Gao Wushi curled his lips and said: "The Japanese pirate navy that is currently confronting him is not the main force of the Japanese army, and their main force has not yet been dispatched in Japan."

Zhu Yijun was surprised and said: "No way, since the Japanese pirates have invaded the DPRK in a large scale, if the main force of the navy doesn't defeat the North Korean navy, what is there to do in Japan?"

Gao Wushi's face darkened slightly, and he said slowly: "Because...the Maritime Trade Alliance has a squadron still berthing in Japan."
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