Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1767
Due to the advantage of flying pigeons to send letters, Gao Yushi first received Xiao Ruxun's statement on Zu Chengxun's defeat in Pyongyang, and the Jinghua Secretariat and the Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately held a small meeting under Gao Yushi's convening.

Gao Mo, as the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the head of the intelligence system, first confirmed Xiao Ruxun's news, and at the same time explained some possible doubts.

Gao Mo said that based on the information obtained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zu Chengxun’s complaints about being adversely affected by the North Korean side when he went south were obviously exaggerated. This is very problematic.

In fact, although Zu Chengxun did give some food to the accompanying small-scale North Korean cavalry guides, but because the North Korean side guaranteed road safety, Zu Chengxun himself carried quite a lot of food and grass, and the hoarding was not counted. Yizhou is too far away, so he is not short of food during this trip, and there is no reason to "not be half full".

Also, his claim that North Korea interfered with his deployment by wanting command is only half-truth.The North Korean side has indeed always wanted to get the command. However, neither Zu Chengxun nor the famous generals who arrived earlier ignored North Korea's request. If it is necessary to say that this is interference, it may only be psychological interference. interfered.

But other than that, Zu Chengxun’s other statements are basically reasonable. For example, the information provided by the North Korean side is seriously untrue; the North Korean army’s conscripts are not only incapable of fighting, but will collapse at any touch, seriously affecting morale and even affecting deployment, etc. These are all facts .

In the end, he accused the Japanese army in Pyongyang of shooting North Korean standard arrows, which has also been proved to be true. Indeed, some North Korean troops surrendered and were directly used by the Japanese army, but the number of defectors is still unclear.

As for Zu Chengxun’s speculation that there may be 20 Japanese troops in the dynasty, Gao Mo just mentioned this point casually. After all, everyone here knows how many Japanese soldiers entered the dynasty—Gao Yushi said it a long time ago!Although he did not disclose the source of the news, since his news is never untrue, everyone will naturally have no doubts.

After the whole story was clarified, Gao Mo stopped speaking, remained absolutely silent as always, and sat on the side like an invisible person.And Liu Xin, as the secretary-general, that is, the de facto chief of staff, naturally had to make a general analysis-by the way, she was the one in charge of the three military secretaries.

"Zu Chengxun's defeat in this battle, as he himself said, was actually a result of underestimating the enemy." Liu Xin got up and stood in front of the map of Northeast Asia hanging high, pointed at the traffic line from Yizhou to Pyongyang with a pointer, and said : "Of course, the performance of Zu Chengxun's department is still worthy of the word "elite". Under the heavy rain, there is no delay in pounced on Pyongyang, and the battle in Pyongyang after the sun cleared did not show that it was affected by the rain. .

From the detailed battle reports, we will find that Zu Chengxun actually only used more than [-] people to attack Pyongyang City, while the Japanese army used about [-] troops to encircle and suppress it—and Zu Chengxun finally let go and left.From this point of view, Hou Ye's previous judgment was very correct: our army has a huge cavalry advantage over the Japanese army. "

Cao Ke couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "This is really 30 years in Hedong and 30 years in Hexi. In the past many years, one of the most difficult problems in Ming Dynasty's military affairs was that cavalry was not good enough. Every time it fought against the Mongols, the victory would be small. To win, to lose is to be defeated, which forced the teacher to create a hollow phalanx of bayonets to control cavalry. Unexpectedly, when Daming defeated Mongolia, he suddenly discovered that his own cavalry had become a powerful army that other countries could hardly match."

His words sounded a little too much, but in fact, it doesn’t seem wrong to think about it carefully. At least among the opponents that the Ming army has the opportunity to fight, it seems that no one’s cavalry is still higher than the Ming army’s cavalry—unless now Tumed and Ordos rebounded.

However, this is unlikely, and secondly, even if it is true, the Tumed and Ordos coalition forces, which lack firearms like Chahar, may not dare to say that they can defeat the current Ming cavalry.From this point of view, although it is still an era of alternating hot and cold weapons, the advancement of technology has begun to gradually lose its luster to the nomads' proud riding and shooting.

"Don't talk too far." Gao Wushi interrupted with a wave of his hand: "What we are going to discuss now is whether the situation in North Korea is still controllable."

"No effect." Liu Xin immediately interjected: "Although he didn't say clearly about Zu Chengxun's loss, Xiao Ruxun already said in his letter that he sent someone to check it out. Judging from the strength of the troops returning to Liaodong, Zu Chengxun The actual battle damage of the training department is not high, and there are only more than [-] people injured..."

While she was talking, there was an urgent report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Gao Mo quickly went to get it under Gao Yushi's gesture.Since Gao Yushi was present, Gao Mo handed it over to the former without even reading it.

Gao Wushi took the urgent report, and was taken aback for a moment, with a playful smile on the corner of his mouth.This urgent report was not very short, and Gao Yushi read it carefully, but as always, his face remained unchanged, and he just passed it to Liu Xin silently.

Liu Xin took a look, and was a little surprised when she looked up. She glanced at Gao Yushi and saw that he was calm, so she also calmed down and examined it carefully.

After a while, Liu Xin read it, and said with a slight smile: "Zu Chengxun's battle report and Jinghua's espionage report are not as detailed as this one." They have the right to see it, so it's hard to talk about it.

Fortunately, Gao Wushi waved his hand and said: "There is no need to hide it. This battle report was sent by Shimadzu Yoshihiro through our liaison officer in his army. The accuracy of his news is beyond doubt—from Yu Yuxi Duoxiu's general team." Then everyone became curious, and Liu Xin handed the battle report to the military secretary Ruan Fuyuan, asking him to read it out in public.

This battle report is naturally expressed from the standpoint of the Japanese army. The general situation is different from the previous news. It is basically this: before Zu Chengxun killed and rushed outside Pyongyang, the First Army of Governor Konishi only mobilized some people Going to Zhonghe to build the city, there are still tens of thousands of people in Pyongyang, and Zu Chengxun planned the Pyongyang operation based on the information provided by North Korea and the Japanese army's garrison force of 2000 people.

In the process of going south, Zu Chengxun cleaned up Mori Terumoto's Senshou clan in the Sunan area, which is the security agency at the front of the traffic, and headed for Pyongyang with cavalry at high speed, and then raided the Japanese army under the weather and time of rainy night and dawn. stronghold.

The rapid action of the Ming army did catch the Japanese army completely by surprise.As a result, the Ming army easily broke through the city wall of Pyongyang, entered the city from Qixingmen, and went straight to the Japanese stronghold of Datongguan.

At that time, Matsuura Jinnobu and his son were stationed at the Datongguan stronghold. The father and son, who were caught off guard, led the guards and fought hand-to-hand with the Ming army with knives. Matsuura Jinnobu was shot in the foot during the battle.According to Shimadzu Yoshihiro’s discussion of the battle between the generals of the Japanese army, he believed that if the Japanese army really had 2000 people as the Koreans said, or only 3000 people in the Matsuura Township Department, then Zu Chengxun’s raid on Pyongyang would be a big win. Total victory.

However, after the Japanese army in Pyongyang got the news that the Ming army had entered the city, they immediately gathered at the Datongguan battlefield.Military Supervisor Onogi Shigemori led 700 troops to the battlefield first, and used matchlock guns to attack the Ming army cavalry crowded in the streets of Datongguan.

Shi Ru did charge forward, but he was discovered by the Japanese army when he was directing archery from a high place above the city, and then he was shot and killed by a matchlock gun.Dai Chaobian and Qianzong Zhang Guozhong were also shot to death successively.Zu Chengxun and Ma Shilong were injured. On the way to lead the army to retreat, Ma Shilong fell off his horse and died because of his injuries.Immediately, the Ming army at the back of the palace fell into the mud, and some of them who could not leave quickly were surrounded and killed by Xingchang Xiaonishi and Zongyi Tomobu who came to surround them.

Things have come to this point, the truth has basically been restored.According to Gao Pragmatic's view, Zu Chengxun's performance is actually not a big mistake. The main reason is that he believed North Korea's intelligence and made tactical arrangements based on wrong facts from the beginning. Change of owner.

Tonight is destined to be very busy, the meeting is continuing to discuss, and there is new news.This time it was even more interesting. The news came from Li Rusong through the Jinghua Flying Pigeon Station that he had just arranged for him a few days ago. In his report, he filled in the follow-up information that Yoshihiro Shimadzu could not have known.

It turns out that Zu Chengxun retreated from Pyongyang, all the way from Shun'an County, through Suchuan Dufu, and arrived in Anzhou City.Immediately called the North Korean interpreter Pu Yijian and said: "I killed many thieves today. Unfortunately, Guerrilla was injured and killed. The weather is unfavorable, heavy rain is muddy, and the thieves cannot be wiped out. You should add troops to your ears, saying that the prime minister will not move, and the pontoon bridge cannot be withdrawn." "

After finishing speaking, he led the army across the Qingchuan River and Dading River, and stationed in Kongjiangting, Bochuan County, where he counted the war damage. Hundreds, and many pursuers."

At that time, Zu Chengxun stayed in Kongjiang Pavilion for two days, the wind and rain continued day and night, and the army slept in the open, with their armor and equipment wet, the soldiers were very dissatisfied, Zu Chengxun had no choice but to retreat to Liaodong.On the [-]th of the same month, Shen Xishou, a North Korean soldier Cao Shenzhi, was ordered to go to Jiulian City. He met Xiao Ruxun and asked Zu Chengxun not to withdraw from the army.

According to Li Rusong, after the battle in Pyongyang, Zu Chengxun reported to him that North Korea was collaborating with the enemy, saying, "A small battalion of North Korean soldiers surrendered." There is no other skill", and it is definitely not the number of "one or two thousand", but "there are many good shooters among the thieves", "the number exceeds ten thousand", and the Korean army did not cooperate with the Ming army, and the soldiers were afraid to move forward .

Li Rusong also said that North Korea argued that "Pyongyang's shooters or those who were robbed fired them", and the number of Japanese troops was not known. At the same time, they refused to admit that there were North Koreans who joined the enemy.In addition, North Korea was imitating matchlock guns before the war, and the Ming army still insisted that there was no such thing at this time. The first batch of Japanese troops landed in Pusan, and the front line reported that there were [-] Japanese troops. .

When the Korean army surrendered to the Japanese army, North Korea found out that it was when Shi Ru was killed in battle and the former army retreated.At that time, Zu Chengxun withdrew from the city, and when he was in formation at the West Gate of Pyongyang, he saw that among the soldiers of the North Korean side, Lee Kuan had a dialogue with the Japanese army, and the Japanese army retreated a little because of this.Therefore, Zu Chengxun believed that the North Korean army was connected with the Japanese army, and there was nothing to do but retreat.

Li Rusong also sent some news that is not directly related to the military situation. For example, North Korea will naturally not admit that its people have surrendered to the enemy. On the gatepost of the prefectural official's mansion, ten large characters were written "Don't drive to Jiangjie, but to Yizhou" to inform the Japanese army of the Korean court's movements.

At this time, the Japanese army in Pyongyang issued name cards to the North Korean people to show that they would live here for a long time, and a large number of civilians from all over North Korea voted for the Japanese. "Recently, taxes and duties are burdensome, the people are struggling to live, and punishments have become cruel. The soldiers and civilians are full of resentment, and there is no way to sue. Their hearts have been separated for a long time." There are not many slaves, and half of them are traitors, which is extremely chilling."

And just the day before the Ming army attacked, North Korea also received "village gangsters near the thief's den in Pyongyang, or those who have contacts and received badges, and listened to their instigation. Jin Defu and Liu Xizhi lived far away in Changcheng, and went to receive badges." Report.

So why did North Korea use various methods to let the Ming army enter the city?Based on the information he received, Li Rusong analyzed that after the news of the fall of Hamgyong Province reached the Joseon court, Li Yan discussed with the ministers and worried that the Japanese troops from Hamgyong and Ping'an provinces would join forces to advance westward, so they had to take advantage of Konishi Xingchang. The troops "must take advantage of their unpreparedness and attack when they are in Pyongyang."

As for the raid on Pyongyang, even Li Yan knew that "it is probably not easy to ride horses into the city", and the North Korean minister's suggestion was "to set fire at night to disturb the thieves, and then attack them."

This kind of near-death matter was immediately decided by Li Yan, "everything must be done by the heavenly soldiers."The reason why they kept urging the Ming army to rush into Pyongyang, and did not hesitate to use false information to induce Zu Chengxun, was to "fear that this thief (Kato Kiyomasa) would gather and then join forces with the western thief (Konishi Yukyocho)".

In other words, before Zu Chengxun crossed the river, North Korea had already formulated a military plan to attack Pyongyang at night, but the surprise attack was extremely difficult, and "it was inconvenient to ride horses in the city", the North Korean army could not do it by itself, so North Korea The cavalry unit scheduled for Zu Chengxun did it.

The wishful thinking of the North Koreans is to leave the risky ones to the suzerain country. If the night attack on Pyongyang is successful, they will follow the trend. If we are defeated and the troops are withdrawn and sent away, then the affairs of our country will be of no concern, and the imperial prestige will be lost, so it cannot be heard in the four barbarians."

Thus, the Battle of Pyongyang was deliberately misled by the North Koreans. Da Ming went to rescue the North Korean army, at the cost of the lives of his own generals and soldiers, and was dragged into a large-scale frontal military confrontation between China and Japan by the North Koreans.

Li Rusong's anger can be seen through the paper. On the one hand, he believes that the villain of the Joseon court is in power, and even the king Li Yan is completely selfish and shameless; Willing, thinking that he was completely overshadowed by his "own people", which resulted in losing the face of Daming and the face of the Liaodong Army.

In the end, Li Rusong summed it up in one sentence: Pyongyang lost face, and the general will find it himself in the end! ——
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