Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1824 Pingwa ([-]) Ming Army Strategy
The Hanyang and Pyongyang Ming armies withdrew to the country for training. Is this true or false?It was true, but training was not the main purpose. Gao Wushi transferred them back to Liaodong at this time. The purpose was very simple: to let North Korea continue its defeat in the Imchen Year, and wait until the war situation was critical and North Korea took the initiative to ask the Ming army for help.

This proposition caused controversy in the court, because the court's middle and lower officials did not know the high-level pragmatic plan, and simply thought that it would be unreasonable for him not to send the army that was still stranded in Dandong to North Korea at this time. At least this timing is very inappropriate for the reorganization of the defenders in Hanyang and Pyongyang who are transferred to the north.

If it weren't for Gao Wushi's prestige in military affairs is too high, I am afraid that with this one hand, there would be countless people in the court who accused him of commanding indiscriminately or fearing the enemy like a tiger.

Even with his prestige, some people accused him of only caring about the military and disregarding the friendship of suzerain and vassal. In other words, he has no political acumen and ignores the 200-year friendly relationship with North Korea.To this, Gao pragmatically replied: "How about the friendship between the suzerain and the vassal? Has this member ever asked Song Yingchang, Li Rusong, etc.?"

The reason why Gao Yushi was too lazy to formally defend himself was actually because someone endorsed this decision: before the order was issued, the emperor held a Wenhua Convocation, and under Gao Yushi's request, this Wenhua Convocation was not announced to the public Topics and Discussion Outcomes.

In fact, it was during this imperial military meeting that Gao Yushi persuaded the emperor and his cabinet colleagues to insist that the so-called friendship between suzerain and vassal is nothing more than the difference between suzerain and vassal, that is, the suzerain is the suzerain, and there is no suzerain in the world. , The truth of the soldiers of the vassal king.

Therefore, since North Korea refused to obey the emperor's order, let them suffer a little bit, so as not to be confused like the previous time, and not even understand the principles of the monarch and his ministers.The so-called giving both kindness and power is exactly like this.

Song Yingchang returned to Dandong very quickly this time, and the strengthening and training that Gao Pragmatically promised was not just talk. Qi Jin, Wu Weizhong, etc. were supplemented, not only replaced the damaged ordnance, but also added some extra vans .

In the previous actual battle, the Ming army found that the chariot formation promoted by Qi Jiguang was very effective against the Japanese army, which was equipped with not weak arquebus guns, and could significantly reduce its own casualties. Quite a few, this time they were also sent to strengthen the army to aid the DPRK, and Qi Jin and others were all allocated the due part.

After Song Yingchang arrived in Dandong, he discovered another thing. Although the main force of Li Rusong's direct lineage had been reorganized, some veteran generals of the Li family army, including Yang Yuan, stayed behind with their headquarters. They still wanted to fight again in North Korea.

Song Yingchang soon understood that this was Gao Yushi's intention.The purpose of doing this is to drag these veteran generals of the Li family army to Liaodong through the war, give Li Rusong time to recover his strength, and continue to maintain the overall strength balance of the Li family army;
On the one hand, since the Li family army has joined the Real School, of course they can't just sneak away because of the loss of thousands of people last time, and they have to go where they should contribute next time, don't try to take advantage of the opportunity to steal and play tricks.

Of course, after the victory of the Yuan Dynasty, the defense system of the Nine Frontiers changed, and the strength of the Nine Frontiers was tighter than before. There are probably reasons why North Korea still needs the Liaodong Army to contribute.

In short, after the summarization of troops this time, not counting the naval forces under the command of Chen Lin, only the army under the command of Ma Gui to aid North Korea has a total of 7000 people, twice the number of the first aid to North Korea.It can be seen that Gao Ge always wants to completely solve the North Korean issue this time.

Song Yingchang felt a little lucky, thanks to being a member of the Real School.Otherwise, as it was done last time, the strategic goal was not fully achieved to drive the Japanese army into the sea, and there were conflicts between the North and South armies within the army, then there is a high probability that I will be guilty and return to China to be punished. Slightly, this is a great trust.

He secretly made up his mind that he must not live up to this heavy trust, and he must be careful in every battle, so that there must be no more mistakes.Fortunately, judging from past experience, although Ma Gui is also a brave general, at least his style is much more stable than Li Rusong's. This time, there should be no second Battle of the Blue Foot Pavilion.

Song Yingchang may not know that his idea coincides with Ma Gui's, but the starting point of the two parties is slightly different.

In terms of rewards for meritorious deeds after the previous war against the Yuan Dynasty, apart from Gao Yushi who received the highest level of rewards as the overall planner and commander-in-chief of the entire war, and was awarded the title of Marquis directly in the first battle, the following is Qi Jiguang who was awarded the title of Earl.Except for the two of them, the rewards of the rest of the meritorious personnel became "average".

For example, Ma Gui, in the final evaluation of merit, he ranked third among generals, second only to Qi Jiguang and Li Rusong.But the problem is that Li Rusong, who was ranked ahead of him, only got "Xu Fa Yuan Gong, promoted to a higher level, and Yinyi's son, Jin Yiwei, commanded the Tongzhi hereditary", and was promoted to the commander of the Chinese Army's Governor's Mansion.

Then it is obvious that Ma Gui's reward cannot surpass him. In fact, Ma Gui's reward is almost the same as Li Rusong's, except that the final "Chinese Army Governor's Mansion" was replaced with "Former Army Governor's Mansion", and the governor and the Zhizhi were replaced. Became the right governor - the right governor of the first rank is of course higher than the governor of the first rank.

However, this kind of award is not an inversion of merit and reward, but that Ma Gui's qualifications are older than Li Rusong. He has already been the governor and acquaintance before, so this time he can only be promoted to the right governor.

However, since Qi Jiguang was granted the title of Earl, Ma Gui is probably the most qualified general to succeed Qi Jiguang after comprehensive consideration in the military, so of course Ma Gui himself has some ideas for "progress".

For generals to "progress", the safest thing to do is to be awarded with military exploits, but military exploits are not something you can have if you want to.Needless to say whether you can win or not, you must at least have a battle to fight, and if you have a battle to fight... then you have to count on Gao Ge's cultivation?
Now that Mr. Gao Ge's emphasis on cultivation has been put in place, Ma Gui certainly wants to fight this battle well.And to a certain extent, this second battle to aid North Korea is really no small matter. Not only did more than [-] troops be dispatched, but there is also a key point that is different from the previous few battles under the command of Gao Ge.

In the past few times, Gao Yushi had dispatched a large number of troops, and he himself was naturally in charge of the army as a civil servant, but there was a relatively special situation that when Gao Yushi led the troops, the general soldiers under him were not subordinate to each other, and the court or the emperor did not Do not appoint an admiral to take charge of military affairs in this group of general soldiers.

To a certain extent, this was done to allow Gao Yushi to command better. Of course, it also meant that the emperor believed that Gao Yushi could manage military affairs by himself, and there was no need to choose another one from the general army.However, the battle in North Korea was different. The previous time, Admiral Li Rusong assisted North Korea to fight against Japan, but this time it was replaced by him, Magui.

The chief soldier can be an admiral, but the admiral does not necessarily have to be the chief soldier. For example, when Gao Wushi pacified the Northwest last time, he served as a civil servant to supervise the military affairs of the Northwest.Therefore, it can be said that it is the first time for Ma Gui to be an admiral in military affairs. This is a kind of qualification and a great opportunity.

In this case, if he played well, judging from the current emphasis on the Korean War by the emperor and the imperial court, he might have a chance to earn an earl.

As detailed in the previous article, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, it was easy for military generals to be knighted, but it was very difficult for civilian officials. There is only one Li Chengliang—even Li Chengliang was just a vassal at the beginning, and he accumulated other credits to become a vassal later.

In other words, it is more difficult for military generals to be knighted than for civil officials to rely on martial arts to be knighted.So in this general environment, if he, Magui, can take advantage of the opportunity of this war to aid the DPRK to earn a title, then it will be truly glorious, and it will also make "Dong Li Xi Ma" truly worthy of the name.

With such a goal, although Magui has not yet entered North Korea in accordance with the highly pragmatic requirements, he has already made sufficient preparations.

Not only did he personally inspect the various weapons and equipment, logistics, food, and other equipment, but he never relaxed his training and preparations. He also asked in detail about the situation in North Korea's mountains and rivers and other related matters from the Liaodong Army who was transferred to him.In addition, regarding the situation of the Japanese army, he paid more attention to understanding and researching, and made several sets of war plans in response to the previous performance of the Japanese army-this was learned from fighting with high pragmatism for many years.

This kind of pre-war plan has long been popularized in southern Xinjiang, because the major garrison forces in southern Xinjiang have already established a formal staff department, but it has not been promoted in the military system of the Ming Dynasty for the time being.

In the end, the reform of Daming is no better than that of southern Xinjiang. It can be decided by Gao Yushi. The reform of the Ming court has always depended on the improvement of Gao Yushi's status. Before that, he couldn't handle such a major event of directly reforming the system in the whole army— —The ancestral system, although the high pragmatism has changed a lot, but generally speaking, there are prerequisites for bypassing it.

Now that Song Yingchang is here, he is a member of the Real School, so Ma Gui doesn't have any worries, so he just took a few plans and went to show him.

Song Yingchang carefully read them one by one, and asked in surprise: "Why are all these plans started when almost the entire territory of North Korea fell?"

Ma Gui coughed lightly, and said, "This...is what Lord Hou meant."

"Ah..." Song Yingchang rolled his eyes and asked tentatively, "Master Hou, is this intentional attempt to punish North Korea?"

Ma Gui hurriedly said: "Master Hou is far-sighted, how can the general understand it deeply? However, Lord Hou was quite dissatisfied with the interference in the Korean power struggle in the previous battle. North Korea, in the end, will feel that it is also reasonable and a matter of course."

"It is indeed necessary to beat North Korea, but...is it really enough to beat North Korea so hard that almost the entire territory of North Korea fell again?" Song Yingchang said with some concern: "To achieve this level, the beating must be enough, but isn't it Also increased the difficulty of our army's recovery?
Moreover, not long ago I heard that the King of Joseon sold some mine mining rights in Hamgyong-do and other places to Jinghua for 99 years. If the whole of North Korea was allowed to fall, what would happen to these mines? "

Ma Gui said: "Master Hou didn't mention these issues, but judging from the future, those sales have just been negotiated, no matter how fast Jinghua works, it is impossible to start construction now, so there should be nothing Substantial impact."

Song Yingchang thought about it too, and felt a little relieved, but then asked: "So from a military point of view? Most of Hamgyong Road is mountainous and forested. Last time, the Japanese army wanted to shrink the front line to protect Hanyang. Kato Kiyomasa transferred back and took the initiative to evacuate Hamgyong Road.

So this time, if the Japanese army learns their lesson and sticks to Hamgyong Road and refuses to back down, let’s not talk about whether the cities are easy to fight, at least it will be very difficult to march in the deep mountains and old forests-after all, our artillery and cavalry are far away. More than the Japanese army. "

In this era, the mobility of artillery is a big problem. Even if Jinghua improves the structure of some artillery vehicles, it will not catch up with the mechanization of later generations. It is even worse than the horse-drawn cannons in World War I and even modern wars. The large corps of the Zhiming Army carried hundreds of cannons around the ravine, which was really a big problem.

Relatively speaking, although the cavalry has the saying of "no entry into the forest", as long as there is a road, they can still go anyway, and North Korea has official ways, so they will not be allowed to maneuver through the woods, which is better than artillery troops manage.

But Ma Gui laughed when he heard this, and said: "There is no need to worry too much about this. First of all, even if the Japanese army wants to stick to Hamgyong Road, the number of troops they can station must be limited; secondly, our army does not have to go there in person. Dealing with the Japanese army in Hamgyong-do.

According to the plan of the last general, the main force of our army only needs to go south from the west front all the way as Li Zongrong did last time, and don't have to deal with the affairs of Hamgyong Road. "

"Jurchen coalition?" Song Yingchang took a deep breath and said hesitantly, "Do you really want them to be responsible for the battle alone? Not to mention that North Korea has always opposed Jurchen sending troops to rescue, even if North Korea does not object, I think the leader of this Jurchen coalition must be Nurhachi, I'm afraid this is also... Admiral Ma, you should know that Lord Hou is very wary of this person."

"That's right, what Jingtai said is reasonable." Ma Gui affirmed Song Yingchang first, and then said: "But Lord Hou also said that he just wanted to see the results of the war between Jurchen and Japan. In addition, although Lord Hou I didn't say it, but the general always felt that... Lord Hou probably didn't want Nurhachi to be idle and have nothing to do."

"Don't want Nurhachi to be idle and have nothing to do?" Song Yingxing savored the meaning of this sentence carefully, nodded slowly and said: "I understand, Li Rusong's troops are quite worn out, and Xiao Ruxun's troops have a large part now. It was transferred to your command, so that the strength of Liaodong troops has dropped to the lowest level in recent years. At this time, let Nurhachi lead the troops south to fight in Hamgyong Road, then he will have no chance to pose a threat to our Liaodong mainland. "

Ma Gui happily said: "After the high opinion of Taiwan, the last general will also think so."
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