Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1872
The explosion of the gunpowder depot in Dong Yiyuan's army seems quite strange, but in fact there are traces to follow, and to some extent it can even be said to be self-inflicted.

The source of the problem occurred after the Battle of Pingbo. At that time, Dong Yiyuan was transferred to the north. He originally planned to let him return to Ganshan, but after he left for a while, he heard that the Marquis of Nanning intended to personally conquer North Korea. He immediately thought that North Korea would be a great contribution. This is not surprising, but Van Gogh's pragmatic and personal battles have always been a record for the generals under his hands.

The Dong family was originally an aristocratic general, and he and his brother Dong Yikui are also considered one of the famous generals in the world. Although they are not as good as the older generation like Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang, they are not as good as compared to Ma Gui and Li Rusong among the juniors. The victory lies in the older seniority.

However, although the Dong family brothers have made a lot of military exploits over the years, they also suffered a lot of failures due to various reasons.As for the official position, it naturally rises and falls from time to time, not to mention the promotion of titles. When you are lucky, you will be promoted to Gong Bao, and when you are unlucky, you will go to the end.

All in all, after the Battle of Pingbo, he managed to get Kung Pao back, but En Yin was not enough, not enough for his sons.

So Dong Yiyuan was moved. He thought that since the Marquis of Nanning was going to North Korea, the Korean War would definitely be stable. As long as he found a way to join this battle, he could arrange the future of his sons well by making some achievements. Wouldn't it be beautiful to roam around in the woods and play with your grandchildren in life?

But although the idea is good, the problem also exists objectively, that is, the soldiers under his command suffered a lot of losses in the battle of flat broadcasting, some were killed in battle, and some were disabled. Difficult to make up - the meaning of making up does not only refer to soldiers, but also to things like training.

The number of servants he can gather right now is about [-], which is not a lot to say the least, which is considered to be strong among the generals of Ganshan and Shanxi.With [-] family members as the core, it is not uncommon to lead an army of [-] to [-] to go out.However, the problem is where he will gather "[-] to [-] soldiers".

Originally, the military department asked him to return to the town, mainly because the pressure on the northwest increased after Tumen Khan fled westward. What's up.

Because of this relationship, Dong Yiyuan knew that it was best not to suggest that the imperial court mobilize too many troops from the northwest. In addition to his own [-] family members, the northwest frontier troops mobilized should not exceed [-] at most.

In that case, even if I only bring 1 non-domestic troops to North Korea, there is still a gap of [-] people that needs to be filled.Dong Yiyuan thought about it, contacted several of his former departments who had been dismissed in the past few years for some reason, and discussed a good solution.

This method is very characteristic of the Ming Dynasty: Dong Yiyuan came forward to ask for a battle, saying that several of his old ministries in the past were willing to contribute people and efforts to die for the emperor, as long as the Ministry of War was willing to "staff" it, and the personnel issues were left to the generals to figure out their own solutions.

Generally speaking, the imperial court usually approves this kind of invitation for war after receiving it. There are two reasons: one is that this group of people took the initiative to invite the war itself to be commendable.Many of their previous dismissals were nothing more than a way for civilian officials to control generals, that is, you have no major faults, but I just want to pick a mistake to suppress you and let you know who is the master.

Most of the generals in the Ming Dynasty had this kind of experience, and they even spent their whole lives in this cycle of "breaking the rules - being rewarded for meritorious deeds - being demoted for making mistakes - committing crimes and making meritorious deeds". Of course, Dong Yiyuan's old troops could not escape.At the same time, in the eyes of the imperial court, this kind of time happened to be an opportunity for them to commit crimes and make meritorious deeds.

The second is that the imperial court thinks their servants are useful.Aristocratic generals are not limited to high-ranking generals like Dong Li Xima, there are also many young generals, and no matter whether they are generals or young generals, there are basically teams of varying numbers of servants, and these teams are exactly where they become generals. source of strength.

That being the case, the imperial court certainly believed that since Dong Yiyuan dared to take the lead in asking for a fight on their behalf, then this group of people must have many servants under their command. Maybe they have been training hard for the past few years, just waiting for a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds!
What is it called?Sending generals is not as good as aggressive generals, with such eager soldiers, are they afraid that they will not be able to fight to the death when they go to the battlefield?So the strength of this group of people is guaranteed.

The Ministry of War calculated the strength of troops in various places, and found that with the expansion of the defense area, it was indeed becoming more and more difficult to deploy troops. Since Dong Yiyuan and his old generals took the initiative to ask for a battle, let them go.

Therefore, Dong Yiyuan successfully got the opportunity to go out, but as expected, the court only allowed him to take away the 1 frontier troops from Shaanxi and Gansu, and besides his own [-] family members, he had to urge his old generals to fight. Gather [-] people to join the conscript, so that the total force will reach [-], which is also in line with the strength that a general soldier should have.

It is common for the old generals to commit crimes and make meritorious service together. After Dong Yiyuan assigned the task, he didn't pay much attention to it. Who knew that this was where the hidden danger happened.

One of Dong Yiyuan's old generals was named Peng Xingu, who was originally a guerrilla, and had been in the post for seven years.During these seven years, Peng Xingu was quite unlucky, and everything went wrong, because his old leader, the Dong family brothers, also had bad luck from time to time, so they couldn't help him much.

Peng Xingu then decided to go to Beijing—oh, he didn't go to petition, he went to "do something", but unfortunately his family was just a local general, and he didn't rank well in the eyes of the big bosses in the capital.

He has been busy for two or three years, but he hasn't seen any big people who can speak effectively. Instead, he has tossed about the family business, and even the original thousand or so family members have been scattered. To be yellow.

Just at this time, Dong Yiyuan planned to ask Dongzheng to help him.However, a question arises: how to send troops when the servants are gone?

Peng Xingu refused to let go of such a good opportunity, because he knew that if he missed this opportunity, the young general of the Peng family might really be defeated by him, and he would become a sinner of the Peng family. useless.

So he turned his mind and thought of a "wonderful method": take all his last sum of money to "big money", and recruit a group of "vicious people who dare to die" in the capital to fight in North Korea!
Although the money in his hand can at most maintain these "family servants" for two or three months, Peng Xingu thinks it's not a big problem: Master Hou will never treat the soldiers badly, as long as there are quotas and enough wages and equipment, there is no need to worry Yes, and as long as you get the military exploits, the rewards will never be less than a penny.

In other words, as long as he can find an opportunity to make meritorious service within two months of dispatching troops—it is not difficult to make meritorious service, just fight any battle—then the whole plan will be fulfilled, and a comeback can be successfully achieved.

Peng Xingu's plan seems to be very ingenious, and they are almost intertwined. There is only one thing that seems a little problematic: Are there really so many "vicious and daring to die" in the capital?

Peng Xingu thought there was, so he recruited a group of... rogues.Yes, you read that right, a rogue.

You must know that the time to recruit manpower is very tight at this time, how can ordinary people who have a little ability to make ends meet be willing to travel thousands of miles to fight in North Korea?Only these rascals are easy to fool - North Korea is not my Ming Dynasty, not to mention that most of the eight kingdoms of North Korea are occupied by Japanese invaders, so when you arrive in North Korea, no matter where the Japanese invaders occupy the city, I will allow you not to seal the sword for three days!

What is "unsealed knife for three days"?Instead of giving them three days to massacre the city, give them three days to ignore all military discipline, loot and rape women, and do whatever they want.

This kind of condition is very good for wooing rogues, not to mention that Peng Xingu also quietly revealed that this battle will be under the command of Lord Nanning, so there is nothing to say-it is a battle that must be won. Being able to "not seal the knife for three days" is not a hundred times better than extorting traders in Beijing and China?You must know that this Beijing-China trader is becoming more and more difficult to move now. It would be great to go to North Korea to make a big deal!
In this way, Peng Xin didn't spend much of the ancient money, but the number of people was far higher than expected. When Dong Yiyuan arrived in Beijing to receive the ordnance and military salary, he found out that this guy actually pulled out a "quite strong" and the number of people was as high as About [-] "servants" come!

Although Dong Yiyuan soon found out that Peng Xingu's "family members" seemed to be a bit corrupt in military discipline, but when he asked Peng Xingu for questioning, the answer he got was: "Biaoxia has had a hard time these years, and I really don't have time to control them." So much so that the military discipline is broken... But the commander-in-chief can rest assured, in just one month, Biao Xia will definitely train them to be as good as before!"

Dong Yiyuan thought it was understandable. After all, this guy has been slapped for seven or eight years. He has gone through countless avenues and failed to get the opportunity to commit crimes and meritorious deeds. It is not surprising that the servants are used to letting go.As for whether he can be trained "as usual" in a month, Dong Yiyuan naturally doesn't believe it, but since he himself thinks that there will be no problem fighting with Lord Hou, he pretends to believe it—in short, everything is going on right now. It is important to be able to dispatch troops smoothly!

The army went out smoothly, and Dong Yiyuan divided up the ordnance he received from the Ministry of War. Considering that Peng Xingu had been unlucky for seven or eight years, and he couldn't help him, he kindly gave him a lot more Firearms are not only Wanli Type [-] firearms, but even more than a dozen cannons.

After arriving on the Korean battlefield, Dong Yiyuan himself was actually a little worried about the strength of the opponents, so he didn't dare to fight for any chance to fight tough battles.

Ma Gui also heard that a large number of old generals under his command who have committed crimes and performed meritorious deeds are the kind of people who haven't fought any battles for many years. Both sides basically regarded each other as allies psychologically, so Magui assigned them a simple but not insignificant task: cut off the connection between the Japanese army in the north and the south, and open up the road between Hanyang and Wonsan.

By the way, Ma Gui confessed that if he successfully captured Wonsan and found that the remnant Japanese pirates in the north were not strong, he could consider joining forces with Nurhachi to encircle and wipe them out.At the same time, Ma Gui also hinted to Dong Yiyuan that the main purpose of doing this is not actually a combat mission, but to guard the Jurchen coalition forces in the hands of Nurhachi, so as not to let them act recklessly.

Dong Yiyuan patted his chest and assured that this matter would be easy to handle—of course, theoretically speaking, this matter is indeed not difficult.From the first line of Hanyang to Wonsan, there was no main force of the Japanese army, and it was easy to win.As for "guarding the Jurchen coalition forces", there is no problem, because although the Jurchen coalition forces seem to be around 5000 strong, which is not much less than his Marshal Dong, but among them, no matter Ye He, Hada or Jianzhou Youwei It is certain that they will be obedient, only the [-] people led by Nurhachi himself may not be honest.

But so what?I, Dong Yiyuan, have more than 2 heavenly soldiers in my hands, and with the support of other Jurchen ministries, you Nurhachi, a mere captive chieftain, can turn the sky upside down?

Facts have proved that Dong Yiyuan's idea is basically correct. He attacked the two important places of Gushan and Yuanshan all the way, and encountered almost no resistance.Then he felt that Ma Gui's follow-up orders could be carried out, so he led his army northward and captured Yongxing, which was less than a hundred miles away from Xianxing.

At this time, after the Jurchen coalition forces led by Nurhaci had already captured Qingjin, the main city in the northeast of Hamgyong Road, they had basically moved southwest along the coastline, and captured along the way—oh no, it was to help North Korea recover—Jingcheng , Mingchuan, Duanchuan and other places, and finally seized Xinxing, a small town about thirty or forty miles northeast of Xianxing.

In this way, Dong Yiyuan and Nurhachi were equivalent to outflanking Xianxing City from north to south, and the 5000 people of Naoshima Naomo's Fourth Army in the city had become a turtle in a urn in their eyes.Now, it's time to discuss how to catch this turtle.

Dong Yiyuan, the commander-in-chief of the first town of Ming Dynasty, naturally would not condescend to pay a visit to Nurhachi, so he sent an order directly to the Jurchen coalition barracks, asking Nurhachi to discuss with his subordinates in the future Yongxing army.

Unsurprisingly, Nurhachi didn't dare not to come, and honestly brought most of the generals, leaving only a few people to command the troops in Xinxing, so as to avoid Japanese pirates' surprise attack.

Arriving in Dong Yiyuan's army, Nurhachi quickly realized that Marshal Dong wanted to show off his force in front of him.Yongxing's Ming army has a bright helmet and a bright armor, with a water in his hand and a cold iron Yanling knife hanging on his waist, and his army of more than [-] people has deployed nearly a hundred cannons, like a crowd. The tigers of the team squatted in the artillery camp, which was frightening.

And not far behind the artillery, there is a newly built gunpowder depot, with three large rooms built to store gunpowder.Nurhachi secretly calculated in his heart that the gunpowder in there was at least tens of thousands of catties, which made him change color quietly.

Seeing Nurhachi's expression, Dong Yiyuan couldn't help being very proud, and introduced casually: "Is Ailonghu looking at our army's gunpowder depot? There are [-] catties of gunpowder there, and they are being sent by Buying." Peng Guerrilla guards, this time he captured Xianxing, this commander intends to rely on this huge force..."

"Dong Zong Rong Huwei, Xianxing is a big city in Xianjing, but it will be crushed in an instant in front of such powerful artillery..." Nurhachi praised casually, and suddenly asked with some concern: "However, this gunpowder store is far from the center of the Chinese army. Is the camp too close?"

Dong Yiyuan said in his heart: If it wasn't for deterring you captive chieftain, why would my well-built gunpowder depot be next to my Chinese army?

As soon as he thought of this, before he could open his mouth, he heard a loud bang—it was the explosion of the gunpowder magazine! ——
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