Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 694 War Window Period

China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times. Even if Gao Yushi wanted to provoke a chieftain war, he still had to have a reason to trouble Annan.

He has recently checked the files and found that since Annan begged and surrendered to Sejong, so far, only the Zhenggong in the 36th and 39th years of Jiajing, and the material tribute in the third and sixth years of Wanli are missing. There are many places that can be picky.

But paying tribute does not seem to be enough reason to send troops to attack, because the imperial court has always allowed "paying tribute" and paying tribute in consideration of the "unclear calculation" and "difficult roads" in these out-of-state places. Beating up Annan for this reason seems to be a little insufficient. It is estimated that if this is done, some idiots in the court may gossip.

Of course, Gao Pragmatism is not afraid of these gossips. As a civil servant of the Ming Dynasty with Chinese traditional characteristics, as long as the righteousness is not lost and personal morality is not criticized, it is not a terrible thing to have different specific governance and governance concepts.

His main concern is the escalation of the war—not the escalation of the battle situation, but the escalation of the name and specifications of the war.

If it was just a war at the chieftain level, for example, if the court regards Annan as being on the same level as the chieftain, then the court's attitude can be very detached. Zhu Yijun can choose to help on one side, or he can "play [-] big boards each", in short, he does not need to intervene at all. too deep.

In this case, it will be convenient for Gao Pragmatism to lead the forces of the Cen and Huang families to Annan, so that they can "change their nests" and give up western Guangxi and southern Guangxi to the imperial court, and the Cen and Huang families will go to Annan.On the other hand, Gao Pragmatism can take advantage of the situation to obtain the greatest benefit in Annan, which is also the benefit with the highest degree of freedom, which is completely different from that in China.

But if Annan's reason for paying tribute is used to fight, no matter whether the reason is enough or not, the standard of war will be raised to the national level, and it will be a war in which the upper country teaches the subordinate countries.In this case, even if the battle is won, the right to distribute the spoils will be handed over to the imperial court, and the highly pragmatic plan will collapse.

So this excuse doesn’t work, and we have to find another one.

Gao Yushi thought of what Cen Ling told him before, when Cen Ling said that the poison on Zhang Ren's body was caused by people sent by Mo Chao, it was difficult for Gao Yushi to understand, but now there is no suitable war Excuse me, but I want to make a fuss about this matter.

But after thinking about it, he felt that if this matter was taken into consideration, it would still turn into a national level war - the governor of a province was poisoned by a human bewitch, how could the court have no answer?Besides, what does this have to do with the chieftains? If the court does not send troops, the chieftains have no obligation or reason to send troops to fight Annan for Zhang Ren.

Gao Wushi felt a bit of a headache, so he had to turn his attention to the Huang family who had the most borders with Mo Chao, wondering if Huang Zhiting could think of a way to make some troubles with Mo Chao on the border, and then he would learn from the German army in 1939, Leng said that the disappearance of all the wolf soldiers at the border post was the work of Mo Chao, and then assembled chieftains to launch a war that was nominally aimed at "lessons".

Although this way of thinking may make people feel that the local officials in Guangxi are too domineering, it seems to be barely feasible.

At this time, all the chieftains were still in Nanning. After Gao Wushi made up his mind, he was about to send someone to invite Huang Zhiting to see him. Suddenly, Cao Ke rushed in and reported: "Master, according to Xiangzhou's urgent report, Annan Momao Qia appointed the auxiliary government Ying Wang Mo Dunrang to the president's army. Mo Dunrang was in charge of the army and political power. As soon as he took over the military power, he ordered the recruitment of soldiers and horses from all over the country. A large-scale southern expedition to the Li Dynasty (Later Li Dynasty) went." [Note: For the sake of convenience, Annan's position is according to Annan's statement, and they don't have to be commensurate with their positions in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, it will be too troublesome, everyone May look confused. ]
When Gao Wushi heard the news, he was taken aback for a moment, and thought to himself: Is Mo Chao crazy?Mo Jingdian had just died, and this Mo Dunrang was only in charge of internal affairs before, but once he got the military power, he went on a large-scale southern expedition?
But after thinking about it, he realized that Mo Dunrang was not crazy. His actions were obviously caused by the ideas of politicians. Because he had never held military power before, he now had to use war to establish his authority. At the same time, there was only one Victory will allow Mo Chao to get rid of the low morale caused by Mo Jingdian's death.

However, what is politically correct may not be militarily correct.Gao Wushi felt that this Mo Dunrang might have underestimated the cruelty of the war, and also underestimated his second brother Mo Jingdian who died just now.

With Mo Jingdian's ability, he could only maintain a slight military advantage over the Houli Dynasty in the south, but he couldn't turn it into a powerful offensive to destroy the south. He, Mo Dun, let a novice in war actually lead the main force to go out?

This third grandfather of Mo Maoqia seems to be more courageous than me, someone is much fatter...

One must know that the military advantage of the Mo Dynasty over the Houli Dynasty was not great, and to some extent, this advantage was established purely by Mo Jingdian himself.

Since the Li Dynasty established itself in Qinghua, the Mo Dynasty had launched two attacks on the Le Dynasty. Since then, it has been in a defensive position for a long time and was repeatedly attacked by the Li army. All were military actions taken to force Zheng Jian to withdraw his troops.

After the economic and military strength of the Mo Dynasty was restored, Mo Jingdian took advantage of the civil strife in the Li Dynasty and decided to counterattack.In the autumn and August of the fourth year of Longqing, the Duke of Lili saw the civil strife between the Zheng brothers and led his people to surrender to Mo.

That time, Mo Jingdian sent more than [-] troops and [-] warships into Qinghua.Leaving Yingwang Mo Dunren, general Mo Tingke guards the gate of the talisman.Then the soldiers divided into six groups, and first attacked Zheng Hui (the eldest son of Zheng Jian, who was dead at this time).

Zheng Hui couldn't support himself, so he led Lai Shimei, Wu Shishuo, Ruan Shiyi, Zhang Guohua and Jiaxiao to the Mo Dynasty.The rest of the generals, Huang Ting'ai, Li Keshen, Ruan Youliao, Fan Wenkuai, etc. retreated to Anchang Pass to join Zheng Song (Zheng Jian's second son).

Faced with the powerful offensive of the Mo Dynasty, Hou Li's officers and soldiers formed a united plan to survive and die together. Li Yingzong also ordered Zheng Song to be the Duke of the Changjun, and controlled the water and the camps.So Zheng Song gave a banquet to all the soldiers, 31 generals including Huang Ting'ai, Zheng Mo, Li Jidi, and [-] members including Ruan Ting, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Officials, "all swear to the sky to help each other."

The Li army divided the troops and guarded the gates everywhere, erected Haoshu fences, and set up ambush to guard against danger.In September, in order to disintegrate the morale of the Mo army, Li Jidi designed, "Make all the soldiers build a fortress outside the night for more than ten miles, cover it with house walls, coat the outside with mud, put bamboo tips on it, and build a fake city overnight. become".

The next day, Mo Jingdian saw the fortress that Li's army had built overnight, thinking it was a real city, he was shocked and dared not approach.So I discussed with the generals and said: "Unexpectedly, if the Li army is like this today, it is especially disciplined, the laws are strict, and it is built overnight. Ning, it will be impossible to achieve success, if it is not easy to pacify it, if it is not quickly fought and eliminated, it will cause future troubles."

Mo Jingdian stepped up his siege, and He Xihou, who guarded Li's Jinshui mourning fortress, also surrendered to Mo. The territory reserved by the Li Dynasty was running out.However, at this time, the Mo army was also at the end of its battle, and the two sides were in a stalemate. The Li army adopted the policy of "sticking to the defense during the day, and robbing the camp at night", and also rewarded the sergeants heavily, "Every time a thief is captured, he will be rewarded with silver, and the soldiers will stand up more."

The Mo army was unable to attack for a long time, and its morale gradually declined, and some soldiers fled.Mo Jingdian ordered the blockade of the Li army, strictly prohibiting salt traffickers from entering the area controlled by the Li army, but some people still secretly carried salt into the base.At this time, Shuo, the martial artist who surrendered to Mo, sent someone to deliver a letter to the Li army, wishing to return to the Li Dynasty.

After Li Yingzong received Shi Shuo's letter, the generals in the assembly took Lai Shiqing, Li Jidi and others as the leaders on the left side, and added Zheng Song as the left minister, and controlled the soldiers of the battalion everywhere.

Li Yingzong himself was the general, and the general soldiers were in the middle, while Huang Ting'ai, Deng Xun, Pan Gongji and others went out to the right.Yingzong got the martial artist Shuo to lead his troops back, and gradually regained some lost ground.

By December, Mo Dynasty was short of power, and the supply of military supplies was gradually unable to maintain. Mo Jingdian saw that he could not win, so he discussed: "It has been September to attack and suppress the powerful enemy, and it cannot be successful. Moreover, the river is dry in winter and spring water will be born. Misfortune is about to rise, the soldiers are short of food, people think about the old land, who will work together with me? Besides, I have slack off in the army, so it is better to return to the army for a while, use the plan to move forward, and win the complete victory, and I want to stick to it. I'm afraid it won't help the situation, and it will make fun of the enemy." So the Mo army withdrew.

In this battle, the Mo army fought with all their strength, but failed to achieve the goal of destroying Li. Fortunately, the Mo army saw that the situation was unfavorable and was able to withdraw troops in time to avoid greater losses.

Afterwards, from the first year of Wanli until the first half of this year, Mo Chao, under the leadership of Mo Jingdian, continued to attack Li Chao, but in the end they could only barely maintain the offensive without achieving any results.

However, Gao Yushi has recently checked Guangxi's dossier about Mo Chao, and found that there is one person worth noting in Mo Chao, and that is Ruan Juan. Although Gao Wushi has never met this person, judging from his achievements in recent years, this person It is expected to become a famous general—that means this person may be an obstacle for Gao Yushi to send troops to Annan.

In the summer and June of the second year of Wanli, Ruan Juan, who was the general of Mo Chaonan Road at that time, led his troops to attack Ngee'an, captured the guard general Hongjun Gong, and returned after several months of stalemate with Pan Gongji and Zheng Mo, generals of the Li Dynasty.

In the third year of Wanli, Mo Jingdian and Ruan Juan led the army to attack Qinghua and Nghe An. Among them, Mo Jingdian and Zheng Song fought in Qinghua, and Ruan Juan fought against the three generals of the Li Dynasty Lai Shiqing, Zheng Mo and Pan Gongji in Ngee An. Ruan Juan won all the battles. Captured his general Pan Gongji and returned.

In the fourth year of Wanli, under the leadership of Mo Jingdian, Mo Jun attacked Qinghua and Ngee'an.Ruan Juan fought with Zheng Mo, Duke of Jinjun, a general of the Li Dynasty, in Yushan, Qinghua, and captured Zheng Mo alive.

In other words, Ruan Juan attacked Ngee'an three times in a row for three consecutive years, and captured Hou Li's general three times.The dossier on the Guangxi side said, "Zi Shi, Ruan Juan's reputation is growing day by day, and he is a famous general of Mo."

I just don't know whether Ruan Juan can win the trust of Mo Dunrang even though he also got a second-in-command position this time. If Mo Dunrang is willing to give up the power to Ruan Juan, this Southern Expedition may also achieve some results.

With Mo Chao's current situation, the results don't need to be big, as long as he wins, he can stabilize the domestic situation.

Gao Wushi found that this was a good opportunity to send troops, and it was a window period. Mo Chao's army marched south, regardless of whether he won or lost, at least their main force went to the south.

This opportunity to send troops must be seized, there is no excuse, even if there is an excuse to send troops!
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