Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 991 Intense General (Two in One)
Ma Fang's words are simply in line with Gao Pragmatic's intentions.Defensive warfare is of course the best option for infantry to fight against cavalry, but most of the time defensive warfare means that the opponent always has the initiative in the war. Withdraw stop loss.

There is a saying that only a thousand days can be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to guard against a thief?Thousands of days to guard against thieves, there will be a loss in the end.

Although he was highly pragmatic and fought two beautiful battles in "Annan Dingbei", the victories of these two battles were actually won more on the political and economic levels, not necessarily because of his commanding skills.

If it was really that powerful, he would not need Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling as vanguards in Annan, but he has been sitting in the middle of the army, and at the same time used political means to subdue the Mo family and the Ruan family several times in a row. Treating the Zheng family as an enemy that must be punished - wouldn't it be even more powerful to send troops to sweep all the way?
If it was really that powerful, he would not have to try to combine Han Naji's strength, Zhong Jinhatun's name, and Tuotuo Chataiji's ability in Monan to send troops—directly mobilize Xuan Da, Ji Liao, etc. Wouldn't it be even more famous for the town official army to win this battle?

If he led the Ming army to win the two battles between Annan and Dingbei, I'm afraid he might be knighted by civil officials now, right?After all, this is the biggest victory in the two foreign wars since the founding of the Ming Dynasty and Jingnan, so it is justified not to give a title?

But the problem is, he can't do it!

He asked himself, in terms of commanding and fighting alone, he really didn't have Qi Jiguang's ability. If he said attacking, he would be able to destroy the dead, and if he said defending, he would be as stable as a rock. suit myself.

Besides, war is not a child's play, especially in a military-administered area like Liaodong, where there is no formal civil and administrative organization at the grassroots level, and a group of guard officers are in charge of it on weekdays.

There is no doubt that these people's jobs are border guards, and they are laymen in administrative management. Once they face a war, they must concentrate on their jobs, so the grassroots administration is obviously directly in a state of neglect.

How can this work!In this case, wouldn't his highly pragmatic plan to build southern Liaoning be kicked off by Tumen and Chaohua right after it started?

Previously, Gao Yushi felt that Tumen had chosen a good time to come this time, and this was also an important reason.

In addition, there is another very important reason for Gao Yushi, which prompted him to quickly and decisively send Tumen and Chaohua back, and he could not simply force them back, it had to be like what Ma Fang said , to hurt and scare Tumen and Chaohua!
The reason for this lies in Li Chengliang.

At the beginning, when Gao Wushi heard that Tumen and Chaohua [-] cavalry were going south, the first thing that came to mind was Li Chengliang—this guy happened to be there, not only went to fight Gule Village, but also just passed the news to say Already entered the mountain.

The fact that Li Chengliang went to fight Gulezhai did happen before Tumen and Chaohua went south, which can basically rule out the suspicion of his having an affair with Mongolia, but the affair can be ruled out, but the tacit understanding cannot necessarily be ruled out.

It stands to reason that this year just fought a decisive battle like the Monan War, not only Tumen, the loser, suffered heavy losses and urgently needed repairs, but could it be that the winner, Daming, was really strong and had no adverse effects in all aspects?

Nonsense!

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the list of rewards before the Ministry of Household Affairs, almost even the court officials gave up their picks, isn't it clear that there is trouble?If the Ministry of Household treasury is full, it will be as rich and powerful as the American emperor during World War II. Why would they have to argue with the cabinet and the Ministry of War for more than a month before announcing the specific rewards?
If it hadn't been known from top to bottom that the imperial court would not be able to renege on such a big victory, and it took so long to offer the reward, Xuanda, Jiliao and other places that participated in the dispatch of troops would have had several mutinies!
It can be seen that not only the Tumen need to recuperate, but also the Ming Dynasty. This almost became an important basis for the School of Mind's refusal of Gao Yushi's foreign appointment in Liaodong.

Therefore, Li Chengliang sent troops to Gule Village, which was a little weird in itself, but when he arrived in Liaoyang, he went straight into the mountain after less than a month of preparation, which was even more weird.

Is Liaoyang's material reserves so rich?Or did Li Chengliang feel that a dilapidated Jianzhou Jurchen was not his one-sided enemy at all, but a war scum that could be easily captured?

Although the Jianzhou Jurchen is not yet the head of Nurhachi, but no matter what, they will not fight against the five scum, right?If it is really the foundation of a group of war scum, wouldn't Nurhachi in the original history have the ability to defy the sky?
Gao Yushi can admit that Nurhachi is indeed an outstanding leader among the Jurchens, but judging from Nurhachi's later performance, at least the word "defying the sky" does not belong to him.Rather than saying that Nurhachi is against the sky, Gao Wushi would rather admit that his eighth child is even more against the sky.

Fortunately, the eighth child of his family doesn't exist yet, and if I remember correctly, he won't be born until ten years later, so it isn't much of a threat.

So, the most reasonable judgment now is that Li Chengliang was indeed going to attack Gule Village, but since Li Rugui's incident happened, due to some uncertain reasons, Li Chengliang abruptly brought forward the time of dispatching troops.

As for why it was earlier, there shouldn't be much doubt about it. It was nothing more than Li Chengliang wanted to create an "alibi" for himself.

But after Li Chengliang did this, his next step was not easy to judge.

According to common sense, what he did was to "sell" Liaonan. To a large extent, he should be killing people with a knife - the killing is naturally highly pragmatic.

But Gao Yushi felt that there was another possibility: Li Chengliang might not really dare to let someone Gao die in Liaodong.

This idea seems unreasonable at first glance, because since Li Chengliang dared to sell Liaodong, he must have a backer at the central level.

Since he wanted to sell it, he might as well sell it completely. When Liaonan was beaten to pieces, it proved that Gao Yushi was a so-called famous commander in name only, and he, Uncle Ning Yuan, would return to his division to clean up the mess.

At that time, whether it was the court or the emperor, even if they didn't want to admit it, they could only pinch their noses and say that Li Chengliang was indispensable to Liaodong. In that case, his position would be as solid as Mount Tai.

However, Li Chengliang in history was very cautious when he was an official. He saw very clearly who could be offended and who could not be offended.

And when he was in Zhenliao, who was the person who really didn't dare to offend from the beginning to the end?It may even be unbelievable to say it - this person is Gao Huai, and he is a guarding eunuch.

Gao Huai was originally the supervisor of Shangshan, and was ordered to open mines and collect taxes in Liaodong since the 24th year of Wanli.After this person arrived in Liaodong, Liao Guotai, his minion, abused the people and turned upside down. He falsely arrested dozens of people.Xuan impeached Ma Lin, the general soldier of Liaodong at that time, and deducted the monthly rations of the soldiers, which caused the garrison troops in Qiantunwei, Jinzhou, Songshan and other places to make a noise. , triggering riots in Liaodong.

Although Li Chengliang went to the field at that time, he always acted as Gao Huai's accomplice during Gao Huai's supervision of Liaodong, and did not restrain his behavior at all (except for a few people in Liaodong, including the general soldier Ma Lin, almost all other important generals were Li Chengliang's old troops. , relatives, and Gan'er), there are two reasons: one is to bring down Ma Lin and let Liaodong return to the hands of the Li family;

Therefore, Li Chengliang knew very well who could not be offended—the cronies around the emperor were far less likely to be offended than civil servants.

As a civil servant, he only needs to respect his face, and the rest is nothing more than giving money and gifts, and taking care of things in place; but the emperor's cronies are not good, these people are people who can influence the emperor's opinion of Li Chengliang at any time.

The reason why military generals are afraid of civil officials is that the later the emperor is, the more he will be checked and balanced by civil officials, so that once military generals conflict with civil officials, the emperor will most likely choose to give face to civil officials and suppress military generals.

But in the final analysis, the generals are actually afraid of the emperor, and the civil servants are actually using the imperial power to suppress the generals.

The reason why imperial power is checked and balanced by civil officials is because civil officials control public opinion. The emperor has to show more respect to civil officials for the sake of posthumous reputation, but the emperor does not necessarily need such respect for military generals. You can't affect my reputation, so I can do whatever I want.

However, if ordinary civil servants are dissatisfied with Li Chengliang and want to get rid of him, they cannot find a way directly from the emperor. They must find out many reasons and reasons to support their arguments, so as to convince the emperor to believe in Li Chengliang It is not available, and these principles and reasons must be tenable from the point of view, which is very difficult.

But the cronies around the emperor are different, such as the eunuchs, they only need to think a little bit, and they can easily make a direct impression on the emperor in a few words, for example: Li Chengliang is unfaithful.

Civil officials say that Li Chengliang is unfaithful, they need to produce a lot of evidence to prove that they are not nonsense; eunuchs say that Li Chengliang is unfaithful, he only needs to give a few small examples, and it doesn’t even matter whether these examples are real or not, the emperor listened If it happens, it may leave a thorn in my heart, and then the more I look at Li Chengliang, the more I feel disloyalty, but if there is a little disqualification, I think of it as disloyalty.

There is no need to play.

As Zhu Yijun's confidant Gao Huai, who came to be the eunuch guarding Liaodong, has such influence. As a confidant of the emperor's cronies and a classmate of Gao Shidu for ten years, wouldn't Li Chengliang worry that Gao Yushi would have such influence?
Obviously, he must be worried, even from the emperor's recent rewards and generous gifts to Gao Yushi, it can be seen that Gao Yushi's status in the emperor's mind is extremely special.

Let Gao Wushi die in southern Liaoning. Even if Li Chengliang can prove that he is good at fighting, he will be deeply resented by the emperor.

Civil servants who are resented by the emperor may not necessarily die, just like those speech officials or elders who offended the emperor. Duke Qing is loyal to the country, he is indeed a role model for courtiers", at best he can only find ways to find his sore feet, and when he goes up to defend himself and ask for resignation, he pretends to be unable to keep him and sends him home.

But military generals are different. The emperor's military generals are life and death in one thought!

Gao Wushi believes that Li Chengliang must understand this truth, so he is also very likely to come back suddenly at the most dangerous time in southern Liaoning, and "save" his Gao someone's life at a critical moment.

With this incident, Gao Yushi, a civil servant with a great reputation, can continue to suppress him, Mr. Li?Obviously not, because this is contrary to the way of being a human being and the way of a gentleman—the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring.It's no wonder the gentlemen of Shihlin scold you bloody!
Gao Yushi naturally refused to let this happen, so not only did he not allow Li Chengliang a chance to save his life, he even refused to give him a chance to help!
Before Li Chengliang could even react, he had to defeat Tumen and the Huahua coalition alone, quickly, and even completely!
"What the governor said is very true." Gao Yushi's face darkened, and he said coldly: "Tumen, my defeated general, the soul of the dead at the end of the sword; Chaohua, a mere chieftain, a jumping clown. These two thieves belong to me, but How can I tolerate two dead bones in the tomb?
This battle came at the right time, I will tell this generation from now on, never dare to look south again! "

This is arrogant!

Ma Fang, a fierce general who once insisted on "controlling cavalry" against Mongolia, heard his blood rushing up, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "The military constitution is well said! Although the old man is old, he can still use a knife if he asks himself. How dare you dare to fight this battle?" Please take the old man as the vanguard, go to the north of the Liaohe River and kill him seven in and seven out, and live up to the men of this life!"

Ma Dong originally thought that the old man was too impulsive, he was already in his sixties, why would he always beg to be a pioneer?But when he heard his father's last words, he was suddenly extremely ashamed, his face flushed red!

Father is scolding me!
The Weizhou man's eyes turned red all of a sudden, he got up suddenly, stepped forward and knelt down in front of Gao Yushi, and kowtowed hard, knocking the floor with a "bang".

Gao Wushi was taken aback, and was about to get up to help him up, when he heard Ma Dong shouting in an angry tone that he couldn't imagine at ordinary times: "Bingxian, although Dong is incompetent, he also knows that "The Analects of Confucius" has something to say." Contains: Zi Xia asked about filial piety. The Master said: Sex is difficult. If there is something to do, the disciple will do his best.

The current Yan family has passed Jiazi, and Dong is his son. He is in his prime, and since he has something to do, how dare he follow the Yan family?Jia Yan does not need to be present in this battle, Dong should be the vanguard!But if there is a trace of wavering in fear of the enemy, don't bother the military constitution to question him. Dong should enshrine his head in the military constitution and rectify the military law! "

Then he kowtowed again, his tone extremely awe-inspiring: "Ma Dong, the right officer guarding Haigai, please ask for military military orders, use Dong as the vanguard, destroy the enemy bandits, and hope that the military constitution will be completed!"

At this time, Gao Wushi had gradually come to his senses, and secretly glanced at Ma Fang, seeing that Ma Fang was showing a rare gratifying smile to his eldest son.

Seeing Gao Wushi looking at him, Ma Fang also looked at Gao Wushi, and nodded slightly.

Gao Wushi laughed, got up and took a step forward, supported Ma Dong's shoulders with all his strength, patted hard again, and said loudly: "Okay, as expected of Ma Lanxi, who is the famous general Wanlima, white-haired and loyal all over the world." The son of 'Ma Taishi' is indeed a hero in the world, and his loyalty and bravery are commendable!"

Gao Wushi paused for a moment, stood up straight, and shouted solemnly, "Ma Dong, the right officer guarding Haigai, listens to the order!"

Ma Dong's blood was rushing up, at this time his knees were still kneeling, but his body was straightened up, and he clasped his fists tightly: "The end is here!"

"You don't need to be the vanguard in this battle..."

Both Ma Fang and Ma Dong were taken aback, Ma Dong was so anxious that he wanted to speak, but Gao Wushi waved his hand and stopped him.

Then Gao Wushi said in awe-inspiring way: "This military constitution regards you as the chief general of the Chinese army, the commander-in-chief of the southern Liaonan army, to destroy the enemy for me, and to spread the prestige of tomorrow to the frontier... How dare you accept this order?"

"Why don't you dare!" Ma Dong clasped his fists fiercely: "The last general will take orders! Dong will die a hundred times, and he will live up to the entrustment of the military constitution!"
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