Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 402
Mr. Yan is wearing a new-style Daming official robe, a purple robe and jade belt that symbolizes important officials above the third rank. He also wears a goldfish bag around his waist, which contains goldfish that have been inspected by the palace. Gong, now it has become a legend among the people.

But when the emperor said that he would go on another northern expedition, he was very calm.

More than a month ago, he was a scholar of the Inner Academy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and a strategist of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. For Baiding, Qin Shubao, the hero of Lingyan Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty, only sealed three hundred households.

Yan Wogong knew more details about the North and the South than the average Ming officials.

After he returned to Ming Dynasty, he worked as Minister of Rongzheng and the Prime Minister's office for a month, and he was able to get in touch with the top intelligence.

Countless intelligence from all over the world has been collected into the central hub, and Mr. Yan feels like looking at the flowers in the fog, and he can't always see the truth, let alone make the most reasonable decision based on it.

Information is always true or false, some information is even delayed, and many information conflicts with each other. Not only is it difficult for Mr. Yan to judge, but also the great scholars in the center, the eunuchs, and even generals like Wang Zhiren. hard to decide.

But the emperor can always make decisions decisively and quickly, even planning and deploying in advance, and the countless victories in the past year have also proved that the emperor's judgments are very accurate every time, accurate enough to let People can't figure it out.

Although, like Yan, I sometimes feel that this may be because the emperor paid more attention to intelligence collection, and there were many intelligence departments, such as the Jinyiwei in the East Factory, the Staff Division in the Ministry of War, and the Intelligence Department and Staff Department in the Detective Department of the Editing Institute in the Imperial Camp, etc. Wait, the information obtained by the emperor is more detailed, and his intelligence analysis ability is also stronger, so the final decision is more comprehensive and accurate.

But this is actually not complete enough. In my heart, Yan Wogong still thinks that he is the emperor Mingrui, who is not ordinary people, and has superhuman acumen in military affairs.

This is a Wu emperor like Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of Tang Dynasty and Liu Yu of Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty.

There may even be Da Ming's luck asylum.

No one knows, in fact, Zhu Yihai is a prophet who knows 500 years before and 500 years later. Although all kinds of information are chaotic, for him who knows the general trend of the future, he knows the answer in advance, and then pushes the clues in reverse, so he will naturally know Which ones are true and which ones are false.

Then use these verified intelligence clues to fill in the details, and the fog will naturally be cleared away.

Everyone else was groping forward in the fog, but Zhu Yihai was completely different.

However, for Zhu Yihai, although it seems that he is very holy and mighty, there will be some disadvantages, that is, everyone will inevitably doubt his decision-making sometimes. False and contradictory information, and sometimes the conclusions drawn are completely different from Zhu Yihai's, so sometimes it is unavoidable to oppose the emperor.

Zhu Yihai clearly knows that he is right, but sometimes others find it hard to believe, or even refuse to obey, which makes him very painful.

"The Tatars now have very clear intentions. They plan to attack with all their might on the western front, even using traitors like Wu Sangui to lead the Han soldiers as the vanguard. , it is obviously to be guarded.”

"We can't do what he wants. We have to open up the Eastern Front. We have to use some of our existing naval advantages to attack the Xuhuai Mountains by sea to contain the forces of the Tartars."

Yan Wogong asked, "Your Majesty, although the attack on Xi'an will fail, the western front is not too bad now. He Zhen and other main forces have not been lost. The officers and soldiers can build a line of defense to prevent the Qing army from going south."

"Shaanxi and Gansu have suffered from natural disasters in recent years, and now they are extremely corrupt. It is not easy for the Qing army to stabilize Shaanxi and Gansu. If they use Shaanxi and Gansu as their base camps to attack Hanzhong and Sichuan, they will not be able to obtain supplementary supplies of money and food, and cannot support their large-scale military use. If the Qing army wanted to attack the Han from Shaanxi, it would not succeed."

Yan Wogong is relatively clear about the deployment and details of the Tartars. Guanzhong has been in an uprising since the Tianqi period. It was already a poor place, and it was always insufficient for self-sufficiency in the peaceful years. It has been in chaos for 20 years, and all forces are there. The chaotic war where you come and I go, now the population has dropped sharply, and the land is seriously barren.

Even if the Qing army stationed a large army on a regular basis, it would be difficult to supply, let alone use it as a base camp to attack Hanzhong and Sichuan.

"I believe that the imperial court has now transferred officers and soldiers from Sichuan and Xunyang to reinforce Hanzhong, so as long as the supply of food and grass is guaranteed in the future, then Hanzhong will be able to defend, and the Qing army will not be able to pass through."

In Yan Wogong's view, under the current background, it is very difficult for the Qing army to seize Hanzhong and Sichuan.

Because the most important thing to fight is money and food supplies, and now the Tatars don’t have this strength, especially in the Guanzhong area, which has been fighting for 20 years, and just experienced a wave of anti-Qing resistance last year, even if He Zhen and the others were defeated, but Many places in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia have not subsided yet.

Wu Sangui Haoge tens of thousands of horses marched into Guanzhong, and there was no supply of food and grass. How can we attack Hanzhong and Sichuan again?

Although the Qing army still has tens of thousands of people in Huguang, but the information they have now, whether it is Luo Xiujin or Le Ke Dehun, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves. The eight banners are almost eaten up by horses. They can hold Hubei A few large towns would be good, so how could there be room to cooperate with Wu Sangui?
"I can tell my dear friends that the actual situation on the western front will not be optimistic, just like He Zhen and the others will attack Xi'an. They seem to have a huge momentum, claiming a hundred thousand troops, but in fact they are not the opponent of the Qing army at all. Grain supplies It is indeed a big problem, but as long as the Qing army's offensive is fast, then food and grass will not be a problem."

"Besides, you have ignored the biggest instability on the Western Front today, and that is Zhang Xianzhong."

All kinds of information have shown that Zhang Xianzhong wants to abandon Chengdu and go out of Sichuan. He is determined to win Hanzhong and then fight back to Shaanxi and Gansu. Ma Ke, who is now stationed in Hanzhong, is Hong Chengchou's old subordinate. One of them was the general soldier of Shanhaiguan. He was capable, but he had no principles. After Songjin was defeated, the imperial court sent him to fight Li Zicheng, but he surrendered directly and became the Earl of Dashun, leading troops to Sichuan. After fighting many battles with Zhang Xianzhong, he insisted on suppressing Xiying.

Ma Ke was originally a Ming general who later surrendered. He fought many battles with Zhang Xianzhong in Sichuan and the Ming army.

The most important thing is that the Tartars are now playing tricks, directly naming Ma Ke as the King of Hanzhong to surrender. Originally, the King of Hanzhong was given to He Zhen, but when He Zhen was determined to attack Xi'an, the Tartars began to recruit Ma Ke instead.

And Zhu Yihai knew that in history, Ma Ke was surrendered in the end.

In terms of the current situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi, it is very likely that Ma Ke will return to the Qing Dynasty. Although Zhu Yihai has made a lot of arrangements for this, the problem is that he is too far away. He can't even command people like He Zhen, Sun Shou, and Wu Dading. Even Wang Guangen, who joined earlier, and the Chuanzhong Ming Army also had this problem.

Ma Ke, together with He Zhen and others, made a statement before, and now he is also the commander-in-chief, but it is obviously very different from the Tartar Xu's King of Hanzhong, and it is impossible for Zhu Yihai to give this kind of condition for sealing the border and cracking the soil.

Not to mention, the situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi is indeed that the Tartars still have the upper hand.

"Marco betrayed the enemy and surrendered? No way?"

Ma Shiying was a little surprised. Although the two have the same surname Ma, it has nothing to do with each other. Ma Shiying is from Guizhou, and Ma Ke is from Longyou. But Ma Ke fought with Cao Bianjiao in his early years. He is famous for his bravery and bravery. There was no other way. At that time, Li Zicheng was about to fight to Beijing. Ma Ke followed Li Jiantai, a bachelor, to fight Li Zicheng.

In the end, he insisted on surrendering after the fall of Beijing and Chongzhen's suicide.

Such a general, now that he has surrendered anyway, there is no reason to oppose him again.

"Anything is possible, nothing is absolute."

Zhu Yihai could only say to them, "I have received reliable news that Zhang Xianzhong is about to enter Hanzhong, and Ma Ke has secretly planned to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing court has secretly promised him the king of Hanzhong. Although Qin Liangyu, Wang Guangen and others are rushing to Hanzhong , but now that Ma Ke in Liuzhen Hanzhong has been surrendered, we are one step closer."

This news shocked several people.

"If Ma Ke really surrendered, then He Zhen and others might not be able to return to Hanzhong, and even Sichuan and Yunyang would have to open their doors," Ma Shiying couldn't help but sigh.

The situation was good at first, but now it is troublesome.

"I plan to adjust the strategy on the western front. I will send someone to send an order to He Zhen and others, telling them to retreat to Zhongnan Mountain first and not to fight with Ma Ke. Then I will send an order to Qin Liangyu and other Ming troops in Central Sichuan to let Zhang Xianzhong go to the north of Sichuan."

"Your Majesty, are we going to give up Hanzhong like this? This is a battleground for military strategists."

"I don't know that Hanzhong is important, but now that several forces are competing, we have to preserve our strength as much as possible. Let Zhang Xianzhong fight with Ma Ke and the Tartars first,"

The armies of He Zhen, Sun Shoufa, and Wu Dading in Guanzhong have not yet officially reorganized, and they are newly defeated. This army cannot compete with the Qing army in Hanzhong.

Similarly, the Ming army in Sichuan has just begun to reorganize, and it also has no combat effectiveness.

The most important thing is that now Zhu Yihai is very clear that whether it is the coalition forces of He Zhen in Guanzhong, or the troops of Qin Liangyu, Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan, and Wang Xiang in Sichuan, they are still the leaders of the army who support their own self-respect, and they will not be serious at all. Listen to Zhu Yihai's transfer arrangements.

It is simply unrealistic to expect such a group of military leaders to fight together and defeat the Qing army with tacit understanding.

It would be better to take a step back, let Zhang Xianzhong go out of Sichuan, let the Qing army enter Hanzhong, let them fight against each other first, and the Ming army take this opportunity to find a way to integrate these soldiers from Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Zhu Yihai has already planned to set up several imperial camps first, based on the Huguang camp and the newly-built Sichuan-Shaanxi camp, and expand them into Huguang camp, Sichuan-Guizhou camp, Yunyang camp, and Shaanxi-Gan camp. Ten camps will be established in each of the four camps Five thousand at the head of the battalion, and it will be expanded to eight thousand later.

These four camps should be mainly officers sent by the imperial camp, and they will be stationed in Changsha, Chongqing, Yunyang and Gongchang.

The military chiefs in Huguang, Sichuan and Shaanxi were unreliable. Zhu Yihai had already suffered a lot from these loyal army towns before, but there was nothing he could do at that time.

May have to change early.

Let Zhang Xianzhong and the Qing army fight first, and the Ming army took the opportunity to reorganize and get involved, and the real battlefield should be placed on the eastern front where Zhu Yihai can directly command, on the Xuhuai battlefield.

"Ruan Qing, Ma Qing, three Northern Expeditions, money and food have to rely on Zhejiang and Jiangsu."

(End of this chapter)