Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 422
After Cao Wenzhao and Zhuzi finished watching, Li Jing said: "The actual number of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui's troops is quite different from the reported number. As for the real elite troops, that is, their family soldiers, there are less than 1 million people.

I know why they lied about the numbers, they want to get more money and food to subsidize these soldiers.Brother Wen Zhao, many generals did this before, right? "

Cao Wenzhao nodded slightly.

Li Jing sighed and said: "In the past, the soldiers' salaries were not high. It is not wrong for the generals to train elite soldiers. But now the soldiers' salaries have been greatly increased. If they do this again, I will wonder if they want to You have to support yourself."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "I asked Fifth Brother to pass on the message to Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui, and these two people knew something about it, and reported another data, this time it was similar to the number of Fifth Brother's secret investigation. .

I'm telling you this not to take Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui down, but to remind you that during the past few months when I paid them the full amount of rations, they lied about the large number of rations they received and were still in the army. I guess there should be at least some Fifty thousand shi of grain, these grains are enough to support your army for a month.

Brother Wenzhao, tell Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui that it is urgent to dispatch troops now, as long as they spit out the hidden food for me, I will not pursue the past. "

Sighing lightly, Li Jing continued: "Speaking of which, both Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui are generals, and I really don't want to take them down because of the mistakes they made before. And this time to conquer Donglu, Donglu The prisoner will definitely send troops to harass our logistics troops, these two people are familiar with the local terrain, and also understand the fighting style of Donglu, with them, it will not be so easy for Donglu to attack our logistics troops."

Cao Wenzhao nodded and said, "Commander, I know what to do."

Li Jing patted Cao Wenzhao's hand lightly, and sighed: "Brother Wenzhao, originally you were going to go to war, I should toast you a glass of Zhuangxing wine, but you have seen me now, Zhuangxing wine is probably not I can't drink it anymore, I can only wait for you to drink the celebration wine with you after your triumphant return."

Cao Wenzhao held Li Jing's hand behind his back and said, "Don't worry, Commander, I will send you the victory report within three months. During this time, you must pay attention to your health. When I come back, let's drink triumphant wine. "

Li Jing smiled and said: "Brother Wenzhao said, my health will probably be better."

At this moment, Wang Chengen came in with a steaming medicine jar.Seeing that Cao Wenzhao and others were also there, Wang Chengen nodded slightly at the three of them; "Three generals, it is not convenient for Cheng'en to handle, so please don't blame them for not being able to greet the three generals."

When the three of Cao Wenzhao met, they got up to give Wang Chengen a place, and said, "Your Majesty is very polite, it's important to give the commander medicine, so you don't have to be polite."

Wang Chengen smiled, poured the medicine into the bowl, and then offered it to Li Jing with both hands, saying, "Marshal, it's time for you to take the medicine."

Li Jing took the medicine bowl, looked at Cao Wenzhao and others with a wry smile and said, "In my memory, my body has not had any problems for at least 20 years. I don't want to need to drink medicine now."

After speaking, Li Jing frowned and blew on the medicine. When the medicine was slightly cool, he raised a bowl and drank it. Then he clicked his tongue and said to Cao Wenzhao with a wry smile, "This medicine is really bitter."

When Cao Wenzhao and others saw it, they couldn't help but chuckled.

"Marshal, good medicine is good for your illness. The imperial doctor said that your health is not serious, but you are tired all day, and the two gentlemen passed away, and you are so anxious that you fell ill. Just eat ginseng Yangrong pills, and you can persist for a few more days." Wang Chengen laughed.

Li Jing smiled and said: "I fell ill this time, but Cheng En was exhausted. I was busy every day and didn't talk about it. I was afraid that I would find it difficult to take medicine. Every time I had to coax me a few words, you listen, He also said that he would stop taking these medicines after taking these medicines, which is coaxing me into being a child."

Everyone laughed again.

After laughing for a while, Li Jing said again: "You three thank Cheng En for me today, and have a glass of wine with Cheng En. As for Cheng En, let me accompany you to drink strong wine. I am a little tired, so I won't accompany you You have spoken."

Seeing Li Jing's tired face, Cao Wenzhao knew that what Li Jing said just now must be extremely exhausting.

"The commander-in-chief is resting, and I will leave later." Cao Wenzhao clasped his fists and said.

Saying that he waved to Zhuzi and Li Dingguo, the two hurriedly saluted Li Jing, and then left Li Jing's room with Wang Chengen.

After Cao Wenzhao and others left, Li Jing waved to Xiao Wu: "Xiao Wu, have you selected all your people?"

Xiao Wu hurriedly said: "I have already chosen, and now I am receiving training from Uncle Erhu."

Li Jingjing nodded and said: "You go and tell Uncle Erhu that we are going to attack Donglu soon, let him prepare and then start to act. You don't have to come back, just follow your Uncle Erhu."

"Father, you are not in good health now, I am leaving, who will take care of you?" Xiao Wu asked anxiously.

Li Jing waved his hand: "Could there be less people around me to take care of me? After you leave, let Xiao Jiu temporarily take over your position."

Li Jing said that Xiaojiu's surname is Hua, and his name is Jianwu. He is an orphan like Xiaowu, and was sent to Hongshanling by Ma Wu back then.

Speaking of the ranking of these people, there is another story. Many of these orphans have no names, and some have nicknames. Very few people.

When Shen Ying was teaching these children, she felt that the names of these children were very ugly, so she asked Li Jing to name them.

Where would Li Jing give people names? It just so happened that Xiao Wu was the fifth child in the family, so his nickname was Xiao Wu. Li Jing had an idea and asked Shen Ying to rank the children according to their age. Just call them their numbers.

Older ones like Sun Hutou and Shitou also have ranking numbers. Although Hutou is not as big as Shitou, he is the king of children, ranking first, and Shitou is ranked second.

Later, as these children got older, they began to use their official names, and they seldom called by their queuing numbers, and it was really inconvenient to call them after the tenth.

Therefore, only Xiao San to Xiao Jiu are still called by rank number.

Among these people, Xiao Wu was the smartest, while Xiao Jiu was too taciturn, so these two were kept by Li Jing's side, and the others followed Shi Shi to protect the safety of Xu Guangqi, the Academy of Sciences and the military factory.

Later Xiaosan was arranged by Li Jing to Hong Chengchou, Xiaosi was arranged by Lu Xiangsheng's side, and Xiaoliu was arranged by Sun Chuanting's navy.

As for Xiaoqi and Xiaoba, they still stayed in Pingyang Mansion with Shitou. After Li Jing and Xu Guangqi left Pingyang Mansion, they were responsible for protecting Yuan Keli and the military factory.

Hearing that Li Jing asked Xiao Jiu to be his bodyguard, Xiao Wu frowned and asked, "Is Xiao Jiu suitable?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Don't worry, Xiao Jiu just doesn't like to talk. Compared with cleverness, he is not much worse than you."

Xiao Wu smiled when he heard the words: "Xiao Jiu is really not stupid, it's just that he talks too little."

Li Jing smiled and said, "You think everyone is as talkative as you? Go ahead and explain to Xiaojiu."

Xiao Wu nodded lightly upon hearing this.

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On February 27, the tenth year of Chongzhen, Cao Wenzhao returned to Shanhaiguan, and immediately ordered Songshan and Wu Sangui's troops to mobilize some troops to defend Xingshan, Ningyuan, Juehua Island, Gaotaibao, Qiantun and other coastal areas (now Lianshan, Huludao, Xing City, Suizhong and other places), and ordered Zu Dashou to divide a part of his troops to station in Yizhou (now Yixian County to Chaoyang area).

After the logistics supply line was secured, Cao Wenzhao's troops were divided into four groups: a vanguard army composed of Chen Guozhu's Jishi Army as the main force, crossed the Daling River to attack Xipingbao (now Panshan County, Panjin City), and Liaoyang.A main force led by Zu Dashou launched an attack on Guangning.The first one attacked Haizhou and Gaizhou with the main force of Wu Sangui.Cao Wenzhao led Li Dingguo's department to attack in the direction of Shengjing (Shenyang) after taking Xiping Fort with Chen Guozhu.

The Ming army officially dispatched troops on the first day of March. Relying on the advantage of guns and artillery, the four-way army was like a broken bamboo all the way. It only took more than ten days to conquer more than ten counties in the East. Sun Hu, who attacked the fastest, had already advanced to the outskirts of Liaoyang.

Liaoyang was the largest city in Eastern Liaodong before Shenyang was established as the capital of the Kingdom of Jin.

Nurhachi established his capital in Liaoyang in the sixth year of Tianming, and moved his capital to Shenyang in the tenth year of Tianming. At that time, Liaoyang was the largest city in Liaodong. The largest city was replaced by Shenyang.But Liaoyang is still the accompanying capital of the Jin Kingdom, and the Jin people call it Tokyo.

It doesn't matter if Liaoyang is just an accompanying capital, the most important thing is that Liaoyang's geographical location is very important.Liaoyang was the gateway from Shenyang to the south of Liaoyang. Once Liaoyang was lost, the Qing soldiers in the south of Liaoyang would be alone. Not only could they not return to Shengjing, they would even have no place to escape.

It is conceivable how shocked Huang Taiji was when the Ming army approached the city of Liaoyang.

In particular, the banner masters of the Qing Dynasty who had never fought against Cao Wenzhao were even more shocked. Although they all knew that the Jurchen warriors suffered two major defeats at the hands of the Ming army in the past two years, how did they lose? Not sure.

In their thinking, the reason for these two defeats was the incompetence of the generals. They believed that the Jurchen army mainly consisted of cavalry. They did not fight in the field, but wanted to attack fortified positions. How could they not suffer from the artillery of the Ming army?

They believed that as long as the Jurchens could exploit their strengths and avoid their weaknesses, the Ming army would still be vulnerable.

Therefore, when the Ming army started to attack a few days ago, these people did not care, and even when the soldiers in front asked for reinforcements, they did not take the Ming army seriously.

But just over ten days later, from the west of Liaoyang, the more than ten states and counties that the Jurchens took many years to occupy have all fallen.

If only one or two prefectures and counties fell, they could still think that the Ming army won by virtue of its large number of people, but now more than a dozen prefectures and counties in different places have fallen consecutively within more than ten days, and some places have even fallen at the same time. , This shows that the Ming army was divided into several groups to attack different directions of the Qing country at the same time. At this time, it also shows that the army relied on a large number of people to win, which is obviously unreasonable.

Now they finally believe that what the defeated generals said is true, and the firepower of the Ming army is much stronger than that of the Qing.

(End of this chapter)