Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 692 Judgment
Li Dingguo responded when he heard the words, bowed his head and walked out of the study.

Picking up the teacup, Li Jing took a sip of tea in silence, then slowly sat down on the chair, closed his eyes and meditated.

In fact, what Li Jing is doing now is planning for the worst. The actual situation may not be so bad, because Huang Degong and others may not have the courage to send troops.

Huang Degong and others should also understand that sending troops means rebellion. If they can't take Li Jing, they will have nowhere to escape. If they don't send troops, even if Li Jing knows that they are hoarding arms, they can't be convicted of treason.

In fact, Li Jing hoped that they would send troops, because then Li Jing could justifiably attack Huang Degong and others.

After an unknown amount of time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the door. Li Jing suddenly opened his eyes, and then realized that he was covered with a quilt. Only then did he realize that he had just fallen asleep unknowingly.

Li Jing shook his head, waved his hand to signal Xiao Jiu to open the door, and then saw Li Dingguo coming in a hurry.

"Father commander, my son's subordinates reported that no troops were found in Henan, but thousands of troops were found stationed at the border in Anhui and Hubei respectively." Li Dingguo said.

"Huh? These two troops are stationed at the border?" Li Jing couldn't help being startled when he heard this, and then he fell into deep thought.

After a while, Li Jing suddenly sneered: "Is this the beginning of the layout?"

Turning to Xiaojiu, he said, "Send people to the capital immediately, order Yang Xuan to guard the palace, don't let the emperor leave the capital, and then call Su Heng."

Xiao Jiu took the order, and immediately arranged for someone to pass the order, and at the same time sent someone to call Su Heng in.

When Su Heng entered the room, Li Jing pointed to the table and said, "Write me some written instructions immediately."

Su Heng nodded, and quickly spread paper to grind.

Seeing that Su Heng was about to stop, Li Jing said: "Promote Chen Dahu to be the governor of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Hubei, and control the military and political affairs of the four provinces. Promote Liu Erleng to the governor of the five provinces of Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Military and political affairs of the above five provinces."

Su Heng couldn't help being stunned when he heard the words, and immediately reacted, he hurriedly wrote down Li Jing's order, then sealed it with a seal, and handed it to Xiao Jiu.

Seeing that Xiaojiu sent someone to send out the letter, Li Jing continued: "Order Hong Chengchou, Lu Xiangsheng, and Cao Wenzhao to stop all military operations, and the army will maintain the status quo. Without my order, no one can move without my order.

He moved Sun Hutou to be the general of Shaanxi, led his troops back to Shaanxi, and stationed in Xi'an.

Moved Cao Bianjiao to be the general of Shanxi, and led his troops to garrison Taiyuan.

Moved Zhou Shitou to be the general of Henan, and led his troops to Kaifeng.

He moved to Ma Ke as the general of Liaodong, and immediately led his troops to Jinzhou.

Order Chen Guozhu to send people to Shanhaiguan, and then order Zhou Laohu to lead his troops to Jining to block the passage from Anhui to the capital. "

When Li Jing gave an order, Su Heng wrote a hand letter, sealed it and handed it to Xiao Jiu, and then Xiao Jiu arranged for someone to deliver the order, and after Li Jing gave the order, Xiao Jiu also sent someone to send the hand letter.

After Li Jing gave the order, Li Dingguo hurriedly said, "Father, where is the boy, what are you doing?"

Li Jing waved his hand: "Don't worry, you send someone to transfer the five thousand cavalry under your command, and the speed must be fast."

Li Dingguo nodded, and went to order his subordinates to dispatch troops to Hetao.

After pondering for a while, Li Jing said again: "Let your subordinates work harder and ask them to investigate in the direction of Anhui and Hubei to see if there are any suspicious people or spies. If you find any spies, take them down immediately."

"Father commander is worried about them sneaking in disguise?" Li Dingguo asked doubtfully.

"You have to be on guard!" Li Jing sighed: "Soldiers are tricky, we must prevent them from stealthily."

"What the commander-in-chief said is true." Li Dingguo said hurriedly.

Not long after Li Jing finished making arrangements, there were footsteps outside the door, and then a big internal guard hurried in. Seeing Li Jing, the guard hurriedly said: "Commander, the emperor left Beijing to inspect the place." gone."

Li Jing was stunned when he heard the words: "When did the emperor leave Beijing?"

"Back to Marshal, the emperor left Beijing seven days ago. After the emperor left Beijing, Commander Yang ordered the humble officer to come and inform the Marshal."

Li Jing nodded silently, and asked after a while: "Who did the emperor take away from Beijing?"

The guard said: "In addition to Wang Cheng'en, there are also the guards of Da Nei."

Li Jing sighed lightly: "Have courage!"

"Father, the emperor has been away for seven days, and he should be in Shandong now." Li Dingguo said hurriedly.

Li Jing shook his head: "If the emperor travels day and night, he should have already arrived in Anhui."

"Then what should we do? Once the emperor arrives in Anhui, they may have to do something." Li Dingguo said anxiously.

Li Jing nodded: "What do you think they will do?"

Li Dingguo pondered for a while and said: "If it is a child, first of all, it will occupy the military factory in Anhui, and then send troops to go straight to Nanjing."

"That's right, the first thing is to occupy the military factory. After the military factory is occupied, these people don't have to worry about the supply of firearms and ammunition. If it were me, the first goal would be to occupy the military factory." Li Jing said.

Then Li Jing sneered: "However, it is not so easy to occupy the military factory. I have arranged two thousand troops in the military factory. As long as these people are dedicated to their duties, it is no problem to block them for a few days."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "Now it depends on whether Chen Dahu's reaction is fast enough."

Li Dingguo said: "As long as Uncle Da Hu can hold Nanjing, these people will be defeated, and according to the commander's arrangement, these people will have nowhere to escape."

Li Jing shook his head: "There is still a way to escape."

Li Dingguo pondered for a while and said: "What the commander-in-law said is that they can still go to Guizhou and Sichuan."

Li Jing continued: "If Guizhou and Sichuan can't stay, they can still go to Yunnan, or go to Duogan (the area where Tibet now borders Sichuan and Qinghai provinces) and Wusizang (Tibet), or even go north. It's not impossible."

Speaking of this, Li Jing suddenly remembered something.

Waving his hand to stop Li Dingguo from speaking, Li Jing silently thought deeply.

After a while, Li Jing said to Li Dingguo: "Dingguo, if you are asked to command this battle, how are you going to fight it?"

Li Dingguo was overjoyed when he heard the words, and pondered for a while and said: "Father commander, if you let the boy command this battle, then the boy will mobilize the troops of Uncle Zhou, Uncle Chen and Uncle Liu, and gradually advance from the north, east, and south. Brother Shitou and Brother Cao's three troops raided from the west, making it impossible for the rebels to escape, and then gradually eroded the strength of the rebels with my cavalry and Brother Hutou's troops, and finally wiped out all the rebels."

Li Jingwen couldn't help laughing: "If you are just the commander-in-chief of an army, then your battle plan to wipe out the rebels is completely fine, but this battle will use troops from all over the country. You are not the commander-in-chief of an army, but Commander-in-chief of the entire army of the Ming Dynasty, and as the commander-in-chief of the entire army of the Ming Dynasty, the way of fighting you just did is completely unqualified."

Hearing this, Li Dingguo hurriedly said, "Please give me some advice, Commander-in-Chief."

Li Jing smiled: "As the commander-in-chief of the entire army, you can't just think about the war in front of you, but also consider the country's strategy. You should think about how to use this rebel army to serve the country's strategy."

"Serve the country's strategy?" Li Dingguo murmured again.

Li Jingjing nodded: "Yes, you should know what my military strategic concept is?"

Li Dingguo hurriedly said: "I know that the strategy formulated by the father-in-law is to first develop agriculture, industry and commerce, accumulate strength, and then pacify Mobei, Moxi, Wusizang, Duogan and other places, and regain the territory of Ming Dynasty."

Li Jing smiled and said: "That's right, but what you're talking about is just a strategic framework. It's not that simple to implement it. You have to know that the areas we want to recover are equivalent to half of Ming Dynasty, and the population is at least several million." , and there are many ethnic groups in these places, each with different beliefs, it is very difficult for them to completely surrender to Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, we must reduce the population of these places and wipe out all those who have different intentions.But it is inappropriate for Ming's army to do this, because the more people we kill, the more unpopular we are. "

Li Dingguo made an excuse when he heard the words: "I understand, this matter should be done by the rebels. No matter how many people the rebels kill, people in these places can't blame Daming, and Ming's army went to suppress the rebellion. People still have to thank us, which will help us conquer the hearts of the people in these places."

"Hehe, that's what it means. So you need to change the layout you just made." Li Jing smiled.

Li Dingguo said: "The arrangement of troops from the north, east, and south remains unchanged, and the west needs to open a road for the rebels to flee west from Sichuan, and then we force them to flee all the way to Duogan. and the direction of Wu Sizang."

"Children can be taught." Li Jing said with a smile.

Li Dingguo pondered: "In addition, we can't beat the rebels too hard. If the rebels don't have enough troops, they won't be able to achieve our strategy."

Li Jing smiled: "Not only can't beat them too hard, we have to support them when their supplies can't keep up."

"Still subsidizing them? They have supplies, so they won't turn around and attack the interior?" Li Dingguo said in surprise.

Li Jing shook his head: "Probably not. I feel that my previous judgment may be wrong. I suspect that the change of Huang Degong and other departments this time may be the emperor's plan for my future strategy."

"What?" Li Dingguo asked in surprise.

Li Jing sighed softly and said, "What can you say about the emperor? As an emperor, he is a good emperor, much better than many emperors in the Ming Dynasty. Unfortunately, what the emperor took over was a mess, and he was old when he took over. He is still too young, inexperienced, and capable, so Daming is going from bad to worse, and the emperor is powerless about it.

After I entered Beijing, I lifted the emperor's power by force. Although the emperor was a little helpless, he still felt relieved.At the same time, the emperor plans to watch my jokes and see how I can clean up this mess.

However, I abolished the bad government, eradicated foreign enemies, eliminated internal troubles, and the situation in Daming gradually began to improve.

The emperor was young after all, seeing that Daming's condition was getting better and better, he was naturally unwilling to be a puppet emperor. "

"That's why the emperor started to inspect places, taking the opportunity to win over local officials and generals." Li Dingguo said.

Li Jing smiled: "The emperor didn't win over the local officials. If he wanted to win over the local officials, he couldn't hide it from Ma Wu's eyes and ears. So the emperor only had contact with some generals in the army. Some eyes and ears, but the real secrets of the generals, the spies can't find out."

Li Dingguo nodded silently.

(End of this chapter)