Chongzhen Wiretapping System

Chapter 522 What a prodigal!

From the direction of Yaozhou post, another cavalry army came galloping fast, and scattered near the outside of Gaizhou city, to join the Jianlu Tanma that had been scattered outside the city.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw this, he couldn't help but frown, and thought to himself: Could it be that the war at Yaozhouyi had reached a critical moment, and the slave chief was afraid that reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty would arrive and catch him off guard, so he sent additional patrols to monitor the surrounding area. The troops there?

If this is really the case, it means that Jianlu must have the upper hand at Yaozhou Post, otherwise, the slave chieftains would not have the extra troops to send out.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng immediately became nervous.The safety of the holy driver is the most important thing in the Ming Dynasty.Although he believed that with the emperor's commanding ability, he should be fine, but he couldn't stand the scene in front of him!
Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help wandering around the city of Gaizhou, feeling a little bit unsure.

According to his original intention, since the battle at Yaozhou Station is at a critical moment, and Daming is still at a disadvantage, then Lu Xiangsheng should do his best to serve as a soldier in Gaizhou.
However, before leaving, Emperor Chongzhen gave a strict order to Lu Xiangsheng to guard Gaizhou and there was no need to worry about Yaozhouyi.If you send troops privately, you will be disobeying the order.

Emperor Chongzhen was the emperor he respected the most, and Lu Xiangsheng would absolutely not be able to do things that he resisted and did not obey.However, if he really followed the order, could he just watch and wait for the Yaozhou Post battle to be decided by himself?If Daming really loses, when the winner is decided, it will be the beginning of a catastrophe!

Another reason that made Lu Xiangsheng hesitate was that he did not have a cavalry army in his hands.Those left behind to guard Gaizhou City were all infantry.If you want to rush to Yaozhou Station, which is [-] miles away, under the harassment of the Jianlu cavalry, it will definitely take more than two days. If there is an obstruction by the Jianlu, it will take even more days.Whether Gaizhou's reinforcements will be useful is still unknown!

Lu Xiangsheng was wandering, his steps getting faster and faster, and two thoughts were fighting with each other in his mind.

Suddenly, he stood up suddenly, turned his head to look outside the city, his eyes were determined, and he shouted sharply: "Come here, pass on my military order..."

His personal guards were originally paying attention to his abnormal behavior, so as soon as he opened his mouth, some of his personal guards immediately stepped forward and clasped their fists in anticipation.

But after waiting for a while, Lu Xiangsheng still didn't speak. I was a little curious, so I looked up and saw the governor looking outside the city with a look of astonishment.

As a result, the guards also turned their heads to look outside the city, and he was stunned for a moment.

I saw that in the distance outside the city, those Jianlu who had passed by just now, after joining up with the Jianlu who visited the horse over there, were talking and laughing with each other, as if they were very harmonious.However, suddenly, they drew their swords and fought again.

Lu Xiangsheng's eyesight has always been good, but after looking at it for a while, he can see clearly.It was the later Jianlu who suddenly launched an attack, and there were so many people, they cut down most of the Jianlu's Tanma at once, and the Jianlu Tanma who survived were immediately besieged, and there was no way to escape.

"Why are we fighting?" Lu Xiangsheng reached out and subconsciously stroked his long beard, frowning and saying to himself.

His personal guard heard it, and came back to his senses, and excitedly guessed: "Could it be, those people are our Daming soldiers pretending to be?"

"No!" Lu Xiangsheng shook his head immediately when he heard this, and said flatly, "I can see clearly that those are Tartars, not our Ming soldiers!"

That's strange, why did Jianlu suddenly fight?

When they didn't know what was going on, there was the sound of hurried footsteps, but it was the officer on duty on the other side who came to report that he had discovered internal fighting among the Jianlu outside the city and started a fight.

When Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he was surprised again. He hurriedly asked about the situation, and finally found that the situation was the same as what he saw here.It was all the later Jianlu who suddenly launched an attack and attacked the original Jianlu to explore the horse.

If Jianlu is just a sudden internal struggle in one place, it may be caused by a sudden violent conflict among themselves. This is possible.However, the same situation is happening in other places now, so it is definitely not a coincidence, but the later Jianlu, there must be a problem, maybe he was ordered to kill the original Jianlu to explore the horse.

However, this seems unreasonable!

When Lu Xiangsheng was wondering, he heard someone from his subordinates report: "My lord, a prisoner is here!"

As soon as he heard this, he looked up and saw a prisoner in the direction of the fight. He did not carry any swords, guns, bows and arrows. He even hung his helmet on his horse and was driving his horse over with both hands raised.Obviously, there is something to say.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng ordered not to shoot arrows, and then looked at the Jian prisoner curiously, wondering what this man wanted to say?

I saw this Jianlu getting closer and closer, and I could see clearly that he still had a head hanging on his waist, with blood dripping all the way.Needless to say, these heads should be those of those who built prisons and scouted horses.

The man didn't stop until he reached the edge of the moat. Then he looked up at the city and shouted loudly in Ming Mandarin with an accent: "Brothers, colleagues, we are here to annihilate the Jurchens on the orders of the Ming Emperor. We are injured." Brothers, can you send someone to rescue me?"

Hearing this, the city suddenly became extremely quiet: According to the order of the Emperor Daming, come to exterminate the Jurchens?

Lu Xiangsheng was just stunned for a moment, then came to his senses immediately and shouted loudly: "I am the governor of Baoding. If my guess is correct, you are from the eastern Mongolian tribe, and you are not among the troops led by the emperor." wait."

Hearing this, the Ming army officers and soldiers on the city came to their senses and nodded one after another. They did not recognize the Jianlu outside the city.Even if he was pretending, he should have just had a haircut and had a money rat tail, but looking at that forehead, it didn’t look like he had just had his hair cut!
Thinking of this, the soldiers of the Ming army wanted to shout loudly, exposing the fact that this man wanted to trick Gaizhou comrades out of the city.

But at this moment, the man slapped himself on the forehead, seemed to come back to his senses, and then shouted to the top of the city: "Master Governor? The battle at Yaozhou Station is over, the Jurchens have all escaped, and the rest of us Yes, they all surrendered. But the emperor has a decree that those of us who surrender must have the heads of the Jurchens in order to become real soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, we will become military slaves, and we can only become real soldiers after three years. Great Ming soldiers!"

At this point, in order to show that his words were credible, he took off the hanging head, raised it high and said loudly: "Look, the villain has captured a Jurchen head, and the villain is already a real soldier of the Ming Dynasty! "

His words made Gaizhou City quiet for a while.

Although what this man said might be a lie, the head in his hand was real. They saw it with their own eyes, so there was no way it could be fake.In this way, you can also say the other way around, what this person said is the truth.

After thinking about this point, fanatical cheers resounded from the top of the city.

"Da Ming Wansheng!"

"Long live the emperor!"

"..."

Lu Xiangsheng also showed a smile, it seemed that he was really worried for nothing.Thinking about it, the emperor is wise and powerful. Every time he fights, he is invincible. Since the emperor is sure to fight the war well before leaving, why should I worry so much? Don't I have any confidence in the emperor?
Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling ashamed!

In Lu Xiangsheng's view, not only were there heads as evidence, but also a series of unreasonable things that he just saw, all had reasonable explanations, including the arrangement of these demoted soldiers, which was also consistent with Lu Xiangsheng's understanding of Emperor Chongzhen. Therefore, He had just confirmed that the man outside the city was telling the truth.

So, with a wave of his hand, he ordered his personal guards to bring the injured into the city for treatment. At the same time, he also called the man from outside the city to come in. He had something to ask face to face.

"The war in Yaozhouyi was very tragic, wasn't it?" Lu Xiangsheng's first question asked what he was most concerned about, "I wonder how the emperor is doing, and what are the casualties of our army?"

"..." His first question left the man speechless.

Tragic?Ming army casualties?What and what is this?
Seeing that he didn't speak, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but feel tense. His expression, which had been relaxed just now, suddenly became serious, and he quickly asked: "Why, there are heavy casualties? Is the emperor okay?"

Hearing this, the man came back to his senses, and couldn't help showing a dumbfounding expression on his face, looking at the misunderstanding.

However, the man in front of him was the Governor of Baoding in the Ming Dynasty. He did not dare to neglect. He quickly collected his thoughts and immediately reported seriously: "Going back to the Governor, for the Ming army... our army has not fought much at all. For Jian For the captives, the casualties were indeed heavy, and now the only ones who have escaped are the Jurchens..."

The more he listened, the stranger it became, and Lu Xiangsheng became confused.This war is equivalent to the decisive battle between Ming Dynasty and Jianlu.No matter what, there must be a fierce war, right?However, this man said that there was not much fighting at all, and Jianlu suffered heavy casualties.Could it be that the emperor spread the beans and formed an army, so the officers and soldiers just watched the show and did not fight much?
As soon as this idea came up, Lu Xiangsheng drove it away.As a last resort, he asked the man to tell the whole story in detail.

This person's knowledge was limited, so he told what happened from his perspective.Orally speaking, it is inevitable that there will be some discrepancies with the facts, and some places are exaggerated a lot.However, in front of Lu Xiangsheng, he was able to make some inklings. Based on the analysis of the situation he had mastered, he roughly understood how the emperor defeated Jianlu.

Once he understood this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but admire him.He was sure that the emperor's several battles, including this one, would become classic battles and be mentioned by future generations.

May I ask, in the past, when fighting more with less, could there be such a big victory in terms of battle loss ratio?
It is said that the military general Qi Jiguang of this dynasty had the lowest battle loss ratio in all dynasties.However, now that the current emperor has shown his talent in leading troops in war, the position with the lowest battle loss ratio must be filled by the emperor!The idea of ​​killing three thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to oneself simply does not exist with the Emperor.

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help feeling very ashamed when he remembered that he had fought in the Battle of Pyongyang!In that battle, he completely disabled the Dongjiang army. Thanks to the emperor's replenishment of soldiers and pay, he had been raised for more than a year before he regained some vitality.

Lu Xiangsheng thought about this, turned his head and looked outside the city, and suddenly felt that the sky and this place had become friendly.From now on, this place will return to the Ming Dynasty again!
The emperor's strategy of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot was very successful, and he broke Jianlu's granary in one fell swoop.Even if many Jianlu escaped back, this winter would definitely be a disaster for them!
Next, there should be no more military use, just wait for the warm flowers to bloom next year.Regarding this point, Lu Xiangsheng was sure in his heart.

Sure enough, in the evening, Emperor Chongzhen's decree spread to Gaizhou, asking him to make preparations, arrange for surrender, and wipe out the remaining Liaodong Jian captives. We will wait until the next year.In addition, Emperor Chongzhen also wanted a class teacher, and asked him to notify the navy to prepare to transport troops back to the capital.

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At this time, in Yaozhou Station, Emperor Chongzhen was spending more brain cells than during the war.

In ancient wars, the most feared thing was an expedition, which did not mean that the soldiers were tired, but that the supplies of food and grass were difficult.With the traffic at this time, the food transported to the destination is probably not as much as consumed on the road.Shipping is better, but it also consumes a lot of food, and you also have to worry about shipwrecks, etc.

Therefore, in ancient times, a million-strong army or something was simply nonsense, and there was no such high logistical capability that could guarantee the supply of food, grass and materials for a million-strong army.

Moreover, every time I look at ancient wars, the loss of food supply is often the most fatal.Far away, for example, the Battle of Wuchao in the Battle of Guandu was the decisive battle.In the Songjin War in original history, the Ming army led by Hong Chengchou was ultimately defeated by Jianlu because the food route was cut off.

If it weren't for the limitations of the food and grass issue, Emperor Chongzhen would of course be willing to "pursue the remaining brave men to chase the poor bandits", and he would be able to recover all of Liaodong in one battle.However, food is limited. If the front continues to advance, the consumption of food and grass will be even greater.However, Liaodong, an originally barren place, was hit by his previous strategy. It was almost impossible to even see wild vegetables, and there was no way to replenish them on the spot.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen could only return to Beijing as a teacher first.

The Hussars battalion sent to pursue Jianlu had already reported back, saying that Jianlu had burned Haizhou and retreated directly to Anshan Posthouse.

Emperor Chongzhen already knew this news from the feedback from the eavesdropping seeds.Therefore, he was not surprised, and reacted quickly, leaving about [-] hussars battalions stationed in Liaodong, under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, and all other troops returned to Beijing.

"Ah, it's just a pity that a Class-A eavesdropping seed was lost." When leaving Yaozhou Station, Emperor Chongzhen sighed with emotion, "This Azige is such a waste!"

However, fortunately, every time a battle is won, the system will send an eavesdropping seed.Therefore, he just sighed with emotion, and his mind quickly turned to the capital. Xue Guoguan, the chief assistant, had a problem and had to go back and solve it by himself.

(End of this chapter)