Wanli Youming

Chapter 145

Chapter 145

In his previous life, Zhu Yijun did not study the history of the Ming and Qing Dynasties professionally. He was not clear enough about the early experiences of the Ming and Qing figures. Subjectively, he did not have much interest in learning about the origin history of the Manchu nobles like Nurhachi.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun didn't know that Nurhachi was now under Li Chengliang's command, and his younger brother Shuerhaqi had become Li Chengliang's domestic slaves.

What's more, Nurhachi's current name is not Nurhachi, but the name Li Chengliang gave him - Li Ruyu.

In addition, because Li Ruyu is just an ordinary family member now, his name is not found in many Zhang Zou official documents, even if there are sporadic records, Zhu Yijun is not clear.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun still cannot know any information about Nurhachi from the Liaodong memorial, and even the names of the more powerful Jurchen leaders he can see in the memorial are not the Jianzhou Zuo that he is familiar with in later generations. Wei Nuzhen character.

Because of this, Li Ruyu can still do some work for Li Chengliang in front of Li Chengliang's servant in peace and security.

It's just that Li Ruyu is still a slave of the Li family after all, not a slave chieftain who threatened the Ming court and caused the Ming court to lose Liaoyang, Shenyang, Guangning and other important places after repeated losses.

Therefore, he had to kneel down in front of the general manager Ma Shilong who was born in the general family.

Ma Shilong didn't make things difficult for him because he behaved obediently, so he just nodded, and then told Zhang Guozhong: "Take these soldiers of yours and go together."

Zhang Guozhong couldn't help but said: "But they didn't come back in time, they haven't even gotten familiar with bow and horse yet."

"It's not too late to get acquainted after arriving in Dusi! It doesn't take many veterans to fight Goryeo!"

Ma Shilong replied.

Zhang Guozhong pointed to those Mongolian girls again: "Then these bearded girls?"

"Relieve everything! Don't be afraid to run away. After going to Korea, you don't have to worry about having no mother-in-law!"

After Ma Shilong spoke, he rode back.

Li Ruyu also got on his horse and followed.

And Zhang Guozhong smiled at Zhong Changdong: "Brother Zhong, you are lucky, you caught up with the opportunity to make meritorious service so soon, and you are going to beat Korea who will be scared to death when seeing dozens of Huqi."

"Then I'd rather fight Hu Qi!"

"This man looks down on Mr. Zong! He speaks as if we, the military households who have just escaped, are worse off. Who is not a hero?!"

Zhong Changdong said this angrily.

Zhang Guozhong said: "Ma Ba is always a man from Hetao. He was born in martial arts and was promoted here by fighting against me. It is normal to look down on us poor military households in Liaodong. When you make meritorious service, he will look straight at you. .”

"Especially if you get python jade, those civil servants reincarnated from Wenqu stars in the sky will also have to respect it for the face of the emperor."

"Then who got the python jade?"

Zhong Changdong asked curiously.

Zhang Guozhong replied: "I only saw a piece on the waist of the young master. Then other ordinary military households got it, and I only heard that it was read by the official in the military newspaper."

After Zhu Yijun established the Privy Council, he asked the Privy Council to set up a military newspaper, and recruited ordinary scholars to act as civil servants, and went to the army to be responsible for reading the military newspaper to grassroots officers and soldiers, so that the officers and soldiers knew which officers and soldiers had been commended for their meritorious service and read out some important decrees of the emperor. To show the kindness of the heavenly family.

This will not only increase the employment opportunities of ordinary scholars, but also prevent them from going astray after the imperial examination is unsatisfactory. Kill the enemy and make meritorious service, know the existence of the emperor, and achieve the purpose of consolidating the emperor's military power.

Therefore, Zhang Guozhong, a chief banner officer, can also know what python jade represents the military medal.

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"Because it's just asking for crimes, not returning from the soil, so in my humble opinion, Liaodong can draw [-] iron cavalry, and after taking Yizhou with lightning speed, they will be sent to the coastal plains, passing through Anju and Pyongyang, Then go to Seoul via Huangzhou, without having to attack other passes along the way."

"It's just that along the way, Pyongyang is difficult to attack. Cavalry alone may not be enough to take down Pyongyang, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Therefore, it is better to take [-] infantry from General Wu of Shanhaiguan. In this case, Pyongyang is not a concern, and Seoul is not enough. For worry."

Liaodong Dusi Yamen.

Li Chengliang reported his specific ideas about accusing North Korea in front of Li Song, the right deputy capital censor and governor of Liaodong.

After pondering for a moment, Li Song said: "In this way, there are [-] soldiers and horses."

Then, Li Song asked Li Chengliang: "From Uncle Ning Yuan's point of view, he can reach Seoul in a few months, so that Li's apology is successful?"

"Two months at most, at least one month, the key depends on when Pyongyang can go down."

Li Chengliang replied.

Li Song nodded: "The army has a total of more than 370 people. Each person has one liter of food per day, and more than 780 horses and mules. Each horse is given three liters of beans per day. Counting officials and their horses separately, they need 2 shi for grain and [-] shi for beans per day, and for two months, they need more than [-] shi for grain and [-] shi for beans."

"At the same time, it is necessary to reserve grain and beans in the newly occupied lands in case of accidents. In this case, after taking Uiju and Pyongyang, more than 3 shi of grain and [-] shi of beans will be left. The surplus is used for local civilian husbands and captured war horses."

Li Chengliang continued.

Li Song waved his hand and said, "These are not problems. The imperial court knows it well, and we also know that the capital of Liaodong has enough grain and beans to store. Thanks to Qingzhang's acres, a lot of grain can be transported to the north, not to mention North Korea's Uiju and other places are impossible. Without treasury storage, the question now is, is only [-] troops really enough to conquer Pyongyang in one fell swoop and capture Seoul?"

"Don't worry about nursing home!"

Li Chengliang cupped his hands and replied, "Twenty-five thousand troops are enough! After all, Liaodong has to keep troops to defend against Mongols and Jurchens;"

"What's more, Jinyiwei has already increased the detailed operations in various parts of North Korea because of the preparation for the conquest of the Japanese. The Fuyuan can ask Xu Tishuai to send someone who is in charge of inquiring about the news of the Korean Jinyiwei to cross the river with me, and instigate the Jinyiwei in the city as an internal response. Maybe you can go down to Zhucheng without a fight, and get miraculous results."

"This court has exactly the intention."

Li Song nodded, and looked at Xu Maoxuan, the commander of Jinyiwei who was stationed in Liaodong and was in charge of investigating the enemy's situation in Liaodong: "What does Commander Ti think?"

Although Xu Maojiao is directly under Jinyiwei, he listened to Li Song's restraint in Liaodong, and provided intelligence support for Governor Li Song at any time, so he bowed his hands and replied:

"Uncle Ning Yuan is right. There are quite a few Han people doing business in the dynasty, and they are more than willing to provide information for our Jin Yiwei. This time they attack the dynasty, they must also be willing to serve as internal support and get an official position through meritorious service. After all, for us Han people In other words, doing business to make money is not as good as doing meritorious service and being an official is enough to honor your ancestors!"

"Okay, Fang Lue will settle down like this!"

"As for the internal response, please ask Xu Tishuai to instigate it. As long as they make meritorious service, this court will invite them to be promoted!"

"The Privy Council of this court and Governor of Jiliao, Zhou Butang, transferred [-] southern soldiers from Wu Weizhong's department in Shanhaiguan, and crossed the river with Liaodong iron cavalry led by Uncle Ning Yuan, and asked them to be restrained by Uncle Ning Yuan."

Li Song asked his staff to write the official letter immediately after speaking.

Half a month later, at the same time that the reply letter from the Privy Council and the reply letter from Zhou Yong, governor of Jiliao arrived, Shanhaiguan Counselor Wu Weizhong had also received an order from Qi Jiguang, Prime Minister of Jiliao, and set off for Liaodong capital.

In mid-November, Wu Weizhong led the southern soldiers to Liaodong Capital.

As a result, Li Song summoned the generals to discuss matters again, and asked Li Chengliang and Wu Weizhong: "The army is already on the line, do you have anything to add?"

Wu Weizhong said: "Please use the Liaodong Navy to transport the heavy artillery made by the eldest son of our department, and run it along the coast. It may be useful in the future. Even if it is useless, you can save it for future use when you garrison troops."

Li Song nodded: "Yes."

Li Chengliang said: "I have no other opinions, but the speed of the soldiers is very high. Although the soldiers and horses did not move the food and grass first, but this time it is to go to Seoul to question the crimes, not to destroy the dynasty. Therefore, in order to break through the key passes along the way as soon as possible, the shilling cavalry quickly crossed at night. Jiang took Yizhou first, and then returned to the army to protect the grain. When General Wu arrived in Yizhou, the cavalry raided Anzhou again until they reached the fortified city that could not be breached. OK."

"Water is impermanent, soldiers are impermanent, as Ning Yuanbo said."

As he spoke, Li Song took out the imperial decree, announcing that Li Chengliang was the admiral of all military affairs in the court, and Wu Weizhong was the deputy commander-in-chief of the court to obey his restraint.

Then, the next day, Li Chengliang led Wu Weizhong and Li Rusong in full armor to meet his Liaodong generals and the middle and lower-level officers and soldiers outside the camp.

Ma Shilong, Zhang Guozhong, Zhong Changdong and other officers and soldiers of the Liaodong frontier army were all standing here wearing brand-new cloth face armor and cotton armor, all of them were full of energy.

And Li Chengliang was holding his belt, and after looking around at the generals with a knife, he said in a deep voice: "Commander Yang Huan!"

"I am humble!"

Yang Huan stepped out and knelt down in front of Li Chengliang.

Li Chengliang held a token and gave it to Yang Huan: "Your department will immediately dive across the river and take down Yizhou. At that time, with three cannon fires as a signal, there will be people in the city to respond to you!"

"Follow the order!"

So, that night, Yang Huan took all the cavalry with his troop, covered with wood and white felt, and his horse unloaded with bells wrapped in white cloth. Taking advantage of the snow and moonlight, he crossed the frozen Yalu River and sneaked to the edge of North Korea's Yizhou City.

(End of this chapter)