Borrow the day to change the day

Zhong Jinwei was excited when he saw that his suggestion was adopted by Emperor Chongzhen and arranged for it.

After a while, he calmed down and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Governor Denglai was ordered to send troops to support the front line of Jinzhou. Now that Jianlu has retreated, one of his strategic goals has been achieved, and two If the Jianlu troops shrink back, it will inevitably increase the pressure on the front line of Denglai. The governor of Denglai has only just arrived in office, and he still needs to be familiar with the process of training the army. It is better to send someone to inform them, lest they encounter the superior Jianlu and suffer heavy losses. .”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded. What Master Zhong said made sense. Lu Xiangsheng had not been there for long, and his previous purpose was just to hope that his harassment would force the Jian captives of Jinzhou to retreat. Now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to continue the fight.

So, he replied to Zhong Jinwei: "Just play according to Master Zhong."

Just when Emperor Chongzhen was about to pass on the decree and send someone, there was another commotion outside the palace.The voice gradually became clear: "Deng Lai Jiebao, beheaded 440 six Jian captives, and burned countless Jian captives' food and grass."

Several people in the Wenhua Hall heard it clearly, and they couldn't help showing joy on their faces.

Liang Tingdong, Minister of the Ministry of War, immediately played to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Jinzhou retreated, it must be Denglai who hurt Jianlu."

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and nodded, needless to say, everyone should have already guessed it.

The envoy who reported the victory quickly entered the Wenhua Palace and knelt down to report the victory to Emperor Chongzhen again.

The discerning servants on the one side had already been waiting on the other side, and immediately took the good news and dedicated it to Emperor Chongzhen.

Zhong Jinwei, Wen Tiren, and Liang Tingdong all looked at Emperor Chongzhen reading the victory report, waiting to hear the specific situation of the battle.Thinking in his heart that Lu Xiangsheng won a big victory not long after he arrived in Denglai, which is really surprising.

But Liang Tingdong waited and waited and suddenly began to worry again. He remembered that the governor of Denglai said that he was going to fight in the DPRK. Could it be that he used the heads of Koreans as prisoners?

But when he paid attention to Emperor Chongzhen's face, he seemed to feel that his thoughts were different, because the joy on Emperor Chongzhen's face was getting stronger and stronger, and his mouth was about to burst into laughter.

Suddenly, Emperor Chongzhen put the memorial together with a "snap", and said to Zhong Jinwei who was looking at him: "Master Zhong, the Lu Xiangsheng you recommended is really powerful. When he was in Qingshuimingyue Pass, he captured the slave chieftain. I still think it is luck. But now he has won another big victory in Denglai, he is really a pillar of the court!"

Hearing that Emperor Chongzhen praised Lu Xiangsheng so much, the three of them wanted to see the specific battle report even more.

Zhong Jinwei first got the memorial sent by the servant, and immediately read it, nodding while reading it.

It turned out that after Lu Xiangsheng received Liu Xingzhi's report that day, he originally planned to lead his army to North Korea, guided by the North Koreans who fled to Dongjiang, and planned to deal a severe blow to Jianlu who was searching for food everywhere.

Unexpectedly, on the night of the first arrival in Phi Island, another Korean fled to Phi Island, and brought a message that Jianlu had loaded the grain collected in North Korea into many carts and had just set off for Liaodong.

Lu Xiangsheng had already deduced that Liaodong Jianlu was short of food, and he would never let go of such a news.

After he asked clearly that the troops escorting the food and grass were only five hundred Jianlu and one thousand Korean infantry, he made a decisive decision and led the army to change the main attack direction.

While first sending Ming troops from the islands to harass and confuse Jianlu, he went by sea to chase Jianlu's grain trucks.

After Yebushou sent to scout the Jianlu convoy, Lu Xiangsheng decided to catch them all.

There are two reasons. First, there are only [-] Jianlu who are capable of fighting in the food protection team. For the other [-] Korean infantry, Jianlu treats him as a coolie, and the Ming army treats him as if he does not exist.

Second, if this batch of grain can be robbed halfway, it will not only make the Jianlu even more food-deficient, but also solve the food problem in Denglai, so that it will not be so embarrassing.

Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng ordered Yan Yingyuan to lead the fleet up the Yalu River to respond, and at the same time ordered Zu Dale and himself to look at the flags and flags when approaching the enemy to outflank the enemy and strive to wipe them out.Only in this way can we have time to rush to transport the grain to the Yalu River.

For this reason, Lu Xiangsheng chased Jianlu's grain transport convoy at the expense of horsepower.

Although the place where he finally caught up was a little closer to Phoenix City where the Jianlu garrison was located, he managed to catch up anyway.

This battle is conducive to a quick battle, but Lu Xiangsheng is a little worried about whether the cavalry chasing Jianlu can complete this task.

Because part of the cavalry is his standard battalion, most of them are Minzhuang who he brought to King Qin of the capital before.Although he experienced the battle of Qingshui Mingyue Pass and trained for a period of time, this pursuit battle was different from before, and the Jianlu he faced was not comparable to the exhausted Jianlu who ran away overnight.

The rest of the cavalry is the Guanning cavalry. Although they are well equipped, their record against Jianlu in the field is really poor, and they were even beaten to the ground by the extremely exhausted Jianlu in the Battle of Gyeonggi.

In order to achieve the intended goal, Lu Xiangsheng issued a strict order to Zu Dale. After surrounding the Jianlu grain convoy, he must not let Jianlu escape.

Then he himself rushed to the main attack, defeated Jianlu's stubborn main force, and tore open Jianlu's gap.

Because of this, whether he was in the pursuit or in the fight, he always rushed to the front line.

But in the end, it still fell short, and more than 50 Jianlu were ran away from Zu Dale's defense line.

After getting the news, Jianlu in Phoenix City will definitely counterattack frantically.The Ming army had exhausted more than half of its horsepower before, and if it did not burn the food immediately and run away with bare hands, it might be too late to retreat to the Yalu River.

Under the choice of food or the cavalry, Lu Xiangsheng chose the cavalry.

When Yan Yingyuan's boat left the shore with the cavalry, Jianlu chased after him, but he could only stare and curse.

Lu Xiangsheng demoted Zu Dale's lieutenant general to a general on the grounds that Zu Dale was ineffective in fighting and that his soldiers violated military discipline.

In addition, a list of persons who made contributions to the war was also reported, among which there were many leaders of the peasant army who were exiled to Denglai.Among them, Zhang Xianzhong was the most prominent, killing the most Jianlu.

After Zhong Jinwei read it, Wen Tiren also read the memorial, passed it to Liang Tingdong and sighed: "It's a pity for those food!"

He is the chief assistant, and he has a lot of civil affairs to worry about, and he also knows the food situation in various places.If so much food is successfully intercepted by Lu Xiangsheng, at least Denglai's food will not have to worry about it in a short time.

Emperor Chongzhen was only interested in being happy just now, and he remembered Wen Tiren's sigh.He patted the imperial table and said: "After the head has been inspected, the cabinet will discuss with the Ministry of War to reward the meritorious officers and men. I will also give Denglai Governor Shang Fang a sword. Military officers below the third rank can beheaded first and then played."

Wen Tiren knew that Emperor Chongzhen decided to give Lu Xiangsheng more power because of Nazu Dale's ineffectiveness in fighting, so that the generals would be intimidated and would not dare to obey orders wholeheartedly.

Zhong Jinwei watched Emperor Chongzhen deal with the matter, thinking about the matter of Denglai, and thinking about what happened just before.

Suddenly he had another idea, and he played to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, how about asking Denglai to transport the head to the capital as soon as possible, and together with the prisoners in the death camp, how about giving those Mongols an extra shock?"

"Haha, okay, Master Zhong is right, so let's do it."

So, in the next few days, the capital became busy with this matter.All links must be arranged well so that the subsequent work on road construction can be carried out smoothly.