Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1258 Long-term strategy
On February [-]th, the sixth year of Gongzhi, just before dawn, alarm bells sounded suddenly on the walls of Shenyang. The drowsy soldiers of the Ming army thought that the Mongols were raiding, so they grabbed their weapons and rushed to the top of the city. Seeing the Mongols attacking the city, they found that the Mongolian camp in the distance had been empty.

Zhang Jiayu and Xie Qian hurried to the city, still a little anxious in their hearts, because they were a little lax after repelling the Mongol attack yesterday, so they were really worried that the Mongols would steal the city.

When they came to the city wall, a hundred households immediately came forward to report, "Futai, Junmen, the Mongols seem to have withdrawn."

Xie Qian was taken aback for a moment, then hurried to the edge of the city wall, leaning on the wall to look out.

Because there was no heavy artillery in Shenyang City, the Mongol camp was very close to the city. At this time, there was no one in the crowded camp. tent, left in the open field.

"What's going on here?" Zhang Jiayu and several officials looked at each other in blank dismay. They were still attacking the city yesterday. Why did they suddenly disappear this morning?Everyone had the same question on their faces, why did the Mongols just withdraw like this?
Xie Qian frowned. He always felt that the battle was not over yet, and it ended so suddenly, which was a bit abrupt, but considering the habits of the Mongols, it was not surprising.

At that moment, he smiled and said to Zhang Jiayu and others: "I think there are two possibilities for the Mongols to withdraw their troops. One is that they suffered heavy losses and saw that there was no hope of attacking the city and there was no profit to be made, so they withdrew. The other is to withdraw." I got the news of the reinforcements from the court, so I fled in a hurry."

For the sparsely populated Mongols, they are indeed not suitable for tough battles.Because of too much consumption and too many deaths at one time, it may take more than ten years to recover, so it is best for them to fight as soon as they can. place.

It's just that on the Liaohe Plain this time, the Ming army had such a valuable stronghold as Shenyang. They had no choice but to attack, but they couldn't attack after so many attacks. If they were more sensible, they should have retreated long ago.

Zhang Jiayu couldn't help but nodded when he heard this, but the Ming army was not careless. Xie Qian asked the soldiers to open the city gate, dispatched nearly a hundred troops, and divided them into several teams to check and track the traces of the Mongols to make sure that the Mongols had indeed evacuated.

At noon, the soldiers sent out to track down the Mongols did not come back, but a large group of troops suddenly appeared outside the southern city, leading a few cavalrymen to gallop down the city.

The defenders had spotted them a long time ago. Hundreds of soldiers hurriedly boarded the city wall. A deputy Qianhu poked his head out and saw the army holding a bright flag. He immediately shouted: "Which army are you?"

When they arrived at the city gate, the cavalrymen stabilized their white-breathing horses, held up a piece of bamboo tube, and replied loudly: "Our troops are in the Hujie Camp of Zhongzhen Township, ordered by Wang Zhongtang and Gao Guogong, to rush to the aid of Zhang Futai and Xie Jun. Door!"

The soldiers in the city hurriedly dropped the bamboo basket and took the bamboo tube up. At this time, Zhang Jiayu and Xie Qian who had received the report had already rushed over.

Zhang Jiayu took the bamboo tube, poured out the documents inside, and opened it to check. It was indeed the seal of the governor of Beizhi, so he hurriedly waved his hand, "Open the city gate, let the army enter the city!"

Not long after the vanguard troops entered the city, Liu Tichun, Jiang Youguang, Yang Yanchang and others led the main force to arrive.

At this time, Xie Qian and others knew that it was because of the arrival of reinforcements that the Mongols retreated hastily.

In fact, with the current strength of the Mongols, even if Shenyang is captured, it will be difficult to gain a firm foothold. However, if the Mongols invaded the Liaohe Plain once every winter, then the Ming Dynasty's strategy of filling Liaohe would not be able to be implemented.

Fifteen thousand reinforcements from the Ming army marched into the city in mighty force, Zhang Jiayu and others greeted them personally, and welcomed Liu Tichun and others into the city.

The army camped in the city, and everyone gathered in the Governor's Yamen. Zhang Jiayu clasped his fists first and said, "Everyone has come from a long way, and I am in Shenyang City. It is really hard. Tonight, I will hold a banquet to welcome the generals, but the conditions are limited. , and please generals don’t dislike him.”

"How dare!" Liu Tichun cupped his hands and said, "We didn't help much. The Mongols ran away before a battle was fought."

Although the Mongols retreated, there was such a hidden danger that Liaoning was restless all day.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was actually a Great Wall in Liaodong, but now it has been spent. The Mongols came and left whenever they wanted, and then moved to Liaoning. As a result, the Mongols came to sabotage again.

Although Liaoning has a province, it is obviously unable to deal with the Mongols by its own strength, so it has to rely on the support of Beizhi, and even Shandong and Shanxi.

Zhang Jiayu immediately laughed and said, "Without Wang Zhongtang and Gao Guogong sending troops, and several generals coming across the sea, how could the Mongols retreat so easily."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Liu Tichun and quickly asked, "Liu Junmen, how long will the army be stationed in Shenyang this time?"

This problem is what Zhang Jiayu is worried about. After all, they are not the army of Liaoning, they are troops from other provinces. If they stay here for a short time and do not solve the Mongolian problem, then Liaoning will be more dangerous if they leave.

"Don't worry, Zhang Futai. He probably won't leave for the time being. He will be stationed for a while. Perhaps in the near future, other troops will come over."

Hearing what he said, Zhang Jiayu felt relieved, and the officials in Liaoning also breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time Liu Tichun suddenly remembered something, hurriedly took out a letter from his chest, handed it to Zhang Jiayu and said: "Master Zhongtang asked me to bring it to Zhang Futai, please take a look at it."

Zhang Jiayu hurriedly took it over, took out the letter paper to read, Wang Fuzhi's handwriting was very beautiful and clear, and he read the content on it in a short while.

Wang Fuzhi said in the letter that he would open and release the people to leave the customs at the end of February, so that he could make preparations for resettlement. In addition, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the resettlement of the people, he would persuade the imperial court to carry out a raid on Mongolia outside the customs.

The Ming army in Beizhi and Shanxi will take the initiative to leave the customs, attack the Mongolian tribes, and inflict heavy damage on the unwilling Mongolian surrender, so that they will not dare to invade the border for at least ten years.

Liaoning was alone outside the customs. If the imperial court aggressively attacked Mongolia to ensure the safety of Liaoning, then he would be able to breathe a long sigh of relief, and the burden on his shoulders would be reduced by at least half.

After all, construction is difficult, but it is easy to destroy construction. Let Mongolia, the saboteur, settle down, and his construction in Liaoning will be much easier.

He originally thought that after Liaoning was established as a province, he would not get much support from Beizhi, so he didn't want Wang Fuzhi to be so concerned about Liaoning's affairs.

This is actually due to Wang Yan's reform of the cabinet. If Wang Fuzhi wants to return to the central government to pay homage to the prime minister, he must have political achievements, and they are not ordinary achievements.

Because Yan Qiheng and Gu Yuanjing were only in their 40s when they were sent to the local government, they couldn’t stay in the local government with peace of mind, and they definitely wanted to return to the central government. If he wants to be a prime minister, his competitive pressure can be said to be very high.

After relocating people to fill Liao Dynasty, it is to consolidate the achievements of thousands of miles of territory, and Wang Fuzhi is naturally concerned.

The Ming Dynasty was a great empire. From Beijing to Nanjing, it took about ten and a half months to communicate once, and the connection with the southwest was even longer.

Therefore, the central government gave the local governor a certain right to deploy troops. At the same time as the troops were transferred directly to the north, Wang Fuzhi's report also arrived in Nanjing.

In Nanjing, in the cabinet meeting hall, Wang Yanzheng and several cabinet ministers were watching Beizhilai's beating newspaper.

Some time ago, he already knew the news that Wu Keshan was sweating in Horqin, and he was furious at that time, planning to clean up Wu Keshan after the beginning of spring, but he didn't expect that he was still making plans, and Wu Keshan had already attacked Shenyang first.

At this time, Wang Yan looked at Beizhi's beating newspaper, stood up and looked at the map hanging on the wall for a while, then turned to several cabinets and said, "Beizhi suggested launching an attack on Mongolia after the beginning of spring. I think it is feasible. Do you have any comments from the cabinet members?"

Several cabinet ministries in the hall discussed it, and Chen Bangyan stood up and said, "Jianguo, I agree with Wang Zhongtang's proposal. It is necessary to fight, and not let the Mongolian tribes unify and pose a threat to northern Xinjiang. It hurts, and the imperial court's plan to relocate people to fill Liao can't be implemented."

Chen Zilong pondered for a while, and said: "Jianguo, I thought it would be easy to defeat the Mongols, but the key is how to solve the peace of northern Xinjiang for a long time."

It is easy to defeat the Mongols, but it is more difficult for the Central Plains Dynasty to rule the Mongolian grasslands, because the environment in the Central Plains is more comfortable, not many people are willing to go to the grasslands, and if few people go, they will be humiliated instead.

This problem is relatively big. The Central Plains dynasties have repeatedly defeated the northern nomads, but because the Central Plains people are not used to the northern climate, and the grasslands cannot cultivate land, so after decades, new tribes often rise again, causing new tribes. side trouble, has not been able to solve this problem.

Wang Yan also fell into deep thought, but Du Yinxi said: "For this, I have some ideas. One is to learn from Song and Liao, open up border markets, and export various items from the Central Plains, especially books to the upper Mongolian people. You can sell them valuables such as pearls, agate, ivory, and jade at a low price to wear down their willpower. In addition, you can learn from the dynasty’s tricks and help the Mongols build cities so that they can be settled. Then I will conquer them. It's much easier."

Du Yinxi paused while speaking, and then continued: "But before that, the imperial court has to fight a battle to wipe out the disobedient Mongolian tribes before implementing the above two strategies."

Several people in the hall listened and discussed a few words, and couldn't help nodding.These two methods, one is to rely on advanced culture to invade, just like what the Song Dynasty did to Liao and Jin in history, and the other is to fix nomads on a piece of land. With a city, the Ming army will find it easier to fight In the past, the Ming Dynasty supported Altan Khan and San Niangzi to build Guihua City, which maintained the peace on the border between the Ming Dynasty and the Tatars for decades.

Wang Yan thought for a while and couldn't help nodding his head, and then said: "I think the strategy of the Duge Ministry is feasible, but in addition to helping Mongolia build the city, we also need to build the city ourselves. Li Dingguo recently sent a report, which suggested that I go to Java. Building a fort against Heyi, I only saw the fortress he mentioned, it was the Xiyi bastion that Xu Ge's department admired back then, I didn't have the money to build it at the time, but now I can build a few for a try! "

There are only so many rivers and pastures on the prairie. Wang Yan wants to build some military forts in the center of important rivers and pastures that are only for the army to garrison. rule, and even collect taxes.

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