Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 358
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"Woo——!" "Boom boom boom boom!" The sound of killing, there was a great chaos in the Jiannu temporary camp five miles away. One after another, Jiannu soldiers and generals who had not closed their eyes for two days and a night and walked back and forth for nearly a hundred miles in the wind and snow, dragged their long swords and held on. With eyelids that were about to stick together, they crawled out of the tent that had just been warmed up, rushed to the open area to form a team, and prepared to meet the ensuing surprise attack by the Ming army.But when these Jiannu soldiers in thin armor finally assembled in the wilderness at minus ten or twenty degrees, the Ming army camp in the south returned to its previous calm, as quiet as if there had never been a sound. Like any sound, only the whistling north wind wraps snowflakes, flying and dancing in the freezing night sky.

By the way, it is also the luck of the dog with few dogs and the bad luck of Jianshou. The year [-] happened to be the year when the La Niña phenomenon broke out on a large scale, and the winter was extremely cold.

Contrary to the chaotic Jiannu camp, the Ming army camp is peaceful enough to make every Jiannu soldier salivate, except for some Shanhaiguan troops in front of the camp and a large number of scouts who had a good rest last night Apart from strict vigilance, most of the soldiers were asleep in the warm tents, recharging their energy and preparing for tomorrow's battle.In addition, the tents of the Chinese army are brightly lit. Young Master Zhang, whose condition has finally improved these days, once again showed his true nature of a workaholic. Regardless of the cold night and cold weather, he was still sitting next to the Tashan map sand table to study the military situation, holding a copy of " "Historical Records", take a few glances from time to time, close your eyes and meditate.

After the sound of shouting and killing and the sound of war drums stopped completely, Xiong Tingbi, the ferocious father-in-law of Young Master Zhang, entered the back tent and saw that Young Master Zhang hadn't rested yet, so he couldn't help but angrily said, "You son of a bitch, it's agreed that I will be on duty tonight, you give me a rest." Go, don't let your mother fall ill again!" Young Master Zhang replied without raising his head: "Please rest assured, my father-in-law, my son-in-law will go to rest in a while. By the way, the feint attack just now is used every half an hour. Once, when it was more than half of the third watch—that is, when normal people sleep the most and are the most tired, they launched a real sneak attack, making sure not to let the Jiannu army get enough rest. Also, although the weather is here, Jiannu The possibility of a sneak attack on us is not very high, but we still have to be careful of the counterattack of Jiannu dog jumping over the wall, and also ran to rob our camp, and we must send enough scouts to check whether there is any laziness in sleep at any time."

"I know, don't need to be wordy, my memory is not worse than yours." Xiong Tingbi said angrily, and then sat next to the sand table and snatched the book from Young Master Zhang's hand, and saw that Young Master Zhang was flipping through "" During the siege of Changping in "Biography of Bai Qi", I couldn't help but sneered and said: "After a long time, you, a bastard, will also sharpen your guns before the battle? Want to learn Bai Qi's tricks to deal with Zhao Kuo? But I can warn you, the terrain and climate of Tashan and Changping It's completely different, Huang Taiji's child is not Zhao Kuo, if you want to copy the tactics that were born for nothing, you will definitely suffer a big loss!"

"Of course my son-in-law will not copy Lord Wu'an's tactics mechanically. Besides, the terrain of the Liaoxi Corridor is narrow, which is not conducive to our army's weaving and roundabouts. We will cut Jiannu into three pieces like Lord Wu'an did." Young Master Zhang yawned and rubbed his hands. The sore eyes said: "What my son-in-law wants to study is that Zhao Kuo clearly has more than 46 Zhao Guoxiong cavalry in Hu uniforms, and only [-] Qin cavalry who cut off his retreat have no stirrups. Why was Zhao Kuo unable to highlight this relatively weak encirclement during the [-]-day breakout battle?"

"Oh, this is a practical problem. As long as we understand this point, it will be very helpful to us." Xiong Tingbi was a little nice to his son-in-law, and asked: "Then you have studied for so long, have you found anything?"

"It's a long time ago, and the records are not very detailed. Of course, my son-in-law can't know all the specific reasons." Young master Zhang replied: "However, after careful analysis, my son-in-law believes that a common mentality of Zhao soldiers is likely to lead to the failure of the breakout. important reason."

"What general psychology?" Xiong Tingbi asked.Young Master Zhang didn't answer immediately, but asked instead: "Father-in-law, generally speaking, how do you deal with the enemy prisoners captured by the army?"

"Generally there are three ways to deal with it." Xiong Tingbi replied: "One is to collect the enemy's prisoners according to the situation and use them as your own army-Nurhachi old Jiannu is a master at this point, and his army does dirty work. The tiring infantry and auxiliary troops are basically the traitors, traitors, and traitors he recruited. The second is to cede land and pay compensation to the defeated side, and redeem the captives with silver or valuables. The third is that They were taken back to the country as hard labor, digging mines, digging rivers, building cities and walls, all they need is manpower, and taking these captives back to work as coolies, they only need to take care of food, and they don’t even need to pay wages.”

"Then father-in-law, son-in-law, I would like to ask again." Young Master Zhang asked again: "Except for the heinous enemy generals, generally speaking, will there be massacres of surrendering soldiers?"

"Generally speaking, of course not." Xiong Tingbi's anger came up again, and he said angrily: "Since ancient times, the killing of prisoners is the most ominous. Except for Bai Qi, Xiang Yu and Temujin, there is basically no such coach. Dare to massacre enemy captives on a large scale—who dares to surrender to him if he becomes famous?" Speaking of this, Xiong Tingbi glared at his son-in-law again, and said viciously: "Of course, there are also two demon kings in this dynasty, one is you , and the other is Hong Chengchou who took the blame for you!"

"Hong Chengchou wasn't instigated by my son-in-law that time. He killed so many prisoners of war because of his own madness. My son-in-law was almost implicated by him." Young Master Zhang made a shameless excuse with a guilty conscience, and then quickly changed the subject: "My lord father-in-law Now the reason why Zhao Kuo’s army could not break through the siege in the Battle of Changping came out. Before Bai Qi, there was no massacre of prisoners of war in China, not even the infamous King Zhou—the Battle of Muye was It proves that if King Zhou did not massacre the prisoners of war captured from the northern tribes, those prisoners of war who had been used as slaves by King Zhou would have had the opportunity to rebel? So my son-in-law boldly guessed that during the Battle of Changping, Zhao soldiers were likely to This is the general mentality, anyway, surrendering will not cost you your life, not to mention that King Zhao may redeem them, even if they are slaves to the Qin State, it is better than losing their lives on the battlefield."

"In this way, those Zhao soldiers were lucky and refused to fight desperately. Of course, they refused to fight desperately. It makes sense if they couldn't break through the encirclement of the Qin army." The tone added: "It's just unfortunate that what the more than 40 Zhao soldiers never dreamed of was that they happened to meet the number one murderer in China, Wu An Jun, and they were all slaughtered by Bai Qi. But in this way, Wu An Jun When they attacked Handan City in the next battle, they were naturally resisted by the subjects of Zhao State, because the subjects of Zhao State already knew that even if they surrendered to Bai Qi, they would not end well, anyway. It is a death, it is better to fight to the death with the Qin army, and it is precisely because of this change in mentality that Lord Wu An did not follow the trend to take Handan City, nor did he recruit a Zhao army."

"That makes sense." Xiong Tingbi nodded slowly, and said in a deep voice, "Although it's just speculation, it's reasonable. The four 10,000+ Zhao soldiers in the Battle of Changping were probably killed to death by our mentality. "

"So my son-in-law believes that if we want to annihilate the remaining [-] troops of Jiannu, we must first disintegrate the fighting spirit of the Jiannu soldiers and make them have the same fluke idea!" Young Master Zhang said firmly: "Otherwise, Huang Taiji will definitely kill the army. Bloody battle is death, surrender is death, it is better to fight to the death and break the net, and instill the idea of ​​brainwashing into the minds of the slaves! In this way, our plan to wipe out the main force of the slaves in the Liaoxi Corridor is not only likely to fail, even if we can successfully annihilate the Jians The slave master will definitely pay a heavy price!"

"Although the words are good, what should I do specifically?" Xiong Tingbi mused: "Your boy in Shengjing didn't even let the old people and babies of Jiannu go, and the nickname Xiaobaiqi was notorious. Do you believe your so-called surrender?"

"So this time, my son-in-law wants to ask my father-in-law to come forward and surrender, so as to break down the fighting spirit of becoming a slave." Young Master Zhang poured bowl after bowl of ecstasy soup on the old man, "Father-in-law, you are a Jinshi. Familiar with poetry, familiar with hundreds of schools, loves the people like a son, and judges cases like a god. As early as when he was an official in Baoding Mansion, he defied the powerful power to resist the mine supervisor, and rescued countless innocent people from prison. He was called Qingtian! My lord, when you first served as the Liaodong economic envoy, you appeased the refugees in the Liaodong area, farmed the fields and raised soldiers, and won the hearts of the people. Among the Han soldiers who built the slave army, how many of you were favored by your father-in-law? Countless! Even many Jianzhou Jurchens have benefited a lot from your father-in-law's benevolent government, and they still remember your father-in-law's great kindness. So my son-in-law thinks that if your father-in-law comes forward to recruit and appease Jiannu The army will definitely receive magical effects."

Although I don't know how many times Young Master Zhang has flattered like this, Xiong Tingbi still felt a little ecstatic when he heard it again, and couldn't help laughing and cursing: "Okay, little brat, I'm not your godfather." Nine thousand years old, I don't like to be in the limelight and listen to your flattery, so tell me what you want me to do."

"It's very simple." Young Master Zhang hurriedly said: "From today onwards, when we fight against the Jiannu, we will shout some slogans about surrendering and not killing. Unified management and detainment. In addition, father-in-law, please tell those Jiannu that after our Ming army liberated Liaodong, except for the heinous Nuerhachi family and individual traitors who committed serious crimes, none of them will be prosecuted for their crimes, and they will all be released after the war. Let them go home and reunite with their parents and wives. As long as they accept the management of the Ming government, the Ming court will continue to treat them as ordinary Ming people. As for how to publicize these benevolent orders of your father-in-law, my son-in-law will find another way , as long as the father-in-law helps and cooperates."

"Okay, I'll do as you say." Xiong Tingbi agreed, and then glared at Young Master Zhang and said, "But little bastard, you have to promise me one thing, all the enemies I recruited, you have to keep your word and treat them kindly." , don’t imitate Bai Qi and Hong Chengchou. I’m doing it for your own good too, and you’ve committed a lot of murders, so it’s time to accumulate some evil virtues for yourself.”

"Father-in-law, please don't worry, my son-in-law will keep his word." Young Master Zhang didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately said: "All the slave-building troops that you recruited to surrender, except for Nuerhachi's family, Fan Wencheng and others." Except for Yuan Chonghuan and these heinous slave-building traitors, my son-in-law will never kill indiscriminately. Besides, you have seen it with your own eyes, my father-in-law. The son-in-law Amin and Suo Nuomu who surrendered before, the son-in-law is not very interested in them. ?”

"That's good." Xiong Tingbi nodded in satisfaction, and then said: "Then you can assign the slave generals like Amin and Zonomu to my command. They are familiar with the slave army and can speak Jian slave language, so they can help I'm very busy." Young Master Zhang agreed again, and kept thanking and flattering, but Xiong Tingbi was not in the mood to drink Master Zhang's ecstasy soup, and waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, the second watch will be on soon. , you give me a rest, and leave the rest of the night to me."

Young Master Zhang agreed, saluted again, and then got up and returned to the back tent to rest, but after turning to the back tent, the flattering smile on Young Master Zhang's face disappeared without a trace, and he was still muttering in a very low voice. The voice said to itself: "Father-in-law, I'm sorry, my son-in-law is going to lie to you again. However, if you are also a time traveler, father-in-law, you will see the descendants of slaves riding on the heads of Han people hundreds of years later. Domineering, see that they have the right to speak to smear their brutal rule, slander and abuse us Han people wantonly, mate and reproduce to expand their population, and encroach on the land and wealth of our Han people, then you will definitely support what your son-in-law does Jiannu who died for... is the best Jiannu!"

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That night, Xiong Tingbi faithfully carried out the order of his son-in-law, making noises in the Jiannu camp every half an hour, so as not to let the Jiannu army have a chance to rest in peace. This shameless method made a fuss, but I still couldn't think of a way to crack it. I could only be tossed out of the tent by Xiong Tingbi one after another, and again and again, nothing was gained.In the end, Huang Taiji was so red-eyed that he ordered Tabai to lead the army to attack. He really went to attack the Ming army camp at night, and Tabai replied with a sad face: "Khan, you have pity on the brothers, they are in such bad weather. For two days and one night without closing your eyes, marching back and forth in the wind and snow, the soldiers and horses are too tired to walk, what is it to let them die in vain to attack the barbarian camp at night in such a cold day?"

What Tabai said is the truth. Last night, Young Master Zhang only sent two troops, Zhao Ledjiao and Cao Bianjiao, out of the camp to ambush. The main force stayed in the camp to rest peacefully and have sufficient physical strength. The Jiannu army first packed their luggage last night. Ready to run away, he went out of the city overnight to break through the wind and snow, and was ambushed and chased by the Ming army again and again. Tonight, he was repeatedly tossed by the Ming army's feint attacks. The soldiers' physical strength had already been tossed. In the night when the wind and snow were blowing and the dripping water turned into ice, to sneak attack on the camp of the Ming army, which must have been prepared for a long time, is it not to die in vain?So Huang Taiji thought over and over again, and finally gritted his teeth and gave up this plan - after all, soldiers are the capital of the breakout battle.In desperation, Huang Taiji had no choice but to point to Tabai and order: "Then you lead an army to lie in ambush in front of the camp, the barbarian may suddenly appear one of the ten fakes, and if he finds out that the barbarian is attacking, he will attack him right away! You have to work hard all night." , Tomorrow I will let your army go first and rest on the road."

Although it was a hard job, but for the sake of brotherhood, Tabai accepted the job helplessly, and took five thousand elites to ambush in front of the gate of the camp.And after halfway through the third watch, Xiong Tingbi actually brought [-] troops over for a sneak attack, but it is very inappropriate to say that Xiong Tingbi made a sneak attack—because Xiong Tingbi let the army come directly to attack with densely packed torches, and brought a few The ten Franco cannons fired directly.After a great battle, Xiong Tingbi's army, which had the advantage in physical strength, took advantage of it and wiped out thousands of Jiannu soldiers, while their own casualties were less than half of the enemy's.Although Jiannu managed to avoid the bad luck of Xiong Tingbi rushing into the camp to kill and set fire, the whole army never got the slightest bit of peace—nonsense, the Ming army’s cannons are constantly firing at the barracks, you can still rest in peace in the barracks ?Because of this, on the next morning, every general and soldier in the Jiannu army had panda eyes except Huang Taiji and Fan Wencheng, whose eyes were red from crying.

The daybreak does not mean that the Jiannu army can feel at ease, and even greater dangers will follow. The vicious young master Zhang let the main force of the Ming army slowly advance, and sent Hei Yunlong, Ma Dengyun and Amin to lead the army. The first army, which changes every hour, takes turns to launch a strong attack on the army behind the Jiannu Palace. As a result, the Nikan and Gong'an troops behind the Jiannu Palace were able to withstand it at first, but after the successive wheel battles, Nikan and Gong An gradually couldn't bear it anymore. and began to move closer to the main army for assistance, and when the army of the Jiannu Temple reunited with the main force, Master Zhang, who received the report, decisively sent Cao Wenzhao and his uncle and nephew to lead [-] cavalry into the battlefield to join forces with the previous three armies. At the place, launch a strong attack on the main force of Jiannu, and delay the retreat speed of Jiannu at any cost.In order to protect the food and supplies of the central army, the main force of Jiannu could only bite the bullet and fight with all their strength.

The battle that took place on the north side of Lianshan was extremely difficult. In order to complete the containment task assigned by Young Master Zhang, the four armies of Cao Wenzhao, Madengyun, Heiyunlong and Amin charged one after another at any cost. Although the grain cart brigade protected by heavy troops and the Jiannu army failed to win the Ming army's cavalry, and consumed a lot of Ming army's elite cavalry, the progress of the main force also stopped.When the bloody battle was approaching in the afternoon, the main force of the Ming army rushed to the battlefield. Master Zhang came to the front to direct the charge. The morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted. Forced to fight in an all-round way, the retreat battle that was fought and retreated has completely turned into a full-scale battle.

It was at this time that Huang Taiji finally understood Young Master Zhang's tactical intentions. He used the main force with sufficient strength to continuously consume his own army's physical strength and exhausted his own army. The Ming army blocked the position.In desperation, Huang Taiji could only call Tabai who had just rested for a long time, and suddenly knelt down to Tabai. What are you doing? You are a king and I am a subject, how can you kneel down to me?"

"Sixth brother, now I am not speaking to you as Da Jin Khan, but as your eighth brother." Huang Taiji said with tears: "Among our sixteen brothers, except the elder brother , Eleven brothers have already died tragically in the hands of Zhang Haogu, the little man. Now there are only you and me, and the old eleven and the old thirteen who are confronting the man in Tashan. Logically speaking, I don’t I should beg you to do this, but no one can do it except our brothers, so I have no choice but to beg you, brother."

"Old Ba, you want me to stay to stop the barbarians?" Tabai was not without military acumen, he immediately guessed what Huang Taiji meant.Huang Taiji nodded, kowtowed to Tabai and said, "Sixth brother, eighth brother, please, bring the army that has been mixed with the barbarian to continue to stop the barbarian, buy time for our main force to go north to break through, and also help our main force The breakout is successful, save the last hope. But Brother Six, brother, I will not hide from you, you stay here to block, brother can't send you even one reinforcement, whether you can kill the barbarians and catch up with the main force, you can only see Brother Six Your own."

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji thought that he would leave his compatriots to die, so he couldn't help crying, Tabai was very moved, and also cried: "Eighth brother, for the sake of Dajin, you go, leave this place to me , as long as I still have breath, the barbarians will not even try to pass through my position." Huang Tai cried, thanked with tears, kowtowed three times to Tabai, and then left the battlefield with the main force to protect the grain truck , leaving Tabai to lead the remaining ten thousand troops to fight to the death with the Ming army.

"Jiannu lost their pawns to protect the chariot." Seeing through the binoculars that the main force of Jiannu left the battlefield and fled northward, but the Jiannu army trapped in the battlefield did not escape at all, Young Master Zhang immediately understood Huang Taiji's vicious intentions.After a little calculation, Young Master Zhang ordered: "Pass the order, all the troops of our army on the battlefield will gradually withdraw from the battlefield, disengage from the army behind the Jiannu Palace, and surround them on all sides."

"Boss, Jiannu only has ten thousand troops. If we attack with all our strength, we have a great chance of winning." Song Xiance asked suspiciously: "In this case, why did Boss let the army withdraw from the battlefield? Isn't it a waste of time?"

"Did you forget Jin Guofeng?" Young Master Zhang said darkly, "Which army is the scariest on the battlefield? The army with the determination to die is the scariest! Since Jiannu dared to abandon this army and go north, it proves that this army must have been determined." Determined to fight to the death, if you gnaw on this hard bone in this situation, you will only lose a few teeth!"

"Then after we leave the battlefield, what will happen to the slave army at the back of the temple to take the opportunity to break through?" Song Xiance asked worriedly.Young Master Zhang replied with a smile: "No, in order to buy time for the main force to break through, this Jian slave will not break through, but will stay where they are to stop the attack."

"Master Zhang, then how do we eliminate this army of slaves at the back of the palace?" Shi Kefa also asked.Young Master Zhang smiled more and more sinisterly, pointed to the sky that was about to darken, and said with a smirk: "We don't need to do anything, the severe cold of God is enough to clean them up!" After finishing speaking, Young Master Zhang shouted loudly: "Pass on my order, be strict! Surround Jiannu, and don't allow the Jiannu army to have the opportunity to cut wood and make fires, and there are more bonfires in our army, and more hot soup and tea for the soldiers to keep warm!"

Young Master Zhang's move is so vicious that there is really nothing to say, because of the frequent wars, the trees on both sides of the road have already been cut down by the army and people, and only the places far away from the road can have woods for felling, and the main force of the Ming army with sufficient troops is heavy. After besieging and cutting off the wood-taking road for building slaves, Tabai's army, determined to die, was in bad luck. They had neither bonfires nor tents, so they could only camp in the ice and snow to prevent the Ming army from going north.As a result, in less than an hour, the Tabai army soldiers surrounded by the cold wind and heavy snow could no longer hold on. They were cold and hungry, their hands and feet were almost frozen, and countless people were frostbitten, frozen or even frozen to death. Not daring to break through to the north and leave the battlefield, they could only stomp their feet and rub their hands together to keep warm.

When it was completely dark, Tabai, who understood the vicious intentions of Young Master Zhang, was forced to stand up and yell at the army of founding slaves: "Brothers, it's time to be loyal to the country! Now we have been killed more than ten times." Surrounded by barbarian troops, there is no hope of breaking through. If we stand still, we have no food, no food, and no bonfire tents. Before that, I had to take a bite out of Manzi's flesh! It belongs to men, follow me up to the Manzi flag formation, if you can kill Zhang Haogu, little Manzi, you will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver! Kill!"

"Kill!" The Jiannu soldiers also made up their minds, and followed Tabai desperately to the place where the flag formation of the Ming army was located.However, although Tabai's courage and blood are enough, his brains are not enough. He has forgotten the existence of Ming army snipers. Dozens of guns were fired at the same time, and more than ten bullets hit Tabai's face and chest at the most exposed position at the same time. Tabai only had time to let out a scream, and immediately fell off his horse and became No. 12. The son of Nurhachi who died tragically at the hands of Young Master Zhang.The soldiers of the wolf cavalry, which had been assigned to Young Master Zhang's direct subordinates, also fired their guns indiscriminately, and the slave cavalry behind Tabai turned their backs and retreated one after another.

"Father-in-law, General Amin." After seeing Tabai's tragic death, he snapped his fingers triumphantly, Young Master Zhang turned around and smiled at Xiong Tingbi and Amin next to him, "I'll see you tonight, it's freezing and there is no fire to keep warm Surrounded by us again, I believe that your surrender operation will definitely achieve rich results."

(End of this chapter)