Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 273

Seeing that the officers and soldiers relaxed their vigilance, the rogues assembled their troops according to the surrender agreement, and then launched a surprise attack on Wang Pu's troops.

More than [-] bandits suddenly launched an attack, how could Wang Pu resist it?As soon as they charged, they collapsed, and the rogues escaped from the encirclement.

Knowing that the bandits had escaped, Zhu Youjian was furious. He threw the teacup in his hand to the ground and kicked the table over.Then he ordered Wang Pu to be severely punished, and at the same time ordered all ministries to pursue him.

Seeing Zhu Youjian's livid face, and the blue veins on his neck protruding, Wang Chengen sighed softly, and said in his heart: "Well, Li Jing, you don't need it, but you just sent a trash to encircle and suppress the bandits."

Shaking his head, Wang Chengen turned his head to look northwest, not knowing how Cao Wenzhao was preparing, and whether Li Jing went to Datong in person.

After staying in Pingyang Mansion for a while, he still had some understanding of Li Jing and Wang Chengen. Wang Chengen knew that Li Jing didn't take bandits seriously, and Li Jing's real target was Mongolia and Eastern captives.

Moreover, Li Jing is obviously more reliable than Yuan Chonghuan. Yuan Chonghuan and Zhu Youjian's five-year plan to flatten the Liao Dynasty is false, but Li Jing is silently accumulating strength.

Wang Chengen believed that Li Jing would never sit idly by once the Eastern captives invaded Datong.Even if he doesn't go by himself, he will send an army to go.

If anyone in the court knew Li Jing best, Wang Chengen was probably the only one.

Wang Chengen's judgment was accurate, Li Jing had indeed arrived in Datong in person.

When Zhu Youjian appointed Cao Wenzhao as the commander-in-chief of Datong, Cao Wenzhao took a sigh of relief at the bandits, and then returned to Shanxi.

But after arriving in Shanxi, Cao Wenzhao did not immediately lead his troops to Datong.

Cao Wenzhao is a sensible person. He knows that from the time he brought Guan Ning cavalry to Pingyang Mansion, he has officially joined Li Jing's command.

In the past, Guan Ning's iron cavalry was absolutely loyal to Cao Wenzhao, but after receiving Li Jing's high military salary, Cao Wenzhao knew that Guan Ning's iron cavalry might have fallen to Li Jing.

After arriving in Pingyang Mansion, Guan Ning's cavalry's military salary suddenly increased a lot, and these people naturally knew that it was all money from Li Jing.The mind of being a soldier is actually very simple, whoever pays someone to work hard.

And after this battle, Cao Wenzhao knew that his subordinates had completely become Li Jing's subordinates.

The reason is very simple. When Li Jing's subordinates fought, they felt too safe. You have to pin your head to your belt first.

Not to mention the soldiers, even Cao Wenzhao felt that it was too easy to fight now.

However, Cao Wenzhao also knew that such a troop operation is absolutely inseparable from logistical support, because the ammunition consumption is too fast and too large.

This time Cao Wenzhao only brought [-] soldiers, but he consumed thousands of shells and nearly [-] rounds of ammunition.

This is still fighting rogues, rogues have always been fighting with more people bullying the few, and thousands of people swarm up at every turn. Facing so many enemies, although I dare not say that the bullets are flawless, there is no problem in hitting an enemy with three bullets.

But fighting with Houjin's cavalry is different. Although the cavalry also has formations, they are very loosely arranged. If they are too dense, they will hinder the movement of the horses.

Facing loose enemies and extremely fast-moving enemies, the consumption of bullets is bound to be greater.

At this time, if there is no strong logistical support, a large-scale battle cannot be supported at all.

Because of this, Li Jing confidently handed over the troops to Cao Wenzhao's command.After fighting a few battles with such troops, Cao Wenzhao also understood the key.

Therefore, when Cao Wenzhao led his troops back to Shanxi, he did not go to Datong immediately, but returned to Pingyang Mansion, and the first thing after returning to Pingyang Mansion was to hand over military power first.

Li Jing naturally understood the intention of Cao Wenzhao's move, so he just smiled and patted Cao Wenzhao's hand to let him lead the troops with confidence.

Li Jing is very relieved of Cao Wenzhao's ability to command operations. In terms of tactical implementation, there is no second person in the Ming Dynasty who can match Cao Wenzhao.

However, there is one thing that Li Jing is not at ease about Cao Wenzhao, that is, Cao Wenzhao is not yet familiar with the performance of new weapons.

The new weapons have two major flaws. The first is that the ammunition is afraid of being wet, and combat weapons often cannot be used normally in rainy weather.

The second shortcoming is fear of cold.

The military factory also produced some glycerin when producing explosives, but this glycerin can only prevent rust and cannot prevent freezing at all.

Without antifreeze glycerin to protect the weapon, the bolt often froze in cold weather.

If you can't pull the bolt when fighting, the soldier's weapon is the same as if he didn't have it.

Therefore, Li Jing attaches great importance to the maintenance of guns. Similarly, when fighting in winter, he also attaches great importance to the issue of keeping soldiers' military tents warm.

At night, the soldiers' weapons must be placed in the military tents, for fear that if they freeze, the soldiers will lose their ability to fight.

Weapon defects are the greatest military secret of the Jishi Army, and even few senior generals of the Jishi Army know this secret.

The so-called guard against others is indispensable. Once this secret is revealed, it is difficult to guarantee that some people with evil intentions will come to attack Ji Shijun.

This time Li Jing wanted to teach Hou Jin a lesson in Datong, so he naturally paid more attention to the protection of weapons. For this reason, Li Jing specially transferred a group of technicians from the military factory.

If all the troops on the expedition this time were Li Jing’s direct descendants, Li Jing would naturally feel relieved to hand over the technicians to his confidant generals, but Cao Wenzhao could not. loyal.

Once Cao Wenzhao sent the technicians to the court, Li Jing lost the most powerful weapon to check and balance the court.

So Li Jing thought twice and decided to go to Datong in person. As long as Li Jing was around, no one would dare to think about it.

In addition, Li Jing decided to go to Datong for another purpose, because as long as the Ji Shi Army performs normally, victory in this battle is certain.But when Cao Wenzhao won the victory, there was no guarantee that he would not come up with other ideas. Even Zhu Youjian would order Cao Wenzhao to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, which would be against Li Jing's original intention.

Although Li Jing had to teach Houjin a lesson in this battle, he had to control it to a certain extent. He wanted to defeat Houjin, but he couldn't fight too hard.

For the time being, Li Jing still needs Houjin to restrain Zhu Youjian, so that Zhu Youjian can't transfer his energy to himself.

But to control it to a certain extent, Li Jing had to be present in person.

After Li Jing told Yuan Keli his thoughts that day, Yuan Keli also took it seriously.

Now that Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng fled into Taiyue Mountain in Shanxi, there is no way to suppress them. We can only monitor them not to run around, especially not to make trouble in Li Jing's territory.

But if Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng really wanted to escape, Li Jing couldn't stop them.

In fact, Li Jing has lost the shield of rogues now. If there is no shield of Houjin, Zhu Youjian will naturally devote all his energy to dealing with Li Jing.

At that time, Li Jing was just throwing a rock at his own foot.

Therefore, after discussing with Yuan Keli, Li Jing decided to go to Datong in person.

Cao Wenzhao had no different opinions on Li Jing's going to Datong, and Cao Wenzhao also wanted to see Li Jing's level of command and fighting.

However, Li Jing declined Cao Wenzhao's proposal. He did not want Cao Wenzhao's command when he came to Datong.

If he did that, even if Cao Wenzhao didn't say anything, he would definitely think that Li Jing was worried about him.

Li Jing would never do such a stupid thing as making his subordinates suspect him.

At that time, Li Jing told Cao Wenzhao with a smile that the actual combat command was still in charge of Cao Wenzhao, and he was only responsible for helping Cao Wenzhao with his staff.

Cao Wenzhao was very moved by Li Jing's move. Cao Wenzhao knew very well that among the Jishi Army, Gao Qi was the only one who had the military command when Li Jing was present.

It wasn't that Li Jing didn't want to delegate power, but that with Li Jing present, the generals were afraid of making mistakes, so they naturally asked Li Jing for instructions. This was mainly caused by the lack of confidence of the other generals in themselves.

Gao Qi was the first to be reused by Li Jing. Even if Li Jing was not around, he could still be alone, and he was far stronger than the generals in terms of confidence.

Now that Li Jing asked Cao Wenzhao to command, at least he put Cao Wenzhao on the same status as Gao Qi.

In fact, Li Jing really didn't like that the generals asked him for instructions on everything. Li Jing hoped that the generals under him could be independent, but for the time being, the generals under Li Jing obviously did not have this ability.

But Cao Wenzhao undoubtedly has this ability.

Cao Wenzhao has experienced hundreds of battles, from a small soldier to a general soldier, it can be said that he has experienced all kinds of scenes, and there is absolutely no problem with his confidence.

If you can't decentralize power to a famous general like Cao Wenzhao, then Li Jing is probably no better than Zhu Youjian.

In mid-September of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Li Jing and Cao Wenzhao led an army of [-] to Datong, and all affairs of Pingyang Mansion were handed over to Yuan Keli and Gao Qi.

Due to the preparations in advance, the army moved extremely quickly.

Cao Wenzhao is from Datong and is very familiar with the geographical environment of Datong. After the army arrived, he immediately began to deploy his defenses.

Li Jing, on the other hand, calmed down to study Houjin's movements.

Although Li Jing was not interested in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he still admired several Qing emperors, especially the two emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng.

Among the emperors whom Li Jing admired was Huang Taiji.

In fact, more than half of the Qing Dynasty's foundation in the later period was due to the credit of Huang Taiji. It was Huang Taiji who reused Han officials and adopted a series of policies that won the support of the Han people.

However, Huang Taiji's position at this time was not stable. Huang Taiji himself was able to become the Great Khan of Houjin only because of the support of his elder brother Daishan and his sons Yuetuo and Sahalian.

In addition, although Huang Taiji is a great Khan, the power is not in the hands of him alone, but belongs to four people. These four people are Daishan, Amin, Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji himself, also known as Big Four Baylor.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji imprisoned Amin for the reason of losing the battle of Yongping. The next year, when Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji had a quarrel, they even drew their swords at each other, and Huang Taiji took the opportunity to send him to Baylor.

In the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji abolished the old system of sitting with the three major Baylors in the south and co-administered the government. The power of the three Baylors has consolidated the power.

(End of this chapter)