Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 430

"Okay, I understand." Azig said with a smile.

"You guys go, I'm a little tired and want to take a rest." Dorgon said.

Azig and Duoduo nodded and got up to say goodbye.

After leaving the palace, Azig looked at Doduo and shook his head and smiled: "The fourteenth brother is good at everything, but sometimes his hands are too soft. Since we have already planned to give up North Korea, why do we care about those North Koreans? With so many supplies, I am the only one Where can those people in my hand be transported? Without North Koreans, how many times will it take to transport them all?"

"Brother Twelfth, don't think so. Brother Fourteen must have deep meaning in this arrangement, so don't mess around." Duoduo hurriedly said after hearing this.

"It's okay, it's not as evil as you think." Azig said with a smile.

Seeing that Azig insisted on going his own way, Duoduo sighed helplessly.

……

Beijing, East Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace.

Li Jing couldn't help frowning when he saw the secret report on North Korea sent by the spies.

Seeing Li Jing frowned and thinking hard, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but wondered, "Did something happen?"

Li Jing shook his head, then nodded again.

"You are shaking your head and nodding again. What does that mean? Is there something wrong or nothing?" Zhu Youjian asked puzzled.

Seeing Zhu Youjian's impatience, Li Jing finally came to his senses, smiled and said: "It's nothing serious, it's about the Qing army's movements in North Korea."

Zhu Youjian snorted, but didn't care.

But after a while, Zhu Youjian suddenly felt something was wrong. If it was as simple as Li Jing said on the surface, how could Li Jing's expression be so solemn?

After pondering for a while, Zhu Youjian said: "Brother Li, although my ability is limited, I can't help you solve your problems, but if you have any troubles, you can tell me as much as you want, and just treat it as if we are chatting to relieve boredom."

Li Jingwen said that he looked at Zhu Youjian, then lightly patted Zhu Youjian's hand and said with a smile: "The emperor has a heart, I was just thinking about the purpose of the Qing army's mobilization of supplies on the North Korean side, not worrying about North Korea's affairs."

"It's normal for the Qing army to transport supplies from North Korea to Liaodong. There's nothing to think about it." Zhu Youjian wondered.

Li Jing shook his head: "It is indeed normal to transport supplies to Shengjing in Liaodong. The key is that the Qing army is not moving in the direction of Shengjing."

"How do you see it?" Zhu Youjian asked.

Li Jing handed the secret report to Zhu Youjian, and after Zhu Youjian finished reading it, Li Jing said solemnly: "Can the emperor see what's wrong?"

Zhu Youjian shook his head: "I don't understand military affairs, and I can see that there is something wrong with the movements of the Qing army."

Li Jing smiled: "It's not that the emperor doesn't understand military affairs, but he doesn't know where the place names mentioned in the secret report are."

After finishing speaking, Li Jing waved to Wen Qing: "Bring the map of North Korea and the map of Liaodong."

Wen Qing heard the words, hurriedly found the map of Liaodong and North Korea from the book case, and spread it out in front of Li Jing.

Li Jing pointed to the map and said to Zhu Youjian: "Please look, your majesty, this is Shenyang, which is Shengjing of the Qing court, and this is Seoul, the royal city of North Korea. If the Qing army wants to transport supplies to Shengjing, they will take the Huanghai Road." (At that time, there were eight roads in North Korea, and the Hwanghae Road bordered Liaoning, which is the area from Sinuiju to Haizhou today).”

As he spoke, Li Jing scratched the map with his hand.

Zhu Youjian looked at it and nodded slightly.

Then Li Jing drew another line on the map, and said: "But the Qing army did not take the Huanghai Road to transport supplies, but the Ping'an Road (the area from Jiangjie City to Pyongyang in North Korea today, mainly bordering Jilin). Although You can also enter Liaodong from Ping'an Road, but the terrain here is dominated by mountains, it is difficult to walk, and it takes a long detour, Dorgon would be so stupid to transport supplies to Liaodong from this direction?"

Zhu Youjian was not surprised when he heard the words: "Yes, I heard that Dorgon is extremely talented, how could he do such a stupid thing?"

Li Jingjing nodded: "So, I suspect that Dorgon is not going to send supplies to Liaodong, so where will he send them? What is his intention in doing this?"

As he said that, Li Jing pushed away the map of North Korea, and carefully studied the map of Liaodong. After looking at it for a while, Li Jing suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said to Wen Qing: "Bring the map of the whole Ming Dynasty."

Wen Qing heard the words and hurriedly fetched the whole map.

Li Jing unfolded the map and looked at it for a while, then slapped his thigh suddenly: "I know what Dorgon is up to, he is preparing a retreat for himself."

Immediately, Li Jing sighed lightly: "Dorgon is indeed a hero of the generation. If I hadn't arranged spies in North Korea, I would never have imagined that he would start preparing for the future situation now."

"How did Dorgon prepare for the future retreat?" Zhu Youjian looked at the map for a long time but couldn't understand what Li Jing meant.

Li Jing looked at Zhu Youjian and smiled, stretched out his hand and drew a line northward along Ping'an Road on the map, and then tapped lightly at the stop position: "This is Changbai Mountain, the birthplace of the Jurchens. If Huang Taiji and Dorgon led his troops back into Changbai Mountain. I don’t know how much time and materials it will take to destroy them. But there is a problem here. Changbai Mountain can block our army, but it is very difficult for so many Jurchens to survive in Changbai Mountain. And Dorgon is now preparing for his future survival."

"Dorgon wants to retreat now. If the soldiers knew, would they still do their best?" Zhu Youjian asked doubtfully.

Li Jing smiled: "What Dorgon has to consider now is not the morale of the soldiers, but to win the hearts of the people. If he mobilizes his troops to fight with me and is wiped out by me in the end, no matter how hard the soldiers work hard, it will be useless." any use.

But he left a way for the soldiers, and the soldiers must be grateful to him, and he can mobilize the morale of the soldiers at any time in the future.This is what the common people often say, if you keep the green hills, you will not be afraid of running out of firewood. "

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly, and then asked: "Dorgon has done this, can Huang Taiji spare him after he knows?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Dorgon can think of a way out, and Huang Taiji can naturally think of it. As long as Dorgon finally hands over the supplies to Huang Taiji, Huang Taiji's doubts can be dispelled, but if Dorgon doesn't hand it over, then Huang Taiji will definitely not let him go."

After a pause, Li Jing continued with a smile: "However, since I know their plans, I will naturally not give them such an opportunity, especially Huang Taiji, who wants to escape from Shengjing, it depends on whether I agree or not. "

Speaking of which, Li Jing turned his head and asked Xiao Jiu, "Let me have a look at the battle report sent in front today."

"Yes!" Xiao Jiu took the order, found the battle report from the desk and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took it and looked at it, then closed his eyes and calculated.

Because although the battle report was sent on the same day, due to the long distance from Liaodong to Beijing, it actually reported the battle three days ago. The change of the battle situation in the process of sending the edict.

After calculating for a while, Li Jing finally shook his head slightly.Although Li Jing knew Cao Wenzhao's layout and how the current battle situation was developing, it would take four or five days at the fastest for the battle reports to come and go, and Li Jing had no way of knowing what would happen in these four or five days.

Moreover, there are too many variables in the war. For example, Cao Wenzhao intended to send reinforcements to encircle Haoge last time, but the Qing army had no reinforcements at all. In the end, Cao Wenzhao wasted three days in vain, and finally made Abatean flee south.

From the perspective of campaign command, Cao Wenzhao did nothing wrong, and Li Jing would do the same.

Because Hauge is the eldest son of Huang Taiji, and he is likely to take over the throne in the future, it is impossible for the Qing army to save such a heavyweight.

But fighting is not a matter of wishful thinking. Both Cao Wenzhao and Li Jing never expected that the Qing army really did not send troops to rescue Hauge.

Because the enemy was not fooled, Cao Wenzhao's three-day waiting arrangement was tantamount to useless work.

Another example is that a few days ago after Zhuzi defeated Liaoyang, he took advantage of the situation and marched northward. It is said that the Qing army suffered repeated defeats, and several attacks were easily repelled by the Ming army. At this time, the Qing army had no courage to take the initiative to attack. The army can now drive straight in and surround Shengjing.

But at this moment, Chen Guozhu's troops were attacked in the middle of the night south of Fengji Fort. If Chen Guozhu hadn't been in danger and responded calmly, and quickly organized troops to launch a counterattack, the attack on the Ming army would have suffered a great loss.Even so, there were still hundreds of Ming army casualties in that attack.

Fighting is not a child's play, there are too many unpredictable things on the battlefield, and the frontline generals still need to be careful. Li Jing is in the rear and has no understanding of the frontline situation. If he suddenly intervenes in command, it is likely to disrupt Cao Wenzhao's campaign deployment.

Thinking about this verse, Li Jing shook his head, ordered Wenqing to spread paper and grind it, and then wrote a letter to Cao Wenzhao.

In the letter, Li Jing told Cao Wenzhao in detail the situation reported by the North Korean spies, and then told Cao Wenzhao his own judgment.But Li Jing did not say that his judgment was accurate. He asked Cao Wenzhao to study the movements of the Qing army carefully before making a judgment.

However, Li Jing reminded Cao Wenzhao that no matter what, Huang Taiji must not be allowed to escape from Shengjing, and told Cao Wenzhao the news that Chen Erhu and Xiao Wu had led the commando team to Shengjing, and asked Cao Wenzhao to coordinate How to cooperate with the commando.

In the end, Li Jing asked Cao Wenzhao to consider whether Chen Guozhu and Zu Dashou could wipe out the rest of the Qing army after taking down Shengjing.

After writing the letter, Li Jing read it again and corrected several inappropriate words.

When Li Jing wrote the letter, Zhu Youjian was standing beside him. Seeing that Li Jing's letter was written in a negotiating tone, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but sighed slightly.

Hearing Zhu Youjian's sigh, Li Jing turned his head and smiled and said, "Does your majesty think there is anything wrong with my letter?"

Zhu Youjian shook his head: "Brother Li, as the supreme military commander of the Ming Dynasty, is so polite in arranging his subordinates to fight. No wonder all the generals can display their commanding abilities."

Li Jing smiled: "Cao Wenzhao has experienced many battles, and his combat experience is much richer than mine. If I point fingers and direct his affairs in the capital, I just need to tell him the information I have, and he will make a decision." Make a judgment and then figure out how to deal with it.”

Zhu Youjian sighed: "This is what I admire about you. In the past, when the local governor led the army to fight, I, the Ministry of War and the officials of the court all interfered arbitrarily, and finally made the generals in front at a loss.

(End of this chapter)