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Chapter 1099

The emperor's attitude and imagination of wanting to fight anywhere did not last for a few days, and the battle reports from northern Xinjiang were sent to the telegraph office of the Forbidden City one after another.

At first, the more the emperor watched, the happier he was, and he was so happy that he was willing to find someone to practice the most annoying event in daily life.

Wanli likes military affairs, not only personally in command to train sergeants, but also very strict in personal training.

Whether it's punching, firing guns, although sometimes he will be lazy when he is tired from running, his various military skills assessments are still better than those of the Beiyang Army, and he is second only to the few outstanding ones in Jinyiwei.

The infantry military skills training of the Beiyang Banner Army has only been one and a half years, and it has only been two full years in sea sports such as driving battleships, climbing masts, and armed swimming. Jin Yiwei does not rotate, and they have practiced the same military skills for nearly four years.

As for the emperor, the emperor became obsessed with physical training five years ago, and has been shooting bird guns for four years. He knows all the standard equipment of Ming Dynasty better than veterans.

Only, Wanli didn't like stabbing - no flag soldier dared to stab him with a spear or a bird gun with wooden thorns.

But now even if the emperor is asked to fight the most boring stabbing and fighting with the banner army, he will fight with great relish, because Wuliangha Sanwei is convinced.

Along with the battle report of Qi Jiguang's capture of Daning City and the deterrence of the three guards, it was the topographic map of Wulianghai jointly presented by Taining Guard, Duoyan Guard, and Fuyu Guard.

The map was surveyed and mapped by Qi Jiguang's military academy, covering all the land directly controlled by the three guards and all the land that the Qi's army could attack, strangled the gap in the south of the Great Xianbei Mountain, separated the Guanwei Army to station in each city, and led the troops to the west, and defeated them at the old place of Harahaiwei. The local barbarians and the Khalkha allied forces killed him and fled in all directions.

Relying on the large army, the local barbarian army marched in several ways, trying to attack Qi's army from all walks of life. As a result, Qi's army broke through all three routes. The tribes that had never even seen the shadow of Qi's army rushed to join.

On the other hand, what made the emperor happy was that Li Chengliang in Liaodong was finally willing to move his nest. Before that, Qi's army had repeatedly carried out a cycle of marching, fighting, marching, and fighting again for several months. Nothing repeats: March, accident happens, accident resolves, march on, accident continues.

It seems that it was not until they saw that Qi's army won too easily that they sent troops to intimidate, attack, and surrender the surrounding Tatar and Jurchen tribes that had not yet surrendered.

In this regard, Li Chengliang has too many advantages over Qi Jiguang.

Qi Jiguang's eyes were darkened. After leaving the fortress, everyone in the world is an enemy. If you don't win a few decent battles, you don't want others to surrender properly. Even a small tribe with only a dozen herdsmen and hundreds of cattle and horses, facing the overwhelming army He would rather escape than surrender directly. This situation did not change until Qi Jiguang was defeated.

Li Chengliang is different. He has a clear family in the Northeast, and the Li family can recite the genealogy of the three generations of nomadic tribe leaders. They have people to join and help wherever they go.

Judging from the battle report, Li Chengliang is just trying to grab credit - he left Qi Jiguang on the front line during the battle to fight to the death, without giving any baggage; More than three times more.

On the Songnen Plain, from Sanchahewei to the people in the northern forest, no one was willing to obey Li Chengliang's arrangement.

Fortunately, Qi Jiguang has a lot of military exploits, otherwise it would be really difficult to set a reward for this battle.

The Qi family army could not meet an opponent worthy of this army.

Compared with them, Nanyang Dongyang's excellent record of killing three thousand enemies and self-defeating three hundred seems extremely mediocre.

However, the following telegram did not make the emperor so happy.

The imperial court wanted the Qi family army to return, and Qi Jiguang also believed that his troops had initially fulfilled their mission and it was time to plan a retreat.

Withdrawing troops is a must. There is no army in this world that has the strength to overwhelm Qi's army. The only thing that can restrain them is the cold winter in the north.

It was still spring when Qi's army left the Fortress, and there were only a few cotton-padded clothes in the army. Now that winter is coming soon, Qi Jiguang can't let the soldiers sleep outside the Fortress without even boots to survive the winter.

He knew very well that the Japanese pirates were not their enemies, nor were the Mongols, and even they themselves were not enemies for this elite army that belonged to him. The only thing that could threaten them was the sky.

It's nothing more than the point of discussion between the DPRK and China now, should this war be stopped and the Qi family's army returned to Ji Town?Or let them return Daning City?

"Now we can't retreat, we must consolidate the results of the battle... Write down what I said." The emperor in the Tsinghua Garden looked worried, and ordered the eunuchs, saying: "There are three reasons for not retreating. First, the court needs high-quality wood. , These, there are outside the Northeast Great Wall; second, there is too little time, even if the big car battalion retreats towards the pass now, it will not be able to retreat into the pass before winter arrives, which will increase unnecessary casualties."

"The third most important thing is that in the past dynasties, the results of the war against the strong neighbors in the north have never been consolidated, and the achievements that will be relied on forever; my Ming Dynasty has suffered enough of this kind of loss. Wulianghai is gone, and the three propagandas and six consolations are also reversed. Only when we have more people and soldiers on a piece of land than them, can we occupy beyond the Great Wall for a long time."

"[-] sets of winter clothes, I will find a way to arrange them for him, and the winter clothes will be delivered soon, so that they can garrison Daning City."

In fact, in Wanli's view, this battle can still be fought, as long as the Ming army is still outside the Great Wall, it can continue to be fought.

There were many tactical victories in the past. The Ming army had repeatedly swept the ground and achieved brilliant results, but they never struck while the iron was hot to completely subdue the place, and people would rebel again at every turn.

It's not that the imperial court didn't want to strike while the iron was hot, but that it really didn't have such ability in the past. It's great to be able to travel thousands of miles to kick the camp. Expect the Ming army, which is under huge pressure, to occupy a certain place permanently?

Nothing lasts forever.

More importantly, the emperor knew very well that only when his subjects became more numerous in an area and had an overwhelming advantage, would they not be robbed.

There are two other reasons driving the emperor to continue fighting, or one reason is also possible, which is the northeast wood that is clearly known at the moment.

The imperial court is relatively short of large logs that can be used to make ships, and this will intensify in the next few years. The price of wood will rise slightly with the large-scale application of steam engines, further increasing construction costs.

At this juncture, the jungles in the northeast are particularly important.

"I want to issue an immigration order. You can send this letter to the cabinet later and let the cabinet discuss it."

The emperor clasped his arms and explained: "In the past, each person planted two hundred acres of gardens... I still have many poor people who have no land. Let them reclaim wasteland. Like Asia, first set aside a few counties. Next spring on the road."

　Good morning!I want to sleep late today, Chapter 2 will be posted around [-] pm.

　　
　
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