Chapter 196 Post-war
Lu Xiangsheng's victory was delivered to the capital ten days later. The specific situation of the battle was also sent together, as well as some spoils seized from Zhushan County, including a golden seal used by Zhang Xianzhong, a golden dragon rod, and eight order arrows. A gold-plated double dragon iron rod used by Zhang Xianzhong, with the five words "Eight Kings Golden Whip" engraved on it, and a gilded big knife with the four words "Tiancius Flying Knife".
Zhu Youjian curiously examined these spoils, and his understanding of Zhang Xianzhong became deeper.
It’s okay if you are a thief, you actually use a double dragon stick and a golden seal. Why don’t you prepare it with the dragon robe and crown?
Gao Yingxiang's power is not yet ready to ascend the throne. You are a fly attached to the tail of a horse and dare to think about it. Who gives you the confidence and courage? Could it be a woman named Liang who sang a song to you and you dreamed? Could it be that the bad idea given to him by Pan Duao and Xu Yixian?
This traitor is indeed dead. He wanted to wait until Lu Xiangsheng could capture him alive, and then cut it into small pieces like the Gao brothers and let it dry in the sun, but he didn't expect to commit suicide.
The courage given by the woman surnamed Liang was finally much better than being cut into jerky.
The name of Li Dingguo, who Zhu Youjian was most concerned about, was not mentioned in the battle report. It was thought that the government army did not care about others except Zhang Xianzhong. Li Dingguo might have died in the formation, or he might have been confused. The other Sun Kewang, Liu Wenxiu and others did not take it seriously, and it didn't matter whether he was alive or not.
Zhu Youjian hoped from the bottom of his heart that this famous Han general who later resisted the Qing Dynasty could escape from heaven because he did not have great destructive power and influence like Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others. People who are wise and wise will not do too much, nor will they regard human life as grass, but this kind of kindness and righteousness will seriously restrict the development of Li Dingguo.
I hope he can live, and if there is news about him, I will send someone to capture him.
My own arrival has changed the fate of many people, and many things are not controlled by you, unless you are a god.
Zhu Youjian really didn't believe that Fang Kongzhang had surrendered Liu Guoneng and followed the situation to capture Luo Rucai and He Yilong.
I can only say that Fang Yizhi's father is lucky. Liu Guoneng was close to him, so he went to ask for surrender. If someone else was the governor of Huguang, Liu Guoneng would still ask for surrender.
Fang Kongzhang was not a person with outstanding literary talent and martial arts. To put it bluntly, he was a bureaucrat with mediocrity. It was a bit of a fantasy to ask him to design and catch Cao Cao, who was famous for his wisdom. Zhu Youjian felt that the opposite was almost the same.
No, I have to ask Liu Guoneng what happened.
However, Zhu Youjian secretly called himself a stranger to this old bureaucrat who was able to cultivate a talent like Fang Yizhi; he actually believed that Fang Yizhi was a genius, and had nothing to do with his father's training.
If we follow Fang Kongxu's old ideas, Fang Yizhi will definitely not be allowed to read other miscellaneous books besides the Four Books and Five Classics.
Although Fang Kongzhang's memorial made a brilliant story about the surrender of the thief, Zhu Youjian was very curious about what happened at that time.
Since there was the example of Zhang Wenyao before, Liu Guoneng was just a guerrilla man. After selecting and reorganizing his subordinates, he would be temporarily under Lu Xiangsheng's command. The surrendered person was particularly loyal. In history, Gao Jie was an example, but Gao Jie has not appeared now, and he doesn't know where he is.
Luo Rucai and He Yilong were just beheaded on the spot. These thieves were born in a wild place and had no loyalty or righteousness in their hearts. Unlike Zhang Wenyao and Liu Guoneng, who had been in the official army, at least they were people who knew how to obey and obey orders. As for the king of Zuo Jin, Lin Yangcheng and Ma Shouying, who were missing, they would order people to search and suppress them. It was not surprising that these two people could not make up much waves.
Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong died, the Fifth Camp of the Giveu was destroyed, and Li Zicheng fled. The thieves who overthrew the Ming Dynasty in history have basically been eliminated. Is this a matter of changing my life?
Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian couldn't help but feel secretly satisfied.
I was an ordinary person in my previous life. I traveled over and did such a big thing, and I felt a sense of accomplishment in my heart.
The only opponent in front of him is Jianzhou. With the strength he has now, it is not a big problem to deal with Jiannu. The key is how to use how to destroy Huang Taiji.
Zhu Youjian actually tends to slowly endure the other party to death.
Taking Jiannu’s current population of only one hundred million, the economic size cannot even be as large as a developed town in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in later generations.
The harsh climate and natural conditions in Liaodong seriously restricted the development of Jiannu. In addition, various resources were extremely scarce, and the strategic materials needed depended on the import of external sources. As long as the inlet and exit of Jianzhou materials were strictly blocked, this semi-slavery tribe would collapse in less than a few years. At that time, as long as a small number of elite troops were sent, it would be easy to subdue them.
With Jiannu's extremely backward production methods and production efficiency, if it weren't for the numerous plunders of population and craftsmen from the Ming Dynasty several times, they would still be in the era of wearing animal skins and using bone arrows.
But if you do this, once your affairs are written into a book in the future, you will be scolded by countless people who read books, accusing yourself of not riding on horses and trampling on Jiannu, laughing at you and drinking thirsty and having ambitions and eating. Then you will feel so embarrassed and embarrassed.
If you want to spend time to survive and get trapped, you will sacrifice less lives of many Ming soldiers. However, the shortcomings are also very obvious. This means that during the lockdown period, you have to pinch your nose and continue to feed the Liaodong generals.
But if it is a strong attack, it is not time yet. After years of war, the soldiers need to have enough time to rest.
Zhu Youjian was not optimistic about the method of using ships to transport troops to the Jinzhou area and using flank harassment to deal with Jiannu.
First of all, this method of harassment requires an elite soldier. Too many people, how can we replenish food and supplies if there are too many people? As for shipping grain, there are still countless people in the mainland waiting for the Zheng family to make a living.
So the question is, what did you send thousands of people over to do?
Many people in later generations may not have been to the Northeast, and brought the densely populated and connected villages and towns of later generations into the past. The total population of the three eastern provinces is now over 100 million.
But what most people don’t know is that the Northeast is too big.
Especially in later Heilongjiang Province, there were endless plains and hills everywhere. It took dozens of miles to see a small village with hundreds of people. It was a generation of people who exploded.
The total population of the Qing Dynasty was only about three million when it entered the Ming Dynasty. That was the total number after entering the mainland of Ming Dynasty several times before.
Zhu Youjian estimated that the total population of Jiannu is only between 100 and 1.5 million, of which the Eight Banners are only about 500,000, and the remaining one million are composed of Liaodong Han people, looted mainland Han people and Mongols.
There are only one hundred thousand people on such a vast land. You sent someone to harass me. Who do you harasse? Do you know where to harass me? Do you think you can find a densely populated and unprepared village in Jiannu, and then rush in and kill it?
If you go out for one or two hundred miles, you can't see a figure or a village. And you send hundreds or thousands of people at a time, how much food and grass should you carry? If you are discovered by Jiannu, can the cavalry be able to spare you on the plains?
Strong attack? Don't dare; harassment? Do you think the Ming Dynasty's official army can harass the unparalleled Mongolian Banners? You have harassed several times and gained some benefits. People sent the Mongolians to hide, and you came out to harass them again. Once the Mongolian Banners rushed, are you still harassing? Are you here to harass or give away the heads?
Well, there are too few thousands of people, so I will send tens of thousands of people over there, and the food and supplies will be dropped by transport planes every day. Why are these tens of thousands of people going to do? It is definitely not harassment. This is a large army, and I have to fight against Jiannu.
OK, let's fight, can Jiannu gather half of his troops to defeat you? As a result, he still gave away the heads, and then the soldiers, weapons, armor, food, and supplies he threw away, made Jiannu make a fortune. Is this Chang Kaishen of the Ming Dynasty?
What? Send troops from the front to rescue them, and join forces to wipe out Liaodong.
Since we can lead troops from the front to wipe out Liaodong, why do we send people from the flanks? Take off our pants and fart - this is a waste of time.
This method of taking it for granted is purely whimsical and useless, but it has aroused the fanatical pursuit of countless military novices in later generations. It is like you are just a bái chī after traveling through the past without shipping troops to harass Jiannu. In fact, they know nothing about the massive supplies needed for the past wars and the complexity of the roads. Many people think that the road conditions in the past are as flat and wide as they are now.
Mao Wenlong actually did not pose any threat to Jiannu in Dongjiang Town. His main contribution was to gathering up a large number of Liaodong Han people who were unbearable to slavery.
As for the fact that he sent troops to harass him, he went out to behead him in a month. He had dozens of casualties and injuries. Is that useful?
Later generations traveled through time-honored islands in books, and the strategies and plans for flanking harassment were nothing more than artistic creations that a great god himself had figured out.
This is more like the artistic processing and imagination of burning Bowangpo in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and flooding the Seven Armies. The real Three Kingdoms does not exist at all.
The extermination of the Xian Camp is also a great contribution. Although Zhang Xianzhong committed suicide, if the official army had not fought bravely, he would definitely not have committed suicide.
All those who participated in the suppression of Zhang Xianzhong were promoted and rewarded with 100 taels of silver.
But how the generals rewarded Zhu Youjian felt a little scratched his head.
I just had a few days to give it a reward, and now I have no rewards.
I blame myself for making the tone higher. Now I can’t get it down.
You can't give Zu Kuan a feigned uncle? Although he played a key role in this battle, he still couldn't reach the level of feigned uncle.
What if Zu Kuan is named uncle and his father and uncle, what should he do? Zhou Yuji, Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, Cao Bianjiao, Li Chongjin, Qin Yiming and other masters have no objection?
Zhou Yuji followed Sun Chuanting to wipe out Gao Yingxiang, Zuo Liangyu and others followed Hong Chengchou to suppress the thieves in northern Shaanxi. He did not have such great achievements, so others should forget it.
Lu Xiangsheng could not be promoted anymore, and there were Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting who were competing there. If he promoted again, he would have to be promoted to the prince's Shaobao, but the first assistant Wen Tiren did not even add, which was unreasonable.
Fang Kongzhang had to give him a reward as appropriate. Although he might not have made much contribution in fact, at least for the outside world, he was both surrendering and capturing thieves. It was inevitable that he would be disappointed if he didn't reward him.
Add the title of left deputy chief censor, and the reward is enough.
The Governor of Yunyang did not make any noise in this battle, nor did he see Lu Xiangsheng mention it in the memorial. It seems that he is incredible and he has to find an opportunity to replace him.
Zhang Xianzhong actually built fields in Zhushan and Zhuxi. It seems that he wanted to treat the two places as bases. This time, the people of the two places just need to settle the land as the situation, and tax exemption will be enough for three years.
The magistrates of the two counties, the family of the magistrates, died for their country. Let the cabinet posthumously give them a visit to their family and give them a favor.
The memorials of Lu Xiangsheng were delivered one after another, including the memorial of the Kaifeng Prefect Lu Jun.
Chapter completed!