Chapter 295: Marching into Black Tuala
Some people can forgive, while others cannot. Tong Yangxing belongs to the latter.
As for whether the killing of Tong Yangxing would involve resistance, my father-in-law himself was not worried, or he didn't care at all, after all, the emperor was about to go.
After being shocked, Kang Yinggan and others deliberately ignored the emperor's imperial edict. No one would offend a life-savior for a traitor, and the emperor trusted the emperor to respect the internal ministers.
After hearing about this incident, Liu Jing, who was recovering from the tent, did not take it seriously at all. He even told Zu Tianding and others that he was good at killing.
The Han army, who followed Tong Yangxing to surrender together, did not end up with the same fate as Tong Yangxing. They received preferential treatment from their father-in-law, and because they killed the Eight Banners, they were also incorporated into the Soushan Team composed of Fu'aman tribe and Changshu tribe.
Eunuch Wei instructed the mountain team to effectively implement the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners, and to give full play to the initiative of the Eight Banners officers who came out to surrender, and to dig deep into the hidden Eight Banners soldiers through these Eight Banners officers.
At the same time, we told the prisoners of braided soldiers who were braided as husbands that whoever took the initiative to explain the whereabouts of the hidden braided soldiers to the Ming army would be able to make some improvements in life and could even become a member of the Ming army without blaming the past.
Under the dual pressure of politics and military, the hidden braided soldiers were still frightened all day long. Even a bird flying in the forest or a mouse jumping out made them look like a frightened bird.
The Soushan team spared no effort to search for the missing braids. At the same time, Eunuch Wei discussed with Liu Jing on the issue of food and decided to draw some personnel from each department to form a grain harvesting team.
The grain harvest team has only one task, which is to destroy every Jurchen village that can be met within a radius of hundreds of miles or even further, and then take away every grain of food they can take away.
Given the fact that except for the Eight Banners soldiers near Heituara, there are basically no Eight Banners soldiers in the other Jianzhou-controlled areas, the grain harvest team was mainly composed of Koreans and Japanese husbands, except for a small number of Ming troops.
This is also the result of the two military officers from North Korea, including Han Yinglong, Kim Won-fu, and others begging the Ming Dynasty angels in every possible way. In their words, they are atonement for the Ming Dynasty with practical actions!
Since Eunuch Wei, who has always been lenient and generous, chose not to kill the Korean surrendered soldiers, he would naturally give them the opportunity to achieve a true rebirth like a special attack team dominated by Japanese shogunate prisoners.
When Kim Won-boo was ordered to burn the bodies of Jiang Hongli and other traitors, he accidentally took out a secret letter from Jiang Hongli's arms.
After reading what was said in the letter, Jin Won-fu decided to hand over the secret letter to the Ming Dynasty angels after a fierce ideological struggle.
After reading this letter, Eunuch Wei handed him over to Liu Jing.
"Why would the King of Joseon dare to do this!"
After Liu Jing saw it, his eyebrows and beards were angry. It turned out that the letter was written to Jiang Hongli by the North Korean King Guanghaijun. The content of the letter actually asked Jiang Hongli to secretly report the facts of the Ming army to Jianzhou after entering the Ming Dynasty, and asked to keep the lives of the soldiers as much as possible. The implication was that he could surrender.
According to Han Yinglong and others' explanations before, although the deputy commander Jin Jingrui first proposed to surrender to the Jin army, the fact that Jiang Hongli, as the marshal, did not convict the blame, was clearly on paper.
Jiang Hongli had long been instructed by Guang Haijun!
"I have no gratitude and betrayal, I will lose my slaves and lose money, and I will be punished by Guanghai!"
Liu Jing was full of anger of being betrayed by the Koreans. He thought about how many soldiers died in the Ming Dynasty and how much money and food were consumed in order to save him from North Korea!
But this is how North Korea rewards the Ming Dynasty?!
Kang Yinggan believed that the matter should be informed immediately by the court, and the court sent envoys to North Korea to question them, and asked the North Korean side to give an explanation.
Eunuch Wei said "hey": "Report to the court, what can the court do? Will the adults in the court still advise the emperor to send troops to destroy the court? Let's see, even if you send someone to Seoul, Ren Guanghai will not admit that Jiang Hongli is dead, and this letter alone can't explain anything."
Liu Jing said in a muffled voice: "Do you just let the North Koreans stab us like this?"
"Don't worry, the old general should not be angry. Our family will deal with Guanghai's affairs. As far as our family knows, North Korea also has many benevolent and ambitious people who are willing to pay attention to our Ming Dynasty. We don't have to send this letter to the capital, but we can directly send people to Seoul to let the North Korean benevolent and see what their king is."
Eunuch Wei will never speak if he can do something, and will never shake if he can pee in the wind. He has long been very dissatisfied with the corruption of Seoul. Guanghai's letter came at the right time, and the patriots who reformed the country needed this weapon.
Liu Jing also knew that it was meaningless to have a quarrel with North Korea now. After all, Jiannu had not yet been settled, and Eunuch Wei had a plan here, so he agreed.
The next day, the emperor's personal army followed the troops, led by Chief of Staff Li Yanzhao, and the casualties data of the departments that had arrived in the battle were also counted.
According to the casualties ratio, the biggest loss was the advancing team led by Shen Shikui, with a total of 214 officers and soldiers killed, with a loss of 50%.
The second group of infantry 5th Regiment arrived, with 841 officers and soldiers killed, with losses of 20%.
The cavalry corps that arrived later, the Sixth Infantry Regiment each suffered about 500 casualties, the First Mixed Yitoni Shimazu tribe suffered 1,020 casualties, the North Korean Third Brigade suffered 1,470 casualties, the Yuzai Special Attack Team suffered 145 casualties, and the remaining coalition forces suffered dozens of casualties.
Eunuch Wei ordered the fallen soldiers to be buried in Jiahaling, and the ridge was changed to Pingnuling. The officers and soldiers' pensions and other matters were responsible for their own special institutions. The base camp also had its own system for additional rewards for the fallen soldiers. However, Eunuch Wei still ordered to report to the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and the emperor decided to posthumously award the hereditary matters.
In name, the emperor's personal army was under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.
The mountain team sent good news and captured Xihan, son of Nurhaci's fourth brother Bayala, and Ebilong, one of the four ministers, and other group of hidden Eight Banners generals. Eugene Wei instructed to send these people to Jiechenyang with Ajige.
With the arrival of all the emperor's personal troops, the Ming army in Abudaligang reached nearly 30,000. At the suggestion of Eunuch Wei, the imperial army transferred 2,000 Japanese soldiers to Liu Jing to supplement and strengthen Liu Jing's troops.
Liu Zhen expressed deep gratitude for this and was very happy to get these two thousand Japanese soldiers because he already had Japanese personal soldiers under his tent.
Later, under the leadership of Li Yanzhao, the Imperial Army and Liu Ju's headquarters held a joint meeting, and the meeting made arrangements to march towards Heituara with Abudaligang as the base.
Before the meeting, the cavalry corps's exploration horses brought good news to the Ming generals. Jiannu was attacked by Li Rubai's troops who marched from Qinghe on the way to the west. Although Jiannu successfully got rid of Li Rubai's troops, they were unable to enter Luotu Ridge, which was less than 30 miles away from Heituara, for no reason.
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Chapter completed!