Author: Zero Romance

Sun Bing originally expected that there would be a fierce battle when crossing the Yellow River in Jinan Prefecture. The Ming Dynasty might mobilize the garrison in Shandong to gather by the Yellow River to block the route of the Haihan Army northward. However, the actual situation was quite different.

Hundreds of Ming army cavalry on the other side of the Yellow River could not even withstand the firepower on the ferry, and they quickly dispersed.

Sun Bing suspected that the Ming army was setting up a suspicious formation to lure him into taking the bait, so he sent two boats of cavalry over and ordered them to spread out on the other side to reconnoiter the enemy.

It wasn't until he received a report from the cavalry that there was no trace of the Ming army within several miles on the other side of the river. Only then could Sun Bing be sure that the enemy was really on the verge of collapse and was not prepared for a decisive battle with the Haihan army on the Yellow River.

“I was so nervous for more than half a month, but I didn’t expect to get over it so easily!”

Sun Bing breathed a sigh of relief. He had started preparing a battle plan for this tough battle long in advance. He even considered the possibility of a tug-of-war with the Ming army on both sides of the Yellow River. He had thought about all the difficult situations in advance, but he didn't expect it.

The opponent will flee without a fight.

However, Sun Bing believed that the Ming court was not so confused and simply gave up on the natural dangers of the Yellow River. There was probably some situation that he did not know about, which caused the Ming army to avoid fighting.

Two hours later, when the Fifth Lu Division was halfway across the river, a visitor came to this place that the Ming army had avoided.

The visitor claimed to be from Prince De's Palace and asked to see the generals leading the troops of the Haihan Army. Sun Bing knew the secret relationship between Prince De's Palace and the senior officials of Haihan, and he did not dare to neglect at that moment, and quickly asked someone to bring the visitor for a meeting.

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After seeing Sun Bing, the visitor took out a letter without saying much and asked Sun Bing to read it.

Sun Bing opened the letter and read it again, and then he understood why the Ming army's previous behavior was so strange.

This time, the factory guards of the Ming Dynasty caused a big disaster in Hangzhou, and Haihan wanted to go to war with the Ming Dynasty. The Ming court knew that the matter could not be resolved, so it could only notify various places to prepare for the war.

Of course, the Jinan Prefecture also received instructions from the Ming court. However, some people believed that the Haihan Army's offensive could not be stopped. They wanted to take this opportunity to show their favor to Haihan, but they had no way out, so they entrusted Prince De's Palace to come forward and help Haihan.

Send a message.

When the generals learned that the troops from the capital behaved like this, who would be willing to follow in this footsteps? Although the Minister of War was so angry that his head was smoking, there was nothing he could do against these local military leaders.

There were also people from Prince De's Mansion in Lijin County. After receiving the battle report, they immediately wrote a letter and ordered people to go out of the city and deliver it to the place where the Haihan Army crossed the river.

The Ming army that collapsed on the other side of the river was the unlucky one named by the Minister of War to attack.

The letter clearly stated that the Ministry of War judged that the Haihan Army must cross the Yellow River from Lijin if it went north, so it mobilized more than 10,000 troops from Jinan Prefecture and Hejian Prefecture in the north and assembled near Lijin County, with the purpose of preventing the Haihan Army from crossing the river.

The generals, generals, and commanders in Shandong all feel like they are in the clear mirror. It is indeed a great achievement to stop the Haihan Army now, but it is also likely to be a dead end. It is easy to get ahead, but you have to make it to the battlefield alive.

It's difficult.

However, after he thought about it, it was not incomprehensible. The soldiers and financial resources of these local garrison troops were all local, and the support the Ming court could provide was extremely limited. Naturally, the top priority of the military leaders was to preserve the armed forces at hand.

The Ming army had assembled a large number of troops, but there was a big problem in dispatching troops and generals. The Ministry of War sent a minister to Lijin to take charge, but now the local soldiers and generals are just looking after themselves, and the imperial court just issued an order to go to war.

, and could not bring any practical benefits, how could these troops be willing to sacrifice their lives? When the minister arrived at Lijin, he found that he could not command these soldiers at all.

Since King De, as a member of the Ming Dynasty clan, can also seek refuge with Haihan, and it is said that some of his children have gone to serve as officials with Haihan, then of course others will have no psychological scruples. They are worried about seeking refuge with people who have no way of seeking refuge.

Naturally, King Deok was regarded as a guide.

Although the other Ming armies refused to send troops, they all sent people to follow behind to watch the fun. Seeing that the troops from the capital were defeated by the Haihan army as soon as they engaged in battle, they hurried back to report the battle situation.

"There is such a thing..."

These troops originally came to Shandong to supervise the war, and they were not prepared to go to the battlefield in person. In addition, they were unfamiliar with the place and did not understand the combat environment, so they could not perform well.

And the imperial court has long been too poor to open the pot. Now it's time to go to war, but it can't even get decent rewards. Any promotions or promotions are all empty promises. Even if you can believe in these rewards, what will you get?

To motivate his soldiers and let them fight to the death against the Haihan Army, which is armed to the teeth?

There are a lot of generals in Lijin County who are pushing each other, but no one is willing to take the initiative to fight. Although the minister of the Ministry of War has ordered generals, the people who have been appointed are all evasive and unwilling to go to war. Regardless of whether the minister or the imperial court

He was still loyal to the emperor and forced to do so, but no one accepted his move.

Although Prince De's Mansion was very unpopular with the Ming court because of his closeness to Haihan, it was precisely because of this that many people in Jinan Mansion regarded Prince De as one of their escape routes in the future.

In the end, the Minister of War had no choice but to go back and resume his duties, so he ordered a general who had followed him from the capital and asked him to lead his troops to attack and set an example for others.

At the end of the letter, he also mentioned that among the Ming troops currently assembled in Lijin County, several generals were willing to defect to Haihan and would look for opportunities to introduce them to both parties in the future. He asked the Haihan army not to take the initiative to attack the county, lest the two sides harm the harmony.

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Sun Bing was speechless after reading the letter. He did not expect such an atmosphere within the Ming army.

Especially for those military attaches who have already moved their minds and are willing to change their families, this show of goodwill can also be a good start for future contacts, and the armed forces under their command are expected to become bargaining capital with Haihan.

Since the Ming army had no intention of going to war, Sun Bing naturally would not waste time attacking a small county town. He told the visitors that as long as no one took the initiative to obstruct it, the Haihan army would soon leave Jinan Prefecture and continue heading north.

A fight occurs that the other party is worried about.

As for those Ming military attachés who are interested in contacting Haihan, they can wait until the incident here is over before trying to contact Dengzhou. At that time, they will find an opportunity to arrange for them to meet with Chen Yixin to discuss cooperation matters in detail.

Compared with the Sixth Lu Division, which was locked in a bitter battle at Shanhaiguan, the march of Sun Bing's troops was simply smooth. The gap in combat power between the Ming Dynasty's border troops and the local guards' troops can also be seen from this.

The Minister of War who went to Jinan Prefecture to supervise the war failed to achieve any results, and he would definitely have to shift all the blame to the local garrison. However, given the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, it would probably be difficult to deal with the relevant people.
Chapter completed!