Gao Pragmatic received two war reports in the afternoon of this day, the first one at the moment and the second at the third minute at the third hour, and the distance between the two war reports was almost half an hour, that is, about an hour in the future.

Obviously, there have been major changes in the battlefield, which may cause the front-line generals to send back battle reports in a row in just half an hour.

When he saw the first battle report, Gao Shishi's mood was calm, and he even quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

This is because the news in the first battle report was almost all good news: the ambush went unusually well, and the front line launched a half-crossing attack by land and water as planned, and the Tumen Speculation Coalition Army came with a hand of "Ande leaning on the sky to draw the sword and cut you into three".

Then the Liaohe River won a big victory, the Mongol army was killed, drowned "five or six thousand people without worry", the Tumen Khan who had not yet crossed the river fled in panic, and the fried flower Taiji left behind was under the continuous blows of Ma Dong and Ma Chengen, "lost more than a thousand parts first, then ran south, met Zhang Wanbang's department, attacked it, and Ma Chengen chased it, and fried flowers became captured."

As for the war report, Ma Dong also added some words about Gao Pragmatic bragging and praising his merits, Gao Pragmatic just glanced at it by the way, and didn't take it seriously, it was the most common thing in this era, and there was no need to take it too seriously.

Winning the fried flowers, his mood is not very excited, although he knows that the original history of the fried flowers later became the strongest part of the Inner Khalkha, from the middle of Wanli until it was defeated by Jianyu, for decades it was a powerful force near Liaodong, known as the "five battalions of fried flowers", but after all, that is the original history, this era may not appear.

Besides, although the "Five Battalions of Fried Flowers" in the original history has always existed as the leader of the fried flowers, in fact, the later fried flowers are very old, and most of the time they only exist as a political symbol, and the actual leader is Zai Sai.

After Zaisai was defeated and captured by Nurhachi, the internal department of the fried flower department was afraid that Jianyu would reach its peak, and almost did not dare to fight with it, and the fried flower himself did not know whether he was old and confused, or he had to be tough before he died, and forcefully rejected Nurhachi's proposal to ask him to "change the contract", which led to the Jiannu expedition in a big way, and the "five battalions of fried flowers" became a historical term from then on.

So look at it this way, the image of fried flower Taiji himself in Gao Pragmatic's mind is very ordinary, if you have to say that he has anything powerful, probably only left to live a long time, although because the Mongolian literature does not know the age record of fried flowers, but from his active year, Gao Pragmatic estimates that he may have lived eighty or ninety years old, which is really rare among Mongolians in the same period.

And most of the current fried flowers are probably not so long-lived, although he was captured alive, and he must have been sent to Jingshi as usual, but according to the habitual calls of the Ming Dynasty and the opposition, this person's head basically can't be saved.

Anyway, they are all dying people, and Gao Pragmatic naturally doesn't care too much, so he is more "relieved" in his mentality.

Don't look at the Tumen and Fried Flower Coalition forces after they went south, Gao Pragmatic's performance was very calm, and he even decided at the first time not only to fight, but also to give them a ruthless blow, but in fact, this operation was the most uncertain operation he had in recent years.

In the original operation, Gao pragmatic either had a crushing superiority in troops and firepower, or he had made various arrangements long in advance, which means that military and political superiority must have at least one aspect of absolute superiority, so he can deal with it calmly, as long as he maximizes his advantage, he can ensure victory.

However, this time the Liaohe ambush was different, although the total number of Tumen and Zaohua coalition forces was slightly less than that of the Ming army, it was not only very limited, but also likely to have a qualitative advantage.

The majority of the Ming army was the guards mobilized from the four guards in southern Liaoning, with more than 20,000 people, but even if Gao Shishi gave a heavy reward, he could only ensure that their fighting will would be much stronger than when others were recruited, but the level of combat was still completely unremarkable.

Therefore, the elite forces that the Ming army can actually rely on are actually very few, only about 5,000 Jiading, and Jinghua's fleet on the Liao River, and the tasks assigned by Gao Pragmatic are also based on them as the main force.

In the highly pragmatic plan, unless the Mongol river-crossing troops carried out a "scattered breakthrough" to the southern front, the large number of guards basically did not need to engage the Mongols directly.

And it turned out that the Mongols did not do this, and the guards did not fight the Mongols head-on.

At this time, Gao Pragmatism was enough to breathe a sigh of relief, he defeated the 20,000 iron cavalry of Tumen and Fried Flower with five or six thousand troops (plus the fleet), the Mongols lost five or six thousand men and horses in the Great Liao River, and the Great Khan of Tumen fled with the remaining five thousand cavalry......

The pre-war planning can basically be called a successful completion so far, and it is only one step away from the door.

Fighting like this with a weak blow, everyone should breathe a sigh of relief.

However, the fact is that Gao Shishi's tone was still too relaxed, because half an hour later, he received the second battle report, in which Ma Dong blamed himself and told him: Originally, after the fried flower Taiji was captured, he discussed with Ma Chengen and other generals, thinking that the leaderless fried flower department of the dragons was difficult to fly, and they barely carried any grain and grass when they crossed the river, and even the marching felt tent was in the rear army...... Therefore, today or tomorrow at the latest, the remnants of the fried flowers will either directly send people to ask for surrender, or there will be infighting, in short, there is no need to rush to attack, so as not to arouse the desperate resistance of the other party.

Therefore, the Ming army only guarded the defensive line in case the Mongols suddenly attacked and broke out. Who knew that after a while, they suddenly discovered that the Mongols had taken advantage of the fact that the Jinghua fleet had just been preparing to turn around after two rounds of demonstrative shelling on the north bank, and suddenly gathered the remaining rafts and fled across the river from the upstream direction.

The Ming army, which found that the situation was not right, urgently dispatched on both land and water, but in the end, the fleet reported that only dozens of rafts were destroyed or destroyed, and the number of people who fell into the water was "about 1,000", and the cavalry of Ma Dong and Ma Chengen only intercepted 1,493 Mongol cavalry, leaving about 3,500 remnants of the fried flower department to escape smoothly.

Gao Bingxian, who "has no last resort", finally missed it this time.

To be honest, Gao Shipra, who had just seen the battle report, was very angry in an instant.

This group of Mongols is surrounded in such a desperate situation, you have absolute superiority on water, and your strength on land has reached more than five times that of the other side, and just like that, you can still let them go?

Gao Pragmatic didn't speak for a long time with the battle report, and the Ma family who sent the war report was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out, but Ma Fang took the initiative to get up and find Gao Pragmatic to take the battle report and read it, and smiled slightly: "Congratulations to Bingxian." ”

Gao was stunned for a moment, frowned, and said: "The plan has not been completed, why did the governor say this?" ”

Ma Fang shook his head and said: "Tumen and Fried Flower went south with 20,000 iron horses, and now less than half of them have fled back, in other words, Bingxian has annihilated more than 10,000 enemies in just this battle, how can it not be a big victory?" How not to congratulate? ”

Gao Shishi frowned and said, "Those in the river are not easy to find the head. ”

"It's not easy." Ma Fang nodded in approval of this sentence, but still said, "But so what? These heads can't be found, and the impact is only on the bounty silver that is finally obtained, and the old man doesn't think that the military constitution will take these bounties seriously. The key is whether the record can be counted this time, which is the most important thing for Bingxian. ”

Gao Shishi's heart moved slightly, understood what Ma Fang meant, and muttered: "The number of Mongols sending troops and the number of people who fled back is easy to verify, and Jinyiwei should have such ability in Liaodong." ”

That is to say, the battle record can be determined, but this battle is a rare battle with the Mongols in the north with water warfare as the main battle, so that the Mongols' losses are more on the Da Liao River, so the question of the head is really impossible, even if people are sent to search after the war, it is not necessarily possible to recover much.

But since the battle record can be determined, it is impossible for the imperial court not to have a corresponding reward for Gao Pragmatism.

Ma Fang's meaning is also very simple, Gao Pragmatic is not short of money, and the water war is mainly fought by the Gao family, Gao Pragmatic himself pays for it, anyway, this battle is a one-sided situation on the water, and the loss of Jinghua is minimal, and he can fully afford it.

On the contrary, it is the big question of how to distribute the military merits on land.

The battle exploits on land were divided into two parts, one for cavalry and one for infantry. But in terms of cavalry, in addition to Ma Dong and Ma Chengen's family, the rest of the part is also the Gao family's horsemen, Ma Fang is not sure how Gao Pragmatic plans to arrange, but he doesn't care very much, from the perspective of Gao Pragmatic's emphasis on Ma Dong, it should not be treated badly, and Ma Chengen is also the same.

The trouble now is that Ma Dong and Ma Chengen, the two leading cavalry, didn't realize that the Mongols would suddenly choose to escape from the river at the great risk of being sent by the Jinghua fleet to feed Wang Ba, so that Gao Pragmatic was a little angry just now, and Ma Fang didn't know if this would affect Gao Pragmatic's decision.

In addition, the problem of infantry is also a bit tricky, the key is that only Zhang Wanbang's department fought with fried flowers in the infantry side, although the results seem to be quite good, with weak infantry to withstand the breakthrough of strong cavalry, their own losses are not large, which is a must-reward wherever it is.

But the problem is also here, the Ming army dispatched more than 20,000 infantry, most of whom did not even face the Mongols, as if they went to Hanjiawan to see the scenery, and dug trenches, horse pits and other fortifications for several days, but did not get any credit.

This means that except for Ma Chengen, the other three commanders in southern Liaoning have not made any war merits, if this is distributed like this, I am afraid that Gao Bingxian will be slandered by his subordinates afterwards, saying that his arrangement is unfair, why should the position of making war merits be given to his own people, are their local generals in southern Liaoning raised by their mothers?

If you want to say that there are few military achievements, not enough points, then that's it, everyone is not too blushing, but now it's different, the Mongols lost more than 10,000, to be exact, about 11,000 or more, such a great achievement, who doesn't want to go up and rub it?

Even if the ones in the river are not counted, the total number of beheadings and captures on the banks of the southern front is about 3,500, and this one alone can already be boasted! Ning Yuanbo, Li Chengliang, Zhenliao for ten years, how many three thousand five can he get under his hands?

Less than two of them add together!

What more can we do? Relying on Liaonan, do you want to replicate the battle of Monan again? Not to mention that there are only 20,000 people in total who have fried flowers, if they come more, Liaonan will not be able to eat it, and now there are no 70,000 or 80,000 Tumut iron horses!

was reminded by Ma Fang like this, Gao Pragmatic immediately connected the relevant situations and figured it out, and he couldn't help but reflect: Could it be that I really subconsciously began to swell after fighting the first battle of Monan?

It was easy to calm down, Gao pragmatic thanked Ma Fang for the reminder, and was about to speak, but a family member hurriedly ran outside, shouting from afar: "Bingxian, Qin Xierong is urgent!" ”

Qin Xierong? Qin Deyi?

Not only was Gao pragmatic stunned when he heard it, but even Ma Fang didn't expect it, frowning and thinking about it.

Gao pragmatic waved to the family, and the family quickly handed over the letter. Gao pragmatic glanced at the fire paint, and saw that the fire paint was intact, so he opened the envelope and took out the letter inside.

After he glanced at it a few times, he met Ma Fang's inquiring gaze, with a sneer on his face, and handed the letter to Ma Fang: "Take a look at the governor, Qin Xierong refused to move his respectful steps before the war, and when he heard about the big victory ahead, he was impatient and took the initiative to ask 'cross the Liao River in the west and smooth the fried flowers'...... Hehe, a good one to cross the Liao River in the west, a good one to fry flowers! I really didn't see it, it turned out that Qin Xierong's ambition was so big. ”

Ma Fang had already glanced at the letter a few times when Gao pragmatic spoke, in fact, the letter was written very short, and the strokes in the letter were scribbled, and it was written in a hurry at first glance, which shows that Qin Xierong is not only ambitious, but also very anxious, very anxious.

Ma Fang asked in a deep voice: "Although Qin Xierong is a military minister, he is not a general of southern Liaoning, but a deputy chief soldier of Liaodong, if he wants to send troops west of the Liao River, it stands to reason that he only needs the consent of the governor and the general Rong......"

Gao pragmatic said: "There is no need to supervise the general Rong, he was ordered by Zhou Zhongcheng to come to aid southern Liaoning, even if he sent troops to the Hetao (Liaohe Hetao) at this moment, it can also be said that in order to completely relieve the siege of southern Liaoning, there is always a reason to find." ”

Ma Fang said: "Yes, but in this way, he needs to reach an understanding with Bing Xian, otherwise this reason is just that he is talking to himself there, which is not enough." ”

Gao Pragmatic was originally very unaccustomed to Qin Deyi's refusal to fight and rush to attack the most active move, but after thinking about it, he felt that Qin Deyi's refusal to come to southern Liaoning should mainly be due to Li Chengliang's explanation, Qin Deyi naturally didn't dare to offend Li Chengliang, so he had to offend Gao Pragmatic, who was only in charge of southern Liaoning, although it made him unhappy, but Qin Deyi was forced to be helpless after all, and it was barely understandable.

As for whether he wants to go to the Liaohe Loop......

Gao Pragmatic muttered: "Governor, I think it's better to let Qin De lean on, what do you think?" ”

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