Cao Yan thought about it, but still felt that this matter was not easy to handle. He hesitated for a moment, and first planned to simply report it to Gao Situ, and he only provided advice and let Gao Situ make his own decision. After thinking about it later, I felt that such words were really a bit ineffective, and after a little hesitation, Cao Yan sent someone to invite Gao Yimin over.

Gao Yimin is the "staff" sent to him by Gao Shipra, according to Cao Yan's own understanding, it is probably not much of a problem to be regarded as a prisoner, so it is naturally Gao Situ's confidant, and it doesn't matter if he says something important.

So he showed the three letters and the two incriminating evidence to Gao Yimin. After reading it, Gao Yimin's face was also a little gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "I just said that Yehexi City was lost strangely, and there is really a problem." It is true that Buzhhatu was stirring up wind and rain in the northwest at that time, but he didn't bring any people and horses at that time, how did he get the gunpowder from the northwest to Mobei and then back to Chahar? It turned out that he did not bring this gunpowder back from the northwest, but he obtained it on the spot in Liaodong...... What a means. ”

In the end, Gao Yimin is a "military affairs staff", and the first thing that comes to mind when he sees the news is something related to military affairs. He flicked the letter and said: "Buri Hatu originally planned to buy another 5,000 catties, but it is estimated that he may have planned to repeat his old tricks and blow up Yehe Dongcheng again, who knows that this 'old man' will not ......"

Cao Yan's tone was different when he heard him say the word "unwilling", and he raised his eyebrows slightly, meaning: "What's the inside story?" ”

Gao Yimin saw what he meant, and smiled: "That old man is very shrewd, he knows that even if Buzhihatu can bring back some gunpowder from the northwest, the amount will not be too large. He provided 3,000 catties and let Buzhihatu blow up Xicheng, which could be covered up. But if there was more gunpowder in Buzhhatu's hand, even Dongcheng would be blown up...... Zong Rong, you say, can the court not be suspicious in this way? ”

Cao Yan suddenly understood, nodded and said: "Yes, it's a truth, and this also shows that the old man knows the power of gunpowder very well, and can accurately judge how much gunpowder can do." ”

"Always wise." Gao Yimin praised it, and continued: "At the same time, it may also show that this old man has a very clear judgment of the situation in Liaodong, and even in his heart, the above situations are within his control." In other words, he thinks it doesn't matter if you lose a Yehsi......"

Cao Yan was shocked in his heart, and asked suspiciously: "You mean...... These are all calculated by him, even if he loses Xicheng, in his opinion, the situation is still controllable, unless Ye Helian loses Dongcheng, otherwise he can sit firmly in Diaoyutai? ”

Gao Yimin was silent for a few breaths, and snorted lightly: "I'm afraid he won't panic if he loses Dongcheng, but he may think that after losing Dongcheng, things will probably become complicated at the court level, and what will eventually develop into him, he doesn't have any support in his heart, so he deliberately controlled the situation and let the Mongols stop outside Dongcheng." ”

Speaking of which, Gao Yimin has no doubt about the identity of this "master".

Li Song is certainly the governor of Liaodong, but he definitely does not dare to indulge the Mongols like this, because he is the first person responsible for the border situation in Liaodong, and if there is an uncontrollable situation in the border situation, the imperial court will definitely be the first to take him under the knife. At the same time, he himself is just a civilian official who has no foundation and lineage in the military circles of Liaodong, and in the past, he relied on Li Chengliang to slowly accumulate merit in front of Ningqian, so that he is Futai today, and he cannot have such strong self-confidence to easily save the situation.

can watch Ye He lose Xicheng without moving, and even know that Bu Rihatu will definitely not buy gunpowder for fireworks, but he still dares to sell thousands of catties like this, who else can there be besides Li Chengliang?

Only Li Chengliang has such strength and self-confidence, because from his standpoint, even if Cao Yan's expedition is wiped out this time, it doesn't matter.

It's great that he went out in person, at this time, the Li family's army Liaodong Iron Cavalry is not obviously downhill, and he still has more than 100,000 Liaodong guards in his hands, what is the matter of recovering a mere Ye He?

Li Chengliang himself was a native of Tieling, northern Liaoning, and he knew the geographical environment of Yehe's side very well, and it was a place that was very suitable for him but not for the Mongols to fight.

If there were such a thing as satellite images in this era, they would know better that the two cities of Yehe were actually in the form of the west city in the southwest and the east city in the northeast, and the two cities and the Liancheng Road in the southwest-northeast direction were actually a very narrow canyon.

The northwest and southeast sides of the canyon are forested mountains, and the southeast side is not close to Mongolia, so let's leave it alone for the time being.

The width of the mountain range in the northwest of the canyon is about thirty miles, and it is only thirty miles northwest from the city of Yehexi that it can be regarded as crossing the mountains and entering the plain area of Siping City, Jilin Province in later generations.

What does this mean? It means that the suitable combat area of the Mongols is only to the west of this mountain range, that is, near the urban area of Siping City in the later generations, and then to the east into the core area of Yehe.

Yeheben entered Manchuria from Mongolia and chose to build the city in the east and west of the city, because he also considered the topographical factors. In later generations, the area around Siping was also Yehe's territory, but they built the east and west cities east of the mountain range for the purpose of guarding against the Mongols.

The reason why their territory included a large plain pasture west of the mountain range was because Yeh was famous for his cavalry in Manchuria, and they needed pasture as a pastoral area.

It is very clear that Li Chengliang has both elite cavalry and a large number of infantry. If there is a situation where Cao Yan is defeated and he has to go out in person, then the infantry can slowly go to Yehe to besiege the city and regain it, and the cavalry will cut off the Mongols' rear route.

At this point, the Mongols would have to make a choice, in fact, as the Mongols were customary, they had to evacuate the eastern and western cities and return to the plains.

In this way, if Li Chengliang ambushed the plains east of the mountain range with Liaodong iron cavalry in advance, and as soon as the Mongols came out of the mountains and forests, they would immediately launch a fierce attack, so that the Mongols would definitely suffer a big loss, and Li Chengliang could make a great contribution.

Of course, his style of play is different from Cao Yan's style of play, and the effect may be better than Cao Yan's this time, but you must know that Gao Pragmatic only gave Cao Yan 20,000 people to do this, and the assumption here is that after Cao Yan's defeat.

If Cao Yan had already been defeated, Li Chengliang would certainly have enough reasons to mobilize more troops and horses, so the style of play would be different, and at that time, Gao Pragmatic would not be able to reasonably limit the investment of troops. As for whether this will lead to the Ming army's preparations for Chahar being delayed again...... Anyway, Li Chengliang will definitely not care.

The cunning rabbit dies, and the lackeys cook. Gao Pragmatic and Zhu Yijun are bent on destroying Chahar, Li Chengliang will not think so, if Chahar is finished, he Li Chengliang may not have to be too anxious when he is old, but the popular high-level of the Ming army is Jiangmen, he has enough credit in his life, what about his sons? What about the grandchildren?

At present, the imperial court still needs to use them to do things, and the status of their military generals is far inferior to that of civilian officials, in case there is no opponent left in the imperial court in the future, and military generals can still be a person in front of civilian officials? I'm afraid I have to become a talking dog, which is not what Li Chengliang is happy to see.

So no matter from which point of view, the clues of "who is this master" clearly point to Li Chengliang. If it weren't for the fact that Li Chengliang knew that Gao Chengcheng was powerful in the court, he would probably be able to sell even the 5,000 catties of gunpowder proposed by Buzhihatu for the second time without hesitation.

Cao Yan and Gao Yimin analyzed the situation clearly, and Mr. Cao was so angry that he slapped the table: "Raising Kou is self-respecting, arriving the enemy and plundering the border, Li Yincheng has fallen to this point!" ”

Cao Yan's scolding, the intention is not very pure, but he himself doesn't know that this "degenerate" is actually not wrong, Li Chengliang is really degenerate now, and he is no longer the Liaodong God of War in the past ten years, he has been corrupted.

If it weren't for the fact that there is more pragmatism in this world, Li Chengliang would have suffered defeats in three years from next year, that is, the sixteenth year of Wanli, to the nineteenth year of Wanli, and almost no victory, so that he was impeached for a long time, and finally resigned and recalled to Jingshi, and recuperated with Ning Yuanbo.

And even if there is more high pragmatism now, because of Li Chengliang's arrogant military exploits, he does not recognize the high pragmatism, and he is also staggered in his military system and tactical thinking. Only the Jinghua military industrial system is of some use to him, at least he has also bought a lot of new muskets and artillery, because the degree of degeneration of Li Jiajun is still much lighter than in history.

In the original history, after Li Chengliang was dismissed from Liaoshuai for the first time, the post of Liaodong General Army changed eight people in ten years, as long as it was not Li Chengliang's son or cronies, he couldn't do anything at all, so that military affairs were slackened. Even when Li Rusong was the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, because he was at war with Japan in Korea at that time, he inevitably took care of the defense of the town.

However, when Li Rusong was in office and alive (he accidentally died in a 'light cavalry smashing nest' against Mongolia shortly after returning from North Korea), Li Jiajun's military morale was still boosted a lot, and it recovered somewhat, but unfortunately with Li Rusong's death, this anger was quickly discharged.

From this point of view, Li Chengliang's current "sitting firmly in the Diaoyutai" is actually not aware of the degeneration of himself and the Li family's iron cavalry. The only good news is probably that Cao Yan was not defeated, and even won quite a crisp - at least on the Ming side, the battle of the Yehe River must have been won by the Ming army, after all, the Mongols were repulsed head-on, and they also abandoned the city of Yehexi that had already been obtained.

Gao Yimin looked at Cao Yan with an angry face, and estimated in his heart that some of his anger was true and how much was false. However, Gao Yimin just thought about it, and Cao Yan's mind was not difficult to guess.

Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, has been working since the Longqing period, and it has been 18 years if you count this year. This is really too long, especially since he, the general soldier, has not moved his nest for eighteen years, which is extremely rare.

Other general soldiers, such as the three towns of Xuanda Shanxi, may also be counted as Yansui Towns, and the positions of these general soldiers are rotated every three or five times, so as not to give the commander a long time and become a big tail.

But Li Chengliang's side is very magical, there has been no replacement for nearly 20 years, and if it weren't for Gao Pragmatic's military affairs to come over and stir up the peace, I'm afraid it would have been a pool of stagnant water a long time ago.

In this situation, it is normal for Cao Yan to have thoughts about the position of the Liaodong General Army, even if he doesn't expect Li Chengliang to fall all at once, at least he will hope that Li Chengliang will be transferred out and give him the position of Liaoshuai to Cao someone to try it.

Gao Yimin didn't intend to point through this thought, so he diverted the topic and asked, "What do you think you can do to help in this matter?" If so, please make it clear. ”

Cao Yan saw that Gao Yimin didn't accept him and scolded Li Chengliang, and he also knew in his heart that Gao Yimin definitely didn't dare to say anything before Gao Situ made a statement, and it was not easy to be surprised, so he had to change the topic back and said: "If Tong Weixun is in Ning Yuanbo's mansion, it is not easy for me to investigate him, but if I directly impeach Ning Yuanbo, I am not an official, and I have no right to hear about it, this evidence is indispensable......"

Gao Yimin nodded and said, "Jinghua can do one or two things for you." ”

Cao Yan really breathed a sigh of relief, and asked again: "Then how do you make him admit that Ning Yuanbo is the person behind him?" ”

Jinghua has its own intelligence system, Cao Yan knows about it, and he also knows that this system belongs to the Ministry of Internal Affairs within Jinghua, called "Black Top", and its strength is very strong, and the ears and eyes may be all over Liaodong.

And the relationship between Gao Pragmatic and Li Chengliang is not harmonious, it is not a day or two, it is reasonable that Hei Ding has someone in Li Chengliang's mansion, so since Gao Yimin can agree to let Hei Ding "do one or two things for him", it must not be difficult to find out the identity of this Tong Weixun, but it is difficult to make this Tong Weixun confess earlier.

But now Cao Yan doesn't care, the black top has the means of the black top, as long as he doesn't worry about this matter.

"Okay, thank you Brother Gao!" Cao Yan immediately thanked him, and then asked, "Then I'll put this matter aside for a while, and wait for Hei Ding to find out?" ”

Gao Yimin agreed, and Cao Yan said: "What about Nurhachi? His own brother Shulhazike is in our army, and if the evidence is conclusive, it is okay to kill the sacrificial flag. ”

Gao Yimin hurriedly stopped and said, "Shuerhaqi can't kill him, but the marshal can find him for questioning." The evidence of this crime is conclusive, and Shulhaqi himself is not good at words, so he must have been asked by the marshal speechless, and then the marshal can scold him, and it is best to make him dissatisfied with Nurhachi......"

Having said that, Cao Yan certainly understood what Gao Yimin meant - this is very consistent with Daming's attitude towards the Jurchens in Liaodong: pull the second child, beat the boss, and never let anyone stand out.

Although the second child is not as good as the boss, it is usually not too far behind, and with the support of Daming, it is even more different, and it is likely to be enough to break his wrist with the boss.

Cao Yan understood and said with a smile: "Okay, Brother Gao, I'll call him over and scold him in a while." ”

Gao Yimin also smiled and said, "Zong Rong might as well tell him that Nurhachi did such a thing, but he also sent him to our army, I am afraid that he wants to borrow a knife to kill people." ”

Cao Yan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Brother Gaojian, Ben Shuai will say so later." ”

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