Chapter 103: Reluctantly Giving Up 1
Seeing that Jiannu has returned to Jinzhou, but the Dazhong Army still refuses to relax, still like a maggot on the tarsal bone, chased to the city of Tashan, and the cities of Tashan, Daxingbao, Xingshan and other cities in the south of Jinzhou City immediately became the next target of the Dazhong Army.
Huang Taiji led his troops to retreat to Jinzhou, only then did he stop continuing to retreat, and began to transfer troops in Jinzhou City, making a posture of defending Jinzhou City.
After all, the importance of Jinzhou's status, they all know, think that when they went south repeatedly, Jinzhou was stuck in their throats, so many years, they had besieged Jinzhou several times, but they failed to take Jinzhou City, Jinzhou defender Zu Dashou, repeatedly repelled their attacks, if it wasn't for the last time they used Chongzhen to rush from outside the pass to draw the Guanning army into the pass to deal with the Xingtian army, they probably don't know when they will be able to take Jinzhou City!
Later, under the blackmail of Huang Taiji, Chongzhen was really forced to have no choice but to cede Jinzhou City to them to the Qing Dynasty, and now they have returned to the starting point again, after retreating here, if they retreat again, then their efforts for so many years will be in vain.
Therefore, Huang Taiji knows very well that he must not retreat when he arrives here, if he retreats again, I am afraid that even he, the position of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, may not be able to keep it in the future, and the withdrawal of troops along the way has already made the banner owners of those banners complain, if it is not for the fact that he now directly controls the strongest troops of the two yellow banners, I am not sure what his brothers will think about!
So when he retreated to Jinzhou, Huang Taiji decided that he couldn't retreat anymore, so in Jinzhou City, he planted his soldiers and horses, turned his head and began to make a posture of stumbling to the end.
Huang Taiji led the white flag soldiers under his command and the white flag inlaid with the white flag under the jurisdiction of Duoduo to guard the Tashan City, and ordered Daishan to lead the red flag to guard Songshan City, and to guard Xingshan with the blue flag soldiers and horses under the leadership of Jierharang, while he himself led the two yellow flags and the red flag that had not yet recovered its strength to sit in Jinzhou in the center, and only waited for the Dazhong army to pounce, and then fought to the death with the Dazhong army.
But at this time, the Dazhong army that was chasing them suddenly stopped pursuing, turned around and returned to Ningyuan City, which they had just recovered, and gave up the pursuit of Jiannu's army, which made Jiannu suddenly breathe a long sigh of relief.
The Xingxing Dazhong Army, which was pursuing, suddenly received an order from Xiao Tianjian when it arrived at Tashan City, to stop all pursuit actions, and the whole army contracted back to Ningyuan City to rest.
As soon as this order was given, the generals in the army were in an uproar, and they couldn't figure out why Xiao Tianjian suddenly ordered to stop the pursuit and shrink his forces back to Zhenningyuan City at this critical moment when he was about to arrive at Jinzhou City and defeat the Jiannu army in one go.
But Xiao Tianjian's will has been given, and the generals from all walks of life did not dare to disobey, so they had to stop the pursuit for many days, turn around and join Xiao Tianjian's Chinese army, Luo Li, Liu Yaoben, Diao Zheng, and Wang Chengping ran to Xiao Tianjian's big tent to ask Xiao Tianjian why.
And Xiao Tianjian was sitting in the big tent at this moment, indifferently glanced at these heavy generals, and when he saw their angry expressions, he not only laughed.
"Holy! Now that Jiannu has become a lost dog, it is when we are trying to destroy it, why is it that when we have already reached the outside of Tashan City, the Holy Lord suddenly issued an order to stop the pursuit, so that we give up the pursuit and turn around and retreat? Isn't this a great opportunity to give up in vain? Didn't the saint himself say that he would take advantage of his illness to kill him? Why did you suddenly change your hexagram? Luo Li was more angry, although Xiao Tianjian was the emperor of Dazhong, Luo Li couldn't help but be the first to stand up and fire the cannon, and asked Xiao Tianjian angrily.
Although the other generals did not follow the words to question Xiao Tianjian, they all looked at Xiao Tianjian, and the expressions on their faces clearly showed their thoughts, and they also hoped to get Xiao Tianjian's answer.
Xiao Tianjian glanced at Luo Li coldly, Luo immediately felt that his words were too rushed, after all, now Xiao Tianjian is not their leader back then, but has become the king of a country, he obviously violated the rules of being a subordinate by talking like this, so he was so frightened that he quickly bowed his head and knelt down on one knee and said: "The last general is arrogant!" The last general is just in a hurry, and he speaks out of proportion, and he hopes that the saint will calm his anger! ”
Xiao Tianjian glared at him, sat there without being angry, and waved his hand: "Get up!" Forgive you for your innocence! ”
Luo Li quickly stood up at this time, and his attitude became much more respectful, but he still waited for Xiao Tianjian to give them an explanation.
Xiao Tianjian glanced at the generals again, sighed slightly, and said, "How can I not know the mood of your waiting!" But you only want to completely defeat Jiannu in one go, but you forget that we have our own difficulties!
Be! I hate the Jiannu Tartars more than any of you, and I want to take this opportunity to wipe out the Jiannu in one fell swoop, so that they will never be able to be arrogant outside the customs and threaten our Central Plains in the future!
But don't forget, our goal of this Northern Expedition has been achieved! In the past few days, I have also thought about going all out and going straight to Shengjing, which is a slave! Wipe out this gang of stubborn people in one fell swoop!
But now the time is not ripe, although Jiannu was defeated in Shanhaiguan, and it is true that the armor and armor that were chased and killed by us along the way are not false, but you should also know that although Jiannu was defeated and retreated, but the loss of its Manchurian Eight Banners headquarters is not very heavy, and we have in recent days, most of the soldiers and horses of the Han Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners of Jiannu have been defeated, at best, these people are just the abandoned sons of Jiannu! And Jiannu's own real strength, but they don't lose much, they still have a strong strength!
And I waited for the army to go north this time, traveling thousands of miles, you must know that to maintain an army like ours, the logistics supply is huge, you only know the joy of fighting, but you don't know the difficulties in the rear!
Although I opened up the first line of the canal and could ensure that our logistics materials could go north along the canal to replenish military supplies, the canal has been dredged and seriously silted up by the Ming Dynasty over the years, and the Ming Dynasty places along the way, in order to prevent us from going north, deliberately filled the river, so the current capacity of the Grand Canal is extremely limited! Although people are being sent to dredge along the way, in a short period of time, it is not possible to pass a large number of boats, so it is difficult to maintain us to hit here!
Moreover, because we went north in a hurry along the canal, the bandits were very serious, and all kinds of bandits raided and plundered along the canal from time to time, so we were not stable behind us!
You also have to forget, although the building of the Ming Dynasty is about to fall, but after all, we have not yet conquered the Ming Jingshi, and most of Shandong has not yet been controlled by us.
Don't hide it from you, although we have won a lot of battles recently, but the consumption of materials for our army is also very huge, and under the war, there is not much ammunition left with us, and we urgently need a large number of replenishment!
And from here to Shanhaiguan, our supply lines have been stretched again and again, and the supplies in the rear have gradually become unavailable, is it possible that you can let the soldiers go hungry to attack Jinzhou City?
What's more, the current Jinzhou is not better than before, Jiannu has been controlling Jinzhou for almost two years, Jiannu is not stupid, they know the importance of Jinzhou, from the mouth of the captives, we learned that Jiannu has vigorously operated Jinzhou in the past two years, and has repeatedly captured people outside the Guanxi to strengthen Jinzhou City, Tashan City, Daxingbao, Songshan City, Xingshan City and other cities, and have hoarded a lot of materials in each city!
We have lost the best opportunity to defeat the Jiannu army before they retreat to Jinzhou, and now the Jiannu army has not lost much in the main force, and we are not fully prepared, so we brazenly wave our troops to attack Jinzhou, I think this is a wise move!
First of all, our troops are not superior, although Jiannu is not good at defending the city, but in order to prepare in advance, if we want to take Jinzhou lightly, it is also impossible, not to mention that our logistics supply is not easy now, the army besieges the cities of Jinzhou, the Jiannu cavalry still has an advantage, as long as they send cavalry to constantly attack our back road grain road, then we will not be able to concentrate on attacking the city! As long as we are not careful, we are in danger of sinking into the sand.
There is a more important reason, I have just received the news sent by Feng Weihan from the Beijing Division, among the Ming Dynasty, the current Ming Dynasty seems to be interested in abandoning the Beijing Division, and there are many officials in Beijing who strongly advocate abandoning the capital, fleeing to Dengzhou and moving the capital south to the Liangguang area of Fujian, and continue to deal with our Dazhong Dynasty!
And our main force is basically concentrated here now, and the remaining troops behind are very empty, once we let the Ming court run away, I don't need to say that you also know what the consequences will be!
Therefore, after discussing with Li Xin, Master Lu and others, I think that we have achieved our goal by fighting this battle to such an extent! Therefore, in order to ensure that there will be no accidents, I have issued an order to terminate the pursuit of Jiannu this time! Let's let Jiannu be arrogant outside the gate for a while!
I swear to you today that within three years at most, when I have enough strength to clean up the country, I will personally conquer Liaodong again, completely sweep away Jiannu, and recover the land of Liaodong! ”
Xiao Tianjian actually didn't want to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to destroy Jiannu in one go, but there is always a gap between the ideal and the reality, although he is now strong and strong, but the logistics supply and the situation in the customs have not yet stabilized, but he has always been unable to do things according to his wishes.
Think about the Ming Dynasty for decades, almost with the strength of the country, tens of millions of taels of silver, put into the battlefield of Liaodong, so many years, has not been able to destroy the Jiannu, but because of the increasing Liao, the world is in chaos, and finally even tossed the Ming Dynasty to the current point.
He wants to use such 40,000 or 50,000 troops to recover Liaodong in a few months, it is simply impossible, before full preparation, only material supplies can drag down his newly built Dazhong Dynasty, so now although they have won a big victory, there is still a long way to go before they destroy Jiannu.
(Today's special thanks to the Feng Mu Chunjiang brothers for their reward!) )