Chapter 509 Hidden Facts
After this speculation, Liu Bu and his friends can roughly determine the other party’s thoughts, but if the other party makes this wishful abacus, would it be too loud?
If someone else's capital was attacked and the emperor issued a call for the king, the generals from all over the country would quickly rush to rescue the enemy. In this way, they would be attacked by Jiannu's plan to surround the site and attack the aid.
And for now, the Ming Dynasty court issued an edict ordering soldiers and generals from all over the country to serve the king. There were not many of these people who dared not to go. The Liu family army was one of them. Not only did they not go to serve the king and rescue the emperor, but they also wanted to have an accident with the Ming Dynasty.
If there is no accident in the Ming Dynasty, how can they replace it? If there is no accident in the Ming Dynasty and let him free up his hands to deal with the warlords and princes in these places, it will be the time when their Liu family army is in trouble.
So when they saw the Jiannu retreating without hesitation, and the main force returned northward, rectified the army and prepared to go south again, they just sneered. If they had such an idea to deal with their Liu family army, they would be very wrong.
If Wu Xiuwen was here, he would definitely be confused about the feng shui of the Liu family's ancestral tomb. Could it be that the ancestral tomb of the Liu family was also buried on the dragon vein? They did everything well and the enemy took the initiative to cooperate with their plans. Is it true that the destiny belonged to?
They now understand their advantages. Their advantages are muskets and cannons, which are powerful tools to deal with Jiannu. If they use cold weapons or muskets, they are not opponents of arrows, and they will also let the opponent fight with pressure.
Since they rely heavily on artillery, that is, their demand for battlefields and logistics is very high, which also means that they cannot quickly deploy, move quickly, and move mobile warfare and encounter warfare are trying their best to avoid.
This also means that they cannot deploy their troops quickly. If the other party attacks the capital city, they will travel thousands of miles to rescue them, which is not going to rescue them, but to die.
The Liu family army also understood their advantages, so they began to consider how to build the chariot camp a long time ago. To put it bluntly, their chariot camp was a way to quickly deploy their cannons to various places.
However, the chariot camp has been trained and run-in for a long time, but Liu Bu is not very satisfied with the effect of its use. Liu Bu’s requirements for the chariot camp are equivalent to their mobile artillery battalion, which can be moved and deployed quickly, just like their warships on the road, but the effect is not very good. They still have very high requirements for roads and battlefields, and their fast movement ability is not as strong as they imagined, and they are still being tempered.
Of course, even though it was still in the midst of training, the Liu family army and others had already launched two car battalions. During training, their car battalion had as many as 3,000 people, which was equivalent to a regiment. It was a considerable organization and carried out strategic strike tasks.
Liu Bu regards it as his armored force, but in an era when there is not even a single road, the armored force is a pit.
The Liu family army's chariot camp is their powerful weapon, a treasure for mountain control. It will never be used until the critical moment or the life and death. Moreover, it is not the time to use their chariot camp to rush to rescue the car thousands of miles away.
When they realized this, they all started to make arrangements, that is, they began to write war reports.
If someone else finally defeated Jiannu, he would definitely make a big announcement that he had won the victory. He would write a lot about how tragic and bloody his war was, and how brave he fought with the enemy. After a lifetime of death, he won the enemy and recovered the lost land. If the emperor did not give a heavy reward, he would be sorry for his conscience.
Only the Liu family army, the battle report they presented was very unique, and it can even be said to be written by a rooster.
Others praise themselves in great ways, praise their bravery to repel the enemy, and how many enemies they kill will only report more and not less, while the Liu family army is the exact opposite.
They spent three or four days to initially count the casualties between the enemy and us. This time they sent troops to southern Liaoning and wiped out about 20,000 Jiannu. Among these 20,000 people, at least 5,000 were Jiannu. The real Jiannu soldiers, the others were Shang Kexi, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other Han troops who surrendered to him. These people were killed or injured by the Liu family army.
In other words, in the Battle of southern Liaoning, the Liu family army killed at least 5,000 Jiannu soldiers. They only counted the approximate number of casualties. Because many corpses were stolen and taken away by Jiannu, they could not get detailed numbers, but this number was at least 80% accurate. This time they beat Jiannu to pieces. This battle suffered the biggest setback since Tiancong Khan Huang Taiji ascended the throne. The prestige accumulated over decades accumulated in this battle was also consumed a lot in this battle.
The number of casualties among the Liu family army was directly killed, 4,500 people, 6,212 people were injured, and 368 people were missing. Their super characters were quite accurate, accurate to the difference of ten digits. Most of the injured could be saved and could be re-entered on the battlefield, but the more than 4,500 people died were their real losses, and they lost nearly two regiments.
When Liu Family Army counted the numbers, they mainly calculated the casualties of Jiannu. As for the traitors who defected to Jiannu, they didn't take it seriously at all, so they didn't take it seriously, so their casualties ratio could only be considered one to one.
If they reported this number, they would definitely scare many people and shock many people. However, Liu Bu waved his hand and then reported it like this. They killed at most 200 Jiannu and injured more than a thousand people.
Moreover, they all admitted that the Jiannu did not repel them, but they found it boring to leave themselves. They were just struggling to support them. The main reason was that Jiannu was not very interested in Liaonan, so they could defend it. Despite this, their casualties were particularly huge. The Liu family army was directly killed by nearly 15,000 soldiers and nearly 20,000 injured. It can be said that the main force of the Liu family army was completely crippled and crippled by the city-building system. Liu Bu made a long list of casualties, sealed them up, reported them to the Ministry of War, and requested pensions.
I believe that the ministers in the court will be very happy to see the Liu family army being completely crippled and destroyed. They will be ecstatic and think that their strategy of weakening the Liu family army has achieved success and are happy for this.
Liu Bu and his friends praised the enemy's casualties and their own casualties. There must be a reason. The reason is that since the Liu family army has been crippled and abolished, the court will not be so taboo about him, and will not be like guarding against thieves, guarding day and night, and guarding thousands of times. There is another very important point, that is, when Jiannu launched a large-scale attack on major cities in the pass and looted the north, the Liu family army had enough reasons and excuses to not go out to fight. These two are the real reasons why they downplayed their achievements.
Liu Bu also knew that in the original history, Jiannu also entered the pass in large numbers in the autumn and robbed the pass to give the Ming Dynasty a good look.
Many people in later generations have recognized one thing, that is, Jiannu's wolf ambition and his desire to plan for the Ming Dynasty. In fact, this is not true. After all, the area occupied by Jiannu was only so small and the population was so small. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was known to be rich in the world, but had a population of hundreds of millions. Jiannu wanted to annex the Ming Dynasty, just like a rabbit challenging an elephant.
Huang Taiji was not as awesome as advertised by later generations, so forward-looking, and early plans to plan for the Ming Dynasty. He just wanted to rob the Ming Dynasty and get a lot of money and food from the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty would recognize their independence. This is what he thought.
If the Ming Dynasty was willing to admit that he was the Later Jin Kingdom and that both sides lived in equal terms, he would be willing to live in peace with the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty was unwilling and insisted on being hostile to them. He had no choice but to continue fighting.
Even if he had the intention of plotting against the Ming Dynasty, it would be considered as a child who could eat a bucket of rice, instead of eating the whole bucket of rice in one bite. So he could easily break through the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty every time, and then attack the pass, loot and capture his important prefectures, counties and cities. Many people suggested conquering Beijing in one fell swoop, forcing the Ming Dynasty to surrender to them and accept their conditions.
But Huang Taiji refused this suggestion because he was very clear and understood that they might have the opportunity to eat this bucket of rice in the Ming Dynasty, but they had to eat it in one bite and spend more than ten years. If they wanted to eat it in one bite, there would be only one result, that is, they would be choked to death by this bucket of rice. Therefore, Jiannu's strategy was very clever and very clear, that was to rob the Ming Dynasty, destroy the essence of the Ming Dynasty, and stab a few wounds on this giant to keep bleeding. When he kept bleeding and finally fell to the ground, it was when they took advantage of the situation and seized the world of the Ming Dynasty.
If you want to seize the Ming Dynasty, you must pay attention to strategies and have enough patience, otherwise it will be impossible to succeed.
The ambitions that Jiannu had were also available, so what they actually adopted was a strategy similar to that of Jiannu, that is, to constantly weaken the strength of the Ming Dynasty, wait for the moment it became weak, and then replace it.
That's why Liu Bu and the others exaggerated their casualties and pretended to be grandsons. Of course, they all understood that as long as the situation here calmed down, they would send government organizations and various people to come here to seep the sand and take over it. After all, Liu Bu was just the general of southern Liaoning and did not enfeoff this area. Once they returned, the court would send people to take over it.
At that time, they wanted to conceal these situations alone. It was impossible to be so lawless as they are now, but that would not happen in a day or two. At the earliest, they would only happen in a month or two. With this or two months, they could do a lot of things.
Chapter completed!