When Zhu Youxiao listed the names of the people present and their achievements, it really made their favorability increase a lot.
Everyone also felt intuitively that the emperor indeed attached great importance to Liaodong.
After all, after they won the battle, the rewards they deserved were quickly received, unlike before, which was delayed and prevaricated.
At the same time, I'm also glad that I didn't get involved in too many big family affairs, otherwise my life would have been lost long ago.
"Xiong Qing said outside the city that he was not flattering, but he believed that our army could win. What's his advice?
Seeing that the question finally came to the point, Xiong Tingbi thought for a moment and said:
"Your Majesty, I believe that slave establishment will eventually be eliminated, but we cannot rush for success."
"Although our army now has more people than Jiannu, the reorganization of the army has achieved remarkable results, and its combat power has improved a lot."
"However, the hinterland of Jiannu is mostly covered with deep forests and mountains, which are not suitable for large armies to march. Not to mention the extremely high risk of being ambushed. Even if we face a head-on confrontation, we will not be able to set up our formation and exert our best efforts."
"During the Wanli period, our army took the initiative to attack several times, but was defeated miserably because of this. This lesson is not unimportant."
"However, since the Jiannu retreat in Liaoshen last year, our army has implemented a blockade policy, making it impossible for them to obtain supplements of strategic materials such as food, ironware, clothing and cloth."
"According to what we have investigated and the news Amin has conveyed, life as a slave is very difficult now."
"With a population of more than 100,000, the number of people who can barely cover their bellies is barely more than half."
"Although Boarhide sent troops to plunder North Korea several times, it was only a drop in the bucket. It was nothing more than a dying man hanging on with a sigh of relief."
"I think that instead of mobilizing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to fight against Jiannu at a huge cost, it is better to continue to implement this method and trap Jiannu to death in the mountains."
Unexpectedly, Xiong Tingbi, who is known as a barbarian, would actually advise him not to use weapons and use strategies to win. This really made Zhu Youxiao look at him with admiration.
He originally thought that Xiong Tingbi would absolutely support him in taking the initiative.
Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to explain his thoughts to him.
"It's not like I haven't thought about what you said."
"But Boarskin is not a fool, let alone a coward. How can he sit still and wait for death?"
"Based on what I know about him, when the weather gets warmer, he will definitely use all his strength to go south to attack Liaoshen again."
"As the saying goes, it takes a thousand days to commit a thief, but a thousand days to prevent a thief."
"Although Jiannu cannot conquer Liaoyang and Shenyang, as long as Jiannu is not destroyed, there will be no peace in Liaodong."
"There are 80,000 soldiers in the two cities of Liaoning and Shenyang alone, plus hundreds of thousands of people in western Liaoning. They all need me to allocate money and food from various provinces to support them. The daily needs are extravagant. Has Xiong Qing calculated it?"
"And for the sake of a slim chance of survival, Boarhide may not risk everything and fight for it just once."
"You have to know that Ye Bohskin is a big gambler. He set up his own country and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty. Isn't he gambling?"
The emperor's words left Xiong Tingbi speechless for a moment.
Because what the emperor said was absolutely correct, and Boar Skin betrayed the Ming Dynasty, apart from knowing that the Ming army and the court were corrupt and incompetent, it was indeed a big gamble.
"Xiong Qing has been in the border town for a long time, so he may not know much about the specific situation in the Central Plains."
"In the past few years, the situation in the pass has not been good. The southwest has experienced two wars in succession, and the people have not yet settled down."
"Shaanxi and Shandong suffered another major disaster, and the people in the two places actually relied on bark and weeds for food."
"If I hadn't confiscated the homes of many wealthy families and sought other ways to generate revenue to replenish the national treasury, let alone supporting hundreds of thousands of Liao people and nearly 100,000 soldiers, I'm afraid that the whole country would have been starved to death, and the imperial government's finances would have collapsed."
Having said this, Xiong Tingbi, including the generals and officials who did not understand the situation, finally understood why the emperor was eager to send troops.
It is true that establishing slaves could not afford it, but the Ming Dynasty could not afford it either.
Xiong Tingbi looked at the young emperor in front of him with a sad and firm look in his eyes, and said with a hint of guilt:
"I understand, I will do my best in this battle to eliminate the slave trouble in one fell swoop."
Then, in the lobby of the government office, he took out the map and sand table and began to study specific tactics and arrangements for advancing troops.
Although A Min, the internal agent, cannot be fully trusted, since he has already received a letter of nomination before, he can still make good use of it.
And this month he is also handling military and political matters for Boar Skin, so he has a lot to do.
Before formulating strategies and tactics, it is natural to have a good understanding of the enemy's specific situation.
"You have been here for many years. I think you know the specific situation of slave creation, so please tell everyone in detail."
"According to Amin, there are more than 4,000 men in the Jianu Xianglan Banner. Among them, there are mainly about 1,000 armored soldiers. Most of them are veterans who wear cloth armor and have been in the army for many years."
"The rest were wearing a small amount of armor and were cannon fodder driven by the slave builders. They were mainly plundered Korean youths and remnants of the former Yehe tribe."
"The so-called Eight Banners of Jiannu were also organized in this way. Generally speaking, about 30% of the armored soldiers were the core force, and the rest were cannon fodder."
"The other seven banners, with the largest number of people and the strongest combat power, are the Zhenghuang Banners led by the Wild Boar Skin. They have more than 8,000 people, including 5,000 armored soldiers. They are all old slaves who have followed the Wild Boar Skin for many years."
"Next is the Zhengbai Banner led by Huang Taiji, one of the so-called Belles among the wild boar skins. There are about 6,000 men in total, and the armored soldiers account for about 40%."
"The remaining flags are all no more than 5,000, especially the yellow flags with wild boar skins. It is said that there are only about 3,000 people, and more than half of them are men under the age of twenty."
Xiong Tingbi's report gave Zhu Youxiao and the generals of the Yulin Army a general understanding of today's Jiannu.
The number of troops will never exceed 40,000, and not all of them are young men of suitable age. There are definitely not a few children in their teens and elderly people in their forties or fifties.
After all, during the Battle of Salhu, all the wild boar skins came out, and all the men were taken, which was only 60,000.
We suffered several defeats last year, and more than 10,000 Jian slaves died around the cities of Liao and Shen alone. Including the injured, given the resources of the Jian slaves and the local climate conditions, they would definitely not survive.
And their armor coverage rate is not very different from the impression.
If he remembered correctly, in the original history, after Huang Taiji came to power, and during the Chongzhen year, Jiannu was able to achieve three people and one first class because of Yuan Chonghuan, a loyal minister.
Although it is true that the early slave builders had some fighting prowess, it is also true that they were lacking in resources.
Although the Northeast is rich in minerals, it doesn’t matter whether they can discover it or not.
Even if it was discovered, it would be of no use. Jiannu didn't know shit. He could mine but couldn't make iron, let alone forge weapons and armor.
All they relied on were military craftsmen captured from Liaodong.
PS:
Some time ago, I read some records of the Ming army's battles in the Tianqi Dynasty, and I found that I had overestimated the slave establishment before.
In fact, they are not that strong in battle, but the overall Ming army is so bad, that kind of indescribable badness, which makes them look like gods of war.
What everyone is familiar with and is also famous is when the wild boar skin was used to fight Liao Shen.
More than 70,000 people besieged the 3,000 Zhejiang soldiers and 4,000 Baigan soldiers who were fighting separately. They couldn't even break the formation. There was also a Jia La E Zhen and several Niu Lu E Zhen. Ordinary Jian slaves died without saying anything. Seven or eight thousand, Boarskin didn't dare send troops to fight.
Later, they used the Hongyi cannon removed from Liaoyang City to blast the formation and win.
The Ming army also had many victories against Jiannu, but they were all small-scale victories that did not affect the overall situation.
I won’t go into details, just look at the population. When the Boar Skin died, the Jiannu had 70,000 to 80,000 capable soldiers. More than 20 years later, Dorgon entered the customs, and the Jiannu even had children and old men. After all, it's only over 60,000.
If they really fought hard, why would their population decrease?
Moreover, after Huang Taiji recruited a large number of Han people, the main force of the Manchu and Qing wars was the Han Eight Banners, followed by the Mongolian Eight Banners. The Manchu Eight Banners basically stayed behind to watch the show.
From here, it is not difficult to analyze that in the early days of the establishment of the slaves, although they attacked cities and plundered the territory very fiercely, they also suffered a lot of casualties, and they did not recover for more than ten or twenty years.
This may also be the reason why Huang Taiji recruited Han people into the army, because they were almost exhausted.
Unfortunately, the history books are too fake to read, so I can only roughly analyze them based on a few records and data.
Also, they brag every day about riding and shooting all over the world. It’s just bullshit. Everyone can just listen to the joke.
Apart from being able to ride horses, the slaves basically had nothing to do with cavalry and archery. The cavalry mainly relied on the collected Mongols.
Even their ally Horqin laughed at Jiannu's cavalry and shooting, saying it was really rubbish.
In fact, in the late Ming Dynasty, it is true that the Liao army was weaker than the Jiannu soldiers, but it was also true that it was weaker than the Baigan soldiers and the Zhejiang soldiers. The more I read the history of the late Ming Dynasty, the more disgusting I became, and I vomited.
Whether it was wild boar skin or the Jiannu slaves in the Huang Taiji era, their combat power had never been at the ceiling. It was just that the Ming army was so disgusting that they stopped talking about it after entering the customs. Wu Sangui beat the shit out of them, and Kang Mazi almost ran away back to the Northeast on the spot.