At around nine o'clock the next day, the wind and rain in Gule City had stopped. Because it was built on the top of a mountain, there was no worry about waterlogging. Except for the muddy roads, Gule City was no different from yesterday.
But in the commander's palace, Wang Gao's face was still covered with dark clouds, and his nose was flaring under his red eyes, indicating that thunder was about to strike.
Kneeling on the ground in front of the hall were his eldest son Atai, and the three generals responsible for guarding the city and watching the night. Except for Atai, these generals were all covered in blood on their backs and had already received a round of whipping.
After being suppressed in silence for a while, Wang Gao finally jumped up and hit Atai with the whip in his hand.
Atai knew that Mafa was venting his dissatisfaction with him, but he was indeed deceived by Chamberlain with gifts, and he relaxed his vigilance. There was nothing to argue with, so he shrugged and was beaten without struggling.
Wang Gao vented for a while, and most of his anger was gone. He sat down, took a sip of tea, and asked, "How did that little bitch escape?"
Atai knelt down and replied: "From the reports this morning, it can be inferred that Chamberlain and the three... little bitch first killed the gatekeeper Tarado at his son's house in the middle of the night, and escaped. Then they were on the road.
Encountering a night patrol, Chamberlain launched a surprise attack and killed a team of five people - Chamberlain was also injured and had a little finger cut off."
When Wang Gao heard that the death of the five-man team was only caused by Chamberlain's finger, he became so angry that he threw the tea cup to the ground, breaking it into pieces.
When Atai saw it, he thought that those were all fine porcelain, and Mafa was a waste of money.
Wang Gao asked: "Chamberlain has three heads and six arms? Can he kill five of my people in an instant?" Atai replied: "Two of them were killed while peeing on the street corner. They should have met Chamberlain hiding there. My son shot him in the morning
Asked, one of the remaining three people shouted loudly, but because of the heavy rain, no one came out to check."
After Wang Gao heard this, he stared at the general in charge of night patrol with a sinister look, and his hand holding the whip trembled slightly. The general's teeth were chattering, and he lowered his head and said nothing.
Atai continued: "They later fled to the city wall. They didn't know what they used to hook onto the battlements, and climbed up the wall. While hiding on the city wall, they killed two more soldiers patrolling the wall, and then came out from outside.
The wall dropped."
Wang Gao calmed down and asked: "Where can they run on this rainy day? Have you sent anyone to chase them?"
Atai smiled bitterly and said: "This Buren is very cunning. Yesterday he brought two strong horses and put them in the stables on the other side of the pier. Last night he killed Ma Qige and four soldiers who were watching the pier - they were all killed.
Killed on the kang."
"He took his own horse, um, and a good horse from the stable, and swam across the river. If the three horses were on different rides, they wouldn't be able to catch up now. - This thief is still alive.
The horse feed was mixed with poison, and a number of horses in the stable were poisoned to death."
After Wang Gao heard this, he fell back in anger. His lips trembled and he asked: "How many horses have been poisoned?"
Atai raised his head slightly to look at his father's expression, and saw that his face was flushed and his eyes were fierce, and his heart pounded.
He lowered his head and whispered: "Because it rained yesterday, many families put their horses in the stables. More than 20 horses were poisoned to death, and a dozen others that survived were also crippled."
After hearing this, Wang Gao seemed to be too angry by Chamberlain's operation. He suddenly calmed down and asked Atai in a deep voice: "What else is there to lose? You can tell us together."
Atai said: "He opened the bags where the salt and tea leaves were stored on the dock and left them open - the son didn't know if poison was mixed in them. The tea leaves were probably still usable after being washed and dried. He didn't dare to eat the salt.
There’s no way to wash it either.”
Wang Gao: "...,..."
On the third day, Liu Shou, the director of the Jizhou Bureau's Military Intelligence Division, received a secret letter from Chamberlain through intelligence channels. In the secret letter, Chamberlain explained what he had done in Gule City, apologized and informed Liu
Shouyou and his third sister will never return to the team. From now on, the world will be far apart and they will never see each other again.
Although Chamberlain promised not to tell any third person the inside story of the Jinyiwei intelligence agency, Liu Shouyou's head was still blown up. A total of two spies from the Jizhou Bureau who had won the third-class White Jade Plum Blossom Medal ran away together, and they were definitely Jinyiwei.
The biggest scandal in the second year of Wanli.
The seriousness of the incident was such that no one dared to conceal it. After Liu Shouyou calmed down, he could only report it at every level and plead guilty. At the same time, he sent an intelligence agent to urgently notify Jiliao Governor Liu Yingjie and Commander-in-Chief Li Chengliang, asking them to make decisions based on the latest developments.
Whether military action is ahead of schedule.
After receiving the report, the Jinyiwei headquarters did not dare to hide it and immediately reported it to Zhu Yijun. Zhu Yijun wanted to see the Jizhou Bureau's report and Chamberlain's secret letter, and could only smile bitterly.
He knew that although he would be a cadre in later generations, he would have a dark eye on the working procedures on the intelligence front, confidentiality regulations, handling of defectors, etc., and he would take it for granted that something would go wrong.
The escape of Chamberlain and Sanjieer fully exposed the chaos of management within Jinyiwei, the lack of personnel control and other methods, and the lack of systems. In particular, because Chamberlain joined Jinyiwei earlier, the personnel file has not been updated for more than ten years - since he ran away directly
Judging, there is probably no place to look for his family now.
Although such a person is capable, it is an insult to war, the highest means of political struggle, to put the important military responsibility on his shoulders.
Zhu Yijun gave a long instruction in the Jizhou Bureau report, asking all the Jinyiwei to take this case as a lesson, draw inferences from one example, criticize their crude means of controlling personnel by using only harsh family laws, and ordered them to come up with improvement measures.
Zhu Yijun requested that the management of intelligence personnel should pay equal attention to incentives and control. Internal regulations should be formulated and rewards and punishments should be divided into more detailed levels; all personnel should be repeatedly instilled with discipline and confidentiality rules to make them
It forms a subconscious mind and does not dare to violate the red line.
Personnel files must be updated and reviewed every year to better understand the mental state of personnel when dispatched to undertake major tasks. It is not only about ability, but also to ensure loyalty; the most important thing is to strengthen national and national education so that all Jinyiwei officers and soldiers understand who they are.
What exactly is the responsibility?
Zhu Yijun was not very worried about the consequences of the incident. Wang Gao was already a bereaved dog with a broken back, and he would be killed quickly by the thunder sweeping his hole. As Liu Yingjie and Li Chengliang judged in the memorial, as long as Gu
Once Lecheng is captured, the other Jurchen tribes will be able to eat up the remaining forces of Wang Gao.
On the contrary, we need to use our brains to deal with the Jurchen's follow-up. It is obviously inappropriate to still adopt the strategy of restraining the emperor after a great victory.
Regarding the investigation of Jinyiwei's responsibility for Chamberlain's escape, Zhu Yijun did not get angry. After all, it was a problem of institutional mechanisms, not people. Therefore, from Wang Tong to Liu Yingjie and other related people, they were all guilty of the crime.
No change - Dongchang will be abolished before the end of the year, and then these people will have to be reorganized.
...
The flapping of Chamberlain's wings by this little butterfly led to the adjustment of the entire military operation in Liaodong. On August 15th, the Eastern captives thought that the soldiers and civilians in Liaodong were collecting grain. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Li Chengliang led all 30,000 cavalrymen in Liaodong and came to the enemy.
came out and surrounded Longtou Mountain like a sudden drop of divine soldiers.
The cavalry dismounted, converted into infantry, and attacked Gule City from the bottom of the mountain. They reached the bottom of the city the next day.
In the third year of Wanli in the original time and space, Li Chengliang led 60,000 horsemen to besiege the city and could not capture it for a long time. In the end, Wang Gao's men betrayed and the city was broken.
In the second year of Wanli in this time and space, Zhu Yijun had repeatedly discussed his next step in governing Liaodong with Zhang Juzheng, Liu Yingjie, Qi Jiguang and others. This battle resolutely implemented the fundamental principle that war is a continuation of politics, and the purpose of war is to achieve political goals.
purpose.
Under the guidance of this war thought, Li Chengliang's tribe did not make any move to recruit surrender. After surrounding Gule City, the craftsmen accompanying the army began to build simple catapults.
The imperial eunuch Zhang Jing sent capable personnel to bring the kerosene mixture that Zhu Yijun had instructed the inner government to research and produce according to local oil refining methods last year - the technical limit is that the mixture cannot be separated even further - to Gule
There are forty barrels under the city, totaling one thousand catties.
On August 18, Li Chengliang's troops used a trebuchet to throw clay pots filled with kerosene into the city, and then set off rockets. This lit up Gule City into a huge torch, which burned for four days and three nights, reaching the sky.
The flames illuminated the entire Liaodong.
After the war, an inventory showed that only 30 people in Gule City, including Wang Gao, were hiding in the well and surviving. Zhu Yijun basically fulfilled the third sister's wish to "cut off the roots and die" of Wang Gao's family.
...
After Chamberlain escaped with his third sister, Wang Gao expected that the Queen of Liaodong would attack the city in the autumn. In order to spread the risk, he sent his two sons out. The eldest son, Atai, as the heir, went to Wang Tai, the leader of the Haixi Jurchen Hada tribe, to seek help.
She took refuge and sought alliance; her second son followed his sister-in-law to Juechang'anbu and lived in Zuowei, Jianzhou in the name of visiting relatives.
As soon as the fire was extinguished, Jue Chang'an, the leader of Jianzhou Zuowei, poisoned his granddaughter to death, killing one and two, and sent her body to Liaoyang. Wang Gao's second son, who was only sixteen years old, was sent to the capital. Wang Gao, the leader of the Haixi Jurchen tribe,
General Tai ran to his house and kidnapped Atai, and sent them to the capital together with the heads of thirty soldiers.
After the three members of the Wang family, father and son, were sacrificed to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Wang Gao was not beheaded in the capital as in the original time and space. Instead, he was sent to Fushun, where the imperial court would meet with the Jurchen tribes. These three would have another use at that time.
Li Chengliang, the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army, finally realized his wish to be ennobled. He was rewarded by an earl for his role in destroying Wang Gao. Also rewarded with him was Qi Jiguang, the deputy chief of the Nanyuan Martial Arts Academy, for his role in resisting the Japanese war in Jizhen.