Chapter 175 The Central Plains is now not the hinterland but the outer line!
Why did Sun Chuanting go to Ruzhou? Zhu Youjian really couldn't figure it out. After calming down for a while, he began to think about the reasons and the impact of this incident.
Was he under some pressure to go to Ruzhou? Or was there something wrong with his strategic vision and he felt that the bandits could be easily wiped out. If it was the former, it at least meant that there was nothing wrong with his abilities. If it was the latter, the situation would be even worse.
I can't figure out the reason for a while, but the matter still needs to be solved. The information in the Tong newspaper is quite vague. I don't know how much his losses will be in this defeat, and whether he still has the strength to defend Tongguan. If his family fortune is all
Folding it in would mean laying the heaviest flag and white cloth since traveling through time.
"Grand Master, my soldiers, can you tell me why Boya has to go to Ruzhou?" After calling Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia, Zhu Youjian wanted to know what the relationship between Sun Chuanting's troops leaving Ruzhou and the imperial court was.
"Your Majesty, I am waiting for the death penalty. Boya's troops left Ruzhou and easily destroyed the elite of the country. We are guilty of knowing others but not knowing them." Zhou Yanru knelt on the ground and confessed silently, saying that he and others were ignorant of others.
"Tell me first, whether Boya's troops left Ruzhou was his own idea or yours." Sun Chuanting sent troops to Zhengzhou and Kaifeng. For such a big thing, the more Zhu Youjian thought about it, the more he felt that it was not his alone.
Zhou Yanru, Chen Xinjia and others must have been involved. At least for such a large military operation, Sun Chuanting would file a document with the court. As the emperor, he didn't know anything about it. There must be something wrong in some link.
"Your Majesty, I was so confused that when I saw that Boya had sent me a petition for war, I ordered him to recover Kaifeng City before withdrawing his troops."
Sun Chuanting would ask for a war in a strange way? "I'm afraid it's not as simple as issuing a court order, right? Tell me, what is going on? Did some gentry or officials write a letter to force Sun Boya to use troops to end the war as soon as possible?"
"We are punished by death! The court has indeed received many memorials from the officials and gentry of Qin, Yu and other places, asking Boya to put an end to the chaos as soon as possible so as to reduce their burden of food and wages. In order to urge Boya to devote himself to state affairs, we sent the Youqian Duyu
Shi Lu Zhenfei went to Luoyang to supervise affairs."
Lu Zhenfei? If I remember correctly, he was Zhou Yanru's political enemy. It would be even more difficult to use a political enemy to go to Luoyang to urge Sun Chuanting.
"You think the Ming Dynasty didn't die quickly enough, right? You have to finish your family's fortune before you can retire! Back then, Wu Qiao caused Kong Youde and others to cause trouble in Shandong because of a chicken. Today, in order to reduce their own burdens, the officials and gentry have forced Sun Chuanting's ministry to
Die. Tell me about this, who is responsible? If I don’t hold people accountable this time, how can I explain it to the world and the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty?" It is estimated that Zhou Yanru and others felt that the paper could not contain the fire, so they had to admit it readily.
It's nonsense. They just admit it. Even if it's a bad thing, they have to squeeze some oil out of it.
"Old minister and Jian Heng cannot absolve themselves of the blame for not thinking things through, and they are willing to take responsibility." Zhou Yanru was a bachelor, and he happily stood up to accept the blame. It would be useless for them not to accept the blame. In the military intelligence conference held a few days ago, the emperor just said
They have failed to achieve peace in the world. Now that something like this has happened, doesn't it mean that they have made a serious mistake in their military line? It is conceivable that the officials below are already planning what actions. Being an official is like this
Well, as long as the important officials of the imperial court make mistakes, they will have business. Although Zhou Yanru and Chen Xinjia did not necessarily add jealousy when they made decisions.
Short-sighted military strategy ruined His Majesty's strategy of exterminating thieves, resulting in a major crisis in national affairs. This alone is enough to make Zhou Yanru, Chen Xinjia and others doomed. No matter how eloquent you are, the facts are in front of you. Sun Chuanting was defeated.
, what else do you have to say? It was your court order to send troops.
"Responsible? Can you take responsibility? Now it seems that you can't rely on you to plan military affairs! Let's do this. We have taken away the power of the Ministry of War to mobilize troops. The Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Royal Horse Supervisor will jointly form the Ming Dynasty.
In the Military Order Hall, for all major military affairs in the future, the Ministry of War is responsible for the planning and planning, and the Military Order Hall is responsible for general discussions and military marching orders. Any deployment involving more than 5,000 soldiers and horses and some large-scale military strategic deployments must be reported to the emperor for approval before military orders can be implemented. The Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army
, the Ministry of War's palm seal is Shangshu, the Royal Horse Supervisor's palm is the Chief Counselor of the Military Order Hall, and the remaining Ministers of the Ministry of War, the Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Army Governor's Office, the Royal Horse Supervisor and other supervisors are deputy counselors, and the Military Order Hall seal is personally controlled by me. All military matters,
The three chief counselors will discuss small matters together, and the chief and deputy counselors will discuss major matters together, and the results will be reported to me for approval."
Originally, Zhu Youjian didn't want to start the restructuring of the military command department so early. But he couldn't resist the nonsense of these pig teammates, so now he took advantage of Chen Xinjia and the others' big mistake to take back the general order from the military department. Strictly speaking, the Ming Dynasty's military order
It's not in the Ministry of War. But the garrison is useless. The real war is fought by the camp system. In fact, military orders are also in the hands of the Ministry of War. There is an ancestral system to rely on to take back the military order power. There is very little room for them to make irresponsible remarks.
"Your Majesty, taking back the Ministry of War's power to mobilize troops is a serious matter, and you need to think twice." Although Zhou Yanru's cabinet has few checks and balances on the Ministry of War, but now that taking the power of the Ministry of War is taking away the power of the entire civil service group, he naturally has to express his opinion.
"Think twice? Think again. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will be ruined. I have always said that military strategy is a very professional matter, but you just don't listen. With so many people, can't you see that all the supplies for Sun Chuanting's army have to be shipped from Guanzhong?
?How many miles is it from Guanzhong to Ruzhou? Where did Sun Chuanting come from to guard such a long supply line? You can't even understand basic arithmetic, and you still call yourself a civil servant. You are losing face with the word civil servant, you
If you just go to the street and find a bookboy, you can figure this out. Day by day, we are talking about peace in the world! Even if you can't do it at all, you try to do big things. The main officials of the Ministry of War and the cabinet ministers, as well as the six ministers and ministers tomorrow
Assemble in the middle hall, I will give you a personal military knowledge class, and those who fail the assessment after class will be dismissed from office."
Some details of Sun Chuanting's defeat were passed on. The simple one is that the logistics line was cut off by Li Zicheng. Without food, the soldiers on the front line would naturally be unable to resist. It would be strange to lose the morale of the army.
Interpreting this battle from another angle, you can also understand that starting from Tongguan, Li Zicheng gradually lured the enemy deeper, stretched the supply line of the Ming army, and killed him with one blow after reaching Ruzhou. The truth is that Comrade Li was really not that
With long-term and in-depth tactical arrangements, he could not defeat Lao Sun in Tongguan, and in Ruzhou, Lao Sun could not defeat Lao Li either.
The essence of the problem lies in the hundreds of miles between Guanzhong and Ruzhou. Sun Chuanting, who is experienced in military formations, does not know that he has no troops to guard such a long supply line. The mistake he made was that he underestimated the current situation in the Central Plains. He thought that he
The food and grass for these tens of thousands of people can be provided from the Central Plains. This idea is too naive. The Central Plains of today is not the Central Plains of a few years ago. Rogue bandits have been raging for such a long time, and serious agricultural production is basically impossible. People who have food
They won't be given food. Going to the Central Plains is no different from going to the outside world. They are fighting on a large external front, and all supplies have to be transported from abroad.