Ma Fang's words are simply in line with Gao's pragmatic intentions. Defensive warfare is certainly the best choice for infantry against cavalry, but most of the time, defensive warfare means that the opponent always has the initiative in the war.
Come and leave when you want. Even if the attack is unfavorable, you can withdraw in time to stop the loss.
There is a saying that you can only commit a thief for a thousand days, but how can you guard against a thief for a thousand days? If you guard against a thief for a thousand days, you will eventually make a mistake.
Although he was highly pragmatic and fought two beautiful battles to "pacify the south and pacify the north", the victory in these two battles was actually more about the political and economic aspects, not necessarily his ability to command on the battlefield.
If he was really that powerful, he would not have needed the sharp blades of Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling to act as vanguards in Annan. Instead, he had been sitting in the middle of the army holding down the formation. At the same time, he had also used political means to subdue the Mo family and the Ruan family several times in a row, and only
Treating the Zheng family as an enemy that must be punished - wouldn't it be even more powerful to directly send troops to sweep all the way?
If he was really that powerful, he wouldn't have needed to find ways to combine Han Naji's strength, Zhongjin Hatun's name, and Totok Chatai Ky's ability before sending troops in Monan - directly mobilize Xuanda, Ji Liao, etc.
If the town officials and troops go to win this battle, wouldn't it make them more famous all over the world?
If he had led the Ming army to victory in the two battles between Annan and Dingbei, he might have been knighted by the civil servants now, right? After all, this was the two biggest victories in foreign wars since the founding of the Ming Dynasty and after the Jingnan War.
, does it make sense not to give a knighthood?
But the problem is, he can't do it!
He asked himself, just in terms of commanding operations, he really didn't have the ability of Qi Jiguang. He could be overwhelming when attacking, and he could be as solid as a rock when defending. Therefore, this method of guarding against thieves for a thousand days was probably not very good.
suit myself.
Moreover, war is not a child's play, especially in military-controlled areas like Liaodong, where there is no formal civilian administrative organization at the grassroots level of society, and it is usually managed by a group of guard officers.
There is no doubt that the job of this group of people is to guard the border, and they are amateurs in administrative management. Once faced with a war, they must focus on their own jobs, so the grassroots administration will obviously be in a state of neglect.
How can this work? In this case, wouldn’t his high-pragmatic plan to build southern Liaoning be kicked off by Tumen and speculators as soon as it started?
Previously, Gao Pragmatic felt that Tumen had chosen a good time to come this time, which was also an important reason.
In addition, Gao Pragmatic had another very important reason, which prompted him to quickly and decisively fight back Tumen and Chaohua. Moreover, he could not simply force them back. He had to do what Ma Fang said.
, I want to beat Tumen and Chaohua to pain and fear!
The reason lies in Li Chengliang.
At first, when Gao Pingshi heard about Tumen and spent 20,000 cavalry going south, the first thing he thought of was Li Chengliang - this guy was so lucky. Not only did he go to fight Gule Village, but he also happened to spread the news.
Already entered the mountain.
The fact that Li Chengliang went to attack Gule Village did indeed happen before Tumen and Chaohua went south. This can basically rule out the suspicion that he had liaison with Mongolia. However, liaison can be ruled out, but tacit understanding cannot necessarily be ruled out.
It stands to reason that this year we just fought a decisive battle like the Monan War. Not only did Tumen, the loser, suffer heavy losses and are in urgent need of repairs, but could it be that Daming, the winner, was really made of iron and had no adverse effects at all?
Nonsense!
Let’s not mention anything else. Just when the Ministry of Revenue looked at the list of rewards, even the officials almost gave up their picks. Isn’t this a clear sign that there is trouble? If the Ministry of Revenue has a full treasury and is as wealthy as the American emperors during World War II, they will
As for arguing with the cabinet and the Ministry of War for more than a month before announcing the specific rewards?
If everyone from top to bottom hadn't known that it was impossible for the imperial court to default on its debts in the face of such a great victory, and it took so long to come up with the reward, Xuanda, Ji Liao and other places that participated in sending troops would have had to cause several mutinies!
It can be seen that not only the Tu people needed to recuperate, but the Ming Dynasty also needed to recuperate. This almost became an important basis for the Xin School to reject Gao Pragmatic's appointment in Liaodong.
Therefore, it was a little weird that Li Chengliang sent troops to Gule Village, and when he arrived in Liaoyang, he only prepared for less than a month and went directly into the mountains, which was even weirder.
Are Liaoyang's material reserves actually so rich? Or does Li Chengliang think that a broken Jianzhou Jurchen is not his enemy at all, but a scumbag who can be easily captured?
Although the Jianzhou Jurchens are not yet in charge of Nurhaci, they will not be able to fight against the Five Scums no matter what. If they are really a group of people who have the foundation to fight against the Five Scums, then wouldn’t Nurhachi’s ability in the original history be incredible?
Gao Pragmatic can admit that Nurhaci is indeed an outstanding leader among the Jurchens, but judging from Nurhaci's later performance, at least the word "defying heaven" does not belong to him. Rather than saying that Nurhaci is defying heaven, Gao Pragmatic would rather admit that his father Ba Geng
A bit contrary to nature.
Fortunately, his baby doesn't exist yet. If I remember correctly, he won't be born until ten years later, so it's not a threat.
So, the most reasonable judgment now is that Li Chengliang was indeed planning to attack Gule Village originally, but since Li Rugui's incident happened, due to some uncertain reasons, Li Chengliang abruptly advanced the time of dispatching troops.
As for why it was brought forward, there shouldn't be much doubt about it. It was simply that Li Chengliang wanted to create an "alibi" for himself.
But after Li Chengliang did this, his next plan was not easy to judge.
According to common sense, by doing this he wanted to "sell" Liaonan. To a large extent, he should be borrowing a knife to kill someone - and the person he killed was naturally Gao Pragmatic.
But Gao Pragmatic also felt that there was another possibility: Li Chengliang might not really dare to let Gao Gao die in Liaodong.
This idea seems a little unreasonable at first glance, because since Li Chengliang dared to sell Liaodong, he must have had a backer at the central level.
Since it's going to be sold, let's just sell it completely. After Liaonan is beaten to a pulp and proves that Gao Pragmatic is a so-called famous commander in name only, Ning Yuanbo will return to the army to clean up the mess.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At that time, whether it was the court or the emperor, even if they did not want to admit it, they could only hold their noses and say that Li Chengliang was indispensable to Liaodong.
In that case, his position will be as stable as Mount Tai.
However, Li Chengliang in history was very cautious in his career as an official. He had a very clear idea of who he could offend and who he could not offend.
And during his time in Zhenliao, who was the person who he really did not dare to offend from the beginning to the end? It may even be a bit unbelievable to say that this person was named Gao Huai, and he was a guard eunuch.
Gao Huai was originally the Supervisor of Shangshan. In the 24th year of Wanli, he was ordered to open mines and collect taxes in Liaodong. After he arrived in Liaodong, his minion Liao Guotai changed violently and abused the people. He falsely accused and arrested dozens of people. When he was framed and impeached,
When he was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, Ma Lin, he also deducted the monthly rations of the sergeants, which caused the garrison in the former garrison, Jinzhou, Songshan and other places to make noise. He fled back to Beijing, and falsely accused Wang Bangcai, his colleague, and the general Li Huoyang, which stirred up the anger in Liaodong.
Domestic chaos.
Although Li Chengliang was out of office at that time, he had been acting as Gao Huai's accomplice while Gao Huai was supervising the Liao Dynasty, and did not curb his behavior at all. There are two reasons for this: one is to defeat Ma Lin and let Liaodong return to the hands of the Li family;
Second, Gao Huai could not afford to offend—this man was a close confidant of Emperor Wanli.
Therefore, Li Chengliang knew very well who should not be offended - the cronies around the emperor were far more unacceptable than civil servants.
For civil servants, he only needed to respect him in a face-to-face manner, and the rest was nothing more than giving money and gifts, and taking good care of him. But the cronies around the emperor could not do that. These people could influence the emperor's view of him, Li Chengliang, at any time.
The reason why military generals are afraid of civilian officials is that the later the period, the greater the checks and balances on the emperor by civilian officials. So once military generals conflict with civilian officials, the emperor will most likely choose to give face to the civilian officials and suppress the military generals.
But in the final analysis, what military commanders fear is actually the emperor, and civilian officials actually use imperial power to suppress military commanders.
The reason why imperial power is checked and balanced by civilian officials is because civilian officials control public opinion. For the sake of posthumous reputation, the emperor has to show more respect to civilian officials. However, the emperor does not necessarily need to show such respect to generals. When it comes to hiring people, I will not be inferior to you.
You can't affect my reputation, so I can do whatever I want.
However, if ordinary civil servants were dissatisfied with Li Chengliang and wanted to get rid of him, they could not find a solution directly from the emperor. They had to find many truths and many reasons to support their arguments and persuade the emperor to believe in Li Chengliang.
It is not applicable, and these reasons and reasons must be theoretically defensible, which is very difficult.
But the situation is different for the cronies around the emperor, such as eunuchs. They only need to think a little bit, and they can easily create a direct impression on the emperor in a few sentences, for example: Li Chengliang is unfaithful.
When civil servants said that Li Chengliang was unfaithful, they needed to produce a lot of evidence to prove that they were not lying; when eunuchs said that Li Chengliang was unfaithful, he only needed to give a few small examples. It didn't even matter whether these examples were real or not. The emperor listened.
It may leave a thorn in the heart, and the more you look at Li Chengliang, the more he feels disloyal. If there is any slight disqualification, it will be associated with disloyalty.
There's no point in playing anymore.
Gao Huai, who was Zhu Yijun's confidant and served as the eunuch guarding Liaodong, had such influence. As a close confidant of the emperor and Gao Shidu, who had been his classmate for ten years, Li Chengliang wouldn't worry that Gao Pragmatic had such influence?
Obviously he would definitely be worried. Even from the emperor's recent promotions and generous gifts to Gao Jingshi, it can be seen that Gao Jingshi's status in the emperor's mind is extremely special.
If Gao Pangshi died in Liaonan, even if Li Chengliang could prove that he was good at fighting, he would be deeply resented by the emperor.
Most civil servants who are resented by the emperor will not necessarily die, just like those officials or cabinet elders who offended the emperor. Especially the cabinet elders, sometimes the opinions they put forward made the emperor start to curse in his heart, and they even praised "love" in front of face.
"The noble minister is loyal to the country, and he is truly a role model for courtiers." The best we can do is find ways to give him a sore thumb, and when he goes to court to defend himself and resign, pretend that he cannot be retained and send him home.
But the generals are different. The emperor versus the generals, life and death are all in one thought!
Gao pragmatic believed that Li Chengliang definitely understood this truth, so it was very likely that he would suddenly come back when Liaonan was in the most danger and "save" his life, Gao, at the critical moment.
With such an incident, can Gao Pragmatic, a civil servant with an excellent reputation, continue to suppress Li? Obviously not, because this is contrary to the way of being a man and the way of a gentleman - a drop of kindness should be like a spring.
Not only do you not repay kindness, but you repay kindness with hatred. How dare you continue to hang out? It would be strange if the gentlemen of the scholarly community don't scold you until you are bloody!
Gao Pragmatic naturally refused to let this happen, so not only could he not give Li Chengliang a chance to save his life, he couldn't even give him a chance to help!
He must defeat the Tumen and Huahua coalition alone, quickly or even completely before Li Chengliang even reacts!
"What the Governor said is absolutely true." Gao Pragmatic's face darkened, and he said coldly: "Tumen, my defeated general, the dead soul under the sword; Chaohua, a mere chieftain, a clown. These two thieves are nothing to me.
How can I allow them to act arrogantly when there are two dry bones in the grave?
This battle comes at the right time, I will make this generation never dare to look south again from now on!"
This sounds domineering!
Ma Fang, a fierce general who once strongly advocated "using cavalry to defeat cavalry" against Mongolia, felt his blood well up when he heard this, and suddenly slapped his thigh: "Bing Xian said it well! Although I am old, I still ask myself whether I can use the sword. I dare to fight in this battle.
Please use the army as the vanguard and go to the north of Liaohe River to kill him seven times in and seven out, so as to live up to the man in this life!"
Ma Dong originally thought that his father was too impulsive. He was already in his sixties, so why did he still ask for orders to be a pioneer? But when he heard his father's last words, he suddenly felt so ashamed that his face turned red!
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This Yuzhou man's eyes suddenly turned red. He stood up suddenly, took a step forward and knelt down in front of Gao Pangshi, and kowtowed so hard that the floor made a "bang" sound.
Gao Pangshi was taken aback and was about to stand up to help him up when he heard Ma Dong loudly say in an angry tone that he could not imagine at ordinary times: "Bingxian, even though Dong is incompetent, he also knows that he has a lot of talent.
Xia asked about filial piety. Confucius said: Sex is difficult. If something happens, I will do my best.
This is the year of Yan's family, and Dong is his son. He is in the prime of his life. How can he dare to follow Jiayan when something happens? There is no need for Jiayan to come in person in this battle. Dong should be the vanguard! But if there is a hint of fear of the enemy, he will not hesitate.
Lao Bing Xian is responsible for questioning, and I should give my head to the Bing Xian to rectify the military law!"
Then he kowtowed again with a bang, and his tone was unusually awe-inspiring: "Ma Dong, the right-hand general who will be guarding Haigai, please ask for military orders. With Dong as the vanguard, we will destroy the enemy invaders. I hope the military constitution will be completed!"
Gao Pingshi had gradually come to his senses at this time. He glanced at Ma Fang quietly and saw that Ma Fang was showing a rare smile of relief to his eldest son.
When Ma Fang saw Gao Yingshi looking at him, he also looked at Gao Yingshi and nodded slightly.
Gao pragmatic laughed, stood up, took a step forward, held Ma Dong's shoulders, patted him hard, and said loudly: "Okay, he is indeed the 'famous General Wanli Ma, the white-haired and loyal man is known all over the world' Malanxi
The son of 'Master Ma' is truly a hero, loyal and brave!"
Gao Pingshi paused, stood up straight, and shouted solemnly: "General Ma Dong, the right commander of the branch guard Hai Gai, listen to the order!"
Ma Dong's blood surged. He was still kneeling on his knees, but he straightened his body and clasped his fists hard: "The end is here!"
"You don't need to be the vanguard in this battle..."
Ma Fang and Ma Dong were both stunned. Ma Dong was so anxious that he wanted to speak quickly, but Gao Pingshi reached out and stopped him.
Then I heard Gao Pingshi say solemnly: "This military constitution appoints you as the commander-in-chief of the Central Army, to command the troops and horses in southern Liaoning, to destroy the enemy invaders for me, and to spread the power of tomorrow on the border... Do you dare to accept this order?"
"Why don't you dare!" Ma Dong clasped his fists fiercely: "The last general will take the order! Dong will die a hundred times, and he will live up to the trust of the military constitution!"
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