Chapter 1458: The Second Examination of Zhang Jing (Part 2)
"Now that the Japanese invasion situation is so serious, Mr. Zhu, what do you think about the suppression of Japanese invaders?" Zhang Jing asked again.
When Zhu Pingan heard this, he paused slightly. Zhang Jing's question was a very complex and huge one.
The Japanese pirates in Jingnan have entered the "big Japanese pirate" period since this year. The Japanese pirates who used to fight in small groups have become more and more numerous. They are numerous and attack cities and lands. They have reached the point of shaking the Ming Dynasty's rule in the south of the Yangtze River. Their harm is no less than that of successive Japanese pirates.
The northern invaders invaded from the border, and the Japanese invasion also reached the level of "war chaos".
Zhu Ping'an came from modern times and knew that this "big Japanese pirate" rebellion would last ten years before it was put down.
Therefore, "suppressing Japanese" is a complex, huge, and systematic proposition. It cannot be explained in a few words, even in three to five days. However, since Zhang Jing asked, he must answer the key points based on history.
After all, Zhang Jing will dominate Jiangnan's political situation for a period of time. The quality of his answers is directly related to whether he has the opportunity to appear on the stage during this period and the weight of his appearance, whether he is a passerby or a corner player.
"My lord, we have the right time, place, people and people. If we carry out a large-scale campaign to suppress the Japanese pirates, we will definitely win! As for the time required to suppress the Japanese pirates, naturally the shorter the better, and the faster the Japanese pirates are eliminated the better. However, considering the actual situation,
Nowadays, Japanese invasions are frequent, long-lasting, large-scale, large in number, and cover a wide area. However, our coastal defenses have been weakened, our coastal defense stations are empty, and our combat power is weak. I believe that eradicating Japanese pirates cannot be done overnight, and I want to do it all at once.
Destroying the Japanese in battle is difficult to achieve, so we need to treat it with caution, plan it slowly, concentrate our forces, deploy troops and generals, and attack by land and water..." After Zhu Pingan thought for a moment, he handed over his hand and replied to Zhang Jing.
After hearing Zhu Pingan's answer, Zhang Jing looked at Zhu Pingan with burning eyes, "Are you saying that it is difficult to quickly annihilate the Japanese pirates in a short period of time?"
"Yes." Zhu Ping'an nodded, "The lower official believes that the Japanese will be victorious, but it is difficult to suppress them urgently, so they must be suppressed gradually."
Zhang Jing looked at Zhu Pingan with burning eyes, tapped the table with his fingers, and raised his voice and said, "Japanese plagues are in our Jiangnan, and most of our government's taxes come from Jiangnan. If Jiangnan is unstable, the country will be unstable. Jiangnan
Maybe, our government's money bag will be deflated, and the suppression of the Japanese pirates is imminent! The Japanese pirates are unjust, but our government is righteous, and the time, place, and people are all in our government, so we can't rush to suppress the Japanese pirates?"
"Xiaoguan also hopes to wipe out the Japanese pirates quickly, but judging from the actual situation, it is difficult." Zhu Pingan shook his head slightly and insisted.
Although he looked at Zhang Jing with an oppressive and questioning attitude, Zhu Ping'an, who came from modern times, knew Zhang Jing's true thoughts.
Urgent suppression was the attitude of Emperor Jiajing, the attitude of the cabinet, but not Zhang Jing's. Zhang Jing was in Jiangnan, and he knew the actual situation in Jiangnan better than Emperor Jiajing. He knew the situation of Japanese pirates and was also familiar with the situation of the Ming Dynasty. He
Zhang Jing is mature and prudent in his work. His attitude is to suppress the Japanese gradually and with full confidence. Zhang Jing also did this in history. Zhang Jing mobilized Guangxi wolf soldiers, dispatched troops, concentrated superior forces, and fully
After preparation, we started to suppress the Japanese...
Seeing Zhu Pingan insisting on his point of view, Zhang Jing's eyes flashed with a hint of appreciation that was difficult to capture.
Zhang Jing also asked Hu Zongxian these questions when he came to look up Japanese pirate information.
Hu Zongxian's answer at the time was: mobilize troops and generals. Since Jiangnan suffered an extraordinary Japanese disaster, we should break the usual pattern and mobilize troops from various provinces southward to support Jiangnan. We should concentrate our superior forces and vigorously kill them, which will greatly defeat the Japanese pirates.
This is the way to get rid of foreign barbarians from peeking into China. This is the way to solve it once and for all.
The two men's strategies for destroying Japanese overlapped but also differed, and Zhang Jing admired them both. Zhu Pingan preferred an overall view, while Hu Zongxian preferred specific strategies. Of course, when it came to destroying Japanese, Zhu Pingan was more cautious, while Hu Zongxian was much more optimistic.
Zhang Jing has been serving as the Minister of War in Yingtian for some time, and he has a thorough understanding of the Japanese pirates in the south of the Yangtze River.
This group of Japanese pirates is strong and ferocious. The Japanese pirates are not unified, but there are countless groups, the big ones are tens of thousands, the small ones are hundreds, most of them are thousands of people. Among them, the strongest one is Wang Zhi, who can command most of them.
The Japanese pirates, followed by Xu Hai, were powerful. Their soldiers and horses were second only to Wang Zhi, and there were more than ten large groups of Japanese pirates such as Peng Laosheng. These Japanese pirates were scattered in the vast sea, sometimes gathering and sometimes scattering. It was really difficult to catch them all!
Several groups of Japanese pirates gathered together, with a large number of people, strong fighting power, and difficult to fight; small groups of Japanese pirates were also mobile and flexible, and difficult to fight. For example, the Japanese pirates who recently committed crazy crimes and were extremely arrogant and landed in Shangyu only had more than a hundred people.
, but he is extremely powerful in combat and extremely flexible. He commits crimes on the run and is hard to trace, causing everyone to be in a state of panic...
Therefore, these Japanese pirates may seem like a mob, but they are actually formidable enemies that are difficult to deal with!
As for the combat effectiveness of the Ming army in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Jing, as the Minister of War in Yingtian, knows very well that it is insufficient, very insufficient...
In such a situation, it is almost impossible to quickly eradicate the Japanese pirates, so Zhang Jing's attitude is also to eliminate them gradually.
If we want to exterminate the Japanese pirates, it is absolutely impossible to rely solely on the Ming army in Jiangnan. The guards in Jiangnan are weak. To put it bluntly, they are almost vulnerable. They have already lost the courage they had when the country was founded.
To destroy the Japanese, we must mobilize troops and generals from other places as Hu Zongxian said. As for the target of the deployment, Zhang Jing had already had an ideal target in mind. Unlike Hu Zongxian who mobilized troops from various provinces in the south, Zhang Jing preferred to mobilize the Guangxi Wolf Army.
soldiers.
That’s right, it’s Guangxi Wolf Soldiers!
Zhang Jing served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was well aware of the power of Guangxi's wolf soldiers. In the 16th year of Jiajing, Guangxi's Duantengxia rebellion occurred. Guangxi's Yao people attacked the city and killed officials, and then attracted many ethnic minorities such as Miao, Yao, and Zhuang to participate in the rebellion, which was huge.
, Emperor Jiajing saw that the situation was serious and ordered Zhang Jing to be the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. After Zhang Jing took office, he finally put down the rebellion after a hard battle. During the process of suppressing the rebellion, he discovered the terrifying combat unit of Guangxi Wolf Soldiers. Guangxi Wolf Soldiers
The soldiers were illiterate and illiterate, but they were brave and fierce. They created a lot of trouble for Zhang Jing in his fight against the rebellion and left a deep impression on Zhang Jing.
Whether the Japanese pirates are tough or the wolf soldiers are tough, Zhang Jing thinks it is the latter.
If there were so many Japanese pirates in the Guangxi wolf soldiers, Zhang Jing felt that he might still be on the road to suppressing the rebellion in Guangxi.
There is a small incident that illustrates the fierceness of Guangxi's wolf soldiers. After Zhang Jing served as the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to quell the rebellion, he suddenly wanted to privately visit various places at the grassroots level to see if they were obeying the king's rule.
Several Zhuang wolf soldiers were hired to accompany them in the village. On the way, a deer happened to jump out. These wolf soldiers, barefoot, chased the deer on foot and walked as fast as flying. They caught the deer with their bare hands, cut the meat and roasted it for dinner.
When an eagle was seen circling in the sky, a wolf soldier took an arrow and shot it down, roasting it and eating it. One night, while staying in a small shop, he happened to encounter a group of robbers. Everyone in the shop looked frightened.
Only a few Zhuang wolf soldiers were able to take care of themselves, so the thieves did not dare to come forward and fled.
In short, Zhang Jing had long planned to mobilize Guangxi wolf soldiers to go north to the south of the Yangtze River to participate in the suppression of Japanese pirates, but he just suffered from the fact that he did not have the power. Although he is the Minister of the Ministry of War in Yingtian, compared with the Minister of the Ministry of War in the capital, he is a capable Minister of the Ministry of War.
Of course, even if he has the power of the Minister of War in the capital, he does not have the power to mobilize troops. The Minister of War seems to be the official of the highest military command organization, but in fact, the Minister of War can control the promotion of military attachés, but he does not do anything about the deployment of troops.
No, the Ministry of War has no such power at all. In the Ming Dynasty, troop transfer was a very serious and sensitive matter that required a lot of procedures. In fact, it was decided by the cabinet. If you want to move Guangxi wolf soldiers, you must get the consent of the cabinet.
It's not enough for the cabinet to agree. The eunuchs in charge of rituals must also agree. The Ministry of War is only the actual executor.