It is difficult to confirm whether history will change drastically due to his own changes, and it is also difficult to guarantee whether Emperor Zhuang Lie will "die in the country" nine years in advance. Dayong, in desperation, agreed to Hou Xun going north to King Qin, but how could King Qin
, but he didn’t know. To be precise, Dayong didn’t know how to raise the food and grass needed to go north.
The army has no food and cannot move forward.
Hou Xun pressed hard, and after Dayong's repeated efforts, he gave Dayong three days. In three days, the Liaodong Army would leave Zhangde and head north. This meant that within three days, Dayong had to prepare enough for more than 20,000 soldiers.
Walking to Beijing for food.
If you are not a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are; if you are not leading an army, you don’t know how difficult it is to march.
Most of the grain and grass transported by the Fourth Guard of the Army from Dengzhou has been consumed. The commander Shao Wu complained to Dayong many times that one hundred kilograms of grain was shipped from Dengzhou, but in the end only forty kilograms were delivered, and the remaining sixty kilograms were on the way.
It was all eaten by the soldiers escorting them. And half of the forty kilograms of grain that arrived was used to help the victims gathered along the way. Only a pitiful one-fifth actually went into the stomachs of the Liaodong Army officers and soldiers.
Now, even this poor one-fifth cannot be guaranteed. Because of the lengthening of the front, the existing troops and transportation capabilities of the Fourth Guard can no longer bear the transshipment of military grain, and the grain purchased by Dengzhou through sea trade can no longer be guaranteed.
If they continue to supply the front line, Dengzhou will not be able to guarantee the supply of food rations for the immigrants. In this way, it will be useless no matter how many victims the front line accommodates, because when they go to Dengzhou after all the hard work, they will be waiting for them.
The end result is starvation.
Shao Wu also told Dayong that the Fourth Guard had been attacked by many bandits during the process of transporting food, and even hungry victims attacked the food transport team. In order to protect this hard-won food, the Fourth Guard had sacrificed his life.
More than a hundred people, if this continues, more people will die. Moreover, the officers and soldiers along the way seem to have become interested in the Liaodong Army, which has food. Local guardsmen were actually found among the captured bandits.
It's easy to deal with bandits and hungry victims, but if the officers and soldiers of the guard station also participate in the attack on the Liaodong Army, then the 40,000 people of the Fourth Guard alone will not be able to take on the task of transporting food and fighting at the same time.
The officers and soldiers of the guard station were fighting.
Helpless, Dayong ordered Dengzhou to stop transporting food to the front line. This was not because he was afraid that the guards officers and soldiers would take advantage of the situation, but because he could not accept that due to the constant loss of food, Dengzhou would be dragged down and become a hell on earth again. He saved
There aren't that many people, so why bother if more people die because of saving others!
Stopping the delivery of military rations to Dengzhou means that the Liaodong Army must have another way to obtain food. This way is entirely left to the court. In the past few days, the Liaodong Army has been waiting for the rations allocated by the court, and beheaded more than 40,000 bandits.
The great victory was enough for the court to change its view of the Liaodong Army, and it was enough for the court to put aside its previous grievances and give some support to this brave and capable army!
Hou Xun said that the Liaodong Army seized a lot of grain and grass from the rogue bandits, but the fact was that the grain and grass seized was not much at all. The rogue bandits themselves were not engaged in production. They fought entirely to support the war. Their own sustenance depended entirely on robbing, and they ate up all this place
Going to rob that place again, in this way of "survival", it is simply a joke to expect them to be able to accumulate a large amount of food and grass.
The Liaodong Army gathered too many refugees along the way. In order to prevent these refugees from starving to death and allow them to move to Dengzhou alive, Dayong repeatedly ordered the soldiers to tighten their stomachs and remove the food in their mouths.
A mouthful of food is saved for these hungry people who are almost dying of hunger.
In the process of clearing out the Hui Muslims, many times the Liaodong Army had just broken through the Hui villages, only to be followed by the influx of thousands of hungry people. Faced with the hungry people who were so hungry that only their skin and bones were left, the soldiers could be ruthless enough to chase them away.
They left, and then the few grains were transported away in front of them?
No one can be so ruthless, not even the man-eating and ferocious tiger guards.
The Tiger Guards saw with their own eyes that a woman cut off her own thigh flesh with a knife in order to keep her child alive!
The tiger guards have all eaten people, but they have never cut off their own flesh. They can't imagine how the mother gritted her teeth to cut off her own flesh to feed her children. They can't imagine how the mother endured the huge pain.
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They only knew that when the hungry child became alive because of the broth made from the mother's flesh, the woman who almost fainted from pain was full of smiles, full of smiles...
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At that moment, all the Tiger Guards who witnessed it had sore noses, and they were so fierce that they sometimes shed tears.
When Dayong heard this, he was also uncontrollably sad. Faced with this tragedy in the world, he did everything he could, but he couldn't do so much. He really couldn't save so many people! He could only lament that God why
Do this to the Ming Dynasty, let the people of the Ming Dynasty suffer this torture!
Daming, my Daming! Why did you become like this, why did you become like this!
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The existing food reserves in the army can only last for five days. Within five days, both officers and soldiers will have four rations, two in the morning and two in the evening. In addition, it is salty soup made from rotten vegetable leaves. Because
The consumption of salt is too great. In two days, even the salty soup that can replenish the soldiers' strength will not be available. The front line is better, because there are a large number of dead and wounded horses from the former Huihui cavalry to eat. The Liaodong Army
Shang Xia was able to eat horse meat every time, but now, where to find so many dead horses to eat. The living horses were treated as treasures and fed as much as people. Five days later, the Liaodong Army
The entire army must be starved of food.
It was originally thought that after the documents reporting victory were sent up, the imperial court would send food and grass to the Liaodong Army, but now, not only did the imperial court not send a single grain of food, but it also asked them to go to Qinwang hungry. No one else could figure it out, and no one else would do it.
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At the military meeting, except for Cao Bianjiao who was still in Lin County, all the Liaodong army generals, including Jiang Wanli, unanimously opposed going north to King Qin for no other reason than that - he couldn't go without food!
Huang An, the commander of the Army's Second Guards, who was Dayong's old subordinate in Songshan, knelt in front of Dayong almost as if begging, and tried hard to persuade him not to go north to King Qin. Without the support of food and grass, going north to King Qin was a dead end, absolutely a dead end.
We cannot just watch the Liaodong Army, which finally reached its current size, collapse.
"We are worthy of the imperial court, worthy of the Ming Dynasty!" Li Dashan, the commander of the third guard who was a bandit, looked at Dayong with red eyes and shouted: "I won't go anywhere without food! Even if you kill me!"
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The unity of all the generals was so unanimous that it was difficult for Dayong to speak, and it was even more difficult to force these brothers who had fought with him all the way to follow him on the road of no return.
"If we don't go to King Qin, if Donglu really captures the capital, wouldn't we be eternal sinners?" Dayong really wanted these brothers to understand his helplessness and support him, but it was difficult for him to convince them because he
I don’t know how diligent this king is.
The generals were silent, and no one spoke to Dayong. When Dayong looked at them, they all immediately turned their heads away, not wanting to look at Dayong at all.
With a long sigh, Dayong knew that this king would no longer be able to fight diligently, not even Guo Dacheng and Luo Rucai, unless he could produce food.
In the silence, a voice suddenly came over: "We have food, we have a lot of food, we can go north to King Qin!"
These words made everyone turn around in unison. The person who spoke was the young officer Lin Junyi. Faced with the confused and surprised eyes that everyone looked at him, he seemed very calm.