Four hundred and sixty seventh chapter Deng Lai battle report
Zhong Jinwei felt excited when he saw that his suggestion was adopted by Emperor Chongzhen and the arrangements were made.
After a while, he calmed down and told Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, you previously ordered Governor Denglai to send troops to support the Jinzhou front line. Now that the Jianlu have retreated, firstly, their strategic purpose has been achieved, and secondly,
Then the Jianlu troops will shrink back, which will inevitably increase the pressure on Denglai's front line. The Denglai governor has just arrived and needs to be familiar with the process of training the army. It is better to send someone to inform them, lest they encounter the superior Jianlu and suffer heavy losses.
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Emperor Chongzhen nodded. What Master Zhong said made sense. Lu Xiangsheng had indeed not been here long. His previous intention was just to force his harassment to drive back the Jinzhou prisoners. Now that he had achieved his goal, there was no need to continue fighting.
So he answered Zhong Jinwei: "Just follow what Master Zhong played."
Just when Emperor Chongzhen was about to deliver the decree and send someone, there was another movement outside the palace. The voice gradually became clearer: "Denglai reported victory, killed 446 Jianlu captives, and burned countless Jianbu captives' food and grass."
Several people in the Wenhua Hall heard it clearly, and they couldn't help but look happy.
Liang Tingdong, Secretary of the Ministry of War, immediately reported to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, Jinzhou's retreat must have been caused by Denglai beating the Jianlu captives."
Emperor Chongzhen smiled and nodded. Everyone should have guessed it without him having to say anything.
The envoy reporting the victory soon entered the Wenhua Hall and knelt down to report the victory again to Emperor Chongzhen.
A discerning chamberlain on one side had already been waiting for him, and he immediately brought the good news and presented it to Emperor Chongzhen.
Zhong Jinwei, Wen Tiren and Liang Tingdong all watched Emperor Chongzhen reading the victory report, waiting to hear the specific battle situation. They thought that it was really surprising that Lu Xiangsheng had won a big victory not long after arriving in Denglai.
However, Liang Tingdong suddenly started to worry again while he was waiting. He remembered that when Governor Denglai said that he wanted to fight in Korea, wouldn't he use the heads of Koreans as captives?
But when he paid attention to Emperor Chongzhen's face, he seemed to feel that his thoughts were different, because the joy on Emperor Chongzhen's face became more and more intense, and his mouth was about to burst into laughter.
Suddenly, Emperor Chongzhen put the memorial together with a "pop" sound, and said to Zhong Jinwei who was looking at him: "Master Zhong, the Lu Xiangsheng you recommended is really powerful. When he was at Qingshui Mingyue Pass, he captured the slave chieftain, I
I still thought it was luck. But now he has won another big victory in Denglai, and he is truly a pillar of the imperial court!"
Hearing Emperor Chongzhen praise Lu Xiangsheng so much, the three people below wanted to see the detailed battle report.
Zhong Jinwei first received the memorial sent by the chamberlain, and immediately started reading it, nodding while reading.
It turned out that after Lu Xiangsheng received Liu Xingzhi's report that day, he originally planned to lead his army to North Korea, with the North Koreans who had fled to Dongjiang as the guide, and prepared to deal a severe blow to the Jianlu who were searching for food everywhere.
Unexpectedly, on the night when they first arrived at Pi Island, another Korean escaped to Pi Island and brought news that Jianlu had loaded many carts with the grain collected in North Korea and had just set off back to Liaodong.
Lu Xiangsheng had originally deduced that the Liaodong built captives were short of food, and upon hearing such news, he would not let it go.
After he found out that the troops escorting the grain and grass were only 500 Jianlu and 1,000 Korean infantry, he made a prompt decision and led his army to change the direction of the main attack.
While he first sent Ming troops from various islands to harass and confuse Jianlu, he also pursued Jianlu's grain trucks by sea.
After the Ye Bu Shu sent out to detect traces of Jianlu's convoy, Lu Xiangsheng decided to catch them all.
There are two reasons. First, there are only 500 Jianlu in the food protection team with combat effectiveness. In addition, for the 1,000 Korean infantry, Jianlu regarded him as a coolie, and the Ming army regarded him as non-existent.
Secondly, if this batch of food can be robbed halfway, it will not only make the Jianluo more short of food, but also solve the food problem of Denglai, so that they will not be so embarrassed.
Therefore, while Lu Xiangsheng ordered Yan Yingyuan to lead the fleet up the Yalu River to meet the enemy, he also ordered Zu Dale and himself to watch the flags and outflank the enemy troops on both sides when they approached the enemy, striving to annihilate them all. Only in this way could he have time to rush to transport food to the Yalu River.
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For this reason, Lu Xiangsheng did not hesitate to waste his horsepower and chased the Jianlu grain transport convoy.
Although the place where we finally caught up was a little closer to Phoenix City where Jianlu was stationed, we still managed to catch up.
This battle is conducive to a quick victory, but Lu Xiangsheng is a little worried about whether the cavalry chasing Jianlu can complete this task.
Because part of the cavalry was his standard battalion, and most of them were the people he had brought to King Qin of the capital. Although they had experienced the battle of Qingshui Mingyue Pass and a period of training, this pursuit battle was different from before.
Likewise, the Jianlu we faced was not the same Jianlu who was extremely exhausted and ran away overnight.
The remaining cavalry were all Guan Ning's cavalry. Although they were well equipped, their performance against the Jianlu in the wild was really poor. They were even defeated by the extremely exhausted Jianlu in the Battle of Gyeonggi.
In order to achieve the predetermined goal, Lu Xiangsheng gave Zu Dale strict orders. After surrounding Jianlu's grain transport convoy, Jianlu must not be allowed to escape.
Then he personally charged into the main attack, defeated the main force of Jianlu's stubborn resistance, and opened a gap in Jianlu's defense.
Therefore, he is always on the front line whether in pursuit or in battle.
But in the end, they still fell short, and more than fifty prisoners were driven away from Zu Dale's defense line.
After the Jianlu in Phoenix City got the news, they would definitely counterattack wildly. The Ming army had already exhausted most of its horsepower before. If they did not make a decisive decision and burned the food and ran away with bare hands, they might not have time to retreat to the Yalu River.
Given the choice between food and the cavalry army, Lu Xiangsheng chose the cavalry army.
When Yan Yingyuan's boat carrying the cavalry left the shore, Jianlu caught up with him, but he could only stare and curse.
Lu Xiangsheng demoted Zu Dalue's deputy general to the rank of participating general on the grounds that Zu Dalue was ineffective in fighting and the soldiers he commanded violated military discipline.
In addition, a list of names of people who performed meritorious service in this war was also reported, among which there were many leaders of the peasant army who were exiled to Denglai. Among them, Zhang Xianzhong was the most prominent, killing the most prisoners.
After Zhong Jinwei read it, Wen Tiren also read the memorial and passed it to Liang Tingdong while sighing: "What a pity for those grains!"
As the chief minister, he had to worry a lot about civil affairs, and he also had an idea of the food situation in various places. If Lu Xiangsheng successfully intercepted so much food, at least Denglai's food would not have to worry about it in a short time.
Emperor Chongzhen was just happy, but when he heard Wen Tiren sigh, he also thought about it. He patted the imperial table and said: "After the heads are inspected, the cabinet will discuss with the Ministry of War to reward the meritorious officers and soldiers, and I will give them another reward."
The governor of Denglai, Shang Fang, has a sword. Military attachés below the third rank can kill it first and then play it."
Wen Tiren knew that Emperor Chongzhen had decided to give Lu Xiangsheng greater power because of Nazu Dalue's ineffectiveness in fighting, so that the generals would be subdued, so he did not dare not obey orders wholeheartedly.
Zhong Jinwei watched Emperor Chongzhen handle things, thinking about Denglai and thinking about what happened just now.
Suddenly another idea came to him, and he reported to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, how about asking Denglai to transport the head to the capital as soon as possible, together with the prisoners from the death camp, to give those Mongolians an extra shock?"
"Haha, okay, what Master Zhong said makes sense, so just do it."
Therefore, in the next few days, the capital was busy with this matter. All aspects had to be arranged so that the subsequent road construction work could proceed smoothly.