Chapter 2114 Strategies to appease the people
Chang Yu and his party set off half a day later than Ji Jike in Ningyuan City, but Ji Jike delayed the valley survey site for a while, and the two teams walked to Tashan Fort and separated the road. Ji Jike went to Tashan Fort to meet Zu Dashou, and Chang Yu led the Black Tiger Camp straight to the north.
Four hundred cavalry were either fast or slow, and dust was flying against the north wind. From time to time, detectives were looking around in the distance, some were away from far away, and some were galloping towards Tashan Fort. Chang Yu had no time to guess that those were Ming army and those who were Tartars were. Even if he asked his subordinates to march, Tu Yuan could not help but lead more than ten cavalry to lead the way, but he stopped him, so he only sent a few horses to go first.
Chang Yu came to Ningyuan this time with heavy armor, but at this time the four hundred cavalry were all wearing conventional leather armor and a little chain mail. This armor can block the damage of swords and arrows from medium and long distances, and its protection ability is far less than that of heavy armor. However, they have their own advantages and disadvantages. The leather armor is light and heavy armor is exhausting. It is the best weapon to resist the opponent's cavalry and abortion or chop melons and vegetables in large-scale battles, but it is a burden for small and medium-sized mobile field battles.
At this time, Chang Yu also changed his outfit, put on a arched armor, carried a long sword and a scattered fanged ghost mask. Li Muxian, the counselor next to him, also wore armor. Although he pushed him to replace Ji Ji and went to Tashan Castle before he set off, Chang Yu pretended not to understand and said he would take him to take a breather to see the scenery.
He was so desolate and yarn-like. He was obviously going to kill people. Although the old Taoist was full of martial arts, the risk was too great if you let me charge into battle... But he had to listen to the eunuch's words and came with a stingy head.
On the contrary, Su Jing said in Ningyuan that he would follow Chang Yu to kill the Tartars, but Chang Yu asked her to go to the mountains to get a tiger skin. It was for him to use it. Su Jing would not respond. He said that there were many people under him who would do the hunting matter. Why did I have to go hunting? Chang Yu said that this matter must be her... Anyway, he fooled Su Jing away.
People are so angry that people are so angry that they don’t want to go. They don’t want to go. Li Muxian muttered all the way in his heart, pulling the monk close to him: “Let’s have sex later, let’s put them together, I will keep you safe.”
Doji believed it, and he still thought that this Taoist priest was very particular about humanity.
Wu Zhong saw through and said nothing, but just rolled his eyes.
Wang Zhengnan smiled without saying a word, crossing the sword and Kuang Ren guarding Chang Yu.
"Monk, have you killed someone before?" Marshal was bored, so Chang Yu asked Doji.
Doji nodded and stretched out his hand: "If there is no such number, you have this number." As he said that, his hands stretched out together. Chang Yu and others were confused, not sure what it was.
"Have you killed the Tartars?" Chang Yu asked again, Doji shook his head, and Chang Yu said, "When you kill eight hundred Tartars, I will fulfill your wish. How about avenge your master?"
Doji nodded and asked, "How many are eight hundred?"
……………Well, Chang Yu sighed: “It’s just one hundred two hands.”
Oh, Doji hummed and asked again, "How much is that..."
Everyone rolled their eyes and stopped talking. Doji looked at Li Muxian in confusion: "Master Taoist, how many are there one hundred two hands?"
"Hey, look at how many sheep are there..." Li Muxian really didn't want to talk about mathematics-related topics, so he pointed at a river not far away, where there were a few people grazing sheep, with more than ten of them in size.
"Hey, it's so good that we've caught the whole roasted lamb." Dorje was overjoyed and wanted to go on his horse. Then he was whipped by a horse. He was about to curse in pain. When he turned around, he saw that the mask was indeed glaring at him, and he lost his temper.
"All things of the people have to ask for themselves, and they must not force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to plunder and force them to get rid of them..." He was a rebellious wild donkey before, and Chang Yu became more and more awe of him in a short period of time. This man is not an ordinary eunuch. He holds the power of life and death, and has thousands of troops. Apart from these things, he is not a powerful skill at all. Whether he fights one by one or a group fight, he is not an opponent. He has not revenge his grudges, so he cannot die!
"Sir, don't you think it's strange that there are people here to herd sheep?" Li Muxian raised his eyebrows: "General Zu has strict military discipline and his subordinates will not harm these people, but here is a conflict between the two armies. Are the Tartar soldiers so kind?"
As soon as these words were finished, the atmosphere suddenly changed. Everyone looked at each other and looked at the flock of sheep in the distance. There was murderous intention in their eyes. At this time, Ma Ke said: "It's not surprising that the military disciplines of the Tartars are different now. Although they do not violate the people around Jinzhou at all, they do not disturb them. It is said that this is the strategy of the Tartars' court to pacify the people."
Then he talked about his experiences around the surroundings over the past few months. Although the two armies fought and clashed continuously, the people in the territory were frightened and uneasy, they did rarely disturb the people. Not only the Ming army was unwilling to forgive, but the Tartar soldiers were almost not disturbed.
Everyone was relieved after hearing this, but Chang Yu frowned and disagreed. He stared at the direction of the river. He saw several shepherds looking at this side and said lightly: "There are policies above and countermeasures below. What the above said may not be listened to, especially in this conflict area with chaotic wars, and especially when the Tartars are short of supplies and are tense, will the Tartars who are hungry and red-eyed let go of these fat sheep? It's done, who cares about the sky high and the emperor is far away, and who is willing to care!"
Everyone's eyes became sharp again, because Chang Yu's words made too reasonable.
Just imagine, in the most intense conflict, the spies or ambush teams sent by the Tartars can really implement the so-called policy of scrupulous people honestly because of the so-called policy of sacrificing the people?
It was all the time when there was no tomorrow. I robbed them when I was cold and hungry. What did I do? If I killed these shepherds, who would complain, but they would not kill them. Where could they go to complain? Let him go to Jinzhou, would he have the courage to go? Besides, in such a place, if you rob, you would rob, and if you killed, you would kill them. Who knows who did it? It is said that it was the Ming army that did it...
Therefore, Chang Yu suspected that the shepherd had absolutely problems. He was probably dressed as a spy from Tartars. He understood it with one look and led dozens of cavalry to surround him.
After a while, Tu Yuan led the team back again, with a little embarrassed face, his own people!
It turned out that these shepherds were actually spies from the Ming army. There were only two shepherds on the surface. In fact, there were more than ten hidden in the village not far away. They were setting up condoms, but they didn't expect to bump into their own people.
Well... Chang Yu was also embarrassed. Fortunately, others couldn't see his expression with the mask, but when he saw him turn to look at Li Muxian, he scolded him lightly: "Suspicious"
Li Muxian coughed and didn't say anything. He felt extremely aggrieved. Tmd has something to do with me, it's you... Okay, blame yourself for being mean!
After walking ten miles, the view ahead was wide and the sea breeze was blowing, and everyone couldn't help but shrink their necks. The outline of Xingshan Fort could be seen vaguely in front of them. There were more sergeants in sight, some riders were single and squads, some were looking away from a distance, and some were running. This was still something you could see on the surface, some bushes, depressions, villages, valleys to the west, and the coast to the east. I don't know how many places there are invisible.
Not only do I don’t know how many, but I don’t know which ones are their own people and which ones are Tartars, but no matter which one they are from, Chang Yudu ordered his subordinates to follow him, and he would not be alone if he chased him or chased him or not.
Seeing Chang Yu's intention, Ma Ke asked, "Is the governor going to do it directly?"
Chang Yu nodded: "This place is open and clear at a glance. Instead of trying to hide it, it is better to go directly. Or is General Ma have any good strategies?"
Marco smiled faintly: "There is no good idea, but please order it first."
"This place is a revisiting place for General Ma. Since you are familiar with the terrain, you must be the pioneer. Go and explore the virtual and the real first, it is best to be able to pull it out."
Ma Ke led the order and led fifty personal soldiers straight to him.
Tu Yuan was eager to try, and Chang Yu glared at him: "You will be tired later, why can't you be so impatient?"
While speaking, the scout cavalry in front came back, and all the people were injured. It was said that there were a lot of scout cavalry in front of him more than ten miles ahead. They fought with them but there were too many people who could not rush over, and even if they rushed over, they would probably fall into the siege.
Of course, the Tartars built Xingshan Fort and were repeatedly attacked by the Ming army, and their defenses became increasingly tight. According to previous information, it was that he dug many ravines ten miles away from Xingshan Fort and inserted sharpened wooden sticks at the bottom of the ditch, in order to prevent the Ming army from raiding, even if a team of reconnaissance cavalry was accidentally caught, he could fall into it.
"The Tartars' ability to steal the army is getting more and more powerful," Li Muxian couldn't help but sigh, and Chang Yu also sighed: "It's amazing. In previous years, the Tartars were only good at field battles. Later, with the more captives of the Ming army and the more surrendered soldiers and generals, we even learned our artillery technology and siege technology. The ability to dig trenches became more and more flexible, but what is worrying is that they all began to comfort the people. If they continue for a long time, if they win the hearts of the people, they will be unkind!"
Wang Zhengnan continued to say: "During the Songjin War, the Tartars dug trenches to cut off the connection of several military forts and broke them one by one. When we built Tashan Fort, we also dug trenches to stop them from harassing them. Now they have followed suit. As for the policy of sacrificing the people mentioned by the Governor of the Gong... I don't know what I know, so I'll ask for advice."
Chang Yu especially likes Wang Zhengnan, with high martial arts skills, knowledgeable military and studious, and is willing to give advice. However, at this moment, he didn't want to say too much, and said casually: "When the Tartars occupied Shenyang, they were mainly plundering the South. After occupying Jinzhou, they began to comfort the people. The so-called "Manchu and Han people are all my people" are used to buy the hearts of the people and consolidate their strength, and they are also to increase their income. Otherwise, they will still burn, kill and plunder. The Han people will run away. Whoever farms, no one will farm them, they will be nothing!"
"No wonder..." Wang Zhengnan muttered: "In the past, after the Tartars broke the city, they would slaughter the city, but then there was no such thing as slaughtering the city..." Li Muxian snorted: "In the past, they only knew how to ask for eggs, but now they have learned to be smart. They want eggs and chickens, not only do they want them, but they can also raise chickens."
"The Taoist priest said this, this is the most worrying thing." Chang Yu looked into the distance, and the scene of fighting could be vaguely seen. It seemed that some Tartars were going to intercept Ma Ke, and the corners of his mouth sneered repeatedly: "But I don't know who the garrison of Xingshan garrison is. If Ma Ke removes the man's dog head, it will be a three-kill victory."
At this time, Tu Yuan asked, "Which three things are there?"
"I greeted Dorgon, avenged a slap in the face, and also promoted the confidence of Section Chief Ma," Chang Yu laughed and Li Muxian continued, "I regained Xingshan again, gave Zu Dashou a meeting gift, and gave the Tartars a warning."
"The Taoist priest said that, that's six." Chang Yu laughed.
Chapter completed!