On the fifth day of April, the generals concluded the aftermath in Yiju, and the army headed south on its way back.
After this battle, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was afraid that it would be torn apart and no longer be able to invade the Ming Dynasty from the south. The generals were determined to take advantage of the victory to recover Liaodong and achieve great achievements. Unfortunately, they were short of food and pay. The food and pay accumulated in the army could only last for a month, and the court's food and pay supply had already been exhausted.
It's broken. If we send troops to Liaodong, I'm afraid the army of hundreds of thousands will collapse due to lack of food and grass.
All the generals could only watch helplessly as the Manchus retreated to Shengjing and their troops returned to the court.
On the sixth day of April, the triumphant army arrived in Jinzhou. Jinzhou warlord Zu Dashou stopped going south and entertained the generals for a feast of meat and wine in Jinzhou City. At this time, the generals had won a great victory and were in a good mood. They were all drunk.
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Fighting side by side on the battlefield and fighting the national disaster together in front of the Tatar army gave the generals a sense of mutual respect. Everyone drank and drank happily. Even the high-ranking Li Zhi and Cao Bianjiao, Yang Guozhu and others
They drank one glass after another. Later, Wang Pu pestered Li Zhi again, and Li Zhi finally drank until he was swaying. Although he did not fall under the table and cry like Zu Dashou, he helped Zheng Kaicheng back to his tent.
After a day of repairs in Jinshan, on the eighth day of April, the army arrived at Songshan. In the army, Li Zhi saw Han Jinxin, the ambassador of the shogunate's secret guard, who was rushing towards the army.
Li Zhi didn't know what Han Jinxin was doing here, so he met him in the tent.
Han Jinxin knelt in the tent, his face full of indignation.
"Master Marquis, we heard that in the Battle of Huwangba, our Tiger Ben division's army suffered heavy casualties, with more than 1,300 casualties. Moreover, most of these casualties were serious injuries caused by being trampled by war horses and stabbed by long soldiers."
Li Zhi took a breath, nodded, and said: "It is true. This battle suffered heavy casualties. This is the first time in the history of our Tiger Division's battles. They are all young men from good families in Tianjin, and they are high-spirited. Unexpectedly, they all died in the battle for the Tiger King."
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Han Jinxin fell to the ground and said: "Master Marquis, these wounded and disabled soldiers are not worthy of our death!"
Li Zhi was stunned for a moment and said: "We went to the national disaster together and killed slaves to serve the country. Real men have to do this. There is no other way."
Han Jinxin fell to the ground and said: "Master Hou! Master Hou, you don't know! Our informant in the capital said that the imperial court has money! There are more than two million taels of silver lying in the account of Taipu Temple, which is enough to support the army for three or four months.
It was enough to bring down the Tatars. It was the civil servants who deceived the emperor, concealed this money, and forced the prince to issue an order to urge war!"
Li Zhi was stunned when he heard this and didn't react for a while.
Han Jinxin said loudly: "Master Hou, it is all civil servants who are obstructing this. Those soldiers who died in the battle of Huwangba did not deserve their death!"
Li Zhi listened to Han Jinxin's words and felt his blood surge up. He calmly asked: "How did you know such secret news?"
Han Jinxin said: "Master Hou, I made a good friend of a household manager in Beijing. On the first day of April, he drank with people from Taipu Temple and accidentally learned that Taipu Temple had more than two million taels of silver. Taipu Temple has so much
The money, the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, and the Minister of the Ministry of Finance must know about it. This person in charge is a loyal person, and he knows that this is the Shangguan deceiving the emperor."
"There is no airtight wall in the world. This chief got the officials of Taipus Temple drunk and knew that this time it was Wu Zong, the Second Assistant to the Cabinet, who took the lead, He Shishou, the Minister of Rites, who carried out the operations, Li Daiwen, the Minister of Household Affairs, and Chen Shandao, the minister of Taipus Temple, who carried out the operations.
, dozens of civil servants worked together to deceive the emperor. The chief official couldn't stand the Shangguan's behavior of disregarding the safety of the country. In anger, he told me the news overnight and asked me to pass it on to the Marquis."
When Li Zhi heard this, he closed his eyes helplessly.
Unexpectedly, he had a bloody battle at Huwangba and suffered heavy casualties, but it turned out that he was a chess piece being manipulated.
Unexpectedly, those soldiers who fought bloody battles and served their country heroically would end up being victims of the conspiracy of civil servants.
Unexpectedly, these civil servants can play political tricks when the country's life and death are at stake, disregarding the country, the country, and the people of the world. For the sake of personal gain, they push the frontline soldiers into desperate situations and put the country on the edge of a cliff.
This battle was the decisive battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty. The total population of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty was only one million people, but they all worked together to pull out an army of 230,000 to fight the Ming army in a decisive battle. The Ming Dynasty had a population of more than 10 million, but because of dozens of
Because of the deception of a civilian official, he could not pay the food and wages for a mere 170,000 soldiers and horses, forcing the army to fight the Qing army with less and more.
If it weren't for the bloody battle by his Tiger Guards, who defeated the 50,000 Tatar cavalry who were three times as many as themselves, this battle would have been a defeat. If the 170,000 troops were defeated outside Jinzhou City, the consequences would be disastrous.
If the Battle of Jinzhou is defeated, the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty may be over. The 170,000 army is the last piece of property that the Ming Dynasty can pull out. Once defeated, not to mention how many frontline soldiers will die, the national defense of the Ming Dynasty will be destroyed after a defeat.
The Guanning defense line will obviously collapse.
If the Ming army is no longer able to fight a decisive battle with the Tatars, it will only be a matter of time before the Qing army takes control of the Central Plains.
In such a situation, all Han people in the world will have their hair cut off and become slaves.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty was cruel. They killed all the Han people in Liaodong when they established their country. If the Tatars were allowed to take over the Central Plains, how many bloody Han people would be killed and how many cities that were unwilling to surrender would be slaughtered? How many densely populated towns would be turned into ruins.
ruins. How many bustling markets will be turned into scorched earth? How many millions of people will die in the world?
These results are the obvious outcome of the defeat of the Jinzhou War.
For the sake of their own selfish interests, the civil servants have disregarded the common people in the world and want to obstruct them and force the frontline soldiers to be defeated. How vicious are their hearts and how sinister are their intentions?
What are they for? Isn't it because they are afraid that Li Zhi will step by step and threaten the interests of civil servants and gentry all over the world, so that these civil servants and gentry can no longer live a luxurious life of drunkenness and dreams! Isn't it because Li Zhi levies commercial taxes from merchants and land taxes from gentry
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These civilian officials knew that the Qing army only had hundreds of thousands of people in Liaodong. Once they entered the customs, they would still have to rely on civilian officials to govern the world. Even if Huang Taiji came to rule the world, they would just change their official robes and continue to be officials. And if Li Zhi
As it grows bigger and controls the court little by little, Li Zhi may knock all the civil servants to the ground one by one.
No other reason, because these civil servants were so dirty and shameless that Li Zhi, who was determined to revitalize the country, could not let them go.
Therefore, these civil servants would rather let the 170,000 bloody warriors be slaughtered by the Tatars on the front line, and would rather let this civilization fall into eternal catastrophe. They would also like to pull Li Zhi down, and not allow Li Zhi to make great achievements and rise to prominence.
Li Zhi pressed the armrests of the chair hard, his face was calm, but his heart was filled with blood and anger.
Li Zhi once again understood that he had underestimated the shamelessness of these civil servants.
"Han Jinxin, you did a good job reporting to me in a timely manner."
Li Zhi closed his eyes and seemed to see the more than a thousand soldiers who died in the battle and those young faces again.
After a long time, he opened his eyes.
"If I, Li Zhi, don't kill the civil servants involved in this matter, I will never be a human being!"
