Chapter 278 The layout of the heart
When the two armies met, of course there were cheers. The brothers met and did not tell the story of the family, because this was the army and the battlefield.
The results of the battle came. The two sides wiped out more than 4,100 Zhengbai Banners. On the one hand, the Jinyiwei died in the battle, while on the other hand, only 200 soldiers were killed in Zhao Xing.
Such victory made all the soldiers full of morale and full of confidence in defeating the enemy.
After the soldiers cheered, Zhao Xing decided that Zhang Zhiji and he would take 1,500 dead horses and some explosive packs back to Jizhou and give them to Cuiyan. They were also short of food, and this 560,000 kilograms of horse meat could solve the boss's problem. At the same time, the supply of this 560,000 kilograms of horse meat could greatly enhance the morale of Jizhou.
The rest were handed over to Wang Jinzhong and the chariots, and the Jinyiwei brothers who escorted the grain and equipment, and transported back to Zunhua City.
Leave He Renlong all the way and monitor the enemy on the spot.
Zhao Xing and Zhang Zhiji took Wang Dazhuang's brothers and returned to Jizhou with supplies. When they came back again, Cui Yan, Xiufen and countless soldiers and brave soldiers were standing on the city wall, listening to the rumbling sound of cannons in the distance, their hearts were filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
As a result, when I saw the banners of Zhao Xing and Zhang Zhiji, the whole city cheered.
The husband and wife look at each other in the city, but they can't speak thousands of words because this is not the time when children have a long love.
Zhao Xing was actually also declaring his determination to Cui Yan and Xiufen to all the soldiers and volunteers on the city: "In this country's crisis, I cannot open the city gate for you, but today I brought you the enemy war horses I seized. This is a celebration of the victory of us and you, Jizhou and Zunhua. At the same time, it is also a celebration of the future and personal opening of the city gate for you."
Dead horses were pulled onto the top of the city with ropes, and one by one, amid the cheers of the people of the whole city, the couple said goodbye to tears again and continued their unfinished battle.
The army does not pay attention to the etiquette, but the heroic spirit of large bowls of wine and large pieces of meat.
A pot of horse meat and horse crumbs were brought up, and the steaming look made people feel appetite. Zhao Xing held a bowl of wine and shouted to dozens of subordinates in the hall: "Wine is not allowed in the army, but today is a celebration, so although we cannot drink it openly, each person and one bowl is still necessary. At the same time, the horse meat is crude, but what we eat is not crude horse meat. What we eat is our victory, and what we eat is the most brilliant victory we have created since the old slave Qiongnuerhaci started the army. Come, brothers, soldiers, take a sip."
All the subordinates stood up together, held up the wine bowl and sipped the wine. Then even the officials who were pampering and enjoyed the meticulous life of the Jinyiwei reached out and grabbed a piece of horse meat in the basin, chewed it with great juice. They shouted happily together.
Putting down the wine bowl, Zhao Xing pressed his hands at a group of excited soldiers and said in a plain tone: "This time, we have a real victory, and it was a great victory in the field. But don't be happy too early, because, objectively speaking, we won this victory was really lucky. Next time we face the Eight Banners of the Jurchens, we will definitely not be so relaxed."
Zhao Xing has seen it from today's celebration banquet. Because this victory was so relaxed, everyone's pride and underestimation of the enemy have begun to appear. Even Zhang Zhiji and Wang Dazhuang want to use such tactics to launch an active attack on the enemy after returning to Beijing.
The spirit is good, but in fact, the huge hidden dangers and shortcomings are real. Once this kind of pride and underestimate the enemy spreads in the army, the ultimate goal will be the biggest failure. We must make it clear to you, especially Zhang Zhiji, that we must suppress the mentality of underestimating the enemy.
Hearing the coach say this, everyone involuntarily put down the wine bowl and started to sit upright and listen to Zhao Xing's analysis. This big victory has won Zhao Xing an extremely noble prestige. He is already the real core of these soldiers. Even Hong Chengchou had to truly admire him from the bottom of his heart, rather than being as simple as before.
"First of all, our victory depends on unexpected surprises. This new tactic has never been experienced by Jiannu, so he caught them off guard and couldn't deal with it."
Everyone has experienced this personally and deeply felt it. When this new way of fighting begins, this is enough to be seen from the enemy's surprised eyes and chaotic responses.
"There is also my two-person station, which is an enhanced version of two-person lift. Its weight is definitely not something that two or three soldiers can move, so I equipped them with chariots to solve this problem."
After the war, Zhang Zhiji immediately took the brothers in the Beijing camp to carefully observe Zhao Xing's equipment, and he also discovered this.
"So, although my formation can block the enemy, it cannot pursue the enemy. Once the formation moves, we will be ridden by the enemy." Zhang Zhihe sincerely summarized.
Wang Dazhuang said bluntly: "So, we can only passively wait for the enemy's impact, and the biggest feature of the Eight Banners is wandering. Once they simply wander and consume with us, we will eventually fail."
"The two brothers analyzed it correctly." Zhao Xing praised the two people greatly.
The reason why Zhao Xing was not encouraging when everyone was excited was that he claimed his own faults and poured cold water on the generals was because he knew more than everyone here that this war against the Later Jin Dynasty was just beginning, and the real cruel war was still behind. It would be a cruel and long war. It would never be realized when counting on the Ming army that had been corrupt. His long-cherished wish to save the Han nation was also required to take on the great responsibility of these soldiers under his command.
At the beginning of this year, for the sake of this battle in the capital, almost all the elite troops in the northwest were removed, which seriously weakened the Ming army's control ability in the northwest, and strengthened the increasingly drier bandits and rebels in the northwest. It was the defeated soldiers who fled back, coupled with the addition of the postmen who were blindly abolished, which further strengthened the strength of the bandits and rebels in the northwest. Finally, this year, the entire situation in the northwest completely changed and eventually became a prairie fire.
And no matter whether the northwest is a disaster or the so-called peasant uprising, no matter what its nature, the harm caused to this Han nationality will not be erased.
During this period, what Zhao Xing wanted to do was to use his growing military prestige to adjust the Ming Dynasty's governance policy as much as possible, eliminate the administration of officials, and make the Jinyiwei the main force in truly punishing corrupt officials, relieving the people's upside down, and alleviating conflicts among all classes, rather than aggravating internal conflicts.
At the same time, he hoped that his tentacles would extend to the chaotic northwest to calm the situation in the northwest as much as possible.
Sometimes Zhao Xing smiled bitterly. The policy of resolute foreign policy that was criticized in the future to resist foreign countries was actually truly practical in this era, because whether it was the bandits or the peasant uprising in this era, he had a fundamental difference from that in the future, that is, when Li Zicheng finally came to Beijing, he just wanted to be king in the northwest.
In order to achieve this goal, he did not want to overthrow the old empire and change the dynasty. Instead, he proposed that as long as the Ming Dynasty agreed to his conditions, he would take his millions of troops out of the customs to eliminate the real troubles of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, everything about Zhao Xing now is based on this starting point. Therefore, his ultimate goal is to not only get rid of the fate of his own lonely minister, but also change the northwest and the fate of the entire Ming Dynasty.
To this end, he must hold on to what he is in front of him, which is already his own strength and cultivate them to grow. Under his control, he leads them to achieve his ultimate goal.
OK, I took the tiger skin to make a big banner. Although it was difficult, I took the most solid step and opened a bright start.
Once his goal is achieved, then within the capital, the political center of the Ming Dynasty will have its two strongest forces, one of the Jinyiwei, who has been completely conquered by him, and the other is the Jingying. Outside, Hong Chengchou was the governor of the three sides and Wang Jinzhong returned to his jurisdiction, which means that in the northwest, he has another team that echoes from afar.
Looking south again, in order to split Dongjiang Town, Yuan Chonghuan transferred Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming to Hebei, Shandong. He used Yuan Chonghuan's death to give them a favor to three of them. With Mao Wenlong's commission to rebuild Dongjiang Town, that would be another strength.
Chapter completed!