Chapter 445 444 Ministry of War Planning

"Wuri.Wuri"

At this moment, in a wild place outside the northern border town, the vast Tatar cavalry shouted "Long live" to charge against the enemy in front, and the battlefield was one-sided.

The soldier who was running for life was chopped to the ground by the Tartar cavalry waving a scimitar, and was then ruthlessly trampled on by horse hooves.

Wherever the Tatar cavalry passed, countless corpses in red war suits were lying on the ground, flags and weapons were scattered all over the ground, and the injured war horses were still wailing, while the ownerless war horses kept circling around the master's body, as if at a loss.

Just ahead of them, a group of soldiers in red were soon caught up by the Tatar cavalry and surrounded them. They shouted and completed the encirclement from the left and right sides, but after the two teams met, they did not stop, but formed two encirclements on the left, inside, right and outside.

After the encirclement was formed, they were still urging their horses to turn around, and shouting endlessly, as if to put pressure on the prey in their circle.

The soldiers in red quickly gathered together after being surrounded, leaning against several large flags behind them. One of the broken flags could be vaguely identified as the word "Liu".

The Tatar cavalry did not seem to have planned to destroy the Ming army in the circle immediately, but just kept running around them, shooting arrows into it from time to time. When they heard the wailing sound of someone being injured in the encirclement, the Tatars riding on the horse laughed loudly.

Not far away, a team of knights rushed over and stopped not far from the encirclement. They quietly looked at the group of surrounded people in the distance. They took the lead and asked, "Is it true that Liu Han is not leading the team?"

"The Khan, the captured prisoners have been interrogated. This time the one who came out was Liu Jinchen, the garrison of Pinglu City of Ming Dynasty. The guy Liu Han did not come."

A strong man next to the old man replied.

"Hmph, that old guy is cheap."

The old man said something expressionlessly, then looked around and said, "No one will run away."

"Don't worry, Dahan, there was absolutely no one missing."

The strong man replied hurriedly.

"You go and deal with it, and let them surrender, and shoot them directly if they don't surrender."

After saying that, the old man plucked his horse and walked back, not even looking at the prey in the surrounding circle not far away.

There was no general of Datong in the Ming Dynasty. He was just a garrison and had no at all attractive to him. He also spent a lot of effort to surround the people and prepare a pot of steamed-up.

Capital City, Prince Yu’s Mansion.

After hearing Wei Guangde's words, Zhang Juzheng frowned and said, "But should I remind the Ministry of War that Datong has been a little active recently."

Wei Guangde knew what Zhang Juzheng meant, perhaps because of the great results of the sudden attack on Banshengcheng. From last year to this year, Datong General Liu Han often sent troops out of the pass to attack.

"It should be said that Yan Shen Datong is closely guarding the city."

Wei Guangde also felt it was right and immediately said, but after he finished speaking, he suddenly realized that the message on the note before was that there were only 20,000 Tartars near Shaanxi and Ningxia, but the last time he entered Nanshan was as many as 60,000.

If the Tartars in Shaanxi were the evacuated cavalry of Nanshan, where did the 40,000 people go?

In an instant, Wei Guangde sweated down.

Seeing Wei Guangde's face change instantly, Zhang Juzheng hurriedly asked, "Shandai, what's wrong with you?"

In fact, Zhang Juzheng had this guess when he saw the note just now, and he also wanted to see if Wei Guangde's opinion was consistent with him.

But, now, there is no need to ask, he will know the answer by looking at Wei Guangde's expression.

"Immediately notify the people in the Ministry of War to remind them, but I'm afraid it's too late."

Wei Guangde said with a wry smile.

Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng can see this information. Do the officials of the Ministry of War do not know it? It’s just that they are involved in too many things every day, so they are afraid that they will ignore this information.

After all, the situation in Fujian is too bad now.

Before, the Ministry of War had gradually shifted its energy to Jiangnan, and it was just an order to guard the border town.

Hearing Wei Guangde say "it's too late", King Yu frowned and looked at him and asked, "What's too late?"

"Datong, I just hope that Liu Han has not sent troops out of the way to sweep the Tartar tribe these days."

Wei Guangde replied.

Hearing this, King Yu and Yin Shidan also reacted. What was the conversation between him and Zhang Juzheng just now?

"Hurry, Li Fang, send someone to talk to the people from the Ministry of War."

King Yu then turned around and ordered Li Fang.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Fang also understood that the matter was of great importance, so she hurriedly ran out all the way to find someone.

"If something really happened to Datong, should Liu Han protect him?"

Li Fang went out, and Zhang Juzheng asked Wei Guangdedao at this time.

Wei Guangde shook his head and did not answer, but the meaning was obvious. He was not familiar with Liu Han, so he didn't have to worry about him.

King Yu had already sat back in his seat at this time. He also understood the interaction between Zhang Juzheng and Wei Guangde just now. Liu Han and Wei Guangde had no contact, so naturally they had nothing to do with Mr. Xu, otherwise Zhang Juzheng would not have asked that.

This is the difficulty of becoming an official in this era. It doesn’t matter in the capital. If you have any misunderstandings, you can only bear it yourself.

But if there are people in the capital, there is still a chance to save one or two, even if they cannot be rescued in the end, at least some of the guilt can be relieved.

To keep in touch with the capital, rely solely on letters, how can the friendship of the same year be achieved? At least you need to send someone to your door and bring some gifts. It should not be too shabby, let alone those who want to be promoted should not be prepared for filial piety.

In this way, those who are officials in the local area will not be enough to support their families simply by relying on the little salary paid by the court. Where can these money that can be related to each other? You can only make a difference from the local area.

No matter what they said when they were studying, they always said that they should "establish their minds for the heaven and earth, establish their destiny for the people, inherit their unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to the ages", after they really got to the golden list, they still had to consider themselves.

Even if you tell yourself against your will, your current actions are just for promotion, and after promotion, you can save more people and make decisions for the people in the "future".

Soon after, Li Fang came back and whispered to King Yu: "I have sent someone."

"Um."

King Yu agreed, then looked at the sky outside the window and said, "It's almost done, please send lunch here. I won't go back to the back today, so I'll eat here."

Although this incident left a shadow on the hearts of the people in the Prince Yu's Mansion, it was forgotten by everyone in a blink of an eye, and King Yu asked someone to prepare lunch.

The strong smell of blood attracted the hunters from the grassland. In just a few days, the provoy sent by the Datong Army also discovered the battlefield. The news quickly passed back to Datong City, and the battle report was quickly sent to the capital through the military post.

Liu Han dared not hide the news that the entire army was wiped out and the whereabouts of the garrison were unknown, not to mention that the prefect and the censor were in Datong City.

Liu Han could only report the report with a nervous mood, but said that he sent troops out of the pass to attack Caogu, which was that he found sporadic cavalry around Datong. The guard Liu Jinchen took the initiative to ask for going out for investigation, but the army was lost and Liu Jinchen was missing.

While reporting this, people from other towns and forts had to be transferred to Pinglu City, and they had to continue to send horses to find out the news. Searching and rescuing survivors were also in a hurry.

After all, there are more than 3,000 people, and Dong Xue, the Censor of Datong, dared not conceal this matter. However, after communicating with Liu Han, he still used the original report of Liu Han's battle report to report the news of the defeat of the Datong army.

However, the memorial also produced a result that Liu Han could accept, that is, how to deal with the aftermath.

When the Datong Army left the barrier and attacked Caogu, the civil servants in Datong turned a blind eye. In fact, the reason was very simple. In addition to leaving some of the army, they would also share the benefits in it.

But the loss this time is too great and someone must be responsible.

And Liu Han is naturally the only person who can calm the matter down, but he only needs someone to accept the result.

Within a few days, the Datong War Report was finally delivered to the Ministry of War.

Yang Bo naturally didn't believe the arguments in the battle report.

In fact, the Datong Army has repeatedly left the pass and rushed to the grassland tribe in recent years. The Ministry of War also has channels to learn about it, but there have been some achievements before, so naturally no one has said anything about this.

But this time it was different. Three thousand troops were lost all at once, and the impact was great, let alone the entire army was wiped out.

A defeat, a big defeat.

Unlike later generations who thought, in fact, the war between the army in this era and the casualties of thousands of people was already a major event that was enough to stir the government and the public.

The confrontation between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people only exists in the novel, and the actual combat force is only a few thousand.

In fact, it can also be seen from the Ming Dynasty's ward system.

A single ward has been pulled out, and the full capacity is only more than 5,000 people, which is enough to support a big battle.

If more garrisons join forces together, it is OK, so you need to set up a military formation to facilitate command. At this time, it is generally the action of one garrison and one garrison, but there is also a big problem, that is, the problem of logistics supply.

The news of the disastrous defeat of the Datong Army was soon sent to Xiyuan and entered Emperor Jiajing's ears.

No one knows what kind of judgment the emperor would make. At this time, Paine from the Censorate also received a report from Dong Xue.

After reading Dong Xue's impeachment memorial, Paine just frowned slightly, and then attached her own comments to the memorial.

"In September of this year, Datong Zero thieves appeared and general Liu Han sent Liu Jinchen, the garrison of Pinglu City, to lead troops to chase them. He was held by the bandits. Because of the decline of the Han Dynasty, it was repeatedly missed the opportunity and the general Zheng Xiaoju, it should be investigated. It is the crime of improperness. Because the Han Dynasty is weak and the disease should be changed to other uses."

Although Dong Xue's memorial was well written, Pan En could naturally see that Dong Xue, the censor, may also have something to do with it, so he was no longer competent in the impeachment of Liu Han in the position of General Datong.

Since they have discussed this result, there is no reason why some people are responsible for the defeat in the war.

If you really want to continue to investigate, if Dong Xuezhen has any problems and is sent to the Censorate, the Censorate will be embarrassed.

As for the Ministry of War, when receiving the battle report and apology from Liu Han, he also had the same thoughts as him.

Big things turn into small things, small things turn into nothing.

The Censorate's official documents were half a day behind the Ministry of War, but they were quickly sent to the imperial letter case of Emperor Jiajing.

"What else can I say? Liu Han is definitely dismissed from his post. That general should be demoted and relocated."

The news was sent to Prince Yu's Mansion as soon as possible, and the people in the Prince's Mansion just took a random look and let it go.

As expected, it was not surprising, but Wei Guangde asked Zhang Juzheng curiously, wanting to know how the cabinet wrote the plan.
To be continued...