Chapter 527 526 News Entering Beijing

In Liaodong in August, at the time of Mao, the sky was already bright, and it was the most tired moment for the night soldiers.

After a night, the soldiers were already hungry and drowsy, but the shift changers had not arrived yet for replacement.

At this time, the torches burned on the top of the city for a night. The bonfire had been extinguished and there was still a faint blue smoke. The soldiers on the night side could only force themselves to rest on the wall of the pier for a while.

These are all responsible for the treatment of soldiers of Ye Ming Army. For generals and soldiers, they naturally assigned good jobs and found a place to sleep by themselves. Who would really be foolish in guarding the city walls all night?

"Dadadada"

A messy sound of horse hooves came from outside the side wall, causing the soldiers standing on the battlements to feel nervous. They lay on the wall, trying to widen their eyes and look out through the battlements.

They were dozens of war horses, but it seemed that the horse knight was not in good condition, and many people were lying on the horse's back at this time.

The war horse under their crotch also lost its divine horse, and it just maintained an unfast speed and ran towards the city wall.

"Can you see who it is?"

On the city wall, the adjacent soldiers had already started talking to each other.

Although it was bright, the distance was still far, and the person on the horse was lying down again, so it was really hard to tell the origin.

The sound of horse hooves approached, and the soldiers on the pier also woke up like a conditioned reflex. Looking out through the lookout, someone had already run to find his boss first.

"It seems to be my own."

“It looks a bit like wearing.”

Although it is still unclear, as the approaching, people can still see clearly what they wear immediately.

When these war horses finally ran down the city tower along the mountain road, the weak shouts of the knights finally reached the ears of the guards on the city wall.

Yang Zhao, the general of the Liaodong Frontier outside the Ming Dynasty, led the guerrilla Lang Degong and others to attack the frontier to have an affair. The news that the entire army was almost wiped out was sent back to Guangning. The governor of Liaodong, the deputy general of Guangning, etc. hurriedly reported the matter to the court, and sent several groups to risk their lives to go out to the wall to search for the fleeing Ming army and investigate the movements of the Tartars army.

However, at this time, the news of the defeat of the Ming army in Liaodong had not yet reached the capital, and the entire court had already heard that Prince Yu had a son.

That day and night, when Feng Bao hurried to Xiyuan, the palace ban had been locked and martial law was strictly imposed.

That is, Feng Bao was familiar with the people in the palace, so after the palace people reported it many times, the words reached Huang Jin's ears. Huang Jin went to the palace gate to check it and put it in the palace. He did not leave Xiyuan until the morning of the next day and returned to Prince Yu's mansion. He was accompanied by eunuchs and a large number of emperor rewards.

The officials in the court, who are now looking forward to King Jing, have already changed their course. The royal family has once again had a grandson, and countless officials flocked to Prince Yu's mansion to congratulate him.

The Yu Mansion has children, of course, which makes the Yu Mansion more stable.

Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng have often run to Prince Yu's mansion in the past few days to help Yin Shidan come and see him off.

However, when the Liaodong War report was sent to the capital, the atmosphere in the court immediately changed.

Previously, after taking Tonghan's son as hostage, Yang Xuan vowed to the capital city that there will be no war in Ji Liao since then.

The words are still in my ears, but they were slapped in the face by the Tartars.

The Liaodong official army suffered a great defeat. Where can Yang Xuan dare to hide it? You must know that the second-rank general was killed and there were five thousand cavalrymen. This was already the main force of the Liaodong border army.

If you are full of money, even if you are worried about your career, you will not dare to waste your time.

Obviously, his previous memorial to the court for commendation may become a reason for the censor to attack in the future.

Of course, he was powerless to do anything, so he could only send his confidant family members to send a lot of gifts to Xu Jie and Yuan Wei of the cabinet, hoping that they could say something for him when the court was impeached by the censor.

As for Yang Bo, the Minister of War, based on Yang Xuan’s understanding of him, he should also say a fair word for him.

In fact, this battle also shows that the information he collected a few years ago was correct. The Mongolian Tartars' offensive target should be to turn to Liaodong with the intention of conquering Liaodong.

At that time, the quarrel between him and Yang Bo about this matter was also well known to the court.

However, Yang Zhao lost too badly this time.

However, Yang Zhao had already died in battle. Although he could turn all the blame on him, he would offend all the generals of Ji Liao for this.

If everyone dies in battle for the country, should they still be punished?

If so, who would be willing to fight in the future?

Therefore, even if Yang Zhao was scolded to death in his heart, he still had to take some responsibility.

Fortunately, the governor of Liaodong Wang Zhigao also had to share the burden, otherwise Yang Xuan really didn't know what to do.

However, Yang Xuan thought so, but the court officials did not think so.

At first, they knew that Liaodong had suffered a great defeat and knew that they would definitely lose their troops and generals.

However, after the details of the losses of the Ming army in the Ministry of War were reported, the government and the country were shocked.

The mobile power of the Liaodong Ming Army, that is, the cavalry unit, was less than 10,000. The losses of 5,000 cavalry directly caused Liaodong to lose more than 60% of its troops.

If you want to fight against the Mongolian Tartars in the field by relying on infantry, you have to gather the army to arrange troops and set up a battle.

However, Liaodong has a vast territory and seems to be strong. After the troops are scattered and stationed, it is naturally impossible to gather a large army.

In fact, after this war, as long as the Mongolian Tartars did not attack Liaoyang, Shenyang, Guangning and other cities that were heavily guarded by the Ming army, they basically no longer had any defenses in other places.

Because even if they attacked those places, the surrounding Ming troops could not gather their troops to rescue them.

Isolation and helplessness, there is any news that will further dampen morale.

Although Yang Xuan had sent someone to send an edict to Liaodong, Jizhen would draw a group of troops to rush to Liaoyang to replenish Liaodong's troops.

But how many cavalry can be drawn in Jizhen?

Two thousand or three thousand?

No one believed that Jizhen would draw 5,000 cavalry to enrich Liaoyang and restore combat effectiveness to the Liaodong official army.

In fact, this battle hurt the Liaodong official army.

As for Yang Zhao's death, I really say that not many people are concerned about it, but there are only people on the side who are promoted to it.

"Taipu Temple will increase the purchase of war horses this year."

Yin Shidan took out the document in his hand and handed it to Wei Guangde and said.

When the news reached the capital, King Yu, who had already claimed to be the crown prince, would naturally convene his aides to hold a meeting to analyze and analyze.

In fact, Prince Yu's Mansion arranged for people to lurk in major yamen to collect information, and the Dongchang had already reported it to Emperor Jiajing.

However, they mostly seek information rather than interfere in the affairs of various government agencies, so the palace just turns a blind eye.

This news was brought back from the palace this time by Feng Bao.

I can only say that his connections and eyeliners in the palace are still there, not to mention that he went to Prince Yu's mansion, but no one left to tea and cold.

It is hard to say that the current emperor is going to turn over as his master a hundred years later and return to the palace as a favorite minister of the new emperor.

Of course, if Feng Bao had been the eunuch who guarded the tombs, no one in the palace would have paid attention to him.

They are not blind people, they know who can ignore them and what cannot be offended.

Perhaps, Emperor Jiajing also wanted to train King Yu's mind, after all, it was a matter of time.

Since he fainted last year, Emperor Jiajing could feel it himself, so he urgently made arrangements in the court, and did not want any changes to happen.

However, the short-term joy and small sorrow still made him feel that his body could not bear it.

Of course, he would not feel sorry for the loss of 5,000 cavalry in Liaodong. What he felt sorry for was the money. The court had to spend money to buy back 5,000 war horses, and the troubles in front of him.

Yang Bo did not agree with Yang Xuan's move to draw the Jizhen army to support Liaoyang, and insisted on not being willing to allocate one army and one soldier to Liaodong.

In the memorial of the Ministry of War, Yang Bo bluntly stated that Liaodong could recover its vitality in at most two years.

During this period, the Liaodong army only needed to be careful to prevent.

In a word, Yang Bo first considered Jizhen, which is the safety of the capital.

He felt very uneasy when there was not a strong enough army around the capital. This may also be the first responsibility to consider as the Minister of War.

Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng naturally knew about these news, so they just took the note handed over by Yin Shidan and looked at it.

This is only handed over by the Ministry of War today to the procurement task of Taipu Temple.

"Shandai, you said before that Yang Xuan's plan would be a failure, but you really got it. The Tartars didn't care about that prince at all."

King Yu spoke up.

"Yang Xuan is a clever man. In a national war like this, no hostage can be avoided, unless it is the prince chosen by Altan Khan, and he may have some concerns."

Wei Guangde had long said that what Praiser Yang was holding was the son of a tribe leader among many tribes on the grassland, and he was not a big shot at all.

Perhaps this tribe can change its attitude towards the Ming Dynasty, but for the entire Mongolia, there are too many such tribes.

Moreover, the Mongolian tribes are not monolithic, and they are also full of various contradictions.

Perhaps it is for a pasture, or perhaps it is a historical grudge between tribes, or it is just that tribe patriarchs dislike each other.

If Yang Xuan caught Altan Khan's son, Xin Ai Taiji, whom he valued most, it would be possible to avoid a war between the two countries, but small-scale conflicts are also inevitable.

"Now people who are close to Yang Xuan are lobbying that the information sent to the capital at the beginning of the year was accurate. Altan Khan may have all his strength to attack the Liaodong region starting this year and want to completely occupy it.

Otherwise, if the Jizhen army had entered Liaodong, they would not have been defeated today."

Yin Shidan spoke.

After entering Prince Yu's mansion today, the main ones in the room were Yin Shidan and Wei Guangde, but Zhang Juzheng was very quiet.
To be continued...