My life skills in Daming Liver - Chapter 678

c666 Abandon Liao

The scientific research ship of the Southeast Navy took control of Yongming City without too much effort. These navy soldiers meticulously arranged the city defenses and set up strongholds, while Xu Jin established surveying and mapping points to investigate the local meteorology and geography, as well as port navigation. conditions of.

Li Ruzhen, who was marching in the snowy field, did not know the changes in his destination. In fact, Li Ruzhen’s less than a thousand people were already insignificant in the war outside the pass.

North Korea dispatched an expeditionary force of nearly 30,000 people. They seized the time to build a defense line along the line from Jianzhou to Shenyang, gathered the Haixi Jurchens, controlled the nearby villages and villages, and formed a confrontation with Li Chengliang who came from Shanhaiguan.

When Li Chengliang was reorganizing his troops at Shanhaiguan, he met his son Li Rusong who had escaped from Liaoyang.

Li Chengliang was furious and wanted to kill Li Rusong on the spot for disobeying military orders.

If his veteran general hadn’t begged for mercy, Li Rusong would have been killed by Li Chengliang.

After receiving news from the front line, Li Chengliang quickly headed north to Liaoyang, regardless of the lack of food and grass supplies at the rear.

When Li Chengliang arrived in Liaoyang and saw the city wall blown up by explosives and the desolate and desolate Liaoyang City, he directly picked up his riding crop and whipped the tied Li Rusong hard, and then ordered the entire army to enter the city.

After entering Liaoyang City, Li Chengliang immediately summoned his men for a military meeting.

After explaining the situation outside the pass, all the generals were speechless. Finally, it was Shan Hao who stood up first and said:

“General, my subordinates have something that may not be appropriate to say.”

Li Chengliang immediately said: “Sir, it doesn’t matter if you say so.”

Shan Hao first said: “My subordinates think that Liao should be abandoned.”

The soldiers were in an uproar, but everyone showed reasonable expressions.

Shanhao first said: “Although Liaodong is an important city of our Ming Dynasty, the products in Liaodong are not rich, and there is Shanhaiguan to defend, so we don’t need to invest too many troops to defend it.”

“Even if we try our best to fight for Liaodong, getting Liaodong may not bring much benefit.”

“My subordinates believe that Qi Liao is the best strategy.”

Shan Hao finished speaking first, many generals nodded secretly, and Li Chengliang also remained silent.

In fact, Li Chengliang also knew that abandoning Liao was the best choice.

Liaodong is bitterly cold, the Jurchens are causing rebellion, and they are backed by North Korea. If the balance of power can be maintained by relying on Jianzhou Jurchens as before, Liaodong can also provide some raw materials and taxes to the Ming court, so it will naturally be a good area.

But Liaodong is like this now, not to mention how much manpower and material resources are needed to defeat the North Korean army. Liaodong is now in chaos, and forces from the southeast are involved. In the short term, it will require long-term investment, and there will be no output at all.

Attacking Liaodong will not bring any substantial benefits to the Ming court at all. Instead, it will continue to bleed and weaken the defense forces in other areas.

The benefits of abandoning Liao are obvious. By controlling the Shanhaiguan line, attacks outside the pass can be blocked. Moreover, if the southeast wants to control the huge Liaodong area, it will take time to digest. Then the Ming court only needs a small number of troops to block the threat from the north and concentrate on gathering troops. Fight the decisive battle.

Li Chengliang naturally settled these accounts clearly, but many times the most painful part in the military is not simply settling accounts, but also the people’s hearts.

As Su Ze said in “On War”, “Only the one who takes the initiative in a war has the power to decide to end the war.”

Now it is not whether Li Chengliang wants to abandon Liao, but that he simply cannot bear the responsibility of abandoning Liao.

Li Chengliang’s elite core are all his team members in Liaoyang. Their families may have moved to the capital, but Liaodong is their hometown. Once they decide to abandon Liao, it will be a serious blow to the entire Ming court’s new army.

Li Chengliang cannot bear this responsibility!

In addition, when Li Chengliang was in power, the Ming Dynasty lost nearly half of its territory. Now it has even lost its home base of Liaodong, which was a huge blow to Li Chengliang’s political prestige.

At that time, Li Chengliang came to power because of Li Chunfang’s political crisis. After he came to power, Li Chengliang used military means to dissolve officials and forcefully control the government. He also offended many scholars. Once he showed weakness, he would be attacked even more.

Obviously, these are the reasons why Li Chengliang could not directly choose to abandon Liao.

Seeing Li Chengliang like this, Shanhao sighed first and then said:

“If the general cannot take the best policy, he will have to take the middle policy.”

“Sir, please speak.”

“Fight North Korea!”

What?

“The reason why the southeastern thieves did not go north on their own is because the changes in Liaodong were too sudden, so they had no time to mobilize troops to go north, so they could rely on North Korea’s servant army.”

“In fact, North Koreans may not be willing to bleed for Southeast thieves.”

“As long as we cross the Yajiang River and attack North Korea in the name of supporting the North Korean leader, the North Korean generals will definitely lead their troops to come back for reinforcements, and then we can encircle the area and fight for reinforcements.”

“If the North Korean army does not retreat, then we can take back North Korea. If North Korea continues to confront the rebels in Liaodong, we can still return to the pass to deal with the next war.”

This strategy made Li Chengliang waver, but he still shook his head and said:

“It’s too risky. North Korea is mountainous and Pingcheng is not easy to attack. Moreover, North Korea also has many ports. Southeast thieves can quickly provide support. It is already too late to attack North Korea now.”

Li Chengliang said: “If we return to the pass without fighting a battle, there will be no way to explain to His Majesty and the Queen Mother. Li must fight a battle before talking.”

Li Chengliang pointed at Shenyang and said:

“The enemy is alone and in deep, with insufficient supplies, and the Haixi Jurchens are helpless. We will attack Shenyang first, and then return to the pass to prepare after retaking Shenyang!”

Shanhao could only sit down at first. This was his next plan. No matter what the outcome was, he would attack Shenyang once and make a gesture of regaining the outside of the pass.

After Li Chengliang ended the meeting, he said to Shan Hao:

“Mr. Shan, in fact, I have already made preparations to retreat. I will withdraw from the customs after the battle in Shenyang.”

Shanhao Xian sighed and said: “General, Liaodong is originally the idler of the Southeast. For the Southeast, Liaodong is just a trial, and the Korean army is just a make-up. It is not used by Southeast thieves to fight decisively. ”

“General, do you think it’s worth using the elite of our army to consume the servant armies of North Korea?”

Li Chengliang sighed and said:

“I know it’s not worth it, but as the commander-in-chief of an army, how can I just count these things? If we retreat back to the pass without fighting a battle, I’m afraid the elites in these two towns will be gone and they will no longer be able to be used in the future.”

“No matter what the outcome of this battle is, I will return to the capital after defeating Shenyang to prepare for the decisive battle with the southeastern thieves!”

Li Chengliang assured firmly.