Chapter 684 Generals of the Ming Dynasty

After completing preliminary contacts with North Korea, conferring with Hao Jie, the governor of Liaodong, and arranging logistics work, Lin Jinglue still could not be idle.

Although they have already received three first-level generals, Li Rusong, Ma Gui, and Dong Yiyuan, they still have to meet with generals above the guerrilla level.

First of all, as a commander-in-chief, it is the most basic requirement for him to be familiar with the main generals under his command. If you don't even know the generals under your command, this battle will be in vain.

Secondly, the Ming Dynasty's official army was too fragmented. Regardless of whether the generals were called guerrillas, staff generals or deputy generals, they were probably all parallel independent combat units.

The main difference between them is probably only the number of troops in the camp. Most of them are about one or two thousand people, and they can support more than three thousand people to death.

It is really a parallel relationship, not a superior-subordinate relationship like the deputy general in charge of several generals, and the general in charge of several guerrillas.

Unless they are temporarily organized during wartime, a deputy commander or commander will lead several battalions in a certain route.

Therefore, Lin Tailai had to meet all generals above the guerrilla level to ensure that he was familiar with every combat unit.

The Jizhen system in Liaodong under the control of Li Rusong has the largest number of troops and the most generals. There are three generals at the deputy general level: Li Rubai, Zhang Shijue and Yang Yuan, as well as Li Ning, Zha Damou, Zu Chengxun, Li Yousheng, Li Pinghu, Luo Shangzhi, etc. wait.

You can tell by looking at the list that they are either direct descendants of the Li family, generals or servants of the Li family, or from Tieling, the old base of the Li family. The only exception is Luo Shangzhi, a southerner.

Historically, this was basically the lineup of the first wave of troops entering North Korea. It was these people who conquered Pyongyang, and even recaptured Kaesong, Seoul, and even Byokjeokwan. It was still these people.

Lin Tailai encouraged the generals one by one, talked about the characteristics of the Japanese soldiers, reminded them what to pay attention to, and ended the interview.

Before the battle at Bi Ti Pavilion, the Jizhen system in Liaodong had little problem fighting these people, and did not require much intervention from the time travellers.

Besides, the imprint of the Li family was too deep on this group of people, and Lin Tailai couldn't exert much influence for a while.

So Lin Tailai didn't waste his precious time on these people. It was enough for Li Rusong to control them.

Then the second wave of people came to see generals Xuanda who were controlled by Ma Gui, including Jie Sheng, Niu Boying, Yang Dengden, Bao Sai, Pogui, Heifenghu and so on.

Among them, Jie Sheng, Yang Dengden, Huai Sai and Pogui, although not very famous in history books, were also known as the four mighty generals of Xuan Da at this time.

However, Lin Jinglue greeted Hei Fenghu first. Strictly speaking, Hei Fenghu was not qualified to come in today.

Then Lin Jinglue pointed at Black Wind Tiger and said to General Xuan Dazhong in a very private manner: "This is a martial arts student of our academy. I hope you will take good care of me."

Representative Xuan Dazhong, the most senior member of Yangshan Mountain, replied: "It's easy to talk."

Even if Lin Tailai's relationship is put aside, Heifenghu is also the adopted son of Xuanfu Town general Hei Xiao, and he is not an outsider at all.

"Sit!" Lin Tailai pointed to the seat and said cordially: "Wang Xiangqian, the governor of Xuanfu, is the wife and nephew of the main department. It was Wang Xiangqian who recommended you to kill the Japanese, so the main department and you are not outsiders. "

Seeing Lord Jinglue's goodwill, the generals felt a lot more relaxed. Who doesn't want to have "one of their own" as an official?

If Li Rusong from the Liaodong clique takes the lead and there is no one else above to support them, they and the Xuanda clique will really become stepmothers.

After a few pleasantries, Lin Tailai began to talk about the Japanese soldiers in detail.

"As for the Japanese soldiers' tactics, I have written to you before. The first is that they have sharp fire guns, the second is that they are good at building forts, and the third is that they have rich combat experience and a fair will to fight.

As for the shortcomings, they are probably the lack of cavalry, lack of large firearms, etc. I won’t go into details today. "

“The main thing I want to say today is that the overall situation now has two distinctive features.

First, the Japanese invasion of Korea has been too smooth so far, advancing one to two thousand miles in one breath and occupying dozens of cities.

This has caused the Japanese soldiers to become arrogant and arrogant. "

Yang Shanshan asked: "You dare to ask the army to show you, why do you think you have become a arrogant soldier?"

Lin Tailai replied: "It can be known from two points that after Konishi Yukichang, the commander of the Japanese First Corps, occupied Pyongyang, he stopped advancing northward.

Then the Japanese soldiers did not seize the time to recruit Korean people to prepare for war, such as transporting grain and grass, building fortresses, and manufacturing equipment.

Instead, they issued an announcement to calm the people and exempt the Korean people from corvee service. How lax and complacent is this? "

Yang Shanshan praised "Junmen Mingmei" and said no more.

Everyone secretly thought that Lin Jinglue's information was too detailed to accept.

Then Lin Tailai continued: "The second characteristic of the current overall situation is that the Japanese soldiers occupy almost the entire territory of Korea, so they have to divide their troops to guard everywhere, and even build forts everywhere. This is a practice that the Japanese are accustomed to in fighting civil wars.

But our Ming Dynasty border army had enough horses, so we had the opportunity to divide and surround the Japanese soldiers.

At least before the Japanese soldiers have adapted in the first stage, there is a high chance of dividing and surrounding the Japanese soldiers. "

"Please give the order to the military!" Yang Dengheng heard the implication. Lin Tailai emphasized this to them, Xuan Dajun, and there must be some related plans.

Lin Tailai smiled and said: "It still needs to be kept secret for now. You just need to prepare for war. But the headquarters has something to say first. Your mission must be different from that of the Liaodong Army."

It is now known that the Japanese soldiers had two vanguard corps in the north. Konishi Yukinacho's 1st Corps marched towards Pyongyang Province and Pyongyang, mainly on the west coast;

Kato Kiyomasa's Second Corps marched into Hamgyong Province, went deeper along the east coast, and even crossed the Tumen River.

In the terrain of Korea, there are plateaus and mountains between the east and west coasts, so it is difficult to connect the two coasts.

In the original history, Li Rusong led more than 30,000 people across the river and rushed straight to Pyongyang. And defeated Konishi Yukinaga's Corps in Pyongyang, and then continued to move south.

At this point in time, if you have a God's perspective, you can see that after the defeat of Konishi Yukinaga's Corps, Kato Kiyomasa's Corps located in the northeast coast direction almost became a "lonely army deep" situation.

I don't know if it was due to insufficient troops or insufficient intelligence, the Ming army did not attack Kato Kiyomasa's Corps.

Then Kato Kiyomasa's Corps, which was "alone and deep", was delayed for more than ten days, but was still not surrounded and blocked, and turned thousands of miles from the northeast of Korea and successfully withdrew to Seoul.

So Lin Jinglue had an idea that since he had more troops at hand than in the original historical time and space, the war must be a little different.

Li Rusong's troops still went to attack Pyongyang, while Ma Gui and Dong Yiyuan's troops seemed to be able to go south first and then directly to the east coast to block Kato Kiyomasa's corps from retreating southward.

The middle of the north of Korea is full of plateaus and mountains, and only the east and west coasts have small plains and main roads.

Therefore, Kato Kiyomasa's corps can only retreat southward along the coast, which is relatively easy to find and intercept.

As long as they can be intercepted smoothly, it will not be difficult to annihilate them completely, as there are more than 20,000 elite Japanese soldiers.

At present, this concept is still in the map operation stage, and Lin Jinglue has no idea of ​​publishing it.

So today, when he met with the generals of Xuanda Army and hosted a banquet for them, he only talked about the situation of the Japanese soldiers and popularized the information of the Japanese soldiers, and did not reveal any military secrets.

After Xuanda Army is Yansui Army, but due to the long distance, the current Yansui Army has a slightly smaller number of troops, and the main generals are Zuo Cong and Yu Shangde, etc.

Lin Jinglue once again personally popularized the various situations of the Japanese soldiers, which is actually the purpose of meeting dozens of generals.

After all, in the entire Ming Dynasty, no one understood the Japanese army better than Lin Jinglue, so Lin Jinglue had to seize every opportunity to instill information into the soldiers.

Just as Lin Jinglue was meeting with generals above the rank of guerrilla, two people came to Jiuliancheng on orders to meet, both wearing the robes of Ming Dynasty military officers but with pigtails.

They were Nurhaci, the deputy governor of Jianzhou and the Dragon and Tiger General, and Shuerhaci, Nurhaci's younger brother and the commander of Jianzhou.

If Nurhaci means wild boar skin, Shuerhaci means little wild boar skin.

In history, in Nurhaci's early fighting career, many well-known figures in later generations had not yet appeared on the stage, such as Huang Taiji, who was still a fetus.

At present, the confidants that Nurhaci relied on were his younger brother Shuerhaci and the "Five Ministers", namely Eyidu, Fei Yingdong, He Heli, Anfei Yanggu, and Huerhan.

Among them, Shuerhaci can be called the "king on equal terms". He fought for the country with Nurhaci since he was a child, and his prestige among the Jianzhou Jurchens was only slightly weaker than that of Nurhaci.

In history, Shuerhaci's final fate was that he was imprisoned and died after a conflict with his brother Nurhaci, which is one of the "secret histories" of your Qing Dynasty.

This time the two brothers rushed to Jiuliancheng because Lin Jinglue asked them to come and explain in person.

When Kato Kiyomasa led his troops across the Tumen River to attack the Haixi Jurchen tribe, why did the Jianzhou Jurchens not obey the order to send troops?

Nurhaci originally wanted to bring the "Five Ministers" to protect himself and strengthen his courage, but he remembered the shadow of the "Five Ministers" being wiped out by Lin Tailai alone when he went to Beijing for pilgrimage three years ago, so he left the "Five Ministers" in his hometown.

Standing at the gate of Jiuliancheng, Shuerhaci could not help but complain: "If we had sent out a little more troops to support the Haixi tribes before, we would not be so nervous today."

Since Jianzhou Jurchens accepted the title of the Ming Dynasty, they were nominally vassal. Although they could "listen to orders but not to announcements", they could not have no symbolic expression after receiving the order to send troops.

And Buzhantai, the leader of Haixi Jurchens who was slapped by Kato Kiyomasa at that time, was Shuerhaci's double relative

Nurhaci replied with a gloomy face: "The Ming army will have no time to take care of other things when fighting with the Japanese soldiers.

Our army is about to usher in a great opportunity, and all soldiers must be cherished and used, and not wasted at will.

As long as we get through this visit safely, our Jianzhou will have a bright future and a bright future!"

He did not expect that this minister of strategy would still have the mind to hold on to the small Jianzhou while busy with the eastward expedition.

According to normal logic, shouldn't the minister of strategy at this time be full of Japanese soldiers and Korea? How could he still focus on the Jianzhou Jurchens who had no impact on the overall situation?

At this time, the Jianzhou Jurchens were not yet able to openly resist the Ming Dynasty. After receiving the order from the Minister of State Affairs, the brothers could only go to Jiuliancheng.

Hearing the news from the city gate in the lobby of the shogunate, Lin Jinglüe called Cui Wukui over, "You first pick up the two chieftains of Jianzhou Jurchens and check them into the posthouse."

Cui Wukui was quite puzzled. Why did he specifically ask him to pick them up? Although he was in charge of diplomatic affairs, were the two barbarian chieftains necessary?

Then he heard Lin Jinglüe order: "These two people should be given the same level of etiquette standards, arranged with the same level of houses, and arranged with the same level of banquets."

Cui Wukui reminded him, "Are you sure it's the same? One is the deputy governor, the general of dragon and tiger, and the other is the commander, not at the same level."

Lin Tailai did not explain, and scolded, "Just do as I say!"

Cui Wukui was ordered to go out and pick up the brothers Nuerhaci and Shuerhaqi at the city gate. When they were presented with the gift, they greeted them exactly the same way.

When they arrived at the post house, they first sent Nuerhachi into the main room of the courtyard, and then led Shuerhaqi out.

According to the normal etiquette arrangement, Nuerhachi should stay in the main room and Shuerhaqi should be in the side room.

Nuerhachi finally realized something was wrong and couldn't help but ask: "Where is Mr. Cui leading my brother?"

Cui Wukui replied: "I want to go to the main room in the courtyard next door, which is the same as here.

By the way, tonight’s banquet is also treated separately, and both your brothers are the guests of honor to show your kindness! "

Nuerhachi: "."

After all calculations, I was even prepared to suffer humiliation, but I didn't expect to encounter this trick!

If the Ming Dynasty had people like Lin Tailai, would he still have a chance to rule the Northeast?

Two generals came forward that night, and each was responsible for entertaining the two straight female brothers from Jianzhou. The etiquette was exactly the same.

The next day, Cui Wukui came again to lead the two brothers to the lobby of the shogunate.

Lin Jinglue, who was busy with his busy schedule, took time out to pay homage, but he first spoke to his younger brother Shuerhaqi, and they exchanged common pleasantries in a friendly manner.

Nuer Hachi, who was left out in the cold next to him, immediately turned pale. This Lin Tailai was still so rude!

Although he doesn't want to deal with Lin Tailai, he is the leader of Jianzhou, okay?

Even if he gets stabbed, he should be the one who gets stabbed first!

Lin Tailai asked Shuerhaqi: "I heard that you are married to Bu Zhantai, the chief of the Haixi Nüzhiwula tribe?"

Shuerhaqi replied honestly: "I will marry my daughter to Buzhantai, and then I will marry Buzhantai's sister."

"Ah, this is a match made in heaven." Lin Jing slightly said something against his will, and at the same time swallowed the words "Your circle is really chaotic."

Shuerhaqi secretly wondered that he had previously heard from his brother Nuerhaci that Lin Jinglue had a very violent character and was extremely hostile to straight women.

But the Lin Tailai I saw with my own eyes today had a friendly attitude, but it didn't look like what his brother said?

Then I heard Lin Tailai ask: "So before, the Japanese pirate Kato Kiyomasa crossed the Doman River and invaded various tribes in Haixi.

Then Buzhantai was severely injured, and it was said that more than 900 of Buzhantai's men were killed. Why didn't you send troops to rescue him? "

Shuerhaqi didn't know how to answer, or he didn't want to lie to his face, so he looked at his brother Nuerhachi helplessly.