Chapter 554

Since the rise of JianNu, Daming has formed a habit of being extremely afraid of JianNu. They often boast an old saying, which is called: women are dissatisfied with ten thousand, and ten thousand are invincible.

Since Nurhachi established the post Jin State, JianNu's power has increased rapidly, and has already exceeded 10000 people. The strength of almost every flag he established has exceeded 10000 people, which has almost become a nightmare of the Ming army. Every time he fights with JianNu and the Ming army, he presses the Ming army and chases the other party.

After fighting for so long, both sides have some understanding, that is, unless the Ming army relies on cities or heavy military groups, they don't dare to fight JianNu easily.

In the battle in the field, the Ming army was often beaten by JianNu. Only relying on their heavy army group and forming a military array can they resist the enemy.

Therefore, after JianNu rushed into the Inner Mongolia, they robbed the northern Zhili area of the Ming Dynasty. These JianNu were mainly cavalry and light infantry. They came and went like the wind and were very fast, which made the Ming army very difficult.

If they send troops to chase, it's easy for the enemy to lead by the nose. JianNu's best skill is to lead others by the nose. When he drags you down and drags you down in the field, he turns around and gives you a sudden attack.

The Ming army suffered a lot under their tactics. Many heavy military groups and famous officials and good generals were under the tactics of building slaves.

At the same time, JianNu also knew the Ming army very well. He knew that it was easy for them to cause huge casualties when they attacked the military array composed of heavy troops of the Ming army or tightly guarded cities. Therefore, they also tried to avoid a decisive battle with the heavy troops of the Ming army and attack their tightly guarded cities, but attack their weak links.

For example, it shows that the army's heavy army group is powerful, but its mobility is very slow. When your army arrives, their cavalry will withdraw long ago.

If you don't catch up, I'll attack other cities and rob you of your money. If you dare to catch up, it's not easy for a huge heavy army group to move. If you catch up, it will even expose flaws and collapse in the process of moving.

So in this case, JianNu was like a duck to water to deal with the Ming army.

After JianNu broke into the fortress this time, he completely swollen the face of the Ming court, and the emperor couldn't bear it, so he ordered several heavy military groups to come to beizhili at all costs and prepare to fight JianNu to the death.

For example, Guan Ning's iron cavalry, which they regarded as the pillar of protecting the country, this time the Emperor gave a dead order and asked them to come.

In addition, with the confluence of Lu Xiangsheng's department and Hong Chengchou's Department, the two sides faced off in Zhuolu. After Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou joined forces, their number exceeded 100000, and they were sure to deal with JianNu.

However, Dourgen, who has been confronting them, has also been supported by reinforcements led by Huang Taiji, and the strength of both sides is growing.

Many people believe that it is entirely possible for the two sides to have a decisive battle in Zhuolu.

This decisive battle may be a decisive battle to determine the fate of both sides.

Even emperor Chongzhen, who was so impatient, knew that the situation was critical. Instead, he did not urge Hong Chengchou to take the initiative to attack. What he was afraid of was that he would repeat the mistakes of the Changping war. King Zhao made every effort to force him to save grain. Zhao Kuo risked to attack, fell into the enemy's plot, and the whole army was destroyed.

Who knows that the Ming army was eager to fight JianNu, but Huang Taiji, who led the army, did not fight with Hong Chengchou's army, but took the initiative to retreat.

Huang Taiji took the initiative to retreat. Not only did the Ming army not understand, but also some people inside JianNu did not understand, such as Dourgen.

Huang Taiji said: "Now the Ming army has changed a new minister of the Ministry of war. The policy of hustling outside and having peace inside advocated by this person has moved the emperor Chongzhen. They think that to deal with us, they must first deal with their internal people, that is, they need to deal with Liu thieves and rogue bandits. Liu thieves are also our enemies. Since the Ming army wants to fight them, let the Ming army do it."

Dourgen murmured to himself, "if the Ming army calmly cleans up their internal people, they can unite and deal with us without worries, and our big gold will be in danger."

Even if they are arrogant and proud, Daming is the most powerful country in the world today. For them, it is equivalent to a giant. They can defeat the giant countless times, and he can afford to lose, but if the giant gives him a hard, they can't stand it.

Huang Taiji said, "let the Ming people beat their own people first. When they both fight and die, let's do it again so that they can't finish their work." he said with a sneer: Ming people are too incompetent. They have suppressed some rogue bandits for seven or eight years and can't destroy them. Can they easily destroy Liu thieves who are stronger than rogue bandits? Just let them kill each other and be scarred. Let's take advantage of them“

Now JianNu also hated Liu Jiajun and called them Liu thieves.

Huang Taiji is a very smart man. He likes to collect intelligence from Ming people, and Ming people have suffered a lot in this regard, but he has no intention of convergence.

In every major decisive battle of the Ming Dynasty, they will carry out Temple calculation in advance. The so-called Temple calculation is that after the imperial court has planned the strategy, the local governor and governor must follow this temple calculation. Otherwise, even if you win the war, you are wrong. If you lose the war, you will not listen to the imperial court's order and kill the nine ethnic groups.

What's more, the imperial court has no sense of confidentiality at all. After they do Temple calculations, they will publicize them and hand them over to several major departments for discussion. Some will even be written in Tang newspapers to make the government and the public talk one after another. Therefore, Huang Taiji can know the strategy of the Ming army without effort.

Now that they know that the Ming army implements the policy of "hustling the outside and settling the inside first", let them beat their own people. Their later gold will pick up bargains in the back.

Lu Xiangsheng was born as a scholar with excellent martial arts skills. He is a rare figure with both literature and martial arts in the Ming Dynasty. Many people think he is very brave. In fact, he is very brave. As a civil servant, he can personally lead the team to attack and fall into battle.

However, he was not a reckless man. He fought with JianNu several times, winning and losing, which also made him understand JianNu's strength. If he fought with a small group of JianNu troops in the field, they would not be the opponent of the other party, but if they formed a huge military array and used the advantages of number and equipment, they would still have the opportunity to defeat the enemy.

As a general, what he should know most is his own advantages and the enemy's shortcomings. After a few days of fighting, he knows the enemy's shortcomings. Therefore, after several days of confrontation and preparation, especially the addition of Hong Chengchou's army, they are ready to fight a decisive battle with JianNu in Zhuolu.

Moreover, the whole senior level of the Ming army also saw and understood that there were few slaves. If we fought with them, Daming would be more cost-effective.

So they carefully planned a decisive battle, that is, they were ready to fight JianNu here in Zhuolu.

As long as they have defeated the main force of JianNu, they will have to retreat and escape if they don't retreat.

If they don't escape, they will stay in the Seine and annihilate them in one fell swoop. If they annihilate JianNu here, they have the advantage of the home court. If they pursue and kill all the way outside the Seine and thousands of miles away, the Ming army may not have an advantage in the pursuit and war between the two sides.

Who knows, they did their best to organize a decisive battle, but JianNu didn't play with them. When both sides were ready for the decisive battle, JianNu took the initiative to retreat.

They not only took the initiative to retreat, but also let out all the zhuos they occupied, which made Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng choke.

However, they know their own advantages and the advantages of the enemy. If there is a decisive battle, it will be beneficial to the Ming army. However, JianNu is so cunning that he doesn't have a consumptive decisive battle with you, but plays sports and field operations with you.

Without relying on the huge military array and equipment advantages, the Ming army had no advantage at all when fighting JianNu.

Watching the enemy retreat, Lu Xiangsheng wanted to pursue and kill the enemy. All his generals were greatly excited. They thought the enemy was frightened by them and asked for orders to pursue and kill the enemy.

However, he saw that although the JianNu army retreated, they retreated without disorder and were very orderly. If they rushed to send troops to charge, they would be ambushed by the enemy.

Even Hong Chengchou's generals such as Zu Kuan and Meng Ruhu, who are very capable of fighting, saw the problem. Lu Xiangsheng saw it at a glance. Naturally, he didn't dare to chase and kill each other.

The advantage of the Ming army is still that sentence. It is a heavy army group. Only in a decisive battle with the enemy can it have an advantage. If it is a battle or field battle of small forces, they have little advantage.

So the Ming army had no choice but to move forward.

Because this is a war zone and a place where both sides fight and fight. It is the most dangerous battlefield. When they march in other parts of the country, they march very fast, hundreds of miles a day, and the speed is amazing.

But now they have to maintain their formation and fight the enemy at any time. The speed is inevitably slow. It is only more than ten miles a day.

Huang Taiji saw the advantages and disadvantages of the Ming army, so he would play with them slowly, instead of blindly showing off his courage and fighting a total decisive battle with the Ming army. You should know that if fighting a war of attrition, the Ming army has great advantages, and their troops can be supplemented at any time, because there are few others in the Ming army, that is, there are many people, but their slave building is different, and their personnel are very difficult to make up.

For example, in the battle of southern Liaoning, they lost so many people that they can't make up for it. Although they invaded the Seine and plundered 180000 people this time, these 180000 people are only given to them as production tools and consumables, not as soldiers in their army.

That is why Huang Taiji has consistently stressed in many battles and battlefields that he can not fight a war of attrition without a war of attrition.