Chapter 118 Hand over military power

Since Chongzhen's 12th year, Yu's army was defeated by the Jiannu army in Guannei, the Jiannu army outside the customs has ceased a lot and began to shrink strategically, withdrawing their defense line to the north of the north bank of the Daling River. In the past two years, the invasion of Jinzhou has been reduced and become much more peaceful.

This has also eased the whole situation outside the customs. Guan Ning's army is not the most comfortable two years here in decades.

Zu Dashou didn't want to take this opportunity to recover some of the lost land in Liaodong, at least to recover Guangningwei and Yizhou.

At the end of the spring of the 14th year of Chongzhen last year, Zu Dashou also gathered a group of Guanning troops and launched an attack on Yizhou in an attempt to take back the city of Yizhou. However, when Zu Dashou led the troops to arrive in Yizhou, he found that the Jiannu was very strong defense there. The Jiannu defenders in Yizhou did not know when they also pretended to be With a lot of Hongyi cannons, Guan Ning's army, under the command of Zu Dashou, attacked for several days, but failed to capture Yizhou, which was a great loss.

As a last resort, Zu Dashou had to give up the idea of defeating Yizhou and led the army to withdraw to Jinzhou, and the two sides once again returned to the state of confrontation.

Jiannu obviously lost the ability to take the initiative to attack and put on a posture of strict defense. Guan Ning's army did not provoke them, and they no longer easily sent troops to provoke Guan Ning's army.

In the past two years, the two sides have often had conflicts of dozens of people and up to 1,200 people, and basically there has never been any large-scale war.

So in the past two years, it can basically be said to be the most peaceful period in recent years. Jiannu has completely changed from offensive to defensive, losing the previous arrogance.

After listening to Yu Xiaotian, a fairly detailed map of Liaodong was hung in the big account. Zu Dashhou and others were secretly surprised. In this era, maps are quite precious things, which are difficult for private individuals to have, and will not be printed in batches. Basically, they are basically drawn by hand. Come here.

Only the government has the ability to mobilise manpower and material resources to draw maps, and because of the limitations of cartography technology, China's map drawing in this era is relatively rough and very inaccurate.

And even so, only senior military generals or senior officials may have maps, and it is difficult for ordinary military generals to get a very detailed map.

However, the map that Yu Xiaotian hung today is quite detailed. The proportion of the map is very accurate. In addition to marking various towns and villages with various colors, mountains and rivers are also marked, and even many circles of lines are drawn in some places, marked with numbers. I don't know what it is for. Of.

And many places on the map are marked with different colors. After Yu Xiaotian's explanation, they know that these places with different colors represent forests, hills, arable land, grasslands, etc.

This map is much more detailed than all the maps they have seen before. It includes the topography and towns of the whole Liaodong. The proportion is also marked below. You only need to measure the distance on the map with a ruler and convert it according to the proportion, and you can basically get the approximate distance between the two places. Leave.

Such an accurate map is something they have never heard of before. How much manpower and material resources will it take to map and draw such a detailed map!

As generals of the Liaodong Army, they have not made such an accurate map for so many years, but they didn't expect that Yu Xiaotian did not know when he drew such a map.

Even if these Guanning military generals think about it with their buttocks, they can guess that Yu Xiaotian must have secretly sent people to investigate the whole situation in Liaodong. This not only includes not only the occupied area of Jiannu, but also the area under their control, so that the whole situation in Liaodong can be known.

Fortunately, they did not rise up and fight against Yu Xiaotian outside the gate this time. Otherwise, Yu Xiaotian could definitely clean them up easily.

Yu Xiaotian didn't care what these people were thinking. After hanging up the map, he began to study the specific combat matters against Jiannu with the generals according to the map.

After asking Zu Dashou and others in detail about their understanding of the situation of Jiannu, and then according to some information detected by Yu Xiaotian's own intelligence system, they basically got the current military deployment of Jiannu.

Yu Xiaotian did not mean anything to Zu Dashou and others, and directly began to arrange the next battle plan against Jiannu.

Yu Xiaotian satirized these Guanning army generals and laughed at their incompetence. Jiannu's strength has been greatly damaged after 12 years of Chongzhen, but Guanning's army has basically maintained the integrity of its strength. However, in the past three years, Guanning army can be said to have made no achievements and lost more strength in the Jiannu army. In half of the case, an inch of soil could not be recovered.

Although Yu Xiaotian's words were relatively obscure, Zu Dashou and others still heard the meaning of his words and couldn't help but be a little ashamed.

Yu Xiaotian actually didn't say anything about them. In those years, Yu Xiaotian led more than 30,000 troops, fought against 100,000 slaves in the customs, and also defeated the army of the construction slaves, and almost annihilated them all in the customs. However, in the past three years, they have basically enjoyed peace outside the customs, but they can't even get an inch of old land. Come back.

The Ming court spent a lot of money to support them. After Yu Xiaotian came to power, at least allocated nearly one million taels of silver to them in the past three years, but they only spent money and did nothing. They just saved the current territory from being taken away by the construction slaves, which was really unpleasant to say.

Now it is still necessary for Yu Xiaotian to lead the army to personally march outside the customs to seek slaves. Moreover, they also see that Yu Xiaotian's number of soldiers and horses is not very large, and even the strength of their Guanning army is not enough, but they are going to come to bring back the whole Liaodong.

This statement is really uncomfortable, but this is also true. For decades, their Guanning army has indeed not done anything that should be done outside the customs. The whole Liaodong was gradually encroached on by Jiannu, but they retreated step by step. If it hadn't been for Yu Jiajun's army to kill 100,000 Jiannu in 12 years in Chongzhen in Guannei If so, I guess even they can't stand being taken by the construction slaves now.

So although they heard that Yu Xiaotian was mocking their incompetence, they were deterred by Yu Xiaotian's force. Each of them did not even dare to fart. They bowed their heads and said nothing, which was regarded as acquiescence to Yu Xiaotian's accusations against them.

That night, Yu Xiaotian left Zu Dashou and had a long talk with Zu Dashou, and Yu Xiaotian did not hide Zu Dashou, which directly explained his consideration and arrangement for the status of the Guanning army in the future.

Yu Xiaotian told Zu Dashou that after he destroyed the slaves this time, Guan Ning's army must also accept the adaptation. Under his control, the existence of a semi-private warlord group like the Guanning army will never be allowed. The army is the army of the country and does not belong to anyone, which is not challenging.

However, for these old generals of Guanning who are in charge of the army, it is also a lot of hard work to guard the border for Daming for so many years. The previous matters will not be investigated. They are allowed to unload their armor and return to the field and return to their hometown for glory. However, anyone who takes the initiative to give up the military power and hand over the military power can be given 5,000 taels of silver to everyone. Family expenses, and after returning to their hometown, they can be given 200 mu of private land for their retirement.

However, if someone refuses to hand over the military power and tries to support himself and fight against the court, then the consequences are at his own risk. If someone wants to try, he can let go. Yu Xiaotian will not care.

For Zu Dashou himself, Yu Xiaotian said that he valued him very much. After that, he could let Zu Dashou enter the military headquarters to work and never bury Zu Dashou's talents.

After listening to this, Zu Dashou was silent for a long time, shook his head and smiled bitterly and said, "Thank you for your kindness. In this case, Zu has nothing to say. It's really uncomfortable for me to wait for these brothers under his command.

But since the people of the superintendent have made up their minds, we have to follow orders. As for the last general, he is old and has no enterprising heart for a long time and is willing to return home to retire. I hope that the superintendent can treat us well for decades of loyalty to the Ming Dynasty!

In addition, although those generals under my command have not made much achievements, they have also guarded the border for Daming for so many years. I hope that the Lord Jianguo can treat them well when reorganize the Guanning Army in the future!"

The reason why Zu Dashou promised so freely is also out of helplessness. If he still has a way, he will not easily agree to Yu Xiaotian's conditions.

His ancestral family has been the important generals of the Ming Dynasty for generations. His brothers, Zu Dale, Zu Dabi, Zu Dacheng and others are all important generals of Guanning. It can be said that they control a large number of Guanning army. Almost no one can control their ancestral families outside the customs, and most of their sons and nephews also serve in the army. They also control a large number of soldiers and horses with great power. Almost no one can look out of it.

However, the reason why he agreed to hand over the military power is also because he saw the changes in the past two years in Guan. Although Yu Xiaotian has not publicly moved their Guanning army, he gradually removed the military power of the important generals in those places and replaced it with his Yu family army.

Many important generals in the customs are unwilling to comply easily. There are many people who rebel, but as a result, none of them can do it. Often as soon as they are soldiers together, they are strongly suppressed by Yu Xiaotian, which leads to the destruction of the whole door.

Especially after seeing the power of Yu Jiajun under Yu Xiaotian's command, he sighed that he was ashamed. Compared with Yu Jiajun under his command, he did not have the ability to compete with it at all.

Even if he did not agree and finally led the army to plot a rebellion, it is estimated that the fate can be imagined. Not only will it not be a good end, but I'm afraid it will also involve the whole ancestral family and finally die with him.