Chapter 1492
The difference is huge
Chapter 1492 The difference is huge
"I don't understand... I don't understand!" In the two southern business groups watching the battle in the safe area in the distance, many people were screaming and couldn't understand. The object of their surprise was not Haihan, but the self-starting war. The Han army flag has always been in a passive state.
According to the explanations of fellow officers, they also knew that the opposing troops were probably the original Daming officers who had defected and surrendered to Houjin from Shandong and Liaodong, but their combination of foot and cavalry tactics had no success in front of the Haihan Army. , and even appeared a little timid. In their opinion, it was not as good as the rear golden cavalry just now. At least they rushed this round with guns and cannons, which is as wretched as this Han army flag.
If Geng Zhongming knew these laymen's opinions, he would be half-hearted. His cautious and prudent tactics are the tactics recorded in the serious military books, which are much higher than those of the barbarians who can only rush and fight hard. He just encountered the difficult opponent of the Haihan Army, which made it difficult for him to prepare various tactics in advance, so that he was always passive on the battlefield.But this does not mean that his troops are afraid of war or have poor command. However, the opponent's strength is too strong, and it is not a crime of war.
But businessmen don't think about such in-depth and professional issues. As the saying goes, hearing is false and seeing is believing. They only believe what they see with their own eyes. The performance of the Han army flag is really not outstanding.Such a weak army, I don't know how it could have created such a serious war in Shandong in the first place, and it actually took the court two or three years to calm down.Is this because the rebels are too powerful, or is the court too incompetent?
This kind of disobedience cannot be pondered carefully, even if you just think about it in your mind, it would be a great treason for these Ming businessmen.But they have at least realized one thing, that is, whether the Ming army who defected to Liaodong or the Ming army who was in charge of suppressing the rebellion in Shandong, is obviously far from the strength of the Haihan army.It is no wonder that Dongjiang Town, which was originally affiliated to Daming, has no hesitation in joining the subordinates of the Haihan Army.
Of course, Liu Shang looked a little deeper than these businessmen. He knew that the advantage of the Haihan Army on the battlefield was not that the enemy's combat strength was low. Otherwise, how would Houjin go south to the south for successive years and defeat the Ming Dynasty.Behind this disparity in combat power is a huge gap in weapon design and manufacturing capabilities, logistics systems, military command systems, and even social productivity.And these gaps in many aspects are reflected in the battlefield, and it is not that the opponent can recover only by virtue of the strength of the army.
However, such a huge problem, Liu Shang didn't bother to waste his saliva explaining it to the businessmen in detail. Besides, there are also many secret places. If he accidentally mentions something that shouldn't be mentioned, then he, a political cadre, can Just seriously neglected.
Haihan's artillery fire destroyed several enemy artillery positions in a very short period of time without any suspense, and the fighting courage they had managed to muster up.After the enemy army began to call in and withdraw troops, the cavalry units of the Haihan Army attacked again, chasing after the enemy army, causing a lot of casualties.This has been chased for nearly five miles, and the Haihan cavalry did not take advantage of the victory until the opponent's backup cavalry came up to meet them.
After the battle, the big sword team from Dongjiang Town soon appeared on the battlefield again. These people were specially responsible for cutting down and collecting the opponent's heads after the battle, and the scene was really bloody.Afraid of scaring these southern merchants, Liu Shang hurriedly organized a convoy to leave the front line.Although the merchants were a little reluctant, they heard that the next measure to clean up the battlefield would be to cut off the head and pile up the Jingguan, so they didn't have the guts to watch it any longer.Although there are a few daring guys who want to stay and watch something strange, but this is on the battlefield, and the military order can't tolerate them not obeying, so they can only evacuate with the convoy.
According to the report of the Broadsword Squad that cleaned the battlefield, the enemy casualties in this battle were about 600.If this record is considered in the history of the two armies fighting in the past six months, it is actually not a big number, but recently both sides have used small-scale conflicts as the main fighting method, and like this can kill hundreds of enemy troops at once. The record is already quite rare.
Of course, Haihan's victory was not without cost. Apart from a small number of casualties, the biggest consumption was the bullets, shells and gunpowder used in the battle.This battle, which only lasted for less than two hours, consumed a lot of ammunition, so much so that Bai Kesi, who had come to Liaodong to supervise the battle, felt a little pain in his eyes.
"Your ammo consumption rate... If you put it in the south, you can take down a state capital?" Baix looked at the ammunition consumption statistics submitted, and couldn't help but complained to Qian Tiandun: "If you keep fighting like this, Houjin Before we can destroy it, we have to run out of ammunition and food ourselves!"
Qian Tiandun said sternly: "Old Bai, you can't just look at one aspect of the problem. Although the ammunition consumption is relatively large, you have to consider the composition of the enemy's and our troops. There are so many cavalry in the enemy, and they will not stand honestly. Let us aim and shoot in place. You also understand the military. If you want to cause a lot of damage to the cavalry, you can only consume more ammunition to make up for the lack of firepower. Besides, the most important thing is that our army has always been able to maintain a suppressive posture on the battlefield. It's worth the extra ammo."
Bai Kesi sighed and said: "I don't know what you said, but the situation in Liaodong has always been in and out. You should know how much money the executive committee spent in Liaodong. When will you see the output? , I don't know yet. For the country, this place is more like a financial bottomless pit. Do you understand? The consumption of your battles is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of an agricultural county on Hainan Island for more than half a year. No matter how rich you are, you can’t resist going out so quickly! Moreover, you also proposed to continue to expand the war to the north, and to carry out amphibious operations in the coastal areas of Liaodong all year round. How much military expenditure will be needed to maintain it? Have you calculated it? ?"
Qian Tiandun coughed quietly, and Tom Wang next to him immediately took over the conversation: "Old Bai, what Commander Qian and you said makes sense, but some things can't be measured simply by how much money you spend, Liaodong. Whether the strategic position of the region is worth fighting, this is only after the unanimous agreement of the Executive Committee. To maintain this colony, we can only introduce more Han labor from the north through war. This is not to promote Is the development of the Liaodong colony so that it can achieve self-sufficiency in living materials earlier?"
Baix said: "You two don't need to form a team to convince me. What you need to convince is the Executive Committee. I must say that it is a bit difficult to get the approval of the Executive Committee for your current situation. The so-called development plan It's all on paper, but if you want to continue fighting, you have to burn in money immediately, I think you'd better figure out what to do."
Qian Tiandun frowned and said: "We can only do what the military should do. As for how to develop the Liaodong Peninsula, that is Shaxi's job. At most, we just want the troops to cooperate as much as possible. The war with Houjin is certain. It will continue for a long time, and since the battle cannot be avoided, we should increase investment and make the enemy lose the ability to continue fighting as soon as possible.”
If it is divided according to the interests of the camp, Baix, who is in charge of the Haihan military industry, should of course stand on the side of the military, but he is also a member of the executive committee. For him, his position cannot be too biased. Otherwise, other members of the Executive Committee will also be questioned after returning.Moreover, the problems he mentioned to Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom are indeed objective. It is impossible for the executive committee in Sanya to know the exact situation here from the telegram, and can only infer the investment in Liaodong according to common sense. Whether the expected returns can be obtained and whether the unplanned military spending will be considered reasonable depends largely on the development process of Liaodong.
But this again formed a paradox. The Haihan Army needed more military expenses to go to the north to grab people, and only after the population could develop Liaodong more quickly.What the Executive Committee hopes is that after seeing the actual progress of Liaodong's development, it will consider allocating more military expenditures to enrich Liaodong's armed forces.
Both the military and the executive committee have their own interests to consider, and it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong. Such conflicts are inevitable under the regime of Haihan.Fortunately, in the past few years, both the military and the government have had a certain tacit understanding in the way of handling differences of opinion. Arguments are disputes, but they will not affect the combat capability of overseas troops. This is the result of the Executive Committee and the military. Fang are the default bottom line.As for whether to take additional military operations in Liaodong, I am afraid that the heads of the Ministry of Defense must work more hard in Sanya.
As Haihan's opponent, Geng Zhongming, the commander of the failed battle, his situation was even more difficult.Azig sent someone to ask at the first time what made him choose to retreat quickly shortly after arriving on the battlefield, and whether there was a situation where the troops were afraid of the battle.
Geng Zhongming looked at the arrogant messenger and really wanted to curse his mother.It now seems that Aziger must have discounted the relevant information of the Haihan Army that he handed over to him before the war, and concealed Haihan's tactics to a certain extent. Otherwise, how could this battle be controlled everywhere today? To be so stupid.If Azige can tell his experience of defeat in a good way and let everyone plan together, it might not be possible to cause trouble for the Haihan people, but this is a stumbling block, obviously saving himself to embarrass himself or even commit crimes. Under the wrong intention.
Geng Zhongming also knew the root cause of what Ajige did. After all, he was a foreign Han, but now he has become a very favored general around Huang Taiji, which will definitely make some Manchu generals feel jealous and dissatisfied.If they can take the opportunity to make themselves fall, these people will probably be very happy to let Huang Taiji see this scene, in order to reduce Huang Taiji's favor for them.
No matter how Geng Zhongming's status in Houjin was improved, it was also awarded to him by Huang Taiji. Even if he was crowned king, his status could not be compared with that of Nurhaci's own son, so this kind of shady trick to Azhige, In addition to forbearance, Geng Zhongming has only forbearance.He knew that even if he went to Hong Taiji to file a complaint, saying that Ajige had smothered him, Huang Taiji would never protect him in the open. After all, he and Ajige were both old men, both surnamed Aixinjue Luo, no matter how reasonable he is, he is just an outsider.
Regarding Azige's inquisition, Geng Zhongming could only talk to the mud first, saying that he was not familiar with the battlefield environment. In addition, it was the first time he fought with the Haihan Army, and he still needed to get used to it, and then he paid a sum of money to the messenger. , and let him explain it to Aziger after he goes back.
Enduring the pain to send the messenger away, Geng Zhongming returned to the central army tent and was so angry that he grabbed the porcelain pen holder on the table and smashed it to pieces.A bribe of a few hundred taels of silver was a trivial matter, but because of this kind of thing, he had to pay a bribe to a junior officer with a military rank five or six ranks lower than himself, which was really a very aggrieved feeling.In a split second, he even had the urge to immediately chase out the messenger and bring the messenger back and behead him.
Of course, if he really does this, it may be difficult to stay in Houjin any longer. At that time, Azige will definitely put him on charges of "disobeying military orders and killing messengers without authorization", and then persuade Huang Taiji Punishing him might be a package for resignation.A few years ago, he chose to participate in the rebellion in Dengzhou because of the tension with his boss, but if he wants to rebel again now, he has nowhere to go next, and he can't defect back to Daming again. The head reward will last at least until Emperor Chongzhen steps down, and going back is a stupid act of automatically offering heads.
And Haihan was obviously not someone he could turn to. The other party had recently distributed a lot of leaflets near Jinzhou City, which listed high rewards for Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and other Ming traitors.Geng Zhongming's worth is 3 taels of silver for living, and 1 taels of silver for dead, which is much higher than Daming's reward. To be honest, he really wants to find someone who looks like him for this price. The head was chopped off and sent to receive the reward. After all, the price of 1 taels of silver for a head is not available everywhere.Of course, if the other party offered such a high price to buy his life, they naturally had no intention of taking him in. Even if he voluntarily surrendered, the other party might not spare his life.
However, Haihan's reward also has an objective benefit to Geng Zhongming, that is, it completely eliminated his thoughts of betraying Houjin, which made Huang Taiji trust him more.But in this way, Geng Zhongming had to strengthen the security measures around him, and all of them had to use the kind of close relatives who knew the bottom line, otherwise if there was that bastard who wanted to get rich for a while, he would chop off his big head. It would be troublesome to find Haihans to receive the reward.
(End of this chapter)
"I don't understand... I don't understand!" In the two southern business groups watching the battle in the safe area in the distance, many people were screaming and couldn't understand. The object of their surprise was not Haihan, but the self-starting war. The Han army flag has always been in a passive state.
According to the explanations of fellow officers, they also knew that the opposing troops were probably the original Daming officers who had defected and surrendered to Houjin from Shandong and Liaodong, but their combination of foot and cavalry tactics had no success in front of the Haihan Army. , and even appeared a little timid. In their opinion, it was not as good as the rear golden cavalry just now. At least they rushed this round with guns and cannons, which is as wretched as this Han army flag.
If Geng Zhongming knew these laymen's opinions, he would be half-hearted. His cautious and prudent tactics are the tactics recorded in the serious military books, which are much higher than those of the barbarians who can only rush and fight hard. He just encountered the difficult opponent of the Haihan Army, which made it difficult for him to prepare various tactics in advance, so that he was always passive on the battlefield.But this does not mean that his troops are afraid of war or have poor command. However, the opponent's strength is too strong, and it is not a crime of war.
But businessmen don't think about such in-depth and professional issues. As the saying goes, hearing is false and seeing is believing. They only believe what they see with their own eyes. The performance of the Han army flag is really not outstanding.Such a weak army, I don't know how it could have created such a serious war in Shandong in the first place, and it actually took the court two or three years to calm down.Is this because the rebels are too powerful, or is the court too incompetent?
This kind of disobedience cannot be pondered carefully, even if you just think about it in your mind, it would be a great treason for these Ming businessmen.But they have at least realized one thing, that is, whether the Ming army who defected to Liaodong or the Ming army who was in charge of suppressing the rebellion in Shandong, is obviously far from the strength of the Haihan army.It is no wonder that Dongjiang Town, which was originally affiliated to Daming, has no hesitation in joining the subordinates of the Haihan Army.
Of course, Liu Shang looked a little deeper than these businessmen. He knew that the advantage of the Haihan Army on the battlefield was not that the enemy's combat strength was low. Otherwise, how would Houjin go south to the south for successive years and defeat the Ming Dynasty.Behind this disparity in combat power is a huge gap in weapon design and manufacturing capabilities, logistics systems, military command systems, and even social productivity.And these gaps in many aspects are reflected in the battlefield, and it is not that the opponent can recover only by virtue of the strength of the army.
However, such a huge problem, Liu Shang didn't bother to waste his saliva explaining it to the businessmen in detail. Besides, there are also many secret places. If he accidentally mentions something that shouldn't be mentioned, then he, a political cadre, can Just seriously neglected.
Haihan's artillery fire destroyed several enemy artillery positions in a very short period of time without any suspense, and the fighting courage they had managed to muster up.After the enemy army began to call in and withdraw troops, the cavalry units of the Haihan Army attacked again, chasing after the enemy army, causing a lot of casualties.This has been chased for nearly five miles, and the Haihan cavalry did not take advantage of the victory until the opponent's backup cavalry came up to meet them.
After the battle, the big sword team from Dongjiang Town soon appeared on the battlefield again. These people were specially responsible for cutting down and collecting the opponent's heads after the battle, and the scene was really bloody.Afraid of scaring these southern merchants, Liu Shang hurriedly organized a convoy to leave the front line.Although the merchants were a little reluctant, they heard that the next measure to clean up the battlefield would be to cut off the head and pile up the Jingguan, so they didn't have the guts to watch it any longer.Although there are a few daring guys who want to stay and watch something strange, but this is on the battlefield, and the military order can't tolerate them not obeying, so they can only evacuate with the convoy.
According to the report of the Broadsword Squad that cleaned the battlefield, the enemy casualties in this battle were about 600.If this record is considered in the history of the two armies fighting in the past six months, it is actually not a big number, but recently both sides have used small-scale conflicts as the main fighting method, and like this can kill hundreds of enemy troops at once. The record is already quite rare.
Of course, Haihan's victory was not without cost. Apart from a small number of casualties, the biggest consumption was the bullets, shells and gunpowder used in the battle.This battle, which only lasted for less than two hours, consumed a lot of ammunition, so much so that Bai Kesi, who had come to Liaodong to supervise the battle, felt a little pain in his eyes.
"Your ammo consumption rate... If you put it in the south, you can take down a state capital?" Baix looked at the ammunition consumption statistics submitted, and couldn't help but complained to Qian Tiandun: "If you keep fighting like this, Houjin Before we can destroy it, we have to run out of ammunition and food ourselves!"
Qian Tiandun said sternly: "Old Bai, you can't just look at one aspect of the problem. Although the ammunition consumption is relatively large, you have to consider the composition of the enemy's and our troops. There are so many cavalry in the enemy, and they will not stand honestly. Let us aim and shoot in place. You also understand the military. If you want to cause a lot of damage to the cavalry, you can only consume more ammunition to make up for the lack of firepower. Besides, the most important thing is that our army has always been able to maintain a suppressive posture on the battlefield. It's worth the extra ammo."
Bai Kesi sighed and said: "I don't know what you said, but the situation in Liaodong has always been in and out. You should know how much money the executive committee spent in Liaodong. When will you see the output? , I don't know yet. For the country, this place is more like a financial bottomless pit. Do you understand? The consumption of your battles is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of an agricultural county on Hainan Island for more than half a year. No matter how rich you are, you can’t resist going out so quickly! Moreover, you also proposed to continue to expand the war to the north, and to carry out amphibious operations in the coastal areas of Liaodong all year round. How much military expenditure will be needed to maintain it? Have you calculated it? ?"
Qian Tiandun coughed quietly, and Tom Wang next to him immediately took over the conversation: "Old Bai, what Commander Qian and you said makes sense, but some things can't be measured simply by how much money you spend, Liaodong. Whether the strategic position of the region is worth fighting, this is only after the unanimous agreement of the Executive Committee. To maintain this colony, we can only introduce more Han labor from the north through war. This is not to promote Is the development of the Liaodong colony so that it can achieve self-sufficiency in living materials earlier?"
Baix said: "You two don't need to form a team to convince me. What you need to convince is the Executive Committee. I must say that it is a bit difficult to get the approval of the Executive Committee for your current situation. The so-called development plan It's all on paper, but if you want to continue fighting, you have to burn in money immediately, I think you'd better figure out what to do."
Qian Tiandun frowned and said: "We can only do what the military should do. As for how to develop the Liaodong Peninsula, that is Shaxi's job. At most, we just want the troops to cooperate as much as possible. The war with Houjin is certain. It will continue for a long time, and since the battle cannot be avoided, we should increase investment and make the enemy lose the ability to continue fighting as soon as possible.”
If it is divided according to the interests of the camp, Baix, who is in charge of the Haihan military industry, should of course stand on the side of the military, but he is also a member of the executive committee. For him, his position cannot be too biased. Otherwise, other members of the Executive Committee will also be questioned after returning.Moreover, the problems he mentioned to Qian Tiandun and Wang Tom are indeed objective. It is impossible for the executive committee in Sanya to know the exact situation here from the telegram, and can only infer the investment in Liaodong according to common sense. Whether the expected returns can be obtained and whether the unplanned military spending will be considered reasonable depends largely on the development process of Liaodong.
But this again formed a paradox. The Haihan Army needed more military expenses to go to the north to grab people, and only after the population could develop Liaodong more quickly.What the Executive Committee hopes is that after seeing the actual progress of Liaodong's development, it will consider allocating more military expenditures to enrich Liaodong's armed forces.
Both the military and the executive committee have their own interests to consider, and it is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong. Such conflicts are inevitable under the regime of Haihan.Fortunately, in the past few years, both the military and the government have had a certain tacit understanding in the way of handling differences of opinion. Arguments are disputes, but they will not affect the combat capability of overseas troops. This is the result of the Executive Committee and the military. Fang are the default bottom line.As for whether to take additional military operations in Liaodong, I am afraid that the heads of the Ministry of Defense must work more hard in Sanya.
As Haihan's opponent, Geng Zhongming, the commander of the failed battle, his situation was even more difficult.Azig sent someone to ask at the first time what made him choose to retreat quickly shortly after arriving on the battlefield, and whether there was a situation where the troops were afraid of the battle.
Geng Zhongming looked at the arrogant messenger and really wanted to curse his mother.It now seems that Aziger must have discounted the relevant information of the Haihan Army that he handed over to him before the war, and concealed Haihan's tactics to a certain extent. Otherwise, how could this battle be controlled everywhere today? To be so stupid.If Azige can tell his experience of defeat in a good way and let everyone plan together, it might not be possible to cause trouble for the Haihan people, but this is a stumbling block, obviously saving himself to embarrass himself or even commit crimes. Under the wrong intention.
Geng Zhongming also knew the root cause of what Ajige did. After all, he was a foreign Han, but now he has become a very favored general around Huang Taiji, which will definitely make some Manchu generals feel jealous and dissatisfied.If they can take the opportunity to make themselves fall, these people will probably be very happy to let Huang Taiji see this scene, in order to reduce Huang Taiji's favor for them.
No matter how Geng Zhongming's status in Houjin was improved, it was also awarded to him by Huang Taiji. Even if he was crowned king, his status could not be compared with that of Nurhaci's own son, so this kind of shady trick to Azhige, In addition to forbearance, Geng Zhongming has only forbearance.He knew that even if he went to Hong Taiji to file a complaint, saying that Ajige had smothered him, Huang Taiji would never protect him in the open. After all, he and Ajige were both old men, both surnamed Aixinjue Luo, no matter how reasonable he is, he is just an outsider.
Regarding Azige's inquisition, Geng Zhongming could only talk to the mud first, saying that he was not familiar with the battlefield environment. In addition, it was the first time he fought with the Haihan Army, and he still needed to get used to it, and then he paid a sum of money to the messenger. , and let him explain it to Aziger after he goes back.
Enduring the pain to send the messenger away, Geng Zhongming returned to the central army tent and was so angry that he grabbed the porcelain pen holder on the table and smashed it to pieces.A bribe of a few hundred taels of silver was a trivial matter, but because of this kind of thing, he had to pay a bribe to a junior officer with a military rank five or six ranks lower than himself, which was really a very aggrieved feeling.In a split second, he even had the urge to immediately chase out the messenger and bring the messenger back and behead him.
Of course, if he really does this, it may be difficult to stay in Houjin any longer. At that time, Azige will definitely put him on charges of "disobeying military orders and killing messengers without authorization", and then persuade Huang Taiji Punishing him might be a package for resignation.A few years ago, he chose to participate in the rebellion in Dengzhou because of the tension with his boss, but if he wants to rebel again now, he has nowhere to go next, and he can't defect back to Daming again. The head reward will last at least until Emperor Chongzhen steps down, and going back is a stupid act of automatically offering heads.
And Haihan was obviously not someone he could turn to. The other party had recently distributed a lot of leaflets near Jinzhou City, which listed high rewards for Geng Zhongming, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and other Ming traitors.Geng Zhongming's worth is 3 taels of silver for living, and 1 taels of silver for dead, which is much higher than Daming's reward. To be honest, he really wants to find someone who looks like him for this price. The head was chopped off and sent to receive the reward. After all, the price of 1 taels of silver for a head is not available everywhere.Of course, if the other party offered such a high price to buy his life, they naturally had no intention of taking him in. Even if he voluntarily surrendered, the other party might not spare his life.
However, Haihan's reward also has an objective benefit to Geng Zhongming, that is, it completely eliminated his thoughts of betraying Houjin, which made Huang Taiji trust him more.But in this way, Geng Zhongming had to strengthen the security measures around him, and all of them had to use the kind of close relatives who knew the bottom line, otherwise if there was that bastard who wanted to get rich for a while, he would chop off his big head. It would be troublesome to find Haihans to receive the reward.
(End of this chapter)