stubborn thief

Chapter 426

Liu Chengzong didn't have any expectations from the bottom of his heart for this so-called Mobei envoy team.

Mobei belongs to the fact that there are few people, the land is large, and it is far away. Liu Chengzong doesn't think he can control Mobei, let alone the generalissimo, even the Emperor Dayuan.

That was Kublai Khan's hometown. Kublai Khan set up the Central Plains, and backhandedly set up the Helin Xuanwei Division for his hometown in the administrative division. Why?I can't control it.

Mobei is different from Tianshan. Everyone knows the Ili Valley of Tianshan as a good place. The environment is the cornerstone of power, and better agricultural and animal husbandry conditions allow them to have a strong army and a prosperous economy.

In the same way, the Ili River Valley is the weakness of the Oirats. As long as a heavy army group is assembled to take down the Ili River Valley, the united Oirats will become stragglers on the Gobi, and there will never be a good place like the Ili Valley.

And they captured Yili, where [-] to [-] elite soldiers can live a very good life, be self-sufficient, and even pay taxes for him.

What kind of environment is that in Mobei?
Assemble a heavy army group to sweep Hangai Mountain, and the tribes ran all over the ground in the southeast, northwest, and wherever they went, they could find places with similar environments to those there.

This is equivalent to Liu Shizi leaving his hometown in northern Shaanxi and finding that the environment is good everywhere and the harvests are not bad.

Even if his soldiers take down Hang Ai Mountain, they won't be able to stay there.

Without extravagant hopes and expectations that should not exist, people will not be disappointed. Liu Shizi is ready to be scolded bloody by this Khalkha mission from Mobei, saying something about him stealing Khan's position Word preparation.

It's useless to scold him, he can't go on an expedition to Mobei.

Originally, what Liu Shizi meant was to take half an hour out of his reading, studying, and drawing time to deal with this mission. Whether it is good or bad, it will not affect the overall situation anyway.

Unexpectedly, the news sent by Qiang Sunday from the navy yamen was that King Subadhi Khan, the leader of Kalka in Mobei, had come in person.

Liu Chengzong was directly flattered, he changed into a brand new dress, and thought to himself what happened to this Subadhi?

This is not a question of sincerity. Liu Shizi suspects that this guy's lair has been captured by others, otherwise the leader should not have led the team here...at least not now.

Why are you here?How about testing Liu Shizi's hospitality?
A few days ago, Baigong Bureau made him an outer and inner winter dress. The underwear is plain satin mid-length trousers, cashmere lined short jacket and trousers. In addition to the tail decoration, cowhide is also embossed with dark patterns of dragons and twelve chapters on the chest, back, shoulders, and hem.

It is a service with wrong username but correct password.

Regardless of why Subadi came, Liu Chengzong should go out of the city to greet him. For this reason, he called Batuer Huntaiji from Kaimeng in the academy, Xie Erhu and Ji Tutaiji who led the troops outside.

Batur Huntaiji was eager to run out. Among his classmates, the teenage Ezhe was considered an elder brother. They were mainly children from the Xincheng Children's Camp. They made a lot of noise in class, which made him miserable.

Xie Erhu and Ji Tutaiji are not far away. The four herd camps under their command are sheltering from the winter in the pastoral area of ​​Qinghai. There are only more than 1000 people in the sea to train horses. It is very convenient to come here.

On the matter of the school horse, Subadi thought too much.

Liu Chengzong asked Xie Erhu and Ji Tutaiji to school horses not to beat others, but because he was worried that someone would come and beat him after sweating.

On the way out of the city, Ji Tutaiji and Xie Erhu kept whispering about something, which aroused Liu Shizi's curiosity and asked, "What are you two talking about?"

Batur Huntaiji laughed in his unproficient Chinese: "Khan, the two of them are going to form a Mongolian armored cavalry, haha!"

After finishing speaking, Hui Taiji pointed at the two of them on horseback, and said, "Why do you need armor to ride if you have muskets? Don't bother my Junggar people."

"A cavalry?"

Liu Chengzong looked at Xie Erhu: "Why are you thinking about this?"

It's good that Hun Taiji didn't speak, but when he spoke, Hun Tutaiji's eyes widened with anger: "It's because you beat all my armored cavalry!"

"Hey, you can't blame me." Batuer Huntaiji hurriedly rode his horse to catch up with Liu Chengzong, then turned around and waved his hand seriously: "My camel city didn't move, and Brother Ni commanded Jiaqi to go there. Hit."

"Camel City, it is also a city; no matter how heavy the armor is, it is also a cavalry...You let the big sweat judge." Hui Taiji let go of the reins and spread his hands: "I still don't understand how cavalry can hit the city wall."

Liu Chengzong was dizzy at first, but later realized that the two of them were talking about Lin Danhan sending away the heavy cavalry of Yatutaiji in one wave.

The mascots of the two marshal's mansions were arguing here, but Xie Erhu still looked like a general. He was half a horse behind, clasped his fists on the horse's back, and said, "Marshal, the grazing camp must have elite soldiers, otherwise we will only be able to herd sheep in the future." .”

Liu Chengzong raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xie Erhu: "Go on, what do you think?"

"In the future, there will be no more battles in the vicinity. If we go five hundred miles away, we must transport food. If we want to transport food, we must send troops to the field camp." Xie Erhu looked a little aggrieved: "Then the war is nothing to do with me and Ba Lujun ...Maybe there is something about him, I can't do without elite soldiers."

In fact, Xie Erhu's idea has a lot to do with Ji Tutaiji.

During the war, Pitu Taiji discovered that the Generalissimo had discriminated against the Mongolian Xifan army.

This discrimination is manifested in all aspects of generals' ranks, military supplies, soldiers' equipment, and military missions.

For example, in the war with Oirat, Liu Chengzong didn't let his Mongolian and Fan troops go to the battlefield at all, but just protected the grain road behind.

There is nothing wrong with this kind of deployment itself. The nomadic cavalry is really good at guarding the food roads and serving as a fast-moving reserve army.

But Ji Tutaiji didn’t want to do that. We Mongols can’t only do this. After Genghis Khan’s ancestors, heavy cavalry and light cavalry, heavy steps and light steps, and navy attacking the city, why can’t our old Mongolian do it?
After all, the current virtue that can only pull light cavalry is not poor.

The problem is that following the Marshal's Mansion, the Mongolian generals headed by Xie Erhu are not poor. They can organize a Mongolian-style heavy cavalry to undertake the backbone of the battle by relying on animal husbandry and the Juerwan market.

Ji Tutaiji has a heart. He used to be one of the most powerful figures in Chahar, but he has become a mascot in the Marshal's Mansion.

I didn't think much about it earlier, but he is also a Taiji. Batur Hun Taiji is so awesome. He is just a general in the grazing camp, and he is in charge of 600 people in the Chahar camp. What a fart.

However, Ji Tutaiji himself did not have the ability to promote the military reform of the grazing camp, so Xie Erhu, the brigade commander of the grazing camp, had to be recruited.

Xie Erhu's starting point was not entirely to enhance the Marshal's Mansion's ability to deal with wars. For the Mongolian horse bandit leader who was born in the desert, the Marshal's Mansion had conquered all opponents he knew, and the external environment was unprecedentedly safe.

Although Xie Erhu, as Liu Chengzong's number one Mongolian general, supported him as Khan, deep down in his heart he was unwilling to admit that Liu Chengzong was a Khan.

After all, the so-called Dun Taurus Khanate is not serious at all in his eyes. What are the dignitaries doing when this Khanate has developed to this stage?United as never before, preparing for the next war.

What should the serious khanate do at this stage of development?It's time for the princes from all walks of life to let go of their internal strife!
Xie Erhu didn't want to fight among himself, if there was any internal conflict in the Marshal's Mansion at this juncture, he could only bully Ji Tutaiji, and no one else could beat them.

Even Basang, who is the commander of the brigade, can't beat him. Basang's brigade is well equipped.

Buchi, the general on the left, had gunners from the Han army, noble cavalry from the West, and civilian musketeers from the West.

Ah Liu, the right senator, is led by the extravagant Chongming Daliang rebels, who have trained a group of southwestern spearmen.

Don't say it's great or not, it's scary to look at.

Xie Erhu wants to reform the military system, mainly for his personal future.

As the first Mongolian leader to follow Liu Chengzong, Xie Erhu liked the system of the Marshal's Mansion that every meritorious service must be rewarded and every deed must be punished. He has also benefited from this system for a long time.

But ever since the Marshal's Mansion conferred honors on officials, set up the Thirteenth Battalion, and the official Xie Erhu paid homage to the brigade commander of the Tuntian Camp, this situation has changed. The price of the fairer.

The system has not changed, but the situation has changed. In the future, it is almost impossible for any guy to suddenly go to sea to fight. In the future, the Marshal's Mansion will most likely be an expedition.

Expedition means transporting food. In a separatist regime established by the hungry army in northern Shaanxi, cherishing food is the guiding ideology of everything.

How to save food in war?

The soldiers are fine but not many, the faster the march, the better, the sooner the decisive battle is, the better, the first battle is fatal.

Following this logic, Xie Erhu found that after his subordinates became the Shepherd Brigade, they basically followed these principles.

They have a large number, weak combat power, and poor military discipline. They are good at disrupting the enemy's army, cutting off food roads, burning, killing and looting on the flank battlefield.

Even the speed of the light cavalry army that they are proud of is actually not enough.

In the wilderness, not only could they keep up with the field camp of the Marshal's Mansion, they could even go three hundred miles in the first three days without any problem. After three days, they couldn't keep up when they entered the mountains, hills and complex terrain.

The daily marching speed of the Field Battalion is sixty miles leading the animals. This speed is quite fast, but it is not so fast that no one in the world can beat it. Basically, all the elite regular army light infantry and light cavalry can reach this speed.

The problem was that Xie Erhu knew very well that there were no light infantry and light cavalry in the commander's seven field battalions. It might be an exaggeration to say that they were heavy infantry, but they were definitely not light infantry.

What's more, they walked sixty miles, not because of the speed of this group of people on foot, but because of artillery and carts, they could only walk sixty miles a day.

As a senior officer, Xie Erhu asked Mr. Han Wen to read the infantry drill code of the Marshal's Mansion for him, and he returned the drill code to Huben Camp after the master read it.

It is useless to have a drill code. The drill code requires infantry to be able to lead a mule for eighty miles a day under any road conditions, as long as there is a road, even if it is an animal road. Under normal circumstances, they are not allowed to ride. The theory is that officers and soldiers travel daily Sixty miles, they will travel eighty miles a day.

Isn't this nonsense, Xie Erhu told his subordinates today that he is not allowed to ride a leading horse, and his legs are sixty miles away. His subordinates probably have no complaints; but if he dares to issue such an order tomorrow, someone in Tunmuying will dare to call him an idiot If you dare to order again on the third day, everyone will not want him.

This is what makes fairness annoying. Xie Erhu had benefited from fairness in his early years, but as the marshal's mansion got bigger and bigger, he also suffered from the disadvantages of fairness.

So he said: "Marshal, you can't change it."

"It can be changed."

Liu Chengzong nodded. In fact, he never expected that Xie Erhu would take the initiative to reform the grazing camp, because he knew that this system was not fair to Mongolian generals like Xie Erhu and Basang.

All orders in the army are in Chinese and Chinese, and the problems encountered by illiterate Han soldiers and officers can be solved by learning, but these Mongolian and Fan civilian generals don’t even know Mongolian and Fanwen, so they have to abduct several times with a translator. , learning is much more difficult than others.

So ever since he was appointed an official and awarded honors, his idea was to let Xie Erhu and Basang each lead two herd camps to be brigade commanders. If they can learn, they will learn slowly. Learn from generation to generation.

But at the same time, he does not object to the general's desire to learn. Learning is always useful. Even if it is not used now, it will be used in the future.

For example, at this time, Liu Chengzong said that it can be changed, which made Xie Erhu very happy, but then he heard Liu Shizi say: "But if your reform for the Tunmuying is to set up armored cavalry, Erhu... Tunmuying still can't do it." send troops."

"Master, why?"

Liu Chengzong took the reins lightly and sighed: "Why do you want to reform the grazing barracks? Because you know that the commander-in-chief will choose the best team to fight under the limited consumption of food and grass."

Xie Erhu nodded, thinking that I have already practiced armor riding, so I can't fight?

"It's easy for you to raise armored cavalry. The arsenal can provide you with all the weapons, armor, and vests. Each grazing camp has millions of acres of grazing land, but I can't afford the cost of moving the armored cavalry. "

Liu Chengzong spoke very straightforwardly, waved his hands and said: "I think you might as well ask Lushuai Yang and Lushuai Wang for advice. Under the limited conditions of the garrison battalions, each battalion trains [-] to [-] medium-mounted infantry and cavalry. Don't think about the equipment."

Equipped cavalry is very powerful under certain conditions, but this thing requires too many horses and cannot be replaced by mules. First of all, equipped cavalry marches without wearing equipment, and needs to be mixed with other troops for cover.

Buy horses if you can, mix them with light cavalry, and mix them with light infantry if you don't have the conditions. It's not difficult to raise this thing, but it's too expensive to start. One equipped cavalry should be paired with at least one light cavalry and one infantryman. War horses and light cavalry require a horse and a mule, and infantry require a mule.

The ration of mules is similar to that of people. One light war horse supports four people, one heavy war horse supports six people, and a thousand-man team containing [-] equipment consumes more than [-] light infantry, [-] mounted infantry, and [-] horsemen. Qingqi.

"No matter how heavy the vest is, it can't defend against guns and artillery, and bows and arrows are hard to kill war horses. If you want to play, you can raise a hundred horses for fun, but if you plan to participate in the next east..."

Liu Chengzong paused as he spoke, because a team of envoys not far away had already arrived. This team of envoys reminded him that in the future, the Marshal's Mansion may not only march eastward, but also have a high chance of sending troops to the Mongolian plateau in the northeast.

"I plan to be transferred to the eastern battlefield. I think the medium-sized equipment of the frontier cavalry is more in line with the needs of the war."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)