Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1005 Concentrate your forces and attack the weaker enemies first

Tumen Khan on the north bank began to "turn in", but Chaohua Taiji on the south bank couldn't turn in even if he wanted to, and he fell into a hard fight.

Since the landing site is in the center of Jizi Bay of Liaohe River, it is actually equivalent to a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides. If the Chaohua Department wants to turn in, it can only continue to fight south, otherwise... unless he wants to go to Jinghua Paochuan I met Zhenzhang in Liaohe.

This is obviously a way to feed bastards, of course Chaohua Taiji refuses to go.

Therefore, at the first moment when it was discovered that both land and water routes were ambushed, Chaohua Taiji wisely chose to directly penetrate the Ming army and rush out of a few bays.

In theory, this is indeed a very correct decision, because other methods can only be worse.

There is only one problem before the eyes, that is, the Ming army spent so much effort to complete this half-cross attack, how can the Chaohua Department break their siege as they wish?
When Gao Wushi judged that the Mongolian side planned to land in Hanjiawan, he said in front of the generals: "Tumen and the two thieves Chaohua are going to die this time."

Because encirclement on all sides is usually the most difficult. A team with no retreat will either surrender directly or die. In the case of encirclement on all sides, if the opponent launches a desperate breakout in one direction, the besiegers will not be able to escape unless they are in a single direction. If you have several times the strength of the enemy, otherwise you will most likely not be able to withstand it, and you will be surrounded and escaped by others, and you will suffer huge losses yourself.

Give people a glimmer of life, lest the opponent fight to the death. After the opponent breaks through, it will not be too late for your own side to slowly chase and kill.

But when the Ming army fought against the Mongols, it is not very reliable to encircle three people and lack one, because it is easy for you to let him go, but if you want to chase him again, it is almost a dream. Maybe only Ma Fang’s troops at the time and now Li Chengliang's department can do it, even if he is highly pragmatic at this moment, because he doesn't have many cavalry now.

But blocking the Mongols on a not-so-large peninsula is much easier.

Use heavy soldiers to seal the lower part of the bay, and shrink the words into mouth characters. As long as the bottom line is hard enough, Chaohua can only be trapped to death.

So, does the Ming army have heavy troops?
Have.

It has been more than half a month since I heard the news that the Tumen and Chaohua allied forces were going south. This is one of the main reasons why Tumen and Chaohua can't wait to go south.

During this half month, Gao Wushi staged false and real dramas in Liaohe to block the road for the Mongols going south, while at the same time mobilized troops from the rear and strengthened them to stand by near Hanjiawan. Dong and the cavalry Ding, who was personally brought out by Dong and the thousand Ma Fang under his command, were transferred in order to make this "heavy army" worthy of the name.

Gao Pragmatism has always been better than strategy. He is not a tactical expert. Many of his combat ideas are learned from Mao Xuan. I don’t know how many articles in that set of books were written by Red Taizu for the front-line troops. Among them, among the parts that Gao Yushi can learn superficially, he thinks the most convenient to use are the eight characters: Concentrate your forces and attack the weaker enemies first!
Why did Gao Yushi insist on launching a half-cross attack, and then mainly destroy the landing part, and the order given to Ma Dong also limited the strength of the landing part?
Because Gao Wushi thinks that too little is meaningless to fight, and it won't hurt Tumen and Chaohua, but if it is too much, he is afraid that he will not be able to eat it, and it might break his teeth instead.

Seven or eight thousand is the highest limit he thinks he can eat.

Because he mobilized five or six thousand family members and about [-] guard soldiers near Hanjiawan!
In addition to the 200 people left by himself at the Sanchahe Wharf, the Gao Family Ding has nearly 2000 people, all of whom were dispatched to Hanjiawan to remove the 600 "amphibious troops" stationed in the Sanchahe Water Village. ", there are about [-] people involved in this ambush.

In addition, Ma Dong, Ma Chengen, and Zhang Wanbang's servants add up to nearly [-]. In addition, there are Pu Yuanyi and other local generals in Liaodong at all levels, each with hundreds or dozens of servants. A total of five or six thousand.

As for the soldiers of the guards, anyway, there are not many defensive tasks in southern Liaoning. It is not difficult to deploy manpower. There are many reasons why the southern Liaoning soldiers are not active in fighting. The most important thing is that the soldiers and horses in southern Liaoning Because there are fewer wars than in other regions, they are weak soldiers in Liaodong. When they are transferred, they are generally not used as the main force, and they are not used as the main force. Naturally, food, supplies, equipment, and treatment are also all aspects. very bad.

However, due to the lack of wars in southern Liaoning, the economic situation is relatively better than other areas in eastern Liaoning. In this way, the supplies and rewards are even less regarded by the soldiers in southern Liaoning.

A father of Ma in later generations said that the main reason for not being able to keep people is basically that there is not enough money. This principle is also the same in Liaodong at this time.

On weekdays, the four guards in southern Liaoning, who are indifferent to the recruitment, are very active this time, not only because Gao Yushi just captured Li Rugui, which gave the commanders a great shock, but also because Gao Yushi asked for a high price. .

The reward for sending out troops is two taels per month, one month first, and the final settlement is not made until returning to the guard;
Silver rewards in wars, those who did not flee in battle, regardless of meritorious service, will be rewarded with two taels of silver;
Those who beheaded the enemy bandits, on the basis of the rewards given by the court, each person will be given another five taels each;

During the expedition, it is guaranteed that there must be a meal of meat among the three meals (this is trivial to Gao Jiading, but it is almost a dream for the soldiers of the guards, but the meat here is actually mainly fish-the fleet during this period sideline business carried out);

In addition, there are some preferential treatments in terms of benefits, such as family members of soldiers who participated in the war, can give priority to some projects in the high-practice construction of southern Liaoning, and so on.

In a word, apart from the fact that Gao Yushi did not dare to copy the pension system implemented by his family members for many years, the soldiers dispatched this time under the multiple preferential treatment bonuses can already be said to have enjoyed the "quasi-family member" treatment.

If you have enough money, things will be easy to handle.

The technical and tactical level of these guard soldiers may not be significantly improved for a while, but the increase in enthusiasm for participating in the battle is definitely visible to the naked eye.

In the words of Pu Yuanyi, the commander of the Haizhou Guard who first arrived near Hanjiawan and started digging fortifications, that is: "Fuck him, if it weren't for the fact that these fake Qiuba didn't even hold their guns up to standard, I really thought Leading thousands of family members to set off, all screaming anxiously, only looking forward to the war? Master, what a hell!"

Commander Pu listened to Mrs. Cui's persuasion to Pu Yuanyi, so this time the Haizhou Guard paid a lot of money, except for a few fortresses on the front line who did not dare to mobilize troops. All the guys who could move the hoes were pulled out. It is obvious that the number of Haizhou guards on the register is less than 5600 (it is reasonable to say that there are [-] soldiers in the first guard of the army, but in fact, depending on the position of the guard, there are many fewer and many more). But Pu Yuanyi unexpectedly brought out eight thousand guard soldiers!
So much so that when Ma Chengen arrived at Hanjiawan with his servants and Fuzhouwei, Pu Yuanyi patted his chest and said to him: "Brother Ma, everyone is under Bingxian's subordinates, and they are all their own people, so Don't worry about your fortifications, brother, I have already repaired them for you!"

Ma Chengen was taken aback for a moment, and then expressed his gratitude while muttering to himself: Didn't you really like the 2000 taels of silver that the Bingxian rewarded for the construction of fortifications?
It is precisely because the strength and morale of the troops have been guaranteed that Gao Yushi dared to use five or six thousand family members and twenty thousand guards to blockade the Chaohua Department when they crossed the river and landed under siege.

(End of this chapter)