Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1012 "Greatness"

Ma Fang originally thought that Gao Wushi would not agree to Qin Deyi's sending troops to Hetao. Hearing what Gao Wushi said, she couldn't help thinking for a while, and then asked slowly: "The meaning of the military constitution is to let Qin Deyi touch a hit a wall?"

Gao Wushi slightly raised his eyebrows: "Why does the governor think that Qin Xierong will hit a wall if he goes here?"

Ma Fang chuckled, and replied: "Although Chaohua was captured alive, but in the battle of Hanjiawan today, at such a moment, the remnants of Chaohua can still fly with wings. It is conceivable that there must be capable people among them." .”

Gao Wushi didn't speak, but just waved his hand slightly, making a "please" gesture.

Please, of course, please speak, please continue to speak.

So Ma Fang went on to say: "This person must meet several conditions before he can accomplish such a difficult task. First of all, he should have a respected status in the flower frying department. From the perspective of old people, he is probably a little prince (Ming people are used to treating him as a little prince) The prince called the descendant of Dayan Khan), that is to say, he should be a Taiji; secondly, this person should have certain military power, and this time he must be leading the army. Although the total number is not easy to determine, but at the time In other words, it should occupy a large proportion of the fried flower remnants."

Gao Wushi thought about it and said, "Is there anything else?"

"Maybe there are more." Ma Fang frowned and said, "Looking at his act of crossing the river, it is really dangerous for soldiers. Generally speaking, this is not something that an experienced general can do, so this old man thinks that this person may not be very old. ..."

Gao Wushi asked, "The son of Chaohua?"

Ma Fang immediately shook her head: "The son of Chaohua is only six or seven years old this year, how could it be him? I'm afraid he is still circling around Erji in the old camp of Chaohua at this moment." [Note: Erji, Mongolian, meaning mother . ]
Gao Wushi thought about it and said, "I don't know much about the Chaohua Department, so I don't know that there are such people in his group who know the truth of 'put them to death and live later'?"

Ma Fang shook her head slightly: "This person...is a bit extraordinary, but if he knows how to put death to death, I think it may be exaggerated. In my opinion, this is probably just a kind of gambler's mentality."

Gao Wushi could understand what Ma Fang meant by "a gambler's heart", but he laughed and said, "Since it's just a gambler's heart, why does the governor still say that he is a bit extraordinary? Is it just because he made the right bet? "

"No, no." Ma Fang said sternly: "The old man said he is extraordinary, not because he bet right, but because he can control a group of mobs without leaders in such a short period of time, and lead them to such a path." The road to breaking out of the siege is unpredictable. In addition, he can at least see one thing, that the move to the south to break out of the siege is absolutely impossible."

In fact, Ma Fang's judgment is slightly biased, because in his opinion, Zai Sai relied on his personal ability and prestige to firmly control the remnants of the Chaohua team, and then led them to take risks and force them to cross. It is Zhang Wanbang who is busy with Zai Sai.

The battle where Zhang Wanbang carried the Chaohua attack with all his strength suppressed the Chaohua Department from top to bottom, making the Chaohua Department mistakenly think that the Ming troops on the southern front were all at the level of Zhang Wanbang's subordinates—that's a ghost to break through ?
Since the Ming army on the southern front dared to block their way, they must have enough troops. Coupled with such exaggerated combat power, if they went up directly without fear of casualties, they might be able to wipe them all within a few words before dark.

But this group of remnants of the fried flowers were also stunned at the time, and they didn't even think about where the Ming army got so many "Zhang Wanbang troops".

The 500 people under Zhang Wanbang were all him and Gao Yushi's servants. At that time, the front part was actually the step that Qi Jiguang helped Gao Yushi trained, and they were equipped with the most cutting-edge bayonet Wanli. A formula.

The Huahua Department has never seen Wanli's style of firepower and bayonet array, and it is normal to be beaten.

Battles similar to this battle, such as the Battle of Baliqiao in the late Qing Dynasty in the original history, the Mongolian cavalry at that time were also tortured in this way-Seng Gelinqin took the cavalry to attack the well-organized infantry array with obvious firepower superiority. Tens of thousands of Tatar and Qing troops were defeated, while the British and French allied forces only lost five people, including three French soldiers and two British soldiers.

The level of armed forces of the British and French allied forces at that time, that is, front-bore flintlock guns and smoothbore guns equipped with bayonets, partly used the latest rifled artillery and rifled rifles that had just been invented.The current Gaojiabu Ding, except for the absence of rifled guns, basically meets other standards. Therefore, the two biggest improvements of the Wanli Type I are the bayonet and light rifling (because of the limited metal processing ability, the rifling is not the common spiral rifling in later generations, but There are only two very shallow straight rifling lines, but it is already a qualitative improvement).

At that time, the British and French allied forces used the "latest tactics" such as hollow square formations and three-row infantry lines. This latest was aimed at the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry at that time.

As early as ten years ago, Gao Yushi told Qi Jiguang the general idea of ​​these two tactics, and asked Qi Jiguang to make appropriate adjustments under the conditions of existing weapons, and then taught his servants and the Ming army equipped with Wanli Type I muskets. force.

The servants under Zhang Wanbang's command today are all proficient in the tactics of the three-platoon infantry line, so they can easily deal with the desperate charge of the Chaohua Department.What's more, they also have another big killer that the British and French allied forces do not have-grenades. [Note: In the first volume of this book, I analyzed the differences in the development of firearms between the East and the West, which shows that the West paid far less attention to explosive firearms such as mines, mines, and grenades in the early days than the East. ]
As for why Zhang Wanbang only used the three-row infantry line today instead of the hollow phalanx, it was because he didn't need it, because he only needed to guard the northward line today, and what he was stationing was a line between the hills. At the mouth of a valley, setting up a hollow phalanx is a waste of troops.

The truth at that time was that after the Chaohua Department kicked the iron board, it was shocked by Zhang Wanbang's performance, so Nuantu Taiji's proposal really couldn't convince the generals of the Chaohua Headquarters, and because the Jinghua fleet started Turn around, under such a huge threat, Zai Saitaiji finally took the opportunity to take command.

Of course, Ma Fang is not on the front line, so it is very rare to be able to guess to this extent, and Gao Pragmatic thinks it makes sense.

So he pondered for a while, and then said: "If he is not the son of Chaohua, he must be his nephew and grandson. In short, I agree with the governor's judgment. This person is probably a Taiji. In this way, if this person returns The old camp of fried flowers...Maybe Hatun, who is a fried flower, will follow the example of Zhong Jin Hatun in order to protect himself."

"Self-protection?" Ma Fang smiled: "I'm afraid it's more than self-protection. If this Hatun is willing to remarry, not only can he be safe, but he and the son of Chaohua will be safe, let alone get rid of it." Qin Deyi is in danger of being pursued."

Gao Wushi nodded, laughed, and waved his hands: "If Qin Xierong wants to go, let him go. Anyway, the only cavalry he can use to attack the old camp of Chaohua is the cavalry. Since they are cavalry, if you can beat them, you can fight them. I can also run, so that I, Da Ming, won’t suffer heavy losses, but it can teach him some lessons, I think it’s good.”

Ma Fang smiled and nodded in silence.

In fact, he has a clear idea of ​​Gao Pragmatic in his heart. Qin Deyi has a total of more than 3000 cavalry, of which [-] were given to him by Li Chengliang...

Li Chengliang forbade Qin Deyi to go south to rescue Liaonan, but Gao Bingxian didn't say anything, did he really have no reaction in his heart?
Since there is, it must give people a little reciprocation to see, right?Gao Bingxian was already very magnanimous without directly taking a lesson...
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Thanks to the book friend "Qin Chao Xiaozhu" for the reward, thank you!
The perspective of the next chapter needs to be changed. I originally planned to give Qin Deyi a chapter of pen and ink, but after thinking about it, it is better not to focus too much on non-important characters, so the next chapter will be directly moved to Li Chengliang.

(End of this chapter)