Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1239 Admiral Northwest Military Affairs
Early the next morning, there was an imperial decree issued by the supervisor of li, and the cabinet and the six divisions signed and released it as quickly as possible, and the imperial decree was immediately sent to the Ministry of War.

On this day, Rongzheng Shilang and Qizhen Jingluogao were pragmatic and rare, and did not stay in the Imperial Guards Beijing North Camp, but sat in the duty room of the Ministry of War - waiting for this imperial decree.

The imperial decree is nothing more than the same style. First, he said that the situation in the northwest was tense, then he scolded the traitors for treachery, and then praised Gao Gongbao for his incomparable talents. Finally, he was ordered to "regulate the military affairs of the northwest with his own position and various positions before the new trilateral governor arrives." , quasi-cheap, the Cabinet and the Ministry of War are not remote control."

This sentence is a bit interesting. In theory, the first half of the sentence does not need to be explained, but the imperial edict specifically said a sentence.

This kind of imperial decree seems to be a lot of nonsense, but in fact every word must have its role. Here, Gao pragmatism is specially explained as "admiring military affairs in the northwest with his own duties and various positions", which actually means emphasizing his "" Part-time job".

There are actually a lot of positions for the high and pragmatic man. For example, his palace guard is also a position, but the palace guard is definitely not the focus here. The Censor of the Right Capital of the Capital Court, the four towns of Ji Liao and the three towns of Xuan Da of Jinglue, etc., are also responsible for the frontier affairs and the management of grain and salaries."

Gao pragmatically thought about it, and found that the real emphasis in the imperial decree is probably not the military minister, nor the seven towns, but the newly added "duchayuan right" recently added to him in order to match the seven towns' classics. Imperial Clerk".

This may seem a little suspicious at first glance, but it is not.After the reorganization of the Beijing camp, although the Rongzheng Shilang has a lot of real power and a very high status, the princes of the country have to obey orders, but in the final analysis, he is still only a third-rank official, just a waiter.

The governors of the three sides took office with the title of Shangshu, whether it was Gao Guangxian before or Wei Xuezeng who was about to take office.

The Jiliao and Xuanda governor districts controlled by Gao pragmatism, the governor of Jiliao, Zhou Yong, is not bad, and he is also the minister of the Ministry of War, but the current governor of Xuanda, Zheng Luo, also holds the title of Minister of the Ministry of War, so Gao pragmatic needs to be briefed. For Ji Liao and Xuan Da, they had to add a Youdu censor, so as not to lose control of the situation - of course, this is just the habit of the court, in fact, whether it is Zhou Yong or Zheng Luo, they are all people of the real school, there is no reason Do not give high pragmatic face.

Now that Gao is pragmatic to supervise the military affairs of the northwest, most people will subconsciously think that he is admiring the northwest with Qizhenjinglue, but the Qizhenjinglue itself has no quality or grade, so the imperial decree will name him and take various positions. The one who pragmatically raised the honor of the title was the censor of Youdu.

The Yushi of the Right Capital, the second grade, is the same grade as the Censor of the Left Capital.Of course, in fact, the left is the most respected, and the censors of the Zuodu are the top leaders of the Duchayuan, while the censors of the right are generally used to provide products to the external magistrates.

At the same time, due to the nature of the duties of the Metropolitan Court, Gao Wushi went to the Northwest with the title of Youdu Censor, and had the special attribute of supervising the entire Northwest officialdom, which was also a weighting.

All in all, Zhu Yijun's words actually meant that he was fully empowered, and that the entire northwest situation was handed over to Gao pragmatism alone.

Well, this is Zhu Yijun.In the original history, Emperor Wanli also used this style. Whether it was in the border town or in the center, he was very accustomed to this style.

Although the appointment of Gao pragmatism this time is temporary, Zhu Yijun still maintains his habit. In addition to making it clear that Gao pragmatism is "their job" to supervise the military affairs of the Northwest, he also gave Shang Fangjian - really called this name. [Note: The record in Ming Shilu is called Shang Fangjian, but there is no treasure character. ]
Along with the imperial decree given by Shang Fangjian, there is also a special explanation, the original text is "Generals who do not need to be killed will be beheaded in front of the army, and there is no need to report."

In other words, the heads of the generals belonging to the "Northwest Military Affairs" are now in the hands of Gao pragmatically.However, the status of civil officials was different. The imperial decree only mentioned military generals and did not mention civil officials.

After receiving the imperial decree and taking the sword, Gao Pragmat immediately set off, said goodbye to Liang Menglong, and took the "Sui Ren Jia Ding" to take office. In addition to the Su Ren Jia Ding, Zhu Yijun temporarily wrote it into the imperial edict and asked him to take him with him. The four thousand janissaries went.

For the establishment of the Imperial Guard, more than 6 people are divided into five towns. According to Gao Yushi's initial plan, each town has a quota of 12512 officers and soldiers, consisting of infantry, horses, artillery, workers, and luggage. , a deputy commander, a chief of staff.Later, because the word "zhi" in "control" could not be used casually after the big ceremony, it was directly changed to "Xietong" and "Deputy Xietong".

Each town has two infantry associations, one association has 38 officers and soldiers; each association has two bids, and each bid has 750 officers and soldiers (the number of horses is slightly less, which is 110 officers and soldiers); each bid is divided into Three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, each row has three sheds... and so on.

It stands to reason that when Gao Yushi went to the northwest, he should have given him Ma Jun, but I don't know if Zhu Yijun had forgotten or had other ideas, and he gave him a coordinated infantry with a total of 38 people.Gao Yushi estimated that the emperor probably wanted him to use the imperial guards as his own army to show his honor.

The record of the first commander-in-chief of the Praetorian Guards to leave Beijing to perform military affairs fell on the head of Gao pragmatic, but it is not wrong to think about it in reverse. After all, he is the founder of the Praetorian Guards, and he is eligible to enjoy this Record.

The imperial guards dispatched 3000 people, and the accompanying servants were only slightly less than this number, a total of [-] people.Because Gao Wu usually only put so many armed servants around the capital.

The three thousand servants are almost at the level of the general soldier in many places, but it is nothing to Gao pragmatism. The servants he is bringing are just for the officials in Beijing to see. In fact, he is in the There are still many armed warriors on the three sides of the northwest, especially cavalry warriors.It's just that these servants were relatively scattered before. For example, Cao Gan had brought [-] servants to Lanzhou.

Of course, now it seems that Cao Gan is going to make a move. The situation in the northwest has changed. It is meaningless for him to continue to stay in Lanzhou waiting for the army - the ghost knows when the army will be free to go to Lanzhou.

High and pragmatic marching line, the first step is to go straight to Datong.But it is talking about going straight. Due to the current road conditions, the so-called going straight still has to pass through Xuanfu. The whole journey is about [-] miles. If all the infantry are involved, it will take more than ten days to walk there.

But the praetorian guards brought out by Gao pragmatism are unusual. They have horses for walking. The difference from the cavalry is that their horses are not war horses, they are only used for walking, and there are no double horses. One horse, no extra.

Needless to say, Gao Jiajia Ding, Gao Wushi has already dispatched some time ago, and these 3000 people are all cavaliers. In addition to one person and two riders, he also brought [-] "reserves" horses, and now he will take care of them temporarily. The "Horse Reserve" mission of the Praetorian Guard.

Gao Jiajia Ding’s training program was originally compiled by Qi Jiguang according to the high practical requirements, and now the training requirements of the Imperial Guard are also very high, so the two armies with more than 140 riders can run quite well—the training standards of both sides are the same, [-] miles per day.

This speed is not the result of high pragmatism, but the result of Qi Jiguang's rigorous research based on the endurance of Ming army horses. In fact, it is basically the same as the speed of Xiahou Yuan's cavalry during the Three Kingdoms period.

At that time, Xia Houyuan's troops were famous for their speed, known as "five hundred in three days, and one thousand in six days". Converting Hanchi, it is almost 140 miles a day.

Now Gao Yushi is also advancing at this speed, arriving in Datong on the afternoon of the fifth day.At this time, Magui was fully prepared. Among the 2 people under his command, there were about [-] Majiada soldiers, and the whole army was ready to go.

However, although Gao pragmatic is tight, he will not rush on the road at night, because other people may be able to stand it, but the artillery team is not. Even if there is a special artillery car with a spring chassis from Jinghua, it runs over at the speed of cavalry "horse-horse artillery". I'm too tired, and a normal rest is absolutely necessary.

So that night, he slept outside Datong City, and Gao Pragmat himself did not enter the city.

If he did not enter the city, Datong officials had to go out to see him, so from Datong governor, Datong eunuch guarding to Datong general soldier Ma Gui, they could only go out of the city to see the scriptures.

The current governor of Datong is still an old acquaintance. He is Gao Gong's student and Gu Yangqian who was born as a Jinshi in Jiajing 44.In the original history, Gu Yangqian was promoted from Jizhou Bingbei Road to Governor of Liaodong in the 14th year of Wanli. However, in this life, because of the high-practical little butterfly wings, he did not go to Liaodong, but became the governor of Datong.

But it doesn't matter. The importance of the governor of Datong and the governor of Liaodong is not much different. Gu Yangqian is still one of the important members of the Shi School.As for the eunuch guarding Datong, it is still Huang Mengyu's person - Huang Zhangyin attaches great importance to the position he started from, so since he returned to Beijing, the eunuch guarding Datong has always belonged to his faction.

The current eunuch guarding Datong is also one of Huang Mengyu's "god sons", but Gao pragmatically doesn't care too much about the specific situation.And this eunuch guarding is also very low-key in front of Gao Wushi. I don’t know if Huang Mengyu has something to explain. In short, he basically treats himself as a decoration, and allows Gao Wushi to discuss military affairs with Gu Yangqian and Ma Gui, from beginning to end. Neither interjected.

Gu Yangqian was a little worried that Gao Wushi only took away 2 people from Datong, because he already knew that Gao Wushi only planned to mobilize 3 people from the three towns of Xuanda. Four thousand imperial guards are too few.

According to Gu Yangqian, Datong has been recharging its energy for more than ten years, not to mention 4, and it can be easily mobilized if doubled to [-]. As for the defense issue... North of Datong is the headquarters of Tumote, which is more than a dozen Nian was fine, and King Shunyi regarded Han Naji as a staunch supporter of Daming. As long as he was there, Datong would be as solid as gold.

Even if the Tumen were killed, he didn't know whether he could win or not if he fought a Tumut, how could he have the spare energy to commit a crime in Datong?Taking ten thousand steps back, even if Tumen really defeated Tumet, Datong still has seven or eighty thousand troops left at this time. It may not be easy to say if they attack, but can they still defend themselves?What's more, Xuanfu is not far to the east, it and Datong are horns of each other. Datong has police, and Xuanfu must have support... In short, the two towns of Xuanda are not afraid of Tumen coming.

Gao Wushi was very pleased with the confidence shown by Gu Yangqian.Once upon a time, Daming's confidence in the Mongolians had already collapsed, especially when Alta fought the Gengshu Incident, the frontier troops were mostly timid in the face of Alta, and many people almost fled when they saw the Mongolian cavalry. Completely turned around.

It seems that the thinking of the year is still correct. Frontier troops cannot follow the beggar route. Only well-equipped, well-fed and well-fed can train good soldiers - especially in a period of overall peace.

However, when Gao pragmatically expressed this attitude, Ma Gui had a different opinion.

The mainstay of the Ma family army at this time sighed and said: "Shutai does not know, although the Datong frontier army is now able to eat a lot compared to the past, and has time to exercise on weekdays, but this army has been in peace for a long time. , for more than ten years without a battle... The end general is still very worried that they will be smoothed out."

Gao Wushi nodded and said, "What you said is also reasonable, but it's not enough to rely on conjectures. It will take a battle to find out whether it will work or not—isn't this opportunity coming now? Xiquan, You are the main force in this battle, I hope you will do your best, and let the Headquarters also take a look at the situation of the Datong Frontier Army, which will be of great reference value for the next... um, it is also very valuable, do you understand?"

Ma Gui hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "The last commander understands that the last commander must fight hard. First, it will live up to Shutai's high expectations, and secondly, it will also allow Shutai to accurately assess the true strength of the Datong frontier army."

Gao Wushi nodded and said to Gu Yangqian, "Senior Brother Yiqing..."

"What are your orders, Brother Shi?"

One is called senior brother, the other is called world brother, this is the relationship between Gao Gong and the same door, in other words, there are some personal things to talk about.

The guarding eunuch and Ma Gui got up at the same time, and both said that they still have important things to do and need to retire first.

Gao Wushi accused Gu Yangqian of a crime, got up and escorted them out of the gate, and then came back to talk to Gu Yangqian.

"Senior Brother Yiqing, there are two biggest problems in this dispatch of troops: one is that I only have more than a month to stay in the northwest, so this battle must be done quickly; The silver that I brought with me this time was all the emperor squeezed out from internal funds, and it is only 20 taels at present."

Hearing this, Gu Yangqian frowned immediately: "I know that the imperial court is nervous, but I didn't expect it to be so nervous. Seriously, do you want to ask Datong Town if you can get some money out?"

Gao Wushi sighed, but nodded and said, "Yes, I do have this intention, but Senior Brother Yiqing doesn't need to be too embarrassed, it's just as much as you can."

Gu Yangqian nodded, did not answer right away, but after careful consideration, he said slowly: "This matter is somewhat unexpected, so I didn't make much preparation in advance, right now...I mean I can provide the delivery silver immediately, and I can guarantee 10 taels. As for the future, there may be a little bit, but I’m afraid it won’t be too much, let’s be honest..."

"Then start with 10 taels, which should be enough to deal with Bo Shuo Ketu." Gao Yushi said decisively.

Gu Yangqian was taken aback: "What do you mean by asking the truth?"
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