Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1258 All-round Offensive
The Ming army under Gao pragmatism stayed in Ixibal for four whole days, which seemed very inconsistent with the quick-fix plan, but in Gao pragmatism's view, this was a necessary move.

In these short four days, Taigale Zhungenhatun arrived here from Yijinhuoluo day and night, and announced under the "recommendation" of Gao Wushi, Tuotuo and Yilduqi. Temporarily acting as the Regent of Boshuoktujinong in the Ordos Department.

Of course, in theory, Gao pragmatism and Tuotuo are not actually "selections". The most serious expression of this process should be that Yilduqi initially recommended Taigale Zhungenhatun to act as the regent to Shunyi's envoy Tuotuo. Then, on behalf of King Shunyi, Tuotuo recognized Hannaji and passed it on to the left servant of the Ministry of War and Qizhen Jinglue, and the admiral of Northwest Military Affairs Gao pragmatic. Finally, Gao pragmatic expressed his approval and submitted it to the emperor, requesting the emperor's final approval.

The emperor must have the final decision-making power, there is no doubt, but when Gao pragmatic came here, the imperial edict clearly stated that he was given the right to act cheaply, so the emperor itself was only a supplementary procedure. From the moment when Gao pragmatic agreed, Taigale Jungen Hatun is a veritable Regent of the Ordos Department, Hatun - equivalent to the Queen Mother's Regent on the Daming side.

Hatun (or Queen), the regent of the Mongols, could lead troops to fight, just like Dayan Khan's wife, Manduhai, who was 25 years older than him.Because of Dayan Khan's young age, Manduhai even put him in a quiver on his body for protection when he went out to fight.

The record of Manduhai's first expedition against Oirat is recorded in the Genealogy of Mongolian Bolzijit as follows: "Manduhai Saiinhatun personally commanded the cavalry, and made Alaitong, a member of the Keshikten tribe, clear the way to Tespur. In the capital, he fought with Willett, won a great victory, and served [-] Willerts. He ordered Willert's generals: Afterwards, the house will not be called a palace, the crown must not be longer than four fingers, and the resident will not be allowed to kneel. Sit, eat meat, Xu Nie is not allowed to cut it, and the name of "Usuk" (yogurt) is changed to "Zag". His followers kneel and ask with meat-eating knives. "Wilrett is Weitra.

It can be seen that the powers of the regent Hatun and the Great Khan are the same, and it is completely reasonable to lead troops to fight. The Mongols are accustomed to this and will not have any rejection.In addition, Taigale Jungenhatun had served as the regent for many years before Boshuoketu "pro-government", so this matter went smoothly, and Gao Wushi also negotiated with her the terms of atonement for the Ordos Department. .

Four days later, the army set off.

At this time, the high-level pragmatic army officially exceeded 10, but the headquarters of the Ming army accounted for less than half of the total, and more of them were Mongolian cavalry.The road to the back of the frontier that Xiaobai painstakingly managed and created has turned into a road to the top of the road.

Maybe it was due to the re-set of the Hetao, maybe it was to block the worship, maybe there were other reasons, in short, Gao Pragmat still did not go south into the Yansui governor's jurisdiction, but moved westward to recover the vital flowers first. In the Machi area, the salt pond is under control again.

At this time, Gao Wushi received a report from Li Rusong that Li Rusong's headquarters was marching very fast, and had already passed Qingyang two days ago, and was reinforcing Guyuan as planned.The main purpose of his report was to ask Gao Pragmatist what was the combat mission of his army after arriving in Guyuan.

By the way, Li Rusong also reported quite astonishing news: Jinghua Commercial Company's subordinates in the city of Ningxia rescued Liang Wenmeng, the former governor of Ningxia, who was imprisoned by Dabai!At the same time, Zhou Zhe's father and son, who had previously fought against the chaotic party in their hometown Ningxia Zhongwei, also fled to Guyuan with the assistance of Jinghua Business Club.

Li Rusong asked for instructions: one is how to treat Liang Wenmeng, and the other is whether it is necessary to give Zhou's father and son a reward.

Normally speaking, under the current situation, Li Rusong's most appropriate tactics should be to cooperate with the Gao pragmatic headquarters to move westward and then northward, and the two sides will attack together to surround Ningxia.

However, Gao pragmatic's appetite was obviously greater. His reply to Li Rusong was to order the latter to show off his power around Guyuan for a day, and then leave the city at night and drive directly to Lanzhou to prepare for the next stage of combat missions.

At the same time, Gao Wushi generously assigned the [-] horsemen under Cao Gan, who had been transferred to Guyuan, to Li Rusong's command.

As for Liang Wenmeng and Zhou Zhe's father and son, the former is an unexpected joy - of course, it is hard to say whether it is really "happy", because although he did not join the enemy, he maintained his loyalty as a civil servant, which can arouse Ningxia. The crime of change is not easy to clear, and even Gao pragmatic does not dare to define it, so Li Rusong can only let Liang Wenmeng temporarily "stay in Guyuan to be raised" on his behalf, which is actually to put him under house arrest first.And Gao Wushi himself immediately went up and down, told the court about the matter, and at the same time showed a little bit of his own tone.

The matter of Zhou Zhe and his son is relatively simple, Gao Pragmatism asked for a reward for them without saying a word, and also suggested in the memorial, that they could be left to serve in the army temporarily, and the merits will be discussed after Ningxia decides." It may be appointed as a prefecture or county."

Zhou Zhe himself is just a magistrate, and his son Zhou Bang is nothing more than a life member, but now he has the opportunity to serve as a prefect after the war, or at least a county magistrate, which is really a pleasant surprise.

This move by Gao pragmatism originally continued Gao Gong's reform ideas in the Ministry of Personnel, that is, to make great use of Juren. At the same time, it was more direct to use this kind of gentry and celebrities in Ningxia to appease the local area and lay a foundation for "humanity" to eliminate hidden dangers after the war.

After arranging the tasks of Li Rusong's department, Gao pragmatically replied to the governor of Gansu and the commander-in-chief who had also sent letters to ask about their actions, so that they didn't have to rush to counterattack, and they could safely guard Zhuang Langwei, the last channel.

On the day of the renovation of Huamachi, the Ming army allocated a batch of food and grass to distribute to the three-way Mongolian cavalry, and at the same time replenished military resources such as gunpowder projectiles, while the three-way Mongolian cavalry fed the horses in the Huamachi pasture for a day and recovered. Hit the horsepower.

The next day, all the armies were ready, no longer assembled in one place, and under the order of high pragmatism, they attacked Ningxia branch.

On the North Road, Xiao Ruxun, the deputy commander of Ningxia, served as the chief general, and Ma Kongying, a general of Datong West Road, who was sent to assist him, was the deputy.The Ordos Regent, Gale Zhungenhatun, led [-] troops. As Xiao Ruxun's cooperating force, it was used to trap the Tuwenxiu Department as planned, so that it would not have the opportunity to flee north to the grasslands.

The South Road is the headquarters of Gao Yushi, and the headquarters has restored its previous state. It is mainly composed of the Gaojiajiading Guard, the Jingying No. 3000, and the Magui Office, all the way from Huamachi to the west, approaching Ningxia.Since the Magui branch was divided into [-] people, the main force of the Gaowushi South Road headquarters at this time was about [-].However, Yansui guerrilla Jiang Xianmo, Yulin guerrilla Yu Shangde and other Yansui town soldiers are already approaching the high-practice headquarters. When all armies gather, the high-practice headquarters can still exceed [-] troops, and may reach [-].

The largest and most maneuverable army is the Tuotuo-Ordos coalition, which is joined by Tuotuo and Ilduqi. However, although this army is strong, it has [-] iron cavalry, but it is not suitable for use. Because of attacking Ningxia, it was used by Gao pragmatic to attack Huo Luochi, who was attacking Zhuang Langwei, and focused on the troops of the rabbit brothers.

Huamachi is already south of the Great Wall, so this combined cavalry does not have to detour. Under the defense given by Gao pragmatism, they only need to run all the way to the southwest.At the same time, Gao Wushi also sent messengers to order the yamen in various places to provide military supplies along the way. However, considering that the relationship between Ming and Mongolia in the northwest is relatively tense and cannot be compared with Xuanda in Shanxi, he also allows all places to not open city gates, only in the city Foreign "labor army".

It has only been half a month since Gao pragmatically dispatched troops from Datong, and the Ming court has already survived the chaos when the rebellion first broke out and began to be fully involved in the counter-offensive.

In addition to the reinforcements Gao Wushi and Li Rusong, Li Yun, the chief soldier of Guyuan, was ordered to guard Guyuan, but after Gao Wushi's headquarters approached Lingzhou from the guards of Ningxia (near Huamachi), he would send troops north to Weizhou. It is naturally best to capture Weizhou, and even if it cannot, the Weizhou rebels will not be able to return to Ningxia or Lingzhou.

In addition, the commander-in-chief Liu Chengsi on the Gansu side, and Dong Yikui, the commander-in-chief on the northern Sichuan side, are actively deploying their troops, either sticking to key passages in Gansu, or going north out of Hetao to block the way of the Huoluochi brothers. let's move.

With the current identity of Gao pragmatism, the prestige admiral of military affairs in the northwest, and also carrying the Shang Fangjian, there is no one who dares to take their heads seriously.After all, the gap between the status of the two sides and the saint's family is too great. To put it in a bad way, if Gao pragmatically wants to kill them at this time, it is not much different from stepping on an ant.

If all these troops are included, the total number of troops participating in the battle in the northwest direction at this time is estimated to be close to 20.The scale is enough, and the momentum is also very strong, but the difficulties it faces are only clear to Gao Pragmatism himself.

In fact, the military salary has almost bottomed out. Gao Yushi only has about 5 taels of silver left on hand. The remaining part is either used to pay the army as a supplementary military salary, or used to buy food and distribute it to various ministries. In the "opening silver", it was given to the generals to encourage the servants.

And this is not all the cost. In fact, because of the orders of Gao pragmatism, many areas still in the hands of the Ming army are mobilizing materials and silver taels. These materials and silver taels are all local, and Gao pragmatism is almost purely relying on the majesty of Shangguan. To mobilize them with the face within the real school, not to mention whether they will argue in the future, even if these things are enough, it is difficult to say.

After all, these money and materials are equivalent to a small local treasury to a certain extent, and the number of small treasuries in various places is completely uncertain, some are a little more, some are a little less, and some are even less. .There is also a lot of balancing work that needs to be done by high pragmatism - for example, places that pay a lot of money are definitely not satisfied, high pragmatism needs to use various means to appease, and occasionally even pressure, of course, it is more soft and hard. .

Wars have never been as simple as just fighting, and the work behind them is often more important than how well the front lines are fought.This is like Xiao He behind Liu Bang, so even if he loses so many times, he can always make a comeback, but after Xiang Yu has no Yafather Fan Zeng behind him, he can hardly lose at all.

The rest will not talk about it, but say that the main force of the Gao pragmatic headquarters dispatched troops from Huamachi, and arrived at the periphery of Lingzhou three days later, eyeing this "Ningxia South Gate".

The troops in Lingzhou City are not abundant, only 2000, and the guard is Chengen.

However, this insufficiency is only compared to Gao Wuzhen's current army of more than 600. In fact, before the Ningxia Incident, the defenders of Lingzhou City were less than [-], only about [-] people. Now It is already a manifestation of Qibai's strengthening of the city defense.

This place in Lingzhou has always been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times, and there have been countless wars.However, when the time comes to Daming, Lingzhou City itself is not so majestic. With two thousand troops guarding Lingzhou, it is quite normal, and it will not look like the city is not repaired.

However, all of this was based on the city defense situation in the past. What was the situation in the past?The main task of Lingzhou is to guard against the Mongols, and the Mongols are characterized by almost only cavalry, and they do not have much powerful siege ability.

The situation is very different now. The headquarters of Gao Shishi is almost all infantry. Although many of them are on horseback, they are actually "horse infantry". Whether these people are defending or attacking the city, they are undoubtedly far from Mongolians can compare.

What terrified Chen Chengen the most was that his trooper told him that Gao Wushi's army not only "stretched for more than ten miles", but also brought "more than a hundred generals" -- this does not mean more than a hundred generals, but refers to Hundreds of large artillery pieces.To be precise, it means that the No. [-] and No. [-] guns have more than [-] guns.

Of course, what the rebels said was exaggerated. Gao Yushi didn’t carry many heavy artillery because he wanted to fight quickly. The No. 84 gun actually didn’t exist at all, and the No. [-] gun actually only had more than [-] guns. On the contrary, there were many No. [-] guns. Up to [-] doors.

However, due to the fact that the elite Ma Jiada soldiers under Gao Shishi’s department acted as scouts, the rebel scouts didn’t dare to spy deeply, and could only take a look from a distance, so they looked away and regarded all the artillery as heavy artillery— - At this time, most people's attitude towards artillery is not very scientific, and they all think that the bigger the better, the level is similar to Yuan Chonghuan in the original history.As for the difficulty of transportation, whether it is suitable for use, etc., they generally do not consider it.

Chen Chengen, who got the wrong information, was also frightened enough. He is also a Mongolian, but he grew up in Ningxia. In his mind, artillery is not easy to use in field battles outside - the opponents are Mongolians, Of course, people usually refused to fight with the Ming army under the bombardment of artillery.

But Cheng-en knew that artillery was powerful in sieging cities. Although they were all solid bullets these days, most of the city walls on the northwest side, except for Ningxia City, were not tall and majestic bluestone brick walls, but mostly Made of rammed earth.A huge solid bullet smashed past, as long as a certain place was hit twice in a row, the nearby wall must be cracked, and then continued to bang, the city wall collapsed almost ironically, it was only a matter of time.

Gao pragmatic has "more than [-] generals" on hand. According to Cheng'en's understanding, as long as Gao pragmatic is willing to pay, he might be able to knock down the city wall of Lingzhou City in one day, and then it will be [-] to [-]...

How to fight this? ——
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