Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1259 Restoring Ningxia ([-])
(The anti-theft chapter has been updated to the official chapter, which can be refreshed and read. Thank you for your understanding. In addition, the 500 words given as a gift yesterday have been included in the official chapter.)
Yan Chengen was so frightened in the city, and Gao Wu was so annoyed outside the city.

It is not unusual for Gao Pengshi to have more than a hundred artillery pieces. In the past, when he fought Annan, he brought more than this number of artillery pieces.However, in the Battle of Annan, he started to mobilize troops, horses and supplies long in advance, and after the start of the battle, there were two channels of land and sea to provide supplies, so he did not fall into the dilemma of insufficient supplies.

This time, it was very different. The main combat power of his subordinates was changed from his own family troops to the managed army of the Ming army, and the corresponding logistics supply system was replaced by the ordinary Ming army system. The efficiency has already been It is far worse than before, and since this is fighting in the northwest inland, the waterway obviously does not have much hope, and the logistical support capability is even worse.

Jinghua is not completely without ships on the Yellow River, but since the Hetao is not in the hands of Daming, Jinghua's activities on the Yellow River are basically limited to the middle and lower reaches.Going a little deeper to the west, it reaches the Weihe River Basin, which is connected to the Yellow River, and generally ends at Xi'an Prefecture; to the north, it only reaches Fugu County and Baode Prefecture (the former belongs to Yansui, the latter belongs to Shanxi, and the two places face each other across the river) , and did not expand to tributaries.

In this way, water transportation is not even a drama.

Jinghua Trading Company originally had strong land transportation capacity, but Jinghua Trading Company itself suffered a lot in this Ningxia change. Many industries and warehouses were robbed by the rebels, especially after Liang Wenmeng was rescued, they were even more worshipped. After a careful search, even some of the previously hidden goods were confiscated.

The loss was so great that Gao pragmatist could not force them to continue to help the official and army deliver supplies.What is even more difficult is that it is also inconvenient for him to "privately" hand over the transportation and sales of grain, grass, and cargo of the regular army of the imperial court to the Jinghua Trading Company, lest the front-line battle is not over, and he will have a wave of impeachment in the DPRK first.

In this way, Gao pragmatic began to experience the trouble of insufficient supplies for the first time.

It is said that there is a saying in the later generations of the Mi Army, which is called "If you lack everything except the enemy, it means that you are already at war." This is the case with the best logistics support system in the world at the time of the Mi Army. Not surprisingly.Speaking of which, he was too prepared for the battle in the past.

After preliminary statistics, there are few types of mines he carried when he sent troops from Datong. Of course, this is understandable. After all, the Huri Huliang ambush battle relies on the earth-shattering mine array.

In terms of artillery, the gunpowder is still sufficient for the time being, but the projectiles are not enough - because the solid bullets are too heavy, the high pragmatism did not bring much at the beginning, so as not to affect the marching speed.According to the current carrying capacity, the battalion commanders of the two artillery battalions of the Imperial Guard believe that it is only enough to break Lingzhou City.Even if some can be recovered, it is definitely not enough (severely deformed projectiles cannot be used directly again, and need to be returned to the furnace for recasting).

Fighting Ningxia without using artillery was something that Gao pragmatic had not considered at all, but the fact was that it was only enough to fight Lingzhou, which forced Gao pragmatic to make a choice.

Is it to directly smash Lingzhou to deter Ningxia's claws, and strive to win without a fight when the time comes, or do they adopt other tactics in Lingzhou and keep these shells to see if they can smash Ningxia at that time?Or simply dig tunnels with one hand, and then bury explosives to directly blow down the city wall?

Gao pragmatic also felt a little difficult to make a decision for a while, each of which is not without opportunities, but none of them can ensure quick success.

Fast, this is the biggest problem right now.If you just need to win, it would be much simpler, but unfortunately not. The most important thing now is speed. Every day you delay is equivalent to winning more time by Tumen and Burihatu, and it also brings great benefits to Daming itself. more variables and more pressure.

There should be some money left in Zhu Yijun's inner pocket, but the money was originally not needed to be spent in the northwest. If the decisive battle against the Tumen could be launched earlier, the money could obviously be spent more meaningfully.

After hesitating, Gao Wushi simply called Ma Gui over and planned to discuss with him to see if he could find some inspiration.

Ma Gui, who was summoned by Jinglue, listened to Gao pragmatic's words, but instead acted decisively, and even said: "Shutai, the last general thinks that no matter what means Ningxia will take in the end, at least this battle in Lingzhou must be done. There must be no delay in making a quick decision.”

Gao Wushi was a little surprised by his decisiveness and asked, "What's the reason?"

Ma Gui said: "Now with the arrival of the main force of Shutai, the last general thought that the Ningxia rebels might have already panicked. Now the main force of our army has arrived in Lingzhou, which is the south gate of Ningxia, and its north gate Pinglu was originally in our country. Hand, so far, the counter-offensive is imminent. If the last general is to worship, in the face of this trend of outflanking the north and the south, I must not have the courage to distribute the troops in more than [-] fortresses. The biggest possibility is to shrink the force and join forces. Here, stay in Ningxia..."

Gao Wushi heard the song and knew the elegant meaning, and immediately said: "In other words, do you think that Chen Chengen will not choose to stay in Lingzhou, and the defenders in other places may also transfer to Ningxia?"

Ma Gui nodded and said: "Qi Cheng'en is currently blocked in Lingzhou City. He only has about 2000 people. It is hard to predict whether he will dare to break through the encirclement or not, but the rebels in other places except Weizhou should all rush to Transfer to Ningxia."

Why is Weizhou excluded? Because Weizhou is further south of Lingzhou. When Gao pragmatic soldiers approached Lingzhou, Li Yun, the commander-in-chief of Guyuan, also sent troops north to attack Weizhou.In this way, the current situation in Weizhou is actually very similar to that of Ningxia, with a large army in the north and south.

But the situation in Weizhou is far worse than that in Ningxia, because Ningxia has nearly 2000 troops, while Weizhou's defenders only have 8000 troops from Jiyun's troops, and Li Yu's troops who came to attack have [-]—Guben had Thirteen to four thousand troops, after Li Wei left some of the defenders, the [-] men he brought were regarded as elite field soldiers from Guyuan Town.

It stands to reason that if you can’t beat him, you can escape, but as I said just now, Weizhou is more south of Lingzhou. If Jiyun abandons the city and runs away now, going north will definitely be courting death—the north is the main force of Gao pragmatism.It is not reliable to turn to the east, because the main force of Gao pragmatic has just come from the east, but he is walking fast, and the troops and horses from Yansui are continuing to move west. If Jiyun moves east, ten In eight or nine cases, they will bump into each other.

It seems that if Jiyun wants to run, he can only go around to the west. He just doesn't know if he will meet Tuotuo and Yiluduqi. If they don't, it will be fine.

In addition to these two troops, there are 2000 people from Liu Chuanbai in the Ningxia Zhongwei, but he must have withdrawn to Ningxia after hearing that Tuotuo and Yile Duqi were going west.The rest is the garrisons in each fort, each with 300 people, and they should be mobilized urgently, with the same goal of withdrawing to Ningxia.

Gao Wushi nodded slightly and said, "In other words, based on the current situation, as long as our army wins Lingzhou, Ningxia is actually an isolated city."

Ma Gui said: "Yes, that's exactly what the last commander meant." He paused for a while and added: "In this way, the faster our army takes Lingzhou, the more destructive it will be. The deterrent will be stronger.”

This sentence reminded Gao Wushi, he suddenly thought of a strategy, smiled and said: "Xiquan sees things clearly, the headquarters has a strategy to defeat the enemy."

Ma Gui asked, "Broken Lingzhou?"

Gao pragmatically shook his head and smiled: "No, Lingzhou can be easily broken, so why bother? The headquarter said that Ningxia is broken."

Ma Gui was about to ask again, but Gao Wushi had already ordered Tan Ma to quickly send a letter to pacify the captives, telling Xiao Ruxun not to wipe out Tu Wenxiu, but to leave him with at least 2000 people before rushing back to Ningxia.

Ma Gui thought for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he asked, "Does Shutai want to use countermeasures?"

Gao Wushi laughed and said, "Whether it can be done in reverse depends on how quickly Lingzhou is broken. Xiquan, I will give you all the artillery and give you a day tomorrow. Can you take down Lingzhou?"

Ma Gui recalled the Lingzhou city defense he had just inspected, and clasped his fists and said, "Back to Shutai, yes!"

Now that Gao Wushi has made a decision, Ma Gui has also taken his life. Naturally, this half afternoon and the whole night have become preparation time for the battle. The main reinforcements of the Ming army start to prepare for tomorrow's battle.

Early the next morning, the Ming army had breakfast and began to prepare to attack the city without any haste.According to the arrangement of high pragmatism, Ma Gui gathered the main force of the artillery battalion in Nancheng, intending to directly blast through the city wall and forcibly enter.

Yan Chengen in the city responded very quickly, more soldiers soon poured into the towers and walls of the south gate, and artillery began to appear on the city walls.

The artillery in Ningxia Town is not too many in the entire nine-sided system, but it does not mean that there are not many. At this moment, there are also [-] cannons on the city wall of Lingzhou.Gao Wushi and Ma Gui raised their binoculars to check, and found that the artillery on the tower was also a light cannon, of which about a dozen were old-fashioned tiger squat cannons, and six were Jinghua No. [-] cannons.

The No. [-] artillery was originally a field light artillery. According to the design purpose, it was not very suitable for defending the city. At this time, it appeared on the city tower mostly because of emergency medical treatment. Thinking that it is better than nothing.

This is not wrong, after all, even if it is not applicable, but shooting from the tower, as long as it hits the target area, there will always be some damage, which is indeed better than nothing.

But Ma Gui watched for a while, but did not order to change the scheduled deployment. The Ming army's battle formation was still arranged in an orderly manner, and then slowly moved forward with the change of the drum, including the artillery battalion of the artillery battalion.

The rebels in Chengtou Mountain were obviously a little panicked, their heads kept swarming, and it seemed that they wanted to shoot first.

Neither Gao Wushi nor Ma Gui responded. They knew that firing at this distance was pointless. If they had to say yes, it might be emboldened.

"boom!"

The artillery was really fired on the city tower, but unfortunately it was too far away to reach the Ming army's battle formation. The projectile of the artillery only landed two hundred steps south of the not too wide moat.

Gao Wushi snorted contemptuously and said lightly, "If all the gunners in Ningxia Town are at this level, Zhang Weizhong can't be blamed."

Ma Gui did not gloat over the misfortune, but analyzed it seriously: "This shot was not shot by the Jinghua No. [-] artillery, but an old-fashioned tiger squatting artillery. In my opinion, not only the firing angle is not adjusted correctly, but the amount of charge should also be very different. Sufficient, maybe only [-]% of the medicine is filled."

Gao Wushi nodded. He knew that Ma Gui discussed artillery with the two battalion commanders of the artillery battalion of the Imperial Guard every day. The progress could be described as a thousand miles. But as a commander, it's already quite impressive.

Although the cannon shot just now was far from a threat, the battle formation of the official army seemed to be affected a bit, and the speed of advancing forward was visibly slower to the naked eye.

Gao Wushi squinted at Ma Gui, Ma Zongrong blushed, and shouted at Ma Chengzhao who was beside him: "Ma Chengzhao, you lead the troops to supervise the battle! Anyone who does not advance according to the drumbeat - behead!"

Ma Chengzhao didn't say a word, clasped his fists in a salute, immediately turned his horse around, and led three hundred soldiers forward to announce Zongrong's military order.

The major generals personally went to the front of the battle to supervise the battle, and were accompanied by three hundred Ma Jiada soldiers. When the Datong town soldiers saw this situation, they knew that they could not make trouble again, or they might be killed later. ——This is not even a pension. Rather than die like this, it is better to be killed by Ningxia's cannon.

The official army immediately resumed its speed and pushed forward firmly on the southern city wall. The Ningxia rebels on the city tower became even more nervous, and fired a few more shots in a frenzy. Unfortunately, the most accurate shot only hit the corner of a phalanx. Killed or injured two unfortunate people—since the implementation of the new exercise method, no one in the Datong Army dared to look at the specific conditions of these two people in such an advance, and the medical officer would not come forward now.

This is a bit cruel, but the modern army in the eyes of Gao pragmatism is indeed to replace the feudal army with cruel regulations, not just weapons, so he also ignores this.

The official artillery battalion finally moved to a suitable position, stopped under the orders of the two battalion commanders, and began to prepare for firing.The infantry also stopped and lined up in front.

The air of the rebels on the city tower seemed to freeze. The Datong soldiers were first-class elites. They knew this, but they didn't know that the Datong soldiers could stand still in front of the muzzle. , even if this was done by the world-famous Ma Jiada in charge of the formation, it has far exceeded their previous expectations.

After all, everyone at first felt that there was not much difference between themselves and the other party.

Through the flag-fighting of the artillery battalion, Ma Gui knew that they were ready. He had just ordered an attack, and ordered the artillery battalion to start a volley directly at the city tower of Lingzhou's South City Gate, but Gao pragmatic beside him gave a soft "Huh" .

Ma Gui turned his head and asked, "Shutai?"

Gao Wushi was watching the enemy's situation with his binoculars at the moment, and said, "You have good eyes, look at the tower - is Chengen gone?"

Ma Gui was taken aback, and quickly raised his binoculars to check. Sure enough, there was no trace of Chan Chengen above the tower, but the strange thing was that Chan Chengen's grandfather was still standing there.

Ma Gui hurriedly reported his findings to Gao Wushi, Gao Wushi put down the telescope, thought for a moment, narrowed his eyes and said, "It seems that Chen Chengen wanted to attract us at the South Gate, and then took the opportunity to slip away."

Ma Gui immediately said: "Then will immediately order the other three soldiers and horses to prepare for interception."

"No, don't block it." Gao pragmatically said with a smile but not a smile: "Let them prepare to release the water and let Chengen go."

"Ah?" Ma Gui was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly said: "Shutai, Chan Chengen is the eldest son of Chan worship, killing or capturing him can greatly improve the morale of our army, and it can also greatly combat the arrogance of the rebels. And if you let him go, the court will..."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "You know all these headquarters, but it is far more beneficial to return to Ningxia than to die here. According to my follow-up plan, the more chaotic parties in Ningxia gather, the better. As for the court, you Don't worry about it, this headquarters is not only acting cheaply by order, but also with Shang Fangjian, this is a military service in the northwest, but it is not the turn of others to chat."

As soon as Ma Gui heard this, he knew that Gao pragmatism had other considerations, and the situation between the DPRK and China must be stable enough.He thought about it for a while, and it was indeed the truth-in the current court, none of the Gong Gong dukes deserved to discuss military affairs with Gao Shutai. Since Shutai said that they should fight like this, the emperor must be Faithful.

Ma Gui didn't say any more, and ordered to call in a messenger, instructing the other three sects to pretend to be caught off guard and let him go once they found out that Chen Chengen had broken through.
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