Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1352

The east and west cities are very close to each other. Although there are some detours, they are only twenty or thirty miles away.

It stands to reason that it is difficult to set up an ambush at such a distance. After all, both sides have a large number of cavalry, and there are also sufficient scouts.However, the Liaobei Great Wall at this time is not as good as the later generations, the whole is quite primitive, and the forests and vegetation are extremely dense.In early winter, although most of the grass has withered and yellowed, and most of the trees are evergreen trees, the impact is not great, so it is still inconvenient for cavalry to enter.Although there are many cavalry, they can only wander around the edge of the forest, and it is difficult to go deep into it.

The Jurchens have been half-farming and half-hunting for some years, while Yehe's economic structure is more complicated. Farming, hunting, herdsmen and merchants are all involved, but unfortunately they are all half-baked. They have no understanding of "to get rich first build roads".

The road on the east side of the Yehe River was not built, it was completely stepped on, and the east side of the road is not far from the forest. In this way, within a distance of twenty or thirty miles, there are only a few places where people can hide. Not a lot.

Pu Yuanyi is an infantry general who was born in a guard, and he doesn't know much about cavalry. He said that although cavalry is "not to enter the forest", Ye He is a Jurchen after all, and they are their lair nearby, so there is no reason They didn't dare to enter the mountain, so they asked Nalinbulu and Buzhai if they could let Yehe tribe send some scouts into the mountain to investigate.

Nalinbulu and Buzhai looked embarrassed, indicating that the investigation itself is not difficult, and even if they don't investigate the situation around them, they are fully aware of it.The problem is that now it is necessary to find out where the ambush of Brihatu is hiding, and since the opponent is an ambush, he must have prepared a sharp archer with excellent eyesight to hide in the key point to observe carefully.

In this way, even if one's side sends out scouts, according to the scouting principle of "one move is worse than one stillness", the other party must be the first to find out, then one's own scouts will either not be seen by anyone, or they will die and the news will not come back. significance.

The news is not impossible to spread, the Ming army is actually equipped with a small amount of signal flares provided by Jinghua, but at this time the Jurchen loves to feed their forest, let them light such a big open fire in the forest, they will definitely not do it— —They didn't know that the sparks of the signal bomb had already been extinguished by the time it hit the ground.

After giving up on this suggestion, everyone discussed for a while, and finally decided to do less meaningless actions and stick to the tactics of making use of strengths and avoiding weaknesses.

It is difficult to say that it is difficult to make use of strengths and avoid weaknesses, but it is easy to say. The infantry lineup should go ahead, and be vigilant and ready to line up at any time.Until they reached the river near Tingzhou, the guards led by the generals began to prepare to build a pontoon bridge. Qi Jin and Zhang Wanbang began to line up to protect the east and south respectively, leaving the north side alone.

The reason why there is no need to worry about the north is because the main force of the cavalry at that time will be commanded by Ma Chengxun, hanging there not far or near. .

Normally, it would be impossible for Brihatu to allow the Ming army to build a pontoon bridge smoothly, so they still have to launch an attack. At this time, Ma Chengxun can decide how to deal with it depending on where the Mongols launched their attack, flanking or attacking. Outflanking is up to him.

This plan was implemented quite smoothly. The Ming army was not attacked all the way. When it was near Tingzhou, Cao Yu ordered Qi Jin and Zhang Wanbang to line up. Pu Yuanyi and Cao Jian's troops began to build bridges. The Chinese army remained vigilant.

At this time, Ma Chengxun was also wandering three or four miles away to the north, and ordered Buzhai to send hundreds of cavalry to warn at the edge of the forest.

Perhaps the Ming army's defenses were too strict, and the expected Mongolian army's sneak attack did not happen for a long time. When the two rows of wooden piles in the middle of Yehehe Tingzhou were laid, and the Ming army began to excavate the thin ice floes, Yehe A group of cavalry wandering around the edge of the forest suddenly ran over to report that there were several hunters fleeing from a small village in Yehe in the mountains, and they reported something to them.

It was roughly that the day before yesterday they discovered that there were Mongolians entering the mountain to investigate, but because the forest was big enough, a few of them hid there.Yesterday the Mongols began to march into the mountains in large numbers, ambushed and camped among them.At this time they wanted to report, but there were a lot of Mongol scouts, and they carefully slipped around a few times but couldn't find a safe way out, so they had to make do with another night in a remote cave.

Today they found that the Mongol scouts were no longer dispersed in a large area, but began to gather to monitor the vicinity of the main road, so they began to detour out of the mountain.But their luck was not very good. Originally, they were going north by detour out of the mountain, intending to go to the east city—the west city had already fallen—but the Mongols suddenly marched northward, and almost ran into them.

After finally avoiding the Mongols, they escaped in a hurry, but met Yehe's own scouts, so they hurriedly told the situation, Nalin Bulu and Buzhai were surprised, and hurriedly sent someone to report to Ma Cheng Xun and Cao Yu reported separately.

When Cao Yu heard that the Mongols really had an ambush in the mountains, he was quite complacent, thinking that he had also predicted Burihatu's movements this time, but when he heard that the Mongols suddenly marched northward, he was immediately surprised. Break out in a cold sweat.

What is Brihatu doing?Could it be that after he found out that the main force of the Ming army was well-prepared and unable to make a sneak attack smoothly, he planned to go north and steal the East City?

But why should he?There are still [-] defenders in Dongcheng. Even if the Ming army and Yehe allied forces leave Dongcheng alone at this time, it is impossible for Brihatu to take it down quickly.Correspondingly, it took less than half a day for the coalition forces to build the pontoon bridge, and the entire army was able to cross the river this afternoon and begin to encircle the west city.

Considering the huge advantage of the Ming army's artillery, normally speaking, the coalition forces must have breached the West City earlier than Buri Hatu's attack on the East City. If so, what's the use of Buri Hatu going north to the East City?Waiting for the coalition forces to regain the west city and return to the army, wouldn't he still have to escape for his life?
If this is the case, then Burihatu made a left move and a right move here, seemingly very busy, but in the end it was all useless moves?
This doesn't make sense, if Brihatu can't even account for the siege capabilities of both sides, is he worthy of Entang's special reminder to me?
Cao Yu thought about it, and always felt that there was something wrong with it.He looked at Gao Yimin, seeing that Gao Yimin was also frowning and thinking, he couldn't help hesitating, "Brother Gao, do you think it's possible that Brihatu actually still has some gunpowder in his hand..."

Needless to say, if Brihatu still has gunpowder in his hand, the reason for his sudden northward movement at this moment is obvious: he wants to blow up the city again.

But Gao Yimin was a little unconvinced, and shook his head and said, "It should not be so. First of all, if Brihatu really still has gunpowder in his hand, why didn't he take it out for a while before and wait until now? At that time, we still had gunpowder. He didn't come, he only needs to deal with Ye He's people, isn't it easier to blow up the city?
Secondly, even if he has gunpowder, bombing the city wall is not bombarded with giant cannons. If he doesn't dig a tunnel in advance, how will the city wall be bombed?And now that he suddenly went to Dongcheng, would he have time to dig a tunnel right away? "

Cao Yu also thought it was reasonable, but he still said: "That's the reason, but if the Dongcheng side didn't take precautions, and the main force of our department didn't send troops back to interfere with Brihatu, then he still has a chance to dig a tunnel." Some of them have to be guarded against."

Gao Yimin thought for a while, and said, "What Zongrong means is that we send the cavalry back to interfere with Brihatu's plan to dig a tunnel?"

Cao Yu asked: "What do you think, brother Gao?"

However, Gao Yimin always felt that something was wrong, and analyzed while talking: "It seems that it is not impossible, we have a lot of cavalry, at least [-], even if there is any accident when we send it alone, it will not be too much. It will be a big loss. But at least half of them are Ye He’s cavalry. Although Ye He is famous for his cavalry in Jurchen, they obviously can’t beat the Mongols. The actual combat effectiveness of these [-] troops has to be discounted.”

He paused, and then said: "Besides, I don't know if Zongrong has thought about it, just in case, I'm talking about just in case... If Ma Canrong goes here, what method will Bu Rihatu use to kill Ma Canrong? If we lure away or hold back, the main force will go back to the west city from the northern foot, and our main force may just cross the river at that time, and at this time he will attack halfway across the river, and our army has no cavalry cover, what should we do?"

If everything was as he had guessed, then Brihatu had played the battle carefully enough, and the timing must be calculated accurately in order to guarantee him such a situation.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to make the planned plan on the battlefield completely accurate. Usually there will be accidents of one kind or another, which will cause the plan to fail to keep up with the changes, as it is now - the Mongols are indeed ambushing, but it seems that they can't take advantage of it However, they did not, as the Ming army had expected, feel that they had "the arrow on the string and had to fire" and forcibly attacked the Ming army.

Brihatu turned around and headed north directly, instead causing the Ming army a bit of a dilemma, neither caring nor not caring.

Gao Yimin was in the special training class back then, ranking second in military deduction and first in actual combat drills, so he knew very well the difficulty of designing such a plan and successfully executing it.In essence, he didn't really believe that the Mongols had such a high-precision level of execution, but as the saying goes, the enemy is lenient in predicting the enemy. Since Brihatu can be highly valued by the master, Gao Yimin naturally dare not underestimate it.

In addition, Gao Yimin also suspected that Burhatu did not make such a detailed plan from the beginning and implemented it step by step. He was more inclined to think that Burhatu was actually making a decision on the fly.It is more difficult to make an impromptu decision than to plan in advance, but Brihatu is likely to have such an ability, otherwise wouldn't the master's attention to him be slapped in the face?
Many people in Jinghua worship their masters almost like gods. Although Gao Yimin is not so exaggerated, he also believes in Gao's pragmatic view of people.Therefore, no matter how weird Burhatu's actions were, Gao Yimin would not think that he was fooling around, but would only think that he either had some other purpose or some other means.

In this way, his calculation of "Brihatu may be so-and-so" is astonishing.

Hearing his analysis, Cao Yu couldn't help hesitating.Judging from his many years of experience, the Mongols' combat as a whole is relatively rough. Although he himself suffered a big loss, this kind of thing needs to be looked at separately: It can be seen how many times he has won in the past and how many achievements he has made. We should not think that he is not good just because of one failure.

There are only two people in Daming who have never been defeated. One is Qi Jiguang and the other is Gao Pragmatic.Qi Jiguang is really victorious in all battles, and he has never suffered a small loss. However, although he has fought many times, none of them has ever been able to match the scale of Gao Yushi; There were only a few games, but it was indeed a big scene every time, and there was no defeat.

All in all, it's hard to come by.

Right now, a Burhatu has been born among the Mongols. His layout and planning are better than those elders in the imperial court who have read countless books. If it is generally inferred, this makes Cao Yu have to cheer up 12 points.

He thought for a while, twisted his beard, and said slowly: "If this is the case, it is indeed a bit difficult to deal with, but Ma Shenrong is also the choice of a famous general. If the commander tells him, let him not be killed by Brihatu Bewildered by other means, just stare at the Mongolian army...Does Brother Gao think there is any other way for Brihatu?"

Gao Yimin thought for a while, and said: "If Ma Canrong can really kill the main force of the Mongolian army and won't let go, I can't imagine what Burihatu can do next time."

That's it.

Although Cao Yu still remembers the defeat of Chang'an Fort, he is not an indecisive person. Hearing this, he immediately made up his mind, and said to the messenger: "Send my order to Ma Canrong, and order him to command the current troops. Going north, send scouts to find out the location of the main force of the Tartars, and then hold on tightly..." Then he summed up what he had just said with Gao Yimin, and asked the messengers to report to Ma Chengxun.

After sending the soldiers down, without saying a word, Cao Yu once again urged Pu Yuanyi, Cao Jian and other departments to speed up the construction of the pontoon bridge, in order to be able to cross the river earlier, so as to avoid the possibility that Gao Yimin might be hit by Buri Hatulai during the deduction. Danger.

In addition, he was still very cautious, and sent someone to tell Qi Jin and Zhang Wanbang that although the main force of the Mongolian army may have gone north, since the people who came to report the letter were only a few hunters, this "north" movement Whether it is true or not is doubtful, so they still need to be meticulous in guarding against possible offensives at any time.

After all these things were arranged, Cao Yu found a place to sit down and rest for a while, while Gao Yimin hadn't given up on the deduction, and was still thinking about something there.

On the other side, Ma Chengxun also got the order very quickly. He was very courageous. He didn't feel that he was in a passive situation when he went north. Rihatu, presumably the Mongols will definitely not retreat, and even Xicheng may just give up and flee back to their lair.

At that time, Da Sinong can still not look at himself with admiration? ——
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