Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1359
Both Ming and Mongolia claimed to have achieved the great victory of Yehehe, but whether the victory itself depends on the strategic goals of both sides, to a certain extent, the strategic goals of both sides have indeed been achieved.

The purpose of the Ming army's dispatch of troops this time was to save Yehe and stabilize Beiguan. This purpose was obviously achieved after the Yehe River victory.After the main force of the Mongolian army retreated, when Cao Yu led the troops to Xicheng, hundreds of Mongolian defenders in Xicheng were retreating, and Cao Yu successfully took over Xicheng.

The purpose of the Mongolian army's eastward invasion is relatively more complicated. In other words, their purpose has been flexible from the beginning and can be divided into several grades.Seizing Beiguan directly is of course the best goal, but when the Ming army directly dispatched [-] elite troops, Brihatu knew that this goal would be difficult to achieve.

Even so, Buri Hatu was not in a hurry, he could still disrupt Liaodong, use the chaos at Beiguan to stir up internal scrambles among the Jurchens, and distract Daming.As for what role Mongolia plays in it, it is naturally a fisherman, and he is a very active fisherman. If the snipe and clam want to stop, Mongolia will go to add fire. In this way, Daming will make a move sooner or later.

Making a move means wasting power, no matter manpower, material or financial resources or time, Daming has to give something, which eases the pressure for Mongolia and delays time.

Therefore, according to this line of thinking, in fact, the Mongols could not even fight the battle of the Yehe River.However, Brihatu always felt that since Gao Yushi fought the Battle of Monan, the strategic situation between Ming and Mongolia has been reversed. The original Mongols took the initiative to continuously harass the border while Da Ming passively defended, and Da Ming began to cultivate energy. Accumulate energy and formulate the "Oriental System" national policy, intending to conquer Mongolia in one fell swoop.

Such a reversal of offense and defense happened to Daming, who has been in the country for more than [-] years, and Brihatu couldn't bear it.Even in the past, the Ming army occasionally took action to burn wasteland, but it was just to go out of the fortress to burn the fire and leave. How long ago did they dare to regard the destruction of Mongolia as their goal?

Therefore, Brihatu has a strong sense of crisis. He is keenly aware that the changes in Ming Dynasty come from high pragmatism. He became Daming's "No. [-] Wen Shuai in the World".

What the enemy agrees with is what we oppose, and what the enemy wants to insist on is what we want to defeat.The Ming army wanted to recharge their energy, and Burihatu wanted to make Daming unsafe. All the plans were based on this in the final analysis.

When Yehe's strength has been hit, when Hada's weakness is exposed to everyone, when Nurhachi's greed is noticed by everyone...Brihatu's strategy has actually completed most of it.

But this time, Brihatu was reluctant to stop immediately, because he found that the fighting will of the Ming army had exceeded his original estimate, and he had to stop it.

Where did this come from?It was discovered from the unrelenting performance of the Ming army when they encountered Yehe Dongcheng.

In the past, the Ming army rarely took the initiative to take the initiative to engage in a decisive field battle with the main force of the Mongolian cavalry, but this time Cao Yu made the move to forcibly attack the main force of the Mongolian army under the east city of Yehe. ——At least the elites of the Ming army are not afraid of the main force of the Mongolian army at all, and they are confident that they will have a decisive battle with the main force of the Mongolian army.

This kind of confidence is what the Mongols are most worried about. The Ming Dynasty has formed a tendency to crush Mongolia in terms of manpower, material and financial resources. Once the millions of troops under its command no longer fear the Mongolian cavalry and dare to fight the Mongolian cavalry head-on, what will happen to Mongolia in the future? Self-safe?

As for the source of this confidence, Brihatu thought about it, and felt that the biggest possibility was that Gao Pragmatic's three major victories were all riding on foot.

Although Gao Pragmatic's three victories are brilliant, the premise is that his planning can always put the Mongolian cavalry in a dilemma where they have to fight decisively, and he can form a local advantage, or encircle or ambush, so the results are amazing.But Brihatu had to ask back, why couldn't the Ming army do this before being highly pragmatic?

The reason is not complicated. The original Ming army, even if you let them surround the Mongolian cavalry, you can't really block them. As long as the Mongols are really facing a desperate situation, they will rush out.

Only when Gao Pragmatic took charge of the army, the Ming army not only saw a sharp increase in firepower, but also came up with a set of special methods to deal with cavalry, which is the so-called bayonet formation.

The term "bayonet formation" itself originated from Ming Dynasty himself. Even Brihatu was fooled into this very deceptive name, thinking that the key to the Ming army's ability to control cavalry was the bayonet itself.At that time, Brihatu also couldn't understand that what the bayonet could do, the spearmen in the past could do it or even do it better. Why did the Ming army abandon the spear formation and use the bayonet formation?
Many years ago, Brihatu believed that the number of spearmen in the Ming army was decreasing day by day because the Ming army did not dare to fight hand-to-hand.Once the Mongolian cavalry rushed over, they immediately dispersed, and any formation was defeated. Only a few elite troops were able to establish a strong formation and fight tough battles.

However, there are still too few individual elites, such as Qi Jiajun, Ma Jiajun, Li Jiajun, Ma Jiajun and other old opponents of the Mongols. Except for Li Chengliang's Li Jiajun, no one can exceed tens of thousands.With this amount of troops, the emergency field is not bad, and it will be difficult to turn the tide. Therefore, it is naturally impossible for the Ming army at this time to win any real victory.

After the Gengshu Revolution, the first battle that Ming won that could truly be called a great victory was the Battle of Monan that Burhatu personally experienced.

Gao Pragmatism also began to be regarded as "Wen Shuai" after this war. Although the scale of the Annan War was huge, it was impossible for the mainstream people in Ming Dynasty to regard Annan as an opponent at the level of Mongolia. The fineness of Daming's interior is slightly lacking.

In this Battle of Monan, Gao Pragmatism's various performances were perfect, but as some people in Daming also noticed, Brihatu also knew that the real main force in this battle was actually Tumed, not Daming himself.Gao Pragmatism actually used superb political means to use the powerful Tumed cavalry to crown him victorious.

Even if ordinary people find this point, they will only think that the high-level practical means can "control the barbarians with the barbarians", but Brihatu discovered another important point.

It's not that Gao Pragmatic insisted on displaying some superb political means, but he clearly understood that the Ming army alone could not win the Battle of Monan with its own strength at that time!
Without a hearty victory, the vast majority of the Ming army, which is not elite, has no courage to face tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry alone. If they really want to forcefully pull them to the grasslands to fight a field battle with the Mongolian cavalry, they will be burned if there is no rout. High fragrance, let alone a big victory?

Therefore, Gao Pragmatism carefully selected and designed an important but not particularly grand location for the appearance of the "Bayonet Array". This is how Zhang Wanbang and his son defeated Xin Ai in the battle.

Unsurprisingly, this battle became the focus of the Ming army's propaganda—the other battles were all fought by Tumed, and it is not convenient to brag about it.

Ever since, the "Bayonet Formation" became famous, and it seemed to be the killer weapon of Ming Dynasty to control cavalry with steps.Everyone in the Ming Dynasty believed that the magical power of the bayonet array was enough to curb or even kill the ferocious power of the Mongolian cavalry for many years.

At this time, Ming Dynasty is like the European powers in the twentieth century, holding the right to speak.Daming made such an effort to publicize it, and in addition to the battle of southern Liaoning not long after, even the Mongols themselves believed in the evil of high pragmatism, thinking that the bayonet array was indeed extremely powerful. opponent.

Then came the Northwest Rebellion. Bo Shuo Ketu, a daredevil, was no match for Gao Pragmatic. He was calculated to death by someone Gao. According to Daming, Brihatu has now guessed that the real meritorious service in the encirclement battle was definitely not the bayonet, but the firearm.

After three major victories, the bayonet array became famous far and wide, and the Mongols changed their colors when they heard about it.Although Cao Yu had never commanded a bayonet formation, he had a bayonet formation under his command, so he was not afraid of field battles with the Mongolian cavalry, and prepared to repel the Mongols under the Dongcheng city.

Although Brihatu doubted the power of the bayonet array, he was unwilling to fight under the Dongcheng city, because at that time the Ming army also had many elite cavalry, and the Yehe cavalry in the Dongcheng city were also ready to fight at any time. The Mongolian army is at a disadvantage.Once the attack on the bayonet formation got into trouble, and the Ming cavalry and Yehe cavalry launched an offensive from the flanks, the Mongols might suffer another major defeat.

Therefore, Brihatu chose to retreat directly to avoid fighting.But Brihatu was definitely not willing to retreat, he had to find a way to personally test the depth of the bayonet formation, otherwise how would he be able to make correct decisions when dealing with the Ming army in the future?

Whether it is to transfer Ma Chengxun to the tiger from the mountain, or not to fight the weak enemy on the northern front but choose Zhang Wanbang's troops on the southern front, these are all special arrangements made by Buri Hatu to "test" the quality of the bayonet array.

Is there any problem with the tactics of Cao Yu and Gao Yimin?Actually no.They just never expected that under Brihatu's series of means, the purpose was not to defend the West City, nor was it even to seriously injure or defeat the Ming army.Brihatu just wanted to try the true power of the bayonet array and understand its tactical characteristics, so that he could have a basis to think about how to break it.

As for Brihatu's constant claim that he wanted to break the myth of the bayonet formation, it was actually just wartime propaganda.Of course it is best to be able to break it, but it is actually within his acceptable range not to be broken.

The outcome of this battle was still acceptable to Brihatu.Although nearly [-] people died in the battle (the Ming army beheaded more than [-] people, and most of the rest died of injuries after being rescued), and the elite heavy cavalry lost a lot, Burihatu still believed that this battle was very difficult. value.

No matter how big the loss is, it is bigger than Monan?In the Battle of Monan, the loss of Chahar's main force was tens of thousands, but this time it was less than two thousand. What's the big deal?Compared with the harvest, Brihatu can be completely satisfied, and it is enough to explain to Tumen Khan.

After listening to the detailed battle report and Brihatu's analysis and explanation, Tumen also felt that although the loss of 2000 people was not small, it was completely worth it. At least he now understands that the really powerful part of the bayonet array is not itself It can restrain the cavalry, but it can combine the hot and cold weapons of the Ming army to form a new tactical system.

This tactical system closely cooperates with the various weapons of the Ming army in the past-this is the magic weapon of the Qi family army-different, the bayonet formation is characterized by doing the opposite, and it appeared to simplify operations.

According to the past tactics of Qi's army, including the mandarin duck formation, the characteristics are "each has its own division", that is, the gunners are only responsible for releasing the guns, and the wolf gunners are only responsible for blocking the enemy, etc.

Is this tactic good?Of course it works, otherwise Qi Jiguang's victories in all battles are because he cheated?

But the problem is that once a certain part is missing, the mandarin duck formation will be somewhat incomplete, and its effectiveness will be greatly reduced, and this is one of the reasons why Qi Jiguang always insists on fighting with fewer casualties or even zero casualties.It's not that his thinking has advanced to the 21st century, it's that he knows that casualties have too much impact on his tactical system.

But Gao Pragmatic's way of thinking seems to be completely different. He first emphasized the use of firearms, and the proportion of musketeers increased day by day under Gao Pragmatic's insistence, so that the subordinates of high-pragmatic generals like Zhang Wanbang were even completely weaponized— —In addition to artillery, the combat troops are musketeers, and Zhang Wanbang himself is the only one who fights with pure cold weapons.

Everyone knows that Musketeers cannot fight in close quarters. Does Gao Wushi give up close combat by doing so?No, he made a bayonet and worked hard to stand for the bayonet formation, deliberately making his own three major victories be attributed to the bayonet formation.

why?Brihatu now understands: No matter how powerful a firearm is, it cannot represent the bloody bravery of the Ming army, and bloody bravery is always the soul of an army.

The Mongols looked down on the Ming army who didn't dare to fight hand-to-hand at the beginning, but once the Ming army dared to fight hand-to-hand, the Mongols, including Buri Hatu himself, immediately felt a huge threat.

This is the transformation brought about by Xue Yong.

Gao Wushi didn't promote how powerful his cannons were, or how powerful his muskets were, but he promoted his bayonet array. The reason was that he wanted to use this to arouse the bloody courage of the Ming army, so that the Ming army dared to fight hand-to-hand, and dared to face any strong opponents. enemy.

As long as his goal is achieved, the Ming army will become a force that integrates long-distance attack and close combat.Any army that wanted to fight the Ming army had to be hit by cannons from a long distance, then shot by muskets, and finally had to fight with bayonets.

The most shocking thing about Brihatu is that such an army that combines long-distance attack and close combat has actually existed in the past, and that is the Mongolian army after conquering Central Asia!
There is a cannon in the distance, a horse bow in the middle, and a machete in the near!

The Mongolian army at that time is long dead now. Even if they are still there, Brihatu knows that he cannot deal with the army that Gao Pragmatic hopes to build.

In terms of distance, Jinghua's artillery has no opponent in northern Xinjiang; in terms of combat, the effective killing distance of muskets has surpassed that of bows and arrows, and its power is much greater; excellent.

Tumen looked at Brihatu with a worried face, hesitated again and again, and still couldn't help asking: "Is there a solution?"

Brihatu came back to his senses slowly, and shook his head slightly: "Not yet." Then, as if he couldn't bear to look at the disappointed eyes of Da Khan, he sighed and added: "Let's see if the things left in the west city can be recovered. It worked."
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