Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1616 War Prelude ([-]) Fraud

Juniper's words sound very domineering, and it's not unreasonable to think about it carefully, but Xiao Ruxun always feels that he is not sure, so he hesitates for a while.

Xiao Ruxun was born as a general in the three sides of Shaanxi, and he is most familiar with the Ordos Department, followed by Tumed—whether it is the Tumed Headquarters or Qinghai Tumed, Xiao Ruxun is familiar with everything, but the understanding of Chahar, to be honest, is very small. It's worse.

Of course, he has done a lot of homework since he took office as the deputy general of Liaodong, but "a soldier is a major event for the country". As a general who is famous for defending the lonely city alone, he must first ensure that he will not make major mistakes in his first battle in Liaodong , this is not only human nature, but also his duty.

Relatively speaking, among the three main military proposals today, the strategy proposed by You Shigong should be the safest.However, if you follow You Shigong's suggestion, not only Horqin may suspect that Ming's position is not firm enough, but even the Yehe and Hada reinforcements that belong to the Ming army may underestimate Xiao Ruxun, the coach, and think that he is afraid of the enemy. Fear of war.

This is definitely not possible, apart from the strength of a general, prestige is definitely an element that cannot be ignored.Just like when Qi Jiguang sent troops, the soldiers under his command would never suspect that he made mistakes in using troops; if it was Gao Situ who sent troops, it would be more reassuring, which means not only that there is no need to worry about tactical mistakes, but even all kinds of guarantees are foolproof, even if he dies in battle On the battlefield, the compensation money will definitely not be lost, and even the family members will be properly arranged in the future.

Under this premise, the soldiers subordinate to Commander Qi are not afraid to face any powerful enemy, and the soldiers subordinate to Gao Situ are even more courageous and risk their lives.

These prestige is accumulated through victory after battle. Once everyone praises you, if you do it twice, everyone starts to trust you, and if you can do it many times in a row without exception, then everyone is willing to give their lives to you. up.

Xiao Ruxun, who was born in a general family, of course understood these principles, so he knew that he must not give such an impression to his subordinates and subordinate forces, so although You Shigong's suggestion was generally supported by the generals of the three sides, Xiao Ruxun could not accept it.

Juniper's suggestion is not unreasonable. It is of course better to defeat Tumen directly than any strategy.Just like before the Monan War, except for Gao Situ himself, maybe everyone else was beating drums in their hearts.

Even the emperor might just be riding a tiger. He didn't dare to force Gao Situ to back down so as not to damage his prestige, but also worried that Gao Situ's defeat would make the impact even worse. As for the emperor supporting Gao Situ in the end, it may be largely The personal friendship between the two played a role.

In the end, Gao Situ defeated the Tumen Xinai coalition forces in the first battle, and firmly controlled Tumed.From then on, all the towns on the Nine Sides admired Gao Situ. Not only the generals of the Xuanda line who were originally under the influence of Gao Situ followed him more wholeheartedly, but also the generals of the Trilateral line who were still a little distant from each other. All at once he took refuge in the past.

Even, it was precisely because of that great victory that Gao Situ was able to subdue the non-Li Chengliang generals so smoothly after he went to Liaodong. In a short period of time, the seemingly monolithic Liaodong generals were divided into Li and Gao.

But these premises are based on a brilliant victory, what if there is no big victory?What if unfortunately defeated?What if the loss is heavy or even the piece of armor is gone?

During the Battle of Jingnan, Qiu Fu was so majestic. When Cheng Zu made great contributions to the meritorious officials, he was awarded the Duke of Qi, ranking first among the meritorious officials.However, during the Northern Expedition to Tatar in the seventh year of Yongle, because Qiu Fu underestimated the enemy and rushed forward, the entire army under his command was annihilated, and he was also defeated and killed.Cheng Zu was furious when he heard the news. He not only decided to conquest in person, but also deprived Qiu Fu of his hereditary title and exiled his whole family to Hainan.

what does that mean?It means that regardless of your great achievements in the past, once serious consequences are caused, the court may not necessarily look at your past hard work and forgive you under the censure of the court.

Right now, our side only has [-] cavalry, Horqin has not been able to join our side, and Tumen is surrounded by Brihatu, who even Gao Situ repeatedly asked him to be careful in letters. At this time, he took the initiative to go to Tumen for a decisive battle. What do you think? It's not a safe idea either, and it's definitely not going to be adopted.

In this case, he could only accept Ma Chengxun's suggestion.Ma Chengxun's suggestion is actually not very safe. There is a variable that cannot be grasped by the Ming-Manchu coalition forces, that is, once the Ming-Manchu coalition forces and Tumen's main force fight, whether the Horqin tribe can catch up within the time when the two sides have not yet won. To the battlefield, and achieve a flanking situation, turning defeat into victory—yes, Xiao Ruxun really did not think that the [-] cavalry of the coalition army could fight against the main force of Chahar.

However, even if there is such a hidden danger, Xiao Ruxun can no longer worry about it.After all, it is never possible to be truly "perfectly prepared" for such things as war, and being able to be [-]% to [-]% sure, in Xiao Ruxun's view, is already thankful-did he really think he was safe when he was guarding the lonely city?Obviously not, he just knew he had no way out.Under the siege of the isolated city, since he refused to follow the thief, he could only fight to the end.

In addition, adopting Ma Chengxun's opinion has two advantages.The first advantage is that it can reassure Ye He, Hada, and the subordinates of Jianzhou Youwei-you see, how good I, Da Ming, treats you, and it is absolutely nothing to say that Da Ming treats me like a dog!
The second advantage is to win the support of Ma Chengxun.Ma Chengxun, or the entire Ma family army behind him, has followed Gao Situ for the longest time among the generals. Judging from the current momentum, he is also one of Gao Situ's most trusted generals. between.

Considering that Ma Fang has only three sons, and his grandchildren are not very successful, Ma's army should be the number one general under Gao Situ's command.Oh, no, there is another Liu family army in the south who is extremely trusted by Gao Situ, but the situation of the Liu family is worse than that of the Ma family, because Liu Xian only has Liu Ting as his only son. If the strength of the army is not enough, it will be a little bit worse.

Of course, I heard that Liu Xian's daughter has been living in Gao Situ's mansion, this...well, it's another matter.It is impossible for Gao Situ to send her out to lead the imperial court's Jingzhi army.The Ming Dynasty had its own regulations, and she was not the chieftain of the Southwest. Even if she married Gao Situ, she could only be the member of the Gao family who could lead the army.

Therefore, if Ma Chengxun's support can be won, the alliance between the generals of the Trilateral Department and the generals of the Xuanda Department in Liaodong will definitely be more stable. I and the Ma family should also support me. Even if my position as the deputy general of Liaodong is secure, this must be what Gao Situ would like to see.

War is never just war itself, and politics is always an unavoidable hurdle.Xiao Ruxun made up his mind, pondered for a while, and then expressed his acceptance of Ma Chengxun's opinion, ordered more scouts and tried to get in touch with Horqin's main force earlier, and at the same time, the whole army rushed northwest.

The marching speed of the cavalry is actually not as fast as many people imagined. It is definitely not a common phenomenon to travel hundreds of miles a day. Such a high speed is a rush, which is very harmful to the horse. Generally, it is only when the enemy is clearly located and the distance is not too far away. Only appear at a distance.

Generally speaking, the speed that a cavalry general who is famous for his speed can achieve in combat is usually tens of miles a day. If it is a rush, the rare elite cavalry can reach more than a hundred miles.For example, Xia Houyuan, there was a saying among the Cao army at that time, "Xia Houyuan, the captain of the Dianjun, has five hundred in three days and one thousand in six days."

How much is converted into kilometers?In the Han Dynasty, one mile was equal to 300 steps, one step was equal to 1 feet, one foot was 6 centimeters, and one mile was equal to 23.1 kilometers, so Xia Houyuan’s speed was: "0.4158 kilometers in three days, 207 kilometers in six days", which is equivalent to advancing 416 kilometers a day .And this is already a desperate run, and Xia Houyuan's death actually had a lot to do with the desperate run.

In fact, not to mention the ancient cavalry, even the modern mechanized troops, the marching speed is not so fast.During the Gulf War, the 7th Army of the Mi Army broke into the hinterland of Iraq by surprise from the weak defense of the Iraqi army's flanks, maneuvering about 260 kilometers, and achieved the combat goal of completely annihilating the Iraqi army.

This combat action, which resembled a left hook in boxing, was later called "powerful left hook action".But in this operation, the Mi army marched for 89 hours in the battle, maneuvering 260 kilometers, and the average daily march was only 70 kilometers.

What about the Eight Banners cavalry who were hyped up later?In fact, the Eight Banners are not pure cavalry, but mixed infantry and cavalry, and even the cavalry itself is mostly cavalry infantry.Therefore, before the fateful battle of Shanhaiguan, the Eight Banners army traveled day and night for 12 days, running more than 400 kilometers on the map, and the average speed was only about 35 kilometers per day (in this book, it traveled 70 miles a day).

The Mongolian cavalry is no joke, and its average daily marching speed can reach a maximum of 90 kilometers.

This is not groundless nonsense. It took only 2 months and 5 days for them to attack and occupy North Russia, with an average speed of 85 to 90 kilometers per day; it only took 2 months and 10 days to capture South Russia. , The daily attack speed reached 55 to 60 kilometers; the attack on Hungary and Poland took only three months, and the daily attack speed reached 58 to 62 kilometers.

The above speeds seem to include the combat time, which is too amazing, it is completely the ancient version of blitzkrieg.Fortunately, that was the record achieved by the Mongols in the most glorious era, and the current Mongolian cavalry has not reached that level.

However, even if they are not as powerful as their ancestors, compared to the cavalry of the Ming army... or the cavalry of the Manchurian coalition army, the Mongolian cavalry at this time can still occupy some speed advantages. There were only a hundred miles or so between the main forces of the army, and when they each sped their horses back to report to the main force, the distance between the two sides was only seventy or eighty miles.

However, neither side's scouts could see the opponent's main force, so the generals of both sides could only roughly judge the position of the opponent's main force at best.But this is enough, especially for Chahar's main general.

The main general in Chahar is none other than Abadei Saiyin Khan, and the Mongolian army under his command is also the elite of the headquarters that he himself brought from Waikalkha.

The task Tumen Khan left for him was not complicated: let the Ming-Manchu coalition forces and the Horqin tribe think that their troops were the vanguard of the Chahar Mongolian army. Require.

Why didn't Tumen Khan set any actual combat goals for Abadai Saiyin Khan, and only asked him to let the opponent think that the Mongolian army of the Waikha tribe was the forward of the Chahar Mongolian army?

Because Tumen Khan left the army to fight on the Eastern Front, only Abadai Saiyin Khan and his [-] Khalkha cavalry were on hand, and there was no one else.

The main force of Chahar in Tumen Great Khan's headquarters has already marched westward, heading straight for Daning.Of course, he didn't want to attack Daning City, that would be too difficult.In the past few years, the Ming army has frantically built a city defense system in Daning City. If it weren't for the fact that the population in Daning City was too small, they might have built Daning into the second Datong.

But even though the current scale of Daning City is much smaller than that of Datong, the specifications of the city defense system are almost in accordance with the standards of Datong City, that is, there are four main city gates, one in the southeast and one in the northwest. In order to ensure the convenience of transportation, Each main gate is divided into two small gates, a total of twelve city gates; above the four gates are towers, including moon towers, archery towers, watchtowers, and turrets, standing at intervals. Outside the four gates are Urn City, Moon City, moat.

The whole city is based on huge stones and reinforced with Jinghua's latest "concrete" technology. The inner core of the city wall is rammed with three-component soil, and the outer wall is covered with green bricks weighing 17 kilograms. The city wall is as high as four feet (about 12 meters, Datong is 14 meters), and brick stacks for musketeers are built on the stack wall. After the length unit conversion, the length is 5 meters, the height is 0.8 meters, the thickness is 0.5 meters, and the stack spacing is 0.5 meters.

This is just the main city wall, and there are dozens of watchtowers, and the sloped protrusions of the bastion-like structure.

Of course, Tumen Khan did not plan to attack by force. The reason why he ran towards Daning was because Buri Hatu believed that Tumote would definitely send troops, and the troops would definitely be supported by Daning.Therefore, since our own side wants to use Tumed to sacrifice the flag, as long as they wander around and lurk near Daning City, they will definitely be able to sit on the sidelines and wait until Tumed's Mongolian army throws themselves into the net.

It stands to reason that one of the main reasons why the Mongolian cavalry is so powerful is that they can "go out without logistics", in other words, they don't need any support points.But Brihatu believes that even if Tumed's cavalry can do this at certain times, if there is a support point available, Tumed will definitely use it.

The reason is very simple. Brihatu believes that the current Tumed must degenerate. Because of the abundant supplies they obtained from Damingong City, the pressure on the tribe's survival has dropped sharply, and the time of pampering them has been too long, so once Daning City can be used as a Relying on it, they will never run "stupidly" in the grassland.

At this point, Buri Hatu's eyes were very vicious, because Tumed's reinforcements for the Eastern Expedition were indeed coming straight to Daning City under the leadership of Erdemutu at this moment.
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