Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1621 Overture to War ([-])
Jinghua's "professional title system" is divided into armed professional title system and unarmed professional title system. The latter need not be elaborated for the time being. The former is actually a changed name of the military rank system.

Military rank is the title and symbol that distinguishes the rank of officers. Of course, the military title is also the same attribute, but it is obvious that Gao Yushi will not use words or words such as general and school to describe his own armed servants, so he directly uses A, B, C and Ding are used to replace generals, colonels, lieutenants, and soldiers, while the ranks of privates are replaced by "Xin Ding".

In this way, the family members such as Gao Yu and others who are currently awarded the highest military titles are "A-level second-class", which is equivalent to the rank of lieutenant general, while Luo Yuan, commander of Jinghua Japan's Kanto Squadron, is "B-level first-class" , equivalent to Colonel.

Although Jinghua's armed forces have been divided into land and sea systems, there is no distinction between military ranks or military titles, that is, there is no distinction between army titles and naval titles.

Gao Yushi has also considered whether it is necessary to add intermediate ranks such as brigadier general and senior colonel in the future, or to add ranks such as general and marshal above general, but that is all for later.Although Jinghua's strength is not weak at the moment, after all, the sum of many parties is only hundreds of thousands, and it seems that it has not yet reached the point where it needs to add layers.

When he was thinking about this question at the time, he also remembered a famous scene in "Yes, Minister", to the effect that we only have a few capital ships, but there are dozens of admirals.Gao Wushi laughed dumbfoundedly, and then gave up the idea.

At the moment, among the three batches of cavalry in the three different divisions of Daning City, the one with the highest armed professional title is a "second-class second-class" servant leader of the Tumed Division, which is equivalent to a lieutenant colonel, which is already relatively high "rank".

This lieutenant colonel (directly described by military rank for convenience) is only in his thirties, and he is a son of the Gao family who is of good roots. He is somewhat related to Gao Rui, the director of the Kaiping Industrial Zone Management Committee. But five suits have been released.

He has been working in the cavalry since he entered the armed family system. He has worked in Henan, Shanxi, and Beizhili. the captain of the column.

The third column was originally responsible for the guard mission in the east of Tumed, with a full staff of 38 people, which is equivalent to an association.He currently only has 860 and three riders in his hand because some of them are still on duty and are not on duty in the city.

At present, the strength of the three parties together is about [-], which is less than the strength of the four guilds, which is slightly lower than two towns (equivalent to divisions). In their own view, the military strength is already very strong.

Because they often perform escort missions on the grassland, they spend more time dealing with the Mongols, and they have a good understanding of the Mongols' combat readiness.In their view, most of the Mongolian army is not a standing army, but a temporary conscript army that relies on its own living environment to make the soldiers naturally have the ability to fight.

As far as they know, the advantage of the Mongolian cavalry is that there is no need for special training in horsemanship, and archery is similar. Some troops such as "Khan Court Guards" are considered standing troops. Ordinary Mongolian soldiers are stronger than the saber and sword technique, because this requires training to master it proficiently.

This is also the reason why the Mongolian cavalry after the glorious period has less and less battles: there are fewer and fewer warriors with superb saber and knife skills. Certainly not a good idea.Unless the opponent has already been defeated, the Mongols rarely charge, and most of them will win by riding and shooting.

However, in the 30 years of Hedong and the 30 years of Hexi, the Ming army became famous from the Battle of Monan, and after the blessing of the Battle of Southern Liao and the Battle of Liaobei, now not only are there few defeats, but they have even found out a set of steps to follow. The bayonet formation for cavalry made the Mongols have to use the rush formation in the previous wars, causing a lot of losses.

The lieutenant colonel's name is Gao Jiang. Since he is the cavalry leader in charge of the eastern region of the Tumed Business Department, of course he will pay attention to the adjacent Chahar.According to his understanding, the Chahar cavalry seems to be undergoing heavy equipment in recent years. A typical example is that the proportion of Khan court's pro-army equipped with heavy equipment is getting higher and higher.

In most people's minds, the Mongolian cavalry seems to have always been dominated by light cavalry. Even if there were heavy cavalry, they only accounted for a small part, or even a very small part. Now they have begun to reload?
In fact, this statement is a bit of a rigid thinking. It is not so strange that the Mongolian cavalry is reloaded, and it was also in its heyday.Although the early Mongols possessed iron-smelting technology, they lacked iron tools because iron resources in the Mongolian steppe were very scarce at that time.

In the early days, the Mongols used shark skin to make armor against arrows. It was not until the Jin Kingdom ruled Hedong that iron money gradually flowed into Mongolia, and the iron resources were replenished.The early Mongols continued the tradition of the nomadic peoples of the past dynasties, and already had the habit of fighting with armor. In "Yuan History Taizu Ji", Monalon worried that his sons would not be able to defeat the enemy without armor.

According to Jamuka in "The Secret History of Mongolia", warriors during Temujin's unification of Mongolia were already wearing battle armor and carrying long spears, ring knives and bows.In fact, looking at ancient and modern China and foreign countries, any nation that is good at cavalry, as long as it has the opportunity to obtain enough resources, it will definitely reload.

During the battles against the Kingdom of Jin, Xixia, and the Southern Song Dynasty, after possessing a large amount of metal resources such as iron and various craftsmen, the weapons and military uniforms of the Mongols were gradually upgraded, and their leather armor was upgraded to iron armor. Shield full set of defenders.According to Archer Jones, the Mongols had a very Parthian-like cavalry force, about three-fifths of which were light cavalry with spare bows and three bags of arrows and at least one spare horse, while the remainder Two-fifths are heavy cavalry.

The Mongolian heavy cavalry has been basically formed during the gold cutting period. Yelu Tuhua in Dashengdian, Genghis Khan in Yehuling, Ketai in Zaohe all defeated the Jin army with fewer enemies and more, forcing the Jin country to develop a flower hat. Army, Zhongxiao Army and other new arms.In the Battle of Yehuling and the Battle of Mogukou at the beginning of the gold cutting, there were also records that the Mongolian army used spears and heavy cavalry to charge into battle.

The Galician-Volyn Chronicle, describing a detachment of Daniel Galitsky's soldiers under the entry 1252, writes: "The Germans were amazed at the weapons of the Tartars: the horses wore iron masks, and the whole body was covered with leather armor. A, this team must be high in the army, because their weapons are shining."

Although Rubrook, who had met Mengge Khan, said that only two of the 20 Mongols who accompanied him wore armor, but this was only a case of traveling in peacetime. "Biography" records that when Naisa was captured, "all the Tatars put on armor and rushed into the fortress at night."

Perhaps it was because Tumen Khan, under the persuasion of Burihatu, had also carried out some Tumed-style Sinicization reforms in Chahar in the past few years, which increased his financial resources. Gao Jiang noticed that the Mongolian soldiers in Chahar Compared with a few years ago, the level of equipment has been greatly improved.Two of the most notable changes are that the armor wearing rate and horse protective harness equipment have been improved to a certain extent.

I don’t know if the Mongols still miss the glory of the Genghis Khan period—well, this is almost certain. In short, after Gao Jiang tried his best to get some Mongolian armor and horse gear, he found that their styles were basically the mainstream of the Genghis Khan period. Style is just adding some current "popular elements": either technology or materials.

Now Chahar armor is still divided into two levels: iron armor and leather armor. Among them, leather armor is divided into two types: long and short, and short armor has no shoulders.After the cape is removed, it is similar to the crotch armor, which is connected with a belt at the shoulder; the long armor has a cape, and a leather collar is covered on the cape.

In addition, they also use leather armor similar to leather vests. The advantage is that it is softer and lighter than metal armor, and of course its strength is lower than iron armor.Mongolian leather armor is not simply armor made of leather, but an iron wire embedded in the middle of the leather armor-this thing was produced by Jinghua, but I don’t know why it flowed into Chahar.

The surface of the chest of the leather armor is filled with silver threads and flowers to increase the strength of the leather armor (armor).Most of the chain mail worn by Chahar generals was made of iron wire, and then beautified with gold and silver decorations to increase the beauty of the armor.The iron ring armor is lined with six layers of thin cowhide, and the outer layer is a net-shaped iron armor. The armor pieces are connected like fish scales.

Gao Jiang had submitted a report before, reminding the Jinghua Secretariat that the Chahar iron willow-leaf armor and leather ring armor had become their main protective equipment, especially among the Khan court's pro-army with a high proportion of equipment.

In addition, there are cloth brocade armors, which use thick cloth or silk brocade as the armor surface, and iron armor is wrapped under the armor surface; some are not lined with iron armor, but are purely made of cloth, and multiple layers of brocade are tightly sewn together. together.

According to the experiments of Gao Jiang and some other servant leaders, it is difficult for the arrow to penetrate the silk clothing of this silk brocade armor, but the arrow and the clothes will be inserted into the wound together. The medical staff only need to pull out the silk to recover. Pull the arrowhead out of the wound.

The cloth face armor derived from the brocade armor is another light armor, which is decorated with metal armor bubbles on the outside of the robe, and iron armor pieces on important parts.The robe is made of cloth, which is also a product of Jinghua. It is light and soft, and comfortable to wear. After embellished with metal foam nails, the increase in weight is limited, but the impact resistance is greatly enhanced.

The manufacturing process of the above armors is not to say exactly the same as the current several armors of the Ming Dynasty, but there are also quite a lot of similarities, only slightly different in style.However, although Gao Jiang submitted a report at the time and hoped that the Secretariat would pay attention to it, he also mentioned in the report that medium and short-range cavalry shooting can penetrate the above armor, but it cannot follow the previous standards when entering the "effective shooting distance" of the cavalry. "Just fire at once - that could still result in impenetrability.

All the elites from Chahar came this time. Gao Jiang believed that their equipment should be relatively good, so they needed to find an opportunity to strike at a "medium distance", which meant that it was best to launch an ambush.

Under the guidance of this kind of thinking, Gao Jiang led his cavalry to move quickly to the southwest immediately after leaving the city, and then set up an ambush in an elm forest along the river-this place is really called the elm forest in later generations, to be more precise, it is called the elm forest. town.

In fact, the terrain here is not much different from the whole line along the river. The characteristic is that the terrain along the river is relatively flat, but not far from the east of the river are rolling small hills. Impossible to be spotted by enemy troops along the river to the west.

Not only is it a matter of vision, but another important factor is that there will be the sound of water flowing by the river, which can cover up many other sounds that may lead to exposure, which is very suitable for ambushes.

One night is neither short nor long, and not long after Gao Jiangbu's ambush was prepared on the east side of the hill, there were dots of flames from far to near.There were not many of these torches, and they were mainly concentrated in the front. Gao Jiang guessed that this should be the arrival of Tumed's defeated army.

The Mongols are skilled in equestrian skills. It is not necessary to light all the torches when marching at night. As long as the leading troops light some torches, the follow-up troops will follow. Therefore, Gao Jiang, who secretly observed the enemy's situation with the new binoculars, only saw less than a hundred torches. .

A servant leader of the Gyeonggi Business Department, who was like a major, asked Gao Jiang if he wanted to send someone to inform the Tumed people. Chahar pursued the soldiers. Besides, Erdemutu’s military secretary is the master’s protégé, once we ambush Tumen and Brihatu, he will definitely react reasonably.”

The major of the Gyeonggi Business Department actually had some doubts about the second half of Gao Jiang's sentence, because the master is certainly powerful, but the student of the military secretary may not be. At least he lost a big battle during the day, and he doesn't know how much he has learned from the master. ...Maybe it's just a superficial learning.

Apparently he didn't understand the troubles facing Erdemutu, such as Brihatu's single-minded attack on his direct descendants, Butashri's refusal to cooperate when he fell into trouble, and the generals of various ministries "difficult for friendly troops, so they don't move like a mountain", etc. This is almost impossible in the current Jinghua armed forces.

Jinghua has always been characterized by its complete system. No one dares to do things like "friendly troops are in trouble like a mountain", because most of the results will be punished more severely than defeat in the post-war summary. But it is obvious that this system is in the Tumet does not exist, and there are still many people who have tribal thinking. How can there be such a big picture?
The bosses are not the same person. The soldiers under my hands are my own strength. Why should I lose my strength to save you?Will you make up for me after I lose it?

Jinghua is different. What it implements is "iron battalion and flowing soldiers". The generals need to be rotated regularly. It is enough to command operations, so of course the idea is different.

Although the Tumed army was defeated, Gao Jiang probably looked at it and felt that their overall strength was still there. It took less than half an hour to drive all the way through the three-column ambush area.

The Chahar army arrived late, and its front army was at least three miles away from Tumed's rear army. However, the army was well-organized, and even the torches they fired were several times more than Tumed's defeated army. It seemed that they were encouraged by the victory during the day , completely unaware of the approaching danger.

After Chahar's former army passed by and the Chinese army entered the ambush area, Gao Jiang raised his right hand and shouted: "There are all of them, attack!"
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