Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1630 Northern Expedition ([-])
Before the advent of the instant communication era, the success or failure of a war often depended on the use of time difference. The ancient Chinese military commanders put forward the concept of "soldiers are precious and fast", which is a manifestation of their deep understanding of this war principle.And the "Battle of Horqin Defense" has been fought until now, and the time difference has to play a role.

As long as you open the map, you will find that there is an obvious protrusion on the border between Ming and Mongolia at this moment, which is Daning City.Daning City is an isolated military fortress city outside the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. It is three hundred miles (150 kilometers) away from the Xifeng Pass where Cao Yu left the customs, and there is no other place around it that can " Each other's horns" stronghold.

Although there are still a few strongholds between Xifengkou and Daning, those strongholds are not even considered "permanent fortifications" - Qingcheng, where the Battle of Qingcheng broke out, is the stronghold, and there is only one Wubao here With the addition of three piers, the entire garrison is only about [-] people. Rather than saying that they are a support point for war, it is better to admit frankly that they only play the role of early warning and transmission of information.

At the same time, the distance between Daning City and Chahanhot is about [-] miles. Since this road is basically a grassland, it only takes a few days for Tumen to return to Chahanhot.However, how long will it take for the news of Tumen to leave Daning City and return to Chahanhot to reach Liaodong?

Let’s take a look at the route of news delivery first: first send it from Daning via Xifengkou to Zunhua in the pass, because that’s where the chief soldiers of Jizhen and the guarding eunuchs are stationed, then divide into two routes from Zunhua, and send one to the capital. The other is sent to Liaodong.

Those who go to the capital don't care about it, just talk about the way to Liaodong.First, send it from Zunhua via Yongping Mansion to Shanhaiguan Pass, and then take the Liaoxi Corridor to enter Liaodong Central after passing through Shanhaiguan.Generally speaking, of course, it is first given to the Liaodong General Army Officer stationed in Guangning, Western Liaoning, and then sent to Liaoyang at Niuzhuang (located near Dongchangbao, a key area in the Battle of Southern Liaoning in the previous article in this book).

Due to the need to go around in this way, it has resulted in a distance of more than [-] miles just to send the news from Daning to Liaoyang.But here comes the problem. Right now, Xiao Ruxun has to inform Xiao Ruxun who has sent troops to Horqin territory about the news of Daning City. It will take hundreds of miles, and Xiao Ruxun's troops are still on the move. I'm afraid to find their specific location. It will take some more time.

In this way, it would take at least [-] days to deliver the news that "Tumen has returned from Daning east" to Xiao Ruxun. If there is a slight accident, it may take a month.

Looking back at Har's army, it only takes a few days for Tumen to return to Chahanhot from Daning, so if you take it slow, ten days is too much time, right?So how far is it from Chahanhot to Horqin and how long will it take?
The answer is between three hundred and six hundred miles, depending on the position of their opponents.Calculated based on six hundred miles, and continue to calculate based on the foreign labor of the Tumen army, it will definitely not exceed fifteen days.

This also means that after 25 days at the latest, the Tumen army can return to the Horqin battlefield - and at this time Xiao Ruxun will never receive the news of Tumen's return to the east.

As a general who was born in Liaodong, of course Cao Yu has always been concerned about the situation related to Liaodong. This is human nature, so he also thought of this issue.However, as the saying goes, it’s hard for a good woman to cook without rice. Although Cao Yan was worried about this situation, he was limited to the means of information transmission and could only sit on the wax. There was no solution at all.

It wasn't until he went to Gao Jiang to find out the details of the Battle of Qingcheng that he learned from Gao Jiangkou that Jinghua had a pigeon system. Although the coverage was not comprehensive, it happened that Daning City had a pigeon connection line leading to Fuxin City.

Fuxin is one of the two new cities proposed by Gao Yushi last time (the other is Dandong near North Korea). It is located in the most northwest part of the Liaohe Hetao area recovered after the Liaonan War, and it is almost half of the protrusion.

However, compared with Daning, the prominent part of Fuxin has a much better strategic situation, because the new side wall of Liaodong has been roughly repaired. Although it is not connected across the board, there are already more than a dozen bastions surrounding Fuxin City.From the perspective of defending Fuxin City itself, it can almost be said that although it is not the Great Wall, it is not inferior to the Great Wall.

Why does Jinghua have a dedicated carrier pigeon station in Fuxinjian?The answer is simple: Fuxin has mines, so Jinghua is planning to buy land here, and to demonstrate the cost and benefits of mining, etc., requires good information transmission capabilities.

The reason why Gao Wushi proposed building a new city in Fuxin was that Fuxin has mines.According to the information provided by Liu Xin, the reserves of coal in this area are more than 7.5 million tons; the reserves of peat resources are more than 100 million tons; although the gold mines are widely distributed, the large and medium-sized deposits are concentrated, the gold is of good quality, and the metal content is 17 tons above; iron ore reserves are above 6500 million tons.

In addition, the Fuxin area is also rich in non-metallic mineral resources, such as silica sand, bentonite, purple sand clay, marble, limestone, granite, fluorite, and medical stone. Unfortunately, Liu Xin said that she could not remember the details. The number, in her words, is "in short, it must be a lot".

The use of stone materials in this era basically has to be sourced nearby, otherwise the cost is not cost-effective, so Gao Pragmatic did not plan to develop any stone materials in Fuxin. However, coal, iron and gold mines are naturally not polite, so Jinghua Mining started early. The land is here to find ore.

Jinghua is famous for mining all over the world, so I won’t go into details about mining for now, just talk about this carrier pigeon station.The carrier pigeon station was originally a single-line reciprocating communication, that is, a pigeon flying from a certain place to deliver a letter generally does not stay for more than one night before returning to the "originating point", so it is mostly used to receive information.If you want to "reply", you must either reply immediately and send it back with the pigeon, or send another pigeon to fly again.

Of course, this is not a problem in an emergency, and Gao Jiang said something that surprised Cao Yan and almost made his eyes pop out: it only takes more than an hour for a carrier pigeon to fly from Daning to Fuxin.

After questioning, Cao Yu found out that because the carrier pigeon is flying, it can arrive in a straight line regardless of the terrain.Since the straight-line distance between Daning and Fuxin is only [-] miles, the trained homing pigeons are very fast, and they can fly [-] miles in an hour if the wind direction and force are not too obstructive.

[注：一般信鸽的飞行速度为70-110千米每小时，较好的信鸽飞行速度可达到90-150千米每小时。现代一些测试表明飞行速度最快的鸽子其飞行速度能达到177千米每小时。故此处高江的话其实还比较保守。]
When Cao Yu heard this, he wanted to agree at that time, but Gao Jiang raised another question: Fuxin only had a carrier pigeon station, but no cavalry, and now Xiao Ruxun's department is still outside the pass.Carrier pigeons will only find a fixed "liaison office". Obviously, no carrier pigeon can find them, so they can only send riders to deliver letters to their door, so things get stuck here.

However, Cao Yu said that this is not a problem at all, because although Fuxin Guerrilla is located in the west of Liaoning, it is under the direct management of Li Rusong, the general of Liaodong, but at this moment, the general of Fuxin Guerrilla is he who Cao Zongrong must be able to order. His younger brother Cao Jian.

Since the Cao family brothers hugged Gao Yushi's thigh, they have really embarked on the road of Kangzhuang. The elder brother Cao Yu got his wish and climbed to the top of the general military officer. The commander of the Southern District Guard climbed to the position of real power and was a guerrilla.

Although Fuxin City is currently only a new city for immigrants with a small population, it is not only an important front-line place, but also proposed to be built pragmatically by Shang Shu Gao, the "big household department" who holds the world's financial power.What does high pragmatic support mean?It means that Fuxin has the strong support of the central government, a steady stream of immigrants from the disaster-stricken area, and a steady stream of financial investment. The speed of construction and development has made all the old cities drool.

In addition, Jinghua has already explored large-scale mineral deposits here. Based on past experience, it is likely that factories and mines will be established here in the future.It is conceivable that within three to five years at the most, this Fuxin must be a bright pearl in Liaodong, and the prospects here are boundless.

It is self-evident what Cao Jian's reaction will be when he sends his brother's order through the carrier pigeon station in Jinghua. He must send the most elite Yebushou under his command to pass the news to Xiao Ruxun as quickly as possible.

Since Cao Zongrong said so, Gao Jiang naturally agreed.Cao Yu didn't carry his private seal with him, so he went back to the temporary office to write a letter. Half an hour later, he sent the two identical, brief letters to Gao Jiang. Gao Jiang personally supervised the pigeon station and released the two pigeons.

Here, the Ming Army of Daning City urgently contacted Xiao Ruxun, while over there Xiao Ruxun was still playing hide-and-seek with Abadai Saiyinhan... No, it should be said to be chasing.

Actually, this chasing battle was not what Xiao Ruxun wanted to fight.According to his idea, since Tumen didn't come, and Horqin's troops joined his Ming-Manchu allied forces, they just need to retreat directly to Kaiyuan.When the Ming army returns to Kaiyuan to garrison, the three Manchurian tribes can stay outside the side wall and garrison with Horqin, or return to their own territory, that's up to them.

In his opinion, it is not cost-effective for the Ming army to hang around outside the customs all the time, because although the Ming army is also cavalry, the Ming army cavalry will not run away with cattle and sheep. , even if compared with the Manchurian trilogy, it is slightly inferior.

After all, people don't eat well, so it's enough to get enough to eat. However, because of the reform of the Ming army, the dietary standards of the Liaodong frontier army have been raised twice in more than ten years.The current rule is that every meal must be oily, and even if there is no meat, there must be fish. Although the amount is not much, it still increases the pressure on logistics.

Therefore, Xiao Ruxun hoped that the Ming army would withdraw to the pass earlier. Naturally, the Horqin Tribe and the Three Manchurian Tribes would not be brought into the side wall, but the Kaiyuan side wall is not far from the original. In addition, once there are police, the Ming army can rush to support within a day.

As for the three tribes of Manchuria, the two tribes of Yehe and Hada are the so-called "Beiguan" and "Southguan". The north and south are all aimed at Kaiyuan, and they are naturally very close to the original. Even if they go back to their own territory, they want to rescue Horqin The department will not exceed two days.The Jianzhou Right Guards were farther away, but their number of troops was very small. In Xiao Ruxun's eyes, the symbolic meaning was greater than the actual meaning, and it didn't matter if they were late or not.

Is two days of rescue time enough?It should be enough, because the Horqin tribe itself is also a Mongolian nomad. During the war, the detection range of the sentinel horses will definitely be increased, and the two-day early warning time should be able to be obtained.

The Horqin Ministry, however, politely expressed its disapproval of the idea.There are two reasons: First, the relationship between the Inner Khalkha (Korqin belongs to Inner Khalkha) and the Outer Khalkha was not very good.The historical reasons for this are complex and need not be elaborated here.In short, although both parties have the name of "Khalka", they are definitely not a family that loves each other, and they love each other and kill each other.

Secondly, this time, Abadai Saiyin Khan was frightened by Tumen's sudden approach to the city and bowed his head and bowed his head. Turning around, he actually beat Horqin to shame. I couldn't bear it very much, and I was very angry in my heart. I wanted to save my reputation and take revenge.

On this basis, the three Taijiyi of the Horqin Department combined and believed that the current strength of the coalition forces has actually formed a crushing trend against Abadai Saiyin Khan, and the total force has been doubled to tripled.In such an advantageous situation, it is natural that one should not "fear the enemy and avoid war" at all, withdraw to Kaiyuan and act like a little girl, but should go to Abadai Saiyin Khan for a decisive battle.Even if you don't want to wipe out your opponent, at least you have to beat him so that he escapes back to Helin, and he doesn't dare to look east for the rest of his life.

Horqin's opinion was also supported by Yehe's department. Although Yehe and the two Baylors spoke very politely and modestly, they still expressed their meaning clearly: they also felt that Abadai Saiyinhan should be beaten so that He should go back to Mobei early and stop meddling in Monan's affairs.

In fact, the attitude of the two of them is not unreasonable, and it can even be said to be very matter-of-fact. After all, in the past, the Tumen were rarely able to gather the troops from the Waikalkha. There can be [-] more soldiers and horses, which will have a considerable impact on the situation.

Meng Gebulu from the Hada Department is not active this time - well, he was not active when he sent troops to rescue Horqin before. In fact, what he did was to save face for Daming's father, and even to a certain extent to save face for Gao Pragmatic .Now that I have the opportunity to sneak away, wouldn't it be nice to go home and prepare for the winter?Why waste time and delay things by wandering around in Horqin?Therefore, Meng Gebulu agreed that the Ming army would withdraw to Kaiyuan.

Wu Erkun of Jianzhou Right Guard said as always that if Da Ming said one thing, I would never say otherwise. Regardless of whether Xiao Zongrong continued to pursue Abadai Saiyin or retreated to Kaiyuan, in short, I, Jianzhou Right Guard, would definitely obey the order Act without any disagreement.

Perhaps it was Xiao Ruxun who "had a big picture" and believed that the reason why Gao Situ fought this battle was to firmly tie Horqin's troops, or maybe it was because Xiao Ruxun felt that he had to give Gao Situ's two uncles face, and had to take Ye He's side into consideration. In short, after some consideration, he finally decided to continue chasing Abadai Saiyin Khan.

This chase went a little far, and he ran to the vicinity of Laoniu Mountain in the south of Kulun Banner, Inner Mongolia.
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