Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1646 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Four-way Army
While Gao Yushi led the imperial guards to the north, the towns and forces under his jurisdiction had already acted under his early orders. The entire battle of the Yuan Dynasty from west to east can be regarded as a four-way army.

On the first route, Datong sent 12 troops, together with [-] from Tumed and [-] from Ordos, a total of [-], and joined forces in Naturalization.The mission goal of this route army, the saying circulated in the capital newspaper circle is "the army goes north to the west of Dashawo, and cuts off the connection between Chahar and Waikalka".

On the second route, Xuanfu sent [-] troops, and Taiyuan sent [-] troops, a total of [-] troops. They joined forces at Longmenwei and were expected to go north out of Dushikou.The saying circulated in the newspaper circle of the capital is that "the army went north to cover the east of the naturalization, and moved east to oppress the activity space of the Chahar Mongolian army."

The third road is the high pragmatic headquarters, also known as the middle road.The army in this route is the strongest. There are about 20 imperial guards, [-] in Jizhen, [-] in Changping, and [-] in Baoding, totaling [-]. They are combined in Miyun and Zunhua counties.

These two counties are important military locations. Miyun is one of the main residences of Governor Jiliao, and Zunhua is one of the main residences of Governor Shuntian.Originally, the two counties were able to station large troops, but the 20 troops were too many, so they were divided into two places. Gao Wushi himself took the Imperial Guards to Zunhua.

This road is not only the location of the Chinese army, but also the closest to the capital, so it is obviously the most concerned object of the capital's newspapers.According to "informed sources", Zunhua, where Gao Jinglue himself is located, will be the main force. It is expected that the imperial guards and Jizhen elite soldiers will gather here, or as many as 15.

The Zunhua road will "go from Xifengkou to Daning, with Daning City as the core fulcrum of the war against the Yuan Dynasty, and Jingchen personally sits in the town to plan."Although Miyun's [-] army is not weak, they can only be willing to be green leaves at this time.The press believed that "the army will go out of Gubeikou, occupy the line of Harahetao, Baimachuan, and Xiaoxingzhou, and serve as a barrier for the capital, and it will be a horn of each other with Daning."

All in all, these opinions in the press basically believe that although the Chinese army is strong, but because the capital is behind it, it will definitely not do anything lightly or make any reckless operations.

Highly pragmatic and dignified in the Mongolian and Yuan economic strategy, of course he cannot easily take risks, so he led an army of 15 to sit in Daning, with 5 troops from Changping and Baoding coming from Miyun on the flanks, so that he could not only pose a threat to Chahanhot in the northeast And oppression, can also guard the door of the capital, it is indeed a perfect strategy-speaking of human words is as stable as an old dog.

The last way is naturally the Liaodong Army.From a geographical point of view, Li Rusong’s Liaodong side was originally stationed in Guangning, which is the closest to Chahanhot. However, considering that this troop dispatch will gather a large number of servants around Liaodong, and these servants are located in the northeast, the gathering place It was changed to Shenyang—in fact, Fuxin was considered to gather at the beginning, but the population of Fuxin City mainly comes from immigrants, and the current scale of the city is not enough, so we had to go to Shenyang.

In terms of numbers alone, this route army is hardly weaker than the Chinese army that Gao Jinglue personally sits in.It has 3 troops under Li Rusong in Western Liaoxi—here it must be emphasized that Li Rusong is indeed a bold man, and he will never pick and choose when he makes a move. Half of the [-] troops are his own elite servants, and the remaining [-] are also Nearly [-] are servants of other generals under his command.

In other words, nearly [-] of the [-] troops are elite troops at the servant level.Assuming that all of this army is lost, the defense of Western Liaoning can almost be regarded as a complete collapse, and the effect is basically the same as that of Eastern Liaoning after the Battle of Sarhu in the original history.

In addition to the Li Rusong headquarters in western Liaoning, the Xiao Ruxun group or the Gaodang descendants of the Liaohe School in the east of the Liaohe River have almost exhausted their main force.At the same time, Jinghua also provided [-] support, so that Liaodong and Liaoxi can be evenly matched in terms of military strength.

In this way, the total number of Liaodong and Liaoxi parties is as high as 12—you must know that the total strength of the Ming army in Liaodong is only 18. This time, it directly pulled out 11 (not counting Jinghua), which obviously means that all the troops that can fight in the field Use it.

However, the strength of the Liaodong Army is not limited to the headquarters of the Ming Army. Under the awe of the "Imperial Guards Expedition Ceremony" specially created by Gao Yushi, all the tribes of the Jurchen tribes who have the strength to fight have all received orders from the Mongolian Yuan Jinglue, demanding The inspectors and horses of the various ministries went out with the army, and Gao Yu clearly stated in the order: "Anyone who violates the order will be punished as a crime of disobedience."

It was hard to say whether it was Daming's overpowering or Gao Yushi himself's overpowering, or both. In short, these orders were communicated to all ministries, and no one dared to resist them.Not only Hada and Yehe, who have always been regarded as the loyal dogs of the Ming Dynasty, immediately stated that they "respectfully received the Jinglue Junling", even the Wula tribe, which is far away, hastily sent people to Kaiyuan, saying that they were gathering their tribes. Must "contribute wholeheartedly to the imperial court".

The most representative one is Jianzhou left guard Nurhachi, who also quickly wrote to Liaoyang, expressing his willingness to follow orders.Although this guy's reply mentioned a lot of difficulties, such as the "wild and remote" area under his jurisdiction after the "Jianzhou Second Division", it was extremely poor; Sending troops, ended up spending a lot of accumulation, and now the whole family is tightening their belts to barely make ends meet...

But in the final analysis, although the difficulties are great, he is still willing to send troops. He just hopes that Mr. Jinglue will be lenient and allow him to build the Zuowei Free Horse Market in the state-in fact, Gao Wushi has allowed them to go to Kuandian for trade not long ago. , but the Kuandian Horse Market is not open often, it only opens once a month, and only three days at a time, so now he still wants to go to Yahu Pass.

Of course, due to Gao Yushi's extremely strict orders this time, Nurhachi didn't dare to put on an attitude of "I won't send troops if you don't agree" in these words. Instead, he first expressed that he was willing to send troops no matter what. For the sake of their family's "loyalty and goodness through the ages", consider his appeal.

On the whole, Nurhachi's attitude is still very low, so that when Gao Yushi received the report, he couldn't help feeling a little bit: people who can make great achievements in history are not pure idealists, but can only be idealists. A realist with lofty ideals.

Just like Nurhachi now, he clearly has the ideal of unifying Manchuria in his heart, but since he is under the eaves, he will definitely bow his head honestly.He would never be so stupid as to offend Da Ming and Gao Yushi when there was no chance of winning, lest he be dragged by Da Ming to the whole of Manchuria and even Eastern Mongolia to be besieged to death in the near future.

After this operation, Jurchen's various ministries began to piece together.Most tribes such as Yehe, Ula, and Hada sent more than [-] troops, and some small tribes may send troops with a hundred or ten people—after all, some tribes have a total population of only a thousand people.Jurchen, now it is so split like Shenluo, and there is a big gap between strength and weakness.

The final result was that the Jurchen ministries had collected nearly 5 troops for conscripting.This result surprised Gao Wushi, because although it is almost certain that the Jurchen ministries will not dare to disobey the order this time, it is still more than he expected to gather almost [-] people. After all, it is impossible for them to pull out all the troops. With the levy.

It is actually close to 5 troops without pulling out all the troops. This is really different from Gao Yushi's original impression. You must know that the Eight Banners of Manchuria may have only about [-] troops for a long time in history.

Before the Qing army entered the customs, the total number of cattle records in the Eight Banners of Manchuria was 318. At that time, the standard for a cattle record was 300 people, but in fact a large number of cattle records were not enough, so that in some places, 100 people could also be compiled into a cattle record. .Before entering the customs, there were more than 55330 people in Manchuria in the Eight Banners (only referring to Ding men), so even if the whole army went out without leaving a man, the total number of Manchurian Eight Banners could only be more than 5.

Of course, in the records of the Ming Dynasty, the strength of the Eight Banners of Manchuria is more than this.For example, before the Battle of Sarhu, Governor Zhou Yongchun of Liaodong stated in his memorandum: I heard that there were about [-] to [-] slave soldiers who fought bravely, and there were also [-] to [-] Chinese militiamen who were kidnapped, no less than [-] to [-].

"Shenzong Veritable Records" records, "Huang Jiashan, Minister of the Ministry of War, said that there were more than [-] elite soldiers from the slave chieftains according to Yang Gaozi."A year later, Yang Gao said in his report after the Battle of Sarhu: "It is said that there are about [-] soldiers of Gai Nu Chieftain on the battlefield, and it should be [-] to [-]. There are only more than [-] host and guest exporters, how can they be enemies?"

And Xiong Tingbi wrote "Jing Chen Zhan Shou Da Lue Shu" after he became the Liaodong Economic Strategy in the 47th year of Wanli. In the area of ​​Jie and He Yinan, there are many soldiers from the countries in the east of the sea. He also ordered Li Yongfang and others to collect three routes and open the iron to send thousands of troops, and the estimated number of troops is nearly [-]."

There is also a record in "Three Dynasties Liao Facts": "At that time, the slave soldiers were flourishing, and every time they climbed the mountain with eight sons, they conspired and made plans, and their hair was broken like a wind and rain. They also joined Zaiyuan, nearly [-]."

After the Battle of Saerhu, North Korea sent Zheng Zhongxin as an envoy to Jianzhou. After returning home, he reported to the King of North Korea: "There are eight soldiers in the late Jin Dynasty, one with 25 sentries, and one sentry with 400 soldiers. . . . 2000 people, and about [-] riders from the eight departments." Although this report may not be accurate, it can also be regarded as a family statement.

If we make a rough generalization, we can roughly say this: First, the core Eight Banners of Manchuria in the hands of Nurhachi has been at the number of "nearly [-]" for a long time;

Of course, there are not many Han Chinese in the current Jurchen ministries, and the troops that can be pulled out to join the conscript are all Jurchen.In other words, the current population of the various Jurchen ministries should be larger than the population after Nurhachi unified Manchuria in the original history. Otherwise, how could nearly 5 people be gathered to join the conscripts when each ministries left some troops to look after the house?
From this, Gao Pragmatic came to a conclusion: Although the process of Nurhachi's unification of Manchuria was quite smooth from the historical records, and the resistance encountered seemed not to be too great, in fact, it still lost a lot of Jurchen population, so From the perspective of population, the current Jurchen ministries are better than Manchuria before the Sarhu War in the original history.

Hmm... that means a nerf could be considered a nerf.

Apart from the nearly [-] servants of the Jurchen tribes, the Horqin tribe also unsurprisingly sided with Daming this time. However, because the Horqin tribe suffered not a small loss last time, the scale of their troop dispatch this time was not as large as last time. It's no longer the whole family's effort, but just make up [-] yuan, and there will be no more - this is also understandable, after all, if there is another heavy loss, the Horqin tribe will almost be wiped out.

As a result, the total strength of the Jurchen and Mongolian servants in Liaodong was as high as 18, plus [-] in Liaoxi and [-] in Liaodong, the number of troops dispatched by a town in Liaodong was as high as [-], which was the largest number of troops sent by a single town in this battle. It is equivalent to the total strength of the entire town of Liaodong—the number of servants just offset the total number of guards who cannot send troops to field battles.

After all these situations were learned by the capital's newspapers, the entire capital, whether private or official, was optimistic enough about the prospect of victory in this war, thinking that it was impossible to lose.At the same time, the "national self-confidence" that is highly practical needs has indeed been boosted, and everyone is counting their fingers to calculate the scale of this war against Yuan.

The army of the four routes, the first route is 12, the second route is 20, the third route is 18, and the fourth route is 60. The total army is as high as 60!And Gao Jinglue's habits are known to everyone now, he doesn't like "titles", he sends as many troops as he wants, 60 is [-]!

Daming has worked hard for 20 years, and he has accumulated a wealth of wealth. He was able to field an army of 60 in the first battle. Who in the world can resist?
At this time, everyone finally has a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the 20-year reform of the Practical School.Especially compared to the tragic situation in the last years of Jiajing, it is really sad and indignant that such a big Ming with "a million armors" was actually hanged and beaten by the "Tumed-Ordos Right-wing Mongolian Union" with only [-] cavalry. .

now what?But anyone with a normal mind would not say that the Realism School has not contributed in the past 20 years.Isn't it also the reason why Gao Yushi put so much pressure on himself and elevated this battle to the point of "promise to win but not to lose"?

After summarizing the news, the capital newspaper circles "seriously analyzed" the style of the battle, and believed that Gao Jinglue's battle should be the westernmost route of the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces to cut off the connection between Chahar and Wai Khalkha. It should be counted as the North Road; the Liaodong Army on the East Road and the Xuanfu Army on the West Road are responsible for the left and right flanking attacks, and the Central Army, that is, the Gaojinglue Headquarters on the South Road, takes into account both offense and defense. North escape a way out.

However, if Chahar’s escape to the north cannot go to Waikalkha in the northwest, then he can only go to Hao’er, or even to those really wild places that are extremely cold and uninhabited occupied by Beishan Jurchen (in today’s Hulunbeier area, Northwest of Greater Khingan Mountains and Northwest of Amur Oblast, Russia).

It can be said that if the Chahar Department really went there, probably...there would be no threat, because it is not a good place to support too many people in this era.At that time, even if Daming doesn't go after them, as long as they can't go south for a year, they will starve to death and freeze to death when winter comes, and there will be three or two big cats and kittens left, which is not enough at all. For trouble.
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