Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1647 Cutting Yuan ([-]) is not a remote control
With an army of 60, it was difficult to conduct centralized command in ancient wars with such a scale. Even if the concentration is forced, it may bring more frequent catastrophic situations such as command failure.And from the perspective of material supplies, it would be even more catastrophe among disasters if the supplies of 60 troops were piled up in one place.

However, even though Gao Pragmatically divided the 60 troops into four routes, the route he was in was still strong.Even if 15 troops were assigned to cover the flanks, it would not be a joke to have [-] troops stationed in Daning. This would be a considerable test for Daning City, which had only been rebuilt for a few years.

There were already some garrisons in Daning City, but the high pragmatism brought only about 13 troops.From Xifengkou to Daning, this route was taken by Cao Yu once in autumn and winter last year. This time Gao Yushi led the army and was also accompanied by Cao Yu. Of course, the Chinese army is still flying high. Army Commander Qi" banner.

Daning City has been preparing to garrison troops since last year. The city has ample food reserves. Even if there is no additional import, the food storage alone is enough to feed 20 troops for two years. Cured meat, dried fish, air-dried meat, etc., it can be said that they are not afraid to stick to it.

20 years of long-term accumulation and several years of dedicated hoarding, this is the confidence that Gao Pragmatic dares to mobilize 60 troops at a time to fight a huge decisive battle.To a large extent, the military nature of this battle is far less important than the political oath, because the preparations for a war are so sufficient, the equipment is also dominant, and the military strength is so huge that it is almost ten times the decisive battle that basically does not exist. The possibility of losing, the only thing to consider is "what kind of victory is needed".

As Qi Jiguang said before, the best way to fight nomads is an excellent tactical deception plus a surprise attack, to complete Huo Qubing's or Li Jing's plow court sweeping, and try to get it right.

However, for a swearing-in war to "rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty", Gao Pragmatism needs this victory to have more political significance, so he will continue to strengthen his persuasion to the emperor, making him think that only a large army can fully demonstrate the majesty of Ming Dynasty.

This obviously brings serious troubles to military command. After all, in the entire history of mankind, there are no examples of directly commanding tens of thousands or millions of people on a single battlefield, because the army cannot be deployed at all, and the consumption of military rations is also a problem, so there is no It is possible to break away from the supply line and bring 10 or 60 people or millions of people to fight in one place.

Even at the pinnacle of large-scale human warfare, the millions of troops fighting on the Soviet-German battlefield during World War II were carried out on an extremely wide front. It was composed of multiple battles and could not be regarded as a single battlefield.

World War II was already a war when mechanized mass production reached a relatively high level, which was absolutely impossible in an agricultural society.There have been tens of thousands or millions of manpower invested in the entire war, but there have never been millions of pure combatants.Even a war involving tens of thousands of people required the power of the whole country in the late feudal society, and even in an agricultural society under the great unified power of Ming Dynasty, its ability to mobilize was limited.

In fact, ancient wars were not as complicated as imagined, because the means of communication were very limited. In addition to relying on shouting, watching, or relying on feet to accurately convey messages.

Therefore, generally speaking, hundreds of thousands of people who can command in a regional battle are already very, very high. In terms of ancient productivity and transportation capacity, there is no way to effectively control the army if more than 20 people are in a region.What's more, the increase of front-line commanders equals the disunity of opinions, adding a lot of unnecessary accidents, so sometimes the number is the source of confusion.

It is precisely because of this that when a large-scale war broke out in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor bestowed Shang Fangjian on the coach to ensure that the whole army could unify their thinking and avoid command disorder.

In a battle, the number of people that can be packed in a place is limited, and it will not be compressed or improved because of national strength and general leadership.In most wars in the cold weapon era, a few thousand people are used as a unit to conduct unit campaigns, and more than [-] people are an entire army. If it exceeds [-], it must have reached the level of a campaign.

In a regional battle, a commander commands tens of thousands of people, and is then divided into several units of several thousand or more than ten thousand people. Each unit is commanded by the commander's direct descendants, and a few thousand people in a local battle is the limit. More people means a bigger battlefield.

For example, a 5-man army is divided into eight 5000-man teams, which are responsible to the supreme commander in sequence.The commander of the regional campaign allocated these 5000 troops according to his understanding of the terrain, and then his own troops and horses were located in positions that could support the key points in various places at any time.

At this time, there may be a large number of roads and the strategic task is defense rather than offense. Therefore, it is likely that all eight 5000-man teams will go out to defend vertically to avoid the enemy's outflanking; Put a team of 5000 people or two, and the rest should be separated by a certain distance to have a buffer space.

Since it is basically impossible to convey orders in a timely and accurate manner after the start of the battle, most of the time, the orders are predicted in advance, and the commander will explain his understanding of the battle situation and strategic needs to the direct line generals, but obviously the commander cannot Personally inspect all terrains, so the battlefield ahead depends on the executive ability of front-line generals.

For example, the expected situation on the eastern front is defense, while the western front is offensive. The commander’s initial order is like this, and he has given the guarantee standard of reducing losses and retreating or stopping the attack if the battle is unfavorable. Then the frontline generals will not be stupid. To fight to the death, but to implement the commander's strategic needs.

At this time, it is mainly to test the control of the local commanders on the front line, and unless there are special circumstances and accidents, in most cases, the messenger is not very useful, because it is really difficult to transmit orders in real time.Assuming that it is necessary to attack and fight down or defend, we have made a confession before the battle, and basically will not use the so-called command system to dispatch troops after the battle starts.

Of course, it is possible to let the reserve team provide tactical support, but if the commander observes or cannot judge the frontline situation, he still has to rely on the frontline troops to rely on the messengers to seek rescue. This often leads to individual changes on the front lines.

This is the overall picture of a local regional battle, which is brought together by a large number of frontline battlefields, and the entire war is the overall situation composed of a large number of regional battles.Usually one of the parties will be the main force, but it will not be too densely gathered in one area, and the commanders of multiple battlefields will be responsible to the highest military leader.

The general logic and model are similar to the command system of regional commanders and front-line generals.That is, before the war, the military leaders explained to the commanders they sent out, explaining their strategic thinking and needs. Under the circumstances, you can only rely on the judgment of the frontline generals, either to fight to the death and wait for reinforcements, or to meet the brave and win in a narrow way and repel the enemy and even win a complete victory, or you can only retreat in defeat.

Assuming a battle, there may be local battlefields in three directions to form the entire campaign, there is no way to quickly support or connect with each other, and each area deploys [-] or even more than [-] troops.Then, before going to war, the supreme leader of the army usually can only inform the local commander of the military strategic needs he wants, and then everything is handed over to that general for execution.

To put it simply, most of the time it depends on adapting to the situation. The military leaders who really have decision-making power have no skills at all, and their command is very limited.Local commanders and front-line generals can only rely on the general strategic deployment of previous military leaders, as well as combined with the actual situation on the front line to see what happens.

If the results of front-line victories are generally good for the war, then the chances of winning the war will be greater, and it is as simple as that.

Assuming that the troops of the two sides are deploying each other, and one of the partial battles fails, it means that the opponent has more troops to deploy to attack, similar to playing the Gwent card [Note: Did I expose something? ].

There are also many examples of hoping to concentrate the advantages of troops and achieve more fighting with less, and the Taizu of the Red Dynasty is the best at this move.However, this matter is easier said than done. In the history of human wars for thousands of years, there are still many cases where people were killed by fighting more and fighting less.

Why can you lose even if you play more and play less?There are actually many reasons, but many of them are because the battlefield cannot accommodate so many people.No matter how many people there are on one side, there is only so much that can surround and contact the enemy on the battlefield. The land and roads are effective in bearing the number of people. For example, a narrow terrain can pass 2000 people at a time. Even if you have 10 people The military strength is also helpless.This is the root cause of the importance of important places such as Tongguan and Shanhaiguan.

And this kind of situation also depends on morale. Once the morale of the front line is defeated, the elite troops in the front are defeated by the enemy's elite countercharge, and the morale of the crooked melons in the back is insufficient. There is no difference in the battle of water. It seems that the military power is at its peak, but the main force collapses instantly and even the regime collapses. It is not uncommon in history.

Including the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods when the mobilization ability was the strongest, the military system reached a very high level in response to the needs of war, but the essence of war remained unchanged.

In addition to the level of consumption that is basically equal to the front-line military conditions, there is also a method of looking for opportunities to attack, and before the enemy's defense and strategy are deployed, first bypass the military location to attack the enemy.Bai Qi's attack on the Wei State is a good example. In this case, there are not too many problems in the command system, but only the commander's ability and the quality of the army to quickly achieve the war goal.

At the same time, this also reflects a problem, that is, the mobilization of the army needs to be mobilized, and if it is too late to mobilize the troops, it is likely to be attacked by people with poor intelligence and time lag.In the early days, the combination of soldiers and farmers, and later the recruitment and military household system were all for the convenience of quickly mobilizing a large amount of manpower.

Most of the feudal dynasties had their own military forces. The central government took the Southern and Northern Dynasties as an example. There were central troops such as Fubing. If there was defense or war against the outside world, they would start to mobilize farmers from similar military households in the hinterland to farm in peacetime and wartime. Fighting a war can quickly concentrate an army.

In fact, in most cases, wars with tens of thousands of people are mostly pure combatants with tens of thousands or more than 10 people, and a large number of them are distributed in various regions of the entire country.Generally, in the later stage of the decisive battle, there will be a large number of units with more than 10 people densely concentrated in strategic locations, and the main forces of both sides will seek breakthrough points to determine the outcome.

All in all, Gao Wuzhen's current situation is that he is the supreme military leader of Meng Yuan Jinglue, but the actual command of the army is only 15 people in Daning City.The 5 people not far from the flanks are difficult to grasp in real time, not to mention the Ming-Mongolian Allied Forces on the western front, the Xuanfu-Taiyuan Allied Army, and the Liaodong Army on the eastern front.

Different from the "combat conjectures" that were widely reported in the capital's newspaper circles, Gao Pragmatism's tasks for the other three-way army commanders are more flexible, and there are no simple "task regulations", and the commanders have a very high degree of autonomy.

The leader of the Ming-Mongolian coalition composed of Datong, Tumed, and Ordos is a highly pragmatic and hard-core direct descendant, Datong's general soldier Magui. He received the order to "go north to the Outer Khalkha to fight with cameras."

This is really simple and broad, and it doesn't even look like a combat mission at all, because this order doesn't even have a mission objective.Where to fight, how to fight, and what to fight, there is no explanation in the order, and it is up to Magui to judge for himself.

As for the Xuanfu and Taiyuan coalition forces, the chief general is still from the Ma family, Ma Cheng'en, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu.At the beginning, Ma Gui, Ma Chengen and his uncle and nephew were the commander-in-chief of Datong and the commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu, which aroused discussions in the court.Many people think that Xuanda and Dazhen have 25 soldiers, and it is very dangerous to hand them all over to the Ma family.

However, Gao Wushi suppressed these noises. On the one hand, he expressed his belief in the loyalty of the Ma family, and on the other hand, he also explained the doubts of the emperor and some colleagues: Xuanda has a lot of generals, and many of them have much deeper roots than the Ma family. It does not have the prestige of "one response to one response".

In addition, although the "Ma Family General" is now well-known, but because the "Ma Family Army" was "divided" by many children in the family, their family's direct lineage in Xuanda Second Town is relatively limited, and the total is only in the early [-]. In terms of threats, it is not even as good as Li Rusong from Liaodong.

Li Rusong had 5 cavalry in his own family alone, and there was a long list of generals subordinate to Li's army, each of whom had a different number of family members.This can be seen from the fact that Li Rusong dispatched [-] troops this time, of which [-] are elite servants.The Ma family didn't know if they could gather [-] people, and they were scattered all over the place, so if the Li family wasn't considered a threat, the Ma family couldn't be considered a threat either.

The order Ma Chengen accepted was also very general: "Lead the army to ensure Tumed's safety and then go east to find the enemy." There was also no clear combat objective, and he did not even specify what the standard for "ensuring Tumed's safety" was. En judge for yourself.

Both uncles and nephews "judgment by themselves", so what about Liaodong?The main general in Liaodong is of course Li Rusong, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong. The order he got is more interesting than Erma.Gao Wushi wrote him a letter, in which he said: "Li Shi has been in Liaodong for a long time, and he has fought dozens of battles with Chahar, and his achievements are hard to add. In this battle, Liaodong's battles are in a hurry, advancing and retreating, all of which are brothers." Self-determination, pragmatism is not a remote control."

Li Rusong was still worried that he might be greatly suppressed in this battle - after all, the governor of Liaodong is from the real school, and the deputy chief soldier is also from the real school, so it would be difficult for him to be caught in the middle.Unexpectedly, Gao Pragmatism and generosity were so generous that he handed over the full power to him.At that time, Li Rusong was silent for a long time after reading the letter, and let out a long sigh.
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