Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1663 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Pulling the Net
The meetings and conferences are over, but Gao Pragmatic cannot rest yet.No matter what, he is also a hard worker.Especially this time, in order to achieve a once-and-for-all result, he mobilized 60 troops to spread the momentum, and as a result, all kinds of ghosts and monsters jumped out.

It stands to reason that if all these monsters and monsters that have jumped out are pulled together, they may not be enough to beat the 60 elite of the Nine Sides.It's a pity that there is no such good thing in the world. Now the chaos in various places has been divided into several parts. Although the foundation of Ming Dynasty has been established for more than 20 years, it is still difficult to divide troops and fight in one game....

Gao Yushi was not very worried about Fa Yuan itself.Although the current situation is a bit unexpected, he still thinks it is not a big problem.

The advantage of this battle of Yuanyuan belongs to the crushing of hard power. In theory, as long as there is no unprepared sneak attack, any army along the way can forcefully attack the Chahar-Wai Khalkha coalition forces. There is no doubt that he must die.

However, I still have to talk about the current accident: with the development of time, Chahanhot, the "Mongol Khan" garrison, has been occupied by Xiao Ruxun's troops under the command of Li Rusong.However, the actual significance of this occupation is not great, because when Xiao Ruxun's army arrived at Chahanhot, the place was already empty, and only the low city wall made of rammed earth remained in the spring breeze to show the original status.

Chahar has always maintained a nomadic custom, and all Mongolians, including Tumen Khan, live in tents.When they withdrew, all that was left was the earthen walls that the Ming army didn't care about at all. Apart from saving some energy in building deer firewood and repelling horses, it had almost no other effect.

As I said before, it was Xiao Ruxun's department that went to Chahanhot, while Li Rusong's direct descendants of the Li family army went to Yuerhai with an uppercut.At this time, Li Rusong was naturally dissatisfied with only occupying the empty city of Chahanhot, but he had no choice but to pinch his nose and write a letter of victory to Gao Wushi. He didn't bother to ask any more.

Along with the letter of victory, Li Rusong's plan to advance further was also sent to Daning Jinglue Xingyuan.There is nothing to say about this plan itself, it is nothing more than continuing to pull the net.Since Chahanhot is empty, the Liaodong coalition forces will continue to search for the enemy. Because the Liaodong army came from the east and south, the main search directions for the next stage will be the west and north sides of Chahanhot. .

Gao Wushi's reply to this plan was very quick, and he fully agreed with Li Rusong's proposal, but only confessed that he should not divide the troops easily.Because he was worried that Li Rusong "would not accept the order of the emperor outside", he added that if the troops were to be divided, it must be ensured that any road after any division could at least resist the Mongols' attack.

But Li Rusong and Gao Yushi have different judgments. He thinks that since Tumen even gave up on Chahanhot so easily, it means that he has given up his mind and doesn't intend to fight Daming to death in this place.In this case, Li Rusong believes that Tumen's goal should be to return to Helin.

From Chahar back to Helin, that is to run all the way to the northwest.Li Rusong also has some news about other armies. He knows that the Ming-Mongolian Allied Forces composed of Datong, Tumet, and Ordos received the order to "go north to the Outer Khalkha to fight with cameras", and the main general of this army is Gao A pragmatic and hardcore direct descendant, Magui, the commander-in-chief of Datong.

Although Ma Gui is not the patriarch of the Ma family, but because the two elder brothers are gone, he is now the actual talker of the Ma family.In addition, he is actually the first famous general in the Ma family army to be taken under Gao Wushi's command, so he has a high status among the high party generals, and his subordinates are also in the sequence of "refitting and upgrading" by the imperial court. Very high-simply put, the army under his command is not only well-trained, but also quite well-equipped. It is definitely a real elite division.

On his way, Datong sent 12 troops, together with Tumed [-] and Ordos [-], a total of [-].Not only is the Ming army the most capable fighter in Datong Town, but the two divisions of Tumed and Ordos are also elite.

12 elite troops went to Waikalkha to "block the road". If the Tumen army was not intercepted and bumped into it, Li Rusong thought that the Tumen would not be able to please them—in other words, it means that the great achievement of destroying the Yuan Dynasty was not worth it. What's the matter, Zong Rong?

So Li Rusong was very anxious, and continued to maintain the situation of dividing his troops into two groups and narrowing the encirclement net.The direct descendants of the Li family army led by him wandered around Yuyu'erhai for half a month, but they never waited for the Tumen army to appear, so they had to turn to the southeast to cooperate with Xiao Ruxun's troops going north to compress the possible range of activities of the Tumen army.

On the other hand, Ma Chengen's department has completed the campaign and arrived at the northern line of Daning, which can ensure that if Daning is attacked, his department can go south in time to support-although everyone thinks this is unlikely, after all, Gao Yushi's road is very difficult. It is the strongest team, and there is a strong city to defend, and the Tumen don't have any means of attacking the city, how can they chew on this hard bone?
Perhaps it was for this reason that Ma Chengen also cautiously proposed when reporting the military situation that he hoped that his troops could move a little further east to cooperate with the Liaodong Army to "pull the net".

Of course, it may also be because Li Rusong and him are "not in the same family", so his plan is to go directly to the east and join forces with Xiao Ruxun's troops. In this way, he and Xiao Ruxun are in the south, and Li Rusong is in the north. The range of activities of our army will become very small, and it will be much easier to conduct subsequent investigations.

Since Li Rusong only took away the elite cavalry from the headquarters, Xiao Ruxun's troops are quite abundant now, but the elite cavalry is still from Ma Chengxun's department.If Ma Chengen's plan is followed, then the Ma brothers will have elite cavalry in their hands, and the success rate of the two brothers joining forces to find Tumen's army will be greatly increased.

In such a war, finding the position of Tumen's army is a great achievement in itself.What's more, according to this situation, if he is lucky, he and Xiao Ruxun may even join forces to encircle the Tumen army. If Li Rusong can really be excluded, it will be even better in Ma Chengen's view.

However, there is another point that although Ma Chengen did not say, Gao Yushi can see his intention at a glance: if this is the case, Daning will be even less likely to encounter "danger", because the two films of Ma Chengen and Xiao Ruxun will completely cover Da Ning. rather.

To put it a little funny, if Ma Chengen wasn't his direct descendant of high pragmatism, he would have suspected that Ma Chengen was trying to steal his military exploits.However, the boss of Ma's army has the word "Gao" on his head, so it's not difficult to guess Ma Chengen's intention: he is afraid that Gao Yushi himself will be in any danger, so his whole intention is nothing more than that.

Is it possible for Gao Pragmatism to be in danger?In other words, will Tumen come to fight Daning?
It stands to reason that it would not be possible. After all, the newly built Daning City was originally a fortress-style city, and the Mongols should have no means to take it quickly.

However, the Mongolian army with Brihatu in it may not really dare to take the risk to take a gamble—the reason for the gamble is that no one knows whether Brihatu still has gunpowder in his hands.

You know, Brihatu has mastered the trick of digging tunnels to plant explosives under the city to blow up the city wall.

Of course, theoretically, even if the city wall is blown down, Gao Yushi has enough troops to defeat the Mongols head-on, but Gao Yushi himself knows that he has already lost nearly [-] troops: Not in Daning!
The banner with the word "Qi, Commander of the Imperial Guard Army" hanging on the top of Daning City is actually an empty city plan. Qi Jiguang has long gone to other places - before Gao Wu discussed military affairs in Daning, he talked with Cao Yu. This is the reason. .

Of course, Gao Yushi was not really worried about Daning being attacked. After all, Cao Yu's troops were not bad. Except for his own servants, most of the rest were Jizhou soldiers trained by Qi Jiguang.Although the strength here is not comparable to that of the imperial guards, with the blessing of Wanli Type II bayonet rifles and a large number of artillery, and relying on the bayonet hollow phalanx, it is not at a disadvantage in a frontal battle with the Tumen army.

Therefore, after thinking pragmatically, Gao agreed to Ma Chengen's request and allowed his troops to move eastward.In this way, a north-south encirclement from Chahanhot in the south to Yuyuerhai in the north was soon formed, compressing the Tumen troops who had never shown up within the distance of about a thousand miles.

A distance of thousands of miles is also called encirclement?Uh, it's a bit far, but this is the Mobei Grassland after all, so there's really no way around it.To be honest, if it was so easy to encircle a nomadic cavalry, how could it be possible for Chengzu's five expeditions to Mobei to have such pitiful actual results?

The other, the farthest route, the Magui Department, also sent a battle report.It's a battle report, but a report on the situation. After all, there is no possibility of a battle on his side now.

The news from Magui's troops is that he has traveled more than [-] miles from Guihua to the north and arrived at Sariqier. Gateway" place.

Sariqier, also known as Sarichuan, is called "Shuangquanhai" by Ming people. It is said that it is the place where Genghis Khan made his fortune. This place is also the place where the best passage from Chahar to Helin must pass.

There have been no Han people here for a long time, and there are actually very few local herdsmen, so it took a lot of effort for Ma Gui to find some scattered herdsmen and inquire about the local and surrounding terrain.

According to ascertained information, there is an earthen city here, named "Halaotu City", which is located on the west bank of the Halautu River.There is a spring at the source of this river, which is called "Polo Liuwu Te Spring" by the locals, and the city of Halautu is ten miles north of this spring.There is also an old salt lake between Tucheng and the spring, which is almost dry now, but because of this, it is rich in pool salt—the kind that can be loaded directly into the car.

Ma Gui even expressed a little helplessly that the Datong Army had installed a lot of salt by coincidence, which was regarded as a fortune for the war.On the contrary, the Tumed and Ordos coalition forces didn't care about it, and behaved very generously and calmly—of course, there are many salt lakes in their two territories, and they are also the kind that can be directly loaded with cars. worldly.

It is a good sign that the salt is guaranteed, but Ma Gui also raised concerns, that is, because of the thousands of miles of raids, the food he carried is not particularly sufficient.Tumed and Ordos performed much better than the Datong Army, because they had a large number of cattle and sheep accompanying the army, and they could last longer than the Datong Army whether it was drinking milk or killing and eating meat.

At the same time, Ma Gui also mentioned one thing, that is, both Tumed and Ordos proposed that they could send people to gather nearby scattered herdsmen tribes, and then let them provide supplies for themselves.Ma Gui said that he had agreed to the two departments to do this, but for the time being, he only did half of it, that is, to gather the herdsmen.

The reason why they haven't been forced to provide food supplies for the army is that Ma Gui still doesn't know Gao Jinglue's attitude.According to his thinking, if Ming wants to directly rule Mongolia in the future, it seems that such a forced squeeze is not very good, so he also asked Gao Wushi in his battle report how to deal with it.

Gao's pragmatic answer may be slightly out of Ma Gui's expectations, because he said that if the Datong Army lacks food, he can order the herdsmen to provide food, regardless of meat or vegetables.

This answer actually meant one thing: Gao Yushi had no intention of allowing Ming to directly rule the territory of the Outer Khalkha after this war.

In fact, it wasn't that he didn't want to do it, but that he knew he couldn't do it for the time being.

Just as he discussed with Liu Xin before, rule has to pay the cost of rule.Before the post roads and post stations from Daming to Wai Khalkha are fully completed and rolled out, if Daming wants to cross the Tumed territory and directly rule Waikhalkha, at least more than [-] elites must be stationed in Wai Khalkha cavalry.

The cavalry of Ming Dynasty did not "part-time" goat herding, which was a pure waste and produced almost no income. Human food and horse feed had to be transported thousands of miles from the country, and the cost was almost skyrocketing.At the same time, these cavalry can only be stationed in the key position of Helin, and not in other places. They may be able to make do with temporary stationing, but long-term stationing may even endanger their basic survival.

Therefore, Gao Yushi has no intention of letting Waikarkha be merged into the mainland of Ming Dynasty in the near future. His plan is to let Tumed annex Waikalkha, and Ming will only rule indirectly through Tumed.Anyway, Tumed's Sinicization has been deepening day by day, and it is only a matter of time before he becomes part of Ming Dynasty.

That being the case, Gao Wushi's reply to Ma Gui is relatively simple: continue to guard the vital points of Sariqier, and wait for the Tumen army that may arrive at any time.

When Gao Wushi answered Ma Gui in this way, it was obvious that he did not pin all his hopes of encircling and suppressing Tumen on the Liaodong Army and Xuanfu Army. Ma Gui's here is actually another insurance.

At the same time, Tumen and Brihatu certainly did not intend to wait for death, and they were also acting according to the plan.Not long after Gao Pragmatic’s orders arrived at their destinations, more than 200 miles southwest of Diaoyu’erhai, a place called Helanzhen Shatuo appeared with traces of the Chahar-Wai Khalkha coalition forces.

Immediately after hearing the news, Li Rusong's division near Diaoyuerhai in the northeast, and Ma Chengen's and Xiao Ruxun's divisions farther southeast also took action immediately after hearing the news.An army of [-] people began to rush towards Helanzhen Shatuo Road.
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