Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1672 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Arrow Comes
Just as Gao Wushi expected, the 5 troops from the Economic and Strategic Headquarters started from Daning and traveled westward all the way to Liuhechuan. They joined the 300 Ming troops on the flanks for more than [-] miles. The entire army was not attacked or even harassed. None encountered.The feeling during the entire march was as if there was no longer a Mongolian soldier in the huge Chahar.

After merging the [-] Ming troops on the flanks, the highly pragmatic economic and strategy headquarters was once again enriched to the size of [-] troops.Cao Yu was greatly relieved by such a large force, and he was no longer worried about any surprise attack.

However, the gathering of [-] troops brought another problem: the pressure on logistical supplies surged immediately.

The original supply line of the Jinglue Headquarters was divided into two routes. One was the main supply route, which undoubtedly left the Xifeng Pass guarded by the Zhongyi Zhongwei and went north along the way to pass through Kuanhe, Fuyu, and Qingcheng before arriving at Daning; All the way is to exit from the Gubei Pass guarded by Miyun guards, pass through Xiaoxingzhou, and arrive at Liuhechuan.

In fact, the travel distances of these two supply lines are almost the same, but it is obvious that the midway nodes on the main road are more dense, which not only means that the main supply line is a more mature "old road", but also means that transshipment is more convenient. Sustained transportation force is more sufficient.

Then the westward movement of the high-level practical economic strategy headquarters will bring about changes. First of all, the main supply line still cannot be cut off directly.Because although the grain storage in Daning is sufficient, the area has been occupied by the Mongols for more than a hundred years, and now only the garrison has been restored. In fact, there is almost no vegetable production capacity.

As a result, when the "non-war is in progress", a large amount of fresh vegetables have to be transported from the territory of Ming Dynasty to the local area to avoid the outbreak of nutritional deficiency diseases in a large area of ​​the garrison.Sometimes even some meat and fish have to be transported. Even if fresh fish and meat are not easy to handle sometimes, pickled products must be guaranteed, right?
On the side of the West Road supply line, originally it only needed to guarantee the logistics of 5 people, even if there were fewer nodes in the middle, it could still barely be maintained.Not to mention that it has now become 10 people, these 10 people are not stationed in place, but will continue to move and march westward.

The food consumption of an army when stationed in place is much lower than that during the march, and the intensity of the march has a huge impact on the increase in food consumption. It seems that the current situation of chasing a cavalry unit will directly increase the food consumption. Times are not surprising at all.This means that the pressure on the West Road supply line has not doubled, in fact it has quadrupled as much as before. It is conceivable how much pressure there is.

The same situation is not unique to the Economic Strategy Headquarters.The reason why Gao Yushi did not let Xiao Ruxun's troops participate in the westward pursuit, and even the cavalry of Ma Chengxun's troops under his command were left in Chahanhot. Apart from the fact that Chahanhot needs to have troops stationed, another important reason is the supply line. It is impossible to drag all the way from Kaiyuan in Liaodong to Tumed.

Although Xiao Ruxun is only the deputy commander in chief of Liaodong, at this moment the strength of his troops surpasses that of Li Rusong, who only brings the most elite elite to fight. Therefore, if Gao Pragmatically asks Xiao Ruxun's troops to chase Tumote, he will either kill the food transporter or kill him. Those who starve to death.

Li Rusong's supply line is slightly shorter than Xiao Ruxun's, because his supply line starts from Guangning, and the actual starting point of the front line is Fuxin. It is three or four hundred miles closer to Tumote than Xiao Ruxun.

This is not to say that Li Rusong's department has no logistical pressure, on the contrary, his logistical pressure is not small.Because he was all cavalry all the way, not only had he made a long-distance raid before going to Yuerhai to set up an ambush, but also a long-distance raid to Tumed. Although it is the time for grass and fertilizer, he still needs a lot of concentrated feed Make sure the horse doesn't lose weight badly.

With the spread of corn planting in Liaodong, the concentrate feed itself is now guaranteed. The trouble is that the horses in the state of war eat too much, which leads to a shortage of transportation capacity.In addition, since Li Rusong's department has been moving at a high speed almost all the time, the supply line has naturally been changing, objectively increasing the difficulty of supplying again.

For the Ming-Mongolian coalition formed by Magui and Hannaji, the pressure on the supply line has not changed significantly, but the supply line along this road has been divided into two sections even outside the Great Wall.The first section is from Shahukou in Datong to Guihua City, and the second section is from Guihua City to Waikar Kasariqier.

The distance between these two supply lines is very different. It is only about two hundred miles from Shahukou exit to Guihua, but it is thousands of miles away from Guihua to Sariqier.Such a long-distance supply line is still on the grassland, which is obviously very dangerous, and it may be attacked and looted by the Mongols at any time.

Therefore, when Magui’s troops set off from naturalization, they brought enough military rations for at least three months, and the follow-up military rations were delivered according to the idea of ​​“small batches, large batches”. Therefore, until now, Magui’s troops He was still eating the military rations he was carrying - but there was only one month's rations left, and at the same time the next batch of supplies hadn't left Guihua City.

The Tumed and Ordos coalition forces under Hannaji were different. They followed the Mongolian habits. In addition to some easy-to-carry dry food, they also brought a lot of sheep.In this way, they can not only drink ewe's milk, but also eat ram meat.

Even because the Mongolian army mentioned above is used to riding mares during expeditions, sometimes horse milk can be used as a supplement.So relatively speaking, the supply situation of the Tumed and Ordos coalition forces is ten times stronger than that of the Ming army—not that they eat ten times better, but that the Ming army is ten times less dependent on supply lines.

They have an army of 12 along the way, but in fact the supply pressure is all on the side of the 6 people under Magui's command.The problem now is that Tumen is on his way to Guihua City. Once he surrounds Guihua City before Guihua sends out a transport team, Magui's troops may run out of food in a month.

Of course, Magui may be able to ask Han Naji for alms, but it's hard to say how much he can get.After all, although the Mongols' logistics system is unique, they have always been known for their self-sufficiency. If they are temporarily divided in half, the final result will definitely be that everyone will not have enough to eat.

The only one that relieved the supply pressure was probably only the Xuanfu and Taiyuan Allied Forces led by Ma Chengen, because their supply line outside the pass started from the Dushi Fort guarded by Kaipingwei [Note: Kaipingwei guarded here after moving inland] At this point, after the army returned west, the distance of the supply line became shorter instead.

Hey, looking at it this way, it seems that the imperial guards have been missed, but this is not a leak.Because the imperial guards are the "No. [-] army in the world", the conditions have been the best since its establishment, and its number of horses has surpassed that of the Ming army by a million.

The Imperial Guard’s trip was intended to be an ambush, so they brought a lot of dry food, pickled meat and fish, pickled vegetables, etc. at the beginning. The food supplies they brought could normally last for five months. It can even be eaten for half a year.Therefore, for the time being, the Imperial Guard side is not a big problem—anyway, there is no additional supply line at all.

From such a comprehensive look, we can see why Gao Wushi has mobilized his troops before: it is imperative to rescue Tumed, because even if Guihua City is besieged for a period of time, it may cause 6 people in Magui's troops to run out of food.

And if this city is lost, the consequences will be even more unimaginable, because Guihua City, as a key supply storage point, not only has food supplies, but also many weapons, ammunition, armor and harnesses secretly stored before the war.

Gao Wushi said to Cao Yu that he suspected that Tumen's attack on Guihua City was probably just a bluff. This statement itself is not false, but it does not mean that he thinks Tumen has no idea about winning Guihua City.

His expression in this way is only from the ultimate goal of Tumen.In his opinion, Tumen played a beautiful golden cicada to escape their shells and suddenly went west. They wanted to do something that no one had thought of before the war. Even Gao Yushi himself only realized it after hearing the news.

However, there was only one point of conflict between that big event and the defeat of Guihua City: whether there was enough time.

If Tumen thinks that after winning Guihua, the main force of the Ming army still cannot return in time, and he can still leave calmly after Guihua looting, then he will definitely insist on defeating Guihua City.

Conversely, if the Ming army returns to aid extremely quickly, making Tumen judge that if he does not leave, he will be surrounded and suppressed, or at least face a decisive battle with one of the main force of the Ming army, then there is a high probability that he will give up his naturalization and avoid the battle. Walk.

Therefore, Gao Yushi ignored the huge pressure of the supply line of the Economic and Strategic Headquarters, and had to leave for Tumed immediately, just to put more pressure on the Tumen and force them to give up their naturalization and directly carry out his "big plan". .

Of course, the "big plan" that Gao Wushi judged was not what Cao Yu had suspected before. It was the Tumen who led troops to seize the pass and attack the capital while the main force of the Ming army was exhausted.

This possibility is almost zero in high pragmatic view.

Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang proposed and presided over the hollow enemy Taiwan plan. Although it was adopted by the imperial court in the original history, the number was greatly reduced.And in this life, although the number of hollow enemy towers has been reduced a lot at the beginning, it is still nearly [-]% more than in the original history.

Later, Gao Yushi took charge of the household department, and continued to add hollow enemy towers, and made small adjustments to the hollow enemy towers according to the main principles of bastion design, mainly because the enemy towers adjusted their shooting angles to cross fire.In the end, more than 2000 hollow enemy towers were built in the about 1700-mile defense area of ​​Ji Town alone, more than 1100 were built in the three towns of Xuanda, and more than [-] were built even in Liaodong, which has the most mobile forces.

[Note: The hollow enemy towers are not large, so the number seems to be huge.The hollow enemy stations are not evenly distributed in terms of density. The density in key areas is very high, while that in non-key areas is relatively sparse.For example, the section with the highest density is the Gubeikou-Gezidong section, which is only over eleven miles long, but has 37 hollow enemy towers, which can be regarded as a "dense bunker line". ]
It can be said that according to the current defense system of Ming Dynasty, Chahar's [-] troops want to easily enter the pass to burn, kill and loot like Altan Khan did in the middle and late period of Jiajing, unless there are high-level defenders of the Ming army who surrender to the enemy, otherwise It's impossible.

After all, the current hollow enemy towers are basically "serial bastions" connecting the side walls of the Great Wall. Unless they have powerful long-range artillery to directly cover and destroy them, no matter whether infantry or cavalry go up, they will be sent.

Where did the Mongols get long-range artillery?Even if Daming himself switched to Tumen's side, it would be difficult to handle this matter, because it is well known that most of the Great Wall is built on the ridge, and attacking it is an upward attack, which not only requires extremely high range of the artillery, but also... at the foot of the Great Wall How to stabilize these artillery is a big problem.

In this way, it is very troublesome and restrictive just to level the Great Wall, and these areas are often the key garrison areas of the Ming army, and the firepower density of hollow enemy platforms is higher.In a word, even if the main field force of the Ming army is almost exhausted, the soldiers of the Nine Side Guards rely on the bastion-style hollow enemy platform to fight a defensive battle. Even without reinforcements, it is not a big problem to support it for a few months.

Gao Yushi believes that the most important thing at the moment is to seize time, so after Liuhechuan and the flanks merged, he set off directly and headed west without waiting for a rest.

However, after only two days of walking out, an abnormal situation was suddenly discovered: the latest supply has been late for a full four days.

This made Gao Yushi feel a little ominous.According to the deployment before the war, the 20 troops of the Economic Strategy Headquarters will be supplied three times a month.And when the army goes out for action, the supplies it carries are [-] days, leaving a certain margin.

But the previous supply should have arrived four days ago, but when we arrived at Liuhechuan two days ago, we found that not only had it still not arrived, but Liuhechuan's supplies were six days late.Because Gao Wushi was eager to march westward, the [-] Ming troops near Liuhechuan were forced to set off with only nine days of supplies. Now that two days have passed, there is still no sign of the supplies. What's the matter? They were robbed?
Gao Wushi's face was serious, and he called Cao Yu to ask.As a senior general in the army, Cao Yu naturally knew about this situation a long time ago, but the problem is that although he knew it, it was inconvenient to remind him too early——Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd. was in charge of supply transportation outside the customs. It seems that it is possible to displease Entang.

Now that Gao Wushi took the initiative to ask, Cao Yu was relieved, and truthfully reported what he knew.According to Cao Yu, the Jinghua Trading Company did not express any difficulties when it settled the supply last time.

However, Cao Yu immediately said that when the army joined Liu Hechuan two days ago, the deputy shopkeeper of the Jinghua Trading Company in charge of transporting Liu Hechuan's supply line found him, saying that after receiving the news from Gubeikou, Li Song, the governor of Jiliao, said, "Chahar was found at the border. On the grounds of careful work, the gates and passes were ordered to be closed, and all people who came and went were allowed to enter and not to exit.

Gao Wushi was furious when he heard the words: "Is the grain transportation team allowed in and not allowed out?"

Cao Yan smiled wryly and said: "At that time, the deputy shopkeeper said that the trading company still had some face in Gubeikou, and it was impossible to hide secret work, so the operation and operation can always bring things over, but I never thought that the delay would be several times. The day passed and there was no movement, and the last general...was worried."

When he said this, Gao Yushi suddenly stopped being angry, and instead frowned and thought hard.
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