Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1675 Cut Yuan ([-]) Doubts
The [-] cavalrymen of the Ming army quickly set out again under the banner of Meng Yuan Jinglue. During this march, because it was not a complete army, Gao Wushi also left the carriage prepared for him by Jinghua, and returned to the state of marching on horseback.

Speaking of which, it has only been two years since the last time Gao Wushi rode a horse and marched in person. Thinking about himself as a civil servant, who would have thought that looking back now, he can be regarded as a man who has been in the army for more than ten years.From this point of view, I really deserve the word "Wen Shuai".

Although riding a horse is cool, it is like driving a Ferrari in later generations. If it is a full or half-packed horse, it is as powerful as driving a main battle tank.

But to be honest, the feeling of long-distance horseback riding is really not a joke. This thing is several times bumpier than a walking tractor. After a few hours, the whole person seems to be only one step away from the frame. When walking for a while after dismounting, it seems that the ground is still shaking. shake.

To make matters worse, although the saddle is equipped for the convenience of riding a horse, because the saddle of a war horse is mainly to ensure a stable horse and enhance the ability to control the horse, so its riding experience is not the saddle of some tourist attractions in later generations So soft and comfortable.

It took Gao Yushi more than four hours from departure to camping for meals. When he dismounted, he felt that the skin on the inner thighs was about to be worn out, and it was very hot and uncomfortable.It's no wonder that in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Liu Bei sighed that "the flesh is reborn". It has only been two years, and his adaptability to horseback riding has also declined significantly.

Gao Wushi suddenly thought, if viewed from this perspective, Li Chengliang has fought life and death for more than 20 years, and when he got older, he gradually developed a sense of arrogance and luxury, which may be considered human nature.

The family cavalry under his command was completely worthy of confronting a comparable number of Mongolian cavalry in its heyday. But after all, these family members are still mostly Han people, and not all Mongols who were "born on horseback since childhood". How about home on horseback?

Thinking of Li Chengliang and Li Jiajun, Gao Yushi thought of Li Rusong again.Before he set off at noon, Li Rusong was not mentioned in the pre-battle analysis, but at this moment, after a jolt on his horse, he suddenly had a strong premonition: Li Rusong might be moving westward faster than he had previously assumed.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said: "So it is as swift as the wind, as slow as the forest, as plundering as fire, as immovable as a mountain, as difficult to know as cloudy, as moving as thunder." The original meaning is that all generals should command operations according to the needs of the battlefield situation.When the army moves quickly, it is like a strong wind blowing across the land; when it marches calmly, it is like a forest slowly unfolding; when it is attacking a city, it is like a raging fire; ; When the army is dispatched, it is like a thunderbolt that cannot be stopped.

However, although it means that generals need to have different responses and standards in various situations, in fact, most famous generals will perform exceptionally well in one or several of them, so they also use their most outstanding side or It is praised by many people.

Just like some famous generals in Ming Dynasty, Li Rusong's characteristics are probably related to the characteristic of the word "Meng".Generally speaking, most generals' command styles are similar or even identical to their personalities.

In the past, Gao Yushi was best at judging the opponent's possible actions from the aspects of the opponent's character and interests in political struggles, and he often used this judgment criterion when commanding operations.This is true for the enemy, but it can also be reversed for one's own side.

What about Li Rusong's personality?It's just one word: "violent".In the words of later generations, this person has a lot of recklessness, and he just does it when he comes up, and he comes as soon as possible.

In fact, this can also be seen from the examples of his commanding operations in the original history.In front of this master, you will spread out twenty or thirty miles away and deploy three large armies from the left, middle and right to watch and help each other. Li Rusong will probably not care about your left and right flanks. He will most likely concentrate his elite troops to storm the central army and capture the thieves Capture the king, and the battle is over.

If there are still some infantry under him who don't run so fast, they may intersperse between your left wing and the center army, or between the right wing and the center army, to prevent the two wings from concentrically clearing the siege.But in any case, its combat idea of ​​​​directly breaking through the middle will basically not waver.

Not only that, but if you look at Bi Tiguan, you will know that this master will not only attack directly in the middle, but also rush to the front line himself.Daming can compete with him at this moment, probably only Liu Ting, who is now in charge of the chaos in Bozhou, is also addicted to killing people himself.

In addition to fighting fiercely, Li Rusong also has a special sense of honor-this is a compliment, but a neutral description would be that he has a particularly strong sense of self-esteem.He had an accident when he was serving as the general soldier in Shanxi. The specific incident was mentioned above, so I won't repeat it here.

Fortunately, Gao Yushi and him have always been "unequal", and before he returned to Liaoshuai, he had personally experienced Gao Yushi's status and influence in front of the nobles of the capital, so Gao Yushi had no idea whether he would "serve and manage". Basically still in the affirmative.

However, this does not mean that Li Rusong has lost all autonomy, he will still try to create some "surprises" in terms of his own control of the initiative.

For example, a few days ago, Gao Yushi ordered him to be transferred directly westward from the southern part of Yuyuerhai. Gao Yushi's secretaries estimated Li Rusong's itinerary based on the normal marching speed of the cavalry, but at this moment Gao Yushi suddenly felt that this Estimates may vary significantly.

Li Rusong will not be so slow!

For a person with his personality, since Gao Yushi is at the top, it is unfeasible to compete with him. However, in this battle against the Yuan Dynasty, only the general soldiers were dispatched, and there was also a forbidden soldier with a special status. Commander of the Guards, this is finally equal, right?Since there are five or even six competitors, how can Li Rusong not fight for the first place?

Fighting for the first place is a huge challenge, especially in the current situation of Liaodong Town - Xiao Ruxun, the deputy commander of Liaodong Town, is not from his Li family.

And in order to ensure that Gao Yushi would not take the opportunity to suppress himself, he had no choice but to let Xiao Ruxun win the most prominent first victory in this battle so far - the capture of Chahanhot.

Under such circumstances, Li Rusong needs a prominent victory to prove his excellence, and a prominent victory must first ensure that he can win a battle!Now the possibility of Tumen's army going west is so great that there is only one last piece of evidence to prove the news. With Li Rusong's character, how can he not rush there?

When he first dispatched troops, it was arranged in advance in order to be able to fight against Tumen's main force. Now that the situation has changed, if he wants to be able to catch Tumen's main force, must he stage a thousand-mile dash again?
Of course, galloping for thousands of miles will hurt the horse, but it is not as exaggerated as some sayings, saying that the horse will be destroyed.

Now it is autumn, when the horse grass is the fattest, and the Li family army has been known as the "Liaodong iron cavalry" for more than 20 years. The probability of "wasting a horse" is not high.

The really important problem is that it will make it difficult for these war horses to fatten up this autumn. This will greatly increase the risk of freezing to death after this winter, and secondly, it will also affect the total service life of the war horses.

This is like the cars of later generations. The scrapping period of family cars is different from that of operating cars.Excessive use of war horses is also equivalent to advancing the "retirement period", and if Li Rusong has overused twice within two months, it is expected that these war horses will have at least two years less service in the future.

But even so, in Li Rusong's eyes, this is just a matter of property loss. As long as it doesn't seriously affect the current war, he won't care too much—if he cares about these things, how could the Li family army in the original history fight halfway in a few years? Disabled?In the final analysis, the fact is that Li Rusong really did not take "overuse" to heart.

Thinking of this, Gao Wushi called Ye Bangrong over during the break, and asked him how fast Li Rusong could go if he was not afraid of overuse of the horses.

In fact, Ye Bangrong himself was somewhat skeptical of Gao Jinglue's assumption. After all, an excellent horse is a "Ferrari". Who would drive a Ferrari to play an extreme off-road rally? Isn't that crazy?
But Gao Jinglue was not something he could doubt.Not to mention him, even his old boss, the "benevolent" Qi Jiguang, has never said a bad word about Gao Jinglue for more than ten years since he joined Gao Jinglue, and even the generals who were from the Qi family's army were against Gao Jinglue. Jinglue also has an inexplicable respect.

Since Gao Jinglue asked this question, Ye Bangrong would definitely answer it truthfully, no matter how unreasonable the question seemed.

Out of caution, Ye Bangrong didn't open his mouth to come, but immediately carefully took out a small-scale map of the battlefield issued by Jinglue Xingyuan before the battle from his arms, spread it out and put it on the ground, carefully gesturing After doing some calculations, he asked cautiously: "Jingtai, as far as I know from my humble position, Li Zongrong's leadership in this battle is all his family's headquarters, so at least one man and two horses under his command, I wonder if this news is true?"

Gao Wushi replied: "It's true. According to what this department understands, probably his current configuration is two men and five horses."

That is to say, an average cavalry has two and a half horses, which is an ultra-luxury configuration among the cavalry of the Ming army. Generally speaking, only the elite among the elite can achieve this level of matching.

Of course, among Gao Yushi's own cavalry, those who were transferred by Gao Yushi to his side in some previous wars, sometimes full of three horses, that is another matter.After all, Gao Wushi has the most powerful source of war horses in Ming Dynasty and is not short of money. In the war at that time, he usually only mobilized a few thousand horses. Such deployment is not an exaggeration.

But this time Li Rusong almost mobilized all the most elite cavalry members of the Li family army to go out. The total number was as high as more than [-], and nearly [-] cavalry.It fully shows the strength of Li Jiajun's family at this time, as well as Li Rusong's personal style of throwing a lot of money to win.

Ye Bangrong was also a little stunned, but he sighed, and he quickly replied: "General cavalry marches normally, and when there is no battle in the middle and no enemies around, the distance is usually about [-] to [-] miles. .

Considering that Li Zongrong's troops are equipped with more sufficient horses, and the autumn grass is thick and thick, his troops can normally run eighty miles.

And if Li Zongrong disregarded the autumn fat of his war horses and overused his horses, as Jingtai expected, he could walk a hundred and twenty miles a day, or even a little more, it is possible to walk a hundred and forty miles. "

Gao Wushi wondered: "Is it only one hundred and twenty miles or one hundred and forty miles? The Headquarters has studied the Mongolian Western Expedition 200 years ago, and they can even maintain a daily march of one hundred and eighty miles for a long time. Among them How did the difference come about?"

"Mongols marched so fast during the Western Expedition?" Ye Bangrong didn't seem to understand this, but after thinking about it, he quickly found the answer, and suddenly said: "Oh, that may be because the Mongols were pure Qingqi at that time. The war horses were almost unarmored. In addition, the Mongols had a lot of horses at that time, which was quite different from ours.

Jingtai may not know that the Mongols walked with a herd of horses. The horses they owned may be similar to ours, but the number of horses drawn is far from what any cavalry in the world can match. "

Unlike war horses, which are used for riding and fighting, draft horses are used to transport supplies, even pulling artillery carts and baggage carts.Therefore, what a draft horse needs is stamina and strength, not flexibility or the like.The draft horses are subdivided into heavy draft horses and light draft horses. At this time, the draft horses in Ye Bangrong's mouth probably refer to light draft horses, that is, those that help the Mongolian army to carry armor and weapons.

Due to the huge number of Mongolian horses, the average amount of materials that each horse needs to carry is not large, so it does not affect the speed very much. Therefore, the Mongolian army can march at high speed when marching thousands of miles west. At this point It can be said that no one in the world can match.

No matter how luxurious Li Rusongbu’s horse matching equipment is, at least the harness horse must not be compared with the peak Mongolia of more than 200 years, so it is unlikely to be 180 miles ([-] miles) a day.

But one hundred and forty miles is an extremely exaggerated speed nowadays.Ye Bangrong even felt that even Tumen was sweating profusely at this time, unless he was fleeing for his life, it was unlikely to exceed this speed.

After listening to his explanation, Gao Wushi felt confident.He looked at Kanyu map for a while, and suddenly an idea popped up in his mind: If Guihua City hadn't been breached quickly this time, it would only take about seven or eight days, and a three-way encirclement might form again.

If this happens, how will Tumen Khan—or Brihatu—make a decision?

beat?
If they could fight, the Chahar Department would not have given up on Chahanhot before, but chose to leave directly.

Do not hit?

The original left-wing Mongolian territory has now been abandoned. If there is no fight, where else can the Chahar people go?

What's more, once the three-way encirclement is completed around Guihua City, how will Zhong Jinhatun, who still has [-] elites in his hand, react?If she chooses to go out of the city and cooperate with the three-way Ming army to directly block the Chahar people to naturalization, wouldn't it be difficult for the Chahar tribe to fly this time?

In such a situation where life and death are only on the line, with Brihatu's wisdom, isn't there any prediction? ——
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