Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1679 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Determination
When Qu Gui said this, Gao Pragmatically understood that his thinking was essentially a kind of differentiated competition, and of course it could also be called misplaced competition.

Daming and Mongolia competed in riding skills, which obviously has an inherent disadvantage, and even if it is acquired, this disadvantage still exists.People are a nation that uses horses to travel, and everyone rides fast horses. Although the Ming Dynasty has a large population, how many people can ride horses?
Under such circumstances, it would be very painful for Ming Dynasty to maintain 10,000+ cavalry for a long time.Each one is a treasure, how dare you squander it at will?Therefore, of course, we must give priority to improving resistance, and strive not to be eliminated by others first, and then study how to defeat the opponent.

According to Qugui, Gao Yushi guessed that what he meant was that once the cavalry fought, they would fight the Mongols.

Of course, the "consumption" here is different from the "consumption" in the Mongols' combat thinking.The "consumption" of the Mongols is first of all to keep their own casualties small, and then even if the opponent's casualties are not too large, as long as they are obviously greater than their own.

The reason is related to the forceful skill of Tuotuo's sword technique. The Mongols don't make themselves very tired when riding a battle, so they can afford it.Even if a single slash only kills dozens of you, so what, I hit you with ten or twenty waves without a break, what do you say at this time?
And the expensive countermeasure is very realistic: My Ming now has a range advantage due to the improvement of firearms. Although it is very fast for you to slash a round, it is enough to shoot a round of arrow rain before receiving high damage.But if our cavalry is already half-armed, then your arrow damage will be greatly reduced. Usually only the unlucky ones will be shot to death directly in this situation.

On the contrary, due to the economic blockade of Ming Dynasty, Mongolia's productivity has dropped extremely severely, and it has degenerated to the point that it is almost impossible to carry out ironmaking.Before the war, there were only a few small blacksmith shops in Chahar. They relied on the blacksmiths who had been plundered from the Ming Dynasty in the early years to carry out some work. Large-scale manufacturing of various armors was completely extravagant.

Coupled with the progress of the Ming army's firearms, the armor-piercing ability within the effective range has been greatly improved. In many cases, the difference between wearing armor and not wearing armor is not obvious.

Therefore, Yebushou of the frontier army and Fusi of Jinyiwei Beizhen have already reminded that the armor preparation rate of the Chahar cavalry may have dropped significantly, and some of the original armor pieces have been recast and made into new ones. Sabers, stirrups, horseshoes, arrows, etc.From this, they judged that the Chahar cavalry in the "future" war would completely become leather cavalry or even unarmored cavalry.

One ebbs and another ebbs and flows, heaven and earth are interchanged.As a general of the Ming army of Mongolian origin, Qugui has a deep understanding of Mongolian tactics, and in turn has an accurate judgment on how to restrain them.

If you want to go guerrilla, I will let you go guerrilla, but as long as you dare to enter my effective range, I can blast you with bullets while carrying a rain of arrows.

If you want to fight for consumption, I will accompany you to consume it, but we want to see who among us can't afford it.Man said that if I play a one-to-one consumption, my Ming will surely make a profit. Even if unfortunately it only scores two to one, my Daming will still be worthy of you, Chahar!

What is the most troublesome thing for the Mongols now?Productivity?No, the most troublesome thing for them is the lack of population!
Chahar knew that he would be surrounded and beaten by Daming and a bunch of helpers this year, but he insisted that he didn't really engage in "women and children are soldiers". Why?

Because more than 6 troops are already the limit of Chahar, and if other people are recruited into the army, there will be no one to herd sheep.Don't wait until the battle is over and you haven't died in battle, but when you look back and find that you can only starve to death, that's really... This is the first time, what a miserable word.

But Xu Long obviously didn't agree with his idea.Although Xu Long did not dare to make mistakes in his words and attitudes in front of Gao Jinglue, he still couldn't help saying: "Piao Yourong, your method can indeed guarantee not to lose, but if you really follow this Do it, but never try to win big."

Pogui was about to refute, but Gao Wushi stretched out his hand to press Xu Xu, suppressing his words back, but turned to Xu Long with a smile and said: "What do you think Xu Yourong, just tell me."

Seeing that Gao Wushi did not show any signs of favoritism, Xu Long breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly bowed and said, "Yes, Jingtai."

He cleared his throat, and said again: "If you only talk about remaining undefeated against the Chahar cavalry, then the imperial court does not need cavalry at all! Now the infantry has both bayonet hollow phalanxes and chariot hollow phalanxes (made by Qi Jiguang) ), even if the army goes out to fight with the Chahar cavalry, it is expected that the Tumen will not dare to try the power of the hollow phalanx.

However, the difficulty for a large army to go out of the fortress is not that the battle will win, but that it is difficult to stay for a long time.You are quite wandering, let me ask you, Daning was taken back by Taiwan a few years ago, if at that time the leading army had not been taken off to guard the grain road on the southern line of Daning, would Daning City be able to garrison nearly [-] troops?

There are neither fields nor walls around Daning. Our army is stationed in Daning, so we can’t make a living by grazing animals, right?There are more than [-] miles from Xifengkou to Daning, all of which are forests and grasslands in the northern part of Saibei. If the cavalry is not good enough, Daning City will be cut off at one time, and it can only be abandoned as it was more than a hundred years ago..."

Pogui couldn't help but interrupted: "That's why I said not only must there be cavalry, but it must first be able to remain undefeated."

"Don't be too anxious, I only said half of what I said." Xu Long continued: "My court has already spent a lot of money to control Daning. If we want to destroy Can Yuan, we will completely drive Chahar out of the left-wing grassland. If you can only continue to build cities and advance one by one, how many fortified cities do you think the imperial court will have to build before they can form a joint force and force Chahar to retreat?"

This article is indeed very important, and Quite Gui was speechless after listening to it.Gao Wushi couldn't help but nodded in his heart when he heard this, and thought to himself: If the defense line is drawn out by continuous fortification, and even the defense line will be gradually expanded until the Chahar people are forced out of the left-wing grassland...then this project will be back and forth I'm afraid it won't work out in 20 years.

And this way of thinking makes Gao Wushi feel that Sun Chengzong's fortress strategy has been advanced, which is unnecessary.Sun Chengzong's fortress strategy at that time had a premise, which was largely forced by the situation.

What's the situation?At that time, the Ming army was no longer the opponent of Hou Jin in the field battle. As long as it was pulled out to the field battle, it would give you a lookout and collapse at every turn.

It's a ghost to fight in the wild under such circumstances. If the waves continue, the last bit of combat power will be squandered, and the morale of the army will only become more out of control.So at that time, it was pretty good to be able to rely on Jiancheng to defend the line of defense.

And like Sun Chengzong, who used the country's productivity advantages to forcibly build cities secretly, and then advanced from fort to fort to regain lost ground. That is already one of the very few pillars who can persist in counterattack and forge ahead under the most difficult conditions.

It is easy to add icing on the cake, but difficult to deliver charcoal in the snow.The so-called "turning the tide and helping the building to collapse" is easy to say, but how difficult it is to do!
However, after 20 years of reforms by the Practical School, the current Daming is facing a very different situation from the Daming when Sun Chengzong supervised Ji Liao.Not to mention that the main fighting style of the Chahar people is fundamentally different from that of Hou Jin, but the performance of the two sides in field battles is also completely different.

The current Daming is not afraid of field battles with the Chahar people, even in the hearts of Gao Yushi and many generals, he wished that Chahar would concentrate his forces to fight a decisive battle with Daming.This kind of thinking is completely opposite to the Ming army after the loss of Liaodong in the original history, and the strategic pattern reflected is naturally completely diametrically opposed.

I can't fight in the field, and I want to regain the lost ground, so I have to rely on my national strength to advance from castle to castle.Although it costs a lot to do so, and it takes a long time, but there is no way, otherwise it is useless.

I have fought in field battles, the purpose is to drive you out of a prairie, building a castle is obviously too stupid.I'm sure I'd like to find a way to take down the enemy in one fight, preferably all, and it'll be over from then on.

Hearing this, Gao Wushi fully understands the conflict between Bao Gui and Xu Long. They seem to be fighting for tactics, but they are actually fighting for strategy.

Quei didn't think that Ming had a chance to win the battle, because the Chahar people had already discovered their own disadvantages, so they simply ignored these disadvantages and continued to strengthen their advantages.Their purpose is to insist on "can't beat and run", but they always keep "fighting" with Daming. The fundamental intention is to consume Daming strategically.

Although your Great Ming has a strong national power, you can't always pile up hundreds of thousands of troops on the grassland and waste it with me.No matter how I run, as long as you retreat, I will come back again, and see if I am not mad at you.

And Xu Long, as a general of the Han Dynasty, knows how to analyze the imperial court - or simply put it highly pragmatic - the arrangement in recent years.Before Gao Situ became the Minister of the Household Department, he was busy in various ways to increase the income of the court, greatly expanding the field cavalry of the Ming Dynasty from less than [-] to almost doubled until now.

This is definitely not for grinding beans on the grassland with the Mongols, it can only be for a decisive battle and to eliminate Chahar.

But Xu Long also had a lot of things that he didn't expect at the beginning.He did not expect that Chahar would be willing to lose Chahanhot as soon as the battle started, and he did not expect that Chahar would not confront the Ming army at all, except to run or run.

Although Xu Long objected to the unrealistic and procrastinated ideas of Ping Gui before the war, the development after the war also dealt a big blow to his own ideas.If Chahar really insisted on not fighting at all, even if the Ming army kept light armor, or even had no armor at all, I am afraid that it would still be unable to catch up as Qugui said.

Now the root of the dispute between the two sides has been found, but the ball actually went to Gao Yushi instead.This contradiction is not something that Ping Gui and Xu Long can argue for. In the end, only Gao's pragmatic opinions are decisive.

High pragmatism is also a headache.Things didn't develop as he expected, and he also underestimated the decisiveness of Tumen or Brihatu.

He always felt that the situation he was facing now was a bit like Napoleon who sent troops to Tsarist Russia. He clearly entered Moscow unimpeded. He thought that the victory had already been won, but suddenly found that this was not the case at all.My biggest enemy is not the Russians, but the Russian cold.

The winter in Saibei is actually very cold, Gao Yushi knew this in his previous life.

At that time, he went to a province in the most northeastern part of the Red Dynasty to study and learn the experience of branding agricultural products. He happened to meet a big brother from the Northeast who had been doing business in Moscow for more than [-] years.That elder brother is very good at chatting. During the chat, Gao Wushi said a situation that made Gao Wushi unbelievable at the time: "In fact, our place is colder than Moscow."

After parting, Gao Wushi looked it up in disbelief, and found that the elder brother really wasn't talking nonsense.According to the inertial thinking of ordinary people, for the northern hemisphere, the higher the latitude, the closer it is to the North Pole, the lower the average temperature, and the colder the climate.

For example, Harbin is located at about 45° north latitude, while Moscow is at 55° north latitude. The difference between the two is as much as 10°. It is reasonable that Moscow will be much colder, but the actual situation is not the case.

Moscow has a mild temperate continental humid climate. It is affected by the westerly warm and humid airflow in winter. It is characterized by heavy snowfall. The average temperature in January is -1℃; while Harbin has a mid-temperate continental monsoon climate and often encounters cold weather in winter. The air (even cold wave) invades, so the average temperature in January is only -10.2°C, which is much colder than Moscow.

From this, Gao Pragmatism thought of Mongolia, and then thought of another thing: Napoleon and Hitler both defeated Moscow, but Mongolia did not seem to encounter much trouble because of Moscow's coldness during its westward expedition.The Golden Horde Khanate established by Batu, that is, Jochi Ulus, ruled Russia for 225 years (the other said 238 years, mainly due to different calculation methods), and then declined due to frequent civil strife .

So the question is, are the Mongols not afraid of the cold at all, or is it just that Moscow is not very cold for the Mongols?
Are Mongolians afraid of the cold?Of course Gao Yushi knew that the Mongols were also afraid of the cold.If they weren't afraid of the cold, would Tumed be docile to himself for the various living supplies provided by Daming?
It can be seen that "Moscow cold" was amplified to some extent by the defeat of Napoleon and Hitler, so that when people mention "very cold", they think of Moscow, but the fact is that it is actually very cold outside the Great Wall of Ming Dynasty.

Since the Mongolian grassland is at least as cold as Moscow, it is obviously impossible for Ming to station a large army on the grassland for "New Year's Eve".Even if the Chahar people swam and did not attack, Ming's army would have to retreat southward to the Great Wall at most until the end of autumn.

At that time, the places where it is possible to keep the garrison are Daning and Chahanhot at most. According to the report, the rammed earth wall in Chahanhot is not very reliable. If the garrison is really needed, it may have to be renovated.

If this is the case, once Daming retreats, Chahar is really likely to make a comeback, which means that this spring's battle with 60 troops is completely useless.

"No, the previous tactics can no longer be carried out in such a foolish way. I must change my thinking, otherwise I will have to repeat the mistakes of Cheng Zu Wu's expedition to Mobei, which looks mighty and domineering but has a lackluster record.

However, Chengzu is Chengzu, and he insisted that cutting the Yuan was more for political purposes, and I really did it to save Daming from a disaster.He may not care whether it is really possible to destroy the Yuan, but I must destroy the remnant Yuan! "

Thinking of this, Gao Wushi secretly made up his mind: If it really doesn't work, can I, Gao, be qualified to be a bait? ——
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