Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1683 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Of course
The next morning, the highly pragmatic economic headquarters arrived at a place that was once called Ming'an Station in the early Ming Dynasty.The biggest feature of this place is that there is a large lake called Lightning Lake.

This lake is located in Guyuan, Hebei in later generations, about [-] miles northeast of Shacheng at this time. It is the largest lake in the upper reaches of the Luan River. It is named because the river before entering the lake is the Lightning River.

Of course, there is also a saying that looking down from a high place, the shape of the lake is also very similar to a lightning bolt.However, after Gao Yushi arrived here, he thought that the rumors were wrong. Perhaps the shape of the lake had changed later. Anyway, now it seems that it has nothing to do with lightning, and it is not even a band, but almost a circle.

The area of ​​Lightning Lake is not small, but the water is not deep, the bottom is crystal clear, the water plants are swaying, and occasionally small shrimps can be seen swimming freely, and black and white waterfowls rise and fall agilely on the water surface, embellishing the lake in this summer. The vivid golden color is applied, and the grassland is also painted into a golden carpet.

Riding on a horse and strolling along the lake, feeling the breeze, the high-practical state of mind is also a little more relaxed than the soft aquatic plants at the bottom.Such a bright, clear and beautiful lake flashing on the sky and wild grassland can always make people relax.

However, what he said did not show any sign of relaxation at all: "Yebushou found Chahar exploring the horse four times in a row within three hours in the morning. One of them, Yebushou stepped forward to fight, Chahar Baiying's personal guards left without a fight... What do you think this means?"

Seeing that the other generals were silent, Tong Yangzhong, the guerrilla general of Baoding Cheying, took the lead and said: "The last general thinks that the strategy of Jingtai has worked, and Tumen has already entered the strategy."

"Really, what do you think?" Gao Yushi believed in the rein, and while admiring the lake view, he continued to ask seemingly casually.

As the core general of this trip, Ye Bangrong had no choice but to speak at this time, but his words were not so optimistic: "It is naturally possible for Tumen to be tricked, but the general thinks this matter seems suspicious."

"Hmm." Gao Wushi nodded slightly and asked, "What's the doubt?"

"Before I didn't close the night before, I found that the Chahar scouts were gradually increasing. Judging from today's situation, it seems that there is a large army approaching me. But so far, although it is common for the Chahar scouts to infiltrate the white tassel guards during the period , but this time they no longer dared to take the initiative to fight as they did a few days ago, and they didn't even challenge. The general thought this was a very suspicious move.

It stands to reason that in the previous horse-exploring encounter, although the loss of the Mongolian army's Baiying personal guards was slightly greater than that of our Ye Bushou, but considering that there are at least thousands of Baiying personal guards, such a loss is relatively small. It was they who took a small advantage.That being the case, why didn't they dare to fight against our army's probing horses when their probing horses gradually increased? "

Chen Can, the guerrilla general of Tianjin coastal defense, interjected at this time: "I have a message to discuss with Ye Yourong: Do you think this is the performance of the opponent's trick? I mean, for example, the opponent is launching an attack on our army, so in the formal Before attacking, they don't want their subordinates to make some moves that may 'scare the snake'?"

Ye Bangrong nodded and said: "Chen Yourong's words are reasonable, this situation is possible. However, I don't know if Chen Yourong has noticed that the latest returns of our army's night and Tanma all happened in the southwest direction, while there were no other directions in the other directions. abnormal.

I thought that if the opponent was Tumen, he would still have [-] troops under his command, which is no joke.Right now, our army has less than [-] cavalry, and all of them are gathered at the shore of Lightning Lake in Ming'an Station.

In this way, if the Tumen army wants to launch an attack on our army, it is really unlikely that they will come together all the way.Not to mention being surrounded on all sides or surrounded by three ques and one, at least it should be played with two bread sandwiches. "

At this moment, without waiting for Chen Can's answer, Qu Gui interjected: "The tactics of sandwiching two breads are generally used in Mongolia to make upright and strange images. Oh, I mean, they usually use large frontal forces to attract the enemy's troops." Pay attention, then sneak up to the enemy's flank as an Elite.

After the two sides confronted each other head-on, the elite soldiers from the flanks suddenly rushed out to cause the enemy to collapse, and the front side took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill.Since the front is also cavalry, usually a small victory will become a big victory, and a big victory will become a complete victory. "

Ye Bangrong asked: "That's why Po Yourong also agrees that Tumen may deliberately refuse to scare the snake?"

"That's not the case. I'm just talking about the tactics that the Mongols are used to." Pogui shook his head and said, "But if Tumen really wants to do this, then assuming that the southwest is where his main force is, then it's more appropriate to 'strike the grass and scare the snake'." .If we don’t attract our army’s attention to his frontal army, how can we carry out a surprise attack on the flank?”

Xu Long may still have some knots with Pinggui, but he objected when he heard the words, saying: "But to attract the attention of our army may not necessarily be to scare the snake. In my opinion, the act of scaring the snake is more suitable for targeting reckless people. It's not my compliment—how dare Tumen regard Jingtai as a reckless man?
Therefore, I think that if the Tumen really want to fight, they are more likely to do the opposite: there is no need to leak too many loopholes, because they can be seen through at a glance from the platform; Attack before and after the words.The so-called soldiers are impermanent and water has an impermanent shape. Even if people don't understand this principle, Burihatu must understand it anyway, right? "

All the generals talked one after another, and what you said and what I said seemed to be a bit of contention.It's just that although everyone's speech cannot be said to be unreasonable, but the views of different parties are not completely consistent, the final decision still has to be made by Gao Pragmatism.

Letting them speak freely is a highly pragmatic and deliberate effort, but it may not be necessary to strictly refer to their opinions.To some extent, what Gao Pragmatic does is to cultivate their independent thinking ability.

It's not that these generals can't even think independently even today, but because Gao Yushi knows that his prestige in the army is too high, and in fact has formed a kind of myth, which has led many generals—especially guerrillas and It is difficult for the following generals to express their opinions with confidence in front of him, but to act entirely on his orders.

Although this can also ensure that once Gao Yushi gives an order, they will follow it honestly and in a well-behaved manner, and they dare not have the guts to disobey the military order.Not to mention the classic traditional art of "down to top" that is often used by later generations to ridicule certain countries that live a good life.

However, this is still a very bad phenomenon.It is true that soldiers take obeying orders as their bounden duty, but this is "ancient times" after all, and orders are difficult to convey in a timely manner, so they can only be generalized in many cases. Generals need to have strong independent decision-making ability and authority, so the so-called obeying orders is actually The above is "obedience to the gist of the order" and not all the details.

This is like what Gao Wushi said in the memorandum he gave when promoting the reform, "Follow the will of the ancestors but not necessarily follow the laws of the ancestors."For generals, especially guerrilla generals who may often lead an army of cavalry alone, it is difficult to develop and improve if they only know how to follow orders foolishly.Unless you plan to let him be a guerrilla in the Chinese army forever, which is equivalent to the chief general of the cavalry reserve retained by the commander.

Gao Yushi led them to talk and argue, mainly to cultivate and exercise their abilities, and of course there is another point of investigation.Through these debates, Gao Pragmatic can also better judge their strategic and tactical literacy, personal style, etc., which in turn will help Gao Pragmatic arrange for them to undertake various tasks in the war.

When they were all talking about it, Gao Yushi reined in his horse and stood still, and asked, "Don't any of you suspect that the other party may not have been tricked?"

As soon as this question came out, the generals were speechless.In fact, Gao Yushi himself knew that none of the generals doubted this, but in front of Gao Jinglue, even if they really had such doubts, they would not dare to say so.

The huge disparity in prestige, status, and record made them dare not question the management platform's ingenious plan even if it might fail.They can only be forced to set a prerequisite for all their arguments, that is, the other party must be caught, and the rest of the things have to be developed around this point.

Is this unintentional?Maybe a little bit, but it's human nature.

For example, if your boss said something stupid, would you just jump out and mock him?Almost no one will do this, you will just try to play dumb, or simply "follow the hair"-unless you have already planned to "I quit".

Of course, all the generals still plan to go on, so they can only selectively ignore the possibility of "the strategy fails".Therefore, when Gao Wushi asked such a question, everyone was embarrassed, and they had to put on a look of surprise, as if to say, "Why is that so?"

However, Gao Wushi clearly believed that this was true, and said calmly: "I am afraid that the person who came is not Tumen, or they are not the main force of Tumen."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not daring to jump out, so as not to be inadvertently recorded by Gao Jing in the small notebook.

Only Ye Bangrong, as the core general of this trip, really had no choice but to not speak, so he had to use a famous stunt "shocking body" in later generations, and asked in a daze: "The last general is dull, I don't know what Entang said?"

Gao Wushi didn't answer, but turned his head and called out: "What's so expensive?"

"Go back to Entang, the last general is here!" Pogui quickly straightened his back, clasped his hands and saluted immediately.

"If you were Tumen, and you were besieging the naturalization two days ago, you suddenly heard that your cousin from the headquarters led [-] cavalry to rescue the siege, and you sent scouts to know that there was no other Ming army in the [-] miles around, then you would at this moment What are your plans?" Gao Wushi asked.

"This..." Quite Gui thought for a while, and replied: "Back to Entang, if this is taken as a hypothesis, there are a few points to observe and consider first. First of all, we must judge how long it will take to obtain naturalization; How many troops will be needed to keep the siege if it is taken down; or if the siege is withdrawn, will the Guihua City dare to send troops to follow it;

Secondly, if the late general wants to meet Entang, how many troops will he need to gain the upper hand? Whether Entang's troops are only at the forefront of the Ming army, even if there are no other Ming troops within [-] miles, when the late general fights Jingtai, the other Whether the troops will arrive in time to join the battle; whether the naturalized army behind will cooperate with Entang's troops to flank the last general... all of the above must be carefully considered. "

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "That's right, but if you can't get other news at this moment, what will you do?"

This question is a bit difficult for others. After thinking for a while, he slowly answered: "If this is the case, we can only send an army to test it first." Is it the reason why Entang thinks that the comers are not the main force of Tumen?"

"It's not that simple. After all, the above is just a suspicion, and the suspicion needs to be supported by facts." Gao Wushi breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Let me ask you again, who do you think is more short of time, our army or the enemy army?"

Quei was startled, and the rest of the generals were also startled.Pogui thought for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes and said: "Ah, both of us are rushing for time now! Tumen were originally eager to conquer the naturalization, our army was originally eager to rescue the naturalization...but the Entang headquarters quickly chased after them, and the Tumen were eager to conquer the naturalization. They first faced a dilemma, whether to conquer naturalization before our army arrived, or defeat our army first to buy more time for conquering naturalization, he had to make a choice.

However, from the perspective of our army, it is really a question of whether Guihua City can withstand it and how long it can withstand it. Therefore, if our army wants to rescue, it must be done as soon as possible.Otherwise, once the naturalization falls, not only will it be difficult to explain to the King of Shunyi, but the Tumen will have seized a large amount of naturalized supplies by then, and the morale of the troops under their command will also be strengthened. In addition, without any worries, they will be able to let go and fight our army decisively Yes, this is an unfavorable situation that should not have occurred to our army at all, so our army's time is also very tight.

At the end of the day, I think that perhaps this is the reason why Entang insisted on advancing aggressively before.At this time, since Baiying's personal guards appeared more and more as scouts, it could be seen that Tumen had already made a choice.Either he has already withdrawn from the encirclement and wants to fight against Entang headquarters; It's just one of the divisions, and I also ask Entang for advice. "

Gao Wushi said: "Actually, you shouldn't ask Benbutang about this. You just need to zoom in on the situation and consider the larger situation. You should be able to determine Tumen's thoughts better than Benbutang.

For example, although the headquarters of the Economic Strategy is here, although there is no other branch of our army within [-] miles, how many days will it take to arrive within [-] miles?Is this enough time for Tumen to defeat my Economic Strategy Headquarters?Even after the defeat, there is still room to get out? "

Pogui suddenly realized, and shouted: "Ah, so he can only send a division of troops, pretending to launch a large-scale offensive against our army, forcing our army to stop and prepare to fight, but in fact these people are just here to delay our army Go forward and cover for the capture and naturalization!"

The generals next to him also immediately understood, Xu Long said: "No wonder Baiying's personal guards refuse to fight with me at night, they seem to be in the open, but they are actually in the dark, so they dare not reveal their true strength, but place their hopes on In this way, our army can mistakenly think that they are the Tumen headquarters, thus giving up the last chance of immediate rescue and naturalization!"

Ye Bangrong asked nervously: "Although this is the case, the opponent has already approached. Even if it is a division of troops, our department is less than [-], but it is hard to continue on the road without preparing for the battle. How is this? it is good?"

What he meant by this was that if he lost his naturalization because of this, wouldn't he still be in the hands of the Tumen?The rest of the generals also talked a lot, all of them looked worried.

Gao Wushi stretched out his hand to give them some reassurance, and said, "It's okay, the headquarters of Guihua has already made arrangements, but the real key thing for our department now is another thing: how to deal with the opponent's division earlier. Let's get started, so that they can't temporarily withdraw and return to the outside of Huahua City to meet Tumen."

The generals couldn't help being a little puzzled, thinking that this division of troops was originally looking for us to delay the time, why did they temporarily withdraw and return?If it is really withdrawn, it will be a good thing for us!Why don't we follow up directly? As long as the big banner of Jingtai appears in the eyes of the Tumed people in Guihua City, they will naturally work harder to defend the city if they have hope.

At this time, Ye Bangrong felt blessed, and asked in surprise: "Could it be that...the main force of our army has not only gone to Guihua City, but even rushed to the city?"

The other generals also looked at Mr. Jinglue in shock, while Gao Wushi smiled slightly and said, "Of course."
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