Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1684 Cutting Yuan ([-]) Divine Soldier from Heaven
The news that a main force is about to arrive at the city of Guihua is really surprising.

After all, it has not been a long time since Gao Yushi decided to adjust his strategy a few days ago. At that time, the closest to naturalization was actually the road of the Economic Strategy Headquarters.Now the Economic and Strategy Headquarters has not yet arrived for naturalization, but another one is about to arrive. This is too easy to escape. Could it be Li Rusong?
But Gao Wushi didn't say anything, instead he stopped there, returned to the camp, and told all the generals to go down to settle down and rest.Before the generals left, Gao Wushi said very peacefully: "Perhaps today is the last good night's sleep before the war."

After all the generals returned, they all wondered in their hearts which main force of the Ming army was not far from Guihua City.

Although the war against the Yuan Dynasty has not yet broken out into a large-scale battle, Li Rusong has already earned a reputation as a god-walking Taibao with his actual performance, and everyone's first reaction is undoubtedly that Li Rusong has run away.

But in fact this was not the case. Li Rusong had indeed proved that he and his cavalry of the Li family army had a very strong ability to run, but no matter how powerful the ability was, the distance itself could not be ignored.

Li Rusong's department was too far away when Gao Pragmatically changed his strategy, and was later asked not to approach the Economic Strategy Headquarters temporarily. Therefore, he is still at the former Kaiping Youtunwei (Ming Dynasty) about [-] miles northeast of Ming'an Station After the beginning of the year, the residence was moved inward, and the name was Dongliangting.

Due to the military order, although Li Rusong wanted to kill him from the bottom of his heart, even he did not dare to disobey Gao Pragmatic's order.As a last resort, he had no choice but to take this opportunity to rest and recuperate his horsepower. Nearly [-] cavalry were stocking horses and feeding concentrate near the East Pavilion.

Since Li Rusong was like this, Ma Chengen was no exception, and Ma Chengen's troops were in a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry. Unless he also gave up infantry and charged only with cavalry like Gao Yushi, it would be difficult to even get ahead of Gao Yushi.His actual location at this moment is about sixty or seventy miles west of Li Rusong, a place called Twin Towers, which also happened to be the original Kaiping Wei Benwei's garrison.

More than 100 years have passed, and the rammed earth city left by Kaipingwei still looks like a city wall. It is better to use it a little bit than to camp in the wild.And the reason why this place is called Twin Towers is precisely because two tall towers were built at that time, and it is quite rare that they can also be used as watchtowers now.

As for the Magui Department, he is actually the only one who has not been instructed by Gao Yushi to return to aid, so he still stays in the Waikalkha Department.The order Magui received was divided into two parts. One part was to continue guarding Sariqier and the mouth of the Three Gorges, waiting for the possible return of Abadai Saiyin Khan's troops who had previously used as a cover for the Tumen army to return to Helin; It is to control Helin and use it to control the entire Waikalkha tribe, so that Abadai Saiyin Khan, who has completely surrendered to Tumen, will lose his lair.

Ma Gui is a general who can take care of the overall situation, he gave up the great achievement of personally capturing He Lin - even if He Lin Wan is now a girl with only a light veil left on her body, she can easily get it.He chose to give this great achievement to Han Naji, while he stayed in Sariqier to eat the wind and sand, waiting for Abadai Saiyin Khan to hit him head-on.

However, the "recovery" of Hannaji and Lin went very smoothly, but Magui encountered trouble.

As I said before, the military ration supply line of Magui's department has to go through naturalization, so when Tumen surrounded the naturalization, Magui's side actually ran out of food.His troops carry more military rations than Gao Yushi and the others. In the terminology of later generations, the "troop self-sustainability" is stronger and longer, but it cannot withstand long-term consumption.

Therefore, after receiving the news of the siege of naturalization, Ma Gui immediately started measures such as limited supply of military rations, trying to ensure that his troops could last longer.

The "...and other measures" here include two main methods. One is to find Hanaji to distribute some dairy products; the other is to send troops to arrange for... a bit.

Of course, this arrangement was not about burning, killing and looting, because Gao Wu had made repeated orders before the war that it was not allowed.In fact, Magui gathered these tribes together, designated them to stay in a place not far from Sariqier to concentrate on grazing, and at the same time handed over some "contributions" to him.

But Magui also has some troubles here.First, Gao Pragmatism forbids him to be too harsh on the Mongolian tribes, and secondly, the productivity of these Mongolian tribes is pitifully low.This combination leads to the fact that the "contributions" that Ma Gui can collect are really limited. It is absolutely impossible to at least feed his [-] army, and it can only be used as a little scrap to supplement.

Because Hannaji was going on an expedition, he didn't carry too many sheep, and in addition to the dairy products produced by the mares in the army, although there was a little surplus, it could only be regarded as a slight surplus.The addition of the two slight surpluses is all that matters, and the food supply of Magui's department is still tight.

At this time, he received a report from Malai, saying that he had found traces of the Mongolian army under Aba Dai Saiyin Khan about [-] miles east of the Three Gorges Pass. After investigation, it was confirmed that the latter had indeed come.This made Ma Gui happy, and immediately prepared to face the offensive of Abadai Saiyin Khan at the mouth of the Three Gorges, and he himself led troops from Sariqier to the mouth of the Three Gorges to support him.

However, the result was that when he arrived at the mouth of the Three Gorges, Abadai Saiyin Khan still did not launch an attack.This surprised Ma Gui very much. Both your old nest and Lin are about to be lost, so why are you still dawdling?

As a result, after waiting for another two full days, there was still no movement from Abadai Saiyin Khan's side. Instead, he withdrew his troops twenty miles to the east—about seventy or eighty miles away from the mouth of the Three Gorges.

This is a safe distance, plus the time for the scouts to discover and report back, even if the Ming army at the mouth of the Three Gorges sent troops to attack, Abadai Saiyin Khan would still have time to run if he wanted to.And if he wants to fight, he also has the advantage, because if the Ming army ran seventy or eighty miles, they must be exhausted, and the attack is at the right time.

Of course, this truth couldn't be more clear to a veteran general like Ma Gui, but he really couldn't understand why Abadai Sai Yinhan was indifferent to He Lin.

Although due to the overall decline of Mengyuan, the city of Helin has been abandoned for many years, but no matter what, it still looks like a city.With Lin in hand, the king of the Waikha tribe really deserves his name, right?
In addition, the status of this place is very special (as mentioned in the previous article). Losing and Lin is an extremely serious matter. Why doesn't he care about it?
After another day, Ma Gui probably knew the reason.Han Naji sent someone to report that Helin had been easily recovered, but it was almost an empty city of Helin - if the current Helin can be counted as a city.

Ba Hanaji said that there are only old, weak, sick and disabled in Helin City, not even women and children. The whole city has less than 500 people, and it almost became a dead city.

And when he continuously sent troops around Helin, he discovered that not only Helin, but also the area around Helin was almost empty.The remaining small tribes are very small in number, and there are many people who do not agree with Abadai Saiyin Khan for various reasons.

Probably the only good news is that most of these remaining people will regard Han Najib as their own, and have no resistance to being included in the rule of Tumet Chechen Khan, and are even quite happy.

Of course, both Hanaji and Magui are very clear that although most of these people should be inclined to Tumed's rule as the news said, it is inevitable that there will be no Abadai Saiyin Khan or Tumen Khan. Sand, this needs to be debated slowly, which is very troublesome.

At this moment, Magui felt more and more troublesome.Introducing Hannaji into the Outer Khalkha is actually a highly pragmatic idea to a certain extent, and Hannaji himself is not very interested in ruling the Outer Khalkha—you have to ask What's the point?
Well, why did the people of the Southern Song Dynasty not want the court to recover the Central Plains?The nature of these two incidents is roughly similar, except that Han Naji himself had similar ideas to ordinary people in the Southern Song Dynasty.

To put it simply, the Waikalkha Department is actually a "negative asset" for Tumed at this time.Its social productivity is far lower than that of Tumed, which is gradually sinicized, and its various outputs are very small. If Hannaji wants to rule it, it may have to pay a high cost of governance, so it is not worthwhile.

It's just that Gao Yushi thought that it was more inconvenient for Ming Dynasty to directly rule Waikalkha, so he had to let Han Naji take over this bad luck.Of course, Hannaji couldn’t just take over the job without asking why, so Gao Wushi proposed to develop Waikalka in the future, and Hannaji reluctantly agreed—as for how to develop it, Gao Wushi didn’t say, But Han Naji was very confident in Gao Yushi on this issue, so he didn't continue to object.

Since he needs to rule the entire Outer Khalkha in the future, of course he has to continue to conquer or persuade the remaining tribes of the Outer Khalkha at this moment. Because the area under the jurisdiction of the Outer Khalkha is very large, it is almost the territory of the later Mongolia, and Mongolia People are nomads, so Hannaji had to "persuade and educate" one by one, so he would have no extra strength to support Magui.

At the same time, Magui is currently facing the question of what to do with Abadai Saiyin Khan.

In terms of military strength, Magui has 6 people on hand, which is about twice the advantage compared to Abadai Saiyin Khan, who lost last year. However, there are two main roads leading to Helin from the east, that is, he is currently guarding Saliqier and the mouth of the Three Gorges.The 6 people in Magui are not all cavalry. In fact, there are only about [-] cavalry, and the remaining [-] are infantry.

This means that under normal circumstances, he can only guard the two places with [-] infantry each, and personally lead [-] cavalry as a mobile force to support the side that is threatened or directly attacked, and it is difficult to take the initiative to send troops to defeat Ah. Badai Saiyin Khan.

If the troops were dispatched in the safest way, that is, [-] infantry and [-] cavalry jointly attacked, Ma Gui believed that the fight would be successful, but the opponent may not be willing to fight, which can be clearly seen from the course of the previous war.

If you want the opponent to dare to fight, you must first show your flaws, so that Abadai Saiyinhan feels that there is an opportunity to take advantage of.For example, regardless of the seventy or eighty miles away, forcefully send out troops, waiting to be beaten by a veteran who is tired of the division; or without infantry, use [-] cavalry to fight the opponent's [-] cavalry.

The former was directly vetoed by Ma Gui. He believed that although the cavalry was precious, in terms of the mission at this time, the infantry could not be lost, otherwise the plan to block Abadai Saiyin Khan might fail.

Attack with cavalry?Magui thinks it is feasible.Although this seems more dangerous, the cavalry does not necessarily have to run seventy or eighty miles at a time - I rest halfway, and I don't need to set up so many fortifications like the infantry. If you dare to attack, then I will fight Well, it's not like I don't have a sentinel to scout the horse.

But something unexpected happened. Not long after Ma Gui led [-] cavalry out of the Three Gorges Pass, Tan Ma came to report that Abadai Saiyin Khan turned around and ran away.

This really confused Ma Gui.I am [-], you are [-], and you are still fighting cavalry. You, the king of Khan of most of Mongolia, just slipped away without saying a word?If this word spreads, aren't you afraid that Genghis Khan will jump out of the mausoleum and scold your unworthy descendants?
Ma Gui tried to chase, but found that it was impossible. The cavalry of the Ming army now carried significantly more weight than the poor ghost cavalry of the Wai Khalkha, and they could not catch up without affecting their combat effectiveness.It's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice, so Ma Gui had no choice but to retreat and think carefully about how to defeat the enemy.

In fact, he didn’t need to destroy the enemy. After all, his task was to block Abadai Saiyin Khan’s westbound road, and Gao Pragmatic just didn’t allow the latter to join Tumen.As for whether to defeat or not, it doesn't matter much, after all, if the opponent doesn't have a place to stay in winter, most of him will freeze to death.

It's nothing more than Ma Gui's high demands on himself, and he felt a little aggrieved that he couldn't take it off even if he was dangling so far that he was under his nose.As expected, as soon as Ma Gui retreated, Abadai Saiyin Khan immediately followed back, and continued to stop at the previous position, which made Ma Gui very unhappy, and sent troops again——as a result, he repeated the same trick, and again Come and go in circles.

The strange stalemate on the northern line means that neither Magui nor Hannaji can go south to rescue and naturalize.The amazing thing here is that Han Naji is not in a hurry - of course he has a reason, the reason is that he believes in Gao's pragmatic commitment and also believes in Qi Jiguang's ability.

That's right, it was the imperial guards who went south very fast.As the first army of the Ming Dynasty that Qi Jiguang personally trained for several years, not only the various supplies and treatment surpassed the million-dollar Ming army, but even the infantry was equipped with horses and became the so-called cavalry infantry. Possesses great mobility.

Such things as mobility obviously had a limit under ancient conditions, and different training levels would make the limits of different troops vary greatly.

For example, in August of the 29th year of Jiajing, I Dahan moved eastward after a long siege of Datong.At that time, the Ming army would collapse at the first touch, and set up camp in Gushan (the northeast of Tongzhou in later generations), Rukou and other places [-] miles east of Luhe River.

At that time, the capital of the Ming Dynasty had not suffered a military disaster for a long time since the change of Tumubao. Upon hearing of such a change, Emperor Jiajing hurriedly ordered the border troops of all towns to enter the capital to serve the king.

At this time, Qiu Luan, the frontier commander of the Ming army, was temporarily staying at Juyongguan to listen to the conscripts. After Anda made a surprise attack and entered Gyeonggi, Qiu Luan set out from Juyongguan on August [-]th and arrived in Tongzhou on August [-]th.

In just one day and one night, the urgent journey was about 150 miles (this is counted in Mingli, 1 Mingli is 180 feet, about 560 meters in modern times, slightly larger than what we often say, a mile). The speed of the rescue surprised Emperor Jiajing-so Qiu Luan's later reuse was not entirely a boast of military exploits.Although many of his combat exploits were fake, at least his performance that night proved that he was not a complete waste.

It seems that Qi Jiguang did not intend to let Li Rusong focus on the front this time. When Gao Wushi talked about this with his subordinates, he had already detoured to Chi'er Mountain in the northwest of Guihua City, only two hundred miles away from Guihua City. In his early days, but just outside the range of Tumen's horse exploration, it can be said to be a heavenly soldier.
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