Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2133 General Baikui ([-]) Liu Ting to Ganzhou

It has been nearly three months since Ganzhou was besieged.During these three months, Ganzhou City was in dire straits, but the magic has not been broken yet.

It's miraculous, but it's not miraculous.The northwest is a place of bitter cold, and the weather during the Little Ice Age was a bit colder than usual. In winter, the water dripped into ice.However, Burihatu's dispatch of troops happened in winter this time. Although this kind of surprise made huge benefits at the beginning, once Ganzhou was not shocked and surrendered, it would be difficult to deal with it later.

Burhatu's biggest advantage is that the Mongols' dispatch of troops can almost be regarded as having no logistics compared with the Han people. The disadvantage is that he lacks effective siege weapons.

The former allowed him to quickly kill the northwestern territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming army that had no time to dispatch was divided and surrounded by him in various cities and forts, and the outside of the cities and forts were naturally plundered by him because they were powerless to resist.However, the next Wubao attack began to be somewhat difficult.

This matter must at least start from the construction of the Ming Dynasty's frontier defense for more than [-] years.At that time, Qi Jiguang suggested strengthening the Great Wall defense line and building hollow enemy towers from Shanxi to Liaodong with the capital as the center.This proposal was adopted by the imperial court, but it was very expensive, so after the construction was completed, the imperial court did not continue such a project for several years.

Later, Gao Yushi gradually enriched the imperial treasury, and a new border consolidation plan began to be brewed. However, at this time, he did not make efforts on the issue of defense engineering, but strengthened the army and accumulated strength to destroy the Chahar tribe.Then, with the victory of the Northern Expedition and the escape of Chahar to the west, the defense of the northwest frontier became a new top priority, so Gao Wushi began to allocate funds to strengthen the defense of the northwest frontier.

However, the problems faced by the defense of the Northwest and the defense of the northern line of the capital are different. The inner line of the northern line of the capital is basically a densely populated area, and the density of troops is also very high. Building a hollow enemy station at a certain distance can form a good team. The defense system, but the Northwest is very different.

Although there is also a Great Wall defense line in the northwest, the local population density is far less than that of the capital. No matter from the perspective of abundant supplies or manpower transportation capacity, it is impossible to supply the dense Great Wall defense line, so it can only be based on the original defense foundation of the Northwest. For reinforcement.

What was the original basis?It means "spreading Wubao in a wide area", and then each Wubao concentrates the main local materials and troops. Once encountering an enemy attack, move the people in the surrounding jurisdictions into Wubao as quickly as possible for centralized defense.

This is an objective reality caused by the living environment, and no matter how high-level the pragmatism is, it cannot be changed. Therefore, even if he allocates funds to strengthen the defense of the Northwest for several years in a row, he can only expand and strengthen these docks, and at most try to create some "Chinese-style bastions." , "Chinese Star Fortress" style of the new Wubao.

However, what Gao Wushi did not expect was that Burihatu sent a lot of secret missions to the Gansu-Shaanxi region, and he understood these things quite clearly, so he chose to lead the Mongolian cavalry to make long-distance raids in winter, which is always considered to be inconvenient to send troops. As a result, many people around Wubao had no time to evacuate into Wubao.

Fortunately, because it was winter, many people ran back to Wubao Maodong, which objectively reduced the loss and strengthened Wubao itself.

After plundering various settlements outside the unsuspecting Wubao, Brihatu found that the plundered supplies were still insufficient, so he was forced to start attacking the various Wubao of these dots and dots divisions—here I would like to add that his main force Instead of doing this, he stationed outside the city of Ganzhou to prevent the main force of the Ming army in Ganzhou from going out of the city to threaten his robbery squad after dividing the troops.

In this matter, Brihatu was actually over-concerned. The Ganzhou Ming Army did not think that its strength was strong enough to go out of the city to fight.This is also easy to understand. Gansu's military strength was originally relatively limited. Over the past few years, Ming's military dispatching capabilities have been tilted towards the Korean battlefield. Thank God for Gansu's ability to defend the city. How dare they go out and challenge Burihatu's army? ?

Even though the Ming army in Ganzhou city knew that Buri Hatu had divided the army into multiple groups to plunder everywhere, they were Mongolian cavalry after all. Once they found that the Ming army had left the city, they could gather quickly with their mobility and then come to fight the Ming army in the field.

The Ming army in Ganzhou was not the imperial guards, nor even the main force of Jiliao, so they were not sure that they would be able to defeat the enemy in field battles.Therefore, after hearing that Suzhou had been attacked and fallen, the Ganzhou Ming army immediately made up their minds: stand firm and wait for help.

Compared with only one Suzhou guard stationed in Suzhou, Ganzhou's military strength is much more abundant. In addition to the five guards in Ganzhou, there are also Handong Guard and Shazhou Guard who have moved inland for many years. There are a total of seven guards. It is true that it is the main force of the Ming army in Gansu.

However, the full strength of one guard in the Ming army is only 600 people, and the total number of seven guards is less than [-]. In fact, none of the seven guards in Ganzhou is fully staffed. In fact, the total strength is barely three about ten thousand.Considering that their equipment is not as good as the main force of the Jiliao and Shanxi frontier armies, it makes sense that they dare not go out of the city to fight in the field.

After all, Burihatu claims to have an army of [-], and his chances of winning are small enough. If Ganzhou is lost, it will be a disaster for the Northwest, and they must not fight like this.

In this way, Gansu has become like hedgehogs everywhere, Ganzhou is full of big hedgehogs, and Wubao is full of small hedgehogs. Brihatu tried to attack the city twice in Ganzhou, but was blocked by the bastion-style city twice. He played with no temper.

He originally wanted to copy the old wisdom of digging tunnels and blasting the city walls under the city. Unfortunately, Ganzhou has received admonitions from the Ministry of War a few years ago, and strictly guards against this. He often digs tunnels and blows them down with gunpowder, or injects poison The smoke and gold juice (shit and urine) caused the Mongolian soldiers a lot of losses and complained endlessly.Brihatu had no choice but to give up.

Forced attack won't work, and blasting the wall won't work. Brihatu began to envy the giant artillery of the Ming army.The so-called cannons are the No. [-] and No. [-] cannons of the Ming army.Because the priority of armaments in Ganzhou is not high, there are only four No. [-] cannons, one for each main city gate.There are sixteen No. [-] guns, four for each city gate.Although the total amount is not much, it can't stand the powerful and long range.

Back then, the high-practical northern expedition to Chahar was an offensive war, and there were no strong fortifications in Chahar that required him to use huge artillery. Therefore, the artillery carried by the entire army was the No. [-] and No. [-] guns, which made Brihatu also Lack of intuitive understanding of Ming army cannons.

Therefore, when the No. 80 cannon fired for the first time in Ganzhou City, the entire Mongolian army was shocked, and suddenly found that their camp was too close to the Ganzhou City Wall, and they almost put their heads on the opponent's gun.Thanks to the experience of the Ganzhou defenders in using giant cannons, they were too far away from Buri Hatu's Jiubai Baizhu after a few shots, and they just killed—or smashed to death—a hundred NO.[-] unlucky Egg.

However, such a huge cannon still deterred the Mongolian army. Burihatu ordered the whole army to retreat five miles before setting up camp, and from then on, he started a single cycle of staring and cursing with the Ming army in Ganzhou.

When Liu Ting arrived at Shandanwei with the vanguard troops assigned to him by the headquarters and the Ministry of War, Buri Hatu immediately ordered the camp to retreat westward without saying a word.What he didn't know was that Liu Ting also ordered to suspend the advance at this time, and at the same time sent ten scouts to investigate the situation ahead.

I have to explain here that Ganzhou is the later Zhangye City, and Shandanwei is the Shandan County in the east of Zhangye City. It is the first place in the east of Ganzhou where tens of thousands of troops can be stationed. The distance between the two places is about a hundred miles. .

A hundred miles is not far, especially for Mongolian cavalry.Liu Ting dared to go directly to Shandan before stopping, which shows his courage.Of course, he also has such qualifications, and at the same time... also has such a mood.

The reason why I talk about mood is because he is a general of the southern army, and he didn't win the battle against Chahar at the beginning, but Da Ming's rewards for military exploits have always been the highest when he fought against Mongolia, so he also held his breath this time. Have a good meeting with the Mongols to see how they are better than the "Nanman" and "Dongyi".

However, Buri Hatu didn't seem to want to give Liu Ting such an opportunity, he chose to lift the siege directly and withdraw his troops.

To be honest, Liu Ting didn't expect this, because according to his thinking, Burihatu had a [-] army, but he only brought [-] forwards. Even with the Ganzhou defenders, his strength was still at a disadvantage.

What's more, his troops are full of travel and dust, and Ganzhou has been besieged for several months. Obviously, they should be exhausted soldiers who are not in a state-that's why he stopped in Shandan-but Buri Hatu is waiting for work, and it can even be said It's "waiting for the rabbit", why did he leave without a fight?

Therefore, when Liu Ting learned of the return report early the next morning, saying that Buri Hatu had retreated westward, his first reaction was: Buri Hatu wants to kill Lao Tzu and return the carbine?

As for Burihatu, Gao Wushi had vaccinated Liu Ting, so Liu Ting did not dare to underestimate this——Gaoge Lao, whoever he is, he deliberately explained the characters who must be dealt with carefully, and it is impossible to "do not fight." and run away" Ah!So there must be a reason for this... no, there must be a trap!

Because of this idea, not only did Liu Ting not march into Ganzhou immediately, but after hesitating for a while, he ordered to rest for another day. Only the exact movement of the Mongolian army in Ming Dynasty can be reported.

Of course, he did not forget to contact Ganzhou City. There were two missions to visit Ganzhou with his own letter in duplicate, telling Ganzhou that the imperial reinforcements had arrived.However, Liu Ting repeatedly explained in the letter that he should not relax his vigilance because of this, and that he could only celebrate after seeing his army arrive at the city of Ganzhou with his own eyes.

Xu Sanwei, governor of Gansu, received a letter from Liu Ting in the middle of the night.He was very satisfied with Liu Ting's cautiousness, but he was very unhappy that Liu Ting dared to instruct him to do things.

Benfu knows that you are Gao Yuanfu's favorite general, and also knows your sister's special status in the Nanning Marquis Mansion, but no matter what, you are just a general!Ben Fu is a Jinshi in the fifth year of Wanli, one subject earlier than Gao Yuanfu, how to get your turn to give advice on how to do things?

But having said that, Xu Sanwei still needs Liu Ting to stabilize the situation in Gansu for the time being, so he swallowed his breath for the time being, and wrote a letter to reply: Hearing that Liu Shuai is here, the students can't help but put it in the wine city, and prepare it for Liu Shuai Destroy the enemy and warm it up.

(End of this chapter)