Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2136 Total Baikui ([-]) There is no one in the old way
The news of Gao Yushi's succession as chief assistant was indeed the main reason why Liu Ting suddenly decided to take a risky march, but Liu Ting's doing so did not mean disregarding the overall situation of the war and the safety of himself and his headquarters.

In fact, when he heard the news that Brihatu was leaving without a fight, his first reaction was to pursue him, his second reaction was that the opponent must have an ambush, and his third reaction was that I could go over the mountains and detour to pursue him.

However, after these three reactions, he remembered that Gao’s pragmatic explanation was to let him stabilize the situation in Gansu first, wait for the follow-up army and supplies to arrive, and then concentrate his strength to launch a thunderous blow to reach the Western Regions in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Liu Ting endured it and decided not to pursue for the time being. Instead, he went to Ganzhou to meet Xu Sanwei first, to find out what the actual combat strength of the Seven Guards of Ganzhou is now, and then make plans.After that, there is the paragraph drawn from Xu Sanwei's letter.

In other words, pursuing detours was originally a "military contingency plan" that came out of Liu Ting's subconscious mind, and it was the approach he most recognized in his mind.

But why?Although Longshou Mountain and Heli Mountain are not as good as Qilian Mountain at the southern foot, the mountains with a width of sixty or seventy miles are obviously not a joke. You, Liu Zongrong, have to go around two mountain ranges to catch up with the Mongolian cavalry. Are you too big? Underestimate the enemy and underestimate yourself?

Really not, because Liu Ting recognized two points:

First, his subordinate is Liu Jiajun!This is the No. [-] mountain elite group of the Han Army that has traversed the dangerous mountains and mountains in the southwest for decades, and its climbing and crossing are comparable to the wolf soldiers in the southwest!Even the cavalry under his command, because they had to accompany Liu's army's infantry to fight, had to specially strengthen training in mountain marches.

If someone asks which cavalry is the strongest in the world, there must be a lot of controversy, and it is definitely not his turn to be the cavalry of the Liu family army, but if you ask which cavalry is the best at crossing mountains and mountains, there is nothing to argue about, it must be the cavalry of the Liu family army undoubtedly.

Although Longshou Mountain and Heli Mountain are really difficult to climb in the eyes of the northerners, but in the eyes of Liu Ting, who was 13 years old and took down Jiusi Man with his father, and personally killed several generals... Damn, this is a small scene?It's really not worth mentioning.

As for the second, it is what he just mentioned: Brihatu must be in the rear, and he must not go too fast!
The current Liu Chen is no longer the reckless and titan who relied on his own bravery and the elite under his command, and only cared about "breaking through a thousand troops".Especially when he received Gao Yushi's personal command in the Korean War for half a year, his brother-in-law, who was exhaustive, gave him too much inspiration and had a great influence on him.

Now Liu Ting has learned how to analyze the enemy's situation pragmatically, and starts to design his own combat plan by judging the psychology of the enemy general.

So, why did Liu Ting judge that Buri Hatu would not go too fast, and would definitely stay in the rear army?There are so many points:
First, Brihatu's eastward offense did not fully achieve its strategic goals.He wanted to loot as much property and various strategic resources as possible, but in fact he only captured one Suzhou, stopping at the city of Ganzhou.Although Wubao around Suzhou and Ganzhou can also be plundered, how can Wubao be as rich as a city?Therefore, Brihatu's [-] troops were not "fed enough".

Under the premise of "not having enough food", now that Liu Ting came, Brihatu actually left without a fight, so it is obvious that there must be a lot of resentment in the Mongolian army.In particular, Liu Ting only brought 3 forwards here. There must be many people in the Mongolian army who think that this battle can be fought.Running away without fighting, seems to be afraid, it's too useless.

When the Mongolian army faced the Ming army, it did often run away without feeling ashamed, but that was because the Ming army was a "big army".Moreover, the combat tradition of the Mongolian army is to harass if you can't fight it head-on, or to avoid its edge first, and then find it again when you are not a big army next time.But now?Condition not met.

If you are not full, your face will be damaged.With these two superimposed, if Brihatu is really as difficult to deal with as Lord Hou said, he will definitely find a way to show himself off, so as to restore the morale of the army, and then calmly withdraw the army as a winner.

The leader of one party's power, if he doesn't make a move, he must win, otherwise his prestige will be shaken.

Regarding this point, Liu Ting didn't feel much before. After all, for a general, "victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs"!However, after the Korean War, he gradually figured out these principles from his highly pragmatic code of conduct.

Why are there countless famous generals in the northern and southern towns of Ming Dynasty, all of whom are rebellious and rebellious on weekdays, but they are all as honest as a mouse seeing a cat when they are under Lord Hou's command?Without him, this battle is invincible!

Don't underestimate the word "prestige", especially don't think that "prestige" is a vain thing, "prestige" is very real!
You ask the generals of the Qin Army after the Battle of Julu, did they feel arrhythmia when they heard Xiang Yu's name?When the nobles of the Huns were chatting and laughing, when they suddenly saw the banner of "Han Champion Hou Huo" approaching quickly in the distance, did they feel hot in their crotches?
Prestige has this effect, which makes people change color, become terrified when they hear it, and bow their heads without knowing it.Therefore, the leader of one party must value his own prestige, and he must not take it lightly.This is true of Gao Shishi, so why not Buri Hatu?
Therefore, Buri Hatu must design for him to pursue him. Even without the jealous letter from Xu Sanwei, Liu Ting dared to infer that as long as he arrived at the city of Ganzhou, he would definitely find all kinds of signs—these signs were all They all pointed to one point: Brihatu withdrew in an extremely hasty manner, as if something had changed internally.

In short, he will use various methods to "seduce" himself and chase after him until he breaks into the ambush circle he set up.

Liu Ting was never one to underestimate himself, he believed that Buri Hatu was interested in defeating himself, the "famous general of the Ming Dynasty".Moreover, since he was transferred to Gansu at this time, Buri Hatu must understand that he will be the main general of Daming in Gansu for a period of time in the future, so once he can fight for the first time, give himself a disarm, and he will definitely be a little more afraid when he faces him again in the future , which is of great benefit to him.

The matter is so important, and it seems that there is no general under Buri Hatu's command who can handle it alone, so can't the important task of sitting in the rear army be done by himself?
The above are the reasons why Liu Ting immediately decided to take a detour after learning that Gao Yushi was the chief assistant.He is not a whim, but sure.

After the small meeting and discussing the route to cross Longshou and Heli Mountains, Liu Ting once again sent people to urge the generals and ministries in charge of preparing for the battle. Good spirits - running for hundreds of miles, whether it is far or near, it is essential to recharge your batteries.

According to his plan, after dispatching troops and before arriving in Suzhou, he will not arrange much time to rest, so now it is time to eat and drink, and after eating and drinking enough, he will set off early tomorrow morning!
Although Brihatu would stay behind and wait for the Ming army's reinforcements to catch up with him, but if he couldn't wait for a long time, he would definitely be suspicious.Therefore, the plan to raid Suzhou to cut off the Mongolian army still needs to race against time!
Liu Ting himself was unambiguous, and went to bed immediately after giving everything.He was a veteran general for many years. Although this plan was extremely dangerous in terms of the comparison of troops, he didn't care at all. He almost fell asleep and soon began to snore evenly.

In the early morning of the next day, Liu Ting got up on time without waiting for his servants to come to invite him, and called all the generals to ask about the preparations. He was very satisfied to see that all orders had been carried out.

He first ordered Liu Tianfeng to command the remaining [-] people on his behalf, and slowly marched to Ganzhou, expressing to Gansu governor Xu Sanwei that he had obeyed the order to pursue the Mongolian army.

Then he asked the rest of the ministries to take some measures, pretending that the number of the army has not changed, and it is still 3 people. The old tricks of the Han army in the previous dynasties can now be followed by the gourd, and there is no need to make any innovations.

Everything was ready, so Liu Ting took three generals and eight thousand cavalry to set off. Liu Tianfeng and others wanted to persuade them one last time, but they knew Liu Ting, and Liu Ting also knew them, so they said they couldn't do it first. If you persuade again, the generals will have to give up.

Therefore, Liu Ting's army set off immediately, and went north to cross Longshou Mountain.

It stands to reason that spring has already begun at this time, but the weather has been weird these years, with long winters and short summers, and the high-altitude Longshou Mountain is still covered with light snow at this moment, which has not completely disappeared like the "city belt" in the Hexi Corridor.

This winter-like Longshou Mountain is like any mountain in the north, with luxuriant grass, dead branches and thin cold, desolate eyes, and howling wind.

As Liu Ting saw in front of him, as soon as winter came, the vegetation on Longshou Mountain all turned yellow.Reeds as tall as a person, ice grass and wormwood as tall as half a person, swaying in the wind with yellow faces.The hollyhocks and Chinese roses on the roadside have lost all their leaves, shivering naked in the cold wind.

The patches of trees seem to have suddenly seen through the world of mortals after the prosperity and converted to Buddhism. The leaves are all gone, leaving only one color of gray and one color of clean.However, the leaves of the pagoda tree fell hesitantly, and many leaves were still clinging to the branches tightly and refused to fall, as if they had heard an order somewhere, and it was too late to fall all of them. became a Buddha.

However, don't think that such a Longshou Mountain really has no vigor and vitality.In the Shulang Mountains where the cavalry of the Ming Army passed through, the sparrows are particularly conspicuous.Chubby, jumping and jumping, his little head shrinks and shrinks, pecking lightly here and there, like looking for food, and like playing casually.Being so close to people doesn't seem to be afraid.

A cavalryman saw it interestingly, and whistled lightly towards the flock of birds. One of the sparrows flew suddenly in shock, and the others flew away as if frightened, and then they all stopped on a tree. , whispering, twittering.The surrounding cavalry laughed lightly, and one of them said: "These guys are happy, are they always so lively?" Everyone just laughed and said nothing.

After a while, a living creature suddenly sprang out from the grass by the side of the road. Several cavalrymen were startled, and subconsciously grabbed the handle of the knife at their waists with their right hands.But upon closer inspection, it turned out to be nothing more than a khaki hedgehog, and now it has already stumbled away.

The cavalry had no interest in hedgehogs. The most pleasant surprise was meeting pheasants. They usually hid in pairs in the grass and kissed each other. Before people approached or found them, they would act guilty and flap the big ones flutteringly. The wings flew away in the direction of the road the cavalry was traveling.

Their long tail feathers are quite beautiful, but cavalry are not here to enjoy the wild scenery.The fast-handed cavalry will immediately hold the bow in hand, without aiming at it, just relying on the feel of the hand to raise the hand is an arrow, and often gets the next meal.

The cavalry didn't find it difficult to walk, and they even felt that the former comrades in the Northern Army had exaggerated, but they didn't know that the road Liu Ting took them was not known to many people.

This road is actually a smuggling route.

Qi Ding of Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd. took over the task of guarding Shandan Guard in the 17th year of Wanli. It turned out that there was a group of horse bandits active in the area at that time. A small group of officers and soldiers.

Since Shandanwei didn't have many cavalry, they chased and suppressed them several times but failed to make meritorious deeds. Instead, they were attacked several times by horse bandits and killed more than a dozen of their comrades.

At that time, Jinghua Commercial Co., Ltd. was developing business in the Northwest, and there was a need to ensure safety along the way. Now there are still people willing to pay the bill. How can there be any reason not to accept it?However, I won’t go into details about the specific bandit suppression here. In short, I finally found this route.

Through this road, their group contacted and traded with Huoluochi and other ministries that were still on the opposite side of Ming Dynasty, and provided cloth, tea, iron pots and other things to Huoluochi, Bingtu, Bintu and other ministries in exchange for their The gelding is traded with the people of Mingdi—of course, there is no need to trade when it can be robbed.

In short, the route that Liu Ting took at this time was provided by Gao Yushi who ordered Jinghua to provide it.This road is only recorded by Jinghua, and no one may have walked it after the destruction of the horse bandit. This time Liu Ting may be the first visitor to this road in more than ten years.

However, the easy road came to an end soon, and everyone found a canyon with big mountains and deep valleys in front of them.This road is extremely difficult to walk just by looking at it.The broken sand and gravel, the canyon with almost no grass, and the jagged rocks, it is impossible to distinguish the southeast from the north, and even the sky, you can only see a gap between the canyons on both sides.The draft blows through the hall, and the warmth of early spring turns into cold winter in seconds, making people tremble.

There is no such canyon here, but whenever Longshou Mountain encounters heavy rain, the flood will flow out from here, forming a canyon over time.Otherwise, in the depths of the vast Gobi, how could there be traces of water scoured on both sides of the mountains, how could there be huge strange rocks and broken sand and stones?It must have been washed by running water and exposed to the scorching sun of the Gobi Desert, causing the stones to crack, just like flying sand and rocks during a duel between masters.

Since ancient times, the canyon was easy to be ambushed. Although Liu Ting didn't think that Burihatu would appear on this unknown road, because he couldn't see the exit of the canyon, he was inevitably vigilant and ordered the whole army to be alert and pass quickly.
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