Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 291
Ma expensive?

Gao Wushi was taken aback when he heard the words, looked carefully at the young general in front of him, and said in his heart: I'm afraid that I really traveled through the wrong era. With my chance of meeting a fierce general, if I go to another hospital to meet Liu Zhen, When I came to Datong, I met Ma Gui... I really should have traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not to mention other things, at least collecting a bunch of famous advisers must be very interesting.

However, the records of Magui in the history of the Ming Dynasty are relatively inaccurate. It seems that it started from the end of Longqing. High positions, it can be seen that talents are indeed rare.

Of course, normally speaking, apart from the founding period and the period of subjugation, a dynasty's success in ordinary years is definitely not only due to the rare talent. One of the participating generals, once followed the town commander Liu Han to raid Bansheng City with great success, and was transferred from the accumulated meritorious service to the deputy general of Xuanfu.

From the perspective of the entire Ma family, it is even more talented.As we all know, in the late Ming Dynasty, the first so-called "general gate" in the minds of ordinary people was probably the Tieling Li family represented by Li Chengliang and Li Rusong's father and son. On the same level is the Xuanma family, which has the saying of "East Li and West Ma".

In the Ming Dynasty, there were 83 military generals from Youyu nationality, among which there were as many as 33 in the "Mahjong" class alone, accounting for nearly [-]% of the total.And in the five dynasties before and after Magui, there were first-rank officials from generation to generation, and they were Ma Quan, Ma Zheng, Ma Lu, Ma Gui, and Ma Chengzong.

Anyway, to put it simply: the Ma family is a Xuanda military family.

Although Ma Gui's current position is not high, he is just guarding Desheng Fort, but his title is not very low, and he has already arrived to direct his affairs.

This situation is roughly equivalent to a certain department-level cadre in later generations being specified as enjoying the treatment at the deputy department level, or a certain department-level cadre being specified as enjoying the sub-provincial treatment.At Magui's age, the reason why he is treated like this must have something to do with his background.

Gao Yushi simply went through Magui's information in his mind, then rolled his eyes, and asked pretendingly: "Youyu Malu Ma Zongrong and General you..."

"It's family strictness." Ma Gui responded.

"Oh..." Gao Wushi showed a professional "friendly smile" and said, "It turns out that he is a general. I don't know if the general has the Ma family's 'Dabing' with him?"

Ma Gui was a little surprised by this question, and asked subconsciously: "The imperial envoy has also heard of the name 'Da Bing'?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that the members of the Ma family are called 'Da Bing', and there are many Mongolian, Hui and other people who are brave enough to fight. , I must be in this Desheng Fort, even if I face the army of the North, I can sleep a lot."

"The imperial envoy has won the award." Ma Gui said neither humble nor overbearing: "After my father begged for a rest, the soldiers were divided between the last general and his brother Ma Jin, and each got about five or six hundred people. The last general brought three hundred here this time. In Desheng Fort, it is being used as a garrison winning bid supervisor."

The so-called winning bidders of the chief general generally refer to the soldiers of the family members, who belong to the direct lineal troops of the chief general, and are usually the troops with the best treatment and the strongest combat power.

When Gao Wushi heard that he was leading three hundred Ma family troops, he immediately felt that his personal safety was better protected, and he was very relieved to say a few polite words.

In fact, Gao Yushi's own cavalry is not inferior to the Ma's army in terms of personnel quality. After all, the foundation was not bad before, and they have been instructed and trained by the two famous generals, Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang.However, Gao Wushi felt that his servant had at least two points, and now he was definitely not as good as a private soldier like Ma's army.

First of all, the Ma family is a military family, and his family members are regular troops recognized by the court, who can be equipped with any weapons and equipment; while Gao Yushi came from a civil servant family, and neither the elders in the family nor himself are in the border area now. As an official, even if his servants and guards are armed to a certain extent, they cannot wear regular army armor or use firearms prohibited by the imperial court to be owned by civilians.

In terms of armor, Gao Yushi can still think about it, but the fact that he can't use firearms has always made Gao Yushi very uncomfortable, because he doesn't know much about cold weapon tactics, but he is somewhat confident in the application of firearms, and he can't use firearms. It also virtually reduced the combat effectiveness of the Gao family's armed servants.

As for the second point, Ma Jiajia Ding's formal combat experience must be far superior to Gao Jiajia Ding's, because the former is not only a regular army, but also the backbone of the regular army.In addition, as the Ma family is a military family, several generations have been leading the Ma family army to fight. This kind of experience cannot be obtained by training alone.

Although the highly pragmatic guards have gained some combat experience recently, especially in the field of cavalry, they have also fought several battles of different sizes in Monan in the past few months, but the largest scale is hundreds of people against more than a thousand There are people around, which is certainly not enough compared to Ma's army.

At present, in Desheng Castle, Gao Yushi has about [-] servants under his command, and they are extravagant one-man and two-riders.Ma Gui's "Da Bing" is only three hundred, and it is not clear how high-level and practical the equipment is, and it is hard to say whether he has one man and two riders.But Gao Yushi still felt that if the [-] cavalrymen under his command could now draw a tie with Magui's [-] soldiers, then he would be very satisfied.

Gao Wu made up his mind secretly in his heart: we must quickly promote the pilot project of privatization of the military industry, otherwise where would I find a breakthrough to equip my servants with firearms?Without firearms, I'm afraid I can't even fully utilize my half-baked military knowledge, it's so embarrassing!

Since Ma Gui is on the defense of Desheng Fort, and most of the defense of Desheng Fort is from his handwriting, it is more appropriate than Ma Wei to explain the defense arrangement to Gao Yushi in detail. Although the questions Gao Yushi asks are trivial, he It can also be explained one by one.

However, after listening to Gao Yushi, he found one thing that surprised him, that is, Magui's defense arrangement did not seem to consider the possibility of a strong attack by the ants.

When he asked Ma Gui this question, Ma Gui shook his head and said: "I answered that over the years, the method of attacking cities with ants attached to them has been rarely used. Firstly, the casualties are too heavy for him to bear." , otherwise the interior may be unstable; secondly, the ants need to build siege equipment, and the Mongols are not very good at this. Siege equipment, the speed advantage of their Mongolian cavalry is equivalent to giving up on their own; three times... the last general thinks that I answer this, showing off the factor of force is relatively large, and if he really makes him storm the Great Wall pass, he probably won't do this Kind of silly."

(End of this chapter)