Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 875 Decisive Battle in Sand City ([-])
Gao Wushi did arrange several preparations, basically taking into account Tumen Khan's possible reactions after he learned that he was surrounded by things.

It can be said that no matter whether he chooses to stick to it or escape, or to fight back in advance, it is all in a highly pragmatic calculation.Among them, the escape is divided into several directions, and the counterattack is also divided into east and west. All these aspects are highly pragmatic and have been arranged in advance.

The strategy before the battle is different from the command in front of the battle. This kind of calculation and pragmatism is very good at it.

But in all aspects, high pragmatism still has a focus. He believes that the possibility of Tumen Khan choosing to fight back is the greatest, so he has done the most preparations for the encircling army from the east and the west.

In fact, relatively speaking, he was more worried about Tumen Khan's gambler mentality, so he just went to fight Han Naji without saying a word, although in this way, as long as Han Naji can last for two days, his second hand will definitely be able to Let Tumen Khan pay a heavy price, but as I said just now, the current Bahanaji's troops are only powerful, and the number one hero who defeated Xin Ai's troops before was not with him. They beat Han Naji hard, but Gao Yushi was still a little worried about whether this Dacheng Taiji's command ability was reliable or not.

The most important bet for Gao Pragmatism is that after Tumen heard that the main force of the West Whistle was coming out in full force, they did not dare to fight Han Naji when they would be surrounded at any time.

Now Hannaji has not only concentrated all the troops that were deliberately separated in the heart of the Antus, but also conducted a wave of conscription at the west post-the Mongols are the so-called soldiers of the whole people. In theory, even women and Half-grown children can go to battle when they reach the end of the road.

This time Han Najib was not too aggressively recruited. In total, more than 1 people were recruited, all of whom were "veterans" in their forties. They could still fight and had rich experience. Generally speaking, in the army, they are not easily recruited.

Moreover, Han Naji may be due to the relatively high degree of Sinicization, and he is more kind to the tribesmen. Most of these people are left in Dabansheng Town to guard, and only those who have more than three sons in their families are brought out by him to fight. .Therefore, in the end, Xishao could not be regarded as an all-out force, because there were still six or seven thousand veterans guarding Daban Shengcheng, the old nest.

Gao Pragmatic's bet is that in the current situation, Tumen will worry that they will not be able to win by playing the west post.

Not being able to please is not necessarily not winning, because in the current situation, if you don't play fast enough, or if you lose too much after the game, it is unacceptable for Tumen Khan. His main consideration now is to put it in future generations. To use an analogy in the war of liberation, it is "fight the weakest motley army first".

Therefore, the Eastern Route Army should be Tumen's first goal, and the benefits of fighting the Eastern Route Army are obvious:

First of all, the Eastern Army looks the best.Their strength is only half of that of Tumen Khan's, and they lack a unified command. When a dozen Taiji are suddenly beaten by Tumen's main force, they may fall apart at any time.

Secondly, after defeating the Eastern Route Army, the encirclement circle was also broken, and Tumen was in a strategic situation where they could leave whenever they wanted, which solved their worries for the future.

Once again, Tumen now desperately need a victory to boost the morale of the army.The characteristic of an army is that the more battles it wins, the better it can fight.Conversely, if an army keeps losing battles, no matter whether they are well-trained but unlucky or not, as long as they suffer too many defeats, their morale will definitely drop to the bottom, even if they could fight, they will become unable to fight, because Confidence is gone.

Just like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many Ming soldiers may not be able to fight, but because they were afraid of being beaten by Houjin, they became panic when they heard that Houjin soldiers had arrived, and when they heard that they were "real captives" on the other side, they couldn't wait to get out of the way. Walk.

In fact, many Ming troops showed quite good combat effectiveness after surrendering Houjin. Although there are more than one reasons for this, the issue of confidence must be one of the important items.

We also understand this principle, so of course he has to consider it.Moreover, he knew that his decision to attack Shacheng itself would not be supported by the soldiers under his command, and now his tentative attack under Shacheng had failed again—knowing that the Ming army defended the city well, but Shacheng was more difficult to fight than he imagined. , a tentative attack was beaten to pieces without even touching the city wall, how can this be fought?The low morale can be imagined.

Mongolia and Ming Dynasty have been fighting for 200 years, not to mention the upper class of both sides, even ordinary soldiers are very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, tens of thousands of cavalry came to smash a city firmly held by the Ming army, political considerations were originally more than military considerations His actions are now deflated, and there must be complaints from below.

But Tumen also had a hard time and couldn't tell. How did he know that after he came to Shacheng, it was not Hannaji but the Ming army who defended the city?Originally, he thought that if Hanaji was guarding the city, the Mongols would have been away from the city for nearly 200 years, and their level should be very limited...

So, now that morale is only just beginning to drop, he has to win a quick victory to reverse it.

The highly pragmatic "predicts things like a god" has always been "predicts people like a god", and he can basically analyze Tumen's thoughts, so he is [-]% sure that Tumen will take the East Route Army. On the one hand, a big meal was prepared for Tumen.

The number one meal is the commander-in-chief of the East Route Army——Chatai Jituo!

Chataiji and his 1 direct descendants are all in the East Route Army. In addition, the East Route Army also has the [-] Altan Khan's direct descendants of the Great Khan Guard Army sent by Zhong Jin Hatun, and the other [-] people are just one group The soldiers and horses sent by the Kyrgyzstan.

In a sense, I answer that among the more than 2 direct descendants back then, the Great Khan Guard Army, almost concentrated [-]% of its strength in the current East Route Army, and Gao Wushi ordered it in the name of full-fledged imperial envoy. Chataiji was appointed as the commander-in-chief, and Jongjin Hatun then reaffirmed this in the name of regent.

There should be no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the main force of my direct lineage. In the decades of real head-to-head battles, the record of this Khan’s guard army being deflated is very small. , Qinghai, they are the core force.

It also rarely encountered opponents in the territory of Ming Dynasty. The only general in the Ming army who really defeated this army was Ma Fang. At that time, I Da had to retreat.

And the other people who have withstood the frontal attack of this army can also be counted on one hand, including Ma Gui's second brother Ma Fu who died young.

Chataiji's prestige in the Great Khan's guard army is unmatched by anyone except Alda himself, and with the plenipotentiary envoy Gao Yushi and the justifiable regent Zhong Jinhatun as his endorsement, there is no problem in commanding this army However, the so-called "no unified command" is completely nonsense.

And this is just the first big dish, in addition, they also have two support troops.

The reinforcements along the way were a cavalry force of 1 people who followed them for fifty miles. The main force of the cavalry left by Ma Fang.

This cavalry built under the idea of ​​Ma Fang's "riding by cavalry" back then, except for the part that was abolished after Ma Fang became an official (Ming Army West Huaidong system, thought that the Xuanda line did not need so many cavalry when Ma Fang was there, After the abolition, it was strengthened to Li Chengliang), and now they are basically transferred to fight this battle for Ma Chengxun.

The other reinforcements set out quietly from Zhangjiakou, under the command of General Zhang Bingzhong, who was guarding Xuanfu South Road Shunsheng Weiguang. He was impressed, especially by his son Zhang Wanbang [Note: See Chapter 125 of Volume [-], "Ke Zhan Fang He"].

The number of this General Zhang’s troops is not large, only 6000, but they have a trump card-the first batch of Wanli Type [-] bayonet muskets that were sent to Xuanda not long ago, because their troops wanted to support the Battle of Monan , so got a full facelift.

Although I have only practiced the bayonet for half a month, but because the basics of the bayonet written by Qi Jiguang are issued with the gun, the training effect is not bad.

As I said before, Qi Jiguang knew the style of the bayonet musket from Gao Yushi a long time ago, so he studied the usage of the bayonet in the army early and wrote "The Essentials of the Bayonet".The basics of the bayonet are the same as Qi Jiguang's usual way of training soldiers. The moves are very simple. There are less than ten moves to come and go, and there are only five moves when facing the enemy head-on, so it is not difficult to practice.

This army set off ahead of time and quietly walked along the border of Daming, intending to appear suddenly at the place where Tumen and Chataiji met and try out the tactics of "breaking horses with steps".

At the time of the night, Tumen Khan "quietly" pulled out his camp and marched towards the expected weak enemy "Tumote East Road Rebels"...

(End of this chapter)