Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 992 Determination (Two in One)
Taking orders belongs to taking orders, but that only confirms that Ma Dong is the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in this battle. In terms of general strategy, he still has to listen to high-level pragmatic orders. The power to oversee the army is also retained.

Therefore, the next step is to continue to discuss the specific method of this battle here at Gao Yushi.

Ma Dong's mood was too agitated at the moment, and when he asked him the specific method of fighting, he barely suppressed the impulse, and in the end he could only think of a method that seemed a little feasible.

Ma Dong said: "Courage is what it takes to fight. If you work hard at once, then it will decline, and then it will be exhausted. The general thought that the Liaohe defense line could still stop the Tatar allied forces, and at the same time closely observe the morale of his army. Once the time is prolonged, the morale of the Tartars will turn around." In order to be depressed, I will suddenly send troops to directly attack the Chinese army, and perhaps defeat the enemy in one battle."

Gao Wushi nodded slightly, looked at Ma Fang again, and asked, "Does the governor have any other suggestions or additions?"

Ma Fang thought for a while, and said: "This method is generally feasible, but it is not detailed enough. For example, when the morale of the Tartars turns low - how low is it? It is until they think they can't attack Liaohe and plan to retreat. , or wait until they are completely shaken whether the fundamental goal of this battle can be achieved?"

"Also, after that opportunity, the so-called 'suddenly send out troops and directly attack the Chinese army' is also very vague-suddenly send troops, where do they come from? Directly attack the Chinese army, which Chinese army? If the opponent does not join forces, Tumen The two divisions of Chaohua and Chaohua always act separately, or they each lead their divisions and take care of each other in a corner, where do you plan to send troops from, and which one should you attack first?"

Ma Dong said: "Father, this matter depends on the actions of the other party, and then we can make targeted deployments and decisions. Right now... it seems that it is not easy to make a premature decision."

Ma Fang shook her head slightly: "Temporary decision is very important, but it usually refers to after the army has already led out. The general is away, and at that time, when encountering an unexpected situation that was not planned before, it is natural to make a temporary decision. You can't be stupid. A few places are forced to follow the scheduled plan, but this does not mean that some layouts cannot be made in advance when the temple is calculated."

He looked at Gao Yushi and chuckled: "When it comes to the layout, what I admire most for decades is the military constitution. I don't know if the military constitution has been completed in this battle in southern Liaoning?"

Hearing this, Ma Dong immediately looked at Gao Wushi.

Since the Battle of Monan, General Xuan has admired Gao Yushi's layout and planning ability so much that he has almost surrendered. Although Ma Dong did not directly fight under Gao Yushi's command at that time, during the post-war period, especially On the way to Liaodong with their father Ma Fang, the father and son carefully rehearsed this battle several times, and no one could think of a better way to fight.

After all, Ma Dong is not as experienced as Ma Fang. He focused more on tactics in the deduction, but Ma Fang told him that Gao Bingxian's use of troops is actually not outstanding in tactics. It is a "stable" word.

The real strength of Gao Bingxian is that he can always figure out what the enemy will think, and then set up tricks according to the opponent's thinking. This is the basis for him to win in one step and everywhere.

Therefore, Ma Dong has great expectations for his father's push back to Gao Pragmatic's hand of "planning and planning", and hopes to experience this kind of power nearby.

Gao Yushi spoke very domineeringly before, but now he has regained the usual modesty of a literati, and smiled slightly: "The governor is too famous, and I really dare not be the governor, but I have some ideas."

He paused for a while and continued: "I guess Tumen and Chaohua came here mainly because they hoped to plunder in southern Liaoning and seize some supplies, food and grass for the winter. This is because they were blocked by my Ming Dynasty so that the supplies were insufficient. Unless they are willing to watch the people starve to death and freeze to death, they must find a way to solve the reality caused by Fengfeng."

"But they are all nomads, far worse than Tummet. They definitely can't solve it by themselves. We can only hope to plunder. As far as I know, after Uncle Ning Yuan went to Gule Village, he still left some elite soldiers to guard western Liaoning. Yes, as for Liaodong, firstly, Liaoyang Deputy Commander-in-Chief will assist in the defense, and secondly, it is closer to Uncle Ningyuan's army, so it is necessary to guard against Uncle Ningyuan's sudden withdrawal of troops to help. Good choice."

"Southern Liaoning has had few wars, and it has always been known for its unusable soldiers. In the sixth year of Wanli, Tumen and Chaohua came here once. The fault was that Uncle Ning Yuan came to help in time. Maybe even Yaozhou City was in danger. It can be seen that in southern Liaoning The army has been weak for a long time, and it will not take a day or two to make a big difference."

Ma Dong interjected at this moment, and said, "Bingxian will bring a thousand cavalry at the end, which is not bad. In addition, the Ma family and the Zhang family have hundreds of cavalry each, and they are also capable of recruiting and fighting. Three Adding up all the places, there are more than [-] elites, and they should be able to use them to select fronts and break through the formation."

Gao Wushi nodded, and said: "Of course I know this. In fact, I am here in southern Liaoning, and there are probably about a thousand servants who can use it. If you count it together, it will be three thousand. But good steel Used wisely, these 3000 people are the basis for our final victory in this battle and cannot be easily invested."

Ma Dong nodded to express his understanding, and asked Gao Wushi to continue his analysis.

Gao Yushi said: "Brother Chongzhai just said that it is a good idea to use the Liaohe defense line to block the enemy first and defeat their sharpness, but we don't have to wait until they are 'exhausted' before doing it, but we can think of ways to design It’s a trick, make use of strengths and avoid weaknesses, and lure them to their own death.”

Ma Dong was taken aback for a moment, and then he immediately regained his energy, knowing that this should be the key point of "Gao Bingxian is good at setting up tricks" that his father told him.

"Also ask Bingxian for advice!" He said immediately.

"Discussing military affairs, talking about pointers, I'll just wait for mutual confirmation." Gao Wushi smiled and said: "Just now I mentioned to the two of you that Jinghua's gunboat on the Liaohe River, Brother Chongzhai seems to be more inclined As for using them for defense, in fact, I don't think it is necessary to be so conservative, and the navy should be used more as an offensive force."

Ma Dong was stunned for a while, and said in surprise: "But the navy can't go ashore, how can they attack these Tartars?"

At this moment, Ma Fang couldn't help cursing again: "Stupid! Didn't the military constitution say just now, 'set up tricks', 'exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses', 'lead them to die themselves'! You don't have ears or you start at this age Deaf?"

It was only then that Ma Dong remembered that Gao Wushi had indeed said that just now, and his face turned red all of a sudden, and his expression became embarrassing.

Gao Wushi reached out his hand to stop Ma Fang who wanted to continue to teach his son, and said with a smile: "Please calm down, governor, the northerners use far less ships than the southerners, and they are not very familiar with the use of naval forces. This is also human nature, not alone. Brother Chongzhai is like this, before Wansheng went to Guangxi and Annan, he didn’t even know that sitting in a water station is so much more comfortable than riding in a horse station!”

Gao Wushi dragged himself into it, so Ma Fang couldn't criticize anymore, so he had to suppress his anger, and said to Gao Wushi: "Oh, the dog is stupid, I hope Bingxian can teach me a lesson, otherwise I will die in the future, I'm afraid I have to worry about them even if I go to the bottom of the Nine Springs."

Gao Wushi hurriedly said that it would not be possible, and after a few words of persuasion, he said: "I don't know if Brother Chongzhai has noticed that although Jinghua's fleet is said to be the strongest water force in the Liaohe River Basin, in fact the real gunboats are also Just more than 30 ships... This means that it is actually impossible for Jinghua to completely block the Liaohe River for hundreds of miles, it is simply impossible, let alone more than 30 ships, even [-] ships may not be enough."

In fact, there are really [-] gunboats. The defense line in the south of Liaoning alone is enough to arrange. However, Gao Wushi has other intentions in saying this. I understand, why don't you just believe what he says?
Ma Dong was stunned for a moment, thinking that there was a loophole in his previous plan, because according to this statement, wouldn't the Liaohe defense line be undefendable?
So Ma Dong became anxious when he heard it, and hurriedly asked: "Huh? Then what should I do? Or, let's guard a few important ferries or something?"

You may have read too many novels, and you really think that the only way to cross the river is by ferry.Even in books such as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Yuan Shao must have a ferry when he goes south, it is because Yuan Jun itself is mainly infantry, and the number is very large. It is not enough, and it is easy to be hit by Cao Cao halfway.

But Tumen is different from Chaohua. These Mongolian cavalrymen went south, and the supplies they brought were basically all on horseback. Supplies?What is that?

And their military strength is not particularly large. Although the Mongols are not very productive, if they can't even tie a raft, how did they sweep the world two or three hundred years ago?Not to mention that after they conquered some countries and regions and robbed many craftsmen, at least when they first raised their troops, they couldn't stop fighting when they encountered rivers, right?

In fact, as early as the time of Genghis Khan, the Mongols had a solution to this: each of them carried not only a spare bowstring, but also wax and needles and thread for repairing equipment.And these equipments are installed in a special skin bag, which can be inflated when crossing the river.

The inflatable leather bags are used alone, and can cope with simple shallow river swimming. If it is a deep and wide river, these leather bags are tied together, and then local materials are used to make skin rafts to cross the river.

Of course, the lower reaches of the Liaohe River are "deep and wide" rivers, so the Mongols need to make leather rafts to cross the river, but they don't need any ferries—unless they grab enough Han Chinese ferries.

After Gao Wushi explained a few words, Ma Dong realized that he had made a joke again, and quickly shut up with a blushing face.

Ma Fang originally wanted to scold him for not even knowing how to hide, but when the words came to her lips, she suddenly felt that "knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing", and it would be better to learn more honestly, so she held back.

Gao Wushi continued: "I guess since the Tartars came here to plunder, it is almost September and winter is not far away, so they must be in a hurry. So, as long as we rely on the Jinghua fleet to block them in the Liaohe River A few days to the north, the Tatars must try to crack it, but the way to crack it is obviously impossible to cross the river with a cannon, and can only choose another place to cross the river.

In this way, they may form a suspicious formation by the river, and then the army will turn away quietly, and suddenly cross the river at a place that our side has not noticed.After all, according to the Tazi's thinking, as long as they can cross the river, the guards in southern Liaoning are not worth mentioning at all. They can defend a few big cities or important fortresses, and those ordinary small towns and villages can't stop their looting at all. In other words, they will feel that as long as they find a chance to cross the river, the battle will be won. "

Now Ma Dong began to understand a little bit, thought about it, and asked tentatively: "The military constitution means... to attack halfway across the river? Or let them cross the river, and then lay an ambush ten miles away?"

Gao Wushi laughed, and said in a loud voice, "Why don't we do both? Anyway, we attack halfway across the river. The fleet hits those on the river, and ambushes those who come ashore. The rest of the tartars who are still on the north bank of the Liaohe River watch their own families being beaten with dumbfounded eyes. Wouldn't it be nice to not be able to help?"

Before the Tartars were dumbfounded, Ma Dong was dumbfounded first, and thought to himself: Gao Bingxian looks like a gentleman, but there is really a lot of bad water in his stomach. Let the Tarzi's rear team watch the front team and the middle army being slaughtered, while he can only howl and jump on the shore, this is really... so fucking wonderful!

He didn't dare to laugh, but Ma Fang laughed loudly and said: "A clever plan, a wonderful plan! If you can fight like this, it will really relieve your anger, but there are two small troubles here, we still have to pay attention to it."

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "There are two small troubles. Since the governor mentioned it, why not ask the governor to talk about it."

After all, it was just an addition, Ma Fang was not polite this time, and she said with a smile, "These two small troubles, the first is that you must be able to detect every move of the Tartars, and you must not be fooled by the Tartars. , this one is very important, you need someone capable of handling it, so you can rest assured... Well, this person must be a bold and careful person. Bold, dare to cross the river and approach the Tartars under such circumstances, but Be careful, so you won't be deceived."

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Does the governor have a recommendation from a hero?"

Ma Fang laughed, and said: "Everyone has been transferred from thousands of miles away by the military constitution, why does the governor want to test the old man's ability to understand people? Besides Zhang Wanbang, who else is more suitable for this matter? "

Gao Wushi asked, "What about Dongchang Castle?"

"Since we are going to use the tricks, let the Tartars think that we will only stick to the front line of Dongchang Castle..." Ma Fang glanced at his son, and said indifferently: "Let this sea-covered general personally stand in Dongchang Castle to confuse the Tartars." gone."

Not only Ma Dong was taken aback when he heard this, but even Gao Yushi was a little surprised, because according to the plan just now, if Ma Dong was in Dongchang Fort, he might lose the great achievement of ambush at the place where the Tartars crossed the river. .

However, although Ma Dong was taken aback for a moment, he did not express any objection, and even showed no dissatisfaction on his face. Gao Yushi glanced at him, nodded slightly when he saw this, and secretly said: Ma Dong may still need to be trained in his ability He has been trained, but he has a good heart, and he is a trustworthy general.

Gao Wushi thought about it for a while, nodded slightly, and asked again: "Then, the side that ambushed..."

Ma Fang said without hesitation: "Ma Jiada's soldiers have always been famous for their blood and bravery. If we don't need it now, when will we wait? The old man thought that Ma Cheng'en could be used!"
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