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Chapter 466
On the grassland, a group of cavalry marched along the nine walls of Daming towards Liaodong. There were not many cavalry, only ten in total.

"Squad leader, let's take a rest, we will be in the sphere of influence of the Tartars further ahead."

After hearing this, the cavalry squad leader jumped off his horse and said, "Then big guy, take a rest and boil some hot water."

After hearing this, a group of people jumped off their horses happily. As scouts, especially scout cavalry, they enjoyed the down-to-earth feeling when they got off the horse. On the boat, the legs and feet of the boat seem to be stepping on cotton.

They were scouts sent by Guihua City. The intelligence from Lantian County said that the Tartars were going to invade the Central Plains. Since Liaodong is a place where Lantian's penetration is weak, it is impossible to accurately grasp the news of the Tartars' invasion, and there is no Lantian on the grassland. There are many bases, so Li Chaohu discussed with Wang Guixiang of the Cavalry Brigade and decided to use the simplest and most clumsy method, sending cavalry along the walls of the Nine Sides Great Wall. As long as the Tartars want to invade, they must go from the Nine Sides , If you walk from the Nine Sides, you will not be able to get around the Great Wall.

Their people walk around the Great Wall, and they can definitely get first-hand information about the Tartars.

That's why they sent their cavalry reconnaissance team to investigate. They had been riding for nearly a day and night along the way, and they found a leeward place to take a nap for two hours last night. Everyone was very sleepy at this time.

The cavalry took out the iron pots they carried with them, squeezed some mare's milk from under their horses' bellies, and heated it.

The long-distance cavalry like them use short Mongolian pony horses. Although this kind of horse is not explosive, its endurance is amazing, which is suitable for this kind of prairie environment.

Moreover, the scout cavalry use the best mares. The advantage of mares is that they have mare milk. Although the taste of mare milk is very ordinary, but on this grassland with severe water shortage and lack of food supplies, this mare milk is absolutely It is the best energy supplement, not only can be used as water to drink, but also can be used as food to supplement energy.

At this time, the squad leader of the scouting cavalry took out a few dried yaks from his pocket and handed them to a few people. He picked up the binoculars, climbed up a dead short-necked tree, and looked at the surrounding environment with the binoculars. Make sure there are no enemies within visible range.

This is the basic requirement of a scout, to be vigilant at all times.

Soon the mare's milk was hot, and a cavalryman brought a military lunch box of mare's milk to the squad leader. The squad leader took a sip and then ate two mouthfuls of dry beef jerky. He felt a lot of fatigue relieved all over his body, and opened his mouth to yawn. , rubbed his eyes and said to other people: "Go around and find some fresh grass to feed the horses. By the way, we also feed some of the fried barley we brought. They are more important than people for a long journey."

After hearing this, everyone immediately got to work, cut some grass, and fed their horses with the barley.

Horses are their most precious companions on this prairie, and it is difficult for humans to survive alone on this prairie.

The horses smelled the scent of highland barley, looked at the green grass, and couldn't help eating, and everyone surrounded them.

"Squad leader, we're almost at the entrance of Xifeng, and there's no sign of the Tartars yet. If we go any further, we're really almost at Liaodong."

The squad leader sat down and drank mare's milk and gnawed beef jerky and said, "Look again, the news from Lantian is not wrong. The Tartars have suffered a poor harvest this year, and they must go to Daming to plunder. If the plunder fails to make their tribe Someone will starve to death this year."

"This kind of bastard is really fucked up by her mother. I have a famine and I don't want to find a way to solve it. I know that I will come to Daming to harm the common people. A bunch of bastards."

At this time, a scout said, and after hearing this, the squad leader said: "Da Ming is incompetent, let the Tartars take it easy, if our county officials rule in Da Ming, if they have the courage, they will not dare to go to our territory. "

After hearing this, many scouts agreed, and the squad leader looked around and said, "Actually, I think we are not far from the Tartars."

"Ok?"

The rest of the scouts all looked at their squad leader. Could it be that the squad leader has special abilities, thinking that everyone looked at the squad leader and said, "Squad leader, how did you feel it?"

After hearing this, the squad leader said: "I can't say it, it's just a kind of intuition. We can occasionally see herdsmen grazing along the way, but the further we go here, the fewer herdsmen. In the last day or two, our family even The herdsmen can't see it either, you know that the herdsmen live after aquatic plants, and the aquatic plants around here are very strong, but they don't come to graze, which is very strange."

After hearing this, the rest of the scouts also nodded, and some agreed with their squad leader.

The squad leader continued: "Hurry up, guys, eat quickly, rest for an hour when you are full, and then we will go to Xifengkou. If there is nothing wrong at Xifengkou, we will station here tomorrow. The brigade commander means that we don't need to touch the border of Liaodong. Those military households in Liaodong can still withstand the Tartars, and it will be very difficult for the Tartars to break through from there."

After hearing this, everyone agreed that the fighting power of the Liaodong military households is still good. Although they cannot wipe out the Tartars, they still do their best to protect Liaodong. The reason is also very simple. Dashou, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui, the private soldiers of Liaodong generals, these private soldiers have a characteristic, they don't work hard for the country's war, but if the Tartars want to move Liaodong, they will definitely not do it.

You must know that most of the current Liaodong City is the property of Zu Dashou and Wu Sangui's family. The Tartars came in and robbed their belongings. They robbed their own things and killed their relatives. Are you really going all out with the Tartars?

Therefore, the Tartars are also very smart. When they invaded the Central Plains, they never left the customs through Liaodong. But elsewhere it's pretty much a mess.

The Tartars can enter the bandits with peace of mind, and as long as the interests of the Liaodong generals are not harmed, the Liaodong generals will never really fight with the Tartars. It's fine for everyone to act and cheat the court's money. Hasn't it been more than ten years in peace?

Therefore, after many studies and judgments by the Lantian General Staff, and Li Chaosheng's references based on historical evidence, they came to a conclusion that the Tartars were likely to make breakthroughs at Qiangziling and Xifengkou in the east of Miyun, where the defense was weakest.

As for why it wouldn't be Xuanfu Datong or something like that.

The main reason is that Guihua City is on the frontier, which is occupied by Li Chaosheng's Lantian soldiers. Tartars have to consider whether they will be killed by the Lantian army from Guihua City if they enter the pass from here. At that time, they will really lose Seriously.

In fact, in history, the Tartars did enter Daming from Miyun Qiangziling and Xifengkou, but history is not necessarily accurate in Li Chaosheng's place now, because the appearance of him, a moth in historical time and space, caused many things to be confused. There was a deflection, and even many damned people didn't die, and those who didn't deserve to die long ago.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng has now lost his foresight of history, but the general direction is still correct, and Lantian has long stopped relying on his foresight of history to grasp the current situation.

Lantian now has its own research and judgment team. They will summarize the intelligence from all over the country collected by the Lantian Secret Service, and then conduct deduction, and finally get a prediction that is close to the correct answer, and then Lantian will proceed based on the results of countless research and judgments. Operation, the success rate can reach almost 90.00%.

Of course, during this process, Li Chaosheng will still open up an idea for the research and judgment team based on what happened in history, so as to have an additional possibility of research and judgment.

Of course, sometimes what happened in history mentioned by Li Chaosheng is inaccurate, and there is no way to do it. To do anything, a force definitely needs a lot of planning and consideration.

For example, if the Tartars wanted to invade the Ming Dynasty from Xuanda, and historically did so from here, but now Guihua City is in the hands of Lantian, then they have to consider the possibility of being killed for a thousand years.

It is precisely because of this unstable factor that it is likely to cause them to change their approach and change their breakthrough direction.

Therefore, when Li Chaosheng made the first change in history, apart from the general trend of history, Li Chaosheng would not be entangled in some detailed issues.

For example, in the 12th year of Chongzhen, the Tartars suffered a poor harvest. If they want to avoid starvation, they must come to Daming to grab it. This is the general trend and will not change because of some details.

So what are the details, that is, where did they enter Daming, or what month did they start to invade, it can be a month and a half before and after. As for where to enter, there is no definite rule.

So Li Chaosheng wouldn't be stupid and tell the scouts, you just wait at the entrance of Xifeng, they must enter Daming from here, what if they don't?

Because history is also accidental, Li Chaosheng concluded that the Tartars would invade after combining the intelligence of the Secret Service Division. As for where, he did not know, so he sent a scout to investigate.

If the guess is correct, it does not prove that history has not changed. Maybe this choice is the most correct choice. Even if history has changed, this choice is also the best choice.

The scouts ate and drank enough, tied their horses aside, followed by everyone leaning together, holding their weapons, hugging their shoulders, and began to rest. The squad leader did not sleep at this time, but stared vigilantly.

As the squad leader, he has more responsibilities, so he pays more. For example, he has to take on the task of guarding when everyone else is sleeping.

Many scouts did not give in, because they would let their squad leader sleep a little longer when they were resting tonight.

The scouts were really sleepy. Two days of traveling and lack of sleep made them feel extremely sleepy. The black smoke rings were not the smoky makeup they painted, but synonymous with staying up late.

The scout fell asleep very quickly, and the snoring was very sweet. They missed the delicious oil-splashed noodles in Guihua City. Although mare's milk and beef jerky taste good, they will get tired if they eat too much, especially They are all men from Shaanxi, so it is really torture to leave the pasta.

Beef jerky and hot mare's milk are the standard equipment for the Mongolians to travel long distances. The reason why Genghis Khan's expeditionary army was strong back then was because of these two winning weapons.

What is the most important thing in ancient wars?
Weapons, equipment, personnel, no, it’s food and grass. There is a saying that soldiers and horses go before food and grass are used. No matter how good your equipment is, for a heroic soldier, let him see if he runs out of food.

Yuan Shao's battle at Guandu was obviously an advantageous situation. As a result, Cao Cao burned the Wuchao where the grain was stored, and the situation was reversed in an instant.

Therefore, food and grass are the most important thing for the army. No matter how powerful a person is, he will definitely not be able to go hungry.

Therefore, it is very laborious for farming people to fight wars. It is too expensive to transport all kinds of food and grass, and the horse-drawn people carry it. Therefore, if an expedition is fought, it is basically an act of shaking the country. Then it can only end miserably like Emperor Sui Yang did.

But the cavalry of Genghis Khan back then was too awesome. You can carry beef jerky with you, and you won’t be hungry after eating a few pieces. If you are riding a pony, if you don’t pay attention to hygiene, you can drink it directly under the horse’s belly.

In this way, with a small burden, Mongolian soldiers can go on an expedition. Therefore, some small tribes that are often fought are raided by cavalry before they can react.

Normal people calculate, what is the speed of your truck, it takes five days to come to our place, but the Mongolian soldiers rode horses and held bows, and arrived in two days. Before you react, they will kill you. Yes, it's really hard to guard against.

And Lantian obviously learned the method of the Mongols, and treated the scouts according to the same treatment. Unfortunately, these old Shaanxi people are not too cold about it, and they prefer to eat noodles.

The squad leader thought about it, and remembered what their brigade commander told them in their free time. The Lantian Scientific Research Department and the Agriculture Department are researching a new type of military ration called instant noodles. It is said that noodles are fried, dried and compressed, and then soaked in water. It can grow bigger and become fragrant noodles. If you add a little spicy pepper and a garlic clove, it will be very beautiful.

The squad leader couldn't help drooling thinking about it, chewing the beef jerky in his mouth, and suddenly felt that your beef jerky is not fragrant, if you soak the beef, it will become a big bowl of beef noodles, it's beautiful .

The squad leader thought of this, and suddenly felt the ground shake.

earthquake?
No, the squad leader immediately became aware that it was not an earthquake, but the sound of horseshoes trampling the ground. Thinking of this, the squad leader stood up quickly, followed by a few steps and jumped onto the dead short-necked tree. At this time, the squad leader held the binoculars Looking in the direction of Xifengkou not far away, his eyes widened suddenly, and he saw a group of cavalry running towards Xifengkou at high speed, with a huge white flag erected behind the cavalry.

"The white flag, Dorgon."

The squad leader murmured, and the scouts who were sleeping at this time all got up from the ground, and they were all ready to fight. At this time, the squad leader said: "Quickly, set up the radio station, and get in touch with Guihua City!" , the Tartars invaded, aiming at Xifengkou!"

(End of this chapter)