Yang Kang has nine suns

Chapter 301 Kite Flying Tactics

After learning about the military situation near Chang'an from Fan Ning, Yang Kang couldn't help but get a little tangled up.

The group of Mongols led by Tuo Lei were much more cunning than what Yang Kang had faced before. They almost never participated in siege battles, but they had always deployed a large number of cavalry patrols in the field outside the strong city walls, only to The civilians and caravans outside the city looted.

In fact, that’s all there is to it. What makes Fan Ning and others unbearable the most is the plundering of their logistics supply lines by these Mongols.

The current Guanzhong is no longer compared to the Guanzhong in the Han and Tang Dynasties. With the erosion of the loess over the years by the Yellow River, the trees have been cut down many times, and the fertility of the land is not as good as before.

Originally, the people in Guanzhong were not self-sufficient in normal years, but this area suffered from the high taxes of the Jin Kingdom and experienced several wars, and the people still had a little food surplus to survive for a few months. Brother Guanzhong has been in business for decades, and has more than [-] soldiers and horses. Once the war starts, the food, drink, and mess of these soldiers have to be resolved by the top management.

Fortunately, Yang Kang has managed the country well in the past few years, and the weather in the south is good, so it's not that he can't afford these people's food and drink.

But the problem is that the food and drink of the Guanzhong army is in Guanzhong, so the money, grain, grain and cloth have to be transported from the south, and there will inevitably be some wilderness along the way. It is possible to plunder in Guanzhong, but after all, the Ming army couldn't send soldiers to guard the wilderness along the way from Chang'an to Tongguan and Yuguan, right?

Even if Yang Kang was barely able to dispatch soldiers and horses to guard those routes, what about after that?Did Yang Kang just spend a lot of money and not conquer other places in Guanzhong?What if other places are recovered?Isn't it still necessary to transport food and grass?

To sum it up in one sentence, Yang Kang lacks a cavalry unit!
Although there are alternative "mobile combat units" such as "Fengzimen", they can't stop the guerrilla tactics of the Mongols. After all, they can only chase, but they may not be able to catch up, and they may not be able to fight well if they catch up. Pass!

In addition, Fan Ning also told that the Mongols have changed their tactics now. They will not let go of the cavalry and directly carry out a surprise attack when they start a war. Instead, they will send some cavalry with excellent shooting and riding skills to approach the Ming army. Then it rained a round of arrows from a distance.

When the Ming army went to chase and kill them, they had only two legs and couldn't run those four-legged cavalry, so they had to give up after chasing for a while.

At this time, those insidious Mongolian cavalry will come back with their horses, follow the Ming army and let the arrows rain down, waiting for the Ming army to chase and leave.

In Yang Kang's original era, there are three words that can be used to describe this kind of tactics, that is "flying a kite"!
Under the intrusion of this kind of "flying a kite" tactic, even if Fan Ning and others wanted to have a decisive battle with the other party in the field to prevent the other party from continuing to harass their own logistics supplies, they would undoubtedly lose.

It is conceivable that after being "flying kites" many times, the exhausted Ming army experienced several rounds of downsizing caused by arrow rain, and then faced the charge of iron cavalry from Mongolia, the Western Regions, and Tubo.

Under such circumstances, it is a fantasy for the Ming army to win again.

Because of this, Fan Ning could only hide behind the solid city wall. After all, the rain of arrows from the Mongols could not threaten the archers hiding behind the high wall, but also because of this, their logistics was in jeopardy.

Therefore, to a certain extent, it was almost inevitable that Fan Ning and the others could not defeat the Mongolian allied forces alone before Yang Kang arrived, and what happened to Zhou Botong only accelerated this process.

Yang Kang was also quite helpless when he knew the Mongols' style of play. That night, he summoned all the generals in the army to his command, and asked them, especially those who accompanied Yang Kang from the Bianjing area recently. The Mongolian style of play has been revealed.

After all, this kind of tactic is indeed a little unsolvable. Without mastering the mobile power of cavalry, it is so passive. As long as the opponent's brain is not flooded, he can be said to be invincible.

The generals in the audience were talking about it for a while, but no one could come up with any good solution, and finally fell into silence, and Yang Kang's mind gradually calmed down.

"Master, why don't you teach my Huo "Tianzimen" to fight them in the wild?"

The one who spoke was Peng Yibin, the head of the "Tianzimen". He had tasted the sweetness of firearms in the Battle of Bianjing before. when it comes out to perform.

When everyone heard the words, they also expected it. After all, they had either witnessed it with their own eyes, or heard from others, how these soldiers with muskets surprised everyone when they dealt with the Mongols!
However, Yang Kang shook his head. Seeing the doubts in everyone's eyes, he explained: "The reason why our muskets were so effective against those Mongolian cavalry is because the Mongolian cavalry can't ride and shoot from a distance, they can only fight in close combat. And in front of you "Tianzimen" musketeers, there are quite a few elite soldiers of the Ming army blocking the charge of the Mongolian iron cavalry."

"But if we deal with their tactics, those Mongolian cavalry will never enter the range of our musketeers, and will only shoot at the elite soldiers standing in front of the musketeers from a distance."

Having said that, Yang Kang felt that their expectations for muskets were too high, and they had to be warned a little bit, lest they use them in some battles that Yang Kang didn't know about in the future, and they would use them in vain to defeat their opponents.

"I must remind everyone, don't overestimate muskets. You must know that even though muskets were invented, I did not remove all crossbowmen from the army! You need to know that the advantage of muskets lies in their strength. The shooting range is slightly longer than that of bows and arrows, but that distance has little effect. The real advantage is that muskets are extremely lethal. A few sharp arrows may not be able to pierce the enemy's armor, but one shot of muskets can seriously injure the opponent! "

"But while having a lethality advantage, you must also be able to realize that the rate of fire of muskets is far inferior to that of crossbows. This needs to be improved by craftsmen in the future, but this is the fact now. I can tell you clearly that the quantity of a gun A sizable musketeer against a similarly sized crossbowman, and the ultimate winner will be the latter."

At the end of the talk, Yang Kang said conclusively: "So everyone should not regard musketeers as a symbol of invincibility now, we have to learn to use and maximize their value with appropriate tactics."

Everyone took Yang Kang's words to heart, especially Peng Yibin, after all he was the master of "Tianzimen".

"So, is it true that we really have no way to deal with those Mongolians?" At this moment, another dejected voice came.

This sentence obviously hit the hearts of everyone.

"Not necessarily!" Yang Kang said with a smile: "Have you forgotten? We still have the most powerful weapon!"

"The most powerful weapon?" Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Cannon!"

(End of this chapter)