Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 837: The Ming army’s formation revealed flaws, and the Taishi took the initiative to challenge for battle

Just when Liu Chang and Hao Yi could not make a decision, their own soldiers came to report. He Yi accompanied King Wei to the military camp.

The two were startled and hurriedly came out to meet him.

After the ceremony, everyone returned to the Chinese army's tent, asked King Wei to sit at the head, and then continued the discussion.

Liu Chang was the first to complain about He Yi: "Brother Xingyi, why did you bring the King of Wei to the military camp? The sword has no eyes. If there is something wrong with this, how can we explain it to the Holy Emperor?"

He Yi replied: "This is what the Holy One means, and it is also what King Wei means. In a while, King Wei will personally patrol the soldiers and encourage their morale. In this decisive battle, King Wei will live and die with our army's formation, and the formation will be in human form." There are dead and wounded."

When Liu Chang heard this, his expression turned serious. With this attitude, he was truly desperate.

Anyone who dares to leave King Wei and run away will definitely die, and his whole family will die.

Liu Chang looked at King Wei again and saw that King Wei looked calm and composed, and couldn't help but feel curious.

Neither the prince nor the older princes are mediocre people.

Hao Yi asked: "How should we deploy defense?"

Agabarji naturally saw the flaws of the Ming army, and was secretly happy. The Maoli boy would not be in a hurry to run away now. As long as he was commanded properly, the Ming army might collapse in an hour.

I have fought in battles for so many years. I even participated in the Grand Master's attack on Beijing back then. This was the first time I saw such an array. "

Agabarji smiled and motioned to the Maori boy to continue.

The three of them discussed secretly for a long time, and then Liu Chang mobilized his troops and set up their formation. He Yi and Hao Yi accompanied King Wei to inspect the military camp.

The Maoli boy smiled proudly and continued to point at the Ming army's formation: "The Ming army's grain and grass supplies are placed in the middle and surrounded by chariots. There is no problem with this.

But there are three thousand-thousand-person formations to the north and south of him, and they are not elite at first glance.

The other dignitaries and generals were no longer in the mood. They just waited for the Khan to point out where to attack. Regardless of victory or defeat, they ran away immediately after the attack.

First, 20,000 cavalry were divided and blocked at the foot of Dongsheng City to prevent the defenders in the city from attacking.

If we concentrate our forces, divide them into three groups, and take turns attacking from the north, how will the Ming army respond? "

Then Agabarji and Maolihai led the generals to a slightly higher ground to observe the Ming army's formation.

When the Ming army was in good shape, Agabarji also led the main force of more than 100,000 Mongolian troops to the battlefield.

The capital commander Zhang Ying arranged his Baoding left, middle and right guards into three square formations on the east side of the camp. Each square formation had more than 5,000 elite infantrymen and 10,000 auxiliary troops, equipped with chariots and crossbows. around. Set up two layers of horse-rejection in front of the formation.

The Ming armies to the east and west may be difficult to defeat for a while.

The three square formations are eight hundred steps apart, so they are in harmony.

But all his cavalry were concentrated on the east side, behind three infantry phalanxes, which was puzzling.

He Yi replied: "There are rivers and ditches in the south and north, making it inconvenient for the enemy to charge. We will place three thousand infantry phalanxes in the south and north. Then we will arrange all the elites on the east side to meet the enemy head-on."

Only the Great Khan and the Grand Master frowned and watched, and Maoli Boy was the first to ask: "Who is the commander of the Ming Army, and why did he put up such a strange formation?

The three infantry formations to the west should be the Dongsheng Army coming out to support them.

So Agabarji smiled and said: "I don't know who the coach of the Ming army is, but he is obviously a bit too young. Maybe he is a civil servant sent by Emperor Jingtai. He doesn't know much about the dangers of the battlefield.

Even though the Ming army had hundreds of thousands of troops, if a weak military formation was defeated, it would probably lead to a great rout. When the time comes, the army will be defeated like a mountain, and they will only trample and collide with each other, and they will not be able to contain it at all.

Once the army falls apart, the more people there are, the more miserable the defeat will be. As a distant example, Han Xin said that when he leads troops, the more the better, but Liu Bang can only lead one hundred thousand troops. In the Battle of Pengcheng between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, Xiang Yu's 30,000 elite troops defeated an army of 560,000. The Han army trampled on each other, killing and wounding more than 200,000 people.

In a recent example, the Ming Dynasty's orthodox emperor was defeated in Tumubao and his entire army was destroyed.

I see the Ming army's formation, and the Tumubao Incident is about to happen again. "

Maoli Boy joked: "Fortunately, there is no emperor in the Ming army this time. At most, the whole army will be destroyed. It's nothing."

It was too late but not too late. As soon as the Maoli boy finished speaking, three large flags were raised in the infantry square formation on the east side of the Ming army.

"What's that word?"

Agabarji replied: "Is it the word 'Wei'?"

Maoli Boy nodded: "Yes, I have heard that King Wei of the Ming Dynasty is in Dongsheng City. Could it be that he has come out of the city? But he is still a child. The emperor's eldest son and the current prince can only barely do it. Nine years old, right?

King Wei is the younger brother of the prince, so he must be younger. "

Agabaji smiled and said: "That's just right. Capturing the King of Wei alive is not as good as capturing the orthodox emperor alive, but it is enough to collapse the enemy's morale."

The Maoli boy was greatly encouraged and immediately suggested: "It is better for the Great Khan to lead 50,000 elite cavalry to contain the enemy's cavalry. I will lead a 60,000-strong army, divide it into three groups, and take turns to attack the 30,000-person formation in the north.

After defeating them, give them a center to bloom. I will occupy the center and you go around to the east side. We will attack from east to west and eat the Ming cavalry and elite infantry on the east side.

As long as we win this battle, we can rely on the captured food, grass and baggage to cross the Yellow River, jump out of the Ming army's siege, and spend the winter in Ordos. "

Agabarji nodded and accepted the Maoli boy's proposal.

Although the method put forward by Maoli Boy is a bit like picking fruit, and his prestige will be greatly enhanced if he wins this battle, at least he is willing to lead his troops to take the lead.

Next, Agabarji and Maolihai mobilized their troops and prepared to attack separately.

……

In the Hehuan Hall, Zhu Qiyu was leaning by the window, looking at Yuquan Lake in a daze.

Today was an exception. Zhu Qiyu refused to deal with the memorial and just sat in silence.

Lin Xiangyu held a bowl of millet porridge beside her and waited pitifully for a long time before Zhu Qiyu sighed and took the porridge.

Lin Xiangyu asked cautiously: "Why are you so worried, husband?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "Counting the days, I'm afraid the decisive battle of Dongsheng has already begun. I'm wondering if I'm too hasty. The troops over there are young men like Xu Yongning, Liu Chang, He Yi, and Hao Yi. Coupled with a young King Wei who is only eight or nine years old.

This was too risky. It would have been better if An Guogong had been allowed to take charge of Dongsheng. "

Lin Xiangyu comforted him: "You must give young generals a chance to grow up. Duke An is already so old, so you can't rely on him in every battle.

Besides, there won't be many big battles in the future. Taking advantage of this rare opportunity to train young people, Zhu Wenfang can leave some assistant ministers who can take the lead.

Otherwise, he would not even be able to figure out which ministers or generals had the talent to lead the army, so how could he be in charge of such a huge empire. "

Zhu Qiyu sighed: "It's okay if we win, but it will be troublesome if we lose. I still suspect that I did something wrong. I should have fought steadily and used national power to consume the Mongolian army to death, instead of giving them a chance for a decisive battle."

(End of this chapter)