Chapter seven hundred and twenty first war on hold
October 26, the second year of Yongping.
The last remaining soldiers of the Jin Kingdom were sent to the capital of the Jin Kingdom and ended up in the territory of the Turkic Moro tribe. The month-long migration came to an end.
Since most of their migration routes were based on the border between the Jin Kingdom's ancestral land and the Jin Kingdom's imperial court, more than 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Six Guards of the New Army of the Northern Expedition were ordered by Yunyang to take advantage of the speed of the cavalry to deal with the mixed forces.
The remnant soldiers of the Jin Kingdom pursued and intercepted him, but in the end they had little effect.
First of all, Dalong's map has not been extended to the terrain outside the Jin Kingdom, and he is really not familiar with the terrain, which caused great inconvenience to the march.
Secondly, the empress and others arranged a trick to confuse their hearing and hearing. With a radius of fifty miles in depth, there were horse hoof prints and infantry footprints everywhere.
The Six Guards of the New Army really couldn't figure out which route was the real main force of the remnants.
The concentration of military strength will often be empty, and then re -plan the recovery route. The enemy forces are already more than a hundred miles. The military power is scattered and afraid of the ambush of the enemy forces.
Due to various factors, only a small number of the remaining Jin soldiers were captured. The real main force of the remaining enemy troops was pursued and intercepted by the Six Guards Cavalry of the New Army and detoured into the Turkic territory, completing the alliance of forces.
Looking at the enemy's excitement, Cheng Kai and his six men led their soldiers and horses in pursuit to the Moro River on the border of Jintu. They had to stop and did not dare to rashly go deep alone.
With their horses and whips raised and galloping all the way to pursue them, they had already opened an unknown distance from the main infantry.
Dare not to be deeply deepened, not afraid of the ambush of Turkic and Jin Guo's disabled, but there are not many dry foods carried on the body.
At the end of October, the grass on the grassland has withered and turned yellow, but the war horses still have something to eat, but the soldiers cannot feed on grass like the war horses.
After the first battle of the Jin Kingdom, the Six Guards had 300,000 cavalry, and now there are about 260,000 left. With the Turks and the cavalry from the ancestral land of the Jin Kingdom attacking each other, and with the support of the main siege infantry from time to time, the new
All six military guards were injured, and the total casualties were nearly 40,000.
With 260,000 cavalry in hand, Cheng Kai and others are not afraid to make enemies of any troops on the Turkic grasslands.
Once encountering the main force of hundreds of thousands of troops united by Jin and Tu, if they can't defeat them, they will retreat in a roundabout way, and then wait for an opportunity to attack again when the enemy's defenses are empty.
But all prerequisites must be based on sufficient food and grass.
Only when there is sufficient food and grass can the army go deep into the vast grassland alone, travel long distances, and fight in great depths.
Therefore, when food and grass could not be replenished in time, Cheng Kai and Zhou Baoyu discussed many times and gave up the plan of venturing into Turkic territory to fight.
October is already cold enough.
At this time last year, heavy snow had covered the Turks and the Kingdom of Jin. This year, although the snowstorm has delayed the generals, no one dares to ignore the potential crisis.
''''''s’ss�s��Suppose heavy snows suddenly fall shortly after entering Turks, not only people will not be able to eat, but even war horses will not be able to eat.
At that time, it was simply a fatal threat to the cavalry.
The generals who have been working under Liu Mingzhi for many years have learned the style of General Liu Mingzhi and are determined not to fight an uncertain battle.
Before setting off for the expedition, the commander-in-chief sternly asked himself and others to take the brothers back with him. They dare not forget the instructions for a moment.
Although it is important to perform meritorious service, the lives of brothers cannot be treated as trivial matters.
With more than 200,000 elite cavalry, if anything goes wrong in the slightest, I and others will be blamed even if they are killed by the nine tribes.
What's more, the army is also accompanied by a prince and two young masters, which makes it even more careless.
Above the boundless wilderness of the Morro River.
More than 200,000 cavalrymen stretched as far as the eye could see.
Liu Chengfeng and his three brothers rode towards Cheng Kai and the others. They were now less immature and more resolute.
“Uncle, why did you stop and not continue the pursuit?”
Cheng Kai and others, who had dismounted and looked at the map, turned around when they heard Liu Chengfeng's question.
“Chengfeng, now we are short of food and grass. If we continue to go deeper, once we lose contact with the main rear force and the food and grass army on the grassland, we may be in danger of running out of food and grass.
Now we have to stop and wait for the commander and the others!
Otherwise, once the food and grass are exhausted, even if we will not die in the ambush of the Turks and the remaining Jin enemies, we will starve to death in the vast grassland wilderness."
Cheng Kai and the others had already explained. Only then did the three brothers know what was going on, and they put away their questions and said no more.
Zhou Baoyu looked at the three sensible brothers with a chuckle and rolled up the map in his hand.
“Lao Cheng, Lao Ye, Fuji, Lao Chu, and Lao Ning, I think we should station ourselves at Xingzhou, Muzhou, and Jinzhou and wait for the arrival of the main force from the rear.
Now that the three cities have all been owned by my dragon, we can avoid the cold by entering the city, and once the Turkic and Jin coalition forces come to visit us, we will also have the advantage of being able to advance, attack, retreat and defend."
Cheng Kai and others discussed for a while, and Ye Baotong waved to Cheng Kai and the other five to move to talk.
The six of them looked around at the brothers who were preparing for repairs, and walked towards not far away.
“Lao Ye, what did you say first to make it so mysterious?”
Ye Baotong looked around and lowered his voice intentionally: "I think we should not take the initiative to wait for the arrival of the main army and join forces with them. Instead, we should send brothers along the way to come back for reinforcements and take the initiative to take over the food and grass to supplement our food and grass consumption.
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They looked at each other, thought for a moment, and seemed to understand what Ye Baotong meant.
“You mean that in the Turkic War, we are still on our own?”
Ye Baotong nodded solemnly: "Yes, that's what I mean. The battle on the grassland should be based on cavalry, combined with infantry. Although it can relieve some of the pressure on infantry, the advantage of our cavalry will be the greatest constraint.
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Of our six guards and horses, none of them has gone deep into the hinterland of the grassland alone in the previous national wars, and has rich experience in grassland combat.
Compared with attacking a city and taking out a stronghold, grassland warfare is dominated by cavalry. If we continue to rely mainly on infantry, our casualties will probably increase exponentially.
So I think we should form our own army and support each other.
We, the Six Guards, have been working together for many years and our cooperation is seamless. We do not have such a tacit understanding with the seniors of the Six Guards in Northern Xinjiang.
How about forming an army of our own and giving full play to our advantages.
Isn’t that exactly what the prince means?”
Cheng Kai and the other five fell silent, holding their chins and thinking.
"agree!"
"Seconded!"
"agree"
Cheng Kai and the other five thought for a while and agreed with Ye Baotong's idea.
“Let’s go to the city to discuss this matter carefully. For now, it’s better to go to the city to make repairs first. The weather in the Turks is so damn evil. We must send a message to the old commander and ask him to send a message to the court to prepare cotton-padded clothes for the winter.
Otherwise, I’m afraid this winter will be difficult.
The city now belongs to us, so we can’t just tear down our own house and light a fire to keep warm!”
“Okay, let’s enter the city first and discuss who would be better sent to take over the food and grass.”
Under the leadership of six people, 200,000 troops and horsemen were stationed in Jinzhou in two groups, and Xingzhou was repaired.
Two days later, just as a few people were discussing the generals who would take over the supplies, crystal snowflakes fell from the dark sky.
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Winter in the Northland came again without warning, announcing that the Northern Expedition Army and Jingjun Turks' plan had to be shelved.
Half a month later, the main infantry of the Northern Expedition, under the command of Yunyang and others, faced the wind and snow and settled in Jinzhou, Songzhou, Xingzhou, and Muzhou to carry out repairs.
Yunyang and other generals also started working on the latest battle report.
However, they did not know that the heavy snowfall that arrived in time gave the Queen new hope.
Due to the heavy snow, it meant that Dalong’s plan to migrate the people and gradually settle in the Kingdom of Jin had to be shelved.
Now Dalong's soldiers and horses have pursued them to the grassland.
It means that the territory and city they captured will become empty and uninhabited land except for a small number of troops stationed there.
It is not impossible for the people who went to their ancestral land at this time to migrate back again to survive this severe winter.
Under the ice and snow, more than a dozen golden eagles cut through the sky and soared into the wind and snow.