I left on Sunday and left with great satisfaction.
Liu Chengzong's troops went all the way east to the Gaotai Oasis, and a siege of Che Ying Boring began.
Gansu Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li Hongsi's tactics were not complicated. He was a veteran. Apart from never having fought in Gansu, his military experience was impeccable. When he saw Tang Mingshi asking for help, he knew he had made a mistake and should not have allowed Tang Mingshi to fight.
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But the mistake had been made, and all Li Hongsi could do was make up for it. Since it was difficult for him to defeat Tang Tong quickly and Gao Ying was still on his side, he had to find a way to pull Tang Mingshi out.
But this seemed to be too much of a disadvantage. Just as Gansu General Yang Jiamo led his troops from Ganzhou, Li Hongsi decided to have a big event. Regardless of whether there were reinforcements behind Gao Yingdeng, he would prepare as if there were reinforcements.
, used a car camp to stop them, sent troops from Gaotai to the south, and quickly swallowed up Gao Yingdeng.
The general of the car camp he dispatched was Ganzhou Road Counselor Lin Chengdong. This was a military officer whose hometown was in Xi'an Prefecture. He was also experienced and had led the car camp to participate in the battle against Chahar.
In Li Hongsi's design, Lin Chengdong's mission is the top priority for whether the plan can be achieved. Lin Chengdong himself also knows very well that his car camp is pulled out to carry the front.
The main military thought of Cheying is to defend first and then fight. First, let yourself be in an invincible position, and then wait for the opportunity to move.
Even though Gansu's camp is not as good as Liaodong in terms of supplies, a full camp there has nearly 7,000 people, and Lin Chengdong's camp has only 4,000 people, but the ratio of food and grass is the same, and they are all prepared according to the forty days without supplies.
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The vehicle camp is just a kind of equipment. The basis of the army is infantry and cavalry, which has poor mobility and is very expensive. This is because a large number of vehicles bring extraordinary transportation capabilities, allowing them to carry a large number of artillery under the same troop strength.
, the quantity of rockets and grain.
Lin Chengdong is far from confident in this action, but he is not afraid either.
After the defeat in the first battle, their understanding of the Marshal's Army was updated. The lack of heavy artillery was still a weakness, but they were strong in building forts and light firearms.
Lin Chengdong's combat purpose is to hold back the Marshal's army and create opportunities for the main force to annihilate Gao Yingdeng's troops.
Therefore, there is nothing much to say about the situation when the two armies meet. The responses of both sides are very routine and formulaic operations.
Lin Chengdong's carriage camp received a report from Tangqi during the march. The two horse battalions of the Marshal's Army swept in from west to east and immediately stopped. The cavalry in the camp moved forward to delay the movement. The carriage camp was deployed on the spot and trenches were dug to set up artillery positions.<
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The vanguard of the four battalions under Liu Chengzong's command was Zhang Tianlin's cavalry unit who was the first to engage with the chariot battalion. The two sides clashed for a while.
Zhang Tianlin ran the fastest because his mission was to assist Gao Yingdeng. When he was two miles away from the carriage camp, he took a look at the carriage camp and realized that the carriage camp was not his target. He immediately led his troops to leave and replaced Feng Yu and Wei Wei in the rear.
Qianer's two battalions came to fight.
Lin Chengdong's carriage camp set up a position and immediately fired artillery fire at the marshal's troops who entered one mile away from the carriage camp to cover the cavalry's return to camp. Wei Qian'er and Feng Rui decided to use artillery to fight back and tried to approach the formation. After failure, they changed tactics.
Dig trenches and build walls on the spot to surround.
Lin Chengdong is also happy to see this. If the enemy builds a wall, the camp will be safe in a short time, and the strategic goal of holding back the enemy's main force can be achieved, just waiting for the army behind to gather.
Li Hongsi's idea was very good. His army would cover the battlefields in the west and south, and build a large number of fortifications so that they could safely wait until Yang Jiamo arrived.
It's just that he overlooked a small problem. Liu Chengzong's army to lure the enemy was not just Gao Yingdeng, but Gao Yingdeng and Mo Yujing.
On the battlefield at this time, Mo Yujing was leading the army to move south.
Mo Yujing was originally a staff general of the Lutang Battalion. He was promoted to the deputy commander-in-chief of Xining in Gansu due to the counter-insurgency war in Shaanxi. The soldiers were seriously war-weary, so he was transferred to Hehuang just in time to catch up with the peasant uprising in Hehuang. Then the Marshal's Office sent troops, and he had no soldiers.
There were no generals, but a group of chieftains who had been weakened by the Ming Dynasty surrendered before the Hehuang War began.
After the surrender, Mo Yujing did not work hard at the Marshal's Mansion. He did not give lectures to the officers in the academy and did not interfere with the military affairs of Huben Camp. But other than that, he had no other choice, because Mo Yujing
The situation is similar to Wang Chengen, they are both from Xining.
The dust of the Hehuang War was settled, and the entire Hehuang became the territory of the Marshal's Mansion. They were all loyal ministers from generation to generation, and they couldn't bear to do things for Liu Chengzong. They rebelled, and the Marshal's Mansion's policies in Hehuang were very popular, so they just
I can cooperate passively to relieve my own embarrassment.
Later, Mo Yujing was given the official position of Brigade Commander of the Tunmu Brigade, and he began to let himself go. He simply squatted in Delingha, leading the Chahar and Heshuote battalions to herd horses and sheep, and did not interfere with the affairs of the Marshal's Mansion.
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However, although Mo Yujing did not interfere with the affairs of the commander-in-chief, he did a good job in controlling the military and political affairs in the Gobi.
He built the brigade commander's office in Delingha, with the office as the center to manage the pasture and cultivated land of the two battalions, and cooperated with several chieftains to recruit troops to Fuyi among Delingha, Golmud, Dulan Mountain and Wulan Mountain.
Roads and bridges were built, fields were dug, canals were dug, and salt fields were mined. The work was done very impressively.
This also suited Liu Shishi's wishes. Originally, Mo Yujing was asked to lead the brigade commander of the Tuntian Middle Brigade, but he was not expected to do anything. The main purpose was to contain each other.
Mo and Jing are in charge of the Mongols. If the Mongols want to rebel, Mo and Jing will have to rebel. If Mo and Beijing want to rebel, the Mongols will be there. The interest demands of the two sides are fundamentally different, and no one can want to rebel.
This expedition originally had nothing to do with Mo Yujing. It was the Chahar battalion staff generals Qutu Taiji and the Heshuote battalion staff generals Dorji Taiji who had achieved success in Xincheng Academy. They wanted to send troops, so they sent the brigade to the expedition.
Bring Shuai Mo and Jing.
It is said to be a brigade, but in fact there are only more than 4,000 people, 90% of whom are Keshote and Chahar. It is basically a Mongolian reinforced battalion.
By this time, Mo Yujing was the one who most hoped that the Marshal's Mansion would win, because this expedition greatly damaged the vitality of the Mongolian camp from Golmud to Wulan Mountain. If he could not win, everything he had done before would be almost lost. p>
The Heshuote Battalion of the Marshal's Mansion is the elite selected from the Oirat's southern invasion army, but its own personnel composition determines that they are not a tribe, but the herdsmen and combat soldiers of the Heshuote Department of the Tianshan Mountains.
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This is true for the six Mongolian battalions under the Marshal's Mansion. Even if all of them are on horseback, the lack of support personnel means that some of these cavalrymen need to spend time walking, brushing, drinking, and serving the horses every day. At best, they say that all the people are in the army, but in fact the price of all the war is that production is stagnant, no one herds sheep, no one herds horses, and no one cultivates the land.
At first, Mo Yujing received an order to occupy the upper reaches of the Heihe River and build a dam. Later, he received an order from Liu Chengzong to lead his army south to attack Gaotai.
It is quite frightening to lead such an army and execute the order to attack the Ming army's fortress.
However, Mo Yujing, who thought there would be a fierce battle, ran to the high platform in a hurry, only to find a scene that made him happy - hey, no one is there!
Forget it that Liu Chengzong's main force had not arrived, there was no one in the Qianhu Station on Gaotai, and there was no one in the defense fortifications of Camel City, leaving only the camp and fortress with crisscrossed ravines, and the horses of the Heshuote camp collided with each other, and there was no one left.
Encountering decent enemies.
Of course, Mo Yujing did see the small Ming army. They were on the piers of the Great Wall fortresses along the Heihe River. From the Eighth Dam Fort to the Fourth Dam Fort, there were dozens of scattered defenders in each fort.
, endlessly firing beacon cannons.
But Mo Yujing didn't care. Anyway, the beacon would have been discovered once it went off, so it didn't matter if it fired two more times.
He ignored the beacon forts that had been transferred to garrison, and rushed into the Gaotai Qianhu Station. He did three things that day. The first was to tell Liu Chengzong that the Gaotai had been captured; and then he immediately left the Gaotai and led his troops to Li Hong.
Later, he built a defensive position in Luotuo City; finally ordered the reconstruction of the defensive position.
Mo Yujing knew very well that with his reinforced Mongolian battalion, which didn't even have a few cannons, it was okay to fight and move quickly with its horse power, but it was wishful thinking to use positional warfare to defend Qianhusuo on the high platform. p>
So he only asked Ruitu Taiji to plant a flag on the high platform, then turned around and asked people to clean up the rags left by the Ming army and come out. The gunpowder, winter clothes, horse grass, tools and even iron pots in the city were all swept away.
Sitting in the defensive position carefully built by Li Hongsi outside Camel City.
Li Hongsi's position is good, but it is not suitable for Mo Yujing.
The Ming army's position consisted of a camp on the inside, a low wall in the middle, and two trenches on the outside. The first layer blocked horses and iron pear, which was suitable and strong for the Ming army.
The two trenches are covered with large barbs, leaving only a few empty spaces for people to stand. These empty spaces are not for soldiers to defend the trenches, but as observation posts for the artillery.
There is a reason why the Ming army often called cannons blunderbuss, because they used the cannons as blunderbuss, and sometimes even installed more cannons than blunderbuss. Loading gunpowder, stuffing projectiles, aiming in rows, and shooting were blunderbuss.
That's right.
Only artillery cannot be fired in trenches, so this kind of trench position will appear. Several people observe the enemy's situation in the trench bunker and direct the artillery team to aim.
Mo Yujing didn't have a cannon. He was a general of the Ming army and was very familiar with the Ming army's tactics.
There is a trend in the Marshal's Mansion that the Mongolian soldiers are weak and the Han soldiers are strong, but in his eyes, this is not the case. How much difference can there be between people? People cannot be separated from the environment, just like the tactics cannot be separated from weapons and equipment. This method of trench defense is meaningless to his Mongolian soldiers. Even if they hide in the camp, they will be suppressed to death by artillery fire when the Ming army attacks, because they have no artillery.
So he had people pull out all the wooden thorns in the inner trench and bury them directly on the flat ground between the two trenches. He also selected nearly half of the unarmored soldiers to get into the trenches and use them as bunkers to fire arrows.
In fact, the most confused person on the battlefield was Yang Jiamo, the general officer in charge of Gansu Province who led the newly recruited Ganzhou Army in the east. He wondered why the beacon gun kept sounding?
In fact, at this point in the war, the way of conveying military information, such as beacon cannons and beacon fire, is meaningless.
This is an early warning device. It beeps endlessly, and the rear cannot distinguish the information. Yang Jiamo only knows where an enemy army must be stationed, but no one knows where exactly it is stationed, so his marching speed is very slow.
, for fear that someone would steal the army.
In fact, the soldiers of these two newly recruited Ganzhou battalions are all from the Ganzhou Five Guards. Although in addition to the banner army, there are also young people of appropriate age from all walks of life, it is difficult to find idle people in Gansu who have nothing to do with the military. p>
After all, this is not a province, but a military region.
But this is a good thing and a bad thing for Yang Jiamo. The good thing is that recruiting soldiers in Gansu is very simple. There are many young people of the right age who are not physically disabled and have certain military knowledge, so they are good candidates for military service.
The bad part is that Yang Jiamo must ensure that they survive as much as possible.
As the saying goes, the poor are rich in literature and rich in martial arts, and practicing martial arts costs money, but the money is not spent on explicit expenses such as food and drink. During the Wanli period, the income of a long-term worker was enough to support a young martial artist to eat a chicken for three days, or half a day.
A pound of beef only costs four silver coins a month.
The real cost of being poor in literature and rich in martial arts is that this young man needs to get out of work, practice in the summer and in the winter, and practice a skill that will be used only a few times in his life.
In the peaceful years like the Wanli Dynasty, when there were only one or two border conflicts a year, practicing such a skill would be too stressful for ordinary people and families... mainly because it was useless.
A person of normal age will be a soldier for the rest of his life, and there are many people who have never fought in a war.
In the final analysis, the promotion channel for martial arts is very narrow in normal times, but it is different for literature. Even if you cannot be an official, you can still engage in other professions and earn a good income and social status. It is a good tool for making a living, and martial arts is more
Like a hobby.
For ordinary people, making a living is practical, while hobbies are luxurious.
No matter how close they were to the battlefield before, these young soldiers were not soldiers. After all, they had to fight one or two battles before they became more like soldiers.
What Yang Jiamo fears most now is that an enemy army will appear on the way and step on their faces with horse hooves, scaring them out of fear and running into the desert to become bandits.
Yang Jiamo has no veterans at the moment, and the general military battalion is in Zhuanglanghe. He has no intention of using these two battalions as the main force, but just as a reserve army. However, something happened at this juncture - Gaotai Qianhu Station,
Why did you insert a Tartar spear?
He did not wonder for too long, and soon the soldiers boarded the empty Qianhu Station on the high platform and took down the Chahar black paper that Zhutu Taiji had placed on the city. Then the news of the Tang soldiers from all walks of life reached Yang Jiamo
In the ear.
The entire battlefield is like a race.
Tang Mingshi reunited with Li Hongsi, and the two chased Gao Yingdeng and ran eastward. Behind them, Zhang Tianlin pursued him like crazy. Four thousand Tatars under the Camel City seized the fortifications, and there was also a full car camp.
The big man was surrounded in the middle of the battlefield.
Yang Jiamo quickly realized the danger, not only because his plan to block the Marshal's Mansion rebels to the west of Zhangye failed tremendously and was completely ruined.
The key is that Gansu's official and military forces were torn out of shape in the first conflict, and the main force of the enemy army had not yet appeared on the battlefield.
Standing at the top of Qianhusuo City on Gaotai, Yang Jiamo heard Wang Xingshan, the deputy commander of the newly recruited Zuoying in Ganzhou, ask: "Commander, can you save General Lin?"
Should we save Lin Chengdong?
To be honest, Yang Jiamo wants to save. Even if we don’t talk about subordinates and don’t talk about the four thousand troops, a car battalion can play the role of a battlefield fulcrum in the upcoming decisive battle.
But he still shook his head slowly: "If the energy consumption of the car camp can be sustained, let's look at him first."
Yang Jiamo was talking about Liu Chengzong: "Let's see if he can save the two camps to the east."