Chapter 162 Azig: Wasn't the Ming army blocked by me?
"Secretary Zhang, I will make it clear to you at the Military Council today. This time I asked you to go to the Miyun battlefield to help Liu Yuanbin and the others solve their problems, rather than to constrain and make trouble for others. What the country needs most now is
Winning a war is all about winning. I hope you can understand the current situation of the court. If the war is won, whoever deserves the credit will get the credit. I will not forget anyone who has done something for the Ming Dynasty.
.Don’t bring the petty tricks of some literati to the battlefield. If the Ming Dynasty publishes another Yang manuscript, Wang Huazhen and his like, and interferes with state affairs, I will destroy his ten tribes! Civil and military forces are not checks and balances, but must work together to achieve generals.
It is the behavior of a wise minister to bring out his own strengths and not get involved in things he does not understand."
After saying these words, Zhu Youjian paused for a moment, feeling that it was necessary to explain the truth more clearly to the people in the Ministry of War, otherwise these people would still be confused and might have great resentment, so he continued:
"I have no prejudice against civil servants leading armies, but leading armies must have rules for leading armies and cannot be done in a hurry. If after this battle, including Zhang Shilang, he wants to lead armies, I will open a special senior general class in the general school hall. If you are interested,
Please enter the hall to understand the basic rules for leading troops, and then I will let you slowly lead troops starting from brigade generals. Suddenly letting people who have never been exposed to military affairs lead heavy troops! It is irresponsible to the country and you.
Responsible. I don’t have the capital to take risks again! After the situation has eased a little, I will let you all go out and practice one or two. I fully support it. I wish that there would be a few more Sun Baigu-like figures in the country to share my worries. Just say Jian Heng,
Can I not know the difficulties of the commander-in-chief at the beginning of the year? Without the support of the basic soldiers, no matter how good the military strategy is, it will not be able to be carried out."
"Your Majesty, I can understand that Your Majesty is worried that the civil servants do not know the soldiers and delay the military battle. However, military commanders with heavy troops will also cause many disasters. Regardless of whether they will become bigger or not, they will not listen to the imperial court's orders. Let's talk about strategy, military commanders
I'm afraid it's hard to think carefully." Chen Xinjia was scolded by the emperor and felt very angry. But later the emperor spread the matter and he was able to discuss the matter calmly.
"Why don't I tell you that I can see Hengchang Yu Zanhua! You really got it right. There is a big problem in the Ming Dynasty's military. Generals cannot control large soldiers, and civil servants cannot lead troops on the front line.
As a result, two skins were formed, the upper and lower skins. The Ming Dynasty had counselors who were good at strategy and strong generals who were good at battle formations. However, military warfare has always integrated strategy and battle formations. No matter how good the strategy is, if the battle formations are rough, the battle will not be won.
No matter how strong the formation is, strategies will not work, and we can only fight small battles but not big ones. I set up a general academy and train new troops to solve this problem. The way to win is to plan the battle appropriately."
After chatting for a while, the basic military strategy was decided. Facing the nearly 100,000 Qing army this time, the new army should be used as the main force to meet the enemy. In order to be just in case, and at the same time solve the problem of no mobile troops,
Xiong Daheng, the deputy commander of the 1st Division, went to the Xishan Camp and recruited more than 20,000 people into the camp based on the remaining troops of the first brigade to organize and train the new army of 30 reserve regiments.
This military training is different from the previous military training of the integrated system. It only has a reserve regiment system. After three months of training in basic subjects, formal generals will be transferred from the front line and formally organized troops and horses will be organized.
In other words, starting from the beginning of next year, the entire New Army will exceed 50,000 people. By March and April, the New Army will expand into four main battle divisions. The biggest problem with such a large-scale expansion is not the soldiers or the basic personnel.
Generals, but middle and high-level generals and military expenditures.
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The solution for the mid-level and high-level generals can only be that a group of generals will grow up in this war with the Manchus.
In terms of military expenditures, Zhu Youjian also calculated the accounts. The military salary plus equipment and consumption of a soldier per year are calculated as an average of 60 taels. The annual military expenditure of an army of 50,000 to 60,000 is about 3.5 million taels of silver. The average monthly expenditure is Yes, 300,000 taels of silver. The net profit of the palace's factories, supply and marketing cooperatives and other profit-making institutions in November was about 280,000 taels. Since the income is still growing, it is expected that it will not be a big problem if it exceeds 400,000 taels by the middle of next year.
Judging from this revenue and expenditure situation, it is not a big problem to feed the expanded new army. There may be a period of imbalance in the balance of payments, but since banks can issue military notes and coins, appropriate injection of water can solve it.
This is the role of having the right to issue money. If there is no such way, if there is a tight turnover situation, there will be no way out if no one borrows money. Nowadays, the shortcomings of small money can be dealt with by injecting water.
On the battlefield outside the Pass, Azig, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, looked at the arrangements of the Ming army on the other side of the battlefield, and he couldn't keep up with his thinking.
Six days ago, his main force had already come into contact with the Ming army. At the beginning of the war, it was still a normal pattern. As soon as the Ming army encountered his own army, it began to retreat. Within a day or so , the Ming army retreated nearly fifty miles.
Azig's idea at that time was to quickly block the retreating Ming army. Wouldn't it be in vain when they retreated to the side wall of Gubeikou?
It took a lot of effort for the cavalry to charge forward before the Ming army, which was retreating wildly, stopped fifty miles away from the Mingguan wall.
It was a good thing to stop. It could be regarded as realizing the strategic intention of annihilating this army. Azig let out a sigh of relief.
In order to block the Ming army's retreat, Azig sent 20,000 Mongolian cavalry with the Horqin Mongolian tribe as the main force, blocking the Ming army's camp and the border wall.
The remaining thing should be to wait for the heavy troops to arrive before officially launching the annihilation war.
However, from this moment on, the fighting became a little unreasonable.
Twenty thousand Mongolian cavalry could not stop the Ming army. The Ming army had a ferocious cavalry consisting of nearly a thousand people. This cavalry was all musketeers, and they were not mediocre in charging. They attacked the Ming army camp from the side walls many times. They rushed back and forth to kill each other, and the cavalry responsible for blocking them were like decorations.
This cavalry also charged at the main camp of the Qing army behind them several times, leaving Azig in a very embarrassed state. This is very surprising. With such a cavalry, the Ming army can completely follow them. The gap was opened and the troops retreated calmly, but they refused to retreat any longer.
Why do you feel that the Ming army staying outside the wall is not blocked by their own army, but because they don't want to return to the wall at all!
This is strange enough in the first place, but the Ming army is doing something even more surprising. The Ming army, which was originally gathered together, actually started to separate camps today. They did not separate camps behind them. Instead, one part goes to the left front and the other part goes to the left.
This Ming army is also too courageous. They are divided into camps in this way. The largest group only has six or seven thousand people, and the remaining two small groups only have about three thousand people. They are not afraid of being cut up by our army. ?
Azig saw that the Ming army's arrangement was not in line with the customary arrangements, and originally thought of sending a large army to stop it. However, when the military order was issued, he changed his mind and said: "Send the order, as long as the Ming army does not retreat, let them go."
By dividing the camps into separate camps, our troops will have more opportunities to attack each one."