Chapter 186 The Stalemate Battle Situation Puts Azig in a Dilemma
Outside the Gubeikou Pass, Tang Tong rode a bay-red horse to see off his son Tang Hanfu, who led the troops out of the pass.
"You need to keep two things in mind when you go outside the customs. One is to ensure that our son does not get into trouble, and the other is not to disobey Cao's command. Everything must be obeyed by Cao's command, and you cannot do anything without permission."
"Father, please rest assured, I know the importance." Although Tang Hanfu said this, in fact, he had no idea how to carry out his father's instructions. He had to protect his subordinates and listen to others. Such contradictory instructions,
Not operable at all.
Tang Tong also knew that it was difficult to take care of these two things, but he just wanted to take them both. He couldn't afford to offend Liu Yuanbin inside the pass, and he couldn't afford to offend Cao Ruohai outside the pass. He hoped that his son would not let him go after he led his troops out of the pass.
If people are used as cannon fodder, it's best if they can gain some military exploits.
Soldiers are the generals, and Tang Tong's subordinates are mainly soldiers. He is not worried about leaving the two thousand family assets to anyone, so he can only let his son be taken out of the pass. However, the soldiers outside the pass are fierce and dangerous, and he can't worry about his son. In short, this
What Tang Tong did was quite cowardly.
In the afternoon, the battlefield outside the Pass ushered in a moment of tranquility. The Qing army, which was constantly attacking, was about to return to camp for dinner. Wu Jiye, a small platoon leader of the Second Brigade of the First Division, let out a sigh of relief as he watched the retreating Qing army.
He took out the wine bag and took a swig of wine.
"Platoon leader, give me a drink, too." Ma Datou, a soldier standing next to Wu Jiye, felt greedy in his stomach when he saw the platoon leader drinking. He approached the platoon leader and asked for a drink.
This is how it is on the battlefield. After a few battles, a sense of loyalty is born, and sometimes the grassroots officers and soldiers no longer feel unfamiliar.
"You have a lot of things to do! Take it, you can only drink one sip, and pass the rest to the others, so that all the brothers can taste the wine. There is only two kilograms of wine in one day, you don't want to drink it all by yourself."
Said Wu Jiye while throwing the wine bag to Big Man Ma.
There were more than 40 people in the row holding wine bags and each took a sip. The person at the end actually didn't get any wine in their turn.
While everyone was drinking and bragging, the men from the cook squad came along the trenches to deliver food.
"Liu Datou, what's good in today's meal?" Big Man Ma asked the cook squad leader who came to deliver the meal to see if there was any change in today's meal.
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"You're the only one who talks a lot! It's still pork vermicelli, but it won't make you more beautiful."
"It's pork vermicelli again! We've been eating this for three days and we still don't want to change it."
"For a change? It's already very rare to have no shortage of meat on the front line. What else are you thinking about, you thieves? Why don't you go out tonight and drag over a dead Tatar horse from the battlefield? I'll give it to you.
Make roasted horse meat.”
While teasing each other, the cooks prepared rice, pork vermicelli, and a few steamed buns for the frontline soldiers one by one. This was the food on the battlefield.
Fortunately, pork could be preserved in winter, otherwise the soldiers on the front line would not be able to eat fresh meat. In order to keep the soldiers fighting outside the customs full of energy, Zhu Youjian specially purchased 10,000 pigs from Huangzhuang Farm and allocated them to the battlefield.
The pigs in this era were not big. One pig only weighed 180 kilograms. Ten thousand pigs on the battlefield could only feed the soldiers for a month. Fighting means spending money. After this war outside the customs, the additional military expenditures are estimated to be
It costs two to three hundred thousand taels.
Vermicelli and tofu are also foods that Zhu Youjian specifically told must appear on the battlefield, because they are also high-energy foods. Fighting consumes energy, and it is extremely cold at this time, which consumes even more energy.
Energy food, soldiers can't resist it.
"Platoon Commander Wu, you guys will cook the sugar water later. I put the bucket here. The one I delivered a few days ago was frozen as soon as it arrived on the battlefield. It would be better if you just put the iron bucket on the fire and cook it."
"Squad leader Liu, just put it where you want. We will do this later. It's a waste to drink sugar water now. Let's cook it after we fight off a wave of Tatars in the afternoon. Not to mention, drinking a bowl of sugar water is really exciting. It can kill the Tatars.
It can give you a little more strength."
The Ming army here had vermicelli meat and sugar water to drink, but the Qing army on the opposite side did not receive such good treatment. Azig led his men on horseback to inspect the soldiers who were eating, showing a solemn expression.
Nearly 100,000 people participated in the war, and the Qing army's logistical supply was also in trouble. After a month of hard fighting, even the Eight Banners soldiers were now unable to guarantee one meal of meat every day.
"The sea is full of people who were sent out to look for food in the nearby Mongolian tribes, but they didn't get any mutton." Seeing the Eight Banner disciples eating dry flour cakes and drinking plain water, Azig was very unhappy. Although he didn't understand anything
It's energy, but you have common sense. You know that you can make do with your usual meals, but you can't make do with it during a war. You must eat at least one meal of meat a day.
"Your Majesty, all the Mongolian tribes nearby have fled. The people I sent out to look for food have traveled a hundred or two hundred miles without meeting a single person."
"These Mongols are really ungrateful. We came all the way here to help them drive away the Ming army, but they all ran away."
Uncle, don't you blush when you say this? Are we sending troops to help the Mongols drive away the Ming army? Man Dahai cursed Azig in his heart. But he still said: "Your Majesty, it's not just once or twice that the Mongols have avoided war.
Yeah, these people are not trustworthy to begin with."
"The war is now too difficult. I don't know what the Ming army on the opposite side has eaten. They have been fighting hard for a month, but their strength is still strong. The fierce attack in the past few days has had some effect at first, but in the past two days,
But they are getting less and less advantageous. I don’t know what happened to the Ming army, but they are fighting more and more steadily. Today, more than 2,000 cavalry have arrived at their main camp. This battle is not going to be easy."
Mandahai was Azig's nephew, so Azig told him about the troubles he encountered during the war. As the commander-in-chief of an army of 100,000, it's no wonder Azig had no pressure. Every time the Qing army sent out troops, they had to gain something.
It means that if he returns without success this time, even if he is Dorgon's brother, it will be difficult to deal with him.
He can't be surrounded, he can't be defeated, he can't be circumvented, and Azig is really worried when he encounters such a situation. He has also been a veteran for decades, and this is the first time he has encountered such a situation. Before going on an expedition.
, Abatai, Mandahai and others all said that the Yongwei camp of the Ming Dynasty was difficult to fight. Azig didn't care about this, thinking that they were making excuses for their own incompetence.
After arriving on the battlefield, they discovered that things were worse than they said. They explained that the most capable soldiers of the Junyongwei camp were only five or six thousand, but there were twenty to thirty thousand soldiers and horses on the battlefield.
What frightened Azig was not that the number of soldiers had increased, but that he clearly felt that some of the Ming soldiers were new recruits who had just entered the battlefield. But as long as they were exposed to two or three formations, these new Ming soldiers quickly became more sophisticated and difficult to deal with.
.What he was most worried about was whether the Ming army had mastered some knack for quickly training troops. If this was the case, it would be extremely detrimental to the Qing Dynasty. There were so many people in the Ming Dynasty. If they could form an army so quickly, the Qing Dynasty would not be able to.