"Your Majesty, this place is more than 300 miles away from Zhangjiakou. Jiannu obviously wants to lure our army to the Liaohe River and cannot continue eastward."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
In the commander's tent, seeing that His Majesty wanted to continue to press eastward, the British Duke finally couldn't help but dissuade him.
Other distinguished generals in the Zuo Army also agreed, obviously afraid of repeating the defeat of Tumubao.
Although Huang Degong and other generals did not say anything to dissuade them, their faces were obviously worried.
Compared with ordinary soldiers, who had unconditional trust in the emperor and didn't think much about it, these generals were much calmer. Like Hong Chengchou and Dorgun, they had some concerns about Zhu Cixiang, a young emperor who had never led an army in a war.
Suspect.
This is human nature. After all, military affairs are no more important than others. Although Your Majesty is wise and mighty, and speaks eloquently, he has never led an army to fight. Especially commanding hundreds of thousands of troops to fight on the grassland at once is suspected of being a war on paper.
The Red Lady is different. Although she is a female prostitute and has not read many military books, she is a rebel leader who rose from scratch. After returning to the court, her achievements are obvious to all. Thinking about it makes people feel at ease.
"Everyone, I naturally know that Jiannu is deliberately luring our army away from the Great Wall in order to cut off our army's food routes. But as the saying goes, risks and opportunities always coexist. Now Jiannu's army is divided into two, with the infantry and cavalry separated.
It is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our army."
Zhu Cixiang sighed in his heart when he saw that the generals did not trust him, but he said with a majestic look on his face.
Speaking of which, he has to blame his war-god ancestor for making it unlucky for the Ming Emperor to lead an expedition in person, making it unreliable for the young emperor to personally lead the army.
"Your Majesty, having said that, didn't you say before that our army can defeat others without fighting as long as we stay where we are?"
"I have said it before, but you, Lord British, must remember that an army must be ready for field battles at any time and dare to fight bloody battles, so that it can achieve the so-called victory without fighting. If it is timid and defends from the beginning, what will happen?
Win without a fight?"
In the past two years, Zhu Cixiang has not read too many military books. With his strong understanding ability, coupled with the knowledge from his previous life, he can talk about military theories in a series, which is not comparable to Zhao Kuo.
In fact, what Zhu Cixi said is correct. A soldier who can defeat others without fighting is indeed one who can fight and dares to fight, but there is no need to fight. It is not that he chooses to defend because he is timid and afraid of fighting.
The British Duke opened his mouth, not knowing how to refute, and everyone looked at each other in confusion. They felt that what His Majesty said did indeed make sense. However, as soon as the imperial concubine left, he felt a little uneasy, especially because of the frequent actions to establish slaves.
"Everyone, most of our troops are infantry. Only by firmly holding on to the opponent's infantry and camp can Jiannu not dare to send cavalry to detour and loot the Tumote tribe. If our army does not move where it is,
Once the Jiannu camp is far away from our army, the cavalry will attack the Western Army without any worries."
Zhu Cixiang actually wanted to stay in Zhangjiakou, but Jiannu divided his troops and they had to respond. Instead of dividing their troops and sending chariots and cavalry to contend with the opponent's cavalry, it would be better to concentrate their efforts and press forward.
In this way, hundreds of thousands of troops can advance, attack, retreat or defend. If the Jiannu cavalry really dares to loot the Tumote tribe, then they will directly push over quickly. In a Jiannu war, without cavalry cover, they will be defeated. If they don't fight, they will be defeated.
They wiped out the Mongolian tribes east of the Liao River and even attacked them directly to the northeast.
"Okay, everyone, don't worry. We have to have confidence in our soldiers. In three days, when the main force of Jiannu and the cavalry are separated by 400 miles, it will be the time for our army to attack and defeat Jiannu in one fell swoop!
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After Zhu Cixiang finished talking about the case, he said confidently.
The reason why he dared to press forward step by step was that the army had enough food and grass, which could last at least half a year.
Secondly, there are more than 500 large and small chariots built in the past few months. Together with more than 30,000 cavalry, hundreds of thousands of troops can launch an assault without any worries under the cover of chariots and cavalry.
One hundred and thirty miles, according to the current quality of the soldiers, it only takes two days, and Dorgon will definitely be caught off guard by then. Without cavalry cover, he hastily set up a camp. He wants to see what Dorgon can do to resist.
His army of more than 200,000 people.
Seeing that His Majesty had spoken so much, all the generals had no choice but to go down to prepare for battle. In order not to alarm the enemy, the Ming army also only advanced thirty miles each day for the next three days.
On the fourth day, when Zhu Cihong was about to launch a surprise attack, Jiannu's 100,000 cavalry turned around and walked back a hundred miles in one day.
The Jiannu camp did not break out and retreat, but began to reinforce the camp on the spot. Apparently Dorgon and Hong Chengchou also knew that they could not withstand the Ming army's attack, so they did not give them a chance to make a surprise attack.
This made Zhu Cixiang furious.
"Damn old dog Hong, I will definitely peel off his skin and cramps, and cut him into pieces!"
He knew that with Duo Ergun's level of skill, it was impossible to grasp the time and distance so accurately, and it must be Hong Chengchou who was behind it.
"Your Majesty, this place is almost 400 miles away from Zhangjiakou and 200 miles away from the Great Wall at the southern end. I'm afraid the slave cavalry will be able to reach it in three days. The army should just go south directly!"
The British Duke said anxiously, obviously there is not much sense of security in the vast grassland, and the same goes for the nobles of the Left Army.
"Why panic? The army has enough food and grass. Even if the army only travels five miles a day, there will still be plenty of time to return to Xuan Mansion!"
Zhu Cixiang waved his hand, showing no signs of anger, and then ordered the North and South Battalions to move closer to the center and keep a distance of five miles from the main camp of the Chinese Army.
Inside Jiannu Shuai's tent.
Seeing that the Ming army had stopped advancing and started to move closer, Dorgon and Hong Chengchou looked at each other and felt that it was very dangerous.
"Sir, judging from the current situation, the little emperor seems to be more difficult to deal with than the red lady. Is there any expert in the Ming army?"
"Now we can only see how the Ming army will march next."
Hong Chengchou sighed and said, although the two armies have been advancing and retreating in the past half month, it seems simple, but in fact it is extremely dangerous. Whoever makes the wrong step on both sides is in danger of destruction.
It was really surprising that the little emperor, who had no experience in fighting, was able to fight on a par with him and not fall behind.
After the three major battalions of the Ming army began to move closer, Zhu Cixiang did not immediately break up the camp and retreat. Instead, he stopped where he was, preparing to wait for the arrival of the Jiannu cavalry to see if the opponent would take the initiative to attack the camp.
Three days later, the 100,000 cavalrymen of Jiannu arrived and attacked the Ming army one after another, as if they wanted to keep the Ming army on the grassland.
And Dorgun and Hong Chengchou finally came to a mountain package twenty miles away from the Ming army camp to explore the camp.
Looking from afar, the three camps of the Ming army were formed into a Chinese glyph, with white military tents arranged in an orderly manner, and the number of chariots, mules and horses making one's scalp numb.
Both of them were veterans, and they were secretly frightened when they saw this scene, and completely gave up the idea of attacking the camp.
If you want to defeat such a formation, you can only defeat it if the opponent is short of food and grass, or if you are on the march. Staying still, it is really as stable as Mount Tai.
