Before the advent of the era of instant messaging, the success or failure of a war often depended on the use of time differences. Ancient Chinese military commanders put forward the concept of "soldiers are more valuable and speed is faster", which was a manifestation of their deep understanding of this principle of war. And this is
The first "Defense Battle of Horqin" has been going on until now, and the time difference has to come into play.
As long as you open the map, you will find that there is an obvious protrusion on the border between Ming and Mongolia at this moment, which is Daning City. Daning City is an isolated military fortress city of the Ming Dynasty outside the Great Wall. It is close to where Cao Yun left the customs this time.
Xifengkou is three hundred miles (150 kilometers) away, and there are no strongholds around it that can "become horns of each other".
Although there are several strongholds between Xifengkou and Daning, those strongholds are not even considered "permanent fortifications" - Qingcheng, where the Battle of Qingcheng broke out, is the stronghold, and there is only one Wubao here.
Adding three piers, the total garrison only has about 200 people. Rather than being a support point for the war, it is better to admit frankly that they only serve as early warning and transmitting messages.
At the same time, the distance between Daning City and Chahanhot is about 500 miles. Since this road is basically grassland, it only takes a few days for the Tumen to return to Chahanhot. However, the Tumen left Daning City and returned to Chahan
How long will it take for the news about Hot to reach Liaodong?
You might as well take a look at the route of the message: first send it from Daning via Xifengkou to Zunhua in the pass, because that is where the general soldiers of Jizhen and the guarding eunuchs are stationed. Then it will be divided into two routes from Zunhua, and one route will be sent back to the capital.
The other one is sent to Liaodong.
Those going to the capital don't need to worry about it, just talk about the way to Liaodong. First, send it from Zunhua to Shanhaiguan via Yongping Prefecture. After passing Shanhaiguan, take the Liaoxi Corridor and enter the Liaodong Center. Generally speaking, of course, it is first sent to Liaoxi and Guangzhou.
Ning's Liaodong Commander-in-Chief, and then sent him to Liaoyang via Niuzhuang (located near Dongchang Fort, a key area of the Liaonan Battle mentioned earlier in this book).
Because of the need to go around in this way, just to send the news from Daning to Liaoyang, the entire distance has exceeded 1,600 miles. But the problem has arisen. Now we need to inform the troops who have already sent the news of Daning City.
To get to Xiao Ruxun in Horqin, it would take another few hundred miles, and Xiao Ruxun's troops were still on the move, so it would probably take some more time to find their specific location.
In this way, it would take at least twenty days to deliver the news that "Tumen has returned east from Daning" to Xiao Ruxun. As long as there is a slight accident, it would probably be a month.
Looking back at the Chahar army, it only takes a few days for Tumen to return from Daning to Chahanhot. If you consider it a little slower, ten days is really plenty, right? So how far is it from Chahanhot to Horqin?
, how long will it take?
The answer is between 300 and 600 miles, depending on the location of their opponent. Based on 600 miles, and continuing to calculate based on the Tumen army's labor force, it will definitely not take more than fifteen days to get there.
This means that the Tumen army will be able to return to the Horqin battlefield in twenty-five days at the latest - and at this time Xiao Ruxun will not receive news of the Tumen's return eastward at all.
As a general born in Liaodong, Cao Yu has always been concerned about the situation related to Liaodong. This is human nature, so he also thought about this issue. However, as the saying goes, it is difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. Although Cao Yu was worried about this situation
, but it is limited to the means of information transmission and can only sit on the wax, and there is no solution at all.
It wasn't until he went to Gao Jiang to learn about the details of the Battle of Qingcheng that he learned from Gao Jiangkou that Jinghua had a carrier pigeon system. Although the coverage was not comprehensive, there happened to be a carrier pigeon connection line from Daning City to Fuxin City.
Fuxin is one of the two newly built cities proposed by Gao Pragmatic last time (the other is Dandong near North Korea). It is located in the northwest of the Liaohe Hetao area recovered after the Battle of Southern Liaoning, and is almost half of the protrusion.
However, the strategic situation of Fuxin, a protruding part, is much better than that of Daning, because the new border wall in Liaodong has been roughly built. Although it is not fully connected, there are already more than a dozen bastions surrounding Fuxin City.
From the perspective of protecting Fuxin City itself, it can almost be said that although it is not the Great Wall, it is not inferior to the Great Wall.
Why does Jinghua have a dedicated carrier pigeon station in Fuxin? The answer is simple: Fuxin has a mine, so Jinghua is planning to buy land here and demonstrate the costs and benefits of mining. It needs better information transmission capabilities.
The main reason why Gao Pragmatic originally proposed building a new city in Fuxin is that Fuxin has mines. According to the information provided by Liu Xin, the coal reserves in this area are more than 750 million tons; the peat resource reserves are more than 1 million tons; although the gold mines are distributed
It is relatively wide, but large and medium-sized mineral deposits are concentrated, the gold is of good quality, and the metal content is more than 17 tons; the iron ore reserves are more than 65 million tons.
In addition, the Fuxin area is also extremely rich in non-metallic mineral resources, including silica sand, bentonite, purple sand clay, marble, limestone, granite, fluorite, and medical stone. Unfortunately, Liu Xin said she could not remember the details.
The amount is huge. In her words, "it must be quite a lot anyway."
In this era, the use of stone materials basically must be obtained from nearby materials, otherwise the cost is not cost-effective. Therefore, Gao is pragmatic and has no plans to develop any stone materials in Fuxin. However, coal, iron and gold mines are naturally not polite, so Jinghua Mining started early
The land is set up here to look for minerals.
Jinghua is famous for mining all over the world. I will not go into details about mining for now. I will only talk about the carrier pigeon station. The carrier pigeon station was originally a single-line back-and-forth communication, that is, a pigeon flew from a certain place to deliver a message. Generally, it did not
If you stay for more than one night, you must return to the "originating point", so in most cases it is used to receive information. If you want to "reply", you must either reply immediately and send it back with the pigeon, or send another carrier pigeon to fly again.
Of course, this is not a problem in an emergency, and Gao Jiang said something that made Cao Yun almost pop his eyes out in shock: it only takes more than an hour for carrier pigeons to fly from Daning to Fuxin.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After questioning, Cao Yu found out that because the homing pigeons are flying, they can arrive in a straight line regardless of terrain problems. Since the straight-line distance between Daning and Fuxin is only 400 meters,
Miles, and the trained homing pigeons are very fast and can fly four hundred miles in an hour if there is no big obstacle in the direction and strength of the wind.
[Note: The flight speed of general homing pigeons is 70-110 kilometers per hour, and the flying speed of better homing pigeons can reach 90-150 kilometers per hour. Some modern tests show that the fastest flying pigeon can fly at a speed of 177 kilometers per hour.
meters per hour. Therefore, Gao Jiang’s words here are actually quite conservative.]
When Cao Yu heard this, he wanted to agree at that time, but Gao Jiang raised another question: Fuxin only has a carrier pigeon station, but no cavalry stationed there, and now Xiao Ruxun's department is still outside the customs. The carrier pigeon will only find a fixed "liaison office"
"Obviously no carrier pigeon can find them, so they can only send knights to deliver the letter to their door, so things got stuck here.
However, Cao Yu said that this was not a problem at all, because although the Fuxin guerrillas were located in western Liaoning and were under the direct control of Li Rusong, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, the Fuxin guerrilla general at the moment was someone he, Commander-in-Chief Cao, could command and move——
His younger brother Cao Jian.
Since the Cao brothers embraced Gao Pangshi, they have really embarked on a prosperous road. The elder brother Cao Yu has achieved his wish and climbed to the peak of military generals as a general officer, while the younger brother Cao Jian has risen from a mere Liaoning army with little chance of winning a war.
The commander of the Southern District Guards climbed to the position of real power and became a guerrilla.
Although Fuxin City is still just a new immigrant city with a small population, it is not only a frontline location, but also the construction of the "Big Household Department" Shangshu Gao Jingshi, who controls the world's financial power. What does Gao Jingshi's support mean? It means Fuxin
With the strong support of the central government, there is a steady stream of immigrants from the disaster-stricken areas, a steady stream of financial investment, and a speed of construction and development that makes many old cities drool.
In addition, Jinghua has already explored mineral deposits on a large scale here. Based on past experience, factories and mines will probably be built here in the future. It is conceivable that in three to five years at most, Fuxin will be a pearl in Liaodong.
There is simply a bright future for the general here.
When his brother's order was sent through the carrier pigeon station in Jinghua, it was obvious how Cao Jian would react. He would definitely send the most elite Ye Bushou under his command to pass the news to Xiao Ruxun as quickly as possible.
Since Cao Zongrong said this, Gao Jiang naturally agreed. Cao Yun didn't carry his personal seal with him, so he wrote back to the temporary resident office. Half an hour later, two identical, brief letters were sent to Gao Jiang.
Gao Jiang personally supervised the release of the two pigeons at the pigeon station.
Here, the Ming army in Daning City urgently contacted Xiao Ruxun, but over there, Xiao Ruxun was still playing hide-and-seek with Abadai Saiyin Khan... No, it should be said that they were engaged in a chase.
Actually, this chase battle was not what Xiao Ruxun wanted to fight. According to him, since Tumen didn't come and Horqin's tribe had joined up with his Ming-Manchu coalition forces, all he had to do was withdraw directly to the outside of Kaiyuan. When the time comes,
The Ming army returned to Kaiyuan to station, and the three Manchu tribes could stay outside the border wall and station with Horqin, or return to their own territory, that was up to them.
In his opinion, it is not cost-effective for the Ming army to wander outside the pass all the time, because although the Ming army is also cavalry, the Ming army cavalry will not run away with cattle and sheep, and the "combat self-sustainability" is not comparable to that of Horqin.
, even compared to Manchuria III, it is slightly inferior.
After all, people don’t eat well, so they can make do with enough food. However, due to the practical reform of the Ming army, the dietary standards of the Liaodong frontier troops have been raised twice in more than ten years. The current rule is that every meal must be oily.
, even if there is no meat, there must be fish. Although the quantity is not large, it still increases the logistical pressure.
Therefore, Xiao Ruxun hopes that the Ming army will withdraw into the pass as soon as possible. The Horqin tribe and the Manchu tribe will naturally not be brought into the border wall, but the Kaiyuan border wall is not far from the original. If the Horqin tribe is stationed within the northwest border wall of Kaiyuan
In addition, once there is police, the Ming army can rush to support within a day.
As for the three tribes of Manchuria, Ye He and Hada are the so-called "North Pass" and "Nang Pass". The north and south are all aimed at Kaiyuan, and naturally they are very close to the original. Even if they return to their own territory, they have to rescue Horqin.
It would not take more than two days. The Jianzhou Right Guards were farther away, but the number of troops they sent was very small. In Xiao Ruxun's eyes, the symbolic significance was greater than the practical significance. It didn't matter whether they could make it in time or not.
Is two days of rescue time enough? It should be enough, because the Horqin tribe itself is also a Mongolian nomad. During the war, the detection scope of the sentry horses will definitely be increased, and the two days of early warning time should be able to obtain it.
However, the Horqin tribe euphemistically expressed disapproval of this idea. There are two reasons: First, the relationship between the Inner Khalkha tribe (Horqin belongs to the Inner Khalkha tribe) and the Outer Khalkha tribe was not very good. There are historical reasons for this.
It's quite complicated, so there's no need to say more here. In short, although both parties are called "Khalkha", they are definitely not a family that loves each other. They are more like loving each other and killing each other.
Secondly, this time, Abadai Saiyin Khan had just been frightened by Tumen's sudden attack on the city and surrendered. He turned around and beat Horqin into disgrace, which made several of Horqin's Taiji and Baylor (according to different accounts) lose face.
I couldn't stand it anymore, and I was very angry. I wanted to save my reputation and take revenge.
On this basis, Horqin's three Taijiyi combined and believed that the current strength of the coalition forces has actually formed a crushing trend against Abadai Saiyin Khan, and the total strength has been between two and three times. Such an advantage
In this situation, of course, we should not "fear the enemy and avoid fighting" and retreat to Kaiyuan as a child. Instead, we should bravely go to Abadai Saiyin Khan for a decisive battle. Even if we do not say that we will completely annihilate our opponents, we should at least win.
He fled back to Helin and never dared to look eastward for the rest of his life.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Horqin’s opinions were also supported by Ye He. Although Ye He and Beile spoke very politely and humbly, their meaning was still expressed clearly.
It’s clear: They also felt that Abadai Saiyin Khan should be beaten painfully and told to go back to Mobei as soon as possible and stop interfering in Monan’s affairs.
In fact, the attitude of the two of them is not unreasonable, and can even be said to be very matter-of-fact. After all, in the past, the Tumen were rarely able to gather the people from the Outer Khalkha tribe. If this opening becomes a habit, then every time the Tumen are dispatched
Even having 20,000 more troops and horses would have a considerable impact on the situation.
Meng Gebulu of the Hada Department was not very active this time - well, before he sent troops to rescue Horqin, he could not be said to be active. In fact, what he did was to give face to Daming's father, and even to some extent, to give Gao Pragmatic face.
Now that we have the opportunity to escape, wouldn't it be nice to go home and prepare for the winter? Why waste time and delay things by wandering around Horqin? Therefore, Menggebulu agreed that the Ming army should withdraw to Kaiyuan.
Wu Erkun of Jianzhou Right Guard said as always, the Ming Dynasty said one thing and I will never say the other. No matter whether General Xiao wants to continue to pursue Abadai Saiyin or withdraw to Kaiyuan, in short, I, Jianzhou Right Guard, will definitely obey the order.
act without any disagreement.
Perhaps Xiao Ruxun is very "seeing the overall situation" and thinks that the reason why Gao Situ is fighting this war is to firmly tie up Horqin's tribe. Or maybe Xiao Ruxun feels that he has to give face to Gao Situ's two uncles and has to deal with Ye He.
He took his opinion seriously, and after some consideration, he finally decided to continue pursuing Abadai Saiyin Khan.
The chase went a little too far, and ended up near Laoniu Mountain in the southern part of Kulun Banner, Inner Mongolia.
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