Chapter 276: Defeating Yuan (1) The Four-Road Army
When Gao Pangshi led the Imperial Guards to the north, the various towns and forces under his jurisdiction had already taken action under his advance orders. The entire battle against the Yuan Dynasty could be seen as four armies from west to east.
In the first route, Datong sent 60,000 troops, together with 40,000 Tumote and 20,000 Ordos troops, for a total of 120,000 troops to join Guihua. The mission objectives of this route army were circulated in the capital's newspapers as "the army
Go north to the west of Dashawo and cut off the connection between Chahar and Outer Khalkha."
On the second route, Xuanfu sent 60,000 troops and Taiyuan sent 40,000 troops, a total of 100,000. They joined the Longmen Guards and expected to go north out of Dushikou. The saying circulated in the capital's newspapers was that "the army went north to cover the east of Guihua, and
Advance eastward to suppress the Chahar-Mongolian army’s activity space.”
The third route is the Gao pragmatic headquarters, also known as the middle route. The Chinese army on this route is the strongest, with about 70,000 Imperial Guards, 80,000 Ji Zhen, 30,000 Changping, and 20,000 Baoding, totaling 200,000.
The troops were stationed in Miyun and Zunhua County.
Both counties are important military areas. Miyun is one of the main residences of Governor Ji Liao, and Zunhua is one of the main residences of Governor Shuntian. Originally, both counties were capable of stationing large armies, but there were too many 200,000 troops.
Therefore, it was divided into two places, and Gao pragmatic himself took the imperial guards to Zunhua.
This road is both the location of the Chinese Army and the closest to the capital. It is obviously the subject of the most attention of the capital's newspapers. According to "well-informed sources", Zunhua, where Gao Jinglue himself is located, will be the main force. It is expected that the Imperial Guard and Jizhen
Elite soldiers will gather here, perhaps as many as 150,000.
The route from Zunhua will "exit Xifengkou to Daning, with Daning City as the core fulcrum of the battle against Yuan Dynasty, and the ministers will personally take charge of the planning." Although Miyun's 50,000-strong army is not weak, it is not weak at this time.
They can only be willing to be green leaves. The press believes that "the army will leave Gubeikou and occupy the Hara Hetao, Baima River, and Xiaoxingzhou lines to form a barrier for the capital and form a horn with Daning."
All in all, these views in the press basically believe that although the Chinese army is powerful, because it has the capital behind it, it will definitely not do anything rash or make any reckless moves.
The highly pragmatic and dignified Mongolian Yuan Dynasty strategy, of course, could not easily take risks, so he led an army of 150,000 to Daning, flanked by Changping from Miyun, and Baoding.
Coercion and oppression can also be used to control the capital's gates. It is indeed a foolproof strategy - as a human being, it is as safe as an old dog.
The last route is naturally the Liaodong Army. From a geographical point of view, the Liaodong side is the closest to Chahanhot in Guangning, where the Liaodong General Li Rusong is stationed. However, considering that this troop dispatch will gather a large number of servant armies around Liaodong, and these servant armies are located
The area is all northeastern, so the meeting place was changed to Shenyang - in fact, we originally considered meeting in Fuxin, but the population of Fuxin City mainly comes from immigrants, and the current city size is not enough, so we had to go to Shenyang.
In terms of numbers alone, this route army is almost as strong as the Chinese army under Gao Jinglue's command. It has 60,000 soldiers under Li Rusong's command in western Liaoning - it should be emphasized here that Li Rusong is indeed a forthright man and will never be cunning in his actions.
, his own elite servants accounted for half of the 60,000 troops, and of the remaining 30,000, nearly 20,000 were servants of other generals under his command.
In other words, nearly 50,000 of the 60,000 troops are elite troops at the servant level. Assuming that all this army is lost, the defense of western Liaoning can be regarded as completely collapsed, and the effect is basically the same as that of the Saarhu in the original history.
Liaodong after the war.
In addition to Li Rusong's headquarters in western Liaoning, almost all the main forces of the Xiao Ruxun Group or the direct lineage of the high-level school in the east of the Liaohe River have been mobilized. Xiao Ruxun, Ma Chengxun, Ma Dong and other departments have mobilized their elites, with a total of 50,000 troops. At the same time, Beijing
It also provided 10,000 reinforcements, allowing Liaodong to be evenly matched with Western Liaoning in terms of military strength.
In this way, the total strength of the Liaodong and Liaoxi sides is as high as 120,000. You must know that the total strength of the Liaodong Ming Army is only 180,000. This time, 110,000 were directly drawn (not counting Jinghua), which obviously meant that they could fight in the field.
All the troops were used.
But the strength of the Liaodong Army was not limited to the Ming Army Headquarters. Under the shock of the "Prisoner's Expedition Ceremony" specially created by Gao Jingshi, all the Jurchen tribes that were capable of fighting received orders from the Mongol and Yuan Dynasties, requiring
All ministries inspected the men and horses to accompany the army on the expedition. Gao Pingshi clearly stated in the order: "Anyone who disobeys the order will be punished with disobedience."
It's hard to say whether it was the Ming Dynasty that was too powerful or Gao Pragmatic's own power, or a combination of both. In short, these orders were conveyed to all ministries, and no one dared to openly resist them. Not only was he always regarded as the loyal dog of the Ming Dynasty,
At the Hada, Ye He and his two tribes immediately expressed their "respectful acceptance of the Jinluo Jun Order". Even the far-away Ula tribe quickly sent people to Kaiyuan, saying that they were gathering their tribesmen and they would "dedicate themselves to the imperial court."
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The most representative one is Jianzhou left guard Nurhachi. He quickly wrote to Liaoyang and expressed his willingness to obey the order. Although this guy's reply mentioned a lot of difficulties, such as the "two divisions of Jianzhou", the area under his jurisdiction
"Wild and remote", extremely poor; he also said that the Third Division of the Changbai Mountains implemented a blockade against him at that time, forcing him to send troops. As a result, he spent a lot of savings, and now the whole family is tightening their belts and barely making ends meet...
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But in the final analysis, although the difficulties are great, he is still willing to send troops. He just hopes that the master of economics can be lenient and allow him to establish the Zuowei Free Horse Market in the state. In fact, Gao Pangshi has already allowed them to trade in Kuandian not long ago.
, but Kuandian Horse Market is not open regularly, it only opens once a month, and only for three days at a time, so now he still wants to go to Crow Falcon Pass.
Of course, because Gao Pragmatic's order this time was extremely strict, Nurhachi did not dare to adopt the attitude of "I won't send troops if you don't agree" in these words. Instead, he first expressed his willingness to send troops no matter what, but he just hoped that Mr. Jin Lu would see it.
For the sake of their family's "loyalty through generations", consider his appeal.
On the whole, Nurhaci's attitude was still very low, so much so that when Gao Pragmatic received the report, he couldn't help but sigh: People who have achieved great achievements in history are not simple idealists, but can only be
A realist with lofty ideals.
Just like Nurhachi now, he must have the ideal of unifying Manchuria in his heart, but since he is under the roof, he will bow his head honestly. He will never be stupid enough to offend the Ming Dynasty or Gao Pragmatic when there is no chance of winning.
In order to avoid being surrounded and beaten to death by the Ming Dynasty in the near future, all Manchuria and even Eastern Mongolia.
After this operation, the various Jurchen tribes began to piece together things. Most of them, such as Yehe, Ula, and Hada, each sent more than 10,000 troops, and some small tribes may send a hundred or ten people to count as sending troops - after all, some tribes always send troops.
The population is only a few thousand people. The Jurchens are as divided as the Shinra, and the disparity between strength and weakness is huge.
The final result was that the Jurchen tribes gathered nearly 50,000 troops. This result surprised Gao Pragmatic, because although it was almost certain that the Jurchen tribes would not dare to disobey this order, they were able to gather almost 50,000 troops.
It was still more than he expected. After all, it was impossible for them to mobilize all their troops to join the expedition.
It was actually close to 50,000 troops without deploying all the troops. This is actually somewhat different from Gao Pragmatic's original impression. You must know that the Eight Banners of Manchuria may have only had about 50,000 troops for a long time in history.
Before the Qing army entered the customs, the total number of Niulu in the Eight Banners of Manchuria was 318. At that time, the standard for one Niulu was 300 people. However, in fact, a large number of Niulu did not satisfy the number of people. In some places, 100 people could also be classified as one Niulu.
.Before entering the Pass, there were more than 55,330 soldiers in Manchuria under the Eight Banners (referring to male soldiers only). So even if all the troops were to leave without leaving a single man behind, the total number of Eight Banners troops in Manchuria could only be more than 50,000.
Of course, according to Ming Dynasty records, the Eight Banners of Manchuria had more than this amount of troops. For example, before the Battle of Saarhu, Zhou Yongchun, the governor of Liaodong, said in his memorial: Wen Nu soldiers fought bravely, about 50,000 to 60,000, and the Chinese militiamen who were captured were also
There are twenty to thirty thousand, no less than eighty or ninety thousand.
"Records of Shenzong" records that "Huang Jia, the Minister of the Ministry of War, made a good speech, and Yang Hao reported that the slave chiefs had more than 60,000 elite soldiers." A year later, Yang Hao said in his report after the Battle of Sarhu: "
Chief Gainu's troops are about 100,000 in total on the battlefield, and it is appropriate to take them with 120,000 to 30,000. However, yesterday's host and guest only had more than 70,000, so how can we fight against them?"
However, Xiong Tingbi wrote in the "Jing Chen Zhan Shou Dali Shu" written after he took office as the Liaodong manager in the 47th year of Wanli: "Now the thieves have changed their name to the Yuan Dynasty, and they have two levels: gray grill, fish skin, bird la, and evil guli.
Thanks to Zhijie, there are many soldiers from all the countries in Haidong in Yinan area. I also ordered the surrendering general Li Yongfang and others to gather 300,000 soldiers to open the railway, and the total number of soldiers is nearly 100,000."
It is also recorded in "Records of Facts of the Liao Dynasty in Three Dynasties": "At that time, the slave soldiers became more and more prosperous. Every time they climbed the mountain with Bazi, they plotted and made plans. Their hair broke as fast as the wind and rain. Together with Zaiyuan, they numbered nearly one hundred thousand."
After the Battle of Saarhu, North Korea sent Zheng Zhongxin as envoy to Jianzhou. After he returned home, he reported to the King of North Korea: "Later Jin had eight troops, one with 25 sentries, and one sentry with 400 people...
There are 12,000 soldiers and about 96,000 cavalry in the eight divisions." Although this report may not be accurate, it can be regarded as a family opinion.
If we give a rough overview, we can probably say this: First, the core Eight Banners of Manchuria in Nurhaci's hands has been at "nearly 60,000" for a long time; second, with the increase in war captures, the number of non-Jurchens who have taken refuge under his command has been increasing.
Of course, there are not many Han people among the Jurchen tribes currently serving in the army, and the troops that can be drawn out to join the expedition are all Jurchens. In other words, the current population of the Jurchen tribes should be larger than the population in the original history after Nurhaci unified Manchuria, otherwise
How could nearly 50,000 troops be gathered to accompany the army when each ministry had some troops left to look after their own affairs?
From this, Gao Pragmatic came to a conclusion: Although the process of Nurhaci's unification of Manchuria was quite smooth based on historical records, and the resistance encountered did not seem to be very great, in fact it still lost a lot of virgins. Therefore,
From a population perspective, the current Jurchen tribes are better than Manchuria before the Saarhu War in original history.
Well...that means nerfs could be considered.
In addition to the nearly 50,000 servants of the Jurchen tribes, the Horqin tribe also unsurprisingly sided with the Ming Dynasty this time. However, because the losses suffered by the Horqin tribe were not small the previous time, the scale of their troops sent this time was not as good as the last time.
It’s no longer the whole clan, but just 10,000, and there will be no more. This is understandable, after all, if there is another heavy loss, the Horqin tribe will almost be finished.
As a result, the total strength of the Jurchen and Mongolian servant armies in Liaodong was as high as 60,000, plus 60,000 in western Liaoning and 60,000 in eastern Liaoning. The number of troops sent by one town in Liaodong was as high as 180,000, which was the largest number of troops sent by a single town in this battle.
, which is equivalent to the total military strength of the entire town of Liaodong - the number of servant soldiers exactly offset the total number of guard troops who cannot send troops to the field.
After these situations were learned by the capital's newspapers, the entire capital, both among the people and the official circles, were optimistic about the prospects of victory in this war and believed that it was impossible to lose. At the same time, the "national self-confidence" of high pragmatic needs
"My heart" has indeed been boosted, and everyone is counting on their fingers the scale of this battle against Yuan.
There are four armies, one with 120,000 troops, two with 100,000, three with 200,000, and four with 180,000. The total army is as high as 600,000! And everyone now knows Gao Jinglue’s habits. He is
If you don't like the "so-called", you can send as many troops as you want, six hundred thousand is six hundred thousand!
The Ming Dynasty worked hard for twenty years and accumulated a rich family fortune. It was able to field an army of 600,000 in one battle. Who in the world can resist?
At this time, everyone finally has a clearer and more comprehensive understanding of the reforms of the Practical School in the past twenty years. Especially compared with the tragic situation in the last years of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty, which was "armed with millions", actually
Being beaten by the "Tumote-Ordos Right Wing Mongolian Alliance" with only 100,000 cavalry is really a mixture of sadness and anger.
What now? No one with a right mind would say that the pragmatic school has not made any achievements in the past twenty years. Gao Pragmatic has put so much pressure on himself and raised this battle to the point of "no defeat allowed", is it possible?
Isn’t this also the reason?
After summarizing these news, the capital's newspapers "carefully analyzed" the strategy of this battle and believed that this battle should be the Ming-Mongolian coalition forces cutting off the connection between Chahar and Outer Khalkha along the westernmost route. This route was actually
It should be counted as the North Road; the Liaodong Army on the East Road and the Xuanfu Army on the West Road are responsible for the flanking attack, and the Chinese Army, namely the Gao Jinglue Headquarters on the South Road, takes care of both offense and defense, forming a "three barriers" in the overall situation, leaving only the Chahar Army.
There is a way out to the north.
However, if Chahar could not escape to Transkalkha in the northwest, he would have to go to Haolliang, or even those truly wild and uninhabited places occupied by Beishan Jurchens (in today's Hulunbuir area,
Northwest of the Greater Khingan Range and northwest of Amur Oblast, Russia).
It can be said that if the Chahar tribe really went there, there would probably be no threat, because it was not a good place to support a large population in this era. Even if the Ming Dynasty does not pursue it, as long as it can
Forcing them not to go south for a year, when winter comes, they will starve to death and freeze to death, leaving only three or two big cats and kittens, which will not be a problem at all.
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