The conference and small meetings were over, but Gao Pragmatic couldn't rest yet. No matter what, he was exhausted. Especially this time, Fa Yuan, in order to achieve a once and for all result, mobilized an army of 600,000 to build momentum.
As a result, all kinds of monsters and demons jumped out.
It stands to reason that if all the monsters and monsters that have jumped out at present are brought together, they may not be enough to beat the 600,000 elites of Jiubian. It is a pity that there is no such good thing in the world. Now the chaos in various places is divided into several parts. The Ming Dynasty's
Although the foundation has been firmly established over the past twenty years, it would still be difficult if the troops were divided into four places and fought at the same time... that would be difficult.
Gao Pragmatic is not very worried about Fayuan himself. Although the current situation is a bit unexpected, he still thinks that the problem is not big.
The advantage of this battle between Fayuan and Yuan Dynasty is hard power. In theory, as long as they do not encounter unprepared sneak attacks, any army along the way can forcefully defeat the Chahar-Transkarkha coalition forces. When the encirclement and suppression situation is achieved, the Yuan Yuan coalition forces will be defeated.
Death is certain.
However, I still have to talk about the current surprise: with the development of time, Chahanhot, the "Mongol Khan" station, has been occupied by Xiao Ruxun's troops under the command of Li Rusong. However, this occupation is not actually of great significance.
Because when Xiao Ruxun's army reached Chahanhot, the place had long been deserted, and only the low city wall made of rammed earth was still showing its original position in the spring breeze.
Chahar has always maintained its nomadic customs, and all Mongols, including Tumen Khan, lived in tents. After they withdrew, all that was left behind were those earthen walls that the Ming army did not care about at all. In addition to saving
Apart from some efforts to build deer and firewood to resist horses, it has almost no other effect.
As mentioned before, it was Xiao Ruxun's tribe who went to Chahanhot, while the direct descendants of the Li family army led by Li Rusong made an uppercut and headed for Yuerhai. At this time, Li Rusong naturally only occupied the empty city of Chahanhot.
He was dissatisfied, but there was nothing he could do if the other party refused to fight. He could only pinch his nose and write a report of victory to Gao Pangshi. As for how Master Jinglu was going to report it, he didn't bother to ask.
Along with the victory report, Li Rusong's plan for the next march was sent to the Daning Economic and Technological Commission. There is nothing to say about this plan itself, it is nothing more than continuing to pull the net. Since Chahanhot is empty, the Liaodong Allied Forces
He continued to search for traces of the enemy. Because the Liaodong Army was outflanking from the east and south, the main search direction in the next stage was the west and north of Chahanhot.
Gao pragmatically approved the plan very quickly and fully agreed with Li Rusong's proposal. He only told him not to divide his troops easily. Because he was worried that Li Rusong "will not accept the orders of the foreign emperor", he also added that if he really wanted to divide his troops, then
It must also be ensured that any route after any division of troops can at least resist the Mongolian attack.
But Li Rusong and Gao Pragmatic have different judgments. He believes that since Tumen can give up Chahanhot so easily, it means that he has given up his mind and does not intend to fight the Ming Dynasty here. In this case
Next, Li Rusong believed that Tumen's goal should be to return to Helin.
Returning to Helin from Chahar means running all the way to the northwest. Li Rusong also has some news about other armies. He knows that the Ming-Mongolian coalition composed of Datong, Tumote, and Ordos received an order to "go north to Waikakar."
"Kabu is fighting at the same time", and the leader of this army is a direct descendant of Gao Pragmatic, the general of Datong, Ma Gui.
Although Ma Gui is not the patriarch of the Ma family, because his two brothers are gone, he is now the de facto talker of the Ma family. In addition, he is actually the first famous general in the Ma family army to be taken under Gao Pangshi's command.
, because of his high status among high-ranking party generals, his troops are also very high in the order of "upgrades" carried out by the court - to put it simply, his troops are not only well-trained, but also very well equipped.
, definitely a truly elite teacher.
On his way, Datong sent 60,000 troops, together with 40,000 troops from Tumut and 20,000 from Ordos, a total of 120,000. Not only was the Ming army the most capable in Datong Town, but troops from both Tumut and Ordos also came from
It's elite.
120,000 elite troops went to Transkarkha to "block the road". If the Tumen army ran into them without being intercepted, Li Rusong thought that the Tumen would not be able to get a favor - in other words, it would mean that the great achievement of destroying the Yuan Dynasty was not achieved by him.
What happened to Mr. Li?
Therefore, Li Rusong was very anxious and continued to divide his troops into two groups and narrowed the encirclement net. The direct line of the Li family army he personally led wandered near Yuerhai for half a month, but they still did not wait for the Tumen army to appear, so they had to divert to the southeast.
Cooperate with Xiao Ruxun's troops heading north to compress the possible range of activities of Tu's army.
On the other side, Ma Chengen's troops have completed their movement and arrived at the northern line of Daning, which can ensure that if Daning is attacked, his troops can go south to provide support in time - although everyone thinks this is unlikely.
It is the strongest force, and there is a strong city to defend. Tumen has no means of siege, how can they attack this hard nut?
Perhaps it was for this reason that when Ma Chengen reported the military situation, he also cautiously expressed the hope that his troops could advance a little further east and cooperate with the Liaodong Army to "draw the net."
Of course, maybe he also considered that Li Rusong and he were "not from the same family", so his plan was to go directly eastward and join forces with Xiao Ruxun's troops, thus forming a network with him and Xiao Ruxun in the south and Li Rusong in the north, as shown in the figure
The range of activities of our army will become very small, and subsequent investigation will be much easier.
Since Li Rusong only took away the elite cavalry of his own unit, Xiao Ruxun's unit now has quite sufficient troops, but the elite cavalry among them is still Ma Chengxun's unit. If Ma Chengen's plan is followed, then the Ma family brothers will all have elite cavalry in their hands.
The success rate of the two brothers joining forces to search for the Tumen army will be greatly improved.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In such a war, finding the location of Tumen's army is a great achievement in itself. What's more, according to this situation, if you are lucky, he and Xiao Ruxun may even appear.
If Li Rusong's troops could be excluded from the joint effort to encircle the Tumen army, Ma Cheng'en would naturally think it would be even better.
However, there is another point that Ma Chengen did not say, but Gao Pragmatic could see at a glance: if we fight like this, Daning will be even less likely to encounter "danger", because Ma Chengen and Xiao Ruxun will completely cover up Da Ning.
rather.
To put it more funny, if Ma Chengen was not a direct descendant of his high pragmatism, he would suspect that Ma Chengen was trying to steal his military exploits. However, the boss of the Ma family had the word "gao" on his head, so Ma Chengen
It's not difficult to guess his intention: he was afraid that Gao Pragmatic himself would be in any danger, so his entire intention was nothing more than this.
Is it possible that Gao Pragmatism is in danger? In other words, will Tumen come to attack Daning?
Logically speaking, it wouldn't be possible. After all, the newly built Daning City is a fortress-like city, and the Mongols should have no means to quickly seize it.
However, the Mongolian army with Burihatu in its presence may not really dare to take a gamble - the reason for taking a gamble is that no one knows whether Burihatu still has gunpowder in his hand.
You know, Burihatu has mastered the art of digging tunnels under the city and planting explosives to blow down the city walls.
Of course, in theory, even if the city wall is blown down, Gao Jingshi's troops and equipment are enough to defeat the Mongols head-on. But Gao Jingshi himself knows that he has already lost nearly 70,000 troops: the Imperial Guards have no basis at all.
Not in Daning!
The banner with the word "Qi, Commander of the Guards" hanging on the top of Daning City is actually a plan to empty the city. Qi Jiguang has gone elsewhere a long time ago. Before Gao Pinggang discussed military affairs in Daning, he always discussed it with Cao Yu. This is the reason.
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Of course, Gao Pragmatic is not really worried about Daning being attacked. After all, Cao Yun's troops are not bad. Apart from his own servants, most of the rest are Jizhou soldiers trained by Qi Jiguang. Although the strength here is
It is not as good as the Imperial Guards, but with the support of Wanli Type II bayonet rifles and a large number of artillery, and relying on the bayonet hollow square formation, it is not at a disadvantage in a head-on battle with the entire Tumen army.
Therefore, after Gao pragmatic thinking, he agreed to Ma Chengen's request and allowed his troops to advance eastward. In this way, a north-south encirclement was soon formed starting from Chahanhot in the south and reaching Yuerhai in the north.
The Tumen who have never been seen are all compressed within this distance of about a thousand miles.
Thousands of miles apart is called encirclement? Well, far is a bit far, but this is the Mobei grassland after all, and there is really nothing we can do about it. To be honest, if it was so easy to encircle a nomadic cavalry, how could Cheng Zu's Five Expeditions in Mobei be possible?
Just those pitiful actual results?
The other department, the farthest one, the Magui Department, also sent a battle report. It is better to say a battle report than a report on the situation. After all, there is no possibility of fighting on his side now.
The news from Ma Gui's headquarters is that he has traveled more than 1,400 miles north from Guihua and arrived at Saliqier, and divided his troops to control a key terrain not far to the north of the place, called "San San".
"Gateway" place.
Saliqir is also called Salichuan, and Ming Dynasty people called it "Two Spring Sea". It is said to be the place where Genghis Khan made his fortune. This place is also the best passage from Chahar to Helin.
No Han people have been here for a long time, and there are actually very few local herdsmen. Therefore, it took Magui a lot of effort to find some scattered herdsmen and inquire about the local and surrounding terrain.
According to proven information, there is an earthen city here called "Halaotu City", located on the west bank of the Halaotu River. There is a spring at the source of this river, which the locals call "Bololiu Wute Spring".
Tucheng is ten miles north of this spring. There is an old salt lake between Tucheng and the spring. It is almost dry now, but it is also rich in pond salt - the kind that can be loaded directly into the car.
Ma Gui even said helplessly that the Datong Army inadvertently packed a lot of salt, which can be regarded as a war fortune. On the contrary, the Tumut and Ordos Allied Forces did not care about this and behaved very generously and calmly - of course
, there are many salt lakes in their territory, and they can also be loaded directly into the car. They have seen the world.
It is a good sign that salt is guaranteed, but Ma Gui also raised concerns that because of the thousands of miles of raids, the food carried by his troops was not particularly sufficient. Tumut and Ordos performed much better than the Datong Army because they had a large amount of
The cattle and sheep accompanying the army, whether drinking milk or killing them for meat, can last longer than the Datong army.
At the same time, Ma Gui also mentioned one thing, that is, both the Tumut and Ordos ministries proposed that they could send people to gather nearby scattered herdsmen tribes and then let them provide supplies for their own side. Ma Gui said that he had agreed to this by the two ministries.
, but for the time being, we have only done half of it, that is, gathering the herdsmen.
The reason why they haven't been forced to provide food supplies to the army is that Ma Gui still doesn't know Gao Jinglue's attitude. According to his idea, if the Ming Dynasty wants to directly rule Mongolia in the future, such forced oppression does not seem to be good, so his
The battle report also asked Gao Pragmatic for instructions on how to deal with it.
Gao's pragmatic answer may be slightly beyond Ma Gui's expectations, because he said that if the Datong army is short of food, he can order the herdsmen to provide food, regardless of meat or vegetable.
This answer actually means one thing: Gao Pragmatic had no intention of allowing the Ming Dynasty to directly rule the territory of the Outer Khalkha tribe after this war.
In fact, it's not that he doesn't want to do it, but that he knows he can't do it for the time being.
As he had discussed with Liu Xin before, there is a cost to rule. Before the post road and post stations from the Ming Dynasty to Transkalkha were fully built and rolled out, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to cross the Tumote territory and directly
To rule Zaikarkha, at least 50,000 elite cavalry must be stationed in Zaikarkha.
The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty did not shepherd sheep "part-time". It was a pure waste and produced almost no income. People's food and horse feed had to be transported thousands of miles from home, and the cost was sky-high. At the same time, these cavalry could only be stationed in Henan and Henan.
Lin's key position is not suitable for other places. It may be possible to temporarily station it, but it may be dangerous to even basic survival if it is stationed for a long time.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic has no intention of annexing Outer Khalkha to the Ming Dynasty in the near future. His intention is to let Tumote annex Outer Khalkha, and the Ming Dynasty will only rule indirectly through Tumote. Anyway, Tumute's sinicization
It has been deepening day by day, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes part of Ming Dynasty in the future.
In this case, Gao Pragmatic's reply to Ma Gui was relatively simple: continue to guard the key points of Saliqier and wait for the Tumen army that may arrive at any time.
When Gao pragmatically answered Ma Gui, he obviously did not place all his hopes of encircling and suppressing the Tutu troops on the Liaodong Army and the Xuanfu Army. Ma Gui's here was actually another insurance.
At the same time, Tumen and Burihatu certainly had no intention of waiting for death, and they were also acting according to the plan. Shortly after Gao Pragmatic's order arrived at their destinations, more than two hundred miles southwest of Yu'erhai, a place
Traces of the Chahar-Outer Khalkha coalition forces appeared in a place called Helanzhenshatuo.
Immediately, Li Rusong's tribe near Yuerhai in the northeast, and Ma Cheng'en and Xiao Ruxun's tribe further in the southeast took action immediately after hearing the news. An army of more than 200,000 people began to swoop towards Helan Zhenshatuo.
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