The 28,000 cavalrymen of the Ming Army quickly set off again on the road under the banner of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. During this march, because it was not a complete army, Gao Pragmatic also left the carriage prepared for him by Jinghua and returned to the state of horseback marching.
Speaking of which, it has only been two years since Gao Pangshi last rode a horse in person. Thinking about it, he was obviously a civil servant, but who would have expected that when he looks back now, he can be regarded as a man who has been in the military for more than ten years. From this point of view
, I am really worthy of the word "Wen Shuai".
Although riding a horse is impressive, by analogy, it is like driving a Ferrari in later generations. If it is a fully or semi-equipped war horse, it is as powerful as driving a main battle tank.
But to be honest, the feeling of riding a long distance is really no joke. This thing is several times bumpier than a walking tractor. After a few hours, it seems that the whole person is just one step away from falling apart. When I just get off the horse, I feel like the ground is still shaking when I walk.
shake.
What's worse is that although the saddle is equipped for the convenience of riding, because the saddle of the war horse is mainly to ensure a stable seat on the horse and enhance the ability to control the horse, its riding experience is not like the saddle of some tourist attractions in later generations.
So soft and comfortable.
It took Gao pragmatic more than four hours from setting off to setting up camp for dinner. When he dismounted, he felt that the skin on the inner thighs was almost worn out, and it was so hot that he felt uncomfortable. No wonder Liu Bei in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" lamented that "the buttocks are coming back to life".
After only two years, my adaptability to horse riding has obviously declined.
Gao Pragmatic suddenly thought, if viewed from this perspective, Li Chengliang had been fighting life and death for more than 20 years, and as he got older, he gradually became arrogant and luxurious, which might be considered human nature.
At its peak, the servant cavalry under his command was fully worthy of facing off against a comparable number of Mongolian cavalry. However, after all, most of these servants were still Han Chinese, and not all of them were Mongolians who were "born on horseback." Who can really put it into perspective?
Is your home on horseback?
Thinking of Li Chengliang and Li Jiajun, Gao pragmatic thought of Li Rusong. Before he set off at noon, Li Rusong was not mentioned in the pre-battle analysis, but at this moment, after some jolts on horseback, he suddenly had a strong hunch: Li Rusong's westward advance might be possible at a faster speed.
Faster than the original default.
Sun Tzu's Art of War said: "Therefore, it is as fast as the wind, as slow as the forest, as aggressive as fire, as motionless as a mountain, as unpredictable as the shadows, and as moving as thunder." The original meaning is that all generals should command operations and troops according to the needs of the battlefield situation.
When moving quickly, it is like a strong wind blowing across the earth; when marching calmly, it is like a forest slowly unfolding; when attacking a city, it is like a fire sweeping across the land; when garrisoning and defending, it is like a mountain standing still; when the military situation is concealed, it is like a dark cloud covering the sun.
When the army moves out, it is like a thunderous force that cannot be stopped.
However, although it means that generals need to have different responses and standards in various situations, in fact, the vast majority of famous generals will perform exceptionally well at one or more levels, so they also use their most outstanding aspects or
Several faces are praised by people.
Just like some of the famous generals of the Ming Dynasty, Li Rusong's characteristics are probably related to the character "fierce", which is as fast as the wind, as swift as fire, and as dynamic as thunder. Generally speaking, most generals' command styles will be similar or even similar to their personalities.
similar.
In the past, what Gao Pragmatic was best at in political struggles was to judge the opponent's possible actions from aspects such as the opponent's character, interests, etc., and he often used this judgment criterion when commanding operations. This is true for the enemy, and it can also be done for one's own side.
push.
Is there any need to describe Li Rusong's character? It can be said in one word: "fierce". In the words of later generations, this person is a very reckless person.
In fact, this can also be seen from the battle examples he commanded in history. In a confrontation in front of this master, if you spread out twenty or thirty miles and deploy three armies on the left, middle and right to help each other, Li Rusong will probably not care about you.
On both wings, he will most likely concentrate his elite troops to attack the central army, capture the thieves and capture the king, and end the matter in one battle.
If he still has some infantry that doesn't run that fast, he might be able to intersperse between your left wing and the center army, or between your right wing and the center army to prevent the two wings from relieving the siege. But in any case, it is directly
The combat idea of breaking through in the middle will basically not waver.
Not only that, if you look at Bi Ti Pavilion, you will know that this Ye Tai will not only attack directly in the middle, but also rush to the front line. He is simply possessed by the Overlord of Chu, and Huo Qubing is back. Daming can compete with him at this moment, probably
The only one left is Liu Wei, who is now in charge of calming down the chaos in Bozhou. This man is also addicted to killing people himself.
In addition to fighting fiercely, Li Rusong also has a special sense of honor - this is a complimentary description, but a more neutral description means that he has a particularly strong self-esteem. He had an incident when he was in charge of the Shanxi Army Corps. The specific incident was mentioned above and will not be repeated here.
To repeat, in short, this gentleman cannot tolerate being overpowered by his "equal" people.
Fortunately, Gao Jingshi and he have always been "not equal", and before he returned to Liao Commandery, he personally experienced Gao Jingshi's status and influence in front of the nobles of the capital, so Gao Jingshi had no idea whether he would "serve and manage"
Basically, I have a positive attitude.
However, this does not mean that Li Rusong has lost all his autonomy. He will still try his best to create some "surprises" where he has the initiative.
For example, a few days ago Gao Jingshi ordered that he be transferred westward from the south of Yuerhai. Gao Jingshi's secretaries estimated Li Rusong's itinerary based on the normal marching speed of the cavalry, but at this moment Gao Jingshi suddenly felt that this
Estimates may be wildly off.
Li Rusong would not be so slow!
For a person of his character, since Gao Pragmatic is at the top, it is not feasible to compete with him. However, in this battle against Yuan Dynasty, six general soldiers were dispatched, and there was also a special forbidden soldier.
Commander of the Guards, is this finally a tie? Since there are five or even six competitors, how can he, Li Rusong, not strive for first place?
Striving for first place is a huge challenge, especially in the current situation of Liaodong Town - Xiao Ruxun, the deputy commander-in-chief of Liaodong Town, is not a member of his Li family.
In order to ensure that Gao Pragmatic would not take the opportunity to suppress him, he had to let Xiao Ruxun achieve the most remarkable first achievement of this battle so far - the capture of Chahanhot.
Under this situation, Li Rusong needs a prominent victory to prove his excellence, and a prominent victory must first ensure that he can win the battle! Now the possibility of the Tumen army marching westward is so great that he only needs the last proof of the news
Well, with Li Rusong's character, how could he not rush over in a hurry?
When he first sent out troops, he rushed to the fishing sea to make arrangements in advance so that he could fight against the main force of Tumen. Now that the situation has changed, if he wants to catch the main force of Tumen, shouldn't he have to make a thousand-mile dash again?
Of course, running thousands of miles will hurt the horse, but it is not as exaggerated as some claims, which often say that the horse will be disabled.
It's autumn now, when the horse grass is at its most fertile. The Li family's army has been known as the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" for more than 20 years. The army has brought plenty of concentrated feed, so they can run wildly, as long as they don't overuse their horses.
If the limit is exceeded, the probability of "wasting the horse" is not high.
The really important problem is that it will be difficult for these war horses to gain weight this autumn. This will greatly increase the risk of freezing to death after winter this year, and secondly, it will also affect the total service life of the war horses.
This is just like the cars of later generations. The scrappage age of family cars is different from the scrappage age of commercial vehicles. Excessive use of war horses is equivalent to advancing the "end of life", and if Li Rusong is overused twice within two months, it is expected that
These war horses will have to serve at least two years less in the future.
But even so, in Li Rusong's eyes, this is just a matter of property damage. As long as it does not seriously affect the current war, he won't care too much - if he cares about these things, how could the Li Jiajun in the original history defeat half of the enemy in a few years?
In the final analysis, Li Rusong really didn’t take “overuse” to heart.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic took advantage of the break to call Ye Bangrong over and asked him how fast Li Rusong's troops could go if they were not afraid of overuse of their horses.
In fact, Ye Bangrong himself had some doubts about Gao Jinglue's hypothesis. After all, an excellent war horse is a "Ferrari". Who would drive a Ferrari to an extreme cross-country rally? Isn't this crazy?
But Gao Jinglue was not someone he could doubt. Forget about him, even his old boss, "Enshuai" Qi Jiguang, had never said a bad word about Gao Jinglue in the past ten years since he joined Gao Jinglue.
Even the generals who came from the Qi Army had an inexplicable respect for Gao Jinglue.
Since Gao Jinglue asked this question, no matter how unreasonable the question seemed, Ye Bangrong would definitely answer it truthfully.
Out of caution, Ye Bangrong did not open his mouth to come, but immediately carefully took out a small-scale battlefield map issued by the Economic and Technological Office before the war from his arms, spread it out on the ground, and drew it carefully.
After some calculations, he asked cautiously: "Jingtai, from my humble position, I know that all of Li Zongrong's troops in this battle are his own servants, so he has at least one person and two horses under his command. Is this news true?"
Gao pragmatic replied: "It's true. According to the headquarters' understanding, his current command is probably two people and five horses."
That is, on average, one cavalryman has up to two and a half horses. This is a super luxurious configuration among the Ming army cavalry. Generally speaking, only the elite among the elite can achieve this level of matching.
Of course, among Gao Jingshi's own cavalry, those whom Gao Jingshi had placed beside him in previous battles would sometimes be composed of one person and three horses. That is another matter. After all, Gao Jingshi had the most powerful force in the Ming Dynasty.
The powerful war horses were supported by sources and there was no shortage of money. In the war at that time, he usually only mobilized a few thousand horsemen. Such deployment was not an exaggeration.
However, this time Li Rusong mobilized almost all the most elite cavalry servants of the Li family army to go on the expedition. The total number was more than 30,000, and nearly 40,000 cavalrymen. He was still able to guarantee two men and five horses, which was very powerful. It fully demonstrated the strength of the Li family army at this time.
Strong, and Li Rusong's personal style of spending a lot of money to win.
Ye Bangrong was also a little speechless, but after sighing, he quickly replied: "General cavalry troops march normally, without fighting in the middle, and without finding any enemies around them, usually the distance is about forty to sixty miles.
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Considering that General Li's troops have more horses, and it is the time when the autumn grass is rich, his troops can normally run eighty miles.
And if Li Zongrong, as expected by the scriptures, ignores the fat of his war horses and overuses his horses, he can cover a hundred and twenty miles in a day, or even more, a hundred and forty miles is possible."
Gao Pragmatic wondered: "Is it only a hundred and twenty miles or a hundred and forty miles? Our headquarters has previously studied the Mongolian Western Expedition two hundred years ago. They were even able to maintain a daily march of one hundred and eighty miles for a long time. This
How do the differences arise?”
"Why did the Mongols march so fast during the Western Expedition?" Ye Bangrong seemed not to understand this, but after thinking about it, he quickly found the answer and suddenly said: "Oh, that may be because the Mongols were pure light cavalry at that time.
The war horses were almost completely unequipped. In addition, the Mongols had a lot of horses at that time, which was quite different from us.
The Jingtai may not know that the Mongols walked with their horses. The war horses they owned may be similar to ours, but the number of draft horses is far beyond what any cavalry in the world can match."
Unlike war horses, which are used for people to ride and fight, draft horses are used to transport supplies, including towing artillery carts and baggage trucks. Therefore, draft horses require endurance and strength, not flexibility. There are different subdivisions in draft horses.
In terms of heavy draft horses and light draft horses, the draft horses mentioned by Ye Bangrong at this time probably refer to light draft horses, that is, those that helped the Mongolian army carry armor and weapons.
Since the number of Mongolian draft horses is extremely large, the average amount of materials each draft horse needs to carry is not large, so it does not affect the speed very much. Therefore, the Mongolian army can march at high speed during its thousands-mile westward expedition.
It can be said that no one in the world can match it.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! No matter how luxurious the horses in Li Rusong's department are, at least the draft horses cannot be compared with the peak Mongolia of more than two hundred years, so they can travel one hundred and eighty miles a day.
(180 miles) is unlikely.
However, one hundred and forty miles is an extremely exaggerated speed nowadays. Ye Bangrong even felt that even if Tumen was sweating profusely at this time, it would be impossible to exceed this speed unless he was fleeing for his life.
After listening to his explanation, Gao Pangshi felt confident. He looked at the map of Kanyu for a while, and suddenly an idea came to his mind: If Guihua City was not captured quickly this time, it would only take about seven or eight days.
Maybe it will form a three-way encirclement.
If this situation really happens, I wonder how Tumen Khan - or Buriha Tu - will make a decision?
beat?
If they could fight, the Chahar Ministry would not even abandon Chahanhot, but would choose to leave directly.
Do not hit?
The original territory of the left-wing Mongolia has now been abandoned. If there is no fight, where can the Chahar people go?
What's more, once the three-way encirclement around Guihua City is completed, how will Zhongjin Hatun, who still has 20,000 elites, react? If she chooses to leave the city and cooperate with the three-way Ming army to directly block the Chahar people in Guihua City.
Well, isn’t it true that the Chahar tribe is unable to fly this time?
In such a situation where life and death are only on a thin line, with Burihatu's wisdom, couldn't there be any prediction?
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