When Po Gui said this, Gao Pragmatic understood that his idea was essentially a kind of differentiated competition. Of course, it could also be said to be misplaced competition.
When the Ming Dynasty competes with Mongolia in terms of riding skills, it obviously has a congenital disadvantage, and even if it is acquired, this disadvantage will still exist. They are a nation that travels by horses, and everyone can ride a fast horse. Although the Ming Dynasty has a large population, it may be possible to ride a horse.
What is the proportion of people?
Under such circumstances, it would be very painful for the Ming Dynasty to maintain hundreds of thousands of cavalry for a long time. How could they spend more money during battle? Each one is a treasure, so how can they dare to squander it at will? Therefore, of course, priority must be given to improving the resistance
Nature, strive not to be eliminated first, and then study how to defeat the opponent.
According to Pugui's statement, Gao Pragmatic estimates that what he means is that once the cavalry fights, they will be at war with the Mongols.
Of course, the "consumption" here is different from the "consumption" in the Mongolian combat thinking. The "consumption" of the Mongols is first to keep their own casualties small, and then even if the opponent's casualties are not large, as long as it is significantly greater than
Just do it yourself.
The reason is related to the force technique of Tuo Tuo's sword skills. The Mongols will not tire themselves out when fighting on horseback, so they can afford it. Even if I only kill dozens of you in one oblique cut, it doesn't matter. I will beat you ten times.
Waves, twenty waves without rest, what do you say at this time?
The rather expensive countermeasure is very realistic: My Ming Dynasty now has a range advantage due to the advancement of firearms. Although your slanting round is very fast, it is enough to shoot a round of arrows before taking high damage. But if our cavalry has already
If you are half equipped, the damage of your arrows will be greatly reduced. Usually only the unlucky ones will be shot to death directly in this situation.
On the contrary, due to the economic blockade of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia's productivity has dropped extremely seriously, and it has degraded to the point where ironmaking is almost impossible. Before the war, there were only a few blacksmith shops in Chahar, which relied on the blacksmiths plundered from the Ming Dynasty in the early years.
For some jobs, large-scale manufacturing of various types of armor is simply a luxury.
Coupled with the advancement of Ming military firearms, the armor-piercing ability within the effective range has been greatly improved. In many cases, the difference between wearing armor and not wearing armor is not obvious.
Therefore, Ye Bushou of the border army and Fusi of Jinyiwei North Town have both warned that the armor preparation rate of Chahar cavalry may have dropped significantly, and some of the original iron armor pieces on the armor have been recast.
Sabers, stirrups, horseshoes, arrowheads and other items. They judged from this that the Chahar cavalry would completely become leather armored cavalry or even unarmored cavalry when the war started in the "future".
One is ebbing and the other is ebbing, and things are changing. As a Ming army general with Mongolian origin, Pogui naturally has a deep understanding of Mongolian tactics, and in turn has an accurate judgment on how to restrain them.
If you want to guerrilla, I will let you guerrilla, but as long as you dare to enter my effective shooting range, I will be able to hit you with arrows and projectiles.
If you want to spend money, I will accompany you to spend it, but you want to see who among us can't afford it. Man said that if you beat me one to one, my Daming will definitely make a profit. Even if unfortunately it is only two to one, my Daming will still be worthy.
You Chahar!
What is the most troublesome thing for the Mongols now? Productivity? No, their biggest trouble is the lack of population!
Chahar clearly knew that this year he would be beaten by the Ming Dynasty and a bunch of helpers, but he still insisted on not really engaging in "women and children are soldiers". Why is this?
Because an army of more than 60,000 is already Chahar's limit. If other people are recruited into the army, there will be no one left to herd sheep. Don't wait until the battle is over and you haven't died in the battle. Looking back, you will find that you can only
Starving to death, that's really... This time, how could it be so miserable?
However, Xu Long obviously did not agree with his idea. Although Xu Long did not dare to make any mistakes in his words and attitude in front of Gao Jinglue, when Pogui said this, he still couldn't help but said: "Poyourong, this method of yours"
It is indeed guaranteed that you will not lose, but if you really follow this approach, you will never expect to win a big victory."
Po Gui was about to retort, but Gao Pingshi reached out to him and pressed down on him, suppressing his words. Instead, he turned to Xu Long and smiled and said, "If Xu Yourong has any opinions, just tell me and listen."
Seeing that Gao Pragmatic showed no signs of favoritism, Xu Long breathed a sigh of relief and quickly bowed and said: "Yes, Jingtai."
He cleared his throat and added: "If we only talk about remaining undefeated against the Chahar cavalry, then the imperial court does not need cavalry at all! Now the infantry has both bayonet hollow phalanxes and chariot hollow phalanxes (compiled and trained by Qi Jiguang)
), even if the army went out to fight with the Chahar cavalry, it is expected that the Tutu people would not dare to try the power of the hollow phalanx again.
However, the difficulty for the army to leave the fortress is not that it will win the battle, but that it is difficult to stay for a long time. Po Yourong, let me ask you, if Daning was recaptured through Taiwan a few years ago, if Tuo Duo had not led the army to defend the southern line of Daning
Liang Dao, can Daning City garrison nearly 20,000 troops?
There are neither fields nor border walls around Daning. Our officers and soldiers are stationed in Daning, so they can't make a living by herding, right? It is more than three hundred miles from Xifengkou to Daning, and they are all mountains, forests and grasslands in the north of the country. If the cavalry is not good,
, this Daning City will always have its way out, just like more than a hundred years ago, it can only give up..."
Pogui couldn't help but interrupt: "That's why I say that not only must we have cavalry, but we must first be able to remain undefeated."
"Young Rong, don't worry, I've only said half of what I said." Xu Long continued: "My court has already spent a lot of money to control Daning. If we want to destroy the residual Yuan and drive Chahar completely out of the left-wing grassland,
If we can only continue to build cities and advance one by one, how many fortified cities do you think the court will have to build to finally form a combined force and force Chahar to retreat?"
This item is indeed very crucial. After hearing this, Pogui was speechless for a moment. After hearing this, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but nod in his heart, and thought to himself: If we continue to build a city to build a line of defense, this line of defense will even have to gradually expand until Chaha is destroyed.
If we force the people out of the left-wing grassland...then this project may not be completed in less than twenty years.
Moreover, this idea made Gao Pragmatic feel that Sun Chengzong's fortress strategy was advanced, which was unnecessary. Sun Chengzong's fortress strategy at that time had a prerequisite, and it was largely forced by the situation.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! What is the situation? At that time, the Ming army was no longer a match for Hou Jin in field battles. As long as they were taken out to fight in the field, they would give you a lookout at every turn.
And collapsed.
Under such circumstances, it would be a waste to fight in the field. If the waste continues, the last bit of fighting power will be squandered, and the morale of the military will only become more uncontrollable. So at that time, it was very good to be able to rely on the strong city to hold the defense line.
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And people like Sun Chengzong, who used the country's productivity advantage to build cities by force and stealth, then advanced from fortress to fortress and regained lost ground, were already among the very few who could persist in counterattacking and forging ahead under the most difficult conditions.
It is easy to add icing on a cake, but it is difficult to provide help when the time is right. As the saying goes, "turn the tide when it is falling, and support the building when it is about to collapse." It is easy to say it, but how difficult it is to do it!
However, after twenty years of reforms by the Practical School, the current situation of the Ming Dynasty is very different from that of the Ming Dynasty when Sun Chengzong was the governor of Ji Liao. Not to mention that the main fighting methods of the Chahar people are similar to those of the Later Jin Dynasty.
The fundamental difference means that the performance of the two sides in the field is completely different.
The current Ming Dynasty is not afraid of fighting with the Chahar people. Even in the minds of Gao Pangshi and many generals, they want Chahar to concentrate their forces to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, so that the world can be decided in one battle. This kind of thinking is consistent with the original history.
The Ming army after losing Liaodong was completely opposite, and its strategic pattern was naturally completely polar opposite.
I can't defeat them in the field, and I want to regain the lost ground, so I have to rely on the advantage of national strength to advance from fortress to fortress. Although it is expensive and time-consuming, there is no other way. Otherwise, there is no chance.
I am good at fighting in the field. The purpose is to drive you out of a prairie. Building a castle is obviously too stupid. I definitely hope to find a way to defeat the enemy in one battle. It is best to annihilate them all, and then it will be over.
When Gao Pingshi heard this, he fully understood the contradiction between Pogui and Xu Long. They seemed to be fighting over tactics, but in fact they were fighting over strategy.
Pogui didn't think that the Ming Dynasty had a chance to settle the matter in a single battle, because the Chahar people had discovered their own disadvantages, and simply ignored them and continued to strengthen their advantages. Their purpose was to insist that "you can't defeat but you can't outrun", but
The fundamental intention of always insisting on "fighting" with Ming Dynasty is to strategically compete with Ming Dynasty.
Although your Ming Dynasty is strong, you can't always pile up hundreds of thousands of troops on the grassland to fight against me. No matter how I run away, as long as you retreat, I will come back to see if I can make you angry to death.
As a general of the Han Dynasty, Xu Long knew better than to analyze the arrangements of the imperial court - or simply Gao Pragmatic - in recent years. Before Gao Situ became the Minister of Household Affairs, he was busy promoting various ways to increase the income of the imperial court, and removed the field cavalry of the Ming Dynasty from
It was greatly expanded from less than 100,000 to almost doubled today.
This is definitely not for grinding beans with the Mongols on the grassland, it can only be for the decisive battle and the elimination of Chahar.
However, there were many things that Xu Long did not expect at the beginning. He did not expect that Chahar was willing to abandon Chahanhot as soon as the war started, and he did not expect that Chahar would not fight with the Ming army at all and would only run.
Although Xu Long objected to Pogui's idea before the war as being impractical and too procrastinating, the postwar developments had a huge impact on his own ideas. If Chahar really insisted on not fighting at all, then even if the Ming army remained
With light armor, or even no armor at all, I'm afraid it would be true as Pogui said, and he still wouldn't be able to catch up.
Now the root cause of the dispute between the two parties has been found, but the ball actually went to Gao Pragmatic. This conflict was not something Pogui and Xu Long could resolve. In the end, only Gao Pragmatic's opinion was decisive.
Gao Pragmatic also had a headache. Things did not develop as he expected, and he underestimated the decisiveness of Tumen or Burihatu.
He always felt that the situation he was facing now was a bit like Napoleon who sent troops to Tsarist Russia. He entered Moscow unimpeded. He thought he had won the victory, but suddenly found that this was not the case at all. His biggest enemy was not the Russians, but the Russians.
Russia is cold.
The winter in Saibei is actually very cold, which Gao Pragmatic knew in his previous life.
At that time, he went to a province in the northeasternmost part of the Red Dynasty to investigate and learn about the branding experience of agricultural products. He happened to meet a big brother from the Northeast who had been doing business in Moscow for more than 20 years. The big brother was very good at chatting. During the chat, he said something that made Gao pragmatic.
The unbelievable situation at the time: "Actually, our place is colder than Moscow."
After they parted, Gao Pragmatic looked it up with disbelief and found that the elder brother was really not talking nonsense. According to ordinary people's inertial thinking, for the northern hemisphere, the higher the latitude, the closer it is to the North Pole, and the lower the average temperature. In terms of climate,
It gets colder.
For example, Harbin is about 45° north latitude, while Moscow is at 55° north latitude. The difference between the two is as much as 10°. It should be expected that Moscow will be much colder, but this is actually not the case.
Moscow has a mild temperate continental humid climate. In winter, it is affected by westerly warm and humid airflow and is characterized by heavy snowfall. The average temperature in January is -10.2℃; while Harbin has a mid-temperate continental monsoon climate and often experiences cold weather in winter.
Due to the invasion of air (even cold waves), the average temperature in January is only -18.3℃, which is much colder than Moscow.
From this, Gao Pragmatic thought of Mongolia, and then thought of another thing: Napoleon and Hitler both defeated Moscow. However, Mongolia did not seem to encounter much trouble during the Western Expedition because Moscow was very cold. The Golden Horde established by Batu
The country, that is, Jochi Uluth, ruled Russia for a full 225 years (another said 238 years, mainly due to different calculation methods), and then declined due to frequent civil strife.
So the question is, are Mongolians not afraid of the cold at all, or is it just that Moscow is not very cold for Mongolians?
Are the Mongolians afraid of the cold? Of course Gao Pragmatic knows that the Mongolians are also afraid of the cold. If they were not afraid of the cold, would Tumote be obedient to him for the various daily necessities provided by the Ming Dynasty?
It can be seen that "Moscow is cold" to some extent was amplified by the military defeats of Napoleon and Hitler, so that when people think of "very cold", they think of Moscow, but the fact is that it is actually very cold outside the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty.
Since the Mongolian grasslands are at least as cold as Moscow, it is obviously impossible for the Ming Dynasty to station a large army on the grasslands for the "New Year's Eve". Even if the Chahar people wander around without attacking, the Ming Dynasty's army will have to go south until the end of autumn at most.
Withdrew into the Great Wall.
By then, the most likely places to retain troops will be Daning and Chahanhot. According to reports, the low rammed earth wall in Chahanhot is not very reliable. If troops are to be garrisoned, they may have to be renovated.
If this is the case, once the Ming Dynasty retreats, Chahar is very likely to come back, which means that this spring's war with 600,000 troops was completely in vain.
"No, the previous tactics can no longer be implemented stupidly. We must change our thinking, otherwise I will have to repeat the mistake of Cheng Zu's Five Expeditions in Mobei, which seemed mighty and domineering, but the results were mediocre.
However, Chengzu is Chengzu, and his insistence on conquering the Yuan Dynasty was more out of political considerations, while I really wanted to eliminate a disaster for the Ming Dynasty. He may not care whether he can really destroy the Yuan Dynasty, but I must destroy the residual Yuan Dynasty.
ah!"
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic secretly made up his mind: If it doesn't work, can I, Gao, be qualified to be a bait?
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