Chapter 276 Fa Yuan (Thirty-Eight) Divine Weapon from Heaven
The main force was almost at the gate of Guihua City. This news was really shocking.
After all, it hasn’t been long since Gao Pragmatic decided to adjust his strategy a few days ago. At that time, the closest thing to naturalization was actually the Economic Strategy Headquarters. Now, even the Economic Strategy Headquarters hasn’t arrived yet, and there are actually other departments
We're almost there. He's really capable of running away. Could it be Li Rusong?
But Gao Jingshi did not say anything. Instead, he stopped there, returned to the camp, and asked the generals to go down to settle down and have a good rest. Before the generals left, Gao Jingshi said calmly and quietly: "Maybe today is already the pre-war day."
The last good sleep I could get.”
After the generals returned, they all wondered in their minds which main force of the Ming army was arriving not far from Guihua City.
Although the Battle of Yuan Dynasty has not yet successfully erupted into a large-scale battle, Li Rusong has used his actual performance to earn a reputation as a magical eunuch, and everyone's first reaction was undoubtedly that Li Rusong had run away.
But in fact this is not the case. Li Rusong has indeed proved that he and his Li Jiajun cavalry have extremely strong attack capabilities, but no matter how powerful they are, they cannot ignore the distance itself.
Li Rusong's troops were too far away when Gao pragmatically changed his strategy, and were later asked not to get close to the Jinglue headquarters for the time being. Therefore, he was still at the original Kaiping Youtunwei (Ming Dynasty) about 300 miles northeast of Ming'anyi.
After the early period, the residence was moved inland, and its name was Dongliangting.
Due to the military order, although Li Rusong wanted to kill him from the bottom of his heart, even he did not dare to disobey Gao Pragmatic's order. As a last resort, he had no choice but to take this opportunity to rest his horse power. Nearly 40,000 cavalry were resting near the East Pavilion.
The war horses were fed with more refined food, and the soldiers under his command also had a rare good meal for two times, which was regarded as recharging their energy before the war.
Since Li Rusong is like this, Ma Chengen is certainly no exception, and Ma Chengen's troops are a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry. Unless he, like Gao Jingshi, gives up the infantry and advances with cavalry alone, it will be difficult for him to even get in front of Gao Jingshi. He is now
The actual location is about sixty or seventy miles west of Li Rusong at a place called Shuangta, which happened to be the original headquarters of the Kaiping Guards.
More than a hundred years have passed, and the rammed-earth city left by Kaipingwei still looks like a city wall. It is better to use it a little than to camp completely in the wild. And the reason why this place is called Twin Towers is because two high towers were built at that time. Now
It can also be used as a watchtower, which is quite rare.
As for the Magui tribe, he was actually the only one who did not receive high-level pragmatic instructions to return reinforcements, so he still stayed in the Outer Khalkha tribe. The order Magui received was divided into two parts. One part was to continue to guard Saliqir and the Three Gorges.
At the mouth, they are waiting for the troops of Abadai Saiyin Khan, who had previously served as a cover for the Tumen army, to return to Helin; the other part is to control Helin and use this to control the entire Outer Khalkha tribe, so that they can completely surrender to the Tumen
Abadai Saiyin Khan lost his nest.
Ma Gui is a general who can take the overall situation into consideration. He gave up the great achievement of capturing He Lin personally - even though He Lin is now like a girl wearing only a veil. He chose to use this great achievement.
He gave it to Bhan Naji, but he stayed in Sali Shier to eat the wind and sand, waiting for Abadai Saiyin Khan to bump into him.
However, the "recovery" of Han Naji and Lin went very smoothly, but Ma Gui encountered trouble.
As mentioned before, the military ration supply line of Ma Gui's department has to go through naturalization, so when Tumen surrounded Guihua, Ma Gui's side actually ran out of food. His army carried more military rations than Gao Pragmatic and the others.
Some, to use the terminology of later generations, have stronger and longer "troop self-sustainability", but they cannot withstand long-term consumption.
Therefore, after receiving the news that the naturalized army was under siege, Ma Gui immediately began to limit the supply of military rations and other measures to ensure that his troops could last longer.
The "... and other measures" here include two main methods. One is to find Han Najiyun to supply some dairy products; the other is to send troops to arrange for some scattered tribes in the surrounding Transkalkha region to...
one time.
Of course, this arrangement was not a matter of burning, killing, and looting, because Gao Pingshi had repeatedly given orders before the war. Ma Gui actually gathered these tribes together and designated them to stay in a place not far from Saliqier for centralized grazing.
, and at the same time hand over a part of his "contribution" to him.
However, Ma Gui also has some troubles here. Firstly, he is too pragmatic and is not allowed to be too harsh on the Mongolian tribes. Secondly, the productivity of these Mongolian tribes is pitifully low. The combination of this means that the "contribution" that Ma Gui can collect is really limited.
, it is absolutely impossible to feed at least his 60,000 troops, so it can only be used as scraps to supplement it.
Because Han Naji was on an expedition, he did not bring many sheep. In addition, due to the dairy output of the mares in the army, although there was a little surplus, it could only be regarded as a slight surplus. Two
A slight surplus together is just that, and the food supply of Ma Gui's headquarters is still tight.
At this time, he received a report from Tanma, saying that traces of the Mongolian army led by Abadai Saiyin Khan were found about fifty miles east of the Three Gorges mouth. After investigation, it was confirmed that the latter was indeed coming. This made Ma Gui feel happy.
He immediately prepared to face Abadai Saiyin Khan's offensive at the entrance of the Three Gorges, and he also led troops from Saliqir to the entrance of the Three Gorges to support.
However, the result was that when he arrived at the mouth of the Three Gorges, Abadai Saiyin Khan still did not launch an attack. This surprised Ma Gui. Your lair and Lin are about to be destroyed, so why are you still dawdling?
As a result, after waiting for another two days, there was still no movement from Abadai Saiyin Khan's side. Instead, he withdrew his troops twenty miles east - about seventy or eighty miles away from the mouth of the Three Gorges.
This is a safe distance, plus the time it takes to discover and report the horse. Even if the Ming army at the entrance of the Three Gorges attacks, Abadai Saiyin Khan will still have time if he wants to run. And if he wants to fight, he will also have an advantage, because the Ming army will attack.
If the army has run for seventy or eighty miles, it will definitely be exhausted, and it is the right time to attack.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This truth is of course very clear to a veteran like Ma Gui, but he really can’t understand why Abadai Saiyin Khan can treat He Lin
Lost indifferently.
Although due to the overall decline of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, Helin's city has become extremely deserted over the years, but after all, it still has the appearance of a city. With Helin in hand, the king of the Outer Khalkha tribe is
It’s well deserved, isn’t it?
In addition, the status of this place is very special (as mentioned above), and the loss of Helin is an extremely serious matter. Why doesn't he care?
After another day, Ma Guicai probably understood the reason. He sent Han Naji to report that Helin had been easily recovered, but it was almost just an empty city in Helin - if Helin could still be considered a city now
if.
Han Naji said that there were only old, weak, sick and disabled people in Helin City, not even women and children. There were less than 500 people in the whole city, and it almost became a dead city.
And when he sent troops continuously around Helin, he discovered that not only Helin, but also the surrounding areas of Helin were almost empty. The number of remaining small tribes was very small, and many of them were related to Helin for various reasons.
Abadai Saiyin Khan did not agree with those people.
Probably the only good news is that most of the people who stayed will regard Hannaji as one of their own, and have no objection to being included in the rule of Tumed Chechen Khan, and are even quite happy.
Of course, both Han Naji and Magui knew very well that although most of these people should be leaning towards Tumut rule as the news said, it was inevitable that they were not influenced by Abadai Saiyin Khan or Tumen Khan.
Sand, this needs to be debated slowly, which is very troublesome.
At this time, Ma Gui felt more and more troublesome. In fact, to a certain extent, it was mainly a pragmatic idea to put Hannaji's hand into the Outer Khalkha tribe. Hannaji himself was actually interested in ruling the Outer Khalkha tribe.
It's not that big - what's the point of this, you ask?
Well, why didn't the people of the Southern Song Dynasty want the imperial court to regain the Central Plains? The nature of these two things was roughly similar, except that Han Naji himself had similar thoughts to the ordinary people of the Southern Song Dynasty.
To put it simply, the Outer Khalkha tribe was actually a "negative asset" for the Tumuts at this time. Its social productivity was far lower than that of the Tumuts who were gradually becoming sinicized, and its various outputs were very small.
If Hannaji wants to rule it, he may have to pay a high cost of governance, so it is not cost-effective.
It’s just that Gao pragmatic thought that it was more inconvenient for the Ming Dynasty to directly rule Transkalkha, so he had to let Bahannaji take over this unfortunate task. Of course, Bahannaji couldn’t pat his chest and take over this job without asking the reason, so Gao pragmatically proposed that in the future
Hannaji reluctantly agreed to develop Transkarkha. As for how to develop it, Gao Jingshi did not say, but Hannaji was very confident in Gao Jingshi on this issue, so he did not continue to oppose it.
Since he needs to rule the entire Outer Khalkha in the future, of course he must continue to conquer or convince the other tribes of the Outer Khalkha at this moment. Since the area under the jurisdiction of the Outer Khalkha is very large, it is almost the territory of the later Mongolia, and Mongolia
People are nomadic, so Han Naji had no choice but to "persuad and educate" one by one. In this way, he would not have any extra strength to support Ma Gui.
At the same time, Ma Gui is currently facing the problem of what to do with Abadai Saiyin Khan.
In terms of military strength, Ma Gui has 60,000 men at hand, which is about twice the advantage compared to Abadai Saiyin Khan who suffered losses last year. However, there are two main roads leading to Helin from the east, which he is currently guarding.
Not all of the 60,000 cavalrymen in Salicier and Sanxiakou and Magui were cavalry. In fact, there were only about 20,000 cavalrymen, and the remaining 40,000 were infantry.
This means that under normal circumstances, he can only guard two places with 20,000 infantry in each area. He personally leads 20,000 cavalry as a mobile force to support the side that is threatened or directly attacked. It is difficult to take the initiative to send troops to defeat the Afghan side.
Badai Saiyin Khan.
If the troops are sent in the safest way, that is, a joint attack of 20,000 infantry and 20,000 cavalry, Ma Gui believes that the battle will be defeated, but the opponent may not be willing to accept the fight. This can be clearly seen from the previous war process.
If you want the other party to dare to accept the challenge, you must first reveal your flaws so that Abadai Saiyin Khan feels that there is an opportunity to take advantage of him. For example, he will forcefully send troops regardless of the seventy or eighty miles away, and wait to be beaten like a tired veteran.
Or, instead of bringing infantry, use 20,000 cavalry to fight against the opponent's 30,000 cavalry.
The former was directly rejected by Ma Gui. He believed that although the cavalry was precious, in terms of the task at this time, the infantry must not be missed, otherwise the plan to block Abadai Saiyin Khan might fail.
Leading the cavalry to attack? Ma Gui thinks it is feasible. Although this seems more dangerous, the cavalry does not necessarily have to run seventy or eighty miles at a time - I will rest halfway through, and there is no need to build as many fortifications as the infantry.
If you dare to make a sneak attack, then I'll accept the challenge. It's not like I don't have sentries and cavalry to detect the horses.
But something unexpected happened. Not long after Ma Gui and his 20,000 cavalry left the mouth of the Three Gorges, Tan Ma came to report that Abadai Saiyin Khan turned around and ran away.
This really confused Ma Gui. I have 20,000 and you have 30,000, but we are still fighting a cavalry battle, and you, the Khan of most of Mongolia, just run away without saying a word? If this word spreads, you will not be afraid of Genghis Khan leaving the mausoleum.
Are you going to jump out and scold you for being an unworthy descendant?
Ma Gui tried to catch up, but found that it didn't work. The load of the Ming army cavalry was obviously higher than that of the poor cavalry of the Outer Khalkha tribe, and it was impossible to catch up without affecting the combat effectiveness. A clever woman can't make a meal without rice, Ma Gui saw this.
I had no choice but to retreat and think carefully about how to defeat the enemy.
In fact, it’s okay if he doesn’t defeat the enemy. After all, his mission is to block Abadai Saiyin Khan’s westward route. Gao Pragmatic just doesn’t allow the latter to join Tumen. As for whether he is defeated or not, it doesn’t matter much. After all, it’s winter.
If the opponent doesn't have a place to stay, he will freeze to death.
It's just that Ma Gui has relatively high demands on himself, and he feels a little aggrieved that others are wandering around so much that he can't even take it from under his nose. But as expected, as soon as Ma Gui stepped back, Abadai Saiyin Khan immediately followed him.
He came back and continued to stop at the previous position, which made Ma Gui very unhappy and sent troops again - but he repeated his old trick and went in circles again.
The strange stalemate on the northern front means that neither Ma Gui nor Han Naji can go south to rescue and naturalize. The amazing thing here is that Han Naji is not in a hurry - of course he has a reason, and the reason is that he believes
He has a high pragmatic commitment and also believes in Qi Jiguang's ability.
Yes, it was the Imperial Guards that moved south very quickly. As the first army of the Ming Dynasty that Qi Jiguang personally trained for several years, the Imperial Guards not only had the best material treatment among millions of Ming troops, but even the infantry was equipped with horses, becoming
They became the so-called mounted infantry, and their rigorous training also gave them extremely strong mobility.
Mobility obviously had its limits under ancient conditions, and differences in training levels would make the limits of different troops vary greatly.
For example, in August of the 29th year of Jiajing, Anda Khan moved eastward after a long siege of Datong, and drove straight in from Gubeikou, killing and plundering Huairou. The officials and people of Shunyi were in vain. The Ming army at that time collapsed at the first touch and set up camp in Lu.
Twenty miles east of the river, Gushan (later northeast of Tongzhou), Rukou and other places, the troops were directed towards the capital, and the capital was under martial law.
At that time, the capital of the Ming Dynasty had not suffered a military disaster for a long time since the Tumubao Incident. Upon hearing of such a change, Emperor Jiajing hurriedly ordered the border troops from each town to enter the capital to serve the king.
At this time, Qiu Luan, the frontier commander of the Ming army, temporarily stayed at Juyongguan to listen to the expedition. When Anda made a surprise attack and entered the capital, Qiu Luan set out from Juyongguan on August 17th and arrived in Tongzhou on August 18th to form an array.
In just one day and one night, the emergency trip lasted about 150 miles (this is calculated as a clear mile, 1 clear mile is 180 feet, which is about 560 meters in modern times, slightly larger than what we often call one mile). The speed of the rescue surprised even Emperor Jiajing - so Qiu
Luan's subsequent reuse was not entirely due to bragging about his military exploits. Although many of his military exploits were fake, at least his performance that night proved that he was not a complete waste.
It seems that Qi Jiguang did not intend to let Li Rusong take the lead this time. When Gao Pingshi talked about this with his subordinates, he had already detoured to Chi'er Mountain northwest of Guihua City, which was only 200 miles away from Guihua City.
He was in the forefront, but he was just outside the range of Tumen's horse detection. It can be said that he was a magic weapon descended from heaven.
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