Chapter 276 Progress across the board in Fayuan (5th Five-Year Plan)
In the following days, the war in Northern Xinjiang developed rapidly, and news came from several directions, both good and bad, but overall it was mainly good news.
Let’s talk about the good news first. The first piece of good news came from Helin. King Shunyi sent a messenger to Han Naji to report to Gao Pangshi, saying that his troops had full control of all the pastoralists stationed in Helin and the surrounding area of about 500 miles.
The tribe has about 30,000 households and a population of about 100,000.
Considering that the population of the Outer Khalkha territory in Mobei was originally lower than that in Monan, and that some important tribes in this tribe had long been transferred away by Abadai Saiyin Khan, there should not be many tribes counted this time.
Although the "five hundred miles radius" is not enough to represent the full recovery of Mongolia in Mobei, it still means that the core area of Mobei with Helin as the center is completely under control. It can be seen that Han Naji's work has been very effective.
The second good news is that the follow-up troops of the Economic Strategy Headquarters caught up with the main force after replenishing supplies, joined up with the forward cavalry led by Gao Pragmatic, and restored their previous strength. At the same time, the Marin cavalry who escorted Li Song back to Beijing
He also rushed over and unexpectedly brought a secret decree.
From the literal point of view, this secret edict does not seem to have much content worth mentioning. It is probably just that the emperor said that he had understood the war situation on the front line and thought that Gao Jingshi had done a good job. Regarding Gao Jingshi's deposing Li Song, the emperor also
Express approval and reassure Gao that there is no need for pragmatism to have any mental baggage. Just keep doing what you have to do. He has the answers to everything.
But at the end, the emperor mentioned the situation in the south, saying that although the situation in the southwest has been adjusted, because the front line has learned the lessons from the past, it is now implementing a steady and steady approach.
There is no news of successfully annihilating Yang Yinglong.
The emperor incidentally talked about the turmoil in the Cao army. This seemed not a big problem, because the number of the turbulent Cao army was relatively limited after all, but the problem was that the battle ahead was going on rather strangely.
The emperor said that the governors of Yingtian and Fengyang both expressed that the troops on hand were tight, and the work of mobilizing military forces was obviously slower than expected. Even with the troops that had been mobilized, there were many problems. It would be better not to investigate, but it was simply shocking to investigate.
The governors of both places discovered that the quality of the soldiers mobilized from each guard station was uneven. The youngest was only twelve years old, while the oldest was sixty-seven years old. The age span was as high as fifty-five years old, which was simply shocking.
What makes people even more speechless is that no matter whether they are young or old, they are all as thin as a bean sprout, and they don't look like they can fight.
In addition to age, the armaments of each guard station are even more impressive. Governor Yingtian said that among the approximately 6,000 troops mobilized, less than 4,000 have qualified weapons, while about 3 out of 4,000 have qualified weapons.
Qian came with firearms, but... they either didn't have projectiles or gunpowder.
Occasionally, some projectiles are brought with them, but the quality of the projectiles is not up to par. Many of them cannot be considered round at all. They are like a handful of stones picked up by the river. They come in all shapes. Occasionally, some are brought with gunpowder. The gunpowder has so many impurities that it cannot be ignited.
It's hard to tell, let alone let the firearm fire normally.
As for the artillery, that's even worse. There are clearly new Beijing-made artillery pieces in the Nanjing Ministry of War warehouse, including thirty-six No. 2 cannons and eighty No. 3 cannons. They seem to be quite powerful. Who knows?
Only then did I learn that only three people in the 6,000-man army said they would use this kind of artillery, and two people said... maybe they would use it.
Governor Yingtian is like this, and Governor Fengyang is even worse than Yingtian. Everything else is similar, except that there are fewer artillery in stock - of course this doesn't matter, because no one in Fengyang has said that they will use the new artillery.
Obviously, the emperor was extremely dissatisfied with the performance of the Confederate Army. Knowing that after the Japanese pirates were pacified, the Confederate Army had been in Nanshan for another 20 or 30 years. It was bound to degrade, but it had degraded to this extent. It really made Zhu Yijun so angry that he just wanted to kill a few soldiers.
It would take a lot of brains - unfortunately this is impossible, because theoretically, military training issues are under the control of the Nanjing Ministry of War.
As the head of the three most important officials in Nanjing, the Minister of the Ministry of War of Nanjing must be a civil servant, so his head cannot be chopped off easily. Besides, there have been more than ten ministers of the Ministry of War of Nanjing in the past few years, so we can't all be chopped off, right?
Of course, Gao Pragmatic was also concerned about these things mentioned by the emperor, especially the issue of the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War belonged to the "traditional sphere of influence" of the Practical School. Although the Nanjing Ministry of War and the Beijing Ministry of War were different, they were not always held by people from the Practical School - even
It can be said that officials who are not from the Practical School often serve as officials - but in the final analysis, military affairs are in charge of the Practical School. Nanjing's military strength has been so stretched that even though Gao Pragmatic is not the Minister of the Ministry of War, he still feels that his face is disgraced.
But having said that, Gao Jingshi was more concerned about why the emperor wanted to talk to him about this matter. Gao Jingshi had already made arrangements for the Nanjing Cao Army riot, which was roughly in two directions: first, let Wei Guogong appease the Cao Army.
, exempting the previous compensation for the loss of the ship, and assigning this account to the Japanese pirates, so that the Cao army lost the reason and necessity for the riot; second, Wu Xun of Ningbo Port took the lead to find out the identity of those "Japanese pirates"
Origin: Make sure that every injustice has its owner and its debtor has its owner.
However, the former Wei Guogong was really disappointed. He felt that he didn't even prepare the troops behind him, and he really didn't dare to run to meet the rioting Cajun army, so he decided to mobilize the troops of Yingtian and Fengyang. The latter
It's hard to find out so quickly. No matter how good Wu Xun is, unless he did it in the first place, it's impossible for him to find the real culprit as soon as the high-pragmatic order arrives - he has to give someone
Just a little time.
Gao Pragmatic believes that Zhu Yijun is not a particularly concerned person. He is an emperor who always allows his subordinates the necessary time to do their work. Therefore, when he mentioned the situation of the Southern Army in his secret edict, he probably did not want to rush himself. In this case
,Why did the emperor do this?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Preparing the Confederate Army? It is possible, but it is only a possibility. The Confederate Army has no clear preparatory tasks, so the emperor will not be anxious about it. Preparing the Confederate Army is
Even if something needs to be done, wouldn't it be okay to wait until the war in the north is over?
The Cajun riot can obviously be solved by political means. The emperor will not worry about Nanjing losing it. That is too nonsense - it is not that Nanjing's city defense is strong, but that the Cajun army will never be serious if it is not crazy.
to attack Nanjing.
Therefore, the emperor's mention of this matter in the secret decree must have other meanings. Gao Pragmatic had a vague suspicion that the emperor also felt that the southern officials' clique had threatened the rule, so this time he was testing whether he was willing to carry out a purge against the south.
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This matter is not yet certain for the time being. It can only be said that there are some thin lines, and the intention is thousands of miles away. Gao pragmatism decided not to make a clear statement for now, and just vaguely "agree". The details should wait until the follow-up context becomes clear.
Make a decision later.
However, the emperor spoke clearly about the performance of the Confederate Army, and he was probably really dissatisfied with the current situation of the Confederate Army. Gao pragmatically decided to remind Tian Le, who was the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing at the time, and let him first propose some improvement measures.
Anyway, such a major matter cannot be decided in an instant. When the whole process is almost completed, it will be time for me to return to Beijing, and it will be too late to intervene.
Well, the second piece of news was originally good news, but coupled with the emperor's secret decree, it is difficult to explain. It can only be said that if the emperor is really dissatisfied with the southern officials' unity, then it may still be good news.
The third piece of good news came from Ma Gui. After Ma Gui and Abadai Saiyin Khan fought for a while near the mouth of the Three Gorges, they finally found an opportunity to have a fight with the latter. The battle formation did not count.
Big, judging from the description, it should be that Ma Gui caught Abadai Saiyin Khan's tail and gave him a fight.
The result of this battle was not brilliant. Only about a thousand Mongolian troops in the Outer Kalkha region were annihilated, but Abadai Saiyin Khan was successfully driven away. Ma Gui estimated from the opponent's escape trajectory that Abadai Saiyin Khan
There may be a detour going south, but this route is not common, so the specific route is difficult to predict.
In fact, if we turn back the time twenty years, the annihilation of more than a thousand Mongolian troops is already a rare victory, the kind that can make the emperor sue the Ancestral Temple. Unfortunately, times have changed, and now the court has actually been developed by Gao pragmatism. This order of magnitude
The number of enemies annihilated becomes no longer conspicuous.
Gao pragmatically estimated that after receiving the news, the court would probably only reward Ma Gui with a false title, a hereditary quota, and so on. It would be great to give him a few dozen taels of silver and a robe, and that would be it.
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However, Abadai Saiyin Khan was forced to go south "without taking the usual path", which made Gao Pragmatic frown a little. Even if Abadai Saiyin Khan lost a thousand men, he should still have nearly 1,000 men.
With 30,000 cavalry, if he were to rob the Magui tribe's food routes in the south, I'm afraid he would be a big threat.
Ma Gui's department was too far away. Gao Pragmatic was worried that too detailed command would limit Ma Gui's decision-making. After much deliberation, he simply gave Ma Gui an order and let him use his own judgment to decide the next military action. Gao Pragmatic
I only put forward one basic requirement, which is that all actions are premised on helping Tumut actually control the Outer Khalkha Ministry - how to do it is your business, and the headquarters will not control it remotely.
Then came the fourth news, this time it was bad news, and it was quite unusual: Tumen ran away, ran away.
This matter is quite complicated to talk about. From a timeline, the so-called "Two defeats of the Mongolian army in one day" a few days ago is actually not accurate. In fact, the first thing that happened was Qi Jiguang's defeat of Tumen, and it was not until the next day that there was any experience.
The so-called victory at Lightning Lake on the Lue Headquarters' side was only due to the time it took for Qi Jiguang's battle report to arrive from his naturalization. As a result, it seemed as if the two armies of the Mongolian army were defeated on the same day.
The defeated Tumen gave up the siege of Guihua City and ran eastward. Buyanhuangtaiji and Buyanhatu, who were also defeated, ran westward. The two Mongolian armies soon met near Shacheng.
Shacheng, which had been suffering from bad luck for eight lifetimes, was extorted again, but the Tumen still did not choose to attack Shacheng. After receiving a large amount of supplies donated by Shacheng, the Tumen army immediately withdrew, seemingly heading north.
At this time, Qi Jiguang was turning to the east, and Li Rusong was also attacking in the west. Tumen was actually in the unfavorable situation of being attacked from the east and west. Ma Chengen's troops rushed all the way, and finally almost reached the blockade position.
However, something happened at this time: Machengen's patrol horse suddenly discovered that a large number of Mongolians were found two hundred miles north of it. This group of Mongolians was large in number. Tan Ma said that they were "hundreds of thousands", and from the east to the
It seems that they are migrating westward.
Mongolians, hundreds of thousands of them. These two words, seven characters, made Ma Chengen immediately realize that this was a long-missing group of troops from the Chahar tribe. They were not the Mongolian army, but the people of the tribe.
There is no doubt that annihilating the Mongolian army is a great achievement, but if the foundation of the Chahar tribe is directly eliminated, it will be an even greater feat! There is no need to say which one is more important between the two.
Ma Chengen immediately made a decision to deal with these "hundreds of thousands of people" first, and the task of blocking the northern line of naturalization can be slowed down a little. In Ma Chengen's view, he should deal with these hundreds of thousands of people by himself.
It doesn't take much time. After all, this is not an army, just ordinary herdsmen, women, children, old and young. As soon as the army arrives, they will be captured easily, and they should be able to make it in time.
But sometimes, when a person is unlucky, his teeth are choked by the cold water. Ma Chengen went north to look for the hundreds of thousands of troublemakers, and he was discovered by the other party halfway. Only then did Ma Chengen know that the other party
Although these hundreds of thousands of people are either herdsmen, women, children, old and young, the Mongolians are not just talking about all the people being soldiers, especially on the grassland.
The hundreds of thousands of people in Chahar are on guard. Although the sentinels are herdsmen acting temporarily, the problem is that there is no essential difference between the "herdsmen" and the "Mongolian army", and they are still perfectly qualified to do the job of detecting horses.
However, Ma Chengen didn't take it too seriously at that time. If the sneak attack failed, then he would attack me forcefully. It's impossible for you to beat me anyway.
This idea seemed right. After the opponent discovered Ma Chengen, he didn't even think about fighting him. Instead, he sped up and fled northwest. Ma Chengen followed closely and gradually narrowed the distance between the two parties -
—This is because the other party “migrated with his whole family” after all, carrying too many cattle, sheep and other supplies.
At this time, Ma Chengen was very satisfied, and he was already thinking about what to do after he caught up. It was impossible to kill them all, although their Ma family had been fighting the Mongols for several generations, and it was said that they had suffered a lot and had deep hatred.
It's not an exaggeration, but after all, Mr. Jingtai has told us that these people should be kept useful, so at most we can only kill a few of them who dance happily as a warning, and the rest have to be kept and handed over to Jingtai.
However, before Ma Chengen could figure out how to escort these people to the platform to report their merits, he suddenly heard that the other party had stopped running, and many of them seemed to have gathered together, seemingly wanting to have a fight with him.
Ma Chengen was not surprised but overjoyed. This was a sacrifice of life and great achievements! So he immediately ordered the entire army to advance and prepare to defeat the enemy. When they were about forty miles away from the enemy, Ma Chengen ordered the entire army to put on armor and prepare for battle.
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However, when he walked another twenty miles and could already see the other party coming towards him on the endless grassland, he realized that the number of the other party was a bit too large - it had been gradually found out that the other party had about 400,000 people.
, I’m afraid only half of them appear on the battlefield now!
However, Ma Chengen's surprise was only for a moment. There were only 200,000 mobs. Not to mention that his elite troops could fight one against two. It would not be surprising even if one fought against ten - the elite soldiers were just mowing the grass against the vagrants.
Facts have proved that his idea was correct. As soon as the forwards of the two armies fought - if the other side was considered an "army" - the enemy was immediately defeated. Although the Mongols fought hard, they were still beaten by a round of volleys of gunfire.
Mother was defeated on the spot. Upon seeing this, Ma Chengen immediately commanded the cavalry to attack and prepare to officially cut the grass.
However, an accident happened. As soon as the Ming cavalry drove out, another cavalry suddenly came from behind - this cavalry was carrying a nine-pin white banner.
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