Gao Pingshi was startled when he heard the words. He carefully looked at the young general in front of him and thought to himself: I'm afraid I've traveled to the wrong era. With my probability of meeting the fierce general brother, I can meet Liu Wei when I go to another hospital.
When I came to Datong, I met Ma Gui... In fact, I should have traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Not to mention anything else, it would definitely be fun to at least collect a bunch of famous advisers and generals.
However, the record of Ma Gui in the history of the Ming Dynasty is relatively inaccurate. It seems that it only started in the late Longqing year. At that time, he had already served as a general guarding Xinpingbao. By the early Wanli year, this young general had already mixed up with the deputy general of Datong.
A high position shows that talents are indeed rare.
Of course, normally speaking, apart from the founding period and the period of the fall of the country, a dynasty can rise to prominence in ordinary years, and it must not only be because of the scarcity of talents. Ma Gui's father Ma Lu was already one of several Datong officials in the middle of Jiajing.
One of the participating generals, he once accompanied the commander-in-chief Liu Han in his successful raid on Bansheng City, and was transferred to the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu due to his meritorious service.
From the perspective of the entire Ma family, it is even more talented. As we all know, in the late Ming Dynasty, the first so-called "general" to gain a reputation in the minds of ordinary people was probably the Tieling Li family represented by Li Chengliang and Li Rusong.
, However, in fact, people at that time always compared it with the Li family in Tieling, Liaodong, with the Xuanma family, and there was a saying of "Eastern Li and Western Ma".
In the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of eighty-three military generals of the Youyu family, among whom there were thirty-three "Ma family generals" alone, accounting for nearly 40% of the total. And among the five generations before and after Ma Gui, each generation had
There are senior officials, namely Ma Quan, Ma Zheng, Ma Lu, Ma Gui and Ma Chengzong.
Anyway, to put it simply: the Ma family is a military family of Xuanda.
Although Ma Gui's current position is not high, he is only a garrison guard at Desheng Fort, but his rank is not very low, and he has already arrived to command the general affairs.
This situation is roughly equivalent to a certain department-level cadre in later generations being clarified to enjoy deputy department-level treatment, or a certain department-level cadre being clarified to enjoy deputy provincial-level treatment. At Ma Gui's age, the reason why there is such a situation
The treatment must be related to his origin.
Gao Jingshi briefly went through Ma Gui's information in his mind, then rolled his eyes and asked in a pretentious manner: "Youyu Malu, General Rong and General, you..."
"It's just family strictness." Ma Gui responded.
"Oh..." Gao Pingshi showed a professional "friendly smile" and said: "It turns out that he is a tiger from the general family. I wonder if the general has brought the Ma family's 'advanced soldiers'?"
Ma Gui was a little surprised by this question, and subconsciously asked: "The imperial envoy has also heard of the name 'Dabing'?"
Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that the members of the Majia family are called 'Dabing', and many of them are Mongolian, Huihui and other tribes who dare to fight. They can attack like broken bamboo and defend like gold. If the general can lead them this time,
, I must be able to sleep much more soundly in this Desheng Fort, even if I face the Northern Army."
"The imperial envoy has been rewarded." Ma Gui said, neither humble nor arrogant: "After my father begged for leave, the army was divided between the general and his brother Ma Jin, each with about five or six hundred men. The general brought three hundred this time.
, is serving as a garrison supervisor in Desheng Fort."
The so-called winning troops of the general generally refer to the personal soldiers of the general. They are the troops directly under the general and are usually the troops with the best treatment and the strongest combat effectiveness.
When Gao pragmatic heard that he was bringing 300 Ma family troops with him, he immediately felt that his personal safety was better protected, and he was very relieved and said a few kind words.
In fact, speaking of it, Gao Jingshi's own cavalry is not necessarily inferior to Ma's army in terms of personnel quality. After all, the foundation was not bad originally, and they have received guidance and training from the two famous generals Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang. However, Gao Jingshi feels that
My own servants have at least two points, and now they are definitely not as good as private soldiers like Ma Jiajun.
First of all, the Ma family is a military family. The servants of his family are regular troops recognized by the court and can be equipped with any weapons and equipment; while Gao Pragmatic comes from a civil servant family, neither his elders nor himself are in the border areas now.
As an official, even if his bodyguards are armed to a certain extent, they are not allowed to wear regular army armor or carry firearms that the imperial court prohibits civilians from owning.
In terms of armor, Gao Jingjing is quite reasonable, but the fact that he cannot use firearms has always made Gao Jingjing very unhappy, because he does not know much about cold weapon warfare, but he is somewhat confident in the application of firearms, and he cannot use firearms.
This also invisibly reduces the combat effectiveness of the armed servants of the Gao family.
As for the second point, the Ma family's regular combat experience must be far greater than that of the Gao family's family, because the former is not only a regular army, but also the backbone of the regular army. In addition, as a military family, the Ma family has been carrying
The Ma family army is fighting, and this kind of experience cannot be gained through training alone.
Although the highly pragmatic servant guards have recently gained some combat experience, especially the cavalry, they have fought several battles of various sizes in Monan in the past few months, but the largest scale was a few hundred people against more than a thousand.
Of course he is not good enough compared to Ma Jiajun.
At the moment, Gao Jingshi's servants in Desheng Fort are worth about 800, and they are extravagant, one man and two cavalry. Ma Gui's "maximum soldiers" are only 300. It is not clear to Gao Jingshi how high the equipment is, and whether he can do it with one man and two cavalry.
It's hard to say. But Gao Pragmatic still feels that if the 800 cavalrymen under his command can now equal Ma Gui's 300 troops, then he will be very satisfied.
Gao Jingshi secretly made up his mind: We must quickly promote the pilot program of military privatization. Otherwise, where can I find a breakthrough to equip my servants with firearms? Without firearms, I am afraid that I will not be able to use even half of my half-baked military knowledge. It’s too much.
Frustrated!
Since Ma Gui was the garrison of Fort Desheng, and most of the defense of Fort Desheng was his own handiwork, he was indeed more suitable than Ma Wei to explain the defense layout to Gao pragmatically in detail. Although the questions Gao pragmatically asked were trivial, he
They can all be explained clearly.
However, as Gao Pingshi listened, he discovered something that made him a little surprised and puzzled, that is, Ma Gui's defense arrangements did not seem to consider the possibility of a strong attack by An Danyi.
When he raised this question to Ma Gui, Ma Gui shook his head and said: "I answer that over the years, the method of attacking the city with ants has been used very rarely. First, the casualties were too great and he couldn't bear it.
, otherwise the interior may be unstable; secondly, siege equipment requires the construction of siege equipment, and the Mongols are not very good at this. Although the general cannot say that they will not build it, the production speed will not be fast, and once it is built,
For siege equipment, the speed advantage of their Mongolian cavalry is equivalent to giving up on their own; thirdly... The general feels that I am here to show off my force. If I really ask him to storm the Great Wall pass, I am afraid he will not do this.
