Gao Pragmatic had indeed made several preparations, basically taking into account Tumen Khan's possible reaction after learning that he was surrounded by things.
It can be said that whether he chooses to stand firm or escape, or to counterattack in advance, it is all based on Gao Pragmatic's calculations. Among them, escape can be divided into several directions, and counterattack can also be divided into east and west. Gao Pragmatic has experienced all these aspects in advance.
arrange.
Pre-war strategy is different from commanding on the spot. This kind of calculation is very pragmatic and you are very good at it.
However, being comprehensive and being pragmatic still focused on something. He believed that Tumen Khan was most likely to choose to counterattack, so he made the most preparations for the encirclement of the east and west armies.
In fact, relatively speaking, he was more worried about Tumen Khan's gambler's mentality, so he simply went to play Hannaji without saying anything. Although in this way, as long as Hannaji could last for two days, his back-up would definitely be able to
Tumen Khan paid a heavy price, but as mentioned just now, the current Han Naji Division is only powerful, and the first hero of his previous defeat of Xin Ai Division, Qatai Jituotuo, is not with him. Once Tumen Khan
They beat Hannaji hard, but Gao Pragmatic was still a little worried about whether Dacheng Taiji's commanding ability was reliable.
The biggest bet that Gao Pingshi made was that after the Tumen heard that the main force of the Western Post was coming out in full force, they did not dare to attack Hannaji if they could be surrounded at any time.
The current Han Naji not only concentrated all the troops that had been deliberately separated out with the Antu people's heart, but also conducted a wave of recruitment in the Western Post - the Mongols are the so-called all-people soldiers. In theory, even women and
Even half-grown children can go into battle when they are at the end of their rope.
The recruitment of Han Naji was not too harsh this time. Only more than 10,000 people were recruited in total. They were all "veterans" in their forties. They could still fight and had rich experience, just because they all had sons.
In the military, generally speaking, they are not easily recruited.
Moreover, Han Naji may be more merciful to his tribesmen because of his relatively high degree of Chineseization. Most of these people were left to guard Daban Sheng Town. Only those who had three or more sons in the family were brought out to fight.
.So, in the end, the West Post could not really be called an outpouring of troops, because there were still six to seven thousand veterans guarding the old base of Daban Shengcheng.
Gao Pragmatic's bet is that in the current situation, the Tumen will worry that they will not be able to get a favor by attacking the Western Post.
Being unable to win does not necessarily mean that the battle cannot be won, because in the current situation, it is unacceptable for Tumen Khan to not fight fast enough, or to suffer too much loss after the battle. His first consideration now is to put it in future generations.
To use an analogy with the War of Liberation, it is "attack the weakest miscellaneous army first."
Therefore, the East Route Army should be Tumen’s first target, and the benefits of attacking the East Route Army are obvious:
First of all, the Eastern Route Army seems to be the best to fight. Their strength is only half of that of Tumen Khan's troops, and they lack unified command. When a dozen Taiji forces are suddenly violently beaten by the main force of Tumen, they may fall apart at any time.
Secondly, after the Eastern Route Army was defeated, the encirclement was broken, and the Tumen were in a strategic situation where they could leave at any time if they wanted, which solved their worries.
Thirdly, Tumen now needs a victory to boost the morale of the army. The characteristic of the army is that the more battles it wins, the better it can fight. On the contrary, an army keeps losing battles, no matter whether they are clearly trained or not.
Su Dan is too unlucky. As long as he loses too many battles, his morale will definitely fall to the bottom. Even those who could have fought will become unable to fight because their confidence has been lost.
Just like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many Ming troops may not be incapable of fighting, but because they were afraid of being beaten by Hou Jin, they became panicked when they heard that Hou Jin's soldiers arrived. When they heard that they were "real prisoners" on the other side, they wanted to fight.
Walk.
In fact, many Ming troops showed quite good combat effectiveness after surrendering to Houjin. Although there are more than one reasons for this, the issue of confidence is definitely one of the important items.
Tumen also understand this truth, and of course he has to consider it. Moreover, he knows that his decision to attack Shacheng cannot be supported by his sergeants, and now the tentative attack under Shacheng has failed again - knowing that the Ming army
The defense of the city was strong, but the sand city was harder to fight than expected. A tentative attack was defeated without even touching the city wall. How could we fight? You can imagine the low morale.
Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty have been at war for two hundred years. Not to mention the upper echelons of both sides, even ordinary soldiers are very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of both sides. Tens of thousands of cavalry came to fight against a city firmly defended by the Ming army. Political considerations originally outweighed military considerations.
His actions have now failed, and there will definitely be complaints from below.
But Tumen was also troubled. How did he know that after he came to Shacheng, it was not Bhannaji but the Ming army who defended the city? Originally, he thought that if Bhannaji defended the city, the Mongols would be far away from the protection of the city.
It's almost two hundred years old, so his level should be very limited...
Therefore, while morale was just beginning to decline, he had to win a victory quickly to reverse it.
The highly pragmatic person who "predicts things like a god" has always been "predicts people like a god". He can basically analyze Tumen's thoughts, so he is 70% sure that Tumen will attack the East Route Army. Therefore, in the East Route Army
A big meal was prepared for them.
The first feast is the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army - Chatai Jituotuo!
Qataiji and his 6,000 direct descendants were all in the East Route Army. In addition, the East Route Army also had 10,000 great khan escorts from Zhongjin Hatun's direct descendants, and more than 10,000 people were in the army.
The soldiers and horses sent by Jimen.
In a sense, the Great Khan's Guards, the direct descendants of the more than 20,000 direct descendants of the year, concentrated almost 80% of the strength in the current Eastern Route Army, and were ordered by Gao Pangshi in the name of the plenipotentiary imperial envoy
Chataiji was designated as commander-in-chief, and Zhongjinhatun later confirmed this again in the name of regent.
There should be no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the main force of the direct line. In the past decades, in real head-to-head battles, this Great Khan's guard army has very few records of defeat. In Mongolia, it almost walked sideways, fighting Wu Liangha and Wala.
, they are the core players in the game against Qinghai.
It rarely encountered opponents in the Ming Dynasty. Among the Ming army's generals, only Ma Fang actually defeated this army. At that time, Anda had to retreat.
The other people who have withstood the frontal attack of this army can be counted on one hand, including Ma Gui's second brother Ma Fu who died young.
Chatterji's prestige among the Great Khan's escorts was unrivaled by anyone except Anda himself. With Gao Pragmatic, the all-powerful imperial envoy, and the justly named Regent Zhongjin Hatun endorsing him, there was no problem in commanding this army.
, the so-called "no unified command" is completely nonsense.
And this is just the first dish. In addition, they also have two supporting troops.
The reinforcements along the way were a cavalry group that followed them fifty miles forward, totaling 12,000 people. The leader was Ma Gui's nephew, and the commander of Dushi Fort was Ma Chengxun.
The main cavalry force left behind by Ma Fang.
This cavalry was built under Ma Fang's idea of "using cavalry to control cavalry". Except for the parts that were abolished after Ma Fang became an official (the Ming army made the west Huaidong system, it was believed that the Xuanda front line did not need as many cavalry as Ma Fang did when he was there.
After the abolition, the reinforcements were assigned to Li Chengliang), and now they are basically transferred to Ma Chengxun to fight this battle.
The other line of reinforcements quietly set off from Zhangjiakou, commanded by Zhang Bingzhong, the commander of Shunsheng Weiguang who was assigned to guard Xuanfu South Road. This was also an acquaintance. Gao Pingzhen had met him in the past when he was discussing military affairs in Datong before I paid tribute.
He was deeply impressed, especially by his son Zhang Wanbang [Note: See Volume 1, Chapter 125 "Fighting Fang He"].
The number of Zhang Shenjiang's troops is not large, only 6,000, but they have a trump card - the first batch of Wanli Type 1 bayonet style muskets that were just sent to Xuanda not long ago, because their troops want to support Monan.
battle, so he got a full facelift.
Although I have only practiced bayonet for half a month, the training effect is quite good because the essentials of bayonet compiled by Qi Jiguang are distributed with the gun.
As mentioned before, Qi Jiguang had long known the style of bayonet-style muskets from Gao Pingshi, so he studied the use of bayonets in military formations early and wrote "The Essentials of the Bayonet". The Essentials of the Bayonet is consistent with Qi Jiguang's usual training ideas.
Agree, the moves are very simple, there are less than ten moves in total, and there are only five moves when facing the enemy head-on, so it is not difficult to practice.
This route army set off early and quietly walked along the border of the Ming Dynasty, intending to suddenly appear at the meeting point of Tumen and Qataiji and test the "footstep defeating cavalry" tactic.
At midnight, Tumen Khan "quietly" broke out of camp and marched towards the expected weak enemy "Tumut East Road Rebels"...
