The 12,000 cavalrymen of the Chaohua Department have been stationed on the other side of the Sancha River crossing in the north of Dongchang Fort for three full days.
In the past three days, Chaohua Taiji's mood has never been better. At present, the news behind it makes him extremely annoyed.
The current resentment is understandable. After all, Chaohua Taiji has nothing to do with the "Ming Navy" in the Liao River that he can't reach, but he can fire a few cannons at every turn. Although they seem to be limited in number, at most they are
There were about twenty or thirty ships, but the ship was really big, and most importantly, it had muskets and cannons. To cross the river in front of them would be to seek death.
In addition to the "current", there seems to be trouble "behind the scenes", that is, Tumen Dahan was dawdling all the way. Originally, it was said that the distance between the two armies was only one day's horse ride, but he ended up waiting here for three days.
Our Great Khan still didn't show up. If the messengers from both sides hadn't been coming and going without stopping, and I could have grasped the other's whereabouts, I would have thought that the All-Mongolian Great Khan was so frightened that he retreated back to Chahanhot.
In fact, the Great Khan of Tumen has really been walking, but as slowly as the infantry of the Ming Army. He is still half a day away.
"No wonder this guy Tumen suffered such a big defeat in Tumut. He doesn't even understand the importance of having a quick army. If you don't suffer a defeat, who will?"
Hearing his Taiji curse these words for the thirteenth time, the soldiers at the gate of the battle all rolled their eyes helplessly and looked at each other speechlessly.
At the same time, more than 40 miles north of here, Tumen Dahan not only did not sneeze, but was talking to Burihatu with a smile.
"Is the news true? That Qin Deyi was really forced to send troops under the pressure of Zhou Yong and Han Guang, the two lackeys of the Zhu family emperor, and he was urged to send troops three times a day to reward him, but he just refused to move south decisively despite his dillydallying."
Burihatu smiled and said to the pictures: "Congratulations to the Great Khan, the news is absolutely true. This shows that Qin Deyi, a direct subordinate of Li Chengliang, does not have the slightest intention to go south, and his attitude must also be that of Li Chengliang
manner."
Tumen nodded repeatedly and laughed loudly: "Yes, how could Qin Deyi dare to take action on such a big matter? He naturally had Li Chengliang's instructions, and he and Li Chengliang are quite far away from where they are now. In addition, Li Chengliang is in the mountains.
Communication is inconvenient, and there is no time to communicate... This can only be said that Li Chengliang knew that today would happen, so he said hello to Qin Deyi in advance. "
Burihatu smiled and said: "With such a big sweat, can we speed up? Judging from the messenger's return, Chaohua Taiji has now remembered to drink it. We are all the descendants of Dayan Khan, so we can't let it go.
He was so tortured."
Tumen snorted softly, obviously disapproving of the statement that "they are all descendants of Dayan Khan".
Of course, this is not to blame him. After all, Anda is also a descendant of Dayan Khan, but he forced the Chahar tribe to move eastward. But Han Naji is also a descendant of Dayan Khan, but he even dared to fight with him.
His strength was damaged and his prestige plummeted.
However, although it doesn't matter whether he is a descendant of Dayan Khan or not, after all, Chaohua still has a certain strength and is the target that needs to be won over. Moreover, this time the troops will be dispatched with the help of his power, it is indeed not easy to completely ignore his ideas.
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Therefore, the Great Khan of Tumen nodded at this time and said: "Although this guy Chaohua has no ability, and he can't cross the river with just a few boats from the Ming Dynasty, he is still a loyal minister of this Khan.
I really can’t let him feel cold, so I’ll speed up and go to discuss with Chaohua Taiji how to cross the river.”
Tumen Khan accelerated as fast as he could. It would have taken half a day to walk at the previous speed, but now he finished the journey in just over an hour.
Chaohua Taiji was overjoyed and went out to camp to welcome the Great Khan in person. Each side said a few words of intimacy in front of the other side's soldiers, so much so that the Mongolian cavalrymen on both sides who didn't know the truth thought they were really as close as brothers.
When Chaohua welcomed Dahan into his big tent, the smile on his face like a warm sunshine immediately turned into a frown. He sighed and said to Tumen: "Dahan, it turns out that I really didn't know.
The army's navy is so troublesome! I waited here for three days without doing anything. I once divided my troops to make a surprise attack in order to find out the speed of the opponent's navy. As a result, the opponent's navy
The speed is much higher than I expected, barely slower than the cavalry, what do you think we should do about this?"
This news was a bit unexpected. Not only Tumen were stunned when they heard it, but even Burihatu immediately frowned.
However, Burihatu was a military advisor after all. He frowned for a moment and then asked: "Chaohua Taiji, are you dividing your troops downstream or upstream?"
Chaohua Taiji widened his eyes and said: "Am I so stupid that I can't even understand this truth? If we divide our troops downstream, they can go downstream, and the speed will naturally be fast. How could I not know this? But the problem is,
Even if I divide my troops upstream, their speed is still not slow. This is why I feel like I have seen a ghost. I suspect their ship has witchcraft!"
At this time, Burihatu was also confused. Due to his limited background, his understanding of the navy was certainly no better than that of speculation. How could he know the secret?
Actually there are two main reasons for this problem.
The first is the ship itself. These ships of the Gao family are "hybrid". Of course, it does not mean the mixture of gasoline engine and electric motor, but wind energy plus rowing. These two technologies are leftovers. Gao is just pragmatic.
Let the master craftsmen participate in the design.
Theoretically speaking, two sets of power systems will definitely have greater requirements on the size of the ship, and it will probably also affect the cargo capacity. However, these ships of Jinghua are inherently large ships, so this impact does not matter, and Gao Pragmatic adheres to the habit of
"The faster the transport ship, the higher the transportation efficiency." Therefore, a small burden on manufacturing costs does not actually matter - as long as the business is not completed, it will definitely be more profitable.
But just having two sets of power is not enough, because if the wind is against the wind, it is almost difficult to use the wind energy. Even a Chinese-style hard sail can "take wind from all directions", but it can't do anything when the wind is completely against it.
However, when you look at the map, you will know that in autumn, Liaodong has begun to blow west or northwest winds - the so-called Siberian Cold Current in later generations, the wind brought by the West Siberian Cold Current.
If a Western-style soft sail is allowed to absorb this kind of wind, the efficiency loss will be huge, but the utilization rate of a Chinese-style hard sail for this kind of wind energy that is not completely downwind, but "roughly downwind" is still worth mentioning.
The Jinghua fleet can hardly be slower than the cavalry in the countercurrent because of these two points.
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