Xinshun 1730

Chapter 189 bluff
Liu Yu is not the stallion described by Galdan Celing, but when the pastures were green in the spring of 15 in Taixing, he was really excited like a war horse.

In the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the sky gradually warmed up, and green grass had already appeared in some places. The snow lily squeezed away the layer of ice and snow covering it, and worked hard to produce small yellow and white flowers.

The light cavalry who had been holding back for a whole winter began to attack in all directions, attacking the tribe, arresting people, exploring roads, and drawing pictures, everything was busy in an orderly manner.

The herders who moved to the field became the best prey for these light cavalry, and a more detailed map of the Altai Mountain Pass was also sorted out from the herdsmen.

Liu Yu didn't care at all when news came from the West Road Army where the emperor was, that the main force of Da Ce Ling Dunduobu was near Luntai.

Whether he is acting or real, he just keeps changing.

Without the main force of the enemy, he crossed the Altai Mountains.

If there is the enemy's main force, then field battles will just happen to defeat them.

Across the Altai Mountains is the Irtysh River. Along the way is not a desert, but the best alpine pasture area, and supplies are not a problem.

Judging from the timing of the ice melt this year, it should be a warm year.

Chief of Staff Wu Fangrui hurried to Liu Yu's side, interrupted Liu Yu who was watching the melting of the glaciers, shouted a report and said: "Master Liu, the Qingqimen have arrested a few more Junggars. It is said that Xiao Ce Ling Dunduobu His pastoral tent is not far away, and there are only a few thousand private soldiers around him. Some enemy troops from the southern foot of the Altai Mountains are on their way.”

This is the fourth time I have received such news. The soldiers from the Songhua River may not be strong in formation and battle, but they are really talented in sneaking around and catching people.

The Altai Mountain is also called the Golden Mountain by the Mongols, where herdsmen often pick up dog head gold.A few days ago, a few Qingqi robbed an outpost of the quasi-office, snatched horses, cattle and sheep from the herdsmen there, and even snatched a piece of dog's head gold weighing four catties.

When the news came, these light cavalry seemed to be crazy, swarming like locusts, full of energy.

Thinking about Du Feng hiding in a tree and trying to rob his own "caravan", Liu Yu smiled and said, "Whoever catches someone will be rewarded with money."

"My lord, according to the art of war, we should take the initiative to attack at this time. They are gathering their forces, and we should take advantage of their unsteady footing and attack one of them first."

Liu Yu shook his head and said, "What's the rush? What about after the fight? It's not easy to cross the Altai Mountains now. Wait a month or two until the weather is completely warm."

Now is not the time to send troops, and the snow on the mountain has not yet melted. Some herdsmen said that there will be heavy snow from time to time.

This is not a desert, larch and birch grow in clusters on the mountain, which makes those soldiers Qingqi recruited from the Songhua River feel as if they have returned to the place where they lived when they were young.

For Liu Yu, he didn't pay attention to Junggar's army, and the only thing that hindered him was the mighty power of nature.The towering mountains in the distance really make people feel hopeless and helpless.

Wu Fangrui understood Liu Yu's meaning, and asked: "My lord, since it is said that Da Ce Ling Dunduobu is gathering troops to face the army on the West Road, no matter whether it is true or not, we should take the opportunity to continue building the city."

"Well, the city can be built. Let the engineers bring [-] auxiliary soldiers, and send another regiment to protect it. Let's build it. Don't worry now. When the weather is warmer and it is no problem to cross the Altai Mountains, we will talk about the rest. It’s just right, tell the Junggar people to look at the methods of building a city by professional engineers. You can take them there.”

Seeing that Liu Yu asked him to lead the troops alone, Wu Fangrui felt a little excited and nodded quickly.

Where to build the city has long been planned.Going forward a little means that you will take a short distance when you move forward in the future.

The strength of a regiment, extra processed soldiers and a part of auxiliary soldiers, this is also the appropriate number deduced by the staff department.

If the Junggar army is here, they must want to eat Liu Yu's more than ten thousand troops.

A regiment of processed troops went forward, not counting the combat effectiveness of the auxiliary soldiers, but it was enough to resist the siege of 8000 people in Junggar. The army was not far away.

If it is a small number of troops, it will not be able to fight, and it will not dare to fight.

If the main force of the quasi-department is here, it will not reveal its strategic intentions for the strength of a regiment.

Liu Yu is not in a hurry.Regardless of whether the main force of the Zhunbu is here or not, he is waiting for the weather to be warmer.

Once the main force of the Zhunbu is here, after defeating the main force of the Zhunbu, they must quickly cross the Altai Mountains, chase death and chase north, learn from Huo Qubing and plunder cattle and horses as supplies, and fight all the way to the heart of the Zhunbu.

He wants to ensure that after defeating the main force, he can climb the mountain directly.

It's not that after defeating the main force, the snow on the mountain has not melted, so that they watched the quasi-remnant soldiers run away.

The quasi-bu can risk his life to climb the mountain in heavy snow, but he will rely on the Qingzhou army to fight the whole field, so he will not take such a risk.

Wu Fangrui, who received Liu Yu's order, took the fourth regiment and the engineering unit to the predetermined location, and the professional engineering unit began to command the auxiliary troops to build the city.

The main force of the regiment is on guard outside.

There are professional engineers, and the speed of building the city is very fast.

As they built the city, many eyes were fixed on the new little fortress that had two corners with the big city.

The light cavalry of the Qingzhou Army who made Xiaoce Lingdunduobu tired of appearing and disappearing every day, he could only lead more than a hundred people to observe the newly built city.

Seeing the rudimentary city walls and corners, little Cering Dunduobu's expression was extremely ugly.

The siege of the Yamesh Lake Fortress is still fresh in his memory, and the sense of despair is still unforgettable.

"These Han people are very good at building cities. That Liu Yu is like a groundhog, and the soldiers under him are also groundhogs. If we let them cross the Altai Mountains and build such a city, what should we do?"

A Mongolian aristocrat named Dalin was also worried about Otok Zaisang, who was stationed in Almaty in the Seven Rivers Basin to defend Kazakhs.

This time, Khan took a big gamble, and even transferred the soldiers who suppressed Kazakhs and stationed in Almaty.

It now appears that the concealment was very successful, and the Kazakhs did not know about this troop deployment.

But the more time dragged on, it was hard to say whether the Kazakhs would take the opportunity to revolt.

This is also a big gamble for Galdan Celing.

Once the bet is lost, not to mention Dashun's squeeze, the Kazakhs and Turghuts in the west will immediately pounce on them like hungry wolves.

Dalin observed the fuzzy fortification in the distance, and said: "These Chinese rats are very timid. They are either in the city or they are building the city. Do we just watch them build the city like this? They attack our people They plundered our outposts and plundered our cattle and sheep, and many warriors died. Could it be that our Junggar warriors died in vain? There are only a few thousand of them, and the city has not yet been built, why don’t we go and fight them?”

Darling wanted to say something like a coward, but he held it back.Everyone knows that Xiao Celing Dunduobu is the bravest. In front of such a brave person, he is not qualified to use aggressive methods like cowards.

Little Celing Dunduobu looked at it for a while, then shook his head and said: "We can't attack like this. Their Qingqi are always staring at us, and our main force cannot avoid these Qingqi. If our army comes to attack, they won't be able to build a city. They will run back to the big city. If the city is built, they can defend it. They may not fight in the field, but they should be very good at defending the city.”

Xiao Celing Dunduobu did not have a dedicated staff group, but years of actual combat experience gave him an almost intuitive judgment.

The detection distance of these annoying Qingqi is about forty to fifty miles, and it is impossible for Qingqi not to find out when the army is dispatched.

Most of these Han soldiers were infantry, and according to Xiaoceling Dunduobu's intuition, they couldn't walk fast.

The warning range of fifty miles, counting the time of the fierce battle, at least allowed the army to leave the big city for about two to three hundred miles.

In this way, even if Qingqi warns in advance, they will not be able to run back to Dacheng, and the army in Dacheng will not be able to support them before they are wiped out.

This time difference can be calculated by the staff members.

And a person like him who has fought all his life can know what he knows by virtue of his intuition and experience.

The army cannot be exposed.

If exposed to the northern line, the Han soldiers on the western line would immediately move forward and enter Luntai to build the city.At that time, the head and the tail cannot look at each other, and they must perish.

"Wait, wait. Don't be impatient. The water and grass will soon be plump. Our warriors don't need food, so they can continue to wait. Their emperor will urge them to send troops to cross the Altai Mountains."

After giving an explanation to make his subordinates shut up, Cering Dundob continued to observe the situation of the fortification with the captured Russian binoculars. The speed of the fortification was really beyond his expectation.

While watching, there was a burst of sparse gunshots in the distance.

Darling heard the gunshots and swore.

"It's the light cavalry of the Han people again. They are like wolves. These people are not easy to deal with. Their riding skills are not bad, and their muskets are better. They all carry two short guns. Let's go."

Xiao Celing Dunduobu nodded, got on the horse, and left quickly without getting entangled with the Qingqi in the distance.

Hidden in a tent in the valley, Da Ce Ling Dun Dob is also quietly waiting for the arrival of a warmer summer, not in a hurry.

The news brought back by Xiaoce Lingdun Duobu made him even more convinced that Liu Yu on the opposite side was a good player in building and advancing the city, and there was no way to deal with such a person defending the city.

His strategy was a big gamble. Once the gamble was made, he had to wipe out this army of more than [-] soldiers before the western army on the southern line reacted.

Otherwise, the western army on the southern line would know that the main force of the Junggar tribe was in the north, and they could quickly advance westward and build a city in Luntai.Once they squeezed to Luntai and built the city, but they didn't eat it here, then Junggar would be in danger.

"The soldiers of the Han people do not go out of the city, so it is difficult to fight. Their light cavalry skills are very high, like hungry wolves, it is difficult to know where they will appear. If we want to defeat their army, we must trick them to at least leave The big city is two or three hundred miles away, otherwise it will be difficult to stop them."

Little Ce Lingdunduobu expressed his thoughts, and Dace Lingdunduo preached: "Don't be impatient. It is useless for them to build a city here. They have to cross the Altai Mountains. Their emperor thought that our army is in the south of the mountain. , will definitely urge them to climb mountains and build cities. Besides, hasn’t someone been arrested? That Liu Yu must know that you are nearby.”

The news of the Great Ce Lingdunduobu's army has not been leaked, and the news that the young Ce Lingdunduobu is stationed here is known to many people, and the tribes here are originally his subordinates.

However, this news did not induce those people to attack. Those who built the city just built the city every day and herded cattle, and did not do other things.

"In a few days, you take some people to attack their small town. Don't kill too many people, just attack and surround them, deliberately let them think that you are luring them to attack. Let those Han people see at a glance that you are Trick them out of the city to pursue them."

Big policy Ling Dunduobu's strategy made Xiao Ce Ling Dunduobu completely incomprehensible.

Tricking them out of town was the established strategy.

But if they deliberately let them see that they are going to trick them out of the city, wouldn't they be more cautious?In that case, wouldn't it be even more impossible to leave the city?
Faced with doubts, Dace Lingdunduobu said with a smile: "Let them see that you are tricking them out of the city, so they will leave the city. Don't you think they don't want to come out of the city to attack your ranch now?"

"It's just that they are not sure how many of our people are in the south of the mountain and how many are in the north of the mountain, so they are cautious."

"If you make a move to let them see that you are deceiving them, they will think that you don't have many soldiers, and you are just making such a move on purpose to prevent them from leaving the city. Instead, they will go out of the city to pursue."

"In the art of war of the Han people, this is called bluffing. The more you bluff, the more they think you don't have many soldiers."

Little Cering Dunduobu still didn't understand.

Dace Lingdunduobu's idea is correct, Dashun's strategy is to advance from north to south, cutting the head and tail.The limitation of the supply line makes it possible for each army to go forward can only gather 2 to [-] troops.

If the main force of the quasi-military force is in the south, advance to the north; and vice versa.

It is all about building cities and reclamation at several key points to squeeze the pastures of Zhunbu.At least for now it appears to be such a strategy.

In terms of the art of war, take the initiative to launch an attack when the enemy's assembly is not completed, and destroy part of the enemy, so that you can grasp the strategic initiative.It would be unwise to wait until the enemy has assembled before fighting.

The strategy of the big policy Ling Dunduobu is to make the small policy Ling Dunduobu adopt a "bluffing" attitude.Convinced Liu Yu that Xiao Ce Ling Dunduobu was just bluffing, so he set up a suspicious formation, but in fact he didn't have many soldiers at hand.

Let the Han soldiers think that the main force of the Zhunbu is on the southern front.

If you want to climb the mountain, you must solve the small Celing Dunduobu in the north of the mountain.

Because in his opinion, the strategy of the Han army is very clear: if this is the main force, then build the city and drag it; After being threatened by the mountain, he overturned the mountain and built a city along the Irtysh River for defense.

Finally explaining the strategy clearly, Xiao Ce Lingdun Duobu also understood the key point, and asked: "If they are cowards and dare not come out, wouldn't that make them even more afraid? Even they would think Our main force is here, so how about we march on the southern front?"

Dace Lingdun Duobu sighed and said, "Is it possible to predict everything about the war? Now we have even recruited the Ministry of suppressing Kazakhs. It was a gamble. If they knew everything, now The southern front will enter the fortification, and we will lose. Now the southern front can deceive them, so that they dare not attack the fortification for the time being, this is our opportunity."

"Go, no matter what, you have to give it a try. There are no predictable situations in war. You don't want to bring too many soldiers and horses. Six to seven thousand people are fine. People in small towns don't dare to chase, they will wait People in big cities."

"As long as the people in the big cities go out of the city and walk two or three hundred miles, we can try to surround them. As long as we defeat them, we can bypass those cities, plunder the Khalkhas, and attack their enemies. station."

(End of this chapter)