stubborn thief

Thirty miles away from Qingshui Castle, the camp tents were stretched to the ground.

The 12-year-old adoptive son Ezhe stood in front of the tent holding a Yanling knife, looking at the stone figurines in two directions on the picture.

Liu Chengzong stared at E Zhe in a daze. Although he had many wives in name, he never had sex with E Zhe's biological mother, Su Tai, because he knew very well that this baby and his mother could only have one.

If you want Su Tai, kill E Zhe, and if you want E Zhe, you have to neglect Su Tai, otherwise this baby will not be well raised.

In Liu Shizi's memory, there was Zhang Juzheng as the regent before and Dorgon as the regent later, and neither of these two powerful figures lived with orphans and widows.

Er Zhe is different from the emperor, but the meaning in the Marshal's Mansion is similar to that of the Little Emperor, representing the golden signboard of the heir of the Mongolian Great Khan. Of course, the Marshal's Mansion relies on Liu Chengzong's ability, but Zhang Juzheng's regent also relies on Zhang Juzheng's personal ability.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, Wanli seized the seal book and the order of the four generations, and charged the world with crimes, saying that the coffin should be opened and the autopsy should be avoided for the time being, because it did not live in orphans and widowed mothers; After death, even the graves were dug up.

The two of them failed to do something, Liu Chengzong didn't want to challenge, so he raised Su Tai, and it was over.

E Zhe turned his head and asked suddenly: "Father, why do you want to let the enemy know when you advance in two ways?"

Liu Chengzong came back to his senses, smiled, took the Yanling Saber from E Zhe, pointed to the location of Gaotai Camel City on the map and asked: "E Zhe, we are going to attack Hexi, the enemy is stuck in the corridor digging trenches What should we do if our army cannot advance an inch?"

Er Zhe clasped the small face of the Mongolian Little Red Riding Hood and raised it: "Punch him through!"

"Courage is admirable." Liu Chengzong encouraged, and continued to ask: "The enemy's digging trenches and setting up fortifications is the premise. A strong attack will cause our army to suffer a lot of unnecessary casualties. What if we can't break through?"

"Can you wear it?"

E Zhehu pondered for a moment with a small face, then looked up at Liu Chengzong again, and said the incredible answer: "If you can't penetrate it, you will die."

Liu Shizi almost gave a thumbs up. He really deserved to be the son of Lin Danhan. He asked in astonishment, "Have you never learned the art of war before?"

"I have learned it, and I said that this is called dying and rebirth."

Liu Chengzong was speechless, then he waved his hands and said: "Don't just learn a word and use it indiscriminately, this is to put your own army to death and then hurry up."

In fact, he knew that there was nothing wrong with E Zhe's words, because in the last year of Da Khan's life, he led the entire Chahar tribe to Yulin first, then crossed Ningxia, attacked Gansu, and defeated Chaha, who had a big family and a great cause. You have become a small tribe with only [-] people, men, women and children.

And under the conditions at that time, there was nothing wrong with these actions. After passing through three towns, he was the last Great Khan; if he didn't go through the Ming Realm to plunder, he wouldn't even be the Last Great Khan.

But obviously he was not going through the front line to plunder food at this time, so he turned to Ezhe and said: "War is not fair, there must be a certain side in a favorable position, so at this moment, the enemy's high fortress and deep ditch, the high platform is beneficial to him .”

Speaking, Liu Chengzong raised his finger and pointed to his chest: "The so-called victory first and then the battle is the responsibility of the commander. He must gain a favorable position for the army, and then the soldiers will fight hard to win."

Equal Zhe nodded ignorantly, and Liu Chengzong changed the subject: "Back to your original question, Sun Tzu's Art of War said that I want to fight. Although the enemy has a high fortification and a deep ditch, I have to fight with my fighters, and I will save what I attack... …simply put, getting the enemy to do what they don’t want to do.”

"March from the north to the south. Mo and the Beijing brigade on the north marched to Heishui to build a dam, and Gao Yingdeng camped on the south and approached around the foot of the mountain, all in order to lure the enemy."

E Zhe racked his brains to think about the vocabulary he learned in the academy, and came up with a sentence: "Feint attack?"

"Dolls don't study in vain."

Liu Shizi was very happy when he said the word "feign attack", he said to himself that Ezhe's doll looks a little bit elegant, but if he wants to have a brain like his own father's, his mind is full of dry words, then he will lead troops out on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. At the latest on February [-], he had to enter Bajiao City to be with his father for ten thousand years.

Being able to say the word feign attack shows that the gentlemen of Xincheng Academy in the Marshal's Mansion are not freeloaders.

Er Zhe is very good at thinking. In fact, it is not so much good at thinking as it is better to say that he has seen it through his ears and eyes. He asked: "Then what if the enemy doesn't believe it?"

"Do not believe?"

Liu Chengzong shook his head, Ezhe was still young after all, he didn't understand war, he didn't understand the army in war state, and he didn't understand what quantum superposition state is.

"If they don't believe it, it's not a feint attack. Don't build a dam to block the river with Beijing. Gao Yingdeng will cut off the enemy's food road. If you attack the enemy, you will save it."

As Liu Chengzong said, he squatted down and looked at the map, and pointed the sheath of the Yanling knife to the upper reaches of the Heihe River in the north.

His plan is very simple, to lure the officers and soldiers to leave the well-built trenches and camps, and force them to change their strategy of defending themselves and send troops to field battles.

For the Ming army, when two armies of 4000 soldiers appeared in front of them, one composed of Han Chinese and the other composed of Mongols, if they could only send troops to intercept one, they should choose to clean up the Mongols as soon as possible, and then turn And gather troops to deal with Han soldiers.

Therefore, Liu Chengzong's real preset battlefield is the upper reaches of the Heihe River, where there are mountains, Gobi and deserts, but there are few farmlands and canals, which is convenient for the soldiers of the Marshal's Mansion who are not familiar with the terrain to display their skills.

As for Gao Yingdeng's army, it was entirely for the purpose of containing the enemy, lest they send multiple troops to deal with Mo Yujing. After all, Mo Yujing had 4000 people under his command, more than 3000 Mongols, and only a few hundred veterans of the frontier army.

Feint attack is not to send death, but to lure and contain, Liu Chengzong is not sure that Mo and Jing can deal with the same number of Ming troops.

After all, although the original Daming Frontier Army was not well equipped, it was a professional counterpart for beating up the Mongolian Army, and its efficiency was much higher than that of the Marshal's Mansion.

The Marshal’s Army is targeting the frontier troops who are good at setting up camps and building fortifications. They also need to attack key points and break down fortresses. Considering the relationship between the army’s transport capacity and marching speed, Liu Chengzong designed the team’s first-level small cannons, which have a fast firing rate but a long range. The individual three-eyed guns that are slightly lacking have been removed.

In other words, it was difficult for Liu Chengzong to supply supplies, and the entire army exuded the poverty of good steel used on the blade.

His army doesn't care about continuous firepower, but how many lead pellets and iron shots can be fired at once. It doesn't matter whether you wear armor or not, ride a horse or not, hold up a shield or not, if I hit you, you will have to lie down or die. hurt.

What the hell is the Ming Frontier Army?
A battalion of seventy or eighty cannons, large and small, is considered a small number. The three-eyed blunderbuss form a round-fire front, and the firepower is impenetrable, not to mention the curved shots and scattered rockets. Lead, iron, and gunpowder are sprinkled out like money.

The workmanship of these things may not be so good, but the gap in productivity lies here. To put it bluntly, the rockets that ran away can shoot farther than riding.

Against the same number of nomadic troops, the dignified formation is completely capable of making people lose their way.

Of course, due to a problem with his thinking, Liu Shizi, relying on his rich military experience, could not pretend to be coercive in front of his godson for too long. E Zhe asked him, "What if the army is lost?"

He never expected that he would be filled in by a 12-year-old doll. Mo Yujing had so many Heshuo special troops, and there was also a Chahar cavalry with hundreds of people.

Er Zhe may not know much about military affairs, but he knows his own army... What does it mean that three people must have my teacher?

Fortunately, the Ming army did not trouble him. Just as Liu Chengzong was speechless, the Tang flag of the Marshal's Mansion was unfurled in the desert yellow sand. Shimizu Fort.

The sound of cowhide iron boots stepping on the corridor outside the tent sounded. Liu Chengzong turned his head and heard the sound of the report. The guards clasped their fists and saluted: "Commander, the front line is raising the flag, and the enemy troops are sending troops to the south."

"understood."

Different guards have different responsibilities, Liu Chengzong waved people down to tell the guards to get ready, and then he walked around the tent frowning, thinking about the current military situation.

He had doubts about the intelligence, and he couldn't understand why the government and army would choose to go south to attack Gao Yingdeng's tribe instead of fighting the weak opponents in the north.

During the battle, according to the rules of the Marshal's Mansion, there are three ways to transmit a piece of information on the battlefield at the same time, which is called the three victories.

One victory is to transmit simple information to the Chinese army at the fastest speed when the military situation changes, and the Tangqi on the Tangqi line, which is separated by a mile, will pass it back by alternately raising flags. The speed is extremely fast. Skilled, can travel four hundred miles in an hour.

However, the disadvantage is similar to that of the beacon, which cannot convey complex information. The longer the distance and the more people involved, the greater the possibility of conveying wrong information by relying on semaphore alone.

The second victory is to rely on shrinking the horses, each horse retreats to the position of the previous horse, and everyone passes it on by word of mouth. It also requires more manpower, but the accuracy is higher, and it can pass letters or oral messages. The speed is even slower, even at the fastest speed, it is only eighty miles per hour.

The three victories are the most tossing people. The trusted guards of the front-line generals must carry letters to the Chinese army, carrying the most accurate information and the clearest thinking of the general. It is good that they can change horses with Tang Qi along the way. This requires a high quality of the messenger guards, and it is also easy to encounter physical accidents. Usually, the speed is between [-] and [-] miles per hour.

Of course, this is under the conditions of the battlefield where the initiative is in control. In a melee, the speed of intelligence cannot be counted in this way.

That is to say, when the battle situation changed on the battlefield hundreds of miles away, it was less than half an hour after Liu Chengzong got the rough information of a victory, and he would have to wait another half hour to get more accurate information.

After Liu Chengzong thought about it for a while, he still had four battalions in his hands, namely the Huben battalion led by Zhang Tianlin, Feng Ru, Wei Qian'er, and Han Shipan. In view of the inaccuracy of Yijie's information, he wrote several letters at his desk , turned around and walked out of the handsome tent.

Outside the tent, several order guards were helping each other to insert the flag on the back of the cotton armor, which symbolized the order cavalry. Seeing Liu Chengzong coming out, they hurried forward to salute and receive the order.

Liu Chengzong stepped forward to hand over the letter and the letter talisman, and said in turn: "Let Zhang Tianlin say that Gaotai has sent troops to the south, and the high-level department is about to meet the enemy. Order his department to set off immediately to help, and must arrive early the morning after tomorrow to respond."

"Feng Ru, Wei Qian'er, and Han Shipan are all ready to go, waiting for future orders."

"Chuan Mo and Jing, Gaotai has sent troops to the south, and ordered him to lead the second battalion of He Shuote and Chahar to go south tomorrow, and attack Gaotai three days later."

The guards were ordered to respond with clasped fists, each of them got on their horses and rushed to each battalion.

Immediately, the whole camp was shouting and neighing, and the military music sounded, and all the battalions packed up their vehicles and horses, and made preparations for pulling out the camp. When the swan horn sounded, Zhang Tianlin's troops lined up and marched into the boundless desert with their horses and mules.

The Central Army Headquarters packed up their tents, followed closely behind by Huben Camp, Feng Rou Camp, and Wei Qian'er Camp, and drove eastward slowly, following Tang Qi in the opposite direction, hoping to get accurate information from the front line as soon as possible.

In fact, the best location for the Chinese army camp should be fifty or sixty miles away from the front line in an open area, and twenty or thirty miles away from the front line in complex terrain. First, the enemy cannot be seen, and second, deployment can be made in the shortest time.

But the terrain between Suzhou and Gaotai is outrageous, a desert cuts off everything, and the Chinese military camp is set up in the desert, and if a wind blows at night, they will be buried.

Not long after the army set off, Tang Qi of the Chinese Army sent Gao Yingdeng's troops a victory, and the guards reported: "Commander, Tang Qi is here to report, General Gao's headquarters, leave camp and go east."

"strike camp?"

This word is very special. In order to distinguish the speed, distance and position of the march, pulling out the camp and marching are two different semaphores. What's more, if he has been walking east, the frontline Tang Qi Qian Zong Ma Xiang will not let Tang Qi specialize in this Information sent back.

At this time, Liu Chengzong was able to confirm in his heart that Tang Qi's intelligence about the enemy's southward movement in Gaotai was correct, but then the second doubt came to his mind-why did Ma Xiang call Gao Yingdeng's tribe Baying?

The southward movement of the enemy troops in Gaotai meant that Gao Yingdeng's troops were detected, but at this time Tang Qi told Liu Chengzong that Gao Yingdeng's troops had just pulled out of camp.

Liu Chengzong could probably guess why the officers and soldiers insisted on beating Gao Yingdeng.

In terms of duties, the missions of Mo Yujing and Gao Yingdeng are to lure the enemy. Obviously, Gao Yingdeng considered that a full battalion on his side would be scary, so he chose to divide his troops as a means of luring the enemy. It was found that the army behind was still in the camp and had not moved out.

The soldiers and horses had only marched for twenty miles, and the two victories of Ma Xiang, the general manager of Tangqi Qian, against the enemy's movements on Gaotai were sent to the Chinese army, and the Tang soldiers sent Ma Xiang's letters informing the frontline situation alternately.

As Liu Chengzong speculated, Gao Yingdeng sent out a thousand headquarters to go first, deliberately exposed to the protection of the Tangqi, and used standard raid preparations such as digging toilet pits and collectively solving problems to lure the enemy. The left wing of the high platform attacked.

After the Ming army on the other side of the high platform sent more than [-] riders southward, Gao Yingdeng behind him led the rest of the troops out of the camp.

Closing the letter, Liu Chengzong, who led the army to the east, was full of complicated emotions. He was very worried—letting Gao Yingdeng lure the enemy because deep down he still felt that Gao Yingdeng was still the idiot who plunged into He Huchen's defeated army back then. son.

I never expected that Shibie would look at him with admiration for three days, and this thick-eyed and big-eyed man would also learn to play tricks.

Liu Chengzong was very worried, Gao Yingdeng should not turn the lure into a war of annihilation, fight three thousand against two thousand, and wipe out his Ming army.

Those people on the high platform will never come out to fight in the field again. At that time, they will have to fight a difficult offensive and defensive battle. After all, he can't really build a dam to flood the Heihe River Basin... Not to mention whether he can pass in conscience, Now is the farming season.

This battle depends on the talent of the enemy's deputy commander.

Liu Chengzong's body rose and fell with the saddle, looked at the endless desert in the distance, gritted his teeth and sent an order to the follower beside him: "Tell Huang Shengxiao, cast more shells, and prepare to send them to the front line!"