stubborn thief

Chapter 477 Dove occupying the magpie's nest
Go Sunday forcefully, contentedly.

Liu Chengzong's troops headed east all the way to the Gaotai Oasis, and a boring siege battle against the Cheying began.

The tactics of Gansu Deputy Commander Li Hongsi are not complicated. He is a veteran. Apart from having never fought in Gansu, his military experience is impeccable. When he saw Tang Mingshi asking for help, he knew that he had made a mistake and should not have allowed Tang Mingshi to fight. .

But the mistake has already been made, and all Li Hongsi can do is to make up for it. Since it is difficult for him to defeat Tang Tong quickly, and Gao Yingdeng is still at his side, he has to find a way to pull Tang Mingshi out.

However, it seemed too disadvantageous to do so. At the same time that Yang Jiamo, the general of Gansu Province, led his army from Ganzhou, Li Hongsi decided to come to the big game. Regardless of whether there were reinforcements behind Gao Yingdeng, he would prepare as if there were reinforcements. , Stopped them with a car battalion, Gaotai poured troops southward, and quickly swallowed Gao Yingdeng.

The general of the car battalion he sent was Lin Chengdong, a general of Ganzhou Road.

In Li Hongsi's design, Lin Chengdong's mission is the most important thing whether the plan can be achieved, and Lin Chengdong himself is very clear that his car battalion is drawn out to carry the front line.

The main military thinking of Che Ying is to defend first and then fight, first to make himself invincible, and then to wait for the opportunity to move.

Even though the car camp in Gansu is not as good as Liaodong in terms of supplies, a full car camp there has nearly 7000 people, and Lin Chengdong's car camp has only 4000 people, but the ratio of food and grass is the same, and they are all prepared according to [-] days without supplies.

The car battalion is just a kind of equipment. The base of the army is infantry, which has poor maneuverability and is expensive in cost. This is because a large number of vehicles bring extraordinary transportation capabilities, allowing them to carry a large number of artillery under the same force conditions. , rockets and forage quantities.

Lin Chengdong is not confident about this action, but he is not afraid either.

After the defeat in the first battle, their understanding of the Marshal's Army has been updated. The lack of heavy artillery is still a weakness, but they are strong in building forts and light firearms.

Lin Chengdong's combat purpose was to hold back the marshal's army and create opportunities for the main force to annihilate Gao Yingdeng's troops.

Therefore, there is nothing to say about the meeting between the two armies, and the responses of both sides are very routine and formulaic operations.

Lin Chengdong's chariot battalion was reported by Tangqi during the march. Two horse battalions of the Marshal's Army swept from west to east, and they stopped immediately.

The four battalions under Liu Chengzong's command were the pioneers, and Zhang Tianlin's cavalry was the first to fight against Che Ying, and the two sides clashed for a while.

Zhang Tianlin ran the fastest, because his mission was to assist Gao Yingdeng. He was two miles away from the car camp. He took a look at the car camp and realized that the car camp was not his target. Qian'er and the two battalions came to fight.

Lin Chengdong's chariot camp set up a position, and immediately fired artillery at the marshal's army who had entered the chariot camp for a mile, covering the cavalry to return to the camp; Wei Qian'er and Feng Ru decided to fight back with artillery, trying to approach the formation, and changed tactics after failure. Dig trenches and build walls on the spot.

Lin Chengdong is also happy to see this. The enemy army builds the wall, and the vehicle camp will be safe in a short time. It can also achieve the strategic goal of holding back the main force of the enemy army, and just wait for the army behind to gather.

Li Hongsi's idea was very good. His army covered the battlefields in the west and south, and built a large number of fortifications to safely wait until Yang Jiamo entered.

It's just that he ignored a small problem. Liu Chengzong's army to lure the enemy was not only Gao Yingdeng, but Gao Yingdeng and Mo Yujing.

On the battlefield at this time, Mo and Jing are leading the army to move south.

Mo Yujing was originally a member of the Lutang Battalion. Because of the counterinsurgency war in Shaanxi, he was promoted to the deputy general of Xining in Gansu. Without generals, a group of chieftains weakened by Ming Dynasty surrendered before the Hehuang War started.

After the surrender, Mo Yujing did not work hard in the Marshal's Mansion, one did not give lectures to the officers of the academy, and the other did not meddle in the military affairs of the Huben Camp, but he had no other choice other than that, because Mo and Jing The situation is similar to that of Wang Chengen, they are both from Xining.

The dust of the Hehuang War has settled, and the whole of Hehuang has become the territory of the Marshal's Mansion. They are all generations of honored ministers, and they can't bear to do things for Liu Chengzong; Be able to cooperate passively to relieve your own embarrassment.

Later, Mo Yujing got an official position as the brigade commander of the herding brigade, and he began to let himself go. He simply squatted in Delingha, led the two battalions of Chahar and Heshuote to herd horses and sheep, and did not interfere with the affairs of the Marshal's office at all. .

However, although Mo Yujing didn't get involved in the affairs of the commander-in-chief's center, he did a good job in the military and government in the Gobi.

He built a brigade commander's yamen in Delingha, with the yamen as the center to govern the pasture and cultivated land of the two battalions, and cooperated with a few chieftains to recruit and comfort barbarians between Delingha, Golmud, Dulan Mountain, and Ulan Mountain. Building roads and bridges, digging canals, digging and building salt fields, they did a great job.

This also happened to be in line with Liu Shizi's wishes. Originally, Mo and the brigade commander of Jingling Tuntian Zhonglv did not expect him to do anything, mainly to restrain each other.

Mo and Beijing control the Mongols, the Mongols want to rebel against Mo and Beijing, and Mo and Beijing want to rebel against the Mongols. The interests of the two rebellions are fundamentally different, and no one can rebel.

This expedition had nothing to do with Mo Yujing. It was the generals of the Chahar Battalion, Ji Tutaiji, and the Heshuo Special Battalion, Dorji Taiji, who had learned something in Xincheng Academy. Shuai Mo and Jing take it.

It is said to be a brigade, but in fact there are only more than 4000 people, and [-]% of them are Heshuot and Chahar. It is basically a Mongolian reinforcement battalion.

By this time, Mo Yujing was the one who most hoped that the Marshal's Mansion would win, because this expedition had seriously damaged the vitality of the Mongolian camp from Golmud to Wulan Mountain. If he could not win, everything he had done before would be almost zero.

The Heshuote Battalion of the Marshal’s Mansion was selected from the elite of the Oirat Southern Invasion Army, but their composition determined that they were not a tribe, but the shepherds and soldiers of the Tianshan Heshuote Division.

This is true of the six Mongolian battalions under the Marshal's Mansion. Even if all of them ride horses, the lack of logistics personnel also determines that some of these cavalry need to spend time walking, brushing, drinking and serving horses every day.

To put it bluntly, all the people are soldiers, but in fact, the cost of all of them going to war is the stagnation of production, no one to herd sheep, no one to herd horses, and no one to cultivate land.

At first, Mo Yujing received an order to occupy the upper reaches of the Heihe River and build a dam. Later, he received an order from Liu Chengzong to lead his army south to attack Gaotai.

Leading such an army to carry out the order to attack the Ming army's fortress is quite frightening.

However, Mo and Jing, who thought there would be a fierce battle, rushed to the high platform, but found a scene that made him happy-hey, no one!
It’s fine if Liu Chengzong’s main force didn’t arrive, and there were no people in Gaotai Thousand Households, and there was no one in the fortifications of Camel City, leaving only the camp fortress with ravines and ravines, and the cavalry of Heshuo Teying. Encountered a decent enemy.

Of course, Mo Yujing did see the small Ming army. It was on the piers of the Great Wall side forts along the Heihe River. From Bababao to Sibabao, there were dozens of scattered defenders in each fort. , Playing beacons endlessly.

But Mo Yujing didn't care, anyway, the beacon cannon had already been discovered when it rang, and it didn't matter if it rang twice more.

He ignored those Fengbao who had been transferred from the garrison, and plunged into the Gaotai Qianhu Office. He did three things that day. The first was to tell Liu Chengzong that Gaotai had been captured; The defensive position built by the heirs in Camel City; finally ordered the transformation of the defensive position.

Mo Yujing knew very well that with the Mongolian reinforced battalion that didn't even have a few guns in his hand, he could fight fast and walk fast with his horsepower. It was wishful thinking to use positional warfare to defend the Qianhusuo on Gaotai.

So he only asked Ji Tutaiji to plant a flag on the high platform, turned his head, and asked people to pack up the rags left by the Ming army and come out. The gunpowder, winter clothes, horse grass, tools and even iron pots in the city were all swept away. He sat down in the defensive position carefully built by Li Hongsi outside Luotuo City.

Li Hongsi's position is quite good, but it is not suitable for Mo and Jing.

The Ming army's position is a battalion inside, a low wall in the middle, two trenches outside, a heavy horse and barbed wire, which are suitable and strong for the Ming army.

The two trenches are full of barbs, and only a few spaces are left for people to stand. These spaces are not for soldiers to defend with trenches, but as observation posts for artillery.

There is a reason why the Ming army often referred to guns as blunderbusses, because they used them as blunderbusses, and sometimes there were even more cannons than blunderbusses. That's right.

Only guns cannot be fired in trenches, so this kind of trench position will appear. Several people observe the enemy's situation in the trench bunker and direct the artillery team to aim.

Mo Yujing didn't have a cannon in his hand. He was a general of the Ming army and was very familiar with the tactics of the Ming army.

There is an ethos in the Marshal's Mansion that the Mongolian soldiers are weak and the Han soldiers are strong, but in his eyes, this is not the case. How much difference can there be between people?Man cannot be separated from the environment, just as the tactics of warfare cannot be separated from weapons and equipment.

This trench defense method was meaningless to his Mongolian soldiers. Even if they hid in the camp, they would be suppressed to death by artillery when the Ming army attacked, because they had no artillery.

So he asked people to pull out all the wooden thorns in the inner ditch, and buried them directly on the flat ground between the two ditches, and selected soldiers who were nearly half unarmored to drill into the ditch as bunkers to shoot arrows.

In fact, on the battlefield, the most confused person was Yang Jiamo, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province who led the newly recruited Ganzhou Army in the east. He wondered why the beacon fire kept ringing?
In fact, at this point in the battle, the way of conveying military information such as beacons and beacons is meaningless.

This is an early warning device, which keeps ringing endlessly, and the rear cannot distinguish the intelligence. Yang Jiamo only knows where an enemy army must be stationed, but no one knows where it is stationed, so his marching speed is very slow. , for fear that someone would steal the army.

In fact, the soldiers of the two newly recruited Ganzhou battalions are all from the Ganzhou Five Guards. Although there are young people of the right age from all walks of life in addition to the banner army, it is difficult to find idlers who have nothing to do with the military in Gansu.

After all, this is not a province, but a military region.

But this is a good thing and a bad thing for Yang Jiamo. The good thing is that it is very easy to recruit soldiers in Gansu. Every young man of the right age who is not physically handicapped counts as one. They all have a certain degree of military knowledge and are good seedlings to serve as soldiers.

The bad part is that Yang Jiamo must ensure that they survive as much as possible.

As the saying goes, if you are poor and rich in martial arts, practicing martial arts costs money, but the money is not spent on explicit expenses such as eating and drinking. During the Wanli period, the income of a long-term worker was enough to support a young martial arts practitioner to eat a chicken for three days, or eat half a day. A catty of beef costs only four renminbi a month.

The real cost of being poor and rich is that the young man needs to be out of production, practicing in summer and winter in winter, practicing a skill that will not be used a few times in a lifetime.

In the peaceful years of the Wanli Dynasty, when there were only one or two border conflicts a year, practicing such a skill was too stressful for common people's families...mainly it was useless.

People in normal years serve as soldiers for a lifetime, and there are many people who have never fought.

In the final analysis, the promotion channel for martial arts is very narrow in normal times. Wen is different. Even if you can't be an official, you can engage in other occupations and earn a good income and social status. It is a good tool for making a living, and martial arts is even more Like a hobby.

For ordinary people, earning a living is practical, but hobbies are a luxury.

These young soldiers were not soldiers no matter how close they were to the battlefield before. After all, they had to fight one or two battles before they could become more like soldiers.

What Yang Jiamo is most afraid of now is to kill an enemy army halfway, step on their faces with horseshoes, scare people out of their hearts on the spot, and run to the desert to become bandits.

Yang Jiamo has no veterans in his hands now, and the main battalion is in Zhuanglanghe. He didn't intend to use these two battalions as the main force, he just wanted to serve as a reserve army, but something happened at this juncture-Gaotai Qianhusuo, How did you insert a Tartar spear?

He didn't doubt it for too long, and soon the soldiers boarded the empty high platform Qianhusuo, and took down the Chahar black flag that Yutu Taiji had placed on the city, and then the news of the soldiers from all walks of life spread to Yang Jiamo in the ear.

The whole battlefield is like a race.

Tang Mingshi met Li Hongsi, and the two of them drove Gao Yingdeng all the way to the east, Zhang Tianlin behind was chasing after him like crazy, four thousand Tartars under the Camel City seized the fortifications, and there was a car camp full of people. The big man was surrounded in the middle of the battlefield.

Yang Jiamo quickly realized the danger, not only because his plan to block the rebels from the Marshal's Mansion to the west of Zhangye had failed so badly that it was completely ruined.

The key lies in the fact that Gansu's official troops had been pulled out of shape during the initial conflict, things were out of touch, and the main force of the enemy army had not yet appeared on the battlefield.

Standing at the top of the city of Qianhu on the high platform, Yang Jiamo heard Wang Xingshan, the deputy commander-in-chief of Ganzhou's newly recruited left battalion, ask, "Marshal, can you save General Lin?"

Can you save Lin Chengdong?

To tell the truth, Yang Jiamo wanted to save him, even if he didn't mention his subordinates or [-] soldiers, a car battalion could serve as the fulcrum of the battlefield in the upcoming decisive battle.

But he still shook his head slowly: "Cheying has enough energy, let's look at him first."

Yang Jiamo was referring to Liu Chengzong: "Let's see if he can save those two battalions to the east."

　good afternoon!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)