I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

On Xuanfu East Road, the Ning Navy cavalry unit led by Zhao Wencai achieved brilliant results. They wiped out more than a dozen Mongolian tribes near Zhangbei like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, and snatched tens of thousands of horses. The amount of fodder lost and the cattle and sheep killed are already immeasurable.

However, they never found a large number of enemy troops.Zhao Wencai tried to make an arch to the north, rushed more than 100 miles, and grabbed another ticket fiercely, harvesting more than 3000 horses and more than 500 camels.

Then, there was no longer a large group of Mongolian cavalry, and a large number of Mobei Mongolians seemed to have disappeared, and they couldn't even find a shadow.

Zhao Wencai looked at the Mobei Mongolian general who surrendered beside him and said, "Where are you... the Mongolian army?"

Several commanders looked different: "Isn't it good that we didn't meet a large army?"

Although it is said that Mobei Mongolia is poorer than Monan Mongolia, the problem is that no matter how poor the Mongolian tribes are, at least they can reach Xuanfu East Road, which means that they will bring a certain amount of dried meat and cattle and sheep. Wen Cai took them to grab a lot of supplies, and they also followed Ning Haijun to eat their mouths full of oil.

The most important part of the supplies for Ning Navy cavalry soldiers is actually compressed biscuits. Although compressed biscuits can supplement the energy needed by the human body, the taste is not good.Although the taste is not good, there are sesame seeds, peanut oil, puffed powder, and white sugar in it. For the Mobei Mongolian cavalry who have never eaten compressed biscuits, this is simply delicious.

After all, the supplies that Mobei Mongolia can obtain are even more limited. They lack salt and even less sugar. Sugar and salt are both luxuries for the Mobei Mongolians.

There are also Ning Navy soldiers who eat greasy canned food. For the Mobei Mongolians, this is a rare delicacy. They use the captured beef and mutton to exchange compressed biscuits and canned food with Ning Navy soldiers. Both sides think that they have made a lot of money .

Several commanders bulged their eyeballs: "Aren't you going forward? The fight is so smooth, why don't you go forward?"

"You must know that we can take advantage of the momentum and sweep across the entire grassland, and snatch all their cattle and sheep!"

In fact, these Mongolian generals have no ethnic concept at all. Many people say that the Mongolians are very united, which is simply talking nonsense with their eyes open.

At that time, the Mongolian army marched three times to the west, and more than 100 people were killed. However, in the internal struggle of the Yuan Dynasty, they killed and injured more than 200 million people. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the internal fighting became more intense, with more than [-] million people killed and injured. However, if it weren't for the loss of too many people in the internal struggle of the Yuan Dynasty, the Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty would not have been easy.

Although it is said that Mobei Mongolia is divided into three Khan tribes, Chechen Khan, Tuxietu Khan and Zasaktu Khan, the three Khan tribes often fight to the death, known as the last great Khan of Mongolia, two-thirds of his energy, It is also dealing with the various ministries of Mongolia.

These Mongolian generals who have taken refuge in Zhao Wencai are more ruthless than Ning naval officers and soldiers when they attack the Mongols.

"It's because the fight was too smooth that we couldn't move on! Remember how your ancestors dealt with the Han people? Now they are using this trick on us!"

In fact, Zhao Wencai also understood the tactics of the Mongols. The Mongols used two tricks to play against the Ming army who had conquered them. Either they lured the enemy into deep, exhausted the supplies of the Ming army, and then ambushed them all over the place. , The wolves surrounded the Ming army like hunting a deer and bit them fiercely until the Ming army completely collapsed.

This trick is generally used to deal with infantry, and it has been tried and tested; while the way to deal with super maneuverable cavalry is to throw a large number of herds to the Ming army. With a large number of herds on the road, the maneuverability of the cavalry to win was completely lost. However, the Mongolian cavalry, which had no burden at all, could be mobilized calmly, and eventually completely submerged the opponent.

Zhao Wencai led all cavalry with super mobility. Using this trick to deal with him can be regarded as the right medicine, but it is a pity that Mobei Mongolia is too poor now, so poor that there is nothing to throw away.

"Let me tell General Zhao, at the beginning, our three major khanates divided their respective regions, the eastern part belonged to our Tushetu Khan, the central part belonged to the Zasak Tu Khan, and the westernmost part belonged to the Chechen Khan!"

"Let's go, let's go to Datong, and meet Zhasaktuhan!"

Just when Zhao Wencai was about to turn around and head towards Datong, the Mongolian cavalry who had disappeared appeared. These Mongolian cavalry did not attack, but wandered around the mighty warning screen, as if they were looking for the weakness of the Ning Navy cavalry.

The scouts sent by Zhao Wencai tried to drive them away, but these Mongolian cavalry did not plan to have a fierce scout fight. When they saw the scouts of the Ning Navy cavalry rushing over, they immediately retreated far away, and waited until the Ning Navy cavalry scouts rushed over. Hou stopped chasing, and immediately hung up again. This feeling of being followed like a lingering ghost, hit but unable to hit is really maddening.

Of course, if Ning Haijun's cavalry is ruthless and pursues desperately, they can still catch up with these damned Mongolian cavalry and beat them up, but Zhao Wencai doesn't intend to do this, he doesn't want to see his own The army was led by a small group of scouts and rushed all the way into the ambush circle. When the horses were running out of breath, the tragedy of ambushes happened everywhere.

Therefore, he commanded the army to retreat in a calm and orderly manner. As long as the Mongolian cavalry did not take the initiative to attack them, he would ignore them, and follow along as long as you like.If the Mongolian cavalry took the initiative to attack, Zhao Wencai said he was happy to see it, and attacked the Ning navy. He really couldn't find any other words to describe this action other than courting death.

The tactics of nomads are somewhat similar to wolves besieging reindeer.The reindeer is ten times the size of the wolf and has sharp horns. If the wolf wants to attack hard, it is easy to be kicked or put on top of the antlers, and it will die.

Therefore, the wolves will never attack the strong reindeer head-on. They will observe patiently, find out the weakest one, attack it, and keep walking around the reindeer to make noise. When they see the opportunity, they will rush up Take a bite, create a bloody wound on the reindeer, and then run away quickly. When you find the opportunity, you will rush up and take a bite, so that the reindeer will always be in a state of panic and blood loss, and the cycle will start again and again. No matter how strong the reindeer is, it will soon die Collapsed from exhaustion and blood loss, and then, the killing began.

This cunning and rogue tactic is simply incomprehensible for infantry. Two-legged infantry can never catch up with four-legged horses. Although infantry phalanxes can effectively resist cavalry attacks, infantry cannot They are lined up in square formation 24 hours a day, and their helmets are in full swing, which means that those nasty cavalry can always find a chance to bite them hard. This kind of fierce bite is quite deadly, and often it has not yet In the final decisive battle, the infantry had already collapsed.

However, this set of tactics is useless against the Ning Navy cavalry. Some of them have cavalry with outstanding maneuverability.More importantly, Zhao Wencai still has more than 8000 Mongolian cavalry under his command. The Mongols are too familiar with the tactics of the Mongols. It is useless to play this game with them!
A Mongolian commander looked at the cotton-padded clothes worn by Ning Haijun soldiers beside him, and asked enviously, "Can we wear these cotton-padded clothes?"

"sure!"

"How can I wear this cotton coat?"

Although the Mongols are nomads, their leather tanning techniques are too rough. They are also cowhide boots. The cowhide boots on Ning Haijun’s feet are not hard, but very soft and very warm. However, the boots made by the Mongolians are easy to wear. Water leakage, in this icy and snowy world, the heat preservation effect is extremely poor, and many people's feet have been frostbitten.

"Then we need to finish the war and wait until Liaodong, or wait for our supplies to come up. Now the Mongols are attacking the Great Wall like crazy, and the supplies can't be delivered!"

"Damn Mongols!"

The commander believed that it was the Mongols who prevented him from putting on the cotton-padded clothes. These cavalry servants found that the soldiers of the Ning Navy were very friendly, well-equipped, and well-fed. Like in the past in Mobei Mongolia, only the princes and nobles could drink tea. They can drink almost every day, and unlimited.

It's still the kind of canned food that can't be described in words. After roasting on the fire, the box is full of oil, so delicious.

More importantly, Ning Haijun is very fair. According to the merits of the head, a head is a credit, and you can claim credit with your head.And the military achievements cannot be taken away by others, unlike in the past, they won the battles and the credits belonged to the nobles and masters, and they would be punished if they lost the battle.

"A head of ten acres of land?"

"Yes!"

"Can we also live in a big house?"

"of course can!"

"Can we be like you?"

"Yes, our Ning Navy is not all Han Chinese. There are also Koreans in our army, as well as Xiaotian, and Jurchens. There are actually quite a few Mongols like you in Liaodong!"

"really?"

"Why don't you ask President Qiyan Qian!"

Qi Yanqian was always the Mongol who surrendered to the Ning Navy in the Battle of Haizhou. At that time, he was only a centurion of the Mongolian Right Banner, who was a slave, and later he was promoted to Chief Qian in previous battles.

If it wasn't because of Qi Yan's lack of education and failed the assessment, he would be at least a general at the level of the capital, and his status would not be lower than that of Hu Erqi.

With Qi Yan, who is dressed like the Ning Navy officers and has an independent tent, the Mongols who follow Zhao Wencai now have only one thought in their heads, to destroy the Mongols and live a good life with the Ning Navy officers and men. day.

……

Miyun, on the banks of the Baihe River, is the camp of the Ning Navy Guards.

Thousands of Mongolian soldiers shouted in unison, rushing towards the front line of Ning Haijun's ice wall like a tide. At this time, the battle on the battlefield by the Yingbai River was loud!
The Ning Navy camp a few days ago has now retreated for several miles, and the Mongols have broken through at least a dozen ice walls in a row, but the problem is that when the Mongolian army launched a charge against the ice wall At that time, the peasants of Daming were nervously building an ice wall.

Casting an ice wall is very simple. The snow that can be seen everywhere is dug out to form a snow wall, and it is solidified with a shovel, and boiling hot water is poured on it, and then, and then it is all done. This kind of ice wall is actually far more than using The breast wall made of mud is simpler.

However, the Mongolian army on the attacking side was miserable. They didn’t know muskets well. They also knew that muskets would explode after being fired for a long time. The range is long, the key is that after fighting for so long, it doesn't explode.

In fact, if Ning Haijun's rifle is fired for a long time, the barrel will turn red, but the problem is that now it is an icy and snowy environment, the barrel turns red, and it is thrown against the ice wall.

"Thorn..."

Just one click and you can keep shooting.Of course, the soldiers of the Ning Navy will run out of bullets, but it will take some time. The base number of ammunition carried by each soldier is [-] rounds. With the impressive rate of fire of the bolt-action rifle gun, it takes a little patience to finish shooting so many bullets. .

What's more, behind Cheng Shijie is Miyun County. Although the Bohai Sea is sealed and the transport ships or warships of the Ning Navy Navy cannot sail, the problem is that the ice boats of the Ning Navy are unimpeded, and in order to facilitate passage on the ice surface of the Bohai Sea, Ning The Navy also learned from the same track of the carts in the Qin Dynasty, and spread straw mats in the middle of the ice boats to prevent the horses from slipping.

Now a large amount of grain has arrived in the capital. Seeing that the grain from Liaodong is transported to the capital, the price of grain in the capital has dropped from eight or nine taels of silver to three taels of silver. Although it is still very expensive, it is foreseeable that in the next time, grain Prices will continue to fall, and those grain merchants hoarding exotic goods will definitely lose their money this time.

Much of the food they ate at a high price was released by Cheng Shijie. You must know that the price of grain in Liaodong is only seven or eight yuan per shi, the price of grain in Jiangnan is similar, and the price of grain in Luzon is even lower. Tianjin will not exceed five coins.

The cost of food in Luzon is far lower than that in Ming Dynasty. Not only is the weather smooth, but also three crops of rice. One mu of land can be used as three mu of land. Although the yield is low, it cannot support the harvest.

Cheng Shijie narrowed his eyes, quietly watching the attacking Mongolian army.

Although hundreds of Mongolian soldiers dropped their heavy shields and improvised shield vehicles, they retreated towards the back.

Gonpo hissed and roared: "Death to those who flee! Death to those who rebel!"

The Mongolian archers around him ruthlessly drew their strong bows again, firing random arrows, and a large area of ​​the defeated Mongolian army fell down again.

Gonpo's beast-like roar mixed with the scream of sharp arrows piercing through the air, was extraordinarily thrilling.The Mongolian defeated army trembled from his roar, and stopped hesitantly under the threat of death.

Gonpo roared angrily: "Look at you now, are you still worthy to be called the eagles on the grassland? Are you still worthy to be the descendants of Genghis Khan? A few firearms scare you like this, shame on you, Disgraceful! Even if you bring a group of women over to fight Ming Gou, you won't be as embarrassed as you are!"

The defeated Mongolian soldiers made him growl so hot that his face turned blue and white, as if he had been slapped.

A commander of a thousand commanders said with a mournful face: "Khan, the Ming army's guns are too powerful, even if we have copper skin and iron bones, we can't resist it!"

Gonpo rode his horse over with a gloomy face, stared at the commander viciously, and suddenly drew out the scimitar with a clang, and slashed across with it. It's so big, it seems that I can't believe that Gonpo turned his face so quickly!

Gonpo's facial features were slightly distorted, his expression was ferocious, and he was splashed by the blood spurted from the commander's neck, as if possessed by a ghost. Not to mention ordinary Mongolian soldiers, even Qiaktu and Kebai When the Mongolian nobleman fought a cold war for no reason, he didn't dare to show his atmosphere.

The leader of the Tuxietu tribe spit fire in his eyes, and roared angrily: "What kind of magic, it's just some low-end firearms! A few firearms scare you like this? Your ancestors know it, and I'm afraid they will be angry." Rise up where they died!"

He kicked down the headless dead body that had been refusing to fall down for a long time, and said solemnly: "Anyone who disturbs the morale of the army will end up like him, do you understand?"

"Understood!"

"Retreat, fight again tomorrow!"

During this period of time, the most aggrieved person must be Yuan Shiliang, the commander of the artillery, because Cheng Shijie has never agreed to fire the artillery. He is waiting for the Mongolian army to suppress all the soldiers. In fact, Tuhan is not stupid, he has already seen that the big bosses in the court want to use him as a gun.

However, as the king of the Khan tribe, Gonpo didn't want to be a gun, so he always attacked cautiously, with a hundred or hundreds of troops each time.

The current Mongolian army's offensive is very regular. Around ten o'clock in the morning, that is, after the Mongolian army had breakfast, they started the first round of tentative attacks, and then shelled for nearly an hour.

After the shelling, there was an attack by hundreds of men and horses, which lasted until around four o'clock in the afternoon, and the troops were withdrawn on time to strike.

Under such circumstances, Cheng Shijie murmured: "It's not right!"

"Master, you mean..."

"The Mongols' reaction is not right!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Where did the Mongols waste their time so much? Such an offensive method like the Mongols will definitely reduce casualties, but the question is, how can they have so much food and grass to consume?"

Meng En was slightly taken aback, and immediately figured out the point. Under normal circumstances, a soldier can eat three liters of grain, but the problem is that in combat, the grain supply has to be doubled. Although the Mongols can eat cheese, milk , goat milk, meat and other supplements, the food eaten is much less.

However, now it is a real icy and snowy environment. Drops of water turn into ice, and breath turns into ice. Cattle, sheep, and horses cannot obtain forage in the wild and must carry forage. If there is no forage, they can only feed cattle, sheep, and horses with grain. consumption will increase exponentially.

Where did the Mongols get their food from?

Meng En suddenly realized: "The commander-in-chief means...someone provides food and grass for the Mongolians?"

"It's inevitable!"

Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "The Mongolian army in front of us is at least 6 to [-] horses. People eat horses and chew, and they must consume a lot of food every day. They dare to play like this now, which shows that they have obtained food!

Gonpo is a very smart person. He has already seen that Ning Haijun's defense line is not easy to chew. They want food, cotton clothes, cannons, gunpowder, muskets, and all kinds of needs.

Cheng Shijie smiled wryly and said: "Those civil officials are really ruthless. In order to suppress the military generals and deal with this commander, they did not hesitate to push the country into a bottomless abyss. Now the commander finally understands that there is no country in their eyes. As long as Respect Confucianism, as long as the scholar-officials are treated preferentially, they don’t care about changing dynasties at all! As long as their interests can be guaranteed, they will accept even a dog as their emperor!”

In Cheng Shijie's words, there was no respect for the emperor at all.

He just felt that Emperor Chongzhen was too naive, did he really think it would be easy for an eunuch to appear?Wei Zhongxian can overwhelm the civil servants of the court in just a few years, which is a real skill.

Although it is said that Emperor Chongzhen intends to promote and reuse eunuchs later on, whether it is Gao Qiqian, Cao Huachun, or Wang Zhixin, they are a bit capable of making money, but they are far worse than Wei Zhongxian if they are bad, ruthless, and in control of the overall situation. too much.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, there were Liu Jin and Wang Zhen, but the problem is that both Liu Jin and Wang Zhen were the targets of teasing by civil servants, and there was only one Wei Zhongxian.

"The selfishness of these civil servants is really chilling... Marshal, if Liaodong wants to prosper, it must not use such selfish and short-sighted people!"

"If you don't use them...there is no one to use!"

In fact, Cheng Shijie really wanted to lead the army to Qingjun and kill all these bastards, but the question is, who will fill in the vacancy after killing them?

The current scholars in Ming Dynasty are either traditional gentry or businessmen, but in fact, businessmen are not fun. In many time travel novels, the authors will use businessmen to check and balance the gentry as a good medicine.

In fact, this is a very naive idea.

Compared with the gentry, the merchants are even more threatening beasts. The interests of the gentry lie in the control of land and culture, while the merchants dare to do anything that is profitable.In terms of betraying the country and seeking glory, businessmen will be more thorough and shameless than scholars. Both sides are standing on the coal pile, and no one is more noble than the other.

In all fairness, the Qing Dynasty in history has learned many lessons from the demise of the Ming Dynasty.After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, although the literati and bureaucrats were still used, they did not treat the gentry blindly like the Ming Dynasty. Instead, they treated them equally. The people rested and recuperated.

Of course, the Qing Dynasty is not a fun thing, no matter how you wash it, it is still a dirty thing. If you want to say that the only contribution is probably the early stage, forcing the gentry to pay for food as a whole.

Through the reaction of the Mongolian army, Cheng Shijie guessed that the Mongolian army should have received the support of some people in the court. The Mongolian army had too little supplies, and the longer the delay, the better for Cheng Shijie.
Cheng Shijie decided to start a war of attrition.

The longer the delay, the more favorable the situation will be for Cheng Shijie. After all, although his supplies alone cannot support the entire population of Daming, they can support at least half of them.

As long as we can survive the most difficult period, the future is still promising.

Cheng Shijie looked at Meng En and said, "You go to Jin Yiwei, I want information!"

"What information?"

"It's absolutely impossible for those bastards to pin their hopes on Tuxietu Khan. All eggs will not be put in one basket. These bastards have been playing for thousands of years..."

Meng En was slightly taken aback: "What does the commander mean, are they still working on other aspects?"

"Humph!"

Cheng Shijie snorted coldly and said: "Our Ming Dynasty lacks everything, but there is no shortage of generals like Qiao Zhaolin who can drill into the camp. Back then, the Emperor Taizu used the method of peeling the skin to fill grass, and he failed to control corruption. The commander used the method of riding a wooden donkey. , can only scare a small number of people, or some people will take the risk, and now the commander-in-chief sits in the east of Xuanfu, what about Datong? What about the other towns?"

Meng En smiled wryly: "Commander Jin Yiwei has made Luo Yangxing's appetite bigger and bigger, I'm afraid they will open their mouths like a lion!"

"It's all a small problem. The silver won't grow long. The silver is only temporarily placed with them. Even if they squander it, how much can they spend?"

Cheng Shijie said coldly: "After eating my handsome money, they will have to spit out their capital and profits for me in the future!"

PS: I originally planned to write that it could be updated around the [-]th, but because of a power outage, it was not released, it will be a little later, and it will continue tomorrow! (end of this chapter)