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Chapter 522
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How can it take a month to prepare for an army of 10 people?

Therefore, the confrontation between the Ming army and the Junggar army, from the mutual testing in March, was basically in place in May.

Because the Ming army was slow in mobilizing troops, it was impossible to hold on to the undefended grassland from the beginning.Both Dabansheng City (Baotou) and Guihua City (Hohhot) fell into the hands of Galdan quickly at the beginning.

Some Khalkha Mongolian tribes who were originally shaken or dissatisfied, seeing the power of Junggar, also joined in.

Those who really don't want to serve their fellow clansmen, but their hearts are devoted to Daming, can't wait to die where they are.Therefore, most of them fled westward to the grassland where Chahar Mongolia is located, or fled directly to the southeast to the surrounding area of ​​Datong, which was attached to the actual control area of ​​the Ming army.

Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo didn't think there was any shame in the fact that the court had already lost tens of thousands of square kilometers of prairie outside the pass when they first arrived at the front line, which was normal.

As for the prairie, there is no danger to defend, gains and losses are a blink of an eye, and it is not enough to prove any problems.

Considering that the Junggar cavalry come and go like the wind, the entire cavalry consists of one man, two horses or even three horses. If they maneuver for two or three days, they may threaten Datong in the south and Zhangjiakou in the west. As for Chahar Mongolia Ulanqab may be harassed at any time.

Therefore, the front that stretches for at least five hundred miles may become the main battlefield.This has also been proven long ago in the hundreds of years that Ming fought against the Tatars.Every time a Tatar invades, at least two or three of the nine sides will be dragged into the battlefield, which is a normal operation.

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After stabilizing the situation on the traditional nine-border defense line, Zheng Chenggong and Li Dingguo finally sorted out the forces of the enemy and ourselves in this battle.

"Galdan claims to have 30 stringers, [-] Musketeers, and everyone has two horses or even three horses. The total number of horses used exceeds one million. This should not be a lie.

He has fought for 13 years, and the territory he expanded is said to be eight thousand miles from east to west, and six thousand miles from north to south. It is not surprising that he can easily pull out 30 hundred battle cavalry. "

Zheng Chenggong looked at the information collected by the generals on the frontier in the outpost contact battle before, and his face was also solemn.

After all, he is already the third assistant minister of the cabinet, and he is here to supervise the division. He does not need to go to the front line in the follow-up bloody battle. He comes from the navy, and he is not good at fighting with the steppe and desert cavalry.In the final analysis, it depends on Li Dingguo, and he doesn't know how sure Li Dingguo is.

In contrast, Li Dingguo, who was personally going to the front line, had great confidence in himself.

This 63-year-old veteran was subjected to various meteorological disasters from south to north, and various marks were carved on his head, face and skin, as well as scars left by mosquitoes and malignant sores.

In his 52-year military career, he was a thief in the first ten years and a general in the army for the next 42 years.Too many fights have made him unable to distinguish the difference between trauma and disease marks.

Li Dingguo said in a calm tone: "The defenders that my Ming Dynasty has raised on the three sides, not counting the auxiliary soldiers, have 50 people. With the current national strength of our Ming Dynasty and the strength of our soldiers, we can defeat Garr Dan is more than enough!

The only thing to worry about is how to fight this battle in order to wipe out Galdan's vital forces as much as possible.If we act too strong all of a sudden, and Galdan uses the grassland nomad's rogue technique of running away if he can't beat him, it will be difficult for us to chase him down again.

The hinterland of the Junggar tribe is far away in Luntai (Urumqi), which is four thousand miles west of Datong. Even if it is counted from Jiuquan to Jiayuguan, it is two thousand miles.

Killing three more Junggar cavalry outside Datong Pass is not as difficult as killing one Junggar cavalry in Luntai County.In the past few years, I have known that what the lord and His Majesty want is to completely annihilate the Junggar tribe, not just to repel them. is very necessary. "

Although Zheng Chenggong is not good at riding on grasslands, he is also very knowledgeable about soldiers. As soon as Li Dingguo raised the issue of logistical difficulty for future expeditions, he immediately estimated it:
"This statement is very correct. My Ming Dynasty can deploy 50 elite soldiers in Xuanda, Zhangjiakou and other three sides, but if the battlefield is moved to Wuyuan, it is estimated that I can only supply 40 soldiers to participate in the war.

If the battlefield moved further west to the grasslands north of Lanzhou, I am afraid that 30 elite soldiers would be enough.Moved out of Jiayuguan, less than 15 people can go to Luntai to use troops, at most no more than [-].

This is based on the premise that the number of war horses and pack horses in my Ming Dynasty is not much less than that of the Junggar people, and it must be equipped with some new vehicles suitable for long-distance marches in the grasslands and deserts.Otherwise, I am afraid that 10 people will not be able to reach Luntai.

Therefore, we must strive to weaken the Junggar tribe as much as possible on the battlefields from Datong to Guihua City and Wuyuan, and ensure that after this battle, the strength of its remnants will not be able to beat even the [-] troops of the Ming Dynasty, so that we can defend and counterattack. hole!Brother Li, what do you think is the specific way to fight right now? "

Li Dingguo had obviously thought about it these days, and Zhizhu said with a firm grip: "First show weakness, pretending to be unable to defend, but then dispatched a small group of troops to switch out from other places to sneak out and attack, to provoke Galdan's anger.

Then, if Galdan is mobilized, we will also mobilize accordingly, pretending to use heavy troops to deal with the checkpoint that Galdan's main force is facing.

At this point, don't be too strict with Galdan's secret work, and you can even send some vacillating Khalkha Mongolian tribe's children back to join the enemy Galdan, so as to reveal to Galdan the details of my Ming's checkpoints on the three sides. The number of defensive troops in real time.

Deliberately leaking a gap where the defense is the weakest, making Galdan think he has caught the weakness, and then seduce him to try to break through.As long as he spends all his money on attacking the problem, even after attacking for a while, he finds that he can't break it, and if he wants to leave, it will not be so easy.

I will personally lead the main force of the cavalry to go out from the left and right passes to meet the attack, and strive to outflank and delay the heavy casualties. "

Zheng Chenggong thought carefully along this line of thought for a long time, and felt that there was still a loophole: "Will Galdan fall into the trap if he proactively leaks military aircraft and deploys the Great Wall's defenses?"

Li Dingguo is very confident: "Sooner or later, we will fall into the trap. If we fail once, we will continue to follow him. Because we didn't lie to him, we really took the initiative to expose the weakness of the defensive force. It was a real self-weakening, not a show.

So, even if he got the information once and didn't come, he wouldn't find out that we lied to him afterwards, because we never lied to him once from the beginning to the end.After hearing too much real information, there are always times when I can’t bear it. "

Zheng Chenggong thought about it too. Li Dingguo's weaknesses that he voluntarily exposed to the enemy are all real weaknesses, so what else is there to reveal?There is nothing to reveal at all.

The only confidence in the Ming army here is its confidence in its own defensive capabilities.

It's like even if I tell you that there are only a few thousand soldiers defending any point in Datong, or in Xuanfu and Zhangjiakou next door.

But even if you know that there are only a few thousand people, and you pile up 30 people, you still cannot break through this weak point defended by only a few thousand people within five or ten days, then Galdan will be finished, at least he will be stuck. If you don't die, you have to peel off your skin.

Zheng Chenggong finally decided to approve the plan: "Okay, then please brother Li to act according to plan. Since we need to lure the enemy to show weakness, I will defend and you will attack. I will play the anvil and you will play the hammer. Anyway, my supervisor doesn't have to go out. Leave the defense line of the Great Wall to me, and I guarantee that no matter how weak you are, the opponent will not be able to break through within ten days, and the follow-up decisive battle will be handed over to Brother Li."

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Li Dingguo quickly began to implement the established strategy.

While making the passes on the three sides appear to be stubbornly defending and refusing to send a large army out to fight, he also sent a small group of fast light cavalry to harass them.

At the same time, it also intentionally and occasionally leaked real and false information about the three-side defense of the Great Wall.

Among them, there is no need to repeat those tedious and repeated tactics, but the only thing that is remarkable is the harassment of the light cavalry deployed by Li Dingguo.

He never allowed large-scale cavalry to attack, all of them were small troops with at least [-] cavalry, as many as [-] cavalry, and definitely not a thousand cavalry.

They will never attack from the checkpoints where the main force of Galdan is ready, but attack from the left and right flanks, slightly away from the checkpoints of the main force of Galdan, rather need to march dozens or hundreds of miles to reach the battlefield.

Although Galdan claims to have 30 soldiers, his cavalry must eat grass every day. In the case of non-first-level combat readiness, they will definitely be scattered, which makes it easy for small groups of troops to be caught alone.

And the small group of elite cavalry sent by Li Dingguo can be regarded as a new height in the construction of the Ming cavalry in recent years. The equipment used and the training they have undergone are all advancing with the times.

As early as 30 years ago in the war against the Qing Dynasty, the Ming army already had a small number of rifled guns, which could ensure relatively accurate shooting at medium and long distances.

It’s just that Daming’s technology and industry were still in their infancy back then, and they were much poorer than they are today, so rifled guns were only used by sniper battalions, and they were regarded as “special forces equipment”.

Now, although Daming still hasn't eliminated the "Made in Wuchang" series of smoothbore guns (but has also made many fine-tuning improvements to improve the loading efficiency), at least the proportion of rifled guns in the army has increased to about [-]-[-]%. It has become a large-scale organized force, and is no longer exclusive to special forces.

Therefore, among the thousands of elite cavalry that Li Dingguo sent to harass, everyone was equipped with a breastplate that was thinner than before, but the quality did not shrink, plus two muskets.

They are a long-rod rifled gun, plus a short-barrel double-barreled rear-loading nozzle, or replace the nozzle with a revolver.

Such a combination of firepower is enough to eliminate all long-range cold weapons such as bows and crossbows.From then on, it is ensured that the firepower of firearms can also be matched from far and near, using sniping at long distances and spraying at short distances.

Moreover, the quality of these sprayers is far from comparable to the old models more than 30 years ago.

At least now, Daming has ensured that the processing accuracy has been improved, so that the newly produced breech nozzle, when using low-pressure short-range ammunition, will not leak fire from the gap in the breech of the breech, at most it will only emit a few traces of black smoke.

In this way, the musketeer does not need to wear thick leather gloves, and does not have to worry about burning his hands when the tail sprays fire, and the operation accuracy can also be improved.

The small optimization of various filling mechanisms and air-tight mechanisms has allowed the Ming Army's latest rear-loading double-pipe sprayer to be able to fill about eight rounds per minute.Even if it is a bumpy environment on horseback, the movement will be out of shape and the operation will slow down, at least five or six rounds per minute.

And two rounds of ammunition can be fired at one time, which means that the nozzle can spray 15 shotguns per minute, and it can also spray 10 rounds in the slowest and most bumpy situation.This firepower density will definitely make Galdan have a good drink.

As for those huge stocks of old-fashioned double-pipe spray guns, they were replaced by second-line troops.Anyway, the ones Li Dingguo sent out to harass this time are all front-line elites, giving priority to equipping newly produced batches.

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The progress of the initial harassment war was as expected by Li Dingguo.

Teams of hundreds of small cavalry of the Ming army are all well-equipped, equipped with three horses, and they come and go like the wind.Because they only wore a steel breastplate, and the horses were not too heavy, the armored heavy cavalry of the Junggar tribe couldn't catch up at all, and all the light-armored cavalry rangers who could catch up.

But the rangers of the Junggars were not at all the opponents of the Ming Dynasty's long-distance and near-spray cavalry with double guns. After repeated small-scale encounters and scout battles, they were beaten all over the place, leaving hundreds of corpses at every turn, which was terrible.

Although the frequency of such small-scale battles is not high, they were dragged back and forth, killing and wounding thousands of Junggar tribes in total, and a considerable part of them were the cannon fodder of the Khalkha tribe they had just coerced.However, these victories have greatly affected the morale of the Junggar tribe.

The impotent and furious Galdan had no choice but to use his trump card—letting his [-] musket cavalry, armed with original imported flintlock guns from the Raksha Kingdom, also join in the scouting and patrolling battles.

Since cavalry archers can't compete with the cavalry of the Ming army, it is fair to fight with cavalry with musketeers!

It's a pity that after another half a month, several small-scale fights in a row proved once again that the Junggar Musketeers were not good enough.

There is also a difference between Musketeers and Musketeers!

The Ming army used snipers, and the Junggar used muskets, so long-range snipers must suffer a lot.He wanted to rush up and output it close to his face, but in the end he was sprayed so hard that he couldn't take care of himself.

Galdan was frustrated again and again, but he couldn't seize the opportunity to fight the main force of the Ming army.This made Galdan firmly believe that "the Ming army can have such good equipment, there should be only a few elites, so the Ming army did not dare to confront me head-on, and only wanted to rely on the Great Wall to consume me with elite soldiers."

However, the Ming army's small troops knew how to advance and retreat. Every time they took three horses to attack, once the ammunition on the backs of the other two horses ran out, they would immediately retreat without hesitation and return to the pass by detour.

After a month or two of teasing and pulling, Galdan finally couldn't bear it in the midsummer of May of the 22nd year of Xiaokang, and finally believed in the Ming army's defense intelligence that he had obtained from the Khalkha traitors.

He caught a gap and realized that the Ming army's defense at Datong Youwei Shahukou was very weak at that time.

It is said that the Ming army was shot in the face by his maneuvering to the east. A considerable part of the original defenders of Datong were transferred to Zhangjiakou to make up for it.

He decided to concentrate his muskets and cannons, and make a strong attack, forcing the Ming army to fight his main force. Anyway, he is not a traditional Mongolian army. He is a combination of Mongolia and Rakshasa. Since he formed an alliance with Rakshasa 13 years ago, he Just bought enough muskets and cannons.

Therefore, to deal with the traditional Great Wall passes and old-style city walls, Galdan is confident that he can blast out gaps with cannons and break through the city quickly.

By now, of course he knew that Daming was also good at building bastions, and he knew that Daming had a new type of artillery fortress.But the problem is that the bastion can only be used to upgrade the cities in key areas, and cannot be used to upgrade the Great Wall——

Because the amount of the project is too large, even if some sections of the Great Wall are upgraded to anti-gun performance, there will always be places that have not been upgraded, and grassland nomads can only choose those places that have not been upgraded to bypass you. The place.

At this moment, Datong Youwei Shahukou, which was selected by Galdan, is a typical old-style pass of the Great Wall outside the Ming Dynasty that has not yet been upgraded.

This is it!Blast away first, and then force the main force of the Ming army to fight!
(End of this chapter)