A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 678 No more suspense

Wang Zheng secretly called it unlucky, he had already shrunk his head as much as possible, why did the general still notice him?

It's just that the main barracks is under his jurisdiction, and Wang Pu has always regarded himself highly. He also felt disgraced after the battle was fought like this, so he had to kneel down and confess: "The general is incompetent, please punish the general."

All the generals knelt down likewise: "Please punish the general."

"Cure that fart!"

Wang Zongzhen, who has always paid attention to his image and always kept his demeanor, swears again. He waved his hand in a disturbed way: "Now is not the time to punish the criminals. Tell me, how should we deal with those Tartar cavalry?"

Everyone's eyes were on Wang Zheng, Wang Zheng cursed in his heart, he knew that he was going to make someone stand out, the situation was like this, if he was asked to find a way, how would he know?

However, in the face of Wang Pu's unfriendly gaze, he had to say that his thoughts changed, and he finally said: "General, these Mongolian Tartars have different tactics from the Manchurian Tartars. They are more active, rushing up if they are good, and spying from a distance if it is not good, and follow them..."

"...We are a foreign land in the grassland, and we are not familiar with the terrain. They are also skilled in riding and have a lot of horses. The current plan is to remain unchanged and adapt to all changes. We are not greedy for short-term achievements, and we will proceed cautiously. We would rather walk five miles a day. , and don’t let those Tartars see the loopholes... Didn’t we agree with the Jingbian army to meet at Haizi? Now it’s not far from Jining Haizi, as long as we go to the sea and join the Jingbian army, our army will win... ..."

All the generals around said one after another: "Colonel Wang's advice, it's really a golden word, and I think so too... It's better for the army to proceed cautiously, resist the temptation for a while, don't be greedy for merit, don't rush forward, the Tartars Just store the heads on their necks temporarily."

Wang Pu looked at some of the staff who praised paintings beside him. Following Wang Dou's example, he also set up a staff department, recruiting a lot of civil servants and military generals as praise paintings, and also made some sand tables. The other Ming army is much better.

Looking at the Chief of Staff, he said solemnly: "Chief of Staff Tian, ​​what do you think?"

Chief of Staff Natian is over forty years old, with a goatee beard, wearing a half-sleeved coat with a girdle, a green shirt inside, a sword on his waist, and a headband on his head. He is a typical Jingbian army Zan painting style. In fact, the present Datong In the army, many are copycat versions of the Jingbian army.

Chief of Staff Tian claimed to be resourceful and resourceful, and he was called Sai Zhuge. After hearing what the general said, he said reservedly: "Push the sand table cart here."

Ever since he had the sand table, Chief of Staff Tian felt that he was making suggestions and did not look at the sand table to speak. He always felt that there was something lacking. Sand table".

Soon, a sand table cart that was rough in Wang Dou's eyes and fine in Wang Pu's eyes rolled over.

Looking at the sand table terrain in front of him, Chief of Staff Tian stroked his beard for a long time, and finally sighed: "Colonel Wang is right. After all, we are not familiar with the northern part of the grassland. There are too many places where the Tartars can ambush, and their horses and bows Tactics... General, it seems that we have to revise our plan. We originally planned to march southwest after joining the Jingbian army at the border of Ninghaizi, and attack naturalization along the line of Xiashuihai. Now it seems that we should not divide our forces Alright, let's go all the way with the Jingbian Army..."

He stroked his goatee: "The place where I am now is about a hundred miles away from Jining Haizi. Yesterday I received a report that the night would not be accepted. The Xuanwu Army Captain Han Shangdu is not far from Xinghe, so why don't you go to Xinghe?" Today's plan is to fight steadily, never underestimate the enemy and rush forward, as long as you join up with the Jingbian army, military merit will be indispensable..."

Wang Pu sighed in his heart, all the generals said not to advance lightly, which means to walk slowly, not seeking merit, but seeking no faults, as expected, it is different from the Central Plains.

When it comes to going to the outside of the Great Wall in the past dynasties, their faces have changed drastically. Many people talk about the fierceness of the army and the danger of war, etc., and try to avoid the conquest. , especially that kind of harassment is a headache.

I have only traveled so far out of the side wall, and I have already been tossed and tossed. If I walk a few hundred miles, won't I be exhausted?

Especially when going out of the Great Wall, it is difficult to find the old nest of the Tartars, and it is difficult to sustain food and grass. No wonder the past dynasties conquered the Fortress, and often tens of thousands of people, 10,000+ people were wiped out. Also want to annihilate the whole army?

Thinking of this, he stroked his new mustache, took out a small bronze mirror to look at it, adjusted his helmet, and said majesticly: "As far as the generals see, the army is marching safely. If there is a chance, try to put it down as much as possible." Army formation, to attract Tartars to attack, let them know that our firecrackers are not vegetarian!"

All the generals breathed a sigh of relief, and praised in unison: "The general is wise!"

……

On August [-]th, in the morning, at the beginning of Sishi, by the Dongyang River.

This place is already the boundary of the former Daming Xinghe and Shouyu Qianhusuo. To the east is the rolling Daqing Mountain. Of course, this Daqing Mountain is not the same mountain as the Daqing Mountain in Guihua City. The Dongyang River from the east meets and goes south all the way.

Along the way, there are continuous mountains in the east and mountains in the west, and rivers flow into the Dongyang River, forming a large plain with many meadows and shrubs.

From Yuanyangzhai to here, there are all the places with abundant water and grass, especially the Daqing Mountain in the east, which is densely covered with jungles, with golden yellow in the dark green.

"Wow wow wow..."

Water splashed in all directions, and a large group of cavalry stepped across a small river, scaring away several nearby animals.

The torrent of cavalry rolled on the grassland, trampling countless beautiful flowers.

"stop!"

Under the sun and moon banner with basalt and silver carvings, a cold voice came out, and thousands of cavalry stopped immediately. The flag fluttered.

After the order stopped, Han Chao took out his binoculars from his waist, stretched it out, and looked forward, but saw a sentry cavalry signaled to the east, and some cavalry were running back, but The sentry cavalry of the Xuanwu Army.

In the Jingbian army, except for the professional sentinel battalion that does not accept nights, the first-class and second-class battalions of each army have trained riders with outstanding riding skills to participate in reconnaissance and sentry to obtain more information.

Han Chao looked carefully, especially at the side of the Daqing Mountain. After a while, he sneered: "It seems that the Tartars will not change their minds, and they still want to fight our army here, but today there is no infantry, only cavalry !"

Yesterday afternoon, Han and North Korea led the Xuanwu Army's first-class middle battalion, and the new attached battalion that had sacrificed their lives set off first. Although their horses were not as good as those of the cavalry battalion, they were only a hundred miles away. They set off yesterday afternoon and arrived at around [-]:[-] this morning. Yes, there is rest when it gets dark.

However, the infantry were not so fast. Apart from walking, bridges had to be built in many places for carriages to pass by, which was quite inconvenient.

Zeng held up a binoculars to look closely, seeing strands of Mongolian cavalry appearing from the mountains, hills and forests, he grinned grinningly and said, "Today, let's give those Tartars a good start."

Looking ahead, it was the same as that day, and there was a constant sound of blares, interspersed with strange roars. A group of horsemen came out from all over the place, and the side of Daqingshan came out the most. As Mongolian riders continued to flow in, all kinds of wolf flags and Sulu ingots gathered.

It seems that seeing the cavalry here, they dare not surround them on all sides, but form a fan, vaguely sandwiched by three sides, while rushing forward.

With the sound of hoofbeats, more and more Mongolian cavalry came with strange screams. Han Chao took a closer look and estimated that they had more than 4000 young and strong cavalry.

But these people have too many horses, and according to the experience of that day, there may be many women and children pretending to be knights, so the total number looks like five to six thousand people, which is the same size as our own. The number of people is more than 6000.

After the Jingbian army lined up, they didn't move. Seeing that the enemy was still far away, they all dismounted and took the opportunity to recuperate their horsepower. In their own arrangement, the Korean and Korean troops put the new attached battalion in front and the first-class middle battalion in front. Finally, he stood on a hill and wanted to see what the situation was like when the cavalry of the two sides fought against each other.

In the first place, some Tartar sentry cavalry rushed over. After careful observation, they confirmed that there was no artillery on this side, and then a large group of troops formed an formation more than one mile away. land.

Of course, they still have some heavy horses, which will be farther away. No matter how many grassland cavalry horses, it is impossible to bring a few horses to fight. They usually stay behind and put some people to guard the empty horses, and then replace them from time to time. .

The two sides looked around before the battle, and there were only a few sentries running around. Because of the binoculars, the Jingbian army took advantage of it, and they could see more clearly from a safe distance.

In fact, on Mengqi's side, they were still surprised. They didn't expect that the Jingbian army came alone with cavalry and did not use infantry artillery as cover.

They admitted that the infantry and guns of the Jingbian Army were very strong, but they believed that their cavalry was not as good as their own.

And not long ago, they also got the news that Fang Mengqi was besieging the Datong army. The cavalry of the Ming army were beaten to the ground by them and dared not move, which strengthened their belief.

Although the sentry cavalry reported back, except for the treacherous cavalry, some cavalry in the Jingbian Army carried bird guns without matchlocks on their backs, but they didn't take it seriously, and it's okay to shoot arrows right away.Where will the bullet go?

Besides, even if a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, they can't imagine how those Jingbian soldiers reloaded their ammunition immediately after firing their guns, so that they would be good targets for their own bows and arrows.

And if these cavalry musketeers get off their horses and form an formation, treat them as infantry and just ignore them.

In this way, only those who were raped remained, and they even sneered in their hearts. A group of people from a small tribe, skilled in bows and horses, and powerful in combat, can they compare with themselves?
It seems that there is no suspense in this battle. Although the cavalry is easy to fight and difficult to destroy, but as long as you defeat the bright cavalry in front of you, make them fear in their hearts, and they can only rely on the cover of infantry in the future, then your goal of waiting for others will be ideally achieved .

This is also the result of discussions among the Tartars in Guihua City, to eliminate possible mobile forces, and try to let the Jingbian army march in formation as far as possible. Facing the threat of harassing cavalry, they are tense all day long, and exhausted after a long time. In this way, no matter how sharp the Jingbian army is, there will be an opportunity to take advantage of it in the end.

Their tactics, in Chinese, are: "If the enemy or the halberds are outside the ranks and refuse their horses to rush forward, they will ride around and send out an arrow from time to time to make the enemy work. If they hold on for a while, the enemy will starve or lack wages. If they don’t move, the troops will attack each other. Or the enemy’s formation has already moved, so don’t attack quickly, wait until they are tired and then rush in.”

Frequent harassment, coupled with cavalry staring at infantry tactics, was also a tried-and-tested trick of the Mongolian army back then. Although this pair of horses wasted a lot, only the grassland cavalry with more horses could afford it, but as long as they won, everything was worth it.

Among other things, the seizure of armor, firearms, supplies, etc. by the Jingbian Army is enough to make them rich.

Bursts of triumphant laughter broke out from this side: "Defeat the Mingqi in front of you, and then you can let them walk five miles, ten miles a day, three and a half years, and then go to Dabansheng like Datong soldiers." Bar."

(End of this chapter)