Gao Pragmatic did arrange several preparations, and basically calculated all the reactions that Tumen Khan might have after learning the news that he was surrounded by east and west.

It can be said that whether he chooses to hold on or escape, or fight back in advance, he is in a highly pragmatic calculation. Among them, the escape is divided into several directions, and the counterattack is also divided into east and west, and all these aspects have been arranged in advance.

Pre-war strategy is different from on-the-spot command, and this kind of calculation and pragmatism is very good.

He thought in his heart that the possibility of Tumen Khan choosing to counterattack was the greatest, so he also did the most to prepare for the encirclement of the army on the east and west.

In fact, relatively speaking, he was more worried about the gambler psychology of Tumen Khan, so he simply went directly to beat Hannaji without saying a word, although in this way, as long as Hannaji can last for two days, his own backhand will definitely make Tumen Khan pay a heavy price, but as just said, the current Hannaji is only strong, and the first hero who defeated Xinai's department before is not there Chataiji, once Tumen beats Hannaji, Gao Pragmatic is still a little worried about whether this Dacheng Taiji's command ability is reliable.

The heaviest bet on Gao Pragmatic is that after the Tumen heard that the main force of the West Outpost was pouring out, they did not dare to fight Hannaji when they would be surrounded at any time.

Now Hannaji not only concentrated all the forces that had been deliberately divided to the heart of the Antumen, but also carried out a wave of conscription at the western outpost - the Mongols were the so-called all-in-one soldiers, and theoretically even women and half-grown children could go into battle when they reached the end of their rope.

Hannaji was not too ruthless this time, only more than 10,000 people were recruited in total, all of them were "veterans" in their forties, they could still fight, and they were also experienced, just because they all had sons in the army, and they were generally not easily recruited in normal times.

And the Hannaji may be due to the reason that the degree of sinicization is relatively high, and he is more merciful to the people, most of these people are left in Dabansheng Town to guard, and only the kind of family with more than three sons is brought out by him to fight. Therefore, in the end, the west outpost actually couldn't come out of the nest, because there were still six or seven thousand veterans guarding the old nest Dabansheng City.

Gao pragmatic bet that the Tumen would be worried that they would not be able to please the West Post in the current situation.

Not being able to please is not necessarily not winning the war, because in the current situation, not fighting fast enough, or the loss after the fight is too great, it is unacceptable for Tumen Khan, and his first consideration now is to put it in the analogy of the Liberation War in the future, that is, "fight the weakest ragtag army first".

Therefore, the Eastern Route Army should be the first target of the Tumen, and the benefits of fighting the Eastern Route Army are obvious:

The first is that the Eastern Route Army looks the best to fight. Their strength was only half that of Tumen Khan's troops, and they lacked unified command, and a dozen Taiji could fall apart at any time when they were suddenly beaten by the main force of Tumen.

Secondly, after defeating the Eastern Route Army, the encirclement was broken, and the Tumen were in a strategic situation where they could go at any time, which was considered to have solved their worries.

Again, the Tumen are now in desperate need of a victory to lift the morale of the army. The characteristic of an army is that the more battles it wins, the more it can fight. On the contrary, if an army keeps suffering defeats, regardless of whether they are obviously well-trained but too unlucky, as long as they eat too much defeat, their morale will definitely fall to the bottom, and even if they could have fought, they will become unable to fight, because their confidence has been lost.

Just like at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many Ming troops may not be able to fight, but because they were afraid of being beaten by the Houjin, they were panicked when they heard that the Houjin soldiers were there, and when they heard that the opposite side was a "real captive", they were even more eager to leave.

In fact, many Ming troops showed quite good combat effectiveness after surrendering to Houjin, although there is more than one reason for this, but the question of confidence is definitely one of the important items.

Tumen also understands this truth, and of course he has to consider it. And he knew that his decision to come to fight Shacheng was not supported by the sergeants under his command, and now the tentative attack under Shacheng City was deflated again - knowing that the Ming army defended the city strongly, but Shacheng was more difficult to fight than expected, and a tentative attack was beaten to the ground without even touching the city wall, how could this be fought? The demoralization can be imagined.

Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty have been fighting for two hundred years, not to mention the upper echelons of both sides, even ordinary pawns are very clear about the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, tens of thousands of iron horsemen ran to smash a city held by the Ming army, which was originally a move with political considerations greater than military considerations.

But Tumen also has a bitterness and can't say, how did he know that after coming to Shacheng, it was not Hannaji who defended the city, but the Ming army? Originally, he thought that if Hannaji was to defend the city, the Mongols would have been far away from the city for almost two hundred years, and the level should be very limited......

So, while morale was just beginning to fall, he had to hurry up and get a victory to turn it around.

Gao pragmatic's "material things like gods" has always been "material people like gods", and he can basically analyze the thoughts of the Tumen, so he is seventy percent sure that the Tumen will take the Eastern Route Army, so he prepared a big meal for the Tumen in the Eastern Route Army.

The number one meal is the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army - Chataijitok!

Chataiji and his 6,000 descendants are all in the Eastern Route Army, in addition to the Eastern Route Army, there are 10,000 Great Khan guards sent by Zhongjin Hatun, and the other more than 10,000 people are the soldiers and horses of the Taiji.

In a sense, the Great Khan's Guard, the descendant of the more than 20,000 descendants of Altan at that time, almost concentrated eighty percent of its strength in the current Eastern Route Army, and Gao Shishi ordered the designation of Chataiji as the commander-in-chief in the name of the plenipotentiary envoy, and Zhongjin Hatun subsequently reaffirmed this in the name of regent.

There should be no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the main force of the descendants of Alta, in the decades of real hard-fought battles, this Great Khan Escort Army has very few records, in Mongolia almost sideways, fighting Uliangha, Wara, Qinghai, they are the core of the main force.

It also rarely encountered opponents in the Ming Dynasty, and the only general in the Ming army who really defeated this army was Ma Fang, who had to retreat at that time.

And the other people who have withstood the frontal blow of this army can be counted on one hand, including Magui's second brother Mafu, who has died young.

With the prestige of Chataiji's guards in the Great Khan's army unmatched by no one other than Alta himself, and with Gao Shishi's plenipotentiary envoy and the justifiable regent Chung Kim Hatun to endorse him, there was certainly no problem in commanding this army, and the so-called "lack of unified command" was completely nonsense.

And that's just the first big deal, in addition to that, they have two support armies.

All the way to reinforcements is a cavalry that is advancing fifty miles behind them, a total of 12,000 people, the main will be Ma Gui's nephew, Ma Chengxun, the general of the monolith fort, and the main force of the department is not small - it is the main cavalry left by Ma Fang back then.

This cavalry, which was built under Ma Fang's idea of "riding by horseman", except for the part that was dismantled after Ma Fang Zhishi (the Ming army was in the west and the east system, thinking that the front line of Xuanda did not need so many cavalry when Ma Fang was there, and it was strengthened to Li Chengliang after the removal), and now they are basically transferred to Ma Chengxun to fight this battle.

The other reinforcements set off quietly from Zhangjiakou, commanded by Zhang Bingzhong, a general who guarded the southern road of Xuanfu and Shun Shengweiguang - this was also an acquaintance, Gao Shishi had known him in Datong when he was discussing military affairs before I had paid tribute, and was especially impressed by his son Zhang Wanbang.

The number of people in this Zhang staff general's department is not large, only 6,000 people, but they have a trump card - the first batch of Wanli bayonet muskets that were just sent to Xuanda not long ago, because their department has to support the battle of Monan, so they have been fully reloaded.

Although he has only been practicing the bayonet for half a month, because the essentials of the bayonet written by Qi Jiguang were issued with the gun, the training effect is not bad.

As I said before, Qi Jiguang had long known the style of the bayonet musket from Gao Shishi's mouth, so he studied the use of bayonets in the military formation early and wrote "The Essence of Bayonets". The essence of the bayonet is the same as Qi Jiguang's usual train of thought, the tricks are very simple, there are less than ten moves in total, and there are only five moves when facing the enemy head-on, so it is not very difficult to practice.

This army set off in advance and quietly walked along the border of the Ming Dynasty, intending to suddenly appear at the place where Tumen and Chataiji met and test the tactics of "breaking through the cavalry with foot".

At night, Tumen Khan "quietly" pulled out his camp and marched towards the expected weak enemy, the "rebels on the eastern road of Tumut......