Expensive?

Gao Pragmatic was stunned when he heard this, carefully looked at the young general in front of him, and said secretly in his heart: I'm just afraid that I really have crossed the wrong era, with the probability of meeting Brother Meng, I can meet Liu Wei when I go to another courtyard, and I will meet Ma Gui when I come to Datong...... It should really travel to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not to mention anything else, at least collecting a bunch of famous generals must be very dramatic.

However, the record of Magui in the history of the Ming Dynasty is relatively inaccurate, it seems that it started from the end of Longqing, when he had already been a general of Xinpingbao, and in the early years of Wanli, this young general had already mixed with the high position of the deputy general of Datong, which shows that it is indeed a rare talent.

Of course, normally speaking, in addition to the founding period and the death period of a dynasty, it can rise to prominence in ordinary years, and it is certainly not only a reason for the rarity of talents, Ma Gui's father Ma Lu was already one of the several generals in Datong in the middle of Jiajing.

And from the perspective of the entire Ma family, it is even more talented. As we all know, in the late Ming Dynasty, the so-called "Jiangmen" who was the first to make a name for himself in the minds of ordinary people was probably the Tieling Li family represented by Li Chengliang and Li Rusong father and son.

There were a total of 83 military generals in the Ming Dynasty, of which there were as many as 33 people in the "Ma family general" alone, accounting for nearly forty percent of the total. And among the five generations before and after Magui, there are first-class members from generation to generation, they are Ma Quan, Ma Zheng, Ma Lu, Ma Gui, and Ma Chengzong.

Anyway, to put it simply: the Ma family is a military family of Xuanda.

Although Ma Gui's current position is not high, he is only the garrison of Desheng Fort, but his rank is not very low, and he has already reached the command of the capital.

This situation is roughly equivalent to a cadre at the department level in later generations who is clearly defined as enjoying the treatment of a deputy department level, or a cadre at the department level being clearly defined as enjoying the treatment of a deputy department level. At Magui's age, the reason for this treatment must be related to his background.

Gao pragmatic went through Ma Gui's information briefly in his mind, and then rolled his eyes, and asked pretending to ask: "Youyu Ma Lu Ma Zongrong and the general, you ......?"

"It's Jia Yan." Ma Gui replied.

"Oh......" Gao Pragmatic showed a professional "kind smile" and said: "It turned out to be a general, I don't know if the general has taken the Ma family 'Dabing'?" ”

Ma Gui was a little surprised by this question, and subconsciously asked: "Qin Cha has also heard of the name of 'Da Bing'?" ”

Gao Shishi smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that the Ma family is called 'Da Bing', among which there are many Mongolian, Hui and other people who dare to fight, attacking like a bamboo, guarding like a golden soup, if the general also takes them this time, I must be in this Desheng Fort, even in the face of the Northern Army, I can sleep a lot more steadily." ”

"Chin has won the prize." Ma Gui said without humility or arrogance: "After my father begged for a rest, the soldiers were led by the last general and the last general's brother Ma Jin, each with about five or six hundred people. The last general brought three hundred from this side, and they were in Desheng Fort, which was used as a garrison to supervise the bid. ”

The so-called winning overseers of the main general generally refer to the personal soldiers of the family, which belong to the direct descendants of the main general, and are usually the troops with the best treatment and the strongest combat effectiveness.

When Gao Pragmatic heard that he had taken 300 Ma Jiajun, he immediately felt that his personal safety had been better guaranteed, and he was very pleased to say two kind words.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic's own Jiading cavalry is not necessarily inferior to the Ma Jiajun in terms of personnel quality, after all, the original foundation is not bad, and it has been guided and trained by Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang, two famous generals. It's just that Gao Pragmatic feels that his family has at least two points, and now he is definitely not as good as a private soldier like Ma Jiajun.

First of all, the Ma family is a military family, and his family's family is a regular army recognized by the imperial court, which can be equipped with arbitrary weapons and equipment; And Gao pragmatic was born in a civil official family, and the elders of the family or himself are not officials in the border areas now, and even if his family guards have a certain amount of armament, they can't wear the armor of the regular army or take the firearms that the court prohibits the people to have.

Gao Pragmatic can think about this aspect of armor, but not being able to use firearms has always been a point that makes Gao Pragmatic very unhappy, because he doesn't know much about cold weapon tactics, but he is still somewhat confident in the application of firearms, and not being able to use firearms has invisibly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Gao family's armed family.

As for the second point, the regular combat experience of the Ma family is definitely far superior to that of the Gao family family, because the former is not only the regular army, but also the backbone of the regular army. In addition, as a military family, the Ma family has been fighting with the Ma family army for generations, and this kind of experience cannot be gained by training alone.

Although the highly pragmatic Jiading Escort Team has also had some combat experience recently, especially the cavalry, which has also done several battles of different sizes in Monan in the past few months, but the largest scale is about a few hundred people to more than a thousand people, which is certainly not enough compared with the Ma Family Army.

At present, in Desheng Fort, Gao Shishi's subordinates are about 800, and they are extravagant one-person and two-riders. Magui's "soldiers" are only 300, and it is not clear how high and pragmatic the equipment is, and it is difficult to say whether it is possible to achieve one person and two horses. But Gao Pragmatic still felt that if the 800 horsemen under his command could now make a draw with Magui's 300 soldiers, then he would already be very satisfied.

Gao Pragmatic secretly made up his mind in his heart: We must quickly promote the pilot project of privatization of the military industry, otherwise where will I find a breakthrough to equip my family with firearms? Without firearms, I'm afraid that my little bit of military knowledge won't even be able to give full play, it's too embarrassing!

Since Ma Gui is the garrison of Desheng Fort, and the deployment of Desheng Fort is mostly from his handwriting, when he explained the defense arrangement in detail to Gao Pragmatic, it was really more suitable than Ma Wei, and although the questions asked by Gao Pragmatic were trivial, he could also explain them one by one.

However, when Gao Shishi listened to it, he found something that made him a little surprised, that is, Ma Gui's defense arrangement did not seem to have considered the possibility of a strong attack by the ants.

When he asked Ma Gui this question, Ma Gui shook his head and said, "I replied that for so many years, the method of ant attachment to the siege of the city has been used very rarely, firstly, the casualties are too great, and he can't bear it, otherwise it may be unstable internally; Second, the ants attached to the siege need to build siege equipment, and the Mongols are not too good at this, although the last general cannot say that they will not build, but the production speed must not be fast, and once the siege equipment is built, the speed advantage of their Mongolian cavalry is equivalent to giving up on their own; Three to ...... The last general felt that I had come to show off his strength, and if he really let him storm the Great Wall Pass, he would probably not do such a stupid thing. ”