Chapter 191: The Calm Before the Storm

Chengguo Gong is of course considering the road capacity.

In fact, beyond the side wall, there is no artificially built road. The roads on which the army advanced were natural mountain gaps, or flat terrain.

Most of them are natural passages that are conventional, and they are easier to walk. Capacity is also quite limited.

Instead of the army being blocked on one road, it is better to divide the troops into several roads, and Cheng Guogong has another idea, he heard that since Maoerzhuang is fighting, it means that this war will not end for a while.

As soon as the army comes out, it will naturally win.

But Cheng Guogong was afraid that these people would run away, and he couldn't catch the tail at all.

Therefore, Chengguo Gong first sent two cavalry to make a detour to the back and cut off their way back.

It's just unfortunate that I thought so first.

So there has been no fight on the Maoerzhuang side, and it is east in Maoerzhuang. Two more battlefields were opened up in the west.

A total of more than 200,000 troops are distributed on three battlefields within a radius of dozens of miles.

With the army of the Tile Spur Headquarters, the army of Chengguo Gong is slowly approaching.

The fight in Maoerzhuang has also come to an end.

But it was Wu Kezhong who won.

During the battle, Wu Kezhong took the opportunity to rob Maoerzhuang. At this moment, Maoerzhuang, the baggage near Maoerzhuang has been owned by Daming.

So when Cheng Guogong arrived, he directly stationed his headquarters in Maoerzhuang, and raised the handsome flag of Cheng Guogong in the ruined castle.

There were tens of thousands of cavalry left, lined up in five formations, with Maoerzhuang as the center.

And the tile spur is also first, and he also took tens of thousands of iron horsemen from the headquarters, and he has already arrived on both sides.

The two sides are more than ten miles apart, and they have dismounted to repair.

The armies were a stone's throw away, but it seemed like the calm before the storm.

I won't be able to fight for a while.

After all, this kind of war, for both sides, is a decades of national fortune betting, how can you not be cautious?

is also a general with Cheng Guogong first.

The more the war, the more cautious it is at the moment.

In the cat's village.

Cheng Guogong took people to inspect the materials that were taken back.

What kind of iron pot, tattered clothes or something, Cheng Guogong didn't even look at it, but he was full of praise for tens of thousands of stone grains. said: "Okay, in today's battle, Gong Shun Bo is the first hero. ”

In order to increase the speed, the Chengguo Gongfu Department did not bring much food. The brigade has just arrived in Datong at this moment, and it will take at least ten days for logistics to get from Datong to here.

And at this moment, so much food has been captured, which is enough for a large army for a while.

In this way, Cheng Guogong has more freedom in the choice of tactics and strategies.

As for the Mongols' robbery of gold, silver, jewelry, etc., it can also be used to reward the whole army,

Boost morale.

What the? Some people say that this is the people of the Ming Dynasty?

I'm sorry, the Ming officials and soldiers don't have such noble sentiments, not to mention, most of the bitter masters are no longer there, even if these bitter masters are there, the things that were robbed by the Ming officials and soldiers will be distributed according to the spoils of war in the army. It will not be returned to the people.

Wu Kezhong said: "The last general thanked the Guogong. ”

Cheng Guogong stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of wheat and said, "You fought with the tile spur for a while, how do you feel?" ”

Wu Kezhong said: "Bingguo Gong, the Tile Thorn army is particularly tough, if it is the army of Uliangha, it is impossible to insist on ten with the last general. ”

The so-called Shihe refers to the cavalry arrays to hedge ten times.

"The last general and the tile spur cavalry hedged, I can't remember how many dozens, but the opposite side can still hold on."

The battle between the Mongol cavalry was basically that the two sides lined up to hedge once, then pulled back their horses, hedged again, and so on, once one could not hold on.

It will turn into a chase.

Wu Kezhong prides himself on being a character, but at this moment, he thinks of the tenacity of the tile spur cavalry, no matter how many people fall off the horse, how many people dare not die, there is a kind of ruthlessness to the end.

It is different from the Uliangha and other departments.

There was a trace of gloom between Cheng Guogong's eyebrows, which was instantly covered, although he came a little late, but he also saw the end of the battle between the two sides.

I was also very surprised by the state of the battle.

Three thousand battalions, five military battalions are the elite of the elite of the Ming cavalry. The fact that the Tile Spur was able to hedge against the 3,000 battalions so many times without collapsing was beyond his expectations of the combat effectiveness of the Tile Spur cavalry.

However, Cheng Guogong is now a general and the master of an army, and many expressions cannot be leaked.

"And?" Wu Kezhong said: "There is one thing in the end that I can't understand. ”

Cheng Guogong said: "You say." ”

Wu Kezhong said: "There are too many materials in Maoerzhuang, and the last general was ordered to sneak attack the rear army of the tile spur, but the last general looked at the materials of Maoerzhuang, and the tens of thousands of stone grain alone are what the people of the tile spur cannot give up." ”

"Why did they put these supplies at the back of the army?"

Wu Kezhong had this question very early.

Even if the general grain retreats, it will not leave all the important materials behind, isn't this handed over?

Cheng Guogong smiled slightly and said, "General Wu is too worried. It's just that it's too late to transfer first. In this way, it has helped our army a lot. ”

"Now that our army has enough food and grass, we can stand on the wall and wait for the battle, I will see if I can swallow this breath first, and I am willing to return to the desert empty-handed."

Cheng Guogong immediately said: "Order all departments, dismount and rest, and rely on Maoerzhuang to defend it." ”

As soon as Cheng Guogong gave the order, the formation outside slowly changed.

In front of the Ming army, there were a lot of vehicles, mostly Taiping cars and independence

Wheeled vehicles. They all blocked the way for the thorn iron cavalry to charge, and there were many of them, and the Han cavalry dismounted and dug a trench and low wall, with the intention of holding on.

also saw this scene from a distance first, and said: "Zhu Yong is forcing me to attack Maoerzhuang." ”

also guessed it well, Chengguo justice is to force the tile spurs to attack first. At this moment, Cheng Guogong even regretted not bringing a few battalions of foot soldiers.

Let them be in front of the formation, and they can't shake it even if they want to.

At this moment, it was more of a show, forcing the tile spur to make up his mind to fight the Ming Dynasty.

Otherwise, don't look at the distance between the main forces of the two sides is only more than ten miles, if the Watt Thorns are bent on escaping, Cheng Guogong will not be able to catch up. It's not that the Tile Thorn retreats quickly, but that he doesn't dare to chase too hard.

Who doesn't know the Mongols' method of luring the enemy deep and then ambushing them?

also said first: "It's okay, just like Zhu Yong's wish." ”

He also immediately summoned all the generals and said: "We went south this time, and robbed a lot of good things, and they are all in Maoerzhuang at the moment, if we don't take them back, we will just go back to the grassland like this, how do we face the leaders of the various departments, and your wives and children." ”

"Now the enemy is here, we have everything if we win, and if we lose, we will wait for the Ming people to burn over and over again, sweep the grassland over and over again, and let your wives and children and parents die of cold and starvation in a hurry."

"If you don't want to live like this anymore, kill me."

Although Emperor Taizong's three northern expeditions were mostly in vain, the Mongols were not without losses.

It's not just agriculture that needs to look at the sky, even animal husbandry. In order to escape the army of the Ming Dynasty, when it was time to let the sheep raise fat, they tossed over and over again, and it was strange that their harvest could be good.

So when the extreme weather on the grassland came, it was naturally a large number of attrition, and many people did not die under the sword soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but died in the power of nature.

What could be more frustrating for some robbers than not grabbing something?

Yes, that is, what was grabbed in hand, and it was snatched back, especially many small tribes, and the foundation of the tile spurs was thick, even if there were no such materials, it was not a big deal.

But this is not the case with many small tribes, these little things, in the eyes of the Ming army, are mostly tattered, but in their eyes, they are life-saving things.

Even the most tattered clothes, the clothes of the afraid of the dead, wrapping a few more layers, can make people survive in winter.

Therefore, when these people heard Yexian's words, they naturally screamed and were bent on retaking Maoerzhuang.

Seeing this, he secretly said in his heart: "Very good, it is not in vain that I will send these things to the Ming army." ”

Yes, just as Wu Kezhong couldn't figure it out, Maoerzhuang's garrison was a little lax, and this laxity was the result of secretly releasing water first.

Because we must first take this as an eye and play a big game of chess.