Chapter 118: Shi Heng's thoughts

is nothing else, it is between Yang Hong and Shi Heng, qualifications, achievements, personality, and character, each with its own strengths. Maybe Yang Hong can take care of the overall situation, but is Shi Heng the kind of person who can take care of the overall situation?

Especially after the Battle of Xingkai Lake, Shi Heng's arrogance flourished day by day. It can be called a proud soldier.

He has always been known as Yang Hong, but now he is very unconvinced that Yang Hong is above him.

Zhu Qizhen thought that Meng Ying would come forward to preside over the overall situation.

But Meng Ying is old after all.

For those who are seventy or eighty years old, marching and fighting is always a chore.

Zhu Qizhen can also entrust the lives of hundreds of thousands of people to Meng Yingsheng not to get sick, if he dies of illness in the army, wouldn't he hang hundreds of thousands of troops out of the territory.

has to have such a compromise, otherwise Yang Hong's appointment should be the same as Xu Da, Qiu Fu, and Zhu Yong, but the general of the conquest.

It's just that Shi Heng doesn't know that the overall situation is important, but Yang Hong knows.

Shi Heng didn't know the severity, and his tail was cocked, but Yang Hong understood the old things in the Hongwu period very well. How many ministers and fierce generals were killed by Taizu back then, although His Majesty is not as good as Taizu today, but Yang Hong does not think that he can compare with those famous founding generals.

Therefore, he is very dedicated.

It's also a family history. Today's Yang family has also walked in a circle between life and death. Yang Hong was still young, but this situation will never be forgotten.

In order to make the Northern Expedition go smoothly, Yang Hong personally went to the banquet for Shi Heng, although Shi Heng was reluctant at that time, but also expressed the harmony on face.

Now Shi Heng completely tore this face, and he didn't take Yang Hong in his eyes.

Yang Hong doesn't care if Shi Heng takes himself in his eyes, but what Yang Hong is worried about is the country's plan, Shi Heng is chasing so fast, once the front and back are out of touch, it will be a big defeat, and tens of thousands of teachers will be lost, how should Yang Hong think about Beijing.

Thinking of this, Yang Hong's face was hideous, and he slammed his fist on the case. only smashed his hands with blood, but he didn't realize that what he was thinking about was how to deal with the aftermath.

At this moment, Shi Heng is thousands of miles away from Yang Hong.

Shi Heng's tens of thousands of cavalry came here a few days earlier, Yang Hong had more clues, Shi Heng determined that the tile spur retreated to the northwest, and naturally chased all the way. Nonstop.

chased it for several days in one go.

At this moment, it has come to Hulan and suddenly lose temperature.

This is the place where Emperor Taizong fought with the tile spur.

In a trance, it has been nearly forty years ago. And now, the army of the Ming Dynasty has come here again.

Shi Heng is a little arrogant now, but he admires Emperor Taizong very much, so he came to the ancient battlefield to investigate on the gap between camping and camping.

Of course, after decades of ups and downs, there is nothing left

There are traces.

But Jin Fancha followed behind, looking like he wanted to say something.

Shi Heng said: "Lao Jin, you and I have been friends for many years, and if you want to say something, just say it." ”

Jin Fancha led the Haixi cavalry from Shiheng and was also one of the important generals in Shiheng's army, and Jin Fancha's climbing path in the Ming system had a lot of overlap with Shi Heng.

And Jin Fancha tried his best to show that he was a Han Chinese. But among the nobles, the rejection of Jin Fancha can still be seen.

It is also an inevitable thing, no matter when, integration into a country often takes several generations.

Even Jin Dongshan is more able to mix in the army than Jin Fancha, after all, he is from martial arts, and now martial arts has not yet formed a big faction, but he already has considerable influence in the army.

In order to get mixed up, Jin Fancha naturally could only throw himself under Shi Heng's command.

Only Shi Heng accepted him.

As for what would happen if there was no one on it, it goes without saying. Therefore, Jin Fancha has always been Shi Heng's loyal subordinates, but now Shi Heng's actions have made Jin Fancha have some worries in his heart. He emboldened himself and said, "Guogong, wouldn't we greatly offend Yang Guogong by doing this?" Even Teng Guogong would not be happy. ”

Shi Heng sneered and said: "Meng Lao'er, he is old, he has no courage, Yang Hong is just a dog guarding the household, how can he talk about big things, and now although the tile spur has retreated, but there is still a heart of war, I will chase after it in a big way, and the tile spur will definitely return to the army to fight, and when the time comes, it will be enough to break the tile thorn in a battle." ”

"Otherwise, this time and again in Mobei hide-and-seek is a waste of national strength. It is not beneficial to the world. ”

Although Shi Heng said that the head of his mouth was the Tao, Shi Heng also had his own abacus in his heart.

Shi Heng has come to this point step by step with his military exploits.

Therefore, he is the most eager to win the battle.

Especially this time when he was pressed by Yang Hong, Shi Heng couldn't swallow this breath, he felt that in terms of military merits and fighting, Yang Hong was comparable to him Shi Heng.

However, all the people in the court were a group of deaf and blind people, who did not distinguish between right and wrong, but let Shi Heng live under Yang Hong.

Of course, he wants to win a battle and continue to show off his might, but at the same time, he also wants the world to see that he is above Yang Hong.

People in the world should not be called Yang Shi, but Shi Yang.

Even he didn't have no feelings for Zhu Qizhen, he secretly felt in his heart that His Majesty was cautious. Without courage, if he was in the position of the emperor, he would have sent all his troops to clarify Mobei. Instead of doing something step by step now.

And in the little things, the tube is too wide.

As long as the generals can fight, what else is bad, and doing this and that, it is simply a lot of trouble.

Of course, Shi Heng would never dare to say such words.

Jin Fancha said: "What the general said is extremely true. He may not have thought this way in his heart, but at this moment he wanted to say the last sentence in this way, and continued: "Even if the tile spur is defeated repeatedly, there are 100,000 elite horsemen who can be used now. Twice as much as me, if the Watts fight back, will the end be worried? ”

Shi Heng sneered and said, "What are you worried about? But is there not enough food and grass? ”

Jin Fancha shook his head and said, "No." The dry food prepared by the imperial court was sufficient. ”

In order to go out for the army, the army prepared a lot of dry food, and Shi Heng had more because he was all cavalry.

There are two kinds of dry food he brings, one is dry food, which is fried noodles, jerky, pancakes, etc., and the other is commonly used by the Mongols, that is, living animals.

There are probably more than 10,000 of them, and there are quite a few pack horses.

In this way, it can not only keep up with the large number of people, but also serve as food for the army. This has been calculated, and it is estimated that it will last for two or three months on the grassland.

And Yang Hong and Guo Deng's side brought a little more grain than Shi Heng because they had a baggage camp.

Shi Heng asked again, "But the armor is not strong?" ”

Jin Fancha said: "No, the armor issued by the imperial court is only seen in my life. Well enough. ”

In the previous battles, one thing has been more and more illustrated, that is, although the heavy armored cavalry is useful, its role on the battlefield is getting smaller and smaller, like chicken ribs.

But if the cavalry fights without armor, Zhu Qizhen feels that it is wrong.

Therefore, a large number of two-piece chain mail, of course, are not all made of iron rings in the West, but steel and leather protect important positions, and the rest of the place is filled by chain mail.

The most important thing is lightness, although the defense is much worse than heavy armor, but the weight is also a lot lighter, and the cavalry uses this kind of armor, which is not only unbearable for horses.

What's more important is the terrifying amount of armor.

From the fourteenth year of orthodoxy to the present, Shaofu has produced at least 150,000 collars.

This figure may be a month's output of a small factory in later generations. But at this time, it's quite remarkable. It can be said that almost all of the profits of the Zunhua Iron Factory for the takeaway of iron materials have been put into armament.

Now these hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, the armor rate is far more than that of the tile spur, and the tile spur armor is used in any era, compared with the armor of the Ming army today, it is even worse.

Shi Heng asked again, "But firearms are useless." ”

Shaofu's biggest reform in weapons is not in cold weapons, but more in firearms. Regardless of whether it is in the Beijing camp or the border army, most of the small guns have been reequipped.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen always feels that the money is not enough.

Don't say anything else. Some of the firearms that could be used on horses were even equipped among the cavalry, and the reaction of the people below was quite useful. It's much easier to use than the three-eyed firebolt used before.