Chapter 137: Birthday Celebration for the Great Emperor

The grass grows, the horns are in the sky, and the whining sound is low, as if countless beasts were roaring in a low voice, making the last preparations before the attack.

More than 100,000 horsemen and horses on the Tile Thorn gathered between the area of more than 100 miles north of the monolithic fort, and within a hundred miles of this area, hundreds of thousands of troops were gathered on both sides.

The density of troops has reached a considerable level.

The two sides were tense, even though there was no battle between the main forces, but the intensity of the battle between the scouts was a hundred times more fierce than before.

With the completion of the Tile Thorn Soldier Horse Division.

Instead, the scouts on both sides withdrew their troops.

Because the camp positions of the two sides have been basically fixed, both sides have figured out the bottom of the other side in detail. At this time, there is no need for senseless sacrifices.

After a little rectification, he also gave an order, and the troops divided into roads, with one or twenty thousand cavalry on each road, and went south several miles apart, as if they were a big brush, brushing the earth and coming towards the monolithic fort.

Among the main forces of the Tile Spurs, tens of thousands of heavy cavalry are the main force of the main forces, and they are also the most disciplined troops. Every heavily armored cavalry had a servant. With two or three reserve horses.

Only in this way can you carry dozens of pounds of armor and achieve the purpose of rapid maneuvering.

Therefore, although the Tile Thorn sent out more than 100,000 cavalry, if we talk about horses alone, there are about 300,000 to 400,000 horses.

Of course, these horses are not exactly war horses.

Even so, it is also a number that makes Daming have to tighten his teeth, and it is impossible to raise all of them on the front line, and it is also the biggest advantage of the tile spur over Daming.

It's just that the military formations of the tribes attached to each way can't be compared with the thorns.

The discipline of the Tile Spur army was strict and not under the Ming army. It was also used as the main force against the Ming Dynasty and went straight to the Ming army camp. As for the subordinate tribes of each department, they are all secondary positions, and most of their commanders and generals are only tribal leaders. is not to experience dejoy, but also to create a division of Yum between father and son.

The Ming Dynasty has never dared to fight against these armies, and more than 10,000 cavalry have chased tens of thousands of Wuliangha horsemen, which has never been an exception. Therefore, there is no need for these armies to embarrass people, just let them wave their flags and shout.

Cheng Guogong has been preparing for a long time.

In the past few days, Chengguo Gong transferred 20,000 or 30,000 foot soldiers from Datong and Shanxi to strengthen the border wall.

In addition to some of the main forces in the Beijing camp, it is estimated that the other border towns are a little reluctant to defend the city.

However, the people of the Nine Sides have been in war for a long time and are very familiar with war, even if they are not manpowered, temporarily recruiting people to the city is enough to defend the city.

It's just a mobile force, far from enough.

The referendum of Chengguo was not afraid of fighting, and the army went out of the monolithic fort and lined up in front.

compare

The army of the tile, in general, the formation of the Ming army, whether it is cavalry or foot soldiers, is much more rigorous, one by one, red flags, from a distance, in full swing.

After all, the Ming Dynasty is still on fire, and all the flags in the army are in red.

And even if the Ming Dynasty went out of the camp and lined up in the vast grassland, confronting the Tile Spur army, it was not like the Tile Thorn.

When the two sides were more than ten miles apart, they began to rest their horses.

All the cavalry of the army dismounted.

After all, there is not enough horses in the Ming Dynasty, and even if the horses are rich in these 100,000 cavalry, they must not let a cavalry have two or three horses.

Therefore, the Ming army loved horsepower more than the Mongols.

Before the battle, the first thing all the cavalry thought about was not themselves, but the horses under their command. All the cavalry began to feed the horses, and the food that they were reluctant to eat was shared with the horses at the moment.

Many cavalrymen used boiled black beans, took a bite of their own, stuffed them with horses, and even made their own fried noodles with eggs, and they were usually reluctant to eat a mouthful of dry food for most of the year, and they all shared it with the horses.

At this time, the food of a man is not much different from that of a horse. Some even took out strips of dried meat and gave them to the horses.

Don't think that the horse is a vegetarian, it just can't eat meat.

It's just that this kind of treatment is limited to now.

Because all cavalrymen know that whether they can survive on the battlefield or not, the biggest reliance is to dismount their horses. Shot in the palm of your hand.

Most of the cavalry dismounted and stood on guard. There are also quite a few armies, layer by layer of defensive circles, the northernmost Tanma, just in the middle of the two armies, and the tile spur cavalry far away.

And to the north of the cavalry phalanx, there were countless firecrackers, layered in arrays, thin and complete firecracker phalanxes, lined up.

As an important line of defense against the Tile Spur cavalry.

In the battle of Hulan and sudden loss of temperature that year, the Tile Thorn Iron Cavalry was defeated by Liu Sheng, who commanded the Shenji Battalion.

is no stranger to such a formation.

Even before the battle of Hulan and Sudani, gunpowder weapons such as firearms and rockets were only equipped in the Shenji Battalion, and it was in this battle that almost all the Ming troops were equipped with a certain amount of firearms, whether they were cavalry or infantry.

However, these guns still exist as a defensive class.

Perimeter vigilance, guarding against danger, guarding the camp, defending against cavalry impact, etc.,

The outer phalanx of firearms, the cavalry inside are waiting for work, and between the phalanx and the phalanx, they are interlocking and almost invulnerable, and they have been seen from a distance for a long time.

First of all, he was also experienced in a hundred battles, and he wanted to come to several offensive lines, but he was immediately denied by himself.

For cavalry, it is an absolute truth that they are invincible. No matter which dynasty it is, in the face of the well-organized Han infantry phalanx, don't attack easily.

This is almost all nomads

The same lesson of blood.

Not to mention that most of the army is cavalry, once the attack is lost, the Ming cavalry's overwhelming counterattack may not be able to withstand it at first.

also thought about it first, waved his hand and said, "You go." ”

A person behind him who returned to his appearance secretly relaxed a little in his heart, and asked, "Lord Wang, what should I say?" ”

He also said first: "The grassland is not quiet, this king has prepared a birthday gift for His Majesty, lest it be obtained by horse thieves, so he led troops to guard, with the heart of the master's fist." I don't want the children to be immoral, but let the court misunderstand the heart of this king, and this king specially asked Chengguo Gong for guilt, which is really damn and damned. ”

also spoke in a very frivolous tone, naturally without the slightest damn meaning.

Although there is no intention of a big war today, it is not that there is no gain at all, at least Kaiping, Daning's grassland, it is impossible for Daming to get involved.

If Zhu Qizhen still wants Yang Hong to open Daning at one time, it is an impossible task.

This large area of grassland has at least alleviated the burning of the thorns.

A moment later, the envoy of the tile spur returned to the people, and Timur had already arrived under the banner of the Ming army.

He knelt in the dust, and said this speech first, and the wording was naturally much more humble. He wants to think about his own life.

Otherwise, the extreme words angered the general in front of him, but it would not be easy to do.

Just when Timur's heart was up and down, waiting for the judgment of fate, Zhu Yong also fell into deep thought.

As a general, the first thing to consider at any time is the victory or defeat on the battlefield, and as for the various additional meanings after that, they are all issues that need to be considered after the victory or defeat on the battlefield.

Although Cheng Guogong was secretly complained by Zhu Qizhen in his heart, there was one thing that Zhu Qizhen had to admit, that is, there were only three or five candidates in the dynasty who had the ability and confidence to organize a general battle of more than 100,000 people.

British Duke Zhang Fu, Cheng Guo Duke Zhu Yong, Baoding Hou Mengying. Wang Ji, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou. These four can be entrusted with the power of the war, as for Hou Guo Deng of Fujian, Fengrun Bo Cao Yi, Dingxi Bo Jiang Gui, and even the eunuch Liu Yongcheng, Wu Jinbo Zhu Mian, Yang Hong, Shi Heng, they are all one layer behind.

The range of Zhu Qizhen's choices has never been large.

Chengguo Gong Zhu Yong may not be as good as the famous generals in history, but the most basic battlefield judgment is still there. Just like knowing that the Ming army was not easy to fight, Zhu Yong saw at a glance that the tile thorn was tricky.

The most difficult problem is not how powerful the tile spur is, but that the tile spur has brought hundreds of thousands of war horses, giving them the initiative to fight if they want to fight, and not to fight if they don't want to.

Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, was confident that he would defeat the tile spur, but he didn't believe it, and left the tile spur department behind. Once the war started, from Taizong's later years to the present, nearly thirty years of peace came to an end.

Even Cheng Guogong has some unbearable.