Chapter 178: The decisive battle is under the city of Datong

Wang Ji said: "In addition, there is also a report from Gansu that the Hami army has crossed the Guanxi Seven Guards and is approaching the Jiayu Pass, but Ren Li has assured the imperial court that he can fight against the soldiers and horses of the Tile Thorns, and His Majesty does not need to worry." ”

"Shaanxi, Gansu, have nothing to do with the army, the main force of the tile spur is in Xuanda."

Zhu Qizhen understood what Wang Ji meant.

Even at this time, when the news of the defeat of Shaanxi and Gansu came, Zhu Qizhen could not and would not add a reinforcement to Shaanxi and Gansu, although it was beyond the reach of thousands of miles, it was also more than 300,000 Beijing battalion troops in the hands of Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Qizhen's reserve, and the most important heavy army group in the Ming Dynasty.

Can only be put into the main battlefield.

Zhu Qizhen faced Zhang Fu and said: "British duke, I am young and ignorant, and in this situation, how can the prince teach me?" ”

The British Duke said: "The minister does not dare to be. He paused slightly, and said: "However, the ministers are reused by Taizong, Renzong, and the first emperor for three generations, so they will naturally do their best for the Ming Dynasty." ”

As Lord Wang said, the current situation is extremely chaotic and looks chaotic, but to solve its troubles, it is proclaimed. Specifically, it is in Datong. ”

"The relationship between the first and the detachment is known to the world. Once the tile spur is defeated, it is very simple whether Totobuhua will return to the grassland to fight for power, or go south to commit the border. ”

"Therefore, it is more important for Totobu to preserve his strength than anything else. In Liaodong, Totok Buhua will definitely not easily fight a decisive battle with the imperial court, but you come and I just catch and hide, and the minister remembers that the border wall in Liaodong has almost been built, please order Cao Yi to guard the city and guard the side wall. ”

"Avoid its edge, hit its fall, and when you don't spend your troops to retreat, it is the time for Liaodong to fight. And the minister was worried that Liaodong would fight too well, so he didn't dare to go deep first. ”

The British Duke said: "This time the Tile Spur attacked on a large scale, and the border people of Datong suffered heavy losses, and the minister intended to leave the Tile Spur army in the Great Wall, so that the Tile Thorn would never have a next time." ”

Zhu Qizhen listened to what the British public said, and under the imperial case, he also clenched his fists.

The vicinity of Datong is now a blank field, although there are many people who have hid in Datong City in advance, but there are more people who are preparing to harvest.

Therefore, these people fell into the hands of the Watts.

The situation of Yang Hewei is even worse than that near Datong.

This blood feud, Zhu Qizhen can only remember in his heart. Zhu Qizhen said: "Guogong, will the plan be released? ”

The British Duke said: "Your Majesty should send a large army from Beijing to support Datong from Bauhinia Pass." The 3,000 battalions have already advanced with the cavalry of various departments, and the minister estimates that within three or five days, he will be able to join Yang Hong's troops under Datong City, and he will definitely be able to break through the tile-spur army. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "That's it? ”

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Guogong said with a smile: "Fighting is like this, it is chaotic in advance, but when it is really fought, it only takes one knife to kill." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "How many troops are sent? ”

The British Duke said: "The soldiers are fast, when the cavalry, three thousand battalions, five military battalions, all the cavalry are exhausted, tens of thousands of foot soldiers are behind, the Shenji battalion is too heavy, just stay in Beijing." ”

"I thought I was riding about fifteen on foot."

Zhu Qizhen said: "In this way, does the Xuanfu side not care? ”

During this period of time, Zhu Qizhen had a thorough understanding of the Beijing camp, claiming to be 500,000 Beijing camps, but in fact, in addition to the 70,000 class troops, there were only 400,000, and there were many shortages.

However, under Zhu Qizhen's review and inspection again and again, all ministries worked hard to find ways to fill the gap. Although it did not reach 400,000, the shortfall was also around 10,000.

Zhu Qizhen couldn't force the general too tightly before going to war, so he turned a blind eye.

But there are nearly 400,000 people, not that these 400,000 people are elite.

The garrison army is divided into garrison troops and soldiers.

Since the Beijing camp is also a guard army, there are also soldiers and garrison soldiers. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty claims to be a 500,000-strong Beijing army, but the actual standing army is also discounted.

This is Zhu Qizhen's large-scale review army since last year, in fact, this kind of review has retrained many garrison soldiers.

can really be classified into the elite of the Ming Dynasty, the kind of elite cavalry that can fight three in one dozen on the grassland, or the foot soldiers who can face the heavy weapons of the tile spur in the decisive battle, no more than 300,000 in the Beijing camp, between 250,000 and 300,000.

Even lower.

Because the army is such a thing, if you don't really fight on the battlefield, sometimes it's hard to say that it's elite or good.

Now the troops that Zhang Fu wants to draw are all well-known battalion leaders.

150,000 elites are to transfer most of the elites in Beijing.

The rest of the troops, that is, the Shenji Battalion, as well as the men and horses of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, as well as the old department of the Southern Expeditionary Army of Baoding Hou Mengying, can be called elite.

The Ming Jingshi can't afford not to leave people and horses to garrison, and it can't be less.

The reason is very simple, the city of Beijing is too big, and it takes 100,000 people just to fill the city wall of Beijing. As for the previous soldiers, it was okay to wave the flag and shout, but if they really wanted to go into battle to kill the enemy, they still owed a lot.

In this way, it is not very appropriate to allocate reinforcements to Xuanfu.

Zhang Fu said: "Looking at the situation of the Xuanfu, Guo Deng is a general, and he can hold it. And Datong and Xuanfu are too close, today the Tile Spur army is in the monolithic fort, how do you know that tomorrow will not be in Datong? ”

"Therefore, the army should not be dispersed."

"It's hurting first, Ah Tingzhiyuan, can you sit still in Xuanfu?"

Zhu Qizhen suddenly understood that this time he sent troops, and it seemed that he could fight

One way, in fact, is two people. The key point of the tile spur is also first, and what Daming seeks is a decisive battle.

All other minor aspects are negligible.

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a while and said, "Since the Shenji Battalion is marching slowly, then I will also draw the cavalry of the Imperial Horse Prison to Chengguo Gong and raise 200,000 horses for him." ”

"Victory or defeat is a battle."

Zhu Qizhen doesn't trust Cheng Guogong's ability, and he doesn't expect Cheng Guogong to play an amazing victory with less, so just let Cheng Guogong win a battle with the crowd.

Anyway, for Zhu Qizhen, as long as he can win.

If you add the armies of Datong and Xuanfu, the number of men under the command of Chengguo Gong is nearly 400,000. Even if you count the elite soldiers, there are at least nearly 300,000, of which the number of cavalry is close to 150,000.

Wang Ji said: "Your Majesty thinks twice, so Beijing will be empty. ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "In this way, I rely on the Beijing city wall, which is naturally empty, but I rely on the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, these soldiers are in Beijing, or in the border fortress, it is the same for me." ”

Several cabinet ministers saluted together and said, "Your Majesty is wise. ”

Zhu Qizhen said to Zhou Chen: "Shoufu, this battle, all kinds of rewards, disaster relief, labor army and other silver, you have to prepare to go forward." ”

Zhou Chen gritted his teeth slightly and said, "The minister understands." ”

The cost of raising soldiers in the system of the Great Ming Guard is very low. That is, Emperor Taizu said that it costs nothing to raise a million soldiers.

But with the collapse of the guard system, Zhu Qizhen wanted the army to have combat effectiveness, so he had to continue to throw money into the army.

Don't look at the changes in the civil fort in history, the 500,000 army was wiped out, in fact, the army brought by the historical orthodox pro-conquest was not yet 200,000. And the army of the Tile Thorns was not only 30,000 people.

Exactly what was said before.

Although Zhu Qizhen did not carry out a fundamental reform in the military field, there are still some ways to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

Whether it is cultivating his cronies among the nobles, throwing money at the army, maintaining the combat effectiveness of the army, cultivating batches of middle- and lower-level officers who are loyal to him, or his attention to the Beijing camp all the time.

Jingying is much better than the orthodox same period.

It's just that in this way, another chronic disease is also faintly presented, that is, the heavy military burden in the late Ming Dynasty.

It shows a kind of smashing money, there is combat effectiveness, and if you don't smash money, you will collapse as soon as you touch it, and even the money that is smashed down is not much in the hands of the soldiers.

The finances were not good, and in the face of such a bottomless pit, Zhou Chen seemed to have done nothing in this meeting. But he's the one who is under the most pressure.