Manchu officers and soldiers, disguised as Mongolian cavalry, swaggered into the border areas between the Ming and Mongolia. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As everyone knows, the Ming army has already received the information provided by the Second National Security Department, and it can see through the authenticity at a glance.

"Since the Tartars like to be smart, the last general implored the division commander to let the last general lead the three regiments to meet these Eight Banners for a while, and see if they have grown in the past few years!" Wang Sheng's eyes lit up with a raging fire.

The Jiangyin Breakout Battle back then, until now Wang Sheng still remembers it vividly, especially the Manchu cavalry, which almost became a lingering nightmare in his heart.

If it weren't for the last moment, Wang Guoxing and Qi Zhifeng rushed to reinforcements in time, and Wang Sheng's 20,000 villagers and 100,000 civilians would have become the souls of the 10,000 Manchu cavalry.

Since then, Wang Sheng joined the Wehrmacht, and has been thinking hard about how to deal with cavalry by infantry, and the Wehrmacht is mainly infantry, in order to fight against cavalry, the research and development of long-range individual weapons has never stopped.

However, in Wang Sheng's view, weapons and equipment are only one aspect, the most important thing is the military quality of the soldiers, and the best way to deal with cavalry is to not be chaotic in the face of danger, to enforce orders and prohibitions, and to act quickly.

Compared with the infantry, the cavalry has an oppressive advantage in terms of size, and psychological quality is the most important part of the infantry in the face of cavalry.

Therefore, one of the most basic training subjects for Wang Sheng's soldiers is to pass explosives packets.

The fighters sat in a circle, lit the fuses of the explosive packets, and passed them one by one until the fuses were about to burn out, before throwing them into the crater.

The explosives package is 100% real, but fortunately, the power is not too great, and even if it explodes in the hand, it will not kill anyone, at most it will be disabled.

But even so, at the beginning, it would scare the soldiers half to death, and often half of the lead was left, and some soldiers couldn't help but throw it into the blast crater.

Later, Wang Sheng decided to implement a reward and punishment system in the army, taking the squad as a unit, conducting a great competition of courage, and in the process of passing the explosives package, the top three who persisted for the longest time and did not cause a safety accident were rewarded with meat for a week.

And the last three classes not only have to accept the punishment of having no meat to eat, but also have to help the winning class for a week in a row, washing the sheets and clothes for a week.

Of course, the scale of this kind of competition is basically set at the first level, and one company has ten classes, which must be better than at least one-third of the classes.

Since ancient times, there is no first, no second, but as long as there is a trace of blood, a soldier does not want to wash people's clothes all the time, even underwear and stinky socks.

As a result, the competition naturally became fierce.

After a long period of training, the psychological quality of the soldiers in the whole army has generally improved a lot, and now even if a grenade with a fuse is still around, many soldiers will calmly pick it up and throw it out of their trenches.

It is not enough to have a good quality in the heart, after knowing that the Ming army is powerful, the enemy is now obedient, and will not attack the Ming army formation with a solid formation at all, but will choose to find various opportunities, take advantage of the speed advantage, carry out surprise attacks, hunt those soldiers who are lonely, or attack those areas where the defensive strength is weak.

Once the Ming artillery was not taken care of, then in the face of the high-speed charge of the cavalry, the soldiers often only had one round of time to return fire.

This requires the soldiers of the Ming army to be able to kill with one blow and cause the greatest lethality to the enemy in the shortest possible time, so as to break the indomitable momentum of the enemy's cavalry.

To put it mildly, Wang Sheng asked his soldiers to pull a cushion even if they died in battle in an absolute disadvantage.

And if you want to do this, then Wang Sheng's soldiers must master superb marksmanship and kill with one hit.

The shooting practice of the Ming National Defense Army on weekdays is very frequent, and the bullets are all made vigorously, and soldiers who have not fired one or two hundred rounds of ammunition on the shooting range are not qualified to be called veterans.

After each recruit entered the camp, the Logistics and Equipment Department prepared two rifles for them, one for practicing target shooting on weekdays, until the barrel of this rifle was scrapped, and then the other rifle could be picked up and killed by the enemy.

The marksmanship of the soldiers of the Ming army was fed by bullets, and the troops under Wang Sheng not only had to shoot fixed targets in peacetime, but also had to practice moving targets, and they were the kind of high-speed moving targets.

On the shooting range, Wang Sheng thought of a way, that is, to use a war horse to pull the carriage that erected the target, and move diagonally towards the target soldiers at high speed, from the farthest 100 meters to the closest place to the soldiers.

During this period, the target vehicle has been moving at a high speed, and the soldier can only have one chance to shoot, no matter at which distance, only the hit is considered qualified, 30 meters away is considered good, 50 meters away is called excellent, and can hit at the longest distance of 100 meters, it is called a sharpshooter.

Good psychological quality, coupled with an ultra-high starting hit rate, is the basic guarantee for Qiu Yuanshan's troops to win successive battles in the Suzhou area.

Hearing that Wang Sheng wanted to lead three regiments out of the pass to provoke the Qing army, Qiu Yuanshan didn't think about it, so he directly refused, and the wording was very harsh: "You want to cause a full-scale war? ”

That's right, in Qiu Yuanshan's opinion, it is no problem for him to defend the city with this little force in his hand, but if he really wants to go out of the city to fight with 50,000 Qing troops, even if they are all elite soldiers, he is asking for hardship.

Moreover, once the Qing army starts to fight back, the 70,000 or 80,000 troops hidden behind the Suzhou guard will definitely not sit idly by and watch the 13th Division suffer, and if it starts, it will be a full-scale war.

At this time, the affairs of Mongolia have not been completely resolved, and the imperial court has repeatedly ordered that it is not allowed to fight across the border, and this is really going to start, and those Mongolian nobles who have not yet made up their minds will not immediately regret it and sit back and watch the Russian-Manchurian army fight with the Ming army?

It is true that soldiers should not interfere in politics, but the purpose of soldiers fighting is to serve politics, and Qiu Yuanshan also wants to fight, but the imperial court has been carefully preparing for a year, and it must not disrupt the deployment of the imperial court because of impulse.

"But........ If we sit idly by, without the appeal of Batur Huntaiji, the Mongolian tribes will not easily agree to the conditions of the Ming Dynasty! Wang Sheng wanted to convince Qiu Yuanshan from the side.

In his opinion, since the other party wants to disguise itself as a Mongolian cavalry, then the Ming army can also make a fuss from this aspect and surprise the other party.

If it is best to eat this army, even if it doesn't, it is good to expel it from this area and clear the obstacles for Batur Huntaiji to enter the Ming Dynasty.

"Didn't the intelligence say that? It is still a day or two before Batur Huntaiji's troops may arrive here, and if there is a pursuit on the road, it is possible in three or four days, and what we have is time to prepare, whether to fight or not, and how to fight, it is really not up to us to decide. Someone, go and report the situation here to Commander Ji Dongming, and all the 13th Division is on standby, waiting for the instructions from above at any time! Qiu Yuanshan said.

Tens of thousands of troops approached the border of the Ming Dynasty, and this is really not something that a division commander can fight if he says he can fight.

However, when the front line handed over this information to the rear, Zhang Chao, commander-in-chief of the Northwest Theater, also had a big head.

According to the news from Qiu Yuanshan, I believe that as long as it is operated properly, it is absolutely possible to eat the Qing army of about 50,000 people in front of him in one fell swoop.

However, the key Ministry of Defense has already issued a death order, and before Batur Huntaiji enters the customs, the Ming army can only defend the border passes, and must not take the initiative to attack, giving the Mongolian departments a chance to hesitate.

"If you want me to say, why do we care so much? Anyway, sooner or later, it will be fought, so why not take the opportunity to destroy a little more living force of the Qing army? These Mongols have come to this field, if they really dare not compromise, our Wehrmacht can still beat them to obedience! Ji Dongming couldn't get used to this hesitant style of acting.

"Military orders are like mountains, without the authorization of the Ministry of National Defense, to attack without authorization, that is to violate the military order, according to the law should be beheaded!" can't catch a fight, Zhang Chao has already had a fire in his heart.

"In fact, the fact that the Wehrmacht cannot be dispatched does not mean that the servant army cannot be mobilized, and the Mongolian cavalry that fled into the territory of the Ming Dynasty and was gathered by us before is also a force to be reckoned with." Xining Cheng announced that Zhang Tongchang, the political envoy, suddenly said quietly.

Cheng declared the political envoy department as the local administrative organ of the Ming Dynasty, formerly known as the Yuan Dynasty's Xingzhongshu Province, which means that "the imperial court has virtue, prohibition, and Chengliu propaganda, and the following is in the division." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, the jurisdiction of the declared political envoy was a national first-level administrative region, referred to as "the political envoy department", "the political department", and "the domain division", not the "province".

In the official documents, the term "province" of the Yuan Dynasty was avoided, so the word "etc." was added under the place name.

There shall be one political envoy on the left and one on the right, that is, the highest chief executive of the first-level administrative region.

The criminal name and military affairs of a province are respectively under the jurisdiction of the Procuratorial Envoy and the Metropolitan Command Envoy.

The political division, the judicial division, and the metropolitan department are collectively called the "three divisions", all of which are the highest organs of the provincial-level administrative regions, and the heads of the three divisions are of the same rank and rank from the second rank, which is equivalent to the standing committee of the provincial party committee in later generations.

Now that tension is raging in the northwest region, the political envoy of the Xining Chengxuan Prefecture naturally moved his office not far from the front line, so that it is convenient to settle the Mongolian tribes who have fled south, and the military is only responsible for fighting wars, pacifying the victims, and allocating supplies, which still has to be done by the local government.

Second, it is also to better serve the military, once the war breaks out, the political envoy can get the news as soon as possible, organize the people to the front line to transport military supplies, recruit reserves, these are inseparable from the assistance of the political envoy.

Therefore, during this period, the basic military meetings, large and small, and Zhang Tongchang, the political envoy of the Chengxuan Mansion, will participate in them.

Zhang Tongchang, the word Beishan, a native of Jiangling, Hubei, a famous minister of the late Ming Dynasty, a national hero, and the great-grandson of Zhang Juzheng, a scholar in the shade.

Zhang Tongchang has been smart and handsome since childhood, and pursues loyalty and righteousness, is good at poetry and calligraphy, and is an official in the period with the ancestral motto of "holding on to the Hoge, serving the battlefield" as an encouragement.

When Zhu Youzhen presided over the anti-Qing Dynasty in the Southern Ming Dynasty, Zhang Tongchang served as the prefect of Hangzhou and raised a large amount of money, food and materials for the Southern Ming Dynasty to resist the Qing Dynasty.

Moreover, Hangzhou under his rule is one of the first cities to respond to the national reform in addition to Suzhou.

When Li Hongfei formed the cabinet, he considered transferring him to Beijing to preside over various national reforms, but he was politely refused, and finally Zhang Tongchang took the initiative to apply and took a large number of high-yielding and drought-tolerant crops to the northwest border region to seek a way to get rich for the local people.

In just two years, the northwest frontier, which was once seriously plagued by banditry, has now changed greatly, and there are peasants everywhere who have opened up the wasteland and cultivated, and the people's lives have hope, who is willing to do that headless business?

Even the population of this region has increased by nearly 30% compared to two years ago, and if it were not for the outbreak of war in the Mongolian region, Zhang Tongchang would have even planned to reopen the Silk Road.

Even Zhang Chao didn't expect that such a Confucian minister, who devoted himself to economic development and lived for the people, would have a ruthless spirit at a critical moment and easily solved the biggest problem of the military today.

"That's right! The Wehrmacht is not suitable to take the initiative to go to war, but I don't say that those Mongols can't go to war either! The Manchus used the Mongol cavalry as a cover, so let's send him a real Mongol cavalry! Zhang Chao quickly understood.

The imperial court did not agree to start a war now, mainly because it was afraid that the Mongol tribes would take the opportunity to turn against the water, after all, the Mongol tribes had many nobles, and until now they still fantasized about maintaining the independence of the Mongolian region.

Even in the eyes of some people, if Batur Huntaiji was not defeated for a day, the Mongol tribes would always have the opportunity to "restore the country" on their own.

Therefore, before Batur Huntaiji was defeated and retreated into the pass, no matter what the Ming said, these Mongols were only perfunctory.

However, perfunctory is perfunctory, but the Mongolian departments are still very cooperative in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty wants to go north to fight with the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, the cavalry is naturally a necessary type of army, but the Ming Dynasty can currently be called the army of infantry cavalry, and it is only just full of an army.

If you want to form a cavalry force that can go to war in a short time, you really have to rely on the Mongols.

Thus the Mongol Servant Army was born.

Daming sheltered these ordinary Mongolian people, and the young and strong among them had to help Daming resist the invasion of the Russian-Manchurian coalition!

And in the eyes of these Mongols, the formation of cavalry troops is also to lead the army back to the Mongolian steppe one day, so the Ming army only mentioned it slightly, and in a short period of time, a Mongolian cavalry force of 30,000 people was formed.

Now the Ming Dynasty has not been able to officially go out of the customs to fight, but it just so happens that this Mongolian cavalry has no scruples, and it is to meet the troops of Batur Huntaiji, I believe that the Mongolian departments will not oppose this operation.

"Let the Mongols consume with the Manchus first, this idea is really good, but after a long time, we can't get the battle ourselves, so let me go back and explain to Qiu Yuanshan and them!" Ji Dongming finally told the truth.

A few months earlier, Ningxiawei's Eighth Division had fought a battle with the Russians, which greatly increased the prestige of the Ming army and was greatly commended by the imperial court, which was the envy of the entire Northwest Defense Army.

Now that a group of blind guys have finally come to his defense area, he can only watch the full military exploits slip out of his mouth, and it is impossible not to be greedy.

"Come on! It won't be long before the entire field army in the northwest region will enter Mongolia to fight, and I am afraid that there will be no military merits to be gained at that time? Labor and management put the words here first, and if your Fifth Army is cowardly at that time, don't blame me for transferring you to guard the logistics! Zhang Chao said half-jokingly and half-seriously.

"What do you mean.......... Is it possible for the Fifth Army to enter Mongolia as a vanguard force to fight at that time? Ji Dongming heard the difference.

"Want to be a pioneer? Then do the task at hand first! The total number of Mongol servant troops was less than 30,000, and 10,000 of them were still training in Ningxiawei, so they would definitely not be able to catch up with this battle. 20,000 Mongol cavalry against 50,000 Manchu Qing Tartars, even if it is a sneak attack, the odds of victory are not high. Therefore, we need to send scouts to infiltrate the desert ahead, find the main force of Batur Huntaiji who has crossed the desert, and cooperate with the outside to fight a beautiful battle of annihilation! Zhang Chao said.

In terms of the ability to camouflage infiltration, the 13th Division, which has been stationed in this desert area all year round, dares to say second, and no one dares to say first.

Desert marching and desert survival have always been the regular training items of the 13th Division, and the sea of sand in front of it has almost become the back garden of Qiu Yuanshan's division.

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Ji Dongming said happily.

originally thought that there was nothing wrong with them, but there was an unexpected infiltration mission, and now when I go back, I can finally give Qiu Yuanshan's kid an explanation.

"That's right! Your troops, if they find Batur Huntaiji's army in the desert, if possible, find a Han man named Han Baofeng and give this letter to the other party, and after he reads it, he will understand what to do. An official from the Second National Security Department suddenly took out a secret letter and handed it to Ji Dongming.

Look at this, these guys in the field service department are holding back something.............