He was originally a veteran of Xuanfu and was familiar with the geography here. [Full text reading]

The march route out of Juyong Pass was normal, but something was wrong after passing Yulin Fort. Leaving the good official road behind, Xie Hong suddenly commanded the soldiers and horses to march south. If you want to say that it is convenient to enter along the river, but if you want to go to Xuanfu City, you have to walk along the Yanghe River, where are you going along the Sanggan River now? Don't you want to go back to your hometown in Beizhuang?

"That's right, it's this road, we have to take a shortcut, otherwise we won't be able to catch up." Xie Hong spread his hands and said helplessly.

It's funny that the cavalry can't catch up with the infantry, but it's not an exaggeration at all. Zhengde started early, and the speed of the march was also fast, and when Xie Hong chased him to Juyong Pass, he had to be told by the general that it had been four days since the holy drive, that is to say, the first hundred miles of the journey, Xie Hong had only caught up with the progress of one day.

By analogy, when you catch up with Xuanfu City, you will definitely not be able to catch up with Zhengde, unless the latter is honestly waiting in the city. However, with the Zhengde that Xie Hong knew, he would definitely not do that, so if he wanted to rush to the battlefield in time, he could only take some risks and take a shortcut.

"Take a shortcut? Along the Sangan River? Jiang Bin went through the geography of Xuanfu in his mind, and asked in disbelief: "Are we going to Shunshengchuan?" Or even to Datong? ”

Xie Hong nodded affirmatively: "Yes, the Tartars will definitely not fight under Xuanfu City, even if they really fight, there is nothing to worry about, relying on the city to fight, the Guards will definitely not lose." The most important thing now is that we still have to catch up with the second brother, I wonder, we are cavalry, why can't we catch up with his infantry? ”

"Ma Shaobei." Jiang Bin pursed his lips, Yang Haoran was fully prepared, brought more than 6,000 horses, and maintained the ratio of one person and two horses, but as soon as he joined here, the proportion immediately dropped significantly. When the horses brought by the monkey's brothers were added, there were quite few horses to spare.

Many of those horse bandits are superb in horsemanship, but many of their mounts are donkeys and mules, and those cattle pull carts well, so it's a bit nonsense to use them as war horses. Therefore, the current cavalry is almost one man and one horse, and in order to maintain combat effectiveness, it cannot be ridden all the time, in fact, it is no different from the infantry.

"It's not just about Ma Shao, the key is that the emperor is going too fast, I have long known that the Guards are elite, but I really didn't expect that the elite has reached this point, fifty or sixty miles a day, this speed, tsk......" Yang Haoran sighed in admiration.

In the era of cold weapons, the speed of marching can reflect the combat strength of the army to a large extent, and if such a marching speed can be maintained, the physical strength of the soldiers will definitely go without saying, and more importantly, the organizational ability and discipline of the army can be fully reflected.

If a person travels lightly, it is very common to walk 50 miles a day, if you rush it, you can walk 100 miles, but if you carry luggage, you can't do it, if you pull the car again, keep the formation or something, it is not to mention.

When the army goes out, there are not a few grains and grasses, and if the old soldiers in the place are changed, it is a question of whether they can go out of 20 miles a day. That's why Yang Haoran is so amazed, even if he changes the elite of Liaozhen, he can't run this kind of marching speed, not to mention that it is still a long-distance march, not a short-distance attack.

At this speed, unless you let go of running, you can't catch up, but if you really let go of running, then when you get to the place, the horse will be useless, and the cavalry will immediately become infantry, and the horse is much more delicate than a person.

"Well, the only way to do this is to cut corners." Xie Hong once again affirmed his judgment.

He didn't know how Zhengde decided that the battlefield would be in Yingzhou, but he clearly knew that there was such a battle in history, so there must be something there that could make Zhengde and Tartar very interested, and they chose the battlefield there, and what they had to do was to catch up and participate in this fateful duel.

...... "King Khan, we're about to be caught up, can we fight?" ”

"Is it a pioneer?"

"It's not the vanguard, the cavalry of the Ming army are on both wings, it's their Chinese army that has caught up, and it's less than twenty miles away from us."

"Nonsense, they are obviously infantry, how can they ......"

Boyan Mengke felt this grievance in his heart, he just retreated from Xuanfu City in order to avoid losses, and originally planned to continue sweeping near Xuanfu to wait for a favorable opportunity.

The taxi party in the capital was wary of him, but the people in Datong Town who were specifically responsible for this matter were different. Doing border trade year after year, these people originally had no idea of family and country, since the people above were planning to betray the emperor, how could they not follow suit? Who wouldn't bet on both sides?

Therefore, although there is a lot of speculation, the little prince still has a relatively clear understanding of the situation in the Central Plains, and there is nothing wrong with the plan formulated on it. Defeating the Ming Emperor's eastward advance is likely to cause the internal strife of the Ming State to be delayed, and eventually evolve into that kind of encounter, and dragging the little emperor and letting the Ming Kingdom itself mess up first, and then trying to forge ahead, this is the royal way.

But who would have thought that after the little emperor appeared, the plan began to tilt in the other direction, and after encountering under the city of Xuanfu, the Ming army did not stop at all, and directly hit it with his head, as if he did not know that they were facing the grassland alliance army, including 100,000 kings' tent elite cavalry.

It's not enough to have courage, the key is that the opponent is marching too fast.

Since discovering that the other party had begun to pursue, Boyan Mengke cautiously shrank his forces, except for the rangers who served as scouts, the soldiers and horses that had plundered around were all retracted, and began to retreat westward at a normal marching speed, preparing to implement a backup plan, that is, the plan to lure the enemy deeper.

Because if you want to lure the enemy, of course, you can't run too fast, not to mention that if you travel at full speed, the loss of horsepower is also large, although Datong's attitude is ambiguous, but after all, he is still in the enemy territory, and he can't help but be cautious.

However, such a march speed is not slow, more than fifty miles a day, it is still easy to get rid of a group of infantry, but what he never expected is that not only did he not get rid of the enemy, but he was also approached by the enemy.

At present, he has reached the vicinity of Huai'anwei, and the enemy is already within twenty miles of his rear team, and at such a distance, it can be said that he is already in a state of being ready to engage at any time.

Is this a lure or an escape? Why is this so weird? Didn't that damn little emperor know how powerful and invincible the enemy he was facing? The little prince was resentful.

"King Khan is really wise, the elite of this Ming army is even higher than the Xuanfu border army, if we come hard, we will definitely suffer heavy losses, it is better to lure the enemy deeper." Nothing can be done without harm, and the good thing is that the prestige of the little prince has increased again.

The grassland herdsmen regard the wolf as sacred, and the surname is similar to the wolf, and it is their natural surname to bully the soft and fear the hard, such as the Xuanfu border army and the guards, under normal circumstances, they are respectful and stay away.

Although they also knew that if they could not overcome these obstacles, it would be impossible to restore the glory of the Great Yuan. However, no one would be stupid enough to fight for that kind of verbal glory, so the steppe people have always been guerrilla warfare, using mobility to avoid the main force of the Ming army and specifically pick out the weak links.

For example, they rarely go to Jizhen, but they like Ningxia and Yansui very much, and they rarely carry out the main decisive battle, but grab when they are empty, and run away after grabbing, which is a routine with the guerrilla warfare of later generations.

"Those scholars and doctors of the Ming Kingdom are really cunning, and they actually say that the forbidden army is a group of child soldiers with no combat effectiveness, this is pure nonsense! How is it possible for a group of dolls to run so fast and still maintain such a neat queue? It's clearly bullying our shepherds and trying to trick us into doing our best! ”

"That's it, that's it, fortunately, we have a wise Khan King, so I didn't fall for them, and if you want to trick us into fighting with the forbidden army, don't even think about it."

Faced with a room full of praise, Boyan wanted to cry without tears, in fact, he had the heart to turn back and fight. If you go on like this, if you want to get rid of the Ming army, you can only march at full speed, but in that case, what are you talking about tempting the enemy? More than 100,000 cavalry were chased by 50,000 infantry, and fools knew that there was a fraud in it.

But now, he can't go back on his word. First, he was also a little worried about the strength of the Ming army and worried about too many casualties; No matter how strong the momentum of the Ming army was, he was puzzled, why did the other party have such confidence? Was there a scheme, or was there something else to rely on, or was the little emperor really a madman?

Forget it, let's look at the situation again and make a decision, maybe those civil officials in the Ming Kingdom will send information soon? Boyan pulled the beard on his face with all his strength and made up his mind.

"From now on, march south at full speed, all tribes must restrain their troops, strictly prohibit leaving the team to plunder, and expand the scope of scouting and reconnaissance, and before entering Datong Town, they must not take it lightly."

...... "Your Majesty, the Tartars have accelerated and fled!" Looking at the direction, it is to go to the holy river. "Wen Wen originally didn't believe in Zhengde's judgment, even if he knew the result of the deduction, it was the same, there were many Tartars, and it was a victory, why did he run away? But the facts are in front of them, and the Tartars are running so fast that they even begin to change horses.

However, the doubts in his heart are also increasing, the Xuanfu border army is just a defeat in Shunshengchuan, and now the news there can't be spread at all, and no one knows if there are traps there.

"These damn Tartars, they're really fast." Zhengde wiped his sweat and looked at the smoke and dust that quickly disappeared unwillingly, after all, a cavalry is a cavalry, at least in a short distance, it can't catch up with two legs.

"Your Majesty, you can't speed up any longer, you have to march cautiously." His eyes startled Gentle.

He didn't expect in advance that the marching speed of the Guards could be so fast, but the manpower was sometimes poor, and although it was fast now, the army still maintained a battle formation, and it would be difficult to say if it was fast. Now the Tartars don't even bother the rangers, so it's obvious that they have a big plan.

"I know, pass the order, keep the speed, the goal is Shun Shengchuan, running first is not winning, the last laugh is the real character, hum!" Zhengde stomped his foot indignantly.

Ming Wuzong vs. The Little Prince, the first round of the project is a race, and the Little Prince is temporarily ahead~

(To be continued)