Yanjing, the Forbidden City.

Dolgon was in the Qianqing Palace to entertain more than a dozen Mongolian princes who had just arrived in Yanjing, this time Dolgon's mobilization of the Mongolian cavalry was unprecedented, the total population of the Mongolian tribes at that time was about more than one million, and there were about 300,000 armored cavalry, and Dolgon recruited 180,000 cavalry at one time!

Among them, the Horqin Division, which had a good relationship with Jiannu, dispatched all 100,000 cavalry.

Dolgon knew very well what this battle meant to Jiannu, if this battle was lost, the Mongols would definitely stand on their own, and even the Korqin tribes would not hesitate to betray Jiannu, the loyalty of the Mongol tribes to Jiannu was based on the strength of the Jiannu Eight Banners, and once the Jiannu Eight Banners were no longer strong, they would definitely not submit to Jiannu again.

So if this battle is lost, it will be the last time Jiannu enslaved the Mongols, of course, it has to be used to death, it is a good thing to win, and it can continue to enslave the Mongols, if they lose, the Mongols will almost be greatly injured, even if they fall to the Ming Dynasty in the future, it is impossible to pose any threat to Jiannu.

In the bones of Jiannu, the Mongols are actually also slaves, which is clearly proven by history, when Jiannu just conquered Mongolia, Mongolia still had a population of nearly two million, and nearly 400,000 armored cavalry, but when Jiannu entered the Central Plains, 400,000 Mongolian cavalry had less than 100,000 horsemen.

In addition, Dolgon once again recruited bannermen over the age of sixteen and under the age of sixty, leaving them to garrison Shengjing, and the five thousand elite soldiers of the white flag who were originally stationed in Shengjing rushed to Yanjing at night, and the total strength of the Eight Banners of Jiannu was restored to 60,000! Together with the 180,000 Mongol cavalry, that's an army of 240,000 cavalry.

Dolgon raised his wine cup and said loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, this time we have enough grain and grass, and the grain stored in Yanjing City is enough for more than 200,000 troops to eat for more than a year!" Don't worry about the forage for the horses, the Central Plains of Guangmao is the most fertile grassland for the Mongolian warriors! ”

"In the previous battle of Liaocheng, we sent troops in a hurry, and there were Jiang Pin, Wang Chengyin, Tang Tong and other former Ming generals in the rear, but this time it is different, this time we have made sufficient preparations, and the rear is stable, and there is no Jiang Pin, Wang Chengyin, Tang Tong and the like to drag us back!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, although Wang Pu's Central Army is powerful, it is not without weaknesses! The weakness of the Ming army is that the mobility is too poor, the movement speed of the artillery team is particularly slow, and the musket team and artillery team rely heavily on logistics, once the ammunition is exhausted, it will become a lamb to the slaughter, vulnerable to attack! ”

"Our army has more than 200,000 cavalry, and its mobility is far superior to that of the Ming army, so the key to this battle is to give full play to the mobile advantages of our cavalry, first cut off the canal channel of the Ming army, and then encircle and annihilate the Ming army!"

Manzhu Xili, the prince of Darhan Baturu, asked: "Master, the Ming army has a water division, and the canal is not easy to intercept." ”

The rest of the Mongolian princes nodded one after another, the scene of the battle at the beginning of the year was still vaguely in front of them, when the canal was even frozen, but Jiannu not only failed to cut off the channel, but even lost 40,000 Han Army Eight Banners and North Korean Eight Banners, and 5,000 Jiannu archers also became the live targets of the Ming Army's musket team!

"Not really." Dolgon waved his hand and said loudly, "If it wasn't for Jiang Zhu and them dragging their feet last time, the canal channel must have been cut off by us, the Ming army's trick can only be used once, it is impossible to use it a second time, in short, I already have a perfect plan, if the Ming army dares to come this time, I will teach them not to think about going back alive!"

"Come!" Dolgon stood up, raised his wine cup and said loudly, "Everyone, for the upcoming victory, for the sake of the Longxing of the Great Qing Kingdom, drink this wine, drink!" ”

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

More than a dozen Mongol princes rose one after another, raised their wine cups to Dolgon, and drank them all.

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Nanjing, Governor of Nanjing.

Wang Pu has already participated in the military parade of the 10 th Musket Battalion of the newly organized Central Army, and all the 200 graduates of the Nanjing Army Military University have been recruited to serve as probationary squadron leaders in the 10 th and second battalions, and more than a dozen graduates have been forcibly left by Wang Pu in the headquarters to serve as staff officers, and Zheng Chenggong, who is only 20 years old, is among them.

The establishment of the Central Army has not changed, and the highest structure is still the battalion, with an infantry battalion, a cavalry battalion, a spear battalion, and a baggage battalion all having 5,000 men, and five sentry posts under its jurisdiction, each of which has five brigades, each of which has five squadrons, and each squadron has five squads, each of which has a total of eight people, together with the squad leader.

The number of artillery battalions has been changed from 500 to 1,000, the number of Hongyi cannons has been increased from 20 to 50, and the number of rapid-fire Franc cannons has also increased from 40 to 100.

At this time, the Central Army had a total strength of 160,000 troops, of which 30,000 were stationed in Wuchang, 5,000 were stationed in Jining, and the remaining 125,000 people, a total of 25 battalions, were all stationed in the Yanziji Battalion, and there were only two musket battalions in these 25 battalions, and 10 baggage battalions and 13 spear battalions, plus an artillery battalion.

There were so few musket battalions entirely because the arsenal was too slow in production! If the guns are sufficient, the soldiers of the pike battalion and the baggage battalion can change into a musket battalion at any time, and during the usual training, the pike battalion and the baggage battalion are usually trained according to the standards of the musket battalion, and the usual shooting training is all live ammunition.

In the governor's office, Wang Pu specially set up a house as a war room, and next to the war room is the staff headquarters.

In the huge war room, more than a dozen staff officers including Wang Fu and Zheng Chenggong stood around a long table, on which was spread a huge military topographic map, which covered the mountains and rivers of the five provinces of Beizhi, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, and Nanzhi, and could be found on the map as small as the county seat.

However, Wang Pu did not have time to conduct a careful survey of the rivers and mountains of the motherland, so this map can only be a rough outline, the proportions are seriously distorted, and the location of the mountains and rivers is not accurate.

"Report!"

A slender figure suddenly appeared outside the war room, but it was Liu Ruyi, who was wearing a military uniform and had a heroic posture.

"Come in!"

Wang Pu looked back at Liu Rushi and introduced to Zheng Chenggong and more than a dozen other staff officers, "This is your chief of staff!" ”

"Smack!"

Zheng Chenggong and more than a dozen other staff officers kicked the ground with their right legs at the same time and saluted Liu Rus.

Liu Rushi also replied with a military salute unequivocally, this Nizi had just been training in the barracks for several months, and she looked completely like a regular soldier.

"You've come just in time." Wang Pu Chongliu smiled and said, "Tell me about your battle plan." ”

Liu Ru nodded and said, "Before stating the battle plan, I thought it was necessary to determine the intention of Jiannu first. ”

"Hmm." Wang Pu nodded and said, "Tell me, what do you think is Jiannu's intention?" ”

Liu said: "I think that the intention of Jiannu is to seek a decisive battle with our Central Army. ”

Wang Pu asked, "What is the reason?" ”

Liu Ru said: "Jiannu thinks that he is invincible in the field, and he is unwilling to attack one city after another until he has to, if he really wants such a way of fighting, with Jiannu's pitiful strength, I am afraid that he will be killed and injured in less than half a year!" Therefore, Jiannu's most desired way of fighting is undoubtedly a head-on decisive battle with our Central Army, as long as the Central Army is defeated, our Ming Dynasty will no longer have an army to compete with it, and the fall of Dahao Heshan will be inevitable. ”

Wang Pu bowed his head slightly, Liu Ruyi's analysis is not unreasonable, it is always the best choice to complete his work in one battle, this is true for Jiannu, and the same is true for the Ming army!

Liu Ru continued: "After judging Jiannu's combat intentions, it is certain that Jiannu will inevitably attack Jining, adopt the tactics of encircling but not fighting to induce our Central Army to go north to rescue, and then fight a decisive battle with our Central Army in Jining!" ”

Wang Pu nodded again, he also thought that Jiannu would definitely attack Jining, where Scarface was stationed.

Liu Ru said: "The battle plan of the humble position is like this, first use the main force of the Central Army to attract the main force of Jiannu to Jining, form a confrontation situation, and then find a way to get rid of Jiannu's war horses, so that it loses its mobility, and finally attack Liaodong or Yanjing with a naval division to force Jiannu to withdraw his troops. ”

Wang Pu pondered for a moment, turned his gaze to Zheng Chenggong and the others, who were eager to try, and asked, "What about you, tell me your opinion." ”

Zheng Chenggong said: "I want to ask the staff, what method do you use to get rid of Jiannu's war horse?" You know, that's hundreds of thousands of horses, not hundreds! ”

Liu said: "The method is very simple, use horse plague!" ”

"Horse plague?" Wang Pu frowned and said, "Horse plague is hard to find, how can it break out if you want to?" ”

Liu Ru smiled and said, "Did Master Hou forget Daddy Li?" Father Li is a descendant of the famous doctor Li Shizhen, and creating a horse plague is just a gesture for him. ”

Zheng Chenggong said: "Even if it can create horse plague, it will only break out on a large scale when it is hot in summer." ”

"No, you're wrong." Liu Ru said indifferently, "Daddy Li said that it is not easy to break out of horse plague in the hot summer, but it is the easiest to induce horse plague in spring and autumn every year. ”

Zheng Chenggong thought for a while, and then said: "If Jiannu loses all the war horses, it is not difficult to defeat them, but if you want to annihilate them all, I'm afraid it won't be so easy, right?" ”

Liu Ru looked back at Wang Pu and said with a smile: "Then you have to ask Master Hou." ”

Zheng Chenggong and more than a dozen other staff officers turned their heads to look at Wang Pu, Wang Pu smiled silently, of course he knew what Liu Ruyi's meaning was, for this battle, Wang Pu sent a full 40,000 horses to the Red Lady, although 40,000 cavalry is not much, but at the critical moment it is enough to make Jiannu doom.

However, Wang Pu really didn't think about using horse plague to get rid of Jiannu's war horse, and then use the Red Lady's 40,000 cavalry to chase and kill the Jiannu and Mongolian Tartars who lost their war horses.

After thinking about it, Wang Pu was still a little suspicious, and instructed Lu Liudao: "Six, you go to Yangming University and find Daddy Li." ”

This Daddy Li is not only a professor at Yangming University, but also the dean of the School of Medicine, with more than a dozen professors from the Tai Hospital, responsible for teaching medical knowledge to the first two hundred students of the medical school.

Lu Liu took the order to go, and it took about half an hour before he took Father Li back to the governor's office.

After meeting, Wang Pu asked, "Daddy Li, can you really create horse plague?" ”

Father Li nodded and said: "The so-called horse plague is actually typhoid fever, the spring and autumn weather is hot and cold, people are prone to typhoid fever, livestock sometimes suffer from typhoid fever, relatively speaking, animals are not easy to get typhoid fever, but if a horse has typhoid fever, it is terrible, and the entire horse herd will be infected with typhoid fever in a very short period of time." ”

Wang Pu's heart jumped and asked, "Will the horse have typhoid fever?" ”

"As long as it's not an old horse or a crippled horse, it won't." Father Li said, "This is the same as people, if a strong young man has typhoid fever, even if there is no Lang Chinese medicine to get through it, but if the frail old man and children get typhoid fever, if the treatment is not timely, there is a chance that he will die." ”

Wang Pu nodded when he heard this, typhoid fever was the most terrible kind of human plague in ancient times, and most of the deaths were frail and sick or the elderly and children.

Wang Pu asked again: "Then what are the symptoms of a horse after he gets typhoid fever?" ”

Father Li said: "During the illness, the hooves were weak and overwhelmed, and I only liked to drink water and did not like to eat grass. ”

Enough, enough! It is enough to have four hooves that are weak and overwhelmed! Wang Pu couldn't help but glance back at Liu Ru is eyes, thinking that Liu Ru is this girl has made great progress in the past few months, and the battle plan proposed this time is much more clever than the previous battle plan that only knew "talk on paper".

In addition, it's time to send a letter to the red lady in Henan!

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Henan, Kaifeng city effect.

On the endless wilderness stood a large army of cavalry.

The autumn wind was fierce, the flag was flying, and the black cavalry was lined up in a rigorous cavalry queue, ten rows in front and back, each row of at least 4,000 horsemen, and it was ten miles away from the two wings!

On horseback, all the cavalry looked at the eastern sky, and their eyes showed a burning look.

"Hah!"

"Drive!"

With a loud trumpet and a crisp and pleasant female voice, two fast horses galloped from the eastern horizon like a gallop, the fast horse on the left was covered in black, and a big man on the back of the horse was riding a tiger's back, and the horse on the right was all red, and the female knight on the horseback was also wearing a red suit, and the people and horses were all together as if a burning flame swept the ground.

The big man on horseback and the woman in red drew their bows at the same time, and blunt-tipped arrows wrapped in lime were already aimed at each other.

"Bulging ......"

"Whoa......"

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen frantically slapped the leather cuirass with the steel knives in their hands, making a bulging and muffled sound, and at the same time howled like wolves.

……

(To be continued)