Chapter 360: The Wool Comes Out of the Sheep
"Our family knows that Dong Zongbing is loyal to the Queen Mother." Gonggong Lu smiled, first affirmed Dong Yiyuan's loyalty and filial piety, but he immediately changed his words, "But, the words of Jingcheng Fu are also quite reasonable, rushing from us may not be closer than rushing over from Yanjing City...... But how is it good? ”
Dong Yiyuan's face suddenly changed again, and Lu Yuan had something to say, meaning that our army hurriedly marched to save people and eat the salary of the imperial court, that should be, can the caravan keep up? What if the caravan is destroyed?
Although the good official threatens the businessman to pay taxes, but even if the taxes are paid, it is also a huge profit, for example, catch a Mengyuan noblewoman, get the Yanjing City Sect under the registration of the Teaching Division, and cultivate it slightly, that is the gold mountain and silver sea, the rich master of Yanjing City has gone to the sea, and spend thousands of taels of silver to scoop a Mengyuan noblewoman, who is not happy? This is also a matter of increasing face, who can't get along with, it's all done, just don't get along with silver, these years, everyone is not stupid, since you can make money, why do you have to go against Uncle Guo?
Therefore, the Chinese army has gathered countless big merchants, and your army has marched to save the 10,000 Shenji Battalion, what should these merchants do? You have to befriend the Queen Mother, these businessmen are dead, and the Queen Mother is more sad than her own nephew is dead.
The obedient official listened to Father-in-law Lu's words, smiled on his face, and said in his heart that this old Lu is very useful to appease, and sure enough, in these years, eunuchs are the ones who do practical things.
At this time, Gonggong Lu smiled and stretched out his hand to press it, so that Dong Yiyuan could not be impatient for a while, and said slowly: "Our family here, but there is an idea, our family said, everyone refer to the details, Ning Yuanbo doesn't have 20,000 elite iron horsemen cruising around, what does our family mean, please Uncle Ning Yuan's iron cavalry go straight to the nest of the Tuman Khan, our army is divided, go to Daning first 40,000, these 40,000 horses, each town out of 10,000, all pick cavalry, the Chinese army continues to advance slowly behind, if Uncle Ning Yuan attacks the old camp of Tuman Khan, This plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao is completed, and our Chinese army will continue to go deep into the desert, if it fails, our army will be blocked between Tuman Khan and his old camp, so that he can't take care of each other......"
Dong Yiyuan was a little helpless, this Gonggong Lu is really a military knower, but Lao Cheng has a serious strategy, but he doesn't know if the Hou Shizi of Wuqing can support it, if he wants to fight again, I am afraid that he will offend the people of the other three towns, and those businessmen are afraid that they will hate me deeply.
After he thought it through, he had no choice but to praise loudly, "Grandpa Lu has a clever plan." "I comforted myself in my heart, even if something happened at that time, the Queen Mother couldn't blame me, this Father-in-law Lu was Li Jin's father-in-law, he didn't approve of it, and I did my best.
At this time, the obedient official got up and stroked his palms and laughed, "Gonggong Lu is talented, generals, let's follow this method, how about it!" ”
Everyone, look at me, I look at you, and they all made a loud promise, "I am willing to be the pawn of the right capital." ”
When the people in the big tent dispersed, Li Rusong stayed, saw that there was no one left and right, and suddenly said, "Fengzhang, you came up with this idea?" Good strategy, use strength to fight, plan will be calculated, and even the barbarian sweat has been baited. ”
The obedient official's heart jumped, but his face pretended to be casual, this is similar to being caught and annihilated in bed, even if it is obviously inserted, you have to hold on, and you can't admit it whether you live or die, so he smiled and said: "What did Brother Rusong say?" I don't really understand. ”
Li Rusong smiled on his face, and without speaking, he strode out of the tent, and a voice came, "Don't worry, although Tuman Khan claims to control 400,000 strings, since he has bitten the hook with 30,000 elite soldiers, his old camp must be empty, and my father's 20,000 iron horsemen are enough to level his old camp." ”
The obedient official wiped his sweat at this time, and said in his heart that it was not a simple master!
That night, 10,000 cavalry from each of the four towns, headed by Ma Gui, the general soldier of Datong, went straight to Daning, and the obedient officer was also in the army.
Although the Mengyuan Tartars are declining, why can they still disturb the Ming border pass from time to time, just because the cavalry comes and goes like the wind, the cavalry of these four towns are light cavalry, wearing fat jackets in the army instead of the elite two-layer armor or even three-layer armor under Li Chengliang, it is not difficult to run, there are still many cavalry in the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period, no matter how much it actually is, but on the account book of the nine-sided thirteen towns, there are at least more than two or three hundred thousand cavalry, such as Jizhen, the book of the military department carries [the original number of horses forty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-one, In addition to the annual loss, there are 34,328 horses] Among them, there must be empty salaries, but the nine-sided and thirteen towns add up to seven buckles and eight buckles, and there must be hundreds of thousands of cavalry.
Their location is about 900 miles away from Daning, during the Three Kingdoms, Cao Ying once led 5,000 cavalry to travel 300 miles at night, and the later the dynasty, the stronger the ability to march in a hurry, and even, the cavalry marching ability of the farming nation is more than that of the nomads, why, it is a matter of supply, the great unified dynasty of the farming nation is easy to get supplied, and although the nomads have one person, two horses or even three horses, the supply is extremely problematic, in the words of later generations, what is the war? It's economic strength, it's logistical supply.
Ma Gui is also one of the few famous generals in the Ming Dynasty, with 40,000 cavalry, he had already arrived in the Daning area the next night, and it was only a hundred miles away from the place where the Shenji Battalion was besieged.
Nuer Hachi left about 3,000 men and horses, just ran into them, and the leader was the good slave Yan Worm Nian, after seeing the good official, he knelt on the ground and cried, saying that the pioneer officer took 5,000 cavalry and the Tuban Khan to fight hard, and the casualties were very serious, and finally only took hundreds of remnants of soldiers to rush into the car formation of the Shenji Battalion, and this time I don't know whether it is dead or alive.
The obedient official was as tired as a dog along the way, and he didn't have the heart to take care of him, but he was also surprised in his heart, this slave Hachi was desperate, could it be that he saw my thoughts?
"Ben Governor knows that you are a slave who is faithful." The obedient officer comforted him a few words, and asked his subordinates to serve as heavy soldiers to serve the cavalry who came, "Ming'er, let's beat the barbarian sweat hard." ”
This night, the cavalry ate something indiscriminately and went to sleep, even the good officials were no exception, and let Yan Worm Nian, a minion, take people to keep vigil.
The next day, after recuperating and recuperating, the obedient officer gave the cavalry a fierce encouragement, he rode a horse with an abnormal jade flower horse, galloped back and forth with people, and shouted, "One blow, no head, defeat the Tuman Khan, and each person will be rewarded with forty taels of silver." ”
In this era, even the Qi family army was fed with silver, and the mighty army of benevolence and righteousness only existed in legends.
Walking back and forth with a bunch of beautiful women in the army, needless to say, only the uncle of the country is the governor of the capital, and the uncle of the country has a bold name, and now who doesn't know the thirteen towns on the nine sides, this is forty taels of silver per person, and the price is just to defeat the Tuman Khan, so what else is there to say, super tailwind, so everyone is excited.
Ma Gui could only smile bitterly when he looked at this uncle of the country, where in the world is there such a war, how can this make silver! It's just burning silver, a battle is 1.6 million taels of silver, who can afford to fight?
But the obedient officials are really not afraid, the wool is out of the sheep, and the descendants of Yanjing City are said to have copied out tens of millions of silver, I am dignified Zheng Guofan, the right governor of the country, and leave the miraculous achievements to save you, you don't pay for the silver? It's okay if you don't pay for money, and we'll let you talk to the Tartar again.
Tuman Khan has surrounded the left camp of Shenji in the middle for a few days, he has always had a horse around, confident that no one can sneak out to pass the news, but after encountering the thousands of iron horsemen of Nuer Hachi, he knows that he can't hide it, but, according to his estimate, the Ming army got the news, and then came to the rescue, at least eight to ten days, but he never thought that Ma Gui took two days to march nine hundred miles, and now it is dozens of miles on his side.
The car formation of the Ming Dynasty is quite sharp, the best car formation is Qi Jiguang, but the Beijing camp and the nine-sided thirteen towns will also use, the so-called car formation, in fact, is to fight the field encounter into a simple offensive and defensive battle, after the formation of the car formation, the mezzanine is the pikemen, behind the car is the fire gun, the Fran machine gun, that is a simple small city.
In history, after Qi Jiguang arrived at the nine sides, he abandoned the mandarin duck array used to suppress the Japanese and used the car formation instead, with the car formation, the Tartar ghost cried wolf howl, and forced Duoyan Sanwei to dare not disturb the border anymore, and the barbarian Khan ran to Liaodong, and later many people in the court were afraid of him, so they didn't let him fight, causing him to guard Jizhen for more than ten years, and he fought in the first few years, and in the next ten years, he didn't even have the opportunity to use swords, and some Wenchen even forgot that this Qi Shaobao would also fight.
But the car array also has a great flaw, that is, it relies too much on the baggage, once the baggage supply is not effective, just being sleepy can trap you.
The left battalion of the god machine has been trapped to run out of ammunition and food, almost drinking urine, just this morning, Wuqing Hou Shizi secretly hid and drank the last clear water, which was carried by Nuer Hachi when hundreds of them rushed in, and Lu Meimei next to him looked at it, at this time he hated himself for being blind, this person is really just like the grasshopper said, if he can be reliable, the old sow will go up the tree.
"Grasshoppers." Lu Meimei hugged Guo Meimei and cried bitterly, she hadn't taken a bath for a few days, her body smelled rancid, and she was even more unkempt, and the pig feeding mothers in the countryside were afraid that they were cleaner than her, "Are we going to die here?" ”
Glaring at Li Qiming, the prince of Wuqing, Guo Meimei hugged Lu Meimei with her backarm and comforted her, "Don't worry! Didn't General Tong say that when he came, he sent people to find rescuers, and in the past few days, maybe the reinforcements are fifty miles away......"
The so-called prophecy in this world is probably like this, Guo Meimei just casually comforted Lu Meimei, how could she know that 40,000 cavalry were really fifty miles away!
(To be continued)