On the grassland, a group of cavalry marched along the nine-sided city wall of the Ming Dynasty in the direction of Liaodong, and the number of cavalry was not much, only ten people in total.

"Squad leader, take a break, and then you will reach the Tartars' sphere of influence."

Hearing this, the cavalry squad leader jumped off his horse and said, "Then the big guy should rest and boil some hot water." ”

Hearing this, a group of people immediately jumped off the horse happily, as scouts, especially the scout cavalry, they enjoyed the feeling of getting off the horse and getting down to the ground, everyone dismounted, and the footsteps were slightly vain, as if people stayed on the boat for a long time, and the legs and feet of the boat seemed to be stepping on cotton.

They are scouts sent out by Guihua City, and the spy report of Lantian County said that the Tartars are going to enter the Central Plains, because Liaodong is a place where Lantian penetration is weak, so they can't accurately grasp the news of the Tartars entering the Kou, and there are no more bases in Lantian on the grassland, so Li Chaohu discussed with Wang Guixiang of the cavalry brigade and chose to use the simplest and most clumsy method to send cavalry along the walls of the Great Wall on the nine sides.

Their people walked around the Great Wall and could certainly get first-hand information about the Tartars.

That's why they sent their cavalry reconnaissance squad to reconnoitre, and they had been riding horses for nearly a day and night, and last night they found a leeward place to take a nap for two hours, and everyone was very sleepy at this time.

The cavalrymen took out the iron pots they had brought with them, squeezed some mare's milk from under their horses' bellies, and heated them.

The horses used by the cavalrymen who traveled long distances like them were all short Mongolian dwarf horses, although this kind of horse was not very explosive, but its endurance was amazing, which was suitable for the environment of this steppe.

And the scout cavalry is also the best mares, the advantage of mares is that there is mare's milk, although the taste of mare's milk is very general, but in this serious lack of water, and lack of food supply in the grassland, this mare's milk is definitely the best energy supplement, not only can be used as water to drink, but also as food to replenish energy.

At this time, the squad leader of the scout cavalry took out a few dried yaks from his pocket and handed them to a few people, picked up the binoculars himself, found a dead short-necked tree to climb up, and looked at the surrounding environment with the telescope to confirm that there were no enemies within the visible range of the surroundings.

This is an essential requirement for a scout, to be vigilant at all times.

Soon the mare's milk was heated, a cavalryman brought a military lunch box of mare's milk to the squad leader, the squad leader took a sip, and gnawed two mouthfuls of dry and hard beef jerky, and suddenly felt that the fatigue of the whole body was relieved a lot, opened his mouth and yawned, rubbed his eyes and said to the others: "Go around to find some fresh grass to feed the horses, by the way, we also feed some fried barley to the horses, long journeys, they are more important than people." ”

When they heard this, they immediately got busy, cut some grass, and fed their horses with barley.

Horses are their most precious companions in this grassland, and it is difficult for people to survive alone in this grassland.

The horses smelled the barley, looked at the green grass, and couldn't help eating, and everyone was gathered around at this time.

"Squad leader, we're almost at Xifengkou, there is no trace of Tartar, and we will really be in Liaodong soon."

The squad leader sat down at this time and drank mare's milk and nibbled on beef jerky and said: "Look again, the news from Lantian will not be wrong, the Tartars have failed to harvest this year, they must enter the Ming Dynasty to plunder, if the looting fails, their tribe will definitely starve to death this year." ”

"Such a beast is really fucking fucked, he made a famine by himself, and he didn't want to solve it, so he knew that he would come to Daming to bring disaster to the common people, a group of beasts."

At this time, a scout said, hearing this, the squad leader said: "Da Ming is incompetent, let the Tartars grab it, if this big tomorrow is our county rule, borrow their courage, they don't dare to go to our territory." ”

Hearing this, many scouts agreed, and the squad leader looked around at this time and said, "Actually, I feel that we should not be far from Tartar." ”

"Huh?"

The rest of the scouts all looked at their squad leader, could it be that the squad leader had special functions, thinking that everyone looked at the squad leader and said, "Squad leader, how do you feel it?" ”

Hearing this, the squad leader said: "I can't say it, it's just an intuition, we can occasionally see herdsmen grazing along the way, but the more we go here, the fewer herdsmen, and in the last day or two, we can't even see a herdsman, you must know that the herdsmen live by the water and grass, and the water and grass in this vicinity are very vigorous, but they don't come to graze, which is very weird." ”

Hearing this, the rest of the scouts also nodded, and some agreed with their squad leader's words.

The squad leader continued: "Big guy hurry up and eat, eat and rest for an hour, and then we will go to Xifengkou, if Xifengkou is okay, we will be stationed near here tomorrow, the brigade commander means that there is no need to contact the border of Liaodong, those military households in Liaodong can still withstand the Tartars, and the Tartars want to break through head-on from there, which is very laborious." ”

Hearing this, everyone agreed, the combat effectiveness of the Liaodong military households is still good, although they can't exterminate the Tartars, but they are still very conscientious in protecting Liaodong, and the reason is very simple, the Liaodong military households are now the most capable of fighting Zu Dashou, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui, these private soldiers of Liaodong Generals, these private soldiers have a characteristic, they do not contribute to the war for the country, but if the Tartars want to move Liaodong, it will definitely not work.

You must know that most of the current Liaodong City is Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui's family's Jiangmen industry, and the Tartars who came in to rob them are also their Jiangmen things, robbing their own things, and killing their relatives, so Liaodong Jiangmen is not really desperate with the Tartars?

Therefore, the Tartars are also very smart, entering the Central Plains never from Liaodong, but detouring, Liaodong is almost the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty, and the other nine sides are different, maybe Lu Xiangsheng of Xuanfu Datong is okay, but other places are almost a collapse.

The Tartars can enter the Kou with peace of mind, and as long as they do not damage the interests of the Liaodong Generals, the Liaodong Generals have never really worked hard with the Tartars.

Therefore, after many studies and judgments, as well as some references from Li Chaosheng's history, the Lantian Staff came to a conclusion that the Tatars were likely to break through at the Qiangziling and Xifengkou in the eastern part of Miyun, where the defense was the weakest.

As for why it won't be Xuanfu Datong or something.

The main thing is to plug the Naturalization City, which is occupied by Li Chaosheng's Lantian soldiers, and the Tartars have to consider whether the Lantian army of the Naturalization City will be killed by the Lantian Army of the Naturalization City for a thousand years, and then it will really be a heavy loss.

In fact, in history, the Tartars did enter Kou Daming from Miyun Qiangziling and Xifengkou, but history is not necessarily accurate here in Li Chaosheng now, because the appearance of his moth in historical time and space has caused many things to be deflected, and even many damned people have not died, and those who don't have to die have died early.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng has now lost his historical foresight, but there is still nothing wrong in the general direction, and Lantian has long ceased to grasp the current situation by virtue of his foresight of history.

Lantian now has its own research and judgment team, they will summarize the intelligence collected by the Lantian secret spy department from all over the country, and then deduce, and finally get a prediction that is close to the correct answer, and then Lantian will operate according to the results of countless research and judgment, and the success rate can reach almost 90%.

Of course, in the middle of this, Li Chaosheng will still open up an idea for the research and judgment team according to what happened in history, so as to have more possibilities for research and judgment.

Of course, sometimes what happened in history that Li Chaosheng proposed is not accurate, and there is no way, to do anything, a force must need a lot of planning and consideration.

For example, if the Tartars wanted to enter the Ming Dynasty from Xuanda in the past, they also entered the Kou from here in history, but now the Naturalization City is in the hands of Lantian, then they have to consider the possibility of eating a thousand years of killing.

It is precisely because of this unstable factor that it is likely to cause them to change their course and change the direction of their breakthrough.

Therefore, when Li Chaosheng made the first change in history, in addition to the general trend of history, Li Chaosheng would not be entangled in some detailed issues.

For example, Chongzhen's twelve-year Tatar harvest failed, if they want not to starve to death, they will definitely come to Daming to rob it, this is the general trend, and it will not change because of some details.

So what are the details, that is, where they entered the Ming Dynasty, or how many months to start the invasion, the difference between a month and a half is okay, as for where to enter the Ming, there is no certain rule.

So Li Chaosheng won't be stupid and tell the scouts, you just wait at Xifengkou, they will definitely enter Daming from here, what if they don't?

Because history is also accidental, so Li Chaosheng only came to the conclusion that the Tartars would enter the Kou after combining the intelligence of the secret spy department, and as for where it came from, I don't know, so he sent a scout to investigate.

If the correct guess does not prove that history has not changed, it may be that this choice is the most correct choice, and even if history changes, this choice is the best choice.

The scouts were well fed and drunk, tied their horses to the side, and followed everyone close together, holding their weapons, hugging their shoulders, and began to rest, and the squad leader did not sleep at this time, but stared at the guard.

As a squad leader, he has more responsibilities and therefore pays more, such as taking on the task of keeping watch when everyone else is sleeping.

Many scouts didn't give in either, because they would let their squad leader sleep a little longer when they were resting tonight.

The scouts were really sleepy, two days of travel, lack of sleep, made them feel about to be extremely sleepy, black smoke rings, not the smoky makeup they painted, but synonymous with staying up late.

The scouts soon fell asleep, whirring very sweet, they missed the fragrant oily noodles in the naturalization city, although the mare's milk and beef jerky tasted good, but they would get tired of eating too much, especially since they were all men from Shaanxi, so leaving the pasta was really a torture.

Beef jerky, hot mare's milk, this is the standard for the Mongols on long journeys, and the reason why Genghis Khan's expeditionary army was strong was because of these two weapons for victory.

What was the most important thing about fighting wars in ancient times?

Weapons, equipment, personnel, no, it is grain and grass, there is a way that the soldiers and horses do not move the grain and grass first, no matter how good your equipment is, in the heroic soldiers, you give him food to see.

The battle of Yuan Shao's Guandu was obviously an advantageous game, but Cao Cao burned the black nest of the grain, and the situation was reversed in an instant, and Cao Cao turned the tables against the wind, won the battle of Guandu, and laid the foundation for the unification of the north.

Therefore, grain and grass are the top priority of the army, no matter how strong a person is, it is definitely not possible to go hungry.

Therefore, it is very difficult for the farming nation to fight the war, to transport all kinds of grain and grass, the horse-drawn people carry, the cost is too great, so an expedition to fight down, that is basically the act of shaking the country, if you win, it is good to say, if you lose, then you can only to Emperor Yang of Sui, a miserable end.

But back then, Genghis Khan's cavalry was too awesome, the beef jerky was carried with him, and he could not be hungry by eating a few pieces, and riding a little mare, if you didn't pay attention to hygiene, you could lie directly under the horse's belly and drink.

In this way, with a small burden, the Mongol soldiers could go on an expedition, so some small tribes that often fought did not react, and were raided by cavalry.

Normal people calculate, what is the speed of your baggage car, it takes five days to come to us, but the Mongolian soldiers rode horses, held curved bows, and arrived in two days.

And Lantian obviously learned the Mongol method, and arranged this treatment for the scouts, but unfortunately these old Shaanxi people are not very interested in this, they prefer to eat noodles.

The squad leader thought about it, remembering what their brigade commander told them when he was idle, the Lantian Scientific Research Department and the Ministry of Agriculture are researching a new type of military food, called what instant noodles are, it is said that the noodles are fried and then dried and compressed, and then soaked in water can be expanded and become fragrant noodles.

The squad leader couldn't help but drool when he thought about it, and when he chewed the beef jerky in his mouth, he suddenly felt that your beef jerky was not fragrant.

Thinking like this, the squad leader suddenly felt the earth shake.

Earthquake?

No, the squad leader was immediately alert, this was not an earthquake, but the sound of horses' hooves trampling the earth, thinking of this, the squad leader stood up with a puff of smoke, and jumped on the dead dwarf neck tree in a few steps, at this time the squad leader took the telescope and looked at the direction of Xifengkou not far away, and suddenly his eyes widened, and he saw a team of cavalry running quickly in the direction of Xifengkou, and a huge white flag was erected behind the cavalry.

"White flag, Dolgon."

The squad leader muttered in his mouth, and at this time, the scouts who were sleeping also got up from the ground in one go, all ready for battle, and then the squad leader said: "Quick, quickly set up the radio station, hurry up and get in touch with the Naturalization City, the Tartars are in the Kou, and the target is Xifengkou!" ”

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