Chapter 145: The first battle is a decisive battle, and the first battle is decided.
But some words are too complicated to explain, so he can only say to Zhu Zhandong: "Your Highness, now is the time of crisis, the most cautious thing should be when raising troops, let's wait and see, His Royal Highness Taisun has always had amazing moves, maybe this time he can turn the crisis into safety, if he does it casually at this time, wouldn't it add trouble to His Royal Highness Taisun?" ”
Listening to Yu Qian's words, although Zhu Zhandong had the intention to take the initiative to change the current situation, instead of blindly waiting, he also understood that what they are doing now is related to the safety of the entire country and the gains and losses of the entire Mobei.
One careless move may lead to the entire Mobei falling back into the hands of these Mongols.
As a result, the decades-long plans of his imperial grandfather and eldest brother all failed.
The cost is too great.
So at this time, he could only hold back his impatient thoughts and put safety first.
Besides, what Yu Qian said was not unreasonable, his eldest brother has always been quick and wise, and the means are endless, before the final battle in Mobei, no one would believe that his young grandson eldest brother could command the whole army in such a large-scale war, and defeat the alliance army of the entire grassland tribe in one fell swoop.
So before his eldest brother didn't speak, he still had to give his eldest brother more trust.
Before the will of his eldest brother is sent, it is the most important thing to keep this territory for him.
Thinking of this, although Zhu Zhandong's face was still solemn, he could only reluctantly accept this passive situation.
Just when Yu Qian, who was in Dingbei City, and Zhu Zhan were discussing how to deal with the next countermeasures against the Wara army.
On the other hand, Zhu Zhanji, who set off from Shuntianfu in the Ming Dynasty, had also arrived at this desert north after five or six days.
After all, it is cavalry, and there is no infantry army and baggage team along the way, and the speed is still very fast.
But on the other hand, because of the single class of troops and the small number of troops, they have no way to be very cautious in every step like the previous Ming Dynasty army.
Everywhere they passed, scout teams would only arrive after they had obtained the results.
Now the 5,000 cavalry army led by Zhu Zhanji is like a headless fly, and it has plunged into this magnificent desert north land.
There is no intelligence, no sources.
It is likely that after crossing the hill in front of you, you will encounter the army of Warat.
But there was no way, the time was tight and the situation was urgent, so they could only rush in so recklessly.
But this seemingly reckless and reckless move is not without benefits.
They didn't know where the Navarat army was, and the Navarat army didn't know they existed.
If you send out a scout team to scout the surrounding enemy, your own presence will be discovered as well as the enemy's situation.
However, when the number of troops on both sides was strong and we were weak, Zhu Zhanji naturally had no reason to put the existence of the two sides on the surface and fight a frontal battle with the other side.
That's why he deliberately chose such a way of marching, which could buy them more time while improving the speed and efficiency of his army.
At the same time, it can also ensure that their cavalry army is not detected by enemy troops.
Maybe you can achieve a surprise raid effect at a critical time.
Of course, that's the bright side.
The downside is that if they are detected by enemy scout squads, their whereabouts will be exposed.
So that the two sides are in a state of darkness and darkness.
However, compared to the enemy army, who are unaware of their existence, they are waiting for an opportunity to surprise them.
Zhu Zhanji would rather see the situation of being surrounded by the Warat army.
The total strength of the Warat army was only about 20,000, although it was four times their size, but they all had arquebuses in their hands!
Or an arquebus equipped with real ammunition!
The reason why he, Zhu Zhanji, dared to use these 5,000 cavalry to respond to the battle, the 20,000 troops of the Wara tribe did not really come to die.
No matter how heroic and selfless he is, Zhu Zhanji will not make such a move to send him to death.
He is confident, relying on 5,000 cavalry, even if he fights head-on, he has a certain ability to wipe out the cavalry of those Warat tribes.
But on the contrary, arquebuses still have a disadvantage, that is, they have no combat effectiveness in rainy days.
Because the rain would extinguish the fire rope in their hands, the musket would have no effect.
If you give the firearms research yamen some more time and let them develop an impact firing method, then there is no need to worry about this, but there is no way, this is the situation now.
Even if the firearms research yamen was given a year to develop this firing method, it would not necessarily be able to be equipped and mass-produced immediately.
Therefore, what Zhu Zhanji has to do now is not only to rush to the battlefield quickly and relieve the pressure on those cities, but more importantly, to make the other party's guard lower.
Let them have the confidence that they can eat their cavalry team of 5,000 men in one bite!
In this way, the Navarat army would not deliberately fight their Ming army on a rainy day.
Then their odds of winning will increase dramatically.
In short, it's just a sentence, show the enemy to be weak, and then pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger!
The most important thing is that as long as those Warats dare to come, it must be a situation where all the main forces are pouring out.
Because this way is the least loss for them.
And he, Zhu Zhanji, can no longer bother looking for the location of these Warat soldiers everywhere, and can wipe out all their living forces here, and completely solve the threat of these Warat people to the Ming army in Mobei.
At the same time, it can also allow him to mobilize 30,000 troops out of 50,000 troops in Mobei in his plan to rush to Nuer Gandusi, and there is no need to worry about the future.
If only these 5,000 cavalry were used to relieve the pressure on Mobei and relieve their current predicament, it would not be of much significance to Zhu Zhanji.
If the rebellion in all places cannot be resolved, it will not be able to put too much pressure on the Ming army outside Shanhaiguan.
Moreover, if the 5,000 cavalry team in his hands is trapped here, the overall situation of the entire Ming Dynasty will really be a pool of stagnant water.
Therefore, this battle must be fought, but it must also be fast, fast and at the same time without any worries, and it must be efficient.
It was only in this way that the leaders of the Warat tribe would dare to fight them with all their might in this situation.
Just as Zhu Zhanji guessed.
This land is the place where the Mongols have lived for generations.
Although the land of this steppe is very vast, soon after Zhu Zhanji and his 5,000 people set foot on this land, their whereabouts have been passed on to the ears of the leader of the Navarat tribe, Yuros Tuhuan.
Although the fat of these 5,000 people was sent into his mouth, Rose Tuohuan was very happy.
But because of the previous battles between their grassland tribes and the Ming army, he was too impressed.
Especially the commander of the Ming army, Zhu Zhanji, the grandson of the Ming Dynasty, whose tactics of showing weakness to the enemy have almost become his signature.
The reason why the army formed by the tribes of their steppe before was defeated was precisely because they fell into the trap of showing weakness to the enemy.
So when he saw this scene again this time, the sequelae of being bitten by a snake for ten years suddenly appeared in his heart.
The cavalry army of 5,000 people entered this strange and vast grassland without any exploration and reconnaissance.
Not even knowing where the enemy was, he came alone.
Although he had no information from within the cavalry, their scout team had been tracking and scouting around the army for days.
It can be said that since they stepped into this land, they have been under their own surveillance.
However, such an army did not stop at all, and went straight to the city-state in the north of the desert.
Even when there is a break, it is for a short time.
Queros Tuohuan couldn't understand how this cavalry team dared to gallop all the way on this grassland without sending a scout team, could it be that it was really because of the desire to save people?
But the Ming Dynasty people in the city are not in any danger.
At most, there is a shortage of food.
But it doesn't matter for now, it's not at the point of exhaustion.
Therefore, such a discovery made him even more suspicious.
However, with this cavalry team, it was getting closer and closer to the city of the Mobei Ming army.
Rose Dehuan was also a little anxious.
After all, there were 50,000 troops in the city of the Ming army.
Especially in Nading North City, there are 20,000 troops and 1,000 cavalry in Dingbei City alone.
If they were to join forces with each other to form an army of more than 20,000 people, and still have 6,000 cavalry, even if they faced the 20,000 cavalry of their Warat Department head-on, they would not have the slightest disadvantage.
The reason why they could be eaten to the death before was because the number of cavalry of the Ming army was insufficient, and only a thousand people were not enough to play a role in this battle.
But if it's a cavalry of 6,000 men, it's different.
Moreover, it is impossible for the cavalry of their Warat tribe to only stare at those cavalry when attacking, right?
The cavalry was so fast that it was impossible to put the primary target of the attack on the cavalry.
It can only be targeted by those infantry who move slowly, but once this happens, the coordination between the arms of the Ming army is formed.
It's hard for them to take advantage of too much in this situation.
If it was a bloody battle, they might be able to win, but this way of winning would almost come at the cost of their extinction of the Warat tribe.
Even if the Ming Dynasty loses this desert north, it can be accepted.
But it is unacceptable for them to lose 20,000 men.
This is almost the last remaining member of their Varat tribe.
Thinking of this, Oros Tuohuan understood that if he wanted to gain more this time, then he must not let the soldiers and horses of the Ming army converge.
Once the other side converges, they can't afford to fight this battle from the roots.
After all, no one would dare to fight this battle at the cost of extermination.
Otherwise, they either retreated to their own land and chose not to fight this battle.
Either they can only stay on this grassland before the 5,000 cavalry of the Ming army arrives in Dingbei City.
Even if you can't keep all of them, you have to kill as many living forces as possible.
For a while, in the face of such a choice, he was really a little undecided.
On the one hand, they were worried that the 5,000 cavalry of the Ming army was showing weakness to the enemy, and on the other hand, they were worried that after the 5,000 cavalry arrived in Dingbei City, they would not be able to obtain any gains, which was equivalent to showing off their might on this grassland for more than ten days.
After all, although this grassland is their land, they also need supplies, and the food they eat will also be consumed.
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Originally, the materials were not too abundant, and they could even be described as expensive, how could they withstand this consumption again and again.
If there is no progress in attacking the city of Mobei of the Ming army this time, food will be a problem in winter this year.
Therefore, if he wants to fight this battle, he must also fight.
Thinking of this, Na Rose Tuohuan still got up and called the soldiers outside the tent of the camp in, and told them to give orders, and ordered the scout team to closely reconnoiter the movements of the Ming cavalry around and whether there were any suspicious people around.
If there is no Ming army within a radius of dozens of miles, then this is not a sign of weakness to the enemy, but a fat meat sent to the door!
At that time, they can take the initiative to attack and wipe out the 5,000 cavalry of the Ming army.
With the reconnaissance of their front-line scout team in the last two days.
The results were very consistent, that is, there was no Ming army at all during the day's trip around the 5,000 Ming cavalry.
After receiving this news, the leader of the Warat Division, Yuros Tuhuan, did not delay any longer, the cavalry of the Ming army was getting closer and closer to the northern city of Nading, and if they waited any longer, the fighter plane would be missed.
Immediately, he got up and ordered the whole army to pull out, and began to kill the place where the five thousand cavalry of the Ming army were.
And on the other side.
While all the officers and men in the army were temporarily resting, Zhu Zhanji also came to the nearest hill around, sat on it, looked around, and frowned while eating dry food, thinking about why the army of the Navara tribe had not yet arrived.
It's been a few days since they've been in the grassland, and if the people of Navarat don't show up again, then they'll be in Dingbei City.
Once they arrived at Dingbei City, with the habits of the Navarat tribe, they would never dare to fight them head-on.
Next, it will inevitably be a tugging battle between each other.
In the absence of absolute superiority in forces, it is difficult for each side to destroy each other in a short period of time.
This is a situation that Zhu Zhanji absolutely does not want to see.
They were delayed, but their Ming army couldn't.
As for how the Navara tribe was going to attack them, he Zhu Zhanji was not afraid at all, he was afraid that the leader of the Navarat tribe could see clearly the current situation of the Ming army and the Ming Dynasty, so as to slowly consume them.
In this way, the whole big picture will be affected by their decisions.
Just as Zhu Zhanji was thinking while eating dry food, Zhou Quan, who was appointed by Zhu Zhanji as the commander of this cavalry team, said at this time: "Your Highness, we are less than two days away from Dingbei City, and those troops of the Warat Department should not come again, right?" ”
Listening to Zhou Quan's words, Zhu Zhanji did not look back, but just said vigorously: "No matter whether the army of the Navara Department comes or not, the soldiers under our command must be ready to fight at any time, Zhou Quan, you are also an old man in the army, you must understand this matter, on the battlefield, any slightest carelessness will lead to the annihilation of the whole army." ”
"What's more, the army under our command now is the only hope of the Ming Dynasty, and it must not be lost!"
After hearing Zhu Zhanji's words, Zhou Quan's face also tightened, and then he said with a straight face: "Your Highness, rest assured, Zhou Quan will never dare to slack off!" ”
Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "Okay, go down and see the soldiers, you don't have to accompany me." ”
"Yes!"
After Zhou Quan left, Zhu Zhanji took a sip of water and looked at Zhou Quan's back.
When choosing the commander of this cavalry team, there were actually two suitable candidates, both of which were very similar, but it was precisely because of this person's name that this person was chosen without much difference.
"I hope this Zhou Quan can really protect me this time......
Zhu Zhanji muttered quietly.