Chapter 138: Withdrawal

The reason is simple.

The embarrassment of the Yuan court was not only the lack of soldiers and horses, the shortage of weapons, the shortage of grain and grass, but more importantly, the shortage of talents.

If it weren't for the lack of talent, it would not have allowed Timur, the general of the defeated army, to repeatedly go into battle and become the only hope for Mongolia. From the perspective of horizontal comparison, the commander of Timur, compared with the commander of the Ming army, is actually not inferior.

After all, he is a veteran, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Yan Wang and Wu Gao are two people in front of him.

There is a real gap.

It is a middle- and lower-ranking officer.

Mongolia was defeated again and again, and the backbone of the army that dared to fight was weakened again and again. And the Ming army has won many battles, and many recruits have won several battles, and they have been trained.

The gap between these two sides is the biggest.

These officers in front of them are easy to kill. But after killing, who will replace them? This was the problem that Taur Timur faced.

The Ming Dynasty has a population of 60 million. This was a few years ago, but with the addition of the new population, it has swallowed up the population of Goryeo. It is not an exaggeration to say that 70 million, if you increase the population of each Tusi who are no longer in the imperial court account books, there will be 100 million.

And how many people does the Yuan court directly control now?

Is there a million?

It's hard to say, after all, the Mongols have long been out of the habit of counting the population. But the population that the Yuan court can control is only more than one million at most, which is already calculated in the highest.

Think about it, one is to select talents from a population of nearly 100 million. One is to select talents from a million people. One is that the national strength is thriving, and Zhu Yuanzhang promotes social studies and increases the literate population. Officials at all levels, regardless of the period of time, or some Confucian officials, are building schools.

Cultivate more talent.

And now, when the Yuan Dynasty is at stake, it is estimated that there are only private professors, and there may not even be schools.

Under such circumstances, how big can there be a gap in the quality of middle- and lower-level officers between the two sides? It can well be imagined.

Taeki Timur's order was very urgent, and it was normal to find a way to fool him.

Tayin Timur sneered and said, "If you wait for things to be unfavorable, and you still want to hide it, you should have been punished with a hundred rods." Now is the time to employ people, and the right is sent to the account, and after the end of this war, the account will be settled together. Someone came to order the generals to prepare to cross the river. ”

Takarun Timur, knowing that his condition was not good, had thought a lot about his three days of stay. He actually knew very well that the more he went to Liaodong, the more difficult it would be to retreat. The terrain of Liaodong is naturally not easy to enter, and it is even more difficult to get out, because he has left a lot of enemy strongholds behind him.

But he himself had no choice.

Because it was far from enough to shock the Ming army.

Only by going deeper and deeper, at least to the city of Shenyang.

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Under the order of Timur, the Battle of the Daqing River began.

As mentioned earlier, the Daqing River is not very wide. Of course, it is wider than the canal, and Timur has also probed the enemy in the past few days. A shoal was chosen to cross the river.

Say it's a shoal. But in fact, half a meter deep, and even in some places, there is no roof, and you can only pass it on a horse. It's just that Wu Gao has been on guard for a long time. When the Yuan army crossed the river, a fleet of boats came out. The boat is not big, but it is a little bigger than the canopy boat. These vessels are all canal transshipment vessels. The maximum width is three meters. After all, the canal is ten meters wide, and it has to come and go in parallel. Naturally, the ships could not be wider. And the river situation here, you can't use big boats, big boats are easy to run aground. And such a boat is the most suitable.

So the ships on both sides, firearms, artillery and arrows, for a time like rain.

The first wave of Mongol cavalry crossing the river suffered heavy casualties.

Since Taki Timur had already made up his mind to cross the river. Naturally, I have considered such a situation, and I don't care about casualties at all. Immediately launched their own chips. It is a myriad of sheepskin rafts, crossing the river from another river. It's just a decoy, a disguise.

The Daqing River can be called this name, naturally because the river water is clear. But where the water is clear, there are more stones and less mud in the places where they pass. Either that, there are more slow currents and less rapids. Otherwise, the torrent and mud will be a turbid current.

So there are many places on the Daqing River where you can cross the river. It's just that if you want a place for the army to cross the river, it's better to be able to wade through it.

But Wu Gao is not a weak hand.

Wu Gao has also thought about this method.

So Wu Gao personally led the team and sniped on the opposite bank.

It was not enough for the two sides to open three battlefields in a row along the banks of the Daqing River.

Tayin Timur sent another army to cross the river in another place.

Seeing this, Wu Gao pondered for a while and finally decided to retreat.

In fact, if he can top it, Wu Gao can still top it. After all, there are still reserves in Wu's hand. However, Wu Gao could not think about the present, but also about the future development. After all, retreat is the hardest thing. If he puts all his chips on it, once the Tartar breaks through again.

It was difficult for him to bring back soldiers from other battlefields.

So will the Tartars open another battlefield?

Yes, definitely.

The reason is simple. Tayin Timur was taking advantage of his strength, and although he did not bring all the Mongol cavalry, he at least exceeded 100,000. And Wu has only four guards in the hand, more than 20,000 people. Although the Daqing River is a dangerous place, it is by no means a natural danger.

Dekini Timur crossed the river by many roads. Sooner or later, Wu Gao will have an unstoppable day.

Anyway, Wu Gao didn't want to fight the Tartars here.

Now that the purpose has been achieved.

Naturally, it is necessary to withdraw.

When Wu Gao retreated, he was even more cautious, although a Mongolian cavalry bit Wu Gao's tail. But looking at the 20,000 Ming troops, waiting in front and back, there were still thousands of cavalry pressing the formation. It's simply impeccable. In addition, Wu Gao is not far from Tieling City.

You can only choose to give up.

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In the camp of the Yuan army, there was laughter and laughter at the moment.

There is no other reason. This was the first victory in the battle between the Yuan army and the Ming army in recent years.

There are reasons for this, but a victory is a victory. For the Yuan army, which had always lost battles, a victory was too rare.

This greatly boosted the morale of the Yuan army. There were even many generals who wanted to celebrate in a big way.

but was vetoed by Taemurid Timur. Of course, morale can be boosted, but not vented. Taki Timur even said a lot of words to motivate the soldiers, and for a while, Timur had an illusion, as if he had returned to his youth, when the Dayuan court was still in Dadu.

At that time, the celebration was like this, and the morale of the army was like this. 、

It's just that when Timur was alone, he looked at the list of people who died in battle. Detachin Timur was simply difficult to face, three thousand people. Crossing the Daqing River, they paid three thousand casualties. Among them, more than 1,000 people died directly. Washed away by the river. There were about two or three hundred people. These people don't know whether they are alive or dead. But the chances of survival are not great, and the rest are injured.

However, with the number of Mongolian military doctors, the probability of survival is not high.

The number of 3,000 people is not big, but how many 3,000 people are there in Mongolia.

And how many heads did the Ming army take? Less than 100 people.

Of course, this is because the Ming army suffered very few casualties in this battle. What's more, the entire rhythm of the war has been under Wu Gao's control. Even those who died in battle were taken away and did not stay at all.

Taeki Timur secretly said in his heart: "Is such a victory a victory?" "Naturally, he can't talk about it when he's outside, for fear of demoralizing, but when he faces himself, he can't lie to himself.

For a moment, he had the idea of withdrawing.

Because of this situation, no matter how big it is, it will be very tender and there will be some good fruit.

But don't you do it?

Da Yuan has no other way out.

I can only give it a go.

He pondered for a moment, looked at a river below, and tightened his teeth. Make up your mind to fight to the city of Shenyang at all costs, so that the people of Daming can also feel the taste of death and the majesty of Dayuan, and let them know that Dayuan cannot be bullied.

He was not to be deceived by Timur.

As for what will be done in the future, it is another matter, don't think too much about it.

Everything was pressed up. He didn't look back.

Taeki Timur sighed, listened to the laughter outside, and fell into a dark silence.