Chapter Ninety-Five: Thunder

Qu Neng looked at the information in his hand, after the construction of the Yellow River railway bridge, the imperial court had approved it. Special funds were allocated for the construction of a railway along the west bank of the Yellow River, all the way to the Yulin front.

Thus ensuring the preparation of the war at the front.

At this time, almost every few days, the rear railway stretched forward by a meter.

Although the terrain on the west bank of the Yellow River is not flat, there are relatively few mountains, and even if there are ups and downs, there is a way to flatten the height. This is a pure earthwork without the need to dig tunnels and build iron bridges. It won't be too slow.

After Qu Neng understood that there was no problem with the logistics of the army. The Shaanxi army did not take the defense of the Shaanxi army to heart at all.

Without him, he has been waiting for this battle for more than a year.

Prior to this, the Northern Army had only a few thousand cavalry in the Hetao area, after all, the Hetao area was originally a grassland, desert and desert area. In this case, thousands of cavalry can still sustain themselves in this area, and the minimum fodder is self-sufficient. And more armies, it's not like this.

But these armies have not done nothing for a while.

They have long figured out the situation of the enemy.

Qu Neng didn't have to do reconnaissance at all.

In this battle, Qu Neng was confident.

Different places, different treatments. And in the battle of Yulin. Qu Neng has already prepared, with a dignified and upright teacher, the momentum of thunder and thunder will be over, and there will be no fancy. It was to use countless artillery gunpowder to submerge Yulin City.

The reason is also very simple.

That is, there are too many advantages here.

Qu Nengcai didn't care how much money was spent on the war, he only knew that with this railway, there would be no shortage of gunpowder, artillery, food and other materials in the rear. And that's not the case with the Southern Army. Naturally, you have to play to your strengths.

Smash the walnuts with a hammer and see who is hard.

And Qu Neng also wanted the other party to see that their so-called iron wall was not enough. This is not only Qu Neng's idea, but also the thoughts of many people in the Privy Council. Because of the battlefield situation, the General Staff of the Privy Council in Beijing has to admit one thing, even if there is an advantage in field warfare in the future, it is impossible to determine victory. Only a strong ability to attack fortifications is the way to make the enemy lose the courage to resist.

The biggest problem faced by the Northern Army at that time was not to destroy the place in battle, but to destroy the enemy in the fortified city.

The Battle of Yulin today. However, after so many years of studying siege tactics, a collective demonstration.

Therefore, Qu Neng is not in a hurry at all.

After the expiration of the army and the repair of several days, the attack was launched, and first the cavalry attacked on a large scale, like a flood, surging down. Divide the Yulin defense line into several points that cannot be contacted.

Of course, in this, the cavalry of the Southern Army put up a resolute resistance.

How could Song Sheng not know that defending the city must defend the wilderness.

When the battle to defend the city is fought to the point where you can only hold the city, the battle has entered the second half.

It's just that the cavalry of the two sides did not differ much in quality. ap.

The Mongol cavalry, also known as the Tartar cavalry, has always been a very important formation in the Ming army. After all, at the beginning of the founding of the country, Zhu Yuanzhang collected only tens of thousands of cavalry, which was very few compared to other armies. And after a few years, it was more than 100,000 rides. Among them were a large number of surrenders.

When it came to Ming Chengzu, there were 3,000 battalions among the three major battalions, and the 3,000 battalions were Tartar cavalry. As one of the elite main forces of the Ming army.

Therefore, the tactical tactics of the Mongolian cavalry, coupled with the material support of the Ming Dynasty. It is the background color of the Ming cavalry, and the use of some firearms was added in the later period.

Now the situation is similar on both sides.

Most of these cavalrymen had handcuffs. There are several more. But the handcuffs do work on the horse. But there are more things that need to be fought with long knives. The difference between the two sides is probably that the cavalry of the southern army is a little more Han cavalry, and the cavalry of the northern army is a little more Mongolian cavalry.

But each other is a mixture of Hu and Han.

The fight between the two sides was very fierce.

From one or two, to dozens of scouts, to hundreds

The cavalry of thousands of people stormed, and even under the city of Yulin, covering the camp of tens of thousands of cavalry to fight.

Fight one after another.

The Yugoslav army could not support it.

It's not that the Yugoslav army can't fight. Instead, the cavalry generals of the Southern Army knelt in front of Song Sheng and said, "General, leave some seeds for the mark. If you can't fight like this, if you fight again, none of the brothers who followed the mark will be able to go back."

Not one person, but many people knelt in front of Song Sheng to plead.

What else can Song Sheng do?

Song Sheng knew that they couldn't be blamed for this.

It can only be said that the superiority of the Northern Army in cavalry is too thick.

The first thickness is that in terms of specific numbers, it far exceeds that of the Southern Army.

Not to mention the cavalry armies that are organized in the armies and divided into the armies. Even a pure cavalry army specializing in cavalry. Just talk about the Mongols in southern Mongolia. These people are Beijing's greatest reliance. The Mongols relied on millions of people in Monan to squeeze out hundreds of thousands of cavalry. Can't Beijing do it now? Nature can do it.

And even better than the Mongols.

Even some of the Mongols themselves are not very willing to graze.

For many Mongols, fighting a war was a more promising way to make a living than herding. He Xi formulated a plan to recruit the Mongols to fight, one was to be incorporated into the Weisuo Army, and these people went from the Weisuo Army to the Beijing Forbidden Army. Gradually assimilated into a part of the Ming Dynasty. In the future, even if these Mongolian soldiers are discharged from the army, they will not return to Mongolia. Depending on the situation, it will be settled in different places. A generation or two later, even future generations do not know that their parents are actually Mongols.

The other is similar to the form of Cossack cavalry, that is, mercenaries. Fight for the Ming Dynasty.

Money for war exploits, money for war death. Everything is clearly priced.

However, mercenary warfare is generally carried out by regular cavalry. Prevent them from killing, burning and plundering everywhere. After all, the morality of these Mongols goes without saying much at all. The Cossack cavalry of Tsarist Russia never fought for pay, but for booty.

They are the same, although the price He Xi offered is not low. But for these cavalrymen, extra money earns more.

So, when the two sides fought.

The combat effectiveness was comparable, and the casualties on both sides were almost equal. However, the Northern Army had a strong back-up force, and many of the wounded were treated in the barracks. In general, the casualties of the Northern Army were smaller than those of the Southern Army. And the upper-level generals of the Northern Army also felt the casualties of the cavalry differently from the cavalry of the Southern Army.

For these Mongolian cavalry, the generals above are not distressed.

Just like Qu Neng, both of them and father and son have fought with the Mongols step by step to the present, and even some of the Mongolian cavalry veterans below are the opponents of the year. Qu Neng may have been secretly happy with the Mongols' casualties.

So, if the bottom is dead, just give the money.

If the number of dead people is only a matter of money, then the Northern Army as a whole does not need to be shaken in the slightest.

Of course, Qu Neng is also very good, he did not force these mercenaries to fight. But fighting as a mercenary has many benefits. First, there are many people who are good at fighting and will be selected to join the Beijing Forbidden Army, and the treatment of the Beijing Forbidden Army is the envy of all Mongolians.

Second, the Mongols themselves do not attach much importance to life and death due to their own national characteristics.

After all, life in the grassland is too difficult, it is very difficult to live, death is commonplace, it is nothing more than the death of oneself or the death of others.

Therefore, when the Han people fought with the nomads, they always felt that the nomads were cunning and cruel, and this cruelty was not only to others, but also to themselves. In today's battle, for the Ming army, this battle is just two brothers fighting for family property, and they can't surrender. Why fight so hard.

If it was a war to defend the country, the middle and lower classes of the Ming army would naturally dare to fight harder than the Mongols, but now it is not.

And Monan Mongolia has been stable for more than ten years, and the teenager has grown up. These Mongols grew up with a life of herding cattle and a rich fortune by fighting and plundering places. They dare to do anything for the sake of money.

After the money He Xi gave them was in place, the survivors didn't care what the dead people thought. And Monan Mongolia

Over the years, the population has grown, some people have quit here, and some people have joined there. Even if the quality of these recruits is not good. But the riding skills are excellent, and the rest are easy to cultivate. Not to mention that the Mongols themselves were based on cavalry in their production and life.