In mid-August, the cries were restless......

When the south was still singing and dancing, the northern Quanningwei had gathered thousands of people.

They walked out of Quanning City, and the procession spread like a long dragon to the north.

On both sides of the team, the Ming army, wearing a red fat jacket inside and chest armor outside, led a sturdy military horse on foot.

In the middle of the procession, two horse-drawn carts were stacked with grain, armor, weapons, and beans.

The load on each board truck is close to 1,000 catties, even if it is driving on the grassland that has not rained for many days, it can leave a deep imprint.

After they walked out of the city, they came out with men in cloth clothes, carrying bags of grain on their shoulders, the number of which was tens of thousands.

Soon, they all walked out of Quanning City, and the line was long, more than five miles in front and back.

In the marching procession, Zhu Quan, the twenty-year-old king of Ning, was one of the few people who could ride a horse on the marching road.

Beside him, a military attache who was over forty years old rode on horseback together, looked at the mighty team and said with a smile: "Since His Royal Highness the King of Yan captured the Wuliang Ha Niu Ma and went south last year, our Daning can also pull out three thousand horsemen to go north." ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Quan responded, and looked at the north and said: "This northern tour, if you have any gains, you should also give some to the fourth brother." ”

"I just don't know how many soldiers and horses Gao Xu's side can send out, and whether he can respond to our army." Speaking of this, Zhu Quan looked back at the general:

"Liu Zhen, how many days will the people you sent arrive in Zhaozhou City?"

Liu Zhen, as Song Sheng's right-hand man in the northwest, once played the 'Hamili Victory' with Song Sheng, he was transferred to Daning by Lao Zhu in the 28th year of Hongwu, and was responsible for commanding the soldiers and horses of the three guards of Ningwangfu.

In addition to the tens of thousands of troops gathered on Zhu Di's side, the scale of the guards on Zhu Quan and Zhu Gaoxu's side did not exceed 20,000, and even fewer soldiers and horses could be mobilized to fight.

There are more than 16,000 people in Zhu Quan's headquarters, but because Zhu Di transferred Daning's soldiers and horses to Kaipingwei to assemble, he had to leave some guards to defend Daning, so as not to make a detour to the south and besiege Wei to save Zhao.

Therefore, he only brought 3,000 cavalry with his headquarters on this northern tour, which was already quite elite soldiers and horses in the Hongwu Dynasty.

Four years ago, the Ming Dynasty only had more than 20,000 cavalry, even if Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu fought the "Jilin City Victory" and captured a lot of military horses, the cavalry of the Ming army could only reach more than 32,000 cavalry.

However, if Lao Zhu Xin is horizontal and transfers the military horses from the horse ranches in various places, he can also make up 50,000 cavalry.

When the size of the cavalry was only this size, it was rare for generals and kings to have more than 1,000 cavalry under their command.

Counting it carefully, there are currently 7,000 cavalry in Nanjing with Leopard Taowei and Hezhou Wei in front of the palace, followed by 6,000 cavalry after Yanfu experienced the 'Jilin Great Victory', and then there are Jinfu and Ningfu who also controlled 3,000 cavalry.

Further down, there are the Qin Mansion and Zhu Gaoxu's Bohai Mansion, which controlled 2,000 cavalry, and the Zhou Mansion, which controlled 1,000 cavalry.

The cavalry in the hands of these forces added up to 24,000 cavalry, and the remaining 8,000 cavalry were subordinate to the Shaanxi Xingdu Division, the Shaanxi Metropolitan Division, the Shanxi Xingdu Division, and the Shanxi Metropolitan Division, as well as the Beiping Division, the Daning Division, and the Liaodong Division.

Moreover, the more than 8,000 cavalry did not all belong to them, and after counting them carefully, they couldn't even get together a thousand cavalry in their hands, because Mu Chun in Yunnan still had 500 cavalry in his hands.

Therefore, during the Hongwu period, with more than 1,000 cavalry in hand, it was already a force that could not be underestimated.

Zhu Quan has the capital to be proud, but he is also curious about how many soldiers and horses his nephew can pull.

In the face of his curiosity, Liu Zhen said without thinking: "His Royal Highness the King of Bohai, there shouldn't be too many soldiers and horses that can be pulled, after all, when Jilin won a great victory last year, I heard that his soldiers suffered more than 1,600 casualties, and now there are more than 3,000 new soldiers in his hands, which is unusable." ”

"If you calculate carefully, if you can have 2,000 people, you should have done your best."

Liu Zhen's thinking is still stuck in the old Weisuo Tun battle system, in his opinion, even if Jilin Wei has eliminated Xiyang Ha and repelled the Ha Ra Wu, the Tun war system will definitely not be changed.

Eight thousand military households, five or five ploughing battles are already a very remarkable situation, so Zhu Gaoxu should pull out a team of 4,000 people at most.

In addition, with the rear in mind, he may only be able to pull out a few hundred cavalry and more than a thousand foot soldiers.

Zhu Quan also felt that his rhetoric was very reasonable, so he bowed his head and said: "In this way, this northern tour to fight the grass valley has to rely on us." ”

"Nature." Liu Zhen touched his short beard, and Zhu Quan also provoked a smile on the corner of his mouth.

It's just that they don't know that at this moment, the Tang Cavalry they sent to Zhaozhou City is already stunned.

"Here...... Is it Zhaozhou City? ”

On the official road outside Zhaozhou City, a team of Tang Riders with the banner of Ningfu looked at everything in front of them in a daze, and their minds were blank.

In front of them, thousands of shirtless men were showing their tendons and flesh, wielding pickaxes to clear the fields in the fields.

The piles of mandarin duck jackets on the side of the road all show their identities.

"This group of people is actually all soldiers!"

Yang Ning, the guard officer of the 100 households in Yingzhou who was sent to deliver the news, had a blank mind, and the 100 household officer of the Bohai Navy, who was riding a horse beside him, said with a smile: "The front is Zhaozhou City, these are the brothers who participated in the war, just waiting for you to deliver the news." ”

"All of them went to war?" Yang Ning looked at the hundred household officials in surprise, and the hundred household officials also smiled and said, "Naturally, we have been waiting for you for almost three months." ”

It is now the eighth day of the eighth month of August, and 5,000 of the 6,000 soldiers in Zhaozhou City have been waiting for three months.

Hearing the words of the hundred household officials, Yang Ning also hurriedly explained: "His Royal Highness King Yan transferred the soldiers and horses of the Daning Dusi to Kaipingwei, and His Royal Highness was busy arranging defenses, so it was delayed for some time. ”

"It doesn't matter! Anyway, I can come back in time for the autumn harvest. The hundred household officials grinned.

Not only him, it seems that all the people in Zhaozhou City are laughing, very sunny, making people feel that they are not troubled.

According to Yang Ning's understanding, on Daning's side, many guards heard that they were going to the battlefield, and they asked to stay.

The painting style of both sides, why is it so discordant......

"By the way, I ...... Your Highness! The people of King Ning's Mansion are here! ”

The hundred household officials wanted to say something, but he seemed to see someone, so he hurriedly waved his hand towards the field and shouted the word 'Your Highness'.

"Your Highness?" Yang Ning looked curiously in the direction of his greeting.

Before he saw Zhu Gaoyu, he thought that Zhu Gaochu would be similar to His Royal Highness, after all, he heard that Zhu Gaochu was only seventeen or eighteen years old.

It's just that when he looked over, he didn't see a Tianhuang nobleman wearing a luxurious round-necked robe, but only a tall figure wearing a hat and a mandarin duck battle jacket.

At the moment when Yang Ning stared at Zhu Gaoxu's back, Zhu Gaoxu, who was working in the field, also turned around and took off the hat on his head.

"This is our Highness, go!"

The hundred household officials turned over and dismounted, and happily went to the barren fields.

Yang Ning and the soldiers of the surrounding Ning Mansion looked at each other, and they couldn't believe that there would be a county king to work in the fields.

However, their reaction was not slow, and after the hundred household officials dismounted, they also dismounted one after another and went to the fields.

When they came to the field, they found that this King of Bohai County was surprisingly tall.

Yang Ning thought that he was also a middle-aged person, but at five feet and four inches, he stood in front of Zhu Gaoxu, and he was actually a head shorter.

"Yingzhou Central Guard Front Army Thousand Households, Left Hundred Households Official Yang Ning, See Your Highness!"

When they came, the Baihu officials said to Yang Ning and others that when they saw the King of Bohai, they should not kneel, they only needed to make a move, so Yang Ning and the others were anxious to follow the other party's teachings.

Sure enough, after they made a move, Zhu Gaoxu handed the pickaxe in his hand to the hundred household officials next to him, and said to Yang Ning's group: "Gu'an, get up." ”

"Your Highness!" Yang Ning and the others breathed a sigh of relief and slowly straightened up, and only then did they have time to look at Zhu Gaoxu.

I have to say that Zhu Gaoxu is tall, can be described as a tiger's back, and his appearance is even more resolute and majestic, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is heroic.

Among the northerners, people like Zhu Gaoxu are regarded as people with 'heroic spirit'.

In terms of facial features, he is not as good as the group of handsome and dashing scholars, but he is the kind of person who others think is a 'real man' when they see it.

"Uncle Seventeen sent you here, but you are going to send troops to the north?"

Zhu Gaoxu took Yang Ning and them to the ridges, and sat on the ridges without any taboo.

Rao is like this, Zhu Gaoxu can still look at them levelly.

There was a sense of oppression in him, which made Yang Ning very nervous.

"Go back to Your Highness, calculate the time, His Royal Highness King Ning should lead his troops out of Quanningwei."

"Therefore, the last general came to ask His Highness how much Bohai can send troops, and whether a copy of the marching formation can be copied to the last general."

Yang Ning nervously said the purpose of his trip, and after hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the hundred household officials who came with him: "Zhao Mu, you go to the office to get the marching formation map." ”

"Yes!" Zhao Mu responded with a smile, turned around and ran on the road.

Seeing him leave, Zhu Gaoxu also replied to Yang Ning: "Bohai sent 5,000 troops this time, 2,000 cavalry, and 3,000 horse infantry. ”

"How much?" Yang Ning was stunned, how could Bohai send more troops than their Daning? Isn't there only 8,000 military households in Bohai?

"Five thousand, you don't have to be nervous, stay a little, I'll let people slaughter sheep, after you finish eating, tomorrow our army will be pulled, you can also go back and tell Uncle Seventeen."

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and asked Yang Ning to relax, and the appearance of no shelf made Yang Ning sit on the ridge on the side.

When he sat down, Zhu Gaoxu also shouted to a figure in the distance: "Zhang Chun, inform the whole army, tomorrow the army will be pulled, after today's work, the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks of the banquet will be slaughtered, and the brothers will have a good meal!" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chun wore a hat and turned around, then put down the pickaxe in his hand, called the leader of the army, and returned to Zhaozhou City in groups.

Yang Ning looked at this scene, and the Tang riders who followed him couldn't help but swallow their saliva.

That's meat, they can only eat meat for ten days, I don't know how much they can eat this time.

"By the way......" After Zhu Gaoxu instructed Zhang Chun, he also turned around and asked Yang Ning about Daning.

For example, how many military households there are in Daning, how much arable land is cultivated, how many livestock are raised in captivity, how many cattle and sheep are grazing, and so on.

Yang Ning didn't know if he was too nervous or defenseless, so he actually told Zhu Gaoxu everything.

The number of military households in Daning is smaller than Zhu Gaoxu's previous estimate, and there are only 104,000 households, because there have been military households fleeing south all these years.

In addition, the local situation of land reclamation also gave Zhu Gaoxu a toothache.

Under the management of Bu Wan and Zhu Quan, there are only 420,000 mu, and the annual output is 2.78 million stones.

As for livestock, Yang Ning didn't know very well, but he knew that Daning had more than 10,000 cattle and more than 100,000 sheep.

After all, they also guard the herders in the territory, and they can recall them when they talk in their spare time.

Listening to his answer, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that he was quite rich.

Although he doesn't have as many sheep as Daning, he can't support the ploughing of cattle and horses on his side, let alone the cultivated land he has opened up.

Thinking so, he chatted with Yang Ning about other things, and Yang Ning knew everything.

Chatting with Zhu Gaoxu, Yang Ning felt like he was talking to a friend who was a level higher than himself, but he didn't feel burdened like when he chatted with characters like the commander and King Ning.

Gradually, he also talked more and more, and finally he could take the initiative to find a topic without Zhu Gaochu asking, and Zhu Gaochu always responded with a smile.

Not long after, when Zhao Mu came back with the marching formation, Zhu Gaoxu and the others had been chatting for two quarters of an hour.

After handing the marching formation map to Yang Ning, Zhu Gaoxu also got up and smiled at Yang Ning: "I'll go to the city to discuss with the generals first, you and Zhao Mu will go to rest and rest together, and wait for the opening banquet for a while." ”

"It's a pleasure to chat with you, if you can meet on this northern tour, or if Uncle Seventeen sends you again after the northern tour, he will send you a few sheep to bring back."

"As for this time, it won't work, this pig, sheep, chicken and duck meat may not be enough to eat, wait for next time."

Zhu Gaoxu patted Yang Ning on the back, and Yang Ning was also ashamed: "It was the last general who disturbed His Highness, how could he dare to receive His Highness's gift." ”

"Haha......" Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile when he heard this: "They are all brothers who have shed blood for the imperial court, what is unacceptable?" ”

When the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu didn't explain anymore, but just asked Zhao Mu to remind himself that he owed Yang Ning a few sheep, and then walked back to the road, turned over and rushed to Zhaozhou City.

Looking at his departing back, Yang Ning couldn't help but say to Zhao Mu beside him: "Is Your Highness so approachable on weekdays?" ”

"yes!" Zhao Mu smiled: "Isn't King Ning like this?" ”

"Forehead......" Yang Ning was choked by his words, so he could only cough and talk about other topics, and at the same time went to the city to rest under his lead.

When they had just entered Zhaozhou City, Zhu Gaoxu also came to the Thousand Households in Zhaozhou.

At this moment, more than a dozen generals are deploying against the sand table and map, among which Fu Rang and Lin Su are taking the lead.

"How, is it all planned?"

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the main hall, while Fu Rang rubbed his eyebrows: "It's really a headache for you to set up this staff department." ”

"Hahaha......" Hearing Fu Rang's words, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

As a person who joined the army in modern times, Zhu Gaoxu naturally knows the importance of staff officers.

Although in ancient times, there were also military officers, and generals also had their own staff, but in the end, these were just a few brilliant people gathered together, and the staff was the command of more people to plan and plan.

Although they may not be able to fight wars, it is not clear that they can be used to plan troop and march and manage logistics.

With them, Zhu Gaoxu will undoubtedly have much easier on the march.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered that there was a book that was written in a very popular way, writing about how to command the army at all levels.

Among them, the author did not even mention the squad and platoon, but directly began with "a company can cover a position 500 to 1,000 meters wide and can attack or defend a village and town."

A battalion or a company can be qualified to fight independently if it strengthens artillery that can remove cement fortifications.

A regiment may have independent medical support, independent artillery for suppression tasks, anti-tank and anti-aircraft systems, and the need to organize the distribution of material supplies.

Its positions may be as small as two kilometers or as large as six or seven kilometers wide.

Then the specific information in this requires the commander to organize reconnaissance at all times and verify the intelligence of the superiors.

You need to comprehensively judge the enemy's artillery caliber, armored units, and unit numbers to assist your superiors in making strategic judgments.

If you are a division, you need to be able to draw maps, including traffic maps, topographic maps, and artillery calibration maps, and combine all the maps, and send a part of them to the base units after being gridded according to the ruler.

Commanders need to organize transportation, and there may be hundreds, if not thousands, of trucks to support you.

Your direct fire reconnaissance company will always report to you about the enemy.

Your chemical warfare team is constantly on the ground to assess whether there is a risk.

The artillery in your hands must always analyze the path of the opponent's shells and carry out counter-battery suppression.

You need to think about the deployment of troops on a large scale, such as high ground, rivers, villages, roads, etc.

You must clearly understand the purpose of the battle at the top, and coordinate the intensity of your firepower projection and the speed at which your soldiers and equipment are destroyed.

In addition, you must keep an eye on the march and deployment of heavy firepower.

An army may have an entire railway line or an entire port at your service.

Before the battle, you must always assess your objectives, the length of your lines of communication, and your reserves.

If there is a mismatch between the lines of communication and the materials and the purpose of the war, the war will be lost.

For the assembly, marching, and deployment of troops, you have to think three-dimensionally.

In this kind of thinking, it is not just a line of development as in the case of subordinate units, but it is necessary to take into account the issue of strategic efficiency and the issue of risk.

For example, if you are in a state of assembly or marching, and the heavy fire is not deployed, what if the enemy suddenly attacks more than ten kilometers?

What if the enemy has armored forces and suddenly strikes tens of kilometers? How will the enemy's air force strike and delay our logistics?

Since the scope of your position is huge, far beyond the area controlled by ordinary artillery, then you must consider mobile defenses and strong attacks on the scale of tens of kilometers.

Twenty thousand, thirty or fifty thousand, men fought under your command, and you must count casualties and even the formation, without any mercy.

A group army, 100,000 people to base up, a front hundreds of kilometers wide.

The tactical air force is directly under your command, and the strategic air force strikes are always with you.

How to mobilize the enemy and how to use these opportunities to weaken the enemy is always on your behalf.

For example, it is necessary to appropriately expose false gaps to lure the enemy's line to move and expose its supply centers to dangerous locations.

For example, use your mobile units to strengthen the front line in turn, or ask your troops to increase the casualty rate and ammunition consumption, to create the illusion that the opponent's base is full of the main direction of attack, and induce the enemy to quickly deplete and disperse supplies and reserves, and then concentrate your forces to break through in one fell swoop.

Your work has moved from the real battlefield to infinitely far away, but closer to the game of Go.

At this time, supply and distance will always be your core concern, and you will already need to fight for equipment and supply priorities for troops at the national level.

As for the larger-scale command, it has moved away from the concept of the commander and has become the concept of the national commander and deputy commander-in-chief.

Your actions will directly become the strategy and will of the country......

The above content, when Zhu Gaoxu read books in his previous life, he only regarded it as great content, including the words of Han Xin in the historical records that Liu Bang could bring up to 100,000 troops.

For these contents, Zhu Gaoxu did not feel anything.

However, when he came to the Ming Dynasty and began to lead the troops in person, he had an understanding of military affairs and history, and only then did he have a certain feeling.

This feeling reached a peak after the Battle of Jilin City.

Although the content of the book is about the way of warfare under the modern system, it is also applicable in ancient times.

It's like Zhu Gaoxu's current situation, he commands 5,000 people, so has he done what a reinforced regiment should have, and what a reinforced regiment commander should do?

Not to mention the independent artillery, anti-tank, air defense systems needed at the regimental level.

Let's talk about independent medical security, after the Battle of Jilin, Zhu Gaoxu had already sent some soldiers into the hospital for urgent study, and mastered basic surgical methods such as wound disinfection, wound sewing, and wound dressing.

The general flag of 50 people is equipped with three military doctors, and on the way to this expedition, there are a total of 300 military doctors, which is enough to rescue the wounded soldiers after the war.

As for the organization, logistics, and distribution of supplies at the regimental level, this is exactly what Fu asked them to discuss at the moment.

It was not easy to coordinate logistics, Rao Shifu let more than a dozen of them discuss here for a day, and it was only after they could solve all the problems.

"See for yourself......"

Fu Rang handed the book to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu also took it and read it.

"In the past few days of waiting for the news, the original reserve of supplies has been consumed a lot, but these days Jilin City has also been supplying us, and it has always been within the range of supplies that are enough for fifty-five days."

"Now calculated, the ten ships with 200 materials have sufficient supplies of grain, bean feed, arrows, gunpowder, dried vegetables, salt crystals, vinegar cloth, etc., which can ensure a long-distance battle for 55 days."

"However, this refers to the situation of water transportation by boat, and once we cross the Nuwen River and go to the land of Uliangha, then all the baggage will have to be transported by pulling horses, and the consumption of pulling horses will increase, so that fifty-five days of supplies may actually be enough to last only fifty days, or less......"

Fu Rang spoke calmly, but Zhu Gaoxu looked through it and bowed his head: "Enough." ”

"As long as you grab enough cattle, sheep and horses, and then deal with some tribal soldiers and horses, it is enough to leave the old and weak women and children for Harawu."

Zhu Gaoxu's idea was very simple, it was enough to force Haragu to divide his troops to rescue him like a reinforcement, and then take the opportunity to eat one of his soldiers and horses and inflict heavy damage on him.

After all, with Zhu Quan in the south, it is impossible for Harawu to concentrate on dealing with himself, as long as he divides his troops, he will have a chance.

As for the total annihilation of the main force of Haragu, let alone him, even the current Ming Dynasty can't do it.

It's not that the Ming can't defeat Haragu, but that it is necessary to use troops on a large scale in Modong, and logistics supply is a big problem.

Lao Zhu gave himself 100,000 stones, which was not because he was generous, but because he wanted to search for the grazing land where the Wuliangha tribes were stationed and give a blow, it was almost a matter of 100,000 stone of grain.

It's just that Lao Zhu doesn't know, Zhu Gaoxu knows the direction of the Wen River very well, and he also learned about several grazing places in Wuliangha through the Mongols who were captured in Jilin City last time.

Compared with Zhu Quan, who still has to spend time groping north, Zhu Gaoxu's goal can be said to be very clear.

Not only that, Zhu Gaoxu had Wen Jiang and 5,000 horses as a transport capacity, which could completely save the rations of tens of thousands of people, and the speed of the march could also be improved.

It was precisely because of these preparations that Zhu Gaoxu was able to carry out this northern tour with supplies such as 5,000 stone of military rations and other bean feeds.

Although 5,000 stone of military food consumed 30,000 stone of grain, Zhu Gaoxu also earned 70,000 stone no matter what he said.

If he can bring back more cattle and sheep this time, then he will be able to have a fat year this year.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu set his eyes on the sand table he made.

His gaze stopped at the city of Uliang Ha at the foot of the Haravin Mountains, and the corners of his mouth twitched:

"Haragu, this time we clashed, the offense and defense changed shape......"

(End of chapter)