Kaiyuan school field, flag hunting, Yang character Daxu stands on the point platform.
Under the stage, the flags of the generals, military flags, and trumpet flags of each guard flew in the wind, showing the grandeur of military might.
At a glance, there were all soldiers standing on horseback, with solemn and mighty military appearances, standing in a black position, waiting for Xia Xun's general order.
Standing at the front, it was Xia Xun who mobilized the cavalry from Zhuwei, and the cavalry of each guard merged together to form a powerful cavalry team, but with this power to mobilize the cavalry of Zhuwei into one, only he could do it, even if Shen Yong was the supreme commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division, it was not easy to draw troops and horses from Zhuwei.
According to Xia Xun's arrangement, Tanma has figured out the location of the Tatar tribe that attacked and plundered 30,000 guards, and wants to deal a heavy blow to it, completely erase this Tatar tribe from the grassland, and determine the military prestige in a war, it needs a cavalry team with strong mobility, otherwise those Tartars want to grab the horses and come, and if they want to escape, they will roll up their tents and leave, and we will always be in a passive defensive state.
The 50,000 elites brought by Xia Xun were not all put into battle, and he only transferred 20,000 people from them, mainly pikemen, sword and shield infantry, musketeers, and artillerymen.
The main force of the battle is still played by the Liaodong army, and most of the men and horses sent by Xia Xun are actually composed of the Shenji battalion, which is the first time since the formation of the Shenji battalion that it has undergone a strict war test.
With the cooperation and cover of the cavalry and foot soldiers, if the firearms unit of the Shenji Battalion can not fall behind in the face of the light cavalry of the Tatars coming and going, then there will be no army that can deal a fatal blow to them, and this will prove that the Yongle Emperor attaches importance to the study of firearms and expands the proportion of firearms in the army is correct, otherwise, the popularization of firearms in the army will inevitably form an obstacle.
In an agrarian society, the soldier's riding and archery skills lagged behind the nomadic warriors, and it was a matter of course that the nomads lived on horseback from an early age, and archery with a bow was as common as chopsticks we had to use every day, and how could it be possible for a warrior who put down his hoe and stepped on horseback to overtake the enemy in riding and archery after several years of training In addition, the provision of military horses has always been a heavy burden for the farming nation, and at this stage, the cavalry cannot but develop, but it is inevitable that we will promote our strengths, and we cannot give up farming and change to cattle and sheep grazing because we do not have the enemy's innate superiority in cavalry and archery.
Agrarian civilization is a more advanced civilization than nomadic civilization, stable life and perfect social environment, will promote the birth of more civilized things, what we have to do is to promote our strengths, not to imitate the enemy's strengths.
The development of firearms requires a long process, and the West can successfully complete this process because they have innate advantages, around them, there is no strong nomadic people, and the Ming Dynasty is not, but the Ming Dynasty cannot give up the development of firearms because of this and blindly ride on horseback, if so, even if the threat from the northern nomads no longer exists, when the foreigners' muskets, artillery, and ships appear in front of us, what do we do to resist it to that era, The cavalry that once dominated the world was completely a scum in front of firearms, so the only way to go forward is to face difficulties and accelerate the development and maturity of firearms.
Shen Yong has been beheaded in public, given that he is the highest military governor in Liaodong, Xia Xun did not hang his head on a high pole to show the public, but beheading in public is enough to make the generals' hearts awe. found out the intimate relationship between the generals and Shen Yong in advance, so that Xia Xun knew in his heart, the outpost and the back battalion, who was the main and who was auxiliary, and the configuration of the soldiers and horses of each department had a more appropriate arrangement.
As for the specific tactics and tactics when facing the enemy, that is the matter of the generals in command, and Xia Xun will not overstep his bounds.
Regarding the strategic deployment, the generals who went to war already knew that the mobilization before the war had ended, and with Xia Xun's order, the army was mobilized.
The drums and horns roared, the armor was sonorous, the flags were flying, and the 30,000 elite horsemen were like a moving ocean, roaring out of the school field, javelins, sabers, quivers, bow bags, riding shields, red tasseled lacquer spears, murderous.
Then the chariots and foot soldiers also walked away with a sonorous pace that made the whole land tremble.
Fire dragon cars, bowl-mouth guns, muskets, dense spears, cold and shining broadswords, mandarin duck battle jackets are like a sea of red.
According to Xia Xun's deployment, it is necessary to concentrate superior cavalry and carry out a thunderous breakthrough on this Tatar tribe, and then the battlefield will be cleaned up by chariots and infantry, and then the cavalry will still be responsible for striking and deterring the surrounding Tatar tribes that may rescue the department, and cover the return of the army calmly.
Different from the military orders of previous wars, Xia Xun demanded: You can also surrender, but whether you surrender or not, the captives and the people must all be brought back, and the gold, silver, grain, population, and livestock of this Tatar tribe will all be plundered back, and those who can't be moved will be burned, and those that can't be burned will be smashed, in short, the entire conquered tribe must be copied back But whoever does not obey will be killed first beheaded Shen Yong, the capital of Liaodong, and passed on the nine sides, and then came such an order, in the eyes of these Liaodong soldiers, Xia Xun, who was originally polite and polite, seemed to be a devil-like existence.
The news of Xia Xun's dispatch of troops caused a sensation throughout Kaiyuan, and then spread throughout Liaodong, and all people were paying attention to the results of this battle.
As the director of this war, Xia Xun himself did not care about this battle, in his opinion, war is only a means, not an end, two days later, he made an appointment with the young envoy, Xiao Bingbei and Ding Dusi, and went to visit Hada City in high spirits.
Xia Xun originally wanted to go to Weifu, but Hada City was still outside Guangshun Pass, there was no shield around, and now even Kaiyuan City could appear under the Tatar cavalry, how could the young envoy and others rest assured that he would let him ride lightly to these few people insisted on refusing, Xia Xun was helpless, and finally had to transfer a guard and horse to escort them, 5,600 people escorted them, and they went out of Guangshun Pass in a mighty way.
There are five cities and 21 forts in Kaiyuan District.
The five cities under the jurisdiction of Kaiyuan are Kaiyuan, Zhonggu, Tieling, Fanhe, Yilu, 21 forts such as Chaihe Fort, Songshan Fort, Weiyuan Fort, Zhenbei Fort, Qingyang Fort, Zhenyi Fort, Ancient Castle, Qingyun Fort, Dingyuan Fort, etc.
These constitute the place where the military and civilians of Kaiyuan lived, there are six passes on the outside, guarding the people living in it, these six passes are Guangshun Pass, Zhenbei Pass, Xin'an Pass, Qinghe Pass, Shandao Pass, Qingyang Pass.
Among them, Jing'an Fort is an important town in northern Liaoning, northeast and even the entire north.
Guangshun Pass is the eastern key pass of the original frontier, and Hada City is outside Guangshun Pass.
Several traffic arteries in the Ming Dynasty are to go out through Kaiyuan, go west through Xin'an Pass to the Mongolian Horqin Grassland, go north through Zhenbei Pass to Jilin Heilongjiang, and go east through Guangshun Pass to Changbai Mountain and North Korea.
Basically, the people of the Kaiyuan area live in and around these cities.
Don't think that there should be a dense crowd of people in five cities and twenty-one forts, here, thousands of households are a city, and a hundred households are called a fort, and the number of people is not too small, but the main thing is the army, and the people are less than the army, which is the status quo in Liaodong.
Out of Guangshun Pass, all the way down, you can see some ruins and broken walls, it seems that a long time ago there were some villages here, when the wind blew, occasionally scraped out some grass ash from between the ruins and broken walls.
Xia Xun covered his mouth and nose slightly, and said, "Is there still anyone living here, how can there be burning ashes?"
Xiao Bingbei said: "Ministry, this is the ashes that burned in the autumn and winter last year, the grass and trees on the ground have recovered, and the ashes have been covered by the ashes, and the grass ashes in this old village are blown out, and sometimes they will blow out with the wind. ” The young envoy said with great interest: "In order to prevent the invasion of the Tartars, in the autumn and winter, send soldiers out of the customs to burn the wasteland, so that the Tartars can not graze near our border, so that many incidents have been reduced, this is the method that some local town guards have come up with, the lower officials feel that this method is very good, and is planning to burn the wasteland in autumn and winter to isolate the Tartars on the method of playing the court, please set up a law for the court, and the towns on the nine sides will abide by it, what does the ministry think" Xia Xun said in his heart: "It turns out that the burning of the border army in autumn and winter started in this era, and now there is no regulation, which has written about the border army of the Ming Dynasty, most of them have mentioned this matter, Xia Xun naturally thinks that this is an effective way to deal with the Tartars, so he nodded before he thought deeply, and Xiao Bingbei on the side smiled and said: "Young imperial envoy, this is the scholar's opinion, in my opinion, this method is to drink water to quench thirst, and the harm outweighs the benefits."
Xia Xun immediately closed his mouth and listened.
Shao Yunfeng said unconvinced: "How can Xiao Bingbei say this?"
Xiao Bingbei said: "At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Mengyuan Jurchen, there were many tribes attached to our dynasty, at that time, Emperor Taizu Gao said: Where to govern Hulu should follow his surname.
The Hu people live in the bitter cold, and now they move to the interior, they will drive to the south, go to the cold and the heat, and lose their original surname is easy to become chaotic.
If you don't caress it, let it go to the borderland, and choose water and grass to breed.
Peter was born, and he was at peace.
However, the remnants of the remnants spread all over the wilderness, went and returned, and the reunited and unattached people lived in a mixed manner, which was really difficult to manage, so Emperor Taizu changed randomly and ordered all the people outside the country to be moved into the interior.
However, on the one hand, the Yuan people retreated northward, and on the other hand, the border people moved inward, which caused a large area of eastern Liaodong to be empty and uninhabited.
Later, Liaodong has no people to manage, simply even the magistrates have been revoked, all replaced by guards, Liaodong is more and more impoverished, Emperor Taizu Gao later also found that although this method can be temporarily isolated from the enemy and me, in the long run, but it is full of drawbacks, so it has been intended to change the proposition, from the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao issued an order, successively from Shanxi and other places to move households to enrich the Xuanfu left and right guards, Wanquan right guards, Huai'an Wei, let them divide the fields and establish cities, open up the wilderness.
It's a pity that after the death of Emperor Taizu, this last policy did not stick. ” Xiao Bingbei sighed twice, pointed to the uninhabited wilderness and said to Xia Xun: "Lord Ministry, please see, in order to prevent being taken advantage of by the Tatars, I have restricted the military and civilians to cultivate and graze outside the border, and many cultivated fields and pastures have to be abandoned.
Autumn and winter out of the plug to burn the wasteland, it is even more absurd, the weeds are burned out, the isolated, but the Tatar herdsmen, even if the light horse goes away to burn the wasteland, the burning area is only one or two hundred miles, when did it really play the role of blocking the Tartar invasion of the burning wasteland, burning under their noses more and more desolate, the enemy did not block it, but let their side be a withered and desolate. ” Xiao Bingbei was silent for a moment, and then said: "In the early years of Hongwu, Xiao Mou guarded Liaodong, accumulated experience, and now he has only been promoted to Kaiyuan Bingbei Road, and Xiao has spent these decades in Liaodong.
The lord of the department, the lower officials still remember the scene when Fang went out of the fortress, at that time, the tuntian was connected here, and the supervisor and pastor belonged to each other, although it was temporarily desolate because of the war in those years, but looking at the scene, it would not take two years, and it would be ten thousand acres of fertile land, the people were prosperous, and the villages were connected.
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It's a pity that the Yuan people retreated to the north, and the Ming people moved to the south, leaving some households with very few people, and they were not allowed to cultivate and graze on the edge, and they had to burn the famine in autumn and winter, and the people were moved, burned, and the cultivation and grazing were restricted, and a large area of fertile soil and grassland was so deserted.
Liaodong has become a barren land, although it cannot be used by the enemy, but it cannot be used by its own military state.
In the long run, this is a big mistake.
Moreover, in this way, when our Ming army went out to conquer, there were few eyes and ears to guide us, and there was no resident to assist.
Hulu has no city to live in, and its land is empty.
Thousands of miles of marching, labor and mobilization, it is difficult to truly shake the fundamentals.
In addition, the army went on an expedition, and the food and salary were all fed by the people in the interior, which cost a huge amount, and the wealth of the imperial court was embarrassing. ” Xia Xun nodded secretly when he heard this, Xiao Bingbei was ingenious, this argument was carefully savored, but it was not unreasonable.
In an ordinary war, one thousand people are killed and eight hundred are self-inflicted, but the end result of the entire Liaodong is to strengthen the enemy and weaken oneself.
The Mongols were now driven back to the steppes, deprived of many means and sources of production of daily necessities; And because of the antagonism with the Ming Dynasty, trade relations could not develop normally, because they became more and more impoverished, the cost of war was far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, in order to meet the needs of material life, regular looting became a part of their life.
If in the past the Mongols had the ability and intention to restore the Central Plains, now their invasions are mostly spontaneous of the tribes, with the sole purpose of satisfying their economic needs.
Of course, this situation changes with the times, when war becomes the norm, and there are major problems within the Ming Dynasty, looting may turn into aggression and into a struggle for dominance.
However, if Liaodong can become rich and the border trade can become developed, this situation will change a lot.
We cannot rule out the existence of careerists and war maniacs, but wrong measures can only add unnecessary enemies to ourselves.
This is only on the outside, and it is the same for the interior of Liaodong.
Liaodong has been in the hands of the Ming people since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and now among the residents here, the population of the Mongolian Jurchen and other tribes is less than a quarter of the total population, they are now a veritable minority here, and the number of Han people is the vast majority here.
After more than 200 years of development, the Han people, who were once the most populous here, gradually disappeared, and finally became the real masters of the Jurchens Because there are not many Han people here, except for the iron-clad battalions and flowing soldiers, there are never many Han people, and the Han people have never really taken root here.
Otherwise, after more than 200 years of development, the Han people, who account for the absolute majority, would have assimilated the people of all ethnic groups here a long time ago, and how could they still be clearly divided for 200 years, and the relationship between them would even become worse and worse.
Although the imperial court spared no effort in the defense of the northern border, if this fundamental problem was not solved, it would be impossible to relieve the border trouble, and one day, this side of the trouble would become a major problem Xia Xun thought about it, and became more and more determined to go to Hada City.
To be continued: