Along the Heihe River, there are thousands of households on the high platform.
Yang Jiamo was determined to defend Gaotai City. He made great determination. He wanted to abandon Gaotai's 300,000 acres of paddy fields and dry land along the Heihe River. His order was to strengthen the walls and clear the fields, so as not to leave anyone behind for the thieves.
He has the confidence to dare to issue such an order.
Gansu is a military town, and the commander-in-chief has great power during wartime; he leads local soldiers from Ganzhou, who share the same hatred with the residents, reducing the possibility of plunder and rebellion; the people living in the thousands of households in Gaotai have a large number of military surplus, compared with those in the mainland
They are more organized and more obedient to orders; and the strength of the Ganzhou Army is greater than the population of the people near Gaotai.
All this creates the possibility for rapid clearing of strong walls.
Yang Jiamo wanted to carry out a good clearing of the country, with a detailed and comprehensive plan, including notification, persuasion, mobilization, evacuation, demolition and resettlement, but at the actual implementation level, the Marshal's Army did not give him such a long time.
From the time when the marshal of Gansu discussed the plan and ordered the troops to move out, the vanguard of the marshal's army and the cavalry of the Shuote Division had already rushed into the suburbs, only thirty miles away from Gaotai City.
The leading generals were Brigade Commander Mo Yujing, Commander-in-Chief Duoerji, Commander-in-Chief Cantu, and Commander-in-Chief Wei Qian'er. At first, they did not expect that Yang Jiamo would choose to strengthen the wall and clear the country in a short period of time.
Therefore, they followed the idea of an encounter. The entire brigade was led by Dorji's Heshuote cavalry as the vanguard, Gitu Taiji's 700 Chahar cavalry in the middle, and Wei Qian'er's tribe, which had the most organized military formation, was in the rear. However, on the first day of the encounter between the two sides, the scattered cavalry fought several encounters with the Ming army in paddy fields and dry land. Each Heshuote team lost more than they won.
Originally, no matter whether it was common people, military remnants, or big families with forts and surnames, not to mention that no one was willing to leave their hometown and move to Ganzhou. Just let them go with this notice, without paying any attention to working methods.
No one can stand it.
What's more, it was the local army that came, so they were not afraid. It was not the first time there was a big chaos. The people who came over from Suzhou said that the marshal's army was also a Han army. The military discipline was quite good. Those who did not rob or kill all regretted listening to the government.
They are fleeing as refugees.
You are going to make me become a refugee, which is absolutely impossible!
Even the officers and soldiers could not be mobilized, and all that was left was talking nonsense.
The common people are very courageous in watching the excitement, and are not afraid of the army who have food to eat. During the Three General Managers' Rebellion, Yang Jian sent troops to attack Yuchi Jiong, and the people watching the battle formed a human wall. The Sui army fired arrows at the people watching the battle, and used the scattered people to overwhelm Yuchi.
Different military formations.
But the situation in Gaotai was different. Originally, the people had a fierce quarrel with the soldiers who were enforcing the wall and clearing the country. The local yong even pushed and pushed him and wanted to have a fight with the officers and soldiers.
Everyone suddenly saw the braided Mongolian cavalry in the distance, raising their long swords and hard bows, and the horse's hooves were running over the field ridges one step deep and one shallow.
The Heshuote cavalrymen felt uncomfortable when their horses' hooves got stuck in the paddy fields and ridges, but they were happy when they saw the infighting between the common people and the officers and soldiers.
They are neither Chahar nor Tumote. Since their grandfathers generation, they have lacked the experience of entering the Ming Dynasty to rob. They naively believe that those men wearing cotton-padded jackets and carrying mother-in-law's dolls are no threat to them. The enemy is just Ming people wearing cloth masks.
Army.
But in the minds of Gansu men, there is no concept of Chahar and Heshuote at all. When they see their costumes, they only have one common name: "The Tatars are coming!"
The moment the first person shouted, something strange in the blood of Gansu border people must have been activated.
Everyone stopped pushing and quarreling. The two groups shared the same hatred. While protecting the mother-in-law and the baby, they retreated while picking up bows, crossbows, knives, chains, flails and big sticks and rushing up. They also shouted: "Kill the Tartars! Kill them."
Tartars!"
Dorji Taiji, the sixth son of the Great Master Khan, suffered a great impact on his spiritual world. He was frightened when he saw a group of herdsmen abandoning their horses and stumbling away in the paddy fields.
He didn't understand, thinking about how there was no grudge in the past and no grudge in the recent past, why did this group of people suddenly burst out with great enthusiasm for fighting? Then damn Liu Chengzong never beat me like this!
He has no idea what his head means in the eyes of these people. To the officers and soldiers, it is a piece of silver in the shape of a human head; to the common people, it is equivalent to a ninth-grade crown and a glorious body. They will quarrel with the officers and soldiers later.
confidence.
In frontline conflicts, more losses are lost than wins. Dorji Taiji is lost in the lake, and Chahar's Zitu Taiji is not lost in the lake at all. He is well aware of this, and he wants to find Mo Yu.
Jing: "Commander of the brigade, let General Wei go. We have learned from Chahar, and Han'er from Gansu will not see the troops."
Don't follow Beijing's example. What does it mean that true knowledge comes from practice? As for the military issues on the three sides of Ming Dynasty and Shaanxi, not to mention the Shaanxi military generals, anyone south of the Great Wall does not count. Only Ruitutaiji said
The final word.
I am a serious survivor who was beaten in turn by the border troops from three towns, so I mean whatever I say.
Soon the Mongolian brigade retreated, and Wei Qian'er's Han army camp was replaced as the vanguard. During this time, the nervous Ganzhou Army immediately became rough in carrying out the mission of strengthening the wall and clearing the country.
There was no time to inform, persuade, or mobilize. The sergeants gathered the people and ran around in teams holding torches. They took away the haystacks, rice, grain, wood, clothing and livestock outside the city. Then they took away all the fires.
Everything that was taken away was burned.
Soon, dozens of black smoke rose into the sky. Below the black smoke were burning villages and orchards with hundreds of households.
The black smoke was like a beacon, not only informing Ganzhou of the defensive methods of the high platform, but also immediately being known to Liu Chengzong who came with troops from behind.
The first thing Liu Chengzong thought of was not that the walls were fortified and the country was cleared, but that his Mongolian battalion was robbing... It’s not his fault for his habitual thinking. The Mongolian cavalry and the black smoke of the village complement each other!
He asked for paper and pen on the spot, and wrote furiously on horseback, scolding Mo Yujing for his disadvantage.
Fortunately, the two armies were very close. The first victory of the Tang soldiers was almost as fast as the second victory. Before the letter was finished, the Tang cavalry from the front line came to report: "Commander, the defender of the high platform established a strong wall and cleared the field, and the offensive of the Heshuote camp on the front line was thwarted.
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The scene of black smoke filling the sky and almost the entire land burning in Gaotai Thousand Households cast a layer of gloom in the minds of the generals of the Central Military Camp.
Strong walls and clear fields have been an extremely effective method in defensive wars since ancient times, because in war it is the army that controls the land. The army can remain invincible with the protection of the city, but for the siege army, the key to conquering the city lies outside the city. To put it bluntly, there are three necessities for attacking a city: men, materials, and food.
People are the foundation, not only the army, but also the civilians who transport supplies, and the people who work together inside and outside; materials are wood, stone, craftsmen, copper and iron, and all materials that can be used to make siege equipment; food is much simpler, food and wealth
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The Ming army and the Hou Jin Dynasty fought on the battlefield in Liaodong for so many years. Many forts on the front line were breached, but there were only three ways to capture the city. The first was internal response, the second was siege, and the third was the surrender of the defenders.<
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Because although gunpowder weapons have made great progress in this era, which has changed the situation of war to a certain extent and reduced the proportion of battle losses between the offensive and defensive sides in the siege stage, the siege methods still have not changed qualitatively.
When both sides are regular armies, the siege party cannot win with simple field artillery and long ladders. Making siege equipment is still a necessary preparation for siege.
No one can march with huge siege engines.
Therefore, a good and orderly clearing of the fortified walls focuses on relocation rather than destruction. The purpose is to transport food, materials, and people in the area, which can minimize the losses of the defenders and increase the difficulties for the siege troops, causing them to stagnate and retreat.
The army even lost morale due to being unable to do anything, and was eventually defeated.
Liu Chengzong said nothing. He balled up the nearly finished letter into a paper egg in his hand and tore it into pieces. He looked around at the frustrated expressions of the generals in the military camp and frowned.
The atmosphere in the military formation was depressing, and he knew very well that this incident had a great impact on many generals, not because of the consequences of the strong walls and clearing the country, but because of the background of the officers in the central military camp.
The Huben camp is all officers, and the war experience of the Marshal's Mansion determines that these people's background is very simple. There are not many frontier soldiers in Guyuan, Lintao, and Gansu towns. They are all from the Northern Shaanxi People's Army, Yulin and Ningxia.<
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In the marching ranks, the officers who were close to Liu Chengzong all had a common experience more or less... He once led the people to resist taxes and evade the government troops in Yan'an Prefecture, Yanchang, Yanchuan and other places, and it was also a fortified wall to clear the country.
Now they have become the people that people have to avoid even if they burn their houses. This is not a good feeling.
A blow to morale is naturally a bad thing, but Liu Chengzong believes that it doesn’t have to be this way.
He summoned Yang Yao, Han Shipan, Han Shiyou and other officers who were still in the Chinese army, and discussed: "You don't have to be discouraged by this. It's not that we have never done anything about strengthening the walls and clearing the country. It is impossible for Gaotai to relocate the people by gentle means in a short time. Since Yang Jiamo used this
We have already been disadvantaged by holding on to the means. Now we can only jump out of the high battlefield and focus on the entire Gansu to reduce losses."
"Therefore, I plan to make an order to order Mo Yujing to immediately lead his troops to advance to the high platform to prevent the army from transporting people and supplies into the city; Wei Qian'er's troops immediately rush to the countryside to fight with the people who have been mobilized and moved by the army.
After the siege of Gaotai was launched, they promised to grant them farmland and purchase land; for the people who had not yet been mobilized, a peace notice was issued, prohibiting killing, looting and robbery, and ordering people to continue farming as usual."
"Even the people who have been moved to Ganzhou by the army must know that the arrival of the marshal's army will do no harm to them."
After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he shook his head and said: "The high platform only has a population of three or four thousand, and the strong walls and clearing the fields are just because the siege equipment is slower to build. If the Ganzhou guards, who have tens of thousands of people, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, we will not even think about going east."
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The generals had no objections to this, and with the flags fluttering, the order was quickly passed to the front line. The troops of Mo and Jing and Wei Qian'er were divided into two groups. For a time, soldiers and horses came out in paddy fields and dry land on the high platform, criss-crossing each other.
Arrows were shot everywhere in the water network and ditches.
In every village and every field, small teams flying the same military flag went back and forth to fight, and the fleeing people fled in all directions. In an instant, the entire Gaotai Thousand Households fell into unprecedented chaos.
Gaotai Qianhu City has a panoramic view of everything. When he saw the Mongolian cavalry in the distance, abandoning the countryside and heading straight for Gaotai City, Yang Jiamo angrily punched the city battlements.
Just seeing the deployment of the Marshal's Army, he knew that he was still a step too late after all, and his plan to strengthen the walls and clear the country was disrupted by Liu Chengzong.
In addition to being angry, he was more annoyed with himself. He only saw the shared hatred of the Ganzhou Second Battalion during the recruitment and assembly, but he did not expect their nervousness when the plan suddenly went wrong... This army is almost entirely composed of new recruits.
, it is not enough to cope with the important task of fortifying the wall and clearing the field when fighting close to the enemy.
This tactic is a double-edged sword in itself. It just depends on whose hand the sword is in. Whoever does this well will have the sword cut to the other side.
Therefore, there was no need to rush. Long before issuing the order, he warned Wang Xingshan and the officers that since it was decided to fortify the wall and clear the country, it would be foolish to say that the people would not suffer any losses. However, the people were all loyal and brave people of the Ming Dynasty. As long as the military households were persuaded and the
Make good arrangements for transshipment and resettlement, and be grateful for people's sacrifices in fighting against the thieves. No loyal and patriotic person can tolerate the fall of his hometown.
But now when the Marshal's Mansion's army rushes and scares them, the troops sent out to perform tasks panic. When they panic, they become anxious. When they become anxious, they burn out. This thing is ruined.
What's more critical is that the Mongolian cavalry running towards Gaotai City immediately put huge pressure on Yang Jiamo. The purpose of clearing the country was to move supplies and people into the city. The city was blocked, where were those people going? It was also at this moment that Yang Jiamo realized a huge cognitive problem among them - although he was the chief military officer, he might not be able to surpass Liu Chengzong in terms of war experience.
For five years, the Ming Dynasty did not have generals like Liu Chengzong who served as the chief general to plan battles and conquered the country without fighting. On the contrary, there were several leaders on the bandit side who were in a similar situation, but none of them were as senior as Liu Chengzong.
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Not only did the Ming Dynasty not have it, Mongolia didn't have it, not even the Hou Jin Dynasty. Now the battles between the Hou Jin Dynasty and the Ming army in Liaodong are calculated in years.
Looking back fifty years, only one person had such an experience, and it was Nurhaci who conquered the five tribes of Jianzhou in five years.
As the black smoke from the conflict rushed into the sky, Yang Jiamo suddenly saw the accusations of impeachment flying towards Beijing. The Mongolian cavalry attacking the city made him see the sad scene of the enemy taking advantage of the strong walls and clear fields.
If these are the impacts caused to Yang Jiamo by the marshal's army's invasion of the high platform, then they are frightening to Wang Xingshan, the deputy commander-in-chief who is still outside.
Wang Xingshan was unable to know the precise purpose of the Mongolian cavalry rushing to the high platform, but he could realize that if the delay continued, nothing would happen to the high platform, and the battalion he led would definitely be divided, surrounded and annihilated.
Bugles sounded one after another in the outskirts of Gaotai. The scattered Ganzhou troops no longer cared about the strong walls and clearing the fields, and gathered one after another towards where Wang Xingshan was. Wei Qian'er was also happy with this. He only gathered the people to collect supplies, and did not care at all.
Talk to them.
By the time Liu Chengzong led his army to the outskirts of Gaotai, Wang Xingshan had led nearly 4,000 cavalry back to three miles south of Qianhu City, and set up a forest camp with flags waving on the edge of the endless farmland.
The two sides were separated by five miles. Liu Chengzong used a telescope to shoot at Ma Tianlong. He turned around and saw the formation thoroughly. He raised his whip and said with a smile: "It's interesting to form the formation behind the city!"
