Chapter 408 Zhu Gaojie: Let me see what’s going on first!
Zhu Gaojie acted very quickly, or he didn't want to give Ye Xian too much time to think. After cleaning up the Tatar capital, he only left an elite group of soldiers from the fifth military camp to guard the place and take care of the Tatars.
captive.
Then he took the three battalions and set off directly, marching rapidly westward, directly reaching the border between Oara and Tatar, and then stopped.
Of course, during this process, the Ming army wiped out several Tatar tribes, large and small, laying the groundwork for the Ming's future rule here...
This made the Oara generals who gathered their troops at the border a little panic after receiving the news.
Good guy, you are so menacing, you are clearly preparing to invade our Wala!
Since the news that the hundreds of thousands of Tatar troops were defeated or even almost completely destroyed has reached Oala, the military morale in Oala is not very stable. Everyone feels that the Ming army is carrying the power of a great victory.
There aren't many people on the side, so it's hard to say whether they can block it...
But he was a ruthless person first. He knew that with the arrival of the Ming army this time, there would definitely be problems in the Wala army, so he directly took the great Khan Tuotuo Buhua and brought the retinue of cavalry to the border and sat in the army.
To stabilize military morale.
In addition, they kept sending messengers to urge the other two troops to immediately send troops to support.
The tens of thousands of troops who had arrived near the Seven Guards of Guanxi and were about to start attacking the Ming Dynasty also sent messengers to rush there day and night, asking them to quickly withdraw their troops and support northward, hoping to capture Zhu Gaojie's position.
The Ming army led by him was surrounded, and then he found an opportunity to eat him in one bite!
For a time, although there were currently only more than 20,000 troops on the Oara border, and the good and bad were mixed, but because of Ye Xian's decision, the military morale was available and they were ready to prepare.
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"Haha," Zhu Gaojie stood on the temporarily built high platform, holding a telescope to look at the city in the distance, and said:
"This Wala is really not just an empty show. Look, the people on the other side know how to defend the city."
Su Wu also stared into the distance for a long time, his face looking a little solemn.
He turned around and asked a few more questions to the lieutenants around him, and then answered:
"Your Highness, Oara's army does look a little different from the Tatars. I didn't see many of their cavalry coming out to test. Instead, they hid in the city and guarded it tightly."
Zhu Gaojie was happy and smiled slightly:
"Does it look like a turtle with a shrunken head?"
Hearing this, the surrounding generals all laughed. Indeed, when the Wala people acted like this, they really looked like a tortoise. They did not attack, but only defended.
A lieutenant general said cheerfully:
"When we attacked the Tatar capital before, the army there didn't even have city guards. They just came out of the city to fight with us. How great."
For the current Ming army, although they are very good at field warfare and positional warfare, and with Zhu Gaojie's improved counterweighted artillery carriage, it is not difficult to attack the city, but it should be avoided if possible.
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After all, the three battalions are now invincible in the field!
Hearing this, Zhu Gaojie smiled and shook his head:
"You guys..."
"The reason why the Tatars do not defend the city in the royal capital is because their royal capital has no city to defend and no danger to defend. Even a small border town in our Ming Dynasty is far inferior."
"After all, their ancestors have been riding horses for generations, mainly nomadic and camping. It was rare to take craftsmen back from the Ming Dynasty, so they barely built a low wall to surround them."
"So they know they can't hold on, so they might as well rush out and give it a try."
"But Wala is different now."
Zhu Gaojie changed his tone and pointed to the faint city in front of him and said:
"Although the Wala are located on the west side of the entire Mobei grassland, and their territory is not comparable to the Tatars who occupy the central area of Mobei, their leader is very smart and cunning."
"They know that the Ming Dynasty's craftsmanship is very powerful, so they have been trying their best to steal it, whether it is sneaking into the country to plunder the population, or secretly trading with those who are cheating. In short, Wala has stolen from our Ming Dynasty over the years.
I brought back a lot of wool."
Su Wu and all the generals looked heavy after hearing this. It was okay for the simple barbarians outside the Great Wall. At most, the Ming Dynasty could only build a few more lines of defense. But if these Oara people were allowed to obtain various craftsmanship skills of the Ming Dynasty, the consequences would be a bit serious.
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"As far as I know," Zhu Gaojie moved his arms and said slowly:
"The Oara people should already have relatively mature firearms technology, and their armor coverage is not low. Moreover, according to intelligence, the Oara people have been hoarding iron tools and grain and grass over the years, and have also organized people from various tribes to start learning farming techniques. They have gradually developed
The tendency to abandon nomadic customs.”
When everyone heard this, they immediately looked at each other, what is this? Are the Wala people learning from the Ming Dynasty and turning from nomadic plundering to farming to save food?
Su Wu was stunned for a moment and quickly asked:
"Your Highness, if the Wala people have already installed firearms, then I'm afraid it won't be easy to fight in the next battle..."
The Ming Dynasty also had firearms. When the Shenji Battalion was first established, it was to form an elite force with powerful firearms.
However, the power of today's firearms is really limited, with short range, low power, and very slow reloading speed.
Ever since Zhu Di went to Mobei and found that firearms were of little use in actual combat, he had put them on hold.
Only Zhu Gaojie has been asking the Ministry of Industry to secretly conduct research and development work on firearms...
"Firearms are not a big threat," Zhu Gaojie shook his head slightly, and then continued:
"Now our divine arm bow is more powerful than the musket in terms of range and power, and the reloading is much faster. It will take a while for the firearm to be truly effective."
"Even if the Wara people are equipped with firearms, it's not a big deal. And even if they huddle in the city and defend, we can stop and build a few more artillery carts and bombard them for a few more days."
"The only thing I'm worried about is that the Walas might want to surround us and eat us until we become a big fat man."
When Zhu Gaojie thought about Ye Xian's "brilliant achievements" in history, he became very unhappy.
Therefore, he sent out a large number of elite scouts early on to spy on the military situation in a straight line in Oara territory, in order to prevent any trouble from happening.
But now, he is stationed here with his army, waiting for the scouts from all over the front to come back with news.
Otherwise, there are no satellites in this era. Even if Zhu Gaojie is possessed by Yue Fei, Zhen Rang secretly makes dumplings first. He might as well just find a piece of tofu and kill him!