Gao Jingshi received two battle reports in the afternoon of that day, the first one at 11:00 a.m., and the second one at 3:00 a.m. ET. The two battle reports were only half an hour apart, which is about an hour later.
Obviously, major changes occurred on the battlefield, which could lead to the frontline generals sending back battle reports continuously in just half an hour.
When he saw the first battle report, Gao Pragmatic's mood was calm, and he even breathed a sigh of relief.
This is because the news in the first battle report was almost all good news: the ambush went extremely smoothly, and the front line launched a parallel half-crossing attack by land and water as planned, giving the Tumen allied forces a hand in hand.
You cut it into three pieces."
Then there was a great victory on the Liaohe River. The Mongolian army was killed and "five or six thousand people without worry" drowned. Tumen Khan, who had not yet crossed the river, fled in panic.
Under the attack, "more than a thousand tribes were lost first, and then they ran south, met Zhang Wanbang's tribe, and were unable to attack them. Ma Cheng'en chased them and captured them."
As for the battle report, Ma Dong also included some words of praise and praise for Gao Pragmatic. Gao Pragmatic just glanced at it and didn't take it seriously. It was the most common thing in this era and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
He was not very excited about winning the Chaohua Division, because although he knew that the Chaohua Division in the original history later became the most powerful division in Inner Khalkha. From the middle of Wanli until it was defeated by the Jianlu,
For decades, it was a powerful force near Liaodong, known as the "Five Camps of Speculators", but that was the original history after all, and I am afraid it will not appear in this era.
Besides, although Chaohua himself has always existed as the leader of the "Five Camps of Chaohua" in the original history, in fact, Chaohua in the later period was already old and most of the time he only existed as a political symbol and was not the actual leader.
It's Zaisai.
After Zaisai was defeated and captured by Nurhaci, the fear within the Chaohua Department reached its peak and they almost did not dare to fight with them. However, Chaohua himself did not know whether he was old and confused, or he insisted on being tough before he died.
He firmly rejected Nurhaci's proposal to "change the contract", which led to a large-scale military campaign by the Jian Nu, turning the "Five Camps of Speculators" into a historical term.
So from this point of view, the image of Chaohua Taiji himself in Gao Pragmatic's mind is very average. If we have to say what is great about him, he probably only has to live a long time. Although the age record of Chaohua in Mongolian literature is
It's unknown, but based on his active years, Gao Pragmatic estimated that he might have lived to be eighty or ninety years old, which was really rare among the Mongolians of the same period.
And today's Chaohua probably doesn't live that long. Although he was captured alive, he must have been sent to the capital as a rule, but judging from the habitual calls from the Ming Dynasty, this man's head was basically unsalvageable.
Since they are all dying anyway, Gao Pragmatic naturally won't care too much, so his mentality is more of "relieved".
Don't look at this time, Gao Pragmatic's performance was very calm after the fried flower coalition forces went south. He even decided not only to fight them at the first moment, but also to give them a hard blow. But in fact, this battle was his most recent battle in recent years.
An uncertain battle.
In the original battle, Gao Pragmatic either had a crushing force and firepower advantage, or he had made various arrangements long in advance. This meant that at least one of the military advantages and political advantages must have the absolute upper hand, so he could calmly
In response, as long as you maximize your advantages, you can ensure victory.
But this time the Liaohe ambush battle was different. Although the total number of troops of the Tumen and Chaohua coalition forces was slightly less than that of the Ming army, they were not only very small in number, but they also probably had a qualitative advantage.
The bulk of the Ming army was composed of guardsmen mobilized from the Four Guards of Liaonan, with more than 20,000 people. However, even if Gao Pragmatic gave a heavy reward, it could only ensure that their fighting will would be better than that of others.
It's a lot stronger, but its combat level is still completely lacking.
Therefore, the Ming army actually had very few elite forces that it could rely on. There were only about five thousand servants and Jinghua's fleet on the Liao River. The tasks assigned by Gao Pragmatic also focused on them as the core force.
In a highly pragmatic plan, unless the Mongolian river-crossing troops make a "dispersed breakout" to the southern front, there is basically no need for the large number of guard soldiers to engage in direct combat with the Mongols.
Facts have also proved that the Mongols did not do this, and the guardsmen did not confront the Mongols head-on.
At this time, Gao pragmatism was enough to breathe a sigh of relief. He defeated Tumen with 5,000 to 6,000 troops and 20,000 cavalry. The Mongols lost 5,000 to 6,000 men and horses in the Daliao River. The Tumen Khan took the remaining
Five thousand cavalrymen fled in despair, Chaohua himself was captured, and his troops were surrounded in Hanjiawan, unable to fly...
The pre-war planning can now be basically said to have been successfully completed, leaving only the final touches.
With weak attacks and strong attacks like this, everyone should breathe a sigh of relief.
However, the fact is that Gao Pragmatic relaxed too early, because half an hour later he received the second battle report. In the battle report, Ma Dong told him with self-blame: Originally, after Chaohua Taiji was captured, he and
Ma Chengen and other generals discussed it and believed that the leaderless Chaohua tribe could not fly. Moreover, when they crossed the river, they carried almost no food and grass, and even the marching tents were behind the army... Therefore, today or tomorrow at the latest, the remaining Chaohua tribe will either be dispatched directly.
If someone wants to surrender, or there will be internal strife, there is no need to rush to attack, so as not to arouse the opponent's desperate resistance.
So the Ming army just guarded the line of defense to prevent the Mongols from suddenly coming and breaking out. Who knew that after a while, they suddenly discovered that the Mongols had taken advantage of the Jinghua fleet to launch two rounds of demonstrative shelling on the north bank. They had just prepared
Taking the opportunity to turn around, he gathered the remaining rafts and suddenly crossed the river from the upstream direction and fled.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Ming army discovered that something was wrong and urgently dispatched on both land and water, but in the end the fleet reported that it only destroyed dozens of rafts, and those who fell into the water "
"About a thousand people", and the cavalry of Ma Dong and Ma Chengen only intercepted 1,493 Mongolian cavalry, and the remaining remaining soldiers of the Chaohua tribe, about 3,500, escaped smoothly.
Gao Bingxian, who always thought of all his plans, finally made a mistake this time.
To be honest, Gao Qingzhi, who had just seen the battle report, was very angry at the moment.
These Mongolians are surrounded in such a desperate situation. You have an absolute advantage on the water, and your strength on land is more than five times that of the opponent. Just like this, you can actually let them escape?
Gao Jingshi was silent for a long time while holding the battle report. The servant of the Ma family who brought the battle report was so frightened that he did not dare to speak out. However, Ma Fang took the initiative to get up and go to Gao Jingshi to take the battle report and read it, then smiled slightly: "Congratulations on the military constitution."
Gao Pragmatic was stunned and frowned: "The plan has not been completed, why did the governor say this?"
Ma Fang shook his head and said: "Tumen, Chaohua sent 20,000 cavalry south, and now less than half of them have escaped. In other words, the army wiped out more than 10,000 enemies in just one battle. How can it not be a great victory?"
?Why shouldn’t you congratulate?”
Gao pragmatic frowned and said: "It's not easy to find the heads of those in the river."
"It's not easy." Ma Fang nodded to express his approval of this sentence, but still said: "But so what? These heads can't be found, and the impact is only on the silver reward that was finally obtained.
I think Bing Xian will take these silver rewards seriously. The key lies in whether this victory can count, which is the most important to Bing Xian."
Gao Pangshi's heart moved slightly, and he understood what Ma Fang meant, and said thoughtfully: "It is easy to verify the number of Mongolian troops sent and the number of people who fled back. The Jin Yiwei should have such capabilities in Liaodong."
That is to say, the results can be determined, but this battle is a rare battle with the Mongols in the north that focuses on water battles, so that the Mongols' losses were more on the Daliao River.
Therefore, there is really nothing we can do about the head. Even if we send people to search after the war, not much can be recovered.
But since the achievements can be determined, it is impossible for the court not to reward Gao Pragmatic accordingly.
Ma Fang's meaning is also very simple. Gao Jingshi is not short of money, and the water battle is mainly fought by the Gao family's servants. Gao Jingshi can pay for the reward himself. Anyway, this battle on the water is one-sided.
The loss to Jinghua was minimal and he could fully afford it.
On the contrary, how to distribute the military merits on land is the big problem.
The war achievements on land are divided into two parts, one for cavalry and one for infantry. But in terms of cavalry, except for Ma Dong and Ma Chengen's servants, the rest are also Gao's cavalry. Ma Fang is not sure about Gao's pragmatism.
He didn't care much about how he planned to arrange it. Judging from Gao Pragmatic's high regard for Ma Dong, he shouldn't treat him badly. The same goes for Ma Chengen.
The trouble now is that the two cavalrymen, Ma Dong and Ma Chengen, did not realize that the Mongols would suddenly choose to escape from the river at the huge risk of being sent to feed the bastards by the entire Jinghua fleet, which made Gao Pragmatic
Ma Fang was very angry just now. Ma Fang didn't know if this would affect Gao Pragmatic's decision.
In addition, the issue of infantry is also a bit tricky. The key is that in terms of infantry, only Zhang Wanbang's troops fought against Chaohua. Although the results of the battle looked quite good, the weak infantry withstood the breakthrough of the strong cavalry, and its own losses were not large.
Wherever this is placed, it will be a must-reward.
But here's the problem. The Ming army dispatched more than 20,000 infantry, and most of them didn't even meet the Mongols. It was like they went to Hanjiawan to look at the scenery and dug trenches for several days in vain.
, trapping horses in pits and other fortifications, but in the end they didn’t get any credit.
This means that except for Ma Chengen, the other three commanders in Liaonan have not received any military merit. If it is distributed like this, I am afraid that Gao Bingxian will be criticized by his subordinates afterwards, saying that his arrangement is unfair.
All the positions that are good for gaining military exploits were given to our own people. Could it be that their local generals in southern Liaoning were adopted by their stepmothers?
If you say that the battle merit is small and not enough, then forget it. Everyone is not too jealous, but it is different now. The Mongols lost more than 10,000, more than 11,000 to be precise. Such a great achievement,
Who doesn’t want to go up there and rub it in?
Not counting those in the river, the total number of beheadings and captures on the southern bank was about 3,500. This amount alone is enough to brag about! Ning Yuanbo Li Chengliang has been in Liao Dynasty for ten years, and his subordinates
How many three thousand and five can you get?
Taken together there are less than two!
What kind of great achievements do you want? With only Liaonan, you still want to replicate the Monan War again? Not to mention that Tumen’s fried flowers only brought 20,000 in total. If they come with more, Liaonan will not be able to eat it.
Now we don’t have those 70,000 to 80,000 Tumut cavalry!
Being reminded by Ma Fang, Gao Pragmatic immediately connected the relevant situations and figured it out. He couldn't help but reflect: Could it be that I really started to expand subconsciously after the battle in Monan?
After finally calming down, Gao pragmatically thanked Ma Fang for the reminder and was about to speak when a servant hurriedly ran out from outside and shouted from a distance: "Bing Xian, Qin Xierong is reporting urgently!"
Qin Xierong? Qin Deyi?
Not only was Gao Pragmatic stunned when he heard this, but even Ma Fang didn't expect it, and he frowned and started thinking.
Gao pragmatically waved to the servant, who quickly handed over the letter. Gao pragmatically took a look at the paint and saw that it was intact, so he opened the envelope and took out the letter and newspaper inside to read.
After a few glances, he met Ma Fang's probing eyes, with a hint of ridicule on his face, and handed the letter to Ma Fang: "Commander, please take a look, too. Qin Xierong refused to move his dignity before the battle. Listen.
Talking about the big victory ahead, I became impatient and asked to 'cross the Liao River to the west and level the fried flowers'... Haha, it's so good to cross the Liao River to the west and level the fried flowers! I really didn't see it. It turned out that Qin Xierong had such ambitions.
So big."
Ma Fang had already glanced at the letter quickly while Gao Pragmatic was speaking. In fact, the letter was very short, and the writing in the letter was scrawled. It looked like it was written in a hurry. It can be seen that Qin Xierong not only has great ambitions, but also has great ambitions.
It's very urgent, very urgent.
Ma Fang pondered and asked: "Although Qin Xierong is a military minister, he is not the general of southern Liaoning, but the commander of Liaodong Xierong. If he wants to send troops to the west of the Liao River, it stands to reason that he only needs the consent of the governor and the general..."
Gao Pragmatic said: "There is no need to supervise the general. He was ordered by Zhou Zhongcheng to assist Liaonan. Even if we send troops to Liaonan at this moment, it can be said that it is to completely relieve Liaonan. There is always a reason to find."
Ma Fang said: "Yes, but in this case, he needs to reach an understanding with the military constitution. Otherwise, this reason is just him talking to himself, which is not enough."
Gao Pragmatic was originally very dissatisfied with Qin Deyi's unwillingness to fight and the most aggressive behavior of attacking, but after thinking about it, he felt that the main reason why Qin Deyi was unwilling to come to Liaonan was because of Li Chengliang's explanation.
, Qin Deyi naturally did not dare to offend Li Chengliang, so he had to offend Gao Pingjing, who only took care of Liaonan. Although it made him unhappy, Qin Deyi was forced to have no choice after all, and his reluctance was excusable.
As for whether he wants to go to Liaohe Hetao...
Gao Pingshi muttered: "Commander, I think it's better to let Qin De lean on him. What do you think?"
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