Magui and Qataiji were in the battle ahead, and Gao Pingshi didn't care about it after laying out the strategy. He stayed quietly behind the low wall of Ixibal, waiting for the result, and took care of the various parties sent to him.
Report.
The difference between Wen Shuai and Wu Shuai is very clear in the Ming Dynasty. If we want to put it simply, it is that no matter how high the military commander is, he is basically responsible for fighting, but Wen Shuai is different. He has to take care of all aspects of things.
Fortunately, he is only temporarily in charge of the northwest military affairs as the commander of the reinforcements, and the governors will take care of the government affairs, so it is easier to just ask about the military affairs.
However, given the current situation in the northwest, military affairs are also in great trouble, and can even be said to be a mess.
Gao Guangxian is certainly responsible for this messy situation, but in fact it cannot be said that he is completely to blame, because in the final analysis, the Ming army's own problems are the root cause of the Ming army's inability to cope with various situations.
What's the problem? The old problem, lack of money. The root of all evil is lack of money.
Although the three sides of Shaanxi are the "nine sides" area, it is actually the area that is relatively least valued among the nine sides. This "relative" has not appeared recently. Wang Yangming once said that there were four places in the Ming Dynasty.
It is most important and must not be lost, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.
Which four places? Ji Liao Xuanda.
In fact, this is not Wang Yangming’s unique view. The top brass of the Ming Dynasty were all aware of this. Otherwise, why would Gao Pragmatic be able to nominally control more than 800,000 troops after he also served as the manager of the seven towns? The reason is that the Ming Dynasty put the elite
Almost all of them are placed here.
With limited resources, Jiliao Xuanda took the big part, and the rest obviously had to take the small part. Although the three sides of Shaanxi received more attention from a military perspective than those in the south, they could not stand up to the economic conditions of the southern provinces.
It's better, but the three sides of Shaanxi are here... Since the decline of Guanzhong, it has long since lost its prosperity in the Han and Tang Dynasties. How can it be compared with the south? Therefore, as long as the imperial court's financial tilt is not enough, the three sides of Shaanxi can only live a hard life.
It is not enough in the first place. In addition, this year's military expenditures have been greatly reduced and the vassal ban has been greatly reduced. Even relying on the inherent financial system to maintain the situation is in jeopardy. How can it not be bad if something goes wrong? The reason why Gao Guangxian always wanted to keep calm before was not because he felt that there would be a war.
Can't afford it?
Of course, this issue requires a dichotomy. For example, Gao Pragmatic believed that Mr. Gao Guang relied on the other party not to make a big deal, but seriously lacked subjective initiative and the ability to make decisions on major issues. Because of this, he made up for the failure after taking action.
He decisively gave up on Gao Guangxian, and then went into battle himself to wipe the butt of the Sanbian Shi School.
From the perspective of outsiders, the current problem for the three sides is that they are being beaten from multiple directions. As long as the highly pragmatic army defeats the rebels in one fell swoop, whether they are Kuaibai, Boshu Ketu, or the Huo Luochi brothers, they will all be defeated or even defeated.
By annihilating them, the problems of the three sides will naturally be solved.
This idea, if you have to say it is wrong, is correct, but it is really just treating a headache and treating a pain, and treating the symptoms but not the root cause. Since ancient times, in the confrontation between the agricultural and mulberry civilization of the Central Plains and the nomadic civilization of the north, most of the time, the agricultural and mulberry civilization was the dominant one.
Defend, nomadic civilization mainly attacks.
During the two prosperous periods of the Han and Tang dynasties, they launched counterattacks at the peak of their national power and achieved quite brilliant results. However, the problem was not solved, because as long as you weakened slightly, the offensive and defensive transitions would come back immediately.
Some people say that this is determined by national characteristics, saying that people are wolf totems and advocate offense. However, Gao Pragmatic does not agree with this view. He believes that this is mainly determined by the level of weapons and the development of military tactics.
In later generations, Outer Mongolia still maintained most of the traditions and characteristics of the nomadic people. Why didn't we see them going south?
This analogy may be a bit inappropriate, but the truth is still obvious: when hot weapons have developed to a certain extent, and the weapon advantage of the nomads has been reversed, what else are they going to do if they go south and give away their lives?
The cavalry horses are also weapons themselves, just like the means of transport for mechanized troops. Even if they are not equipped with weapons, you cannot say that they are not part of the weapons.
So there is a question here: Why is Jiliao Xuanda rarely beaten now, but the three sides of Shaanxi are beaten this time? Military strength is one thing, financial resources is another, and the two aspects combined can get
Here is an answer: The leaders of the nomadic people believe that attacking Ji Liao and Xuan will be extremely dangerous, while attacking Shaanxi will be safe on all three sides.
Ji Liao Xuanda answered the Mongols through two battles: the Battle of Monan and the Battle of Southern Liao. In these two directions, as long as you dare to take action, I dare to cut off your hand, and I will definitely cut it off.
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War must have a purpose. If it fails to achieve its purpose, it will cause serious losses to itself. No matter who is in power, they will not be stupid enough to keep fighting. The Mongols are certainly no exception, not to mention the Mongolians' tolerance for losses.
In fact, his ability is far worse than that of Ming Dynasty.
Because of this, after Burihatu became the mastermind of the Tumen, he persuaded the Tumen to give up the futile border raids in the past, and instead seize the time to recuperate, develop agriculture and commerce, and actively work for the fire.
Luo Chi and others made suggestions and encouraged them to cause trouble for Ming Dynasty.
For Burihatu or the left-wing Chahar Department, the border raids against Jiliao have become a loss-making business. Rather than inflicting heavy losses and no benefits every time, it is better to find other ways to
In order to obtain the daily necessities produced by the Ming Dynasty, as for the increasingly severe and urgent military pressure from the Ming Dynasty on them, they need to be released through other means.
Tumut, who was living well with the Ming Dynasty, was definitely not willing to take this "path", so Burihatu set his sights on the northwest, stirring up chaos throughout the northwest.
It has to be said that Burihatu is indeed a talent. Not only did he hit Ming Dynasty's seven inches with this move, it can at least be regarded as hitting Ming Dynasty's weak spot.
But in this way, the problem that Gao Pragmatic needs to solve is divided into two parts. First, of course, it is to solve the immediate military crisis, and then it is necessary to smooth out other unstable factors as much as possible.
From Gao Pragmatic's point of view, the current military crisis is not terrible in itself. Although the Kuaibai Rebellion in history was not as violent as the Northwest Rebellion this time, several forces were basically involved, but only to a limited extent.
Not as serious as this time.
From a military point of view, as long as today's operation is successful - Gao Pragmatic has no doubt about this - then the Northwest Rebellion will only consist of Kuaibai Yidang and Huo Luochi, focusing on Brother Rabbit, without Boshu Ketu. The set department is elite, pragmatic and confident that it can be settled in a short time.
At least it can be put down much faster than the Kuaibai Rebellion in the original history.
However, the next issue is more complicated. After all, it is an objective fact that the court has no money, and now that the matter has come to this, it is impossible for the court to suppress the ban on the opening of vassal states and go back to repay military pay to the three sides of Shaanxi.
The most taboo thing about national plans is to change them overnight. At most, you can only make some adjustments in small details. Otherwise, the impact will be too great and it will be difficult to control. If the issue of opening a feudal vassal and banning causes trouble due to insufficient funds, not only the losses caused by it will be difficult to control. It is expected that it will have a serious impact on the prestige of the emperor, the cabinet and even the entire imperial court.
In a unified country, the prestige of the central government must not decline. Once it declines, it is a sign of impending troubled times. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic cannot expect the court to allocate money to help, and can only find a way to solve it himself.
Of course, Jinghua is the leading commercial giant in the Ming Dynasty, but Jinghua has already invested a lot of money in southern Xinjiang, and it seems to be a bottomless pit for the time being. Who knows how much money it will cost in the future, so it is impossible to let Jinghua directly Spending money in the northwest - not to mention the political danger of "buying people's hearts" in this move, Gao Pragmatic would not dare to try it easily.
The best way is of course to find money on the spot, but this sounds almost like nonsense. Where can I find money in places like Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia?
Even though Gao Pragmatic can use his prestige within the Practical School to mobilize local treasury money, that is, the money that each locality does not have to hand over to the central government, the amount of this money may not be enough, and secondly, Gao Pragmatic cannot really control other people's houses. The storehouses were all emptied, leaving no surplus food for anyone, so it’s hard to say how far we can go, but it’s definitely not enough.
Gao Pragmatic thought about it and even began to consider whether the punitive treaty against Myanmar during the Yunnan-Burma War could also be applied to the Ordos Department.
Unfortunately, the situation in Ordos and Myanmar are really different and cannot be copied so simply.
Why? Because of Tumut.
Under the manipulation of Gao Gong and Gao Pragmatic, Tumut can now be regarded as the more loyal little brother of the Ming Dynasty. However, although this little brother is relatively loyal, his status is still quite special. Even the Ming Dynasty must It must be treated with caution. It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to treat Tumut like the way Gao pragmatically treated Nurhaci before, just sending a letter directly and asking people to withdraw their troops without even bothering to give a reason.
After all, Nurhachi only has three to five thousand soldiers now, but Tumut's core of the Mongolian right wing can pull out one hundred thousand cavalry in minutes. Can this be compared?
As for the Ordos tribe, it happens to be the "sphere of influence" that Tumut has defaulted to, and it is even part of what they consider to be their own strength. Otherwise, no matter how high pragmatism persuades Hannaji to be in their own body this time, it is "possible" that they will be attacked. Even when Tumen launched a sneak attack, did they still send Qataiji to lead 30,000 troops to Hetao?
Without him, Tumut regards Ordos as just a part of himself.
In other words, if Gao Pragmatic asks the Ordos Ministry to cut off its flesh, it will be equivalent to Tumut's cutting off its flesh. When the time comes, there may be troubles in how to balance the internal affairs of Hannaji and Zhongjin Hatun.
Tumut can't get into trouble now, because the premise of the Eastern System is Western Huai. If the right wing cannot stabilize the situation, the Eastern System will be out of the question - at least it will greatly delay the success of the Eastern System in the Ming Dynasty. This will
It is tantamount to running counter to national policy.
According to Gao's pragmatic calculations, the punishment that Hannaji or Tumote can accept for the Ordos tribe is probably limited to the punishment of Boshu Ketu himself. If we add a few "war criminals", the scope of the attack will be very large.
It cannot be expanded too much, especially it cannot seriously damage the strength of the Ordos Department.
However, it is not that no work can be done here. For example, Hannaji will definitely not object to suppressing Boshu Ketu more severely, and even depose Boshu Ketu from the position of Jinong as planned.
Through intimidation, Boshu Ketu's prestige within Ordos has been greatly weakened - Gao Pragmatic and Han Naji have no real intention to depose him for the time being, because the current situation does not allow for too much turmoil within Ordos.
But in any case, this is another matter, and has nothing to do with resolving the financial difficulties in the northwest in a pragmatic way.
As for the brothers Kuai Bai and Huo Luochi, Kuai Bai has nothing to say. He must have returned to the fatherland after all the fighting. But after Kuai Bai started recruiting troops and buying horses, he didn’t know how much money was left in Ningxia’s treasury. He hoped to get it from him.
Getting rich is basically unreliable. If you don't lose too much, you'll be lucky.
And Brother Huo Luochi... how much money can these two have? Even if they wipe out the tribe together, they will probably be able to get some cattle, sheep and horses. Although this is also property, the digestion capacity of the northwest must be considered. Now the northwest is
When there is a war, it is even less possible for the people to spend money randomly to buy cattle and sheep, and there are many horses that are not allowed to be purchased by the people, so even if everything goes well, it will be even more difficult to cash out these things.
What's more, this matter may not go so smoothly - Huo Luochi and Zhulitu are no better than Boshu Ketu. These two are not impulsive young people. It is difficult for them to have the courage to think about catching Gao Pragmatic, so they lure
If the enemy penetrates deeply, the strategy of ambush, encirclement and annihilation is basically unfeasible.
If they can't lure the enemy deep, ambush, encircle and annihilate them, then the Ming army really has no good way to deal with these tens of thousands of cavalry. With bayonet formations and hot weapons that far exceed the original historical level, if these two brothers come to a head-on confrontation, then of course
I'm not afraid. What I'm afraid of is that people won't come.
Qinghai is so big, if the two brothers turn around and run away when the situation is bad, even Gao Pragmatic can only stare. If he dares to gather all the Gao family cavalry deployed in the Ming Dynasty, and cooperate with the cavalry troops in the Ming army, or
Being able to persuade Tumote to send troops to assist does not mean that he cannot pursue the pursuit in depth, but the problem is that he simply does not have the time now.
There is no doubt that his main mission in coming to the northwest is to re-stabilize the situation in the northwest, not to pursue two long-legged Mongolian generals thousands of miles away.
Therefore, Huo Luochi couldn't make any money here, so he had to find another way to spend the money needed to stabilize the northwest.
Just when Gao Pangshi, the God of Wealth of the Ming Dynasty, was beginning to have a headache, the battle report came - Ilduzi immediately found out the situation and came to report the battle situation in person.
Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised, because Ilduqi only had two tasks in his plan, first to lure the enemy, and secondly, once Boshu Ketu successfully broke through, Ilduqi and Chaterji would work together to pursue him.
suppress.
Since he should be chasing and suppressing him, shouldn't the one who came to report the situation be Ma Gui, who had completed the ambush but couldn't outrun Boshu Ketu?
However, Ilduzi brought good news. The smoothest possible possibility in the original combat plan appeared-Boshu Ketu did not run away.
After it was surrounded, due to the sudden appearance of Tuotuo, the morale of the Ordos tribe, which had been stunned by the ambush, collapsed directly. Boshu Ketu himself also lost confidence and finally led his troops to surrender.
At the same time, Ilduzi also brought another unexpected good news. This news made Gao Pragmatic extremely happy, and he even seemed to see the dawn of a solution to the financial difficulties in the northwest.
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