Baichengzi City is located on the edge of the Mu Us Desert in the south of the Hetao. It is the largest city for the Tatars to station troops and advance in the south of the Hetao.
The reason why it is called the White City is that the city walls and buildings are all made of Sanhe soil. After the Sanhe soil dries, it turns white, hence the name.
Baichengzi was once the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom established by the Huns Hao Lianbobo. Later, it was also occupied by the Dangxiang people and became the base of the Dangxiang people. After the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was destroyed, it became occupied by the Tatars.
Countless times, the Tatars went south from the Hetao Plain and along the edge of the Mu Us Desert to Baichengzi. After gathering here, they began to go south across the Gobi Desert to attack the Daming border town.
From Baichengzi, the soldiers and horses going south can be gathered to attack the Huamachi area of Ningxia to the east, Yansui Town to the south, and Yulin to the east. It is an important support and advance base for the Tatar soldiers and horses in the border towns.
There are a large number of soldiers and horses stationed in Baichengzi area all year round. After Dayan Khan Batu Mengke unified Monan, he attached great importance to the Hetao area. The number of soldiers and horses stationed in the Hetao area increased to more than 20,000. Among them, Chacha troops were stationed in Baichengzi area.
An elite team of 10,000 people from Har's headquarters and more than 3,000 tribesmen from the original Oara tribe.
These soldiers and horses have a notorious record of misdeeds. They harassed the border towns of the Ming Dynasty countless times, burned, killed, and looted countless times.
Every winter is actually the most peaceful time for the border towns of the two countries.
Even the Tatar soldiers and horses are accustomed to the severe cold weather, but no one is willing to march and fight in winter. Because the temperature in the Hetao land in winter reaches about minus 15 degrees, which can really freeze people to death.
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Therefore, after October every year, the Tatar raids will gradually stop, and all troops and horses will retreat to various forts. Using the last moment before winter, the Tatars will replenish food and supplies, arrange their troops and horses, and then
Basically, they are like hibernating beasts and no longer come out easily. They will become active again until the temperature rises in the second year.
In fact, what Yang Yiqing, Ma Ang and others said in their reports that the Tatar troops and horses were gathering in Baichengzi were actually false.
The real fact is that a team of 10,000 people from Chahar headquarters under Batu Meng was stationed on the prairie on the south bank of the Yellow River in the summer so that their horses could eat fresh grass and be affixed with a layer of grass.
After gaining a thick layer of autumn fat, you can survive the winter better.
Soldiers can also herd and produce. After all, most Tatar soldiers mount their horses to fight and dismount to farm or herd.
More importantly, stationed on the banks of the Yellow River, there will be no trouble in the consumption of water resources. After all, south of the Hetao is the Gobi desert. A large number of soldiers and horses are stationed there, which requires a large amount of clean water and food.
This is actually the normal behavior of the Tatars in the Hetao area. In early October, Chahar's main force of ten thousand people will go south from the grassland, carrying winter supplies to Baichengzi and some fortresses in the south to station defense.
Yang Yiqing was not unaware of this matter, but he described the opponent's regular troop mobilization as a large-scale gathering of troops and horses. Therefore, he cooperated with Yang Tinghe and others in planning the operation to regain the Hetao.
Of course, Yang Yiqing and others are not fools. They certainly know that launching an attack in winter is a crazy action and an action that violates the taboos of military strategists. But it is precisely because the masterminds of the plan know that the Tatars are in the Hetao area.
There are only more than 20,000 troops and horses combined, and there are only more than 10,000 troops and horses in the Baichengzi area. Therefore, even if you risk the severe cold to attack, given the huge advantage in the number of troops and horses, such a risk is worth taking.
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The 200,000 Ming Dynasty frontier troops faced more than 20,000 Tatar soldiers and horses in the Hetao area, and they launched an attack in the severe cold season that even the Tatars would not have thought of. The results are obvious. After the evaluation, the results are that in
Within a few months, we can capture the Hetao area and completely wipe out the entire Hetao area.
November 27. Fifty thousand soldiers and horses led by Ma Ang, the commander-in-chief of the Yansui Army of the Left Route Army, braved the snow and cold and arrived thirty miles south of Baichengzi. They set out from Zhenjingbao and headed north.
After nearly four hundred miles, we crossed the Gobi Desert, experienced a heavy snowstorm, and took seven days and seven nights to reach here.
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This short period of more than four hundred miles seemed as unbearable as walking thousands of miles. The snowflakes falling on the Gobi Desert would quickly melt and disappear and would not affect their march. But even so, these four hundred miles were as unbearable as walking thousands of miles.
The road still lasted seven days and seven nights, and they seriously underestimated the power of the severe cold.
Although all the soldiers had winter clothes to keep out the cold, and all the horses were equipped with warm curtains. The army also brought enough charcoal, firewood and other supplies to light fires at any time to keep warm. However, during this short journey of four hundred miles, they froze to death.
More than 300 people were killed, and more than 100 war horses were killed by ice. Compared with the few small groups of Tatars that were annihilated by uprooting three strongholds along the way, our losses were greater.
What worries Ma Ang even more is that thousands of soldiers have suffered frostbite on their hands and feet, and all the skin exposed to the wind and snow has begun to crack. Some soldiers were so cold that they could not feel it because their boots were soaked in water.
The finger has become necrotic and turned black.
A sense of panic began to spread among the troops.
But no matter what, the soldiers and horses had arrived dozens of miles south of Baichengzi. They finally arrived here. This made Ma Ang relieved.
According to the original battle plan, the four armies and horses were to assemble in pairs. Due to the different distances of sending troops, the two armies of the left and right armies coordinated their actions before attacking the Tatar soldiers and horses in Baichengzi.
, must be assembled.
The Ningxia border army led by Yang Yiqing has not arrived yet because its marching distance is farther than Ma Ang's Yansui Army. According to the order, Ma Ang's troops are to set up camp here and be on defense, waiting for the Ningxia army led by Yang Yiqing to arrive.
Arrive, then join forces to attack.
However, Ma Ang made a bold decision after careful consideration.
Since there are only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Baichengzi, he led an army of 50,000 to have an absolute advantage in numbers. According to the scouts, the city of Baichengzi actually has no decent defense measures.
I never put much effort into city defense and defending the city.
It is not their fighting method, the city is just their camp. Although Baichengzi is an ancient city, it once had strong walls and defense systems, but now it is just a large camp surrounded by low walls. Such a so-called city
, simply vulnerable.
Frostbite among the soldiers in our army is spreading, and the soldiers' emotions are becoming unstable. It is obviously not a good idea to stay in the desert and freeze in the desert.
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What's more important is that if he can capture Baichengzi in one fell swoop, he will have made his first contribution in this battle. Ma'ang was born in the border army and stayed in the army for many years, and finally got the position of Yansui Commander-in-Chief through bribery. He didn't want to
He has stayed in the windy, cold and difficult frontier all his life. If he wants to take a step forward, he must make great achievements. And this opportunity in front of him is obviously extremely rare.
Although doing this is an act of disobeying orders, as long as you win, no one can say anything. It would be stupid if you don't seize such an opportunity.
After some weighing, Ma Ang made up his mind.
In the evening of that day, Ma Ang personally led his team to a high Gobi slope and used a telescope to detect the enemy's city in the distance. He found that the situation was better than he imagined. The Baichengzi city was located on a sunken flat land.
To the northwest are endless spreading sand dunes. To the southeast are several undulating Gobi soil slopes.
Ma Ang was very happy. The Tatars are really stupid. How can they build a city in a low-lying place? This is too funny. Maybe it is because low-lying places can avoid wind and sand, but this pattern is extremely beneficial to our own attack. With that
Under the cover of several earth slopes, they would not notice if their soldiers and horses were two or three miles away from Baichengzi. Then they could launch a sudden sneak attack.
Ma Ang quickly made a plan and decided to lead his army to the slopes on both sides of the southeast under the cover of darkness that night, and then launch an attack. The northwest was the desert, and the Tatars had no choice but to flee into the desert, which was a dead end.
One. The passages on both sides of the southeast must be blocked. Not a single Tatar in this Tatar city can survive.
After returning to the camp, Ma Ang ordered to cook hot rice and beef and peppercorn soup for the soldiers to have a good and hot meal. After that, he ordered his deputy general Liu Wanli to organize the troops and horses, and he and himself each led 20,000 soldiers.
The horse set out in the dark.
The wind at night was as cold as a knife, and the soldiers' bodies were soon blown cold. The wind was very strong, mixed with sand and poured into the mouth and nose, making people unable to speak and breathless.
Ma Ang was also cold all over, but his heart was hot. He was determined to win this attack.
Two hours later, according to the original plan, the soldiers and horses led by Ma Ang and Liu Wanli successfully arrived at the back of the hillside two or three miles outside Baichengzi City. When Ma Ang emerged from the hillside and looked at the city of Baichengzi below,
What they saw was pitch black, with only a few flickering lights. The Tatars had no alertness at all, they were ignorant.
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"Attack!" Ma Ang waved his hand and issued the order in a deep voice.