Chapter 146 Gap
The Tubo horse Heima was extremely relieved and bold in resting in Qijiaojing. He neither set up a horse-rejecting horse nor digging trenches.
This is not because he was in the Western Regions, had little experience in war or was careless.
First of all, he has a lot of experience in war, and his knowledge about war is actually not much less than that of the Ming Dynasty.
As a Khan of Tubo, the Khan of the Ming army understood something that a general of the Ming army knew. As long as the influence of Chen Mu, Qi Jiguang, Zeng Xian and others who brought military technological innovation to the empire since Jiajing, basically all the Khans of Yarkand understood it.
So this is not careless, but thoughtful.
His men and horses had eight hundred heavy horses, each heavy horse was two people and three horses, a heavy cavalry and a servant, three horses were two war horses and one pack horse.
In addition, Khan's guards were just over 1,600 troops. Not only were the load horses heavy, but even the war horses carried a lot of supplies. It was a good idea to run for 400 miles in three days.
During the march, the cavalry did not have the ability to pursue the slightest pursuit ability and were exhausted.
There must be disadvantages to running like this, but there is no way. This is the combat plan of Tubo Horse Heima under the real environment.
They tried to reduce the carrying of forage and water and grain, and first entered the oasis of Qijiaojing, and rested for eight hours in the local area for supply. After resting, it would be easier to get 400 miles away. They could replenish villages, grasslands, and farmland along the way.
As for what to do if the horse runs out of the way? It doesn’t matter if the horse runs out of the way. For him who occupy Tubo, war horses are originally a consumable - this is essentially different from other hard-working khans who do not occupy the grasslands.
He was not worried that the Ming army would attack, and this was also carefully considered. Even if we traced back to ancient times, war was a mathematical problem.
From Tubo to Hami, there is a road of 800 miles.
The caravan who spyed on intelligence was one of the most horses and the horses were very fast. He sent the news back in two and a half days. He led his troops to gallop along the way for another three days, which took only five days.
The Ming army faced a shortage of troops and would not send troops to the west before Hami City was captured.
Even if the caravan leaves and reinforcements arrive, and after capturing Hami City, they send troops westward, they will have to rest in the city for one day, gather in half a day, and then march for one hundred miles a day for four days.
This is five and a half days.
Therefore, it is impossible for the Ming army to appear in Qijiaojing at this time.
But... what happened under Hami City was not as what Tubo Ma Heima imagined.
The caravan came, the caravan entered the barracks, the caravan spyed on the intelligence, the caravan left - the story happened, just like the Tubo horse Heima imagined, but Dayun followed.
Erbai sent cavalry from Liangzhou Guards and followed the caravan under Dayun's leadership. In order to avoid being discovered by the caravan, Dayun did not choose to follow the people, but followed the camel's footprints and followed the distance.
Near Qijiao Well, the wind and sand became heavier and he finally disappeared in the place where a gust of wind blew. Looking at the small village and town in the distance in the telescope, Dayun fell into deep thoughts.
‘This is Tubo? Why is it different from what I imagined?’
Finally, Dayun decided to lead his troops to sleep in the mountain nest not far from Qijiaojing. When he woke up, he felt a little tired. After eating, he slept in the mountain nest.
Then people discovered that the starry sky at night in the Western Regions is so beautiful, and the "Tubo" at night is so bright, which is the light reflected by countless people on torches.
Dayun took out his precious divine eyepiece from his bare shoulder robe, carefully wiped the lens, then looked over there, hehe, how many horses!
This divine eyepiece is from General Tong Deng, and it is not easy to come. Gansu is not like the coastal area. Although this thing has been invented for many years, even though it has not been seen by Gansu's generals and officials.
Even Tong Deng was given the title of the martial arts Jinshi by his son who passed the imperial examination earlier, and Master Wanli was happy to give it to him.
If this had been put a few days ago, he would not even think about watching it.
However, at this time, the general of Shaanxi was close to Hami. The situation of the Shaanxi general was better than that of Gansu. When it was close to Xuanfu, Hami City would have alternative divine eyepieces. Then when Dayun left the city, he handed the divine eyepieces to him and let him observe the enemy situation well.
Because Da Yun was scolded for this thing, he tried to look at it at first, and the more he looked, the more awkward he felt, and felt that this thing was not magical at all. Later, he realized that it was wrong.
This current military situation is actually the reason why the veteran generals of all walks of life wrote letters to the emperor to explore the outside world. Wanli, who upholds the tradition of the late emperor, went to Beijing to read every two years. This has a certain supervision effect on military training, but it still makes people realize the gap more.
What is the gap? The gap is that Guangdong soldiers and soldiers are the standard equipment for the Taiping guns in the world. Xuanfu soldiers cannot be put out all the rockets, let alone Beiyang.
The emperor was unwilling to put Beiyang in the military parade, just thinking that the Beiyang army was a performance show. In the tenth year of the Beiyang Wanli period, the big reading directly hung hot air balloons outside the city of Beijing and released air boats. He also asked the veteran general Ma Fang, who was cultivating in Beiyang, to take an iron horse training team to ride outside the Meridian Gate.
Not to mention the emperor, the emperor was standing in the Iron Wall of Fire De Star Lord watching the military parade. Two great generals wearing golden armor behind him were raised high, and the world Taiping gun in his arms was still holding a gun piercing.
What kind of monsters are there in the eyes of our traditional veteran generals? Who has seen those things?
Technological progress has almost split the whole world into two worlds.
The court urgently needed to install new equipment that had been put into use, but there was a shortage of anywhere and the production capacity was limited. Who should I give it to first?
If you are sure who is important first, how can you judge who is more important?
Make trouble!
The court will allocate equipment when something happens, which is one of them; if something happens, the court will also issue rewards when something happens, which is the second.
Win-win!
Dayun also wanted to get a divine eyepiece for himself, and it would be better to get a divine eyepiece with a bird gun. He heard that the divine eyepiece had marks in the chamber, and it was shot, no, the lead shots of the bird gun were different from other guns.
But he didn't. He only had a geese-winged sword and a big-shot bow. Even the carefully selected two hundred Liangzhou guards were light cavalry. Even if the horses didn't have armor on their bodies, they only had half-sleeved chain mail.
This kind of chain mail that is riveted by the lock ring is called a chain mail in Liangzhou.
But by chance, the Qijiao Well in the divine eyepiece, the cavalry from Tubo had vests. Not only did the horses have heavy armor, but even the people had heavy armor, and they were not worn on them. Tubo men were wearing short clothes and sat by the bonfire eating meat.
The armor is all in the box.
Too tempting!
Dayun didn't know what was going on. Anyway, he held the horse in one hand and the divine eyepiece in the other hand, and didn't look at the road in the dark. He got closer and closer.
The cavalry behind him were unknown, and half of them followed him, while the other half cleaned up the camp and prepared to respond.
Chapter completed!