Faced with Zhang Fengyi's request, Pang Yu originally tried to reason with him, pointing to the map of the capital and analyzing the pros and cons: Now our army has reached Shunyi, and it happens to form a triangle with the capital and Changping. The main camp of the Tatar Army is in the Juyong area of ??Changping, more than a hundred miles away.
"This cannot be moved easily - so many looted supplies, livestock, and people need to be transported away in a day or two." Even if they had been moving outside the Great Wall during this period, they would not be able to complete it in a short time.
Our army will almost be able to reach the place in another three to five days of walking. The enemy must be saved if he attacks. No matter where Hong Tai's fellow is, he must rush back to fight our army. In a face-to-face fight, our army is sure to win!
But if we return to Beijing now, it is still about 80 miles away, and the infantry will have to walk for at least two days to arrive. But what happens when we get to the city walls of Beijing? If the other party pats his butt and walks, don't you still have to follow him to Changping to dig sand?
What's more, the Tatar army is definitely not making such a big fuss just to make our army run around for no reason. They must be peeping from the side at the moment, just like a pack of wolves quietly hiding in the dark. As long as they seize the opportunity, they will rush in. Come out and bite and attack!
The opponent used tens of thousands of cavalry to attack thousands of our troops with all their strength. The outcome was unpredictable. If the Qiongzhen reinforcements are defeated, can your capital be saved?
Pang Yu gave the old man a thorough analysis of what should be said and what should be said. But it had no effect - the old man was obviously frightened, and he kept saying one sentence over and over again: The emperor has issued an edict, ordering you to return to the army!
Including the emperor's edict he brought, which was also written by Emperor Chongzhen, it actually stipulated that Qiongzhen soldiers and horses should arrive at the capital within one day. Just through these words, everyone in Qionghai Navy could feel a sense of rashness and impatience. And a whiff of hysteria.
In the second year of Chongzhen, when the changes had already taken place, Zhu Youjian's mental state was probably like this. However, five years later, when Huang Taiji repeated his old tricks, the young emperor fell into the same pit again.
Pang Yu now finally knows how the Ming Empire fell - at critical moments, the Ming Emperor actually liked micromanaging like Duke Kaishen a few years later! No wonder that in the Battle of Songjin and the Battle of Tongguan a few years later, famous ministers such as Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting would be tricked to death.
History books only say that the emperor issued an edict to urge the war, but what the edict specifically said was not recorded. But now judging from the edict they received, Zhu Youjian's problem of being impatient at critical moments cannot be changed. God knows what messy edicts he issued at that time.
He, a otaku who has never left Beijing in his life and has never left the Forbidden City since he ascended the throne, actually has the courage to treat the world like a chessboard, treat the army and generals as chess pieces, and move them back and forth with a piece of edict. Do you really think this is a chess game?
After talking for a few more words, Pang Yu finally became desperate and didn’t want to waste any more time with the other party. He silently left the tent and went outside to light a cigarette and relax his mind.
Xie Xi also came out and lit a cigarette. The two smoked in silence for a moment, then smiled softly and said:
"I'll let you explain it all. It seems that your title of 'strategist' is really not for nothing, huh?"
Faced with Jie Xi’s half-joking praise, Pang Yu shook his head helplessly:
"There's nothing to be proud of. It's like two people playing chess, trying to mobilize each other's chess pieces Now I have a little understanding of Huang Taiji's chess moves. But I didn't expect that he could actually come through the Ming Dynasty court. Mobilize us, but the other one is completely manipulated by the opponent - Zhu Youjian and Huang Taiji, the truth of the two people's levels is too far apart."
After blowing out a few puffs of white smoke, Pang Yu suddenly asked an incomprehensible question:
"I said, Lao Jie, we have been in this era for so many years. Are you sure that there are really no supernatural powers in this era?"
"Well?"
Jie Xi was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and then replied:
"Apart from the fact that we traveled through time and space inexplicably well, I've never heard of it. If it were true, we would have been here long ago if we have danced so fiercely in the past few years, right?"
"That's strange - I really doubt that someone has tricked them. Otherwise, why would they all act stupidly at the critical moment? For example, the guy inside, Lin Hanlong and the others had dealt with him before, and they thought he was of the same level. It’s not bad. It’s impossible to be a fool to climb up to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War. Why do you become so dim and timid now? No matter how you say it, you can’t explain it?”
Pang Yu pointed inside the tent with a look of helplessness on his face:
"As for Zhu Youjian, not to mention, he will make mistakes in every big event. Grandma, you still have the nerve to say that he is a minister of the country's subjugation?"?
Regarding Pang Yu’s complaints, Jie Xi could only smile bitterly:
"It was like this at the end of the dynasty. When we look at Cixi and Li Hongzhang from a historical perspective, don't we think they did a lot of stupid things, but under the conditions at that time, they were already the elite among the elite."
The two chatted for a while, finished smoking a cigarette and relaxed, and finally brought the topic back to the present:
"How do you plan to respond to Chongzhen's request?"
Jie Xi asked, and Pang Yu laughed:
"Didn't you mention it last night? It's better not to ignore the customer's request completely, but there is no need to listen to it all. I'm sure that if we really rush towards Beijing in a straight line now, we will definitely encounter enemy troops halfway. Ambushes and surprise attacks.”
"So our situation is not good?"
Jie Xi frowned, while Pang Yu sneered softly:
"That's not necessarily the case, we are not obedient chess pieces. Who stipulates that if the idiot playing chess puts us to death, we must follow suit?"
"In addition, Huang Taiji's strategy is indeed very clever, and his various off-board moves are dazzling. It's a pity that no matter how clever he is, he still can't solve the most fundamental problem"
Pang Yu gently patted a cannon beside him and sneered:
"Let him ambush us from all sides, and he won't be able to gnaw at our chess piece!"
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Qiong Haijun finally marched towards Beijing.
Just as Pang Yu said: After all, they cannot completely ignore the requirements of major customers. The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were so desperate to ask for help, they must give the Ming Emperor this face.
However, Qiong Haijun would never take the risk of getting himself involved, so he would not pay attention to the foolish talk of "reaching the capital within one day". The marching route of the troops did not follow a straight line, but still returned the same way, first back to Tongzhou, and then continued towards Beijing along the Tonghui River.
Zhang Fengyi naturally raised objections to this route, but since Qiong Haijun's plan has been decided, of course they will not pay attention to him anymore. To put it bluntly, they returned to the army to show face to Zhu Youjian, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but not because of Zhang Fengyi's request. They could afford to offend a mere minister of the Ministry of War.
What's more, Pang Yu also told him that if he really wanted to go directly to Beijing, there would be an ambush along the way. Zhang Fengyi was still half-convinced when he said this. However, as Qiong Haijun retreated along the same route, cavalrymen quickly appeared on both sides of the road. The Tatars on horseback were on sentry duty. They were in small groups, sparsely peeping at the team from a distance.
If this is a Ming army, they will definitely come up to harass them. They only need to shoot a few rounds of light arrows from a distance to plunge the Ming army into chaos. It might even collapse directly. Of course, if this is really a Ming army, a team of only five to six thousand people, three or five Niulu can defeat it head-on, and there is no need to harass them.
But now they are facing the Qiong Navy, a firearms unit with ultra-long range. Both the Hou Jin and the Mongolian cavalry dared to hang far away and observe the actions of the Qiong Navy within the limits of their eyesight. If they were not forced by their superiors with strict orders and generous rewards, these people would have escaped long ago. .
Even so, from time to time there are people who are unlucky or who respond too slowly. The Qiong Navy is mainly infantry, but it is not that they do not have horses. In fact, the number of mules and horses attached to this unit is probably not as large as The Hou Jin soldiers were few, and they could not be compared with the Mongolian grassland nomads who were accustomed to one man with two horses and one man with three horses.
Most of Qiong Haijun’s livestock are used in the baggage train, but there will certainly be no shortage of horses for patrols and rangers. Northern Latitude had taken most of them away before, but with the arrival of several main regiments, each regiment also had its own reconnaissance and patrol personnel. At this time, they were organized and scattered around the large army, specifically responsible for covering the battlefield and expelling the surrounding areas. The other party scouts.
These patrol troops are organized into squads and platoons. Each person is equipped with two horses. They circle back and forth within their area of ??responsibility. If they find an enemy appears, they will switch to a backup horse with sufficient physical strength and rush forward to fight. A volley of gunfire
Although they are still equipped with "old-fashioned" Qionghai rifles, it is enough for those Jinmeng cavalry whose riding and shooting distance does not exceed thirty meters to know what weapons generation difference is. As long as the opponent's number is less than one hundred, it is basically a unilateral massacre. If the enemy gathers a large force and wants to retaliate, move closer to the large force. Sending a company from the main force to take over is enough to make the opponent retreat in spite of the difficulties.
As gunshots continued to sound, Zhang Fengyi finally believed the theory that the Hou Jin Army had an ambush. After all, he also knew that if Qiongzhen's march route met the opponent's expectations, the enemy would definitely not make any moves and would just wait for the opponent to step into the trap. And likeWith constant friction like this, he must be trying to cause interference.
However, Qiong Haijun's actions were not interfered with by the enemy, and they still moved forward at their own pace. It took only one day to return to Tongzhou and rest in the city for another day. In the early morning of the next day, the entire army left Tongzhou and marched toward the capital along the Tonghui River.
But not far away, near a bridge, Pang Yu walked up to Tang Jianjian and said to him:
"It's almost done, let's go here."
Tang Jianpo looked at him in surprise, then looked around:
"Fight here? Is there anything special about this place?"
Pang Yu smiled:
"It's nothing special. In fact, for our army, as long as the place is open enough, it doesn't matter where we fight. It's just that in our era, something happened in this place"
He raised his finger and pointed at the towering bridge that the entire army had just passed:
"That bridge was built in the Zhengtong period, and its original name was 'Yongtong Bridge'. But in our time, it was known by another name"