Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2137 Zong Baikui ([-]) Jinghua Dark Chess
Facts have proved that Liu Ting's worry is superfluous, it is just a natural vigilance formed by leading troops on the front line for a long time.This canyon was deserted, and although Liu Jiajun's team of [-] cavalrymen was stretched out because of the width, the passage through it was extremely smooth in the end. [Note: This place is now called the Pingshan Lake Grand Canyon, and there are even many real-life pictures on Baidu Maps. ]
Passing through the canyon, the rest of the road is still in the valley between the mountains, but the mountains on both sides are no longer towering and steep, and can be seen at a glance, which also means that the army is unlikely to be ambushed.

At this time, the cavalry soldiers continued to maintain the marching posture of leading the horses-this is the meaning of the title, because the Liu Jiajun cavalry said that they are not afraid of the mountains, mainly because they themselves are the foundation of "mountain infantry", and at the same time master He learned the technology of leading horses to march in the mountains.

This is actually a matter of course, because people can do things like mountain training, but Marco may not.Humans are the most learning species, but horses are basically gifted.In particular, today's war horses of the Ming army are based on the blood of Mongolian horses after all, and they were not born for activities in mountainous areas. They need someone to help them move in mountainous areas.

Since even the march requires the help of the cavalry around them, it is naturally impossible for the cavalry to ride, but can only dismount and walk.In fact, not only in the mountains, even when the cavalry of Liu Ting's troops marched on flat ground, as long as they needed to travel long distances, they would often dismount the cavalry and lead them along.

This reason has been said before, because the advantage of horses is that apart from carrying weight, it is mainly in explosive power, but in terms of endurance, it is not as good as humans.Of course, Mongolian horses have an advantage over war horses from other parts of the world in this regard, but the war horses of the Ming army—especially the few Ming army horses that received special care from Gao Yushi—are almost not pure-blooded Mongolian horses, but It is bred by crossing other horse breeds.

To put it simply, Mongolian horses have strong endurance and are particularly easy to feed, but they are short in size and lack explosive power.Therefore, Gao Yushi asked Jinghua's racecourse to breed a more "universal" or "balanced" horse long ago. At that time, his goal in mind was actually the Don horse of the Cossack cavalry.Of course, it refers to the Eastern type among the Don horses.

There are two main types of Don horses: the Eastern type, with a dry constitution, strong power, fast speed, and suitable for riding;

The reason why Gao Yushi aimed at the Don horse was because the origin of the Don horse made him feel that Jinghua had the ability to breed it.The Don horse itself is bred on the basis of the strong Mongolian horse on the Siberian treeless prairie, the Akhal-Teke horse (produced in Central Asia), which is famous for its speed, and the mixed blood of Persian and Arabian horses.

Later, Orlov, thoroughbred horses and mixed high-grade Arabian horses were also used to improve the grade of Don horses in the early [-]th century.

Regardless of the "later" batch for the time being, the excellent Mongolian horses in the early part will undoubtedly be difficult for Gao Pragmatic, while the Central Asian horses, Persian horses, and Arabian horses are all goods that Jinghua can obtain through commercial means-although it is very difficult. Expensive, but doable if you can get it.Of course, what Gao Pragmatism wants more is to allow Daming to directly control the production area of ​​BMW in Central Asia.

Because the goal is clear and the conditions are sufficient, the horse breeding work has continued over the years, and great progress has been made.With the [-] cavalry of the Liu Ting Department, no more than [-] war horses are needed (actually only [-] horses, supplied by Jinghua, jointly funded by the Ministry of War and Yuanma Temple), and the horses are selected and bred from the same population that is relatively stable, with high consistency . [Note: The attributes of the populations cultivated in the early stage are often not stable, and it takes longer to stabilize the genes. ]
In short, the cavalry horses of Liu Ting's troops are not as good as Mongolian horses in terms of endurance, but their speed and explosive power are superior; in terms of speed and explosive power, they are not as good as Central Asian horses, but they have strong endurance and are not delicate.On the whole, these horses have basically met the high practical requirements, which is a bit like a Don horse.

After passing through the canyon, although Liu Ting knew that the soldiers could still persevere, considering that although the horses had never carried people, they were all carrying dozens of catties of various supplies, so he decided to take a break and feed the horses.There is only one thing that is not good to rest here. There is no running water source, and the snow must be collected and burned, and then fed to the horses after cooling, which is somewhat troublesome.Considering this, Liu Ting simply ordered the whole army to eat dry food on the spot, so as not to waste time.

The whole marching process is probably like this.Liu Tingbu first crossed the Longshou Mountains, walked on the green land on the edge of the mountains and the Gobi, and headed northwest until he saw a big river in the distance—not the Yellow River, but the Black River.

Heihe, that is, Guruoshui (the northern section of Heli Mountain) and Heishui (generally refers to the Heihe Inner Mongolia section downstream of Ruoshui).Once named Heli River, Qiang Valley River, Fresh Water, Overlying Water, Vice-injection Water, Zhangye River, and Ganzhou River, it is the second largest inland river in Northwest China and the largest inland river in Gansu Province in later generations.

The Heihe River originates from the middle section of the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains and flows through Qinghai, Gansu and Inner Mongolia.The downstream is called Ruoshui (ancient Ruoshui), and the river section in Inner Mongolia is called Ejina River, which means black water in Xixia language, and disappears in Juyanhai.The Heihe River is also the main source of domestic water for tens of thousands of miles in Ganzhou and its surrounding areas, with a total length of nearly [-] miles.

However, seeing the Black River at this time has two main meanings for Liu Ting's tribe: one is to replenish the fresh water consumed by walking on the edge of the Gobi for two to three hundred miles, and the other is to determine the direction to go next.

Supplementing fresh water is an important task in fighting in the semi-desert area of ​​the northwest. It is not necessary to go into detail every time, but it is very important to determine the direction, because according to the pre-war plan, it is time to cross the Heihe River at this time, and the whole army will turn to the southwest Going in the same direction - one hundred miles away in this direction is Jinta County, Gansu Province in later generations. If the direction remains the same, if you advance another hundred miles, you will arrive at Suzhou, which is Jiuquan City in Gansu Province in later generations.

By the way, more than [-] miles northwest of Suzhou is the famous Jiayuguan.It was built here in the Ming Dynasty, and after it was completed, it became the most important pass in the Ming Dynasty to control the northwest, which led to the gradual desolation and abandonment of Yumen Pass.

From this point of view, Xu Sanwei may feel that losing Suzhou is not terrible, but losing Jiayuguan is the real big trouble. He asked Liu Ting to send troops as soon as possible because he was worried that the court would hold him accountable for losing Jiayuguan.Of course, there is no need to say what he thinks for the time being, and I will show Liu Ting first.

Of course, the name "Jinta County" does not exist today, and the Ming Dynasty only has "Weiluwei" here, and the name of the administrative place is "Weilu City".This city is not big, only three miles on Wednesday, such a city usually does not have too many troops, but if it is really necessary, it is not too difficult to cram 2 people in.

However, in fact, the Weiluwei has long since ceased to exist. This does not mean that the Weiluwei was killed by Brihatu. It was abandoned as early as the Yongle Dynasty.

At the beginning of Yongle, "Benwei (Weiluwei) army won meritorious service and beheaded the first rank. Zhao Chun, the inspector and censor, thought that he would kill and surrender, and wanted to kill the officers and soldiers who won the meritorious service. Because of this, the people rebelled..." The result was that the people After fleeing, the castle was empty, so in the third year of Yongle, Wei Luwei was cut off.

However, although the Weiluwei is gone, a few years ago, because of the highly pragmatic strategy of strengthening the frontier, it began to be reinforced into a large dock.The new "Weilu City" was renamed "Weilu Fort". Although there were no imperial troops stationed there, there were "three thousand brave local villagers", and it actually became a satellite city of Suzhou.

Of course, the above is not the reason for the detailed introduction of Weluburg. The real reason is: Liu Ting learned that Weluburg has not been broken so far and is still in the hands of Han Jiaerlang!

The news is shocking, right?Liu Ting also thought so at first.The reason is very simple. Weilubao itself is not too big, and there is no army stationed there, only "three thousand brave men". What is the use of such a scale when the tide of [-] troops from Brihatu comes?

Theoretically speaking, as long as Suzhou is lost, Weilubao, as one of the key satellite cities of Suzhou, should fall immediately, and Buri Hatu should not allow it to be conquered by the Mongolian army for so long. !

However, as a high-level general, Liu Ting, in addition to getting information from the imperial court, could also get intelligence support from the Jinghua Trading Company along the way—just like he learned the secret road through Longshou Mountain.

The Gansu Branch of the Jinghua Trading Company informed Liu Ting that the so-called "Three Thousand Township Braves" in Weluburg are actually all Jinghua people, and their official establishment is: Jinghua Mining Gansu Weluburg Copper Mine Protection Team.

Yes, Jinta County in later generations, and now Verluberg, has an advantageous mineral resource - copper mine.The Ming court actually had restrictions on the mining of copper mines, but Gansu was too remote, and the court had no interest in mining at all.So Jinghua got the deal, built a copper mine in Verluberg, and also set up a mine protection team in accordance with the usual practice.

As an important strategic material in the current era, copper mines are too inefficient for the imperial government to be too lazy to develop them, but Jinghua does not dislike them. Therefore, six or seven thousand miners are gathered here, and after a little selection, there are three thousand mine guards.

These people usually mine, and only when danger is approaching will they turn to arms.Because they have serious jobs, they naturally won't leave Werburgburg in a leisurely manner, so that Suzhou, which is close at hand, doesn't know how strong they are.When Suzhou was captured by a wave of raids by Burihatu, Weilubao was armed urgently to withstand the attack of a Mongolian army under Burihatu's department.

After the Mongolian army learned about it, they mobilized nearly ten thousand troops to attack again, but they were easily repelled. At that time, Burihatu got angry in a rare way.However, after Brihatu inquired about the defense of Werluberg in detail, he no longer blamed his subordinates for their incompetence. Instead, he gave an order after pondering for a long time. Out of Wubao, the Mongolian army will no longer invade.

Of course, Brihatu was not merciful, but that Wei Lubao was impeccable-thanks to the fact that the original city in this place was not big, Jinghua rebuilt its city defenses into a bastion.Sixteen No. [-] heavy guns and more than two hundred intersecting firepower nets of city fire guns made the Mongolian army, which lacked the means of heavy firepower to attack the city, only look at Weilubao with admiration.The Wall of Sighs belongs to Yes.

And the reason why Liu Ting was sure to take down Suzhou in a surprise attack also revealed another hidden hand at this moment: the sixteen No. [-] heavy artillery of Weluburg, and the group of mine guards in the fort.
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PS: The nasal congestion is not good, and the voice is still hoarse, ah...why?This strain is somewhat unreasonable.

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