The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 211
"Your Majesty, this place is more than three hundred miles away from Zhangjiakou. Jiannu obviously wants to lure our army to the Liaohe River, so we can't continue eastward."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In the commander's tent, seeing that His Majesty would continue to press eastward, the British Duke finally couldn't help dissuading him.

The other honorable generals in the left army also echoed one after another, obviously they were all afraid of repeating the great defeat of Tumubao back then.

Although Huang Degong and the other generals did not speak out to dissuade them, they were obviously worried.

Compared with ordinary soldiers, they didn't think so much about their unconditional trust in the emperor. These generals were much calmer. Like Hong Chengchou and Doer Gun, they were a little bit nervous about Zhu Cihong, a young emperor who had never led an army before. Suspect.

This is also human nature. After all, military and state affairs are no more important than others. Although His Majesty is wise and eloquent, he has never led an army to fight, especially when he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to fight on the grassland.

But Hong Niangzi is different. Although she is a girl and has not read many military books, she is an anti-thief leader from scratch. After submitting to the imperial court, her achievements are obvious to all.

"Everyone, I naturally know that Jiannu is deliberately luring our army away from the Great Wall in order to cut off our army's food supply, but as the saying goes, risks and opportunities always coexist. Now Jiannu's army is divided into two, separated by foot and horse. It is also a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our military.”

Seeing that the generals didn't trust him, Zhu Cihong sighed in his heart, but he said with dignity on his face.

Speaking of which, he had to blame his God of War ancestor, which made it unlucky for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty to lead the army personally, and made it unreliable for the young emperor to lead the army himself.

"Your Majesty, even though that's the case, didn't you say before that as long as our army stays put, we can surrender without fighting?"

"I have said it before, but British Lord, you must remember that an army must be prepared for field battles at any time and dare to fight bloody battles in order to achieve the so-called army that surrenders without fighting. Victory without a fight?"

In the past two years, Zhu Cihong didn't read too many military books. With his strong comprehension ability, coupled with his previous life's knowledge, his military theories were one set at a time, which Zhao Kuo couldn't compare to at all.

In fact, what Zhu Cihong said is correct. A soldier who surrenders without fighting is indeed able to fight, dare to fight, but does not need to fight. It is not because he is afraid of fighting that he chooses to defend.

The Duke of England opened his mouth, not knowing how to refute, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling that what His Majesty said seemed to make sense, but once the imperial concubine left, he felt a little uneasy, especially the frequent movements of building slaves.

"Gentlemen, most of our troops are infantry. Only by biting the opponent's infantry and battalion tightly can Jiannu not dare to send cavalry detours to loot Tumote's troops. If our army stays put, Once the Jiannu camp is separated from our army, the cavalry will have no worries against the Western army."

In fact, Zhu Cihong also wanted to stay in Zhangjiakou, but they had to respond to the establishment of slaves and divide their troops. Instead of dividing their troops and sending chariot cavalry to entangle with the opponent's cavalry, it would be better to concentrate their forces to press forward.

Such an army of hundreds of thousands can advance, attack, retreat, or defend. If the slave cavalry dared to loot Tumote's troops, they would push them across quickly. In the war of slave building, without cavalry cover, they would be defeated. If they did not fight, they would be defeated. They wiped out the Mongolian tribes east of the Liaohe River, and even went directly to the northeast.

"Okay, everyone, don't worry, we have to have confidence in our soldiers. In three days, when the main force of Jiannu and the cavalry are separated by four hundred miles, it will be time for our army to attack and defeat Jiannu in one fell swoop! "

After Zhu Cihong finished talking about the case, he said confidently.

The reason why he dared to press on at every step was that the army had enough food and grass, which could last at least half a year.

Secondly, there are more than 500 chariots, large and small, in the past few months. With the addition of more than [-] cavalry, hundreds of thousands of troops can launch an assault without any hesitation under the cover of chariot cavalry.

130 miles, according to the current quality of the soldiers, it only takes two days. At that time, Dorgon will definitely be able to kill Dorgon. Unprepared, there is no cavalry cover, and the camp has been built hastily. He wants to see what Dorgon will use to resist him. Thousands of troops.

All the generals saw that His Majesty was talking about this, so they had no choice but to go down to prepare for the battle. In order not to startle the enemy, the Ming army also only advanced thirty miles a day for the next three days.

On the fourth day, when Zhu Cihong was about to launch a surprise attack, Jiannu's [-] cavalry turned around on the spot. One man and two horses walked back a hundred miles in a day.

The Jiannu camp did not retreat, but began to reinforce the camp in situ. Obviously, Dorgon and Hong Chengchou also knew that they could not withstand the attack of the Ming army, so they did not give them a chance to make a surprise attack.

This made Zhu Cilang fly into a rage.

"Damn old dog Hong, I will definitely skin him and cramp him in the future, and tear his corpse into pieces!"

He knew that with Dole Gun's level, it was impossible to grasp the time distance so accurately, and it must be Hong Chengchou who was behind the scenes.

"Your Majesty, this place is almost [-] miles away from Zhangjiakou, and [-] miles away from the Great Wall at the southern end. The Jiannu cavalry may be able to kill them in three days. The army should go directly south!"

The British Duke said anxiously, obviously on the vast grassland, he didn't feel much security, and the nobles in the left army were similar.

"Why panic, the army has enough food and grass, even if the army only travels five miles a day, there is plenty of time to go back to Xuanfu!"

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, he didn't have a good mood, and then ordered the second north and south battalions to move closer to the middle and keep a distance of five miles from the Chinese army camp.

Jiannu Shuai tent.

Seeing that the Ming army had stopped advancing and began to move closer, Dorgon and Hong Chengchou looked at each other and felt very tricky.

"Sir, judging from the current situation, this little emperor seems to be more difficult to deal with than the red lady. Could it be that there are some masters in the Ming army?"

"Now we can only look at the march of the Ming army."

Hong Chengchou sighed and said, although the two armies have advanced and retreated in the past half month, it seems simple, but in fact it is extremely dangerous, whoever takes a wrong step on both sides will be in danger of being destroyed.

The little emperor had no experience in battles, yet he was able to fight evenly with him, without losing the wind, he was really surprised.

After the three major battalions of the Ming army began to move closer, Zhu Cihong did not pull out the camp and retreat immediately, but stopped on the spot, ready to wait for the Jiannu cavalry to arrive and see if the other party would take the initiative to attack the camp.

Three days later, Jiannu's [-] cavalry arrived, pinching the Ming army one after the other, as if they wanted to keep the Ming army on the grassland.

And Duo Ergun and Hong Chengchou finally came to explore the camp on a mountain bag twenty miles away from the Ming army camp.

Looking from a distance, the three big camps of the Ming army are finished in Chinese characters, and the white military tents are arranged in an orderly manner. There are so many chariots and mules that make one's scalp tingle.

Both of them were veterans, and they were secretly shocked when they saw this scene, and completely lost the idea of ​​attacking the camp.

With such a formation, if you want to defeat it, you can only do it if the opponent is short of food and grass, or on the way of marching. If you stay still, it is really as stable as Mount Tai.

(End of this chapter)