Wanli 1592

Chapter 510 It's time to come

The fighting power of the Mongols is stronger than that of the Ming army.

This is the actual psychology of everyone today. Everyone knows that in wars, the Ming army is often passively beaten, while the Mongols take the initiative to attack. Defend the city and fight passively.

Therefore, in an invasion war, the Ming army could not help but position itself as the weak.

Whether it is Wang Shiyang or Li Chengliang, they all feel that they are weak and defensive. They have never thought of taking the initiative to attack, and they do not know the true intentions of the Mongols.

If you can't guess the opponent's strategic intentions, you can't know the real meaning of the opponent's doing these things. You think that the Mongols attacked Bauhinia Pass to attack the capital.

Such inertial thinking will affect almost everyone, such as veterans like Li Chengliang.

Because of his extreme lack of confidence in himself, he became overly cautious and sensitive. He dared not take the initiative to attack at all, but only dared to defend the city passively. As long as he defended the Zijing Pass, he felt that everything would be fine, but he never thought that the Mongols had no intention of attacking the Zijing Pass. Guan went on to attack the capital.

Their purpose was to plunder the large amount of food stored by the Shanxi merchants, and then flee away.

They didn't expect that the Mongols were actually afraid of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses near the capital, because Mongolia now has no unified political power, no matter whether it is at the Yexian level or at the Altan level, and Lalik is at most the leader of a tribe. And I answer is the overlord of a region.

Different status, different strengths, and different confidence can determine that Ida dares to take the Beijing city as his goal and force the Ming court to agree to his conditions, while Lalik has no confidence and dare not attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

He felt that his success this time had a lot of luck in it, and he was even worried about Ming Dynasty's revenge deep in his heart.

That's why he decided to grab it and leave.

He did not shake the strength and determination of the Ming Empire. This was his situation, and the Ming court mistakenly believed that every Mongolian tribe that invaded came to Beijing, especially the [-] Mongolians!
Liu Xi's idea just hit Ming Ting's biggest weakness - lack of self-confidence.

Unconfident in a weak environment for a long time, the Ming Empire's psychological changes towards Mongolia before and after the Tumubao Incident were quite drastic.

Before the Tumu Fortress, although the Ming Empire gradually lost its early military power of complete suppression, it still had some wealth, and the Mongols did not dare to invade the Ming Empire wantonly.

After Tumubao, just like Song Dynasty suffered from Liaophobia after Yongxi's Northern Expedition, Ming's literati government also suffered from Mongoliaphobia. The abandonment of the military positions previously held is a clear evidence.

The Ming court and the Ming army were restrained by the powerful and invincible enemy they imagined. None of the [-] Ming troops at Zijingguan would have imagined that they were facing only [-] Mongolian cavalry, Not the legendary [-].

And the division of troops after the capture of Pingxingguan was also Liu Xi's strategy. He felt that he could use this routine on the Ming army in Taiyuan, so that he could only dare to defend, and dare not concentrate the main force to go north to counterattack, directly restricting the actions and footsteps of the Ming army. Allow the Mongols to loot the grain around Wutai first.

Carloads of grain left Shanxi through Pingxingguan, then left Datong, and arrived in Guiyi City. During the entire journey, they encountered no obstacles from the Ming army.

The Ming army in Datong was defending, the Ming army in Shanxi was defending, and the Ming army in Zijingguan was also defending. Nearly 20 Ming troops were mobilized, but none of them dared to fight back!
All on defense!

There were only [-] Mongolian cavalry surrounding Datong, but they trapped [-] Ming troops and [-] strong men inside the city. There were [-] Ming troops in Zijing Pass, but they dared not move forward in the face of [-] Mongols.

There are [-] Ming troops guarding Dingxiang, [-] Ming troops guarding Xinzhou, [-] Ming troops guarding Shiling Pass, and [-] Ming troops gathered in Taiyuan City, and they will arrive in Taiyuan in six days. There are also [-] reinforcements in Yulin.

The Ming army under Wang Shiyang's current command is 13, and it will be [-] in a few days. There are still nearly [-] young and strong mobilized to build a war fortress for the Ming army.

The total number of Mongols who came to attack Taiyuan did not exceed 4.

Not to mention that another [-] Mongolian tribal coalition forces were being beaten to death by Wei Yunzhen at Yanmen Pass, and it was not known when they would be able to break through Yanmen Pass.

But no one dared to take the initiative.

Just to be honest, even if they took the initiative to attack, these Ming troops who lacked food and clothing may not be able to defeat the Mongols. Although the frontier troops are not lacking in training, they still have to eat and wear warm clothes, right?It wasn't just the Ming army in Taiyuan and Datong who didn't have enough to eat and clothing.

The situation couldn't be worse.

On the way to Zijingguan, Li Chengliang encountered a large number of refugees fleeing from the west of Zijingguan. They talked about how many Mongols were there and how cruel they were, and begged the officers and soldiers to fight back and help them regain their homeland...

Then many officers and soldiers snatched their clothes and shoes, sneaked into their ranks and fled together.

Li Chengliang knew this much better. He didn't organize to stop him at all. He pretended to kill seven or eight deserters, but he couldn't stop more people from escaping. There are only over [-] soldiers left.

In this way, the Zijingguan garrison, which claims to have an army of 4, is actually less than [-].

Chai Guozhu looked at Li Chengliang, and Li Chengliang also looked at Chai Guozhu, feeling each other's despair.

At this time, Li Chengliang suddenly remembered that when he was chatting with Qi Jiguang, Qi Jiguang talked about the scandal that happened when he was fighting against the Japanese in the southeast. Use old soldiers.

And now, Li Chengliang also experienced Qi Jiguang's pain for himself.

The Mongols were far more ferocious than the Japanese pirates, and they were still cavalry, and their combat effectiveness was more fierce. Li Chengliang didn't know how long he would last without running back if he wanted to go out to fight in the field, or whether he could run back.

He immediately lost his heart for field battles, arranged for the rest of the army to deploy defenses, and then stood at the top of the city with Chai Guozhu, looking at the endless refugee team in the distance.

On December 25, the [-]th year of Wanli, half a day after the refugee team disappeared, and after the last refugee cried out that all his family members had been killed by the Mongols, a puff of dust and smoke appeared at the end of the sky in Li Chengliang’s eyes, and Li Chengliang’s pupils shrank , instantly realized——

It's time to come.

(End of this chapter)