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Chapter 1329 The Gap
The Tubo horse Heima rested in Qijiaojing very reassuringly and boldly. He neither set up horses or dug trenches.

This is not because he is in the Western Regions, has little war experience or is careless.

First of all, he has a lot of war experience, and his knowledge about war is actually not much less than that of Daming.

As a Khan of Tubo, what a general of the Ming army understands, as long as the influence of Chen Mu, Qi Jiguang, and Zeng Mi, who have brought military technology innovation to the empire since Jiajing, is removed, basically the Khans of Yarkand understand it.

So it's not carelessness, it's deliberation.

His men and horses have eight hundred heavy cavalry, each heavy cavalry is two men and three horses, the man is a heavy cavalry and a servant, and the three horses are two war horses and one pack horse.

In addition, Khan's guards were in the early [-]s. For an army of this size, not only the pack horses were a heavy burden, but even the war horses carried a lot of supplies. Running [-] miles in three days was a waste of horsepower.

During the march, the cavalry did not have the slightest pursuit ability, and they were all exhausted.

There must be disadvantages to running like this, but there is no way, this is the battle plan of Tubo Ma Heima in the real environment.

They try to reduce the amount of fodder, water and food they carry, and first rush to the oasis of Qijiaojing, where they rest for eight hours to replenish and rest. The next four hundred miles will be easy, and they can replenish in the villages, grasslands, and farmland along the way. .

What if the horse breaks down?It doesn't matter if the horse runs out of order. For him who occupies Tubo, war horses are a kind of consumables—this is fundamentally different from other hard-working Khans in Yarkand who do not occupy the grassland.

He didn't worry about the Ming army attacking at all, and he had thought about it too. Even going back to ancient times, war is also a mathematical problem.

From Tubo to Hami, one road, eight hundred miles.

The messengers of the caravan spying on the information were one man and many horses at a very fast speed, and the news was sent back in two and a half days. It took him another three days to gallop all the way with the troops, which only took five days.

Faced with a shortage of troops, the Ming army would not send troops to the west when Hami City was not defeated.

Even if the reinforcements arrived after the caravan left and sent troops to the west after taking down Hami City, it would take four days to rest in the city for a day, gather in half a day, and then march a hundred miles a day.

That's five and a half days.

Therefore, it is impossible for the Ming army to appear in Qijiaojing at this time.

But... What happened in the city of Hami was not what Tubo Ma Heima imagined.

The caravan came, the caravan entered the barracks, the caravan spied on the information, and the caravan left-the story happened here, just as Tubo Ma Heima imagined, but Dayun followed.

Two hundred cavalry soldiers were dispatched from Liangzhou Guard, and under the leadership of Dayun, followed the caravan. In order to avoid being discovered by the caravan, Dayun did not choose to follow the people, but followed the footprints of camels, and followed far behind.

Near Qijiaojing, the wind and sand got bigger and bigger, and finally, where a gust of wind blew, the footprints disappeared. Looking at the small villages and towns in the dust in the sky in the distance through the telescope, Dayun fell into deep thinking.

'This is Tubo?Why is it not the same as imagined? '

In the end, Dayun decided to lead his troops to sleep in a mountain nest not far from Qijiaojing. After waking up, he felt that the horse was still a little tired, so he slept in the mountain nest again after eating a full meal.

Then people discovered that the starry sky in the Western Regions at night is really beautiful, and the "Tubo" at night is also very bright, which is the light illuminated by countless people lighting torches.

Dayun took out the precious goggles from his bare-shoulder shirt, carefully wiped the lenses, and then looked over there, and saw, oh, what a lot of horses!
This goggle belonged to General Tong Deng, and it was not easy to get here. Gansu is not like the coastal area. Although this thing has been around for many years, none of the generals in Gansu have seen it yet.

Even Tong Deng was gifted by Master Wanli with pleasure when his son passed the Wujinshi examination earlier.

If this had been left a few days ago, he, Dayun, wouldn't even have thought of watching it.

It's just that Wei Shi, the commander-in-chief of Shaanxi, was already close to Hami at this time, and the situation of the generals in Shaanxi was better than that of Gansu. It was closer to Xuanfu, and Hami City would have a replacement god's eyepiece. Give it to him and let him observe the enemy's situation carefully.

Because Dayun was trained on this thing, he tried to look at the eyes at first, but the more he looked at it, the more awkward he became, and he felt that this thing was not magical at all, but later he realized that he was holding it backwards.

This status quo of armaments is actually the reason why veterans from all walks of life wrote to the emperor to open up to the outside world. Lord Wanli adhered to the tradition of the first emperor, and sent troops to Beijing for parade every two years in various provinces. This has a certain degree of supervision for military training. role, but more to make people aware of the gap.

What is the gap?The gap is that the soldiers in Guangdong are equipped with Tianxia Taiping guns as standard equipment, and the Xuanfu soldiers can't run out of rocket tubes, let alone Beiyang.

The emperor was unwilling to put Beiyang in the military parade, and only regarded the Beiyang army as a performance. The Beiyang Wanli ten-year parade directly hung hot air balloons and released airboats outside Beijing. Ma Fang, a veteran who was recuperating in Beiyang, was invited to bring a The iron horse training team rode around outside the Meridian Gate.

Not to mention the emperor, the emperor watched the military parade standing in the Huode Xingjun with iron walls. Behind him were two big Han generals wearing golden armor. The phoenix-winged helmets were raised high, and they were the Tianxia Taiping guns in his arms. It's awkward to look at with the thorns still on.

In the eyes of our traditional old generals, what kind of monsters and ghosts are these, who has seen those things.

Technological progress has split the world into two worlds.

The imperial court urgently needs to install the new equipment that has already been put into use, but there is a shortage everywhere, and the production capacity is limited. Who should give it to first?
It is affirmed that who is important is given to whom first, so how to judge who is more important?
Do something!

The court will allocate equipment when something happens, this is the first; the court will give rewards if the trouble is won, which is the second.

Win-win!

Dayun also wants to get himself a god's eyepiece, and it's better to get a god's eyepiece with a bird's gun. He heard that there are notches in the barrel of that kind of god's eyepiece. The guns are different from other guns.

But he didn't have any, he only had a goose-winged knife and a big-shooting bow, and even the carefully selected two hundred Liangzhou guard cavalry were light cavalry.

This kind of chain mail riveted with lock rings is called secret chain mail in Liangzhou.

But by coincidence, in the Qijiaojing in the mirror of the gods, the cavalry from Tubo have vests, not only the horses have heavy armor, but even the people have heavy armor, and they are not wearing them. All the Tubo uncles are wearing short clothes and sitting by the campfire eat meat.

The armor is all in the box.

So tempting!

Dayun didn't know what was going on, anyway, he was holding the horse in one hand and the goggle in the other. He didn't look at the road in the dark, and got closer and closer.

The cavalry behind him went in without knowing it, and half of them followed him, while the other half packed up the camp and prepared to respond at a distance.

When Li could see clearly in the eyeglass, Dayun put down the eyeglass, looked around at the cavalry with swords and mounted horses, and smiled brightly: "Anyway, they don't wear them, why don't we...hehehe."

(End of this chapter)