The eldest son of the red mansion

These people were originally elite soldiers from Xuanfu Town, otherwise they would not have survived in the harsh environment after being dispersed by the Tatars.In the end, they were recruited by Jia Ke. They were said to be recruits because they had not received systematic training from Jia Ke, and they were called elites because each of them had seen blood.Now after systematic training, as long as they are pulled onto the battlefield, they will be able to fight decisively with the enemy.

After Jia Ke visited the 3 regular army in Kaiping Town, he held a large-scale exercise in the formation of [-] people on the grassland outside Kaiping.The purpose of this is to allow them to experience their respective positions in the war.under what circumstances?How should it change?In case of an emergency, how should we deal with it?The effect of this drill is still good, although there are some minor problems.But there is no mistake in the general direction.

Before the arrival of summer, Jia Ke basically patrolled back and forth between the Manchu Eight Banners and the regular army in Kaiping Town, carefully evaluating the combat power of both sides.In the end, it was concluded that the well-equipped Manchu Eight Banners and the regular army in Kaiping Town, if there is a war.In the case of the same number of people on both sides, I am afraid that both sides will suffer.

Now these two troops are the two treasured swords in Jia Ke's hands.

Chapter 183 Confrontation

Unknowingly, Jia Ke quietly formed two sets of systems among his subordinates, one was the regular troops under his command in Xuanhua and Kaiping towns.Although these people are loyal to him, there are still some constraints from the court.The other set is entirely his, the Manchu Eight Banners established by himself, this army is completely under the orders of Jia Ke, and Jia Ke can use them to attack anywhere.

These two systems form Jia Ke's two treasured swords. These two treasured swords are not only unified, but also belong to each other.This makes them both one and the other.

In the next few days, in order to verify his judgment of their combat effectiveness, Jia Ke held several confrontations between the Manchu Eight Banners and the regular army.The two sides fought a simulated war on the grassland where you came and went.

All used in war, wooden lime-covered bows and arrows, long spears and wooden knives.This can not only reduce unnecessary casualties, but also show the combat effectiveness of both sides.

The result of the war was that the Manchu Eight Banners, brainwashed by Jia Ke, had won consecutive victories. They now regard it as an honor to be killed by Jia Ke.

In addition, the current Manchu Eight Banners are equipped with paper armor like the troops in Kaiping Town. With the same weapons, the Tatars have gained a decisive advantage in their physical fitness in the cold northern regions.

Moreover, they fight fiercely without fear of death. In addition, they are now well-equipped. When facing the regular army of Kaiping Town, if they cannot break through from the front, they will attack from both sides continuously, and even outflank the rear. Once the cavalry in Kaiping Town If they cannot stop them, then the slow-moving Macedonian phalanx will face raindrops of arrows from the Manchu Eight Banners. Even wearing paper armor, they will not be able to persist for a long time.In the end, the Manchu Eight Banners will suffer heavy losses and the regular army in Kaiping Town will be defeated.

This has never happened in the previous wars with the Tatars. The Tatars did not undergo systematic training and their ability to withstand casualties was very poor. coax away.And the Manchus who have been trained and brainwashed by Jia Ke, even if they suffer [-]% to [-]% casualties, they can still charge forward without fear of death.

The main problem of the regular army in Kaiping Town is that the cavalry cannot compete with the Manchu Eight Banners, and the number is small.Although these cavalrymen have been carefully trained by Jia Ke, they are far behind the Tatars in riding skills, and their bodies are not as strong as the Tatars. Therefore, if they face the Tatars with poor equipment, they can still win , but against Manchus with the same equipment as them, they will be at an absolute disadvantage.

After Jia Ke saw this situation, he felt that the Manchu Eight Banners could not have such a big advantage over the regular army, otherwise the power in his army would be out of balance, so he improved the bows and arrows of the regular army.

The previous ordinary bows and arrows were replaced with powerful English longbows. Longbows are generally about 1.5 meters long. The back of each bow is bent from a complete piece of wood. A good bow is made of yew wood, which is hard and elastic.The effective shooting range of these longbows reached 300 meters.Longbowmen can release high-parabolic arrows to attack the upper part of the enemy.The weakness of war horses is the attack from above. Most of the war horses have no armor, so once they are injured, they will become difficult to control.Even at the limit distance of 300 meters, the cone arrow can still penetrate ordinary mail.These improved English longbows are so powerful that they cannot be resisted by the current paper armor at all, so at least to a certain extent, the combat effectiveness of both sides has returned to the same starting line.

This improvement effectively suppressed the attacks of the prairie cavalry and could cause huge casualties to the prairie cavalry.Even if the Manchu Eight Banners are equipped with excellent paper armor, they will suffer heavy losses if they want to pass through these arrow rains.

But these longbows also have a fatal weakness, that is, because the pulling force is too strong, and the longbow is particularly huge, it puts a huge test on the physical strength of the archer.But it also has a huge advantage, the bow body is a single wood, the craft is relatively much simpler, and it is very convenient to make and replenish.Unlike the traditional Chinese bow and arrow, although it has a huge advantage in flat shooting, its production process is too complicated.Moreover, there is a huge gap between the longest range and the power of the English longbow.

After the regular army in Kaiping Town is equipped with the English longbow, it can shoot 1-300 arrows at the enemy 10 meters away within 20 minute. Such a powerful and dense arrow rain is enough to cause huge casualties to any army.But this kind of attack cannot last long, but for the short time of the cavalry charge, firing ten or twenty arrows per minute is enough.

After successive failures, the Eight Banners of Manchuria also found a way to relatively restrain the English longbow, which is to move rapidly around the periphery.

Then look for the weakness of the regular army in Kaiping Town, avoid the front of the English longbow, and use the shortcoming of the slow speed of the English longbow to continuously dodge and quickly approach.

Then, he took advantage of the superiority of the Central Plains bows and arrows in a straight line to the excellent English longbows, and his excellent riding skills, and shot arrows continuously while approaching non-stop.

That's also because of the English longbow, although the bow and arrow fly farther and are more powerful.But the flying speed of the arrows it releases is far behind that of the Central Plains bows and arrows.Only by moving quickly and flexibly can the troops effectively avoid the blow of the English longbow.

Although the English Longbow has various shortcomings, his appearance has brought the two armies into balance.In the next few exercises, there was no one-sided situation.Even if one side wins, the opponent's attack will cause huge casualties.

Time passed slowly in the non-stop training of the troops. Summer is coming to an end soon, and autumn is coming again.This heralds the start of the Tatar invasion this year.

And Jia Ke now has enough soldiers and food, whether it is a Manchu or a regular army in Kaiping Town.Looking at the world, it can be called an elite.The biggest difference between them and other troops is that they can withstand, far exceeding the casualty ratio of other troops.Just one can increase the odds of winning for Jia Ke's troops.

The Tatars have tasted a huge sweetness in the invasion of the Central Plains for several years.Although in Kaiping Town, Jia Ke lost some troops in the direction of guarding, but overall, they still gained a lot.All the tribes have received a lot of supplies due to several trips to the south, and the population of the tribes has decreased very limited in the past few years.This made the hands of various tribes become enthusiastic about going south.

Now it has become a consensus on the grasslands to invade the Central Plains every autumn, because they found that no one in the Central Plains Dynasty was their opponent except Jia Ke.

Jia Ke sent a memorial to the court at the end of summer.The general idea is: if the Tatars invade again this year, and the two directions of Xuanhua and Kaiping are relatively peaceful, I hope the court will allow him to lead the cavalry into the grassland, and use his own way to treat him. plunder.In order to achieve the purpose of besieging Wei and saving Zhao.

Jia Ke did not expect that his memorial would cause an uproar in the court.

The three academicians who went to the study room were arguing because of Jia Ke's memorial.

University scholar Li Lu admired Jia Ke's opinion very much. It can play the role of besieging Wei and saving Zhao, and can wipe out a large number of Tatars, but there is vitality, so why not do it?

However, Yan Mu, a senior scholar, believes that such a hasty attack will result in heavy losses if the battle is defeated. Moreover, the grassland tribes live in grasslands and their whereabouts are unknown.It is better to let Jia Ke's elite soldiers wait for rescue in all directions at any time.

Finally, there is Pan Yong, a great scholar. This old man is completely like that of those who know about it. He said that the king inside and the sage outside have never had the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty. Both Lu and Yan Mu sneered, everyone didn't know how this Pan Yong climbed up, but now he dressed himself up as a gentleman, it was just a cover-up, there was nothing he could do about it.

The three college students were almost divided into two factions. Only the scholar Li Lu firmly agreed with Jia Ke's method. No matter what the reason was for the other two university students?One premise is that they disagree with Jia Ke sending troops. In fact, the two of them are still afraid. In the war against the Tatars over the years, except for Jia Ke, no one else has ever won.They were afraid that Jia Ke would also fail, and they threw away the last fig leaf of the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty.

In the end, the three of them really couldn't decide the result, so they could only sum up their opinions and ask for a holy order.

After receiving Jia Ke's memorial and the three people's instructions, the emperor also fell into a dilemma.He has been passively beaten all these years, and he has hated the Tartars to the bone. Of course, he is happy if someone wants to go out and beat the Tartars.But what the other two college students said is also reasonable. If Jia Ke fails again, the loss of troops will be next.The main reason is how people in the world will view the Central Plains Celestial Dynasty.

The emperor took Jia Ke's memorial, read it over and over carefully, put it down after reading it, and then picked up the memorial again. He felt very deeply about the above sentence.That is: the enemy can go to us, and we can go to it.

The emperor was very touched by this sentence. Among the many generals in his court, none had the courage of Jia Ke, not to mention going deep into the grasslands to defeat the Tatars, even fighting the enemy under the city.

After reading Jia Ke's memorial again, the emperor clenched his fist and slammed down on the imperial case.Finally, he picked up the vermilion pen and wrote a sentence on Jia Ke's memorial: You must attack at your own discretion, with self-preservation as the first priority.

After writing this sentence, the emperor thought about it for a while, and added another sentence: If it succeeds, I will not hesitate to reward you as a marquis.

After the emperor approved this sentence, he felt a lot more happy, and then he sent the paper out quickly by himself.Let Jia Ke prepare early.

It was already autumn when Jia Ke received the emperor's reply.Jia Ke thought that the Tatars would attack everywhere soon.

Jia Ke looked at the two lines on the memorial: "You must attack at your own discretion, with self-preservation as the first. If you succeed, I will not hesitate to reward you as a marquis." My heart seemed to be on fire. It would be a lie to say that he was not excited. I am happy because I can get the opportunity to be a marquis.I am also happy for them to go to the grassland to rob this time.This time, if going north to the grassland can succeed, it will establish Jia Ke's position in the imperial court and make him a famous general in the world.

But Jia Ke believed that this Northern Expedition had a high chance of success.The Tatars have repeatedly invaded the south, and have never considered the safety of their homeland. This time, if they go by themselves, they will definitely return with a rewarding experience.Now is the time to wait. When all the Tatars invade the south and get tripped everywhere, that is the time to attack the grassland by themselves.

Chapter 184 Departure

Jia Ke waited silently in Kaiping Town for the news of the Tatar invasion to the south, and sent a large number of spies, disguised as various businessmen, to enter the grassland to inquire about the situation.

In this way, Jia Ke waited for more than ten days. The spies he sent to various parts of the grassland came back one after another to report that the various ministries of the grassland had already assembled.Ready to invade the South again.

After Jia Ke got the news, he was also ready to go north. He transferred 3 cavalry from Xuanhua Town to Kaiping Town.Together with the [-] cavalry from Kaiping Town and the more than [-] banner soldiers from the Manchu Eight Banners, Jia Ke was able to mobilize a total of [-] cavalry.

This is an important force in any country. Even among the Tatars, only one or two tribes can mobilize [-] cavalry at a time.

Jia Ke made sufficient arrangements for this attack. Feng Mo led 1 infantry to guard Xuanhua Town, Huang Baifeng and Zheng Kai led 5000 Macedonian Founder's Army respectively, and [-] longbowmen were divided into two groups, led by them.The task of the two of them is to be stationed in Kaiping Town.Once Xuanhua Town is found to be in danger, Huang Baifeng will lead half of the Macedonian phalanx and half of the longbowmen to go for reinforcements.If the enemy does not come to Xuanhua Town and Kaiping Town, then they will stand still.Without his order, no one can mobilize a single soldier.

The last order was mainly to guard against Wang Tao, fearing that he would transfer the army away in the name of Jiedushi.Jia Ke has spent a lot of effort on these troops, how can he give it to others for nothing?

Just a few days after August [-]th, news of the Tatar invasion came from all over the country, and among the nine sides, only Xuanfu Town was safe and sound.

The common people all knew that it was because Jia Ke was guarding the front and the Tatars did not dare to come.Therefore, Jia Ke's prestige near Xuanfu Town was even higher.

But after Wang Tao knew that the Tatars had invaded the south, he became frightened.He was afraid that what happened last year would happen again, and he also wanted to mobilize troops from Xuanhua and Kaiping several times to defend the main formation in Xuanfu Town.But they were all rejected by Jia Ke. Jia Ke's reason is very good. If the troops are transferred to Xuanfu Town, Kaiping and Xuanhua's defense will be weak. If the Tatars invade south with all their strength, it will definitely lead to last year's attack. mistakes.

Jia Ke didn't tell Wang Tao that he was about to go north. He was afraid that Wang Tao would know that he was not there, which would cause trouble for his rear, and he was also afraid of Tatar spies in Xuanfu Town, but he heard the news.

In the past few days, Jia Ke has also increased the number of scouting horses around. On the one hand, he is searching for traces of the enemy, and on the other hand, he is looking for water sources on the grassland and possible future footholds for the troops.The third aspect is to check whether Arslen Khan's royal tent is still set up in Zhangbei this year?If he was still in Zhangbei, Jia Ke was going to make a surprise attack on him.

Jia Ke has a very clear goal for this year, which is to rob money, people, and livestock.If possible, it would be even better to snatch Arslen Khan's concubine or son.

After the Tatars invaded for more than ten days, the fighting on the Nine Sides was very fierce. Many passes have been breached by the Tatars, and the Tatar troops have penetrated deep into the interior.

Jia Ke believed that the time had come. The Tatars were already stumbling around and could not return to help immediately.So Jia Ke immediately summoned all his cavalry on the northern grassland of Kaiping Town.It is necessary to carry out an oath to the north.