Chapter 217 216 Calculation

Wei Guangde had realized the importance of Bao'anzhou at this time and seemed to have become an important breakthrough in the battle situation. As long as the Xuanfu army took the initiative to attack, it was possible to defeat Altan Khan's troops there.

However, if Liu Dazhang wants to send troops, I am afraid that I can only take this trip in person.

Wei Guangde was a little unconfident. As his Hanlin Academy reviewer, although he had a "counselor's military affairs", he was a general.

Well, the general officer actually has no rank, he just gave the right to lead the troops.

In the Ming Dynasty's officer system, the rank of military officers had little to do with their positions. Positions such as generals, deputy generals, generals, and guerrilla generals actually had no rank.

But if you can sit in that position, you will naturally have another identity, that is, the official position in the ward system.

Liu Dazhang was the general of Xuanfu, and he controlled all the troops in Xuanfu. His deputy generals, generals, guerrilla generals and guards all had to obey his commands. Therefore, he also had an official position, that is, the right governor of the rear army's governor's office, and the medal was the right pillar country.

Liu Dazhang was a first-rank military officer in the court, and he was not able to control it by a small rank. At least there is no such precedent now. With the personality of Emperor Jiajing, he would never set this precedent.

Wei Guangde remembered that in the end, there was a low-ranking civil servant killing high-ranking military generals, that is, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, but Wei Guangde couldn't remember what their official position was.

I just vaguely remember that Mao Wenlong should be at the same level as Liu Dazhang, and Yuan Chonghuan was probably at the level of the governor, but he couldn't remember what his official position was and what grade he was.

But what is facing Wei Guangde now is that even if he goes to Baoanzhou, Liu Dazhang may not have bought his account. If he really doesn't want to fight, he will have no choice.

Perhaps, here, only Weng Pu can force Liu Dazhang to fight.

Although Weng Pu's rank is lower than Liu Dazhang, he is in charge of military affairs and can command the theater troops.

Wei Guangde felt it was a bit tricky. He didn't dare to attack first-class generals, but if he didn't, he could only fight with each other. The great opportunity seemed to be gone in vain.

That's Altan Khan. If you catch him, you will be rewarded with great contributions. Emperor Jiajing will never be stingy with rewards.

When Wei Guangde thought of this, he couldn't help but feel excited and began to pace back and forth in the room. He could no longer stop.

"Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji."

Finally, Wei Guangde shouted to the outside.

As he finished speaking, Zhang Ji came in from outside the door.

"You go and call Li. Call Dong Yiyuan over, and call him by the way. Let's go and call Dong Yiyuan over first."

Wei Guangde initially wanted to call Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan to come for the staff, but suddenly he remembered that Li Zhen had escorted grain. The reason why he called Dong Yiyuan was because he was here. Among the people he was familiar with, only Dong Yiyuan had military experience.

Yes, Wei Guangde doesn't believe that he is really a genius in war, so what he considered before was asked to help with the staff. They have richer experience and more thoughtful considerations.

Zhang Ji responded and turned around and ran out of the door. Not long after, Dong Yiyuan was called.

"Come and have a look."

After Wei Guangde and Dong Yiyuan saluted, he asked him to stand beside the desk, pointing to the map and began to analyze the current situation with him. When Wei Guangde gradually expressed his thoughts and wanted to go to Xuanfu, he forced Liu Dazhang to send troops to fight to contain the strength of the ten thousand households of Altan's army. He sent Ma Fang and the cavalry of Liu Huan, who led the Xuanfu cavalry to raid Altan Khan's royal court.

Dong Yiyuan was frightened by Wei Guangde's idea, not because he wanted to send Ma Fang to raid Altan Khan, but because Wei Guangde wanted to force the general of Xuanfu to fight.

Although all the military generals in the north know the power of civil servants, they are targeting medium and low-grade military officers after all. What Wei Guangde is now talking about is to force first-grade military officers.

Dong Yiyuan did not answer Wei Guangde's question, nor did he even think about the feasibility of Wei Guangde's idea, but was considering whether he should find a way to leave the child.

At first, I thought Wei Guangde was from a military family and should have a natural favor for military generals.

Well, now it seems that this is not the case. Like the military Jinshi before, after becoming civil servants, he no longer takes military generals seriously, just like other civil servants.

In fact, Wei Guangde did not think of looking down on military generals. After all, a lot of his consciousness came from later generations. It was not popular to emphasize culture over military affairs in later generations. Although there is a saying that good men do not join the army, it was all during wars. At least most people would not underestimate soldiers in the era when he was in.

Although Wei Guangde knew that oppressing Liu Dazhang was a very difficult thing, he wanted to know the feasibility of his idea.

If his tactics are feasible, then consider how to operate Liu Dazhang.

For military generals, civil servants often use the lawsuit to Beijing. Through impeachment, the generals will be suspended and then the relationship will depend on the capital.

In this regard, civil servants naturally have an innate advantage. The department with the highest military strength is the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War is controlled by civil servants.

The Governor's Office of the Five Armed Forces, which once controlled the army and occupied absolute leadership, has become a decoration, and the military general's right to speak in the court has long declined.

Yes, the first thing Wei Guangde thought of was impeachment, but it was too late to go in time. He wrote memorials and sent them to the capital. After a while, the daylily became cold.

And at this time, the civil servants in the capital would never be stupid enough to move a general, or a general who was fighting against the Tartars.

Wei Guangde knew that he would be unlucky when he came up with the memorial.

The common routines of civil servants against military generals will be invalid at this time, unless the war ends.

The reason why Wei Guangde thought of impeaching Liu Dazhang was because Ma Fang had said before that Liu Dazhang was afraid of the enemy and was afraid of the enemy, and what a good handle.

However, this is the only thing he can use to threaten Liu Dazhang. If Liu Dazhang disobediently sends troops to fight, then he clearly stated that he would write to him after the war and see how he chose.

Seeing that Dong Yiyuan was not talking for a long time, Wei Guangde couldn't wait.

"You are talking, is it feasible for Baoanzhou to take the initiative?"

Wei Guangde urged him.

"I don't know if it's okay to be a humble position."

Dong Yiyuan hurriedly bowed and answered, "You can only know about the war after fighting. According to the previous analysis, Bei Zhi thought it was still possible to fight. As for the final result, Bei Zhi really didn't know."

"Based on your understanding of the Xuanfu Army, are their combat power the same as what Ma Fang said before, and can they fight against the Tartars?"

Wei Guangde asked a question, which was actually the most critical factor in this battle.

The total of the cavalry of the Ming army in Baoanzhou, including the more than 1,000 people led by Ma Fang, would not exceed 5,000 in total, but it was impossible to all be transferred to attack Altan Khan. Instead, they would divide a group to assist the infantry in the fight against the half-10,000 people.

Without restraint, it is hard to imagine how powerful the eight thousand Tartar cavalry is.

In fact, the Southern Bing had a natural fear of the cavalry group charge, and the same was true for Wei Guangde.

Dong Yiyuan's more than 400 cavalrymen rushed forward were scary enough, not to mention that there were 8,000 people in the Tartars.

Dong Yiyuan fell into thinking about the issue of Wei Guangde again, but now he was not considering the previous attempt to leave Wei Guangde, but actually began to consider the feasibility of the tactics proposed by Wei Guangde.

He is still able to speak out about the combat power of Xuanfu soldiers, after all, he has grown up here since childhood.

As a guerrilla general, his father also had hundreds of men under his command. Most of them had exceeded 1,000. It seemed that sometimes he could really gain the upper hand when fighting against the Tartars, and sometimes he was at an absolute disadvantage. It seems that what Ma Fang said before, the combat power of ordinary Tartar soldiers was indeed not very good.

Dong Yiyuan lowered his head and began to think about how much difference in combat power between the Ming army and the Tartars naturally left Wei Guangde aside, and he only cared about thinking about this issue.

Wei Guangde is not in a hurry at this moment. Dong Yiyuan thought that it will only make the answer more accurate.

The exact answer is what he needs.

After a long time, Dong Yiyuan finally looked up at Wei Guangde, and opened his mouth and said, "What Ma Fang said may be right. I remember when my father fought against the Tartars, he sometimes felt that the Tartars were weak, and sometimes he felt that the Tartars were very strong."

Speaking of this, Dong Yiyuan suddenly felt a little embarrassed and said, "I have never encountered the opportunity to fight with the Tartars in the past few years. I sent it out several times to the place. The Tartars broke the border fort and snatched things and ran away, so I didn't have any personal experience, I just heard my father say similar things."

"Just adults, Baoanzhou."

After a pause, Dong Yiyuan was about to continue speaking, but in fact he wanted to persuade Wei Guangde not to think about how to force Liu Dazhang from Baoanzhou to fight.

Dong Yiyuan thought that Wei Guangde could try the tactics proposed by Wei Guangde, and before the launch, Wei Guangde knew to extract his subordinates' views on Altan's combat power, which showed that this person was quite pragmatic, not those civil officials who didn't know anything. They only knew that they could go here and fight there, and whether they could win or not is a matter of no consideration.

After all, they were all from Wei Institute, and there is still some understanding of this. Unconsciously, the previous view of Wei Guangde has faded a little.

Dong Yiyuan was interrupted by Wei Guangde before he finished speaking. This problem was not something he should have done with Dong Yiyuan.

Originally, if Li Zhen was here, there could be a civil servant discussing it. Now there is only a magistrate in Huailai County. Wei Guangde is not familiar with him, so he naturally would not come to him.

Moreover, I don’t know when it started, but Wei Guangde also developed a view on his origin.

The magistrate of Huailai was named Lin and was born as a Juren. For Wei Guangde, who was a Jinshi, he really didn't have much meaning to contact him.

The tactics are a bit risky, but fighting is a bet.

A strong army can also be defeated by a weak brigade. It depends on how the other party plans, how to set up a battlefield to play to its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, give full play to its own advantages, and offset its own disadvantages.

However, Wei Guangde thought that it would be left to Ma Fang to consider these things.

Since he is so brave and seems to be very lucky, he can survive until now by charging in battle, so he should be better at calculating the battlefield.

"Do you think there is any problem with other things I analyzed?"

Wei Guangde asked again.

"I have no doubts about my job, I think it should be a big difference."

Dong Yiyuan couldn't, so he had to bow and say.

"You arranged them, go and call Ma Fang here now, I have something to say."

Wei Guangde ordered, and then stood in front of the map and remained silent.

But at this time, Wei Guangde was looking at the map, but he was thinking about how to operate so that he could escape unscathed and would not offend the person behind him because of forcing Liu Dazhang.

If you can be sent to Xuanfu as a general, there will probably be people in the court.

Wei Guangde felt that it would be better to reveal some information to Weng Pu first. At least he reported the situation himself, he would not make a decision without authorization, but reported to Shangguan.

Even if someone came up with a question afterwards, he would just be guilty of being mishandled. The measures he took were wrong and he did not wait for the imperial court's order.

I wrote a document and a memorial, and sent it to Juyongguan to see how Weng Pu dealt with it.

Wei Guangde thinks Weng Pu is a good person, at least he is still taking good care of him.

He was thinking about how to write this document, and at this time Ma Fang had already been brought in by Dong Yiyuan.

At this time, Ma Fang was a little suspicious and was about to have a meal. Dong Yiyuan called out again and said that Wei Guangde wanted to see him. Dong Yiyuan said nothing on the way.
To be continued...