Section 1951 Why can't they fly?
Yarkand commander Uygur, who was watching the battle at a height of the canyon, couldn't help but look ashen!
He saw that the alive army launched an attack very hard, but the Ming army gathered its troops and formed a circular defense line. The caltrops they threw out effectively blocked the cavalry's attack. The cavalry could not enter the Ming army's infantry array, but was defeated one by one by the Ming army relying on the "war horse guardrail" and the cavalry formation was becoming thinner.
Some of the lost cavalry bravely walked over to fight with the Ming army. The Ming army stopped him with bayonets, and the soldiers behind fired and knocked down the Yarkand people.
Wuyiguer never expected that the ambush he had spent so much effort to design would be like this. He held a hope and hoped that his subordinates would be more successful.
No Yarkander could cause serious casualties to the Ming army. Instead, he was unable to do so in the battle with the Ming army, and more and more people fell down.
Several powerful generals tried to set off a craze for attack. They were wearing heavy armor and using iron shields.
Finally, Uygur ordered a retreat!
Ming Jun shot at their far away back and cheered vigorously!
The young soldiers were glad that they had won and escaped.
Their commander Ma Jinzhong was patrolling the team and greeted them, "Good fight!"
The soldiers said happily: "We have withstood the enemy's attack!"
"Okay, okay!" Ma Jinzhong was very happy. He led the infantry to defeat the cavalry during the Xinming period. In the Ming Dynasty, if the infantry encountered the cavalry, it would be a one-sided massacre, and there was no exception.
The enemy fled, and the Ming army continued to advance towards Turpan City.
The Turpan area is a desert area, with a hot climate that has put the Ming army in severe tests!
The area has long sunshine, high temperature, large temperature difference between day and night, less precipitation, and strong wind power. It is called Huozhou and Fengku.
Needless to say, if you think about Flame Mountain, you have to ask Princess Iron Fan’s banana fan to cool down.
The Ming army was dispatched in April, and the temperature was still good, but as soon as they walked, they were sweating all over. Otherwise, they would be covered with tighter body and would soon become tanned and charcoal heads.
But the Ming army had been tested as a whole, with fewer people suffering from heatstroke and even fewer people dying.
For this advance, the Ming army conducted adaptive training!
They know how to save water, find water, shade the sun and treat heatstroke. They all have two kettles, soak tea in water, and carry water trucks with pills. The security measures are still very powerful.
There is also the responsibility of everyone to care for each other and officers are responsible to soldiers. If a unit suffers from heat stroke, it is the responsibility of the officers and non-commissioned officers.
The court was responsible for providing military expenditures, and the Ministry of War was responsible for supplying materials to ensure sufficient supply.
The common people sent a young child to the army, and the officers and non-commissioned officers had the responsibility to take care of them.
The relationship between the superiors and subordinates of the Chinese army is much better than that of the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of officers, soldiers from the Ming Dynasty are inferior to pigs and dogs, and at least not even as good as servants.
Now both Chinas have a welfare system, and local officials must be responsible to the people. The court’s requirement for officials is loyalty. GDP and the people’s hearts. Officials who are unpopular will not be able to become officials for a long time.
This is true among the people, and the same is true for the army. Even the officers in the army should be good to soldiers. There are assessments every year to examine the treatment of officers to soldiers.
Since the two Chinese opened military academies, they were not afraid of not having any officers and a large number of officers were waiting to take office, so the chief officer did not dare to violate military discipline and behave in the soldiers.
The most important thing is that the information is good. On the calibrated map, follow the map to get water, that's right!
Water is the most precious in the desert. It is obvious that the Ming army's intelligence department has walked through the route and knows clearly the location of the water intake point.
The water there includes oasis water, kaner well water, well water, etc. Thanks to the enemy, they did not make a strong wall to clear the fields, did not pour cattle, sheep, feces and urine into the water source, and no poisoning it!
Later I learned that the water source in the desert is precious. If I do this, the enemy and us who die will not only die of thirst for the enemy, but also die of thirst for our own people!
There are examples of this kind of thing. One party destroyed the water source, which made the other party fight back and destroy the water source everywhere. As a result, he had no water to drink, and eventually gave up his original territory. Both sides suffered the loss of the people and were displaced.
Therefore, there is a gentleman's agreement between various ethnic groups in the desert, that is, the water source is not moved.
Especially Kaneri!
The structure of Kaneri is generally composed of four parts: vertical shaft, underground channel, ground channel and "water dam" (small reservoir). The Bogda Mountain in the northern Turpan Basin and Karau in the western part of the mountains. In spring and summer, a large amount of snow and rainwater flows down the valley, seeps into the Gobi, and converges into undercurrents, providing Kaneri with abundant groundwater sources.
People used the slope of the mountain to cleverly create Kaner wells, which led underground flow to irrigate farmland. Kaner wells do not evaporate a large amount of water due to heat and strong winds, so the flow rate is stable, ensuring self-flow irrigation.
Turpan is one of the extremely arid areas in China. The annual precipitation is only 16 mm, while the evaporation can reach 3,000 mm, which can be called China's "dry pole". However, Kanerjing transports water from underground culverts, and is not affected by seasons and wind and sand. It has small evaporation and stable flow, and can flow and irrigate itself all year round.
This kaner well is extremely difficult to drill and maintain. People who work this kind of work often have this kind of disease, so how can they destroy it?
Once the water source is destroyed, you have to spend a lot of effort to re-draw the water. After all, water is pervasive. When water flows into one direction, you have to spend a lot of effort to lure the water into another direction, which is very difficult.
Therefore, the Ming army was not restricted from taking water from the Kanerjing area. At the same time, the Ming army also strictly required soldiers not to destroy or pollute water sources, including Kanerjing, and had a dedicated person to take charge.
In this way, the Ming army abides by the gentleman's agreement and can march smoothly.
The Ming army entered Turpan City without any blood!
At this time, Turpan City was not very crowded, not very large, and not a lot of supplies.
The officers and soldiers who entered the city bought out the raisins in the city at once!
The raisins produced here are very famous, with strong desert light and drought, and less rain. The grapes produced have high sugar content. Some varieties of grapes cannot be eaten if they have too many grapes. It is really sweet to you!
They put the grapes in the drying room and dried them into raisins, and ate them or sold them themselves. However, due to inconvenience in transportation, people in the Central Plains rarely had the opportunity to eat the raisins here, and the Ming army was very happy.
"Yeah, it tastes so good!" The officers and soldiers chewed the raisins and praised them.
In the Central Plains, this kind of raisin can only be eaten by noble people!
What made the local people not disgusted was that the Ming army had fair transactions and purchased goods with silver coins, which was popular among the people.
There is no forced buying and selling, and there is no robbery. There are three rules for the bad behavior of force. There are three rules in everything. It is another kind of gentleman agreement, that is, "the murderer dies, the injured person and the thief are punished", and it is strictly enforced.
The locals may not like the Ming army, but they have to admit that the Ming army is a benevolent and righteous army.
Life is always full of surprises. Ma Jinzhong's troops rest here for three days and when they are about to set off the next day, something happened to the evening.
Chapter completed!