Chapter 217 216 Calculation

Wei Guangde had already realized the importance of Baoan Prefecture at this time, and it seemed to have become an important breakthrough in the battle. As long as the Xuanfu army took the initiative to attack, it would be possible to defeat Anda Khan's troops there.

However, if Liu Dazhang was to send troops, he would really have to make this trip in person.

Wei Guangde was a little unconfident. As a reviewer of the Hanlin Academy, although he had the title of "Counselor for Military Affairs", he was still a general military officer.

Well, in fact, the chief military officer has no rank, he is only given the right to lead troops.

In the officer system of the Ming Dynasty, the rank and position of military attaches had little to do with each other. Positions such as chief soldier, deputy chief soldier, staff general, and guerrilla general had no rank.

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

Liu Dazhang is the chief military officer of the Xuanfu. He controls all the armies of the Xuanfu. His deputy generals, staff generals, guerrilla generals and garrison guards all obey his command. Therefore, he also has another official position, that is, the commander-in-chief of the rear army. He is the governor of the right side of the mansion, and his title is the right pillar of the country.

Liu Dazhang is the first-rank military attache of the imperial court, but it is not something that he can handle as a young man from the seventh rank. At least there is no such precedent now, and with the character of Emperor Jiajing, he will never set this precedent.

Wei Guangde remembered that in the end of the Ming Dynasty, low-level civil servants killed high-level military generals, that is, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, but Wei Guangde could not remember their specific official positions.

He only vaguely remembered that Mao Wenlong should be at the same level as Liu Dazhang, and Yuan Chonghuan was probably at the level of governor, but he could not remember what his official position was and what grade he was.

But what is now in front of Wei Guangde is that even if he goes to Baoan Prefecture, Liu Dazhang may not buy his account. If he really doesn't want to go to war, there is nothing he can do.

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

Although Weng Pu was lower in rank than Liu Dazhang, he was in charge of military affairs and could command troops in theaters.

Wei Guangde felt that it was a bit tricky. He did not dare to take action against the first-grade generals, but if he did not take action, he could only stand in a stalemate, and the great opportunity seemed to have slipped away in vain.

That's An Dahan. If you catch him, you will have great credit. Emperor Jiajing will never be stingy with the reward.

When Wei Guangde thought of this, he couldn't restrain his excitement and started pacing back and forth in the room. He couldn't stop anymore.

"Zhang Ji, Zhang Ji."

Finally, Wei Guangde shouted to the door.

As the words fell, Zhang Ji came in from the door.

"Go and call Li. Ask Dong Yiyuan to come over. By the way, forget it. Go and call Dong Yiyuan over first."

At first, Wei Guangde wanted to call Li Zhen and Dong Yiyuan to come over to advise him, but he suddenly remembered that Li Zhen was away with the grain supply. He called him Dong Yiyuan because here, among the people he was familiar with, only Dong Yiyuan had military experience.

Yes, Wei Guangde didn't believe that he was really a genius in fighting, so he asked these two people to help him with the things he considered before. They were more experienced and would be more considerate.

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

"Come and take a look."

Wei Guangde waited for Dong Yiyuan to salute, then asked him to stand next to the desk, pointed at the map and began to analyze the current war situation with him. When Wei Guangde gradually expressed his thoughts, he wanted to go to Xuanfu and force Liu Dazhang to send troops to fight to contain the Anda tribe. With the force of ten thousand households, he sent Ma Fang and Liu Huan to lead the Xuanfu cavalry troops to raid the royal court of Anda Khan.

Dong Yiyuan was frightened by Wei Guangde's idea, not because he wanted to send Ma Fang to attack Ada Khan, but because Wei Guangde wanted to force the chief military officer of Xuanfu to go to war.

Although all the military generals in the North know the power of civilian officials, they are after all aimed at middle and low-level military officers. What Wei Guangde is talking about now is to force the first-grade military generals.

Dong Yiyuan did not answer Wei Guangde's question, or even think about the feasibility of Wei Guangde's idea. Instead, he was considering whether he should find a way to leave the child.

At first, I thought that Wei Guangde was from a military background and would have a natural affinity for generals.

Well, now it seems that this is not the case. Like those former military Jinshi, after becoming a civil servant, like other civil servants, they did not take military commanders seriously.

In fact, Wei Guangde had no intention of looking down on military generals. After all, much of his consciousness came from later generations. It was not popular in later generations to value civility over martial arts. Although there is a saying that good men should not be soldiers, that was all during the war. In the country where he was, At least most people in this era will not look down upon soldiers.

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

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

For military generals, what the civilian clique can do is to take the case to Beijing and use impeachment to first suspend the military general pending trial, and then it depends on the relationship between the capital and the capital.

At this point, civilian officials naturally have an inherent advantage. The department with the highest military power is the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War is controlled by civilian officials.

The Fifth Military Governor's Mansion, which once controlled the army and held absolute leadership, has become a decoration, and the generals' voice in the court has long declined.

Yes, the first thing Wei Guangde thought of was impeachment, but he was a little late in time. He wrote a memorial and sent it to the capital, and the day lily became cold after a while.

And at this time, the civil servants in the capital would never be stupid enough to use a general soldier, who was still fighting against the Tatars.

Wei Guangde knew that he would be unlucky if he went up to the memorial.

The usual tactics used by civilian officials against military generals are ineffective at this time unless the war is over.

The reason why Wei Guangde thought of impeaching Liu Dazhang was because Ma Fang said before that Liu Dazhang was afraid of the enemy and was timid. What a good excuse.

However, the only thing he can use as a threat to Liu Dazhang is this. If Liu Dazhang disobeys and sends troops to fight, then he has made it clear that he will read his book after the war to see what he chooses.

Seeing that Dong Yiyuan was still silent, Wei Guangde couldn't wait any longer.

"You have your say. Is it feasible for Baoan Prefecture to take the initiative?"

Wei Guangde urged.

"I don't know if I can take a humble position."

Dong Yiyuan hurriedly bowed and answered, "The war will only be known after the fight. Based on your previous analysis, I think it can still be fought. As for the final result, I really don't know."

"Based on your understanding of the Xuanfu Army, is their combat strength as Ma Fang said before, and can they fight against the Tatars?"

Wei Guangde raised a question, which is actually the most critical factor in this battle.

The total cavalry of the Ming army in Baoan Prefecture, including the more than a thousand people led by Ma Fang, will not exceed 5,000 in total. However, it is impossible to mobilize all of them to fight An Dahan. Instead, some of them will be allocated to assist the infantry in the fight. That half of ten thousand households.

If there was no containment, it would be difficult to imagine how powerful the eight thousand Tatar cavalry would be if they charged forward.

In fact, Nanbing was naturally afraid of cavalry group charges, and Wei Guangde was the same.

Dong Yiyuan's more than 400 cavalry charges are scary enough, let alone the 8,000 Tatars there.

Regarding the issue of Wei Guangde, Dong Yiyuan fell into thinking again, but now instead of thinking about leaving Wei Guangde before, he actually started to consider the feasibility of the tactics proposed by Wei Guangde.

He can still speak for the Xuanfu's military strength, after all, he has grown up here since he was a child.

As a guerrilla general, his father also had hundreds of men, sometimes more than a thousand. It seemed that sometimes he really had the upper hand against the Tatars, and sometimes he was at an absolute disadvantage. It seems that what Ma Fang said before, ordinary Tatar soldiers The combat power is really not that good.

Dong Yiyuan lowered his head and began to think about the question of the difference in combat power between the Ming army and the Tatars. Naturally, he put Wei Guangde aside and he only focused on thinking about this issue.

Wei Guangde was not in a hurry now, Dong Yiyuan thought, that would only make the answer more accurate.

An accurate answer, that's what he needs.

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

Speaking of this, Dong Yiyuan suddenly felt a little embarrassed and said: "In the past few years since I went to Ji Town, I really haven't had the opportunity to fight with the Tatars. Several times I was sent out to the place, and the Tatars broke into the border fortress and robbed things. He ran away, so I didn’t have any personal experience, I just heard my father say similar things.”

"It's just my lord, Baoanzhou."

After a pause, Dong Yiyuan was about to continue speaking. In fact, he wanted to persuade Wei Guangde not to think about how to force Liu Dazhang of Baoan Prefecture to fight.

Dong Yiyuan thought that the tactics mentioned by Wei Guangde were worth a try, and Wei Guangde also knew how to extract his subordinates' opinions on the combat power of the Andu Department before initiating the attack. This shows that this person is quite pragmatic and is not a civil servant who doesn't understand anything. Knowing that if we ask them to go here and fight there, we don't even consider whether they can win or not.

After all, he came from the Wei Institute, so he still had this understanding. Unconsciously, his previous opinion of Wei Guangde had faded a bit.

Before Dong Yiyuan finished speaking, he was interrupted by Wei Guangde with a wave of his hand. This issue was not Dong Yiyuan's responsibility.

Originally, if Li Zhen were here, there could be a civil official to discuss the matter. Now there is only one magistrate in Huailai County. Wei Guangde is not familiar with him, so naturally he will not come to him.

Moreover, I don’t know when it started, Wei Guangde also had an opinion about his origin.

Huailai County Magistrate's surname is Lin, and he was born in Juren. For Wei Guangde, who was a Jinshi, he really didn't think there was much significance in contacting him.

The tactics are a bit risky, but fighting is always a gamble.

A strong army can also be defeated by a weak brigade. It depends on how the opponent calculates and how to plan the battlefield to maximize its strengths and avoid weaknesses, giving full play to its own advantages and offsetting its own disadvantages.

However, Wei Guangde felt that it was better to leave it to Ma Fang to consider.

Since he is so courageous and seems to have good luck, he can still survive while charging into battle, so he should be better at battlefield calculations.

"Do you think there's anything wrong with the other things I analyzed?"

Wei Guangde asked again.

"I don't have any doubts about my position. I think there shouldn't be much difference."

Dong Yiyuan had no choice but to bow and say.

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

Wei Guangde gave an order and then stood silently in front of the map.

It's just that at this time, although Wei Guangde was looking at the map, what he was thinking about was how to operate so that he could escape unscathed and not offend the people behind him by forcing Liu Dazhang.

If he can be sent to the Xuan Mansion as the chief military officer, there must be someone in the court.

Wei Guangde felt that it was better to reveal some information to Weng Pu first. At least if he reported the situation, it would not be regarded as an unauthorized decision. He had reported it to the superior.

Even if someone brings it up later, he will only be blamed for mishandling the matter. The measures he took were wrong and he did not wait for the court's order.

Write a document and a memorial, and send them to Juyongguan to see how Weng Pu handles it.

Wei Guangde thinks Weng Pu is a good person. At least he still takes good care of him.

While thinking about how to write this document, Ma Fang was brought in by Dong Yiyuan.

At this time, Ma Fang was still a little suspicious. He was ready to have a meal, but was called out by Dong Yiyuan, saying that Wei Guangde wanted to see him. Dong Yiyuan didn't say anything on the way.

After entering the house, Wei Guangde called him to the map and began to ask about the camping situation of Altan's tribe in Baoan Prefecture.

"Before I left, the Altan tribe was divided into two camps. The camp closest to the state capital should be the Wanhu camp, but now there should be only a few thousand people in it. There is another camp behind them. I once took the opportunity to see it from a distance while patrolling. Although I couldn't see the black flag, I was sure that Altan was definitely in it."

Ma Fang heard Wei Guangde calling him to ask about the camping of the Altan tribe in Baoan Prefecture, and immediately thought of the raid on Altan Khan's tent that had been mentioned before.

He was a little excited again. If it could really be realized, killing or capturing Altan Khan would be a great achievement.

"How do you judge that it is Altan Khan in there?"

Wei Guangde continued to ask.

"Just look at the Tartars around the camp. Altan's camp is well guarded by the Royal Guards. They are the bravest warriors on the grassland and must be experienced in many battles. Even if you are brave, you can't join the Royal Guards if you haven't performed on the battlefield."

Ma Fang knew all this. After all, he had stayed on the grassland for more than ten years and finally followed Altan Khan.

"Don't worry, sir. I followed Altan for more than a year when I was on the grassland. Although he was quite good to me, he was captured by them after all and was just a slave there.

I can know where Altan is by looking at his camp. I can definitely find Altan if I lead people to rush to the camp. I also know him. As long as I see him, he will never run away."

Ma Fang began to promise Wei Guangde solemnly that as long as he led people to raid Altan Khan's camp, he would be sure to catch Altan.

Of course, Wei Guangde would not believe this.

Even if Altan Khan appeared in front of him, Ma Fang, you have to get close to him.

However, the meaning of Ma Fang's words still touched him, that is, Ma Fang is indeed the most suitable candidate because he knows Altan Khan himself.

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