After realizing the importance of this battle, Su Yonglin expressed his views to the staff officers at the war meeting of the General Staff Council.
"Remember, these cavalrymen on the grassland don't understand Chinese, don't understand etiquette, justice, and shame, and they don't even know what humility and tolerance are. They only know that the strong is the most powerful, that the weak can prey on the strong, and that victory is everything!
So there is nothing to say to them, and it doesn't make sense. They don't understand what we are saying, and we don't need to say anything to them. The steel knives in our hands are the only words they can understand. We need to use them more. I understand. ? "
Under the leadership of Xin Qiji, the staff officers uniformly received the emperor's instructions.
"According to the order!"
This battle was the first time the Ming Dynasty army fought on the grassland. It felt a bit unfamiliar and it was not easy to make pre-war planning.
Therefore, Su Yonglin decided to send Xin Qiji to lead some staff officers from the General Staff Council directly to the front-line battlefield for on-site investigation and tactical guidance.
Ming army operations have always focused on pre-war tactical planning and wartime adaptability. The latter is delegated to front-line generals, while the former is in the hands of the General Staff Council.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, under the instruction of Su Yonglin, Xin Qiji organized staff officers to travel all over the country to survey the terrain, draw accurate military maps, and began to build a terrain sand table at the Zhongdu Staff Council to assist the staff in formulating combat plans.
Things like the sand table appeared when Qin Shihuang pacified the Six Kingdoms, and came and went in subsequent dynasties.
Some people think this is a good auxiliary tool for war, while others dismiss it.
Su Yonglin believes that the sand table is very necessary to help the military command center predict the enemy first and win a decisive victory thousands of miles away. It requires very precise sand table and military map, so it attaches great importance to it.
Xin Qiji also strongly supported Su Yonglin's plan and took it seriously. He personally participated in map drawing and sand table production, and advocated the inclusion of map drawing technology into the curriculum of the Ming Dynasty Military Academy.
So far, the General Staff Council has successfully drawn a map around Zhongdu, and has begun to create a sand table of the terrain of the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, but the grassland has not yet been covered.
The active provocations of the Kelie Department and the Qiyan Department made the General Staff realize that the border war was inevitable. Therefore, under Su Yonglin's instruction, Xin Qiji will lead half of the staff officers of the General Staff to the war front and establish a frontline staff department. On-site Provide tactical guidance to the military.
Su Yonglin didn't know whether others were happy, but Xin Qiji was extremely happy.
He finally had the opportunity to clear the frontline battlefield again, which made him very happy as he yearned for a fight.
In terms of military strength, Su Yonglin ordered the deployment of 10,000 cavalry from the Hebei Corps under Han Jinggui who was guarding the border, 30,000 cavalry from the Huben Imperial Guard, and 10,000 cavalry from the Yanyun Corps, adding up to a total of 50,000 people.
Su Yonglin also appointed Han Jinggui, the commander of the Hebei Corps, as the commander-in-chief, and Su Yong, the general of the Huben Army, as the deputy commander-in-chief. The two were responsible for tactical command.
Zhang Qiaonian, secretary of the Hebei Corps, is the marching secretary and is in charge of the army's logistics affairs and military law and regulations.
The three of them joined forces, combined with the remaining forces of the Tata'er tribe and the Wanggu tribe, to launch a swift and violent attack on the Kelie tribe and the Qiyan tribe.
Wang Gubu was naturally willing to send troops, and the officials of Honglu Temple told Su Yonglin after returning from their mission.
It is said that Wu Ge, the leader of the Wanggu tribe, proposed that if the Ming Dynasty was willing to help him out, he would definitely lead the remaining soldiers and horses of the tribe on the expedition, and he could also share part of the rations for the Ming Dynasty army.
Of course Su Yonglin thinks there is no problem. To help you vent your anger, of course you have to pay something. Daming will not help you vent your anger for free. This is a paid service.
In addition to Wang Gu's tribe, Su Yonglin also sent people to the Tata'er tribe, asking the Tata'er tribe to also send troops to help the Ming army fight - General Longhu of the Ming Dynasty did not do it for nothing. To become a general, one must Take orders, even if they are symbolic.
When this incident first happened, Su Yonglin even suspected that the Tatar Ministry played a disgraceful role in the incident and suspected that the Tatar Ministry was behind the incident.
Therefore, Su Yonglin asked the Skynet Army's Ninth Operation Team to investigate the Tatar Department.
But Su Yonglin really misunderstood Tata'er Department.
Although the Tatar tribe really wanted to start a war with the Ming Dynasty and the Kled and Qiyan tribes, their hatred with these two tribes would only deepen. It was difficult for them to even achieve normal diplomacy with each other, let alone be behind the scenes. The Black Hand promoted the war between these two parts.
That's playing with fire.
Moreover, the Tata tribe is actually not monolithic. They are mainly divided into six tribes, namely Tutu Heliwut Tata, Yinchita, Chahan Tata, Kuoyitan Tata, and Di. Lie Tata'er and Alu's Tata'er.
Among the six Tatar tribes, the Tutu Heliwud tribe is the most respected and has the highest say. Therefore, the diplomatic team that came to visit the Ming Dynasty before was made up of this Tutu Heiliwud tribe. host.
Zhelim is a close confidant of Migu Zhen, the leader of the Tudu Heliwud tribe. He was responsible for dealing with the Jin Kingdom officials in the old days. He is familiar with the Jin Kingdom's routines. He can also speak Chinese and Jurchen, so he represents the entire Tatar. He was the envoy to the Ming Dynasty.
He successfully completed most of the mission and brought back the Ming Emperor's canonization and friendship, as well as the order to allow mutual trade. The Tatar tribes were very happy.
Only one thing.
The Ming Emperor did not admit that the Kelie tribe and the Qiyan tribe were enemies.
Especially the Qiyan tribe. In recent years, the Tatar people have hated the people of the Qiyan tribe the most. They have fought with them the most and have the deepest grudges. The blood feud between them cannot be resolved.
Therefore, Migu Zhen is somewhat dissatisfied with the current situation.
Zhelimu also had an explanation for this.
"Although the mutual trade was opened, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty obviously did not want to be enemies with the Kelie and Qiyan tribes. He probably felt that it was the Jin country that was against them, not his Ming country. The Kelie and Qiyan tribes There’s no reason to go south and invade his borders.”
"Humph, that doesn't make sense? What's the point?"
Migu Zhen pulled out his steel knife with a sneer on his face: "This is the truth, this is the truth that is convincing. If you want to reason with people like Ke Lie and Qi Yan, you have to put the knife across their necks." , and then you can make sense.
This is something that a three-year-old child can understand on the grassland. I thought that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty who destroyed the Jin Kingdom so quickly must be a man from heaven, but I didn't expect that he was just such a person. "
It seemed that Mi Guzhen looked down on Su Yonglin.
Realizing such emotions, the frightened Zhelimu quickly shook his head.
"No, Great Khan, you should not underestimate the Ming Emperor too much. Although the Ming Emperor is young, it is precisely because of his youth that he was able to overthrow such a powerful Jin Kingdom. Although he must have his most terrifying aspects."
Mi Guzhen glanced at Zhelimu and sheathed his sword.
"The scary place? Where? Do you see it?"
Zhelimu hesitated for a while and slowly shook his head.
"Just because he is the emperor, there is only one emperor among tens of millions of Han people, and he is also the founding emperor, which is scary enough. Moreover, when I went to Zhongdu this time, I found that Zhongdu is completely different from the past..."
Zhelimu told what he saw and heard in Zhongdu.
In particular, he talked about the difference between the weather of the Ming Dynasty and that of the Jin Dynasty, and the internal political stability of the Ming Dynasty and the strength of the army. From this, he believed that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was a very powerful monarch and the strength of the Ming Dynasty was very powerful. , It is definitely not comparable to the Jin Kingdom.
"…………"
After listening to Zhelimu's words, Migu Zhen was silent for a while.
After a while, he reached out and hung the saber on the shelf again, sat down again, picked up the milk that had just been boiled and cooled and added with honey, took a sip and smacked his lips.
"Then what should we do next? That bastard Yesugei succeeded in attacking us many times, but our counterattack was repeatedly blocked. In the last battle, Temujin was killed by him and sacrificed to heaven. Do you know how much I compensated his tribe? Sheep?
Now the tribes are getting more and more dissatisfied with me. If I can't find strong support and can't launch a counterattack, some people will have dissatisfaction with me. I even heard that some people are ready to make a move and have many ideas about my position. You can also do this. You know, now is my most dangerous time! "
