Expensive?
Gao Pingshi was startled when he heard the words, and carefully looked at the young general in front of him, and thought to himself: I'm afraid I have traveled to the wrong era. Given the probability of meeting the fierce general brother like me, I can meet Liu Wei when I go to another hospital. When I came to Datong, I met Ma Gui... In fact, I should have traveled to the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Not to mention anything else, it would be very interesting to at least collect a bunch of famous advisers and generals.
However, the record of Ma Gui in the history of the Ming Dynasty is relatively inaccurate. It seems that it only started in the last year of Longqing. At that time, he had already served as a general guarding Xinpingbao. By the early year of Wanli, this young general had already mixed up with the deputy general of Datong. A high position shows that talents are indeed rare.
Of course, normally speaking, apart from the founding period and the period of the fall of the country, a dynasty can rise to prominence in ordinary years, and it must not only be because of the scarcity of talents. Ma Gui's father Ma Lu was already one of several Datong officials in the middle of Jiajing. One of the participating generals, he once accompanied the commander-in-chief Liu Han in his successful raid on Bansheng City, and was transferred to the position of deputy commander-in-chief of the Xuanfu due to his meritorious service.
And looking at the entire Ma family, there are even more talents. As we all know, in the late Ming Dynasty, the first so-called "general gate" in the minds of ordinary people was probably the Li family of Tieling represented by Li Chengliang and Li Rusong and his son. However, in fact, people at the time always compared it with the Li family of Tieling, Liaodong. The comparable one is the Xuanma family, which is said to be "Eastern Li and Western Ma".
In the Ming Dynasty, there were a total of 83 military generals of Youyu family, among whom there were 33 "Majia Jiang" alone, accounting for nearly 40% of the total. And among the five generations before and after Ma Gui, there were first-class officials from generation to generation. They were Ma Quan, Ma Zheng, Ma Lu, Ma Gui, and Ma Chengzong.
Anyway, to put it simply: the Ma family is a Xuanda military family.
Although Ma Gui's current position is not high, he is only a guard at Desheng Fort, but his rank is not very low, and he has already arrived to command the general affairs.
This situation is roughly equivalent to a certain department-level cadre in later generations being clarified to enjoy deputy department-level treatment, or a department-level cadre being clarified to enjoy deputy provincial-level treatment. At Ma Gui's age, the reason for receiving such treatment must be related to his origin.
Gao Pingshi briefly went through Ma Gui's information in his mind, then rolled his eyes and asked in a pretentious manner: "Youyu Malu, General Rong and General, you..."
"It's Jia Yan." Ma Gui responded.
"Oh..." Gao Pingshi showed a professional "friendly smile" and said: "It turns out that he is a tiger from the general family. I wonder if the general has brought the Ma family's 'advanced soldiers'?"
Ma Gui was a little surprised by this question, and subconsciously asked: "The imperial envoy has also heard of the name 'Dabing'?"
Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that the members of the Majia family are called 'Da Bing'. Among them are many Mongolian, Huihui and other tribes who dare to fight. They can attack like broken bamboo and defend like gold. If the general can lead them this time, , I must be able to sleep much more soundly in this Desheng Fort, even if I face the Northern Army."
"The imperial envoy has been rewarded." Ma Gui said, neither humble nor arrogant: "After my father begged for divorce, the army was divided between the general and his brother Ma Jin, each with about five or six hundred men. The general brought three hundred this time. , is in Desheng Fort, serving as a garrison supervisor."
The so-called winning bidders of the commander-in-chief generally refer to the personal soldiers of the commander-in-chief. They are the troops directly under the commander-in-chief. They are usually the troops with the best treatment and the strongest combat effectiveness.
When Gao pragmatic heard that he was bringing three hundred Ma family troops, he immediately felt that his personal safety was better protected, and he was very pleased to say a few kind words.
In fact, speaking of it, Gao Jingshi's own cavalry is not necessarily inferior to the Ma's Army in terms of personnel quality. After all, the original foundation is not bad, and they have received guidance and training from the two famous generals Qi Jiguang and Ma Fang. However, Gao Jingshi felt that his servants had at least two points, and now they were definitely not as good as private soldiers like Ma Jiajun.
First of all, the Ma family is a military family. The servants of his family are regular troops recognized by the court and can be equipped with any weapons and equipment; while Gao Pragmatic comes from a civil servant family, neither his elders nor himself are in the border areas now. As an official, even if his bodyguards are armed to a certain extent, they are not allowed to wear regular army armor or carry firearms that the imperial court prohibits civilians from owning.
In terms of armor, Gao Jingjing is quite reasonable, but the fact that he cannot use firearms has always made Gao Jingjing very unhappy, because he does not know much about cold weapon warfare, but he is somewhat confident in the application of firearms, and he cannot use firearms. This also virtually reduced the combat effectiveness of the armed servants of the Gao family.
As for the second point, the Ma family's regular combat experience must be far greater than that of the Gao family's family, because the former is not only a regular army, but also the backbone of the regular army. In addition, the Ma family is a military family and has been leading the Ma family army in wars for several generations. This kind of experience cannot be gained through training alone.
Although the highly pragmatic servant guards have recently gained some combat experience, especially the cavalry, they have fought several battles of various sizes in Monan in the past few months, but the largest scale was a few hundred people against more than a thousand. Of course he is not good enough compared to Ma Jiajun.
At present, there are about 800 servants under Gao Pragmatic's command in Desheng Castle, and they are luxuriously equipped with one person and two riders. Ma Gui's "advanced soldiers" are only three hundred. It's not clear how advanced and pragmatic the equipment is. It's hard to say whether he can ride one person and two people. But Gao Pragmatic still felt that if the eight hundred cavalrymen under his command could now equal Ma Gui's three hundred soldiers, then he would be very satisfied.
Gao Jingshi secretly made up his mind: We must quickly promote the pilot program of military privatization, otherwise where can I find a breakthrough to equip my servants with firearms? Without firearms, I'm afraid I won't be able to use even half of my half-baked military knowledge. It's so frustrating!
Since Ma Gui was the garrison of Fort Desheng, and most of the defense of Fort Desheng was his own handiwork, he was indeed more suitable than Ma Wei to explain the defense layout to Gao pragmatically in detail. Although the questions Gao pragmatically asked were trivial, he They can all be explained clearly.
However, as Gao Pingshi listened, he discovered something that made him a little surprised and puzzled, that is, Ma Gui's defense arrangement did not seem to consider the possibility of a strong attack by An Danyi.
When he raised this question to Ma Gui, Ma Gui shook his head and said: "I answer that for so many years, the method of attacking the city with ants has been used very rarely. First, the casualties were too great and he couldn't bear it. , otherwise the interior may be unstable; secondly, siege equipment needs to be built to attack the city, and the Mongols are not very good at this. Although the general cannot say that they will definitely not build it, the production speed will not be fast, and once it is built For siege equipment, the speed advantage of their Mongolian cavalry is equivalent to giving up on their own; thirdly... The general feels that I am here to show off my force. If I really ask him to storm the Great Wall pass, I am afraid he will not do this. Such a stupid thing."
